Holy St. Olaf, pray to God for us!
A cyberplace for Orthodox Christians who are: Scandinavians, hyphenated descendants of the Scandinavian diaspora, Upper Midwestern Americans, and/or interested in Scandinavian-Slavic and early Christian North Sea cultures or the Orthodox heritage of Scandinavia: The Lake Wobegone of Orthodox Circle. A friendly shoutout to the Finno-Ugric Orthodox group from Ambassador Angela. Helpful web addresses (please add to this list): Holy Martyr-King Olaf http://www.orthodox.net/western-saints/olaf-martyr-king-of-norway.html, Feast Day July 29
St. Sunniva(r) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Sunniva Feast Day July 8
St. Halvar(d)
http://travel.aol.co.uk/travel-guides/europe-guides/norway/oslo/view-guide/history
Feast Day, May 15
St Anskar, www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/anskar.html
Feast Day, Feb. 3
Early Orthodoxy in Iceland,
http://orthodoxengland.org.uk/oeiceland.htm
Denmark's Jelling-stenene, http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling-stenene, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jelling_stones Orthodoxy in Norway, St. Nicholas Chuch, Oslo, http://home.online.no/~thorosl/Kirkeside/ Moscow Patriarchate in Norway http://www.ortodoks.no/norsk.html Orthodoxy in Finland, http://virtual.finland.fi/netcomm/news/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=25813
Holy Protection of the Theotokos Church, Copenhagen, http://www.ortodoks.dk/ History of Russian Orthodox Church in Sweden, http://www.sweden.orthodoxy.ru/Engelska/index.htm---------------------------------- History of early Orthodoxy in Greenland and Vinland, http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/articles6/PhillipsAmerica.php Varangians (Scandinavians in Rus and Byzantium), http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Varangians
early Finland, http://www.finland.com/viking.htm
Learn Old Norse at home in your spare time, http://www.hi.is/~haukurth/norse/ ------ Varangians and the Kievan Caves, http://www.wumag.kiev.ua/wumag_old/archiv/2_98/lavra.htm-----"Orthodox Viking" blog, http://orthodoxviking.blogspot.com/
Scandinavian diaspora in the U.S. http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/911.html, Scandinavian food in the U.S. (besides the IKEA cafeteria), http://www.wikstromsgourmet.com/, http://www.michigan.org/travel/detail.asp?m=&p=B7234, http://metromix.chicagotribune.com/dining/28769,0,2064028.venue?coll=mmx-dining_brunch_features--------------------Kierkegaard and Dostovesky, http://www.metanexus.net/conference2003/pdf/WOLPaper_Cherkasova_Evgenia.pdf
