What Can Travellers Learn From Janteloven / the Law of Jante?
If you’ve spent any time travelling in Scandinavia, you probably heard of the concept of Janteloven or the Law of Jante. Known as Janteloven in both Danish and Norwegian, Jantelagen in Swedish, Jante laki in Finnish and Jantelögin in Icelandic, this concept illustrates a social code specific to the Nordic region. The concept originated in the 1930s through a satirical novel “A Fugitive Crosses His Tracks” (En […]