Northerness

- Jean Sibelius, Finnish composer, Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47 (1903/1905)

- Mats Larsson Gothe, Swedish composer, Concerto for trombone and wind instruments

- Peter Bengtson, Swedish composer

- Edvard Grieg, composer, Norway

- Carl Nielsen, Danish composer

- knäckebröd

- Meatballs

- Fish

- gräddfil (sour cream)

- Reindeer

- smörgåsbord

- Nordic Landscape Painting

- Alvar Aalto, Finnish architect and furniture designer

- Forests

- ABBA, Agnetha Fältskog, the blond

- The sexy Swedish party girl cliche

- Lappmarken (Swedish Lapland)

- Sami people

- Duodji (Sami handicraft)

- Ingrid Thulin, Swedish film actress

- Malmö

- Liv Ullmann, Norwegian actress

- Nordic folklore

- Nordic mythology

- Valhalla  

- Siegfried/Sigurd

- Ingmar Bergman

- Kantele (traditional plucked string instrument)

- Glenn Gould’s The Idea of North (Solitude Trilogy)

- Toronto  

- Bobo Stenson Trio

- August Strindberg, Fröken Julie (Miss Julie)

- Hanna Elmquist, Swedish jazz singer

- Viktoria Tolstoy, Swedish jazz singer

- Midsommar (Midsummer)

- Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish scientist, philosopher, Christian mystic

- Jaakko Hintikka, Finnish philosopher

- Ludwig Wittgenstein in Norway, He wanted to escape what in his eyes was the atmosphere of superficial intellectualising in Cambridge. At the end of October he took a room in a guest-house in Skjolden, a small remote place northeast of Bergen, where he intended to spend the winter in lonely contemplation of questions of logic