In 1898, the Prime Minister ( Boström ) threatened to resign, and the King to abdicate, after the Norwegians began using their own flag.

During the resistance to the German occupation during World War II, after pins or badges bearing national symbols or the initials of exiled King Haakon VII were banned, Norwegians began to wear paper clips in their lapels as a symbol of resistance to the occupiers and local Nazi authorities.

He headed the group " Det moderne Gjennembruds Mænd " ( The Men of the Modern Breakthrough ), composed of J. P. Jacobsen, Holger Drachmann, Edvard Brandes, Erik Skram, Sophus Schandorph, and Norwegians Henrik Ibsen and Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, but a conservative reaction against his " realistic " doctrines began around 1883, headed by Holger Drachmann.

Confusion soon sprung up though when the Norwegians received the order not to fire on British and French ships and the Germans began to use Norwegian codes they had captured at Horten.

On 11 April, after receiving reinforcements in Oslo, General Falkenhorst's offensive began ; its goal was to link up Germany's scattered forces before the Norwegians could effectively mobilize or any major Allied intervention could take place.

Despite news of these actions and indications from other sources, the Norwegians were still caught largely unprepared for the attack and early the next day the invasion proper began with German landings of troops in the main Norwegian settlements of Stavanger, Oslo, Trondeim, Narvik and Bergen.

* Aed Finliath drives the invading Danes and Norwegians out of Ireland, after defeating them at the Battle of Killineery.

Ultimately, many of them settled there permanently, in a land that became known as Normandy ( deriving from the expression " Nordmenn ", or ' Northmen ' (' Norsemen '), which was-and indeed still is-both the name the Norwegians called themselves and also the name the Franks used for the Scandinavians ).

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 ".

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.

The night after he died ( and for several days up until the state funeral ), Norwegians mourned immensely, lighting hundreds of thousands of candles in the courtyard outside the Royal Palace in Oslo, with letters and cards placed amongst them.

Having learned that Northumbrians had been ordered to send the additional hostages and supplies to the Norwegians at Stamford Bridge, Harold hurried on through York to attack them at this rendezvous on 25 September.

Learning of the Norwegian invasion, he rushed north, gathering forces as he went, and took the Norwegians by surprise, defeating them at the Battle of Stamford Bridge on 25 September.

Failing to convince the Whittakers that his group are Norwegians ( all of the Russians are conspicuously dressed in sinister all-black clothing ), Rozanov draws a gun and promises no harm if the family provides information about military on the island ( none ) and police force ( small ), and gives them keys to their car.

He thanked the Norwegians for their patience and sent them home.

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.

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 ).

Their rule was, however, so harsh that the Norwegians rebelled against them.

Around the turn of the twentieth century, when thousands of Norwegians sought to take advantage of the more stable economic climate of the United States by emigrating, many of those from Arendal took their economic traditions with them.

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.

However, this initial success proved insufficient for victory to the English army, as the Norwegians brought their better troops to bear upon them, still fresh against the weakened Anglo-Saxons.

The draw flattered the Norwegians, but put them clear in the group.

... the Swedes ( Sweons ) have to the south of them the arm of the sea called East ( Osti ), and to the east of them Sarmatia ( Sermende ), and to the north, over the wastes, is Kvenland ( Cwenland ), to the northwest are the Sami people ( Scridefinnas ), and the Norwegians ( Norðmenn ) are to the west.

The saga tells how Norwegians taxed the Sami people, but there is no indication in the saga that Kvens would have competed with the Norwegians of the Sami control or lived near or among them.

As these Finnish groups were supposed to transgress the region known as Kvenland during their journeys towards north, the Norwegians, who were only dimly aware of their southern homeland, supposedly came to call them as the Kvens.

The Norwegians were Catholics until the Danish king Christian III of Denmark forced them to convert to Lutheranism and established a state-governed church.

The two Norwegians had been living on the ice for more than a year since leaving their ship Fram for a dash to the North Pole, and it was pure chance that had brought them to the one inhabited spot among thousands of square miles of Arctic wastes.

The Norwegians were unable to reach the crash sites in time, and the survivors eventually came into the hands of the Gestapo, who tortured them during interrogation ( not sparing the badly injured ) and later had them executed under Adolf Hitler ′ s Commando Order.

The agreement was to last for the rest of the war and Næss played the inexperienced US negotiator against the British, thus landing as many benefits as he could for the Norwegians.

In Europe the Norwegians, the French resistance, the guerrillas of Northern Italy struggled for their national liberation as do the Palestinians, Iraqis, Afghans today.

Iowa also attracted many other people from Europe, including Swedes, Norwegians, Danes, Dutch, and many emigrants from the British Isles.

Norwegian musician Rune Walle, whom the band had met while on tour in Europe with his band The Flying Norwegians, then joined to replace him.

Swedish settlers were mostly present in Rus, Livonia, and other eastern regions while the Norwegians and the Danish were primarily concentrated in western and northern Europe.

Canute took weeks to arrive at Struer where the fleet had assembled, but he found only the Norwegians still there.

Sieges in Scotland were initially smaller in scale, with the first recorded such event being the 1230 siege of Rothesay Castle where the besieging Norwegians were able to break down the relatively weak stone walls with axes after only three days.

The flag contains three flames also because Kárásjoga-Karasjok is a place where three peoples live: the Sami, Norwegians, and Kvens.

The market of Skibotn was traditionally a meeting point between ethnic groups, where Sami, Finns, and Norwegians met to trade.

The feast of St. Olaf on 29 July was a day or reunion for " all the nations of the Northern seas, Norwegians, Swedes, Goths, Cimbrians, Danes and Slavs ", to quote an old chronicler, in the cathedral of Nidaros, where the reliquary of St. Olaf rested near the altar.

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.

The Swedish side is extremely popular with Norwegians who flock to buy relatively cheap goods in Sweden, where a large shopping area can be found immediately after crossing the sound.

Some German troops were diverted to Hegra, where an improvised force of 251 Norwegians were holding out in an old border fort.

The Nordland's two Panzergrenadier regiments were also given honour titles, with reference to the location where the majority of the regiment's recruits were from, SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 23 Norge ( Norwegians ) and SS-Panzergrenadier Regiment 24 Danmark ( Danes ).

Reportedly she alerted the Norwegians to the presence of the troops of Charles XII of Sweden in the church yard at Norderhov, where they had taken shelter in and around the rectory.

The king had previously resided in Jelling, where he built a church and raised the Jelling stones, but after uniting the Danes and Norwegians, a move was necessary to enable the monarch to stay close to the centre of power in the new kingdom.

They were very well received in Christiania, where one aristocrat, Nordahl Brun welcomed them as the " heavenly couple ", and in the Landgrave's own words, he became so popular that the Norwegians would gladly have him as King.