History Main / NorseByNorsewest

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as painfully naive. Finns (who, by the way, are ''not'' Scandinavian but a North Eurasian (Uralic) people related to the Sámi (= the "Lapps"), the [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} Estonians]] and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Hungarians]]) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the fairy tale kingdom of Arendelle appears to take be in a Norwegian fjord. We have character names like "Anna", "Elsa", "Sven", etc. One character is conspicuously dressed in Sami-style clothing, and even has a reindeer as a best friend. And both the royal sisters who are the central characters have a rather nordic ethnic look to them.

A sort of generic northern blend of UsefulNotes/{{Norway}}, UsefulNotes/{{Iceland}}, UsefulNotes/{{Greenland}}, UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}}, UsefulNotes/{{Denmark}} and UsefulNotes/{{Finland}}. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''UsefulNotes/{{Switzerland}}'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and UsefulNotes/TheNetherlands (due to the words "Danish" and "Dutch" sounding vaguely similar).[[/note]] Everyone is [[PlanetofHats liberal]], [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]]. Everything is ridiculously expensive by the standards of anywhere else (including the rest of Europe), but that's OK, because higher education is free and so is healthcare.

A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands (due to the words "Danish" and "Dutch" sounding vaguely similar).[[/note]] Everyone is [[PlanetofHats liberal]], [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]]. Everything is ridiculously expensive by the standards of anywhere else (including the rest of Europe), but that's OK, because higher education is free and so is healthcare.

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as painfully naive. Finns (who, by the way, are ''not'' Scandinavian but a North Eurasian (Uralic) people related to the Sámi (= the "Lapps"), the Estonians and the Hungarians) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands (due to the words "Danish" and "Dutch" sounding vaguely similar).[[/note]] Everyone is [[PlanetofHats liberal]], [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]].

Everyone either skis or snowboards, and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that {{Lego}} was invented here.

* Parodied in ''VideoGame/SaintsRow1'', when an radio show spoofing {{NPR}} has a couple of guys talking about illegal immigrants to the US... from Norway, and their stereotypes of them are deliberately ridiculous.

Named for a certain port of ''TheLostVikings II''.

* In ''Disney/Frozen'', the fairy tale kingdom of Arendelle appears to take be in a Norwegian fjord. We have character names like "Anna", "Elsa", "Sven", etc. One character is conspicuously dressed in Sami-style clothing, and even has a reindeer as a best friend. And both the royal sisters who are the central characters have a rather nordic ethnic look to them.

* Othar Tryggvassen (, Gentleman Adventurer!) from Webcomic/GirlGenius is orignially from Norway. He's blond, blue-eyed, tall, strong and handsome. He is also utterly insane, genocidal and seemingly invulnerable.

* {Frozen} The country where Arendelle, Weselton, and the Southern Isles are located.

** And an awful lot of mountains. [[TheMountainsOfIllinois In Denmark]]. Uh, no.

* In ''EarthGirlsAreEasy'', it's Finland that seems to be confused with Switzerland. The movie features a TV ad where two bikini-clad blonde woman invite the viewer to come Finland, whilst showing scenes of Alpine skiing and yodeling. While skiing is indeed quite popular in Finland, yodeling most certainly isn't. (Though ''Yoiks'', traditional songs/singing techniques of the Samish, are often confused with yodeling by outsiders.)
** The aliens watching the ad ask if they're in Finland; host Valerie doesn't help matters by telling them "Finland is the capital of Norway!"

** Played in the remake by actual Norse woman (well, Norse-American, anyway) UmaThurman.

** [[ParodyRetcon Sure it was.]]

[[caption-width-right:350:Some very pretty [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Danish]] girls.[[note]][[DontExplainTheJoke They're actually Swedish]][[/note]]]]

-->Ophelia (In disguise): Hello I am Inga, from Sweden!
-->Coleman (Disguised, more accurately, as a priest): But you're wearing...[[{{Oktoberfest}} Lederhosen..?]]

* Othar from Webcomic/GirlGenius is orignially from Norway. He's blond, blue-eyed, tall, strong and handsome. He is also utterly insane, genocidal and seemingly invulnerable.

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as painfully naive. Finns (who, by the way, are ''not'' Scandinavian but a Eurasian people related to the Lapps and the Hungarians) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

* ''Webcomic/ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' manages [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags]] this trope. The comic shows the Nordic countries' stereotypes of ''each other'' rather than the Hollywood stereotype of them, and goes out the way to show that the countries have their own distinct cultures.

** [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Iceland]] and his sister are [[BishieSparkle beautiful]], although Sister Iceland is rather flat.

* ''ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' manages [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags]] this trope. The comic shows the Nordic countries' stereotypes of ''each other'' rather than the Hollywood stereotype of them, and goes out the way to show that the countries have their own distinct cultures.

[[caption-width-right:350:Some very pretty [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Danish]] girls.]]

A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands.[[/note]] Everyone is [[PlanetofHats liberal]], [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]].

** [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Iceland]] and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl his sister]] are [[BishieSparkle beautiful]], although Sister Iceland is rather flat.

A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands.[[/note]] Everyone is liberal, [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]].

--->Ophelia (In disguise): Hello I am Inga, from Sweden!
--->Coleman (Disguised, more accurately, as a priest): But you're wearing...[[{{Oktoberfest}} Lederhosen..?]]

* Rachel Hansen: Better that you find this out now before you come home and find her in bed with Lars from Norway.
Tom: Who's Lars from Norway?
Rachel Hansen: Just some guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt's face and Jesus' abs. (500DaysofSummer)

** Played in the remake by actual Norse woman(well, Norse-American, anyway) UmaThurman.

* ''ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' manages to both avert this and play it straight. The comic shows the Nordic countries' stereotypes of ''each other'' rather than the Hollywood stereotype of them, and goes out the way to show that the countries have their own distinct cultures.

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as painfully naive. Finns are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.