What is the name of the ruling house of Sweden?
Dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden formally recognised Norwegian independence on 26 October when King Oscar II renounced his and any of his descendants' claims to the Norwegian throne. In its resolution of 7 June, the Storting had made what is called the "Bernadotte Offer," invited King Oscar II to allow one of his younger sons to assume the Norwegian throne. The offer was at one level an attempt by the Norwegian government to demonstrate goodwill towards Sweden and its royal house, notwithstanding the separation of the two countries. At another, more significant level, it was also intended to reassure the other European powers that the
Name of Sweden Name of Sweden The name of Sweden (Swedish "Sverige" ) is ultimately derived from the ethnonym of the "Swedes". The English name was loaned from Dutch in the 17th century to refer to Sweden as an emerging great power. Before Sweden's imperial expansion, Early Modern English used "Swedeland". The Old English name of Sweden was "Sweoland" or "Sweorice", land or realm of the "Sweonas", The Germanic tribes of the "Sviar" (Old Norse "Svíþjóð"). The name of the "Sviar" itself is derived from a Proto-Norse "*Swihoniz", presumably a self-designation containing the Germanic reflexive "*swe-" "one's own, self". The modern English name