In Scandinavia, forn sed / forn siðr " old custom ", Nordisk sed " Nordic custom " or hedensk sed / heiðinn siður " heathen custom " are preferred.

It may mean " rock people ", ( from the Old Norse grjut huningi ) to distinguish the Ostrogoths from the Geats ( referred as Goths in Scandinavia ) from Götaland ( Gothland ) in southern Sweden.

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.

Many negative accounts build on Adam of Bremen's writings ; Adam is said to have watched Sweyn and Scandinavia in general with an " unsympathetic and intolerant eye ", according to some scholars.

While the Proto-Norse word for this mysterious tribe may have been erilaz, which is etymologically near " jarl " and " earl ", and it has often been suggested they introduced the runes in Scandinavia, no elaborate theory exists to explain how the word came to be used as a title.

They are one of the most popular rock groups in Sweden, and describe themselves as " Sweden's biggest rock band ", but are more or less unknown outside Scandinavia.

With the increase in population and productivity in Scandinavia, Viking warriors, having sought treasure and glory in the nearby British Isles, " proceeded to plough and support themselves ", in the words of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, for the year 876.

Several other songs on the album, " Vanlose Stairway ", " She Gives Me Religion ", and the instrumental, " Scandinavia " show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and serve as a steadying influence on him throughout most of the 1980s.

" Black Faces in the Blond Crowd: Populist Racialism in Scandinavia ", Parliamentary Affairs 45, no.

This name is a cognate to the word still used throughout Scandinavia, such as Swedish " Skärtorsdag ", Danish " Skærtorsdag ", Norwegian " Skjærtorsdag ", Faroese " Skírhósdagur " and " Skírisdagur " and Icelandic " Skírdagur ".

Despite the fact that Djupa andetag was officially only released in Scandinavia and the songs were entirely sung in Swedish, a remix album of the single tracks " Även En Blomma ", " Alla Mina Bästa År " ( a duet with Roxette's Marie Fredriksson ) and " Ögonen " was released in Germany in 1998, entitled Frida-The Mixes.

Jeff Barry, Andy Kim, Ellie Greenwich, Susan Morse, Joey Levine, Maeretha Stewart, Bobby Bloom and Leslie Miller contributed background vocals at various times, with Barry contributing his trademark bass voice ( portrayed as being sung by Jughead in the cartoon ) on cuts such as " Jingle Jangle ", " Rock ' n ' Roll Music ", " A Summer Prayer For Peace " ( which hit number one in South Africa and Scandinavia in 1971 ), and " You Little Angel, You ".

Wilson ( 1894 ) points out that while the swastika had been " vulgarly called in Scandinavia the hammer of Thor ", the symbol properly so called had a Y or T shape.

Additionally, the theory's supporters also held the view that Västergötland and the region of Lake Vänern was in fact the land of " Sithun ", translated into modern day language as Sigtuna, where Odin and his Aesir companions supposedly settled when they came to Scandinavia.

In Scandinavia, Edel-Mega released the album's opening track, " Unspeakable ", as the second single.

* Robert Layton, editor, A Guide To The Symphony, Chapter 13, " The Symphony in Scandinavia ", written by Robert Layton.

It must be admitted, however, that these points are " arguing from silence ", and that 14th century Scandinavia was hardly isolated from current European thought and movements of the period.

Fox International Channels ( UK ) Ltd applied for a broadcasting slot in the Swedish digital terrestrial television network in the autumn of 2005 for a service called " FX ", suggesting a possible launch of the channel in Sweden or Scandinavia.

Writing about the unit as it was in 1080, the chronicler and princess Anna Komnene refers to these " axe-bearing barbarians " as being " from Thule ", likely a reference to the British Isles or Scandinavia.

In the late medieval period, Ælfheah's feast day was celebrated in Scandinavia, perhaps because of the saint's connection with Cnut.

While touring Scandinavia he first joined forces with guitarist and singer Peter Thorup, together forming the band New Church, who were one of the support bands at the Rolling Stones Free Concert in Hyde Park, London, on 5 July 1969.

For three hundred years, beginning with bishop Ansgar, the Hamburg-Bremen archbishopric had been designated as the " Mission of the North " and had jurisdiction over all missions in Scandinavia, North-Western Russia, Iceland and Greenland.

The events described in the poem take place in the late 5th century, after the Anglo-Saxons had begun their migration to England, and before the beginning of the 7th century, a time when the Anglo-Saxon people were either newly arrived or still in close contact with their Germanic kinsmen in Scandinavia and Northern Germany.

It has been suggested that Beowulf was first composed in the 7th century at Rendlesham in East Anglia, as the Sutton Hoo ship-burial also shows close connections with Scandinavia, and also that the East Anglian royal dynasty, the Wuffings, were descendants of the Geatish Wulfings.

The word borough derives from common Germanic * burg, meaning fort: compare with bury ( England ), burgh ( Scotland ), Burg ( Germany ), borg ( Scandinavia ), burcht ( Dutch ) and the Germanic borrowing present in neighbouring Indo-european languages such as borgo ( Italian ), bourg ( French ) and burgo ( Spanish and Portuguese ).

Its strategic location and excellent infrastructure, with the largest airport in Scandinavia, Kastrup, located 14 minutes by train from the city centre, have made it a regional hub and a popular location for regional headquarters and conventions.

It was also used in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, but was subsequently replaced with dh and later d. Its use has survived in Iceland and the Faroe Islands.

Evangelicalism is a Protestant Christian movement that began in the 17th century and became an organized movement with the emergence around 1730 of the Methodists in England and the Pietists among Lutherans in Germany and Scandinavia.

Freyja's name appears in numerous place names in Scandinavia, with a high concentration in southern Sweden.

Various plants in Scandinavia once bore her name, but it was replaced with the name of the Virgin Mary during the process of Christianization.

After a 10 year gap, the Goths, along with the Heruli, another Germanic tribe from Scandinavia, raiding on 500 ships, sacked Heraclea Pontica, Cyzicus and Byzantium.

In Scandinavia, the Kalmar Union dominated the political landscape, while England fought with Scotland in the Wars of Scottish Independence and with France in the Hundred Years Wars.

From southern Scandinavia and northern Germany, the tribes began expanding south, east and west in the 1st century BC, coming into contact with the Celtic tribes of Gaul, as well as Iranian, Baltic, and Slavic tribes in Central Europe.

A coordinated group of princely states with a common interest in maintaining trade along the river routes, Kievan Rus ' controlled the trade route for furs, wax, and slaves between Scandinavia and the Byzantine Empire along the Volkhov and Dnieper Rivers.

The stores spread to other parts of Europe in the 1970s, with the first store outside Scandinavia opening in Switzerland ( 1973 ), followed by Germany ( 1974 ).

In the 15th century the city traded with Scotland, Amsterdam and Scandinavia.

In Scandinavia, the longship was the usual vessel for war even with the introduction of cogs in the 12th – 13th centuries.

That said, the situation in England was far worse than in Scandinavia, France and Prussia: as late as 1841, 33 % of all Englishmen and 44 % of Englishwomen signed marriage certificates with their mark as they were unable to write ( government-financed public education was not available in England until 1870 and, even then, on a limited basis ).

Malmö was one of the earliest and most industrialized towns of Scandinavia, but it struggled with the adaptation to post-industrialism.

In 2005 Malmö got a new landmark with completion of Turning Torso, the tallest skyscraper in Scandinavia.

The Öresund Bridge, connecting Malmö to Copenhagen and Scandinavia with continental Europe.

Malmö has also the highest percentage of Muslims in Scandinavia, with ( 25 %) or 75, 000 people originating from Islamic countries.

Mercantilism became prominent in Central Europe and Scandinavia after the Thirty Years ' War ( 1618 – 1648 ), with Christina of Sweden, Jacob Kettler of Courland, Christian IV of Denmark being notable proponents.