“We go through the word Forest”¹

Västerbotten: Once covered with seemingly impenetrable woods.
New England: Once covered with seemingly impenetrable woods.
Pietists – Puritans
Stridande – Striding
Settling – Settling
Land acquired – ownership enforced – re-naming – re-purposing
strips of land
to keep or to dispose of

Then came the Forest industry
Then came the Universities

These are replacement
narratives of beginnings
Told and
Told and Written and Re-
Written

Even now

“There are traces of blood in a fairy tale”²