Scandinavians
Scandinavians
The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we fill our homes with cheap but stylish Nordic furniture; we envy their health-giving outdoor lifestyle; we glut ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic; common-sensical acceptance of life's many vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia; and how accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Robert Ferguson digs down through two millennia of history to tell stories of extraordinary events; people and objects - from Norwegian Death Metal to Vidkun Quisling; from Agnetha Faltskog to Greta Garbo; from Lurpak butter to the Old Norse rune stones - that richly illuminate our understanding of modern Scandinavia; its society; politics; culture and temperament.
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History
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