* Centre Counter Defence, also known as the Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening

* Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening

* Scandinavian Defense, etc.

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In general, Finland kept its relations towards western military powers officially distant ( including the proposed Scandinavian Defense Union ) and NATO in particular.

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

The idea is to meet 2. b3 with 2 ... e5, another deferred From Gambit, and 2. e4 with 2 ... d5, when 3. exd5 Qxd5 would result in a Scandinavian Defense where White's pawn is oddly placed on f4.

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Other moves, including 2 ... d6, 2 ... e6, 2 ... Nf6, 2 ... d5, and 2 ... g6 are playable but tend to lead to inferior variations of the Pirc Defense, French Defence, Alekhine's Defence, Scandinavian Defense, or Robatsch Defense, respectively.

* Veselin Topalov vs Liviu Dieter Nisipeanu, Mtel Masters 2007, Scandinavian Defense: Gubinsky-Melts Defense ( B01 ), 0-1

* 1. e4 d5 2. d4 is also a surprising transposition against the Scandinavian Defense.

It is not a terrible move, however, and is likely to transpose to a Caro-Kann Defence or Slav Defense ( with colors reversed ), two solid defenses for Black, but with an extra tempo ; to the Exchange Variation of the Queen's Gambit Declined, a fully respectable opening often played by grandmasters, after 1. c3 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. cxd4 d5 ; to a solid but passive type of Queen's Pawn Game after 1. c3 Nf6 2. d4 or 1. c3 d5 2. d4 ; or to a reversed Scandinavian Defense after 1. c3 e5 2. d4 exd4 3. Qxd4 !?

These have never gone out of style in Scandinavian homes and now seem to be reappearing here and there in shops which specialize in handicrafts.

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.

Today, his descendants can be found in many places outside of Afghanistan, such as in America, France, Germany, and even in Scandinavian countries such as Denmark and carry the surname of Ziyaee, which is itself a derivative of the King's title.

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.

There are five main categories in which potential sources and / or analogues are included: Scandinavian parallels, classical sources, Irish sources and analogues, ecclesiastical sources, and echoes in other Old English texts.

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 ).

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

Another example is the word gift, which in English and Dutch means a " present " but in German and the Scandinavian languages means " poison " ( the Swedish word for " gift " being gåva, related to the verb " to give ").

Another suggested influence is the six-string Scandinavian lut ( lute ), which gained in popularity in areas of Viking incursions across medieval Europe.

Scandinavian cartographers from the early 15th century attempted to localise or identify Ginnungagap as a real geographic location from which the creation myth derived.

Another Scandinavian people, the Rus ' people, would go on to found Kievan Rus ', an early state which was a precursor for the modern country of Russia.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the noun derives from a verb to kilt, originally meaning " to gird up ; to tuck up ( the skirts ) round the body ", which is apparently of Scandinavian origin.

Mor may derive from an Indo-European root connoting terror or monstrousness, cognate with the Old English maere ( which survives in the modern English word " nightmare ") and the Scandinavian mara and the Old Russian " mara " (" nightmare "); while rígan translates as ' queen '.

There is, however, a Scandinavian breed of the common elk in which the antlers are simpler and recall those of the East Siberian animals.

The terrain of Scandinavia favored heavy infantry, and while the nobles fought mounted in the continental fashion, the Scandinavian peasants formed a well-armed and well-armoured infantry, of which approximately 30 % to 50 % would be archers or crossbowmen.

Though it is difficult to be certain of much of the aspects of Norn grammar, documents indicate that it may have featured subjectless clauses, which were common in the West Scandinavian languages.

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.

The Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish languages form a dialect continuum and are known as the Scandinavian languages — all of which are considered mutually intelligible with each other.

The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which today covers Norway, Sweden, and most of northern Finland.

Much of the population of the Scandinavian Peninsula is naturally concentrated in its southern part, which is also its agricultural region.

The exact meaning of this old term, and the reasons it came into common usage, are unknown ; in Scandinavian languages, lapp means " a patch of cloth for mending ", which may be a description of the clothing, called a gakti, that the Sámi wear.

A Scandinavian origin has been proposed ( compare, for example, Norwegian slengenamn, which means " nickname "), but is discounted by the Oxford English Dictionary based on " date and early associations ".

In old Scandinavian sagas, Saaremaa is called Eysysla and in the Icelandic Sagas Eysýsla, which means exactly the same as the name of the island in Estonian: " the district ( land ) of island ".