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.

Alexander now turned his attention to securing the Western Isles, which still owed a nominal allegiance to Norway.

Geological evidence suggests that at least part of the island was originally joined with present-day Scotland and Norway, now separated by millions of years of continental drift.

Munch's works are now represented in numerous major museums and galleries in Norway and abroad.

The Hebrides were now part of the Kingdom of the Isles, whose rulers were themselves vassals of the Kings of Norway.

* 1956: Afghanistan, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia ( now Czech Republic and Slovakia ), Hungary, Iraq, Lao, Mongolia, Norway, Philippines, Romania, Sweden

Viking raiders always had the option to fallback in the face of a superior force or stubborn defence and then reappear to attack other locations or retreat to their bases in what is now Sweden, Denmark, Norway and their Atlantic colonies.

Njörðr's name appears in various place names in Scandinavia, such as Nærdhæwi ( now Nalavi ), Njærdhavi ( now Mjärdevi ), Nærdhælunda ( now Närlunda ), Nierdhatunum ( now Närtuna ) in Sweden, Njarðvík in southwest Iceland, Njarðarlög and Njarðey ( now Nærøy ) in Norway.

Amundsen now returned to Norway, spurred by a need to put his finances in order.

The other inhabitants of the peninsula, according to ninth century records, were the Norwegians on the west coast of Norway, the Danes in what is now southern and western Sweden and southeastern Norway, the Svear in the region around Mälaren as well as a large portion of the present day eastern seacoast of Sweden and the Geats in Västergötland and Östergötland.

Since prehistoric times, long before the concept of national borders existed, the Sami people of Arctic Europe lived and worked in an area that stretches over the regions now known as Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Russian Kola Peninsula.

Other Norse people, particularly those from the area that is now modern-day Sweden and Norway, continued south to the Black Sea and then on to Constantinople.

Scandinavian predation in Christian lands around the North Sea and the Irish Sea diminished markedly. Kilmuir, Skye | Blar a ' Bhuailte, site of the Vikings ' last stand in Skye The kings of Norway continued to assert power in parts of northern Britain and Ireland, and raids continued into the 12th century, but the military ambitions of Scandinavian rulers were now directed toward new paths.

The Norwegian manuscript Konungsskuggsja, thought to date from around 1240AD refers to the walrus as " rosmhvalr " in Iceland and " rostungr " in Greenland ( walruses were by now extinct in Iceland and Norway, while the word evolved on in Greenland ).

A PDP-7A ( S # 115 ) was under restoration in Oslo, Norway, a second PDP-7A ( S # 113 ) previously located at the University of Oregon in its Nuclear Physics laboratory is now at the Living Computer Museum in Seattle, Washington and is almost completely restored to running condition after being disassembled for transport.

The first is the Norway pavilion, a recreation of a traditional wooden stave church which is now preserved at a museum called Little Norway in Blue Mounds, Wisconsin.

Green parties now exist in most countries with democratic systems: from Canada to Peru ; from Norway to South Africa ; from Ireland to Mongolia.

Margaret, by now seven years of age, sailed from Norway for Scotland in the autumn of 1290, but fell ill on the way and died in Orkney.

Following the establishment of an independent Sweden, Norway and Denmark were reorganized into a polity now known as Denmark – Norway in 1536 and the nominal Norwegian sovereignty over Greenland was taken up by the new kingdom.