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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.
Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern and northern England between the mid 9th to the 11th centuries (see also Danelaw).
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
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 ...
ski, "one of a pair of narrow strips of wood, metal, or plastic curving upward in front that are used especially for gliding over snow" [20] slalom, "skiing in a zigzag or wavy course between upright obstacles (such as flags)" [21]
The appellative -bosc or Bosc-(pronounced [bo:] or [bɔk]), meaning "wood", corresponds to the French word bois, and is specific to this Province. In Normandy, it is usually combined with a masculine name: Auberbosc and Colbosc, when following the Germanic order; while the later Romance order gives numerous examples, such as Bosc-Roger , Bosc ...
Marie is a variation of the feminine given name Maria.. It is also the standard form of the name in Czech, and is also used, either as a variant of Mary or Maria or a borrowing from French, in Danish, English, German, Norwegian, and Swedish.
Bowman rated "Acadian Driftwood" as "one of Robertson's finest compositions, equal to anything else the Band ever recorded." [2] According to The New Rolling Stone Album Guide critic Mark Kemp, "Acadian Driftwood" is one of three songs on Northern Lights – Southern Cross, along with "Ophelia" and "It Makes No Difference," on which "Robertson reclaims his reputation as one of rock's great ...