Norway and Oslo

Written by: Franka, Marie og Rakel

Norway and Oslo- geografi

You can find Norway on the north part of the Scandinavian eye land. Our neighbour countries are Sweden, Finland and Russia. Norway is surrounded by ocean; we have the second longest coast in the world (after Canada). Our coast is 102 936 kilometres long. If you drag Norway’s coast around the world, you would be able to drag it 2 and a half time around the world. Norway is parted in five regions, østlandet, sørlandet, vestlandet, trøndelag and nord- norge.

Norway in square kilometres: 385 2017 square kilometres

Oslo:

The capital in Norway is Oslo. This is the largest city in Oslo in square kilometres. Oslo has a very variated climate. We have everything from shopping malls to our beautiful forests. Oslo is known for “nordmarka”. Nordmarka is a huge forest area. If you want to go for a Sunday walk in beautiful surroundings, this is were to go. But if you want to go to a restaurant or if you want to go shopping with your friends, I would have taken the trip to Majorstuen.

Oslo in square kilometres: 480,76 square kilometres         Written by: Rakel

Sources:

Norges geografi,2020:  https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_geografi,16.01.20

Nordmarka, 2019: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nordmarka, 16.01.20

Norges kyst, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_geografi, 16.01.20

Sports:

Most Norwegian people is very active. We love our beautiful mountains and wonderful nature and we love to take a walk, in beautiful surroundings. It’s a saying “Norwegians are born with skies on their feet”. And even though it’s not true I believe there’s some truth in it, because most Norwegians love to go skiing. We do a lot of different sports in Norway such as football, skiing, down hill skiing, handball and athletics. Norway was crowned as the best sport nation in 2018. One of the sports were especially good at is skiing. We have a lot of skiing stars is Norway for instant Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, Therese Johaug and Heidi Weng. Therese Johaug (31) has won 62 gold medals in the world cup, and Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (23) has won 32 gold medals in the world cup.

 Therese Johaug Johannes Høsflot Klæbo

Norway is also very good at playing handball. And the lady’s national team have won 27 medals in total (since 1946), 12 gold medals, 9 silver and 6 bronze in Olympian championships, World championships and European championships. The coach, Thorir Hergeirsson is from Island and have been their coach since 2009. The team captain is Stine Bredal Oftedal and she plays for the club Gyor.

The men’s national team have won 2 medals in World championships, European championships and Olympian championships, and both were silver medals. Their coach is Christian Berge.

Hanballteam (ladies)

Handballteam (men)

Even though football is Norway’s most popular sport were not very good at it. And we haven’t won a lot. But we have one of the best female football players in the world, Ada Hegeberg. Ada Hegeberg won the “ballon d´or” in 2018. She was the first women to win this price.

Ada Hegeberg

Norway is also very proud of the three athletic- stars Henrik Ingebritsen (28 years), Filip Ingebritsen (26) and Jakob Ingebritsen (19). They are brothers and all of them are some of the best runners in the world. Jakob has won 14 gold medals in total; Filip has won 9 gold medals and Henrik has won 2 gold medals. Henrik is one of the best European athletics at middle-distance runs and he has been, through his whole career. Filip has the European record on 1500 meters and had the Norwegian record on the same distance, but then his brother, Jakob, crushed his Norwegian record, but not the European one. His time was 3:36.21, and that was a new Norwegian and Nordic record. They have now made a TV- series about the brothers and their life.       The Ingebritsen- brothers

Written by: Rakel

Sources:

Therese Johaug, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therese_Johaug, 23.01.2020

Johannes Høsflot Klæbo, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johannes_H%C3%B8sflot_Kl%C3%A6bo, 23.01.20

Idrett i Norge, Geir Thorsnæs, 2019: https://snl.no/Idrett_i_Norge, 16.01.20

Norges kvinnelandslag i håndball, 2019: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_kvinnelandslag_i_h%C3%A5ndball: 16.01.20

Thorir Hergeirsson, 2018: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%9E%C3%B3rir_Hergeirsson, 16.01,20

Stine Bredal Oftedal, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stine_Bredal_Oftedal, 16.01.20

Norges Herrelandslag i håndball, 2020, https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norges_herrelandslag_i_h%C3%A5ndball, 16.01.20

Ada Hegerberg, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Hegerberg, 16.01.20

Fotball i Norge, 2019: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fotball_i_Norge, 16.01.19

Jakob Ingebritsen, 2020: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jakob_Ingebrigtsen, 23.01.20

Filip Ingebritsen, 2019: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filip_Ingebrigtsen, 23.01.20

Henrik Ingebritsen, 2019: https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henrik_Ingebrigtsen, 23.01.20

Inventions

Ostehøvel/ cheeseslicer

The first invention is an ostehøvel which is used to slice cheese into thin layers. 

You can find one in every home because Norwegians need this tool a lot. It is used for almost every cheese and is very handy. The man who invented this is called Thor bjørkelund from Lillehammer in 1925 and in stores and production in 1927.  

Cheese-slicer

Trip- trap chair

It is a popular invention that almost everybody has or has had for their children you can almost get it in every store and especially IKEA. The man who invented this fantastic invention is called Peter Opsvik and it is prodused by a group called stokke gruppen. Look here are some pictures   

Fun fact: you can altso ajust them so that adults can sit on them. 

Written by: Franka

Norwegian mountains, valleys and landmarks 

Norway is known for its beautiful landscape; we have tall mountains and deep valleys. People from all around the world comes to walk our mountain trails and climb the steep mountain sides.  

In the summer people come with Cruise ships from our capital Oslo to small, but famous villages on the other side of Norway! Tourists go on this journey because these valleys are known for beautiful landscape. An example of this is the valley Geiranger. Cruise ships travel there, and normally stay overnight. 

Norway has a lot of mountains, and tourists love to take long trips up to these tops for both the view and exercise. One of the walks that often come to mind is preikestolen. Preikestolen is a viewing point that has so steep sides you have to lay down on your stomach to look down. 

Norway’s tallest mountain is called Galdhøpiggen and is 2468 m tall over the seas.

Written by:Marie 

Norwegian traditions 

Norway has through the years developed different traditions and manners that may be weird or surprising to the rest of the world, here are some of them: 

17th of May 

Norway`s national day is 17th of May. Children walk in different parades round the capital of Norway waving with the Norwegian flag and singing songs. The Norwegian “bunad” is a traditional outfit worn on special occasions such as confirmations, birthday’s, Christmas and 17th of May. Many Norwegians spend as much as 50 000 NOK (around 5000 dollars) on these suits. They are usually gifted to a person when they are 14 years old, to wear on their confirmation day. 

Russ 

“Russ” is a commonly known term for almost all Norwegian people. Russ is all the students that are graduating from high school driving around a bus from the 1st of May to 17th of May, partying before the exam period. They wear the same pair of normally red dungarees for the whole month and are not supposed to wash them. They have their own paper card with their name and picture printed on it called “russekort”, kids collect these cards throughout the whole month and see who got the most cards in the end.  

The 17th of May all of the Russ gather and walk around Oslo in a parade throwing away what is left of their russekort on the ground. 

Written by: Marie 

We have many attractions in Norway the most famous are out of Oslo but we are going too start in Oslo today. 

1. The first one is a park called frogneparken it is a huuge park with stone statues and a big playground. This is a very cool tourist attraction at even Norwegians come here often to either ride a bike or walk through the park. People with small kids come here often to play at the playground. 

Here is video of frognerparken 

Frogneparken tour:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0lqt5pMwYM  

2.Another thing you can do is travel north and see the northern lights they are very beautiful. 

They are lights in the sky that have blue shimmery effect. Sadly, you can only see them by the polar circle. They come when the electrons and protons from the sun get thrown to the earth and they collide with atmospheric gas and then the light comes about between 80 kilometres also but rarely over 500 kilometres above earth surface. The northern lights can come in all sorts of colours from ultraviolet too infrared the colour depends on how the energy level in the particles and the composition of the atmospheric gas. The most common colours are green, red, and blue. 

3.One very attractive place is called holmenkollen it’s a very popular skihopp, it was built in 1892 and is one of the oldest skihopp still in use. It was used in the 1952 olympic games. Then again in word cup in 1930,1966,1982 and 2011 again it is still in use. If you go to the bottom of the skihopp there is a museum which inside, you can find all the history of holmekollen and info about skiers. 

Here is a video of holmenkollen it is in Norwegians, but you can just look at the pictures.  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspobqQWj 

4. The opera is also a famous attraction. It is locaded  in Oslo. The project was first started in 2003 and then opened in 2008 so it is only 12 years old, but the idea came in 1917. And in 1999 the parlament said it should stand in Bjørkvika. By the first year jubelium on 12. April 2009 there were 1,3 million people came to the opera this made Oslo the most visited tourist goal in 2009. The house has gotten many prizes over the years.  

5.Nidarsdomen is a very famous Church it is most famous for that king olav is buried there, at least some People say that. This is where the king or queen gets crowned. Now it is not a crowning place anymore. now it is a tourist attraction in Trondheim. Its Norway’s most central church. It has also survived a couple of big fires through the years. 

Written by: Franka

Famous people from Norway

Astrid S:

Astrid S is a well-known singer in Norway. And she has cooperated with Shawn Mendes at his debut- album “Handwritten”, which topped the Billboard- lists in 2015.

Astrid started playing music and sing when she was six years old. In 2013 she participated in the Norwegian song contest “Idol”. She got fifth place. In 2013 (the same year) she got nominated to the year’s newcomer. She sang the back- vocal on Katy Perrys “Hey, hey, hey” in 2015. She has also made a lot of song by herself, as for instant “Paper thin” and “Hurt so good”.

AURORA (songwriter)

Aurora Aksnes is a Norwegian artist and songwriter. She has sung on the song from Frozen 2 “Into the unknown” together with India Mendzel. And they performed it on the 72- Oscar- nomination 02. February. She has won a lot of Norwegian music awards as for instant “Spellemansprisen”

CECILIA Brækhus:
Cecilia Brækhus is a Norwegian boxer. She has won everything she has participated in. She is the first female boxer who has all the different boxing belts. And she has taken 35 victories and hasn’t lost once.

Ole Gunnar Solskjær

Ole Gunnar Solskjær is a Norwegian football trainer, but he is currently the trainer of the English football-team Manchester united. He has been Manchester united trainer since 2018. He was going to be temporary, but now he is their trainer. He played for Manchester united from 1969 to 1997 as a football player. He was a football player before he started with coaching in 2008.

Written by: Rakel

Ten best places to visit in Norway

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXyy7lgDj9k

Food traditions 

Some of Norway’s food traditions involve a lot of fish. One of our main fish dishes is “lutefisk”, this course is made from an aged stockfish or a dried and salted whitefish and lye. It is made a very traditional way and the finished results leaves us with a gelatinous-like texture. 

When Christmas season comes around Norwegian people buy a traditional flatbread called “lefse”. It is usually a common side dish to see on the table on Christmas or New Year’s Eve, some people also have it at their wedding. The batter is made from flour, potatoes, butter and milk, the toppings may vary from different places and different times. 

“Fårikål” is Norway’s national food-dish, it is typically cooked around atum and is made from mutton or lamb. The taste is very subtle and mixes well together with the potatoes and carrots. “Fårikål” is a popular air food or cruise food. 

After the Christmas dinner most, Norwegian citizens start of the night with the famous “krumkake”. The dessert cookie made from butter, eggs, sugar and flour is often stuffed with jam, chocolate, cream and something called “multekrem”. You can also find yourself enjoying a delicious krumkake at a party or brunch. 

Very similar to meatballs, “kjøttkaker” is a common dinner served with brown sauce, potatoes and carrots. It is a very simple Norwegian dish, but it is very delicious. 

You can eat salmon in many was either cooked, fried or smoked. One of the most popular ways of preparing salmon in Norway is “gravlaks” which is smoked salmon that has been marinated. It is usually served with potatoes, vegetables and some sauce. 

Fårikål

Written by: Marie

The Royal Family 

In Norway we still have a king and queen and a royal family, but the government and the prime minister Erna Solberg are the ones who decide and run the country. They just have to approve important decisions the government makes. 

The main royal family consists of the king H.M king Harald and the queen H.M queen Sonja and then the son of the king and queen crown prince Haakon is married with crown princess Mette Marit and they have three kids princess Ingrid Alexandra and prince Sverre Magnus and prince Marius. Crown prince Haakon has a sister princess Märtha Louise and she has 3 kids. 

Written by: Franka