Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The Joy of *small* business Date: 17 Dec 2024 04:07:27 GMT Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <0186e59b-8801-2a6a-c38c-dc4bbddc86cc@example.net> <19ebc64d-c683-a046-e19b-9cdc51c81226@example.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net jYl5Pst2npiFlq1iFdTksA0RK5c1DUWBi1CiakECy7GfFsVEbv Cancel-Lock: sha1:Uu51kcq9S1szrEID/M0beXdaJwA= sha256:GfeY7mVqPHYW5Zsz94+oZRYg3SkGBOaaOqXFmK+deh0= User-Agent: Pan/0.149 (Bellevue; 4c157ba) Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:62557 On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 21:14:13 -0500, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote: > FYI ... Norway, Sweden, Finland and often Denmark are generically > referred to as "The Nordics". There is enough shared culture & > history to kinda make them a distinctive cultural group. Sort of. Finland was conquered during the Northern Crusades but the Russians grabbed the area during the Finnish War. At that point nationalists revived Finnish which isn't an Indo-European language. Tolkien loved Finnish and the Kaleval because it virgin territory compared to the heavily mined Volsunga saga, Nibelungenlied, and so forth. And then there is Denmark. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqgRC5sfCaQ When filing 'The Bridge (Bron/Broen, not the US remake) the cast had both Danes and Swedes and had its moments too. According to 23andMe, I would fit right in. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_I-M253