The story is most commonly known as nail soup in Scandinavian and Northern European countries.

It is by most historical linguists considered to be an East-Danish dialect group, but due to the modern era influence from Standard Swedish in the region and because traditional dialectology in the Scandinavian countries normally have not considered isoglosses that cut across state borders, the Scanian dialects have normally been treated as a South-Swedish dialect group in Swedish dialect research.

But marriage between uncle and niece, though common in many cultures, does not normally appear in old Scandinavian literature.

SBS Broadcasting Group ( normally referred to as just SBS, which originally stood for Scandinavian Broadcasting Systems ) was a European broadcasting group, operating commercial television, premium pay channels, radio stations and related print businesses in Northern, Western and Central and Eastern Europe.

* Scandinavian, a cultural, historical and ethno-linguistic region in northern Europe that includes the three kingdoms of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, characterized by their common heritage and language

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

* The Swedish bestselling historical novel The Long Ships ( Red Orm ) includes a long fictionalised account of the Battle of Maldon, described from the Scandinavian side.

In St. Edwards Park in Kenmore, the Skandia Folkdance Society hosts Midsommarfest, which includes a Scandinavian solstice pole.

This group includes German, Dutch, British, Irish, Scandinavian and Slavic ethnic origins.

Nordic folk music includes a number of traditions in Northern European, especially Scandinavian, countries.

Conway's more recent work includes a series of satirical how-to videos in which he plays a diminutive, dark-haired Scandinavian known as Dorf ( a variation on " dwarf "), reprising his goofy Mr. Tudball accent.

Thus, it includes all the Germanic languages except Frisian and English, as well as the Northern Germanic Scandinavian languages like Norwegian and Danish.

In several Scandinavian countries of the 1960s and 1970s, it was rooted in work with trade unions ; its ancestry also includes Action research and Sociotechnical Design.

* Ten Scandinavian Directors-A feature from The Criterion Collection that includes Vilgot Sjöman

Around 3. 9 % of the U. S. population is said to have Scandinavian ancestry ( which also includes Norwegian Americans, Danish Americans, Finnish Americans, and Icelandic Americans ).

He was also the author of a Handbuch der deutschen Literaturgeschichte ( 1847 ), which includes the treatment of the Anglo-Saxon, the Old Scandinavian, and the Low German branches ; and he popularized a great deal of literary information in his Herbstabende und Winternächte: Gespräche über Dichtungen und Dichter ( 1865 – 1867 ).

Her discography includes works of Bartók, Berg, Stockhausen and many contemporary Scandinavian composers.

* January 13 – With its cockpit crew so occupied with attempting to diagnose the lack of a nose gear green light that they inadvertently allow its rate of descent to increase while on approach to Los Angeles International Airport in Los Angeles, California, the Scandinavian Airlines McDonnell Douglas DC-8-62 Sverre Viking, operating as Flight 933 with 45 people on board, crashes in Santa Monica Bay 6 miles ( 11 km ) short of the runway and breaks into three pieces, two of which sink immediately.

Ron responds to the first move by using the Scandinavian Defense to verify that the chess pieces are enchanted and will smash each other.

As the Peer Gynt Suites take their pieces out of the original context of the play, Morning Mood is not widely known in its original setting, and images of Grieg's Scandinavian origins more frequently spring to the minds of its listeners than those of the desert it was written to depict.

Her four pieces, ordered for the 55th anniversary of the Flora Female Choir at the Åbo Academy, won the first price in a Scandinavian Choir arranging competition in 1999.

Historians identify several waves of migration to the United States: one from 1815 – 1860, in which some five million English, Irish, Germanic, Scandinavian, and others from northwestern Europe came to the United States ; one from 1865 – 1890, in which some 10 million immigrants, also mainly from northwestern Europe, settled, and a third from 1890 – 1914, in which 15 million immigrants, mainly from central, eastern, and southern Europe ( many Austrian, Hungarian, Turkish, Lithuanian, Russian, Jewish, Greek, Italian, and Romanian ) settled in the United States.

* 1990 – A fire breaks out on the passenger ferry M / S Scandinavian Star, killing 158 people.

Conversely the use of true brass seems to have declined in Western Europe during this period in favour of gunmetals and other mixed alloys but by the end of the first Millennium AD brass artefacts are found in Scandinavian graves in Scotland, brass was being used in the manufacture of coins in Northumbria and there is archaeological and historical evidence for the production of brass in Germany and The Low Countries areas rich in calamine ore which would remain important centres of brass making throughout the medieval period, especially Dinant – brass objects are still collectively known as dinanterie in French.

In the U. S., the FDA has banned import of any donor sperm, motivated by a risk of Creutzfeldt – Jakob disease, inhibiting the once popular import of, for example, Scandinavian sperm.

* 2011 – Very strong cyclone Dagmar cutted the trees, messed the public traffic and destroyed the buildings at Scandinavian countries.

Finland's foreign politics before this deal had been varied: independence from Imperial Russia with support of Imperial Germany in 1917 ; participation in the Russian Civil War ( without official declaration of war ) alongside the Triple Entente 1918 – 1920 ; a non-ratified alliance with Poland in 1922 ; association with the neutralist and democratic Scandinavian countries in the 1930s ended by the Winter War ( 1939 ); and finally in 1940, a rapprochement with Nazi Germany, the only power able to protect Finland against the expansionist Soviet Union, leading to the Continuation War in 1941.

" Dickson-Wright further cites etymologist Walter William Skeat as further suggestion of possible Scandinavian origins: Skeat claimed that the hag – element of the word is derived from the Old Norse haggw or the Old Icelandic hoggva ( höggva in modern Icelandic ), meaning ' to hew ' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

* 793 – Vikings raid the abbey at Lindisfarne in Northumbria, commonly accepted as the beginning of the Scandinavian invasion of England.

* 2001 – A twin engine Cessna and Scandinavian Airlines System ( SAS ) jetliner collide in heavy fog during takeoff from Milan, Italy killing 118.

* " Pareto Index Estimation Under Moderate Right Censoring ", Jan Beirlant, Armelle Guillou, Scandinavian Actuarial Journal, volume 2 ( 2001 ), pages 111 – 125.

* 1972 – A Scandinavian Airlines System domestic flight from Gothenburg to Stockholm is hijacked and flown to Malmö-Bulltofta Airport.

– The starting-point of the distance unit vika is the verb that in Old Scandinavian had the form víka ( Old Icelandic víkja ) ' to recede, turn to the side, give way, yield ', and the idea behind it seems to be that the tired rower moves aside for the rested rower on the thwart when he relieves him.

The most eminent Scandinavian to serve in the Varangian Guard was Harald Hardrada, who subsequently established himself as king of Norway ( 1047 – 66 ).

* May 14 – The Star Alliance is formed between Air Canada, Lufthansa, Scandinavian Airlines System, Thai Airways International and United Airlines.

* March 23 – The Scandinavian States of the Nordic Council sign the Helsinki Convention on Nordic Co-operation.

* 1867 – 1873 – Chinese, Scandinavian and Irish immigrants lay of railroad tracks in the USA.

Finnish economists refer to the Finnish economic decline around the breakup of the Soviet Union ( 1989 – 1994 ) as a great depression ; this is partly attributed to the breakup of the Soviet Union, and partly to the Scandinavian banking crisis, which was also suffered, to a lesser degree, by Sweden and Norway.

Review of Rory McTurk, Studies in " Ragnars saga loðbrókar " and Its Major Scandinavian Analogues, Alvíssmál 2: 118 – 19.

In Europe, the maritime climate is able to stabilize inland temperature, because the major mountain range – the Alps – is oriented east-west ( the area east of the long Scandinavian mountain range is an exception ).

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

The reason for this is that although the Scandinavian peninsula is attached to Continental Europe by Karelia etc., it is usually reached by sea, not by land ( which would require travelling north as far as Tornio at the 66th parallel north ).

During the Middle Ages, there were various systems involving elections or assemblies, although often only involving a small amount of the population, the election of Gopala in Bengal region of Indian Subcontinent, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth ( 10 % of population ), the Althing in Iceland, the Løgting in the Faeroe Islands, certain medieval Italian city-states such as Venice, the tuatha system in early medieval Ireland, the Veche in Novgorod and Pskov Republics of medieval Russia, Scandinavian Things, The States in Tirol and Switzerland and the autonomous merchant city of Sakai in the 16th century in Japan.

Scandinavian settlement in Greenland declined over the years and the last written record is a marriage recorded in 1408, although the Norwegian claims to the land remained.

The most surprising revision is that, unlike, for example, the famous Cantino World Map, the Vinland Map depicts Greenland as an island, remarkably close to the correct shape and orientation ( while Norway, of which Greenland was just a colony, is wildly inaccurate ) although contemporary Scandinavian accounts — including the work of Claudius Clavus in the 1420s — depict Greenland as a peninsula joined to northern Russia.

The battle has traditionally been presented as symbolising the end of the Viking Age, although in fact major Scandinavian campaigns in Britain and Ireland occurred in the following decades, notably those of King Sweyn Estrithson of Denmark in 1069 – 70 and King Magnus Barefoot of Norway in 1098 and 1102 – 03.

The town was surrounded by secure castle walls and the name Fishguard derives from old Norse fiskigarðr meaning " fish catching enclosure ", indicating that there may have been a Scandinavian trading post, although no evidence has been found.

Their first recording deal came that same year, when Quorthon managed to secure the consent of Tyfon Grammofon's boss ( Quorthon's father Börje Forsberg, although Quorthon himself spread rumors to keep the audience unaware of this ) to record two tracks for the compilation Scandinavian Metal Attack in 1984.

From 1 June 2007, SAS Braathens was rebranded to Scandinavian Airlines, making it identical to the branding in Sweden and Denmark, although it remains a separate limited company named SAS Norge AS.

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.

They are mostly descended from British and to a lesser extent Irish settlers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, although some Pākehā have Dutch, Scandinavian, German, Yugoslav or other ancestry.

In 1388, at the request of the Swedes themselves, Albert was driven out by Margaret I of Denmark and at a convention of the representatives of the three Scandinavian kingdoms ( held at Kalmar in 1397 ), Margaret's great-nephew, Eric of Pomerania, was elected the common king, although the liberties of each of the three realms were expressly reserved and confirmed.

By the age of 16 he was influenced by Nicolai Grundtvig, and although he had already started to paint, Asger enrolled in the Vinthers Seminarium, a teacher training college in Silkeborg where he paid particular attention to a course in Nineteenth century Scandinavian thought.

Many navigational instruments had been in use for centuries by Scandinavian, Greek, Roman, Arab, and Chinese navigators, although there were subtle differences between them.

The melodies have a distinguishable Finnish " flavour " that is somewhat related to Russian and Italian melodies and harmonies although Scandinavian and Anglo-American influence can also be heard.

In parts of the Scandinavian countries the leiðangr evolved to a tax in the 12th century to 13th century, paid by all ( free ) farmers until the 19th century, although the ship-levy was frequently called out and used in the 13th-15th centuries, with the Norwegian leiðangr fleet going as far as Scotland in the 1260s.

Prepared in this way, this mushroom is widely used and considered a delicacy in the Scandinavian countries, although recent research suggests that there may still be long-term health consequences from eating it.

In modern Scandinavian languages, the cognate lindorm can refer to any ' serpent ' or monstrous snake, but in Norwegian heraldry, it is also a technical term for a ' seaserpent ' ( sjøorm ), although it may also stand for a ' lindworm ' in British heraldry.

Iceland and the Faroe Islands are not a part of Scandinavia ( although they are Nordic countries ), but should nevertheless be regarded as Scandinavian in folkloric terms.

Some say that the dwarves of Scandinavian folklore lived on as wights ( vättar or huldrefolk ), although with somewhat different characteristics.

The album barely made the UK Top 40, and, although it was a Top 10 success in Scandinavian countries, it failed to sell as well as its predecessor and only spawned two minor hits, " It's Here " a Top 20 success in Middle and Northern Europe as well as " Can't Get Enough ( Of Your Love )", her last Top 20 hit in France.

Following the recession of the Scandinavian ice sheet, which covered most of northern Europe, from Great Britain to Moscow, around 8000 BC, peoples began arriving in what is today Finland presumably mainly from the south and east although recent archaeological finds reveal a presence of the north-western Komsa culture in Finnish north equally old to the earliest finds on the Norwegian coast.

Fleshcrawl, although their overall style has evolved over the years, remains quite similar-and often compared to such Scandinavian / melodic death metal bands as Grave and Dismember.

Scandinavian countries prefer a numeral zero with a dot in the middle, although low-resolution displays can confuse this with a numeral eight, and it takes longer to assuredly make a dot with a ballpoint pen than making a tick.