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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.
Pilt Carin Ersdotter (1814–1885), was a Swedish milkmaid from Djura in Dalarna who became famous for her beauty. She sold milk on the street of Stockholm in 1833-1834, and attracted so much attention that she became a mascot
The book is a list of the 100 Swedes that according to the authors have had "the greatest influence on Swedish people's lives, and also people's lives around the world". [2] There are 84 men and 16 women on the list. Around 40 of them lived in the previous century, and 16 were still alive as of the book's publication. [3]
In her clip, The TikToker reveals her surprise over why Swedes “only” eat candy on Saturdays. According to Atlas Obscura, it stems back to the 1940s, when a Swedish study linked tooth decay ...
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Some films were made just for the Swedish American diaspora community such as The Film About Sweden and The Old Land of Dreams. [ 6 ] The first recognition by Sweden of the 19th century emigration to the United States occurred in 1923 with a visit by Nathan Söderblom and the 1926 visit by the crown prince , who would later rule as Gustaf VI ...
A Concise History of Sweden (2008), 314 pp. excerpt and text search; Magnusson, Lars. An Economic History of Sweden (2000) online edition; Moberg, Vilhelm, and Paul Britten Austin. A History of the Swedish People: Volume II: From Renaissance to Revolution (2005) Norberg, Johan (October 23, 2013). How Laissez-Faire Made Sweden Rich. Cato Institute
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