Category
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Norwegian literature
written works from Norway in any language
Konungs skuggsjá
Norwegian educational text for a future king from c. 1250
Norwegian Academy
Norwegian literary society
Det Norske Selskab
literary society for Norwegian students in Copenhagen, active from 1772 to 1813
Draumkvedet
"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.
Tarjei Vesaas' debutantpris
prize awarded annually for the best first literary work in Norwegian
Modern Breakthrough
Movement of naturalism and debating literature in Scandinavia
The Four Greats
Four influential Norwegian writers

Saga of Harald Fairhair
late Mediaeval book of stories in Old Norse

Strengleikar
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