* If ( insurance company ), in the Nordic countries

Eligible members are Nordic insurance companies engaged in the said branches of insurance pursuant to the legislation pertaining to insurance companies in the Nordic country where the company has its head office or foreign insurance companies engaged in the said branches of insurance in Norway pursuant to the Act on Insurance Activity of 10 June 1988 or Management companies for such insurance companies.

It describes its mission as " to promote and to preserve the heritage and culture of Norway, to celebrate our relationship with other Nordic Countries, and provide quality insurance and financial products " to its members.

This merger followed shortly after Telia's failed merger with Norwegian telecommunications company Telenor, now its chief competitor in the Nordic countries.

Financial Publishing also provides local language services through Nordic Region Pensions & Investment News ( nrpn ), Nederlands Pensioen & Beleggingsnieuws ( npn ), Deutsche Pensions & Investmentnachrichten ( dpn ), Schweizer Pensions & Investmentnachrichten ( spn ), The group also publishes MandateWire, a financial information company that provides sales and market intelligence for US and European investment professionals.

Statoil is the largest petroleum company in the Nordic countries and Norway's largest company, employing over 25, 000 people.

* Lindorff-a credit management company in the Nordic region with a growing European presence.

Atea (), previously Ementor, is a Nordic IT infrastructure solutions and services company.

The company is replaced by Flybe Nordic since 2011.

The company will be renamed Flybe Nordic.

Since 2007, the company is fully owned by Bonnier through Nordic Broadcasting Oy.

The deal was approved in December 2006, making the TV4 Group AB almost entirely owned by Nordic Broadcasting Oy, a company owned jointly by Bonnier and Proventus.

* On 3 January 2008, an email server crashed at TeliaSonera, a major Nordic telecom company and internet service provider.

Two years later, Nordic Empress and Viking Serenade entered service for the line, continuing a rapid growth trend within the company.

Most of its operations are based in Scandinavia, and the company is the largest retail company in the Nordic countries.

Schibsted owns the largest TV and film production company in the Nordic area, Metronome Film & Television and the distribution company Metronome.

The company produces and co-produces national and international feature films in Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which are distributed to cinemas around the Nordic countries, including Nordisk Film Cinemas in Denmark and Norway with approximately 16, 000 seats.

Its commercial production company, Locomotion, is behind many commercials for screening in cinemas and on television and also produce music videos both for the Nordic and the international market.

It is the largest publicly traded company in the Nordic countries by market capitalization.

Nordic Semiconductor () ( formerly Nordic VLSI ) is a fabless semiconductor company, developing and manufacturing integrated circuits.

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

Under the Nordic Language Convention, citizens of the Nordic countries speaking Danish have the opportunity to use their native language when interacting with official bodies in other Nordic countries without being liable for any interpretation or translation costs.

Indeed, Estonians consider themselves a Nordic people rather than Balts, based on their historical ties with Denmark and particularly Finland and Sweden.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

In 1952, Finland and the countries of the Nordic Council entered into a passport union, allowing their citizens to cross borders without passports and soon also to apply for jobs and claim social security benefits in the other countries.

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

Celtic giants also figure in Breton and Arthurian romances perhaps as a reflection of the Nordic and Slavic mythology that arrived on the boats, and from this source they spread into the heroic tales of Torquato Tasso, Ludovico Ariosto, and their follower Edmund Spenser.

The Nordic Bronze Age period in Denmark featured a culture which buried its dead, with their worldly goods, beneath burial mounds.

Kent released the compilation Box 1991 – 2008, featuring all their previous studio albums and previously unreleased material, in all Nordic countries on October 29, 2008.

In the period from the settlement of Iceland, in the 870s, until it became part of the realm of the Norwegian King, military defences of Iceland consisted of multiple chieftains ( Goðar ) and their free followers ( þingmenn, bændur or liðsmenn ) organised according to the standard Nordic military doctrine of the time in expeditionary armies such as the leiðangr.

It is unlikely that either Proto-Celtic or Proto-Germanic entered western Europe as late as the 7th century BC ; their formation was commonly associated with the Bronze Age Urnfield and Nordic Bronze Age cultures, respectively.

Human “ dog and pony show ” type events ( organized by advocates of eugenics ), where men and women appeared on stage in swimsuits in eugenic competitions ( only Nordic Aryans were allowed to enter ) to be evaluated for their physical and mental qualities as marriage partners were common throughout Europe and North America in the 1920s.

Approximately 20 million people in the Nordic countries have a Scandinavian language as their mother tongue, including a Swedish minority in Finland.

Due to the high altitude and length of their runs, Nordic skiing is very popular.

Many churches still ring their church bells and hold prayers in the evening before holidays ; for example the Nordic Lutheran churches.

For this reason, the ritual is not known by this name among Icelandic Nordic pagans, who nevertheless practice a similar ritual as part of their blot.

Around 2400 BC the people of the Corded Ware replaced their predecessors and expanded to Danubian and Nordic areas of western Germany.

The university has a policy that non-Swedish speaking applicants from the Nordic countries are required to participate in a Swedish language test, in order to prove their ability to successfully study in Swedish.

Lester B. Pearson College in Canada teaches certain subjects in French and Spanish while the UWC of the Adriatic in Italy and the Red Cross Nordic UWC in Norway require that all students study Italian and Norwegian respectively in order to facilitate their relationship with the local populations.

In their poems, especially the rich illustrations, actual Norse elements would be mixed with, for instance Nordic Bronze Age, Anglo-Saxon and Viking Era elements in order to create a modern mythology of the past.

Greenland's Inuit population has their own musical traditions, which have been melded with elements of Nordic music, such as the kalattuut style of Danish polka.

OMX also launched a pan-regional benchmark index, the OMX Nordic 40, on the same date, however the individual exchanges have also retained their own national benchmark indices.

* On top of these more practical goals, Nazi race ideology held that Danes were " fellow Nordic Aryans ," and could therefore to some extent be trusted to handle their own domestic affairs.

In the Nordic countries, with their sauna culture, nude swimming in rivers or lakes was a very popular tradition.