...- ➡️ Scandinavian mountains Scandes with a bow and skis. Skandin-av/skandinav means Skaði's people. 'Skaði' in particular means injury or harm, and the name has the same etymology origin as the English "scatche". Scandinavian winters can be both wild, brutal and untamed – just like Skaði. Scandinavia can be referred to 'Dangerous Island' which is a good translation as it was very dangerous for southern people to travel to Scandinavia during winter.

❄ Strabo – a Greek geographer and historian born 63BC, and other historians for a long time believed that Scandinavia was an island by southern people called Skaði's island. Therefore the name Scania which is the origin of southern parts in Sweden. The North Germanic ethnic groups that inhabits Scandinavia to this day, and the countries that includes in present day in Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The countries that includes in the Scandinavian Peninsula is Sweden, Norway and the northwest areas of Finland. Let us...- continues in comment below ⬇️