The Norwegians, or Northmen (Norsemen), belong to a North-Germanic branch of the Indo-European race; their nearest kindred are the Swedes, the Danes, and the Goths.

Like the Norwegians, the early Swedes are reported to have migrated from Asia under the leadership of a chief who called himself Odin.

The Swedes, under Bernadotte, marched across the frontier and took the fortress Fredricksteen.

In this mixture of patriotism and universal cosmopolitanism, true genius and superficiality, earnestness and recklessness in the character of Gustavus III, the Swedes recognized peculiarities of their own national temperament, for which they love him dearly, and Tegnér has voiced this love in a few lines of his eulogy: There rests o'er Gustav's days a golden shimmer, Fantastic, foreign, frivolous, if you please;

The interests of Holland were in imminent peril should the Swedes gain the passage of the Sound.

The prevailin' wind takes it on to the Johnsonsthem Swedes that took my Madeline!

The Swedes had offered him twenty-five thousandGeissler had refused.

No wonder you Swedes don't know nothin'.

There was no Lutheran Church for the Swedes; and the fact that the Catholic Church was a mile from our house, with no street-cars, settled the question for most of them.

Bernadotte, one of Napoleon’s generals, whom the Swedes chose as their king, was likewise descended from the lower classes.

The Norwegians desired to remain an independent country, and they loved the Swedes even less than they loved the Danes.

The high mountains of the Scandinavian peninsula separate the Norwegians from the Swedes about as well as they divide the countries geographically.

Finland annexed to Russia. Finns; conquered by the Swedes. Flemish.

The German nation was finally victorious also against Swedes, who disputed the command of the Baltic.

The Swedes and their chieftains. R116894.

As I met the Swedes on their march I had no opportunity to acquaint myself with anybody till after the conjunction of the Saxon army, and then it being but four days to the great battle of Leipsic, our acquaintance was but small, saving what fell out accidentally by conversation.

The second line of the Swedes consisted of the two Scotch brigades, and three Swedish, with the Finland horse in the wings.

This changed the whole front, and made the Swedes face about to the left, and made a great front on their flank to make this good.

He had taken the city, but the garrison and richer part of the burghers were retired into the castle, and trusting to the strength of the place, which was thought impregnable, they bade the Swedes do their worst; 'twas well provided with all things, and a strong garrison in it, so that the army indeed expected 'twould be a long piece of work.

Tilly was now joined with the Duke of Bavaria, and might together make about 22,000 men, and in order to keep the Swedes out of the country of Bavaria, had planted themselves along the banks of the river Lech, which runs on the edge of the duke's territories; and having fortified the other side of the river, and planted his cannon for several miles at all the convenient places on the river, resolved to dispute the king's passage.

The dragoon was then in a great deal of pain for fear of being discovered, and was once going to kill the fellow, and make off; but at last resolved to carry on the humour, and having entertained the fellow with a tale of a tub, about the Swedes stealing his oats, the fellow being a-cold wanted to be gone, and he as willing to be rid of him, pretended to be very sorry he could not get over the river, and so makes off.

There was the rich chancellor of Sweden, who commanded as general; Gustavus Horn and John Baner, both Swedes and old generals; Duke William and Duke Bernhard of Weimar; the Landgrave of Hesse-Cassel, the Palatine of Birkenfelt, and abundance of princes and lords of the empire.

But now it was too late, for the King of Hungary seeing the duke's men, as it were, wavering, and having notice of Horn's wheeling about to second him, falls in with all his force upon his flank, and with his Hungarian hussars, made such a furious charge, that the Swedes could stand no longer.

The Swedes had a terrible loss here, for almost all their infantry were killed or taken prisoners.

But this success did one piece of service to the Swedes, that it brought the French into the war on their side, for the Elector of Treves was their confederate.