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.

Norway retained only Orkney and Shetland in the area.

Finland is the only Nordic country to have joined the Eurozone ; Denmark and Sweden have retained their traditional currencies, whereas Iceland and Norway are not members of the EU at all.

The only other known case of triple Leap Day babies is a family in Norway, which logged Feb. 29 births in 1960, 1964 and 1968, according to the Guinness World Records press office.

The Czech Republic, Finland, Norway Sweden, and Switzerland remain the only five countries to have ever captured a medal at a World Championship event.

William Jan Berry ( born in Los Angeles, California April 3, 1941 ; died March 26, 2004 ), was the son of aeronautical engineer William L. Berry ( born December 7, 1909 in The Bronx, NY ; died December 19, 2004 in Camarillo, California ), who had been project manager of the " Spruce Goose " and flew on its only flight with Howard Hughes, and Clara Lorentze Mustad Berry ( born September 2, 1919 in Bergen, Norway ; died July 9, 2009 ).

In 1066, King Harald Hardråde of Norway invaded England, only to be defeated by Harold Godwinson, who in turn was defeated by William of Normandy, descendant of the Viking Rollo, who had accepted Normandy as a fief from the Frankish King.

The Orkneyinga Saga reports strife with Norway but this is probably misplaced as it associates this with Magnus Barefoot, who became king of Norway only in 1093, the year of Malcolm's death.

After Operation Weserübung, as the invasion of Norway had been code-named, the Kriegsmarine had only one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers and four destroyers available for operations.

Denmark, Sweden, and the Russian Empire dominated the political relationships on the Scandinavian Peninsula for centuries, with Iceland, Finland, and Norway only gaining their full independence during the 20th century.

The Kingdom of Norway long held in personal union by Denmark fell to Sweden after the Napoleonic Wars and only attained full independence in 1905.

Madagascar and Iveland-Evje region in Norway have the only deposits of minerals with high scandium content, thortveitite ( Sc, Y )< sub > 2 </ sub >( Si < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 7 </ sub >) and kolbeckite ScPO < sub > 4 </ sub >· 2H < sub > 2 </ sub > O, but these are not being exploited.

The University of Oslo was the only university in Norway until 1946, and hence informally often known as simply " universitetet " ( the university ).

In 1939, the university was renamed the University of Oslo and it remained Norway ’ s only university until 1946..

" In Norway, the title " Professor ," which is protected by law, is only used for full professors.

From here, they were raiding not only foreign lands but were also attacking Norway itself.

He found himself ruling not only Norway, but the Isles, Man and parts of Scotland.

Geographically, a Viking Age may be assigned not only to Scandinavian lands ( modern Denmark, Norway and Sweden ), but also to territories under North Germanic dominance, mainly the Danelaw, including Scandinavian York, the administrative centre of the remains of the Kingdom of Northumbria, parts of Mercia, and East Anglia.

The only true Viking helmet found is that from Gjermundbu in Norway.

In Norway the nationwide electoral threshold of 4 % applies only to leveling seats.

* Olaf Tryggvason flees Norway with his mother, only to be attacked by Estonian Vikings.

The idea was adopted, for a time, in Norway and in the mines of the Harz mountains of Germany, although at that time, the only available explosive was gunpowder, which is not a high explosive and hence incapable of producing the shock wave that the shaped-charge effect requires.

Instead, Ivano Balić scored the 23 – 22 goal with twenty seconds to spare, and only a late equaliser gave Norway third place in the group.

Bernadotte and Désirée had only one son, Oscar I of Sweden and Norway.