1) Book introductions 2) Introductory sections 3) Literary preliminaries 1) Forewords 
Prefaces (Forord) is a book by Søren Kierkegaard published under the pseudonym Nicolaus Notabene. The meaning of the pseudonym used for Prefaces, Nicholaus Notabene, was best summed up in his work Writing Sampler, where Kierkegaard said twice for emphasis, `Please read the following preface, because it contains things of the utmost importance.