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.

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

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

Norwegians, Swedes, Finns and Japanese skating leaders protested to the USOC, condemning the manner of competition and expressing the wish that mass-start races were never to be held again at the Olympics.

After the 1972 season, European long track skaters founded a professional league, International Speedskating League, which included Ard Schenk, three-time Olympic gold medallist in 1972, as well as five Norwegians, four other Dutchmen, three Swedes, and a few other skaters.

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.

Generally speaking, the Norwegians expanded to the north and west to places such as Ireland, Scotland, Iceland and Greenland ; the Danes to England and France, settling in the Danelaw ( northern / eastern England ) and Normandy ; and the Swedes to the east, founding the Kievan Rus, the original Russia.

Though his ultra-conservative views were unpopular, particularly from 1823 onwards, his dynasty never faced serious danger, as the Swedes and the Norwegians alike were proud of a monarch with a good European reputation.

After his 1026 victory against Norway and Sweden, and on his way to Rome for this coronation, Cnut, in a letter written for the benefit of his subjects, stated himself " king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes ".

During this period, Norwegians, as well as Swedes and Danes, traveled abroad on longships, as raiders, explorers, settlers and traders.

Norwegians, as well as Swedes and Danes, traveled abroad on longships, as raiders, explorers, settlers and traders.

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.

Settled by Swedes and Norwegians in the 1880s ; it was established in 1908 and subsequently abandoned.

By the time of the American Civil War, European immigrants bypassed the East Coast of the United States to settle directly in the interior: German immigrants to Ohio, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Illinois, and Missouri ; Irish immigrants to port cities on the Great Lakes, especially Chicago ; Danes, Swedes, and Norwegians to Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakotas ; and Finns to Upper Michigan and northern / central Minnesota.

The Swedes came under heavy bombardment from the fortress and were forced to flee from Fredrikshald when the town was set on fire by the Norwegians.

Swedes and Norwegians cook rutabagas with potatoes and carrots, and mash them with butter and either stock or, occasionally, milk or cream, to create a puree called rotmos ( Swedish, literally: root mash ) and kålrabistappe ( Norwegian ).

In the Old Norse language, the term norrœnir menn ( northern men ), was used correspondingly to the modern English name Norsemen, referring to Swedes, Danes, Norwegians, Faroe Islanders, Icelanders, Orcadians, etc.

The American competitor George S. Patton ( later better known as the Second World War US Army General ) used a Colt revolver, while the Danish competitors preferred the Danish Army service pistol, the Germans and Norwegians used the Luger P08 pistol and the Swedes used a target practice pistol by Smith & Wesson.

Denmark became a member in 1988, replaced in 1990 by the Nordic Federation of Public Accountants ( represented by Danes, Swedes and Norwegians, since the Fins and Icelandics were not interested in participating ).

In early 1365, Haakon and Magnus assembled a large army in Västergötland, consisting mainly of Norwegians, but also a large number of Swedes from the said province, and marched on the German-held city of Stockholm.

While the Danes and Norwegians went south and west, the Swedes went east.

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.

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.

For example, many Finns went to Minnesota and Michigan, Swedes to South Dakota, Norwegians to North Dakota, Irish to Montana, Chinese to San Francisco, German Mennonites in Kansas, and German Jews to Portland, Oregon.

Large numbers of Finns, Swedes, Danes, Sami and Norwegians emigrated to the Upper Peninsula, especially the Keweenaw Peninsula, to work in the mines.

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

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.

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.

A final attempt by the Norwegians to reconquer England failed, but did pave the way for William the Conqueror's takeover in 1066.

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 Normans did not in fact cross to England until a few days after Harold's victory over the Norwegians, following the dispersal of Harold's naval force.

The idea of fronts did not catch on until expanded upon by the Norwegians in the years following World War I.

Not until the 1880s did Norwegians accept Canada as a land of opportunity.

The Norwegians were angered that their neutrality had been infringed, but they did not want to be dragged into a European war.

Thus, the Norwegians sheltered and gave medical attention to the injured soldiers, but did not allow any of them to leave.

A team was put together but little was expected of the squad since they did not have enough time to undergo proper preparations for the upcoming qualifying match against the solid Norwegians.

The British contemplated confiscating the Norwegian merchant fleet as they did with the Danish fleet, but decided against it because the Norwegians continued to fight and because of intervention by the Norwegian ambassador in London.

At the time, Norwegians did not have the right of religious assembly outside of the auspices of the state church.

He did locate a mountain hut occupied by three Norwegians who he asked for directions, the best they could do was draw him a map.

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.

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.

According to one website, the paper clip was chosen " after they learned ( that ) Norwegians wore them on their clothes to show support for Jews during World War II ".

In that same broadcast, the government announced that they would resist the German attack as long as possible, and expressed their confidence that Norwegians would lend their support to the cause.

He had dreamed of his father the night before, and the Norwegians swore that before the battle they could hear the bell that Saint Olaf had given to the church at Kaupang-a sign that the saint was watching over his son and the army.

The Norwegians failed to qualify in 2003, losing out to Deportivo La Coruña, but managed to qualify again in 2004 after beating Maccabi Haifa, and in 2005 – despite the disappointing season – they qualified for the tenth time after winning 4 – 3 against Steaua București.

To the Norwegians they said, " You can stay here in this place of starvation, if you will.

Gobineau's basic concept, as further refined and developed in Nazism, places the black Aboriginal Australians and " African savages " at the bottom of the hierarchy, while the white Northern and Western European Aryans ( consisting of Germans, Finnish, Swedish, Icelanders, Norwegians, Danish, British, French, Northern Italians, Irish and Dutch ) were at the top ; white olive-skinned Southern Europeans ( consisting of the Spanish, Southern Italians, Greeks and Portuguese, i. e. those of what is called the Mediterranean race, which was regarded as another subrace of the Caucasian race ) in the upper middle ranks ; Slavs ( Even though the Slavs are white and of Indo-European ancestry, the Nazis placed them lower on the scale because they were regarded as primarily of the Alpine race rather than the Nordic race, and thus fit only to be peasants.

The London-based newspaper The Independent, published an article on Kragerø stating that " When Norwegians want to get away from it all they head for Kragero.

Among her other more known ladies-in-waiting were the Norwegians Kathinka Falbe and Jana Falbe ; because of Desiree's eccentric habits, they were known as " Strapatsfröknarna " ( approximately " Mlles.

The Norwegians began exporting them to the rest of Europe, where they were taken up by visiting Americans, and championed by the American Esquire magazine.

The New Zealand Resident, the administrator of the island, gave them enough supplies to reach another island in the group, Aitutaki, where they posed as Norwegians.

Some Norwegians claimed the stone was a Swedish hoax and there were similar Swedish accusations because the stone references a joint expedition of Norwegians and Swedes at a time when they were both ruled by the same king, after the Union of Kalmar.

As the battle starts Olaf is shown dismissing the Danish and Swedish fleets with ethnic insults and bravado while admitting that Eirik Hákonarson and his men are dangerous because " they are Norwegians like us ".

The Swedish king demanded that the Norwegians surrender and they subsequently returned to Norway.

Norwegians also use the term about people who frequently show up in the same places, be they pubs, parties or first nights or other places or occasions.

The ijiraq plays at hide-and-seek, which is what these small moons of Saturn do: they are hard to find, and cold like the Canadian arctic ( the team of discoverers includes Canadians, Norwegians and Icelanders — Nordicity is their common trait ).

They were free to trade with whom they wanted, and entertained trade links with Norwegians and Russians alike.

Later in 1942 the unsuccessful Operation Freshman was mounted by British paratroopers ; they were to rendezvous with the Norwegians of Operation Grouse and proceed to Vemork.

Combined Operations initially suggested the men should fight their way to the Swedish border, but MI9 believed their chances of survival were better if they attempted to disguise themselves at Norwegians and travel in pairs.

German reprisals started instantly and 200 armed Gestapo agents swept into Rjukan where they arrested 21 Norwegians for questioning, but the members of Operation Grouse slipped away into the wilderness of Hardangervidda.