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The arroword is a variant of a crossword that does not have as many black squares as a true crossword, but has arrows inside the grid, with clues preceding the arrows. It has been called the most popular word puzzle in many European countries, and is often called the Scandinavian crossword, as it is believed to have originated in Sweden. [30]
Various kinds of pies and cookies are typical desserts, mostly served with coffee. Typical pies are apple pie, blueberry pie and rhubarb pie. Smulpaj: Crumb pie Spettekaka: A sweet dry hollow Swedish cake, shaped like a cylinder, and similar to meringue, found only in a southern province of Sweden, Scania. Våfflor Waffles
aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [6] brisling, "sprat" [7] fjord, "a narrow inlet of the sea between cliffs or steep slopes" [8] flense, "to strip of blubber or skin" [9] floe, "floating ice formed in a large sheet on the surface of a body of water" [10]
aquavit, "a clear Scandinavian liquor flavored with caraway seeds" [1] fartlek, "endurance training in which a runner alternates periods of sprinting with periods of jogging" [2] gantelope, "gauntlet" [3] glögg, "a hot spiced wine and liquor punch served in Scandinavian countries as a Christmas drink" [4]
Nordic art is the art made in the Nordic countries: Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and associated territories. Scandinavian art refers to a subset of Nordic art and is art specific for the Scandinavian countries Denmark, Sweden and Norway.
An 1856 meeting of Scandinavian students in Uppsala, Sweden, with a parade marching next to Svandammen. Scandinavism (Danish: skandinavisme; Norwegian: skandinavisme; Swedish: skandinavism), also called Scandinavianism [1] or pan-Scandinavianism, [2] is an ideology that supports various degrees of cooperation among the Scandinavian countries. [3]
Scanian (Swedish: skånska [ˈskɔ̂nːska] ⓘ) is an East Scandinavian dialect spoken in the province of Scania in southern Sweden. Broadly speaking, Scanian has been classified in three different ways: Older Scanian formed part of the old Scandinavian dialect continuum, and is by most historical linguists considered to be an East Danish ...
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic [1] or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages.