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99 relations: Accent (sociolinguistics), Agriculture, Alvastra Abbey, Architecture of Sweden, Argent, Aska Hundred, Axel von Fersen the Younger, Azure (heraldry), Åtvidaberg, Örebro County, Östergötland County, Östergötlands Fotbollförbund, Övralid, Baltic Sea, Beowulf, Bråviken, Bridget of Sweden, Centaurea cyanus, Central European Summer Time, Central European Time, Coat of arms, Consolidation of Sweden, Dragon, Ekenäs Castle, English language, Eric Linklater, Ericsson, Esox, Exonym and endonym, Finspång, Göta Canal, Götaland, Götamål dialect, Getica, Goths, Griffin, Gules, House of Bjelbo, House of Sverker, House of Vasa, Iron Age, Johan Banér, Jordanes, King of the Geats, Lands of Sweden, Lövstad Castle, Linköping, Linköping Cathedral, List of dukes and duchesses of Östergötland, List of hundreds of Sweden, ..., List of postal codes in Sweden, Mem, Middle Ages, Mjölby, Motala, Motala longwave transmitter, Motala Motor Museum, Museum of Work, Nationalencyklopedin, Närke, Nobel Prize, Nordisk familjebok, Norrköping, Omberg, Or (heraldry), Provinces of Sweden, Rök, Rök Runestone, Renaissance, Rose (heraldry), Roundabout dog, Roxen, Royal charter, Saab Group, Söderköping, Södermanland, Scandza, Skänninge, Småland, South Swedish highlands, Statistics Sweden, Stångån, Sture, Svealand, Swan, Sweden, Swedish Air Force Museum, Swedish language, Tåkern, Telephone numbers in Sweden, Vadstena, Vadstena Abbey, Vadstena Castle, Västergötland, Vättern, Verner von Heidenstam, Viking Age, Vreta Abbey, Wulfings. Expand index (49 more) »
Accent (sociolinguistics)
In sociolinguistics, an accent is a manner of pronunciation peculiar to a particular individual, location, or nation.
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Agriculture
Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life.
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Alvastra Abbey
Alvastra Abbey was a Cistercian monastery located at Alvastra in Östergötland, Sweden.
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Architecture of Sweden
This article covers the architecture of Sweden from a historical perspective.
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Argent
In heraldry, argent is the tincture of silver, and belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals." It is very frequently depicted as white and usually considered interchangeable with it.
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Aska Hundred
Aska Hundred, or Aska härad, was a hundred of Östergötland in Sweden.
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Axel von Fersen the Younger
Hans Axel von Fersen (known as Axel de Fersen in France; 4 September 175520 June 1810) was a Swedish count, Marshal of the Realm of Sweden, a General of Horse in the Royal Swedish Army, one of the Lords of the Realm, aide-de-camp to Rochambeau in the American Revolutionary War, diplomat and statesman, and a friend of Queen Marie-Antoinette of France's.
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Azure (heraldry)
In heraldry, azure is the tincture with the colour blue, and belongs to the class of tinctures called "colours".
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Åtvidaberg
Åtvidaberg is a locality and the seat of Åtvidaberg Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,859 inhabitants in 2010.
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Örebro County
Örebro County (Örebro län) is a county or län in central Sweden.
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Östergötland County
Östergötland County (Östergötlands län) is a county or län in southeastern Sweden.
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Östergötlands Fotbollförbund
The Östergötlands Fotbollförbund (Östergötland Football Association) is one of the 24 district organisations of the Swedish Football Association.
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Övralid
Övralid is a manor house north of Motala in Östergötland County, Sweden.
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Baltic Sea
The Baltic Sea is a sea of the Atlantic Ocean, enclosed by Scandinavia, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Russia, Poland, Germany and the North and Central European Plain.
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Beowulf
Beowulf is an Old English epic story consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines.
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Bråviken
Bråviken is a bay of the Baltic sea that is located near Norrköping in Östergötland, Sweden.
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Bridget of Sweden
Bridget of Sweden (1303 – 23 July 1373); born as Birgitta Birgersdotter, also Birgitta of Vadstena, or Saint Birgitta (heliga Birgitta), was a mystic and saint, and founder of the Bridgettines nuns and monks after the death of her husband of twenty years.
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Centaurea cyanus
Centaurea cyanus, commonly known as cornflower or bachelor's button, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae, native to Europe.
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Central European Summer Time
Central European Summer Time (CEST), sometime referred also as Central European Daylight Time (CEDT), is the standard clock time observed during the period of summer daylight-saving in those European countries which observe Central European Time (UTC+1) during the other part of the year.
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Central European Time
Central European Time (CET), used in most parts of Europe and a few North African countries, is a standard time which is 1 hour ahead of Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).
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Coat of arms
A coat of arms is a heraldic visual design on an escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard.
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Consolidation of Sweden
The consolidation of Sweden involved an extensive process during which the loosely organized social system consolidated under the power of the king.
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Dragon
A dragon is a large, serpent-like legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures around the world.
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Ekenäs Castle
Ekenäs Castle (Ekenäs slott in Swedish) is a castle located outside Linköping in Linköping Municipality, Östergötland, South-East Sweden.
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English language
English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.
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Eric Linklater
Eric Robert Russell Linklater (8 March 1899 – 7 November 1974) was a Welsh-born Scottish writer of novels and short stories, military history, and travel books.
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Ericsson
Ericsson (Telefonaktiebolaget L. M. Ericsson) is a Swedish multinational networking and telecommunications company headquartered in Stockholm.
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Esox
Esox is a genus of freshwater fish, the only living genus in the family Esocidae—the esocids which were endemic to North America and Eurasia during the Paleogene through present.
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Exonym and endonym
An exonym or xenonym is an external name for a geographical place, or a group of people, an individual person, or a language or dialect.
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Finspång
Finspång is a locality and the seat of Finspång Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,440 inhabitants in 2010.
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Göta Canal
The Göta Canal (Göta kanal) is a Swedish canal constructed in the early 19th century.
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Götaland
Götaland (also Gothia, Gothland, Gothenland or Gautland) is one of three lands of Sweden and comprises ten provinces.
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Götamål dialect
Götamål is one of the six different dialect areas of the Swedish language, mostly heard in Västergötland, Dalsland, northern Halland, northern Småland and Östergötland although it is also heard in Bohuslän and Värmland and Öland.
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Getica
De origine actibusque Getarum ("The Origin and Deeds of the Getae/Goths"), or the Getica,Jordanes, The Origin and Deeds of the Goths, translated by C. Mierow written in Late Latin by Jordanes (or Iordanes/Jornandes) in or shortly after 551 AD, claims to be a summary of a voluminous account by Cassiodorus of the origin and history of the Gothic people, which is now lost.
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Goths
The Goths (Gut-þiuda; Gothi) were an East Germanic people, two of whose branches, the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths, played an important role in the fall of the Western Roman Empire through the long series of Gothic Wars and in the emergence of Medieval Europe.
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Griffin
The griffin, griffon, or gryphon (Greek: γρύφων, grýphōn, or γρύπων, grýpōn, early form γρύψ, grýps; gryphus) is a legendary creature with the body, tail, and back legs of a lion; the head and wings of an eagle; and an eagle's talons as its front feet.
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Gules
In heraldry, gules is the tincture with the colour red, and belongs to the class of dark tinctures called "colours." In engraving, it is sometimes depicted as a region of vertical lines or else marked with gu. as an abbreviation.
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House of Bjelbo
The House of Bjelbo (Bjälboätten), also known as the House of Folkung (Folkungaätten), was an Ostrogothian Swedish family that provided several medieval Swedish bishops, jarls and kings.
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House of Sverker
After the extinction of the House of Stenkil and the ascension of Sverker I of Sweden in 1130, a civil war commenced.
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House of Vasa
The House of Vasa (Vasaätten, Wazowie, Vaza) was an early modern royal house founded in 1523 in Sweden, ruling Sweden 1523–1654, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth 1587–1668, and the Tsardom of Russia 1610–1613 (titular until 1634).
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Iron Age
The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age system, preceded by the Stone Age (Neolithic) and the Bronze Age.
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Johan Banér
Johan Banér (23 June 1596 – 10 May 1641) was a Swedish Field Marshal in the Thirty Years' War.
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Jordanes
Jordanes, also written Jordanis or, uncommonly, Jornandes, was a 6th-century Eastern Roman bureaucrat of Gothic extraction who turned his hand to history later in life.
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King of the Geats
Geatish kings (Rex Getarum/Gothorum), ruling over the provinces of Götaland (Gautland/Geatland), appear in several sources for early Swedish history.
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Lands of Sweden
The lands of Sweden (Sveriges landsdelar) are three traditional parts, each consisting of several provinces, in Sweden.
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Lövstad Castle
Lövstad Castle (Lövstads slott) is a château situated near Norrköping, the province of Östergötland, in Sweden.
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Linköping
Linköping (p) is a city in southern Sweden, with 153,000 inhabitants as of 2016.
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Linköping Cathedral
The Linköping Cathedral (Linköpings domkyrka) is a church in the Swedish city of Linköping.
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List of dukes and duchesses of Östergötland
Swedish princes in some dynasties have been created dukes of various provinces, their wives duchesses of same.
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List of hundreds of Sweden
A hundred is a geographic division formerly used in northern Germanic countries and related colonies, which historically was used to divide a larger region into smaller administrative divisions.
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List of postal codes in Sweden
Swedish Postal Codes are 5-digit codes, known in Swedish as Postnummer.
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Mem
Mem (also spelled Meem, Meme, or Mim) is the thirteenth letter of the Semitic abjads, including Phoenician Mēm, Hebrew Mēm, Aramaic Mem, Syriac Mīm ܡܡ, and Arabic Mīm.
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Middle Ages
In the history of Europe, the Middle Ages (or Medieval Period) lasted from the 5th to the 15th century.
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Mjölby
Mjölby is a city and the seat of Mjölby Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 12,245 inhabitants in 2010.
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Motala
Motala is a locality and the seat of Motala Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 29,823 inhabitants (41,956 in the entire municipality) in 2010.
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Motala longwave transmitter
The Motala longwave transmitter is a broadcasting station for longwave, established in 1927 in Motala, Sweden.
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Motala Motor Museum
Motala Motor Museum is a museum in Motala harbour, Sweden.
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Museum of Work
The Museum of Work, or Arbetets museum, as it is in Swedish, is a museum located in Norrköping, Sweden.
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Nationalencyklopedin
Nationalencyklopedin, abbreviated NE, is a comprehensive contemporary Swedish-language encyclopedia, initiated by a favourable loan from the Government of Sweden of 17 million Swedish kronor in 1980, which was repaid by December 1990.
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Närke
Närke is a Swedish traditional province, or landskap, situated in Svealand in south central Sweden.
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Nobel Prize
The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.
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Nordisk familjebok
Nordisk familjebok (Nordic Family Book) is a Swedish encyclopedia that was published in print form between 1876 and 1957, and that is now fully available in digital form via Project Runeberg at Linköping University.
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Norrköping
Norrköping is a city in the province of Östergötland in eastern Sweden and the seat of Norrköping Municipality, Östergötland County, about 160 km southwest of the national capital Stockholm.
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Omberg
Omberg is forested mountain in the western Östergötland County.
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Or (heraldry)
In heraldry, or (French for "gold") is the tincture of gold and, together with argent (silver), belongs to the class of light tinctures called "metals", or light colours.
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Provinces of Sweden
The provinces of Sweden (Sveriges landskap) are historical, geographical and cultural regions.
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Rök
Rök is a parish located in Östergötland, Sweden.
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Rök Runestone
The Rök Runestone (Rökstenen; Ög 136) is one of the most famous runestones, featuring the longest known runic inscription in stone.
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Renaissance
The Renaissance is a period in European history, covering the span between the 14th and 17th centuries.
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Rose (heraldry)
The rose is a common device in heraldry.
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Roundabout dog
A roundabout dog (rondellhund) is a form of street installation that began in Sweden during the autumn of 2006 and continued for the rest of the year.
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Roxen
Roxen is a medium-sized lake in south central Sweden, east of lake Vättern, part of the waterpath Motala ström and the Göta Canal.
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Royal charter
A royal charter is a formal document issued by a monarch as letters patent, granting a right or power to an individual or a body corporate.
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Saab Group
Saab Group (originally Svenska Aeroplan AB, later SAAB and Saab AB) is a Swedish aerospace and defence company, founded in 1937.
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Söderköping
Söderköping is a locality and the seat of Söderköping Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 6,992 inhabitants in 2010.
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Södermanland
Södermanland, sometimes referred to under its Latin form Sudermannia or Sudermania, is a historical province or landskap on the south eastern coast of Sweden.
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Scandza
The Gothic-Byzantine historian Jordanes described Scandza as a "great island" in his work Getica, written in Constantinople around 551 AD.
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Skänninge
Skänninge is a locality situated in Mjölby Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden with 3,140 inhabitants in 2010.
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Småland
Småland is a historical province (landskap) in southern Sweden.
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South Swedish highlands
The forested landscape of the South Swedish highland seen from Skuruhatt in Eksjö Municipality. The South Swedish highlands or South Swedish Uplands (Sydsvenska höglandet) is a hilly area covering large parts of Götaland in the southern parts of Sweden.
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Statistics Sweden
Statistics Sweden (Statistiska centralbyrån, SCB) is the Swedish government agency responsible for producing official statistics regarding Sweden.
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Stångån
Stångån is a small river in southern Sweden, 185 km long and with a drainage basin of 2440 km2.
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Sture
Sture was the name of three influential families in Sweden from the late 14th century to the early 16th century.
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Svealand
Svealand, Swealand or (rarely or historically) Sweden proper is the historical core region of Sweden.
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Swan
Swans are birds of the family Anatidae within the genus Cygnus.
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Sweden
Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.
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Swedish Air Force Museum
The Swedish Air Force Museum (in Swedish, Flygvapenmuseum) is located at Malmen Airbase in Malmslätt, just outside Linköping, Sweden.
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Swedish language
Swedish is a North Germanic language spoken natively by 9.6 million people, predominantly in Sweden (as the sole official language), and in parts of Finland, where it has equal legal standing with Finnish.
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Tåkern
Lake Tåkern is a lake in Östergötland County, Sweden.
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Telephone numbers in Sweden
In Sweden, the area codes are, including the leading 0, two, three or four digits long, with larger towns and cities having shorter area codes permitting a larger number of telephone numbers in the eight to ten digits used (including the leading '0').
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Vadstena
Vadstena is a locality and the seat of Vadstena Municipality, Östergötland County, Sweden, with 5,613 inhabitants in 2010.
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Vadstena Abbey
The Abbey of Our Lady and of St.
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Vadstena Castle
Vadstena Castle (Vadstena slott) is a former Royal Castle in Vadstena, the province of Östergötland, Sweden.
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Västergötland
Västergötland, also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (landskap in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden.
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Vättern
Vättern (is the second largest lake (by surface area) in Sweden, after Vänern and the sixth largest lake in Europe. It is a long, finger-shaped body of fresh water in south central Sweden to the southeast of Vänern pointing at the tip of Scandinavia.
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Verner von Heidenstam
Carl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam (6 July 1859 – 20 May 1940) was a Swedish poet, novelist and laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1916.
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Viking Age
The Viking Age (793–1066 AD) is a period in European history, especially Northern European and Scandinavian history, following the Germanic Iron Age.
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Vreta Abbey
Vreta Abbey, Swedish Vreta Kloster, in operation from the beginning of the 12th century to 1582, was the first nunnery in Sweden, initially Benedictine and later Cistercian, and one of the oldest in Scandinavia.
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Wulfings
The Wulfings, Wylfings or YlfingsWord initial w was lost before rounded vowels in Proto-Norse, e.g. wulf corresponds to ulf, and Wulfing/Wylfing corresponds to Ylfing, because the i in the second syllable causes an umlaut in the first syllable u->y.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Östergötland
