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[[caption-width-right:350:Some very pretty [[ArtisticLicenseGeography Danish]] girls.]]

-->''My name is Inga, and I'm from Sweden,\\
I could fall in love with you!\\
If you meet me, on Ibiza,\\
I can show you how to party too!''
-->--Inga From Sweden, "My Name is Inga"

A sort of generic northern blend of Norway, Iceland, Greenland, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. [[note]]In a few truly horrible examples, Sweden and ''Switzerland'' are conflated, even though Switzerland is Alpine, not even vaguely Scandinavian. The same thing occasionally happens to Denmark and the Netherlands.[[/note]] Everyone is liberal, [[PeopleOfHairColor blond]] and absolutely gorgeous. The streets are clean, the people are intelligent and creative, it always snows, they have Ikea and saunas, and the area pumps out an amazing amount of hot foreign exchange students (both male and female) with cute accents to tempt American high school students. The chances of meeting a pair of beautiful, buxom, blonde twins who won't rule out a {{Twincest}}uous [[TwinThreesomeFantasy threesome]] with any given tourist is [[EuropeansAreKinky uncannily high]].

Everyone either skis or snowboards, and eats a lot of chocolate. About the only other thing anyone remembers is that {{Lego}} was invented here.

On the rare occasions when negative stereotypes of Scandinavians are shown, the stereotype of choice is to portray them as painfully naive. Finns (who, by the way, are ''not'' Scandinavian but a Eurasian people related to the Lapps and the Hungarians) are known to be [[KnifeNut violent]] when their BerserkButton is pressed.

Going back a little farther in time, one might have seen the region crawling with [[NorseMythology Valkyries]], [[HornyVikings Vikings]] and [[AllTrollsAreDifferent trolls]].

Named for a certain port of ''TheLostVikings II''.
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* The EnsembleDarkHorse Nordics in ''AxisPowersHetalia'' are rather attractive, both purposely by the creator and in countless fanarts.
** Subverted with Sweden and Denmark. While both are handsome, tall and blond, Sweden is [[TheStoic reserved]] and [[FaceOfAThug sort of]] [[DeathGlare terrifying]], while Denmark is an alcoholic that may or may not be a [[AxCrazy crazy]] StepfordSmiler.
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[[folder:Commercials]]
* The Swedish Bikini Team, who first appeared in Old Milwaukee beer commercials and became something of a pop-culture phenomenon in the early '90s.
* Creator/JohnCleese made a commercial for the Norwegian Tourist Board. It's rife with stereotypes; the "everyone skiing" one is rather prominent.
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[[folder:Film]]
* ''Film/{{Beowulf}}''. More trolls, fewer Ikeas. The 2007 film even has Grendel speak Old English, and one or two references to "sea raiders".
** And an awful lot of mountains. [[TheMountainsOfIllinois In Denmark]]. Uh, no.
* ''TradingPlaces'', the Sweden[=/=]Switzerland confusion is {{lampshaded}} in this conversation on the train on New Years Eve:
--->Ophelia (In disguise): Hello I am Inga, from Sweden!
--->Coleman (Disguised, more accurately, as a priest): But you're wearing...[[{{Oktoberfest}} Lederhosen..?]]
* In ''EarthGirlsAreEasy'', it's Finland that seems to be confused with Switzerland. The movie features a TV ad where two bikini-clad blonde woman invite the viewer to come Finland, whilst showing scenes of Alpine skiing and yodeling. While skiing is indeed quite popular in Finland, yodeling most certainly isn't. (Though ''Yoiks'', traditional songs/singing techniques of the Samish, are often confused with yodeling by outsiders.)
** The aliens watching the ad ask if they're in Finland; host Valerie doesn't help matters by telling them "Finland is the capital of Norway!"
* Rachel Hansen: Better that you find this out now before you come home and find her in bed with Lars from Norway.
Tom: Who's Lars from Norway?
Rachel Hansen: Just some guy she met at the gym with Brad Pitt's face and Jesus' abs. (500DaysofSummer)
* Ulla Inga Hansen Benson Yansen Tallen Hallen Svaden Swanson from Mel Brooks's ''Film/TheProducers''.
** Played in the remake by actual Norse woman(well, Norse-American, anyway) UmaThurman.
* It's possible that the now mostly-forgotten TropeMaker for the portrayal of Sweden (and by extension the rest of the Norselands) as "sexy" was the MondoMovie ''Sweden: Heaven And Hell''. Now much more infamous for being the original source of ''TheMuppets''' "Mah Na Mah Na".
* ''KingRalph'' features the King and Queen of Finland as minor characters. Unlike Sweden, Norway, and Denmark, Finland is not (and has never been, though there was a near miss in 1918) a monarchy. When questioned about it by the Finnish media, the film-makers claimed this was supposed to be an intentional [[LampshadeHanging lampshading]] of HollywoodAtlas.
** [[ParodyRetcon Sure it was.]]
* The ultimate subversion of this trope is probably Ingmar Bergman's ''TheSeventhSeal'', which violates just about everything we associate with modern Scandinavia. Here, Sweden is a (literally) stuck-in-the-Dark-Ages theocracy with bleeding penitents and plague victims roaming around and a knight returned from the Crusades who's constantly brooding about death (understandable, since Death is literally stalking him).
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Terry Jones's book ''The Saga of Erik the Viking'' which lent its name but not its plot to Terry Jones's film ''Film/ErikTheViking''.
* In [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Mike Nelson's]] Death Rat!, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin by Mike Nelson]], a group of Danish agents pursue the protagonist at the behest of his rival. They are portrayed as brave, intelligent, and exceptionally capable in matters of surveillance and hand-to-hand combat, but woefully awkward, excessively proper, and prone to apologizing profusely for things like using "sauna" as both a noun and a verb.
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[[folder:Music]]
* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DgO6Ttn7rU Inga From Sweden,]] the page quote.
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[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
* ''HagarTheHorrible''
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''ScandinaviaAndTheWorld'' manages [[ZigzaggedTrope zigzags]] this trope. The comic shows the Nordic countries' stereotypes of ''each other'' rather than the Hollywood stereotype of them, and goes out the way to show that the countries have their own distinct cultures.
** Out of all the characters, Sister Sweden plays this trope the straightest, although [[AnythingThatMoves that's possibly not the best word choice in this context]].
** [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy Iceland]] and [[WhiteHairedPrettyGirl his sister]] are [[BishieSparkle beautiful]], although Sister Iceland is rather flat.
** A sauna makes an appearance in one comic and is referenced in another.
* Othar from Webcomic/GirlGenius is orignially from Norway. He's blond, blue-eyed, tall, strong and handsome. He is also utterly insane, genocidal and seemingly invulnerable.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* ''VickyTheViking''
* UK children's animated series ''WesternAnimation/TheSagaOfNogginTheNog''. (As told by the Men of the North Lands.)
* ''{{Metalocalypse}}'' does this too, having both Sweden and Norway appear like this in their respective episodes. With Skwisgaar and Toki hailing from said countries, it makes for several related jokes. Especially when Skwisgaar's mother appears. They also burn down Finland and kill the Queen of Denmark (whom Skwisgaar thinks is Dutch).
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