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From: sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley)
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (Was: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus)
Keywords: Santa
Organization: Dept of English -- IOWA STATE UNIV
Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1992 00:23:12 GMT

In <1992Aug28.071615.27322@ugle.unit.no> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:

>I once wrote "New York, Norway", on a small piece of paper. This is the
>ultimate evidence that New York belongs to Norway, and is currently
>only occupied by the imperialistic USA !

>Figth'em !


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  Do you really WANT New York???? Think of what having it would do to Norway's
crime rate.

Sooz
sooz@iastate.edu

Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: qvortrup@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Qvortrup)
Subject: Santa Poll - now closing! 
Organization: Dept. Informatik, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
Distribution: soc
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:11:03 GMT

OK, the informal Santa Poll is comming to an end (no replies have
arrived over the weekend), so I think it is time to close it.

Just a refresher (for those who still might want to participate).
The question was:

Where do you believe Santa Claus lives:

	a) North Pole
	b) Greenland
	c) Finland
	d) Some other place, please specify.
	e) Unspecified

Replies through e-mail, please.


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A summary should appear on the net soon after the deadline.

Greetings,
--Mike

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From: jbuhl@daimi.aau.dk (Jesper Buhl)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 26 Aug 92 00:12:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: daimi.1992Aug26.001209.28861
Organization: DAIMI: Computer Science Department, Aarhus University, Denmark

f90-len@byse.nada.kth.se (Lars Engebretsen) writes:

>In article <pockling.714768852@sfu.ca> pockling@fraser.sfu.ca (richard pocklington) writes:
>>	Does anyone know how the days of the week got named after
>>the Norse gods?  Tyr-tuesday, Odin-wednesday, Thor-thursday and 
>>Frey/Freya/Frigga-friday  which of these gods is friday named after?

>I am very uncertain here, but my guess would be Frey.

I am very certain, though, certain that it's Freya :)

>>Why is saturday still named after a Roman deity, Saturn?

>But it isn't in Swedish!  In Swedish, Saturday is "l|rdag" which comes
>from "l|gardag", which means "the day you wash yourself".

Do. in Denmark. For some reason or another, the norse word for
saturday wasn't adopted by the english. Maybe they only washed once
a year?

>> Richard Pocklington   pockling@sfu.ca  
>-- 
>Lars Engebretsen, Fm-90 KTH, f90-len@nada.kth.se

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					Jesper Buhl / jbuhl@daimi.aau.dk
					Computer   Science   Department,
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman)
Subject: Re: More about meat
Organization: Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ.
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:45:26 GMT

kristian@siri.unit.no (Kristian Martinsen) writes:
: I think it's savagely to eat meat from pigs and cows! Those
: warm-blooded intelligente animals is almost like humans. Just look at
: how they care for their children, and how the speak to eachother! 
: And so cute they all are!
: Eat seafood. MINKE WHALE for example! :-)
: Kristian
: Big Norwegians needs big food!

Thanks for posting such clever and witty articles. Work on it and you may
end up being as admired as the famous Mutlu.
--
Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
"I think, therefore I'm right."-Hugo Rune
"who's more important to you?
me or your stupid boyfriend?"-lpm@fert2.fe.psu.edu in an email addressed to my
girlfriend
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Subject: Re: More about meat
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 92 06:24:51 GMT

In article <1992Sep3.204526.17667@tdb.uu.se>, t88swa@tdb.uu.se (Sven Wallman) writes:
|> 
|> Thanks for posting such clever and witty articles. Work on it and you may
|> end up being as admired as the famous Mutlu.
|> --
|> Sven Wallman, S:t Larsg. 5, 753 11 Uppsala, Sweden, +46 1812 9237
--


Who is Mutlu ?


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From: canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 28 Aug 92 14:36:18 GMT
Article-I.D.: burrhus.1992Aug28.143618.17665
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Aug27.095032.12670@ida.liu.se> d89johbe@odalix.ida.liu.se (Johan Berntsson) writes:
>karttu@mits.mdata.fi (Antti Karttunen) writes:
>>Now, if I remember right, Germanic gods Tiw, Woden, Thor and Frigg
>>somehow have the similar roles as Roman gods Mars, Mercurius, Jupiter
>>and Venus, but of course I might be wrong too. (Is Frigg same as Fre(i)ja?).
>
>There are similarities between Woden and Jupiter, Tiw and Mars. Frigg was
>Woden's wife and can't be compared to Venus. Freya/Fre(i)ja was the godess
>of Love, a nordic Venus in some sence.

	In classical times, the Romans compared Woden to Mercury/Mercurius
and Thor/Thunor to Jupiter.  Frigg and Freyja both had fertility related
functions and may have had common origins, but seemed to have been separate
by the later Viking period (and certainly when Snorri was writing about
it!).

Carl

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From: sveini@mack.uit.no (Svein-Ivar Lillehaug)
Subject: Re: Norwegians shot Swedish bear
Organization: University of Tromsoe
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 09:42:49 GMT
Distribution: soc

In article <etxmow.715246262@garboc34> etxmow@garboc34.ericsson.se (Mats Winberg) writes:
>
>Subject: Norwegians shot Swedish bear

How can you tell the nationality of a bear?


Svein-Ivar
(just curious)
From: abraham@iesd.auc.dk (Per Abrahamsen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus
Date: 28 Aug 92 13:37:26 GMT
	<1992Aug25.131441.3338@jyu.fi>
Organization: Mathematics and Computer Science, Aalborg University


Have you noticed how this thread appears earlier each year?
Xref: sparky soc.culture.nordic:5491 soc.history:8039
From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic,soc.history
Subject: Re: Christening & colonization of the north-east Europe.
Date: 3 Sep 92 20:13:25 GMT
Organization: /usr/lib/news/organization

In article <1992Sep2.163826.28347@burrhus.harvard.edu> canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson) writes:
>In article <1992Sep2.135516.22665@nntp.hut.fi> c34657b@saha.hut.fi (Tuomas Viljanen) writes:
>>Of course, calling the Teutonic Order as the Waffen-SS of the Middle Ages, is
>>an insult towards the Waffen-SS: _they_ did not succeed in wiping out a whole
>>people, as the Knights succeeded with the Prussians, Frisians and Livonians :(
>
>	I didn't think the Frisians were totally wiped out, were they?
>Frisian is still spoken on the North Sea fringe (though admittedly by a
>small population) and I can't think of anyone who would speak it but a
>Frisian.

The PBS show "The Story of English" came up with a couplet that sounds the
same whether you say it in English or Frisian.  This increases the population
of (potential) speakers of (a little) Frisian enormously.  The couplet (in
English; in Frisian it would be spelled differently) is:
		" `Good eggs' and `good cheese'
		Is good English and good Frise."


Carrie		ceb@rechenau.unify.com	x6244
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From: bjorn.kvisli@thcave.no (Bjorn Kvisli) 
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Norway claiming NY (Y
Date: 1 Sep 92 19:34:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Thunderball Cave BBS - Oslo, Norway  (47 2) 56 70 18
Reply-To: bjorn.kvisli@thcave.no (Bjorn Kvisli) 

CE> ><<Do you really WANT New York???? Think of what having it would


I lived in manhattan for two years and returned to Oslo in
September last year. When I came back here and read the papers and
watched the TV news, I was supprised to see how similar the bad
news were. I'm talking about crime, drugs and social problems.
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley)
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (too late)
Keywords: Santa
Organization: Dept of English -- IOWA STATE UNIV
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 1992 22:26:20 GMT

In <1992Sep2.064949.3638@ugle.unit.no> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:

>--


>Oh - is your beef even better than T-bone steak from Texas ?

>Maybe I have to change my attitude against USA :-)


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Yes, definitely. If I had any idea how to mail you a T-bone from Iowa, I'd let
you decide for yourself. If you're ever in the neighbourhood - stop by. I'll
get the hibachi fired up.

Susan Bradley
sooz@iastate.edu


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From: ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti)
Subject: Re: Greenland claiming residence of Santa Claus
Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 06:23:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug25.230720.25715@news.uit.no> sveini@mack.uit.no (Svein-Ivar Lillehaug) writes:
>In article <1992Aug25.131441.3338@jyu.fi> ryyti@jyu.fi (Jarmo Ryyti) writes:
>>
>>:   "Legend has it that he lives in a castle of ice in Greenland, close to
>>: the North Pole.  He still does.  But now we know that Santa's Post
>>: Office is to be found in Nuuk, Greenland," said a first-day cover.
>>
I am very concerned whether Santa Claus is loosing the battle of being
the most famous Finn for the Huckleberry Finn. Santa Claus is stolen,
next victim might be Hucleberry Finn, after seeing the manners and
ill- mindness I were not suprised if a norwegian claims that Huckleberry 
Finn  is from
Finnmark,Norway and not a Finn.
 Is it fair Nordic co-operation when first the
saunas was intorduced for the world as a swedish invention by the swedes,
 now the
Danes are robbing Santa Claus. I bet the norwegians
do not want be worse than the Danes and Swedes when it concerns being
nasty for the Finns...now good advice is really needed, now if ever. 
Jarmo Ryyti
Very concerned
>
>
>/ Svein-Ivar
>/ -a whale a day,
>/  keeps the doctor away
>Actually, I served some canadian visitors reindeer for dinner yesterday....
>
Svein - Ivar , do you know if whale meat is exported to Finland.
I would like to eat one.
Jarmo
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: armagan@sassafras (Armagan Ozdinc)
Subject: Re: Santa Poll - now closing! 
Reply-To: armagan@prc.unisys.com
Organization: Paramax Systems
Distribution: soc
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:19:36 GMT

In article <92Aug31.183242edt.47888@neat.cs.toronto.edu>, bryn@cs.toronto.edu (Bryn Owren) writes:
|> In article <1992Aug31.175551.28432@gvl.unisys.com> armagan@prc.unisys.com writes:
|> >In article <1992Aug31.091103.18696@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>, qvortrup@inf.ethz.ch (Michael Qvortrup) writes:
|> >|> OK, the informal Santa Poll is comming to an end (no replies have
|> >
|> >I say  d) Turkey
|> 
|> Nope,..... That is what we serve him, when he drops by... :)
|> >
|> >----------------------------------------------------------------
|> > ARMAGAN A. OZDINC
|> > Paramax Systems, Valley Forge Labs, Research and Development
|> >________________________________________________________________
|> 
|> Bryn

Ok, guys, then I am changing it to " d) Turkiye". How is that?
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Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: f90-len@byse.nada.kth.se (Lars Engebretsen)
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1992 19:28:34 GMT

In article <pockling.714768852@sfu.ca> pockling@fraser.sfu.ca (richard pocklington) writes:
>	Does anyone know how the days of the week got named after
>the Norse gods?  Tyr-tuesday, Odin-wednesday, Thor-thursday and 
>Frey/Freya/Frigga-friday  which of these gods is friday named after?

I am very uncertain here, but my guess would be Frey.

>Why is saturday still named after a Roman deity, Saturn?

But it isn't in Swedish!  In Swedish, Saturday is "l|rdag" which comes
from "l|gardag", which means "the day you wash yourself".

> Richard Pocklington   pockling@sfu.ca  
-- 
Lars Engebretsen, Fm-90 KTH, f90-len@nada.kth.se
From: hvaisane@cs.joensuu.fi (H. Vaisanen)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Employment (Was: Immigrants and employment)
Date: 26 Aug 92 05:14:33 GMT
Organization: University of Joensuu

BTW: When did soc.culture.nordic transform into talk.politics.nordic? (-:


jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:
> (H. Vaisanen) writes:
>|> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:
>|> >Why shouldn't they want to buy it ?
>|> 
>|> Because they don't *need* it, for example.
>|> If I own 73 pairs of shoes, I am not intrested in buying 74th pair, no
>|> matter how cheap it is.
>I don't think we'll have any problem finding products that people
>need. (What about the starving african, for instance ? :-)

*Sigh.* We are back where we started: how do you find out what people
need if not by the invisible hand of the market? (-:


>|> The workers, previous and present, have been payed for their work.
>|> The profit is the only pay the employer gets.
>But where do the machinery fit in ? Who gets that ?

The machinery is the property of the owner.


>And who makes the profit ?

People who buy the goods the corporation sells.
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Subject: Re: Employment (Was: Immigrants and employment)
Reply-To: jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun)
Organization: SINTEF, Norwegian Institute of Technology
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 92 09:13:51 GMT

In article <1992Aug26.051433.24984@cs.joensuu.fi>, hvaisane@cs.joensuu.fi (H. Vaisanen) writes:
|> 
|> BTW: When did soc.culture.nordic transform into talk.politics.nordic? (-:
|> 
|> 
|> jafitv@termo.unit.no (Jan Arne Fagertun) writes:
|> >I don't think we'll have any problem finding products that people
|> >need. (What about the starving african, for instance ? :-)
|> 
|> *Sigh.* We are back where we started: how do you find out what people
|> need if not by the invisible hand of the market? (-:


Sigh.
Why not go to the nearest corner and scream :
"I have only 73 pairs of shoes, I want a new pair !" :-)

I don't mean we'll have some central comittee planning that during the
next 10 years our heroic workers shall make 10000 kg of nails each -
I'm sure people would protest if the result was that we could only get
veeeeery large (20 cm ?) nails....

But I'm sure we could find some reasonable way to find out what people
need.


|> 
|> 
|> 
|> The machinery is the property of the owner.
|> 


Yes, I know. But why ? Did the owner (the employer) make them by his
own hands ? Did the owner alone make and sell the shoes, from which the
profits to buy the machinery came ?

Of course the employer should own the machinery, if you can answer
"yes" to the questions above. (-:


|> 
|> People who buy the goods the corporation sells.


OK, the goods just fall down from heaven.... :-)


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From: canders@isr.harvard.edu (Carl E. Anderson)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Keywords: weekdays
Date: 26 Aug 92 16:11:46 GMT
Organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

In article <1992Aug25.192834.14916@kth.se> f90-len@byse.nada.kth.se (Lars Engebretsen) writes:
>In article <pockling.714768852@sfu.ca> pockling@fraser.sfu.ca (richard pocklington) writes:
>>	Does anyone know how the days of the week got named after
>>the Norse gods?  Tyr-tuesday, Odin-wednesday, Thor-thursday and 
>>Frey/Freya/Frigga-friday  which of these gods is friday named after?
>
>I am very uncertain here, but my guess would be Frey.

	This has often puzzled me too.  I think it may be different in the
different Germanic lanaguages.  Freyr/Freyja/Frigga/Fricca osv were all
very similar in concept.  Which the day was named after probably depended
on which form was most popular where and at what time.

Cheers,
Carl

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From: evc@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Edward Van Cura)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Date: 31 Aug 92 00:53:55 GMT


>d9bertil@dtek.chalmers.se (Bertil Jonell)
>  How about the conflict when a standard celtic (Freya&Co have always seemed
>to handle more celtic 'subjects' than the Aesir to me) religion was replaced
>with the Aesir in Scandinavia (and bordering areas). Conflicts can (and do)
>happen inside a culture, especially when some people are trying to push a 
>new religion.
>-bertil-

Your nutty, beyond-the-fringe, strange theory :) does not stand up to the 
rigors of scholarship. As for comparing Celtic and Germanic `subjects', 
please read:

*Myths and Symbols in Pagan Europe*
H.R. Ellis Davidson
Syracuse University Press
1988
ISBN 0-8156-2441-7

Warning: reading this book is hazardous to your preconceptions.

Thorfinn Einarsson

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From: johnson@sleipnir.mnesouth.corp.mot.com ("Johnson")
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (too late)
Reply-To: johnson@sleipnir.mnesouth.corp.mot.com
Organization: Motorola Wireless Enterprises, Schaumburg, IL
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 19:42:43 GMT
Keywords: Santa

In article <sooz.715302308@vincent1.iastate.edu>, sooz@iastate.edu (Susan F Bradley) writes:
=)deserve that?)  AND - if anybody over there wants it - we will send as much of 
=)Texas as their Nordic hearts desire.  
=)
Perhaps as winter approaches, they'll have more use for Florida (the Sunshine
State).
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From: raustein@athena.mit.edu (Yngve Koehler Raustein)
Subject: Re: Norway claiming NY (too late)
Keywords: Santa
Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 17:03:57 GMT

In article <17t4unINN5j5@agate.berkeley.edu>, tedrick@whistle.Berkeley.EDU (Tom Tedrick) writes:
|> 
|> Now, Trondheim I remember as extremely beautiful. Is there still
|> a tram that takes you to a restaurant at the top of a mountain
|> where you get a spectacular view of the city and the fjord?

'Fraid that beautiful city is Bergen, my home town.:-)

Trondheim is the city with the cathedral (which is not all it's cracked
up to be.) 

Yngve

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Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
From: seeger@oceania.com (Seeger Fisher)
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Reply-To: seeger@oceania.com
Organization: Oceania Health Care Systems
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 19:17:49 GMT

In article <BJORN.B.LARSEN.92Aug26135131@engels.delab.sintef.no>  
Bjorn.B.Larsen@delab.sintef.no (Bjorn B. Larsen) writes:
> In article <BtKBpA.H5q@oceania.com> seeger@oceania.com (Seeger Fisher)  
writes:
> 
> > [ ... ]
> 
> > What's more curious, why are there seven days in a week? And why
> > aren't there thirteen months in a year??
> 
> That is an easy one. The answer is in the Bible, read the first book
> of the Old Testament. I never remember what it is called in English,
> but try "Genesis."
> 
Why does the Bible say so? There are thirteen moons in a solar year (28 * 13 =  
364!!). I guess since thirteen doesn't divide, then assigning seasonal  
boundaries would have been difficult. 

Seeger
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From: mimir@milton.u.washington.edu (Al Billings)
Subject: Re: Tyr,Odin,Thor,Frey?
Organization: The Friends of Loki Society
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 04:16:09 GMT

In article <BJORN.B.LARSEN.92Aug26135131@engels.delab.sintef.no> bjorn.b.larsen@delab.sintef.no writes:
>In article <BtKBpA.H5q@oceania.com> seeger@oceania.com (Seeger Fisher) writes:
>
>> What's more curious, why are there seven days in a week? And why
>> aren't there thirteen months in a year??
>
>That is an easy one. The answer is in the Bible, read the first book
>of the Old Testament. I never remember what it is called in English,
>but try "Genesis."

 Why? Everyone knows the world started with Fire and Ice and will end in
Fire when the army of the slain marches.

Wassail,
Al Billings, Gothi

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