Powerpoint used in UCLA Scandinavian 50W (Winter, 2004)

2. contemporary notions of Scandinavia

3. Norden today Norway Denmark Sweden Finland Pop: 276,365 Area: 103,000 km 2 Pop: 4.5 mil Area: 324,200 km 2 Pop: 5.3 mil Area: 43,100 km 2 Pop: 8.9 mil Area: 450,000 km 2 Pop: 5.2 mil Area: 337,000 km 2 Iceland

5. Timeline Iron Age (500 BC-800)

7. Timeline Viking Age 800-1000 AD

8. Viking Scandinavia 800-1000AD

9. Picturestones

10. Runestones

11. Timeline Middle Ages: 1000 - 1500

12. Conversion: ~1000 AD Introduction of Christianity Borgund, Norway 1200 AD Elucidarius, 1100 AD

13. Stories of pagan heroes were carved on churches…. From Hylestad in Setesdal, Norway

14. Stories told inside the stave churches Christ & Apostles inside Ulvik Church in Norway (c. 1250

16. Recording Laws and History Swedish Law Code, ~1280 Saxo’s History of the Danes (in Latin), early 13 th century

18. Timeline Reformation 16 th century Renaissance/Humanism, i.e. Enlightenment

20. Renaissance/Humanism Danish Astronomer Tycho Brahe (1546-1601 ) Bernt Notke’s St. George & the Dragon (1487) Stockholm

21. Mapping external and internal worlds Oldest surviving map of denmark, 1570 An English Anatomy, ~1400 in the Swedish Library

25. Enlightenment: home & abroad Maps of 1736 Map of Greenland, 1737 Map of Danish trade colony in India, est. 1733

26. Timeline Romanticism: Nineteenth Century French Revolution: 1789 Americn Declaration of Independence 1776 Industrial Revolution

28. Finnish Nationalism: Kalevala Finnish national ‘epic’ – a collection assembled by Elias L önnroth, 1835 Forging of the sampo

33. H.C. Andersen Andersen ’s own paper-cut art work Illustration from Emperor’s New Clothes Hans Christian (1805-1875)

34. Copenhagen 1834 1820 Holmensgade 8 Pop: 101,000 (1800) Pop: 560,000 (1911)

36. Deaths from TB in Sweden and Finland Urban vs Rural

45. Iceland