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representative and attorney

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, Bishop

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, and the educator

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. The first volume of the journal was produced in four issues from 1834 to 1837, containing 39 articles altogether. Volume two appeared in 1842 with four issues containing 31 articles. The journal was printed by the company Chr. Dahl R.S., headed by Christopher Dahl, who in 1820 had taken over the press previously owned by his father, Rasmus Dahl. The expensive paper for the journal, which was imported from Copenhagen, and problems with the primitive printing technology resulted in the failure of the third issue. An important reason for the journal's failure also lay in the fact that the members of the journal's editorial team, who were also the most important contributors to ''Urda'', had retired. A further problem for the journal was the high cost of distributing it to its subscribers, which included the king in

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and to the Ministry of Church and Education in

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''Urda''
volume 1, 1837
''Urda''
volume 2, 1842

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