Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Jeu 12 déc 2002 23:23:08 +0100 Nathan Wajsman <wajsman@webshuttle.ch> a écrit: > Four? There are three Scandinavian countries, Denmark, Norway and > Sweden. Throw in Finland and Iceland and you have the Nordic > countries. So which is the fourth non-Scandinavian flag? Finnish? No, geographically only Norway and Sweden covers the Scandinavian peninsula - Denmark belongs to the European continent. Politically and culturally the terms Scandinavia and the Nordic countries are used indifferently for the same unity - "Norden" - Iceland, Norway, Denmark (Faroes/Greenland), Sweden and Finland. Historically even the Baltic states belonged to the Nordic unity. This is probably not very interesting in the context. What does it change if it is the Finnish, or the Islandic flag that is printed on this totally ridiculous Leica edition? Because it has to be considered as another "special edition" - even if it probably just was thought as a "Demo series" - when some people manage to make business with it. That is the interesting, amazing (and once again ridiculous) part: these tiny printed, or engraved (?) flags cost 200$ !!! Oddmund > Håkan Dennersten wrote: > > A "scandinavian" m7 is now released also. It has the four > > scandinavian flags printed on top. It is sold in the shops for 3200 > > $ the regular M7 is sold for 3000 $ > > > > /HD - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html