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The essentials of Norway in eight welcoming questions. You don't need to be an expert: everyone can play along and learn something new.
Northern newcomer 0–3 · Coastal explorer 4–6 · Truly at home in Norway 7–8
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Norway's flag shows a dark blue cross with a white border on a red background, and it was designed in 1821. Its cross is a Nordic cross, like those on the flags of Denmark and Sweden, with the upright bar moved towards the flagpole.
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Fjords were carved out by glaciers during the ice ages and later filled by the sea, and Norway has nearly 1,200 of them. The longest, the Sognefjord, reaches about 200 km inland, between cliffs that rise as much as 1,000 metres almost straight out of the water.
Photo: en:User:Worldtraveller, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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The Vikings came from Norway, Denmark and Sweden and sailed as far as North America and the Middle East to trade, raid and settle. The Oseberg ship, a beautifully carved Viking ship about 1,200 years old, was dug out of a big mound of earth on a Norwegian farm in 1904. And despite what cartoons show, there is no evidence that Viking warriors wore horned helmets.
Photo: Petter Ulleland, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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Norway's national day is famous for not being a military celebration: instead, every school district holds a children's parade with marching bands and lots of little flags. The first children's parades were for boys only, and girls joined in for the first time in 1899. The day is full of hot dogs, waffles and ice cream.
Photo: evelinagustafsson@live.se, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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In the late 1960s, Norwegians began raising salmon in floating net pens in the sea, and today Norway produces more than half of the world's farmed Atlantic salmon. Raw salmon only became a sushi topping in Japan in the late 1980s, when parasite-free Norwegian salmon arrived there.
Photo: User:Wolfgang Striewski, Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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It comes from the Old Norse word 'skíð', meaning a split piece of wood, and English and French still use the Norwegian spelling. Norway has also won more medals at the Winter Olympics than any other country, many of them in cross-country skiing.
Photo: Erik W. Kolstad, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.
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Three billy goats, all called Gruff, want to cross the bridge to reach a mountain meadow full of grass, and they must outsmart the greedy troll to get there. The tale was written down in the 1840s by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe, who collected Norwegian folk tales, and first appeared in English in 1859.
Photo: White House photo by Susan Sterner ., Wikimedia Commons, Public domain.
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Svalbard lies about halfway between mainland Norway and the North Pole, and it is home to polar bears, reindeer and Arctic foxes. Penguins live almost only in the southern half of the world, and under its thick fur a polar bear has black skin that helps it soak up warmth.
Photo: Alan Wilson, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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