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Oh, good question!
I know a fair amount about the country's mythological background, some words and expressions, since I have friends who study Norwegian; I know Sigrid Undset and I've read some of her works (we share the name, too)...and Henrik Ibsen and Knut Hamsun are other famous authors...
Hmm...I've once tasted brunost, it wasn't bad...and I've recently read something (rather funny) about lutefisk, but I haven't tried it.
There are two forms of written Norwegian...there are plenty of wonderful fjords, I think everyone knows that!
Then there is a Kven minority that speaks a Finno-Ugric language.
Oh, let's not forget the black metal bands.
Well, that's my two pennies worth...a bit incoherent.

oh my, a typo! "a friend who studies"
sorry!

Well, I know the nature is incredible (mountains, fjords and all that). A lot of evil, evil, EVIL black metal bands hail from there, and some not so evil but still enjoyable. It's one of the countries with the highest living standard in the world, and is NOT in the European Union (which tells a lot). Small population, I think not much happens there since your online newspapers write about road accidents involving elk.
Oh, and let's not forget Vikings.

There might be other things, but these came first to mind. I still envy you for getting to see the Northern Lights, and more snow overall

Fjords, cruises, mythic land of the Norse. A democratic/ parliamentary monarchy.. Capitol- Oslo... One of the countries I want visit before I die..

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I know that you & Bente live there!
Actually I know a fair bit more, but less than I probably should.

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Small population, small area (although bigger than the UK), very long from South to North. Quite mountainous with some glaciers and a small icecap, but those are disappearing rapidly. Remarkably warm in the North, considering how far North it is - a consequence of the North Atlantic warm current (Gulf Stream). Coastline deeply incised with fjords occuping former glacial valleys, which extend far below the current sea level in many cases, due to rising sea level and the fact that glaciers can extend below sea level anyway, due to the weight of ice above sea level at the time.

Capital: Oslo. Other large towns: Bergen, Trondheim, Stavanger, Kristiansand.

Northernmost point: Nordkapp, a long way north of the Arctic Circle. Last port on the coastal ferry (Hurtigruten, the "fast route"): Kirkenes, close to the Russian border.

Land borders with Russia, Sweden and Finland. Short ferry crossing (possibly now a bridge, I forget) to Denmark. Lots of islands, notably the island chain of the Lofotens, extending west and a little southwards from near Narvik.

I could go on - and I've not even been there since 1973, although I am visiting again this August!

"A-HA" and Edvard Grieg, Ludvig Holberg and Henrik Ibsen, Gustav Vigeland and Christopher Hansteen, Roald Amundsen and Thor Heyerdahl, Sonja Henie and Liv Ullmann, Trygve Lie and Vidkun Quisling, Vikings, Narvik, NorthKapp, and a lot of other things. "The Land Of Midnight Sun".

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Hallo kjære venn! I'm back... sort of.

Great post this... and I'm impressed by the replies. People here seem to know quite a bit about Norway. Good!

(Now, let's hope they won't ask us about their countries...)

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You got a great Black Metal scene, lots of oil and wondefful landscapes... That's all I know, am I right?

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You are right about the oil and landscapes, I don't know about the Black Metal thing

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