Every fourth inhabitant of Norway was a slave, or thrall, in the Viking Age, according to Jón Viðar Sigurðsson, a professor at the University of Oslo. These were women and men who had been captured by ...
A coin and a brooch with textile fragments. These were the items the metal detector enthusiasts found when they searched the Skumsnes farm in Fitjar on the west coast of Norway last year. Now, ...
“No thanks,” Belgians say in unison. Belgians buy only four plastic bags at the store a year. Norwegians rank among the countries with the highest consumption of plastic bags in Europe. But now the EU ...
Norway now has three times as much forest as it did before World War Two. The volume of growth this year will be the equivalent of nearly 100 sacks of firewood per Norwegian. Burning wood or biofuels ...