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A Dala horse or Dalecarlian horse is a traditional carved, painted wooden statue of a horse originating in the Swedish province of Dalarna (Dalecarlia). In the old days, [ when? ] the Dala horse was mostly used as a toy for children; in modern times it has become a symbol of Dalarna, as well as of Sweden in general.
The Horses of Neptune, illustration by Walter Crane, 1893.. Horse symbolism is the study of the representation of the horse in mythology, religion, folklore, art, literature and psychoanalysis as a symbol, in its capacity to designate, to signify an abstract concept, beyond the physical reality of the quadruped animal.
Dalarna is a region full of historical associations, and both its products and its people have strong local characteristics. [3] In the western district Lima , some people in villages speak a traditional dialect , Dalecarlian , while in Älvdalen , they speak Elfdalian , a dialect which is very distinct from Swedish , Norwegian or Danish . [ 8 ]
Dala (band), a Canadian music duo; Dala (game), a board game from Sudan; Dala horse, traditional Swedish wooden horse statuettes; Dala-fur sheep, a Swedish breed of sheep; The Hawaiian dollar, which was in circulation between 1847 and 1898; Dala Line, a single-track railway line in Sweden; Dala, a Cambrian crustacean from Sweden
Järna (also Dala-Järna to distinguish it from Järna in Södertälje Municipality) is a locality situated in Vansbro Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden with 1,413 inhabitants in 2010. [ 1 ] The last traditional player of the Swedish bagpipes , Gudmunds Nils Larsson (died 1949), was from Järna.
A general reference for the early production of dala horses can be found at www.dalahorse.info. The pages are in Swedish though, but google translate makes most of it intelligible. Since I am not sure what the policy is on references in another language I refrained from adding it. Feel free to add it if such references are ok.
Gotland ponies in Slottsskogen, Gothenburg.. The name russ comes from a now obsolete word ross, which means a riding horse or a charger [6] and it is linked etymologically to the English word horse (in Old High German this word appeared as hros, and in English a metathesis has switched the places of the /r/ and the /o/, whereas in Swedish /hr/ became /r/, producing ross or russ.
The Swedish government offered a substantial sum of money and proposed to build the new stables at their current location. Architects of the new buildings, built in a Medievalist style, were Ernst Jacobsson and Fritz Eckert. The present buildings were finished in 1894. [1] [2] They originally contained space for 90 horses and 160 vehicles. [2]