Links
This page provides links to Norwegian-related websites and other information of interest.
Selected Other District 5
Lodge Websites
- Cleng Peerson 5-525 - Norway,
IL
- Skjold, 5-100 - Arlington Heights, IL
- Leif Erikson, 5-97 - Chicago,
IL
- Fjordland, 5-606 - McHenry IL
Norwegian National League (Scandivanian events, organizations, activities, and entertainment in Chicago and the Midwest)
Norwegian Slooper Society of America (Promotes the pioneering spirit of the first “Slooper” Norwegians, the first Norwegians who sailed on a 54-foot sloop from Norway to the United States in 1825)
Norwegian Newspapers
- Aftenposten
- Verdens Gang (VG)
- Dagbaldet
- Dagens Næringsliv (DN)
- Drammen Tidende
Norwegian Radio, Television,
Movies
- P4 Radio (Live radio, in
Norwegian)
- Tellus Works Television
AS (produces made-for TV films for
Norwegian and International stations)
Museums
- Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum (Decorah, IA)
- Norsk Museum (Norway, IL).
- To volunteer as a docent, contact Roald or Frances Berg
- Viking Ship Museum - Friends of the Viking Ship (Geneva, IL)
Norwegian Flag, Maps, Coat of Arms, History, etc.
- Norwegian Flag history
- Clickable map of Norway
- Ancestral Fylker and
Kommunes
- International Civil Heraldry (Norway Coat of
Arms)
Genealogy - Searching
Norwegian Roots
- LDS Family Search
Center
- Ancestry.com
- Rootsweb.com
Famous Norwegians
- Edvard Grieg
- Henrik Ibsen
- Edvard Munch
- Fridtjof Nansen and Roald Amundsen
Travel, Cooking, Games
- Norway
in a Nutshell
- Stoughton, WI (Check out their Syttende Mai festival)
- New Scandinavian Cooking
Miscellaneous
- Norwegian Psalmodikon One String Instrument
- Norwegian inventions
- The Norse Mythology Blog | Articles & Interviews on Norse Myth
- Preservation of the Viking
Ship (Geneva, IL)
- How to type Norwegian Letters (Å, Ø,
Æ)