Modern Day Scandinavia Essay

In modern-day Scandinavia, people use the marine environment as an important part of their life. From large oil rigs to small fishing villages, Scandinavians uilizedt the marine environment that surrounds them. I know this quite well, from experience. My paternal grandmother was raised on a small island and fishing village off the cost of northern Norway, called Sommarøy, near Tromsø. Her father was a fisherman and her mother was a Sami from Finnmark, which also lived off the sea. From her, I have heard many stories about her experiences and the history of Norway’s connection to the sea. She didn’t go this far back, but the Scandinavians’ utilization of the marine environment is nothing new, it dates back all the way to the Mesolithic era. During the Mesolithic era, people in Scandinavia harnessed the maritime environment around them. Using the resources that the environment offers as warmth, travel, and food. The Scandinavian Peninsula in northern Europe is what defines the region; it consists of three modern-day countries: Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, however it excludes the Norwegian Island of Svalbard for it is in the arctic region. The landscape of Scandinavia is full of skerries, island, …show more content…
Because of this risk, many fatal accidents did happen (Glørstad). These accidents did deter people away from traveling the sea. Though there were fatal accidents, people still used boats in order to travel to unreachable places by land. It is reasonable to think that these accidents did happen regularly (Glørstad). They could have done this because they wanted to follow their prey, such as seals, in order to get important raw materials like blubber and that death was worth the risk of traveling by boat so that they could have the proper supplies. Because they kept traveling they were able to continue the colonization of