Scandium (Sc), named after the Scandinavian Peninsula.
This Native American princess was named Sacajawea.
Thorium.
Thorium.
Norway has a town named Hell.
It is named after Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.
It is named after Thor, the Viking god of war. i read about Thor on History Dudes: Vikings.
Because that is what our ancestors named them.
Chief Seattle often helped the white settlers in the area. Thankful settlers named their town Seattle after him.
They're named after Scania, the southernmost province of Sweden.
When we were opened for settlers.
The name Greenland comes from the early Scandinavian settlers. In the Icelandic sagas, it is said that Norwegian-born Erik the Red was exiled from Iceland for murder. He, along with his extended family and thralls, set out in ships to find a land rumored to lie to the northwest. After settling there, he named the land Grœnland ("Greenland"), supposedly in the hope that the pleasant name would attract settlers.