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I once heard a joke that, as the original Finno-Ugric-speaking tribes were schlepping West out of the steppes, they came to a sign saying "Go North." And everybody who could read, did. Fella that told me was Hungarian, as it happens.
We (Finns) have a number of self-deprecating versions of that joke. One goes that reconnaissance parties reported the lush, fertile Danube valley in the southwest and a barren, cold granite rock in the northwest and that the mouth-breathers chose the latter. They schlepped from the steppe as well as from the Ural mountains though.
Petteri
I once heard a joke that, as the original Finno-Ugric-speaking tribes were schlepping West out of the steppes, they came to a sign saying "Go North." And everybody who could read, did. Fella that told me was Hungarian, as it happens.
In actual Scandinavian news, I have friends in Norway who work as senior nurses in the biggest hospital in their region. They've been told to make contingency plans assuming 40% sick leave among their staff.
Which is only really news that somebody is planning hard. And taking things very seriously.