The American Dream of Norway
Ingerid Jordal Odda, Norway Our ancestors came to America to give their families a better life. Now young Norwegian Americans dream of the old country. This series of interviews was conducted by a visiting...
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The world’s northernmost Syttende Mai
Norway’s constitution gets a very special international celebration in Longyearbyen Elizabeth Bourne Longyearbyen, Svalbard Syttende Mai is special to all Norwegians and those of Norwegian descent, no matter where they live. But in Norway’s...
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Syttende Mai from the heart
Minneapolis celebrates the holiday with a feeling of community—and a whole lot of flags Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American Norwegian Constitution Day on May 17 has long been a day that I’ve celebrated...
The American Dream of Norway
Ingerid Jordal Odda, Norway Our ancestors came to America to give their families a better life. Now young Norwegian Americans dream of the old country. This series of interviews was conducted by a visiting...
Old Norse anger
Words about words M. Michael Brady The word anger, a noun and a verb in modern English, retains the sense and usage of two Old Norse words from which it descends, the noun, angr,...
Elverum wins men’s handball champs again
Déjà vu all over again Jo Christian Weldingh Oslo, Norway After beating archrival Arendal in three straight matches, Elverum Handball Club took a sweet revenge by taking home their eighth consecutive Grundigligaen men’s handball...
Prize for Maud salvage
Gerard Taylor Norway Today Prime Minister Erna Solberg handed out the Asker municipality’s cultural prize on May 25 to Jan Wanggaard and Tandberg Eiendom for having retrieved Roald Amundsen’s polar vessel back to Norway....
Soak up local culture in Southwest Germany
Festivals and flowers Cynthia Elyce Rubin The Norwegian American In the summertime, when life often plays out in parks, fields, and cafés, around fountains, and in the little streets of Europe’s old cities, people...
Cambi turns waste into valuable exports
The winner of Norway’s 2019 Export Prize developed a process for upcycling sewage Rasmus Falck Oslo, Norway International trade is important for a small country like Norway. We have many good export companies that...
From Nashville… to Norway!
College students experience “the 4th of July on steroids” at Bergen’s Syttende Mai Lina Sheahan Nashville, Tenn. BOOM! It was 7 a.m., and the sound of cannon fire shook me awake in my hotel...
A vision of the mid-century mother
New at Norway House Norway House Minneapolis, Minn. Wayzata, Minn.-born Judy Olausen entered the University of Minnesota planning to study architecture. When a class she planned to take was full, she substituted a course...
Norway’s oil fund invests in an ethical, sustainable future
NOK 9 trillion and counting Rasmus Falck Oslo, Norway The Norwegian oil adventure started the day before Christmas Eve, 1969, when the country found oil in the North Sea. The Ekofisk was the largest...
A conversation with Ambassador Aas
“A healthy ocean is a wealthy ocean” Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American With its long coastline and a strong maritime industry, Norway’s interest in the oceans is self-evident. Eighty percent of all Norwegians...
