I'm aware of postglacial rebound. It doesn't account for what you described, which is that "most of Scandinavia is recently emerged". I did, in fact, do some q

I'm aware of postglacial rebound. It doesn't account for what you described, which is that "most of Scandinavia is recently emerged". I did, in fact, do some quick searching myself before writing my previous reply, just to make sure I wasn't missing something stupidly obvious, and the Wikipedia article on Scandinavian prehistory[0] confirmed that people have been living there for at least several thousand years. They've even been farming there since roughly 4000 BC. So no: "most of Scandinavia" wasn't under the ocean "a few hundred years ago". [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_prehistory https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scandinavian_prehistory