Norway is increasingly adopting AI across business and society, but turning new technology into greater productivity and ...

Hans Petter Moland’s The Growth of the Soil has been selected as Norway’s 2027 Oscar entry for best international feature. Based on Knut Hamsun’s novel, the film follows a couple building a life from ...

In a normal setting, it might seem a little strange to come across a crowd of people in red jerseys and Viking hats rowing up an escalator. But at this World Cup, that has become one of the more ...

Smart cities, sustainable cities, eco-cities, resilient cities, and so on. The rhetoric has reached Norway. A free-to-download book published last year presents Stavanger as “one of the first, and one ...

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What is gamalost, you ask? It is one of Norway’s oldest cheeses, and like lutefisk, gamalost was a key staple in the Norwegian diet in the old days. In fact, its name, “gamalost” or “old cheese” ...

For many of our readers, Norges Bygdekvinnelag, formerly Norges Bondekvinnelag until 2002, may already be a familiar organization. It’s a Norwegian interest organization founded in 1946 to support the ...

The tattoo on Miriam Hauge’s forearm shows two lines: a row of numbers that tell the geographic coordinates for Stavanger, Ill., and below it, a line that is the very last readout of her late ...

Fennel, a plant native to the Mediterranean, is well known for its role in Italian cuisine — but it also has deep roots in Norwegian food culture. Archaeological digs in Oslo’s Old Town have uncovered ...

Norway is surrounded by seas. With oceans come storms. Between October and May, the Norwegian and Barents seas experience hurricane-type tempests called “polar lows”. Polar lows can reach the size of ...

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 ...

Christie Ericson is an academic librarian living in Anchorage, Alaska. She has a background in languages and linguistics and has been fulfilling her lifelong dream of learning the Norwegian language.