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The home pages for the Usenet newsgroup soc.culture.nordic

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Nordic specialties

• the "Everyman's rights"
• a Nordic race?
• the origin of the Finns?
• Constitution of Freedom of Information in a Swedish-Finnish variety
• PC-ness the Swedish way - about responsibility, lip service and anti-prostitution laws
• The Legend of Kristi Himmelfart
  Who's Kristi Himmelfart, and how'd she get her own holiday?
• Suicides in Scandinavia

Sámi issues

• the first election to the Sámi parliament
• An article about Wimme - a modern yoiker

Languages, minorities and immigrants

• Differences between the Scandinavian languages
• Finnish characterized
• Class and language in Finland's history
• Swedish characterized
• Jamska  - the dictionary project [ local mirror ]
• Scanian - Danish or Swedish?
• An example of written Scanian



• Linguistic minorities in Sweden, FAQ (- not only Finns!)
• How many are the Sámi? - and other minorities
• The newspaper Aftonbladet's first article about the proposal to officially declare Finnish, Sámi and Romani-chib as minority languages in Sweden (in Swedish   )
• Statistics: "Home language" instruction in Sweden
• Statistics: Foreign mother-tongues among pupils in Sweden
• Statistics: 1st and 2nd generation immigrants in Sweden
• The European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages
• debate on Racism in Finland



• Latin-6 compared with Latin-1
• other language-sites
• index for language sections in the FAQ

Authors and artists

• Selma Lagerlöf, Valborg and Sophie - a domestic triangle
• biographical notes for a few Nordic authors
• Danish Author Profiles
• links to pages about Tove Jansson (and the Moomins)

Historical matters

• Rise and fall of Norse settlements in Greenland
• Sven Forkbeard - king of Denmark
• Viking Expeditions from Central Sweden (700-1,000) [ local mirror ]
  Causes and effects that the expeditions and Viking culture had on each other
• Nicole Cherry's Norse Mythology pages [ local mirror ]
• History of the Scandinavian nobility
• Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson and the Swedish Revolt in 1434-1436
• Why are Norwegians celebrating May 17th?
• The Åland Crisis 1918-1921 (still a burning topic - at least in s.c.n.)
• the story of an America emigrant
• Fascism in Scandinavia of the 1930's
• the defense of Finland during World War II [ local mirror : extern site ]
• Kristian X and the yellow star
• Jerusalem 1948: Folke Bernadotte - how did his life end?
• Stockholm 1952: the year of the justice scandals
• texts concerning the Palme murder

other stuff

• links to Tours through Norden by bike
• links to pages about Nordic Folk dresses or "National costumes"
• links about the Scandinavian Royal Families
• Links to Governmental information sites for foreigners
• Comparative Statistics from Unicef over health parameters in a wide sense, as child poverty, literacy, suicides and teenage births.
• [ local mirror in separate window: ]
  The Swedish Institute's Fact sheets about the Swedish Society (i.e. the official picture)
• links to homepages of s.c.n. writers

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