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Scandinavia

noun

The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden. Synonym: Scandinavian Peninsula.

A group of culturally related countries in northern Europe; Finland and Iceland are sometimes considered Scandinavian.

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"Scandinavia" Quotes from Famous Books

... arm, under the sleeve of his silken tunic, he might almost have forgotten the Princess Ailinn. This bracelet was made by the dwarfs who dwell in the heart of the Scandinavian Mountains, and was sent with other costly presents by the King of Scandinavia to the King of Erin, and he gave it to the princess, and it was the virtue of this bracelet, that whoever was wearing it could not forget the person who gave it to him, and it could never be loosened from the arm by any art or magic spell; but if the wearer, even ...

— The Golden Spears - And Other Fairy Tales • Edmund Leamy

... them you might as well say, Aunt Betsy. I drank nothing but tea in Scandinavia. It was ...

— The Golden Calf • M. E. Braddon

... my plain unvarnished account of "A Voyage to the Holy Land, and to Iceland and Scandinavia." Emboldened by their kindness, I once more step forward with the journal of my last and most considerable voyage, and I shall feel content if the narration of my adventures procures for my readers only a portion of the immense fund of pleasure derived ...

— A Woman's Journey Round the World • Ida Pfeiffer

... old Norse Buruns migrating from their home in Scandinavia, and settling, one branch in Normandy, another in Livonia. To the latter belonged a distant Marshal de Burun, famous for the almost absolute power he wielded in the then infant realm of Russia. Two members of the family came over with the Conqueror, and settled in England. Of Erneis de Burun, ...

— Byron • John Nichol

... of latitude, but in the matter of murder the people of Finland are much more nearly allied to the Hungarians than to their immediate neighbours, the Swedes and Norwegians. The Finns commit about twice as many murders in proportion to the population as the Teutons of Scandinavia, but only about half as many as the Hungarians; and it is not improbable to suppose that while the effect of race makes them more murderous than the Scandinavians, the effect of climate makes them less murderous than the ...

— Crime and Its Causes • William Douglas Morrison

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