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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 poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir.

The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing.

Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence this was to flower into an active period of literature production in the late 12th and early 13th centuries.

Major works of that period include Historia Norwegie, Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá.