* The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group.

Randomized trial of cholesterol lowering in 4444 patients with coronary heart disease: the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study ( 4S ).

* The Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study Group.

Design and baseline results of the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study of patients with stable angina and / or previous myocardial infarction.

: Follow-up study of patients randomized in the Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study ( 4S ) of cholesterol lowering.

* Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study, a multicenter clinical trial that was performed in 1990s in Scandinavia

* Scandinavian Simvastatin Survival Study

Haugen served as president of the Linguistic Society of America, the American Dialect Society, and the Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study.

* Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study

In addition to other member churches, the churches of the Anglican Communion are in full communion with the Old Catholic churches of the Union of Utrecht and the Scandinavian Lutheran churches of the Porvoo Communion in Europe, the India-based Mar Thoma and Malabar Independent Syrian churches and the Philippine Independent Church, also known as the Aglipayan Church.

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.

Scholars generally agree that many of the personalities of Beowulf also appear in Scandinavian sources ( specific works designated in the following section ).

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

Cooperation with the other Scandinavian countries also is important to Finland, and it has been a member of the Nordic Council since 1955.

In worldwide comparison, Testi ( 2010 ) notes that the United States is not unique in adoring its banner, for in Scandinavian countries their flags are also " beloved, domesticated, commercialized and sacralized objects ".

The word friend itself has cognates in the other Germanic languages ; but the Scandinavian ones ( like Swedish frände, Danish frænde ) predominatly mean " relative " ( but may also mean soulmate ).

Examples of goddesses attested in Norse mythology include Frigg ( wife of Odin, and the Anglo-Saxon version of whom is namesake of the modern English weekday Friday ), Skaði ( one time wife of Njörðr ), Njerda ( Scandinavian name of Nerthus ), that also was married to Njörðr during Bronze Age, Freyja ( wife of Óðr ), Sif ( wife of Thor ), Gerðr ( wife of Freyr ), and personifications such as Jörð ( earth ), Sól ( the sun ), and Nótt ( night ).

Many stores also have a Swedish Food Market that until the fall of 2011 sold Swedish-made, Swedish-style groceries, such as Swedish meatballs, packages of gravy and various Scandinavian biscuits and crackers, as well as salmon and salmon roe.

He also described his impressions of Italian and Scandinavian travel, interspersing his more general observations with linguistic details, as is the case in all his works.

Germany accounts for the largest-single grouping of banks, with Scandinavian, Japanese, and major U. S. banks also heavily represented.

Njörðr is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources, the Prose Edda, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson, in euhemerized form as a beloved mythological early king of Sweden in Heimskringla, also written by Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century, as one of three gods invoked in the 14th century Hauksbók ring oath, and in numerous Scandinavian place names.

The two main conjugations of verbs in present and past tense were also present and like all other North Germanic languages, it used a suffix instead of a prepositioned article to indicate definiteness as in modern Scandinavian: man ( n ) (" man "); mannen (" the man ").

Saint Olga (, also called Olga Prekrasna ( Ольга Прекрасна ), or Olga the Beauty, hypothetically Old Norse: Helga ; in some Scandinavian sources she was called by other names.

A similar technique was also employed by Scandinavian Medieval swordsmiths.

For example, the word ' halberd ' is also used to translate the Chinese ji and also a range of medieval Scandinavian weapons as described in sagas, such as the atgeir.

* Scandinavian parliamentary bodies are also called Reichstag when referred to in the German Language.

Sometimes the term Scandinavia is also taken to include Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and Finland, on account of their historical association with the Scandinavian countries.

The derived term " Scandinavian " also refers to the North Germanic peoples who speak Scandinavian languages, considered to be a dialect continuum derived from Old Norse.

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

Ohlin was also a leading figure within the school of doctrine with the same name, the so-called Stockholm school ; a group of leading Scandinavian economists influenced by Knut Wicksell, most of them active in Stockholm, either at the Stockholm School of Economics or the Stockholm University College.

Scandinavian Airlines has daily scheduled services to Tromsø and Oslo ; there are also irregular charter services to Russia.

Dishes akin to Swedish husmanskost and food traditions are found also in other Scandinavian countries ; details may vary.

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.

The subsequent Scandinavian settlement was on the River Poddle, a tributary of the Liffey in an area now known as Wood Quay.

In Dutch, Easter is known as Pasen and in the Scandinavian languages Easter is known as påske ( Danish and Norwegian ), påsk ( Swedish ), páskar ( Icelandic ) and páskir ( Faeroese ).

Graffiti, known as Tacherons, were frequently scratched on Romanesque Scandinavian church walls.

* Heiðabýr is derived from old Scandinavian sources and is the oldest known name.

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.

Near the end of Charlemagne's reign ( and throughout the reigns of his sons and grandsons ), a string of Norse raids began, culminating in a gradual Scandinavian conquest and settlement of the region now known as Normandy.

The period from the earliest recorded raids in the 790s until the Norman conquest of England in 1066 is commonly known as the Viking Age of Scandinavian history.

The names of Scandinavian kings are known only for the later part of the Viking Age.

These chapels are known as the " Chapels of the Tongues ", and they are devoted to St. Ansgar, patron of Denmark, who is venerated as an apostle to the Scandinavian countries ; St. Boniface, apostle of the Germans ; St. Columba, patron of Ireland and Scotland ; St. Savior ( Holy Savior ), devoted to immigrants from the east, especially Africa and Asia ; St. Martin of Tours, patron of the French ; St. Ambrose, patron of Italy ; and St. James, patron of Spain.

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

FreeCell's origins may date back even further to 1945 and a Scandinavian game called Napoleon in St. Helena ( not the game Napoleon at St. Helena, also known as Forty Thieves ).

Since this * z changed to * r in the Scandinavian languages and in West Germanic ( German, Dutch, English, Frisian ), Verner's Law resulted in alternation of * s and * r in some inflectional paradigms, known as grammatischer Wechsel.

Initially dubbed the " New Yardbirds " for the Scandinavian dates, the band soon became known as Led Zeppelin.

The first Scandinavian who deliberately sailed to Garðarshólmi ( Iceland ) was Flóki Vilgerðarson, also known as Hrafna-Flóki ( Raven-Flóki ).

It is still a popular game in parts of the world, especially in Finland where a specific variant of five-card stud called Sökö ( also known as Canadian stud or Scandinavian stud ) is played.

The Askafroa ( Swedish " wife of the ash tree "), also known as the Danish Askefrue and German Eschenfrau, is a type of legendary creature in Scandinavian and German folklore, similar to the Greek Hamadryads.

The contiguous urban area, or locality of Rättvik lies on Lake Siljan, and had 4, 588 inhabitants in 2005 ;< ref name = scb > it is widely known for its old tradition of folkmusic and the beauty of the surroundings close to Lake Siljan ; it is included on many tours of Sweden as an example of a traditional Swedish and Scandinavian way of living.

In the Early Middle Ages, there was an important Scandinavian and Wendish settlement near the present town, now known as Altes Lager Menzlin.

The Slavs and the Byzantines also called them Varangians ( ON: Væringjar, meaning sworn men or from Slavic варяги supposedly deriving from the root " вар "—" profit " as coming from North they would profit by trading goods and not producing them, which had a negative connotation in Slavic culture of that time ), and the Scandinavian bodyguards of the Byzantine emperors were known as the Varangian Guard.

In Scandinavian folklore, Mylings are the phantasmal incarnations of the souls of unbaptized children that had been forced to roam the earth until they could persuade someone ( or otherwise cause enough of a ruckus to make their wishes known ) to bury them properly.

It also appears in Scandinavian folklore, where it is known by the name Bäckahästen, the brook horse.