The Concordia Language Villages are located near Bemidji and this has, perhaps, been influential in the existence of several language conversational groups ( including French, Norwegian, Spanish, Italian, and German ) that meet weekly in local coffee houses.

Bokmål is regulated by the governmental Norwegian Language Council.

A more conservative orthographic standard, commonly known as Riksmål, is regulated by the non-governmental Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

The term Riksmål, meaning National Language, was first proposed by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson in 1899 as a name for the Norwegian variety of written Danish as well as spoken Dano-Norwegian.

The Riksmålsforbundet organised a parents ' campaign against Samnorsk in 1951, and the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was founded in 1953.

The Norwegian Language Council recommends the name Norwegian Nynorsk when referring to this language in English.

In 2000, together with Trond Trosterud, he co-authored Software localization into Nynorsk Norwegian, a report commissioned by the Norwegian Language Council.

He is also a member of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature.

His 2003 film Kitchen Stories screened at many international festivals and was the Norwegian submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The union was founded in 1965 as a response to the samnorsk policy ( aiming to merge the two languages Nynorsk and Bokmål ) prevailing with Noregs Mållag ( Norwegian Language Union ).

From 1994 to 2009, Friedman was professor in the Department of Culture, Communication, and Language at the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo, as well as at the Design Research Center at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen from 2003 to 2009.

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The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature () is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the Dano-Norwegian language.

The Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature was represented, along with other non-governmental language organisations, in the Norwegian Language Council, which regulates the official Bokmål and Nynorsk languages, since its establishment in 1972 until it was reorganized in 2005.

The following are current members of the Norwegian Academy for Language and Literature:

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The Norwegian Language Council (, 1972 – 2004 ) was the regulation authority for the Norwegian language.

Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles with no connection to the Norwegian one.

* Norwegian Folk Narrative in America Norwegian-American Studies

* Leif Eiriksson, Norwegian explorer, son of Erik the Red, made the first European attempt to settle in America.

Although a side note to the mainstream of Norwegian literature, the literature which documents the experience of Norwegian emigrants to America is as important as the Norwegian immigrants became to the growing America of the 19th century.

Ole E. Rølvaag, who immigrated to America, experienced life in the prairies, and rose to become professor of Norwegian at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, provided a strong record of the joys and pains of the immigrant in adapting to the harsh realities of and carving out a new life in a wild new country.

Cunard acquired the Norwegian America Line in 1983, with two classic ocean liner / cruise ships.

Red Wing Seminary was the educational center for the Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America, commonly known as the Hauge Synod.

* Estensen, Gene War Comes to Norwegian Grove ( Telelaget of America )

The nearby community of Norse is the final resting place of Cleng Peerson, commonly recognized as the " Father of Norwegian Immigration to America.

Adams Lutheran Church, ELCA, was formed by Norwegian immigrants from the Valdres and Hadeland areas of Norway and was originally served by clergy of the Church of Norway, but later it became a member of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

Leif Ericson ( or ; ; Icelandic: Leifur Eiríksson ; Norwegian: Leiv Eiriksson c. 970 – c. 1020 ) was a Norse explorer regarded as the first European to land in North America ( excluding Greenland ), nearly 500 years before Christopher Columbus.

In 1872, it joined the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Norwegian Synod, the two other large conservative Lutheran bodies, in forming the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America.

* 1872: The oldest ski club in North America still existing is the Nansen Ski Club, which was founded in 1872 by Norwegian immigrants of Berlin, New Hampshire under a different name.

Many Norwegian emigrants went to America during the 1840s and later settled in the area of the present city of Westby, Wisconsin ( named after general store owner and American Civil War Union soldier Ole T. Westby ); a city which still has a mostly Norwegian American population.

Kvinesdal belongs to a central area in the Norwegian south from which a lot of people emigrated to North America, particularly the United States, from the 1850s until the 1950s.

Norwegian scientist / adventurer Thor Heyerdahl, convinced that early contact between the peoples of South America and Polynesia was possible, built the raft Kon Tiki from balsa logs, and upon it he and his crew sailed the Pacific Ocean from Peru to the Polynesian Tuamotu Archipelago in 1947.

Thousands of languages were spoken in North and South America prior to first contact with Europeans between the beginning of the 11th century ( Norwegian settlement of Greenland and attempted settlement of Labrador and Newfoundland ) and the end of the 15th century ( the voyages of Christopher Columbus ).

Category: Norwegian migration to North America

It is also a stop for Caribbean cruises by cruise lines Carnival, Celebrity, Crystal, Disney, Holland America, Norwegian, Princess, Pullmantur and Royal Caribbean.

* The Tall Man in the Blue Suit: Witchcraft, Folklore, and Reality in Shirley Jackson's The Lottery, or the Adventures of James Harris: A Study of the use of Child ballad 243 in Shirley Jackson's story collection The Lottery by Norwegian scholar Håvard Nørjordet

Over the past 30 years, Norway has changed from an ethnically homogeneous society to a culturally diverse nation with large immigrant communities, Norwegian Society from Study in Norway.

Knut Tarald Taraldsen, born 1948 in Oslo, is a Norwegian linguist working in Tromsø, Norway as a senior researcher at the Center for Advanced Study in Theoretical Linguistics ( CASTL ).

Sødal, eds Jehovahs Witnesses An interdisciplinary Study ( In Norwegian ) ISBN: 978-82-15-01453-1

Turner has been a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, the National Humanities Center, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, and the Centre for Advanced Study at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.