During that period of time, one-third of the total population of Scandinavia immigrated to the United States. In 2000 the number of people of Norwegian descent in the United States was greater than the total population of Norway.
The people of Sweden, Norway, and Denmark descended from the Nordic peoples who have lived in the region for at least ten thousand years. Each of these three countries has its own language, but the languages of the Danes and the Norwegians are similar enough that they can communicate with each other while speaking in their own languages. The ancestors of the Finns arrived in their country around the year 1 C.E. from the Ural Mountain region in Russia. They speak a language that is very different from the Scandinavian languages. In fact, their language is similar only to that of Estonia. Iceland was settled by the Norwegians in about 900 C.E. The official language of Iceland is Icelandic, which stems from the language of the Vikings who settled the island in the ninth century.
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