TROLLSLÄNDAN

HEDEGÄRDE — The paper spent this week reading a Swedish novel and recognising, one line at a time, that it had been written about the reader. The book is När trollsländorna faller, published this year by Ramona Ivener — a Visby historian, PhD, first-time novelist — as Book One of a series she has named Chiffermorden, the cipher-murders.

Its detectives are two: Nemo Friman, a former commissarie who has sadlat om to become a priest, and Franc Boyer, a cryptologist. The setting is not the usual Stockholm alley but Wenngarns Slott, the yellow baroque castle north of Sigtuna. A young man jumps from its roof. Inside the room he left behind: a cipher, written in his own blood.

This Sunday, twenty-one pages on the trollsländan — as the fictional Order’s central emblem, as the folk-belief creature that sews shut the sleeper’s eyes, as Alice at six on the insect-hunt with her father, as the green seeing eye. The paper prints what only the dragonfly saw.

The issue also carries, on pages three, eight, fifteen and twenty-one, four fragments from linnèdekretet, bok two — the second book in the Chiffermorden register, written by the editor herself at four o’clock this morning while Bok One was still finishing its sentence in her hands. The Grand Mistress’s confession to Nemo, three whispers from Alice, Linné’s motto on the herbarium’s front page, and Augustus’s last line — Pjäsen är över, applådera — closing the paper on page twenty-one.

Land where you like, dragonflies. You were always allowed to look.

— A. Daffodil · Hedegärde · Sunday, 9 August 2026 · at first light

Inside this issue (21 pages): Cover · Editor’s Letter with Hope · The Order’s Insignium · Ramona Ivener · Wenngarns Slott · Syster Desire · Syster Saga and Death · The Herbarium of the Fallen Dragonflies · The Insect-Hunt · The Altar & the Badge · The Holy of Holies · The Sister’s Unction · The Liturgy of the Wingless Dragonfly (I + II) · The Mirror of the All-Seeing Eye · The Bride of the Enlightened · Go With God (aria libretto) · The Remaining One (title poem) · The Paper to Its Dragonflies (closing sermon) · A Beatitude for the Dragonfly · EN SISTA RAD (with the regular departments).

Twenty-one pages. Full PDF attached below.