Religious historian Roald E. Kristiansen explains how Christmas in Norway evolved from Norse Yule and Roman festivals into a ...

A December message reflects on a year of renewed visibility and pride in the Norwegian-American community, alongside key ...

Miss Norway 2025 Leonora Lysglimt-Rødland went viral at Miss Universe in Thailand after wearing a salmon costume. The bold outfit drew global media attention and spotlighted Norwegian salmon, ...

Norway’s Labour Party reached a late-night deal with Rødt, Centre, SV and Greens on the 2026 budget without extra oil spending. The agreement includes stronger climate measures, an oil phaseout commis ...

Christie Ericson is an academic librarian living in Anchorage, Alaska. She has a background in languages and linguistics and has been fulfilling her lifelong dream of learning the Norwegian language.

It’s a cake that is often baked for Christmas—Mor Monsens kake, or Mother Monsen’s Cake—an extraordinary Norwegian cookie. Flavored with lemon zest and garnished with almonds, currants, and pearl ...

She is a pleasant and likeable person, Cecilie Myrseth, the Norwegian minister of trade and industry. She came to Geneva to sign an amended and improved trade agreement with Chile, under the auspices ...

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 ...

I år er det 80 år siden Bamse gikk bort, St. Bernhardhunden som er formelt skrevet inn i krigsseilerregisteret sammen med sin eier Erling Hafto, og som ble maskot for den norske marine under den andre ...

Next to Peer himself, Solveig is the most important character in Peer Gynt, even though she is on stage for only a few minutes during the play. She appears briefly as a teenage girl in Acts I and II, ...

Edvard Grieg dominates Norwegian music, and despite progress in gender equality, other visionaries of 19th and 20th century Norway have remained unknown. These unsung heroines helped develop Norwegian ...

During a trip to Norway and Sweden to visit relatives, Lynn Hjelmen noticed that all the stores had tomte and nisse in them. The small mythical creatures appealed to her, and she began to research ...