* Nordic theory or Nordicism, the belief that Northern Europeans constitute a " master race "

Rosenberg promoted the Nordic theory which regarded Germans as the " master race ", superior to all others, including to other Aryans ( Indo-Europeans ).

Proponents of Nordic theory further argued that Nordic peoples had developed innate toughness and determination due to the harsh, challenging climate in which they evolved.

Nordic theory, in Grant's formulation, was similar to many 19th century racial philosophies which divided the human species into primarily three distinct races: Caucasoids ( based in Europe ), Negroids ( based in Africa ), and Mongoloids ( based in Asia ).

Nordic theory, however, further subdivided Caucasoids into three groups: Nordics ( who inhabited Northern Europe and other parts of the continent ), Alpines ( whose territory included central Europe and parts of Asia ), and Mediterraneans ( who inhabited Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East ).

The Nordic, in his theory, was Homo europaeus, the white man par excellence.

Grant while aware of the " Nordic Migration Theory " into the Mediterranean appears to reject this theory as an explanation for the high civilization features of the Greco-Roman world.

While this group had no special place in Deniker's racial model, this " Nordic race " would be elevated by the famous eugenicist and scientific racist Madison Grant in his Nordic theory to the engine of civilization.

Grant transliterated la race nordique into " Nordic ", and promoted it to the top of his racial hierarchy in his own popular racial theory of the 1910s and 1920s.

However, there is also a darker side of his scientific career: Gustaf Retzius is one of the fathers of the pseudoscientific race theory, " scientific racism ", and one of those who tried to glorify the " Nordic race " as the highest race of mankind.

Nordicism ( also " Nordic theory ") is an ideology of racial supremacy that claims that a Nordic race, within the greater Caucasian race, constituted a master race.

Schweigaard figures prominently in Sverre Blandhol ’ s theory of Nordic legal pragmatism, along with Anders Sandøe Ørsted and Friedrich Karl von Savigny.

In Greek mythology Artemis was the leader ( ηγεμόνη: hegemone ) of the nymphs, who had similar functions with the Nordic Elves.

What they and many others of that generation in the Nordic countries had in common was that they started off from a classical education and were first designing in the so-called Nordic Classicism style – a style that had been a reaction to the previous dominant style of National Romanticism – before moving, in the late 1920s, towards Modernism.

He was also a member of the board of the Nordic Institute for Theoretical Physics ( Nordita ) from its inception in 1957, becoming its director in 1975.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

Finland also differed from the other Nordic countries in that the generational transition from the rural occupations to white-collar positions was more likely to be direct, bypassing manual occupations.

During the Cold War, Finland's foreign policy was based on official neutrality between the Western powers and the Soviet Union, while simultaneously stressing Nordic cooperation in the framework of the Nordic Council and cautious economic integration with the West as promoted by the Bretton-Woods Agreement and the free trade treaty with the European Economic Community.

After a decade or so, floorball began showing up in Nordic countries where the former schoolyard pastime was becoming a developed sport.

When the IFF was founded in 1986, the sport was played in mostly Nordic countries, Japan, and several parts of Europe.

This area was influenced by southern Scandinavian culture from as early as the late Nordic Bronze Age and early Pre-Roman Iron Age ( ca.

1300 BC ( period III ) and onwards was so considerable that this region is sometimes included in the Nordic Bronze Age culture.

The following year, a newspaper solicited eleven design proposals ( all but one of which was a Nordic cross ) and polled the people to determine the most popular.

There he met Rudolf Höss, who was later commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, and Walther Darré, whose book, The Peasantry as the Life Source of the Nordic Race, caught Hitler's attention, leading to his later appointment as Reich Minister of Food and Agriculture.

Darré was a firm believer in the superiority of the Nordic race, and his philosophy was a major influence on Himmler.

Hedeby was the largest Nordic city during the Viking Age and used to be the oldest city in Denmark until the site became part of Germany.

The Nordic union was in a way formalized on June 17, 1397 by the Treaty of Kalmar, signed in the Swedish castle of Kalmar, on Sweden's south-east coast, in medieval times close to the Danish border.

Early on, Munk was a strong opponent of the German Occupation of Denmark ( 1940 – 1945 ), although he continually opposed the idea of democracy as such, preferring the idea of a " Nordic dictator " who should unite the Nordic countries and keep them neutral during periods of international crisis.

Latvia's principal river, the Daugava River, was at the head of an important mainland route from the Baltic region through Russia into southern Europe and the Middle East used by the Vikings and later Nordic and German traders.

Longships were sea vessels made and used by the Vikings from the Nordic countries for trade, commerce, exploration, and warfare during the Viking Age although scientific analysis of the oak timber shows at least one well known ship was built in Dublin, Ireland.

A member of the Piast dynasty, he was son of Siemomysł ; grandchild of Lestek ; father of Bolesław I the Brave, the first crowned King of Poland ; likely father of Świętosława ( Sigrid ), a Nordic Queen ; and grandfather of her son, Cnut the Great.

The military alliance in 1208 and later conversion from Greek Orthodoxy to Roman Catholicism of the Principality of Tālava was the only peaceful subjugation of the Baltic tribes during the Nordic crusades.

It has also become an inspiring model for many later innovations in poetic meter, particularly in the Nordic languages, offering many varied examples of terse, stress-based metrical schemes working without any final rhyme, and instead using alliterative devices and strongly concentrated imagery.

The party has been compared by international media to the other Nordic populist parties and other similar nationalist and right-wing populist movements in Europe that share euroscepticism and are critical of globalism, whilst strongly supporting the Finnish welfare state.

Rackham's work is often described as a fusion of a northern European ' Nordic ' style strongly influenced by the Japanese woodblock tradition of the 19th century.

To begin with, he was strongly influenced by the Nordic styles of Jean Sibelius, Carl Nielsen and Vagn Holmboe.

The core of this folk humor is probably the strongly egalitarian sense that permeates the cultural code in the Nordic countries.

In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

If it destroyed by another cards effect, you may add another " Nordic Relic " card to your hand.

The European Conservatives and Reformists group, typified by centre-right parties such as the British Conservative Party, along with the European United Left – Nordic Green Left which is an alliance of the left-wing parties in the European Parliament, is soft eurosceptic.

Originating about 1800 BC from the Corded Ware Culture on the North German plain, the Germanic peoples expanded into southern Scandinavia and toward the Vistula river during the Nordic Bronze Age, reaching the lower Danube by 200 BC.

Finally the present red-and-white design by Christiansen narrowly won over a green-and-white Nordic cross by a vote of fourteen to eleven.

While the bit patterns of the 95 printable ASCII characters are sufficient to exchange information in modern English, most other languages that use the Latin alphabet need additional symbols not covered by ASCII, such as ß ( German ), ñ ( Spanish ), å ( Swedish and other Nordic languages ) and ő ( Hungarian ).

Lund University is among the most renowned institutions of higher learning in the Nordic countries and is rarely ranked below 100 in the world by the most influential ranking agencies.

* Nordic Bronze Age, the name given by Oscar Montelius to a period and a Bronze Age culture in Scandinavian pre-history, c. 1700-500 BC, with sites that reached as far east as Estonia

* Nordic race, " a physical type characterized by tall stature, long head, light skin and hair, and light-colored eyes "

* Nordic race, a race from the fictional Elder Scrolls game series, developed by Bethesda Game Studios and published by Bethesda Softworks.

The Project began archiving Nordic-language literature in December 1992, but today also has graphical facsimiles of old works such as Nordisk familjebok, sheet music, and Latin works by Nordic authors.

Despite this virtually all cars in Sweden were actually left-hand drive and the neighbouring Nordic countries already drove on the right, leading to mistakes by visitors.

The strong interest of the Swedish Government and people in international cooperation and peacemaking has been supplemented in the early 1980s by renewed attention to Nordic and European security questions.

Romans, and Greeks adopted pipes from their neighbors to the east and they were subsequently used by Germanic, Celtic and Nordic tribes.

These examples cannot be more recent Anglo-Scandinavian toponyms, because in that case they would have been numerous in the Norman regions ( pays de Caux, Basse-Seine, North-Cotentin ) concerned by these Nordic settlements.

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