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041    eng 
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092 0  914.8|bengelska 
100 1  Ferguson, Robert,|eauthor 
245 10 Scandinavians :|bin search of the soul of the North /
       |cRobert Ferguson 
264  1 London :|bHead of Zeus ,|c2017 
300    xxiii, 455 pages :|billustrations ;|c20 cm 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index 
520    The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant 
       and peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the 
       worst acts of political terror ever witnessed on this 
       continent was committed by a Norwegian - against his 
       fellow countrymen? Scandinavia is the epitome of cool: we 
       fill our homes with cheap but stylish Nordic furniture; we
       envy their health-giving outdoor lifestyle; we glut 
       ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely 
       attractive melancholia seems to express a stoic, common-
       sensical acceptance of life's many vicissitudes. But how 
       valid is this outsider's view of Scandinavia, and how 
       accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia today? Robert 
       Ferguson digs down through two millennia of history to 
       tell stories of extraordinary events, people and objects -
       from Norwegian Death Metal to Vidkun Quisling, from 
       Agnetha Faltskog to Greta Garbo, from Lurpak butter to the
       Old Norse rune stones - that richly illuminate our 
       understanding of modern Scandinavia, its society, politics,
       culture and temperament 
650  0 Scandinavians 
650  7 Travel 
651  0 Scandinavia|xDescription and travel 
651  7 Scandinavia 
651  7 Skandinavien|xhistoria|2sao 
651  7 Skandinavien|xgeografi|2sao 
651  7 Norden|xhistoria|2sao 
651  7 Norden|xgeografi|2sao 
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