hållan

Hållan is a Swedish term that refers to an old or abandoned, usually ice-covered, inlet or fiord in the Scandinavian region. The term is commonly used in the northern parts of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, where large bodies of ice would break off from glaciers and floating ice during the spring and summer months, often creating a temporary body of water.

Hållet is typically formed when blocks of ice dislodge from a glacier or floe, breaking free from their surrounding ice surface. As the icebergs continue to melt and waste, fragments of the parent glacier or floe become stranded in shallow waters, eventually forming hollow remnants of the original iceberg. These结构 are then sometimes jokingly referred to as hållan.

In Swedish culture, the hållan is often associated with nature's raw power and beauty. Many sculptures of unusual shapes and structures are formed by melting ice in such fiords. As the blocks of ice break down and begin to melt, they reveal and shape strange structures.

The name is probably derived from the combination of the word "hål", meaning "hole", and possibly "-an", a general suffix in Swedish place names.