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THE 12TH MAN

Authors: Astrid Karlsen Scott and Dr. Tore Haug

Though he began his war experience as so many others, Jan Baalsrud did prove himself extraordinary in the face of adversity and became a true hero in Norway. Once he found himself the only survivor of his sabotage mission, Baalsrud set out on a journey that only few could endure. Relentless in the face of every challenge, Baalsrud climbed snow-covered mountains and swam icy fjords, enduring snow blindness and gangrene, never giving up on himself or his determination to help liberate his beloved Norway from the clutches of Germany.

CHILDREN OF ASH AND ELM

A History of the Vikings

AUTHOR: Neil Price

Based on the latest archaeological and textual evidence; Children of Ash and Elm tells the story of the vikings on their own terms: their politics, their cosmology and religion, their material world. Known today for a stereotype of maritime violence, the Vikings exported new ideas, technologies, beliefs, and practices to the lands they discovered and the peoples they encountered, and in the process were themselves changed. From Eirik Bloodaxe, who fought his way to a kingdom to Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the most travelled woman in the world, Children of Ash and Elm is the definitive history of the Vikings and their time.

FROM FJORDS TO FRONTIERS

A History of the Norwegians in Canada

Author: Gulbrand Loken

This is the story of people who sought to escape poverty in Norway by seeking better opportunities in the New World. In the nineteenth century, the United States received nearly all the immigrants from Norway. However, as the frontier receded in the United States, Canada eventually became “the land of another chance”. Under the progressive policies of Sir Wilfred Laurier and his aggressive Minister of the Interior, Clifford Sifton, Norwegians were attracted to Canada.

The first to come were largely an overflow from the United States, people with some resources already schooled in “sod-busting” and other related frontier skills. After 1900 many others came to Canada directly from Norway with both groups settling mainly in the West.

VIKINGS

Author: Howard La Fay

National Geographic Society

“From the fury of the Northmen deliver us, O Lord!” Thus western Christians prayed during more than 250 years of Viking terror. The long night of violence began late in the eighth century, when Scandinavians fell upon the holy English Isle of Lindisfarne, where they pillaged its church and “poured out the blood of saints around the alter.

THE HISTORY OF NORWAY

Authors: Ovine Stenersen and Ivar Libæ

This book is written for all those who want to know more about the country’s history. A lavishly illustrated, single volume work that gives a comprehensive picture of cultural and social development in Norway – from the time man first began to affect the country almost 12,00 years ago right up to the present. The juxtaposition of text, maps, illustrations and captions provides the reader with variety insight and the opportunity to delve into things more deeply.

VIKINGS – RAIDERS FROM THE NORTH

Time Life Books Lost Civilizations

Under a glowering sky, sunlight reflects off the Nord Fjord, one of the major fjords cutting deep into Norway’s rocky western coast. From sheltered spots like this Viking raiders and merchants sailed forth into world — “the blue water, smitten by many oars, foaming far and wide, “ as one 11th century author put it – and altered the course of European history.

NORWAY – PICTURES & FACTS

Printed in Norway in 1968

Norway is in many ways a geographical anomaly: how, one might ask, can 3.7 million people live so near the North Pole, and, what is still more remarkable, enjoy such a high standard of living in a country which at first sight, as observed, for instance, from the seat of an airline appears to be a vast wilderness scarred with mountain and fjord?

FACTS ABOUT NORWAY

11th Edition

Printed 1970

14th Edition

Printed 1973

YES, WE LOVE THIS LAND

Author: Astrid Karlsen Scott

Commemorating Norway’s 100th Anniversary

STAVANGER ROGALAND

A book of beautiful photographs of Stavanger.

EKTE NORSK JUL

TRADITIONAL NORWEGIAN CHRISTMAS FOODS

Author: Astrid Karlsen Scott

With this book you can now enjoy the Norwegian Christmas Food customs celebrated in the Kingdom of Norway. Included are recipes for various meat dishes, fish, sandwich spreads, beverages, breads, cookies, cakes, lefser, desserts and candies. All recipes are authentic, time proven, and cherished by the Norwegians. Since early times Norwegians have been diligent in the preparations of foods and drinks for the Christmas Celebration.

BERGSTADEN RØROS NORWAY

Author: Harald Kallestad

There is great interest in the mining town of Røros, its unique environment and history – even abroad. Tourists come to Røros from all parts of the world, – artists find inspiration and rest in these tranquil regions. Through the epic writing of Johan Falkberget, the town of Røros has become well known to thousands of people from all walks of life.

NORWEGIAN BUNADS

English edition by Bent Vanbert

Norwegian text by Kjersti Skavhaug

The word bunad simply means clothes. But in everyday Norwegian language a bunad is a festive costume tied to a specific area and with ancient traditions behind it.

STUTTHOF DIARIES COLLECTION

FOR TRUTH & HONOR

Author: Tore Jørgensen

In the early days of World War II, as Nazi Germany brutally invaded and occupied neighbouring countries around Europe, hundreds of Norwegian police officers were commanded to carry out the orders of the Nazi occupiers of their homeland – Norway. They refused. Even under the threat of death, they refused. Their refusal lead to imprisonment and their removal from Norway ultimately to KZ-Stutthof in eastern Poland, where an elaborate network of concentration and death camps had been created mainly for Jews and Poles. Author Tore Jørgensen’s father was one of those policemen.

SCANDINAVIAN CONNECTIONS

Published by: The Scandinavian Trade & Cultural Society, Edmonton, Alberta

A guide to sites in Alberta.

SCANDINAVIAN PAINTED DECOR

Author: Jocasta Innes

Jocasta Innes, internationally known for her writings on painted decoration, explores the rich Scandinavian heritage of painted wood decor. From the wooden stave churches of Norway and the vigorous and colourful folk art of isolated rural communities to the splendour of eighteenth-century Swedish palaces, Scandinavians showed a distinctive and extraordinary sense of colour in all things from a ballroom to a biscuit box.

THE ELF BOOK

Author: Rolf Lidberg

TROLL

Author: Rolf Lidberg

The Original Book of Norwegian Trolls

THE TROLLS GO FISHING

Author: Rolf Lidberg

KINGDOM OF THE RINGS

Author: Duane R. Lindberg, PHD

Ringerike (Kingdom of the Rings) and Ringsaker (Field of Rings) are ancient (Pre-Viking) kingdoms in Norway set along the “Pilgrims’ Way”(pilegrimsleden) to where the healing springs formed from the grave of martyred King St. Olaf. This story is built around three interlocking golden rings discovered in the Magi’s gift to the Christ Child. The Rings are handed down through the centuries until they reappear in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in the possession of two Norwegian families and a family descended from Egyptian Mamelukes.

NORWAY

Eyewitness Travel Guides

COMPLETING THE CIRCLE DVD

Parks Canada

More than a thousand years ago Vikings established a base camp at L’Anse aux Meadows, at the northern tip of Newfoundland. This 16-minute video introduces their story.

ENGLISH-NORWEGIAN NORWEGIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY

By: Hippocrene Books

NORWEGIAN FOR TRAVELLERS

By: Berlitz

IN MY FATHER’S FOOTSTEPS – 75 YEARS LATER

Author: Harald Skretting

The first Norwegians to receive land grants in the newly opened province of Alberta were Hans Skretting from Skretting in Varhaug and Enevald Herredsvela from Herredsvela in Ogna in the year 1905. After a visit home to Norway in 1911, Hans Skretting along with his wife Inger took with them 28 emigrants from Varhaug and Vigrestad back to Canada and many followed later. This wave of emigration from Varhaug to Canada was the largest contribution from Hå Community in American immigration history.

NORGE

Author: Normanns Kunstrforlag

Norway constitutes the northwestern flank of the Scandinavian peninsula; in the east it is bordered by Sweden, Finland, and the Soviet Union.

From the coast in the west deep fjords cleave their way inland, while the hinterland is broken up by U-shaped valleys gouged out by glaciers thousands of years ago.