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1. Waffle Day
In Sweden, people celebrate what is commonly
referred to as “waffle day”, which probably is a sloppy pronunciation of the
word “vårfrudagen” which means in English “Our lady’s day”. (click to read more...)
2. The Finnish “Poor men”
In
the province of Österbotten, Finland, outside more than a hundred different
churches and bell
towers, The “Poor men” are still standing. Life size carved wooden figures from
the 17th and 18 century.
(click to read more...)
3. An alternate history of Mardi Gras – the Swedish connection
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There are European roots to this festival, and some of them come from Sweden. (click to read more...)
4. The Swedish Flag:
The Swedish flag in it’s current form goes back
to the late 1400s. Gustav Vasa was the first regent to carry the blue flag with
the yellow cross. (click to read more...)
5. Swedish pea soup – Ärtsoppa
Swedish yellow pea soup is a meal that is so old
that we don’t really know when they started eating it. (click to read more...)
6. The History of Coffee
... “coffee should be black as hell, strong as death, and sweet as
love” (click to read more...)
7. Valborgsmässoafton
– Valpurgis night
The Swedes are really quite serious about their spring celebrations, but
then after such a long winter who can blame them?.. (click to read more...)
8. The Vikings in Ireland
Vikings first came to Ireland from Norway in the 8th century. The first
recorded raid was in 795 at Lindisfarne... (click to read more...)
9. The Vikings
The time from the year 730 to the beginning of
the 1000’s is commonly referred to as the “Viking era”.. (click to read more...)
10. The Gota Canal
This
year will mark the 125th anniversary of the Gota Canal, a massive
engineering feat reaching across all of Sweden and tying the Atlantic to the
Baltic. (click to read more...)
11. STOCKHOLM
The city of Stockholm sits on top of 14 islands, between the mouth of lake Mälaren and the Baltic sea. (click to read more...) |
