Norwegian folklore thus records a number of different draug-types.

In Scandinavian folklore, which is a later blend of Norse mythology and elements of Christian mythology, an elf is called elver in Danish, alv in Norwegian, and alv or älva in Swedish ( the first is masculine, the second feminine ).

The Norwegian expressions seldom appear in genuine folklore, and when they do, they are always used synonymous to huldrefolk or vetter, a category of earth-dwelling beings generally held to be more related to Norse dwarves than elves which is comparable to the Icelandic huldufólk ( hidden people ).

Loki is attested in the Poetic Edda, compiled in the 13th century from earlier traditional sources ; the Prose Edda and Heimskringla, written in the 13th century by Snorri Sturluson ; the Norwegian Rune Poems, in the poetry of skalds, and in Scandinavian folklore.

Nisse is the common name in Norwegian, Danish and the Scanian dialect in southernmost Sweden ; it is a nickname for Nils, and its usage in folklore comes from expressions such as Nisse god dräng (" Nisse good lad ", cf.

In Scandinavian folklore, the Norwegian name tusse for a kind of troll or nisse, derives from Old Norse Þurs.

) In Norwegian folklore, she is known as the skogsrå or skogsfru / skovfrue ( meaning " Lady ( read, counterpart of a Lord ) of the forest ").

Male huldes, called Huldrekall, also appear in Norwegian folklore.

The langeleik, also called langleik, is a Norwegian stringed folklore musical instrument, a droned zither.

Witches in Norwegian folklore in particular are recognized by their long noses and cats, just as in other lands.

One of the most notable, and evil, creatures from folklore is the devil himself, called Fanden the Fiend in Norwegian folklore.

* American-Norwegian remains of Scandinavian folklore in Norwegian with English translations.

On 5 January 1867 Ibsen wrote to Frederik Hegel, his publisher, with his plan for the play: it would be " a long dramatic poem, having as its principal a part-legendary, part-fictional character from Norwegian folklore during recent times.

He and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe were collectors of Norwegian folklore.

It combines traditional Norwegian folk music and folklore with rock, progressive rock and metal.

Historian Beau Riffenburgh states that the promise to Scott " should never ethically have been demanded ", and compares Scott's intransigence on this matter unfavourably with the generous attitudes of the Norwegian explorer Fridtjof Nansen, who gave freely of his advice and expertise to all, whether they were potential rivals or not.

The Swedish Crown Prince Charles XIV John of Sweden | Charles John ( Bernadotte ), who staunchly opposed Norwegian independence, only to offer generous terms of union After brief fighting, the peace established a personal union between the two states.

The earliest Norwegian written source, Historia Norwegiæ ( late 12th century ), states that Olaf was born in Orkney after his mother fled there to escape the killers of Olaf's father-another late 12th century source, Ágrip, says Olaf's mother fled to Orkney with Olaf when he is three years old, for the same reason.

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

It served as the model for the Norwegian Constitution of 1814, the Portuguese Constitution of 1822 and the Mexican one of 1824, and was implemented with minor modifications in various Italian states by the Carbonari during their revolt of 1820 and 1821.

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Norwegian policy states that < tt >. no </ tt > is sufficient for those institutions connected to both Svalbard and Jan Mayen, and therefore the domain is not open to registration.

Due to the Norwegian name for the symbol, valknuter, and the fact that the symbol appears on picture stones with Odin and on burial gifts in the Oseberg ship burial, Rudolf Simek states that the symbol may have been associated with religious practices surrounding death.

Van Kirk Dobbie states that this apparatus is not likely to have been present in the original text of the Cotton manuscript and states that it's possible that the original Anglo-Saxon rune poem manuscript would have appeared similar in arrangement of runes and texts to that of the Norwegian and Icelandic rune poems.

While only the 41st state to enter the union ( 1889 ) and only 44th in population ( 4 Western and 2 Eastern states have fewer people ), the state is very diverse in its European-descended population ; Cornish, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French-Canadian, Norwegian, Faroese, Finnish, Slovak, Serbian, Luxembourgish, Northern and Southern Italian, Ashkenazi Jewish, Cajun, Swiss German, and Basque are just some of the ethnicities / nationalities of Europeans who settled in the territory, and then state.

Blaker Fortress is one of the Norwegian fortresses which were constructed in the period of intense competition among the Baltic powers ( Denmark-Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland and the German states ) for northern supremacy.

Legend states that it was originally built for a Norwegian princess known as ' Saucy Mary ' who would charge a toll to any boat using the narrow channel by hanging a chain from the castle to the mainland to prevent unpaid crossings.

Legislation effective from 1997 states that a Norwegian city must have 5, 000 inhabitants, but Honningsvåg with its population of 2367 ( in 2009 ) was declared a city in 1996, thus exempt from this legislation.

The saga states that Margaðr, a King of Dublin, was a close friend of a winter resident of Dublin, one Guðormr Gunnhildarson, nephew of Norwegian kings Óláfr Haraldsson and Haraldr Sigurðarson.

The term " multitasking " has become an international term, as the same word in many other languages such as German, Italian, Dutch, Danish and Norwegian.

The film has a cosmopolitan cast of characters ( American, French, German, Czech, Norwegian, Bulgarian, Russian and some other nationalities ).

The Norwegian municipality of Bø has the half-boat of draugen in its coat-of-arms.

" ( bra has the same meaning in Norwegian.

Norwegian has two standards, Bokmål and Nynorsk, the choice between which is subject to controversy: Each Norwegian municipality can declare one of the two its official language, or it can remain " language neutral ".

He was born in Namsos, Norway, received his education from Bergen Katedralskole and the Norwegian Institute of Technology, and has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT, EDB Maxware and Cisco Systems, Inc ..

* Former Norwegian prime minister Kjell Magne Bondevik has criticized IKEA for not depicting women assembling furniture in its instruction booklets, despite the fact that many sets of instructions do, in fact, show women.

With certain modifications, the most important of which were introduced later by Aasen himself, but also through a latter policy aiming to merge this Norwegian language with Dano-Norwegian, this language has become Nynorsk (" New Norwegian "), the second of Norway's two official languages ( the other being Bokmål, the Dano-Norwegian descendant of the Danish language used in Norway at Aasen's time ).

Since 1995, Jan Mayen has been administered by the County Governor ( fylkesmann ) of the northern Norwegian county of Nordland to which it is closest.

However, some authority over Jan Mayen has been assigned to the station commander of the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation, a branch of the Norwegian Armed Forces.

It has been doubted that several of the signatories were personally present ( for example, the entire Norwegian " delegation "), and it has been argued that the Treaty was only a draft document.

Carousel feeding has only been documented in the Norwegian killer whale population and with some oceanic dolphin species.

The American Krag-Jørgensen also has only a single locking lug, whereas the Norwegian and Danish versions effectively had two lugs.

While most large, modern cruise ships cannot pass through this canal due to clearance limits under bridges, MS Norwegian Dream has special funnels and masts that can be lowered for passage.

According to Nalan Koc of the Norwegian Polar Institute this is the first time it has been clear since they began keeping records in 1972.

Recent research has concluded that the large volume of water in the Norwegian Sea with its large heat absorption capacity is more important as a source of Norways mild winters than the Gulf Stream and its extenctions.

" (" what a head the young Norwegian has "), cut short a career of extraordinary brilliance and promise.

Under this system, Norwegian is grouped together with the neighbouring languages Danish and Swedish, because the last millennium has seen all three undergo important changes, especially in grammar and lexis, which have set them apart from Faroese and Icelandic.

Today Old Norse has developed into the modern North Germanic languages ( Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian, Danish and Swedish ), and although distinct languages there is still considerable mutual intelligibility.

Norwegian is descended from Old West Norse, but over the centuries it has been heavily influenced by East Norse, particularly during the Denmark – Norway union.

A similar project has been going on since 2004 on Utsira, a small Norwegian island municipality.