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This is a list of Swedish noble families, which are divided into two main groups: . Introduced nobility, i.e. noble families introduced at the Swedish House of Nobility ...
Originally this class only contained family descendants of Privy Councillors and was the smallest class of the three classes. But Gustav III also introduced in this class the 300 oldest families in the Class of Esquire and also the "commander families", who are of the descendants of commanders of the Order of the North Star and the Order of the ...
[7] [8] [6] Modern linguistic groups that descended from the North Germanic peoples are the Danes, Icelanders, Norwegians, Swedes, and Faroese. [2] [9] [10] [11] These groups are often collectively referred to as Scandinavians, [9] [11] although Icelanders and the Faroese [12] are sometimes excluded from that definition. [13] [3]
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[53] [55] The rise to prominence of male, war-oriented gods such as Odin, relative to protective female gods with a closer association to fertility and watery sites, has been proposed to have taken place around 500 CE, coinciding with the development of an expansionist aristocratic military class in southern Scandinavia. [56]
Modern-day Romanisael (Tater) are the descendants of the first Roma who arrived in Scandinavia during the 16th century. Most were deportees from Britain to Norway, [5] [1] but small numbers came via Denmark. [6] Norwegian and Swedish Romani identify as Romanisæl; this word has origins in the Angloromani word Romanichal.
In the Scandinavian sources they are the descendants of Yngvi-Frey of Vanaheim. Yngling means descendant of Frey , and in the Gesta Danorum of Saxo Grammaticus they are called the sons of Frey . Several of these kings appear in Beowulf : Eadgils (Adils), Onela (Ale), and Ohthere (Ottar Vendelkråka), but here they are called Scylfings (see the ...
The modern descendants of the Old West Norse dialect are the West Scandinavian languages of Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, and the extinct Norn language of Orkney and Shetland, although Norwegian was heavily influenced by the East dialect, and is today more similar to East Scandinavian (Danish and Swedish) than to Icelandic and Faroese.