Category: Norsk Språk

Norway’s Edvard Munch wrote a passage in his diary about a personal experience that inspired him to create his famous painting, “The Scream.”

M. Michael Brady discusses the evolution
of “søtvier” in Norwegian and “nightshade” in English, which end up with
identical botanical classifications.

Christie Ericson teaches in Norsk 101
about knitting cafes and festivals in Norway, where knitters can also gather
together in pubs and libraries.

M. Michael Brady explains how countries write their dates with differences known as endienness, named after characters in Gulliver’s Travels.

Christie Ericson reports (in English and Norwegian) on visit to Alaska from Anniken R. Krutnes, the first woman Norwegian ambassador to the United States.

The Norwegian American features comics by renowned Norwegian journalist Fredrik Skavlan and Lille Berlin.

Linda Stromberg of Toronto, Canada, shares her list of valuable tips for keeping your Norwegian and Swedish straight when learning both languages at once.

Follow the journey of the word “aloft,” descending from two Old Norse adjectives through early English to the modern adverb and preposition in the 1800s.

Made famous in Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg address, the word “score” has its origins in an Old Norse word used for counting sheep.