Scandinavia category: 802 books
The Ideological Cold War
The Politics of Neutrality in Austria and Finland
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2014
This book opens new perspectives into the Cold War ideological confrontations. Using Austria and Finland as an example, it shows how the Cold War battles for the hearts and minds of the people also influenced policies in countries that wished to stay outside the conflict.
Following the model...
by Erik Christian Haugaard
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
An American Library Association Notable Book and his first book for children, Erik Christian Haugaard’s Hakon of Rogen’s Saga is a remarkable novel that perfectly catches the mood of a harsh but heroic people. Set at the end of the Viking period, it tells of a young boy, Hakon, from the island of...
by Amy Copeland
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
(approx. 130 pages)
Our illustrated travel guide features of the best information from an experienced traveler as well as other local resources. It's just what you need to help you to plan your trip in advance and to accompany you on-the-ground.
Finding Internet...
Norwegian Newspapers in America
Connecting Norway and the New Land
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
In the nineteenth century, the United States, "the land of newspapers," was also fast becoming the land of immigrants, with increasing numbers of Norwegians arriving amid the European influx. Already Skandinaven, published out of Chicago, kept newcomers and their Old World friends and family...
Norwegians and Swedes in the United States
Friends and Neighbors
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2011
To early American immigrants, nineteenth-century newcomers from the Scandinavian peninsula likely seemed all of a type. to immigrants hailing from Norway and Sweden, however, differences in language, culture, and religion sorted them into distinct groupings: not Scandinavian, but Norwegian or Swedish—and...
by Emily Sutton
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2015
Located between the Oslo fjord and the moose-inhabited forests, Norway’s capital and largest city is a cosmopolitan melting pot. With glass-covered skyscrapers, trendy bars and royal parks, Oslo is one of the wealthiest cities in Europe and is devoted to constant development and growth. TABLE...
Norwegian American Women
Migration, Communities, and Identities
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2011
The history of Norwegian settlement in the United States has often been told through the eyes of prominent men, while the women are imagined in the form of O. E. Rølvaag's fictionalized heroine Beret Holm, who made the best of life on the frontier but whose gaze seemed ever fixed on her long-lost...
The Poetic Edda
Parallel Old Norse / English Edition
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2017
The Poetic Edda is the single greatest legacy of the Viking people. An incomparable masterpiece of human literature. You will find here all the mythological and legendary poems from this enigmatic collection in both the original Old Norse language and in clear English translation. Each stanza is accompanied...
by Stig Dagerman
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 28, 2011
In the summer of 1946, while secluded in August Strindberg’s small cabin in the Stockholm archipelago, Stig Dagerman wrote Island of the Doomed. This novel was unlike any other yet seen in Sweden and would establish him as the country’s brightest literary star. To this day it is a singular work of...
Remedies and Rituals
Folk Medicine in Norway and the New Land
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2009
To cure a fever that begins with chills, write the following on a piece of bread and give it to the patient for eight days, one piece each day, and on the ninth day, burn the last piece: Colameris x, Colameri x, Colamer x, Colame x, Colam x, Cola x, Col x, Co x, and C x.
To prevent the huldrefolk...
Containing Coexistence
America, Russia, and the "Finnish Solution," 1945-1956
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Containing Coexistence: America, Russia, and the “Finnish Solution,” 1945–1956, is the first full-scale study of Finland’s role in Soviet-American relations during the onset of the cold war. Cold war Finland was an enigma. Defeated by the Soviet Union in World War II, the country appeared...
by Anne-Grete Belmadani
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Copenhagen Hidden Gems Revealed: Copenhagen Latin Quarter The cafes, the restaurants, the shopping, the coffee, the wine, the cocktails – and the Danish pastry welcome to the first ebook in the series Copenhagen Hidden Gems Revealed. My intention with this ebook is to make your Copenhagen stay even...
Lapps and Labyrinths
Saami Prehistory, Colonization, and Cultural Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Professor Noel D. Broadbent is one of Sweden's foremost experts on north Swedish archaeology and literally wrote the book on the prehistory of the Skellefteå region on the North Bothnian coast. This knowledge is now brought to bear on the issue of Saami origins. The focus is on the successful adaptive...
Norwegians on the Prairie
Ethnicity and the Development of the Country Town
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Against the broad backdrop of the expanding western frontier, noted Norwegian American scholar Odd S. Lovoll explores the country town through the lens of ethnicity in this pioneering study. Benson, Madison, and Starbuck, all located on the western Minnesota prairie, were settled primarily by Norwegians...