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Swedish Translators in North America or STiNA was founded in 2004 [1] with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in New York for the promotion of translation of Swedish into English and coordination with the British equivalent group SELTA (the Swedish-English Literary Translators' Association) and the Swedish cultural institutions.
Cross, ribbon and star of a Commander Grand Cross Collar of the Order of the Polar Star and the badge of the order. The Royal Order of the Polar Star (Swedish: Kungliga Nordstjärneorden), sometimes translated as the Royal Order of the North Star, is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim.
Swedish title Author Year English title Translator Year Gösta Berlings saga: Selma Lagerlöf: 1891: Gösta Berling's Saga: Lillie Tudeer: 1894 The Story of Gösta Berling: Pauline Bancroft Flach: 1898 The Story of Gosta Berling: Robert Bly: 1962 Paul Norlen: 2009 Jerusalem: Selma Lagerlöf: 1901: Jerusalem: Velma Swanston Howard: 1915 Herr ...
A letter in Swedish from fil. dr. Åke Ohlmarks, and a huge list (9 pages foolscap) of names in the L.R. which he had altered. I hope that my inadequate knowledge of Swedish – no better than my kn. of Dutch, but I possess a v. much better Dutch dictionary! – tends to exaggerate the impression I received.
Collar and star of the order. The Royal Order of the Sword (officially: Royal Order of the Sword; Swedish: Kungliga Svärdsorden) is a Swedish order of chivalry and military decoration created by King Frederick I of Sweden on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Seraphim and the Order of the Polar Star.
J. R. R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings has been translated, with varying degrees of success, into dozens of languages from the original English. He was critical of some early versions, and made efforts to improve translation by providing a detailed "Guide to the Names in The Lord of the Rings", alongside an appendix "On Translation" in the book itself.
The Sweden pronunciation is based primarily on Central Standard Swedish, and the Finland one on Helsinki pronunciation. Recordings and example transcriptions in this help are in Sweden Swedish, unless otherwise noted. See Swedish phonology and Swedish alphabet § Sound–spelling correspondences for a more thorough look at the sounds of Swedish.