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Nordic combined at the Winter Youth Olympics
Nordic combined at the Winter Youth Olympics is the youth version of the sport combining ski jumping and cross-country skiing, held since the first Games in 2012.
Nordic combined in Japan
Japan's history in Nordic combined, the Olympic ski jumping and cross-country discipline, where Japan has won 7 Olympic medals, including consecutive team golds at Albertville 1992 and Lillehammer 1994.
Nordic Council
Nordic Council: official inter-parliamentary body of the Nordic countries, founded 1952, 87 MPs from eight parliaments, governed by the 1962 Helsinki Treaty, with recommendations sent to governments and the Nordic Council of Ministers.
Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize
The Nordic Council Children and Young People's Literature Prize is an annual Nordic literary award, established in 2012, for children's and young people's fiction written in a Nordic language.
Nordic Council Literature Prize
The Nordic Council Literature Prize is an annual award for fiction, poetry, or drama in a Nordic language by a living writer, first awarded in 1962.
Nordic countries
Nordic countries (Norden): Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden plus Greenland, Faroe Islands and Åland; distinct from Scandinavia. Bound by the 1962 Helsinki Treaty, Nordic Council, passport union, common labour market, and NATO membership since 2024.
Nordic cross flag
Nordic cross flag, also called Scandinavian cross: off-center cross design on the flags of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and Åland, originating with Denmark's Dannebrog; Greenland alone among Nordic territories does not use it.
Nordic family law
Nordic family law is the family law of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden, governing marriage, cohabitation, parental responsibility, and maintenance in the five states.
Nordic Figure Skating Championships
The Nordic Figure Skating Championships, known as The Nordics, is an annual figure skating competition for the five Nordic ISU members, held alongside the open Nordics Open event.
Nordic hymnody
Nordic hymnody is the tradition of congregational hymn writing and hymnbook compilation in the Nordic countries, which took distinct shape after the Reformation put vernacular hymns at worship's center.
Nordic Investment Bank
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) is an international financial institution owned by eight Nordic and Baltic countries, lending long-term funds for regional investments from Helsinki.
Nordic Journal of International Law
Nordic Journal of International Law (Nordisk tidsskrift for international ret) is a Brill | Nijhoff peer-reviewed international law journal, founded 1930 by Erik Bruel, ISSN 0902-7351, Scopus Q2, CiteScore 2.2.
Nordic Latin literature
Nordic Latin literature is the writing in Latin produced in or by authors from the Nordic countries, from the late eleventh century to about 1800.
Nordic medieval literature
Nordic medieval literature is the writing produced in Scandinavia during the Middle Ages, chiefly in Old Norse and Latin, best known for the Icelandic Eddas and sagas.
Nordic Mobile Telephone
Nordic Mobile Telephone (NMT, Nordisk MobilTelefoni) was a first-generation analog cellular system developed by the Nordic countries, launched in 1981 as the world's first multinational mobile standard.
Nordic model
The Nordic model: the welfare-state and labor-market system of Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden, combining a market economy with universal tax-financed welfare and coordinated collective bargaining, consolidated under social democratic governments from the 1930s and marked by low income inequality via wage compression.
Nordic modernism
Nordic modernism is the modernist movement in Nordic literature, art, architecture, and design, developing from the late nineteenth century and breaking through during the Second World War.
Nordic naturalism
Nordic naturalism is the Scandinavian branch of the late nineteenth-century literary movement of naturalism, part of the Modern Breakthrough, led by J.P. Jacobsen, Herman Bang, Amalie Skram, and August Strindberg.
Nordic noir
Nordic noir, also called nordisk krim or Scandinavian noir, is a subgenre of crime fiction from the Nordic countries, known for bleak settings and psychologically complex characters.
Nordic nRF52
The Nordic nRF52 Series is a family of multiprotocol Bluetooth system-on-chips from Nordic Semiconductor, pairing an Arm Cortex-M4F CPU with an integrated 2.4 GHz radio transceiver.
Nordic philology
Nordic philology (nordisk filologi) studies the Nordic languages in their literary and cultural contexts, emerging as an independent science beside classical philology in the early 1800s.
Nordic race
Nordic race: a discredited historical racial category describing tall, blond, long-skulled northern Europeans as a superior race; central to Nordicism, eugenics, and Nazi racial ideology, and rejected as pseudoscience by interwar Scandinavian anthropologists.
Nordic realism
Nordic realism is the realist movement in Scandinavian literature of the late nineteenth century, associated with the Modern Breakthrough and writers like Henrik Ibsen and August Strindberg.
Nordic Renaissance literature
Nordic Renaissance literature (Nordisk renässanslitteratur) is the literary tradition of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and Iceland, shaped by the Lutheran Reformation and royal control of printing.
Nordic Resistance Movement
Nordic Resistance Movement (Nordiska motståndsrörelsen, NRM) is a pan-Nordic neo-Nazi organization founded in 1997 in Sweden, rebranded in 2016, banned in Finland in 2020, and designated a terrorist group by the United States in 2024.
Nordic romanticism
Nordic romanticism is the Romantic movement in literature and art in the Nordic countries, from about 1800, drawing on Old Norse poetry, folklore, and landscape to shape national identity.
Nordic runology
Nordic runology is the academic discipline that studies runes and runic inscriptions of Scandinavia, chiefly linguistically, dating and interpreting inscriptions from the 2nd century onward.
Nordic Semiconductor
Nordic Semiconductor ASA, founded in 1983 as Nordic VLSI, is a Norwegian fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Trondheim that designs ultra-low-power wireless connectivity chips, including Bluetooth Low Energy products.
Nordic skiing
Nordic skiing: the winter sport family of cross-country skiing, ski jumping, and Nordic combined, governed by FIS since 1924; free-heel bindings, Gundersen scoring, Olympic since Chamonix 1924.
Nordic Storm
Nordic Storm, Copenhagen-based professional American football team, first Nordic franchise; founded 2024, ELF debut 2025 (10-2), joined EFA, 2026 EFA champion under John Shoop.