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Rootvälta

Swedish reggae band

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ7366678 ↗
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Rootvälta is a reggae band from Borlänge in the county of Dalarna, Sweden. The band was founded in 1988.

The band has released four albums to date. Their name is taken from the Swedish word Rotvälta, meaning windthrow, but spelled with a double 'o' as a reference to roots.

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“Rootvälta” enters the record as swedish reggae band. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rootvälta, Swedish and reggae can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1988-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rootvälta, Swedish and reggae.
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“Rootvälta” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rootvälta, Swedish and reggae provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 25, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7366678. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rootvälta” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.