Exploring Sweden's linguistic history in the United States

www.thelocal.se ^ | 06/13/2011 | Karen Holst

[Charles Henrickson]

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That I will do.

[Sawdring]

I'm slightly more Swedish than I am Norwegian and the only Swedish word that I can come up with is vehlkomen. It is on some of my old aunts door mats. It means welcome in Swedish. I don't like lutefisk, can only stomach two bites of pickled herring, lefse is Ok with lots of sugar and I would rather eat regular meatballs with lots of ketchup instead of Swedish meatballs.

[Wuli]

links for some reading on the subject:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language

go the link and then click on the “PDF” link, at: http://epubl.ltu.se/1402-1773/2007/085/

http://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language

This one is interesting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYmIE4jW4C0

And this was an interesting discussion:
http://www.antimoon.com/forum/t12914.htm

[rmlew]

Why no mention of New Sweden, Sweden's colony in Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania along the Delaware River Estuary?

[My hearts in London - Everett]

I love pickled herring, but agree with you on the Swedish meatballs. :~)

[Mentat]

No kidding? My parents live in Skanör and so did I in the 70:s!

[Scanian]

Nice to meetyou too.

The other set of grandparents is from Hallan, also part of historic Scania.

Have you ever contacted ScaniaBoy, a native of Malmö, here on FR?

[fnord]

“In Hindu stories it was a tree being humbled, in North American Indian folklore it was a great flood, in east Africa it was starvation-induced madness, in the Amazon it was stolen hummingbird eggs and in aboriginal Australia it was a goddess’ gift of play for children.”

flowery tales told around the campfire to children (and anthropologists) should never be taken seriously.