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Grønne ting Posted by kari on May 19, 2009
Green things. I think it is time to focus on adjectives. Today I will focus on the adjective -green- grønn. La oss snakke om grønne ting- let’s talk about green things. Gress er grønt (grass is green). Notice that I removed one ‘n’ and replaced it with a ‘t’ because gress is a neuter noun…
Gratulerer med dagen! Posted by kari on May 16, 2009
In Norwegian, “gratulerer med dagen” can either mean “happy birthday” or it can be said on a day like syttende mai to mean something like “congratulations on this day!” It’s almost a happy birthday to Norway-to celebrate the day that the country adopted it’s own constitution. So at midnight tonight, you should all show off your Norwegian and…
Syttende Mai Posted by kari on May 14, 2009
Syttende mai is the 17th (syttende) of May (mai-notice months are not capitalized, unless of course they come at the beginning of a sentence). Norwegians celebrate syttende mai because it is the anniversary of their Constitution day or Grunnlovsdagen. In 1814, a small group of Norwegian men, the Constituent Assembly, signed the constitution on May…
Norway and film Posted by kari on May 10, 2009
I have had a lot of exposure to Norwegian language, culture, and people. I took Norwegian literature classes in college. However, Norwegian film is something I have never studied. When I was at St. Olaf, I watched a lot of Norwegian movies, but never really analyzed them. The University of Oslo showed Norwegian movies a…
The best gift to bring back from Norge Posted by kari on May 6, 2009
This post may be a long time coming. Some of you might be wondering what kinds of gifts travelers typically bring back hom from Norge to show off their recent voyage and represent the country to their friends and family with little pieces of norsk culture. Some trinkets that the average tourist bring back from Norway…
Sykkelen Posted by kari on May 3, 2009
The bicycle. Sykkelen is one of my favorite things ever. Jeg elsker å sykle (I love to bike). In southern MN where I live, the weather has not been the best this spring. However, today is perfekt. It is 67 degrees with mye sol (lots of sun!) and litt vind (little wind). I ate some…
Churches fly rainbow flags in Nordland Posted by kari on Apr 30, 2009
If you have limited knowledge about Norway’s tolerance of outsiders (perhaps if you only know about Norway in history and not modern Norway), you might be surprised by Norway’s tolerance of homosexuals. Historically, Norwegians were fairly intolerant of outsiders. I think I have explained in one or more earlier posts that outsiders ruled Norway for much…