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Scandinavia and Iceland Around the Web
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Swedish City Mayor Receives Death Threats in Anti-Semitic Row
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SAS Airline Stewardess Battered to Death
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The Perils of Roof-Shovelling
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Danish Paper Says Sorry for Muhammad Cartoon
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Transvestite “Robin Hood” on the Run in Finland
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SAS Shares Nosedive
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Saab Saved (?)
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Iceland’s Handballers Defeat (Not so) Mighty Russian Bear
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The Story of Finland’s First Black Citizen
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Swedes Suspected of Auschwitz Sign Theft
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Sweden Endures Siberian Freeze
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Iceland Plans Icesave Referendum
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Maritime Mayhem on the Frozen Baltic
Posted 1 week, 6 days ago
In the worst freeze-up since 1996, sea ice combined with strong winds is causing havoc to passenger ferries and merchant shipping in the Baltic Sea.
As the latest victims to the vagaries of this winter’s harsh weather, 51 ships, including passenger ferries and cargo ships, were stuck in the…
KEEP READING »Norway Tops (Alternative) Olympic Medals Table
Posted 2 weeks, 4 days ago
While Canada crowned its staging of the Olympic Games in Vancouver by winning a famous victory over the United States in ice hockey — dubbed the Game of the Games — Scandinavian competitors will be flying home content — well, not all.
Denmark and Iceland failed to register on the medals…
KEEP READING »Life in the Freezer
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago
Living for a few months as a nine year-old in southern Sweden nearly twenty years ago, I used to cut out the newspaper weather reports and keep a daily record of the winter temperatures of different towns in Sweden. Places like Kiruna — some 250 km above the Arctic Circle — fascinated me with…
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