All Things Nordic #9
your Scandinavia and Nordic Countries Weekly Digest
The Arctic is turning green | News from Iceland | Earth Globe LEGO Ideas (it spins!) | Stockholm has a problem with e-scooters | Greenland and the Medieval Warm Period | Nordic Crime “Trom” set in Faroe | Kansallisteatteri (Finnish National Theatre) 150° year
The Arctic is turning green Read how trees are taking over the tundra in Northern Norway, at a rate of 40-50 metres per year, thus threatening the ancient lifestyle that depends on snow and ice. In Finnmark “the treeline is out of control”. (Guardian)
News from Iceland Hverabrauð bread comes from baking dough underground in the heat of local geothermal springs for 24 hours (Atlasobscura). Blur singer Damon Albarn became an Icelandic citizen during 2021 (Faroutmagazine). ‘Árstíðir’ by Karítas Hrundar Pálsdóttir is “the” book to learn Icelandic through literature (Grapevine.is)
Earth Globe LEGO Ideas (it spins!) LEGO has just announced a new 2585-piece set of a brick-built earth globe featuring printed names of continents and oceans that glow in the dark. (ATN)
Stockholm has a problem with e-scooters “The situation has become too chaotic” [and] “last summer […] Stockholmers couldn’t accept the disorder”, so Vice Mayor D.Helldén. From February the 1st the number of e-scooters will cut to 12k, down from 23k, hitting hard on local company Voi (Politico.eu)
Greenland and the Medieval Warm Period During the Middle Ages the ice cap was growing because it was warmer: higher temperatures caused more evaporation that led to more snowfall, and the increased snowfall won out on the ice melting that took place during summer. Unlike today (Hakaimagazine)
Nordic Crime “Trom” set in Faroe The BBC has acquired the rights to new Nordic Crime drama “Trom”, based on Jagvan Isaksen’s crime novels and set in the Faroes Islands.(Variety)
Kansallisteatteri (Finnish National Theatre) 150° year “Throughout its 150-year history, the National Theater has acted as a mirror of Finnish people and society, while fresh ideas from around the world have flowed into Finland” so the CEO of Kansallisteatteri M.Myllyaho. (All-Things-Nordic)
Listen to “Hollow talk” by the Choir of Young Believers, from the soundtrack of “Bron/Broen”