Word: scandinavian
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With the Swedish government acting as a go-between, the U.S. group traveled to the Scandinavian capital to seek clarification of the resolutions adopted in Algiers last month by the P.L.O.'s parliament, the Palestine National Council (P.N.C.). Those statements were widely regarded as a positive but still ambiguous step forward. Arafat responded by endorsing yet another four- point statement, this one hammered out with the Jewish leaders. It stated clearly that the P.L.O. agreed to negotiations on the basis of U.N. Resolutions 242 and 338, "accepted the existence of Israel," rejected terrorism and called for a solution...
When Professor of Scandinavian and Folklore Stephen A. Mitchell travelled to Europe one year hoping to learn about medieval culture, he found that all of his hopes had been blown up into 1000 little bits--literally...
...Harvard, Mitchell teaches a Core course entitled "The Heroic Tradition in Northern Europe," nicknamed "Sub-zero Heroes" by students, and several undergraduate-level courses in the Departments of Scandinavian and Folklore and Mythology, where he is head tutor. Last fall, he taught a course about Strindberg and Ibsen, and in the past he has taught a course on the Scandinavian novel from 1865 to World...
Professor of Scandinavian and Slavic Literature Albert B. Lord '34 cites an example of the "innovative way [Mitchell] approaches teaching the medieval texts." Lord says that Mitchell gives his students facsimile copies of Beowulf and encourages them to decipher the old text themselves, instead of simply examining a modern English translation...
...part of his breadth requirements there, Mitchell had to take a course in Scandinavian mythology and "fell in love with it." He was also interested in socio-linguistics and folklore and mythology as an undergraduate...