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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Scandinavians"”.
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Baltic-Finns and Scandinavians : Comparative-Historical Linguistics and the Early History of the Nordic Region
… Baltic-Finns and Indo-European-speaking Scandinavians. The study covers a time period from the Middle Ages until 1900, with a chronological focus on the period 1770-1900.
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Tanning pattern and sun protective behavior of students of Poznan University of Medical Sciences
… correlated with more risky tanning behavior. Scandinavians were better educated about UVR risks and sunscreen products than other groups. Females were more concerned about their skin tone and therefore tanned more than males, being a group of increased risk for skin cancer. Scandinavians’ …
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The Literary Response of German-Language Authors to Selma Lagerlof
… as central as the contributions of fellow Scandinavians Ibsen and Strindberg, a conclusion that returns Lagerlof to her former position as an author of international prominence.
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English use at the six social service centers in Reykjavík: English as the lingua Franca of social services in Reykjavik
… of native speakers. While studies show that Scandinavians are proficient users of English very little is known about how much English the average Icelander encounters on a daily basis. English has become a lingua franca in many companies and private and public institutions in Iceland where it …
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Teach Yourself? Language Learning through Self-Instruction Manuals in Nineteenth-Century Scandinavia
… By surveying ordinary nineteenth-century Scandinavians, it is established that they turned to self-directed learning as a consequence of social and economic developments in the region. At the time, early globalisation was felt in terms of increased travel and trade. As a consequence, …
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An ethnohistorical comparative study of Scandinavian colonization on northern Vancouver Island, British Columbia : the Norwegians at Quatsino and the Danes at Cape Scott/San Josef Valley, 1894-1913
… of crown grants of land eventually obtained by Scandinavians at Quatsino, Cape Scott, and the San Josef Valley. The Quatsino Colony and the Cape Scott Colony were largely encouraged and assisted by the government of British Columbia, and received favourable publicity in the major newspaper of …
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Representations of the pagan afterlife in medieval Scandinavian literature
… death is shown to be of primary concern to pagan Scandinavians. My dissertation is concerned with the way in which the afterlife, in its various forms, is presented in extant literary texts: not as an exercise in religious history, but in an attempt to find out what literary use was made by …
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Scandinavian place-names in Northern Britain as evidence for language contact and interaction
… is argued that rather then having been coined by Scandinavians who were influenced by Celtic work-order, these names were instead created by Gaelic-speakers who had shifted to the Scandinavian language. It is also argued that the more widespread distribution of names in ǽrgi in comparison with the …
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Finding balance in unequal relations: the burial of humans and animals in the Viking Age world
… caution when assessing the presence of Scandinavians in the Rus’ exclusively from the burial records as far as animals are concerned. The case study further highlights how bringing animals to the fore and approaching them as individuals capable of acting and reacting, as well as …