There is an unlikely website called Badass of the Week. There you can read about entertaining characters. Here are a few from Scandinavia.
Olaf Crowbone (960–1000)
Leif Erikson (970 - 1025)
King Cnut (990 - 1035) King Cnut and the tide
Harald Hardrada (1015 - 1066)
Viking of Stamford Bridge (1066)
Fridtjof Nansen (1861 - 1930)
Simo Häyhä (1905 - 2002)
Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002)
Here is a list of famous Scandinavians on Wikipedia.
Erik the Red (950-1003) Norwegian explorer. Settled Greenland.Leif Erickson (970 - 1020) Erik the Red's son. He discovered North America
Hans Christian Anderson (1805-1875) Fairytale author
Søren Kierkegaard (1813-1855) Theologian and existential philosopher
Henrik Ibsen (1828 - 1906) Playright
Alfred Nobel (1833 – 1896) Invented dynamite and set up the Nobel Prizes
Edvard Grieg (1843 – 1907) Composer
Fridtjof Nansen (1861 – 1930) Explorer, neuroscientist, oceanographer, and diplomat.
Edvard Munch (1863 – 1944) Artist
Jean Sibelius (1865 - 1957) Finland’s greatest composer.
Roald Amundsen (1872 - 1928) Polar explorer
Thor Heyerdahl (1914 - 2002) Anthropologist
