Category Archives: Nyheter
News about our Swedish and Nordic history and culture, our cultural heritage, and cultural policy.
Small bluebell voted Sweden's national flower
81,000 personer har sagt sitt i omröstningen som pågått sedan januari. Campanula rotundifolia, liten blåklocka, [...]
Mar
Vote for Sweden's national flower
Since January, Sweden's national flower has been on the rise. Ten of Sweden's most beautiful flowers are taking part in the final round. [...]
Mar
Did Scandinavians live in Iceland earlier than previously thought?
Archaeologists excavating a Viking Age longhouse in Iceland have discovered an older building [...]
Feb
Allmogens Almanac 2021 is here
An almanac about the commemorative days of the Swedish community, important historical events and our traditional [...]
Nov
Why are Sweden's centuries-old bell towers burning?
Another small piece of our beautiful cultural heritage has gone up in smoke. The night of [...]
Oct
Greetings, look here!
Now it is the turn of the proud greeters to get their hands on a landscape map [...]
Jun
Södra Råda old church soon to be rebuilt - entirely with medieval techniques
The reconstruction of the old church of Södra Råda in Visnum, Värmland, is making rapid progress. The summer [...]
May
Three new landscape maps in the shop
I continue to expand the range of landscape maps. Nothing more fun than seeing all the place names in [...]
May
Listen to the beautiful dialect of your home village on the Dialect Map
The Institute for Languages and Folklore, a government agency that collects, preserves and researches [...]
May
Småländsk forest village becomes a cultural reserve
The Småland village of Stensjö, north of Oskarshamn, recently became the first cultural reserve in Kalmar County. [...]
Apr