Are there any Swedish bachelor farmers? Garrison Keillor used to talk about Norwegian bachelor farmers of Lake Wobegon.
Are they pining for the fjords?
Swedes, Norwegians, Germans, whatever... there were still lots of bachelor farmers back in those days, but there were less of them as time went by. Fewer small family farms, smaller farm families, better jobs and more social mixing in towns, and more mechanized farming all contributed to that trend.