Dalecarlian

Dalecarlian maiden is contented in her humble calling.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

She was angry for twenty reasons, one of them was having wasted a moment over her toilette to receive such a visitor as Count Ericson; another was her father having dared to offer her hand to such an uncouth wooer and intolerable bore; and the principal one of all, was his having rejected his own nephew -- undoubtedly the handsomest of Dalecarlian hussars -- in favour of such a vulgar, ugly individual.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV. Various

Each wheel is worked by two young Dalecarlian girls, who perform this severe labour with the utmost cheerfulness, while an old woman steers.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

When the judges saw this they said to the Härjedal smith that it wouldn't be worth while for him to try, since he could not forge better than the Dalecarlian or faster then the Vermlander.

Further Adventures of Nils 1911

He, too, forged a dozen nails, which were quite perfect and, moreover, he finished them in half the time that it took the Dalecarlian.

Further Adventures of Nils 1911

It was good to relate this to the Laplanders and Dalecarlian peasant girls at Skansen, but what was that compared to being able to tell of it at home?

Further Adventures of Nils 1911

In a hundred other equally dangerous situations he escaped either by his own courage, or by the ready wit of the brave Dalecarlian peasants; and at last the Danish spies gave up the hunt for him, and returned to Stockholm.

Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 of 8 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History 1906

I was ferried across in a little paddle-wheel boat, worked by Dalecarlian women in their peculiar costumes.

James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography. Nasmyth, James 1885

The trees in the Djurgård and in the islands of Mälar, were still in full foliage; the Dalecarlian boatwomen plied their crafts in the outer harbour; the little garden under the Norrbro was gay with music and lamps every evening; and the brief and jovial summer life of the Swedes, so near its close, clung to the flying sunshine, that not a moment might be suffered to pass by unenjoyed.

Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851

Gustavus Vasa in his Dalecarlian disguise, in the cathedral of Upsala.

Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851