19 Oct, 2017
Filling in the method and madness behind Ed Egerdahl’s Norsk-Engelsk Kryssord Puzzles Emily C. Skaftun The Norwegian American Those who’ve been solving the crosswords a long time know a few tricks. First, look for...
18 Oct, 2017
Christine Foster Meloni Washington, D.C. Vidar Sundstøl made his mark in the U.S. with his Minnesota Trilogy. While living in northern Minnesota with his American wife, he wrote his three-volume fictional mystery about the...
16 Oct, 2017
Research shows how Norwegian-American dialects differ from standard modern Norsk Sada Reed Phoenix, Ariz. According to U.S. Census data, there are roughly 4.5 million people in the United States who claim Norwegian ancestry. The...
20 Oct, 2017
Heidi Håvan Grosch Sparbu, Norway World Children’s Day, or Barnas Verdensdag, is celebrated every year in Norway. Many places host free celebrations for children and their families with music, art, stories, dance, and food...
19 Oct, 2017
M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway In Norway, the phrase Telefon fra Hamar literally designates a telephone call received from Hamar, a city in Hedmark County on the eastern shore of Mjøsa, the country’s largest...
19 Oct, 2017
Linguistic clues to their Nordic past linger in the modern-day Shetland and Orkney Islands Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. While reading British-born author Ann Cleeves’s Shetland Island series, I became curious about her inclusion of...
19 Oct, 2017
Festival lets New Yorkers experience a gourmand’s delight without leaving their backyard Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. On Saturday, September 30, I had the great pleasure of dining at Norman’s Taste of Iceland event, a...
19 Oct, 2017
Fra Fenrik til Fører, Norsk krigshelt ved Østfronten shows a rare side of WWII M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Napoleon reportedly once remarked, “What is history, but a fable agreed upon?”* In the context...
18 Oct, 2017
Norway to pay men and women’s national football teams equally The Local An agreement by Norway’s male international footballers to take a pay cut to enable equal wages to be given to both the...
18 Oct, 2017
Kristen Walter Flekkefjord, Norway Much like when I play Sudoku, I unfortunately rarely complete language learning to its fullest extent—but Norwegian has been different. Whether it was Spanish, Latin, Portuguese, Arabic, or now Norwegian,...
18 Oct, 2017
American Kristy Kongevold shares her love for Halloween with her local community in Vanse, Norway, putting on an ever-more-elaborate Spooky Barn Maze each year Victoria Hofmo Brooklyn, N.Y. Kristy Kongevold hails from Illinois but...
18 Oct, 2017
(Undervisning i engelsk i norske skoler) Heidi Håvan Grosch Sparbu, Norway In Norway (i Norge), children start learning English (begynner barna å lære engelsk) in 1st grade (i 1. klasse) at six years old....
Norway: one country, many languages
20 Oct, 2017
20 Oct, 2017
Unclear idioms: Telefon fra Hamar
19 Oct, 2017
Trows and other Norse fragments
19 Oct, 2017
A taste of Iceland in Brooklyn’s Norman
19 Oct, 2017
Norway: one country, many languages
20 Oct, 2017
Historical discovery at Vemork
17 Oct, 2017
17 Oct, 2017
Government ready for dual citizenship
16 Oct, 2017
Small & Små: Little words with big histories
16 Oct, 2017
