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  • proper noun The dialect of Swedish spoken in the region of Scania.
  • proper noun A person from Scania.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Scania, a region of southern Sweden.

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Examples

  • Besides these, Skalk the Scanian, and Alf the son of Agg; to whom are joined Olwir the Broad, and Gnepie the Old. Besides these there was Gardh, founder of the town Stang.

    The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

  • The popularity which Tegnér gained by "The Scanian Reserves" was the immediate cause of his appointment to a professorship at the University of Lund, and his next notable poem, "Svea," which won him the great prize of the Swedish Academy, raised him to a height of fame which naturally led to further promotion.

    Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

  • English literature can certainly boast no war-poem which would not be drowned in the mighty music of Tegnér's "Svea," "The Scanian Reserves," and that magnificent, dithyrambic declamation, "King Charles, the Young Hero."

    Essays on Scandinavian Literature Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen 1871

  • We next hear of him as concerting with certain Danish agents, always open to such negotiations, those measures which led to the great invasion of the year 1014, in which the whole Scanian race, from Anglesea and Man, north to

    A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Volume 1 Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

  • We next hear of him as concerting with certain Danish agents, always open to such negotiations, those measures which led to the great invasion of the year 1014, in which the whole Scanian race, from Anglesea and Man, north to

    A Popular History of Ireland : from the Earliest Period to the Emancipation of the Catholics — Complete Thomas D'Arcy McGee 1846

  • But in the above mentioned year he sprang into immediate popularity by the stirring "War Song of the Scanian Reserves" (Krigssång för skånska lantvärnet), the Marseillaise of the Swedish nation.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • The ability evinced by Tegnér as an instructor, but principally the enthusiasm aroused by his "Song to the Scanian Reserves", gave him in

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • English literature can certainly boast no war poem which would not be drowned in the mighty music of Tegnér's 'Svea', 'The Scanian Reserves', and that magnificent dithyrambic declamation, 'King Charles, the Young Hero'.

    Fritiofs Saga Esaias Tegn��r 1814

  • Posted on Tuesday, April 06, 2010 6: 00: 12 AM by Scanian

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