Speculative Geography - Murmansk & Durmstrang

[Berit Jakobsen]

No: HPFGUIDX 87959

bboy_mn wrote:
 
> The main reason why I insist that the school is in Russia, is that
> Drumstrang is a European school, and I have trouble seeing true
> Scandinavia as Europe or the location of a European school. My own
> opinion, which I'm sure you are tired of hearing by now, is that
> Scandinavia has it's own tradition of magic separate from Europe and
> therefore has it's own schools of magic.


Berit replies:

I am with you on this one Bboy_mn :-) Everything we know so far about 
Durmstrang, its students and the hints of its location don't suggest 
Scandinavia, but rather the northern part of Eastern Europe; i.e. 
Russia. Two of the countries in Scandinavia has got mountains, lakes 
and very little daylight in the winter, but the rest of the clues has 
to fit too, and it doesn't. Russia/Murmansk area on the other hand 
fits every detail. 

Berit