93 E Dunedin Rd

Columbus OH 43214

Date: November 20, 1999

Time: 6:30…7:00 p.m. Gathering

7:00 p.m. Dinner

Place: Clintonville Women’s Club

3951 North High Street

Cost: Adult Members………….$9.00

Adult Guests………...…$11.00

Children Members………$4.00

Children Guests………....$6.00

Student Guests……….….$9.00

President's message

October 17, 1999 Report

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The Scandinavian Club has collected a lot of Club history during the years. These documents are currently held between the different board members and passed each year from one board member to another. Since the amount of material is getting bigger, the board would like to find a permanent storage place for this Club history. If any of the members would be interested in providing such a permanent location, please contact Don Larson.

The board meeting minutes pre 1996 and the ScandiNews between 1960 and 1979 seem to have gone missing. If anyone has copies of these missing records, please contact the appropriate board members.

Program Information

Editor’s note: Apologies of the mistakes in the October ScandiNews regarding the program schedule — the editor had typed the information incorrectly. Please, use the above schedule.

Name ___________________________________ Parents Name _______________________________ Age __________

Address _________________________________________________________________ Tel ______________________

Participation in Scandinavian Club Activities _____________________________________________________________

Participation in School Activities _______________________________________________________________________

Other Accomplishments ______________________________________________________________________________

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Send to: Kären Harrington

VP/Programs

1555 Wyandotte Rd. Due by November 17, 1999

Grandview Hts, OHIO 43212

Scandinavian Club Board Minutes, 9/19/99

Gail Svendsen, Secretary

Present: Don Larson, Aira Kekäle, Gail Svendsen, Johan Farstad, Paul Holmberg, Ernest Park, Karen Harrington, Karen Nielsen.

I. Called to order at 6:05 p.m.

II. PH moved, AK seconded, to accept minutes of 15 August. Passed.

III. Proposed business card reviewed. DL will get 2^nd estimate. DL has dishwashing agreement with youth of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church for $100. Mary Griffith will charge $30 to inspect kitchen after use.

Voice mail responsibilities: Membership chair — membership message; Dinner — dinner chair; Directions. locations — ScandiNews editor; General information — President. WEB site responsibilities: Mark Nordstrom will maintain and keep updated.

IV. Vice President: 3 winners of game; answers should be in ScandiNews. No program yet for Nov. Feb.: presentation on history of club. March: Leah Persson, flautist.

V. Secretary: cards sent; birthday collection slow.

VI. Treasurer: balance 19 August: $3,464.50 GS moved, JF 2^nd to accept report; passed.

VII. Membership: [absent].

VIII. ScandiNews: 150 printed, 148 mailed. $49.50 postage, $93.59 printing. Some years of ScandiNews are missing. Carol Wickstrom has scrapbooks and will update with loose photos. AK still looking for an archivist. SN deadline 30 Sept.

IX. Property: Went to picnic with one box and came home with two boxes! Bring to meeting flags, boom box, mike. New speaker system at church not yet installed.

XI. Calling: no calls to ScandiNews subscription only.

X. Dinner: Two couples have volunteered for Oct. dinner. GFS gives group discount.

XII. Old Business: Mark Nordstrom willing to demonstrate WEB site; social hour time slot suggested.

XIII. New Business: Invite Linda King to Nov. board meeting re: Lucia.

XIV. International Festival: Carol Wickstrom — theme this year is "Feast your eyes on the world" Our display will feature a jump on the millenium, 1000 years of vikings; viking ship with flag shields made of craft paper. KH has a friend who is a graphic designer. GS will make Viking world tour poster. Discussion re: blue table covers, booth side; PH will check with Cord Camera re: Polaroid re: viking cut out.

Meeting adjourned 8:35 PM.

Here are some pictures which were taken during the October dinner by Åke Hellström. These and some other pictures can also be seen in the ScandiClub’s Web page.

President Clinton to Oslo in November

A spokesman for the White House said Wednesday night that President Bill Clinton will visit Oslo on November 1st and 2nd.

Clinton is coming to Oslo in connection with a memorial ceremony in honour of the late Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the Middle East negotiations in the Norwegian capital in 1993.

Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik, who visited Washington a week ago, said to NRK Radio last night, that he is pleased that Clinton is able to attend the Oslo meeting.
He thinks that the US President through this visit will get a better knowledge of Norway and the Norwegian situation, and hopes that this will have a positive influence.
He also hopes the meeting will give new impetus to the Middle East peace efforts.

The Palestinian President, Yasir Arafat, has earlier said that he is coming to the meeting in Oslo.

The Israeli Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, has according to the Norwegian Department for Foreign Affairs, given "strong signals" that he will also come to Oslo. (NRK)

Rolleiv Solholm

This article was taken from the Internet site of Norway Post on October 21, 1999

HELSINKI, Oct 29 (Reuters) - Helsinki bars are bracing themselves for thousands of early morning customers on Sunday when Finn Mika Hakkinen defends his Formula One world champion's title.

Sports theme bars have been granted special licenses to open at 6.30am (0430GMT) and say they expect capacity crowds to watch the season-ending Japanese Grand Prix from big screens.

"We had a full house last year and this time there is the added interest of the Ferrari controversy," said Mika Jaakkola, manager of the Sports Academy bar in central Helsinki.

Hakkinen was named champion last week when Eddie Irvine's Ferrari was disqualified but the decision was overturned when Ferrari won an appeal, putting Irvine four points clear of McLaren's Hakkinen.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel, 1999 to

Professor Robert A. Mundell, Columbia University, New York, USA

Professor Gerardus 't Hooft, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands, and Professor Emeritus Martinus J.G. Veltman, Bilthoven, the Netherlands.

Professor Ahmed H. Zewail, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA

Günter Blobel, Laboratory of Cell Biology, The Rockefeller University, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, USA

Günter Grass "Whose frolicsome black fables portray the forgotten face of history".

Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières), in recognition of the organization’s pioneering humanitarian work on several continents.

Columbus, OH 43214-0296 .....................614/470-1503

(Web Master: Mark Nordstrom)

President............................Don Larson..................486-3436

Vice President/Programs...Karen Harrington.........488-5839

Secretary............................Gail Svendsen..............486-8609

Treasurer............................Ernest Park..................451-3030

Dinner Chair......................Paul Holmberg.............885-1904

Membership.......................Johnerik Wenar............268-8914

Property.............................Johan Farstad.........740/524-2357

Calling Chair.....................Karen Nielsen...............459-7988

Scandinews........................Aira Kekäle..................261-1734

Youth Program Leader……Linda King……….…471-5337

THE DANISH VIKINGS

In the year 793 The Anglo_Saxon Chronicle refers to a Viking raid on the Lindisfarne Monastery on an island off the coast of northeastern England:

In this year dire forewarnings came over the land of the Northumbrians and miserably terrified the people; dragons were seen flying in the air. A great famine soon followed these tokens; and a little after that, in the same year, on the VIth of the Ides of January (Jan. 8th) the havoc of heathen men miserably destroyed God s church at Lindisfarne, through rapine and slaughter.

This raid, the first registered Viking raid in Europe, is now traditionally used as the date of the beginning of the Viking era. We do, though, have indirect information about earlier Viking raids on England and in Scandinavia several of the features characteristic of the social order of the Viking era go back to the earlier 700s so that the beginning of the period may well be dated to the first half of the eighth century.

During the following three hundred years or so Scandinavia played a prominent part in many important and dramatic events in Europe. In their open square rigged vessels the Vikings plied the coastal waters of Europe and disembarked as traders, buccaneers or colonisers whichever the scenario might recommend.

The word Viking is seen on several contemporary Scandinavian runic stones, probably in the context of one fighting at sea or battle at sea . Elsewhere in the world the Norsemen were otherwise referred to. The Franks called them ascomans or normanni while the Anglo_Saxon sources frequently used the designation dani . In Byzantium and in the Arab lands they were called rus or al_Magus .

Sweden, Norway and Denmark had each their own sphere of interest matching their location. For the Swedes it was easy to cross the Baltic Sea and settle in the Baltics from where they proceeded down the Russian rivers to the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. The sphere of the Norwegians comprised the Atlantic Isles, Scotland and Ireland. They also settled in Iceland and Greenland and visited Vinland in North America. The Danes sailed along the coast of western Europe and to east England. Often crews consisting of men from more than one of the countries would join on these voyages.

The three Viking centuries changed Denmark fundamentally. From being an almost unknown heathen area Denmark had by the end of the Viking period developed into a well_defined kingdom belonging to the European Christian societies. The Viking era ended around the middle of the eleventh century; often the year 1042, when King Harthacnud died, denotes the beginning of the new times. His death was the termination of the epoch during which Danish kings occupied the English throne.

This article was taken from the Internet site of Ministry of Foreign Affairs

New evidence for Icelandic discovery of North America

The well-known Norwegian explorer, archaeologist and all-round scholar Thor Heyerdahl claims to have come across evidence which proves that the Icelanders were the first Europeans to reach North America. The evidence consists on the one hand of a document dating from 1070 which Heyerdahl found recently in the Vatican archives, and on the other of a Portuguese document which seems to show that Columbus learnt about the existence of America from Nordic sources. Heyerdahl announced his discoveries at a recent Norwegian festival in Minot, North Dakota, and they will be published in his forthcoming book, co-written with the Swedish cartographic expert Per Lilliestrøm.

Heyerdahl, who admits that he is not himself an expert in the early mediaeval period, blames the Reformation for destroying early records concerning the origins and migrations of the Nordic people. He claims that there are a number of documents still lying in the Vatican archives, including Arabic sources, which shed light on Nordic history. Heyerdahl would not be drawn into giving away more about the nature of his new evidence, saying that all will be revealed in his book which is due out in Norway on 15 November. However, he did reiterate his belief that Leifur Eiríksson went to America not as an explorer or settler but as a Christian missionary. One thing is sure, the findings of Heyerdahl and Lilliestrøm are bound to be highly controversial.

This article was taken from the Internet site of Daily News from Iceland on October 20, 1999

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Roast Turkey with Dressing

Sweet Potatoes

Green Beans

Tossed Salad

Pumpkin Pie / Apple Pie