Questions tagged [scandinavia]
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Where is this map of Scandinavia (Nicolaus Germanus, 1467)
Does anybody recognise this map?
Is there a better version online?
Update: the map was apparently printed in colour, and one version might be in Warsaw. Could also be available online, but have not ...
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Insect consumption in late middle-ages in the Northern Europe
Were insects consumed in the Northern Europe in the late Middle Ages by the rural population?
It seems natural to use any available source of food during a famine, but in order to get substantial ...
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Why were the Scandinavians not as expansive as other Europeans in global colonization?
By expansive, I mean in terms of land area.
On the Wikipedia pages of Norway's, Sweden's, and Denmark's colonies, it shows they had very few parcels of land around the globe, compared to the colonies ...
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When were weapons banned at the Thing assemblies in Norway?
First the attendants of the assemblies used the clashing of their swords and shields as an expression of their agreement, but later on weapons at the Thing assemblies were banned and the meaning of &...
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Is there any evidence of naval ramming in the 9th and 10th century North Sea?
In Bernard Cornwell's 'Sword of the Kings', his main character uses the tactic of ramming to sink an enemy ship before engaging in hand-to-hand combat with surviving ships which get leashed together. ...
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Is rye bread Turkish?
Scandinavian airline SAS released a controversial advertising video titled What is truly Scandinavian?
It claims that many things considered traditional in Scandinavian countries are actually ...
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What was the relationship between Angles, Saxons, and Jutes; and the Vikings? [closed]
I'm reading Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf and I cannot get my head around how Angles, Saxons, and Jutes relate to the Geats, Danes, and/or the Vikings and/or the Scandinavians generally.
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What is the origin of heraldic buffalo horns?
Büffelhörner or Buffalo Horns are quite common in Scandinavian and German heraldry (called Vesselhorns in Danish), "although virtually unknown in other heraldic traditions", where they usually only ...
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Is there any historical evidence of a significant population of middle eastern people in iron age Northern Germany/Southern Scandinavia?
In at least two of John McWhorter's works, he argues that the Germanic language group was heavily affected by a significant group of people speaking a Semitic language. The works are the book "Our ...
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Why did Danish people not "connect" with neighbor nations until Viking Age?
I was watching the excellent documentary Historien om Danmark and they basically said Denmark (and Scandinavia as a whole) was pretty much isolated until Viking Age starting in late 8th century (...
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Did early northern Europeans drink alcohol?
Before the Roman empire brought alcohol to areas of Northern Europe around two thousand years ago, do we know if the native people of Britain and Scandinavia drank alcohol?
My preliminary search is ...
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What were medieval, Viking-Era, Scandinavian laws regarding rape?
Since the vikings have a reputation for their "rape and pillage" tactics, I thought it interesting to look in depth at their legal system and learn a bit more for myself. However, viking-era legal ...
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Why were Germanic languages able to spread over much of northern Europe after 500BC? Did they mostly replace Celtic?
I understand it is usually believed (see Germanic peoples (Wikipedia)) that up till roughly 500 BC the common ancestor of the Germanic languages (which today include English, Dutch, German, Danish, ...
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