Scandinavians

Scandinavians will always find a way to have a good time, which includes good food, good music and something alcoholic.

The Scandinavians are so far ahead of us, lads.

The Scandinavians take smoked fish to a whole new level.

Scandinavians have been dining out in Canada-style winter for decades.

Finns drank no more than other Scandinavians; in fact, they formed their own temperance movements here.

The yacht she'll be crossing the Atlantic with is a far cry from the Viking ships that first brought Scandinavians to America.

Where many shows about ancient Scandinavians fall short is in accurately capturing Danish culture.

Irish immigrants left for broadly similar reasons to the Swedes and other Scandinavians.

Rather than turn to fad diets, Scandinavians fill their plates with perfectly balanced proportions of vegetables, protein and carbohydrates in a diet rich in berries, vegetables, oily fish and fibre- rich rye bread.

Scandinavians are the happiest, longest-lived, and most prosperous people in the world because they do not punish one another constantly — but lift one another up.

According to this theory, the word simply described persons from this area, and it is only in the last few centuries that it has taken on the broader sense of early medieval Scandinavians in general.

After four years, the Scandinavians therefore split up, some to settle in Northumbria and East Anglia, the remainder to try their luck again on the Continent.

An annual tax called heregeld (army payment) was collected through the same system Æthelred had instituted in 1012 to reward Scandinavians in his service.

Apart from British, there were Irish, North Germans, Scandinavians, Italian and many Chinese.

Athelred and the return of the Scandinavians (978–1016) The reign of King Æthelred the Unready witnessed the resumption of Viking raids on England, putting the country and its leadership under strains as severe as they were long sustained.

Due to prolonged contact and import of items foreign to Sami culture from neighboring Scandinavians, there are a number of Germanic loanwords in Sami, particularly for "urban" objects.

Forte, p. 216 Ireland Longphort phase Norwegian Vikings and other Scandinavians conducted extensive raids in Ireland.

Harck, p. 17 Scandinavians had contacts to the Slavs since their very immigration, these first contacts were soon followed by both the construction of Scandinavian emporia and Slavic burghs in their vicinity.

In communist Russia, the ideology of Slavic racial purity led to the complete denial that Scandinavians had played a part in the emergence of the principalities of the Rus', which were supposed to have been founded by Slavs.

In order to protect themselves and their livestock against malevolent elves, Scandinavians could use a so-called Elf cross (Alfkors, Älvkors or Ellakors), which was carved into buildings or other objects.