Editing Roslagen

{{Short description|Coastal areas of Uppland province in Sweden}}
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[[Image:Folklands.png|thumb|300px|Folklands in [[Svitjod]] (Uppland and Gästrikland)
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The coastline has changed considerably in the last millennium due to [[post-glacial rebound]]. Originally there was a sea bay coming in from the north all the way into Uppsala. Roslagen is the modern name for the area which roughly corresponds to what was called Roden in the [[Middle Ages]].]]

'''Roslagen''' is the name of the coastal areas of [[Uppland]] province in [[Sweden]], which also constitutes the northern part of the [[Stockholm archipelago]].

Historically, it was the name for all the coastal areas of the [[Baltic Sea]], including the eastern parts of lake [[Mälaren]], belonging to [[Svealand]]. The name was first mentioned in the year 1493 as "Rodzlagen".<ref>[http://www.vato-sorgarden.se/filer/roden.php?select=meny12 Roslagen — från forntid till nutid] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180813175331/http://www.vato-sorgarden.se/filer/roden.php?select=meny12 |date=2018-08-13 }} {{in lang|sv}}. Vätö-Sörgårdens samfällighetsförening.</ref> Before that the area was known as [[Roden, Sweden|''Roden'']]. Roden had a ''skeppslag'' (roughly translated: ship district), the coastal equivalent to the inland [[Hundred (county division)|Hundreds]].
When the king would issue a call to [[leidang]], the [[Viking Age]] equivalent of military conscript service, the ''skeppslag'' in Roden was responsible for raising ships for the leidang [[navy]].

The name comes from the ''rodslag'', which is an old coastal Uppland word for a rowing crew of warrior oarsmen.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.svetur.se/en/Roslagen/ |title=Archived copy |access-date=2011-10-16 |archive-date=2017-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171020080822/http://www.svetur.se/en/Roslagen/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> Etymologically, Roden, or Roslagen, is the source of the [[Finnish language|Finnish]] and [[Estonian language|Estonian]] names for [[Sweden]]: {{lang|fi|Ruotsi}} and {{lang|et|Rootsi}}.<ref>{{Cite book | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=vFRug14ui7gC&q=%22this+traffic+originated+mainly+in+sweden%22&pg=PA1 | title = The Varangians of Byzantium | isbn = 978-0-521-03552-1 | last1 = Benedikz | first1 = Benedikt S | date = 2007-04-16| publisher = Cambridge University Press }}</ref><ref name="RPC">The Russian Primary Chronicle: Laurentian Text Translated by O. P. Sherbowitz-Wetzor {{ISBN|0-910956-34-0}}</ref>

A person from Roslagen is called a [[Rospigg]] which means "inhabitant of Ros". Swedes from the Roslagen area, that is "the people of Ros", gave their name to the [[Rus' people]] and thus, via [[Rurikid]] dynasty, to the states of [[Russia]] and [[Belarus]] (see [[Rus' (name)]]).<ref>Harper, Douglas. [http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=Russia "Russia"]. ''Online Etymology Dictionary''.</ref>

The area also gives its name to the endangered domesticated [[Roslag sheep]], which originated from the area centuries ago.

==Communications==
The region is served by the [[Roslagsbanan]], a narrow-gauge railway network from Stockholm, going as far north as [[Kårsta]]. The motorway [[European route E18|E18]] goes through Roslagen between [[Kapellskär]] and Stockholm.

==Nature==
The hiking trail [[Roslagsleden]] crosses the region starting in [[Danderyd]] and ending in [[Grisslehamn]].

==See also==
*[[Attundaland]]
*[[Fjärdhundraland]]
*[[Fälö by]]
*[[Tiundaland]]
*[[Stones of Mora]]
*[[Swedes (Germanic tribe)]]
*[[Norrtälje]]

== References ==
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==External links==
* {{in lang|sv}} http://www.roslagen.se/ Tourism page

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[[Category:Regions of Sweden]]
[[Category:Coasts of the Baltic Sea]]
[[Category:Uppland]]
[[Category:History of the Rus' people]]

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[[Category:Varangians]]