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Norway's food traditions show the influence of sea farming and farming the land, traditions with salmon, herring, trout, cod, and other sea food, balanced by cheese, dairy products and breads. Lefse is a common Norwegian wheat or potato flatbread, eaten around Christmas.
Audun Endestad – Norwegian-born American cross-country skier, author, and field guide; Alf Engen (1909–1997) – Norwegian-born skier and skiing school owner/teacher; set several ski jumping world records in the 1930s; Corey Engen (1916–2006) – captain of the U.S. Nordic ski team at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz, Switzerland
Sports culture in Norway (2 C) W. Works about Norway (2 C) Y. Norwegian youth culture (1 C) Pages in category "Culture of Norway"
Nora Ibsen was headhunted by Bentein Baardson as the producer of the 2006 Ibsen Year. [7] Queen Sonja was the Ibsen Year's high protector. [8]The opening ceremony of the International Ibsen Year in Oslo, produced by Nora Ibsen and attended by the royal family and distinguished guests, presented Hedda Gabler as a Chinese opera, Ghosts as a ballet, as well as a rap version of Peer Gynt.
"The Contrary-Minded Woman" (Norwegian: Kjerringa mot strømmen) is a Norwegian folktale originally collected by authors Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe in their book Norwegian Folktales. [1] This story tells the tale of a Contrary Wife and a Husband arguing over how grain is to be cut causing a fight and the eventual drowning of the ...
It is also known as the Great Norwegian Encyclopedia. The first edition (NBL1) was issued between 1921 and 1983; [ 1 ] it included 19 volumes and 5,100 articles. The project had economic support from the Fritt Ord Foundation and the Ministry of Culture , and the second edition (NBL2) was launched in the years 1999–2005, including 10 volumes ...
In Norway, where she was known as Álfífa in Old Norse, this period entered history as 'Álfífa's time' (ÁlfífuÇ«ld), remembered for her severe rule and heavy taxation. In the Norwegian Ágrip, for instance, the following verse is attributed to her contemporary, the skald Sigvatr: Ælfgyfu's time long will the young man remember,
They share a common culture and speak the Norwegian language. Norwegians are descended from the Norse of the Early Middle Ages who formed a unified Kingdom of Norway in the 9th century. During the Viking Age , Norwegians and other Norse peoples conquered, settled and ruled parts of the British Isles , the Faroe Islands , Iceland and Greenland ...