He introduced Christianity, and, though he was subsequently murdered, Norwegian supremacy was upheld and continued.

In the Norwegian Campaign, despite eight weeks of continuous air supremacy, the Luftwaffe sank only two British warships.

* Sigmundur Brestisson, Faeroese, a Viking chieftain who, according to the Færeyinga Saga, introduced Christianity and Norwegian supremacy to the Faeroes in 999.

* Tróndur í Gøtu, a Faeroese Viking chieftain who, according to the Færeyinga Saga, was opposed to the introduction of Christianity to, and the Norwegian supremacy of, the Faeroes.

He demanded that Norway subject itself to Swedish supremacy, and also that his government's position be printed in all Norwegian newspapers.

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.

The word is continued in German Deutsch ( meaning German ), English " Dutch ", Dutch Duits and Diets ( the latter referring to the historic name for Dutch or Middle Dutch, the former meaning German ), Italian tedesco ( meaning German ), Swedish / Danish / Norwegian tysk ( meaning German ) and Middle Low German dudesch meaning both Low German and the whole of Dutch / German / Low German, as well its descendant, modern Low German dütsch, meaning only Standard High German.

Ole Krag, captain in the Norwegian Army and director of Kongsberg Våpenfabrikk ( the government weapons factory ), therefore continued the development of small arms, as he had since at least 1866.

The snekkjas continued to evolve after the end of the Viking age, with later Norwegian examples becoming larger and heavier than Viking age ships.

As the war advanced west, he fled to Norway, then was smuggled in a coffin by the Norwegian underground ( with his wife, Czech anthropologist Svatava Pirkova, disguised as a peasant woman ) over the border to Sweden, where he continued his work at the Karolinska Hospital ( with works on aphasia and language competence ).

After his victory King Sverre placed Shetland under direct Norwegian rule, a state of affairs that continued for nearly two centuries.

With funding from the Norwegian government, radio continued to broadcast live throughout.

The town continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, becoming a centre for Norwegian textile and garment industry, as well as the administrative center for the region, and a major tourist destination.

Molde continued to grow throughout the 18th and 19th Centuries, becoming a center for Norwegian textile and garment industry.

The continued existence of a legitimate Norwegian government gave the exiles considerably more room for action than the French.

This tradition continued through the 10th century with the major Norwegian poet being Eyvindr skáldaspillir.

The period of common Old Norse literature continued up through the 13th century with Norwegian contributions such as Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá but by the 14th century saga writing was no longer cultivated in Norway and Icelandic literature became increasingly isolated.

Proposed by the Norwegian Prime Minister and unionist Peder Anker, the white saltire on a red background was supposed to symbolize Norway, as the country had previously been united with Denmark and initially continued to use the same flag as an independent country, but with the national arms in the canton.

Norwegian ships continued to use the Danish civil ensign distinguished with the national arms in the canton north of Cape Finisterre, but had to fly the Swedish civil ensign in the Mediterranean to be protected from pirate attacks.

Memorial to members of the Royal Norwegian Navy, Army and Merchant Marine in Halifax Regional Municipality | Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, on the flag plaza outside the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic. On June 7, 1940 13 ships, five aircraft and 500 men from the Royal Norwegian Navy followed the King to the United Kingdom and continued the fight from bases there until the war ended.

After leaving SIO, he returned home to become director of the Norwegian Polar Institute and continued to contribute to oceanography, ocean biology and polar research.

The division continued in the official name of the provincial districts of Swedish and Norwegian Hisingen or " Svenska Hisingens härad " and " Norska Hisingens härad ", until 1681 when they were renamed as the Eastern and Western districts.

Following the dissolution of the union with Sweden in 1905, Norwegian nationalism continued to grow in popularity and innovation, led especially David Monrad Johansen, Geirr Tveitt and Eivind Groven.

The fighting continued in Northern Norway until the Allies evacuated in early June in response to the German invasion of France and the Norwegian forces in mainland Norway laid down their arms at midnight on 9 June.

The Confederation renewed their alliance with German-held Sweden and assembled a large fleet of warships and subsequently assaulted the Norwegian coast and continued to raid it all the way to Agder.

In 1261, the population accepted the overlordship of the Norwegian King although it continued to have its own law.

From the 1820s the Norwegian hunting expeditions were taken up and continued through the rest of the century.

In the 19th century, Norwegian culture blossomed as efforts continued to achieve an independent identity in the areas of literature, art and music.

A Norwegian study found that height gains were strongly correlated with intelligence gains until the cessation of height gains in military conscript cohorts towards the end of the 1980s.

Brundtland became Norwegian Prime Minister for two subsequent terms: the first was from 9 May 1986 until 16 October 1989.

This situation lasted until the partitioning of the Western Isles in 1156, at which time the Outer Hebrides remained under Norwegian control while the Inner Hebrides broke out under Somerled, the Norse-Celtic kinsman of the Manx royal house.

As such many of these islands fell under Norwegian and Ui Imair hegemony between the 9th and 13th centuries and this Norse influence would see almost constant warfare on the western seaboard of Scotland until the partitioning of the Hebrides in 1156.

Terboven nevertheless remained in ultimate charge of Norway until the end of the war in 1945, even after the proclamation of a Norwegian puppet regime under Vidkun Quisling, the Quisling government.

One of the last structures of the Kalmar Union, or, rather, medieval separateness, remained until 1536 when the Danish Privy Council, in the aftermath of a civil war, unilaterally declared Norway to be a Danish province, without consulting their Norwegian colleagues.

The Norwegian historian Yngvar Nielsen, commissioned by the Norwegian government in 1889 to determine this question in order to settle contemporary questions of Sami land rights, concluded that the Sami had lived no farther south than Lierne in Nord-Trøndelag county until around 1500, when they started moving south, reaching the area around Lake Femunden in the 18th century.

The Royal Norwegian Navy's HNoMS Rap — the name meaning ' fast '— was ordered from Thornycroft, England in 1873, but was not equipped with self-propelled torpedoes until 1879.

Charles XIV & III John, also Carl John, Swedish and Norwegian: Karl Johan ( 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844 ) was King of Sweden ( as Charles XIV John ) and King of Norway ( as Charles III John ) from 1818 until his death.

As Finland was until 1809 part of the Swedish Realm, Sweden and Finland share many cultural traditions, including that of the pea soup ( Swedish ärtsoppa ; Finnish hernekeitto ; Norwegian ertesuppe ; Danish gule ærter ).

In August 1940, he became a Norwegian citizen, receiving his passport from the Norwegian embassy in Stockholm, where he lived until the end of the war.

From 1941 until 1948 Brandt was married to Anna Carlotta Thorkildsen ( the daughter of a Norwegian father and a German-American mother ).

Buchenwald was also the main imprisonment for a number of Norwegian university students from 1943 until the end of the war.

Both the Scharnhorst ( only recently repaired from earlier damage in the Norwegian operation ) and Gneisenau were torpedoed by British submarines in these prestige manoeuvres ; they would not be ready for operations in the Atlantic again until the end of December.

Due to the level of skepticism surrounding the will it was not until April 26, 1897 that it was approved by the Storting ( the Norwegian Parliament ).

The rule of King Haakon and his successors until 1319 has sometimes been called the golden age of the Norwegian medieval kingdom, by later historians.

The Royal line died out and the country entered into two unequal unions from 1396 until 1814 ; this period was called " the 400-year-night " by Henrik Ibsen during the national romantic period as Norwegian national awareness was rediscovered in the 19th century.

Although diplomats could not present credentials at foreign governments until the Swedish king formally renounced his right to the Norwegian throne, a number of unofficial representatives worked on the provisional government's behalf until the first Norwegian ambassador, Hjalmar Christian Hauge sought accreditation with the United States Secretary of State Elihu Root on November 6, 1905.

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.