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A vardo (also Romani wag(g)on, Gypsy wagon, living wagon, caravan, van and house-on-wheels) is a four-wheeled horse-drawn vehicle traditionally used by travelling Romanichal as their home. [ 1 ] : 89–90, 168 [ 2 ] : 138 The name vardo is a Romani term believed to have originated from the Ossetic wærdon meaning cart or carriage. [ 3 ]
Finnish Kale in Finland and parts of Sweden. These groups have much European blood due to mixing with Indigenous Traveller groups (British Romani Travellers mix with Irish Travellers, Scottish Highland Travellers and Funfair Traveller and Scandinavian Romani Travellers mix with Indigenous Norwegian Travellers) and even non-Travellers over the ...
The Romanisael (more commonly known as Swedish Roma and Norwegian Roma or Swedish Taters and Norwegian Taters; Swedish: romer, zigenare, tattare, resande; Norwegian: romanifolket, tatere, sigøynere; Scandoromani: romanisæl, romanoar, rom(m)ani, tavringer/ar, tattare), are a Romani subgroup who have been resident in Sweden and Norway for some 500 years. [1]
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The Gordon Boswell Romany Museum is the lifetime's work of Gordon Boswell (died 27 August 2016, aged 76 [1]), who amassed a collection of artefacts, photographs, and several examples of the characteristic Gypsy wagon or Vardo.
Known to the settled majority population as fant/fanter/fantefolk or skøyere, they prefer the term reisende ('travellers'). This term is also used by the Tater people (Romanisæl Travellers) [citation needed] (the largest population of Romani people in Norway and Sweden), though the two groups are distinct.
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Romani dress is the traditional attire of the Romani people, widely known in English by the exonymic slur Gypsies. [a] Romani traditional clothing is closely connected to the history, culture and identity of the Roma people.