Food
Dream Cookies - A Christmas holiday treat in my family

Swedish meatballs - Another Christmas specialty (that I didn't much care for).
And then there's "Swedish meatballs".

Potatis Korv - Christmas potato sausage (I didn't like that at all!)
Swedish Christmas traditions with recipe for Potatis Korv

Smörgåsbord - smorgasbord, buffet

Music
I remember my father singing Gubben Noah - Old Man Noah
Swedish folk & emigrant music
Traditional Swedish music

Language
Online Swedish dictionary: The Swedish Schoolnet

Sov gått - Sleep well

Tack så mycket - Thanks so much (Thanks a million)

Varsågod - You're welcome

Jultid - Yuletide, Christmas time

Art/Handicrafts

Red Dala Horse (Dalahäst) - I always thought they were ugly

Swedish lore
Thundergods

Viking Vasa ship

Christmas traditions
How we celebrate Christmas in Sweden

Traditions around Christmas Högskolan i Luleå - Luleä University, Sweden

Remembrances of Christmas Eves Past Swedish-Finn Historical Society

Christmas in Sweden Jeanne Pasero

SWEDEN - Swedish Christmas traditions, with recipeeeess (California Mall)

Famous Swedes
Alfred Nobel invented dynamite in 1866 and left his wealth to pay for the Nobel Prize

Dag Hammarskjöld, Secretary-General of the United Nations 1953-61

Greta Garbo, famous Hollywood actress

Olaf Palme, Prime Minister of Sweden who was against the Vietnam War

Ingrid Bergman, famous actress (Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart)

Ingmar Bergman, famous writer and director of theater, film, radio, TV

Highlights of Swedish and Swedish American History
The Vikings (800-1050 A.D.) worshipped the gods Oden and Thor. Our word Thursday comes from the Swedish word "Torsdag" (Thor's day)

QUEEN MARINETTE: Spirit of Survival on the Great Lakes Frontier, by Beverly Hayward Johnson. Historical biography of the life of Marinette Chevalier, a French and Native American woman who lived near the mouth of the Menominee River during the early 1800's. An intelligent, competent and respected businesswoman, for whom the city Marinette, Wisconsin is named.

A Swedish Girl's Journey

Swedish emigration to the US

Swedish emigration to Wisconsin (My father's birthplace)

Religion
Historically, Sweden had a state religion, or church, called the Church of Sweden, which is Lutheran, a branch of Christian Protestantism.

There were Lutherans in my father's family, but my parents were Congregationalists, another branch of Protestantism.