Scandinavia Collection (#2)

VIKING FUNERAL /DICKSEE
A VIKING FUNERAL Date: medieval

Trolls are malicious, and will start an avalanche just for the fun of it. Date: 1895

Trolls get cold, too -- they are glad to warm themselves at a hunter's fire. Date: 1895

Three trolls laughing at a fox dressed up as a priest ! Date: 1887

Advert for cruises on the Orient Line, 1927, visiting the Mediterranean, Atlantic Islands, Egypt, Ceylon, Norway and Scandinavia Date: 1927

Salmon fishing on a river in Norway, 18th century. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by after an illustration by from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World

Decorated horn and Runic tablets of the Vikings. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre from Giulio Ferrarios Costumes Ancient and Modern of the Peoples of the World, Florence, 1847

Scandinavian monuments and urns
Ancient Viking monuments from a German province close to Scandinavia, and some urns taken from Danish and Swedish tombs. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Giarre

General view of Stockholm, Sweden. circa 1788

Ships in ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland
Ships in the ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland. Date: 1926

Peasant men playing a game in a field, Finland. Involving a human hobby-horse, it is similar to the Russian game of Little Towns, using small cylindrical pieces of wood. Date: 1922

Couple sweeping a street, Helsingfors, Finland
Couple sweeping a street in Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland, one of their civic duties. Date: 1922

Market boats at the quay, Viborg, Finland
Peasants with their market boats, selling produce at the quay in Viborg (Viipuri Province), Finland. Date: 1922

Interior of a peasant cottage, Finland, showing the warmest place in the home, with the stove reaching from floor to ceiling. Date: 1922

Peasants at a wedding feast, Finland -- one of the customs is for the bridegroom to lift the veil from the face of the bride. Date: 1922

Peasants crossing a stream on horseback, Finland. Date: 1922

Peasant women burning forest debris, Finland
Peasant women burning forest debris in order to clear the ground, Finland. Date: 1922

Aino Ackte, Finnish operatic soprano, in national costume
Aino Ackte (1876-1944), Finnish operatic soprano, seen here wearing national costume. She founded an annual festival at Nyslott (Savonlinna) to foster Finnish music, first held in 1912

Ran Sion Lake, Province of Herjeadalem, Sweden
View of Ran Sion (Ransjon) Lake in the Province of Herjeadalem (Harjedalen), Sweden, as seen from the Village of Ransio (Rancio). 1819

Enontekis at source of the Muonio River, Finland
Enontekis (Enontekio) at the source of the Muonio River, Finland, showing the Ministers House, the Church, and the Warehouses of the Lapps and Merchants of Tornea. 1819

Swedish Court Dress. early 19th century

Cataract of the Ljusnan, Helsingland, Central Sweden
Cataract of the Ljusnan River in Helsingland, Central Sweden. 1819

Many Folk Misfitz - Norway - Norwegian Girl. early 20th century

Viking Longship
A Viking Longship heading across the sea to plunder and conquer... Date: circa 12th century

Human sacrifice
Priests and others watch as a victim burns in ancient Scandinavia. Date: 1555

Traditional fishing boats off Mosken, Vaeroy, Norway
Traditional fishing boats off Mosken is a small uninhabited rocky island in the municipality of Vaeroy - an island and municipality in Nordland county, Norway

NORTHERN NAVIGATION
The Navigation of the Northern Seas showing Spitzbergen and the coasts of Scandinavia and Russia Date: circa 1700

Republic RC-1 Seabee assembly at Croydon Airport, carried out by Rollason Aircraft and Engines. Three Seabees were imported from the production line at Farmingdale, for onward sale in Scandinavia

Norway - Two Polar Bear Cubs. Date: 1920s

Mundals Hotels, Fjaeland, Norway. Date: 1920s

Nordkapp (North Cape) - Norway - Cliffs of the Cape, a smaller Whaler, a hexagonal hut and Polar Bear, completing the Arctic Iconography! Date: circa 1898

Poster advertising skiing in Norway, printed for Norwegian State Railways. Date: 1958

British and German boy scouts at camp, Denmark
British and German boy scouts at camp in Copenhagen, Denmark, making a kitchen rack for pots and pans. They were taking part in an international Jamborette arranged by the Danish Boy Scout Movement

Magazine cover, boy scouts in camp, Denmark
Magazine cover of The Scouter, April 1958, showing boy scouts sitting round a campfire in Denmark. Date: 1958

Boy scout in camp, Denmark
A boy scout in camp, Denmark

Boy scouts in camp, Denmark, surrounded by adults (possibly family members)

Sami People - Norway - with Reindeer and small wooden sled
Sami (Saami) People - Norway - with Reindeer and small wooden sled. Date: circa 1909

Thurible for incense. Medieval Museum. Stockholm. Sweden

Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek. Copenhagen. Inside. Room dedicated to classical sculpture. Copenhagen. Denmark

Bridge from Haparanda to Tornio, Sweden-Finland
Wooden bridge from Haparanda (Sweden) to Tornio (Finland). Date: circa 1905

Two men with pigs on the Esserfjord, Norway
Two men with pigs in a boat on the Esserfjord, Norway, on their way to market. circa 1910s

People at a fish market in Bergen, Norway. Date: circa 1910s

Skansen, Stockholm - open air museum
Skansen was the first open-air museum in Sweden, founded in 1891 by Artur Hazelius. It contains examples of Swedish houses, painstakingly deconstructed, brought to Skansen and then rebuilt

The Early Iron Age. The bog body from Huldremose in Djursland from 100 AD. The woman wore a skirt of wool, a scarf and two fleece capes. Her hair was tied up with a long woollen cord

Viking Age. Runestone. Tirsted. 10th century AD. National M
Art. Germanic. Viking Age. Northern Europe. Runestone. Dedicated to their ancestors. Tirsted. 10th century AD. Asrad and Hildvig raised this stone in memory of Frede. National Museum of Denmark

Flint tools from Gjera, Vendsyssel. Early Bronze Age. 1700-1
Flint tools. From Gjera. Vendsyssel. Early Bronze Age. 1700-1500 BC. National Museum. Copenhagen. Denmark

Flint daggers. Dagger Period. 2000-1500 BC
Flint daggers. Middle Dagger Period to Early Bronze Age. 2000-1500 BC. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen. Denmark

Bronze Age. Belt ornaments. From a bog at Fjellerup, Funen
Prehistoric. Art. Bronze Age. Belt ornaments. From a bog at Fjellerup, Funen. 700-500 BC. National Museum of Denmark

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