A-Z Of Scandinavia

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R RICKARD RAKELL - Swedish Ice Hockey player who plays for Pittsburgh Penguins.

 

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S - STOCKHOLM. Capital of Sweden built on 14 islands.

 

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T THOMAS Sorensen - Danish Goalkeeper who got over 100 caps for his country. Also played for Sunderland, Villa and Stoke in England.

 

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T TORD Grip - Swedish football player and international level coach. Assistant manager of the England men's football team , under Sven-Goran Eriksson, (2001-2006). He could also play the accordion.

 

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U - Ulrika Jonsson - Swedish born actress/presenter, probably best known for presenting Gladiators. 3 or was it 4 times married and had well publicised affairs with Stan Collymore and Sven Goran Eriksson. (busy lady!!).

 

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V VIKTOR Johansson - The Viking!

 

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W - Waterloo. Song by Abba that won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest for Sweden.

 

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X XEW - a tiny hamlet in Stockholm County

 

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Y YTTERBY - historic mining village, located near Stockholm on the island of Resaro. FOUR elements in the periodic table have names which are derived from there - YTTRIUM, YTTERBIUM, TERBIUM and ERBIUM. Five other elements were also discovered there.

 

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Z - similarly to Y above - Zinkgruvan in Sweden is a mining centre famous for Zinc.

 

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Another one done - thanks to all for joining in!