Swedish-Esalen (Swedish/Esalen massage): Nurturing form of massage that borrows from Esalen massage and Swedish massage. It requires unconditional love on the part of the practitioner, and it reintegrates the body and soul.

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Swedish literature, Swedish literature - Runic, Swedish literature - Old Swedish, Swedish literature - Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, Swedish literature - Eighteenth Century, Swedish literature - Realism, Swedish literature - Modern Period

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Swedish is notable for having a relatively large vowel inventory consisting of 9 vowels that make up 17 phonemes in most varieties and dialects (short /e/ and /ɛ/ coincide). There are 18 consonant phonemes out of which /ɧ/ and /r/ show quite considerable variation depending on both social and dialectal context. A distinct feature of Swedish is its varied prosody, which is often one of the most noticeable differences between th ...

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Swedish nouns and adjectives are declined in two genders and two cases, as well as number. The two cases are nominative and genitive. Nominative is the dictionary form while the genitive suffix is -s, identical to that of English. Swedish nouns belong to one of two genders: uter (also common gender) or neuter, which also determine the declensions of adjectives. For example, the word fisk ("fish") is an ...

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The linguistic definition of a Swedish dialect is a local variant that has not been heavily influenced by the standard language and that can trace a separate development all the way back to Old Norse. Many of the genuine rural dialects, such as those of Orsa in Dalarna or Närpes in Österbotten, have very distinct phonetic and grammatical features, such as plural forms of verbs or archaic case inflections. These dialects can be near-incomprehensible to most Swedes, and most of their speakers are also fluent in Standard Swedish. The differen ...

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The vocabulary of Swedish is mainly Germanic, either through common Germanic heritage or through loans from German, Low German and to some extent English. Examples of Germanic words in Swedish are mus ("mouse"), kung ("king"), and gås ("goose"). Much of the religious and scientific vocabulary is of Latin or Greek origin, often borrowed through French and, as of late, English. Cross-borrowing from other Germanic languages is also common, at first from Low German, the lingua franca of the Hanseatic league, later from stan ...

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From the 16th century Swedish, rather than Finnish, was the main language of jurisdiction, administration and higher education in Finland. In 1892 Finnish and Swedish became official languages with equal status, and by the time of Finland's independence in 1917 Finnish clearly dominated in government and society. Finland has since then been a bilingual country with a Swedish-speaking minority (5.08% of Mainland Finland's population in 2003), speaking Finland-Swedish, living mostly in the coastal areas of southern, south-western ...

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From the 16th century Swedish, rather than Finnish, was the main language of jurisdiction, administration and higher education in Finland. In 1892 Finnish and Swedish became official languages with equal status, and by the time of Finland's independence in 1917 Finnish clearly dominated in government and society. Finland has since then been a bilingual country with a Swedish-speaking minority (5.08% of Mainland Finland's population in 2003), speaking Finland-Swedish and living mostly in the coastal areas of southern, south-west ...

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The history of Pomerania under Swedish Dominion is much a story of destitution and conflict. During 1657 to 1659, under the Northern Wars (not to be confused with the Great Northern War), Polish, Austrian and Brandenburg troops ravaged the country and upon this followed the occupation by Denmark and Brandenburg 1675-1679 under the Scanian War, whereby Denmark claimed Rügen and Brandenburg the rest of Pomerania. Both campaigns were in vain for the winners, except for Gollnow and the strip of land on the east side of the Oder, which were held by Brandenburg as a paw ...

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The peace time organization of the Swedish Army is divided into a number of regiments for the different corps. The number of active regiments has been drastically reduced since the end of the Cold War: Swedish Army - Infantry Corps. One battalion of infantry troops: Livgardet (LG) located in Stockholm/Kungsängen < ...

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The peace time organization of the Swedish Army is divided into a number of training regiments for the different corps. The number of training regiments has been drastically reduced since the end of the Cold War: Swedish Army - Infantry Corps. One battalion of infantry troops: Livgardet (LG) located in Stockholm/Kungsängen < ...

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Parts of Lappland have been named a UNESCO World heritage site, the Laponian area. Swedish Lapland - National parks. Abisko Björnlandet Muddus Padjelanta Sarek Stora Sjöfallet Vadvetjåkka Swedish Lapland - Municipalities and towns. In Norrbotten County: Kiruna Gällivare Jokkmokk ...

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The table below shows the Swedish consonant phonemes and the range of their realizations in spoken Standard Swedish. The range of realizations of the /r/-phoneme are shown shaded. Swedish phonology - Plosives. Initial /p, t, k/ are aspirated in most varieties, but unaspirated when preceded by /s/. Hence [kʰuː] ("cow"), but [skuː] ("shoe"). The combination of /r/ with /t, d, n, l/ results in retroflex consonants, which are not limited by word boundaries. Example: <vi går nu> ("we're ...

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Swedish Army - Small arms. The Swedish Army armament for Individual/Squad level include: Ak 4 assault rifle (Heckler & Koch G3) in versions: Ak 4 Ak 4B Ak 4OR Ak 4 med 40 mm granattillsats (Colt M203) Ak 5 assault rifle (Fabrique Nationale FNC derivative, made more rugged for Swedish demands) in versions: Ak 5 Ak 5B Ak 5C Ak 5 ...

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Like many other Germanic languages, Swedish has a tendency for closed syllables with a relatively large amount of consonant clusters in initial as well as final position. Though not as complex as that of most Slavic languages, examples of up to 7 consecutive consonants can occur when adding Swedish inflections to some foreign loanwords or names, and especially when combined with the tendency of Swedish to make long compound nouns. The syllable structure of Swedish can therefore be described with the followin ...

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Uddevalla Örebro Köping Landskrona Kristianstad Östra Göinge Arvidsjaur More samples can be found on http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Coats_of_arms_of_Sweden ...

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The first Swedish Chef merchandise item was a ceramic coffee mug produced by Kilncraft in the UK in 1978. It was part of a series of 12 featuring various Muppet Show characters, and featured coloured line drawings on either a white or beige ceramic cup. In 1980, Jones New York offered a small collection of blue and yellow Swedish Chef kitchen linens including an apron, pot holders, and toaster cover. ...

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In late 1930's, the ethnologist Mats Rehnberg found some bagpipes in the collections of the museum Nordiska museet, and he wrote a thesis on the subject. Rehnberg managed to find the last carrier of Swedish bagpipe tradition, Gudmunds Nils Larsson in the village Dala-Järna. Rehnberg visited him together with a teacher of music called Ture Gudmundsson, and with the information he got from Larsson and Gudmundsson managed to make an instrument that could be played. He also recorded two tunes for the national publicly-funded radio broadcaster S ...

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Standard Swedish evolved from the high prestige dialects of the Mälaren Valley region around Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The creation of the (semi-) autonomous Russian Grand Duchy of Finland in 1809/1812 led to drastically decreased communication between Sweden and Finland, where virtually all administration and higher education would continue to be executed in Swedish until the end of the 19th century, when Finnish was given first an equal status with that of Swedish, and soon a strong dominance due to the small size of the di ...

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On June 7, 1522, merely a year after the separation of Sweden from the Kalmar Union, King Gustav I purchased a number of ships from the hanseatic town of Lübeck which is seen as the birth of the Navy. The Vasa was a 17th-century ship of the Swedish Navy, then known as the Royal Swedish Navy (Kungliga flottan). The Amphibious Corps dates back to January 1, 1902, when a separate "Coastal Artillery" (Kustartilleriet) was established, and Marinen came into use as the name of the service as a whole. The last decade of ...

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