A practical guide to visiting Norway, with an overview of travel logistics, local customs and simple tips for making the most ...

Education Minister Kari Nessa Nordtun (Labor Party) agrees with a government-appointed screen use committee on several points. She believes that the digitization of Norwegian schools has failed. “I ...

I was looking through pictures of my grandparents and other Norwegian relatives in the United States and found very few with people smiling. Those who are smiling clearly did so only on the ...

For over 48 years, her life and death have remained a mystery. Isdalskvinnen, the “Isdal Woman” or the “Woman from Ice Valley,” is one of the most famous unsolved cases in recent Norwegian history.

The farm sprite, later known as nisse, has a long history in Norse tradition. The oldest witness is found in the 12th-century Saga of Olaf Trygvason. In 981 A.D., an old Icelander reminds his ...

Nordic music strongly reflects the seasons, as life is shaped by the long winter and the longing for spring. Quiet, loneliness, and isolation are frequent themes. With the long winter we have all ...

There are about half a million sheep in Iceland but only around 360,000 people. The sheep are bred almost exclusively for the meat and the wool. They are usually shorn twice a year, in spring and fall ...

But it was the original Old Norse barn that proved most resilient with time; it was used by Shakespeare and survived in the northern English dialect and in modern Norwegian. The Scottish form bairn ...

Spring is officially here with the rhubarb harvest. I’ve been a rhubarb enthusiast since I was a kid, and my love for the vegetable grows stronger by the year. Rhubarb was the first thing I planted ...

The look on the lady’s face said it all as she grabbed at the Thor’s hammer dangling from my necklace. “Skinheads wear these,” she snarled. “Racists and Nazis!” “I do Viking reenactment,” I explained, ...

A few hours southeast from the city of Bergen lies Rosendal, an idyllic town at the southern shore of the Hardangerfjord, known for far more than its natural beauty. And with beauty like this, that ...

When it comes to Friday’s dinner plans, Norwegians seem to have one thing on their minds: tacos! The younger generations in Norway have coined the term “fredagstaco” to describe the cultural ...