- Fascinating.
Even though most farms in Scandinavia are way younger, there are certain ones that old.
Before there were Lutheran warrior kings like Gustavus Adolphus, inventors like Nobel and Nordic IT success stories like Nokia, Skype and Ericsson, there were free men running their own farms all over Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden and Iceland.
Perhaps this is off topic, but I claim there is a strong connection between the overall success of Scandinavian business life of today and Scandinavian agricultural history, which differs a lot from that of France, Italy, Japan, Germany and other industrialized countries where the common man more or less used to be a slave prior to the days of industrialization.
There was a thread related to Scandinavia and those that originally settled the place as opposed to those that came later. Someone posted, referring to earlies having an aversion to those slimey things with fins, fish, never heard of that. You?