Word: scandinavian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...through ancient Scandinavian literature. High Seats play a prominent part. A High Seat was a kind of throne and a symbol of authority. The seat also had a mystical quality. The Norse invaders of Iceland, for instance, threw the posts of their High Seats overboard and settled in the spots where the pieces drifted ashore...
...this time a sort of mass ecstasy was sweeping Sweden's archaeologists. One of them declared that the post "is literally worth more to us than a find of gold . . . It has unparalleled archaeological and cultural interest, as a link between west Scandinavian literature and east Scandinavian discoveries...
...with the state. But in 1953 Martin Luther's church is stronger, better equipped for this task, and more aware of it than ever before. Of the world's 68.5 million Lutherans, 41.6 million of them are in Germany, the rest principally in the U.S. and the Scandinavian countries. U.S. Lutherans, especially since 1945, have made a good deal of contact with their German brethren. Besides contributing some $24 million to German church welfare funds, they have perhaps shown the Germans how a church independent of the state can function...
Members of the Travel Department, the National Students Association, the Council on Student Travel, the American Friends Service Committee, the Experiment in International Living, and the Scandinavian Student Travel Service will lead the discussion...
...precocious sovereign who made bright Danish history. Margrethe I became the 10-year-old child bride of King Haakon VI of Norway, assumed the crown of Norway when he died, and, by invitation from the unhappy Swedes, took their crown and merged the three countries into a single Scandinavian kingdom...