Scandinavia Posters, Print, Charts, Photographs & Maps
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Scandinavia and Nordic are terms used to describe the cultural and geographic region of Northern Europe. The Scandinavian Peninsula includes the kingdoms of Norway and Sweden with a small portion of the Republic of Finland. The Kingdom of Denmark, the southernmost Nordic country, is located on the Jutland Peninsula. The Faroe Islands, a territory of Denmark, and Iceland are considered part of Scandinavia.

Map of Norway, Finland, Sweden, and Denmark,
Giclee Print

Notable Finns

• Aino Ackte
• Eero Saarinen
• Jean Sibelius
• Frans Eemil Sillapaa
• Artturi Ilmari Virtanen

Notable Norwegians
• Roald Amundsen
• Eric the Red
• Kirsten Flagstad
• Eduard Grieg
• Knut Hamsun
• Henrik Ibsen
• Edvard Munch
• Fridtjof Nansen
• Sigrid Undset

Notable Swedes

• Jons Jakob Berzelius
• Anders Celsius
• Christina of Sweden
• Sven Anders Hedin
• Ingrid Bergman
• Greta Garbo
• Dag Hammarskjöld
• Selma Lagerlof
• Jenny Lind
• Carl Linnaeus
• Christina Nilsson
• Alfred Nobel
• Henriette Sontag
• Fredrika Stenhammar
• Johan August Strindberg
• Emanuel Swedenborg
• Axel Hugo Teodor Theorell

FYI - Did you know Delaware was originally a Swedish colony?

Runes are letters used to write Germanic languages prior to and shortly after the Christianization of the British Isles and Scandinavia.

Odin, the chief god in the Norse pantheon, is credited with the invention of runes; among his many roles is wisdom, death, and poetry.