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| | Norway. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
 | | Norway is a constitutional monarchy; executive power, while nominally held by the monarch, is exercised by a council of ministers led by the prime minister. | | | King Haakon and his cabinet set up a government in exile in London, and the Norwegian merchant fleet was of vital assistance to the Allies throughout the war. | | | Sweden acquiesced after a plebiscite showed Norwegians nearly unanimously in favor of separation; in a second vote Norway chose to become a monarchy, and parliament elected the second son of Frederick VIII of Denmark king of Norway as Haakon VII. |
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http://www.bartleby.com/65/no/Norway.html
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| | Royalty.nu - Norwegian Royalty, Kings and Queens of Norway |
| | King Haakon died in 1957 and was succeeded by his son Olaf V. King Olaf died in 1991; the present king is his son Harald V. Norway is a constitutional monarchy; the king has little real power. | | | After the death of King Haakon V in 1319, the Norwegian crown passed to his grandson Magnus, who was also king of Sweden. | | | His father, Halfdan the Black, ruler of Westfold (or Vestfold) in southeast Norway, was descended from Sweden's royal Yngling family. |
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http://www.royalty.nu/Europe/Scandinavia/Norway.html
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| | Haakon VII of Norway |
| | Christian Frederick, who was King of Norway briefly in 1814, the first king of Norwegian 1814 constitution and struggle for independence, was his great-granduncle. | | | Their son, Prince Alexander, the future Crown Prince Olav and finally king Olav V of Norway, was born on July 2, 1903. | | | Today, King Haakon is by many regarded as one of the greatest Norwegian politicians of the pre-war period, managing to hold his young and fragile country together in unstable political conditions. |
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http://www.worldhistory.com/wiki/H/Haakon-VII-of-Norway.htm
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Norway |
| | Olaf also became King of Norway upon the death of his father, and died in 1387. | | | In 1438 his deposition was declared by Norway and Sweden, and his nephew, Duke Christopher of Bavaria, was elected king. | | | With the death (1319) of the vigorous younger son of Magnus, Hakon V, the male line of Harold Harfager became extinct. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11117b.htm
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| | Heimskringla: Harald Harfager's Saga |
| | King Harald himself generally dwelt in the middle of the country, and Hrorek and Gudrod were generally with his court, and had great estates in Hordaland and in Sogn. | | | King Harald's sons, Halfdan the Black and Sigrod, who had been before in the house of his father Earl Hakon, continued to be brought up in his house. | | | Now King Harald made Snaefrid his lawful wife, and loved her so passionately that he forgot his kingdom, and all that belonged to his high dignity. |
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Heimskringla/harfager.html
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| | MARTYR-KING OLAF OF NORWAY - A Holy Orthodox Saint of Norway |
| | Moreover, several titles of the masters of the King's court are known from this time: standard-bearer, King's Marshal, House Bishop. | | | Gwyn Jones writes: "The Christian law formulated at Moster was of prime authority; it was read out at the different Things, and there are confirmatory references to it in the oldest Gulathing Law." The king established peace and security for his people, remaking old laws and insisting on their execution, unaffected by bribes or threats. | | | Olaf was born in 995, the son of a Norwegian lord named Harald Grenske, the great grandson of Harald Fairhair, and Asta Gudbransdatter. |
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http://www.orthodox.net/western-saints/olaf-martyr-king-of-norway.html
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| | Heimskringla: Saga of Sigurd the Crusader and His Brothers Eystein and Olaf |
| | King Eystein had in many ways improved the laws and priveleges of the country people, and kept strictly to the laws; and he made himself acquainted with all the laws of Norway, and showed in everything great prudence and understanding. | | | The kings gave him the earldom and government of the Orkney Islands, as the earls before him, his father Paul or his Uncle Erland, had possessed it; and Earl Hakon then sailed back immediately to Orkney. | | | The king rolled his eyes, and looked at those who were seated on the benches. |
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http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/OMACL/Heimskringla/crusaders.html
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| | In Memory of King Oscar II of Norway |
| | Moreover, a dubious case was made that since one had made an oath to the Constitution one had to support the parliamentary act, since the Parliament was standing up for the Constitution. | | | Not even with the emergency of the German invasion of April 1940 the King asserted any right to have the final say, although he made it quite clear that he wanted no part of the wrong decision in that he told his Cabinet that an appointment of a Quisling Cabinet would result in his abdication. | | | In the end the officers chose not to defend the Constitution and the King to which they had sworn loyalty. |
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http://www.royaltymonarchy.com/opinion/articles/baltzersen2.htm
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| | The message was that if Tostig would end his insurrection King Harold would share one third his kingdom with him. | | | The King in his dying moments said something to Harold. | | | instead another son of the adviser, Harold, was with the King. |
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http://www.sjsu.edu/faculty/watkins/1066.htm
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| | HARALD - LoveToKnow Article on HARALD |
| | In Sweden he allied himself with the defeated Sven of Denmark against his nephew Magnus, now king of Norway, but soon broke faith with Sven and accepted an offer from Magnus of half his kingdom. | | | When he grew old he handed over the supreme power to his favorite son Erik Bloody Axe, whom he intended to be his successor. | | | In the year 1042 he left Constantinople, the story says because he was refused the band of a princess, and on his way back to his own country he married Ellisif or Elizabeth, daughter of Yaroslav of Novgorod. |
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http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/H/HA/HARALD.htm
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| | Norway |
| | Vidkun Quisling, who served as Norway's prime minister during the war, was the most notorious of the Nazi collaborators. | | | In March 2000, Prime Minister Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned after Parliament voted to build the country's first gas-fired power stations. | | | King Haakon and his government fled to London, where they established a government-in-exile. |
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http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0107851.html
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| | The Titles of the European Rulers |
| | King Frederick I abandoned the claims to Sweden (1523). | | | King Hakon VI became his father Magnus's co-ruler in Sweden after the death of his brother Erik XII (1362). | | | King Christian-Frederick lost the Crown of Norway, when the country was united to Sweden, Charles XIII, King of Sweden, became King of Norway (1814). |
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http://www.geocities.com/eurprin/norway.html
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| | Nordic Culture > Saint Olaf, Patron Saint of Norway - Scandinavica.com |
| | Eventually Olaf Haraldsson tried to regain his kingdom but ended up losing his life at the Battle of Stiklestad, where his own followers rallied against him. | | | Olaf Haraldsson, born in AD 995, was a viking who raided throughout western Europe and the Baltic until his return to Norway in 1015, where he was elected king of the Norwegians with the support of the Upland chieftains. | | | Stiklestad is the battlefield where King Olaf Haraldsson died on July 29th 1030 and became known as Saint Olaf. |
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http://www.scandinavica.com/culture/history/olaf.htm
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| | Gwin, King of Norway |
| | The husbandman does leave his plough, To wade through fields of gore; The merchant binds his brows in steel ANd leaves the trading shore; The shepherd leaves his mellow pipe And sounds the trumpet shrill; The workman throws his hammer down To heave the bloody bill. | | | Come, kings, listen to my song, When Gwin, the son of Nore, Over the nations of the north His cruel sceptre bore. | | | Gwin fell; the sons of Norway fled, All that remained alivel The rest did fill the vale of death; For them the eagles strive. |
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http://www.flyingsheep.com/blake/poems/gwin.html
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| | Tables of History : A.D. 1200 - 1299 |
| | Church leaders meet to condemn Emperor Frederick II. | | | Settled by intercession of the king of Sweden. | | | This immediately provokes a civil war in Scotland. |
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http://www.scholiast.org/history/timetables/1200s.html
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| | Harald Hardrada |
| | In 1045 Harald returned to Norway and two years later became king after the death of his nephew, Magnus Olafsson. | | | When Edward the Confessor died in 1066, Harald claimed that his father and descendants had been promised the English throne by King Hardicanute, who ruled England between 1042 and 1042. | | | Within a few years Harald became known as Hardrada (Hard-Ruler). |
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http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/MEDhardrada.htm
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| | THE KING OF NORWAY |
| | The fierce Norseman sat, confident in his own power and his right, that he would take no ransom under the sun, as long as Fionn was left alive after it. | | | Fionn offered a great ransom to the army that had come against him and to Norway's king of the old swords and his own wife. | | | The king of Norway gathered his army and his strong fleet, a fair sight to see. |
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http://www.ncte.ie/viking/nor.htm
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| | Off Topic Central - Amusing: King Herald (Norway) caught speeding... |
| | An ordinary citizen would be fined about 1,000 crowns (85 pounds) for the infringement. | | | OSLO (Reuters) - Norway's King Harald has been caught speeding in his car but will escape a fine due to royal immunity, a Norwegian daily has reported. | | | Verdens Gang said on Saturday that King Harald was stopped while driving his private car at a speed of 70 km (44 miles) per hour near Gol, a town in southern Norway, in a zone where the speed limit was 60 km per hour. |
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http://www.otcentral.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3793
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| | Photo Release -- PHA Welcomes King of Norway |
| | Marianne Lie, Director General of the Norwegian Shipowner's Association, stated, "The United States today is the most important single market for Norwegian shipping. | | | Bernt A. Netland, President Odfjell US Inc., stated, "The visit to the Port of Houston by His Majesty King Harald V is a great opportunity to focus on the port and simultaneously to demonstrate the strength and extent of the Norwegian Maritime presence in Houston. | | | I am pleased to say that Norway and the United States mostly see eye to eye on these issues. |
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http://www.primezone.com/newsroom/news_releases.mhtml?d=73865
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| | How Norway became a Sovereign Kingdom in 1905 - Stormfront White Nationalist Community |
| | He was succeeded by his son Olav, born 1370. | | | Norway to Sweden as a gift because Sweden had elected a French freemason and Jew | | | It is hard to say what would happen if the population had said NO to an independent state, the practise had been that landslide elections where not only an advice to the Parliament but also a final say on this issue which the Parliament was obliged to follow up. |
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http://www.stormfront.org/forum/showthread.php?t=13619
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| | Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com - Kerry is related to King Harald |
| | The Democrat’s president candidate John Kerry is related to King Harald of Norway, and according to one expert, royal relation ensures that he will win the election this fall. | | | And it is precisely Kerry’s connections to the royal families that may ensure him the victory in this falls presidential election, according to Brooks-Baker. | | | Not only did Kerry live a couple of years in Oslo during his youth, he is also related with the Norwegian King, according to Harold Brooks-Baker, director of Burke’s Peerage, the «bible» of the European royal families. |
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http://www.prisonplanet.com/Pages/220404_blueblood.html
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| | St. Olaf , II, King of Norway |
| | Norway, born cir 995 (posthumously), patron saint of Norway, with Aethelred | | | This Web Site was Created January 6, 2001 with Legacy 3.0 from Millennia | | | Also called Olaf "the Stout" during his lifetime, 1st Christian King of |
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http://www.sawyer-family.org/sawyer1/i612.htm
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| | Saint Olav - King of Norway |
| | Much has been written about the significance St Olav took on for Norwegian history in the period after his death, up to the present day. | | | For some he is a brutal psychopath - for others, a bloodless saint like an angel - for still others, a genius as a military leader and a capable king who makes use of Christianity to further his political goals. | | | Because of the limitations of length here, I do no more than describe the King's life, death and canonisation. |
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http://www.katolsk.no/biografi/olav/english.htm
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| | Norway |
| | The members of this family bear the title Prince[ss] of Norway (Royal Highness). | | | 1a) OLAV V, King of Norway [born Alexander Edward Christian Frederik Pr of Denmark] (Appleton House, Sandringham, 2 Jul 1903-Kongsseteren, Oslo 17 Jan 1991); m.Oslo 21 Mar 1929 Märtha Pss of Sweden (Stockholm 28 Mar 1901-Oslo 5 Apr 1954) | | | Carl, Pr of Denmark (see Denmark), was b.Charlottenlund 3 Aug 1872; he was elected King of Norway 18 Nov 1905 and assumed the throne as King HAAKON VII; he d.Oslo 21 Sep 1957; he m.Buckingham Palace 22 Jul 1896 Maud Pss of Great Britain and Ireland, etc (Marlborough House 26 Nov 1869-London 20 Nov 1938) |
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http://pages.prodigy.net/ptheroff/gotha/norway.html
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| | Olaf Tryggvasson "King" of Norway/*Thyra Haroldsdottir |
| | Born: at: 41-2,288,002 (35-95,020) Died: 18 SEP 1000 at: Father:~*Harold II "Bluetooth" Gormsson "King" Denmark Mother:~*Gyrid Olafsdottir Other Spouses: ~*Miesco (Burislaf) I "Duke" of Poland ~Styrbjorn Olafsson of Sweden |
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http://mariah.stonemarche.org/famfiles/fam06864.htm
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| | Olav V, King of Norway (1903-1991) |
| | Prince of Denmark, with the style of His Highness (H.H. Prince Alexander of Denmark) | | | H.M. Olav V, By the Grace of God and the Will of the People, King of Norway | | | Honorary Colonel, 284th (King's Own Regiment, Norfolk Yeomanry) Light Anti-Aircraft Regiment, RA |
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http://www.regiments.org/biography/royals/1903olaN.htm
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| | Old Norse 151 winter 2002 syllabus |
| | The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki Introduction, pp. | | | Begin Lesson 2, Denmark: Runestones and the Formation of a Viking State at Jelling | | | Getting to Know the Sagas: The Saga of King Hrolf Kraki, an Icelandic saga about the ancient past of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, pp. |
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http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/syllabi/classes/norse151_lec1_02w/Syllabus.cfm
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