#norwegian — Public Fediverse posts

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/

https://www.europesays.com/dk/160334/ Prince William to attend King Harald’s funeral in Norway #Haakon #HaakonVIII #Harald #KingCharles #KingHarald #Norway #norwegian #Oslo #PrinceWilliam #PrinceWilliamAnd #RoyalWatch

https://www.europesays.com/no/343871/ 20.000 passasjerer rammet: – Veldig synd #Business #Economy #fly #Næringsliv #NO #Norge #Norway #norwegian #Nyheter #økonomi #Reise #streik

Lithuania will act fast to a war footing if Russia attacks it, Foreign Minister Budrys says

Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Kęstutis Budrys was speaking on the sidelines of a European Ministers meeting in Ireland.…
#Lithuania #LT #Europe #Europa #EU #budrys #European #kajakallas #KestutisBudrys #Lietuva #lithuania #lithuanian #naujienos #norwegian #Russia
https://www.europesays.com/3232232/

Lithuania will act fast to a war footing if Russia attacks it, Foreign Minister Budrys says https://www.byteseu.com/2335347/ #budrys #eu #European #KajaKallas #KestutisBudrys #Lithuania #Lithuanian #norwegian #Russia

Folklore read live!

Is this menace the coolest girl in folklore?
Yes.

Witness her chaos tonight LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/aNPXX8zTAqE

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #norwegian #folklore #legend #epic #tatterhood #bushbride #maiden #witch #femmefatale #Asbjørnsen #Mo

📰 Politiken

📢 Iran-krigen forvandler Norwegian til en underskudsforretning

🔗 https://politiken.dk/danmark/oekonomi/virksomheder/art10917160/Iran-krigen-forvandler-Norwegian-til-en-underskudsforretning

#Iran-krigen #Norwegian #GlobalFeed #News #DK

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Folklore read live!

The Mastermaiden is Folklore's Femme Fatale!

See her tricks LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/4D-75dX0JVM

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

@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

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Nidelva, Trondheim

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #StreetPhotography #Street #People #UrbanPhotography #River #Water #Boat #Boats #WaterSport #WaterSports #Rowing #Sculling #Norway #Norge #Nidelva #Trondheim #Norwegian #Bakklandet #Sport #Sports

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Nidelva, Trondheim

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #StreetPhotography #Street #People #UrbanPhotography #River #Water #Boat #Boats #WaterSport #WaterSports #Rowing #Sculling #Norway #Norge #Nidelva #Trondheim #Norwegian #Bakklandet #Sport #Sports

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Nidelva, Trondheim

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #StreetPhotography #Street #People #UrbanPhotography #River #Water #Boat #Boats #WaterSport #WaterSports #Rowing #Sculling #Norway #Norge #Nidelva #Trondheim #Norwegian #Bakklandet #Sport #Sports

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Nidelva, Trondheim

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #StreetPhotography #Street #People #UrbanPhotography #River #Water #Boat #Boats #WaterSport #WaterSports #Rowing #Sculling #Norway #Norge #Nidelva #Trondheim #Norwegian #Bakklandet #Sport #Sports

#StillerSontag #SilentSunday

Nidelva, Trondheim

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#AltText #NoAI #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #BNW #BlackAndWhite #Monochrome #BlackAndWhitePhotography #CamelCase #StreetPhotography #Street #People #UrbanPhotography #River #Water #Boat #Boats #WaterSport #WaterSports #Rowing #Sculling #Norway #Norge #Nidelva #Trondheim #Norwegian #Bakklandet #Sport #Sports

Mortiis has cut a swath through Norway’s music scene since 1992, beginning as the inaugural bassist for black metal pioneers Emperor. When Håvard “Mortiis” Ellefsen realized the blackened arts weren’t for him, he swapped his bass guitar for a keyboard and embarked on a journey that, six years and six full-length albums later, left him a progenitor and “Godfather” of dungeon synth. Over the following vicennial, Mortiis explored other musical outlets, from darkened synth-pop to industrial rock and murky ambient before returning to his dungeon synth roots with 2020’s Spirit of Rebellion. After revisiting the genre he helped found, Mortiis releases his 11th full-length album, Ghosts of Europa—in part shaped by a subsequently abandoned collaboration with Stephan Groth (Apoptygma Berzerk)—to pay homage to old German electronica, especially Tangerine Dream and Klaus Schulze. Mortiis took those early recordings and embarked on a six-year journey to transform them into Ghosts of Europa. Will Ghosts serve as the harbinger of Mortiis’s greatness, or be cursed to haunt the darkened shadows of Norwegian mediocrity?

Ghosts of Europa is sexy, spacy, and cinematic—a synth-forward record that draws from each of Mortiis’s electronic eras—moving from dungeon scenes to movie screens. Those familiar with Tangerine Dream’s ’80s “soundtrack” era,1 will feel that theatrical presence, in addition to early Enigma, Pink Floyd, and Dead Can Dance, in the windswept, dystopian synthscapes and expansive, Gregorian chant-inspired, Middle Eastern-influenced female wails of Ghosts’ more ambient moments (“Return to the Old Fields,” “Transcending Morpheus,” “Tribes of Dystopia”). When Ghosts of Europa shifts to straightforward, beat-driven electronics (“Ghosts of Europa,” 2 “Violent Silence”) it taps a Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk vein. Still, other Mortiis Era II specters haunt Ghosts’ halls on tracks like “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” an electro-rocker that channels She Wants Revenge and The Cult, just as “Farewell Romero” has a distinct Marilyn Manson feel to its slow, painful burn. Mortiis has reached the peak of his musical prowess, wielding a conductor’s control over his collaborators and delivering one of his most emotive albums.

Heaving with atmosphere, Ghosts of Europa punctuates its vast, sweeping sonicscapes with rich vocal textures and introspective lyrics. From the repetitive refrain “When we all fall down” that dominates the opening title track to the chorus on “The Faith That Fades Away” requesting “Leave me with my sins, leave me with my thoughts,” and on through “Farewell Romero”‘s painful admission “I found a way to kill some of the pain, like a warm and cleansing summer rain,” Ghosts’ lyrics serve as an apology to the relationships Mortiis admittedly damaged along the way.3 And to further execute his no-boundaries vision, Mortiis focused on vocal arrangements in a way he hasn’t on previous efforts, partnering with a cast ranging from Sarah Jezebel Deva (Cradle of Filth) and Illiana Tsakirake (Septicflesh) to Christopher Rakkestad (Elvarhøi, Bolverk) and Skinny Puppy’s Matthew Setzer,4 who join him and, along with a vocoder and some autotune modulation, cement completely the otherworldly experience Ghosts of Europa provides.

Effortlessly flowing and expertly paced, Ghosts of Europa is permeated with a laid-back melancholy, allowing Mortiis to undulate easily between extended ambient moments and more traditional synth-pop. This ebb and flow effectively renders Ghosts of Europa’s fifty-plus-minute runtime into something that feels much shorter. As with any great film, Ghosts of Europa begs to be heard in its linear totality, rather than having any of its constituent parts relegated to a cannibalized playlist, despite some of its more traditional moments being ripe for such compartmentalization. Mortiis has provided an experience akin to getting lost in any of his early, Era I dungeon albums, if that sparks you, but with dialogue and an impactfully matured, image-conjuring vivacity. I repeatedly found myself easily lost in the Neverending Story-like feel of Mortiis’s conjuration, enamored with every moment. My one critique is reserved for the album’s editing, which could easily be attributed to the product of the promo, but rests with the abrupt and awkward resolution of some of the tracks (“The Faith That Fades Away,” “Tundra, Heart of Hell,” and “Farewell, Romero”). Not nearly enough to ruin the experience, but worth mentioning.

I have never felt FOMO for missing out on Mortiis’s back catalog. I’m not particularly fond of dungeon synth as a genre, and took minuscule note of Mortiis’s shift into more traditional territory nearly 26 years ago. I was very drawn, however, to the stark cover art of Ghosts of Europa and the soul-syncing feel of the album’s title track. The door I walked through after listening to the whole thing converted me. Ghosts of Europa has earned my highest rating this year to date, and I can only recommend that you all give it a chance as well.

Rating: 4.0/5.0
DR: 7 | Format Reviewed: 320 kbps mp3
Label: Prophecy Productions
Websites: Bandcamp | Facebook | Webstore
Releases Worldwide: June 26th, 2026

Folklore read live!

Is this the most unlikable protagonist we've read yet?

Decide LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/50bo0YlvfOI

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

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

More adventures in vegan baking! These are Norwegian skoleboller, sweet cardamom spiced yeast dough (LOTS o cardamom) filled with vanilla pudding/custard, glazed with lemon & powdered sugar glazing and sprinkled with coconut shreads.

I was inspired to make them by Megan Kasten (https://www.prairieveganbakingproject.com/) although I didn't use her recipe - thinking about getting her Scandinavian Baking Guide though! Please do check her out.

I used this free recipe instead: https://www.eat-this.org/vegane-skoleboller-norwegische-puddingteilchen/

The glaze still needs to set before I can do a taste test but I have a feeling they will be diviiiiiiine ✨🥹

#vegan #veganbaking #Norwegian #scandinavian #veganBacken #veganrecipe #thelittlethings

—>> #TheLateShow ⦁ Teaser ⦁ #StephenColbert <<—

#Olympic Confessions

#Norwegian #BiAthlete #SturlaHolm
wasn't the only #Olympian to make an ill-timed Confession

#Colbert #Comedy #Humour #Humor
#Pol #Politics #GeoPolitics #WorldNews #News
#AusPol #CdnPoli #EUpol #NZpol #UKpol #USpol
https://youtu.be/RPORXDDX8rs

Another post on #Norwegian #Exlibris on my website https://norsk-exlibris.no/.

This time about #NormandLaheld #OttoWang #PoulFrostHansen and the pleasures of collecting rarities.

I'm currently working on a short piece about #Sandefjord artist Normand Laheld and his exlibris production during the 1940s; to be published in the members' magazine of the German Exlibris Society. Stay tuned!

Monday, December 1, 2025

https://activitypub.writeworks.uk/2025/12/monday-december-1-2025/

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!

Overwhelming Majority – #Norway’s Largest Trade Union Votes for Boycott of Israel

By #PalestineChronicle Staff
May 9, 2025

"The Norwegian Confederation of Trade Unions (LO), the country’s largest labor federation, has voted in favor of a comprehensive boycott of #Israel, including a ban on trade and investment with #Israeli companies.

The decision was passed with an overwhelming 88 percent majority during LO’s national congress, held in the #Norwegian capital, Oslo, from May 8 to 9, the official #Palestinian news agency WAFA reported."

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/overwhelming-majority-norways-largest-trade-union-votes-for-boycott-of-israel/

#BDS #DivestFromIsrael
#PermanentCeasfireNow #EndBlockadeOfGaza #RestoreFundsToUNRWA
#NeverStopTalkingAboutPalestine
#StopArmingIsrael
#SolidarityWithPalestine is #NotAntisemitism
#EqualRightsForAllFromTheRiverToTheSea is #NotAntisemitic
#JewHatredHurtsPalestine
#Gaza #Palestine #MiddleEast #WestAsia
#news #press #politics @palestine @israel

I've promised to myself - and others - that one day I'd write a novel about "The Family".

It would be a work of fiction based off real life and it would be about a loose knit community in #Bergen #Norway, comprised of #hipsters, #hippies, #newagers and #ravers.

They have cost the #Norwegian #welfare system millions - and don't even know it.

I'm not sure if I'm at a point in my life now where I can write about them, but I will be employing my inner #huntersthompson and #williamburroughs.

Better late than never, pt. 2: We have published the (very long) blog post summarising our research seminar in Oslo last April.
👉 Read it on our blog!
https://dsenetwork.hypotheses.org/146

A group of textual scholars & software engineers discussed challenges of #DigitalScholarlyEditions regarding #Sustainability, mainly from a Norwegian perspective.

Headlined by @helling_patrick, we looked at #Coptic #Manuscripts, #Runes in #RelationalDatabases & #XML, #Mycenean #Inscriptions & #Norwegian #ArchivalEditions

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

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

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

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

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

#SuomiMainittu, mutta muusta syystä kuin #hallitus.

Tuttu juttu maailmalle jo tämäkin: #kännissä oleva suomalainen.

#Malaga sta Stadiin matkalla ollut #Norwegian in #lentokone teki #hätälasku n #Kööpenhamina an matkustajan käytöksen takia.

Mies raivosi eikä suostunut pysymään aloillaan, joten hänet sidottiin istuimeensa, mikä ei onnistunut kunnolla, joten muutama matkustaja piteli häntä aloillaan.

Lapsia siirrettiin kauemmaksi raivoajasta.

#känni #alkoholi #humala

https://www.hs.fi/kotimaa/art-2000009761155.html

Folklore read live!

That iconic sorcerer's battle in "Sword in the Stone"?
This is where they got it.

Hear the tale LIVE right NOW: https://youtube.com/live/MtXYZ98rv_8

#FairyTaleTuesday #WritingCommunity #storyteller #FairyTale #AmReading #reading #vancouver #indieWriter #fairy #folklore #folk #tales #stories #German #grimms #GrimmBrothers #dnd #dnd5e #pathfinder #pf2e #ttrpg #fantasy #lotr #disney #norwegian #swordinthestone

#NowPlaying #TheMetalDogIsNowPlaying
#Gluecifer
B-Sides and Rarities (1994-2005)
Desolate City
https://youtube.com/results?search_query=Gluecifer+B-Sides+and+Rarities+(1994-2005)+Desolate+City
https://genius.com/Gluecifer-desolate-city-lyrics
#hardrock #alternativerock #norwegian #rocknroll #zicbouge

Nope, the #Norwegian translation for #unsupported in #GoogleTranslate is still the opposite of what it actually means. 🤦‍♂️

https://mastodon.social/media/GN30ORsRQz7axn8kBFI

#LostInTranslation #TranslationFail #machineTranslation #gTranslate