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And here I thought Småland was just a cute name for the kids area at Ikea.
by RandallBrown 5y ago
And here I thought Småland was just a cute name for the kids area at Ikea.
- fifilura 5y agoIt is actually somewhat suitable. Not only because "små" means small in swedish. But also because the 1800s version of the ball-pit consisted of lots of round pebbles, put there particularly in Småland by some evil ice-sheet-wielding mastermind, that the kids played with by carrying them from the barren Smålandish fields.
- yesbabyyes 5y agoActually, it's kind of the other way around: IKEA, and Ingvar Kamprad, its founder, are from Småland. He started selling matches as a young boy (connecting to another Swedish business empire of yore, Swedish Match and its founder Ivar Kreuger). IKEA is an acronym: Ingvar Kamprad, Elmtaryd, Agunnaryd. Elmtaryd was the Kamprad family farm and Agunnaryd is the nearby village. My father-in-law is from the very same area in Småland as Kamprad, and they were born the same year.