I did a websearch and here is what I come up with.
Posted on 11/03/2006 5:11:44 PM PST by marthemaria
The Equality and Anti-discrimination Ombud (LDO) has asked The Norwegian Language Council to explain its definition of the terms nordmann (Norwegian) and etnisk norsk (ethnic Norwegian) which the Council recently said were equivalent. The matter came to the LDO's attention after an article in the news magazine Ny Tid (New Time) and the Council has been criticized for saying that a Pakistani can never be a 'Norwegian' even if awarded Norwegian citizenship.
LDO section leader Arnfinn Andersen said the matter went to the heart of 'who we are' and how Norwegians perceive inclusion and community.
In the letter to the Language Council the LDO asked on what basis one becomes Norwegian today, in view of the nation's history having been formed by persons not born in the country.
Various media have their own lists for which words are not suited for use in print and on the air. Sylfest Lomheim of the Language Council expressed skepticism about the NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) practice and media lists of banned words.
District editor Per Arner Kalbakk of NRK's eastern Norway news service defended the policy, and said he did not care what the Language Council thought about it.
(Aftenposten English Web Desk/NTB)
Ah, but its not lutefisk yet. It hasn't had its 1 week beauty bath in lye!
When growing up, we kids (there was 10 of us - cousins) were 'forced' to consume Lutefisk at the Christmas Eve 'smorgesboard' before we could open gifts. The adults thought it was pretty funny to force that 'alledged food product' on us!
My experience was to bury it in mashed potatoes covered with large amounts of real butter and a full glass of milk ready to wash the entire mess down in one massive gulp! Then it was on to the gift unwrapping, ala "A Christmas Story"!
Those were the days.......
What is a Norwegian?
How about the lutefisk test to settle it?
When the leadership of the colony abandoned them, these guys actually moved out to what is now York PA (many with their Indian wives).
Still, once a deal had been made with the Dutch colony to the North Sweden continued to send colonists to the old New Sweden colony for many decades.
BTW, it's really, really difficult to deal with these early 17th century settlers ~ the Sa'ami, for example, were illiterate in three languages ~ Sa'ami, Finnish and Swedish. The Swedes, of course, were illiterate in English and Dutch, and the Finns weren't particularly interested in hanging around the Swedes or the Sa'ami and started pushing out on the farthest reaches of the frontier.
It was another century and a half before today's self-identified Scandinavians immigrated into America. The older population was pretty much assimilated and lost knowledge of its identity, particularly the Sa'ami. It's now over 350 years and about all you can do to find these hardy and courageous pioneers in the great woods which was America at that time is to look at place names, try to find a few church records, and work backwords from later settlements, with histories, made by their grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Oh, yeah, another method is to backtrack on hereditary illnesses or diseases such as Scandinavian Porphyria, or Celiac Syndrome, or even several types of Dwarfism, and an intense desire to eat lutefisk.
Well, you could ask my Great Uncle Ole . . .
They lived at Pikes Peak (Pecha Piek) and Elkinsville Indiana. Many of their descendants moved to North Pole, Alaska in the 1930s. The Sa'ami and Chu Chi brought over from the Old World to teach the Natives in Alaska how to herd reindeer moved to the same place after their contracts expired. Apparantly somebody knew something at that time ~ after all, the family here had been in the business of creating elaborate woven white oak baskets of all sorts of animals and selling them in Europe for a couple of centuries.
I am only half norwegian though. My dad is from Norway, mom is American.
I did a websearch and here is what I come up with.
"Remarkable bird, the Norwegian Blue. Lovely plumage..."
The plumage don't enter into it. It's stone dead.
BTTT
Is aquavit the secret to eating Lutefisk?
And I thought Elko was special because of its Basque population...
Fish that's 99 and 44/100ths percent awful.
I know someone in Sweden. Her parents are Norwegian, so she has a Swedish passport. Her daughter, born in Sweden, also has a Norwegian passport.
While moving between the Scandianavian countries is without border, people retain the citizenship of their parents country.
ping ;>)
That's Negar Khan...she's Norwegian.
Ask her.
Headline = Me ;-)
Elko itself started as a railroad town about 1860. This particular spot, though, was on a pioneer trail Bill Clinton's 5 times Great Grandfather used (and which my own 5 times Great Grandfather used).
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