From: Scandinavian Studies | Date: March 22, 1997| Author: | COPYRIGHT 1997 Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Very early in her book, Karin Naumann quotes Ronald Reagan, who in 1991, speaking to a Swedish-American business club, expressed a simple wish: the next time he visited Switzerland, he wanted to spend a day in Stockholm. The inadvertency showed, once again, how closely the Great Communicator was in touch with the American spirit: the mix-up is a common one. The two names are easily confused primarily because they sound alike; later on, Naumann calls attention to the resemblance in Latin between Suicia (Canton Schwyz) and Suecia (Sweden) during her discussion (Chapter I) of the ...