Several films followed in the next couple of years, including two 15 minute shorts that are still shown regularly in Norway today, Veslefrikk med Fela ( Little Freddy and his Fiddle ), based on a Norwegian folk tale, and Karius og Baktus, a story by Thorbjørn Egner of two little trolls, representing Caries and Bacterium, living in a boy's teeth.

In the other version of the story, Eiríks saga rauða or the Saga of Erik the Red, Leif Ericsson accidentally discovers the new land when travelling from Norway back to Greenland after a visit to his overlord, King Olaf Tryggvason, who commissions him to spread Christianity in the colony.

Those who sail up along the coast of Norway to trade or to fish, all tell the remarkable story of how a serpent of fearsome size, 200 feet long and 20 feet wide, resides in rifts and caves outside Bergen.

The unification of Norway is, according to a tale narrated in Heimskringla, something of a love story.

Rosa created Guardians of the Lost Library at the request of Scandinavia-based, European Disney publisher Egmont in reference to the fact that Norway had officially declared 1993 to be " The Year of The Book " in order to promote reading ( as the story was published in Norway and Denmark in 1993, one year prior to its first edition in the original English ).

The article, " The Third Tower ", came a few weeks after Le Monde Diplomatique's Norway edition ran a similar front page story.

* Norway. today is a theatrical drama inspired by a true story.

Eileen first tries to blame it all on Roger, but Marlowe doesn't buy her story and argues that she killed both Mrs. Lennox and Roger Wade and that Paul Marston ( Lennox ) was actually her first husband, presumed killed in action with the Special Air Service off the coast of Norway or by the Gestapo.

# The Skin of our Teeth-In this the first episode Clark travels from Byzantine Ravenna to the Celtic Hebrides, from the Norway of the Vikings to Charlemagne's chapel at Aachen, telling his story of the Dark Ages ; the six centuries following the collapse of the Roman Empire.

The former is a grimly realistic depiction of a commando raid on occupied Norway, the latter the story of a rescue ship attached to North Atlantic convoys.

The story tells of the military occupation of a small town in Northern Europe by the army of an unnamed nation at war with England and Russia ( much like the occupation of Norway by the Germans during World War II ).

Part of his life story was dramatised in the musical Song of Norway.

Ohthere's story is the earliest known written source for the terms " Norway " ( Norðweg ) and " Denmark " ( Denamearc ).

That is in brief the story of our initiative over Norway.

Rendalen wrote to the network, originally claiming that he disbelieved the tale but, upon his return to Norway, supposedly read a " factual account " of the story.

Barcelona, it sticks to the story that Lyn had to play both matches in Spain due to the harsh weather conditions in Norway at winter.

The true story of Kent Stock ( Sean Astin ), who in the early 1990s, takes the job of a lifetime as head coach of the Norway High School baseball team, a school which had won 19 State titles and equated baseball with life.

The year contains the story of two ambitious future kings in Scandinavia who both may have hoped to unite Sweden, Denmark, and Norway under their throne.

The Færeyinga Saga (), the Norse saga of Faroemen, is the story of how the Faroes were converted to Christianity and became a part of the Kingdom of Norway.

Fizeau's father-in-law's friend, Prosper Mérimée, who wrote " Carmen "... his friend, Anthony Panizzi, who works at the British Museum, opened to house the collection of Dr. Hans Sloane, who treats Lady Montague's smallpox before she sees Turkish tulips, first drawn by Gesner, whose godfather eats sausages and cancels the military contract with France, which was the first to develop military music and choreography, used in a London show by John Gay, whose friend Arbuthnot does statistics that impress the Dutch mathematician who knows Voltaire, who hears from the worm-slicing Lazzaro Spallanzani, who stars in the story by Judge Hoffman, who tries German nationalists who start gymnastics, adopted by the YMCA and the guy who kicks off the Red Cross, who need a way to figure out blood types, surgical stitching, and the perfusion pump invented by Charles Lindbergh, whose father-in-law's disarmament treaty leads to " Graf Spee ," " Altmark, " and the German invasion of Norway and the Allied commandos whose mission was to " Hit the Water.

McGuinn and Levy's production was to loosely follow the storyline of Peer Gynt, albeit with some modifications to transpose the story from Norway to south-west America during the mid-19th century.

The short story " The King of Norway " by Cecelia Holland has at its center the story of the Battle of Hjörungavágr.

It gained importance during the Middle Ages as a trading post, and hosted the last free Privy Council of Norway in 1533, a desperate attempt to save the country's independence and stave off the Protestant Reformation, led by Olav Engelbrektsson, archbishop of Nidaros ( today Trondheim ).

In the 18th century, Denmark – Norway revived its former colonies in Greenland, while the Russian Empire gained a foothold in Alaska.

When Harald died, Eric succeeded to the realm, slaughtered the combined forces of his half-brothers Olaf and Sigrød, and gained full control of Norway.

At his arrival back in Norway, Haakon gained the support of the landowners by promising to give up the rights of taxation claimed by his father over inherited real property.

In 1994, the final year of his speed skating career, Koss also gained fame outside the speed skating world by winning three gold medals at the 1994 Winter Olympics in his native Norway, winning all races in new world records, two of which would remain unbeaten until the clap skate era.

Skule and Haakon increasingly drifted apart in their administration, and Skule focused mainly on governing Eastern Norway after 1220, which he had gained the right to rule in 1218 as his third of the Norwegian kingdom.

The rising only gained support in parts of Eastern Norway, and were unable to gain control of Viken and Opplandene as the bagler formerly had done.

Skule was the first person ever in Norway to be titled Duke ( hertug ) in 1237, but instead of control over a region gained the rights to the incomes from a third of the syssels scattered across the whole of Norway.

Their live shows have gained a massive reputation both in Norway and in the rest of Europe combining various percussion instruments and pyrotechnics.

He gained the nickname Flonaldo ( an obvious pun on Ronaldo, one of the world's best strikers ) when Norway beat Brazil 4 – 2 in a friendly match.

West Germany won the right to host the tournament with five votes ahead of a joint bid from Norway, Sweden and Denmark, who gained 1 vote, and a bid from England.

" to be best without the ball ") which gained some fame in Norway.

Like in Denmark, Paradise Hotel has gained huge popularity and debate in Norway.

The Kuvlungs soon gained control of eastern and western Norway, the old Heklung strongholds.

Competition law gained new recognition in Europe in the inter-war years, with Germany enacting its first anti-cartel law in 1923 and Sweden and Norway adopting similar laws in 1925 and 1926 respectively.

After more than 400 years as a Danish province treated as a cultural backwater by the absentee government in Copenhagen, the only uniquely Norwegian culture was found among the farmers and peasants in rural districts in Norway ; Norway had in 1814 gained a partial independence in a personal union with the dominant kingdom of Sweden.

Chamberlain said that since his last ( 2 May ) statement to the House on progress in Norway, British forces had successfully withdrawn from southern Norway ; Chamberlain began to make a case that actual Allied losses had been light and German losses disproportionate to any benefit they had gained, but was interrupted by Labour MPs pointing out that the reverse had come as a shock to the country and the world.

By the time Amundsen returned, Norway had gained its independence and he and his crew were among the new country's first national heroes.

Queen Sonja of Norway gained her ski instructors certificate in Geilo.

The band gained moderate domestic success in Norway in the mid-to-late ' 90s with their sole album Pieces ( 1996 ) and an EP ( 1999 ), but has since gone on to become a cult band, especially in the American college / underground circuit.

Although the name day tradition never gained similar popularity in Denmark and Norway, it is occasionally celebrated.