Norway News » Finnmark News Norway » Finnmark » Politics: Marthe Gerhardsen Boldly Challenges Her Grandfather’s 1949 Border Restrictions
News channel or source: https://www.msn.com/en-us/politics/government/marthe-gerhardsen-boldly-challenges-her-grandfather-s-1949-border-restrictions/ar-AA1EsZcd
Published on: Thursday 08 May 2025
Norway has long followed a unique military policy in its far northern region of Finnmark, close to the Russian border. This policy includes restrictions that the country chose to impose on itself, ...
News Norway » Finnmark » Politics: How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History
News channel or source: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-a-sudden-winter-storm-in-1617-sparked-the-deadliest-witchcraft-trials-in-norwegian-history-180987919/
Published on: Tuesday 06 January 2026
Aerial view of Vardo, Norway, the fishing town at the center of the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials Timo Noko via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 On Christmas Eve in 1617, sailors in Finnmark, ...