FRILUFTSLIV & MICKEY
FRILUFTSLIV – FREE! & MICKEY by LEIV EIRIKS AI (January 2024)
The Norwegian concept of Friluftsliv occasionally surfaces in international media commentary, along the more often referenced ‘Scandinavian Noir’. The Danes have their hygge ‘cozy’ and the Swedes have lagom for ‘like to hang out’. Friluftsliv appears to pop up more, the ‘Ibsen effect’ on the web. Norwegians appreciate the chance to be free! Note, Friluftsliv should not be mistaken for the wider, culturally much more significant word FREEDOM. In Norwegian, the latter is more closely associated with the word use FRIHET.
FRILUFTSLIV in the brand is FREE! an exclamation point of DISTINCTIVENESS. FREE! and the application of the exclamation mark (!) in MICKEY IS FREE! is an expression of strong feeling and significance, of action! In the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the exclamation point (!), a noun and also called exclamation mark. The description...
FRILUFTSLIV A NORWEGIAN WORD
Friluftsliv is also a concept. When broken down into its components, it is made of three words: “Fri” means Free, “luft” is air and “liv” means life. The life in fresh air, or in English “an outdoorsy life”. But the term is very difficult to translate, maybe impossible, since it includes much more than just being outdoorsy. Connecting with nature and enjoying an outdoor lifestyle is still part of the Norwegian soul and and an internationally recognized phenomena - despite the modern society that has emerged here by the fjords.
The concept of Friluftsliv was written in a period when Henrik Ibsen was struggling to find his life's purpose. The Ibsen poem 'On The Heights' is considered to have a biographical strain. The poem's main character chooses a free life in the wilds of nature and away from the village in which he grew up. Ibsen chose to be a writer, to experience his freedom in this fashion, instead of following the wishes of his father, a pharmacist, who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. The word was first published in an Ibsen poem in 1859 called 'På Vidderne'.
Friluftsliv has been part of Norwegian society for over 5000 years. In Norway Friluftsliv has its own law the 'Outdoor Recreation Act', which includes the allemannsrett, the 'freedom to roam', to be free!
(Sources: Lorelou Desjardins, 2020; Dag T. Elgvin, 2009; Hemmer, 2003)
MICKEY, MICHAEL OR MICHELLE, WE THE PEOPLE
MICKEY IS FREE! is a collection of hoodies & shirts for people into their skate, snow and surf... frilutsliv activities
From US registration name db, MICKEY is ranked as the 949th most popular given name in the United States with an estimated population of 39,250. There are 12.31 people named MICKEY for every 100,000 Americans.
Data are missing for 84 years where the name Mickey is not in the top 1000 most popular names, might have been nr 1001 most popular for girl and boys, not on the list. Name data are from Social Security card applications for births that occurred in the United States.
This name is most often used as a first name, 89% of the time. Based on the analysis of 100 years’ worth of data from the Social Security Administration's (SSA) Baby Names database, with the estimated population of people named MICKEY is 25,586. The SSA data also shows that MICKEY is used as a boy's name 79% of the time, rest girls.
The year when the name Mickey was most popular for female first name is 1948. In that year, the number of births is 231, which represents 0.013 percent of total female births in 1948. For boys, the year when the name Mickey was most popular is 1957. In that year, the number of births is 950, which represents 0.043 percent of total male births in 1957.
From datayze dot com; If including spelling variants and similar names, Mickey would have a 1.282% probability of going to school with a boy with a similarly spelled proper name and a 0.514% probability of going to school with a girl with a similarly spelled proper name.
Assuming the same birth rate and naming preferences as those in 2021 and an average elementary class size of 482, there is a 72.786% of an elementary school class having a child named Michael or Michelle who may also go by Mickey.