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🖼️ Scandinavian Art • 🇩🇰 Danish Art • 🇳🇴 Norwegian Art • 🇸🇪 Swedish Art • 🗺️ Vintage Maps • ⚔️ Viking Heritage • 🌿 Nordic Nature • 🏡 Nordic Living • 🖼️ Scandinavian Posters • ✨ Nordic History & Culture • No waste. Choose poster and we’ll deliver Scandinavian calm — printed locally.

04/09/2026

The Battle of Stamford Bridge, 1870
Peter Nicolai Arbo 🇳🇴

One of the most dramatic moments in Viking history, painted more than 800 years after it happened.

At the centre of Arbo’s battlefield stands Harald Hardrada, King of Norway. According to tradition, he was struck in the throat by an arrow during the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September 1066.

Around him, Arbo builds a scene of almost complete disorder: horses, shields, weapons, wounded men and soldiers moving in every direction. Yet your eye keeps returning to Hardrada in blue.

His death marked the collapse of the Norwegian invasion of England.

And the timing makes the story even more remarkable.

Just 19 days later, the victorious English army of Harold Godwinson fought another invasion force at Hastings, where England’s history changed again.

Swipe through the details of Arbo’s painting. Which part catches your eye first?

03/09/2026

One year after Denmark’s defeat in the Second Schleswig War, Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann painted the aftermath.

There is no battlefield in A Wounded Danish Soldier (1865). No soldiers charging. No heroic victory.

Instead, a wounded man lies in bed while a woman sits beside him with a book in her hands. Medicine stands on the windowsill. Their hands meet quietly at the centre of the painting.

Baumann shifts our attention to something war paintings often leave outside the frame: the people who come home wounded, and those who care for them.

Look closely at the soldier’s face. He is the only figure looking directly at us.

What do you think his expression says?

A Wounded Danish Soldier, 1865
Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann
Polish-Danish artist

30/08/2026

Jotunheimen means “the home of the giants,” and on this map from 1917, the name feels entirely appropriate.

Ridges, glaciers, valleys and lakes crowd the surface. The dense shading turns the sheet into something almost three-dimensional, while routes and place names reveal a landscape that people were already exploring on foot.

Mountain maps offered more than geographical information. They helped transform remote terrain into a place that could be studied, crossed and remembered. Every line promised a pass, a summit or a difficult journey into the high country.

More than a century later, many of these names still guide hikers through Norway’s most famous mountain region.

Explore the map:
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30/08/2026

This map captures Bergen at the edge of a major change.

It shows Bergen and neighbouring Aarstad in 1914. One year later, Årstad was incorporated into Bergen, greatly expanding the city’s territory and population.

Look closely and the familiar shape of Bergen begins to emerge: the dense centre gathered around the harbour, roads pushing outward and settlements occupying the narrow spaces between water and mountains.

A city map records streets and boundaries. It also preserves a moment when places that now feel inseparable were still administered as different communities.

See the 1914 map in detail:
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29/08/2026

Norwegian expressions become wonderfully strange when translated word for word.

If you are “helt på jordet,” you are completely out on the field. In practice, you have misunderstood everything.

When it is “bare blåbær,” there are only blueberries. Fortunately, that means the situation is easy and there is little to worry about.

And if you “tråkker i salaten,” you have stepped in the salad, usually by saying something awkward or embarrassing.

This poster gathers Norwegian sayings alongside their literal wording and actual meaning. Small pieces of language can reveal a surprising amount about humour, everyday life and the way a culture sees the world.

Which Norwegian expression is your favourite?

Explore the sayings:
https://hyggebyscandinavia.com/en-us/products/norwegian-sayings

29/08/2026

Nineteen years after Denmark and Norway went their separate political ways, they still shared the same map sheet.

Published in London in 1833, this map places Denmark, southern Norway, the Skagerrak and parts of Sweden within one connected maritime landscape. It was issued under the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge and engraved by J. & C. Walker.

The sea occupies the centre of the composition. For centuries, these waters carried merchants, sailors, officials, news and family connections between the Scandinavian coasts.

Borders may change quickly. Geography has a longer memory.

See the complete map:
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27/08/2026

Can you find your part of Stavanger?

This historic topographic map from 1940 traces the city and the surrounding landscape of Rogaland in extraordinary detail. Fjords, islands, roads, settlements and terrain reveal how closely Stavanger has always been connected to the western Norwegian coast.

A personal wall piece for people with family roots in the region, a love of old maps or memories tied to Stavanger.

Available in eight sizes and printed on premium matte paper.

See the full map:
https://hyggebyscandinavia.com/en-us/products/stavanger-1940-norway-map-print

Printed locally where possible. Typical delivery: 2–5 business days.

26/08/2026

A map from an age when the far north still held plenty of mystery.

Created by Abraham Ortelius in 1575, this remarkable map presents Scandinavia, Iceland, Greenland and the North Atlantic through the eyes of a 16th-century cartographer. Familiar coastlines sit alongside outdated geography and details shaped by travel accounts, older sources and imagination.

Ortelius was the creator of Theatrum Orbis Terrarum, often regarded as the first modern atlas.

Bring a piece of early cartographic history into your home:

https://hyggebyscandinavia.com/en-us/products/ortelius-scandinavia-1575-map-print

Printed locally where possible. Typical delivery: 2–5 business days.

26/08/2026

Bodø and the dramatic landscape of Northern Norway, captured on a detailed map from 1940.

The map reaches far beyond the town itself, following the islands, fjords, mountains and coastlines around Saltfjorden and Landegode. For anyone with roots in Bodø or Nordland, every place name may hold a memory.

Printed on premium matte paper and available in five sizes.

Printed locally where possible. Typical delivery: 2–5 business days.

Discover the Bodø map:
https://hyggebyscandinavia.com/en-us/products/bodo-1940-norway-map-print

25/08/2026

How did Europeans picture Scandinavia almost 400 years ago?

This richly detailed map of Sweden, Norway and the Baltic region is based on the pioneering work of Swedish cartographer Anders Bure. Engraved by Abraham Goos, it is filled with sailing ships, compass roses, mountain ranges and regional coats of arms.

A fascinating piece of Nordic history for the wall, reproduced on premium matte paper and available in five sizes.

Printed locally where possible. Typical delivery: 2–5 business days.

Explore the map:
https://hyggebyscandinavia.com/en-us/products/anders-bure-sweden-norway-map-1630

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