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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, ...

When it comes to Friday’s dinner plans, Norwegians seem to have one thing on their minds: tacos! The younger generations in Norway have coined the term “fredagstaco” to describe the cultural ...

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 ...

For over 48 years, her life and death have remained a mystery. Isdalskvinnen, the “Isdal Woman” or the “Woman from Ice Valley,” is one of the most famous unsolved cases in recent Norwegian history.

Cod and herring are the most acclaimed fish in Norwegian myth and literature. The Icelandic skald Snorri Sturluson mentions them in his medieval-period writings, as do later Norwegian authors, ...

Before my family left for a year in Norway in 1969, my father told me, a 10-year-old American sports fan, that Norway, a country of four million people, had won the most medals at the 1968 Winter ...

It’s like standing close to heaven when you reach the last steps of the spectacular North Cape Staircase—Nordkapptrappa. The Sherpa stairs can be seen as soon as you approach the Honningsvåg harbor in ...

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 ...