It hardly exists as an English word. The first time I came here, to Badelundaåsen, I read an information board in Swedish and English where the word “ås” was translated as “ridge”. I knew something was missing; the translation didn't explain what I was looking at. Later I learned there is a word, “esker”, borrowed from …
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