Some formal, selective breeds that are derived from landraces include the Dutch, Swedish and Finnish Landrace Goats.

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.

Almost nothing is said of Charles' spectacular victories, the central theme being the heroic loyalty of the Swedish people to their idolized king in misfortune and defeat.

Admirably written, it is a perfect introduction to Swedish history for readers of other countries.

The formulation for the literary prize being given for a work " in an ideal direction " ( in Swedish ), is cryptic and has caused much confusion.

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.

Another possibility, raised in an essay by the Swedish fantasy writer and editor Rickard Berghorn, is that the name Alhazred was influenced by references to two historical authors whose names were Latinized as Alhazen: Alhazen ben Josef, who translated Ptolemy into Arabic ; and Abu ' Ali al-Hasan ibn al-Haytham, who wrote about optics, mathematics and physics.

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

The word acre is derived from Old English æcer originally meaning " open field ", cognate to west coast Norwegian ækre and Swedish åker, German Acker, Dutch akker, Latin ager, and Greek αγρός ( agros ).

His promotion of it was so extensive that he is often credited with its invention, even though a machine operating in the same principle was described in 1762 by Swedish professor Johan Wilcke.

This view is based partly on Old English and Danish traditions regarding persons and events of the 4th century, and partly on the fact that striking affinities to the cult of Nerthus as described by Tacitus are to be found in pre-Christian Scandinavian, especially Swedish and Danish, religion.

The accusative case existed in Proto-Indo-European and is present in some Indo-European languages ( including Latin, Sanskrit, Greek, German, Polish, Swedish, Romanian, Russian, Ukrainian ), in the Uralic languages, in Altaic languages, and in Semitic languages ( such as Classical Arabic ).

In his Swedish paper " Observations of two persistent degrees on a thermometer " he reports on experiments to check that the freezing point is independent of latitude ( and of atmospheric pressure ).

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.

* In Germanic languages, except English, East Sea is used: Afrikaans ( Oossee ), Danish ( Østersøen ), Dutch ( Oostzee ), German ( Ostsee ), Icelandic and Faroese ( Eystrasalt ), Norwegian ( Østersjøen ), and Swedish ( Östersjön ).

* In addition, Finnish, a Baltic-Finnic language, has calqued the Swedish term as Itämeri " East Sea ", disregarding the geography ( the sea is west of Finland ), though understandably since Finland was a part of Sweden from the Middle Ages until 1809.

Göran Bror Benny Andersson () ( born 16 December 1946 ), known professionally as Benny Andersson, is a Swedish musician, composer, former member of the Swedish musical group ABBA ( 1972 – 1983 ), and co-composer of the musicals Chess, Kristina från Duvemåla, and Mamma Mia !.

Swedish folklorist Carl Wilhelm Von Sydow argued against both Scandinavian translation and source material due to his theory that Beowulf is fundamentally Christian and written at a time when any Norse tale would have most likely been pagan in nature.

The first known use of the word ball in English in the sense of a globular body that is played with was in 1205 in in the phrase, "" The word came from the Middle English bal ( inflected as ball-e ,-es, in turn from Old Norse böllr ( pronounced ; compare Old Swedish baller, and Swedish boll ) from Proto-Germanic ballu-z, ( whence probably Middle High German bal, ball-es, Middle Dutch bal ), a cognate with Old High German ballo, pallo, Middle High German balle from Proto-Germanic * ballon ( weak masculine ), and Old High German ballâ, pallâ, Middle High German balle, Proto-Germanic * ballôn ( weak feminine ).

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 ).

Consequently, modern Bulgarian is about as far from Russian as Swedish is from German.

Examples of cognates in Indo-European languages are the words night ( English ), nuit ( French ), Nacht ( German ), nacht ( Dutch ), nag ( Afrikaans ), nicht ( Scots ), natt ( Swedish, Norwegian ), nat ( Danish ), nátt ( Faroese ), nótt ( Icelandic ), noc ( Czech, Slovak, Polish ), ночь, noch ( Russian ), ноќ, noć ( Macedonian ), нощ, nosht ( Bulgarian ), ніч, nich ( Ukrainian ), ноч, noch / noč ( Belarusian ), noč ( Slovene ), noć ( Serbo-Croatian ), νύξ, nyx ( Ancient Greek, νύχτα / nyhta in Modern Greek ), nox ( Latin ), nakt-( Sanskrit ), natë ( Albanian ), noche ( Spanish ), nos ( Welsh ), nueche ( Asturian ), noite ( Portuguese and Galician ), notte ( Italian ), nit ( Catalan ), noapte ( Romanian ), nakts ( Latvian ) and naktis ( Lithuanian ), all meaning " night " and derived from the Proto-Indo-European ( PIE ), " night ".

The term " trap ", used in geology for such rock formations, is derived from the Swedish word for stairs and refers to the step-like hills forming the landscape of the region.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

The word " kludge " is, according to Burling, derived from the same root as the German " klug " ( Dutch kloog, Swedish Klag, Danish Klog, Gothic Klaugen, Lettish Kladnis and Sanskrit Veklaunn ), originally meaning " smart " or " witty ".

The derived prefix " riks -" implies nationwide or under central jurisdiction such as in riksväg, the Swedish name for federal road.

Both words are thought to be derived from Common Germanic * jeχʷla -, and are cognate to Gothic ( fruma ) jiuleis and Old Norse ( Icelandic and Faroese ) jól ( Danish and Swedish jul and Norwegian jul or jol ) as well as ýlir.

The word itself, Old English bread, is common in various forms to many Germanic languages, such as Frisian brea, Dutch brood, German Brot, Swedish bröd, and Norwegian and Danish brød ; it has been claimed to be derived from the root of brew.

The word swan is derived from Old English swan, akin to the German Schwan and Dutch zwaan and Swedish svan, in turn derived from Indo-European root * swen ( to sound, to sing ).

The English noun Monday derived sometime before 1200 from monedæi, which itself developed from Old English ( around 1000 ) mōnandæg and mōndæg ( literally meaning " moon's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian mōnadeig, Middle Low German and Middle Dutch mānendach ( modern Dutch Maandag ), Old High German mānetag ( modern German Montag ), and Old Norse mánadagr ( Swedish and Norwegian nynorsk måndag, Icelandic mánudagur.

The English noun Sunday derived sometime before 1250 from sunedai, which itself developed from Old English ( before 700 ) Sunnandæg ( literally meaning " sun's day "), which is cognate to other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian sunnandei, Old Saxon sunnundag, Middle Dutch sonnendach ( modern Dutch zondag ), Old High German sunnun tag ( modern German Sonntag ), and Old Norse sunnudagr ( Danish and Norwegian søndag, Icelandic sunnudagur and Swedish söndag ).

The Swedish name tomte is derived from a place of residence and area of influence: the house lot or tomt.

Its name is derived from an adjective corresponding to Old English sceald " shallow ", Modern English shoal, Low German schol, Frisian skol, and Swedish skäll " thin ".

The municipal coat of arms depicts a rooster from which the name Haninge is believed to have been derived ( the Swedish word hane means rooster ), while the anchor symbolizes the naval base in the municipality.

Its named is derived from the town's founder, the Swedish John Strandberg.

For instance, the Swedish word for headphones is hörlurar ( hearing-lurs ), and a mobile telephone might be referred to as a lur in contemporary Swedish ( derived from telefonlur, telephone handset ).

The North American name " loon " is a reference to the bird's clumsiness on land, and is derived from Scandinavian words for lame, such as Icelandic " lúinn " and Swedish " lam ".

The word " loon " is thought to have derived from the Swedish lom, the Old Norse or Icelandic lómr, or the Old Dutch loen, all of which mean " lame " or " clumsy ", and is a probable reference to the difficulty that all loons have in moving about on land.

The word kroon (, crown ) is related to that of the Nordic currencies ( such as the Swedish krona and the Danish and Norwegian krone ) and derived from the Latin word corona (" crown ").

The Swedish equivalent is " gemytlig ", derived from the German word and with the same meaning.

The English word " wrist " is etymologically derived from the ancient German word wristiz from which are derived modern German rist (" instep ", " wrist ") and modern Swedish vrist (" instep ", " ankle ").

The Jäger conflict derived from the German-influenced Jägers and politicians who saw Germany as their ally in conflict with the faction oriented towards the Swedish Entente, centering on the former Russian General and Finnish Commander-in-Chief Baron Gustaf Mannerheim.