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Traditional Easter Smorgasbord Posted by jennie on Apr 5, 2010
Swedes are not the most adventurous people. That might explain why we eat the same thing on Christmas, Easter and Midsummer – with some minor adjustments depending on the season. Or, do we simply just love our herring (sill), salmon and meatballs? It is probably just as simple as that, and to be perfectly honest…
Swedish Easter traditions Posted by jennie on Apr 1, 2010
Easter is upon us (wasn’t it Christmas yesterday?) and today I’ll give you a crash course to the Swedish Easter traditions. There are not many, but there are a few things that you need to embrace if you are going to celebrate a prober Swedish Easter. And I promise you, this post is completely April…
The blonde and blue-eyed Swede and immigration Posted by Gabriel on Mar 31, 2010
Blonde hair and blue-eyed Swedes can be found, but less and less in groups. By now it is of course no surprise to you to hear that all Swedes don’t have blonde hair and blue eyes. Nope, Sweden has been changing. Around 20 percent of the Swedish population has a foreign background. The top three…
Blogs in Swedish Posted by jennie on Mar 30, 2010
There has been a few requests about good Swedish blogs lately and jag är inte den som är den! But what is a good blog? To use another great Swedish expression, smaken är som baken – delad (Your taste is like your butt -divided) and there is a strong possibility that the blogs I like…
More Swedish odd expressions Posted by jennie on Mar 29, 2010
It’s Monday morning and today it’s even harder than usual to get out of bed, since the American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin decided that we should save some daylight back in 1784 and came up with the brilliant idea of clocks going back and forward. In other words, the clocks went forward one hour…
A (Very) Short History of the Kings of Sweden Posted by Marcus Cederström on Mar 26, 2010
For over 1000 years, Sweden has been considered a monarchy of some sort. This has included periods of foreign rule, periods of dual rule, even periods of female rule at a time when women did not usually ascend to the throne. Today, Sweden retains its status as a monarchy, albeit a constitutional monarchy. Essentially this…
The Evolution of Swedish pop part II. Posted by Tibor on Mar 22, 2010
We finished last time around the middle of the 1990s and with The Cardigans a band from Jönköping the capital city of the so called Swedish Bible Belt Area (Bibelbältet). There is hardly anything religious about them. They made a major breakthrough in 1996 with Lovefool with a song that annoys me so much nowadays whenever I…