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

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

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

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Nordic music strongly reflects the seasons, as life is shaped by the long winter and the longing for spring. Quiet, loneliness, and isolation are frequent themes. With the long winter we have all ...

Following in the footsteps of its resourceful founders, today’s Lindsborg, Kan., artfully blends old traditions with the forces of modern life. Settled by Swedish immigrants in the 1860s, nestled in ...

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, ...

For over 48 years, her life and death have remained a mystery. Isdalskvinnen, the “Isdal Woman” or the “Woman from Ice Valley,” is one of the most famous unsolved cases in recent Norwegian history.

There was once a woman in a U.S. president’s life. But not just any woman: a Norwegian princess. The princess was Crown Princess Märtha of Norway, and the president was President Franklin D. Roosevelt ...

Spring is officially here with the rhubarb harvest. I’ve been a rhubarb enthusiast since I was a kid, and my love for the vegetable grows stronger by the year. Rhubarb was the first thing I planted ...

In her time, she was loved in her own country of Denmark. Today, almost half a century after her death in 1976, her work has seen an upsurge of interest, at home and abroad. Internationally her ...

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 ...