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2 unusual facts about Scandinavian


Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant

Al Johnson's Swedish Restaurant is a family owned, casual dining restaurant; it is known for its authentic Swedish cuisine and Scandinavian experience, but it is more commonly known as the place with goats on the roof.

Baptist General Conference

From its beginning among Scandinavian immigrants, the BGC has grown to a nationwide association of autonomous churches with at least 17 ethnic groups and missions in 19 nations.


Andy Anderson

H. S. "Andy" Anderson (1893–1960), woodcarver known for the Scandinavian flat-plane carving style

Anne Born

She began writing poetry and, at the same time, translated Scandinavian writers into English, such as Hans Christian Andersen, Karen Blixen, Jens Christian Grøndahl, Per Petterson, Michael Larsen, Janne Teller, Stig Holmas, Carsten Jensen, Sissel Lie, Henrik Stangerup, and Knud Hjortø.

April Records

April Records is a Danish record label (based in Copenhagen, Denmark) specialized on Scandinavian electronica music: from ambient to techno and trip hop.

Bad Afro

The name, logo and the original slogan “Pushing Scandinavian Rock to the Man!” was inspired by blaxsploitation movies from the early 70’s like Superfly, Foxy Brown and Dolemite.

Belle Kogan

In July 1932, she opened her own office at 185 Madison Avenue in New York City with a retainer from Quaker and started designing houseware products for Libbey Glass, Federal Glass, US Glass, Towle Mfg. Co., Maryland Plastics, and Bakelite Corp. Five years later, she traveled throughout Europe to study trends in Scandinavian design and by 1939 found herself at the forefront of modern design in the United States.

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill'

Buddleja davidii 'Tovelill' is a little-known cultivar of Scandinavian origin and named for the Norwegian beauty queen Tove Lill Løyte.

Carl Fredrik Meinander

Carl Fredrik (C. F.) Valdemar Meinander (October 6, 1916 Helsinki – August 23, 2004 Helsinki) was a Finnish archaeologist and professor of Finnish and Scandinavian archaeology at University of Helsinki in Finland.

Cotoneaster scandinavicus

Cotoneaster scandinavicus (Scandinavian Cotoneaster) is a species of Cotoneaster native to Scandinavia, in Norway, Sweden and Finland south of the Arctic Circle, the Danish island of Bornholm, and also the Baltic States of Estonia and Latvia.

Eadgils

These sources also deal with his war against Onela, which he won with foreign assistance: in Beowulf he gained the throne of Sweden by defeating his uncle Onela with Geatish help, and in two Scandinavian sources (Skáldskaparmál and Skjöldunga saga), he is also helped to defeat Onela in the Battle on the Ice of Lake Vänern, but with Danish help.

El Centro de la Raza

Taco carts, trailers, trucks, and buses became common along Seattle's arterials, even in the traditionally Scandinavian Ballard neighborhood.

Ellen Key

Mathilda Malling's Pyrrhus-segrar (Pyrrhic Victories), published in 1886 under the pseudonym Stella Kleve, was very controversial among Scandinavian intellectuals.

Eugénie Söderberg

In 1940 Eugenie Söderberg came to the USA as a reporter for Scandinavian newspapers and in the following year she married the well-known art dealer and Plato scholar Hugo Perls.

Fogwatt

Also Fywatt (Old form Fi-wid) from Norse, Scandinavian word meaning 'A wood in which there might have been a church or a cell'

Gonzalo Soriano

In 1955 he made his first tour of the Far East and in December 1959 visited the Scandinavian countries, which included a concert given before the King of Sweden on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine to Dr. Severo Ochoa.

Henrietta Montalba

She mainly devoted herself to portrait or fancy busts; some executed in marble, like those of Doctor Mezger of Amsterdam (Grosvenor Gallery, 1886), and Dr. Schollander, the Scandinavian artist; others in bronze, like that of the Marquess of Lorne; but the greater part of her work was executed in terra cotta, as in the case of her bust of Robert Browning (Grosvenor Gallery, 1883).

Housecarl

That was New Year's Eve, a day on which it was customary for Scandinavian kings to reward their retainers with gifts.

Ithaqua

Anders Fager's "The wish of the broken man" describes how 18th-century Scandinavian Saami worship "Ittakka" and calls up on him to create blizards.

John Qualen

As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954).

Kirsten Munk

One of Kirsten's daughters, Countess Leonora Christina, distinguished herself by an internationally adventurous life, followed by imprisonment for decades in Denmark's royal dungeon, and by the posthumous publication of her memoirs, still well regarded both as Scandinavian prose and as early feminist literature.

Kurt Vieweg

In this role, Vieweg designed, within the framework of the existing Soviet policy on Germany, several agricultural programmes, including some for the whole of Germany, influenced by German and Scandinavian social democratic programmes, but also using ideas from the Reichsnährstand, the agricultural regulatory body from the Nazi period.

Languages of Denmark

Faroese is similar to Icelandic, and also the Old Norse language spoken in the Scandinavian area more than a millennium ago.

Mads Andersen

Andersen won the European Poker Tour (EPT) second season Scandinavian Open where he outlasted the field to take home DKr 2,548,040.

Mikkel Rønnow

Since 1992 Mikkel Rønnow has been Musical Director for more than 20 Danish musical productions, including Chess (Danish premiere), West Side Story, Les Misérables, My Fair Lady, Copacabana (Scandinavian premiere), Grease, Cabaret, Tell Me on a Sunday, The Sound of Music and Jesus Christ Superstar.

Mormonism in Norway

Knut Pedersen from Stavanger and Erik Hogan from Telemark were some of the many Norwegian members that migrated west to the Utah Territory after the death of Joseph Smith Jr. They were met in the mountains by a group heading east who had been called to open the Scandinavian Mission: Erastus Snow, the Swede John E. Forsgren, and the Dane Peter O. Hansen.

Mother Hulda

By the end of the High Middle Ages, Scandinavian paganism was almost completely marginalized and blended into rural folklore, in which the character of Mother Hulda eventually survived.

Nils

Nils is a Scandinavian given name, a chiefly Norwegian and Swedish variant of Niels, cognate to Nicholas and Neil.

Norbert Lossau

Lossau studied the Finnish language and Scandinavian studies at the Universities of Bonn and Göttingen, where he graduated in 1988 with a Master's degree.

Outer Silver Pit

There is an older theory that the Outer Silver Pit was part of the valley of the great ice-age river Urstrom, during some of the Ice Ages when the Scandinavian ice did not meet the British ice, leaving the North Sea bed with open drainage northwards.

Pål Johan Karlsen

At the end of 2013, he launched the Open Access journal Scandinavian Psychologist together with the Norwegian Society of Psychological Science.

Paul Olaf Bodding

He was a celebrated scientist, and he is still well known among the santals living in the states of Jharkand, Bihar and Assam as well as in Bangladesh and the Scandinavian countries.

Peking All-Stars

Guitarist Michael Schoenhals, later to leverage his collection of Chairman Mao buttons into a position as Scandinavian expert on China's Cultural Revolution.

Peter Tobin

She was staying at the presbytery of St Patrick's Church, where she worked as a cleaner to help finance her Scandinavian Studies course at University of Gdańsk.

Plymouth Gin Distillery

Since 2005 the brand and premises have been owned by the Scandinavian V&S Group, better known for making Absolut Vodka.

Rising Star Games

Rising Star Games is a video game publisher formed in 2004 as a joint business venture between Scandinavian distributor Bergsala and Japanese video game publisher and content developer Intergrow.

Sanpete County, Utah

Over the course of the 19th Century, many of the settlers came from Scandinavian countries, as documented in the Saga of the Sanpitch.

Sivert

Sivert is a Scandinavian male name, a variant of Sigvard and Siward.

Siward

Siward, Earl of Northumbria (d. 1055), Anglo-Scandinavian earl of Northumbria (also portrayed as a character in Shakespeare's Macbeth)

Somby

It occurs basically in the north-Norwegian communities of Kautokeino and Karasjok, but also in other northern-Scandinavian regions.

Stiftelsen

Foundation series, a famous science fiction series by Isaac Asimov known in Scandinavian languages as Stiftelseserien

Suzan Kahramaner

She participated in the Scandinavian Congress of Mathematicians, International Colloquium on the Theory of Functions, in Helsinki the very same year in August and had the opportunity to meet some of the famous Mathematicians like Ernst Hölder, Wilhelm Blaschke, Lars Valerian Ahlfors, Paul Montel, O. Lehto, M. Biernacki, Alexander Gelfond, A. Pfluger, W. Kaplan, Walter Hayman and Paul Erdős.

Tony Rickardsson

With 6 First positions at Wrocław (1st Event), Krško (3rd), Millennium Stadium (4th), Idrætsparken (5th) in København, Praha (6th) and Lonigo (9th); a second in the Swedish event at Eskilstuna (2nd); third in the Scandinavian held in Målilla (7th) and a lowly 9th in the Polish Grand Prix held at Bydgoszcz (8th Event).

Torquil

Scandinavian variants of the Torkel include: the Norwegian and Swedish Torkil, Thorkel; the Norwegian Torkjell; the Faroese Torkil; and the Danish Torkil, Torkild.

Troll Fell

The story is influenced by legends and folktales about trolls and nisses collected in Thomas Keightley’s ‘Fairy Mythology’, 1850, and William Craigie’s ‘Scandinavian Folklore’, 1896, as well as by Hans Christian Andersen’s story ‘The Elf Hill’, a satirical description of a troll wedding.

Wheels of Steel

"747 (Strangers in the Night)" is about a power cut that forced planes in New York to remain in ascent in 1965 with the power outage provoking a Scandinavian flight to detour to Kennedy airport in the dark.

William Losh

In addition to being an alkali manufacturer he worked as a colliery agent and as consul for Prussia, the Scandinavian countries and, later, for Turkey.

Yakov Grot

In his lifetime he gained fame for his translations of German and Scandinavian poetry, his work on the theory of Russian orthography, lexicography, and grammar, and his approach to literary editing and criticism, exemplified in a full edition of the works of Derzhavin (1864–1883).


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