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Bli kjent med…Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson

The four great Norwegian authors…Henrik Ibsen, Jonas Lie, Alexander Kielland, and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson.

Bjørnson (8 desember 1832 – 26 april 1910) is best known for writing the Norwegian national anthem, Ja, vi elsker.  He was born about 60 miles south of…

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The Greatest Winter Olympian You’ve Never Heard Of

Check out this article!!!  Way to go Norway!!

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Bli kjent med…Famous Olympic Skiers

Norwegians are a powerhouse…especially when it comes to skiing.  Two skiers in particular stand out in the records of two different sports.

D_hlie-Northug_nyt_1126332cBjørn Dæhlie is the most decorated winter olympian of all time.  Dæhlie hails from Elverum and and is…

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Keep them coming!!!

6 more medals brings Norway’s current total medal count to 14 at the Vancouver games, still in third place behind the US and Germany.  Norway now claims 6 gold, 3 silver, and 5 bronze medals.  Here are the most recent…

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Norway gets GOLD!!!

The medals are starting to stack up!!!  Norway now has claimed 8 Olympic Medals in Vancouver (3 gold, 3 silver, and 2 bronze) and is currently ranked third in the overall medal count behind the USA and Germany.  Let’s meet…

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Olympic Update – 15.2.10

We can all celebrate…Norway has their first medals.  They currently hold two silver medals; one in men’s downhill and the other in the men’s biathlon 10km sprint.

Aksel Lund Svindal (who was voted Role Model of the Year in 2009…

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Olympic Update – 13.2.10

- At the medal round of the men’s individual ski jump, the four Norwegians competing did not medal but did place well.  Anders Jacobsen ranked 9th, Tom Hilde 12th, Anders Bardal 18th, Bjørn Einar Romøren 23rd out of a total…

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Our Language

Thou, who sailest Norse mountain-air,
And Denmark’s songs by the cradle singest,
Who badest in Hald the war-flames flare,
And, heard in our children’s joy, gently ringest,—
Thou treasure of treasures,
Our mother-tongue,
In…

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May Seventeenth

Wergeland’s statue on May seventeenth
Saw the procession. And as its rear-guard,
Slow marching masses,
Strong men, and women with flower-decked presence;
Come now the peasants, come now the peasants.

Österdal’s forest’s magnificent chieftain
Bore…

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Norway, Norway

Norway, Norway,
Rising in blue from the sea’s gray and green,
Islands around like fledglings tender,
Fjord-tongues with slender,
Tapering tips in the silence seen.
Rivers, valleys,
Mate among mountains, wood-ridge and slope
…

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