After the referendum overwhelmingly confirmed by a 79 percent majority ( 259, 563 votes for and 69, 264 against ) that Norwegians desired to retain a monarchy, Prince Carl was formally offered the throne of Norway by the Storting ( parliament ) and elected on 18 November 1905.

Putting the strategic situation and his own abdication to good use, he persuaded the Swedish crown prince Carl Johan ( the former Marshal Bernadotte of France ) to let the Norwegians keep their constitution.

Though the Norwegian constitution stipulated that the Storting could choose a new king if the throne were vacant, Carl was aware that many Norwegians — including leading politicians and high-ranking military officers — favored a republican form of government.

Following the November plebiscite affirming Norwegians ' desire for a monarchy, the parliament by an overwhelming majority offered Carl a clear mandate to the Norwegian throne on 18 November.

In the meantime, the Norwegians mobilised their forces under the leadership of General Carl Gustav Fleischer.

Among the people of the Arctic the Norwegians have the easiest climate, with most ports in North Norway remaining ice-free all the year as a result of the Gulf Stream.

On this anchorage, being the best sheltered within the maritime region of Sweden ( Suevoniae ), all the ships belonging to Danes ( Danorum ) known as Norwegians ( Nortmannorum ) as well as to Slavs ( Sclavorum ), Sembrians ( Semborum ) and other Scythian ( Scithiae ) peoples use to convene every year for sundry necessary commerce.

:" Turning from the northern parts to the mouth of the Baltic Sea we first meet the Norwegians ( Nortmanni ), then the Danish region of Skåne ( Sconia ) stands out, and beyond these live the Geats ( Gothi ) for a long stretch all the way to Birka.

His Nazi-orchestrated funeral left the impression with Norwegians that he was a Nazi sympathizer.

The largest group of foreigners are Icelanders comprising 0. 4 % of the population, followed by Norwegians and Poles, each comprising 0. 2 %.

Modern Germanic peoples are the Scandinavians ( Norwegians, Swedish, Danish, Icelanders, and Faroese ), Germans, Austrians, Alemannic Swiss, Liechtensteiners, Luxembourgers, the Dutch, Flemings, Afrikaners, Frisians, the English and others who still speak languages derived from the ancestral Germanic dialects.

Shetland's relative proximity to occupied Norway resulted in the Shetland Bus by which fishing boats helped Norwegians flee the Nazis, and expeditions across the North Sea to assist resistance.

The land named Svalbarð (" cold coast ") by the Vikings in the early medieval book Landnámabók may have been Jan Mayen ( instead of Spitsbergen, renamed Svalbard by the Norwegians in modern times ); the distance from Iceland to Svalbarð mentioned in this book is two days sailing, consistent with the approximate to Jan Mayen and not with the approximate to Spitsbergen.

Within a few days a ship arrived and evacuated the four Norwegians and their would-be reinforcements after demolishing the weather station to prevent it from falling into German hands.

Terboven was hated by the Norwegians and not much esteemed even by fellow Germans.

Goebbels expressed annoyance in his diary about what he called Terboven's " bullying tactics " against the Norwegians, as they alienated the population against the Germans.

Charles was elected king of Norway in the following year, but the counts of Holstein were more influential than the Swedes and the Norwegians together, and made the Danish Privy Council appoint Christian I of Oldenburg as king.

The Krag-Jørgensen is a repeating bolt action rifle designed by the Norwegians Ole Herman Johannes Krag and Erik Jørgensen in the late 19th century.

Even today, both Swedes and Norwegians use the 10, 000 metre mile (" mil ") to refer to travel distances in everyday language.

* 1263 – The battle of Largs is fought between Norwegians and Scots.

The 12th century Icelandic Gray Goose Laws state that Swedes, Norwegians, Icelanders and Danes spoke the same language, dǫnsk tunga.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev, the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, and the Englishman Joseph Jacobs.

However, he did not make these plans known and misled both the Englishman, Robert F. Scott and the Norwegians.

The other inhabitants of the peninsula, according to ninth century records, were the Norwegians on the west coast of Norway, the Danes in what is now southern and western Sweden and southeastern Norway, the Svear in the region around Mälaren as well as a large portion of the present day eastern seacoast of Sweden and the Geats in Västergötland and Östergötland.

Until the arrival of the bubonic plague of 1349 in northern Norway, the Sami and the Norwegians occupied very separate economic niches.

The Norwegians, concentrated on the outer islands and outer sections of the fjords, were connected to the greater European trade routes ; did marginal farming in the Nordland, Troms, and Finnmark counties ; and fished for trade products from the south.

The Norwegians were closely connected to the greater European trade routes, along which the plague traveled ; consequently, they were infected and died at a far higher rate than Sami in the interior.

After the third senate of the highest German military court ( Reichskriegsgericht ) in Berlin condemned to death for alleged espionage the ten Norwegians Sigurd Jakobsen, Gunnar Hellesen, Helge Børseth, Siegmund Brommeland, Peter Andree Hjelmervik, Siegmund Rasmussen, Gunnar Carlsen, Knud Gjerstad, Christian Oftedahl and Frithiof Lund on 24 February 1941, Sven Hedin successfully appealed via Colonel General Nikolaus von Falkenhorst to Adolf Hitler for their reprieve.

In April 1941 two Norwegians, John " Helge " Moe ( Mutt ) and Tor Glad ( Jeff ) fetched up on a remote Aberdeenshire beach, having travelled by seaplane and rubber dinghy.

The east face of Great Trango was first climbed ( to the East Summit ) in 1984 by the Norwegians Hans Christian Doseth and Finn Dæhli, who both died on the descent.

He is also regarded as important in convincing influential Norwegians supporting a republican government, like Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, Arne Garborg and Fridtjof Nansen, to turn and instead support a monarchy.

Among those influenced were the Russian Alexander Afanasyev ( first published in 1866 ), the Norwegians Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe ( first published in 1845 ), the Romanian Petre Ispirescu ( first published in 1874 ), the English Joseph Jacobs ( first published in 1890 ), and Jeremiah Curtin, an American who collected Irish tales ( first published in 1890 ).

Vaaler was not a Jew, he did not invent the common paper clip, and Norwegians who wore them did not do so to protest the tragic fate of the Jews, but to show national concord and solidarity, and opposition to the German occupation and local Nazi authorities.

Canute thanked the Norwegians for their patience and then went from assembly to assembly ( Danish: landsting ) outlawing any sailor, captain or soldier who refused to pay a fine which amounted to more than a years harvest for most farmers.

Norwegians had some affection for King Christian II, who resided in the country for several years.

Among the Norwegians who moved to Cyprus is the shipping billionaire John Fredriksen, who was the richest man in Norway.

It is the hereditary delicacy of Swedes and Norwegians who serve it around the holidays, in memory of their ancestors, who ate it because they were poor.

The haste with which the Danes resumed their attack on Norse Dublin before consolidating their control of Saxon England indicates that the entire Danish invasion was not primarily aimed at the conquest of Saxon England, but to secure a North Sea base of operations to use as a springboard in the conflict with the Norwegians, who controlled an extensive trade network in the Orkney Islands, the Hebrides, the Isle of Man, the Isle of Wight, and Ireland, which exported goods as the Danes did, from the British Isles south-east through Kievan Rus as far as Constantinople and Baghdad, following the Dniepr from the Baltic to the Black Sea.

The German diplomat called on the Norwegians to cease their resistance and stated Hitler's demand that the King appoint Nazi sympathizer Vidkun Quisling, who had declared himself prime minister hours earlier in Oslo, as head of what would be a German puppet government.

The battle resulted in defeat for the brothers at the hands of those Norwegians who were loyal to Cnut, with Olaf being killed and Harald wounded.

In the later stages of the battle, the Norwegians were reinforced by troops who had been left behind to guard the ships at Ricall, led by Eystein Orri, Hardrada's daughter's fiancé.

The new union flags were well received by the Norwegians, who had demanded their own military ensign since the union was formed.

In honor of the large number of Norwegians, or Normans, who settled in this county.

The Kola Norwegians were Norwegians who settled along the coastline of the Russian Kola Peninsula from approximately 1850 to the closure of the border in the 1920s.

In August 1659, the Danes and Norwegians – who were in the Denmark – Norway union – attacked and burned down the mining village.

These are typically either Norwegians who moved to the States, obtained US Citizenship and later moved back to Norway, or the descendants of Norwegians who themselves have never acquired Norwegian citizenship.

He was liberated from Vaihingen an der Enz concentration camp on 5 April 1945 by the White Buses along with 15 other Norwegians who had survived.

Olaf was an Uí Ímair dynast and it is difficult to reconcile his rule with that of the Norwegians who apparently came before and after him according to the sagas.

They also returned with over 200 Norwegians who had volunteered to serve in the Free Norwegian Forces.