Scandophile

scandophile English Etymology From en Scando- Scandinavia -phile. en Scandinavophile. Noun Someone (often an outsider) who admires or idealises Scandinavia or its cultures, cuisines, history or peoples. en Scandinavophile en Stefánsson Jón The Influence of the Norse upon English Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries 121 (9) The Literary Digest 4 Funk & Wagnalls 1892 https://books.google.de/books?id=0tf-dt7RlxUC&pg=PA121&dq=scandophile&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgo9OwzOGBAxUlQ_EDHY-bDRUQ6AF6BAgDEAI#v=onepage&q=scandophile&f=false In powerful, but hard verses, Landor tells the Northern "Romeo and Juliet" story. It was only a "tour de force," the impulse to which came from his friend William Herbert, who also was a "Scandophile". en Gage Gene. G. 1971 Scandinavian Studies in America: The Social Sciences Scandinavian Studies 43 4 434 40917182 As a non-Scandinavian "Scandophile," I cannot claim to be objective on this point, but I cannot help but think that Scandinavian studies will be the stronger for it. It is indisputable that no area studies program is fully accepted by the academic community until it abandons its ethnic arrogance. en Barton Hildor Arnold 1998 Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815 SIU Press 9780809322039 203 https://books.google.de/books?id=nEkzJ4gq5XAC&pg=PA203&dq=scandophile&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjgo9OwzOGBAxUlQ_EDHY-bDRUQ6AF6BAgGEAI#v=onepage&q=scandophile&f=false See also Dissertation of the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths (London, 1797) by the Scottish antiquarian and Scandophile John Pinkerton, who later published a number of accounts of travel in Scandinavia in his General Collection. Related terms en Scandinavist Scandinavianist Scandinavophile Scandinavian Scandinavism en People