A young vocalist, poet, musician, and songwriter from Bergen, the most beautiful city in Norway. His music is marked by, quite common for people from the west region here, the burr (skarre-r in Norwegian). If you want to know what exactly is this burr, you need to check out his music.
Tag: norwegian
Tarjei Vesaas – the genius of modernism.
The author of The Birds (Fuglane) and The Ice Palace (Is-slottet) is mostly known for his novels. However, not only he wrote novels, but also multitude of poems, such us Regn i Hiroshima, and Det ror og ror, whereas I translated myself the first one.
The mysterious stone translation.
Remeber when I wrote about finding the weird statue or stone thing on little island in Hamar? If you haven’t read that, here’s link. As I promised, I will put the translation of the poem that’s on it, and all the information that I could gather about it. Enjoy!
My opinion on Norway after 6 months.
Usually when you move into another country, you have those assumptions and stereotypes in your head, which don’t really come out to be exactly true after few months of living there. Here’s what I came to, after six months of residing in Hamar (as a student).
Norwegian band #1: Hekla Stålstrenga.
When one’s interested in Norway or just simply living in this country, one may wonder: where’re any Norwegian bands? When you play the NRK radio, you can hear some Norwegian music, but they’re usually the popular songs or the international productions, that are popular at the moment. If you want clear Norwegian vocals with nice instrumental work, or you simply want a band to perfect your language understanding, you need to dig deeper.
Gløgg – a simple recipe.
What’s better for Christmas time than aromatic, mulled wine? Sweden has invented one of the best recipes for it, and here’s my interpretation of it. Enjoy!
Fridays with Norwegian #16 – Christmas words.
Christmas is just about to begin, there’re only few days left. One may say, the anticipation for Christmas to begin is the best thing in all this, and I must agree with this. So, while waiting for the days to come, why not learn some Norwegian Christmas-related words and phrases?
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Friday with Norwegian #15 – movies.
Last time I presented few series, this time we will have few movies on a plate. I tried to look not only for good productions but also those who can be easily found outside the whole NRK spectrum. It’s really hard to find film with solid subtitles, so the best way to is to download the movie and then go on subscene.com and find your subtitles called in Norwegian undertekst. Continue reading “Friday with Norwegian #15 – movies.”
Fridays with Norwegian #14 – series.
The best way to learn yourself language is to hear it. That means: movies, series, YouTube videos, music etc. Today I want to stick with series.
Fridays with Norwegian #13 – Nørront (2).
Before I start – If you haven’t checked my first post about it, here it is: Nørront (1)
As we said, Nørront is a name for both Old Norse and Old Icelandic, because the difference between them both was pretty small. Continue reading “Fridays with Norwegian #13 – Nørront (2).”
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