The Foreign Legion played a smaller role in World War II than in World War I, though having a part in the Norwegian, Syrian and North African campaigns.

Norway has a history of state campaigns to block foreign companies from taking over major Norwegian firms.

Activities of the Alliance include lobbying the largely sympathetic Norwegian government for increases in Norway's whaling quota, promoting studies into methods of more humane whaling, lobbying the International Whaling Commission into relaxing the whaling moratorium, and responding to campaigns from anti-whaling groups such as the Whale and Dolphin Conservation Society and Greenpeace.

Norwegian Church Aid ’ s youth movement, Changemaker, organises campaigns, courses, camps and local projects for its many thousands of members aged 13-30.

* NORØL ( Norske Ølvenners Landsforbund-Federation of Norwegian Beer Consumers ) is a consumer organisation which campaigns to support traditional styles such as Bokkøl and Bayerøl.

During the early war Norwegian and Western campaigns, hundreds of RAD units were engaged in supplying frontline troops with food and ammunition, repairing damaged roads and constructing and repairing airstrips.

This precipitated an immediate retreat of his war-weary forces back to Sweden, effectively terminating the Norwegian campaigns.

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.

Although Bohuslän and Jämtland were former Norwegian provinces and the forces in both locations were well received by the native populations there, things went badly for Denmark-Norway in the Scanian campaigns, and the Norwegian forces withdrew when ordered to do so by King Christian V.

Øistein Kristiansen, formerly known under his artist name Einstein Kristiansen ( born on 12 September 1965 ), is a Norwegian cartoonist, designer, TV-host and co-founder of Singapore-based Earthtree Pte Ltd, who together with his two business partners Henry Steed and Mark Hillman, produces children's television programming, animation and image campaigns for MTV Asia, Nickelodeon and Singapore network Mediacorp TV12 .< Ref name =" oin1 "> Knutsen, Annelise ( 2 March 2007 ).

Stød generally occurs in words that have " accent 1 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were monosyllabic in Old Norse, while no-stød occurs in words that have " accent 2 " in Swedish and Norwegian and that were polysyllabic in Old Norse.

In 1914 there were still dragoon regiments in the British, French, German, Russian, Austro-Hungarian, Peruvian, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and Spanish armies.

Bulwer-Lytton's works of fiction and non-fiction were translated in his day and since then into many languages, including Serbian ( by Laza Kostic ), German, Russian, Norwegian, Swedish, French, Finnish, and Spanish.

The islands were still a possession of the Norwegian crown since the crowns had not been joined.

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.

At that point, only one Greenlander was still a deerherd ; the rest about 20 people were still hired Norwegian Sami.

While at sea the French had some success at Boulogne but Nelson's Royal Navy destroyed an anchored Danish and Norwegian fleet at the Battle of Copenhagen ( 1801 ) because the Scandinavian kingdoms were against the British blockade of France.

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 ).

Following this ill-fated expedition, all rights that the Norwegian crown " had of old therein " in relation to the islands were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth.

Between 1900 and 1920, there were a number of Norwegian trappers spending winters on Jan Mayen, hunting white and blue foxes in addition to some polar bears.

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.

In principle this meant the Norwegian crown, but under the Danish union ( the monarch lived in Denmark ) this meant that they were henceforth controlled from Denmark and not from Norway.

Closeup of the Krag-Jørgensen receiver and magazine door on a Norwegian M1912 Carbine The 1880s were an interesting period in the development of modern firearms.

However, it must be stressed that these were all late-production Norwegian Krag-Jørgensen rifles, made in an era when metallurgy was vastly more advanced than when the American Krag-Jørgensen rifles were made.

When his phones were copied by Norwegian companies he did not care, as his phones had in turn been largely copied from Siemens.

But during the 1870s all his papers ( except the very first note ) were published in Norwegian journals, which impeded recognition of the work throughout the rest of Europe ( ibid, p. 76 ).

However, by the late 14th century, these low-boarded vessels were at a disadvantage against newer, taller vessels – when the Victual Brothers, in the employee of the Hansa, attacked Bergen in the autumn of 1393, the " great ships " of the pirates could not be boarded by the Norwegian levy ships called out by Margaret I of Denmark and the raiders were able to sack the town with impunity.

Among the dead were five Nepalese, a Norwegian, Romanian and Swedish nationals, two of them were said to be decapitated.

His death halted any further Norwegian expansion in Scotland and following this ill-fated expedition, the Hebrides and Mann were yielded to the Kingdom of Scotland as a result of the 1266 Treaty of Perth, although the Scots recognised continuing Norwegian sovereignty over Orkney and Shetland.

The import was however halted in the late 1240s due to the plundering of Norwegian ships in Danish seas by ships from Lübeck.

On September 3, 2012 Klassekampen wrote that the Gjørv Report " is the hardest verdict against a Norwegian cabinet since the Fact-Finding Commission of 1945 ensured that Johan Nygaardsvold's political career was abruptly halted.

The production was halted early in August 2001, and the company was bought by the Norwegian company Q-Free in September 2001.

The English King Harold II, who had been waiting for a Norman invasion, had rushed his army northward to attack an invading Norwegian Viking army under King Harald Hardråda and Tostig Godwinson ( Harold's brother ).

As late as in 1986, when 31 soldiers were taken by an avalanche during an operation in the NATO drill Anchor Express in Vassdalen, Norway, the Norwegian army attempted to locate soldiers buried in the avalanche using dowsing as search method.

When Edward the Confessor ascended the throne of a united Dano-Saxon England, a Norse army was raised from every Norwegian colony in the British Isles and attacked Edward's England in support of Magnus ', and after his death, his brother Harald Hardråde's, claim to the English throne.

His plan was however thwarted on this occasion, as the Norwegian army went to attend Magnus ' funeral in Nidaros ( now Trondheim ).

The Battle of Stamford Bridge took place at the village of Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire in England on 25 September 1066, between an English army under King Harold Godwinson and an invading Norwegian force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway ( Old Norse: Haraldr harðráði ) and the English king's brother Tostig Godwinson.

Completely outflanked, Hardrada at this point was killed with an arrow to his wind pipe and Tostig slain, the Norwegian army disintegrated and was virtually annihilated.

The Norwegian army routed, pursued by the English army, some of the fleeing Norsemen drowned in the rivers.

Harald's army was further augmented by the forces of Tostig, who threw his support behind the Norwegian king's bid for the throne.

John of Fordun writes that Máel Coluim defeated a Norwegian army " in almost the first days after his coronation ", but this is not reported elsewhere.

This is due to the lack of an NCO-corps in the Norwegian army.

The Norwegian army entered Uppland through Västerås and clashed against the Swedish-German army in the disastrous Battle of Gata where Haakon and Magnus suffered a devastating defeat and Magnus was captured and taken prisoner by the Germans ; which he would remain for six years.

On April 2 the king ordered a general levy of 30, 000 men ; but while two army corps, under Armfelt and Toll, together with a British contingent of 10, 000 men under Moore, were stationed in Skåne and on the Norwegian border in anticipation of an attack from Denmark, which, at the instigation of Napoleon, had simultaneously declared war against Sweden, the little Finnish army was left altogether unsupported.

Although the army still did not represent the whole nation, as city residents were exempt from military duty, 1628 is generally regarded by historians as the year when the modern Norwegian army was born.

During the war of 1643 – 45, the Norwegian army performed well while its Danish counterpart flopped.

In the early 18th century the Swedes invaded Norway yet again, and this time the Norwegian army held its own, setting the stage for nearly a century of peace – the longest yet in modern Norwegian history – during which a distinct Norwegian identity began to take root.

In July 1677 Gyldenløve captured the fortress at Marstrand and joined General Løvenhjelm, who marched into Bohuslen with the main Norwegian army and defeated an army of 8000 Swedes under General de la Gardie.