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With the help of Wiktionary:

Utlänning (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/utl%C3%A4nning) is cognate with English outlander. Translating it as alien is not the best choice, but it's not wrong: before alien meant extraterrestrial, it meant "Belonging to another person, place, or family; strange, foreign, not of one's own" [OED].

Främling (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fr%C3%A4mling) means "stranger, foreigner". (Cognate with Old English fremd, but this disappeared from the language.)

Varelse (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/varelse) means "a creature, a being; especially of mythological origin". (From the verb vara, "to be", which is cognate with English were.)

Djur (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/djur) means "animal". (Cognate with English deer.)

I have no idea about raman!