Norway Links


Norway:     2012 Sweden/Norway trip - Planning Notes
2009 Norway trip - Planning Notes
2009 Norway trip - PDF photo album

Norwegian History - Geography, History and the Telemark Canal
Scandinavian Wars - Denmark / Sweden / Norway
Norwegian Kings - Wikipedia
King Harald I - Lineage to King Harald I


Genealogy:    
   (JFP)
Fyresdal Translations - Volumes I, II & III of Bygdebok (norsk/English) - ancestors only - Index

Index to Kviteseid Ættesoga - (JFP site) - Volume I of Bygdesoge - 257 individual Ættesoga
      Sondre Norheim - Øvrebø Ættesoga - (JFP site)
      Olav Bjaaland - Hustveit Ættesoga - (JFP site)
Index to new Kviteseid Ættesoga by family or farm name - (Kommune site - www.soge.kviteseid.no)
Kviteseid Ættesoga - Volume I of Bygdesoge
Kviteseid Gardssoga - HTML - Index to HTML pages - (Kommune site)
Kviteseid Gardssoga - PDF - (Kommune site)
Kviteseid Gardssoga - PDF - Index to PDF pages - (JFP Site)
Kviteseid Gardssoga - PDF - (JFP site)
Parish cross-reference of Farm Names - (JFP site) - from Kviteseid Ættesoga
Kviteseid/Mo Parish Ministerial Records - (JFP site) - births, confirmations, marriages, deaths  
Kviteseid Translations - Ættesoga and Gardssoga (norsk/English) - ancestors only

Mo Translations - Volumes I & II of Bygdebok (norsk/English) - ancestors only - Index

Seljord Ættesoge - Volumes IV & V - ancestors only PLUS Introduction - translation in progress
      Knut Selstad - Selstad-Kjempa "Selstad Giant" - (JFP site)
      Zacharias Schanke - Seljord sokneprest "parish priest" 1633-1689 - (JFP site) - translation in progress

Emigration Notes - (JFP site) - leaving Norway 1880-1883  
Maps of Norway - my collection of hard copy and online maps
Word List - "Skyldgods" project

Genealogy:    
   (other)
Telelaget - Minnesota genealogical group
The Norse Federation - Norseman magazine
Sons of Norway - many Links
In the Footprints of Sondre - English version - PDF
NorwayHeritage.com - Message Board
Slekt i Norge - Many Telemark Digital Books
DigitalArkivet.uib.no - How To Trace your Ancestors
Digital Archives - census records - digitalarkivet.uib.no/en
Digital Archives - census records - media.digitalarkivet.no/en
Digital Archives - census records - www.arkivverket.no/en
LDS IGI Batch Numbers - Telemark
        Fyresdal, Lårdal, Mo, Kviteseid, Seljord and Vinje only
Norwegian-American Portal Page - FamilySearch (LDS)
Digitized Ministerialbok - digitized
Farms & Sub-Farms of Telemark (all Fylkes)
Rootsweb Links - Norway genealogy/research
Rootsweb Links - Telemark
Univ of North Dakota - Grand Forks
Norwegian Genealogy Resources - in English
Dis-Norge - Sitemap in norsk
Farm Names - Oluv Rygh
Drangstveit Reunion 2007 - Black River Falls, WI
Joyce Holt site -   2006 trip diary  -  novel

Language:     genealogy word list #1 - (Norwegian-American Dictionary by Otto Jørgenson)
genealogy word list #2 - (John Follesdal)
genealogy word list #3 - (Martin Eidhammer)
genealogy terms - (Hadeland Lag)
parish record terms - (John Follesdal)
Lexin dictionary - (audio pronuciation)
Tritran - (translation and definition)
FreeDict - not a very good site
InfoNorway - (Click languages)
Norwegian Grammar - NorTANA
Svenonius Norwegian Grammar
Louis Janus
WordReference Forum

Local Maps:     19 Fylkes of Norway - Kommunes in each
18 Kommunes of Telemark
near Morgedal - Zoom in for closer look - multimap.com (good map)
kart.vest-telemark.no - Zoom or enter Gnr/Bnr
Michelin Road Map - Zoom in to see streets - viamichelin.com (good map)
zoom in to MANY farms - kvasir.no
1881.no - great map of farms (zoom in) - hybrid
Bygglandvegan - multimap.com (direct to Morgedal)
towns (and some large farms) in Telemark - Latitude & Longitude - very poor maps
world-geographics.com - Google Map & photos
find towns in Telemark
Vest-Telemark Map - Zoom in to farm names - GREAT MAP
Mo Map - Zoom in to farm names - Mo Only
finn.no map - satellite & hybrid
Tokke map

Brochures:     PDF 2008 - Vest-Telemark museums - calendar of events 2008
PDF 2007 - Seljord, Nissedal, Fyresdal, Tokke/Dalen, Vinje/Rauland, Kviteseid/Morgedal/Vrådal
PDF 2008 - Seljord, Nissedal, Fyresdal, Hjartdal, Tokke/Dalen, Vinje/Rauland/Haukeli, Kviteseid/Morgedal/Vrådal

Places:     visit Telemark - (English)
visit Fyresdal - (English)
Vraadal - south of Kviteseid - (English)
Norwegian Ski Adventure Centre - Morgedal - (English)
West Telemark Museum & stave church - Eidsborg -(Norwegian)
Heddal stave church - Heddal - (English)
18 stave churches - all of Norway - (English)
28 stave churches - all of Norway - (English)
Telemark Canal - Kviteseid - (Norwegian)
Bo Sommarland - Surprise! - (Norwegian)