A Norwegian NATO Parliamentary delegation toured U.S. defense sites in Arizona and Minnesota, highlighting F-35 training, ...

Fifteen years after the terrorist attacks of July 22, 2011, Norway is marking the anniversary with remembrance, reflection, and renewed calls to defend democracy against hatred and extremism. On that ...

15 years after the July 22, 2011 terror attacks, Norway commemorates the 77 victims with memorials, survivor stories, and renewed calls to defend democracy, counter ...

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, ...

When Stacy and Chad Smith decided to renew their marriage vows after 10 years, they wanted to do something special. Stacy remembered her beloved aunt, Enid Ringdahl, who has a small private chapel, a ...

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.

Neanderthal humans (Homo neanderthalensis) are documented in European contexts for around 430,000 years, according to new studies. The accepted genomic contribution of Neanderthal DNA in modern Homo ...

Evidence indicates that along the coast of Norway, people in olden times engaged in primitive whaling, using rowboats and spears. Later, during the age of sailing, from 1600 to about 1800, the Dutch, ...

The nisse of Norway was discovered in the mid-1800s, but it is unusual to actually see the nisse. Small children and animals are the only beings that are able see him. The farms and households that ...

I was looking through pictures of my grandparents and other Norwegian relatives in the United States and found very few with people smiling. Those who are smiling clearly did so only on the ...

The farm sprite, later known as nisse, has a long history in Norse tradition. The oldest witness is found in the 12th-century Saga of Olaf Trygvason. In 981 A.D., an old Icelander reminds his ...

Journey to Norway’s dramatic west coast, where steep, jagged mountains cradle charming villages, and clear streams and lakes wind through the landscape. It was here, in 1879, that Peder Jepsen ...