Viking Ship Museum (Oslo)
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5 days ago · Oslo, capital and largest city of Norway. It lies at the head of Oslo Fjord in the southeastern part of the country. The original site of Oslo was east of the Aker River. The city was founded by King Harald Hardraade about 1050, and about 1300 the Akershus fortress was built by Haakon V.
1 day ago · Oslo (tidligere Christiania eller Kristiania) er Norges hovedstad, minste fylke i areal og mest folkerike by. Fylket og bykommunen ligger i det sentrale østlandsområdet, innerst i Oslofjorden. Oslo kommune har 717 710 innbyggere per 1. januar 2024.
1 day ago · Norway, country of northern Europe that occupies the western half of the Scandinavian peninsula. About two-thirds of Norway is mountainous, and its coastline is indented by deep glacial fjords. Offshore it includes some 50,000 islands.
5 days ago · Introduction. Background. Two centuries of Viking raids into Europe tapered off after King Olav TRYGGVASON adopted Christianity in 994; conversion of the Norwegian kingdom occurred over the next several decades. In 1397, Norway was absorbed into a union with Denmark that lasted more than four centuries.
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19 hours ago · The current structure, consecrated in 1697 as the Church of Our Saviour, is the third cathedral to grace Oslo‘s cityscape. The first, dating back to the 12th century, was lost to the annals of history, while the second, built in the early 1600s, succumbed to the ravages of fire after just 50 years. Undeterred by these setbacks, the people of ...
19 hours ago · Early life Background Vidkun Abraham Lauritz Jonssøn Quisling was born on 18 July 1887 in Fyresdal, in the Norwegian county of Telemark. He was the son of Church of Norway pastor and genealogist Jon Lauritz Qvisling (1844–1930) and his wife Anna Caroline Bang (1860–1941), the daughter of Jørgen Bang, ship-owner and at the time the richest man in the town of Grimstad in South Norway. The ...
2 days ago · Norwegian is one of the two official languages in Norway, along with Sámi, a Finno-Ugric language spoken by less than one percent of the population. Norwegian is one of the working languages of the Nordic Council.
