* Chateau Neuf Spelemannslag, Norwegian folk music group

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.

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, where the god is recorded as Njor and thanked for a bountiful catch of fish.

Veneration of Njörðr survived into 18th or 19th century Norwegian folk practice, as recorded in a tale collected by Halldar O. Opedal from an informant in Odda, Hordaland, Norway.

This period also saw collection of Norwegian folk tales by Peter Asbjørnsen and Bishop Jørgen Moe.

Aasen, a self-taught linguistic scholar and philologist, documented a written grammar and dictionary for the spoken Norwegian folk language, which became Nynorsk ( New Norwegian ) – the " speech of the country " as opposed to the official language largely imported from Denmark.

The arms show a hardanger-fiddle ( Hardingfele ), which is a Norwegian folk instrument.

Norwegian folk music may be divided into two categories: instrumental and vocal.

Norwegian folk dances are social dances and usually performed by couples, although there are a number of solo dances as well, such as the halling.

In Norway, the Hardanger fiddle ( hardingfele ), the most distinctive instrument in Norwegian folk music, looks and plays like a standard violin.

Lumsk is another band mixing Norwegian traditional folk music with metal.

These composers, inspired by Lindeman's collections and Ole Bull's Hardanger fiddling, incorporated Norwegian folk elements into their compositions.

Vindrosa's music is traditional Norwegian folk songs with ethnic spices, and Annbjørg Lien blends traditional Norwegian music with jazz and rock.

Lumsk is another band mixing Norwegian traditional folk music with metal.

* Goertzen, C. " The Radiokappleik: Regional Norwegian folk music in the media.

* Myklebust, R. " Norwegian folk music record.

* NRK Folkemusikk-live feed from 24 hour folk music station run by Norwegian public broadcaster NRK

The presenter was Åse Kleveland, a well-known folk guitarist who was President of the Norwegian Association of Musicians ( and a former Eurovision entrant, in 1966 ).

Ofsdal played a range of traditional Norwegian folk instruments such as accordion, recorder and hardingfele.

* Norwegian folk music

Additionally, Grieg's work provides evidence of his interest in Norwegian folk music ; the opening flourish is based around the motif of a falling minor second ( see interval ) followed by a falling major third, which is typical of the folk music of Grieg's native country.

In the last movement of the concerto, similarities to the halling ( a Norwegian folk dance ) and imitations of the Hardanger fiddle ( the Norwegian folk fiddle ) have been detected.

* Ark ( Norwegian band ), a metal band

The early Norwegian black metal scene developed the style of their forebears into a distinct genre.

Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles with no connection to the Norwegian one.

* Cyrus ( metal musician ), guitarist for Norwegian band Dimmu Borgir

* Chimera ( Mayhem album ), a 2004 album by Norwegian black metal band Mayhem

At first, Benton blamed that attack on the Norwegian black metal scene, where Deicide's brand of death metal was despised.

* Fenriz, stage name of member in Norwegian black metal band Darkthrone

* Pagan's Mind, is a Norwegian progressive metal band.

** Øystein Aarseth, Norwegian black metal musician ( b. 1968 )

* November 18 – Shagrath, Norwegian black metal musician ( Dimmu Borgir )

* June 18 – Roger " Infernus " Tiegs, Norwegian black metal musician, original member of Gorgoroth

* February 19 – Sven Erik Kristiansen Norwegian Black metal and hardcore punk singer ( Maniac )

The project quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene.

* Closure: Live, a 2001 live album by Norwegian gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy

* The Norwegian / German symphonic metal band Leaves ' Eyes has a song called The Battle of Maldon on their 2009 EP, My Destiny.

The Norwegian scaldic metal project Burzum used the whole of Völuspá as lyrics on its 2012 album Umskiptar.

The year 1991 saw the formation of the Norwegian group Enslaved, who Mulvany states was " probably the first truly ' Viking ' metal band ".

* Pieces by Norwegian doom / gothic metal band Theatre of Tragedy, such as " Amor volat undique " and " Circa mea pectora " in the song " Venus " on their 1998 album Aégis

* Pieces by the Norwegian gothic metal musical group Tristania (" Wormwood " from their 2001 album World of Glass )

Storm was a short lived Norwegian supergroup with Fenriz, Satyr and Kari Rueslåtten from the black metal groups Darkthrone, Satyricon and the doom metal band The 3rd and the Mortal respectively.

Both albums received acclaim from the Norwegian Metal press, the international press, and metal scenes.

Category: Norwegian black metal musical groups

Satyricon is a Norwegian black metal band, formed in 1990 in Oslo.