The similarities between the five Nordic countries (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) have recently been manifested in their new Berlin embassies—five separate buildings and one common house, distributed around an open courtyard.
In English, the geographically more restricted term “Scandinavian” is often taken to be synonymous with “Nordic,” although the former geographical term actually excludes Finland and Iceland. I shall here use the term “Nordic,” even while focusing on a section in Telos 148 (Fall 2009) called “From Scandinavia.”
