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Norwegian baking through the seasons
"Nevada Berg takes readers back into her Norwegian kitchen, offering a year’s worth of new baking recipes in this seasonally focused, gorgeously...
Norwegian wood | The art of chopping, stacking, and drying firewood
In addition to writing bestseller historical novels and more, Norwegian writer Lars Mytting has penned a fascinating non-fiction book about the art...
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...
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...
Norway | A land of water
With its mountains, fjords, and forests, Norway represents one of our planet’s many majestic faces. The Kingdom of Norway, located on the western...
Only 3 percent of mainland Norway is agricultural land
It began with the ice ages In Northern Europe and Scandinavia, the last ice age ended some 10,000 years ago. The landscape that appeared from the...
Norwegian herder-children | Roaming the mountains all alone
Pronunciation Gjeter With summer came freedom On the historical Norwegian farm, the livestock spent the long winters locked up in cramped and dark...
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 | Cutting marsh grass on the frozen lake
Haakon Garaasen (1887-1957) was a local historian from Trysil in the region of Hedmark, Norway. He took this photo in November 1920. The man working...
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...
Norwegian folk instruments | The birch trumpet
Using sound as a tool Since time immemorial, humankind has used sound to: signal danger, pass on a message, call people and farm animals back home,...
The old Norwegians needed no money
Picture this; the year is AD 1478. A family lives on a small farm in a mountainous part of Norway. The holding consists of a few simple buildings,...
The royal palace in Oslo | Built by a French general
The historical backdrop Between AD 1380 and AD 1814, Norway was de facto under Danish rule; with Denmark’s monarchs ruling Norway from Copenhagen....
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...
Muskox | Norwegian man killed in 1964 muskox attack
Driven away from the herd After several attempts, the muskox species was successfully introduced into the Norwegian fauna around 1950. Its main...
The old Norwegian farm | The Stornæve farm saga
In the beginning, there was ice and barren land Picture the beginning: during the last ice-age, Norway was a vast and empty land. As the ice...
Norwegian words | Uekte – ekte | Illegitimate – legitimate
Old Norwegian birth records In old Norwegian birth records, you normally find one of two words recorded next to the name of every newborn child:...
Practical farming in Norway in 1815 | The month of March
Lorentz Diderich Klüwer: In 1815, Norwegian farmer and army officer Lorentz Diderich Klüwer published a pamphlet on practical farming. In this post,...
The old Norwegian farm | The Sæterhaugen farm saga
«Heimar i Surnadal - band I» - author Hans Hyldbakk - copyright Surnadal kommune | Sæterhaugen - gårdsnummer 10 - bruksnummer 3 - the municipality...
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 | The cotter’s holding | Husmannsplass
Let us start with the beginning In English, a Norwegian husmann is often referred to as a cotter, and his home as a cotter's holding - a...
Norwegian food history | The beginning
The early people were hunters and gatherers, and they moved with the seasons and the availability of what Mother Nature had on offer. Except for the...
The Sami | Sleeping on a bed of glowing embers
In his writings on Sami history, Yngve Ryd retells this fascinating Sami historical observation, shared by Ola Omma. The mountain willow When...
The old Norwegian cemetery | Once and always a pauper
Christianity and the Viking kings In Scandinavia, Christianity came with the Viking kings, around AD 1000. The new religion brought with it churches...
The Sami | The Sami flag days calendar
The Sami flag days calendar lists the official flag days across Sapmi: the historical Sami territories located across Norway, Sweden, Finland, and...
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,...
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...
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...
The ancient tradition of Norwegian mountain pasture
Pronunciation Seter Norway is a country full of mountains and forests - vast areas unsuited for the cultivation of grain and other agricultural...
Norwegian wood | The art of chopping, stacking, and drying firewood
In addition to writing bestseller historical novels and more, Norwegian writer Lars Mytting has...