Dalarna

Dalarna (; ), also referred to by the English exonyms Dalecarlia and the Dales, is a (historical province) in central Sweden.

traditional carved, painted wooden horse statuette

thumb|Maps of settlements in Älvdalen parish, Sweden, and the percentage of the population speaking Övdalian (2008 data)

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thumb|200px|Fried falukorv

group of dialects spoken in Dalecarlia, Sweden

thumb|Rose painting with floral paintings in a traditional design Rose-painting, ', or is a Scandinavian decorative folk painting that flourished from the 1700s to the mid-1800s, particularly in Norway. In Sweden, rose-painting began to be called , c. 1901, for the region Dalecarlia where it had been most popular, and ', in the 1920s, for a characteristic trait, but in Norway the old name still predominates beside terms for local variants. Rose-painting was used to decorate church walls and ceilings. It then spread to wooden items commonly used in daily life, such as ale bowls, stools, chairs,

runic script alphabet of the Dalecarlian written language

watercolor by Carl Larsson