An example of this effect is the low pH of rain which falls in Scandinavia.

Variations of this legend had a profound effect on medieval Germanic literature, including that of England and Scandinavia ( see Jonakr's sons ).

This is assumed to have had a significant effect on the folk culture of the area, as the pilgrims brought with them musical instruments and styles from as far afield as Scandinavia and Hungary.

As an effect, the Swedish government could even before the founding of NATO agree to build air bases in eastern Scandinavia suitable for bombing missions against Leningrad.

At least according to some officers — both Swedish and Norwegian — which in the second half of the 1880s noticed the increased strategic importance of northern Scandinavia and Lapland as an effect of the construction of the railway lines in the area.

The Germanics were in Germany and Scandinavia during earliest mention of them in Roman literature, long before the Romans had even conquered Italy.

From their original homelands in Scandinavia and far northern Europe Germanic tribes expanded throughout northern and western Europe in the middle period of classical antiquity, and southern Europe in late antiquity, conquering Celtic and other peoples and forming in 800 the Holy Roman Empire, the first German Empire.

The official starting point for the Northern Crusades was Pope Celestine III's call in 1193 ; but the Christian kingdoms of Scandinavia and the Holy Roman Empire had begun moving to subjugate their pagan neighbors even earlier.

The recusancy in Scandinavia did not survive until freedom of religion was re-established there in the 1800s, with almost all Roman Catholics, throughout the 20th century, being converts or immigrants from other countries.

Being located close to continental Europe, the countries that formed the United Kingdom were subject to many invasions and migrations, especially from Scandinavia and the continent, including Roman occupation for several centuries.

The Viking incursions of the ninth century prompted Baldwin I, Count of Flanders to reinforce the Roman fortifications ; trade soon resumed with England and Scandinavia.

To show that it is a Scandinavian grade, Arabic numerals are used ( e. g. 5, 6, 7 ), and for UIAA graded climbs in Scandinavia, Roman numerals are used ( e. g. V, VI, VII ).

The unique circumstances of Canute's death was seized upon by the Roman Catholic Church as an example of saintliness for the newly converted peoples of Scandinavia.

Snorri provides a euhemeristic account, in which he describes the Norse god Odin and some other Norse gods, the Æsir, as having been real people who emigrated from the area around the river Don to Scandinavia at the time of the Roman expansion into their old homeland.

Ultimately stemming from Proto-Indo-European religion, Thor is a prominently mentioned god throughout the recorded history of the Germanic peoples, from the Roman occupation of regions of Germania, to the tribal expansions of the Migration Period, to his high popularity during the Viking Age, when, in the face of the process of the Christianization of Scandinavia, emblems of his hammer, Mjölnir, were worn in defiance and Norse pagan personal names containing the name of the god bear witness to his popularity.

The Germans forced their way into the Roman Empire, over time, so they came to Scandinavia and England.

The name " Scandia " was therefore after Ptolemy generally associated with the southern part of Scandinavian peninsula by the early Roman geographers, who thought of Scandinavia as an island.

Universities and the printed book helped spread the spirit of the age through France, the Low Countries and the Holy Roman Empire, and then to Scandinavia and finally Britain by the late 16th century.

The Roman Iron Age ( 1-400 ) is the name that Swedish archaeologist Oscar Montelius gave to a part of the Iron Age in Scandinavia, Northern Germany and the Netherlands.

The civil wars of medieval Scandinavia and the electorate of the Holy Roman Empire are part of its legacy.

Polabian society developed during the 9th and 10th centuries under pressure from the Holy Roman Empire and the Vikings of Scandinavia.

( Most Roman Catholics in Scandinavia since the Reformation, particularly amongst the clergy, have been of German, Dutch, Polish, and Italian descent, or converts.

The Celtic debacle under the expansive pressure of Germanic tribes ( originally from Scandinavia and Lower Germany ) and the forming Roman Empire, in the last century BC, is also that of the end of Prehistory properly speaking ; though many regions of Europe remained yet illiterate and therefore out of written history for many centuries yet, we must place the boundary somewhere and this date, near the start of our calendar, seems quite convenient.

During the fall of the Roman empire, an abundance of gold flowed into Scandinavia and there are excellent works in gold from this period.

While many Germanic tribes sustained continued contact with the culture and military presence of the Roman Empire, much of Scandinavia existed on the most extreme periphery of the Latin world.

With the exception of the passing references to the Swedes ( Suiones ) and the Geats ( Gautoi ), much of Scandinavia remained unrecorded by Roman authors.

During the fall of the Roman empire, there was an abundance of gold that flowed into Scandinavia, and there are excellent works in gold from this period.

A Roman Catholic mission to Scandinavia has for many years maintained a base at the Abbey.

A blue law is a type of law, typically found in the United States, Scandinavia and, formerly, in Canada, designed to enforce religious standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, and a restriction on Sunday shopping.

In Europe, apart from the common law countries of the British Isles, only Scandinavia remained untouched by the codification movement.

This law change is akin to the law about pedestrian crossing in Scandinavia ( see above ), with one exception: although it is illegal to cross in front of driving cars, if the event causes an accident injuring the pedestrian, it is always the car driver that is held responsible.

The concepts of janteloven, or " Jante law ", in Scandinavia, and A kent yer faither ( English: I knew your father ) in Scotland, are very similar.

It has its basis in a common Germanic oral tradition, where wise men were asked to recite the law, but it was only in Scandinavia that the function evolved into an office.

He published Ragnvald Ingemundsson's Latin translation of the law of Magnus Eriksson, in 1614, Ericus Olai's Swedish chronicle ( 1615 ), the Old Prose Chronicle and the Small Rhyme Chronicle, Adam of Bremen's description of Scandinavia and the beginning of the Large Rhyme Chronicle.

This language began to undergo new changes that did not spread to all of Scandinavia, which resulted in the appearance of two similar dialects, Old West Norse ( Norway and Iceland ) and Old East Norse ( Denmark and Sweden ).

Even Grimm himself did not at first intend to include all the languages in his Grammar, but he soon found that Old High German postulated Gothic, and that the later stages of German could not be understood without the help of other West Germanic varieties including English, and that the rich literature of Scandinavia could not be ignored either.

The ultimate cause of his skepticism is simply that he did not believe Scandinavia could exist.

For example, in " The Final Problem ", Holmes states that his services to the government of France and the royal house of Scandinavia had left him with enough money to retire comfortably, while in " The Adventure of Black Peter ", Watson notes that Holmes would refuse to help the wealthy and powerful if their cases did not interest him, while he could devote weeks at a time to the cases of the most humble clients.

Not until the 1890s did scholars outside Scandinavia begin seriously to reassess the achievements of the Vikings, recognizing their artistry, technological skills, and seamanship.

Not until the 1890s did scholars outside Scandinavia begin to seriously reassess the achievements of the Vikings, recognizing their artistry, technological skills and seamanship.

That Leo did not do more to check the anti-papal rebellion in Germany and Scandinavia is to be partially explained by the political complications of the time, and by his own preoccupation with papal and Medicean politics in Italy.

News of these events did not take long to spread among Protestant-minded ( and acquisitive ) rulers across Europe, and some, particularly in Scandinavia, moved very quickly.

Successful nuclear waste storage siting efforts in Scandinavia have involved local communities in the decision-making process and given them a veto at each stage, but this did not happen with Yucca Mountain.

However, these two names which resulted in Hróarr in Scandinavia, did not have any corresponding Anglo-Saxon form, and so Hroðgar was their closest equivalent.

Except for a handful of mote and bailey castles in Norway, built in the first half of the 11th century and including the royal residence in Oslo, the design did not play a role further north in Scandinavia.

However, the few pages of Hauksbók, called Algorismus, that describe the Indo-Arabic numerals and how to use them in calculations, are believed not to have been widely known at the time, and that the Indo-Arabic number system did not become widespread in Scandinavia until centuries later.

Pandora went on tour through Scandinavia in the spring and summer of 1997 and did her first 2-week live tour through the main cities of Japan, where she always played to sell-out venues.

Tacitus claimed that the 1st century tribes of Germany did not " confine the gods within walls ... but that they worshipped outdoors in sacred woods and groves ", and similarly there is evidence from later continental Europe, Anglo-Saxon England and Scandinavia that the pagans worshipped out of doors at " trees, groves, wells, stones, fences and cairns ".

While thralls and freedmen did not have much economic or political power in Scandinavia, they were still given a wergeld, or a man's price.

What Gallus did write about himself may be summed up as follows: Before going to Poland, he likely spent some time in Hungary, where he met Polish King Bolesław III Wrymouth ; he was a pilgrim ; he revered Saint Giles ; and he knew little about Scandinavia.

Photo Scandinavia did the biggest single reportage in the history of the magazine since its start, when on 11 pages, they showed 48 pictures of Dellacroix & Dellfina.

This second outbreak of flagellants, with their incessant and repetitive Geisslerlieder spread far wider than the first, reaching England, Poland, and Scandinavia, and probably attracted a greater number of participants, although it did not last as long: most of the records of the occurrence are from 1349.

The car did see more success in former British Colonies, Europe, Scandinavia and Australasia.

Wedervang did not publish in German or English and was therefore hardly known outside Scandinavia.

At the time of recording, Frida did not want the attention an international release would bring and she also felt for singing in her mother tongue again, so the album was recorded in Swedish and released in Scandinavia only.

Heterophile is an alternate term to heterosexual and once competed with it for currency, but only did so successfully in Scandinavia.