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In Norway, Haakon is regarded as one of the greatest Norwegians of the twentieth century and is particularly revered for his courage during the German invasion — he threatened abdication if the government cooperated with the invading Germans — and for his leadership and preservation of Norwegian unity during the Nazi occupation.
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* 1872 – Haakon VII of Norway ( d. 1957 )
Alexander attempted to persuade Ewen, the son of Duncan, Lord of Argyll, to sever his allegiance to Haakon IV of Norway.
It includes depictions of Alexander III and his opponent Haakon IV of Norway.
* 1263 – King Haakon IV of Norway ( b. 1204 )
The poem is about the fall of King Haakon I of Norway ; although he is Christian, he is taken by two valkyries to Valhalla, and is there received as one of the Einherjar.
* Haakon VII of Norway ( 1872 – 1957 ), King of Norway ( 1905 – 1957 )
Following the ill-fated 1263 expedition of Haakon IV of Norway, the Outer Hebrides and the Isle of Man were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.
* 1945 – King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
At the age of ten, she married King Haakon VI of Norway and Sweden, who was the son of King Magnus IV of Sweden and Norway.
When Haakon VI died in 1380, Olav also inherited the crown of Norway.
" A personal envoy represented King Haakon VII of Norway at Rockne's funeral.
* 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
* 1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway.
Amundsen sent the new King Haakon VII news that it " was a great achievement for Norway ".
* 1957 – Haakon VII of Norway ( b. 1872 )
This strategy eventually led to an invasion by Haakon Haakonsson, King of Norway.
In chapter 32 of Hákonar saga Góða, Haakon I of Norway is given a pagan burial, which is described as sending him on his way to Valhalla.
In 1263, King Haakon IV of Norway, in retaliation for a Scots expedition to Skye, arrived on the west coast with a fleet from Norway and Orkney.
Documents found on Wallace, and delivered to Edward by John de Segrave, included letters of safe conduct from Haakon V of Norway, Philip IV of France, and John Balliol, with other documents.
Saga of Hákon the Good credits King Haakon I of Norway with the Christianization of Norway, as well as rescheduling the date of Yule to coincide with Christian celebrations held at the time.
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But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
Even Norway, despite daily but limited manifestations against atomic arms in the heart of this northernmost capital of the alliance, is today closer to the NATO line.
The land on the Arctic Circle is divided among eight countries: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, the United States ( Alaska ), Canada, Denmark ( Greenland ), and Iceland ( where it passes through the small offshore island of Grímsey ).
* 1031 – Olaf II of Norway is canonized as Saint Olaf by Grimketel, the English Bishop of Selsey.
* 1860 – Charles XV of Sweden of Sweden-Norway is crowned king of Norway in Trondheim.
The total population estimate in all of Norway, Sweden and Finland is a mere 120 adult individuals.
The other threatened population is the one in Fennoscandia ( Norway, Sweden, Finland and Kola Peninsula ).
The total population estimate for 1997 is around 60 adults in Sweden, 11 adults in Finland and 50 in Norway.
In Norway the sale of alcohol on Sundays and election day is strictly illegal, the sale of alcohol on Saturdays ends at 6pm, while it ends 8pm at weekdays.
The word " Bluetooth " is an anglicised version of the Scandinavian Blåtand / Blåtann, the epithet of the tenth-century king Harald I of Denmark and parts of Norway who united dissonant Danish tribes into a single kingdom.
It is one of the busiest railways in Europe, with 20 % more train services than France, 60 % more than Italy, and more than Spain, Switzerland, The Netherlands, Portugal and Norway combined.
Kontinenten – the Continent – is a vernacular Swedish expression excluding Sweden, Norway and Finland, but including Denmark ( even the Danish archipelago ) and the rest of continental Europe.
One of the legends in cross-country skiing competitions is Bjørn Dæhlie ( Norway ).
Denmark is located southwest of Sweden and due south of Norway and is bordered by the German state ( and former possession ) Schleswig-Holstein to the south.
The railway system is connected to Sweden by bridge in Copenhagen and ferry in Helsingør and Frederikshavn, by land to Germany in Padborg and ferry in Rødby and to Norway by ferry in Hirtshals.
In contrast, though Oslo ( Norway ) and Stockholm ( Sweden ) are quite dominant in terms of speech standards, cities like Bergen, Gothenburg and the Malmö-Lund region are large and influential enough to create secondary regional norms, making the standard language more varied than is the case with Danish.
Similarly, the Norwegian language is classified as a descendant of West Norse, while the written language used by the vast majority in Norway is derived from an older variant of standard Danish.
This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on fishing more than anywhere else.
But, though the draugr usually presages death, there is an amusing account in Northern Norway of a Nordlending who managed to outwit him:
( In Norway " vampires " is translated as " Bloodsucker-draugar ".
1016 ), perhaps married firstly with Eric the Victorious, King of Sweden, and later wife of Sweyn Forkbeard, King of Denmark, by whom she is said to have been mother of Canute the Great, King of Denmark, Norway and England.
The E 4 is the fastest road to go from Germany / Denmark to areas north of the arctic circle, including places in Norway like Tromsø.
The fact that settlers from Norway also settled in the Faroe Islands is proven by a runestone ( see Sandavágur stone ) found in the village of Sandavágur on Vágoy Island.
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