A television series was also created, based on the book, which airs in the United States, Australia, Canada, the UK, Norway and Venezuela.

Selberg was born in Langesund, Norway.

On the February 20, 2011, episode of Top Gear, James May had Bovril in an urn inside a Claas Dominator combine harvester in Norway, which was converted into a snow plough.

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.

Coleman graduated from Wilbert Tucker Woodson High School, Fairfax, Virginia, in 1978 ; in 1978 – 1979 she was an exchange student at Røyken upper secondary school in Norway with the AFS Intercultural Programs.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.

Norway's first nominative, complete census was taken in 1801, when Norway still was ruled by the Oldenburg dynasty of Denmark-Norway.

Until 1814, Danish was the official language of Norway.

This trait is common in the northernmost part of Norway, where life and culture was based on fishing more than anywhere else.

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 was partly the case in the Grue Church fire in Norway in 1822.

On the Danish flag, the cross design, which represents Christianity, was subsequently adopted by the other Nordic countries ; Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, Åland Islands and the Faroe Islands, as well as the Scottish archipelagos of Shetland and Orkney.

During the Danish-Norwegian personal union, Dannebrog (" Danish cloth ") was also the flag of Norway and continued to be, with slight modifications, until Norway adopted its current flag in 1821.

Onstage in Oslo, Norway, on 18 June, Bowie was hit in the eye with a lollipop thrown by a fan ; a week later he suffered chest pain while performing at the Hurricane Festival in Scheeßel, Germany.

In February 2012, a major Munch exhibition, " the Modern Eye ", opened at the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt ; the exhibition was opened by Mette-Marit, Crown Princess of Norway.

In Norway the work of collectors such as Ludvig Mathias Lindeman was extensively used by Edvard Grieg in his Lyric Pieces for piano and in other works, which became immensely popular.

According to Flateyjarbók Grímr Kamban settled in Faroe when Harald Hårfagre was king of Norway ( 872 – 930 ).

Early in the 11th century Sigmund or Sigmundur Brestisson, whose family had flourished in the southern islands but had been almost exterminated by invaders from the northern, was sent from Norway, whither he had escaped, to take possession of the islands for Olaf Tryggvason, king of Norway.

King Sverre of Norway was brought up in the Faroe, being stepson of a Faroese man, and relative to Roe, bishop of the islands.

Though Norway tried to halt this process it was forced to relent after the Black Death decimated its population.

In 1940, the Germans invaded Norway and the Nazi party took over the government.

Germany subsequently invaded France, Denmark and Norway, and the Netherlands, and began bombing Great Britain in preparation for an invasion.

During World War II, continental Norway was invaded and occupied by Germany in spring 1940.

Schwitters started a second Merzbau while in exile in Lysaker nearby Oslo, Norway in 1937 but abandoned it in 1940 when the Nazis invaded ; this Merzbau was subsequently destroyed in a fire in 1951.

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 glaciation during the Ice Ages also deepened many of the river valleys, which were invaded by the sea when the ice melted, creating the noteworthy fjords of Norway.

The German Army and the German Kriegsmarine invaded Norway in 1940 and the German Army occupied all of Norway until May 1945.

The Vikings who invaded western and eastern Europe were chiefly pagans from Denmark, Norway and Sweden.

In April 1940, Germany invaded Denmark and Norway to secure shipments of iron ore from Sweden, which the Allies were about to disrupt.

Sweden invaded Norway to enforce the terms of the Kiel treaty — it was the last war Sweden ever fought.

On the same day Harald Hardrada of Norway, who also claimed the English crown joined Tostig and invaded, landing his fleet at the mouth of the Tyne.

However, they made themselves unpopular by heavy taxation and favouring Danish advisers over the Norwegian nobles, and when King Magnus I of Norway, the son of the former King of Norway, Olaf, invaded in 1035, they were forced to flee to Harthacnut's court.

Sweden proper was invaded by Denmark – Norway from the west and by Russia from the east, occupying all of Finland by 1714.

When Norway was invaded by Nazi Germany in 1940, the government fled to the United Kingdom and reconstituted in exile in Bracknell, outside of London.

King Harald III of Norway invaded northern England in early September, leading a fleet of over 300 ships carrying perhaps 15, 000 men.

He first invaded Norway in 1716 with a combined force of 7, 000 men, occupied the capital Christiania, ( modern Oslo ), and laid siege to the Akershus fortress.

In 1718 Charles once more invaded Norway.

The county was the site of combat and plunder three times during the 13th Century: in 1256 Haakon IV of Norway invaded, followed by Magnus I of Sweden in 1277 and Eric VI of Denmark in 1294.

In Northern Norway which was at the same time invaded by Soviet forces in pursuit of the retreating German army in 1944, the Germans also undertook a scorched earth policy, destroying every building that could offer shelter and thus interposing a belt of " scorched earth " between themselves and the allies.

During the Nordic Seven Years ' War ( 1563 – 1570 ), Swedish troops invaded Norway in a number of locations, including a number of incursions into Østerdalen.

When Germany invaded Norway in 1940, Tromsø served briefly as the seat of Norwegian government.

In the ensuing war, Sten was supported by peasant forces, but they were defeated at the Battle of Rotebro by Hans of Denmark ( also known as King John I of Denmark and Norway ), who invaded Sweden in July the same year.