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Fragments of the past: how to study old Norse religion

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1999
The state of the sources of the Old Norse religions presents a great problem. Most of them were written down two hundred or even three hundred years after the Christianization of the North, based on an oral tradition going back to the pre-Christian ages.
Britt-Mari Näsström
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Child abandonment as an indicator of Christianization in the Nordic countries

Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 1990
In the Nordic countries, child abandonment seems to have been a commonly accepted social tradition until the acceptance of Christianity. When Christian influences reached the Far North, this old practice was gradually criminalized.
Juha Pentikäinen
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Climate change information over Fenno-Scandinavia produced with a convection-permitting climate model

Climate Dynamics, 2022
This paper presents results from high-resolution climate change simulations that permit convection and resolve mesoscale orography at 3-km grid spacing over Fenno-Scandinavia using the HARMONIE-Climate (HCLIM) model. Two global climate models (GCMs) have
P. Lind, D. Belušić, Erika Médus, A. Dobler, R. Pedersen, Fuxing Wang, Dominic Matte, E. Kjellström, O. Landgren, David Lindstedt, O. B. Christensen, J. Christensen   +11 more
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Utilization of antidepressants, anxiolytics, and hypnotics during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scandinavia

Journal of Affective Disorders, 2022
Objective To study patterns of antidepressant, anxiolytic, and hypnotic drug utilization in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.
M. Tiger, R. Wesselhoeft, P. Karlsson, M. Handal, M. Bliddal, C. Cesta, S. Skurtveit, J. Reutfors   +7 more
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Evaluation of the Performances of Radar and Lidar Altimetry Missions for Water Level Retrievals in Mountainous Environment: The Case of the Swiss Lakes

Remote Sensing, 2021
Radar altimetry is now commonly used to provide long-term monitoring of inland water levels in complement to or for replacing disappearing in situ networks of gauge stations.
F. Frappart, F. Blarel, I. Fayad, M. Bergé-Nguyen, J. Crétaux, Song Shu, Joël Schregenberger, N. Baghdadi   +7 more
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Shifting networks and mixing metals: Changing metal trade routes to Scandinavia correlate with Neolithic and Bronze Age transformations

PLoS ONE, 2021
Based on 550 metal analyses, this study sheds decisive light on how the Nordic Bronze Age was founded on metal imports from shifting ore sources associated with altered trade routes. On-and-off presence of copper characterised the Neolithic. At 2100–2000
Heide W Nørgaard, E. Pernicka, Helle Vandkilde   +2 more
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Archaeological cereals as an isotope record of long-term soil health and anthropogenic amendment in southern Scandinavia

Quaternary Science Reviews, 2021
Maintaining soil health is integral to agricultural production, and the archaeological record contains multiple lines of palaeoclimatic and palaeoenvironmental proxy evidence that can contribute to the understanding and analysis of long-term trajectories
K. J. Gron, Mikael Larsson, D. Gröcke, N. H. Andersen, M. H. Andreasen, J. Bech, P. Henriksen, R. Hilton, M. Jessen, N. A. Møller, Finn Ole Sonne Nielsen, P. Nielsen, Anders Pihl, L. Sørensen, Jørgen Westphal, P. Rowley-Conwy, M. Church   +16 more
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On the origin of the oldest borrowed Christian terminology in Icelandic

, 2016
The Icelandic borrowed lexicon is semantically vast. Among the various semantic fi elds in which it might be subdivided, the focus of this article will be on the religious, i.e. Christian, sphere. Its oldest core will be presented here: i.e.
Matteo Tarsi
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Catholic Mission and Conversion in Scandinavia

Scandinavian Journal of History, 2009
The relation between mission, religious conversion and identity construction is the subject of my paper. On a concrete level, I discuss the Catholic mission and conversions in Scandinavia from the middle of the 19th century to the present time. Up to the Second Vatican Council (1962–1965), the Catholic Church strongly emphasised its claim to be the ...
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Limited impact of climate forcing products on future glacier evolution in Scandinavia and Iceland

Journal of Glaciology, 2021
Due to climate change, worldwide glaciers are rapidly declining. The trend will continue into the future, with consequences for sea level, water availability and tourism.
Loris Compagno, H. Zekollari, M. Huss, D. Farinotti   +3 more
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