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4 unusual facts about Hälsingland


H. Arnold Barton

His paternal grandmother was born in Bollnäs parish, Hälsingland county and emigrated to America in 1889.

Hälsingland

Marie Richardson actress apprearing in over a hundred productions on the stage, television and film, was born in the town of Ljusdal.

The first affirmative mention of the people is made by Adam of Bremen around 1070, in reference to the leidang shipping fleet.

Källa Bie

Källa Frida Bie (born 20 July 1974 in Ytterhogdal, Hälsingland, Sweden) is a Swedish actress.


Katarina Taikon

Katarina Taikon-Langhammer (29 July 1932 at Almby, Örebro - 30 December 1995 at Ytterhogdal, Hälsingland; Sweden) was a Swedish Romany writer and actor, from the Kalderash caste.

Medieval Scandinavian law

The earliest written law from what is now Sweden seems to be the Forsaringen, an iron ring from the door for the church of Forsa in Hälsingland, which carries a runic inscription, long thought to be from the high Middle Ages but more recently dated to the ninth or tenth century.

Ytterlännäs old church

The Ytterlännäs Madonna from Haaken Gulleson's Hälsingland workshop features both the coat of arms of the archdiocese, to which the church belonged at the time, and the personal arms (the claw of an eagle) of Archbishop Jakob Ulfsson, and is presumably a donation made on the occasion of his visit in 1507.


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