Culture of Scandinavia

North Germanic language spoken in Sweden and Finland

North Germanic language spoken in Northern Europe

North Germanic language spoken in Norway

idea that there is a pattern of group behaviour towards individuals within Scandinavian communities that negatively portrays individual success and achievement

Gutnish ( ), or rarely Gutnic ( or ), is a North Germanic language spoken sporadically on the islands of Gotland and Fårö. The different dialects of Gutnish, while stemming from the Old Gutnish () variety of Old Norse, are sometimes considered part of modern Swedish. Gutnish exists in two variants, Mainland Gutnish (Storlandsgutamål or Storlandsmål), mostly spoken in the southern and southeastern portion of Gotland, where the dialect of Lau became the standard form on the Main Island (Lau Gutnish → Laumål), and Fårö Gutnish (Gutnish: Faroymal; ), spoken on the island of Fårö. UNESCO defines Gu

genre of crime fiction originating from the Nordic countries

model of a ship in a church building

20th century design movement

thumb|Wadmal army jacket from the Hälsinge Regiment. thumb|Girls' wadmal dress right|thumb|Faroese postage stamp with a picture of a Viking helmsman in a wadmal tunic. Wadmal (Old Norse: ; Norwegian: , 'cloth measure') is a coarse, dense, usually undyed wool fabric woven in Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Greenland, and the Orkney, Faroe and Shetland Islands from the Middle Ages into the 18th century. Wadmal was woven on the warp-weighted loom used throughout these areas of Norwegian influence, and was usually a 2/2 twill weave, although some medieval sources outside Iceland describe wadmal

scandinavian dessert

beauty contest

museum in Visby, Gotland in Sweden

independent institution in Sweden, Norway, Finland or Denmark that provides tertiary education

iron Age treasure found in Sweden

type of farm in Scandinavia where a nobleman had his permanent residence