2.0.
Literature Review
The four chapters within this literature review assess the Scandinavian style from initial inception and defining the region through to how it is recognisable and the impact it has had within Britain.
2.1.
Region
The term ‘Scandinavia’ originates from a Swedish town called ‘Scania’ and geographically includes Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands (Olesen, 2013). Books, publications, essays and other FIGURE 2 ‘Best maps of Scandinavia’ by Scandinavia Standard
types of literature have delved
into the controversy as to whether the latter countries should be taken into account. Worrall (2015) suggests that to an outsider, these countries are difficult to differentiate between, so are almost deemed equal. Moreover, this can be contradicted as they do seem to incur many differences, such as “geography and language“(van Hattem, 2013, p.35). Therefore, it raises the question as to whether they should be individually analysed, regarding culture and values, in order to discuss the impact they each have on Scandinavia. Consequently, when referring to Scandinavia for this thesis, it would be in line with (Figure 2). According to Santiago (2014), there is an ongoing discussion about the terms Nordic and Scandinavian. ‘Nordic’ is a vague term that directly translates as “Northern dwellers” (Partenen, 2018, p. 5) in the Skandium language. In Britain however, Scandinavia is mainly used as a synonym or near-synonym for Nordic 15
