septiembre 16, 2012

Dimmu Borgir

Dimmu Borgir es una banda noruega de black metal sinfónico, fundada en 1993 por Ian Kenneth Åkesson(Tjodalv), Stian Thoresen (Shagrath) y Sven Atle Kopperud (Silenoz) en Oslo. Éstos dos últimos han sido los únicos miembros estables desde entonces.
"Dimmu Borgir" significa "Ciudad Oscura" en islandés, también es un conjunto de cuevas formadas por la lava en Islandia que según los noruegos son la entrada al averno infernal.



Dimmu Borgir
Forces Of The Northern Night - Orchestra Oslo
Norway 2011

 
Dimmu Borgir live at Wacken 2007

septiembre 10, 2012

Libro: On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America

On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America
  • Don Lago 
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    • 9780877458920
    • University of Iowa Press
    • 5/28/2004
    • 288 pgs.

When his father developed Alzheimer’s disease, Don Lago realized that the stories and traditions of his Swedish ancestors would be lost along with the rest of his father’s memories. Haunted by this inevitable tragedy, Lago set out to fight back against forgetting by researching and reclaiming his long-lost Scandinavian roots.
Beginning his quest with a visit to his ancestral home of Gränna, Sweden, Lago explores all facets of Scandinavian America—Swedish, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian, and Icelandic—along the way. He encounters Icelanders living in the Utah desert, a Titanic victim buried beneath a gigantic Swedish coffee pot in Iowa, an Arkansas town named after the famous Swedish opera singer Jenny Lind, a real-life Legoland in southern California, and other unique remnants of America’s Scandinavian past. Visits to Sigurd Olson’s legendary cabin on the banks of Burntside Lake in the Boundary Waters of Minnesota and Carl Sandburg’s birthplace in Galesburg, Illinois, further provide Lago with an acute sense of the Scandinavian values that so greatly influenced, and continue to influence, American society.
More than just a travel memoir, On the Viking Trail places Scandinavian immigrants and their history within the wider sweep of American culture. Lago’s perceptive eye and amusing tales remind readers of all ethnic backgrounds that to truly appreciate America one must never forget its immigrant past.

1 The Swedish Prayer
2 Nightingale Echoes
3 Tippecanoe and the Titanic Too
4 Down the Mythissippi River and the Saga Fe Trail
5 Leaving Gothenburg
6 Listening Point
7 To See the Earth as It Truly Is
8 The Unforgotten Spirit
9 Adventures in Legoland
10 With Liberty and Justice for All
11 Vikings on a Sea of Sand
12 It's Been a Quiet 150 Years in Bishop Hill
13 Melting Pot Stew, with Raisins
14 More Swedish Than Sweden
15 By the Shores of Gitche Gumee
16 Home Run

Vista previa del libro

septiembre 07, 2012

Aki Kaurismaki / Leningrad Cowboys: Those were the days (Fin.)

Clip/cortometraje que pasó por varios festivales internacionales de cine, dando a conocer al mismo tiempo al director Aki Kaurismaki y al grupo Leningrad Cowboys.

Glögg

Glögg El Glögg (en sueco; en danés y noruego: gløgg , y en finlandés: glögi ) es un tipo de vino caliente escandinavo hecho a partir de...