The geographical and cultural regions in the North Atlantic and Northern Europe entail the Nordic countries. These countries are also known as the Nordics (Fulton, pp. 707-708). Some territories of Greenland are the Aland Islands, Faroe Islands, Norway, Denmark, Iceland, and Finland, from the Nordic countries. Sami people and the Inuit from the Green land are the early inhabitants of the Nordic countries (Fulton, pp. 707-708). Scandinavian alongside the Finnish makes the population of the Nordic countries too. The native languages have their roots in the Old Norse. These languages are Danish, Norwegian, Iceland, all German languages, and Faroese (Fulton, pp. 707-708). The words that form the Nordic and are not of German roots consist of Finnish, Greenland, some Sami languages. Lutheran Christianity is the overall religion, amongst all the Nordics. Social culture, history, and use of Scandinavian languages are the common things that the Nordics practice.
On the political ground, the Nordics have a joint government (Fulton, pp. 707-708). The region covered by the Nordic countries is 3,425,804 square kilometers, making it the seventh largest country in the world. Ice caps and glaciers cover Greenland. In human development, living standards, economic levels, education, and the civil liberties, the Nordics clinch the top positions. The common root of the four languages the Nordics use, the Faroese, Swedish, Icelandic, and Danish, create the identity of the Nordics (Fulton, pp. 707-708). Swedish, Danish, and the Faroese are taught at school, having Swedish a compulsory subject in Finnish schools. In the Faroese and Greenlandic schools treat Danish as a mandatory subject (Mai, pp. 109). The social structure and the Nordic economy are the everyday things in Nordic lands. Labor unions and the heavy taxes imposed, which finance the welfare sector, from the economic structure of the Nordics. Ensued, little unrest and high per capita, are realized.
In Scandinavian, there is a traditional religion practiced by the Nordics, the Norse pagan worship. The tradition was maintained before the intervention of Christianity. Norse pagan was not an organized religion. The paganism amongst the Nordics had the aim of surviving and facilitating new generation in the society (Mai, pp. 109). The religion was a bit a controversy: it was diverged, practiced at the village and in the families, but a national religious day was performed annually. Leaders were in charge of the religious activities, having the king at the national level and a leader at the local level.
Christianity was named the new custom when revolutions from paganism took place. Paganism was then treated as something old, thus called the ancient tradition. Paganism included a making of sacrifices, worshiping of gods, and sacred acts too (Mai, pp. 109). People could still understand others myths, poetic traditions, and customs, despite the fact that there was a huge difference on the geographic basis. Sacrifices were majorly held, along with the consumption of beer which was alternated with mead (Mai, pp. 109). The beliefs of the Nordics were viewed as superstitious and devilish; hence there were no left writings about it. Runes said, and blot were the types of rituals performed by the Nordics. Blot was practice both in public and private. Seid was persecuted for being magic rather than being a religion and was taught in devaluation. Seid was n connection to myths and had a religious complexity (Mai, pp. 109). Runes were symbols used in ritual circumstances that varied. Odin had direct links to Runes. The Nordics worshipped their gods using statutes and images. The ship was an important aspect of the Nordic paganism, which was about the funerals and deaths.