Yes; both were confirmed in Norwegian & spoke it with my maternal grandma (who lived with us after we lived with her for a few years) when they needed to keep it from my brother & me.
Do you know the hymn “Behold the host arrayed in white ...”?
In Norske it is “Den store hvide flok” by H. A. Brorson 1765. It is absolutely beautiful: it has to have been based on Hebrews 11. It will be one of the hymns sung in Norske & English at my funeral
My parents lived in the same house as my paternal grandmother. She lived in the upstairs apartment, so I was close to her, as close as she was able to make me. Her young life was very hard. Yes, we girls spoke Norwegian and heard it all the time at home between the three of them.
By the time my brothers came, we had moved off the farm into town and mom had learned to speak English better. They never learned it nor did they love all things Norwegian like my sister and I did.
No, I’ve never heard that hymn. I love being Norwegian and being brought up in a community that had so many of them. Din, Maryxxx