Scandophile

See also: scandophile

English

Etymology

From Scando- (“Scandinavia”) +‎ -phile. Doublet of Scandinavophile.

Noun

Scandophile (plural Scandophiles)

1. Someone (often an outsider) who admires or idealises Scandinavia or its cultures, cuisines, history or peoples.

   Near-synonym: Scandinavophile

   • 1892, Jón Stefánsson, “The Influence of the Norse upon English Literature in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”, in The Literary Digest, volume 4, Funk & Wagnalls, page 121 (9):

     In powerful, but hard verses, Landor tells the Northern "Romeo and Juliet" story. It was only a "tour de force," the impulse to which came from his friend William Herbert, who also was a "Scandophile".

   • 1971, Gene. G. Gage, “Scandinavian Studies in America: The Social Sciences”, in Scandinavian Studies, volume 43, number 4, →JSTOR, page 434:

     As a non-Scandinavian "Scandophile," I cannot claim to be objective on this point, but I cannot help but think that Scandinavian studies will be the stronger for it. It is indisputable that no area studies program is fully accepted by the academic community until it abandons its ethnic arrogance.

   • 1998, Hildor Arnold Barton, Northern Arcadia: Foreign Travelers in Scandinavia, 1765-1815, SIU Press, →ISBN, page 203:

     See also Dissertation of the Origin and Progress of the Scythians or Goths (London, 1797) by the Scottish antiquarian and Scandophile John Pinkerton, who later published a number of accounts of travel in Scandinavia in his General Collection.

Related terms

• Scandinavian
• Scandinavianist
• Scandinavism
• Scandinavist
• Scandinavophile