Eivind Josef Berggrav was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop. As primate of the Church of Norway, Berggrav became known for his unyielding resistance against the Nazi occupation of Norway during World War II. Berggrav also became an important figure in 20th-century ecumenical movement and served as president of the United Bible Societies.
Dag og Tid is a national weekly newspaper in Norway that uses the Nynorsk standard of the Norwegian language.
Bernt Torvild Oftestad is a Norwegian historian.
Knut Helle was a Norwegian historian. A professor at the University of Bergen from 1973 to 2000, he specialized in the late medieval history of Norway. He has contributed to several large works.
Fredrik Ramm was a Norwegian journalist.
Alfred Hauge was a Norwegian educator, journalist, novelist, poet and historian. He wrote extensively about life on the Ryfylke islands and about Norwegian-American emigration.
Ronald Fangen was a Norwegian novelist, essayist, playwright, psalmist, journalist and literary critic.
Events in the year 1894 in Norway.
Paulus Svendsen was a Norwegian professor and literary historian. He is mainly remembered for his biographies of notable thinkers of Western philosophy.
Tidens Tegn is a former Norwegian newspaper, issued in Oslo from 1910 to 1941.
Harry Fett was a Norwegian art historian and factory owner. He headed the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage from 1913 to 1946.
Daniel Smith Thrap was a Norwegian priest, historian and author.
Christopher Arndt Bruun was a Norwegian priest and educator.
Hans Tambs Lyche was a Norwegian engineer, unitarian minister, journalist and magazine editor.
Ukens Revy was a Norwegian periodical, published in Oslo.
Erling Viksjø was a Norwegian architect. Viksjø was an early exponent of architectural modernism. He was also noted for his use of textured concrete as a building material in a number of his designs.
Sjur Bygd was a Norwegian novelist, farmer and local politician. He was born in Vossestrand, a son of farmer and mayor Eirik Torsteinson Bygd and Ingebjørg Sjursdotter. He made his literary début in 1915, with the short-story collection Fjell-folk. Among his early novels are Holmgang from 1917 and Valplassen from 1921. Bygd and his literary work was portrayed in the periodical Kirke og Kultur in 1928, and in Syn og Segn in 1941. He served as mayor in Vossestrand from 1926 to 1934. He was awarded the King's Medal of Merit in 1976.
Landstads reviderte salmebok was a hymnal authorized for public worship in Norway under the royal resolutions of October 9, 1920 and February 15, 1924. The book was the Church of Norway's official hymnal until 1985, together with Nynorsk salmebok.
Kingo's hymnal, officially titled Dend Forordnede Ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog, is a hymnal that was approved by royal decree for use in all churches in Denmark–Norway in 1699. The contains 86 hymns by the bishop of Odense, Thomas Kingo. It also bears Kingo's name on the title page because the selection was made based on a hymnal that Kingo had edited ten years earlier.
Svatsum Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Gausdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Svatsum. It is the church for the Svatsum parish which is part of the Sør-Gudbrandsdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, wooden church was built in a octagonal design in 1860 using plans drawn up by the architect Otto Hjort Friis. The church seats about 250 people.
