The "Oxford English Dictionary" cited the first known usage in the English language to a Scottish newspaper, "The People's Journal", in 1848: "A war among the great powers is now necessarily a world-war." The term "world war" is used by Karl Marx and his associate, Friedrich Engels, in a series of articles published around 1850 called "The Class Struggles in France". Rasmus B. Anderson in 1889 described an episode in Teutonic mythology as a "world war" (Swedish: "världskrig"), justifying this description by a line in an Old Norse epic poem, "Völuspá: folcvig fyrst I heimi" ("The first great war in the world".) German writer August Wilhelm Otto Niemann had used the term "world war" in the title of his anti-British novel, "Der Weltkrieg: Deutsche Träume" ("The World War: German Dreams") in 1904, published in English as "The Coming Conquest of England".