The runestone shows motifs from the Sigurd Fafnesbane-tale and was one of the most image-rich rune stones on the Swedish mainland.

Sweden wanted to draw the border in a middle, calculated between Gotland and the Baltic states, while Soviet wanted to the count from the Swedish mainland.

A ferry service from Torhamn links the island to the Swedish mainland.

He interpreted this as an effect of isolation from the Swedish mainland to the west, and the associated lower species-to-genus ratio as a random sampling effect.

On the Swedish mainland the counterpart to Bysen is called skälvrängare or osaliga lantmätare (approximately: unholy landsurveyor).

Öland is Sweden's second largest island and is located in the Baltic Sea off of the southeast Swedish mainland.

Söllscher was born in Växjö, on the south-east Swedish mainland, and grew up in Kalmar.

It is by far the most populated locality outside the Swedish mainland, with more than 22 000 inhabitants.

The distance from Swedish mainland to Finnish mainland is around 80 km while the distance between the outmost islands is only 25 km.

The Hansa was a Swedish passenger ship, in use on the route between the Swedish mainland and Visby.