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  2. History of Norway - Wikipedia

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    A monetary history of Norway, 1816–2016 (Cambridge University Press, 2016). Evju, Håkon. Ancient constitutions and modern monarchy: historical writing and enlightened reform in Denmark-Norway 1730–1814 (Brill, 2019) Falls, Cyril. "The Independence of Norway" History Today (Dec 1955) 5#12 pp 833–838, covers 1814–1905. Garau, Salvatore.

  3. Historia Norwegiæ - Wikipedia

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    Historia Norwegiæ is a short history of Norway written in Latin by an anonymous monk. [1] The only extant manuscript is in the private possession of the Earl of Dalhousie, and is now kept in the National Records of Scotland in Edinburgh. [2] The manuscript contains several other texts; the Historia itself is in folios 1r-12r. Recent dating ...

  4. Kingdom of Norway (872–1397) - Wikipedia

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    When Norway was united with Denmark, the province began its decline in wealth; the area was frequently attacked by Swedish forces as part of the larger border skirmishes. The Norwegian fortress, Båhus, was built to protect this territory. Being a border zone towards the Swedish kingdom, and to a lesser extent against Danish lands in Halland ...

  5. Petty kingdoms of Norway - Wikipedia

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    Petty kingdoms of Norway c. 872. The petty kingdoms of Norway (Bokmål: smårike) were the entities from which the later Kingdom of Norway was founded. Before the unification of Norway in 872 and during the period of fragmentation after King Harald Fairhair's death, Norway was divided in several small kingdoms.

  6. Old Norse literature - Wikipedia

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    The Orkneyinga saga (also called the History of the Earls of Orkney) is a historical narrative of the history of the Orkney Islands, from their capture by the Norwegian king in the ninth century onwards until about 1200. [1] 20th-century poet George Mackay Brown was influenced by the saga, notably for his 1973 novel Magnus.

  7. Scandinavian prehistory - Wikipedia

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    The Scandinavian Peninsula became ice-free around the end of the last ice age.The Nordic Stone Age begins at that time, with the Upper Paleolithic Ahrensburg culture, giving way to the Mesolithic hunter-gatherers by the 7th millennium BC (Maglemosian culture c. 7500–6000 BC, Kongemose culture c. 6000–5200 BC, Ertebølle culture c. 5300–3950 BC).

  8. Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments

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    Society for the Preservation of Ancient Norwegian Monuments (Norwegian: Fortidsminneforeningen) is an organization focused on conservation preservation in Norway. [1] The Society was founded in 1844. The founders were painters, historians, art historians and archeologists, including J. C. Dahl and Joachim Frich.

  9. Aristocracy of Norway - Wikipedia

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    The aristocracy of Norway is the modern and medieval aristocracy in Norway. Additionally, there have been economical, political, and military elites that—relating to the main lines of Norway's history —are generally accepted as nominal predecessors of the aforementioned.