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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

... mingled with this another stream from Scandinavia, another judicial code which sanctioned private revenge, the pursuit of an assassin by all the relatives of the dead; also the ordeal by red-hot iron and boiling water. But to the native Slav race, corporal punishment, with its humiliations ...

— A Short History of Russia • Mary Platt Parmele

... course not,' said Apollonia. 'Truth cannot be affected by climate. Truth is truth alike in Palestine and Scandinavia.' ...

— Some Diversions of a Man of Letters • Edmund William Gosse

... I pray that my friends in Scandinavia and elsewhere will receive it; I pray that they will receive it as a greeting from me at the close of a period which to me has been full of changes and rich in contradictions. Much of what I twenty-five years ago dreamed has been realized, even ...

— Early Plays - Catiline, The Warrior's Barrow, Olaf Liljekrans • Henrik Ibsen

... each other that they all are human beings, and that they all can smile in friendliness on each other. Let them travel to each other's country; I mean the children from Germany and the children from Italy, the children from Japan and those from Scandinavia. Let them see how every spot on earth is wonderful in its way, and how worthy of love, of patriotism. When will the railway companies and ship companies say: Let the children come to us? When will they arrange the ...

— The New Ideal In Education • Nicholai Velimirovic

... and Indian golden ornaments, including the "Bolla" and the "Trichinopoly" chains and coral, are to be found throughout Scandinavia and in Ireland. See "Atlas de l'Archeologie du Nord," par la Societe Royale des Antiquaires ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

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