![]() ![]() ![]() One thread, from the Viking Age onward, is the European influence and the Scandinavians' problem with becoming European. ![]() Yet there are a set of constant storylines. The unexpected success of that battle is a great European revolution.įrom the Vikings to IKEA, this personal history will seamlessly interweave the stories of Norway, Denmark, Finland and Sweden, alongside other countries, and ask, What is Scandinavia?, Where does it come from?, and What does it mean, today, to be Scandinavian? The last two hundred years have been a battle to escape that legacy. For a thousand years, the Scandinavian countries were kingdoms of repression where monarchs played at the game of being European powers, at the expense of their own populations. Scandinavian history has been one of dramatic discontinuities of collapse and restarts, from the Viking Age to the Age of Perpetual War to the modern age today. In SCANDINAVIA, academic and international scholar Stein Ringen chronicles more than 1,200 years of drama, economic rise and fall, crises, kings and queens, war, peace, language and culture. ![]()
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