The Scandinavians are regarded as Europe's most tolerant and
peace-loving people. So how was it that one of the worst acts of
political terror ever witnessed on this continent was committed by
a Norwegian - against his fellow countrymen? Scandinavia is the
epitome of cool: we fill our homes with cheap but stylish Nordic
furniture; we envy their health-giving outdoor lifestyle; we glut
ourselves on their crime fiction; even their strangely attractive
melancholia seems to express a stoic, common-sensical acceptance of
life's many vicissitudes. But how valid is this outsider's view of
Scandinavia, and how accurate our picture of life in Scandinavia
today? Robert Ferguson digs down through two millennia of history
to tell stories of extraordinary events, people and objects - from
Norwegian Death Metal to Vidkun Quisling, from Agnetha Faltskog to
Greta Garbo, from Lurpak butter to the Old Norse rune stones - that
richly illuminate our understanding of modern Scandinavia, its
society, politics, culture and temperament.
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