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  • Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic ...
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  • Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic ...
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  • military engagement of the Scottish-Norwegian War. The Norwegian forces ... attempting to buy the islands from the Norwegian king Håkon Håkonsson ...
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  • Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 – February 19, 1952) was a leading Norwegian author and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1920. His ...
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  • of mankind in the realms of science, literature, and peace. The Nobel prizes ... On November 27, 1895, at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Nobel ...
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  • Sigrid Undset (Norwegian pronunciation: ˈsɪ̂ɡːɾiː ˈʉ̂nːseːt; ... Catholic literary revival into Norwegian literature. In response, she ...
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  • ancient cultures, previously remembered only in literature. ... 1887, the son of John H. and Anna Blegen, Norwegian immigrants. His father ...
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  • *Svalbard (under Norwegian sovereignty since 1920) Estonia has applied ... is extremely varied. Notable are the Norwegian fjords, the Scandinavian ...
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  • recognition, and in modern fantasy literature and role-playing games ... on for some time after the Old Norse literature was documented. This can ...
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  • ) (December 12, 1863 – January 23, 1944) was a Norwegian Symbolist ... country, he sought inspiration in the Norwegian landscape and from the ...
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  • territories of Svalbard and Jan Mayen: Norwegian sovereignty of Svalbard ... The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems ...
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  • latter was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature). In 1850, Christiania ... the main cause of the depopulation of the Norwegian countryside, any form of ...
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  • chemistry, physiology or medicine, literature, peace, and economics, ... he died. He signed it at the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris on November ...
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  • of medieval French and English romance literature. Lais are short (typically ... Old French lais translated into Old Norwegian prose in the thirteenth ...
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  • of the reasons for this is because of the Norwegian royal family's decision ... World Record is 239 meters, set by Norwegian Bjørn Einar Romøren in ...
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  • quot; occurs frequently in general literature and is used to mean searching ... The deep water coral Lophelia pertusa in Norwegian waters: distribution and ...
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  • throughout the history of modern French literature. Standard Italian is based ... Norwegian has two standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, the choice between ...
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  • central figure in the following works of Norse literature: ... *The name of the god Thor is the first element in several Norwegian ...
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  • an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ... origins was the influence from literature. In Elizabethan England ...
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  • degree. His majors were linguistics, literature and history. He continued ... years after Hammarskjöld's birth, Norwegian Major General Bjørn Egge ...
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  • of the most important poets in Icelandic literature. He is known today as the ... much of the traditions of Icelandic culture and literature. ...
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  • Roald Dahl was born in Llandaff, Cardiff, Wales in 1916, to Norwegian ... fiction, it was through children's literature that he made his name. ...
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  • Beatles used it in many songs, including Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 100294473 ...
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  • In 1884, the Norwegian Axel Paulsen was named Amateur Champion Skater ... Norwegian and Finnish skaters won all the gold medals in World Championships ...
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  • of York and Dublin rose and fell. Danish and Norwegian settlement made enough of an impact to leave significant traces in the English language; ...
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  • as well as evangelical work and literature, with its own publishing ... Norwegian Nobel Committee, [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laurea ...
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  • borne out through the remainder of the literature. As Orchard notes, in the ... where Bragi welcomes the soul of Norwegian king Eirík Bloodaxe (whose ...
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  • Nazis during World War II. Most of his literature addresses the cultural ... formative years in "the kitchen of literature" (his own expression ...
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  • poke out the eyes of their enemies. The Norwegian name for dragonflies is ... and they often appear in art and literature, especially haiku. In ancient ...
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  • from this time are often compared with the Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen. Strindberg's best-known play from this period is Miss Julie (Fröken ...
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  • It was he who encouraged him to read literature, whereas his mother encouraged ... writer and 1952 Nobel Laureate in Literature, who eventually became ...
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  • The saga tells the story of the Norwegian man Hallfreðr, who becomes ... the most perfect short novels in world literature." ...
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  • published a considerable amount of other literature as well. Penguin Classics ... 039;s essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature," first published ...
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  • century. A winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962, he wrote Of Mice ... for his literary contributions to the Norwegian resistance movement. ...
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  • a quarter of the world's scientific literature is published in Russian ... with mostly Russian vocabulary and mostly Norwegian grammar, used for communication ...
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  • Icelandic sagas as the Estonian vikings (Norwegian:Vikinger fra Estland).School ... however, were descended from Danes, Norwegian (in Norwegian they are ...
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  • Nelson; his maternal grandfather was a Norwegian ship captain. ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:film ...
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  • Aestheticism," Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22(4) (1980 ... which provided a backdrop for Gothic Literature, but also through the human ...
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  • Ansgar Gospel Choir, the only true Norwegian Gospel choir. Gospel is ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Music ...
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  • 874 when, according to Landnámabók, the Norwegian chieftain Ingólfur Arnarson ... Laxness (winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1955), Guðmundur Kamban ...
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  • Greek literature boasts three great writers of tragedy whose works ... most famous plays in English and world literature. The most famous of these ...
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  • Josephson, and the late Ingrid Thulin. Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann was ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 26031182 ...
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  • exist to clarify the picture: a major Norwegian attempt was made on England ... *Anglo-Saxon literature ==Notes== ==References== *Abels, Richard. Alfred ...
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  • of Carl Schulz, who was German, and Dena, who was Norwegian. ... category:art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Biography ...
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  • a perfect society as exposed in ancient literature, including Plato’s Republic ... the list of those who, in philosophy, literature, the arts, and other areas ...
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  • (née Dahl), was a Minnesota native of Norwegian ancestry. He moved with ... category:art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:music ...
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  • In 1967, Yunus met Vera Forostenko, a student of Russian literature ... to achieve. In awarding the prize, the Norwegian Committee also spoke of ...
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  • although conceptually related to, Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess ... . Trans. Kafka: Toward a Theory of Minor Literature (1986). ISBN 978-0816615155 ...
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  • is of Beringia origin, other wild Norwegian reindeer are of European ... importance in the entire anthropological literature on hunting" (Burch ...
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  • related and very similar to Danish and Norwegian but differing in pronunciation ... Physics, Medicine or Physiology, Literature, and Peace. With the exception ...
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  • Act 1961); Norway (section 142 of the the Norwegian Penal Code never applied ... * Marsh, Joss. Word Crimes: Blasphemy, Culture, and Literature in ...
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  • contribution to European art and literature. ==Early life== ... before or after him. Blake was truly a literature unto himself. ...
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  • and the Dresden by moonlight by Norwegian painter Johan Christian Dahl. ... century style which is apt for the organ literature composed after the baroque ...
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  • The first important works of Roman literature were the tragedies and ... achieved a unique standing in Western literature, amounting to a humanistic ...
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  • several exhibition matches against the Norwegian-born U.S. champion, Molla ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 162174845 ...
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  • displaced and succeeded by the bigger Norwegian, or brown, rat (Rattus ... succeeded throughout Europe by the bigger Norwegian rat, or brown rat (Rattus ...
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  • machine mentioned in ancient Vedic literature. The logo, painted on the ... leased a Douglas DC-6 from Troll Air, a Norwegian airline, ...
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  • largest reported ancestries being German, Norwegian), Irish, and Swedish. The ... === Literature === The rigors and rewards of pioneer life on the prairie ...
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  • The new Polish, German, Czech-Bohemian, Slovenian, Norwegian, Finnish ... ) particularly in Act 1. Another polka in the mainstream opera literature ...
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  • May 2008, Nelson appeared on a duet with Norwegian pop star and former World ... Category:art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:biography ...
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  • by readers, influenced twentieth-century literature perhaps more than any other ... a milestone in the advance of postmodern literature that presumed the loss ...
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  • out of retirement to collaborate with Norwegian producer Kygo on a remix ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:music ...
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  • of Scandinavian styles, especially Norwegian and Swedish. ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 131700658 ...
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  • In My Shoe" by Traffic, and "Norwegian Wood," "Love ... "hippy hedonism" ("Norwegian Wood"). Instrumental ...
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  • "The Nobel Peace Prize 1962" Norwegian Nobel Committee ... the results, he researched the clinical literature and published "Vitamin ...
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  • Seamen Protestant church, established by Norwegian Righteous Among the Nations ... and Religion. Journal of Biblical Literature 112(3) (1993): 403-414 ...
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  • Retrieved April 17, 2021. and from the Norwegian University of Science and ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Category:Biography ...
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  • , Benzine in Dutch, Bensin (Swedish and Norwegian), Bensiini (Finnish), Benzyna ... without requiring modification of the literature/labeling. The bill which ...
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  • In 1939 Karen Horney, a German psychoanalyst of Norwegian and Dutch ... scale. The profusion of popular literature about "listening" ...
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  • *1987: Socio-Political Currents in Burmese Literature, 1910-1940 in ... Australia, New Zealand. It is also in Norwegian, French, Spanish languages. ...
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  • radical populist and Marxist political literature and writing fiction. ... * Order of St. Olav (Norwegian highest award at the time) ...
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  • as did some members of the Dutch and Norwegian teams. American marathon ... including two women, were captured by the Norwegian authorities, while others ...
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  • Clinical Manifestations, Management and Literature. Sangam Books. ISBN 9788171547180 ... flavicaudis.] The Scorpion Files. Norwegian University of Science and ...
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  • Another feature film, The Abdication, starred the Norwegian actress ... Christina's reign was controversial, and literature circulated ...
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  • Literature made by Jewish, other non-Aryans, or authors opposed to ... of iron ore supplies from Sweden through Norwegian coastal waters. British ...
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  • governments, organized pro-independence literature and the smuggling of weapons ... Speech by Egil Aarvik, Chairman of the Norwegian Nobel Committee].nobelprize ...
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  • Mint Office had commissioned acclaimed Norwegian artist Ross Kolby to paint ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure Vera_Lynn|968511573 ...
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  • more than half of the members of the Norwegian Council of State to be ... owning property or distributing religious literature. In most European ...
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  • in Hungarian, vaskebjørn in Danish and Norwegian, tvättbjörn in Swedish, wasbeer in Dutch, pesukarhu in Finnish, araiguma (アライグマ ...
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  • the preemptive occupation of the neutral Norwegian iron-ore port of Narvik ... and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature "for his mastery of ...
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  • of black metal band Deathspell Omega. Norwegian black metal bands utilize ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure 119173081 ...
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  • Harold II had just destroyed an invading Norwegian Viking army under King ... There were significant contributions to literature, the arts and science. ...
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  • number of immigrants of German, Irish, Norwegian, Welsh, Cornish, Italian ... stuntman). In the fields of art and literature, Charles M. Russell (western ...
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  • them in 1492. There is speculation that Norwegian expeditions to North America ... their study of history, philosophy, and literature (the Bible, ancient Greece ...
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  • parts of the extensive Celtic oral literature. The historicity of these ... of Dublin stands. Olaf was the son of a Norwegian king and made himself the ...
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  • In modern times, painters like the Norwegian Odd Nerdrum and the Hungarian ... Category:Art, music, literature, sports and leisure category:Biography ...
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  • meant the continuing impact of its literature and culture, while at the ... skepticism of British philosophy and literature. Two prominent medieval ...
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