Archival project, begun in 2008, is to be completed by late 2015. Rochester eyes more car-free living for its booming downtown ...

Anyone who's attempted it will admit that the Swedish language has its tricky aspects. The unique sounds, the rules regarding word order, and the frankly obscene number of plural forms all make it ...

Kelsey Ann Fuller, a second year Swedish language student and doctoral student in music ethnology, is the recipient of the SWEA MAME (Middle Americas Region) 2017 scholarship. SWEA MAME is awarding ...

In 2018 a tree fell in a forest near Wawa, Ontario, revealing a slab of stone etched with Norse runes. Researchers have ony recently put together the story of the stone’s origin.

In this week's episode we once again bring you a Swedish language quiz as The Local's journalists answer multiple choice ...

It was the fourth Swedish-language weekly in Minneapolis. The paper began as a mouthpiece of the temperance movement, but by the 1890s it became a more independent, liberal newspaper.

However, this may be a historic shift for Sweden. "For as long as Sweden has existed, Finnish has been the second language," Parkvall said, adding that this dominance of the Finnish language in ...