Scandinavia is a region in northern Europe composed of the countries Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. Finland and Iceland are often included as part of the region as well, and immigration from these five countries will be discussed in this chapter. The...

Scandinavian sociology emerged in its modern form as an academic discipline just after World War II, although its roots go back considerably further. In Helsinki, the sociologist, ethnologist, and philosopher Edvard A Westermarck (1862– 1939)...

Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe which includes the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden.[1][2] The other Nordic countries, Denmark, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands, are also...

Well over a century ago, the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow visited Scandinavia and fell in love with the magic of its white nights: "O how beautiful is the summer night which is not night, but a sunless yet unclouded day, descending upon...

The Cinema of Scandinavia Tytti Soila (ed.) (2005) Review by Ann-Kristin Wallengren London: Wallflower Press, 274 pp., ISBN 1-904764-22-3 (pbk), $24.50, ISBN 1-904764-23-1 (hbk), $69.50 THE SERIES '24 Frames' from Wallflower Press has as its ambition to publish eighteen volumes presenting studies of...

Dave Eggers in the flesh? The literary pied piper appears at the 92nd Street Y with 30-year-old Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Sudanese refugee Valentino Achak Deng (phew!)—the subject of Mr. Eggers’ fictional biography, What Is the What, currently sitting on our nightstand propping...

One of the biggest Viking treasures ever found has been discovered on an English farm by a father-son team of treasure hunters, the British Museum announced Thursday.The trove of coins and jewelry was buried more than 1,000 years ago _ a collection of items from...