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'''Torgdragargränd''' ([[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "Market Draughter's Alley") is an [[alley]] in [[Gamla stan]], the [[old town]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]. Stretching from the street [[Västerlånggatan]] to the square [[Kornhamnstorg]], it forms a parallel street to [[Tyska Brinken]] and [[Funckens Gränd]] |
'''Torgdragargränd''' ([[Swedish language|Swedish]]: "Market Draughter's Alley") is an [[alley]] in [[Gamla stan]], the [[old town]] in [[Stockholm]], [[Sweden]]. Stretching from the street [[Västerlånggatan]] to the square [[Kornhamnstorg]], it forms a parallel street to [[Tyska Brinken]] and [[Funckens Gränd]] |
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Torgdragargränd (Swedish: "Market Draughter's Alley") is an alley in Gamla stan, the old town in Stockholm, Sweden. Stretching from the street Västerlånggatan to the square Kornhamnstorg, it forms a parallel street to Tyska Brinken and Funckens Gränd
The alley was opened in the late 20th century, after which the daily paper Dagens Nyheter arranged a naming contest in 1981. The winning proposal, produced by Gunnar Rönn, a man working in the alley, referred to the people working at the market on Kornhamnstorg who used to literally 'draught' their goods and market stalls from the alley to the square every morning (called Torgdragare, literally: "Square draughters"). He also told the paper how these people used to locate dusky corners of the alley whenever they needed something stronger to drink than water, occasionally ending up sharing a diner, including herring, loaf, and schnaps, on a shutter placed upon the dustbins standing in the alley.[1]
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