Syttende Mai has long been a stage for competing ideas about Norway’s identity. Gunhild Aaby looks at how the flag and children’s parade have carried political conflict, changing values, and new ...
May in Norway brings longer light, Syttende Mai preparations, and spring celebrations, even as daily life is marked by war ...
Storhamar secures a third straight Elite Hockey title and ninth overall, beating Frisk Asker in a six‑game final after ...
Norway’s abundant renewable electricity questions the need for new power projects, as expanding energy-intensive industry ...
Kate Butchart brings Norwegian floating sauna culture to Saratoga Lake with Kos Sauna, New York’s first public floating sauna ...
A new book examines Stavanger as a model smart, sustainable city, exploring its use of technology, governance, and urban ...
May in Norway brings longer light, Syttende Mai preparations, and spring celebrations, even as daily life is marked by war and economic worries, fuel prices, energy debates in the north, and more ...
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, ...
In medieval literature prior to Christianity, supernatural powers were an accepted fact. The practice of magic, changing shapes, flying, and spells to control the elements and conjure up the dead were ...
Over the years’s, it’s been a song that is often sung at gatherings in the Scandinavian-American community across North America. I once sang it at a concert in Iceland with my old friend and musical ...
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 ...
Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years, according to new studies. The accepted genomic contribution of Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo ...