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Scandinavist
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English
Etymology
For the ideology, from en Scandinavism Scandinav(ism) -ist; in the meaning scholar of Scandinavian studies, en Scandinavia Scandinav(ia) -ist with analogy with earlier en Romanist, en Germanist, en Anglist; likely reinforced by de Skandinavist.
Noun
en historical en Scandinavianist supporter of Scandinavism.
en Vassenden Eirik Norway: The Province and its Metropolities The Oxford Critical and Cultural History of Modernist Magazines 3 Peter Brooker; Andrew Thacker Oxford University Press 2009 9780199659586 658 https://books.google.com/books?id=bvsfioiQ8k8C&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA658&dq=Scandinavist&pg=PA658#v=onepage&q=Scandinavist&f=false But far from being naïve Scandinavist ideologists, Blix et al. continually criticizes the utopian Scandinavists' talk of brotherhood and 'one culture', but also—and perhaps most importantly—made cultural separatism and provincialism, particularly in Norway, the object of crass satire.
en humanities jargon en Scandinavianist specialist in Scandinavian studies.
en Uppvall A. J. 1937 The Study of Scandinavian Languages and LIteratures at the University of Pennsylvania, 1895-1935: A Retrospect and a Prospect Scandinavian Studies and Notes 14 7 179 But his successor, Dr. Daniel B. Shumway, Professor of Germanic Philology and head of the German department, was just as staunch a Scandinavist as his predecessor. 40915423
en Hollander L. M. 1947 Huskult og Hinsidighetstro. Nye Studier over Fedrekult i Norge, by E. Birkeli [Book Review] The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 46 2 212 27712865 Your reviewer, being more particularly a Scandinavist, would like to add a few details from his own field.
en Thompson Laurie Literature The Year’s Work in Modern Language Studies 44 1982 20867948 1087 The old editions are no longer adequate, and this handsome volume should replace its predecessors on the shelves of every Scandinavist and all libraries with a Scandinavian or drama section.
en Bremmer Rolf H, Jr The Germanic Context of "Cynewulf and Cyneheard" Revisited Neophilologus 81 3 1997 Springer Nature Dordrecht 0028-2677 10.1023/A:1004267410809 446 Basing his analysis on the work of the famous Danish Scandinavist, Axel Olrik, McTurk concluded that it is not so much the general style of “Cynewulf and Cyneheard” which bears the stamp of orality, as its frequently obeying the laws which Olrik had formulated with respect to the unilinear progression of oral narrative. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/germanic-context-cynewulf-cyneheard-revisited/docview/196323895/se-2
en Norsk Referanse-Grammatik, edited by Jan Terje Faarlund, et al. [Book Review] Polome Edgar C Journal of Indo-European Studies Institute for the Study of Man Washington 26 3/4 1998 500 All together, it is an outstanding work of reference, which every Scandinavist will want to have on his/her worktable. 0092-2323 https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/norsk-referanse-grammatik/docview/206872668/se-2
en Celebrating Creativity: Essays in Honour of Jostein Bortnes, edited by Knut Andreas Grimstad and Ingunn Lunde. [Book Review] Rogachevskii Andrei Europe-Asia Studies Abingdon 50 5 1998 931 Twenty-eight contributors from Great Britain, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the USA (one classical scholar, one Scandinavist and one Byzantinologist among them) presented the Russianist from the University of Bergen (Norway) with their essays on Russian folklore, medieval Russian literature, Gogol, Leskov, Dostoevsky, Lev Tolstoy, Akhmatova, Bulgakov, Pasternak and Bakhtin, as well as on other related cultural topics. https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/celebrating-creativity-essays-honour-jostein/docview/200085855/se-2 0966-8136
en Zhanibekova Bagdagul N Beisenova, Zhainagul S Anuar Alimzhanov’s Aesthetic Position and its Artistic Realization International Journal of Society, Culture & Language Raleigh International Journal of Society, Culture and Language 9 2 https://www.ijscl.net/article_245959_22fa569e4809ed48ffa3f70c98d3bb77.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20220419020629/https://www.ijscl.net/article_245959_22fa569e4809ed48ffa3f70c98d3bb77.pdf 2021 2329-2210 205 The Soviet philologist, Scandinavist Mikhail Steblin-Kamensky noted that “myth is not a genre, an indefinite form, but a content, as if independent of the form in which it is expressed. [...]"
Adjective
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en chiefly historical Pertaining to Scandinavism. from 20th c.
en Scandinavian Cooperation Standard Daily Trade Service 9 1919 Stockholm Office, European Bureau, Standard Statistics Co. Standard Statistics Company 145 The "Scandinavist" movement aiming at greater intimacy between the three northern countries, made great progress during the war along political, scientific, and cultural lines and "Scandinavist" Congresses were held in each of the three capitals. https://books.google.com/books?id=FaaU0SXPCGAC&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&vq=Scandinavist&dq=Scandinavist&pg=RA1-PA145#v=snippet&q=Scandinavist&f=false
en Smith L. F. 1956 The Language Debate in Norway Books Abroad 30 2 169 10.2307/40095380 [The mål question] arose at a time when the Union with Sweden was already being severely criticized in Norway and it continued during the Scandinavist movement, which politically failed when neither Norway nor Sweden was willing to aid Denmark against Prussia and Austria in 1864.
en Resolving the dilemma between equality and liberty: the Swedish political system Blanc-Noel Nathalie Eastern Journal of European Studies Iasi 4 1 2013 2068-651X https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/opposition-abroad-emil-von-qvanten-finnish/docview/2576701129page=34 Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iasi Another common stereotype links this characteristic to modern socialism, but actually, it dates back to monarchy, was endorsed by the Scandinavist movement in the 19th century and was naturally included in the social-democrat discourse in the 20th century.
en The Nordic Wave in Place Branding: Poetics, Practices, Politics Cecilia Cassinger; Andrea Lucarelli; Szilvia Gyimóth Edward Elgar Publishing 2019 9781788974325 184 https://books.google.com/books?id=BAfADwAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PA184&dq=Scandinavist&pg=PA184#v=onepage&q=Scandinavist&f=false Here we see the pan-national or Scandinavist scope of the New Nordic Food Movement, which invites a new theory for understanding nationalism.
en Contesting Nordicness: From Scandinavianism to the Nordic Brand Helsinki Yearbook of Intellectual History 2 Walter de Gruyter 2021 Jani Marjanen; Johan Strang; Mary Hilson 9783110730159 147 https://books.google.com/books?id=2XBREAAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&lpg=PT147&dq=Scandinavist&pg=PT147#v=onepage&q=Scandinavist&f=false Celebrating the establishment of the NC [Nordic Council], Hans Hedtoft argued that the Scandinavist movement had an unfortunately poor reputation as it was remembered particularly for its failure to produce a united Scandinavian kingdom or a more formal union.
en humanities jargon Pertaining to Scandinavian studies.
en Scandinavica 14 Elias Bredsdorff Academic Press 1975 99 With him the pendulum is swinging away from the Germanist-Scandinavist tradition of the older generation as it is doing also in the University of Surrey [...] https://books.google.com/books?newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&id=zeYTAQAAMAAJ&dq=Scandinavist&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=scandinavist
en Andreasson Anne-Marie Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97 4 1998 University of Illinois Press Urbana 0363-6941 https://www.proquest.com/scholarly-journals/orthographic-codes-code-switching-study-16th/docview/217913290/ Orthographic Codes and Code-Switching: A Study in 16th Century Swedish Orthography, by Alexander Zheltukhin [Book Review] 614 The study will, of course, be valuable reading for those interested in Swedish orthography, and for the Scandinavist scholar, but certainly not only for them.
en Scandinavian Studies in Germany Humanities Scheel Roland MDPI Basel 11 4 2022 88 (4) 10.3390/h11040084 Nevertheless, despite the continuity in staff, the new structures resulted in increased attention being paid to modern Scandinavian literature, which accompanied the establishment of Scandinavist curricula.
Related terms
en Scandinavia Scandinavian Scandinaviansm Scandinavian studies