The arctic fox has a circumpolar range, meaning that it is found throughout the entire Arctic, including the outer edges of Greenland, Russia, Canada, Alaska, and Svalbard, as well as in Subarctic and alpine areas, such as Iceland and mainland alpine Scandinavia.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

The fourth book, Descriptio insularum Aquilonis, completed approximately in 1075, is about the geography, people and customs of Scandinavia, as well as updates of the progress of Christian missionaries there.

It is also the first known European record ( in chapter 38 ) that mentions Vinland ( Winland ) island ( insula ), a land centuries later possibly identified as Newfoundland, Canada, North America, as well as dog-headed people in Scandinavia.

Celsius conducted many geographical measurements for the Swedish General map, and was one of earliest to note that much of Scandinavia is slowly rising above sea level, a continuous process which has been occurring since the melting of the ice from the latest ice age.

An example of this effect is the low pH of rain which falls in Scandinavia.

A blue law is a type of law, typically found in the United States, Scandinavia and, formerly, in Canada, designed to enforce religious standards, particularly the observance of Sunday as a day of worship or rest, and a restriction on Sunday shopping.

Beowulf (; in Old English or ) is the conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines, set in Scandinavia, commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature.

Beowulf was written in England, but is set in Scandinavia.

Bandy is sometimes referred to as " winter football " or " football of the winter " in Scandinavia.

In the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Austria, Germany, Scandinavia, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Poland and Catalonia, 26 December is celebrated as the Second Christmas Day.

Copenhagen Airport is the largest airport in Scandinavia, handling approximately 23m passengers per year ( 2011 ).

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.

Like the name of the group of gods to which Freyja belongs, the Vanir, the name Freyja is not attested outside of Scandinavia, as opposed to the name of the goddess Frigg, who is attested as a goddess common among all Germanic peoples, and whose name is reconstructed as Proto-Germanic * Frijjō.

The most important source is Jordanes ' 6th-century, semi-fictional Getica which describes a migration from southern Scandza ( Scandinavia ), to Gothiscandza, believed to be the lower Vistula region in modern Pomerania, and from there to the coast of the Black Sea.

However, Heather and other scholars are very skeptical of this hypothesis, claiming that there is no archaeological evidence for a substantial emigration from Scandinavia.

Hamburg is located on the southern point of the Jutland Peninsula, directly between Continental Europe to its south and Scandinavia to its north.

Hamlet-like legends are so widely found ( for example in Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Byzantium, and Arabia ) that the core " hero-as-fool " theme is possibly Indo-European in origin.

In Scandinavia, insanity is not a defense ; instead, it is the responsibility of the court system as such to consider whether the accused may have been psychotic or suffering from other severe mental defects when perpetrating the criminal act.

It is also available in the Scandinavia / British shop near to Berlaymont in Brussels.

Furthermore, in every EU country outside Scandinavia ( except Belgium ), trade union membership is either static or continues to decline .”

In parts of the United States, liqueurs may also be called cordials or schnapps, while in large parts of the British Commonwealth, cordial means a concentrated non-alcoholic fruit syrup that is diluted to taste and consumed as a non-carbonated soft drink, and in Germany and Scandinavia, schnapps means a form of brandy or aquavit.

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.

In Canada, Scandinavia and Finland, the boreal forest is usually divided into three subzones: The high boreal ( north boreal ) or taiga zone ; the middle boreal ( closed forest ); and the southern boreal, a closed canopy boreal forest with some scattered temperate deciduous trees among the conifers, such as maple, elm and oak.

The first mention of a Uralic people is in Tacitus's Germania, mentioning the Fenni ( usually interpreted as referring to the Sami ) and two other possibly Uralic tribes living in the farthest reaches of Scandinavia.

" stone boat "), while sleigh typically refers to a moderate-to large-sized, usually open-topped vehicle equipped with one or more passenger seats, essentially a cold-season alternative to a carriage or wagon, typically drawn by horses or ( at least in the Santa Claus legend or in reference to Scandinavia ) by reindeer.

In Scandinavia, people generally have a relaxed attitude towards nudity, and genitals and nipples are usually not considered indecent or obscene.

General term used to refer to a series of late Neolithic communities of the 3rd millennium BC living in Scandinavia, northern Germany, and the Low Countries that share the practice of single burial under barrows, the deceased usually being accompanied by a battle-axe, amber beads, and pottery vessels.

The Viking expeditions to England were usually led by the Danish kings, but they were composed of warriors from all over Scandinavia, and they eventually brought home more than 100 tonnes of silver.

In Scandinavia, menhirs are called bautasteiner or bautastenar and continued to be erected during the Pre-Roman Iron Age and later, usually over the ashes of the dead.

In Eurasia, again the Northern Hawk-Owl ’ s range is throughout the boreal forest, usually found in northern Scandinavia, northern Russia to central Russia and northern Mongolia.

Such numerals are known in Scandinavia, but nearly always from relatively recent times, not from verified medieval runic monuments, on which numbers were usually spelled out as words.

In a similar way the phrase is in Scandinavia usually accompanied by filiokus, a corruption of the term filioque, from the Nicene Creed, meaning " and from the Son ".

In the sea battles of medieval Scandinavia, the side with the largest and highest ships would usually have an advantage, since this meant the crew could attack the enemy from above with projectiles and other weapons.

The notation has been used in Scandinavia, usually in conjunction to runes.

The greater farms in Scandinavia usually had a small bell-tower resting on the top of the barn.

The towers are usually steel lattices or trusses ( wooden structures are used in Canada, Germany, and Scandinavia in some cases ) and the insulators are either glass or porcelain discs or composite insulators using silicone rubber or EPDM rubber material assembled in strings or long rods whose lengths are dependent on the line voltage and environmental conditions.

In Scandinavia and the Netherlands, leverpostej is a popular baked pâté similar to the French pâté en terrine, usually made of lard and pork liver.

Houses and buildings in Scandinavia are usually painted white or yellow.

It is often found with birch in Scandinavia, while collections from southern Europe are usually from forests of oak, chestnut and pine.

A picture stone, image stone or figure stone is an ornate slab of stone, usually limestone, which was raised in Germanic Iron Age or Viking Age Scandinavia, and in the greatest number on Gotland.

The folding carpenters ' rulers used in Scandinavia are usually equipped with double measurements, metrical and imperial on both sides, also functioning as a handy conversion table, accounting for its Scandinavian term: Tommestokk ( thumb ( inch ) stick ).

In Scandinavia ( as distinct from the German custom ), when an even number of helmets is displayed, they are usually turned, with their crests, to face outward ; when an odd number, the center helmet is turned affronté and the rest turned outward ( whereas in Germany the helmets are turned inward to face the center of the escutcheon ).

They are also common in Scandinavia, where they are usually made from cod or haddock.

Allmänna Idrottsklubben ( usually referred to as just AIK or Gnaget ), currently located in Solna, north of Stockholm, is one of the largest and one of the oldest sports clubs in Scandinavia.

Canned sprats ( usually smoked ) are available in many north European countries, including the Baltic states, Scandinavia, Ireland, Germany, Poland and Russia.