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62 unusual facts about Norway


1624 in Norway

28 February – A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country, with death penalty as a consequence for offenders.

Aad Knutsson Gjelle

Aad Knutsson Gjelle (31 December 1768 – 27 February 1840) was a Norwegian cartographer.

Ahmad Ghanizadeh

After relocating to Norway, Ghanizadeh settled in Ringerike, and later to Sundvollen in Hole municipality, outside Oslo.

Alver

Alver, Norway, settlement in Lindås municipality, Hordaland, Norway

Anne Jøtun

She was born in 1955 in Oslo, Norway and is currently living in Jar.

Årø

Årø, Norway, a neighborhood of Molde, on the north coast of Norway

Billingsdal

For many centuries a route traveled from the village of Lom up through Billingsdal and then down to Nordfjord and Sunnmøre.

British submarine flotilla in the Baltic

Four C-class submarines were sent there in September 1915 by a tortuous route—towed around the North Cape to Archangelsk and taken by barge to Krondstadt via the White Sea Canal.

Corey Engen

After his father died of the Spanish flu in 1918, his mother and brothers moved the short distance to small town Steinberg.

Denmark–Norway

The great ransom paid by Sweden (called the Älvsborg Ransom) was used by Christian IV, amongst many other things, to found the cities of Glückstadt, Christiania (refounded after a fire), Christianshavn, Christianstad and Christianssand.

Festen er ikke over... det er kake igjen

Festen er ikke over... det er kake igjen is a compilation from the Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Fjellstrand

Fjellstrand A.S. - Is a modern shipyard in Norway, focusing on newbuilds, refurbishments and offshore constructions.

Før var det morsomt med sne

Før var det morsomt med sne is the second studio album by Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Gamle sanger om igjen

Gamle sanger om igjen is a compilation from the Norwegian rock band deLillos.

George Denholm

He developed a close friendship with the Norwegian Commanding Officer, Helge Nehre, and Denholm accompanied him at the end of the war to receive the German surrender in Norway at Gardermoen outside Oslo.

Grønsvik coastal battery

It is easily accessible next to Riksveg 17 just north of Stokkvågen in the municipally of Lurøy, about an hour drive from Mo in Rana.

Hannibal Kimball

He stayed in that and the carriage business moving first to Norway, Maine then later to the largest carriage manufacturing center, New Haven, Connecticut where he partnered with his brothers to form a company that was later taken over by G .& D. Cook & Co Carriage Makers.

Hege Bøkko

Competing for the first time in the senior class, Bøkko won six medals over two days in the Norwegian 2009 championships at Gol, 20–21 December 2008; gold in the 500-m, silver in the 1500-m, bronze in the 3000-m and 5000-m (where the results also are valid as that season's national championships single distances event), as well as in the allround samalogue.

Heimaey stave church

The church was built in Lom in Norway, then shipped as cargo to Iceland and rebuilt.

Hennes

Hennes, Norway, a village in Hadsel municipality, Nordland county, Norway

History of Orkney

When the islands were given as security for the princess's dowry, there seems reason to believe that it was intended to redeem the pledge, because it was then stipulated that the Norse system of government and the law of Saint Olaf should continue to be observed in Orkney and Shetland.

Vikings having made the islands the headquarters of their buccaneering expeditions (carried out indifferently against their own Norway and the coasts and isles of Scotland), Harold Hårfagre ("Fair Hair") subdued the rovers in 875 and annexed both Orkney and Shetland to Norway.

Hjalmar Christensen

Hjalmar Christensen (5 May 1869 – 29 December 1925) was a Norwegian writer.

If I Told You, You Were Beautiful

If I Told You, You Were Beautiful is the second album of the Norwegian band Minor majority, released in 2002.

Illinois Route 71

Just south of Norway, there is a memorial dedicated to Norwegian immigrants who settled in the area, with a small park, a cemetery, and a plaque from King Olav V.

In Abhorrence Dementia

In Abhorrence Dementia is the second studio album by Norwegian symphonic black metal band Limbonic Art released in 1997 through Nocturnal Art Productions.

Invasion of Hvaler

The invasion of Hvaler, was a Swedish military invasion of the Norwegian archipelago during the Swedish-Norwegian War of 1814.

Johan Siebke

Johan Siebke (17 June 1781 – 14 August 1857) was a Norwegian botanical gardener, and the founder of the Botanical Garden at Tøyen, Oslo.

Kalmar War

Although a side-note to the war, the Battle of Kringen, in which Scottish mercenary forces were defeated by Gudbrandsdal militiamen from Lesja, Dovre, Vaage (Vågå), Fron, Lom and Ringebu is a noted military event in Norway, celebrated to this day.

Kjellfred Weum

Outside of athletics he has worked as a police officer in Oslo, Bærum, his native Luster, Leikanger and Sogndal.

Kurt Aust

He has written several historical crime novels based on Denmark–Norway around the beginning of 18th century.

Lady Inger of Ostrat

Norwegian literature was virtually nonexistent during the period of the Scandinavian Union and the subsequent Dano-Norwegian union (1387—1814) — Ibsen characterized that period as "Four Hundred Years of Darkness."

Lambertseter Line

Following the 1948 merger of the municipalities of Oslo and Aker, it was decided that the Nordstrand area in the former Aker would be opened to large-scale construction of housing.

Lögberg

It ceased to be used in 1262, when Iceland took allegiance to Norway.

Matt Hongoltz-Hetling

In 2010, as an assistant editor, he wrote an article titled "Tangled Web Between Casino, Ag. Association," which was published in the Advertiser Democrat, a small weekly newspaper located in Norway, Maine.

Midt i begynnelsen

Midt i begynnelsen is the tenth studio album by Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Nordmarka

The area called "Nordmarka" also extends into the municipalities of Hole, Ringerike, Lunner, Jevnaker and Nittedal.

Norway, Illinois

The settlers had in large part relocated from the Kendall settlement in New York State which had been founded seven years before by pioneers who arrived from Norway during 1825 aboard the Restauration.

Norway's Next Top Model

It was hosted by Vendela Kirsebom, who was also hosting Sweden's Next Top Model at the same time.

Norwegian POW Museum

In 1982, Eyvind Grundt from Moss, Norway, was sent to Poland on a mission for the Norwegian Red Cross.

Of Magic Illusions

Of Magic Illusions is the first full-length album by the Norwegian band Ancestral Legacy.

Old Oslo

Old Town, Oslo (in Norwegian : Gamlebyen, Oslo), a neighborhood in Oslo, Norway, where the first settlement of town was located

Osmotic power

The world's first osmotic power plant with capacity of 4 kW was opened by Statkraft on 24 November 2009 in Tofte, Norway.

Øystein Ingar Larsen

Øystein Ingar Larsen (born 1 November 1941 in Aker) was Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland from 1992 to 2006.

Paul Thyness

Paul Thyness (born 10 April 1930 in Aker) was a Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party.

People's Democratic United Front

The People's Democratic United Front was a short-lived political coalition in Nepal, formed by the Communist Party of Nepal and the Nepal Praja Parishad in July 1951 to fight against the Rana-Nepali Congress combine.

Preben Munthe

He was born in Aker, the son of librarian Wilhelm Munthe (1883–1965) and his wife Jenny Hempel (1882–1975).

Reasons to Hang Around

Reasons to Hang Around is the fourth album of the Norwegian band Minor Majority, released in 2006.

Ris Church

The watches are designed by the architect Carl Berner and was provided by O. Olsen & Søn bell foundry at Nauen in Sem.

Sauda-class mine countermeasures vessel

Vosso was built by Skaaluren Skibsbyggeri, Rosendal, delivered on 15 March 1955, and decommissioned on 8 July 1987.

Sportsplassen

Sportsplassen ("The Sports Field") is a multi-use stadium in Nordstrand borough, Oslo, Norway.

Suser Videre

Suser videre is the eleventh studio album by Norwegian rock band deLillos.

Terje Sagvolden

He was a member of the Lier municipal council for the Conservative Municipal Group from 2003 until his death, and served in the areas of health, culture, childhood, education.

Terminal moraine

One famous terminal moraine is the Giant's Wall in Norway which, according to legend, was built by giants to keep intruders out of their realm.

This Is Pop Music

This Is Pop Music is the 3rd album by the Norwegian singer/song-writer Espen Lind and the second released under his name.

Thrall

In 1043 Hallvard Vebjørnsson, the son of a local nobleman in the district of greater Lier, was killed while trying to defend a thrall woman from men who accused her of theft.

Trygve Retvik

Trygve Retvik (born July 15, 1944 in Lier, Norway) is an artist specialised in drawing, painting and printmaking.

Undersea tunnel

North Cape Tunnel (6.8 km), The tunnel goes under the Magerøysundet strait between the Norwegian mainland to the large island of Magerøya and the North Cape, Norway (1993 - 1999).

Viggo Brun

Viggo Brun (13 October 1885, Lier – 15 August 1978, Drøbak) was a Norwegian mathematician.

Wallace Clark

The journey in Wild Goose by his son Miles, travelled around North Cape, Norway, and then through Russian waterways to the Black Sea, and on through the Mediterranean back to Northern Ireland.

Westby, Wisconsin

Westby was named after general store owner and Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby of Biri, Norway, where many of the city's Norwegian-American settlers originated.

Wolmar Anton von Schlippenbach

In 1703 he had to transfer a good part of his forces to reinforce Lewenhaupt's in Kurland.


2011 Bergen International Film Festival

This year the five videoes from the respective three countries was nominated by NRK P3 in Norway, SVT in Sweden and the magazine Soundvenue in Denmark.

2nd Combat Engineer Battalion

In the 1970s and early 1980s the battalion furnished Combat Engineer Support to the Battalion Landing Teams (BLT) in the Mediterranean, the Caribbean, 29 Palms, Norway, and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Allaert van Everdingen

According to Houbraken, his visit to Norway was unscheduled, but occurred when his ship, en route to the Baltic Sea, ran into a heavy storm and moored there for shelter.

Ansar al-Islam

On May 4, 2010 Abu Abdullah al-Shafi'i, Ansar al-Islam's leader since Mullah Krekar left for Norway in 2003, was captured by US forces in Baghdad.

Åpen Post

The show became one of Norway's most popular TV productions though it was the center of criticism due to controversial episodes such as Bård Tuft Johansens "Chicken stunt", involving the then Norwegian Labour Party leader Thorbjørn Jagland.

Braastad

The name Braastad was introduced when Sverre Braastad (1879 – 1979) from Gjøvik, Norway, married the daughter of cognac producer Tiffon, Edith Rousseau, in 1913, and took over Tiffon, founded by Médéric Rousseau in 1875.

Brakebein

Brakebein, is the second full-length album by Norwegian folk metal band, Trollfest.

Carl II

Charles VIII of Sweden or Carl II, King of Sweden (and of Norway as Carl I) (1409–1470)

Charlotte Amalie

Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel (or Hesse-Cassel) (1650-1714), a queen-consort of Denmark and Norway

Christensen Nunatak

It was discovered in 1893 by a Norwegian expedition under C.A. Larsen, who named it for Christen Christensen of Sandefjord, Norway, a pioneer of modern Antarctic whaling.

Christina Bauer

She was born in Bergen, Norway during a Christmas holiday to a French father, Jean-Luc Bauer, a professional volleyball player, and a Norwegian mother, Tone Bauer, a handball player who played several years in France.

Duwayne Kerr

Kerr moved to Norway in 2011, and played two seasons for the Norwegian First Division side Strømmen, and was the best goalkeeper in the 2012 Norwegian First Division according to Sarpsborg 08's Director of Sports, Thomas Berntsen.

Eikeli

Eikeli is a district in the municipality of Bærum, Norway.

F. Melius Christiansen

Fredrik Melius Christiansen, the son of a Norwegian factory worker, was born in Eidsvold, municipality in Akershus county, Norway and emigrated to the United States at the age of 17.

Flag of the Nordic Council

The Swan has enough wing feathers standing for the eight members and territories of the Council: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Åland, the Faroe Islands and Greenland.

Football at the 1920 Summer Olympics

As Bernard Joy in Association Football (1960) was to write: "Out of pocket expenses were paid far in excess of the reimbursement for hotels and travelling. ... Payments for time lost from work, were made for playing and training, and teams were taken off for intense preparation together. Whatever the reason or excuse, thinly-veiled professionalism was rampant." Ironically Norway were not a professional side.

Give Us Our Skeletons

The movie describes three parallel plots; the first is Niillas Somby's story on how he became one of the most celebrated protesters during the Alta Dam Protests between 1979-1981 near Kautokeino, Norway.

Håkan Hagegård

Hagegård also holds a Professorship in Vocal Studies at the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo, Norway.

Hannah McKeand

She has founded a company with polar guide Carl Alvey called Expeditions 365 that conducts polar training courses each spring on the Hardangervidda plateau in Norway.

Haram Township, Bottineau County, North Dakota

Early Norwegian settlers in the area named the township after Haram, Norway.

Harpalus anxius

In Europe, it is only absent in the following countries or islands: Andorra, the Azores, the Canary Islands, the Channel Islands, Crete, Cyclades, Cyprus, Dodecanese, the Faroe Islands, Franz Josef Land, Gibraltar, Iceland, Madeira, Malta, Monaco, the North Aegean islands, Norway, Novaya Zemlya, Portugal, San Marino, the Savage Islands, Sicily, Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and Vatican City.

Helge Jordal

Helge Jordal (born 17 February 1946 in Bergen, Norway) is an Norwegian actor, appointed a Knight of the Royal Order of St. Olav in 2006 for his long career as an actor on both screen and stage, and his position as a "grand old man" among Norwegian actors.

History of Molde

Arriving safely in Molde, the city was de facto capital of Norway from 22 April to 29 April, when the advancing German forces, combined with a failed British counter-attack, forced the Norwegian commander-in-chief, General Otto Ruge, to abandon Southern Norway and continue the fight from Tromsø.

I. German/Dutch Corps

Due to its role as a NATO High Readiness Forces Headquarters, soldiers from other NATO member states, the United States, Denmark, Norway, Spain, Italy, the United Kingdom amongst others, are also stationed at Münster.

Imre Hercz

After being hospitalized in Amberg for five and a half years, he recovered and emigrated to Norway in 1952 as one of several Jewish Holocaust-survivors of lesser health accepted to Norway with substantial grants from Joint to the Norwegian government.

Jæren Arena

Jæren Arena was a proposed multi-use stadium in Bryne, Norway, that was expected to begin construction sometime in 2008.

Johannes W. Løvhaug

Johannes Waage Løvhaug (born 1967) is a Norwegian historian and editor-in-chief of the gazette Apollon of the University of Oslo.

Knut Schreiner

Also known by his stage name Euroboy, he has been part of important Norwegian bands like Kåre and The Cavemen known in its last years as Euroboys, with Turbonegro known in Norway as Turboneger, in the musical project Black Diamond Brigade and recently is a member of Mirror Lakes.

Lanke

Lånke, a former municipality in Stjørdal, Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway

Legoland Billund

In addition there are famous landmarks from Sweden, Bergen in Norway, Scotland, Germany, the Netherlands, Kennedy Space Center, Mount Rushmore, Abu Simbel in Egypt, Statue of Liberty, Acropolis of Athens, and Star Wars.

Liban Abdi

Abdi is eligible to play for both Somalia and Norway but has not represented any of them although he has stated that he wants to play for Norway.

Max Manus

In Norway he resumed his organizational work and made various sabotage attempts on ships in the Oslofjord with home-designed limpet mines and even ‘swimmer-assisted torpedoes’.

MS Princess Seaways

In 2002 the ship was sold to Fjord Line, renamed MS Fjord Norway for service from Denmark.

Neset

Enebakkneset (also called Neset) in Fet municipality, Akershus, Norway

Nikolai Kolomeitsev

Kolomeitsev supervised the fitting out of the Zarya in Larvik, Norway.

Norway in 1814

He learned that Prussia and Austria were waning in their support of Sweden's claims to Norway, that Tsar Alexander I of Russia (a distant cousin of Christian Frederik's) favored a Swedish-Norwegian union but not with Bernadotte as the king, and that the United Kingdom was looking for a solution to the problem that would keep Norway out of Russia's influence.

Norwegian Media Authority

Norman successor, Heidi Grande Røys of the Socialist Left Party, stated that the moving had had an important symbolic effect on the target areas, and that she did not see the lack of advantages as a reason to not move similar agencies later.

Operation Birke

These factors made it possible for the Germans already on 4 October 1944 to gain Hitler's approval for moving from Operation Birke to Operation Nordlicht (Operation Northern Light) and abandon Northern Finland and fortify to Lyngen, Norway.

Øyvind Svenning

Øyvind Svenning (born 29 January 1980) is a Norwegian football defender who currently plays for the Norwegian team Randaberg.

Promens

During 1999-2000 Sæplast acquired three companies abroad; in 1999 the Dyno AS factories in Ålesund, Norway and St. John, Canada, and in 2000, Nordic Supplies Container AS of Norway.

Rennesøy

In the present municipality one of Norway's oldest and best preserved monasteries, Utstein, is situated.

Rosenborg BK

Frazer Wright's goal earned the Scottish side a memorable 1-0 victory in Norway before fighting back from an early goal to draw 1-1 at home.

Skafferhullet

The border crossing site was located on the old road between Elvenes in Sør-Varanger Municipality, Finnmark county, Norway and Borisoglebsky in Murmansk Oblast, Russia.

St. Margaret's Church, Oslo

Margaret's Church was a stone church built in the 13th century, placed in Maridalen in the outskirts of Oslo, Norway, close to the northern end of Maridalsvannet.

Steve Curtis

He won his second title in 1987, but it wasn't until 1998 that he won his third title as throttleman on Spirit of Norway, with driving partner Bjørn Rune Gjelsten.

Transiteatret-Bergen

Transiteatret-Bergen is a theatre ensemble based in Bergen, Norway.

Waldemar Ager

Born in Frederikstad, Norway in 1869, Waldemar Ager grew up nearby in Gressvik--just across the river Glomma.