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.

Other features were the weather, read in Norwegian by a blonde model ( Eva Bjertnes or Anne-Marie Foss ) wearing a bikini, Britain's Bounciest Weather with Rusty Goffe ( known, although uncredited, for his appearance as an Oompa Loompa in the 1971 film Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory ) who due to his small stature bounced on a trampoline while doing the forecast ( bouncing higher the further north he was talking about ), Tiffany's Big City Tips, in which model Tiffany Banister gave the financial news while stripping to her underwear, Painted Ladies, which involved topless girls " painting " on large sheets of paper with various body parts and the News Bunny, a person in a rabbit suit who stood behind a newsreader making gestures and expressions for each item.

Red is Bokmål, blue is Nynorsk and gray depicts Ø | neutral areas. In the Norwegian discourse, the term Dano-Norwegian is seldom used with reference to contemporary Bokmål and its spoken varieties.

The use of frontal zones on weather maps did not appear until the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model in the late 1910s, despite Loomis ' earlier attempt at a similar notion in 1841.

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.

The use of frontal zones on weather maps did not appear until the introduction of the Norwegian cyclone model in the late 1910s, despite Loomis ' earlier attempt at a similar notion in 1841.

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

Treholt and his lawyer later alleged that Norwegian counter intelligence services produced these evidences themselves, and that the police and the judges conspired to cheat with the cash evidence, to make it appear as if the money came from the KGB.

If genuine, the latter identification would form the only direct clue in the contemporary record which might link Eric with the Norwegian dynasty.

It was composed of the genuine British 52nd ( Lowland ) Infantry Division at Dundee, the notional U. S. 55th Division in Iceland, a Norwegian brigade, and three notional American ranger battalions in Iceland, plus corps troops.

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 ).

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.

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 ").

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.

The Conservative Party of Norway ( Norwegian: Høyre, literally " right ") was formed by the old upper class of state officials and wealthy merchants to fight the populist democracy of the Liberal Party, but lost power in 1884 when parliamentarian government was first practised.

He returned home and arranged a large loan from a wealthy Norwegian collector when wealthy relatives failed to help, and assumed financial responsibility for his family from then on.

Norwegian supremacy continued until 1380, when the islands became part of the dual monarchy Denmark – Norway.

The second was from 3 November 1990 to 25 October 1996, when she resigned and retired from Norwegian politics, and was succeeded by Thorbjørn Jagland.

The longest prison sentence in a Norwegian trial where the main charge was insider trading, was for 8 years ( where 2 of the years are suspended ) when Alain Angelil was convicted in a district court on December 9, 2011.

The Norwegian Meteorological Institute annexed the island for Norway in 1922 and the whole island in 1926 when Hallvard Devold was head of the weather observations base on the island.

The Allies returned to the island on 10 March 1941, when the Norwegian ship Veslekari, escorted by the patrol boat Honningsvaag, dropped 12 Norwegian weathermen on the island.

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.

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.

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.

Phenylketonuria was discovered by the Norwegian physician Ivar Asbjørn Følling in 1934 when he noticed hyperphenylalaninemia ( HPA ) was associated with mental retardation.

— all use the term Sámi, including when addressing outsiders in Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, or English.

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.

In the United States Navy, United States Marine Corps, United States Coast Guard, and United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps, as well as in all branches of the British Armed Forces, Polish Armed Forces, Canadian Forces, Turkish Armed Forces, Swedish Armed Forces, Norwegian Armed Forces, and Hellenic Armed Forces, Russian and all former Soviet republic forces, hand salutes are only given when a cover ( protection for the head, usually a hat ) is worn.

At a time when Norwegians feared political domination by the Swedes, the new university became a key institution that contributed to Norwegian political and cultural independence.

A new wave of Norwegian Vikings appeared in England in 947 when Erik Bloodaxe captured York.

Composition of the music had begun during May-July of the previous year, 1840, when Wagner wrote Senta's Ballad, the Norwegian Sailors ' song in Act 3 (" Steersman, leave the Watch!

Freestyle skiing began in the 1930s, when Norwegian skiers began performing acrobatics during alpine and cross-country training.

However, they made themselves unpopular by heavy taxation and favouring Danish advisers over the Norwegian nobles, and when King Magnus I of Norway, the son of the former King of Norway, Olaf, invaded in 1035, they were forced to flee to Harthacnut's court.

In Autumn, however, when the Norwegian allies sailed north to return to Norway, Otto II was able to counter Harald's advances at the Danevirke.

The Norwegian campaigns were halted and the army withdrawn when Charles XII was shot dead while besieging Norwegian Fredriksten on 30 November 1718 ( OS ).