Language and culture

Cool Swedish boy names and their meanings

Looking for something unusual to call your newborn baby boy? Well, Swedish boy names are having a bit of a…

Like fika, sweating away life’s problems in a baking-hot sauna is an essential part of the Swedish experience. And the…

Living in a greenhouse might sound like a fairytale to some, but the Swedish nature house is actually a great…

Looking for a unique and beautiful name for your baby girl? Why not consider some pretty Danish names? Danish girls’…

Slowly abandoned when Christianity spread throughout Scandinavia, and then forgotten about for centuries, Norse Paganism is making a bit of…

Looking for an unusual name for your baby boy? Why not check out some cute Norwegian boy names? Norwegian boy…

Viking names for girls are pretty popular right now, and if you want to give your newborn daughter a strong…

When you think about the Vikings, you might imagine a blonde-haired warrior wielding a battle axe. Wondering if there were…

It’s not exactly Hollywood, but Sweden has a long tradition of cinema and film-making. And Ingmar Bergman, one of the…

Icelandic surnames are unusual in that many of them end in the suffix -son or -dottir. But why is this?…