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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.
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 ...
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]
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
Probably from a Scandinavian source, related to Norwegian skule (="look furtively, squint, look embarrassed") and Danish skule (="to scowl, cast down the eyes") [232] scrag Related to Norwegian skragg "a lean person;" dialectal Swedish skraka "a great, dry tree; a long, lean man," skragge "old and torn thing," Danish skrog "hull of a ship ...
In Germanic mythology, Myrkviðr (Old Norse "dark wood" [1] or "black forest" [2]) is the name of several European forests. The direct derivatives of the name occur as a place name both in Sweden and Norway .
Many lofts have an external corridor or balcony (Norwegian: svalgang) resting on a log corbel. [7] [8] [9] The oldest non-religious wooden buildings in Norway are lofts. [10] In addition to the stave church, Christian Norberg-Schulz regards the loft as Norway's most important contribution to history of architecture. [11]
Birch wood is fine-grained and pale in colour, often with an attractive satin-like sheen. Ripple figuring may occur, increasing the value of the timber for veneer and furniture-making. The highly decorative Masur (or Karelian ) birch, from Betula verrucosa var. carelica , has ripple textures combined with attractive dark streaks and lines.