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What does 'Nordic' mean?

Updated: 12/21/2022
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An adjective almost synonymous with "Scandinavian". It refers to something related to the Nordic countries of Scandinavia. The universally accepted Scandinavian countries are Denmark, Sweden and Norway, though Iceland, Finland and Greenland can also be included. Answer Nordic is a coined word originally applied in a racial sense to blond-haired "northern" types found in Norway and Sweden and to a lesser extent in Denmark, Germany and Britain. The term was originally not generally applied to Finns and Lapps as these groups are widely different to "Northmen" in the linguistic and ethnic sense, although the term is used currently to describe the countries mentioned above plus Faroe Islands. These countries are members of the Nordic Council and all have flags with the Nordic Cross as part of the design.

Nordic is also a type of competitive skiing. Scandinavia is a grouping which is confined to Denmark, Norway and Sweden although, as noted above, outsiders may well use "Nordic" and "Scandinavian" interchangeably.

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