Gandvik
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gandvik-225-4340262
title:
Gandvik
text:
Gandvik is a city in Nesseby. The name is a compound of the words gand, and vik, meaning bay. In Norse mythology, Gandvík is a dangerous sea, known as the "Bay of Serpents" because of its tortuous shape. The 12th-13th century Dane Saxo Grammaticus stated that Gandvik was an old name for the Baltic Sea. The legend presumably refers to the Gulf of Bothnia. However, there are two opposite theories about where Gandvik was situated, based on the 1323 Treaty of Nöteborg: in the Arctic Ocean or the Gul
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wiki
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encyclopedia
description:
Dangerous sea in Norse mythology
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gandvik
date created:
2004-05-18T20:42:14Z
date modified:
2024-09-14T20:34:24Z
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