Michael Booth embarks on a journey through all five of the Nordic countries to discover who these curious tribes are, the secrets of their success and what they think of each other. Along the way a more nuancedr picture emerges of a region plagued by taboos, characterised by suf…
Who are the almost nearly perfect people? And why? In this thought-provoking, often humorous book, Michael Booth embarks on a journey through all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, to discover who these people are, the secrets of their success,…
Who are the almost nearly perfect people? And why? In this thought-provoking, often humorous book, Michael Booth embarks on a journey through all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, to discover who these people are, the secrets of their success,…
Who are the almost nearly perfect people? And why? In this thought-provoking, often humorous book, Michael Booth embarks on a journey through all five Nordic countries: Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, and Iceland, to discover who these people are, the secrets of their success,…
"In such a wide-ranging, long-standing, and international field of scholarship as Beowulf, one might imagine that everything would long since have been thoroughly investigated. And yet as far as the absolutely crucial question of the poem's origins is concerned, that is not the …
In recent years, the field of Memory Studies has emerged as a key approach in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and has increasingly shown its ability to open new windows on Nordic Studies as well. The entries in this book document the work-to-date of this approach on the pre-…
