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Helan Går

When Sweden's ice hockey team won the 1957 World Ice Hockey Championships in Moscow, not all of the Swedish players knew the lyrics to Du gamla, du fria, the de facto Swedish national anthem, so the players sang Helan Går instead.

Liza Marklund

Du gamla, du fria (2011; English translation Borderline, trans. Neil Smith, 2014)


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