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ing the old dances and making them more widely known by having 
them demonstrated and in this connection using the old costumes. In 
the decade that followed, this society was quite flourishing. Dr. 
Arthur Hazelius, the founder of Nordiska Museum in Stockholm and 
the open air museum Skansen, was very much alive to the importance 
of the movement, and at his suggestion a similar society called Friends 
of Swedish Folk-dancing was formed in Stockholm. This organiza¬ 
tion, which is still in existence, has trained a solid phalanx of clever 
folk-dancers, and at Skansen they have had an opportunity to take 
part in the programme and to win new friends for the old dances. 
Recently a national society called the Swedish Folk-dance Ring has 
been formed, which has its own periodical and aims to spread knowl¬ 
edge of the folk-dances all over the country. It seems not unlikely 
that the Swedish folk-dance will again become the dance of the people, 
if not exclusively, still side by side with more modern forms of this 
age-old and always popular art. 
