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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ).

Later in December 1939, Raeder befriended Vidkun Quisling, whose claims that most Norwegians were National Socialists and would welcome a German invasion he used to support the planned attack.

Twenty-five Norwegians, including Quisling, were executed for treason and / or war crimes, and 12 Germans were executed for war crimes.

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 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.

Subsequently the Norwegians were severely tormented by years of war.

After a horrific battle, both Hardrada and Tostig along with most of the Norwegians were killed.

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 losses the Norwegians had suffered were so horrific that only 24 ships from the fleet of over 300 were needed to carry the survivors away.

Harald of Norway and Tostig were killed, and the Norwegians suffered such horrific losses that only 24 of the original 300 ships were required to carry away the survivors.

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

The Norwegians and the Flemish mercenaries hired by Tostig were largely without armour and carried only personal weapons.

The Sami, having a non-wheat or-rye diet, eating fish and reindeer meat, living in communities detached from the Norwegians, and being only weakly connected to the European trade routes, fared far better than the Norwegians.

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.

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.

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.

For the one hundred year anniversary of the first official immigration of Norwegians to America, President Calvin Coolidge stated at the 1925 Minnesota State Fair, to a crowd of one hundred thousand people, that Leif had indeed been the first European to discover America.

In the June 2005 European Commission Eurobarometer public opinion analysis, over 85 % of Icelanders found independence to be " very important " contrasted with the EU25 average of 53 %, and 47 % for the Norwegians, and 49 % for the Danish.

As with many of the people from European countries, Norwegians are spread throughout the world.

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

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.

It is also in favour of Norwegian membership in the European Union, although stating that this is not a priority, nor realistic in the short term, as Norwegians have rejected membership in two referendums and opinion polls show that at least two thirds of Norwegians still oppose membership.

In modern times Norway – like many European countries – has seen a great decline in religiosity, at least among non-immigrant Norwegian endemics, and most Norwegians are irreligious: atheism and agnosticism are the most common metaphysical views according to Zuckerman.

Out of these escapees, only three made it to neutral countries and freedom: Van der Stok, who crossed much of the European countryside before arriving in the safety of Spain, and two Norwegians, Per Bergsland and Jens Müller, who managed to escape to neutral Sweden.

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.

It was used extensively in Northern Norway for about 150 years in the so-called Pomor trade, that is, the barter trade between Russians and Norwegians in the north.

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

Ethnic Norwegians gradually immigrated to facilitate trade and administration.

The alliance between the Norwegians and the Danes threatened to shift the political and military power in the Nordic and Baltic areas, and in 1365 a series of German protests in the city of Bergen eventually forced the Hanseatic office on Bryggen in the city to be closed until 1366, which temporarily damaged the trade for the kingdom.

Norwegians came in contact with the Russians through the Pomor trade.

The Norwegians left with the Dutch trade ships that when in Norway traded for timber, hides, herring and stockfish ( dried codfish ).

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

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.

Additionally, from this period on, listening to British and North American radio stations, along with an import of jazz and rock records, widened the musical tastes of most Norwegians.

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.

In late 1995 along with four other Norwegians she joined Nikko Securities Dream Ladies football club in Japan.

** Kola Norwegians, Norwegian settlers along the coastline

Many of its early residents were English or Scandinavian origin, mostly Norwegians and Danes, along with a both a significant Polish and Jewish population that followed.

The Kola Norwegians were Norwegian settlers along the coastline of the Kola Peninsula in Russia.

Many Swedes also came to the Pacific Northwest during the turn of the twentieth century, along with Norwegians.

8, 402 Swedes, along with 1, 010 Danes and 895 Norwegians fought together with the Finns.

After a week of rumours, it was official on 10 September 2009 that Arvesen would be joining from the 2010-season, along with fellow Norwegians Edvald Boasson Hagen and Lars Petter Nordhaug.