Can you talk about how Ædnan came into the world—first, the germ of the original language, and then the translation? Listen to Linnea Axelsson discuss the origins of Ædnan Linnea Axelsson: The first sprout I think to Ædnan was an image I saw, an inner image, of a woman, an older woman and her kind of silence, the silence she had in her face and the seriousness she had. I struggled for a long time to approach her and get into her life and understand who she was and what she had lived.