Webpages tagged with «Norway»
Nothing is so boundless as the sea. This is how the Novel Garmann and Worse written by the famous Norwegian author Alexander Kielland begins. What is it about sperm whales and authors?
In the second half of the nineteenth century, Norway became a popular destination for British tourists. Among these were mountaineers such as William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929), who soon established multiple connections to the country.
What does a Northern Norwegian farm tell us about Kven settlements and Kven traditions?
What can a French administrative classification of a Northern Norwegian collection tell us about how the Nordic region was understood from a foreign perspective?
Most people don’t know this, but Nansen also mapped geological features and collected fossils on his polar expedition with Fram. While on Franz Josef Land, he took samples of fossils that have subsequently been important in understanding the geology of the archipelago and the formation of the Barents Shelf.
How was it possible to collect bird songs in the Nordic regions before the invention of audio recording?