From the Middle Ages to the Modern Age. At the time of the great migrations, Germanic tribes entered Norway forming numerous political groupings, in which the aborigines of perhaps Finnish race were incorporated. From the 8th century. with the Viking expeditions...
Norway. – Scandinavian region, in which the Germanic element, having reached the time of the great migrations, prevailed over the aborigines, who were incorporated or marginalized. Towards the middle of the century IX began a process of national unification, then reinforced...
The government chaired by Odvor Nordli, who in the office of prime minister was replaced for health reasons (Jan. 1981) by Gro Harlem Brundtland from the left wing of the Labor Party, was troubled by problems of foreign policy, in particular...
The most controversial issue of Norway’s policy – EEC membership – has acted as a catalyst on the characterizing process of domestic politics in the last fifteen years: the crisis of the Norwegian party system. Crisis not only of the “bourgeois”...
From the Middle Ages to the 18th century – According to smber, the literature that flourished in Norway from the Viking age, ie from about the 9th to the 14th century, cannot be separated from that of the Norwegian colonies established...
Since the end of the 19th century. to the 1950s. – The years after 1890 also saw in Norway the decline of naturalism and the flourishing of irrationalistic, idealistic and religious currents. Alongside the playwright G. Heiberg, who moves in the...
During and after the First World War, the currents of thought that still dominate contemporary cultural life emerge in Norway. But the picture of this here is far less complex and varied than in Sweden, where the antagonism between old and...
Norway. (or Greenland Sea ; norv. Norskehavet). Sea area (approx.1.550.000 km 2) between the Norway to the East, the Bear Island and Svalbard to the NE, the Faroe Islands and the Shetlands to the South, Ireland to the SW, Greenland to...
Music Between the 1920s and the immediate postwar period, Norwegian music was characterized by a general revival and reworking of forms drawn from popular tradition, especially through the work of composers belonging to the older generation, such as H. Saeverud (b.1897),...
Until the second half of the century. 11 °, Norway was still part of an ancient ‘stylistic territory’ which also included Denmark and Sweden and whose artistic ideals, although not fully homogeneous, had their origin in a common tradition. The consolidation...
