Old Frisian was a West Germanic language spoken between the 8th and 16th centuries along the North Sea coast, roughly between the mouths of the Rhine and Weser rivers. The Frisian settlers on the coast of South Jutland (today's Northern Friesland) also spoke Old Frisian, but there are no known medieval texts from this area.The language of the earlier inhabitants of the region …

Nouns. Old English nouns are grouped by grammatical gender, and inflect based on case and number.. Gender. Old English still had all three genders of Proto-Indo-European: masculine, feminine, and neuter.. Each noun belongs to one of the three genders, while adjectives and determiners take different forms depending on the gender of the noun they describe. The word …

The Swedish Vallhund, also known as the Västgötaspets and Swedish cow dog, is a breed of dog native to Sweden. The breed's name, Vallhund, when translated into English, means herding dog, as the Swedish Vallhund was originally bred as a drover and herder of cows over 1,000 years ago. In 1942, the dog came close to extinction, but careful breeding and publicity by …

Old MacDonald Had a Farm" (sometimes shortened to Old MacDonald) is a traditional children's song and nursery rhyme about a farmer and the various animals he keeps. Each verse of the song changes the name of the animal and its respective noise. ... In Swedish, it is Per Olsson hade en bonnagård (meaning "Per Olsson had a farm"). In Ukrainian, ...

Beck is a Swedish crime drama movie series, based on characters featured in the Martin Beck novels of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö, starring Peter Haber as the titular character. The first three series and two specials were released direct-to-video, with a small number of episodes also concurrently released theatrically.To date, forty-six episodes have been filmed, with all …

Name Portrait Birth Marriage(s) Death Eric the Victorious (Erik Segersäll) c. 970 – c. 995 Coin (disputed) Died of illness in Old Uppsala c. 995, aged about 50 : Olof Skötkonung c. 995 – c. 1022 c. 980, son of Eric the Victorious Estrid of the Obotrites: c. 1022, aged about 42 Anund Jacob (Anund Jakob) c. 1022–1050 25 July 1008 or 1010 son of Olof Skötkonung and Estrid of the …

Modern Swedish (Swedish: nysvenska) is the linguistic term used for the Swedish language from the Bible translation of 1526 to the development of a common national language around 1880. The period can further be divided into Early Modern Swedish (1526–1750) and Late Modern Swedish (1750–1880).

6.5 × 55 mm Swedish, also known simply as 6.5×55mm, or in its native military as 6,5 mm patron m/94 (6,5 mm ptr m/94), meaning "6.5 mm cartridge model 1894", is a first-generation smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle cartridge.It was introduced in the 1890s, and is still one of the most common cartridges in modern rifles built for the Scandinavian market today.

Gorm the Old (Danish: Gorm den Gamle; Old Norse: Gormr gamli; Latin: Gormus Senex), also called Gorm the Languid (Danish: Gorm Løge, Gorm den Dvaske), was ruler of Denmark, reigning from c. 936 to his death c. 958 or a few years later. He ruled from Jelling, and made the oldest of the Jelling Stones in honour of his wife Thyra.Gorm was born before 900 and died perhaps …

Old Norse poetry encompasses a range of verse forms written in Old Norse, during the period from the 8th century (see Eggjum stone) to as late as the far end of the 13th century.Most of the Old Norse poetry that survives was preserved in Iceland, but there are also 122 preserved poems in Swedish rune inscriptions, 54 in Norwegian and 12 in Danish. ...