Nordic Culture Quotes

As a Scandinavian, I like hopelessness and the weird austerity in the hopelessness of things.

The Swedes got there first - their dramas were always the darkest and most upsetting, and we used to love them when I was growing up in Denmark. Now us Danes have caught up.

If French women had not shown their thighs in the vaudeville and swimming pools of Paris, where out Republicans were educated, if there had not been so much tennis played by the American women who have filled our cinema screens for years, if Nordic women had not thrown themselves into the cult of the sun, perhaps our horrible Spanish Civil War would not have broken out.

Denmark (also called Norway) is best known as the original home of the prune Danish as well as the Vikings, who wore hats with horns sticking out of them, and for a very good reason: they were insane.

We have a certain warped sense of humor in Scandinavia, and that is what comes across in the choices in a lot of our movies.

I'm Icelandic. We're all so dramatic.

My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.

Tommy Wirkola is Norwegian but has a Finnish surname - he comes from the one of the northernmost countries in the whole of Europe. It was easy working with him. The people in the north are all fairly similar.

I cannot lie on the beach or by a swimming pool. I think I'm too Nordic to like a lot of relentless sun.

I'm a real Swede! In fact, I'm a quarter Finnish.

Now it is just this world we like the best, the Germanic world, the world of Nordic life.

O to be in finland/ now that russia's here)