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The Askafroa ( Swedish " wife of the ash tree "), also known as the Danish Askefrue and German Eschenfrau, is a type of legendary creature in Scandinavian and German folklore, similar to the Greek Hamadryads.
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Askafroa and ash
The Askafroa is the guardian of the ash tree.
Askafroa and is
The Askafroa is, by any name, quite obscure, and consequently not prominently featured in modern fiction, although the online role-playing game Dark Age of Camelot features enemies in the form of Askefruer / Askafroa.
Askafroa and creature
The Askafroa was thought be a malicious creature which did much damage, and to propriate her it was necessary to make a sacrifice to her on Ash Wednesday.
Askafroa and .
The elders used to sacrifice to the Askafroa on the morning of Ash Wednesday.
Swedish and wife
* 1535 – Catherine Stenbock, Swedish wife of Gustav I of Sweden ( d. 1621 )
His determined Prussian wife showed a strong dislike for this Swedish suitor, because Prussia was a Polish fief and the Polish King Sigismund III Vasa still resented his loss of Sweden to Gustavus Adolphus ' father Charles IX.
Maria Eleonora's brother George William was flattered by the offer of the British Crown Prince and proposed their younger sister Catherine ( 1602 – 1644 ) as a more suitable wife for the Swedish king.
In 2001, Swedish commercial television channel TV4 produced a version of the show, entitled " En fot i graven ", starring Gösta Ekman as Victor Meldrew and Lena Söderblom as his wife.
His daughter, Marie Ledin ( wife of Swedish star and ABBA concert backing vocalist Tomas Ledin ) was also involved in the music industry.
* date unknown – Ingeborg Tott, wife of Swedish regent Sten Sture the elder
Some historians, such as Lauritz Weibull, have argued that Sweyn's wife described in the sagas – Swedish dowager queen Sigrid the Haughty – is purely fictional, whereas others have accepted her existence on the evidence of the Norse sagas.
To court his second wife, the Swedish princess Thora, Ragnar traveled to Sweden and quelled an infestation of venomous snakes, famously wearing the hairy breeches whereby he gained his nickname.
On the night of February 28, 1986, the Swedish Social Democratic Prime Minister Olof Palme was shot and killed in Stockholm as he walked home from a cinema with his wife, Lisbet Palme.
His first wife was Swedish and his son Rubén was born in Stockholm ).
The 18th century Swedish privateers and pirates Lars Gathenhielm and his wife and partner Ingela Hammar, are known to have sold their ill-gotten gains in Dunkirk.
Though he was from Holstein ( now in Germany ), his first wife was a Finn and part of the Swedish community.
Filippa Reinfeldt, wife of Fredrik Reinfeldt ( the current Swedish Prime Minister and leader of the Moderate Party ), had been mayor of Täby for a long time, until Jan Rosenberg, of the Moderate Party, became the current mayor of Täby Municipality.
Einhorn's account of his life underground from the time he fled the United States in early January 1981 until he met his Swedish wife, Annika, in November 1987.
He was the second son of big band leader Ozzie Nelson, who was of half Swedish descent, and his wife, big band vocalist Harriet Hilliard Nelson ( née Peggy Louise Snyder ).
According to some contemporaries, at least the Swedish People's Party electors more eagerly voted for Relander, because his wife happened to be a Finland Swede.
After her mother's death, she was raised by her father and his second wife, Marianne " Gaby " Landhage, a Swedish model who had been Roussel's longtime mistress and by whom he already had two children, born during Roussel's marriage to Christina.
Via exposition ( Bonanza, " Rose For Lotta ", premiere, 9 / 12 / 59 ) and flashback episodes, each wife was accorded a different ethnicity: English ( Bonanza, " Elizabeth My Love "; episode # 65 ) Swedish ( Bonanza, " Inger My Love ", episode # 95 ) and French Creole ( Bonanza, " Marie My Love ", episode # 120 ) respectively.
Elsa Brändström was born in 1888 in St. Petersburg, the daughter of the Military Attache at the Swedish Embassy, Edvard Brändström, and his wife Anna Eschelsson.
He subsequently held several teaching posts, the first in 1888 at Helsinki, where he met his wife, Gerda Sjöstrand, the daughter of Swedish sculptor Carl Eneas Sjöstrand, and began a lifelong friendship with Jean Sibelius.
Because of the raise in taxation to pay for the acquisition of the Scanian province, some Swedish nobles supported by the Church attempted to oust Magnus, setting up his elder son Erik Magnusson as king ( Eric XII of Sweden ), but Eric died supposedly of the plague in 1359, with his wife Beatrix of Bavaria, daughter of Louis IV of Bavaria and their two sons.
With his second wife Magdalena Hising, he had a son Olaus Rudbeckius, Sr., who was to become the most important Swedish scientist of the 17th century.
The Crafoord Prize is an annual science prize established in 1980 by Holger Crafoord, a Swedish industrialist, and his wife Anna-Greta Crafoord.
Ingrid Ylva Sunesdotter of Bjelbo ( born c. 1180s, died c. 1250 – 1255 ), was a Swedish noblewoman, the wife of Magnus Minnesköld of Bjälbo and the mother of regent Birger Jarl.
Swedish and ash
:* Swedish uses characters identical to a-umlaut ( ä ) and o-umlaut ( ö ) in the place of ash and o-slash in addition to the a-circle ( å ).
The Swedish scholar Hyltén-Cavallius recorded in his ethnographic work Wärend och Wirdarne a belief of a female creature living in the ash tree, in Ljunit Hundred.
A very old tree ( often a linden, ash or elm ) growing on the farm lot could be dubbed a " warden tree " ( Swedish vårdträd ), and was believed to defend it from bad luck.
Swedish and tree
He adopted the Latinate name Linnæus after a giant linden tree ( or lime tree ), in Swedish, that grew on the family homestead.
In 1908 the islands were visited by the Swedish Magellanic Expedition and Carl Skottsberg is believed to have been the last to have seen the Santalum fernandezianum tree alive.
In 1876, a writer named George Hanson placed John Hanson in his family tree of Swedish Americans descended from four Swedish brothers who emigrated to New Sweden in 1642.
* In the Swedish city of Umeå, the silver birch tree has a special place.
In Swedish, these words are the same, bok meaning both “ beech tree ” and “ book ”.
* Swedish monarchs family tree
Boye is perhaps most famous for her poems, of which the most well-known ought to be " Yes, of course it hurts " ( Swedish: Ja visst gör det ont ) and " In motion " ( I rörelse ) from her collections of poems " The Hearths " ( Härdarna ), 1927, and " For the sake of the tree " ( För trädets skull ), 1935.
She is known as Tallemaja ( pine tree Mary ) in Swedish folklore, and Ulda in Sámi folklore.
It is cognate with Icelandic fjall / fell, Faroese fjall, Danish fjeld, Swedish fjäll, and Norwegian fjell, all referring to mountains rising above the alpine tree line.
* Björk-( Swedish ), bjørk-( Norwegian, Danish ) " birch tree "
The park contains unusual Swedish wildlife such as the hazel dormouse, golden oriole, European tree frog and agile frog.
Swedish also lacks some common consonant phonemes, such as ( voiceless dental fricative ), which is typically replaced by ( voiceless labiodental fricative ) or ( voiceless alveolar stop ), leading to " three " being pronounced as " free " or " tree ".
In some later cases, temples would be built on such sites, the most notable being the Swedish Temple at Uppsala which, according to Adam of Bremen, writing in the 11th century, was built around a grove which was " so holy that each tree is itself regarded as sacred ".
) are tree spirits in Swedish faerie mythology, similar to the dryads and hamadryads of Greek and Roman mythology.
It was often believed that the wights ( Swedish vättar ) of the yard lived under the roots of the warden tree, and to them, one sacrificed treats to be freed from disease or bad luck.
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