Scandinaviana

Axel Axgil, the gay rights activist instrumental in making Denmark the first country in the world to legalize same sex marriage (1989), has ...

The government buildings that were ripped open in last July's bombing are still cordoned in Oslo. Nearby Utoya, the island where the bom...

Swedish Poet Tomas Transtromer, 80, whose work "explores themes of isolation, emotion and identity while remaining rooted in the common...

"I am an enigma to myself," wrote Fridtjof Nansen. After devoting months to reading about him, thinking about him, he remains an e...

Helle Thorning-Schmidt will be sworn in as Denmark's first female prime minister. Her narrow victory at the polls is being billed as a ...

Four people were arrested yesterday in the Swedish city of Goteborg by a task force specializing in terrorist threats. An art center, crowde...

Scandinavians have the largest brains, says a recent report by Oxford phrenologists. Extra gray matter, along with larger-than-average-eyes,...