Scandinavian Review

The closest Shackelford, had come to putting his name on a feature had been with Jacaré, Killer of the Amazon (1942), a culling from some 26,000 feet of celluloid of caymans, anacondas and other wild animals edited into a semi-coherent narrative bridged by the voice-over of "Bring 'em Back Alive" Frank Buck and a musical score by Miklos Rosza. lí Jacaré, Killer of the Amazon wasn't the most natural lead-in to an Edvard Persson comedy, the muddy two-color film used by Shackelford wasn't exactl...

Being Danish: Paradoxes of Identity in Everyday Life

Birger SandzéN: On Art, Music and Transcendence

Children of the Northlights

Eat Smart in Norway

Finally, a Concert Hall Worthy of Finnish Music

In the intervening decades, she notes, Toyota has designed Los Angeles's Walt Disney Concert Hall, Tokyo's Suntory Hall and Copenhagen's Danish Radio Concert Hall as well as the renovation of the Sydney Opera House. [...]the front rows do offer an intimate experience. [...]the orchestras have been thrilled, though at first it seemed that many orchestral musicians were surprised by how much they had to change the way they produce, balance and color their sound," he adds.

Forests, Rocks, Torrents: Norwegian and Swiss Landscape Paintings From the Lunde Collection

HammershøI and Europe

Her American Grand Tour

" "Is there anything in the world more wearisome, more dismal, more intolerable, more reckless, more sumptuous, more unbearable, anything more calculated to kill body and soul, than a big dinner in New York?" And of course the standby of standbys: "New York is the last city in the world in which I would live. An inevitable reaction undoubtedly gratifying for curators of bromides, but far more titillating is that the person who fingered the need for the Brooklyn Bridge before John Roebling ha...

I All This Made for an Unprecedented Proximity Between Trollywood and Hollywood

All three novels, centered around a journalist (Michael Nyqvist) and an outrageously Gothic investigator as quick to bed down any species as to kill an adversary with her martial arts skills (Noomi Rapace), were adapted for the screen in 2009 with Daniel Alfredson replacing Niels Arden Oplev as the director for the last two.

Independence for Greenland: Not If, but When

According to the U.S. Geological Survey, the island and its surrounding waters could hold 48 billion barrels of oil equivalent, double U.S. proven oil reserves. According to Prime Minister Kleist, this largess has resulted in "high tax revenue, higher employment in certain areas and greater political focus on the opportunities for mineral exploitation." According to Jörn Skov Nielsen, head of Greenland's Bureau of Minerals and Petroleum, the number of exploration licenses has increased five...

Island of the Doomed

Island of the Doomed By Stig Dagerman Translated from the Swedish by Laurie Thompson University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 2012 338 pages, softcover, $18.95 ISBN: 978-0-8166-77 98-6 Stig Dagerman, who died in 1954 at the age of 3 1 , was regarded as the most talented writer of the Swedish postwar generation.

Multiple Modernities: A Tale of Scandinavian Experiences

Occupied: Denmark's Adaptation and Resistance to German Occupation 1940-1945

Outrage

Reinventing the Finnish Tango

SINCE THE 1980S, THE FINNISH TANGO SCENE HAS BEEN dominated by a rather syrupy electronic pop version of the real thing - as epitomized by the annual Seinäjoki Tango Festival. In 1996, Allan gained an international cult following with his appearance in Aki Kaurismäki's film Drifting Clouds, going on to perform with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London and at Carnegie Hall last winter. Taking such collaboration a step further is Aires de Finlandia, a pair of singer-songwriters from Helsinki ...

Saga Landscapes of Iceland

In the preface, they wrote: "We went out to see the very places where events so familiar in books occurred in reality; and we found that. . . [for] every touch of human interest in the sagas - pastoral, romantic or sublime - there was, as still remains, a landscape setting no less sweet, or strange or stern." " Probably composed in the middle of the 1 3th century, the saga follows a series of feuds between Snafellsnes-based families and neighbors, painting a world of complex politics, roman...

Styrbiorn the Strong

Denied his birthright and exiled from Sweden, he sets out to reclaim the throne in the epic Battle of Fyrisvellir.

Whiskey Breakfast: My Swedish Family, My American Life

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