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<p>[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 235911, member: 111"]Denmark and Norway were joined for centuries, though Norway was forced into union with Sweden by the time this piece was made. I've read so many Scandinavian texts on silver, with their limited vocabulary, that I can understand them fairly well - find Danish and Norwegian very similar, and Swedish gives me little trouble, but Finnish has different linguistic roots and have never really picked up on it.</p><p><br /></p><p>Both of my paternal grandmothers were immigrants from Denmark, so I'm a quarter Danish and have always been fascinated with my 'Viking' roots, but tend to gravitate more toward the Norwegian in artistic and design elements...</p><p><br /></p><p>~Cheryl[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DragonflyWink, post: 235911, member: 111"]Denmark and Norway were joined for centuries, though Norway was forced into union with Sweden by the time this piece was made. I've read so many Scandinavian texts on silver, with their limited vocabulary, that I can understand them fairly well - find Danish and Norwegian very similar, and Swedish gives me little trouble, but Finnish has different linguistic roots and have never really picked up on it. Both of my paternal grandmothers were immigrants from Denmark, so I'm a quarter Danish and have always been fascinated with my 'Viking' roots, but tend to gravitate more toward the Norwegian in artistic and design elements... ~Cheryl[/QUOTE]
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