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Sacrificial rituals in 21 century Sweden
For the History and Archaeology nerds out there. Here’s my view. I know the human attention span nowadays hardly is sufficient for reading something this long before knowing what it’s about. If you only want to know my prediction on what an archeological analysis of the Swedish people in the 21 century could look like,…
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Gender roles…
Gender roles is like a wasp nest. You should avoid messing with it if you don’t want to be stung. Nevertheless I’m going to write about. Im not writing about which opinion’s right or wrong. I’m simply writing my opinion. I’m fortunate enough to have been born and raised in a country where I’m allowed…
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When the devil played the violin, and other children’s songs
I played one of my favorite songs. “I loved every time we sang this song in school”, I said to my husband. He answered that he’d never heard it before. What?! I was stunned at first for I just couldn’t comprehend what he’d said. “But, didn’t you sing this song at graduations and things like…
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Between the trolls mountains and the Forest nymph’s deep woods…
…you can find alverna, älvorna, álfar, the elfs, or whatever you call them. Didn’t you know? I grew up in the 70s and 80s, in what almost feels like another world. I grew up in the northern parts of Sweden, with rune stones and burial mounds just around the corner. The shadows of the past…
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My roots, my future
First, a little bit of history. As far as we know, the Nordic countries began taking shape during the Viking Age and the early Middle Ages. For several hundred years, rulers of what’s today Sweden, Norway and Denmark fought over the territory in Scandinavia. My homeland, Sweden, have a very old history but Sweden as…
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Precious stones, gems
That was the headline for the example post that came with the blog template I chose. The post indeed was about stones, precious ones. I am certainly easily fascinated by beautiful stones, but I would never have written such a post.That’s not to say I don’t have gems to write about, because I do. Gems…
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Nanna from the north 