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unusual facts about Norwegian people


Norwegian People's Party

The party was founded by Oddbjørn Jonstad, the former chairman of the Oppegård chapter of the Progress Party, who was suspended from the party following his proposal to put refugees and asylum seekers in state-owned camps, and to deny children of refugees from attending Norwegian schools.


3rd Floor

3rd Floor is an album by Norwegian girl band Lilyjets in 2006.

Adolf Fonahn

Adolf Mauritz Fonahn (born June 15, 1873 in Hedrum, died 15 August 1940 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian physician, medical historian and orientalist.

Aksel Sandemose

Aksel Sandemose (19 March 1899 – 6 August 1965) was a novelist, born in Nykøbing, Mors Island, Denmark to a Danish father and a Norwegian mother.

Atle Pettersen

Atle Pettersen (born in Skien on September 5, 1989) is a Norwegian singer and songwriter from Skien and lead singer of the band Above Symmetry.

Carbury, North Dakota

Norwegian settlers from Polk County, Minnesota, established a settlement near Carbury in 1883, reportedly becoming the first Norwegians in Bottineau County.

Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Norwegian comedy duo Tom Mathisen and Herodes Falsk made a tongue-in-cheek parody of this song in Norwegian, for their album Børre & Gibb's Happy Hour (52 min.) (1995).

Christian Skolmen

Christian Skolmen (born 28 October 1970) is a Norwegian actor and voice actor who has been part of the Nationaltheatret since 1995, where he has appeared in The Pretenders (Ibsen), the Three Musketeers (Dumas) and Bakkantinnene (Euripides).

Closterkeller

The band has recorded and performs regularly a cover of Norwegian band a-ha's song Minor Earth Major Sky.

Fredrik Meltzer

Fredrik Meltzer (29 September 1779 in Bergen, Norway – 17 December 1855) was a Norwegian businessman and politician perhaps best known for designing the flag of Norway.

Harald Sohlberg

Harald Oskar Sohlberg (29 September 1869 – 19 June 1935) was a Norwegian Neo-romantic painter, particularly known for his depictions of the mountains of Rondane and the town of Røros.

Inge Valen

Inge Magnar Valen (born 9 January 1951) is a former Norwegian footballer from Stavanger.

Ingebrigt Steen Jensen

Ingebrigt Steen Jensen (born 9 May 1955) is a Norwegian writer, consultant, advertising man and football enthusiast.

Inger!

Inger Krogh was a Norwegian exchange student coming to America after World War II, and this account begins when James Sites (a merchant mariner for the US at the time) first meets her at sea following a shipwreck.

Johannes Eide

Johannes Malvin Georgsson Eide, usually spelled Johs G. Eide (born October 30, 1937 in Høylandsbygd, Norway) is a Norwegian business man, entrepreneur and ship builder.

Johannes Lauritsson

Johannes Lauritsson (c. 1540 – c. 1620) was a wealthy Norwegian landowner of the prominent, and at least later, noble Galte-family.

Mektig og avmektig

Mektig og avmektig: Tore Tønne, media og maktspillet bak kulissene (English: Powerful and powerless: Tore Tønne, media and power play behind the scenes) is a biographic novel written by Norwegian journalist Ivar Hippe.

Nerstrand, Minnesota

In 1856, Norwegian immigrant Osmund Osmundson moved to Wheeling Township in Rice County.

Ole Carlson House

The structure was built by Ole Anderson Aasved, a self-educated Norwegian farmer who found prosperity in the American Upper Midwest.

Ole Hermann Borgan

Ole Hermann Borgan (born October 10, 1964 in Drammen) is a Norwegian football assistant referee.

Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey

In 1999, the nuns of the Abbey decided to begin a daughter foundation, Tautra Abbey, in Tautra, Norway, and five nuns of Mississippi Abbey and two Norwegian nuns from other monasteries arrived there.

Peter M. Haugan

Peter Mosby Haugan (born 1958) is a Norwegian Scientist and Director of the Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen.

Roland Bonaparte

There is also a small lake on the mountains above the Coast Sámi/Norwegian village Kvalsund which is called Bonapartesjøen - Lake Bonaparte - after his abovementioned visit to the region.

Stephanie Swift

Stephanie Swift was born in Louisiana and has described herself as a "mutt" in terms of ethnicity: Cajun, Irish, English, French, Spanish, Filipino and Norwegian.

Tønes

Frank Tønnesen (born 28 April 1972), better known by his stage name Tønes, is a Norwegian singer, songwriter and guitarist from Sokndal, Norway.


see also

Christopher Hals Gylseth

He studied history of ideas and has written many biographies of Norwegian people, amongst them Ola Thommessen, Elling M. Solheim and Øvre Richter Frich.

Haldor Johan Hanson

Norlie, Olaf M., History of the Norwegian People in America (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House, 1925)

Hans Barlien

Norlie, Olaf M. (1925) History of the Norwegian People in America (Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Publishing House)

Ivar Matlaus

The café is named after a Norwegian anarchist named Ivar Mortensson-Egnund, who among other things, lectured the Norwegian people about politics, religion and social issues.

Sverresborg

Gjerset, Knut (1915) History of the Norwegian People (The MacMillan Company)