Etymology

Old Swedish läghil, cognate with medieval Latin lagula, lagella, from Latin lagena, from Ancient Greek λάγῡνος ‎(lágūnos).

The first official Swedish Bible translation of 1541 used this word in 1 Samuel 16:20, where KJV has "a bottle of wine". The now famous use from Matthew 9:17 (new wine into old wineskins) stems from a Swedish bible translation of 1853, where older translations had "(läder)flaskor" (bottles or leather bottles).