Svinhult is a village in Ydre in the South Swedish highlands near the border between Småland and Östergötland.

According to Svenskt ortnamnslexikon the name of the locality means "place of wildboars",[1] while local scholar Robert Norrby traces it to "svidhja" meaning slash-and-burn which as a common agricultural practice in the past.

[2] Compared to other places of Ydre, Svinhult is more inhospitable.

The vegetation around Svinhult is made up by pines and spruces while broad-leaf forests patches are few.

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