* Common Swedish and Danish form: Asgård

The celebration of deeds of ancient Danish and Swedish heroes, the poem beginning with a tribute to the royal line of Danish kings, but written in the dominant literary dialect of Anglo-Saxon England, for a number of scholars points to the 11th century reign of Canute, the Danish king whose empire included all of these areas, and whose primary place of residence was in England, as the most likely time of the poem's creation, the poem being written as a celebration of the king's heroic royal ancestors, perhaps intended as a form of artistic flattery by one of his English courtiers.

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.

In Swedish one example is the different words for mosquitos in the collective form and in the individual form:

In 1842 the Swedish chemist Baron Jöns Jakob Berzelius proposed the term " halogen " – ἅλς ( háls ), " salt " or " sea ", and γεν-( gen -), from γίγνομαι ( gígnomai ), " come to be " – for the four elements ( fluorine, chlorine, bromine, and iodine ) that produce a sea-salt-like substance when they form a compound with a metal.

There is no evidence of any form of writing in Finland, runes or otherwise, prior to the Swedish Conquest and all evidence regarding Finnish history prior to Swedish involvement is based on archaeological findings and the scant records of contemporaneous third parties.

The Nobel Prize (, Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset ; Norwegian: Nobelprisen ) is a set of annual international awards bestowed in a number of categories by Scandinavian committees in recognition of cultural and / or scientific advances.

The Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the Scandinavian languages — all of which are considered mutually intelligible with each other.

In 1973 the air force was established with Swedish help in the form of two Saab MFI-15 two seat trainers.

* Swedish definition: " Intention distortion of the research process by fabrication of data, text, hypothesis, or methods from another researcher's manuscript form or publication ; or distortion of the research process in other ways.

The form also occurs as a personal name on some Swedish rune stones.

In the 17th century Sweden expanded its territories to form the Swedish empire.

In Swedish ecclesiastic and writer Olaus Magnus's Carta marina, many marine monsters of varied form, including an immense sea serpent, appear.

The series was published in book form in Swedish, and books 1 to 6 have been published in English, Moomin: The Complete Tove Jansson Comic Strip.

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

However, the first modern three point seat belt ( the so-called CIR-Griswold restraint ) used in most consumer vehicles today was patented in 1955 ( US Patent 2, 710, 649 ) by the Americans Roger W. Griswold and Hugh DeHaven, and developed to its modern form by Nils Bohlin for Swedish manufacturer Volvo — who introduced it in 1959 as standard equipment.

The modern Scandinavian form is Fredag in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish, meaning Freja's day.

In form, the poems are metrical and mostly rhymed, using both traditional and individual forms, several alluding to a wide range of Swedish and Nordic poetry, such as e. g. the Finnish Kalevala.

In 1971, technologies from Standard Radio & Telefon AB ( SRT ) and Saab were combined to form Stansaab AS, a joint venture that also included the state-owned Swedish Development Company.

The form of government instituted in Sweden under King Charles XI and passed on to his son, Charles XII is commonly referred to as absolute monarchy ; however, the Swedish monarch was never absolute in the sense that he wielded arbitrary power.

He had already raised the issue of Holocaust education within the Swedish Parliament, initiating a national information campaign with the aim for ' facts about the Holocaust to form the platform for a discussion on democracy, tolerance and the fact that every human was of equal value.

Hence its utensils can be part of the regalia, such as in the French kingdom an ampulla for the oil and a spoon to apply it with ; in the Swedish and Norwegian kingdoms, an anointing horn ( a form fitting the Biblical as well as the Viking tradition ) is the traditional vessel.

The double form is also used as a greeting in the Swedish region of Scania that belonged to Denmark until 1658.

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.