Norway News News Norway » History: The First Warship Sunk by Dive Bombers: Königsberg in Norway, 1940 - Animated
In April 1940, as German forces launched Operation Weserübung, the invasion of Norway, the light cruiser Königsberg took part in the assault on the port city of Bergen. While troops fought to secure ...
News Norway » History: Opinion: Trump prefers immigrants from Norway over ‘shithole’ countries? He must not know anything about Norway’s history
Gratulerer, my fellow Norwegian Americans, for a United States president at long last has invited our cousins toughing it out in the Old Country to migrate to the land of freedom and chronic traumatic ...
News Norway » History: Stillwater author's history of Norway is first of its kind in 70 years
Just as a Norway House has opened in Minneapolis as an answer at long last to the American Swedish Institute, a Stillwater man is publishing what is being billed as the first start-to-the-present ...
News Norway » History: Norway timeline
A chronology of key events: Circa 800-1050 - Viking Age, in which Scandinavians go on plundering expeditions abroad. Some Norwegians settle at their destinations, including Scotland and Greenland.
News Norway » History: Sailing Norway’s fjords the local way
For more than a century, Hurtigruten, formerly Kystruten Bergen-Kirkenes, has been Norway’s connection to the sea. Founded in 1893 to carry mail, cargo and passengers ... Read moreThe post Sailing ...
News Norway » History: “The first time I heard anything negative about Norwegian society was when I lived in Norway”
“That was the first time I heard anything negative about Norwegian society,” she says. It was Norwegians who criticised Norway. But she loved her year in Oslo. “I was a total fangirl. Every day was a ...
News Norway » History: Graveyard tour puts a spotlight on Norway’s forefathers
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News Norway » History: Ballard and Norway share history and grief
Friday’s bombing and shootings in Norway, suspected to be the work of Anders Breivik, killed 76 people in the normally peaceful country. It has been struggling to come to terms with the mass murder of ...
News Norway » History: What is Norway’s national anthem, and what are the lyrics in English?
‘Yes, we love this country’ became Norway’s official national anthem in 2019, and celebrates the love and devotion the Norwegian people have for their country. Norway’s official national anthem is ‘Ja ...