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Queen Saga Speaks
Queen Saga I As told to the Guardian: Every summer, my parents, my six-year-old brother and I go to stay in a cabin by a lake called Vidöstern in Tånnö in southern Sweden, not far from where we live....
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Kulning: Swedish Cow Calling
Atlas Obscura: Less than a century ago, Sweden’s remote forests and mountain pastures swelled with women’s voices each summer. As dusk approached, the haunting calls of kulning echoed through the...
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The Swedish Government Wants to Ban Runes – Norse Religion and Heritage...
Minister of Justice Morgan Johansson wants to ban Runes and other symbols of the Pagan Norse Religion. Samhällsnytt: (translated:) The government is currently investigating the possibility of banning...
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Swedish Scholar Dates Beowulf to 550 A.D.
Pictorial Stone from the Church in Bro in Gotland. A year old story, but news to me. Bo Gräslund, a prominent Swedish archaeologist, published a book, arguing on several grounds for an earlier date of...
View Article“Kvinnors Minnen” (Womens’ Memories)
Kvinnors minnen from Dalarnas museum on Vimeo. In the old days, Swedish women would take the cattle and goats for summer grazing in the hills. It looks like the film footage would have been taken...
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Champis, the Herding Rabbit
(not embeddable) 5:08 video Hat tip to Karen L. Myers. The post Champis, the Herding Rabbit appeared first on Never Yet Melted.
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Apple Season Means Drunken Elk in Sweden
Our Moose is called an Elk in Europe. The Local: A gang of angry drunken elk barred a man from entering his home in suburban Stockholm on Tuesday, leaving the frightened homeowner no choice but to...
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Nordic Cuisine
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View ArticleNot Perhaps the Ideal Pet
Despite the “moose” reference, this seems to be from Sweden where they’d call that an elk. Hat tip to Karen L. Myers. The post Not Perhaps the Ideal Pet appeared first on Never Yet Melted.
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155-Year-Old Eel Dies in Sweden
The eel in 1959. Sweden is in mourning, and not for Robin Williams. The Local.se reports: The world’s oldest European eel just died in its home, a well in a southern Swedish fishing town, aged 155. …...
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Sandby Borg, “the Swedish Pompeii”
Some warrior dropped this Roman solidus into a posthole on the floor. Archaeological investigation of Sandby Borg, a Migration Era fort on the island of Öland has been underway since 2010. Habitation...
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Gustav Vasa’s Helmet
Burgundian helmet belonging to Gustav I Vasa, King of Sweden. 1540. Hat tip to Collections & Recollections. The post Gustav Vasa’s Helmet appeared first on Never Yet Melted.
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Sweden Changing Racist Names of Birds
The Washington Post reports the latest case of European PC insanity. Bird watching has long been a popular and seemingly harmless weekend activity in Sweden. Its innocence, however, came to an abrupt...
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Swedish Museum Contains 1185 Skeletal Remains From 1361 Battle
Armored skull from Visby Skeletal Collection in the Fornsalen Museum Strange Remains: The Visby skeletal collection at the Fornsalen Museum contains the remains of 1185 people who died at the Battle...
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Charles XII’s Uniform
Uniform worn by Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Fridrikshald, 1718, at which he was killed. The post Charles XII’s Uniform appeared first on Never Yet Melted.
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Laissez-Faire, Not Socialism, Made Sweden Prosperous
Johan Norberg notes that the Left loves to point out Sweden as a model of Socialism with Economic Prosperity. The problem is that all the prosperity is a legacy from an economic system which Socialism...
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Waltz from Orsa, Sweden
https://www.neveryetmelted.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/02-Vals-från-Orsa.mp3 played by Bjorn Stabi and Ole Hjorth. My wife is an enthusiast of this kind of music. She has an on-line reference...
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“Old Tjikko” 9550-Year-Old Norwegian Spruce
Really, it’s a 9,550-Year-Old root system. Vintage News: The oldest living cloned Norwegian Spruce can be found in Sweden on Fulufjallet Mountain. It is at least 9,550 years old, sixteen feet tall,...
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Fake News
Memeorandum’s lead item at 1:15 PM EST on February 19, 2017. (You can look at a later point in time by filling in the correct time and date.) So at Donald Trump’s rally yesterday in Florida, Trump...
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