This is my own running commentary from Post Christendom...
I expect synchronicity and a little effort will direct the appropriate source materials towards me--it's already begun to--and to have a completed draft by the end of next year.
My historical specialty, if I have one, is early modern European history, with a particular interest in the Holy Roman Empire. Until a few weeks ago, my interest in Scandinavian history has been (by my standards) fairly casual, at least since the waning of my adolescent atavistic fascination with Vikings. There are, in short, many people more qualified than me to write this --book? essay?. Whatever it is,my intention is to become qualified, over the course of researching and writing it-- which I'll be doing online, in public, so to speak. Eventually, I will probably move The Scandinavian 78 to its own blog. For the moment you can chart its stumbling, haphazard progress here. Needless to say, if you don't see a Scandinavian whom you consider worthy of this list, I'd appreciate you're letting me know.
Over 50 names now. This is exciting. Soon I'll have to start whittling down the list. Early to go will probably be Bureus (unfortunately; I like him), Bent Larsen (superflous beside the still more awe-inspiring Magnus Carlsen), and hopefully Steig Larsen.
My historical specialty, if I have one, is early modern European history, with a particular interest in the Holy Roman Empire. Until a few weeks ago, my interest in Scandinavian history has been (by my standards) fairly casual, at least since the waning of my adolescent atavistic fascination with Vikings. There are, in short, many people more qualified than me to write this --book? essay?. Whatever it is,my intention is to become qualified, over the course of researching and writing it-- which I'll be doing online, in public, so to speak. Eventually, I will probably move The Scandinavian 78 to its own blog. For the moment you can chart its stumbling, haphazard progress here. Needless to say, if you don't see a Scandinavian whom you consider worthy of this list, I'd appreciate you're letting me know.
Over 50 names now. This is exciting. Soon I'll have to start whittling down the list. Early to go will probably be Bureus (unfortunately; I like him), Bent Larsen (superflous beside the still more awe-inspiring Magnus Carlsen), and hopefully Steig Larsen.
I have now exceeded 78 names. Now the real work begins...Thanks so far to Joseph, Greg & Jena for useful suggestions.
Added a bunch more Viking-epoch names out of my notebooks, finally, as well as making my first cuts from the list: Malmstein (apparently more a technican than artist), Stieg Larson, Bent Larsen and Lars Ulrich (who was only on the list for a couple days.)
I'm reluctantly concluding that there are significantly more than 78 (or 100) historically important Scandinavians. I'm sticking to the top 78, however.
to this poor roster, he will easily contend for the number one spot. Surely one of the top two or three.
Sveinbjorn Beintensson is perhaps more a hopeful projection than a legitimate contender for inclusion at all here. At least--yet. Who knows? If the people of Scandinavia should ever one day cast off their Judeo-Christian shackles and revert to their glorious pagan religion, Beinstensson may prove to have been the most influential Scandinavian yet.
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