September 2011
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Meänkieli; Sweden-Finnish?
When the international boarder between Finland and Sweden was drawn the Finnish-speaking population extended far over the Swedish side. This part of the Finnish-speaking community became isolated. As a result, the dialect of Finnish spoken in this area developed independently of standard Finnish. The result was Meänkieli, an official dialect of Finnish and recognized minority language in Sweden.
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karinaenolan asked: How would you define Norse legends? The time of Loki and Thor - I'm trying to conceptualize it, but I'm so heavily influenced by pop culture I think I'm missing the point. I'm trying to come up with something like, "Greek mythology is about gods doing human things to a far larger magnitude - getting drunk, getting laid, causing chaos - and excuses or even sanctions the...
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The Nordic Stone Age
People began to move and settle into Denmark, Sweden and Norway at the end of the last ice age as the ice receded, following reindeer herds.
The Nordic Stone Age lasts from about the 7th-4th millenium BCE. The people at this time were mostly agriculturalists, but some time during the 3rd millennium BCE they were overrun by the Battle-Axe culture, which helped shape the languages and culture of...
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Over one third of Iceland is volcanically active.
The heat generated by this volcanism is one of the reasons Iceland does not live up to its namesake. Other areas at this northern latitude are significantly cooler.
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