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Culture

Den Svenska Kyrkan - Showing their efforts at outreach the website can be viewed not only in English, German and Finnish, but also "på lätt svenska".
The inspiration for many flamefests on the list - the Jante Law.
Absolutely Swedish - Outlining a National Character
Swedish Christmas Traditions by Björn Winterfjord.
Skansen - the world's first open air museum.
Samefolket - a Swedish webpage on Sami culture and issues.

Art

Swedish stamps
The Folklife Institute of Central Kansas is bursting with information on Swedish folkart, including apple trees, wedding crowns, and dala horses.
Carl Larsson - Sweden's rightfully beloved artist. Project Runeberg also has many pictures of Larsson's work, especially his portraits of Sweden's literary icons.
Anders Zorn - Sweden's second best-known artist. The site is bilingual.

Film

This link probably won't last long as it's the Oscar Nomination for "Under the Sun" 1999. Has information about the 12 nominations Sweden has garnered in the Best Foreign Language Film category over the years.
Svenska Filminstitut's bilingual website.
Stockholm Film Festival happens every November.
See which 5 Swedish films made the cut for Landmark Theaters' Favorite Foreign Film Poll.
Utvandrarna
Ingmar Bergman - the biggie!
Lasse Hällstrom - director of "My Life as a Dog", and many others.
Colin Nutley - a British director working in Sweden.
Silent film director Victor Sjöstrom
Greta Garbo - gone, but not forgotten.
Ingrid Bergman

Literature

Project Runeberg is one of the Internet's oldest sites for non-copyrighted literature. They endeavor to publish all the Nordic literature that they can.
Tove Jansson - author of the Moomintroll books.
Astrid Lindgren - author of Pippi, The Children of Noisy Village and many others.
Pär Lagerkvist - this site has a bio as well as a list of books available in English.
P.C.Jersild - I first got turned on to him through "Children's Island". Formerly a doctor, he wrote an incisive critique of the Swedish health system in the novel "House of Babel".
Jan Guillou - writer of thrillers, creator of the Swedish "James Bond". Only one of his books was ever translated into English. The site is in Swedish.
Värmländska författarporträtt
My humble page for Scandinavian Literature in Translation

Music

The Royal Swedish Opera House in Stockholm.
Hey! David Curle's bumped into Di Leva at Heathrow! ;-)
Povel Ramel - for Americans I describe him as a "Swedish Spike Jones" but he's really an even bigger god than that!
RootsWorld's Scandinavian Sounds - reviews of records in the roots/world beat vein.
NorthSide records is dedicated to bring Scandinavian folk roots music to American ears. Check out their awesome roster of top-rate artists!
Xource is a label that issues many Swedish folk roots groups as well as other Swedish groups. They are well enough distributed you should be able to find their CDs in major American cities.
Check out Hoven Droven as well
Groupa, a group that started in Värmland in the '80s which is one of the most important in Sweden's Folk Revival
The Cable Cabal has sound clips of Hoven Droven, a Swedish folk-rock band.
Swedish bagpipes!
Magnus Lundborg's Swedish Folk site lists many of the most influential bands in Sweden's Folk Revival
This Norwegian site focuses on Swedish as well as Norwegian folk music
FolkNetSweden
Svensk folkmusik - in Swedish and English
Listmember Don Erickson has posted MIDI files of Swedish folk tunes
Listen to your favorite drinking songs at Kungliga Tekniska Högskolens sångbok's sing-along.
Snapsvisor!
Some Swedish pop music may be had at CD Europe.
Swedish independent music is available at Cabal.
The iMusic BB for Kent.
The Abba Internet Database
Also, there is apparently an ABBA mailing list at majordomo:
Send to: majordomo@csn.org
No subject line.
Message: subscribe abba-list [your internet address]
In addition, you can find these newsgroups:
alt.music.swedish-pop
alt.music.abba (may not be available everywhere)

Theater

Royal Dramatic Theater of Sweden

Victuals and Viands

Weights and Measures conversion for cooking.
A Swedish recipe site by the author of the above.
An Ostkaka recipe.
The Swedish Kitchen
Zoega Kaffe
Lotta's private baking tips
Online Swedish Cookbook - In Swedish.
SOAR's collection of Swedish recipes - in English, with American measurements.
Diana's Links to Swedish Recipes
Links to Swedish recipes on the European Cuisines site
Kräftor recipe by way of Louisiana
You can buy Saturnus Glögg from Fernando's or you can get it from Butik Hemlängtan, though the shipping will be more expensive for those outside Sweden.
Göteborgs Posten's food and drink links - in Swedish.
A Swedish Smörgåsbord
Olga Alexis' Swedish Rye Bread recipe
Swedish Yule Recipes - in English
The dudes at Husqvarna cook?
There are vegetarians in Sweden, too...
Wanna grow your own lingonberries? Edible Landscaping has the plants for sale.
Listmember Dan Meyer has recipes for pepparkakor and mead as well as glögg
Co-moderator Patric Lundberg has many recipes!
Glögg Recipes
- The incredible Santessons have a Swedish Christmas Chemistry Page
- Various Swede-L glögg recipes

Education

The Swedish National School Board has evaluated hundreds of links suitable for teaching purposes and collected them for easy access to teachers.
Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study - a U.S. organization
UC Berkeley Extension offers Swedish classes.
Waldorf in Sweden
Uppsala University Student organisations.
Riksförbundet för Sexuell Upplysning - after a discussion about the difference between attitudes towards sex and nudity in Sweden and the U.S., Listmember George Farrants posted this URL.
Guide to higher education degrees in Sweden.

Events

Turlock, CA's Skandi-Fest
Held every Labor Day, it's Scandinavian Fest.

Genealogy

Genline - Swedish church records online.
Links and directions for subscribing to the Smultron list for Swedish genealogy
Scandinavian Genealogy Pages
Scandinavian Genealogy Database - over 8,000 entries!
Ed Gyllenhaal's Swedish Genealogy Links
DATANET in Minnesota provides a map library that allows you to explore the reported ancestry of Americans according to the last Census - to reach that feature, enter the Ancestry section.

General Information on Sweden or things Swedish

Visit the Kingdom of Sweden.
Swedish Information Smorgasbord
Nikos Markovits' The Swedish Page.
The newsgroup swnet.svenska's FAQ.
soc.culture.nordic's FAQ on Sweden.
.se on the Net is maintained by Svante Gunnarsson. A sometimes slow link containing "everything you wanted to now about Sweden but were afraid to ask" - well worth the occasional wait.
SUNET's never ending list of Swedish pages.
everyday's Webguide offers most everything a Swede-at-heart could ask for - nicely laid out too!
The Swedish Information Service is put forth by the Consulate General of Sweden. literally supplies hundreds of Swedish-related links (some of which can be found among these pages).
Netquest's Links to Scandinavia provide a Nordic platform to surf from.
Sweden Information from Westnet is a nice resource, even if the graphics on the initial page can be tiresome to wait for.
Swedish Search Engines

Government and Politics

The Swedish Government
The famous Swedish Allemansrätten
Offentlighetsprincipen, explained in Swedish by listmember Alexander Backlund
Just in case you thought they would listen more than their American counterpart, visit Svenska Riksdagen.
The Swedish Armed Forces
The "facts" about social welfare in Sweden can be found at the Swedish Embassy.
Logon to Sweden's Statistiska Centralbyrån.
Agenda 21 - A project to take Sweden "From Environmental Protection to Sustainable Development"
Nazism Watch in Sweden.
Swedish anti-Fascist magazine, Expo
What Went Wrong In Sweden? - a book that purports to have an answer to the question of why Sweden's social democracy isn't functioning as well anymore.

History

Medieval Scandinavia
Read all about the Leif Ericsson Viking Ship. The attempt to recreate the Vikings' voyage to Vinland.
Swedish Emigration to America
The Vasa Museum - home to one of the greatest marine archaeology finds in the world!

Humor

Dave Letterman's Top Ten Signs You're Not Going to Win a Nobel Prize.
If you still remember these loons with some fondness, The Unofficial Trazan och Banarne home page is for you!
On a page like this, one cannot avoid a link to the highly entertaining eZine KulturChock!
Jokes Scandinavians Tell About Each Other
Instant Swedish!
Roöster i Radio's sound clip page - My Swedish isn't good enough to understand it, but I'm assured it's funny!

Language

Who we are on the Swede-L list.
The Swenglish list - Swedish for those who speak English as a mother tongue.
Meet the Santesson family, who will treat you to everything from Swedish food recipes to how you go about cursing properly in Swedish.
False Cognates between English and Swedish - run by Swede-L'er Spidra Webster.
Stoppa Svengelska! - by listmember Karl-Erik Tallmo
Listmember Alexander Backlund has created a VAF or FAQ for swenet.svenska that answers a lot of the most common grammar questions about Swedish
Alexander also tipped me off to the existence of a list for English speakers learning Swedish.
Listmember Bruce Brolsma produces a CD called "Hear it in Swedish" as well as keeping a comprehensive list of web sources for Swedish language courses.
Contact Transparent Language for Swedish language software.
Swedish Lessons courtesy of the language engineering students at Uppsala U.
Swedish language page
All you need to know about Travel Swedish
Net character FAQ will tell you how to get all those Nordic dots, circles, blips and slashes right over the Net.
If you are a student of Swedish, or simply have been away from home too long, this Swedish-English dictionary may just save your day when correct words are hard to come by...
An online basic Swedish course
A visual dictionary of flora, fauna, places and other things you tend to learn in Swedish class.

Periodicals

SverigeNytt - Nyhetstidningen för svenskar i utlandet sedan 1948.
Sweden: Newspaper Services on the Internet Extensive list of links to Swedish newspapers by Editor & Publisher
Norrbottens Kuriren recently went on-line, offering a distinctly 'Norrlandish' look at everyday events.
The Swedish business magazine Affärsvärlden ran a series of articles in the beginning of 1996 that dealt with the Swedish impression of the US from a business point of view.
everyday's Webguide offers most everything a Swede-at-heart could ask for - nicely laid out too!
Magnus Stensmo's guide to Swedish news.
Dala Demokraten
Göteborgs Posten
Örebro's 24 timmar
Språk och Känsla

Radio and Television

Bandit Radio
Sveriges Radio daily broadcasts are available via the World Radio Network.
World-wide news links out of the Netherlands.
Text-TV from Sveriges Television works just as well from where you are as it does on the old 24" set at home!
Swedish Television (the two government channels).
Swedish CNN!
Practice Swedish by listening to the Sveriges Radio soap opera, Hundsjöviken.
Radio Ekot - News in Swedish
Radio Sweden English Service - in-depth news broadcasts Monday-Saturday, updated twice a day in English.
Wired from Sweden - comprehensive news summary in English by The Swedish Institute. Usually updated every two weeks.

Scandinavian Purveyors

Tim Howe's list of Scandinavian food and gift catalogues.
KulturCHOCK's Marknad!
Butik Hemlängtan - everything for the homesick Swede.
Nordic House - If you live in the SF Bay Area, drop on by. If not, they do mail order.
IKEA - Ingvar Kampradd something or other...
Scandinavian Touch,a gift shop in Pennsylvania that carries all sort of goods. Check out their animated träsko!
Looking for a science fiction book only sold in Sweden? Check out SF-bokhandeln
This outfit in New Jersey:
Scandinavian Newspaper, Inc (908) 464-0667
will arrange for delivery of Nordic newspapers here in the US.
Akademi Bokhandeln will ship books overseas. So will Wettergrens, Hedengrens.

Science

Arbetslivsinstitutet or The National Institute for Working Life is one of the world's foremost researchers of Repetitive Strain Injuries, including Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.
The internationally oriented Stockholm Environment Institute supports environmentally oriented research. The SEI was established by the Swedish Parliament but funding is available for projects around the world.
Det Naturliga Steget is an environmental program started by Dr. Karl-Henrik Robért. Government and industry are partners in it. They have their own site here.
The Swedish Software Initiative - to strengthen and expand the native Swedish software industry, so that Swedes won't be stranded by the whims of U.S. corporations.

Sports

The 35th Vätternrundan on June 16 & 17, 2000 - They're still banning recumbent bicycles as far as I know, but we have been negotiating with them.
If Swedish American Football interests you, check these websites:
Innebandy is a fast-paced version/mix of floor hockey and bandy and is very popular in Sweden. To find out more, visit the home pages of

Swedes Abroad

Swedish Expatriates' Page

Swedes in America/Swedish-Americans

The Swedish Embassy
The Swedish Consulate in Los Angeles (with links to other consular offices)
Friends Overseas - an organization that facilitates travel friendships between Americans and Swedes.
Dual Citizenship FAQ - for people holding US citizenship as well as that of another country.
The American Swedish Institute
The American Scandinavian Association - located in the District of Columbia.
SWEA - Swedish Women's Educational Association - many expatriate Swedes in this group.
Nordstjernan claims to be America's oldest and largest Swedish newspaper
Vestkusten's Calendar - Vestkusten is a bilingual Swedish-Am. newpaper "för svenskarna på Stillahavskusten "
Scandinavius is a website collecting San Francisco Bay Area Scandinavian information
If you are a descendant of a Bishop Hill Colonist you may find their information interesting.

Travel to/Study in Sweden

Amerikanska is a site for Americans living in Sweden.
American Citizens Abroad - Sweden - is the Swedish chapter of an international organization.
Canadian Club is an actual club in addition to being a site for Canadians in Sweden.
iAgora's Sweden for Visitors area. There's also a link for Swedes.
Travel.To/Scandinavia has timetables for trains, ferries and more!
An article on someone's trip to Stockholm and their visits to a few lesser-known museums.
Ecoparken is the world's first National Trust city resource... whatever that is, you have to read about there!
If you are interested in studying in Sweden, the Swedish Information Service has put together a web site just for you.
Blågula Frågor is a newsletter for immigrants to Sweden.
SverigeNytt's collection of tourist links.
Swedish Railways has a page full of technical information and plenty of train pictures.
Net On the Road is an information source to help travelers from all over the world to have access to the net while traveling. With the so-called 'Event of the City' you can meet other net surfers while travelling.
Information about the Åland Islands - they're a little bit Swedish and a little bit Rock'n'Roll - er, I mean, Finnish.
A Swedish herrgård which is now a hotel
If you are interested in studying in Sweden, the Swedish Information Service has put together a web site just for you.

Miscellaneous

Calculate the cost of living in different Swedish cities...
Swedish icons for your computer (Mac or PC).
Anders Larsson's Scanian Icons for the Mac
Sara's icons, incl. Sara's Julikoner och Lucia och Julbroderier. Available for both Mac and PC.
Tjejringen - a webring of women who are Swedish or have webpages in Swedish. An interesting mix!
Listmember Gunnar Andersson publishes pictures he feels are of interest on his webpage. He does not archive the pictures, though, so check often!
Send a postcard of Jultomtar
Look up Swedish zip codes. You need to use the proper Swedish vowels ä, å and ö. Do not enter house numbers.
XYZZY's Swedish Information Pages are an excellent source for locating Swedish personal home pages.
The Swedish Yellow Pages
AU-Systems has a video camera in their offices overlooking the Liljeholms Bridge, updated constantly.
Take a look here if you are searching for an address to companies and such in Sweden (text document). However, it has not been updated since January of 1996.

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