Silly American seeks info on Scandanavia

[trentonjoe]

I teach a junior high school (6th-9th grade) world culture class and next month we will be doing SCandanavanian Culture and history.

I was wondering if any of you guys could give me websites or stories or any thing I could use. A pronuciation of Thor's hammer would also be great.

GO Fjords! Yeah K's, J's, and V's!

THe Silly America,
Trenton Joe

 

[Psionicist]

Well... We have coke and computers, that's for sure

Here's a good resource for numbers:
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

 

[Rashak Mani]

Nice site... the GDP percapita for Brazil is like 1000 bucks higher than the numbers I got here... but hey the CIA knows more about us than we do about ourselves...

 

[Frostmarrow]

Check my town out. Katrineholm is a typical Swedish inland town. The webpage is in English and features some interesting information as well as pictures. The site addresses tourism mostly but the look and feel of the site tells more than a thousand words.

Katrineholm

Tors Hammare [Torsch Ham-ar-eh]
or
Mjölner [Mieul-nerr]

 

[Zarrock God of Evil]

I'm from Denmark. Thor's Hammer is pronounced Mjølner in Danish (and not Mjolnir). I don't know the phonetic translation of the "ø" vowel but it's much the same sound as the French "oe" sound if that helps (it's also EXACTLY the same as the German "Ö" sound).

Otherwise http://www.denmark.dk/ has all the facts you'll need about Denmark.

-Zarrock

 

[Numion]

Don't forget to mention that Finland kicked Russias ass in 'Winter War'. Huzzah! (And subsequently got our asses kicked by the aforementioned country... )

Ok, maybe that's not the stuff you were looking for.

 

[rigur]

http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/meadows.htm

Just so you know...

 

[zouron]

Zarrock

earlier spelling of æ ø and å are as following

æ = ae
ø = oe
a = aa

so that frnech oe is pretty correct

 

[Scarab]

A site about Sweden. Haven't had a close look at it yet, but it seems to be pretty informative.

A little tale a friend told me on IRC: there's an American beer called Nordic. The brewery wanted to give it a more "Scandinavian" feel by using umlauts, naming it Nördic. Well, in Swedish, "nörd" = "nerd".

 

[Piratecat]

My favorite Finnish website! Warning: one particular profanity, but the concept makes it all worthwhile.

Ahem; sorry about the distraction. Back to the topic, please!