* HNoMS Viking ( 1891 ), a Royal Norwegian Navy gunboat

Self-owning farmers were — and continue to be — the main unit of work in Norwegian agriculture, but leading up to the 19th century farmers ran out of land available for farming.

The Norwegian version of the July 2006 Le Monde diplomatique sparked interest when the editors ran, on their own initiative, a three page main story on the September 11, 2001 attacks and summarized the various types of 9 / 11 conspiracy theories ( which were not specifically endorsed by the newspaper, only reviewed ).

After the Norwegian Coastal Cruise Liner ran aground off the coast of Deception Island on 30 January 2007, fuel from the ship washed into a bay.

The school ran into severe financial troubles in 1918 as the result of a Norwegian Luther merger.

* 1971 – The Norwegian oil tanker Cerno deviated from course to the islands to wash the tanks and ran aground on the Selvagem Pequena Island.

The Hastings County, a 116 metre Norwegian cargo ship ran ashore on north west of Auskerry in 1926 during thick fog.

Scott joined Lowgold in 1999 and left the band in 2001 after the band ran into financial problems following the collapse of Nude Records and released a solo debut album called " Navigare " in Fall 2009 on the Norwegian label Miasmah.

A later, company-sized airdrop operation at Dombås proved a failure, however, as the unit quickly ran out of supplies and was taken prisoner by the Norwegian Army.

In January 2006, an article ran in the Norwegian IT paper that claimed that one of FAST's directors Tomas Fussel had made a 2000 % markup for himself by buying a loss making company Hercules communications and selling it to the public company Fast 3 weeks later for a massive mark up.

The Norwegian Army Air Service's Jagevingen fighter flight based on Fornebu Airfield resisted with their Gloster Gladiator biplane fighters until ammunition ran out and then flew off to whatever secondary airfields available.

The Julekalender was a Danish TV series that ran at Christmas 1991 ( a Norwegian version was made in 1994, and a Finnish version appeared in 1997 ).

Jeff along with Bill Steer ran the short-lived record label Necrosis, which was an imprint of Carcass ' label Earache Records and that signed bands such as Norwegian group Cadaver and Repulsion from the USA.

Sesam Stasjon () was a Norwegian children's television series that ran on NRK1 based on Sesame Street.

Together with, among others, notable former Norwegian political TV host Per Ståle Lønning the party ran for the 2009 parliamentary election in the county of Nordland.

In 1990 the series was remade as the series Fredrikssons Fabrikk by NRK in Norway, it ran for three season ( 1990 – 93 ) ( 17 half hours and one 45min special ) and spawned a film version Fredrikssons Fabrikk-The Movie in 1994 with a script credited to Chesney and Wolfe, and Norwegian series writer Andreas Markusson.

The optimal crossing point ran over Norwegian Talc's plant, and would involve placing the western pylon in the middle of their area.

Tre brødre som ikke er brødre ( meaning Three brothers who aren't brothers ) is a Norwegian comedy television show which ran for six episodes during the autumn of 2005 on the Norwegian state channel NRK.

* June 28, 1904 — The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.

* June 28 – The Danish ocean liner SS Norge runs aground and sinks close to Rockall, killing 635, including 225 Norwegian emigrants.

* 2006 – Edvard Munch's famous painting The Scream, stolen on August 22, 2004, is recovered in a raid by Norwegian police.

In the Norwegian seafarer Ohthere of Hålogaland's account of a two-day voyage from the Oslo fjord to Schleswig, he reported the lands on his starboard bow, and Alfred appended the note " on these islands dwelt the Engle before they came hither ".

Examples include the U. S. M901 ITV ( Improved TOW Vehicle ) and the Norwegian NM142, both on an M113 chassis, several Soviet ATGM launchers based on the BRDM reconnaissance car, the British FV438 Swingfire and FV102 Striker and the German Raketenjagdpanzer series built on the chassis of the HS 30 and Marder IFV.

The Norwegian all-girl pop band Katzenjammer uses two contrabass balalaikas, both of which have cat faces painted on the front.

In Swedish, Danish, Norwegian and Finnish, besides the ordinal naming of centuries another system is often used based on the hundreds part of the year, and consequently centuries start at even multiples of 100.

Belgian Forces identity tags are, like the Canadian and Norwegian, designed to be broken in two in case of fatality ; the lower half is returned to Belgian Defence tail, while the upper half remains on the body.

Military of the Netherlands identity tags, like the Canadian and Norwegian ones, are designed to be broken in two in case of a fatality ; the lower end is returned to Dutch Defence Headquarters, while the upper half remains on the body.

A more recent classification based on mutual intelligibility separates modern spoken Danish, Norwegian and Swedish into a Mainland Scandinavian group while Icelandic and Faroese are placed in a separate category labelled Insular Scandinavian.

Bokmål is based on Danish unlike the other Norwegian language, Nynorsk, which is based on the Norwegian dialects, with Old Norwegian as an important reference point.

In the Norwegian Army during the early part of the 20th century, dragoons served in part as mounted troops, and in part on skis or bicycles ( hjulryttere, meaning " wheel-riders ").

Norwegian ompa-rock band Kaizers Orchestra use the upright bass exclusively both live and on their recordings.

At first, Benton blamed that attack on the Norwegian black metal scene, where Deicide's brand of death metal was despised.

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.

Munch appears on the Norwegian 1, 000 kroner note, along with pictures inspired by his artwork.

It was released in 1975 and is based on characters from a series of books by Norwegian cartoonist and author Kjell Aukrust.

Jon Martin Sundet and colleagues ( 2004 ) examined scores on intelligence tests given to Norwegian conscripts between the 1950s and 2002.

George Harrison ( of the Beatles ) played the sitar on the song " Norwegian Wood ( This Bird Has Flown )" in 1965, which sparked interest from Shankar, who subsequently took Harrison as his apprentice.

Norwegian-inspired black metal scenes emerged throughout Europe and North America, although some other scenes developed their own styles with no connection to the Norwegian one.

Unlike Swedish and Norwegian, Danish does not have more than one regional speech norm.

A draugr, draug or ( Icelandic ) draugur ( original Old Norse plural draugar, as used here, not " draugrs "), or draugen ( Norwegian, Swedish and Danish, meaning " the draug "), also known as aptrganga (" afturgöngur " in modern Icelandic ) ( literally " after-walker ", or " one who walks after death ") is an undead creature from Norse mythology, a subset of Germanic mythology.

As well as TU / e and Delft University of Technology, the top 10 also includes two universities in Japan ( Tokyo Institute of Technology and Keio University in Tokyo ), two in Sweden ( University of Gothenburg and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm ), and one each in Denmark ( DTU Technical University of Denmark in Lyngby ), Finland ( University of Helsinki ), Norway ( Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim ) and the USA ( Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York ).

* The nation itself is the second northernmost country in Europe after Iceland, third place if one considers the Norwegian overseas-territory of Svalbard, an island in the Arctic Ocean, part of Europe.

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

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 ".

* 1904 – Ålesund Fire: the Norwegian coastal town Ålesund is devastated by fire, leaving 10, 000 people homeless and one person dead.

Kennings are virtually absent from the surviving corpus of continental West Germanic verse ; the Old Saxon Heliand contains only one example: lîk-hamo “ body-raiment ” = “ body ” ( Heliand 3453 b ), a compound which, in any case, is normal in West Germanic and North Germanic prose ( Old English līchama, Old High German lîchamo, lîchinamo, Dutch lichaam, Old Icelandic líkamr, líkami, Old Swedish līkhamber, Swedish lekamen, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål legeme, Norwegian Nynorsk lekam ).

Norwegian NGO Norwegian People's Aid is one organisation involved in the safe removal of land mines.

Liv Johanne Ullmann ( born 16 December 1938 ) is a Norwegian actress and film director, as well as one of the " muses " of the Swedish director Ingmar Bergman.

Before they went metric, one Swedish mile was 10, 688 metres and a Norwegian mile was 11, 295 metres, so only a small change had to be made to the old mile to make them equal to one myriametre.

When one removes the ‹ q › and the ‹ i › in quisling, the result is usling, Norwegian for wretch.

It is one of eight universities in Norway, the other seven being the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, the University of Tromsø, the University of Stavanger, the University of Agder, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences in Ås and the University of Nordland in Bodø.

The faculty is one of three Norwegian institutions which offer legal studies, the other two being the law faculties at the University of Oslo and the University of Tromsø.

The ship at one point took refuge in the Norwegian fjords at Tvedestrand, and a trip that was expected to take 8 days finally delivered Wagner to London 3 weeks after leaving Riga.

* The brown rat or Norwegian rat ( Rattus norvegicus ) is one of the best known and most common rats.

The one known author of the trio is Norwegian programmer Jon Lech Johansen, whose home was raided in 2000 by Norwegian police.