News of the successful trading spread quickly, and eventually British, Dutch, Danish, Prussian and Swedish traders arrived as well.

In 1640, Helsinki was moved from its original location at the mouth of the river Vantaa ( in Swedish: Vanda ), but the improved harbour failed to attract traders.

This duty was halved for slaves imported from Africa on Swedish ships, generating increased profits for the West India Company and other Swedish traders.

Cape Coast Castle is a fortification in Ghana built by Swedish traders for trade in timber and gold.

Rosencrantz (" rosary ") and Gyldenstjerne / Gyllenstierna (" golden star ") were names of Danish ( and Swedish ) noble families of the 16th century ; records of the Danish royal coronation of 1596 show that one tenth of the aristocrats participating bore one or the other name.

The Swedish team naturally won the Gymnastics event of the Swedish system, referred to in the programme as " Team Competition I ", with fellow Scandinavian teams Denmark and Norway taking the second and third positions.

This, however, can be argued not to reflect students ' motivation, as after studying Swedish compulsorily for many years, they naturally prefer to complete the Swedish test of the examination.

Hitherto Charles had aimed at supporting the weaker Slavonic power against the stronger ; but now that Russia seemed about to disappear from among the nations of Europe, Swedish statesmen naturally sought some compensation for the expenses of the war before Poland had had time to absorb everything.

Some difficulties occurred in assembling the planes and in pilots ' transition to them, for they were naturally equipped with Swedish instrumentation and no English version of technical orders was available.

Kaijser is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences since 2007 and also a member of the editorial board of two scientific journals: Journal of Urban Technology and Centaurus.

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.

He also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote several songs and submitted " Hej, Clown " for the 1969 Melodifestivalen-the Swedish Eurovision Song Festival finals.

In 1990, Andersson scored a Swedish # 1 hit with " Lassie ", sung by female cabaret group Ainbusk, for whom he also wrote the Svensktoppen hits " Älska Mig " and " Drömmarnas Golv ".

For a compilation album of the Glenmark duo Gemini, Andersson had Björn Ulvaeus write new Swedish lyrics for the re-recording of two old songs ; Ulvaeus also wrote new English lyrics to older Swedish language songs for opera singer Anne Sofie von Otter tribute album " I Let The Music Speak ".

Benny Andersson also wrote the film score for the 2012 documentary Palme about Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.

The word black comes from Old English blæc (" black, dark ", also, " ink "), from Proto-Germanic * blakkaz (" burned "), from Proto-Indo-European * bhleg-(" to burn, gleam, shine, flash "), from base * bhel-(" to shine "), related to Old Saxon blak (" ink "), Old High German blah (" black "), Old Norse blakkr (" dark "), Dutch blaken (" to burn "), and Swedish bläck (" ink ").

This myth is also recorded in an 18th-century Swedish folksong called Hammar-Hemtningen ( the taking of the hammer ), where Freyja is called Miss Frojenborg, " den väna solen " ( the fair sun ).

-- With great difficulty they accomplished their long journey on foot, traversing also the intervening seas ( maria ), where it was possible, by ship, and eventually arrived at the Swedish port called Birka.

The exact location of Birca was also lost during the centuries, leading to speculation from Swedish historians.

Carl Linnaeus ( Swedish original name Carl Nilsson Linnæus, 23 May 1707 – 10 January 1778 ), also known after his ennoblement as, was a Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist, who laid the foundations for the modern scheme of binomial nomenclature.

They are also an ingredient of the gräddfil sauce served with the traditional herring dish served at Swedish midsummer celebrations.

In Swedish frequently also referred to as Chalmers rymdgrupp ( roughly Chalmers Space Group ).

It also saw the establishment of a Danish colonial empire and some Swedish overseas colonies.

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

Other languages also have a separate word for a full day, such as vuorokausi in Finnish, ööpäev in Estonian, dygn in Swedish, døgn in Danish, døgn in Norwegian, sólarhringur in Icelandic, etmaal in Dutch, doba in Polish, сутки ( sutki ) in Russian, суткі ( sutki ) in Belarusian, доба ́ ( doba ) in Ukrainian, денонощие in Bulgarian and יממה in Hebrew.

Japanese and Swedish vehicle manufacturers are also developing diesel engines that run on dimethyl ether ( DME ).

He also maintained his Indo-European studies with courses in Celtic, Old Saxon, Swedish and Sanskrit.

Estonian has been influenced by Swedish, German ( initially Middle Low German, later also standard German ), and Russian, though it is not related to them genetically.

* Swedish fiddling ( including Låtfiol playing ; see also Spelmanslag and Gammaldans ), including traditions from:

Patented by a Swedish company, a promession is also known as an " ecological funeral ".

" 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.

The name Nordea comes from the Swedish bank Nordbanken, which was based on PK-banken ( Post och Kreditbanken ; owned by Swedish state ) which in 1990 purchased the smaller private bank Nordbanken, and picked up that name.

Instead, the smaller Left Party, a Social Democrat ally, picked up support with its program of increased public spending and opposition to Swedish membership in the European single currency.

* 6 July Lundborg is picked up from the ice floe by his Swedish co-pilot Birger Schyberg in a light Moth ski-biplane.

He had told Swedish television station that he was going to play out the season on loan to former club IFK Norrköping as a joke but the statement was then picked up by international media and re-reported as fact.

Subsequently Brolin was picked to lead the Swedish attack in the 1990 World Cup in Italy.

Welsh picked up an injury during a pre-season win against League of Ireland club, Shelbourne, prompting Quinn and new manager Roy Keane to sign Swedish winger Tobias Hysen and Celtic midfielder Ross Wallace to fill the left-midfield role.

During 2005 she won numerous awards, including at the Swedish Grammis, where she received seven nominations and picked up three wins, including Artist of the Year, Producer of the Year, and New Artist of the Year.

The story was immediately picked up by many leading Swedish dailies.

According to the book about Michael Dahl and the Swedish school of painting by Wilhelm Nisser, the students were first to be under the leadership of Hannibal to learn the basics of painting, and if they were of skill then they had the chance of being picked out to continue their study, though this time with Ehrenstrahl as the teacher.