have two concepts of the almighty a Biblical and a post-biblical concept the biblical concept is the almighty's Scandinavian overnight becomes 20% Jewish 80% white Protestant Catholic Scandinavian
One of them was-- you can definitely call that a fail, because I made a beer in Denmark, in the very beginning of Evil Twin, but Scandinavians didn't used to eat out that much at fine dining places.
All away to the east coast of Siberia to Anadyr where I picked up this Russian ice breaker-- it's not quite fully an ice breaker. The Scandinavians , the Norwegians are the best at this kind of exploration, I think.
Well, not surprisingly, rates go down. It's not a Scandinavian -Mediterranean thing.
This idea took a long time to sink into my mind, partly because I'd been raised not to think of myself as Jewish. My mother is Scandinavian . And when we'd gone to churches, they'd been Lutheran.
And my fans started to see it as something huge. And then she's Scandinavian .
He was hearkening back to the romantic cinema of the 1930s and '40s. Looks a bit Scandinavian , perhaps.
Etc saw you might come say that he says this was the Scandinavian god of thunder and Hammer technique o th how about a tune on your
And even when I said, yo, dude, you can take over this thing, and you can keep the money, he was like, naw, Because these are like Scandinavians , Germans, Viennese-- what are they, from Vienna?
today. So juniper berries-- which I mentioned. And the Scandinavians -- particularly the Swedes and the Danes-- adopted them and they became the basis for baking
And that 10% international is actually highly clustered. To the extent that Scandinavians hang out with other people, they hang out with other Scandinavians . To the extent that people in South America hang out with other people online, it's other people in South America.
Now, the last thing I'd add is there's a lot more about employment, what employers should be doing, how to improve employment practices, bangs on about how the Scandinavian countries are super meritocratic, and that's also nonsense.
popular surnames in each state, their size by frequency, and color by country of origin, approximately. So you get pockets of Scandinavian and German ancestry in the Midwest, Spanish surnames rising up in the southern states, pockets of French down in Louisiana, and then, of course, up here in Massachusetts there's some Irish ancestry poking in the top 25.
And my fans started to see it as something huge. I was singing a song and this Scandinavian girl was singing everything word for word.
who have encountered it, who have fallen in love with the great pillar heroes of the music, and yet have brought their own sensibilities to the music. So you have a whole Scandinavian realm of artists who sound only like themselves, who are informed by the American tradition but bring their own identities to the music and have a signature event that's happening up there.
And it wasn't invented in medieval Europe, either. Is was there a direct import from Scandinavian sagas and legends and even older Anglo-Saxon legends. Clearly, there's a need amongst the audience to have that character, quite clearly because we would like to have that character.
cultures of course there are differences Scandinavians put up their incomes and taxes for all to see as a matter of law
particularly from Viking raiders, Scandinavian raiders, who start the process with these sort of hit and run raids on the coast.
You will only date people who also are 70% Scandinavian and above-- and that it will sort of turn the tide
The only takers in the FX swap market were the Scandinavian central banks, who, in turn, put forward very strict conditions, in exchange
And this is shown in a study that was done in Scandinavian countries of several hundred thousand women and men being tested,
this hivishness. And the Scandinavian countries are the forefront in world history of having effective civil institutions and ever decreasing groupishness.
That it is clear that some more homogeneous societies like the Scandinavian countries have managed to have a higher degree of cohesiveness.
going The Traveler standards he was young with an Elven Scandinavian quality and was brimming with excitement to be
room, and the Scandinavians are sitting in the corner together.
And then here you have one of the chief Scandinavians , Thorkell the Tall.
Everything was sort of gray. And so one of the things that the Scandinavians do is to bring light into their lives and have things like this golden mulled wine with all kinds of spices I'll talk about in a minute.
going to Perplexity, "Ragnar's portrayed as a Scandinavian warlord, often called a Danish or Swedish king," like you mentioned.
So Sweden did that because they wanted to align itself with the other Scandinavian countries around it.
And I found that to be true of the Netherlands and other Scandinavian cultures.
Which is Google? Is it more like the Scandinavian culture where you like to be left alone?
So you like-- you know, you're 72% Scandinavian .
There's a such thing as Germans and Russians and people of Scandinavian descent,
And again, Doug Flicker-- I expected Scandinavian or German, and he served barbecue.
I can't anymore. So I love Scandinavian food.
How do we clean up 2 by 4s and actually make them look like clean aspirational Scandinavian furniture?
Now, the last thing I'd add is there's a lot more about employment, what employers should be doing, how to improve employment practices, Because what you find is that the Swedish, and especially Scandinavian countries like Denmark, Norway,
Now, the last thing I'd add is there's a lot more about employment, what employers should be doing, how to improve employment practices, and Sweden-- Finland is part of the Nordic countries, it isn't Scandinavian -- they spend a huge amount of money on education
If you look at the happiest countries in the world, which tend to be the Scandinavian countries, most of the people there have access to all basic needs.
which is the mainstream of Scandinavia, which is the mainstream of why Scandinavian countries are so happy.
Because it shows that the answer doesn't necessarily lie in switching to a completely different economic structure-- like Scandinavian countries, or something like that.
The example of another enormous body of fairy tales-- northern, Scandinavian -- this became-- "The Ring of the Nibelungen," it's sort of Icelandic sagas, Norwegian Sagas,
lot of living alone I don't know if you can read it it looks very very small to me but the Scandinavian countries are at
today. So juniper berries-- which I mentioned. Dill, which is the most iconic of the herbs in Scandinavian cooking, comes from the word to comfort.
After the Civil War, emerging from the devastation of the Civil War, we began to flex our muscles around the world stage, wanting to compete with the Brits who had done most of exploring, of the course the Russians and some of the Scandinavian countries. But we wanted to stake our claim in the Arctic and had recently purchased from the Russians Alaska.
and you can see that at the far end of the spectrum are some of the Scandinavian northern European countries
Tony: They have, you know, European and new Scandinavian cuisine.
from grain. But it's usually flavored with dill-- aquavit generally with caraway is the most classic flavor I made some with tiny new birch leaves that I had picked that give it a very bitter taste that the Scandinavians tend to love. Or around Christmas time I really like to use cardamom and ginger for these warming flavors.
That's the, I'd say that's what we can learn from the Scandinavians .
Um, the language was interchangeable. You know, Old Norse was spoken in all three of those Scandinavian countries. But living in the north, so far up near the Arctic Circle,