TRADITIONAL SCANDINAVIAN FOOD HABITS The fare of Scandinavia is simple and hearty‚ featuring the abundant foods of the sea and making use of the limited foods produced on land. Most Scandinavian cooking and food processing reflect preservation methods of previous centuries. Fish was dried‚ smoked or pickled‚ and milk was often fermented or allowed to sour before being consumed. Scandinavians still prepare a large variety of preserved foods and prefer their foods salty. Scandinavians
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The impact of the new wealth brought by Viking raids and payoffs such as the Danegeld had noticeable effects on the gap of authority between Scandinavian kings and their petty chieftain counterparts. The conflict between these parties played out across the Scandinavian world‚ however‚ two apparent examples are the rise of the Gorm and Fairhair dynasties. Wealth from raids and tribute across the targets in Britain and Frankia‚ and funneled back to the treasuries of Scandinavian kings which elevated
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a new social structure. As a result‚ Medieval Europe had many distinctive customs that are no longer practiced. The Europeans were very insecure during this time period because of the new threats that emerged‚ specifically the Vikings from Scandinavia and the Umayyad Caliph. An elite strike force of Arabs and Berbers‚ under the authority of the Umayyad Caliph‚ crossed the Straight of Gibraltar and overthrew
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The Black Death was a name given to a deadly pandemic that spread from China to Mongolia‚ Northern India‚ and the Middle East during the 1300s. It moved with astonishing rapidity‚ advancing about two miles per day‚ summer‚ or winter. It continued to erupt in local epidemics from the next 300 years; some localities could expect a renewed outbreak between 1661 and 1669‚ although there were sporadic outbreaks in Poland and Russia until the end of the eighteenth century. In 2011‚ medical historians have
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conventional title of an Old English heroic epic poem consisting of 3182 alliterative long lines‚ set in Scandinavia‚ commonly cited as one of the most important works of Anglo-Saxon literature. It survives in a single manuscript known as the Nowell Codex. Its composition by an anonymous Anglo-Saxon poet is dated between the 8th and the early 11th century. In the poem‚ Beowulf‚ a hero of the Geats in Scandinavia‚ comes to the help of Hrothgar‚ the king of the Danes‚ whose mead hall (Heorot) has been under
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language’s history or religion. Moreover‚ the name should be easily pronounceable in each culture. The company is able to use the brand name of "Vidal Sassoon"‚ which is an already well-known brand name in the United Kingdom‚ West Germany and Scandinavia and fits to the criteria mentioned above. It is in the upper market segment and has the established image of a high quality product; it would compliment the new BC-18 product. In instead of
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Drena Dayton The Ice Age and Ohio Dr. Adil M. Wadia April 01‚ 2013 Glazier Features Observed in Wayne County Ground Moraine (14‚000 to 24‚000 years old)- Ground Moraines often show up as rolling‚ strangely shaped land covered in grass or other vegetation. They don’t have the sharp ridges of other moraines. A ground moraine is made of sediment that slowly builds up directly underneath a glazier by tiny streams‚ or as the result of a glazier meeting hills and valleys in the natural landscape
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Week 2 ------------------------------------------------- HIA The title of the article poses a question on whether foreign investments can increase productivity of the local (national) firms. The answer could be in the positive when we realize that the international Inward Foreign Direct Investment (IFDI) has risen from 5% in 1979 to 16% in 1999. To prove this statement‚ Lipsey‚ Blomstrom and Romestetter (1998) affirm that “foreign affiliate’s share of world production is now 15% in manufacturing
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Vikings: Longship trade Vikings originated from Scandinavia. They were known for their skilled craftsmanship and boat building. The Viking Age lasted between 800-1150 A.D.. Vikings were great explorers and sailors. The backbone of their age came from trade with other countries‚ and they were able to easily trade with other countries due to the various bodies of water they had access to‚ such as: rivers‚ oceans‚ streams‚ and lakes. The Vikings trade also benefited from the Longships they built
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Page 1 of 19 Courtship‚ Love and Marriage in Viking Scandinavia Part I -- Forward and Introduction Forward Some time ago‚ some friends of mine came to me and asked me to tell them how a Viking wedding was conducted. Although I write a column entitled"The Viking Answer Lady" for my local SCA newsletter‚ I hadn ’t a clue as to the answer. When I turned to the sagas‚ they didn ’t tell me‚ either. Thus began the start of a massive research project that has produced the work you are about to read. The
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