Scandinavia category: 802 books

Among the persons whose genius, heroism and force of character influenced events, and won commanding game, in the seventeenth century, Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden is justly regarded of the first. The War of Thirty Years, a long and terrible struggle between Catholicism and Protestantism, largely influenced...

In assembling, translating, and arranging over a hundred primary source readings, Somerville and McDonald successfully illuminate the Vikings and their world for twenty-first-century students and instructors. The diversity of the Viking Age is brought to life through the range of sources presented,...

"13000+ English - Swedish Swedish - English Vocabulary" is a list of more than 13000 words translated from English to Swedish, as well as translated from Swedish to English. Easy to use- great for tourists and English speakers interested in learning Swedish. As well as Swedish speakers interested in learning English.

I denne boka drar forfatteren Johnny Kristensen glemselens slør til side og ser tilbake på en tid i vår nyere historie, de første etterkrigsårene. Dette er en periode som mange karakteriserer som noen av de beste åra Norge har hatt. Etter fem år med krig og okkupasjon, ble det mobilisert politisk...

Magnus Magnusson relates the world-famous Icelandic sagas to the spectacular living landscapes of today, taking the reader on a literary tour of the mountains, valleys, and fjords where the heroes and heroines of the sagas lived out their eventful lives. He also tells the story of the first Viking settler, Ingolfur Anarson.

"Travels in The North" is a chronicle of Karel Capek's time spent travelling in northern Europe. An interesting and entertaining account of his Scandinavian sojourn, this book will appeal to fans and collectors of Capek's work, as well as to those with an interest in travel writing in general....

Insight Pocket Guide Copenhagen With historic buildings, boutique shops, world-class cuisine, a plethora of cultural attractions, and a laid-back ambiance, Copenhagen is one of Europe's most attractive cities. Insight Pocket Guide Copenhagen is a concise, full-color travel guide that combines lively...

Aalborg (Denmark) Travel Guide - Tiki Travel The Tiki Travel guides use the text from WikiTravel.org, a complete and reliable worldwide travel guide written and edited by Wikitravellers from around the globe. An active table of contents enables users to jump directly to the section selected....

Published in 1875, this history of the kings of Norway begins with Harald Haarfagr and ends with Hakon the Old.  In addition, the volume contains a long essay on the leader of the Scottish Reformation.

Denmark became a nation amidst the turbulence of the nineteenth century, an era plagued by war, bankruptcy, and territorial loss. Building the Nation is an insightful study of this formation, emphasizing the crucial role of N.F.S. Grundtvig, the father of modern Denmark. Persevering through years of...

In May of 1989, on a quiet street in Copenhagen, police discovered an apartment that had served for years as a hideaway for Denmark’s most notorious 20th-century bank robbers. The members, who belonged to a communist organization and lived modest lives in the Danish capital, had, over a period of...

Among the literary sources on the pre-Christian religion and mythology of the Slavs, the Western, German-Danish, and Latin texts, while predominantly highly fragmented and biased, distinguish themselves when compared to the Arab and Old Rus' sources by their relative scrupulousness and less obvious...

The notion of a superior ‘Germanic’ or ‘Nordic’ race was a central theme in the ideology of the Nazis. But it was also a commonly accepted idea in the early twentieth century, and an actual scientific concept originating from anthropological research on the physical characteristics of Europeans....