...- cross-country skis. She lived among frost giants in Trymheim and Jotunheim, and the giant Tjasse is her father.

❄ Skandin-av/skandinav means Skaði's people. "Skaði" in particular means injury or harm and the name has the same etymology origin as the English "scatche". Scandinavian winters can be both wild, brutal and untamed -just like Skaði. Scandinavia can be referred to "Dangerous Island" which is a good translation as it was very dangerous for southern people to travel to Scandinavia during winter.

❄ Strabo, a Greek geographer and historian born 63BC, and other historians for a long time believed that Scandinavia was an island by southern people called Skaði's island. Therefore the name Scania which is the origin of southern parts in Sweden.

❄️ The North Germanic ethnic groups that inhabits Scandinavia to this day and the countries that includes in present day in Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The countries that includes in the Scandinavian Peninsula is Sweden, Norway and the northwest areas of Finland. Let us face ourselves. We are Hyperboreans. Beyond the north, ice, and death. Our life, our happiness. Beautiful satellite photo over Scandinavia taken in February 2003 (clouds are unfortunately covering major parts of Denmark).

↟ We are the North - This is Scandinavia ↟

Music: @lustreofficial -The First Beauty. Lustre is the Swedish musical project of H. Sunding who goes under the pseudonym "Nachtzeit". Lustre's lyrical themes include nature, spirituality, hope, darkness and mysticism.

Hail Þórr ⚡️