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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.
Pages in category "Swedish feminine given names" The following 186 pages are in this category, out of 186 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
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;
Lists of Swedish women (9 P) Pages in category "Lists of Swedish people" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
also: People: By gender: Women: By nationality: Swedish This category exists only as a container for other categories of Swedish women . Articles on individual women should not be added directly to this category, but may be added to an appropriate sub-category if it exists.
The dictionary contains biographies of women who, across several centuries and in many different ways, have contributed to society's development, both within Sweden and beyond. The entries, based on a mix of existing and brand-new research, were mainly selected with an emphasis on societal significance rather than personal fame.
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 Swedish Vikings, called "Rus" are also believed to be the founding fathers of Kievan Rus. The Arabic traveller Ibn Fadlan described these Vikings as following: I have seen the Rus as they came on their merchant journeys and encamped by the Itil. I have never seen more perfect physical specimens, tall as date palms, blond and ruddy; they ...