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Scandinavia is a group of countries in northern Europe. Scandinavia has Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Some people also think Finland is part of Scandinavia and that Iceland and the Faroe Islands should count. [1] Most of the time, "Scandinavia" is used to mean places where people speak Scandinavian languages, also called North Germanic languages ...
v. t. e. The Scandinavian Peninsula [1] is located in Northern Europe, and roughly comprises the mainlands of Sweden, Norway and the northwestern area of Finland . The name of the peninsula is derived from the term Scandinavia, the cultural region of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. That cultural name is in turn derived from the name of Scania, the ...
The Sámi ( / ˈsɑːmi / SAH-mee; also spelled Sami or Saami) are the traditionally Sámi -speaking Indigenous peoples inhabiting the region of Sápmi, which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Kola Peninsula in Russia. The region of Sápmi was formerly known as Lapland, and the Sámi have historically ...
Freikörperkultur ( FKK) is a social and health culture that originated in the German Empire; its beginnings were historically part of the Lebensreform social movement in the late 19th century. [1] [2] [3] Freikörperkultur, which translates as free body culture, includes both the health aspects of being naked in light, air and sun and an ...
Anglo-Scandinavian. Hogbacks in St Mary's Church, Gosforth, Cumbria. Anglo-Scandinavian is an academic term referring to the hybridisation between Norse and Anglo-Saxon cultures in Britain during the early medieval period. It remains a term and concept often used by historians and archaeologists, [1] and in linguistic spheres.
Old Norse religion, also known as Norse paganism, is a branch of Germanic religion which developed during the Proto-Norse period, when the North Germanic peoples separated into a distinct branch of the Germanic peoples. It was replaced by Christianity and forgotten during the Christianisation of Scandinavia.
Mainstream view: The Invitation of the Varangians by Viktor Vasnetsov: Rurik and his brothers Sineus and Truvor arrive to the lands of Ilmen Slavs. A caricature on disagreement between Nikolay Kostomarov and Mikhail Pogodin on issue of whom were Varangians (Litvins or Normans) Whereas the term "Normans" in English usually refers to the Scandinavian-descended ruling dynasty of Normandy in ...
