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3 days ago · History of the Scandinavians and Successful Scandinavians in the United States. Minneapolis: O. N. Nelson & Co. Norlie, Olaf M. (1925). History of the Norwegian People in America. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House. Olson, Gary D. (2011). "Norwegian Immigrants in Early Sioux Falls: A Demographic Profile". Norwegian-American Studies. 36: pp ...
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2 days ago · Introducing Scandinavia: The Land of the Vikings. When we generally hear about or think of Scandinavia, we instinctively think of Nordic mythology and the rich history of the Vikings. However, it might surprise you that there’s a debate revolving around the differences that distinguish the Scandinavian and Nordic regions and the similarities ...
1 day ago · Viking expansion was the historical movement which led Norse explorers, traders and warriors, the latter known in modern scholarship as Vikings, to sail most of the North Atlantic, reaching south as far as North Africa and east as far as Russia, and through the Mediterranean as far as Constantinople and the Middle East, acting as looters, traders, colonists and mercenaries.
2 days ago · The Slavs or Slavic people are a group of peoples who speak Slavic languages.Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia; they predominantly inhabit Central Europe, Eastern Europe, and Southeastern Europe, though there is a large Slavic minority scattered across the Baltic states, Northern Asia, and Central Asia, and a substantial Slavic diaspora in the ...
3 days ago · Noresund, Norway. Europe, second smallest of the world’s continents, composed of the westward-projecting peninsulas of Eurasia (the great landmass that it shares with Asia) and occupying nearly one-fifteenth of the world’s total land area. It is bordered on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the west by the Atlantic Ocean, and on the south ...
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5 days ago · One such trip is this 12-night itinerary from Celebrity Cruises, which includes a visit to both Visby and Tallinn. Other highlights include a visit to Stockholm and Copenhagen, including an ...
4 days ago · Slavery and Thralldom: The Unfree in Viking Scandinavia Like most medieval peoples, the Vikings had a rigidly stratified caste system. At the bottom of the social order existed those who were unfree: these were termed thralls. This article takes a brief look at the Viking practices surrounding slaveowning and the unfree.
