#norwegian — Public Fediverse posts

'The ship that went just as well on land as on water'... an illustration by Theodor Kittelson for the Norwegian folk tale, 'The Ash Lad and the Good Helpers'. It comes from a rather lovely anthology of such tales published in 1960.
#WyrdWednesday #folktale #legend #Norway #Norwegian #Scandinavian

'The ship that went just as well on land as on water'... an illustration by Theodor Kittelson for the Norwegian folk tale, 'The Ash Lad and the Good Helpers'. It comes from a rather lovely anthology of such tales published in 1960.
#WyrdWednesday #folktale #legend #Norway #Norwegian #Scandinavian

Here’s one for our #norwegian cousins: Finland’s state flags are at half mast today in remembrance of your King Harald. Even where I work!

Condolences! Even though I’m as republican as they come, seems like he was a decent fellow.

Here’s one for our #norwegian cousins: Finland’s state flags are at half mast today in remembrance of your King Harald. Even where I work!

Condolences! Even though I’m as republican as they come, seems like he was a decent fellow.

Here’s one for our #norwegian cousins: Finland’s state flags are at half mast today in remembrance of your King Harald. Even where I work!

Condolences! Even though I’m as republican as they come, seems like he was a decent fellow.

Here’s one for our #norwegian cousins: Finland’s state flags are at half mast today in remembrance of your King Harald. Even where I work!

Condolences! Even though I’m as republican as they come, seems like he was a decent fellow.

Here’s one for our #norwegian cousins: Finland’s state flags are at half mast today in remembrance of your King Harald. Even where I work!

Condolences! Even though I’m as republican as they come, seems like he was a decent fellow.

Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mother #Asbjørnsen #Moe

Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mother #Asbjørnsen #Moe

Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mother #Asbjørnsen #Moe

Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mother #Asbjørnsen #Moe

Folklore read live!

Do you trust your mom?
Because this boy sure shouldn't.

Witness the worst mother in folklore LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/OonwtpROL_I

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #mother #Asbjørnsen #Moe

https://www.europesays.com/dk/162382/ King Felipe, Queen Letizia and Queen Sofía arrive in Oslo for King Harald’s funeral as special family bond comes into focus #CarlosAlvarez #Felipe #FelipeVI #Harald #HaraldV #KingFelipe #Norway #norwegian #Oslo #Queen #QueenLetizia #QueenMary #QueenSofía #QueenSonja #Sofía #spanish

Norway’s viral World Cup Viking Row has officially made its way into American college football https://www.rawchili.com/5092681/ #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Frøystad #Norway #norwegian #RowTheBoat #TheUniversityOfMinnesota #VikingRow #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

Norway’s viral World Cup Viking Row has officially made its way into American college football https://www.rawchili.com/5092681/ #FIFAWorldCup2026 #Frøystad #Norway #norwegian #RowTheBoat #TheUniversityOfMinnesota #VikingRow #WorldCup #WorldCup2026

Norway’s viral World Cup Viking Row has officially made its way into American college football

Norway’s Viking Row was one of the most viral fan traditions of the 2026 World Cup. Now, two…
#Football #Soccer #WorldCup2026 #Frøystad #Norway #Norwegian #RowtheBoat #TheUniversityofMinnesota #VikingRow
https://www.europesays.com/football/59692/

The Polar Bear Once Kept at the Tower of London

The late Queen Elizabeth II was well known for her love of corgis, and she kep…
#London #UnitedKingdom #UK #GB #England #Headlines #News #Europe #EU #AnimalTrivia #Britain #ElizabethII #GiantPolarBear #GreatBritain #henry #Henrya"whitebear" #HenryIII- #HenryVIII #KingHenry's #london #MedievalTimes #Norwegian #OliScarff/GettyImages #QueenVictoria #Thames #TheMedievalCourtCases #ThePolarBearOnceKept #tower
https://www.europesays.com/uk/1192446/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1192446/ The Polar Bear Once Kept at the Tower of London #AnimalTrivia #Britain #ElizabethII #England #GiantPolarBear #GreatBritain #henry #HenryA"whiteBear" #HenryIII #HenryVIII #KingHenry's #london #MedievalTimes #Norwegian #OliScarff/GettyImages #QueenVictoria #Thames #TheMedievalCourtCases #ThePolarBearOnceKept #tower #UK #UnitedKingdom

Denmark’s former queen Margrethe hospitalized

Denmark’s former queen Margrethe II has been hospitalized, the royal house said on Sunday. Danish news agency Ritzau…
#Denmark #Danmark #DK #Europe #Europa #EU #CT #danish #denmark #denmarks #FrederikX #HaraldV #norwegian #Rigshospitaletuniversityhospital #Ritzau #SvenHoppe
https://www.europesays.com/3237193/

Denmark’s former queen Margrethe hospitalized https://www.byteseu.com/2343228/ #ct #Danish #Denmark #denmarks #FrederikX #HaraldV #norwegian #RigshospitaletUniversityHospital #Ritzau #SvenHoppe

https://www.europesays.com/dk/160790/ Denmark’s former queen Margrethe hospitalized #CT #Danish #Danmark #Denmark #Denmarks #FrederikX #HaraldV #norwegian #RigshospitaletUniversityHospital #Ritzau #SvenHoppe

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

https://katemacdonald.net/2026/09/06/babettes-feast-and-other-stories-by-isak-dinesen-karen-blixen/

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

https://katemacdonald.net/2026/09/06/babettes-feast-and-other-stories-by-isak-dinesen-karen-blixen/

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

https://katemacdonald.net/2026/09/06/babettes-feast-and-other-stories-by-isak-dinesen-karen-blixen/

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

https://katemacdonald.net/2026/09/06/babettes-feast-and-other-stories-by-isak-dinesen-karen-blixen/

Babette’s Feast and Other Stories, by Isak Dinesen [Karen Blixen]

https://katemacdonald.net/2026/09/06/babettes-feast-and-other-stories-by-isak-dinesen-karen-blixen/

Norway’s Viking Row took over the World Cup — looking back at how the viral fan tradition began

Norway did not win the 2026 FIFA World Cup. But it may have created the tournament’s most enduring…
#Football #Soccer #WorldCup2026 #Frøystad #Norway #Norwegian #VikingRow
https://www.europesays.com/football/58833/

Added this cut. Focusing on Malene by deLillos. The bends are very expressive. A very expressive tune. Learn the melody. Available here:

https://chordyes.com/chord/delillos-malene

#guitarcover #guitarplayer #norwegian #malevocalist #indie #nordic #melancholic

#MeerMittwoch #SeaWednesday

The Birds

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vardø_Light

#NoGenAi #AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photo #Photography #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #Sea #Ocean #TravelPhotography #Water #CamelCase #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Lighthouse #Lighthouses #Fyr #Phare #Leuchtturm #Leuchtturme #Phares #Faros #Faro #Fari #Fyrtarn #Norge #Norway #Norwegian #Arctic #Bird #Birds #Vogel #Oiseaux #Oiseau #Vögel #Vardø

@Mastodon Here are some artists and artistic groups. All of them somehow related to Norway, but many of them post in English:
https://mastodon.social/collections/116773076048829182

#collection #collections #samling #samlinger #norwegian #norsk #allheimen #norsktut #kunst #kultur

Check NorOLMo 1.0 - our new 13B language model aimed at Norwegian language tasks.

https://huggingface.co/HPLT/NorOLMo-13B

We took English OLMo2-13B as the base model and continually pre-trained it on Norwegian data.
NorOLMo is the only modern fully open #LLM specifically adapted for #Norwegian. "Fully open" here means that the entirety of the training data and training pipeline is transparent and reproducible - and of course the model weights are available under a permissive license.

#NLProc #Norsk

One of my absolute favorite articles of clothing in my closet is a beat-up, slightly holey, faded black Darkthrone t-shirt from 1998, with the band logo on the front, and “True Norwegian Black Metal” printed across the back. I share this, for what I hope are obvious reasons, to explain what initially drew me to Twin Serpent’s sophomore record, True Norwegian Blackgrass. That, and it was floating in an exclusive area of the sump pit reserved for those nuggets Steel specifically says need a review. Four years removed from their Loyal Blood Records 2022 debut, Feels Like Heaven, North Of Hell, which garnered comparisons to Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Tom Waits, this “cute outsider band” from Trondheim has a new label, Svart Records, and on True Norwegian Blackgrass, Twin Serpent teases “12 songs about love, betrayal and black holes with country licks, rock ‘n roll kicks and heaps of punk attitude.” So, coif those multi-colored mohawks, strap on those bullet-belts and arm spikes, and pull those cowboy boots on as we take True Norwegian Blackgrass for a prairie ride.

True Norwegian Blackgrass is a punk-infused, crust-country bluesabilly-thon full of quirky energy. Ditching the corpse paint and blood baths, Twin Serpent’s aesthetic is born from deliberate artistic intent—just scope that cover art touted as “weird, rowdy, and just a little bit black metal.” Face paint? Pfffft! Full body snake paint and no fucks given come standard. Spirited from the start, album opener “Space Heater” glides in on a wave of Dick Dale-esque surf guitar before going full-on Dead Kennedys with oodles of punkish energy and roars from Timo Silvola and Hanna Fauske that would have Fenriz smiling. From there, however, True Norwegian Blackgrass traverses a more eclectic musical terrain without sacrificing its punk moxie. Silvola’s countrified banjo plucks and acoustic strumming bring Bridge City Sinners and The Goddamn Gallows to mind (“Stellar Suicide”), but can folk out too on tracks like “Kipu Kivi,” which also features him chanting in his native Finnish. Back-boning Twin Serpent’s “rock”ier side are Fauske’s driving bass lines, Tony Gonzalez’s electric riffs and leads, and the shifty, exactly-what-we-need-when-we-need-it drumming of Viktor Kristensen. Together, these three bring a bluesy, alt-rock flair that had me feeling everything from Violent Femmes (“Hundromshelvete”) and Days of the New (“Tusen Takk”), to The Cramps (“Radiophobia”). To say True Norwegian Blackgrass seems a scatterbrained stew of styles would be an understatement, but I’ll be damned if Twin Serpent doesn’t pull it off.

Twin Serpent write big hooks, stacking True Norwegian Blackgrass with memorable moments. Whimsical percussion, poppy bass lines, and fuzzy guitar work make “Ærlig Talt” an off-kilter, punky fun ditty, while the catchier-than-thou chorus of the hoe-down-ready “Freak Flag” is stickier than hell, and should inspire mass consumption of cheap beer. My favorite song, ballad “Ain’t Home No More,” features a great harmonic duet between Silvola and Fauske, sung over simple banjo and acoustic guitar before feathering in surging electric chords that, in a live setting, could easily trail off into a stellar jam section. “Holy Ghost,” another tavern-tier stand-out, features more of Silvola and Fauske’s vocal harmonizations and sports a chorus that will have you swaying on your bar stool, arm around your drinking buddy, belting it out while sloshing beer from your pint glass.

Twin Serpent’s versatility is their greatest strength. I imagine they’d fit in just as easily gigging at the local brew pub as they would a barn dance or even Chicago’s Riot Fest. Covering so many musical landscapes, an album like True Norwegian Blackgrass could have easily landed as an unfocused mess. But it’s the vocal interplay, harmonies, and trade-offs between Silvola and Fauske—reminiscent of early B-52’s—keeping things intact. As many different places as this record goes, it still manages to sound like Twin Serpent, and with twelve tracks spanning 37 minutes—most songs clocking in between two and three minutes each—it never loiters long enough to get boring or tiresome. Dubbed “the wizard technician,” Vebjørn Svanberg Numme harnesses all of the foursome’s idiosyncrasies and channels them through a production that perfectly captures everything that makes the Twin Serpent sound tick.

True Norwegian Blackgrass is a wonderful change-of-pace album you could totally spin when you don’t know what to listen to. Twin Serpent have added all the right ingredients to create a recipe loaded with eclectic energy and punk rock attitude. From note one, I was hooked and had more fun with True Norwegian Blackgrass than I’d ever guessed. I fully recommend you give it a try too.

Rating: 3.5/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320kbps mp3
Label: Svart Records
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Instagram
Releases Worldwide: May 8th, 2026

Note to self: if you're trying to read a #Norwegian article and everything seems unnaturally hard to read, you've probably not noticed that in it's in #Danish.

#norsk #dansk #språk #sprog #language

When Petter discovered “Ada & #Zangemann”, he immediately felt the urge to make sure the story was available to the #Norwegian speakers. Now “Ada og Zangemann - En fortelling om programvare, rullebrett og bringebæris” has been published and was presented during the Norwegian local celebrations of #ilovefs.

Read Petter’s story and if you like what he did, join me in a round of applause for Petter 👏👏 👏 👏 https://fsfe.org/news/2026/news-20260302-01.en.html

🤖 Ny norsk praterobot fra #LTG med chat-grensesnitt! NorMistral-11B-thinking er en åpen språkmodell (#LLM) finjustert for å følge instruksjoner og å resonnere før den svarer.

💬 For tilgang til chat: https://chat.llm.sigma2.no
🤗 Nedlasting fra #HF: https://huggingface.co/norallm/normistral-11b-thinking
👷‍♂️ Hovedutvikler: LTG-stipendiat David Samuel
ℹ️ For mer informasjon, se https://www.mn.uio.no/ifi/forskning/grupper/ltg/store-sprakmodeller-for-norsk

#NLProc #NorMistral #Norsk #Norwegian

Do you want more #ExLibris (Hi)Stories?

I fell into a rabbit hole when I checked publications about exlibris in general & #Norwegian ones in particular in Norway's largest daily newspaper in the period leading up to the 1940s.

In T.B. Schyberg's bibliography, quite a few articles are listed, but I soon realised he didn't capture them all.

Since the #NationalLibrary has digitised all of #Aftenposten, I dove right in!
So far, I've identified 173 newspaper articles & ads: way more than expected!

A job somewhat out of the ordinary today: contributing to editing my own video lecture.

The National Library of #Norway commissioned my institute NIBR at #OsloMet University to have me record a 30 minute video.

Task: Help high school students get an overview of #Sámi and #Norwegian history that will allow them to better understand why the temperature is so high in conflicts between the Norwegian government and #Indigenous Sámi over natural resources.

#academia #academicmastodon #histodons