Originally Posted by
gilpin
Yes
, you're on to my plan
. I'm hoping to use this forum as a platform to unite all areas ever under Scandinavian or Viking control into a giant "pan-scandinavian" union
which will ultimately enable the Scandinavians to realize their eternal goal of conquering Germany
, and eventually the entire world
.
Maybe border controls should be re-enforced
. The latest viking attempts to get control over Cologne were pretty much in the past so were the Swedish and Danish (attempts of) occupations - but you never know
. And finally Eric the Red will reach his aim: Viking rules the world! Q.E.D.
And in the end we pretty much agree: The peninsula in northern Europe occupied by Norway and Sweden is
Scandinavia. A region of northern Europe consisting of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark is
Scandinavian. And there are some people (may it be because they do not know any better or may it be for
political associations)
sometimes considering Finland and Iceland Scandinavian. So we agree there is (a) Scandinavia, (b) the Scandinavian region in a correct sense (c) the Scandinavian region in an incorrect sense and I can go back to my familiy's summer house in Finland and tell my neighbours that they are considered to be Scandinavian.
PS: Sometimes it is helpful to go back to root sources, the website of the Danish gouvernement:
http://denmark.dk/portal/page?_pagei..._schema=PORTAL
From here we take as follows:
Most people who have grown up in Denmark, Norway or Sweden will spontaneously define themselves as Danes, Norwegians and Swedes respectively. But outside Scandinavia, they are often classified as Scandinavians or Nordic.
‘Scandinavia’ is sometimes used synonymously with ‘the Nordic Countries’, especially outside the North, but also in a more limited sense about the three central Nordic states, Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In English, ‘Scandinavia’ often includes the central Nordic countries plus Finland and Iceland.
On the website itself the Danes are reluctant to describe themselves as Scandinavian but put an empasis on Danish:
Denmark lies between 54° and 58° of latitude north and 8° and 15° of longitude east. In addition to Denmark itself, the kingdom also includes the Faroe Islands and Greenland. Denmark consists of the peninsula of Jutland and c. 407 islands, of which c. 78 are inhabited (2003). Of these, the largest and most densely populated are Zealand on which the capital of Copenhagen is situated, Funen and the north Jutland island. Denmark has approximately 5,4 million inhabitants - this amounts to roughly 1 % of the total EU population.