Based on map by DigoPaul, Norway borders Sweden to the east and Finland and Russia to the northeast. In terms of landscape, the country is perhaps one of the most exciting countries in Europe. A long, wild coast, the fjords – Norway is rich in natural highlights. The country can be traveled very well by… Read More »
After a fierce electoral struggle, the left had a strong majority in 1882, and the government (prime minister in Norway, CA Selmer) was brought before the high court of justice, composed of the Lagting – subsection of the Storting – and by the supreme court. In the months of February-March the sentence passed: despite the… Read More »
Under the influence of the July Revolution, a stronger political consciousness arose in the peasantry, who began to make use of the possibilities given to them by the statute to gain political influence. In 1833 45 peasants were elected to the Storting against 34 officials; and soon the peasants formed a separate group under the… Read More »
With the Peace of Kiel (January 14, 1814) the Norwegian-Danish union was dissolved. When the news of the peace reached Christiania, Prince Christian Federico, who was the heir to the Danish throne, first wanted to assume power as absolute king by virtue of the monarchical law of succession. But the people were against this policy,… Read More »
Above which all emerge the most decisive exponents of the Norwegian musical soul, who receive impetus from the general orientation of civil life. In fact, this is the moment of norsk norsk, extreme Norwegianism. The literati give themselves to the collection of popular songs; the figurative arts deal with scenes of popular, peasant life; efforts… Read More »
Ethnic, geographical, linguistic and political factors mean that in Norway even music has over the centuries many points of fusion with that of other peoples of northern Europe rather than of contact. With reason, the music of both of these peoples has been summarized and observed under the generic aspect of Scandinavian music. Pure diversity… Read More »
The feminist struggles of the seventies – now no longer aimed at claiming equality, but at highlighting all the feminine private sector and opposing new values to ” masculine ” ones – have also given impetus to Norway, where it is also present. a long tradition of writers interested in the position of women in… Read More »
The overabundance of literary production, favored by generous state contributions, the heated political climate and the never dormant question of bilingualism make it difficult to follow in its developments the most recent literature, partly entertaining and ephemeral, but also full of vital ferments. In 1976 J. Bjørnebo (b. 1920) died, after having completed the powerful… Read More »
The place of origin of this style is still obscure, but it can hypothetically be recognized as a secondary branch of Danish Romanesque. Among his earliest examples are the ancient Oslo Cathedral – dedicated to St. Alvardo and completely destroyed in the middle of the century. 17 ° – and the Gamle Akerskirke, on the… Read More »
Northern European state, which occupies the western part of the Scandinavian peninsula, whose modern name derives from the ancient Norse Norvegr (‘the way, or the land, towards the North’), documented from the end of the century. 9 ° in the accounts of the traveler Ottar, who came to the English court of Alfred the Great,… Read More »
The celebrated Danish critic Georg Brandes had formulated in 1871 the program of an art that dealt realistically with the problems of modern life, and although both Ibsen and Bjørnson and Jonas Lie were too mature and independent individuals to blindly follow that slogan, yet in their works for the next ten or fifteen years,… Read More »
The ingenious, but partly shapeless improvisations of Wergeland soon found a critic and an opponent in Johan Sebastian Welhaven (1807-1873), who brought into poetry the need for an impeccably harmonious form, for a complete elaboration of matter and intimate experience. His first work was a small collection almost entirely of sonnets, Norges Dæmring (1834), constituting… Read More »
Norwegian literature of the century. XVII consists of sermons and psalms, in profane poems in the style of the late Renaissance and Baroque, travel memories, historical works, Latin verses, dissertations. It took on a European color, and shows that the bourgeois culture of Norway was on the way to level with the culture of the… Read More »
Every Icelandic with ambition usually had to spend part of his youth in the motherland, and the surest way to success in Norway was offered by the practice of poetry and saga. At the courts of the Norwegian kings and chiefs of the 11th and 12th centuries, literary entertainment is mainly provided by Icelanders, and… Read More »
The oldest Norwegian literary monuments preserved to this day probably date back to the 10th century. VIII d. C. Already long before this time, in the century. II or III d. C., in the Nordic countries began to engrave on stone, with runic characters, funeral inscriptions, magical forms, etc. The runic inscriptions are generally very… Read More »
Of course it was quite otherwise for canon law. After the introduction of Christianity, canon law, imported from England and Ireland, gradually penetrated into the ancient national law, and we already find it in the codes of the aforementioned lagting, which had special chapters on law. ecclesiastical. In the late Middle Ages the Church became… Read More »
Old Norse law is essentially national, created by the living conditions of the people, their natural and economic needs, the structure of the country, without foreign influences. From what can be inferred, Norwegian law must have formed in the so-called Viking period, around 700 AD. C., and is therefore, to a certain extent, the product… Read More »
In his “Danish capitulation” Christian III had to promise that from that moment Norway would cease to be called an independent kingdom and would become an integral part of the kingdom of Denmark as a Danish region. But he could not and did not want to keep this commitment, and the denomination of the kingdom… Read More »
Haakon V had only one daughter who married the Swedish Duke Erik. Their son Magnus was elected king of Sweden in 1319 when he was only three years old, and when Haakon died in the same year, he also inherited the kingdom of Norway. Sweden and Norway, despite having the same king, did not constitute… Read More »
The old custom that every son of a king, and not only the firstborn, was entitled to the throne, provoked interminable disputes after the death of Sigurd Jorsalfarer. One after the other the pretenders to the throne came forward who, rightly or wrongly, pretended to be sons of kings, proving it with the judgment of… Read More »
When Norway, after 1814, had greater independence from the union with Sweden than in its previous union with Denmark, it was the moment of official architecture. The new representative buildings necessary for the state were built in the neoclassical style especially in the capital, where the royal palace, built between 1824 and 1848 by the… Read More »
Exceptionally vivid and naturalistic reproductions of animals, especially reindeer, are preserved painted or engraved on the rocks from the Stone Age. The metal jewelry from the migration period (about 400-800) is distinguished by the fancy and luxurious animal ornaments that also characterize the following period, that of the Vikings (about 800-1050), as seen from the… Read More »
The girls receive the declarations of their suitors and companions often still in the barn, a custom that dates back to very ancient times; for Switzerland it has been handed down since the Middle Ages. The granary is also the storage room for the wedding trousseau. It is said in many places that the bride’s… Read More »
Main occupation of the population, in addition to livestock breeding, fishing can also be considered, carried out on the sea and in the numerous waterways. Mainly salmon, trout and eels are fished following ancient systems, with intertwined traps and barriers, or with harpoons. On the grassy slopes of the high mountains, the villages are replaced… Read More »
The economic and social progress achieved by the Norwegian people from the beginning of the century to today is undeniable, so much so that it is now possible to say that the Norway has transformed itself from a poor and agricultural nation to an industrial country with a high standard of living, almost equal to… Read More »
In Narvik, too, there was a bitter fight; but despite the favorable outcome of the naval confrontation of 13 April (7 German fighters sunk) and some notable local successes of the landed troops (1-28 May), due to the disastrous events in France the Franco-English expeditionary force received the order to return to England. The re-embarkation,… Read More »
When the Second World War broke out, Norway, which declared itself neutral, soon found itself in serious diplomatic difficulties. The first signs of war were given, on February 14, 1940, by the British destroyer Cossak, who boarded, in the Jøsing fjord, the German steamship Altmark, used to transport 275 prisoners fallen into German hands following… Read More »
The French New Wave profoundly influenced the young generation of Norwegian filmmakers who, in the 1960s, distanced themselves from Hollywood models to try new paths; their debut was facilitated by the government which in 1964 initiated a policy of financial loans for the making of films whose scripts had been deemed worthy by a commission… Read More »
From the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages In the territory of Norway there are great rock figures of Paleolithic art and numerous testimonies for the period of the Bronze and Iron Ages. A flourishing of art and artistic craftsmanship dates back to the time of the great migrations (400-800 ca.) and to the following one… Read More »
Architecture Like the other Scandinavian countries, also Norway presents the central problem of the search for its own national and cultural identity, to be found in the context of a long tradition, for the past closely intertwined with the events of the entire team of Nordic civilization. This datum must be kept in mind when… Read More »