* Hardanger, a region in the western part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities of Odda, Ullensvang, Eidfjord, Ulvik and Granvin

In the period between 1650-1850 Hardangersom ( meaning: work from Hardanger area ) flourished in Norway.

It originally comes from Norway, and there from the traditional district of Hardanger.

The areas of Mauranger and Rosendal are said to have about the most beautiful fjord landscape of Hardanger as a whole: narrow fjords, wild water-falls, and the Folgefonna-the third biggest glacier in Norway.

A Hardanger fiddle ( or in ) is a traditional stringed instrument used originally to play the music of Norway.

The earliest known example of the hardingfele is from 1651, made by Ole Jonsen Jaastad in Hardanger, Norway.

Espelandsfossen ( Espelands Falls ) is a 75 m ( 246 ft ) tall waterfall located in Espelandsdalen ( the Espeland Valley ), Granvin in Hardanger, Norway.

Svein Rosseland was born in Kvam, in Hardanger, Norway.

She later wore this Hardanger bunad at numerous public appearances in Norway, a tradition maintained by the present Queen Sonja, the Crown Princess Mette Marit and Princess Martha Louise, although Queen Sonja and her daughter wear the East Telemark bunads, Telemark being the ancestral county of the Queen's own family.

Another variety, the Hardangerlefse ( from Hardanger in Norway ) is made from yeast risen Graham flour or a fine ground whole wheat flour ( krotekake ).

Hardanger is a traditional district in the western part of Norway, dominated by the Hardangerfjord.

The Hardangervidda is a mountain plateau (" vidde " in Norwegian ) in the Hardanger region of western Norway.

Utne is a village in Ullensvang municipality in Hardanger, Norway.

Røldal stave church ( Røldal stavkyrkje ) is a stave church at Røldal in Odda municipality, Hardanger, Norway.

Folgefonna is a collective term for three plateau glaciers in Hardanger, Norway,

Their name suggests that they may have at one point settled in Hardanger in Western Norway.

She also studied Hardanger Fiddle with Ånon Egeland in Norway from 1992 to 1993.

There is some debate over whether one stave church, the church at Røldal stave church in Hardanger, Norway is in fact a post church.

Norway shares some Nordic dance music tradition with its neighbouring countries of Sweden and Denmark, where the most typical instrument is the fiddle.

After WWII, Groven participated in editing and publishing seven volumes of written and collected tunes for hardanger fiddle, along with two fellow folk musicians in Norway.

The Hardingfele is used mainly in the southwest part of Norway, whereas the ordinary violin ( called ' flatfele ' - ' flat fiddle ' or ' vanlig fele ' - ' common fiddle ') is found elsewhere.

The current lineup consists of Lief ( mandolin, vocals ), Adolfo ( percussion ), Kathy Buys ( fiddle ), Gregory Jones ( guitar ), and Brian Fox ( bass ), with members from around the world: Lief from Oslo, Norway, Adolfo from Havana, Cuba, Gregory from Missouri Kathy from San Francisco, California, and Brian from Redwood City, California.

The fact that the fiddle tunes in question seem to be fairly old, most of them not younger than 1750, should strengthen the theory of existence prior to the romantic nationalist era in Norway.

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 ).

These include: Albania, Afghanistan Andorra, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chad, Chile, the People's Republic of China, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, DR Congo, Egypt, East Timor, Equatorial Guinea, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Grenada, Holy See ( Vatican City ), Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Kazakhstan, North Korea, South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Libya, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Norway, Netherlands, Nigeria, Oman, Order of Malta, Paraguay, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Romania, Russia, San Marino, Serbia, Seychelles, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Tajikistan, Thailand, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, Ukraine, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, the United States of America, Uruguay, and Vietnam.

# Margaret ( 28 February 1261 – 9 April 1283 ), who married King Eirik II of Norway

The islands situated between 60 ° S latitude parallel to the south and the Antarctic Convergence to the north, and their respective Exclusive Economic Zones fall under the national jurisdiction of the countries that possess them: South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands ( United Kingdom ; also an EU Overseas territory ), Bouvet Island ( Norway ), and Heard and McDonald Islands ( Australia ).

* Blitz ( movement ), a radical youth movement in Norway

The United States joined Britain, France, Canada, Denmark, Portugal, Norway, Belgium, Iceland, Luxembourg, Italy, and the Netherlands in 1949 to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO ), the United States ' first " entangling " European alliance in 170 years.

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.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

Seventy-one of the paintings previously taken by the Nazis had found their way back to Norway through purchase by collectors ( the other eleven were never recovered ), including The Scream and The Sick Child, and they too were hidden from the Nazis.

The game of floorball is also known by many other names, such as salibandy ( in Finland ), innebandy ( in Sweden and Norway ), and unihockey ( in Switzerland and Germany ).

The first element in the name Forsetlund ( Old Norse Forsetalundr ), a farm in the parish of Onsøy (' Odins island '), in eastern Norway, seems to be the genitive case of Forseti, offering evidence he was worshipped there.

* Frederick V of Denmark ( 1723 – 1766 ), king of Denmark and Norway

In Norway and Sweden, this 4 minute geographical mile was mainly used at sea ( sjømil ), up to the beginning of the 20th century.

She served three terms as Prime Minister of Norway ( 1981, 1986 – 89, 1990 – 96 ), and has served as the Director General of the World Health Organization.

At first Germany's military moves were brilliantly successful, as in the " blitzkrieg " invasions of Poland ( 1939 ), Norway ( 1940 ), the Low Countries ( 1940 ), and above all the stunningly successful invasion and quick conquest of France in 1940.

* Haakon VII of Norway ( 1872 – 1957 ), King of Norway ( 1905 – 1957 )

Germany and Norway are the countries that showed the most division and conflict between scholars focusing on domestic socio-cultural issues and scholars focusing on " other " societies ..

Among the people of the Arctic the Norwegians have the easiest climate, with most ports in North Norway remaining ice-free all the year as a result of the Gulf Stream.

In Norway, similarly, one speaks about Kontinentet as a separate entity ( in most cases referring to Germany, France and the Benelux countries ).

In the 1970s and 1980s, agricultural use was banned in most developed countries, beginning with Hungary in 1968 then in Norway and Sweden in 1970, Germany and the United States in 1972, but not in the United Kingdom until 1984.

This makes it the third most sparsely populated country in Europe, after Iceland and Norway.

Floorball is most popular in areas where the sport has developed the longest, such as the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Latvia, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.

He then embarked on his most ambitious project, a feature film about Peter Christen Asbjørnsen, who travelled around Norway in the 19th century collecting traditional folk tales.

With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).

Their web page includes most of Aasens ' texts numerous other examples of Nynorsk literature ( in Nettbiblioteket ), and some articles, also in English, about language history in Norway.

Adding to the absurdity of it all is the fact that most parrots live in tropical climates, and none are native to Norway.

The insanity defense is recognized in Norway, Australia, Canada, England and Wales, Hong Kong, New Zealand, the Republic of Ireland, India, and most U. S. states with the exception of Montana, Kansas, Idaho, and Utah.

He was already the most knowledgeable mathematician in Norway.

* 1944 – World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship Tirpitz, with 12, 000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.

These settlers are believed to have arrived in very substantial numbers and like those who migrated to Iceland and the Faroe Islands it is probable that most came from the west coast of Norway.

* In Norway, most chips are flavored with salt, salt and pepper or paprika.

Some countries get most of their power from renewables, including Iceland and Paraguay ( 100 %), Norway ( 98 %), Brazil ( 86 %), Austria ( 62 %), New Zealand ( 65 %), and Sweden ( 54 %).

The extreme north of Norway, Sweden and Finland, as well as the most North-Western part of Russia, is home to the region's original inhabitants, the today's minority of Sami, who originally inhabited a much larger area, before the expansion of the Scandinavians northward.

The Scandinavian Peninsula is a peninsula in Northern Europe, which today covers Norway, Sweden, and most of northern Finland.

Of all the states in the region, Norway suffered the most from this plague.

His favourite part of the job is creating coastlines, the most notable of which are the fjords found on the coast of Norway on planet Earth, for which he won an award.

The oldest and most accurately documented evidence of skiing origins is found in modern day Norway and Sweden.

It also covers most of Sweden, Finland, much of Norway, lowland / coastal areas of Iceland, much of Russia from St. Petersburg in the west to the Pacific ocean ( including much of Siberia ), northern Kazakhstan, northern Mongolia, and northern Japan ( on the island of Hokkaidō ).

Some of the most important trading ports during the period include both existing and ancient cities such as Aarhus ( Denmark ), Ribe ( Denmark ), Hedeby ( Germany ), Vineta ( Pomerania ), Truso ( Poland ), Kaupang ( Norway ), Birka ( Sweden ), Bordeaux ( France ), York ( England ), Dublin ( Ireland ) and Aldeigjuborg ( Russia ).

The most eminent Scandinavian to serve in the Varangian Guard was Harald Hardrada, who subsequently established himself as king of Norway ( 1047 – 66 ).

Haakon spent most of this time in Trondheim, Norway.