His paternal grandmother was born in Bollnäs parish, Hälsingland county and emigrated to America in 1889.
Marie Richardson actress apprearing in over a hundred productions on the stage, television and film, was born in the town of Ljusdal.
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The first affirmative mention of the people is made by Adam of Bremen around 1070, in reference to the leidang shipping fleet.
Källa Frida Bie (born 20 July 1974 in Ytterhogdal, Hälsingland, Sweden) is a Swedish actress.
Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland | Hälsingland | Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland | In some medieval Scandinavian buildings a special method of hewing which produces a herringbone pattern on the timbers, have been used (Swedish: ''Slinthuggning'', Norwegian: ''Sprettejling''). This is a modern reconstruction in Stråsjö Chapel in Hälsingland |
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.
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.
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.