Durmstrang's location

[Catherine Keegan]

No: HPFGUIDX 31957

At 03:53 PM 12/19/01 -0600, Katze wrote:
>Catherine Keegan wrote:
>we still don't know where Durmstrang is located.  Krum
> > plays for Bulgaria but, of course, that doesn't mean that the school has to
> > be there.  I just have images of snow.  Lots of snow.
>
>My impression is that Durmstrang is in Norway towards the arctic circle.
>Norway is *known* for their ship building, the vikings, and it's frigid
>there (so I've heard). I definitely think it's somewhere in Scandinavia, 
>though.

My own view was that it was located in one of the areas that had been the 
USSR.  Dunno why.  I always felt the ship was just for a spectacular 
entrance like the Beauxbaton's carriage.  Makes me wonder how Hogwarts 
would have entered another school's grounds.  Too bad they didn't use 
soundtracks...I can just hear Wagner as the ship comes up.

(My mother would argue with you that it must be Sweden, not Norway; but 
then she's Swedish and everything Viking must come from there.  sigh)

Catherine in California