Waterscapes 4 essays.

Nordic waterscapes may be lakes, fjords, rivers, creeks, bays and, of course, the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, and the Baltic Sea. The ocean is what has held the countries and areas of the region together, but is has also opened the region to the world. The Nordic region is a region of farmers and nomads, but also of sailors and fishermen. The ocean is the uncertain region that lies beyond the safe havens of the land, a place of movement and metamorphosis. The fjords shelter and provide reasonable conditions of life, but a shelter may also isolate its inhabitants from whatever lies beyond. Rivers, on the other hand, provide infrastructure and energy; lakes seem to have their own bucolic as well as demonic energies. Functions as well as the symbolic meanings of a particular waterscape vary considerably throughout the region because of geographic differences.

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