A practical guide to visiting Norway, with an overview of travel logistics, local customs and simple tips for making the most ...

As Norway settles into fall, debates over declining student performance and political accountability continue, while football ...

Viken Musikkfolkehøgskole in Norway offers an individualized approach to music education, emphasizing creativity, ...

Norway is increasingly adopting AI across business and society, but turning new technology into greater productivity and lasting economic value will require investment, skills, innovation and ...

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, ...

There are about half a million sheep in Iceland but only around 360,000 people. The sheep are bred almost exclusively for the meat and the wool. They are usually shorn twice a year, in spring and fall ...

Though Norwegian Americans practically define who they are through the eating of lutefisk during the Christmas season, I have found to my surprise that the vast majority of Norwegian Americans know ...

Education Minister Kari Nessa Nordtun (Labor Party) agrees with a government-appointed screen use committee on several points. She believes that the digitization of Norwegian schools has failed. “I ...

Writing Norwegian on a computer is easiest if it has a Norwegian keyboard, on which the three extra vowels in Norwegian, Æ, Ø, and Å are to the right in the first two alphabetic key rows. But even if ...

Most American tourists to Oslo have visited the museums at Bygdøy, thrilling to the sight of the Kon-Tiki raft, the Polar ship Fram, and the long ships in the Viking Ship Museum. We’ve wandered the ...

I have always been fascinated and impressed with Norway’s role in World War II and the war’s effect on the country, ever since my first trip in 1969-70 at age 11. My father was stationed at Gardemoen, ...

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 ...