The old Norwegian farm | Farmhands could only leave twice a year
Summer and winter Today, the Norwegians think of the year in terms of 4 main seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. But the old Norwegian...
Norwegian Buhund | Herding dog and keeper of ancient traditions
A Buhund is not necessarily equal to a buhund When we talk about a Norwegian buhund, we must distinguish between: The spitz dog type and its place...
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Norwegian railway history | The pioneer era 1851-1868
Preparing for progress For thousands of years, the Norwegians relied on boats, horses, reindeer, and their own two feet to transport both goods and...
Growth of the soil | Homesteading in the Norwegian mountains
As a young person growing up in Norway, my dream was to emigrate and become a homesteader somewhere in the North American wilderness. The problem...
Queen Maud of Norway | Where did she come from?
Marlborough House was her parents’ town residence, located a short walk away from Buckingham Palace. Princess Maud was born into immense wealth -...
Queen Maud of Norway | The secret of the queen’s coffin
An early-morning attack On Tuesday 9 April 1940, in the early hours of the morning, Hitler-Germany’s troops attacked Oslo and the Kingdom of Norway,...
Horse history in the land of the Vikings vol 1
Today’s Norwegians only know the horse as an entirely domesticated creature. The truth is that it once roamed wild in the Scandinavian landscape,...
Norwegian moose calf saved from drowning in 1939
Pronunciation Elg The mighty Lake Mjøsa The moose is a good swimmer. But this young calf encountered problems as it set out to swim across Norway’s...
Norwegian railway history | The pioneer era 1851-1868
Preparing for progress For thousands of years, the Norwegians relied on boats, horses, reindeer, and their own two feet to transport both goods and...
Queen Maud of Norway | Alexandra was her mother
Alexandra was born on 1 December 1844, at the Yellow Palace - Det Gule Palæ - in Copenhagen. She was the second of six children born to Christian...
Paestum – Italy | A place of majesty and beauty
Once a Greek colonial city We visited Paestum on a warm, sunny day in late May. The first thing that hit us was the scent of flowers, so sweet and...
The old Norwegian farm | Its land and surroundings
A land of plenty With her elongated shape and her position on the world map, Norway has a great many variations in landscape, tradition and...
The old Norwegian farm | Bonde = farmer | Bondegård = farm
The Norwegian word for farm is bondegård - which consists of two words: bonde + gård. In informal speech, people often only use the single word gård...
Klippfisk | What is Norwegian klipfish?
Can be stored for years The art of drying food is one of humankind’s oldest preservation methods. Fresh meat and fish are highly perishable, but...
Norway has the second longest coastline in the world
From Sweden to Russia In the south, Norway’s coastline begins at the border with Sweden, in the region of Østfold, in the very south-eastern corner...
The old Norwegian farm | Memories from Værøy in Lofoten
Værøy is a small island municipality at the very tip of the Lofoten archipelago - in the region of Nordland, Norway. Surrounded by the might of the...
Budrått | Means milk products in Norwegian
Pronunciation Budrått The grammar A compound word made up of: bu + drått | noun | masculine | the indefinite form: en budrått (a budrått) | the...
Strandsitter | A Norwegian beach dweller
The old coastal Norway Throughout history and well into our own time, Norway was a society predominantly based on farming, fishing, gathering, and...
The old Norwegian farm | The last workhorse at Sandaker farm
Pronunciation Horse = hest This is a story told and owned by Trygve Sandaker (1918-2014) - and by permission written down and passed on to...
Queen Maud of Norway | Edward was her father
Edward was born on 9 November 1841, at Buckingham Palace in London. He was Victoria and Albert’s second of nine children. Edward - or Bertie as he...
The old Norwegian farm | Finding Ole Johan Nyaas and his barn
The photo DigitaltMuseum is Norway’s digital photo museum and the home of more than 2 million photographs. This is where I found the historical...
The global seed vault | An Arctic Noah’s ark
A global backup facility The majestic Svalbard archipelago – part of the Kingdom of Norway – rises like a frozen oasis from the Arctic Ocean, midway...
Remembering schoolteacher Eilert Wulff | Norway AD 1904
According to his obituary, published in the newspaper Nordkap on 28 October, Eilert Andreas Wulff was born in Kvæfjord, Troms, Norway, in 1874....
Folk medicine | As used by the Norwegians
Long before doctors Long before doctors and modern-day laboratories, our ancestors used plants and other natural remedies to help cure their...
Do we show our ancestors the respect they deserve?
Listen carefully, when you next hear friends and family talk about historic people - and their way of life. Surely, our ancestors must have been an...
The old Norwegian farm | Farmhands could only leave twice a year
Summer and winter Today, the Norwegians think of the year in terms of 4 main seasons: spring, summer, autumn, and winter. But the old Norwegian...
The old Norwegian farm | Moving into the barn during summer
A peculiar custom Every summer in the early 1900s, when spending the summer months with his grandparents, a young Norwegian boy experienced a...
The old Norwegian farm | The need for water
When the water came from the well The Norwegian landscape has an abundance of lakes, flowing rivers, creeks, and natural springs. If there was no...
The old Norwegian farm | Bringing home the winter hay
In some parts of Norway, you find relatively flat landscapes. Here, the historical farmland was easier to clear and cultivate. The climate was...
Norwegian wood | The art of chopping, stacking, and drying firewood
In addition to writing bestseller historical novels and more, Norwegian writer Lars Mytting has...