History Main / NorseByNorsewest

* Subverted in ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia''. While he is indeed handsome, tall and blond, Sweden is reserved and appears intimidating to those who do not know him well.
* [[Myth/NorseMythology Baldr]] from ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'' is this kind of handsome. He has the blond look, and he and Loki both have braids.

Technically Icelanders and Faroe Islanders are not "Scandinavian" either, as the strict definition of Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The preferred term is "Nordic" which also includes Greenland and Svalbard. Icelanders and Faroe Islanders speak Scandinavian (AKA North Germanic) languages, however. Meanwhile, Greenland is owned by Denmark and has a long history of Norse settlement, but it, on top of being located in North America and not being Scandinavian, is mostly populated by the racially and linguistically[[note]]The Eskimo-Aleut languages, of which Greenlandic Inuit is a part, are concentrated in North America[[/note]] different Inuit people, therefore it is more of an EskimoLand than Nordic.

* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' 2. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Iceland all have the norse culture in the early start dates but split up into Swedish, Norwegian and danish in their corresponding de jure kingdoms from 950 onward, subverting this trope. However, if you happen to unite all these kingdoms in a united Scandinavian empire, they will stay Norse forever, thus playing this trope straight.

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]] [[PlanetofHats Everyone is]] liberal, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blond]] and [[SexyScandinavian 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 health care.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the kingdom of Arendelle appears to be on a Norwegian fjord. Anna and Elsa have a rather Nordic ethnic look to them. Kristoff is conspicuously dressed in Sami-style clothing and even has a reindeer as a best friend.

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. And let's not even get into Austria and Australia...)[[/note]] [[PlanetofHats Everyone is]] liberal, [[EveryoneLovesBlondes blond]] and [[SexyScandinavian 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 health care.

Everyone either skis or snowboards and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that Franchise/{{Lego}} was invented there. The region is also known for having a thriving metal scene (BlackMetal in Norway and DeathMetal in Sweden especially) and indie game scene (Sweden especially makes a ton of popular indie games, including ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'', ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', ''VideoGame/AmnesiaTheDarkDescent'' and much more originating from there).

Everyone either skis or snowboards and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that Franchise/{{Lego}} was invented there. The region is also known for having a thriving metal scene (BlackMetal in Norway and DeathMetal in Sweden especially).

Technically Icelanders and Faroe Islanders are not "Scandinavian" either, as the strict definition of Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The preferred term is "Nordic" which also includes Greenland and Svalbard. Icelanders and Faroe Islanders speak Scandinavian (AKA North Germanic) languages, however. Meanwhile, Greenland is owned by Denmark and has a long history of Norse settlement, but it, on top of not being Scandinavian, is mostly populated by the racially and linguistically[[note]]The Eskimo-Aleut languages, of which Greenlandic Inuit is a part, are concentrated in North America[[/note]] different Inuit people, therefore it is more of an EskimoLand than Nordic.

* It's possible that the now mostly-forgotten TropeMaker for the portrayal of Sweden (and by extension the rest of the Norselands) as "sexy" was the MondoMovie ''Sweden: Heaven And Hell''. Now much more infamous for being the original source of ''Series/TheMuppetShow''s' "Mah Na Mah Na".

Technically Icelanders are not "Scandinavian" either, as the strict definition of Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The preferred term is "Nordic" which also includes Greenland, Svalbard, and the Faroe Islands. Icelanders and Faroe Islanders speak Scandinavian (AKA North Germanic) languages, however. Meanwhile, Greenland is owned by Denmark and has a long history of Norse settlement, but it is mostly populated by the racially and linguistically[[note]]The Eskimo-Aleut languages, of which Greenlandic Inuit is a part of, are concentrated in North America[[/note]] different Inuit people, therefore it is more of an EskimoLand than Nordic.

Technically Icelanders are not "Scandinavian" either, as the strict definition of Scandinavia is only Sweden, Norway and Denmark. The preferred term is "Nordic" which also includes Greenland, Svalbard, and the Faroe Islands. Icelanders and Faroe Islanders speak Scandinavian (AKA North Germanic) languages, however.

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* Mean girl Ava from ''DarthWiki/TheGingerverse'' is Norwegian. There is also Paige Holt, Ginger's friend from SVEEDEN! Except with brown hair. Then there's Ynga Lundqvist from some Scandianvian country that is not Finland, Sweden, Iceland, or the Aland Islands (either Norway, Denmark, Svalbard or the Faroe Islands).
In the spinoff series Aurora Borealis and Company, most of the characters are Finnish.

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* Mean girl Ava from ''DarthWiki/TheGingerverse'' is Norwegian. There is also Paige Holt, Ginger's friend from SVEEDEN! Except with brown hair.

* Mean girl Ava from The Gingerverse is Norwegian.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgO6Ttn7rU Inga From Sweden,]] the page quote.

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* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgO6Ttn7rU Inga From Sweden,]] the page quote.
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On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as [[DumbBlonde painfully naive]]. Finns (whose language, by the way, is not related to Norwegian, Swedish, or Danish, being Uralic, like the [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} Estonians]] and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Hungarians]], instead of Germanic) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'', the Nords, Tamriel's ProudWarriorRace of HornyVikings, are firmly fantasy northern European in terms of their modern culture and their physical appearance (tall, muscular, fair-haired, pale-skinned). They have a cultural love of battling, as well as mead, feasting, and a strong [[WarriorPoet bardic tradition]]. Their old religion (pre-dating that of the Imperial [[SaintlyChurch Nine Divines]]) also has many elements straight out of NorseMythology, particularly the WarriorHeaven of Sovngarde. Their first names are typically pulled from medieval Norse while [[AwesomeMcCoolName they have badass sounding clan names or sobriquets]], such as Arkming the Flayer, Ulfgar the Unending, Else God-Hater, Falk Firebeard, Frofnir Trollsbane, Aldi Winterblade... the list goes on and on... Their homeland of Skyrim is [[GrimUpNorth cold and untamed]] while being [[EverythingIsTryingToKillYou full of vicious wild animals and other threats]]. Their ancient culture has a number of other influences as well (Hinduism and Ancient Egyptian Mythology), making it more CultureChopSuey though still heavy with Norse elements.

Everyone either skis or snowboards and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that Franchise/{{Lego}} was invented there. The region is also known for having a thriving BlackMetal scene.

Named for a certain port of ''TheLostVikings II'', which in turn is a reference to [[Film/NorthByNorthwest a Hitchcock film]].

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the kingdom of Arendelle appears to be on a Norwegian fjord. Anna and Elsa have a rather nordic ethnic look to them. Kristoff is conspicuously dressed in Sami-style clothing, and even has a reindeer as a best friend.

* ''Film/TradingPlaces'', the Sweden[=/=]Switzerland confusion is {{lampshaded}} in this conversation on the train on New Years Eve:

* Zig-zagged in ''VideoGame/CrusaderKings'' 2. Sweden, Norway, Denmark, the Faroe Islands and Iceland all have the norse culture in the early start dates but split up into Swedish, Norwegian and danish in their corresponding de jure kingdoms from 950 onward, subverting this trope. However, if you happen to unite all these kingdoms in a united Scandinavian empire, they will stay norse for ever, thus playing this trope straight.

* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' plays this trope straight. The gang meets a single mother with three beautiful daughters named Inga, Ola and Heidi. [[CuteMute None of them can speak.]] They just walk around,be overly hospitable and cry if they believe they offended their guests in the slightest. They aren't even the [[BigBad Big Bads]] of the episode for crying out loud.

[[caption-width-right:350:Some very pretty [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Danish]] girls.[[note]]They're actually Swedish and Denmark's national colors are actually red and white[[/note]]]]

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as [[DumbBlonde painfully naive]]. Finns (who, by the way, are not related to the other Scandinavians, being Uralic, like the [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} Estonians]] and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Hungarians]], instead of Germanic) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

* The Nords of ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' games are all fantasy Scandinavians; tall, muscular, fair-haired, pale-skinned, tend to have names like Sigurd, Jurgen, and Hroki followed by [[AwesomeMcCoolName awesome sobriquets like Windcaller, Ice-Fast and Fire-Beard]]. Also naturally tough against freezing weather and magical frost, and tend to be really badass fighters as their homeland, Skyrim, is a wild place full of all manner of monsters and dangerous animals.

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 related to the other Scandinavians, being Uralic, like the [[UsefulNotes/{{Estonia}} Estonians]] and the [[UsefulNotes/{{Hungary}} Hungarians]], instead of Germanic) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

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

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

* Subverted in Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia. While he is indeed handsome, tall and blond, Sweden is reserved and appears intimidating to those who do not know him well.
* [[NorseMythology Baldr]] from ''VisualNovel/KamigamiNoAsobi'' is this kind of handsome. He has the blond look, and he and Loki both have braids.