Swedish wildlife

Right of public access

In Sweden we have something called the right of public acces.It gives you a big appertunity to be a part of the nature. You have the right to be almost everywhere you want. Apart from others hous territory if you dont destroy the nature.Here in Sweden we have alot of visiters from many other countries that wants to pick berries , hunt, or just to be.

The forest

In Sweden we have alot of forest. Mostly in the north. In many years we have used the threes for paper industry and so on. In the forest you can find many different kind of plants. And also many animals. Many people like to hunt in the forest. The most famous animal that we love to hunt is moose.

Mountains and scale

A big activity in sweden is slalom and snowboarding. We have beautiful scales in the north of Sweden, close to norway. Many visiters are coming to Riksgränsen, Hemavan and Tärnaby.On the spring its really beautiful to be in the scales. The sun is really warm and the snow is still there. Its really easy to get sunburnd, beacuse the sun is reflecting in the snow. On the summer you can go and hike on the scales.

Winter and snow

On the winter we have alot of activity's. For example, you can go up in the scales and. And of course drive snow-mobile in the nature. Many people like to drive the snow-mobile to a lake and jig. When you jig you are actually fishing in a hole in the ice. And you can compete with others and see who got the biggest fish.The winner gets a good price.


If you want to read more about right of public access, you can find information here.

Love, Jennifer and Linda

Famous Swedish sportsmen and sportswomen

Jonas Jerebko – Basketball player

Jonas Jerebko was the first Swedish basketball player to make it to the NBA. The 25^th of June, Detroit Pistons drafted him.

Jonas was born in a very small village called Kinna, 2,9 miles south of Borås. There he played for Marbo Basket before Plannja Basket signed him 2006. He played for Plannja one season, (Plannja is a team in Luleå, the town we live in) and then moved to Italy to play for Angelico Biella in the Italian Serie A. He had two very good years in Italy and became a big role model for basketball players in Sweden. It was a great success when he got drafted, he showed that it was possible to make it to the NBA even though you’re from Sweden.

Jonas has been doing good in the pre season and recently played the NBA premier for Detroit. He played 6 minutes, he didn't score, but he took 2 rebounds and picked up 2 fouls.

Susanna Kallur – Athlete

Susanna competes in sprint hurdles. She was born in New York, because her father played ice-hockey in NY Islanders. She lived there for five years, then she lived in France and Italy for one year each before her family moves home to Sweden.

Susanna started training athletics in 1996, and 1998, she made a breakthrough when she came third in the Junior World Championship. She went to the Atletics school in Falun and after that she spent 3 years on the University of Illinois in USA.

Her personal best on 100 meter hurdles is 12.49.

Famous Swedish sportsmen and sportswomen

Zlatan Ibrahimovic is a very famous football player.
If you didn´t now he actually is frome Sweden,
in a town called Malmö.
Zlatan is half Bosnian and half Croatian that was
born 3 October 1981.
Zlatan plays as a striker, he have played in teams
like internazionale, Juventus, Barcelona
and the swedish nationalteam.
In the last game zlatan played for barcelona he did 2 goals.

Anja Persson is an alpine skier who has won seven world championshi.
She was born in Umeå, a town in the middle Sweden.
That was on 25 mars 1991 this big star was born.
Anja competes in super- G, giant slalom, downhill combined and slalom.
You maybe don´t now who she is but if you ask you´re mum
our dad I can asure you that they now.
You can visit her blogg on http://www.anjapaerson.com/

The moose!

The moose is the biggest deer. The male is called bull and the female is called cow. The moose live in Europe, Asia and North America. The moose live in the woods where there are many lakes and swamps. In Sweden the moose use to live in the North. In the summer it use to eat leaves, flowers and small twigs. In the winter it use to eat juniper, twigs and pine twigs.

The moose is active on the day and it lives very lonely. The female usually get one calf, and it stay with the mum for one year.

The moose is around 2-3 meters. And it can weight 850 kilos. The size and the weight varies it depends much on the environment and the food. In north Sweden the moose is bigger than in the south part.

In Sweden the moose weight around 450 kilos.

The bad with the moose is that it often causes car accidents.

In the ancient time they use to hunt moose. And so it is today.

In Sweden the moose is called “the king of forest".

// Josefin and Allis

Famous Swedes part 2

Povel Ramel was born the first of June in 1922. He had done a lot of song lyrics but he was also a huge composer, pianist, singer and a decent comedian. At an age of seventeen he became a member of his first band. But Povel became more famous in his latest years. He has been present in Tarzan(disney movie) as the voice for professor Porter. He has been currently in some movies or shortmovies mostly in 1950-1960, and he had also influenced two tv-series. Povel Ramel died the 5 of June in 2007 becuase of heart problems.



Stellan Skarsgård was born in Göteborg the 13 of June in 1951. He is a great international Swedish actor. He is acting in the last two Pirates of the caribbean movies, Mamma Mia, Angels and demons. He has participated in the tv-serie Entourage. Stellan Skarsgård is one of the most famous actors in Sweden.

The European elk

One animal here in Luleå is the elk. The elk is quite big and have horns coming out of the forehead. It is one of the largest species of deer in the world. The main food for the elk is sprout, leaves and small twigs. The elk mainly lives for it self. All though, sometime during the winter miner flocks can appear. The size of the elk is different depending on gender, underspecies and the enviorment the elk is living in. For example, the elks up here in the north is in general bigger than the ones that we have in the southern parts of Sweden.

For more information about elks, USE GOOGLE :)
/ Anna, Jesper and Sara

ps. This animal is sometimes called the moose, there exists a disambuguation of the word since a deer in Canada is also called elk, however we have chosen to use the word elk here since it is moore similar to the Swedish word 'älg'. ds.

The Swedish language

Hi, we have gotten an assignment to write a short text about the Swedish language:

In school we learn Swedish as first language and English as second. When we are around seven years old we start learning English in school. In the sixth grade (around 12 years old) we can choose about a third language: French, German or Spanish.

There’s not any other country in the world that learns Swedish in school except for Finland.

We can understand Norwegian people almost perfect, and Danish not fully, even though these are 3 different languages. Which means that the languages are pretty similar each other.

The most people from other countries have problems with the Swedish grammar and think it’s really hard. The Swedish language got a lot words loaned from the English and German, especially the German.

We don’t dub the texts for movies or television, except for animated child movies. We just put in a text strip called subtitle and use the English language instead of dubbing over to Swedish.

If you’d like to learn some Swedish phrases just ask us and we will do our best to help you.

Best regards Frida, Karin and Rasmus.

Famous Swedes

Astrid Lindgren is known worldwide for her childrenbooks, among other about Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Karlsson on the Roof. Her books have been translated into 88 languages and sold 145 million copies. Many of Lindgren's books have been filmed. Astrid has won the literature prize, which was 5 million. That makes it the world's largest literary prize after the Nobel Prize in Literature.

ABBA was a successful Swedish pop group. The name ABBA comes from members' initials: Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid. On the album cover wrote the group often the first "B" mirror image, which also became the group's logo. When ABBA disbanded in 1983 they had sold around 180 million discs. ABBA is, with its now over 400 million discs sold worldwide, Sweden's most successful musical export of all time, and continues to sell 2-4 million records each year.




Alfred Nobel was a Swedish chemist, inventor of dynamite, industrialist, donor, engineer and founder of the Nobel Prize. His invention paved the new road in several areas. His will have made Sweden famous throughout the world.

Robert Gustavsson is a Swedish actor and comedian who has been named as Sweden's funniest man. He is also a very skillfull imitator. Robert Gustafsson is the one who, without doubt, played most roles. The gallery is big and you'll find characters from throughout the history of Robert as a comedian

Maybe some of you could recognize at least one of these famous Swedes? :)

/Maja and Malin

The Swedish language

Swedish is an Eastern Nordic language. More than 10 million people talk this language both in Sweden and Finland and it’s very much like Norwegian and Danish. Swedish and the other Scandinavian languages derive from Old Scandinavian. It’s the common language stock for the Germanic people in Scandinavian. On the 8^th century the Scandinavians/the Vikings started to express themselves by cutting runes. Runes are a type of graphical signs cut in stones.

Here are a few examples that show how the Swedish, Norwegian and Danish languages are comprehensible with each other.

English: I live in Sweden and I usually eat blueberries.

Swedish: Jag bor i Sverige och jag brukar äta blåbär.

Norwegian: Jeg bor i Sverige og jeg pleier spise blåboer.

Danish: Jeg bor i Sverige og jeg plejer spise blåboer.

We have 28 letters in our alphabet, three of them are kind of special. The last two letters ä and ö are only used in Sweden. The other letter is å is used by Swedes, Norwegians and Danes. We pronounce the letters:

Å = [o]

Ä = [ae]

Ö = [oe]

/Fanny and Ellen

Swedish Food

We are going to write about three different swedish dishes.

First out is the famous swedish dish called Palt, it comes from Piteå in the north of Sweden. It is a round white ball in the size of a tennisball made of potatoes, flour and water. The ball is filled with salted pork. When you eat Palt you eat it with lingonberry jam and butter.

The second dish is meatballs. Meatballs is small balls made out of meat. We eat meatballs with pasta or creamed potatoes and if you want you can add some brown sauce.

On christmas eve we eat something called christmastable. It is a buffé with many different dishes for example meatballs, christmas ham, potatoes and raw spiced salmon - salmon that been marinaded in salt and spices for a long time. To the christmastable we like to drink christmas soda, it taste a little like coke and it tastes really good.

Written by: Mattias and Gustav H

Famous Swedes

Selma Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf was a very famous Swedish author. She was the first woman in history who managed to receive the honorable Nobel price for litterature. She was also an activist for the women civil rights. She is such a big icon in Sweden that her face and one of the characters in one of her books, Nils Holgersson, has been put on our 20 kronor bill.

Ingmar Bergman

Ingmar was born in the 1920's and died only two years ago (2007). He was a very sucessful movie director, famous all around the world. Some rank him one of the best directors in the history of movie making. Four of his movies have been rewarded with an Oscar and two of his movies are on the “top 100 list” of best movies on IMDB.com.

written by Gustav Heimdahl and Johan Stenberg