Norwegian literature

written works from Norway in any language

Norwegian educational text for a future king from c. 1250

Norwegian literary society

literary society for Norwegian students in Copenhagen, active from 1772 to 1813

"Draumkvedet" (; NMB 54, TSB B 31) is a Norwegian visionary poem, probably dated from the late medieval age. It is one of the best known medieval ballads in Norway. The first written versions are from Lårdal Municipality and Kviteseid Municipality in Telemark in the 1840s.

prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian

Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia

Four influential Norwegian writers

late Mediaeval book of stories in Old Norse

Strengleikar (English: Stringed Instruments) is a collection of twenty-one Old Norse prose tales based on the Old French Lais of Marie de France. It is one of the literary works commissioned by King Haakon IV of Norway (r. 1217-1263) for the Norwegian court, and is counted among the Old Norse Chivalric sagas. The collection is anonymous. It has been attributed to Brother Robert, a cleric who adapted several French works into Norse under Haakon, the best known of which is Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar (a Norse version of the Tristan and Iseult legend), but there is also reason to think that the col