03 Dec 2008, 4:31 am
Welcome to WP 
03 Dec 2008, 1:24 pm
Welcome 
Im from Denmark you may pm me anytime you want....
04 Dec 2008, 2:40 pm
speaksilence wrote:
You are so kind, I feel so glad when I read your welcome-words, everyone! 
RarePegs I don't understand exactly what you meant with "Is the word Scandinavia derived from Skåne?"
They shows Wallander on Sundays evenings here in Sweden too! I really like the movies. Another film-series that almost is like Wallander is Beck.
I think Beck is even better than Wallander.
Little about Scandinavia:
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with some sources also including the nations of Finland and Iceland as well. Regardless of how the term "Scandinavia" is used outside the region, the terms the Nordic countries and the Nordic region are used officially and unambiguously to identify the nations of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, the Danish territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and the Finnish territory of Åland as politically and culturally similar entities.
RarePegs I don't understand exactly what you meant with "Is the word Scandinavia derived from Skåne?"
They shows Wallander on Sundays evenings here in Sweden too! I really like the movies. Another film-series that almost is like Wallander is Beck.
I think Beck is even better than Wallander.
Little about Scandinavia:
Scandinavia is a historical and geographical region centred on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It consists of the kingdoms of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, with some sources also including the nations of Finland and Iceland as well. Regardless of how the term "Scandinavia" is used outside the region, the terms the Nordic countries and the Nordic region are used officially and unambiguously to identify the nations of Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Denmark, the Danish territories of the Faroe Islands and Greenland, and the Finnish territory of Åland as politically and culturally similar entities.
Words and names have origins and I have a sort of semi-geekish interest in etymology. It suddenly struck me that the letters of
"Skåne" resembled the beginning of the name "Scandinavia" and so I wondered if there was a connection between the actual names.
04 Dec 2008, 3:15 pm
04 Dec 2008, 3:17 pm
