Please join Dr. Andrew Nestingen for “Nordic Noir: Past and Present” on February 26, 2025 at 1:00 p.m. in Jackson… Read more Nordic Noir Event!
Tag: Nordic Arts and Letters
Jeg er så glad hver julekveld/I am so glad each Christmas Eve
This Norwegian carol is a favorite from my childhood, when I would visit my friends’ Lutheran church each Christmas Eve… Read more Jeg er så glad hver julekveld/I am so glad each Christmas Eve
How an artist transforms trash to Scandinavian stars
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Rosemaling
Merriam-Webster defines rosemaling as “painted or sometimes carved decoration (as on furniture, walls, or wooden dinnerware) in Scandinavian peasant style… Read more Rosemaling
Hans Dahl
Learn about Norwegian Romantic painter Hans Dahl.
From Rättvik to Isanti County
by Karl Nelson A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience of a Swedish Immigrant Settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915 by… Read more From Rättvik to Isanti County
Who Killed Nordic Noir?
by Charlie Tyson We begin, as usual, with a dead body. In April 2020 an 84-year-old Swedish woman died in… Read more Who Killed Nordic Noir?
JOHAN GUDMUNDSEN-HOLMGREEN, LAESENDE LILLE PIGE, 1900
Viking Runes
East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne) – A Norwegian Fairy Tale
Once on a time there was a poor husbandman who had so many children that he hadn’t much of either… Read more East of the Sun and West of the Moon (Østenfor sol og vestenfor måne) – A Norwegian Fairy Tale