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Language and Literature : Norway

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Bergen Guide. A Small Country with Two Written Languages (http://www.bergen-guide.com/405.htm)
Article by Norwegian scholar Eyvind Fjeld Halvorsen about why his country has two official languages--Bokmål and Nynorsk.

Centre for Ibsen Studies (http://www.hf.uio.no/ibsensenteret/index_eng.html)
Information about Ibsen's life and works, and about the Centre's collections, activities, education, and research. Also includes an extensive list of links to other Ibsen sites, some of which provide access to Ibsen texts in electronic form. In English, Norwegian, and other languages. From the University of Oslo.

Document Archive (http://www.regjeringen.no/nb/dokumentarkiv.html?id=115322)
Press releases, speeches, and other government documents published in different government periods. Searchable. Odin has a number of articles about Norwegian literature. In Norwegian, some English.

Ethnologue: Languages of Norway (http://www.ethnologue.com/show_country.asp?name=NO)
Information on living languages in Norway and their populations as well as a language map.

Nordland: A Knut Hamsun Resource Page (http://members.aol.com/wpwinter/hamsun/)
A metasite devoted to Knut Hamsun with links to many sites concerned with this controversial author and electronic versions of Hamsun's works. Introductory page in English, some books with English translations, and links to resources in Norwegian and English.

Project Runeberg (http://runeberg.org)
Web site of the Swedish endeavor that has put more than 400 Scandinavian books online, some of which are in Norwegian. Links to catalog. Searchable. In English and Swedish.

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