:" This Gautbert, who at his consecration received the honoured name of the apostle Simeon, went to Sweden, and was honourably received by the king and the people ; and he began, amidst general goodwill and approval, to build a church there --" ( Chapter XIV )

In 1948, Sweden witnessed Tattarkravallerna Jönköping, where the prejudices for this social strata led to speeches on how these people were degenerate, impure, parasitic and corroded from within, triggering violence and cleansing.

Indeed, Estonians consider themselves a Nordic people rather than Balts, based on their historical ties with Denmark and particularly Finland and Sweden.

The people were mentioned as Helsinger ( which may mean " the people of the strait ") for the first time in King Valdemar the Victorious's Liber Census Daniæ from 1231, but they should not be confused with the Helsings of Hälsingland in Sweden.

10 years after the IFF was founded, the first world championships were played, with a sold out final of 15, 106 people at the Globen in Stockholm, Sweden.

In 1972, Sweden became first country in the world to allow people who were transsexual by legislation to surgically change their sex and provide free hormone replacement therapy.

In 1979, a number of people in Sweden called in sick with a case of being homosexual, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness.

Founded in Sweden in 1943 by 17-year-old Ingvar Kamprad, who later became one of the richest people in the world, the company's name is an acronym comprising the initials of the founder's name ( Ingvar Kamprad ), the farm where he grew up ( Elmtaryd ), and his hometown ( Agunnaryd, in Småland, South Sweden ).

Another modern hypothesis ( the so-called " Jutish hypothesis "), accepted by the Oxford English Dictionary, states that the Jutes are identical with the Geats, a people who once lived in southern Sweden.

The 1686 church law ( kyrkolagen ) of the Kingdom of Sweden ( which at the time included all of modern Sweden, Finland, and Estonia ) enforced literacy on the people, and by 1800 the ability to read was close to 100 %.

* 1940 – Five people are killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Norrskensflamman in Luleå, Sweden.

* 1931 – Ådalen shootings: five people are killed in Ådalen, Sweden, as soldiers open fire on an unarmed trade union demonstration.

It also wanted more people to move away from the countryside of northern Sweden and in to the big cities of southern Sweden, leaving upper Sweden to fend for itself.

* 1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.

* 1520 – Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.

It may mean " rock people ", ( from the Old Norse grjut huningi ) to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Geats ( referred as Goths in Scandinavia ) from Götaland ( Gothland ) in southern Sweden.

The descendants of the primeval Finnic people of the modern area of Sweden today speak largely Swedish.

In addition to the ethnic Swedish majority, Sweden has historically had smaller minorities of Sami people in the northernmost parts of the country while Finns ( at 5 % of the total population ) are most prominent in the Mälardalen and in the north of Sweden.

The Sami people, also spelled Sámi or Saami, are the indigenous people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Sweden, Norway, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway.

The films eventually progressed the public's attitude toward sex, especially in Sweden and other northern European countries, which today tend to be more sexually liberal than others.

Studies in Sweden indicate that people tend to switch from smoking to snus, rather than the other way around.

* 1160 – 61 Magnus ( II ) of Sweden ( the regnal list published by the royal court of Sweden includes him as a member of Stenkil dynasty ; some tend to call him as the " last " monarch of the House of Stenkil which however is a genealogically debatable concept ), was the son of a daughter of Inge the Elder's son Ragvald.

Julmust ( Swedish jul " Yule " and must " juice ") is a soft drink that is mainly consumed in Sweden around Christmas.

As ' Pear cider ', the drink is popular in Sweden with brands such as Briska, Kopparberg, Herrljunga Cider, Rekorderlig Cider, and Gravendals being present.

A national speciality would be multiple brands of flavored hard ciders ( as in Sweden ) and long drink mixes with the pet name lonkero, which was originally a gin and grapefruit soda long drink.

Gustav III, King of Sweden, loved Tokaji-it has been said he never had any other wine to drink.

Tango is a carbonated soft drink sold primarily in the United Kingdom and Ireland and from 2010 in Sweden, Norway and Hungary as well, first launched by Corona in 1950.

* Trocadero ( drink ), a soft drink popular in Sweden

In Spain, a similar drink is known as carajillo, and in Sweden and Norway as kaffekask and karsk, ( although " karsk " is in fact coffee added to moonshine to make the moonshine palatable, rather than liquor added to coffee for flavor ) respectively.

A ritual that is associated with drinking snaps is a tradition in Scandinavia, especially in Denmark and Sweden, where it is very common to drink snaps at holidays such as Midsummer, Christmas and Easter.

Iced tea is a popular summer drink in Sweden, especially since Sweden is traditionally a tea-drinking country.

The drink is also available in Portugal, Spain, Honduras, Denmark, Luxembourg, Israel, Italy, Switzerland, Finland, Canada, United Kingdom, Sweden ( Recently in all Tesco and Waitrose stores ), parts of Japan, the United States, and as 1, 5 litre bottles in special food stores in Germany.

Its launch was a true challenge due to a variety of factors: Sweden was not perceived as a vodka-producing country, the bottle was very awkward for bartenders to use, and vodka was perceived as a cheap, tasteless drink.

BAO has released five albums to huge success in Sweden, all containing hit singles.

The title song became a huge hit in Sweden for Gemini.

Davidson notes that there is no mention of a sacred tree at Þingvellir in Iceland yet that Adam of Bremen describes a huge tree standing next to the Temple at Uppsala in Sweden, which Adam describes as remaining green throughout summer and winter, and that no one knew what type of tree it was.

Sweden at the time still suffered from the recession which began during the early nineties, high unemployment rates and a huge budget deficit.

The Romanesque period saw the creation of many huge illuminated complete Bibles – one in Sweden requires three librarians to lift it.

There, too, it is a water creature of huge dimensions, while in Southern Sweden it is a huge snake, the sight of which was deadly.

Barnum agreed, and she accepted the offer, which would permit her to raise a huge fund for charities, principally endowing schools for poor children in Sweden.

The single was a huge success across Europe and topped the charts in Norway and Sweden.

The huge popularity of trot betting in Sweden " spills over " to Norway, Finland and Denmark, where the numbers of racing tracks are fewer.

In 1980, the LP Gyllene Tider was released, becoming a huge success in Sweden.

The tour, called GT25, was a huge success, being the biggest tour in Scandinavia ever and the second largest of all time in the whole of Europe, gathering large crowds all over Sweden.

ABBA-members Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus have been very successful in musical theatre, with their international hit Mamma Mia !, as well as Chess, and Kristina från Duvemåla, which was a huge success in Sweden.

Second, it was a dismal failure for its developer, G. Lars Gullstedt of Sweden, who made headlines in Atlanta in 1991 by buying up huge parcels of run-down land in Midtown and proposing a massive multi-block mixed-use development to be called " GLG Park Plaza.

It has become a huge phenomenon with children and adults and is shown in over 98 countries, including the United States, Canada, Sweden and Latin America.

Lukas Moodysson's first feature-length film, Show Me Love ( aka Fucking Åmål ) was a huge success in Sweden.

As a reflection of the huge diversity of the church's congregation ( over 60 nationalities represented amongst the c2500 present on Sundays ), the staff team has been gradually becoming more diverse with staff from across the globe including Kenya, the United States, Canada, South Africa, New Zealand, Sweden, Germany, Hungary, Korea and Ireland amongst others.

While Sweden, Finland, UK, France and Germany have since levied huge fines against the cement industry, Ireland ’ s answer has been a stony silence .”

Because of the huge success of the shows, a new European tour was announced for the summer of 2010, covering 2 festivals, Skanderborg Festival in Denmark and Parkenfestivalen in Norway, the tour continued in the autumn covering France, The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany and Belgium.

Their presence in Sweden is the result of the Sack of Prague in the last days of the Thirty Years War, when the Swedes pillaged what remained of Rudolf's huge collections, and took a great many statues, in particular duke Albrecht von Wallenstein's garden statues, that used to adorn his palace on the lesser side of Prague.

In the Second Treaty of Brömsebro ( 1645 ), which concluded the war, Denmark had to make huge territorial concessions and exempt Sweden from the Sound Dues, de facto acknowledging the end of the Danish dominium maris baltici.

The song was a huge success in several continental European countries, topping the singles charts in Belgium, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland for several weeks.

In the 2000s on the heels of The Big Bang which went gold in Norway and the critically acclaimed My Religion he performed to huge audiences with TNT at festivals throughout Europe, including the Sweden Rock Festival with 20, 000 + in attendance, where they shared the bill with numerous greats including metal legends, Judas Priest.

The album was a huge success in Sweden, and Lyngstad was awarded with a platinum disc.