February 14, 2012
The following articles have been tagged with "Walpurgis":
Lifestyle: 4 May 11
Beer blogger Darren Packman offers his thoughts on seven new beers set to hit the shelves in select Systembolaget stores in May, as Sweden's state-run liquor monopoly does its part to mark the arrival of spring.
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National: 1 May 11
Police in Uppsala responded to reports of rape, assault and drunken behaviour as they struggled to contain revellers during chaotic Walpurgis Night celebrations in the city on Saturday.
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Society: 29 Apr 11
A Swedish family managed to bite off a little more than they could chew when a normal midweek dinner revealed an unexpected surprise.
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Lifestyle: 29 Apr 11
Summer's just around the corner. That's as good a cause for celebration in Sweden as any, and the revelry on Valborgsmässoafton - Walpurgis Night - on April 30th gets pretty hot.
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Lifestyle: 21 Apr 11
What do you associate with Easter: eggs, lambs and church? Sweden has these too, but it also features bonfires and witches on broomsticks off to dance with the devil at Blåkulla. Elizabeth Dacey-Fondelius investigates.
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National: 1 May 10
More than 100 Swedes were ejected from Helsingør in Denmark on Friday for starting fights, with the trouble continuing on the ferry back to Sweden.
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National: 1 May 10
Police across Sweden were kept fully occupied on Friday as cells filed up amid traditional Walpurgis Night excesses.
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National: 24 Apr 10
Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg is seeking to distance itself from an annual student parade after the organizing committee gave the thumbs up to drawings deemed sexist and "totally unacceptable" by the university's president.
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Lifestyle: 13 Apr 10
The Year in Sweden - April: Journalist Kim Loughran sketches a month by month account of the country he has called home ever since his accidental migration in 1966.
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National: 1 May 09
Beefed up security efforts on Walpurgis Night paid off this year. Police and parents on patrol, piles of confiscated liquor and teenagers escorted home resulted in a Valborg without major incident.
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National: 1 May 09
A 16-year-old girl has reported that she was raped during Walpurgis festivities in central Uppsala last night. Police have not arrested any suspects.
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Politics: 6 May 08
A member of the governing board of the Liberal Party’s youth organization (LUF) has been reported to police for greeting two Social Democrats with a Nazi salute.
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National: 2 May 08
A drunken 21-year-old man who had dozed off on the train tracks in Lund in southern Sweden is lucky to alive.
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Society: 1 May 08
Most parts of Sweden experienced a typically chaotic Walpurgis Night on Wednesday.
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National: 1 May 08
Two men arrested in connection with Wednesday’s fatal bus crash may have been having a drunken dispute.
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Lifestyle: 24 Apr 08
What's on this week in Sweden: Top drag act Taylor Mac in Stockholm, Entombed in Gothenburg, Walpurgis celebrations in Malmö and much more besides.
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National: 3 May 07
Police in western Sweden have taken in the mother of a 23-year-old-man who has admitted responsibility for the deaths of two cyclists. The woman reported the car stolen to save her son.
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Society: 1 May 07
Sweden's Valborg, or Walpurgis, celebrations lived up to expectations on Monday night with disorder and drunkenness reported across the country.
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National: 3 Nov 06
A group of Liberal MPs have proposed a motion to remove the king as Sweden's head of state. The current system is outdated and undemocratic, they argue.
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As diverse as Sweden is, there are a few societal norms that are distinctly Swedish. Understanding a handful of them will hopefully prepare you culturally before you relocate. When you're invited home to a Swede, you better be on time and take your shoes off, writes expat Lola Akinmade-Åkerström. Read more »
Sweden is a country where almost everyone can speak English. So why bother to learn Swedish? Edina Varnagy from Hungary managed with English for a whole year but then found that Swedish could open doors – to a job, a social life and greater understanding. Read more »
"The ice dripped in the winter sun. It was the first day when the light had been intense enough to cause dripping in the sunlight. To hear it was an extraordinary wakeup call. The cycle was happening again as it always does, always will (or so we think). I imagined that on my summer island, the bees..." READ »
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