The half mythical character which has always clung to this animal is well illustrated in the following quotation from Pliny's Natural History, Book 8, chapter 16: "There is also the achlis, which is produced in the island of Scandinavia.

They are comparatively abundant in Scandinavia, especially in Norway, where they are preserved with great care.

We see a considerable similarity of habits and customs between the Teutonic races of Germany and Scandinavia and the early inhabitants of Persia, as well as great affinity in language.

And yet these meadows furnish fine hay-crops, and every blade of grass represents money in Scandinavia.

The cow is a staple of wealth to the people of Scandinavia.

An immense amount of copper was used and worked with great skill in Scandinavia even before the Christian era, and the most of it came from the great deposits at Fahlun.

But the national winter sport of all Scandinavia is skeeingskimming over the snow on snow-shoes.

Then also Rotterdam, through which Germany does a great deal of its trade, remains open, whilst a fraction of her foreign trade is being carried on through Denmark, Scandinavia, and Switzerland.

Shakspeare, in his "Midsummer-Night's Dream," has mingled the mythologies of Hellas and Scandinavia, of the North and the South, making of them a sort of mythic olla podrida.

Soon she will absorb the old kingdoms of Scandinavia,to wit, Sweden, Norway, and Denmark.

How curious, to trace in the grotesque mythic cosmogonies of India, Greece, and Scandinavia, modern geology, botany, chemistry, etc.,the vast and brutal giants of the Eddas and other old mythic scriptures being recognized as impersonations of the forces of Nature!

Take the mythic cosmogonies of ancient Greece, Scandinavia, and India, and the geologies and astronomies of the present day, and compare their pages, changing things personal into things impersonal.

The Normans, who came from Scandinavia towards the end of the tenth century, A.D. 970, with their short clothes and coats of mail, at first adopted the dress of the French, and continued to do so in all its various changes.

His divinity indeed was fed on the technical side, it is to be feared, by the more destructive biblical criticism, like most destructive engines, coming all the way from Germany, and at its more vital centres by importations of strong meat from Russia and Scandinavia.

The story has also wandered to Italy, France, England, Scotland, Scandinavia, and the United States,[80] and the heroine has proved a grateful theme for painters and sculptors.

Scandinavia is no longer sterile, and a few of Russia's mournful progeny escape strangulation at their birth.

ANNIR, king of Inis-thona (an island of Scandinavia).

ARGON AND RURO, the two sons of Annir, king of Inis-thona, an island of Scandinavia.

"The languages of Scandinavia proper, the Norwegian and the Swedish."Fowler cor.

Picture tales from Scandinavia.

Picture tales from Scandinavia. Selected & retold by Ruth Bryan Owen.

The Democratic monarchies of Scandinavia.

So you're going to Scandinavia.

The United States and Scandinavia.

Scandinavia: between East and West.