A Scandinavian is a resident of
Scandinavia
Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and S ...
or something associated with the region, including:
Culture
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Scandinavianism, political and cultural movement
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Scandinavian design, a design movement of the 1950s
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Scandinavian folklore
Nordic folklore is the folklore of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and the Faroe Islands. It has common roots with, and has been mutually influenced by, folklore in England, Germany, the Low Countries, the Baltic countries, Finland an ...
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Scandinavian languages
The North Germanic languages make up one of the three branches of the Germanic languages—a sub-family of the Indo-European languages—along with the West Germanic languages and the extinct East Germanic languages. The language group is als ...
, a common alternative term for North Germanic languages
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Scandinavian literature
Scandinavian literature or Nordic literature is the literature in the languages of the Nordic countries of Northern Europe. The Nordic countries include Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway (including Svalbard), Sweden, and Scandinavia's associ ...
, literature in the language of the Nordic Countries
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Scandinavian mythology
People
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Scandinavian Americans
Nordic and Scandinavian Americans are Americans of Scandinavian and/or Nordic ancestry, including Danish Americans (estimate: 1,453,897), Faroese Americans, Finnish Americans (estimate: 653,222), Greenlandic Americans, Icelandic Americans (e ...
, in the United States
* Scandinavians or
North Germanic peoples, the most common name for modern North Germanic peoples
* Scandinavians, any citizen of the countries of
Scandinavia
Scandinavia; Sámi languages: /. ( ) is a subregion in Northern Europe, with strong historical, cultural, and linguistic ties between its constituent peoples. In English usage, ''Scandinavia'' most commonly refers to Denmark, Norway, and S ...
* Scandinavians, ethnic groups originating in Scandinavia, irrespective of
ethnolinguistic
Ethnolinguistics (sometimes called cultural linguistics) is an area of anthropological linguistics that studies the relationship between a language and the nonlinguistic cultural behavior of the people who speak that language.
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affiliation
Places
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Scandinavian Mountains
The Scandinavian Mountains or the Scandes is a mountain range that runs through the Scandinavian Peninsula. The western sides of the mountains drop precipitously into the North Sea and Norwegian Sea, forming the fjords of Norway, whereas to th ...
, a mountain range on the Scandinavian peninsula
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Scandinavian Peninsula, a geographic region of northern Europe
Ships
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SS Scandinavian, a ship
Other
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Scandinavian Airlines
Scandinavian Airlines, more commonly known and styled as SAS, is the flag carrier of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. ''SAS'' is an abbreviation of the company's full name, Scandinavian Airlines System or legally Scandinavian Airlines System Denmar ...
(SAS), an aviation corporation
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Scandinavian Defense, a chess opening
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Scandinavian Gold Cup, an international sailing competition established in 1919
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Scandinavian flick, a driving technique
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Scandinavian (Fabergé egg)
See also
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Scandinavia (disambiguation)
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Old Scandinavian (disambiguation)
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