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"Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", otherwise known as simply "Norwegian Wood", is a song by the English rock band the Beatles from their 1965 album Rubber Soul. It was written mainly by John Lennon , with lyrical contributions from Paul McCartney , and credited to the Lennon–McCartney songwriting partnership.
Norwegian Wood may refer to: "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", a 1965 song by the Beatles; Norwegian Wood, a 1987 novel by Haruki Murakami; Norwegian Wood, a 2010 Japanese film based on the novel; Norwegian Wood (music festival), an annual music festival in Oslo, Norway; For woodland in Norway, see Geography of Norway#Flora
Norwegian Wood (ノルウェイの森, Noruwei no Mori) is a 1987 novel by Japanese author Haruki Murakami. [1] The novel is a nostalgic story of loss. [2] It is told from the first-person perspective of Toru Watanabe, who looks back on his days as a college student living in Tokyo. [3]
This is a list of English words that are probably of modern Scandinavian origin. This list excludes words borrowed directly from Old Norse ; for those, see list of English words of Old Norse origin .
Commentators often interpret "4th Time Around" as a response to the Beatles' song "Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)", [2] written by John Lennon for the 1965 album Rubber Soul. [13] [a] "Norwegian Wood" obliquely addresses Lennon's romantic affair with a journalist. [15] Dylan and the Beatles first met each other in August 1964, in New York ...
Turned out people really, really wanted to hear what the fox said.
"Wood," without the -s at the end has been used to mean forest in English, although today that usage has become somewhat archaic (not so much that it's gone completely out of use, though, especially in lyrical language).
There are hundreds of such words, and the list below does not aim at completeness. To be distinguished from loan words which date back to the Old English period are modern Old Norse loans originating in the context of Old Norse philology, such as kenning (1871), [a] and loans from modern Icelandic (such as geyser, 1781).