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.

Norwegian folklore states that he has four fingers, and sometimes with pointed ears.

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.

* 1910: The Norwegian research ship Fram was a sailing ship fitted with an auxiliary diesel engine, and was thus the first ocean-going ship with a diesel engine.

The Norwegian resistance also smuggled people in and out of Norway during the war ( typically to Scotland via the ' Shetland Bus ', and to neutral Sweden ), and, with the SOE, managed to destroy much of the world's supply of heavy water and cripple the Vemork heavy water plant at Rjukan, thus perhaps preventing Germany from developing an atomic bomb ( Operation Gunnerside ).

His solution contained a gap, which Cauchy considered minor, though this was not patched until the work of Norwegian mathematician Niels Henrik Abel, who published a proof in 1824, thus establishing the Abel – Ruffini theorem.

With his ascent to the Norwegian throne, Denmark and Norway were thus united in a personal union ruled from Denmark.

Tromsø IL won the Norwegian 1st division in 2002, and was thus immediately re-introduced into the Premier League.

The counterparts of English " mayor " are thus in Germany, the Netherlands and Scandinavia as follows: German Bürgermeister, Dutch burgemeester ; French-speaking parts of Belgium bourgmestre ; Luxemburgish buergermeeschter ; Estonian bürgermeister ( a German loan word, pronounced pürjermeister ); Swedish borgmästare ; Norwegian borgermester ; Danish borgmester ; Icelandic borgarstjóri ( in a city, i. e. Reykjavík ) and bæjarstjóri ( of a town ); and Faroese borgarstjóri.

Some assimilation policies included: the ban of all books written in Danish or Norwegian, thus breaking the promise made at the Treaty of Roskilde ; the use of Swedish language in the conduction of sermons ; and all new priests and teachers having to come from Sweden.

The Catholic principle of legitimacy was thus established in the Norwegian order of succession, although Haakon's new law still maintained that illegitimate children could be designated as successor in the absence of any legitimate children or grandchildren — contrary to Catholic principles.

It thus has North-Germanic grammatical forms, and Nynorsk grammar may be compared to Bokmål Norwegian, but one can note that it is closer in grammar to Old West Norse than Bokmål, which was influenced by Danish much more heavily than Nynorsk.

The Voltaire Network, which has somehow changed position since the September 11 attacks and whose director, Thierry Meyssan, became a leading proponent of 9 / 11 conspiracy theory, explained that although the Norwegian version of Le Monde diplomatique had allowed it to translate and publish this article on its website, the mother-house, in France, categorically refused it this right, thus displaying an open debate between various national editions.

In many western, northern, and southwestern Norwegian dialects, and in the western Danish dialects of Thy and Southern Jutland, æ has a significant meaning: the first person singular pronoun I, and it is thus a normal spoken word ; usually, it is written as æ when these dialects are rendered in writing.

Although these names suggest it is a ligature or a diacritical variant of the letter o, it is considered a separate letter in Norwegian and Danish, and it is alphabetized after " z "— thus z, æ, ø, and å.

In Danish and Norwegian books, a distinction is made between foreign and local words ; thus, for example, the German city Aachen would be listed under A, but the Danish city " Aabenraa " would be listed after Z.

For example, according to the Norwegian Historia Norwegiae and the Icelandic historian Snorri Sturlusson, a 7th-century king called Ingjald illråde burnt a number of subordinate kings to death inside his hall, thus abolishing the petty kingdoms in the consolidation of Sweden.

Stabæk subsequently won the 2009 Norwegian Community Shield, but finished a disappointing 12th and 10th place in the 2010 and 2011 league seasons, respectively, and thus avoiding relegation.

The Saga of Magnus the lawmender ( Magnúss saga lagabœtis ) thus became the last of the medieval Norwegian kings ' sagas, unfortunately only a short fragment of it has been preserved.

However, according to legend, the " guardian thistle " ( see Scotch thistle ) played a vital part in the defence of the ancient realm of Scotland against a night attack by Norwegian Vikings, one of whom let out a yell of pain when he stepped on a prickly thistle, thus alerting the Scottish defenders.

Coal from Britain was needed to keep the country going, and Norway had thus to agree that each shipload of coal leaving Britain be matched with incoming Norwegian cargoes such as copper ore and fish.

In 1885, historian H. J. Huitfeldt-Kaas said that in the period 1670-1870 the family started marrying commoners, and thus, should be considered to have lost their nobility ( later it was asserted that this position was influenced by the Danish, whose nobility, to a large degree, supplanted Norwegian nobility during the Dano-Norwegian period.

Fredrikstad met Ørn Horten in the final, winning 6 – 1, and were thus Norwegian Champions.

From 1998 to 2000 he chaired the so-called Mjøs Committee, which delivered the Norwegian Official Report 2000: 14, thus paving way for the so-called Quality Reform.

It is important to note that because so many Norwegian women married men of other nationalities, and thus by census rules are not counted as having children of this ethnic origin, this tends to reduce the number in the statistics.

At the time of the German invasion, the Norwegian army was only partially mobilized, and thus only the following land units were immediately available to the Norwegians ;

It was designed in 1967 by Jan Herman Linge to build a keelboat for his young son, and thus named it Yngling, the Norwegian word for " youngster "; the name is unrelated to the House of Yngling or the Ynglinga saga.

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.

Norwegian Red Cross do have some records.

It is often easier to trace the Norwegian mother first by Church records as an example.

The Norwegian Lebensborn records are intact, the majority stored at The National Archival Services of Norway.

Norwegian Church records, the accuracy of which are subject to dispute, also show what appear to be several supercentenarians who lived in the south-central part of present-day Norway during the 16th and 17th Centuries, including Johannes Torpe ( 1549 – 1664 ), and Knud Erlandson Etun ( 1659 – 1770 ), both residents of Valdres, Oppland, Norway.

A priest named Ivar Bardarsson, who had previously been based in Greenland, did turn up in Norwegian records from 1364 onward and copies of his geographical description of Greenland still survive.

Shortly thereafter, he began a career as a record producer, overseeing records by Rickie Lee Jones, Michael Franks, and Fra Lippo Lippi, including the latter's 1987 Norwegian single, " Angel ".

Learning the location of the witches castle from the hotel's records, they will travel to the Grand High Witch's Norwegian castle ( having stolen her notebook ), use the potion to change her successor and retainers into mice, then release cats into the castle to kill them.

( Actually, Edvard Grieg 1843-1907, was the first Norwegian to make gramophone records, he did nine records in Paris during the spring 1903.

Teaming up with fans all over Norway and buying their own records, they had their single “ Stay Warm ” making the top 5 on the Norwegian charts.

Norsk Ordbok covers the neo-Norwegian period from 1600 onwards, though coverage for the first two centuries is scant, consisting mainly of records of spoken Norwegian.

Svend started out as a powerlifter in 1986, winning a number of titles and setting 30 Norwegian records, 3 European records, and 1 world record.

Copies still survive of a social and geographical description of Greenland by a local church official named Ivar Bardarson, who turns up in Norwegian records in 1364, so this much of Cnoyen's story tallies well with reality ( although this report does not contain the sort of personal information relayed by Cnoyen ).

* Neogene timescale at the website of the Norwegian network of offshore records of geology and stratigraphy

He had previously won several prizes in the powerlifting, including two gold medals in the Norwegian Powerlifting Championship, a bronze medal in the European Championship, and fifth place in the world, as well as several Norwegian records.

Accidents Never Happen was released in May 2009 on Deadletter records, and was named sixth-best Norwegian album of the year by Harald Fossberg of Aftenposten.

Norwegian history records the campaigns in Norway ( or in formerly Norwegian provinces ) as the Gyldenløve War ; it was named after Governor-General Ulrik Frederick Gyldenløve, who as commander-in-chief directed the Norwegian offensive.

The Norwegian EHR Research Centre (, NSEP ) is the Norwegian research centre for electronic patient records at NTNU ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology ) in Trondheim.