Later medieval legends describe Swedish attempts to conquer and Christianize Finland sometime in the mid-1150s.

His A Rabbi Talks with Jesus ( Philadelphia, 1993 ; translated into German, Italian, and Swedish ), attempts to establish a religiously sound framework for Judaic-Christian interchange.

* September 9 – Thirty Years ' War – Besieged by Wallenstein at Nuremberg, Swedish king Gustav Adolph attempts to break the siege, but is defeated in the Battle of the Alte Veste.

Mr Göransson, a Swedish ironmaster, using the purer charcoal pig iron of that country, was the first to make good steel by the process, but only after many attempts.

The nobles, including his former supporter Bo Jonsson Grip, Sweden's largest landowner who controlled a third of the entirety of the Swedish territory and had the largest non-royal wealth in the country, soon conspired to get rid of him, resenting his attempts to restrict the traditional privileges of the nobility, as well as his use of German officials to fill important administrative positions in the Swedish provinces.

He continued his attempts to regain the Swedish throne, with similar lack of results as his father.

Sjöstierna sailed home already on 22 September and commander of the remaining Swedish fleet ignored Lewenhaupt's attempts to persuade him to sail to Beryozovye Islands (, ) and instead sailed on 27 October back to Sweden.

Swedish attempts to land troops near Turku were stalled by Bagration's prompt actions.

The attempts were futile and the show has since not been aired in Swedish television.

Conway used a stereotypical Swedish accent ( especially when frustrated ); for example, his attempts to pronounce his secretary's name came out as " Mrs. Ah-huh-wiggins ".

She never became very popular at the royal court and never learned to speak Swedish, and there are many anecdotes of her attempts to speak the language.

In 1818, six years after he became a Commander in the Swedish Navy, he received the command of an Arctic expedition organised by the British Admiralty, the first of a new series of attempts to solve the question of a Northwest Passage.

In 1766 the Swedish king, Adolf Frederick, decided, after several unsuccessful attempts at regulating alcohol consumption, to abolish all restrictions.

Initial Swedish landing attempts begun on 2 August but bad weather prevented main force from landing and Russian counterattack forced the 300 men Swedish landing party to return to their ships.

As the Imperial army got tied up in desperate attempts to eliminate the Swedish bridgehead, the Swedish cavalry with no opposition or attention from the enemy was able to cross the river 10 km south of the Imperial left wing.

Swedish attempts to dislodge her failed, and the Swedes were forced to burn her so that the Russians would be unable to take her.

Swedish attempts to introduce Lutheranism were met with repugnance by the Orthodox peasantry obliged to attend Lutheran services ; converts were promised grants and tax reductions, but Lutheran gains were most of all due to voluntary resettlements from Savonia and Karelia.

Cultural imperialism, in combination with a fear of Russia, led to Swedish attempts to assimilate and Swedify the Finnish-speaking population between 1850 and 1950.

However, even after being dethroned, Sigismund did not give up on regaining the Swedish throne, and from then on, most of his policies would revolve around his attempts to conquer Sweden, even though Commonwealth nobility had little will for such a long and bloody conflict.

This contributed to the abortion of close intelligence cooperation between the two countries, and resulted among other things in a total failure for the Swedish attempts to improve the relations with the Third Reich be means of some kind of cooperation in Operation Barbarossa — executed as " support for Finland's heroic struggle against Bolshevism " — at the same time intending to ease Finland's emotional dependency on Germany.

In the 17th century there were attempts to establish Swedish as a genuine language.

The first European general to introduce rapid movement, concentrated power and integrated military effort was Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus during the 30 year war.

His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg.

It is particularly noted for its openness to multidisciplinary research and, in 1980, was the first Swedish university to introduce interdisciplinary thematic research at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a cross-subject, interdisciplinary perspective in graduate schools for PhD students.

However, it was only when he attempted to introduce reduction of the large estates of the Swedish nobility that he lost his support in Stockholm.

In 1915, she went to Siberia for the Swedish Red Cross, to introduce basic medical treatment for the German POWs.

* Sweden: Swedish state-owned telephone company Televerket tried to introduce a similar service in 1991.

The party wanted to introduce temporary recidence permits for refugees, and that those who were allowed to stay should immediately be assimilated into Swedish society.

He was the first to introduce the hexameter into the Swedish language with his epic Hercules in 1658.

Media also focused attention on what came to be called " the decision to campaign to abolish marriage " and the current state-recognised cohabiting partnerships, and instead introduce a new Cohabitation Act ( Swedish: sammanlevnadsbalk ) which would encompass a new legal status for private relationships between more than two people, irrespective of gender, thereby possibly opening up for polygamy.

The majority ( roughly two thirds ) of Latvians, under Swedish influences, adopted Lutheranism, while the minority ( the remaining third ) of Latvians under Poland-Lithuania, Latgale in particular, retained their Catholicism.

Upon his accession he converted from Roman Catholicism to the Lutheranism of the Swedish court.

After Sigismund promised to uphold Swedish Lutheranism he was crowned king of Sweden in 1594 ; for a short time there was a personal union between Commonwealth and Sweden ( Polish – Swedish union ).

Significant enclaves of Karelians exist in the Tver oblast of Russia, resettled after Russia's defeat in 1617 against Sweden — in order to escape the peril of forced conversion to Lutheranism in Swedish Karelia and because the Russians promised tax deductions the Orthodox Karelians mass migrated there.

During the 20th century, the harsh Lutheranism associated with Wallin was being increasingly scorned in Sweden as being oppressive and guilt stricken, and this trend in combination with increased secularization has diminished his reputation ; today he is remembered for merely those hymns still in use in Swedish Churches, the traditional Christmas hymn " Var hälsad, sköna morgonstund " among them.

After the Swedish crown had exchanged Catholicism for Lutheranism as official religion, the Roman hierarchy as such disappeared.

He furthermore published a thorough Ethica Christiana 1615-30, a work in six parts in Swedish about Lutheranism.

The synod, consisting of rostered leaders ( pastors, associates in ministry, deaconesses, and diaconal ministers ) and approximately 172 congregations and missions, is located in an area rich in German and Swedish history, with the latter bringing Lutheranism ( as missions of the Church of Sweden ) in the 1640s before the subsequent takeover of Tinicum ( present-day Chester ) by the British and the formation of the Province of Pennsylvania under the Quaker William Penn, who invited scores of people, mostly British Quakers and German Lutherans and Anabaptists ( Amish and Mennonite ), to settle the land.

Of the longer pieces of the volume none is so memorable as `` Nameless And Immortal '', which at once took rank among the finest poems ever written in the Swedish language.

Kindreds are usually grassroots groups which may or may not be affiliated with a national organization such as the Ásatrú Alliance, or The Troth, rather than the Swedish Forn Sed Assembly or the Odinic Rite.

This attempted to prove that Sweden was Atlantis, the cradle of civilization, and Swedish the original language of Adam from which Latin and Hebrew had evolved.

Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

The maximum depth is 459 m ( 1506 ft ) which is on the Swedish side of the center.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

Swedish and Danish chronicles of the 16th century described the events as " black " for the first time, not to describe the late-stage sign of the disease, in which the sufferer's skin would blacken due to subepidermal hemorrhages and the extremities would darken with a form of gangrene, acral necrosis, but more likely to refer to black in the sense of glum or dreadful and to denote the terror and gloom of the events.

:" Meanwhile it happened that Swedish ambassadors had come to the Emperor Louis the Pious, and, amongst other matters which they had been ordered to bring to the attention of the emperor, they informed him that there were many belonging to their nation who desired to embrace the Christian religion, and that their king so far favoured this suggestion that lie would permit God's priests to reside there, provided that they might be deemed worthy of such a favour and that the emperor would send them suitable preachers.

One role of the Swedish central bank was lending to the government, which was likewise true of the Bank of England, created in 1694 by Scottish businessman William Paterson in the City of London at the request of the English government to help pay for a war.

Quite a few of the names mean " five-six " in different languages, including both the robot Fisi ( fi-si ), the dead Lady Panc Ashash ( in Sanskrit " pañcha " is " five " and " ṣaṣ " is " six "), Limaono ( lima-ono, both in Hawaiian and / or Fijian ), Englok ( ng < sup > 5 </ sup >- luk < sup > 6 </ sup > < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Cantonese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, in Cantonese ), Goroke ( go-roku < nowiki >- wikt: 六 # Japanese | 六 < nowiki ></ nowiki >, Japanese ) and Femtiosex (" fifty-six " in Swedish ) in " The Dead Lady of Clown Town " as well as the main character in " Think Blue, Count Two ", Veesey-koosey, which is an English transcription of the Finnish words " viisi " ( five ) and " kuusi " ( six ).

This means that the spoken language in this part of Sweden is descended from a regional variant of Danish, while the written language used is standard Swedish, which evolved in Uppsala and Stockholm.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

Germany have a long cooperation with the Swedish film industry, which started as early as during the 1960s.

After World War I, both Finland and Sweden laid claim to the islands, which are culturally more Swedish than Finnish.

" The root also appears in Old Saxon fri which means " beloved lady ", in Swedish as fria (" to propose for marriage ") and in Icelandic as frjá which means " to love.

Mises had earlier applied the concept of marginal utility to the value of money in his Theory of Money and Credit ( 1912 ), in which he also proposed an explanation for " industrial fluctuations " based on the ideas of the old British Currency School and of Swedish economist Knut Wicksell.

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

The German word for English " knight " is Ritter, the Dutch ridder, the Swedish riddare, which is the cognate of English " rider "-but which carries vast social implications absent from the English word.

This system originated in the Swedish regime of the 17th century, which effectively divided the Finnish people into two groups, separated economically, socially and politically.

* the conservative Swedish People's Party, which sought to retain the rights of the former nobility and the Swedish-speaking minority of Finland.

While the conflict has been called by some " The War of the Amateurs ", the White Army had two major advantages over the Red Guards in the war: the professional military leadership of General Mannerheim and his staff — which included 84 Swedish volunteer officers and former Finnish officers of the Tsar's army — and 1, 450 soldiers of the 1, 900-strong, elite " Jäger " battalion.

On 5 March a German naval squadron landed in the southwestern archipelago of Finland, on the Åland Islands, which the Swedish military expedition had taken over in mid-February.