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Mother Svea is normally depicted as a powerful female warrior, valkyrie or shieldmaiden, frequently holding a shield and standing beside a lion.Svea is a Swedish female personal name which derives from svea, an old plural genitive form meaning "of the Swedes" or the Swea.
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In the pre-Christian period, the Orion constellation was called either Frigg's distaff or Freyja's distaff (Swedish Frejerock). [61] Place names in Norway and Sweden reflect devotion to the goddess, including the Norwegian place name Frøihov (originally *Freyjuhof, literally "Freyja's hof") and Swedish place names such as Frövi (from ...
Bestow one of these 50 Swedish baby names to your darling son or daughter for instant grace, taste and style. (Just make sure to note the silent "J"s.) 100 Uncommon Baby Names to Help Your Kid ...
Swedish culture is an offshoot of the Norse culture which dominated southern Scandinavia in prehistory.Sweden was the last of the Scandinavian countries to be Christianised, with pagan resistance apparently strongest in Svealand, where Uppsala was an old and important ritual site as evidenced by the tales of Uppsala temple.
The name is uncommon among adults; there are fewer than 200 men older than 30 in Sweden with the name, but several hundreds from every cohort born in the 1990s. As on 31 December 2009, there were in total 6,058 men in Sweden with the name Love/Lowe, of which 2,953 had it as first name, and the rest as middle name. There were also 531 women with ...
List of Swedish people: This is a list of lists of notable Swedes. By country or ethnicity ... List of painters from Sweden; List of Swedish women photographers;
Inge is a given name in various Germanic language-speaking cultures. In Swedish and Norwegian, it is mostly used as a masculine, but less often also as a feminine name, sometimes as a short form of Ingeborg, while in Danish, Estonian, Frisian, German and Dutch it is exclusively feminine. The feminine name has the variant Inga.