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Scandinavia and old
In Scandinavia, forn sed / forn siðr " old custom ", Nordisk sed " Nordic custom " or hedensk sed / heiðinn siður " heathen custom " are preferred.
" To put artifacts in their proper context I consider it most important to pay attention to the chronological sequence, and I believe that the old idea of first stone, then copper, and finally iron, appears to be ever more firmly established as far as Scandinavia is concerned.
Oat porridge has been found in the stomachs of 5, 000 year old Neolithic bog bodies in Central Europe and Scandinavia.
Ribe Katedralskole is more than 850 years old, and is the oldest continuously existing school in Scandinavia.
The old ways were discontinued as the corresponding cultures on the continent changed, and the farmers living in Scandinavia took part in those changes since they belonged to the same network.
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.
In addition to the island of Hârn itself, products have been released covering the nearby regions of Shôrkýnè ( a large feudal kingdom with a weak king ) and Ivínia ( an analogue of Scandinavia complete with fjords, Vikings, and a religion similar to that of the old Norse ).
The Finnmarkian phase that is found in the northwest of Scandinavia ( 560-480 million years old ) must have been caused by the development of a new subduction zone along the western edge of Baltica, which was a passive margin before that time.
As in Scandinavia, when belief in the old gods disappeared, remnants of the mythos persisted: Holda, a " supernatural " patron of spinning ; the Lorelei, a dangerous Rhine siren derived from the Nibelung myth ; the spirit Berchta ( also known as Perchta ); the Weisse Frauen, a water spirit said to protect children ; the Wild Hunt ( in German folklore preceded by an old man, Honest Eckart, who warns others of its approach ); the giant Rübezahl ; changeling legends ; and many more generic entities such as the elf, dwarf, kobold and erlking.
As the Mediterranean Fleet had been sent to West Africa under De Ruyter, only half of the home fleet now consisted of professional ships ; the remainder of disparate vessels either too old or too new and all poorly trained, manned by sailors from all over Scandinavia, Eastern Europe and Asia.
The lyrics of their songs are mainly about myths, legends and historical subjects from the ancient civilizations of Rome, Greece and Egypt or from Scandinavia or even from old kingdoms belonging to barbarians.
965 in the town of Jelling, the old Viking capital of Scandinavia.
Old Norse Forn Siðr, Anglo-Saxon Fyrnsidu, Old High German Firner situ and its modern Scandinavian ( Forn Sed ) and modern German ( Firne Sitte ) analogues, all meaning " old custom ", is used as a term for pre-Christian Germanic culture in general, and for Germanic Neopaganism in particular, mostly by groups in Scandinavia and Germany.
Also the language spoken by forest settlers in Värmland and Norwegian Hedmark of Central Scandinavia belonged to the old Savonian dialects.
The pine forests in the northern part have some of the oldest trees in Scandinavia, some more than 700 years old in Forfjord valley at Hinnøya.

Scandinavia and Scandinavian
The terrain of Scandinavia favored heavy infantry, and while the nobles fought mounted in the continental fashion, the Scandinavian peasants formed a well-armed and well-armoured infantry, of which approximately 30 % to 50 % would be archers or crossbowmen.
* Norsemen, the Scandinavian people before the Christianisation of Scandinavia
The term Scandinavia is usually used as a cultural term, but in English usage, it is occasionally confused with the purely geographical term Scandinavian Peninsula, which took its name from the cultural-linguistic concept.
The terms Scandinavia and Scandinavian entered usage in the 18th century as terms for the three Scandinavian countries, their peoples and associated language and culture, being introduced by the early linguistic and cultural Scandinavist movement.
Sometimes the term Scandinavia is also taken to include Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Finland, on account of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries.
File: Scandinavia. TMO2003050. jpg | Scandinavian Peninsula in winter ( February 19, 2003 )
In Scandinavia the Viking age is considered to have ended with the establishment of royal authority in the Scandinavian countries and the establishment of Christianity as the dominant religion.
During the 20th century, the meaning of the term was expanded to refer not only to seaborne raiders from Scandinavia, but secondarily to any Scandinavian who lived during the period from the late eighth to the mid-11th centuries, or more loosely from c. 700 to as late as about 1100.
During the 9th and 10th centuries, Scandinavian Vikings established trade posts on the way from Scandinavia to the Byzantine Empire.
Another source of income lately has been the sale of Internet domain names under the NU top level domain, which are particularly popular in Scandinavia, Belgium and the Netherlands, since nu means " now " in the Scandinavian languages and Dutch.
File: Scandinavia EthnicCostumes. jpg | Scandinavian bride and maid ( bottom right ) in 1876
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 ).
Because much of the former Surrey Docks had strong trade links to Scandinavia and the Baltic region the area is still home to a thriving Scandinavian community.
Scandinavian refers to a resident of or something associated with Scandinavia, including:
In Scandinavia, Scandinavian languages is also used as a term referring specifically to the mutually intelligible languages of the three Scandinavian countries, and is thus used in a more narrow sense as a subset of the Nordic languages.
The term " North Germanic languages " is used in genetic linguistics, while the term " Scandinavian languages " appears in studies of the modern standard languages and the dialect continuum of Scandinavia.
Aquavit is seldom produced outside of Scandinavia, although there are domestic imitations of it in some countries, especially in areas that have a large community of Scandinavian immigrants like USA.
The open discussions on an Allied expedition to northern Scandinavia, also without consent of the neutral Scandinavian countries, and the Altmark Incident on 16 February, alarmed the Kriegsmarine and Germany by threatening iron ore supplies and gave strong arguments for a German securing of the Norwegian coast.
This model was constructed by the Scandinavian ministers Karl Kristian Steincke and Gustav Möller in the 30s and is dominant in Scandinavia.
For several years, Jorn toured around Scandinavia and Europe with photographer Gérard Franceschi, former photographer for French writer and onetime culture minister André Malraux on his Musée imaginaire project, photographing ancient, Romanesque, Scandinavian, and Gothic figurative and decorative motifs in order to trace the connections between Scandinavian and European motifs.
The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study ( also known under the abbreviation 4S ) is a multicenter clinical trial that was performed in 1990s in Scandinavia.

Scandinavia and religion
The earliest indications of Lombard religion show that they originally worshipped the Germanic gods of the Vanir pantheon while in Scandinavia.
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.
Richard North further notes that unusually, sib is personified here and in lines 2599 to 2661, and suggests they may be references to Sif in Danish religion: " Both instances may indicate that the poet of Beowulf was in a position to imagine a sixth-century Scandinavia on the basis of his knowledge of contemporary Danish legends.
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.
Lapponia is a book written by Johannes Schefferus ( 1621-1679 ) covering a very comprehensive history of Northern Scandinavia topology, environment and Sami living condition, dwelling-places, clothing, gender roles, hunting, child raising, shamanism and pagan religion.
Norse religion refers to the religious traditions of the Norsemen prior to the Christianization of Scandinavia, specifically during the Viking Age.
Sami religion is also based on archaeological remains and written sources from missionary work in northern Scandinavia during the Middle Ages and up to the early 18th century, though some of the knowledge exists as family oral tradition.
While such a tripartite structure must have been common to all Indoeuropean peoples on accounts of its widespread traces in religion and myths from India to Scandinavia and from Rome to Ireland, it had disappeared from most societies since prehistoric times, with the notable exception of India.
The arduous trail up the " tower " is marked with orange signsTrollkyrka (" Troll's church ") is a secluded butte-like rock in the heart of the National Park of Tiveden, Sweden, which served as a pagan sacrificial ground ( horgr, see also blót ) for centuries after Christianity became the dominant religion in Scandinavia.
He has been a visiting professor at universities in Pakistan, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, and the United States, teaching at departments of anthropology, history, religion, and sociology.
Early Norwegians, like all of the people of Scandinavia, were adherents of Norse paganism ; the Sámi having a shamanistic religion.
Bahá ' ís first visited Scandinavia in the 1920s following ` Abdu ' l-Bahá's, then head of the religion, request outlining Norway among the countries Bahá ' ís should pioneer to and the first Bahá ' í to settle in Norway was Johanna Schubartt.
Paganism is the smallest religion being found only in Scandinavia and some parts of eastern Europe.
The first modern attempt at revival of ancient Germanic religion took place in the 19th century during the late Romantic Period amidst a general resurgence of interest in traditional Germanic culture, in particular in connection with romantic nationalism in Scandinavia and the related Viking revival in Victorian era Britain — the latter having associations with earlier Romanticism.

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