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This week I went to the funeral of a woman I worked with in London. Her husband was...
Takras
Ok, so I was in the Sound of Mu, opening the bar for the day. Petter was there,...
Snø
O snow, thou art warm. Someone said to me that the bleak, depressing part of winter is not...
VÃ¥r Frelsers Gravlund
("Our Saviour's Graveyard"). This graveyard, established in 1808, is Oslo's most famous cemetery, and many of the great...
Back to Norway
Yes, "Back to Norway!" as Klaus Dinger from Neu! so memorably hollered in song. I've been out of...
Sound of Mu
Our story begins in 1864. Diego de Landa, Bishop of Yucatán, Mexico, publishes an alphabet that can be...
The Online Norgesvenner Museum
Let me begin with the question: why am I living here in cold, expensive Norway? Unlike almost all...
When Will There Be a Requiem for Radioactive Toothbrushes?
This is Torbjorn Davidsen: artist, actor, protestor, Nordmann, but most of all a father. On the day that...
Egedius
This painting, Spill og dans (Play and Dance), depicting a fiddler and a dancer, hangs in the same...
Krohg
In the mid-nineteenth century, European art and literature moved away from the idealistic drama of Romanticism, and Realism...