Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/12/13
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Nathan and Co, this is a very interesting thread, at least for me. I think that SAS, Scandinavian Air Lines, has been a factor in getting people to equal Scandinavia with Sweden, Denmark and Norway (order really accidental). Finnair is a jolly goood airline btw. Used to land their Caravelles in Gothenburg when nobody else dared. They used a brake parachute. Real men with sisu. And the Skåne flag is yellow cross on red background, just in case somebody thought it was the other way round. (How long will Brian allow this thread to go on?) Chris >Daniel, > >Maybe we should explain to the unwashed masses here that Skåne is >the southern part of Sweden and was part of Denmark until the Danes >lost it in a war in the 17th century. Despite the fact that it is >such a long time, Skåne to this day has its own identity and a >dialect which is closer to Danish than, say, the Stockholm variety. >Now of course the Danes are taking it back slowly thanks to the new >bridge between Copenhagen and Malmö which makes it much easier to >get back and forth and will slowly make Malmö into a suburb of >Copenhagen ;-) > >Incidentally, there is actually also a Skåne flag, which is a cross >between the Swedish flag (yellow cross on blue background) and the >Danish one (white cross on red background). > >Nathan > >Daniel Ridings wrote: >>>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? >> >> >>Skåne :) >> >>Sorry folks, only someone with a Danish bakground will understand. >> >>Daniel >> >>-- >>To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html >> > > >-- >Nathan Wajsman >Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland > >e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch >mobile: +41 78 732 1430 > >Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm >General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm > >-- >To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- Christer Almqvist D 20255 Hamburg and / or F 50590 Regnéville sur Mer please look at my b+w pictures at: http://www.almqvist.net/chris/new - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html