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7 unusual facts about Dalarna


Carl Tersmeden

Carl Tersmeden (23 April 1715, Larsbo bruk in Dalarna - 25 December 1797) was a Swedish admiral and diarist.

Chaedini

Possible locations of the Chaideinoi have therefore been proposed at Hedemark in Norway or, if the east of Scandia is actually Finland, in Dalarna and Gästrikland of Sweden, both of which regions contain a high concentration of Hed- names.

Gudmunds Nils Larsson

Gudmund Nils Larsson (1892-1949 CE) was a Swedish bagpipe players from Dala-Järna, western Dalarna, and the last of the traditional Dalarna bagpipe players.

Hälsoresan – En smal film av stor vikt

The film is about the health resort Granhedsgården in Dalarna, Sweden, and they have a problem.

Malcolm Munthe

Later recruited to the Special Operations Executive, he worked behind enemy lines in occupied Scandinavia - both in Norway and Sweden - as a spy and saboteur, famously blowing up a Nazi munitions train some 70 miles from his own family home in Leksand, Dalarna.

Mora, Minnesota

The name was suggested by Israel Israelson for his home town in Dalarna, Sweden.

Skomakargatan

Skomakargatan is also one of the main sceneries in the story of The Member of Parliament and the Beautiful Dalecarlian Girl, a story about a young woman, Pilt Carin Ersdotter (1814–1885), who came to Stockholm from Dalarna to work as a milkmaid, and quickly became famous for her beauty.


Dalbo Township, Isanti County, Minnesota

Thought to be named in honor of the immigrants from Dalarna, Sweden it is more likely that Dalbo comes from the place of the same name in Dalsland.

Eric Wickman

Wickman was born Martis Jerk in the small village Våmhus, 15 km north of Mora in the province Dalarna, Sweden.

Freehand lace

There are a few areas with a living tradition, like Dalarna and Skåne in Sweden, several areas in Slovakia, Cogne and Pescocostanzo in Italy, and Mikhailov in Russia.

Gardsjøen

Nedre Gärdsjö, a locality situated in Rättvik Municipality, Dalarna County, Sweden

Märet Jonsdotter

In the autumn of 1667, a little shepherd boy in Älvdalen in Dalarna, Mats Nilsson, claimed to have seen a girl lead goats over Eastern Dalälven by walking on the water at Hemmansäng by Åsen.

Midvinterblot

In 1997, Nationalmuseum bought the painting from the collector ordered a frame for stretching the canvas from Per Målare a carpenter in Gagnef, Dalarna, and installed it permanently where Carl Larsson had intended it to be.

Moraharpa

A Swedish scholar, Per-Ulf Allmo, has suggested that the instrument and another in the same style were probably built in Särna, northern Dalarna around 1680, with Praetorius as inspiration, and with no close affinity with the nyckelharpa tradition in northern Uppland, the stronghold of the instrument.


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