Scandinavophile
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See also: scandinavophile
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Scandinavia + -o- + -phile. Doublet of Scandophile.
Noun[edit]
Scandinavophile (plural Scandinavophiles)
- (chiefly historical) Synonym of Scandinavianist (“A supporter of Scandinavianism”)
- 2017, Bernd Roling, Bernhard Schirg, Stefan Heinrich Bauhaus, editors, Apotheosis of the North: The Swedish Appropriation of Classical Antiquity around the Baltic Sea and Beyond (1650 to 1800) (Transformationen der Antike), volume 48, Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 231:
- Baden has in 1820 claimed in a pamphlet that the Nordic myths, the whole world of the Eddic gods, were no more than the murky shadow of Greek and Roman mythology, and early medieval attempt by Northmen to copy the traditions of classical antiquity. The figures of the Edda were, Baden had emphasized, no more than a barbaric distortion of the eternal Greeks and were not a worthy subject for the fine arts or for literary treatments. The Scandinavophiles saw it differently. Magnússon replied in 1821 with a treatise in reponse, which went point by point through the supposed models transferred from Greek mythology that Baden had tried to establish.
Adjective[edit]
Scandinavophile (not comparable)
- (rare; chiefly historical) Synonym of Scandinavianist (“Pertaining to Scandinavianism”)
- 1993, Beverley Driver Eddy, “The Life and Writings of Laura Marholm, by Susan Brantly [Book Review]”, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, volume 92, number 4, →JSTOR, page 604:
- Brantly's monograph is the first book-length study of this proud, abrasive Scandinavophile and feminist writer and, as such, a valuable contribution to an understanding of fin de siècle Europe.