Settled in Gaul, the Scandinavian from a seafaring man became a landsman.
Some early ambones are found in Ravenna, and in the south of Italy are many fine examples; the epistle ambo in the cathedral at Ravello (1130), which is perhaps the earliest, shows a Scandinavian influence in the design of its mosaic inlay, an influence which is found in Sicilian work and may be a Norman importation.
They have continued to be worn, however, by the bishops of the Scandinavian Lutheran Y P Churches.
In the Scandinavian heartland, a picturesque village known as Skagen thrives amid nature's gifts as well as her wrath.
Eberian influence in the south-west, Ligurian on the shores of the Mediterranean, Germanic immigrations from east of the Rhine and Scandinavian immigrations in the north-west have tended to produce ethnographical diversities which ease of intercommunication and other modern conditions have failed to obliterate.