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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.
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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
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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).
In the 19th century, it brought about a strong romantic nationalistic movement, which is still visible in the Norwegian language and media. In the 19th century, Norwegian culture blossomed as efforts continued to achieve an independent identity in the areas of literature, art and music. This continues today in the performing arts and as a ...
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 .
The koiné language (mixed language) known as Dano-Norwegian (Dansk-Norsk) which developed in Norwegian cities was the result of Danish replacing Norwegian as the language of the upper classes in that country (Danish was used in the courts of law and by the ruling class, and after the Lutheran Reformation of 1536 it replaced Latin as a ...