Category: Norwegian Heritage

By Randi Millman-Brown Thor Jensen, 36, moves from Oslo to Hammerfest. He is promoted to bank manager, becomes engaged, and takes a one-month hiking trip through occupied Finnmark in 1941. By the end of...

An interview with Ross Fogelquist, “Mr. Scandinavia,” inside his remarkable home Laila Simon Portland, Ore. Ross Fogelquist remembers the use and origin of each collected piece in his historic home, Fogelbo (“bird nest” in...

Part 5: Andy Meyer 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...

Signs from loved ones in Odin’s hall can be found in odd places Laura Goetz Stevens Point, Wis. It’s hard to kill a Viking. Ask the Swedes, the Finns, even the Brits. Vikings have...

Norway’s new citizenship rules will most likely begin in 2020—but what does that mean? Lori Ann Reinhall The Norwegian American During the month of May, Norwegians Worldwide (Nordmanns-Forbundet) held a series of seminars about...

Part 4: Madison Leiren Ingerid Jordal Odda, Norway In her small apartment in Northgate, Seattle, Madison Leiren, 27, keeps an old photograph on her bookshelf. It is black and white, and shows a young...

Princess Märtha Louise’s romance with American shaman Durek Verrett recently triggered media mentions of shamanism. Our correspondant surveys the belief’s history in Norway. M. Michael Brady Asker, Norway Shamanism, an animistic faith of northern...

By Randi Millman-Brown Thor Jensen, 36, moves from Oslo to Hammerfest. He is promoted to bank manager, becomes engaged, and takes a one-month hiking trip through occupied Finnmark in 1941. By the end of...