At the time of Nobel's death Norway was still in a union with Sweden, largely governing its own affairs but notably _not_ its own foreign policy, so it makes sense to assume Nobel believed the Norwegians would be more free to select the prize winner without international diplomatic repercussions.😬

Knut Hamsun, Norwegian Nobel laureate in literature, sided with the Nazis so much he presented Goebbels with his Nobel medal in 1943 (which wasn't widely known until later). Norwegians responded by mailing so many of Hamsun's books back to him that his local post office had to hire extra staff.

Ok, this just won't do! @popsci.com describing a 15th century Dutch/Hanseatic cog as "Viking"?! This is worse than useless, and shows how little these people care about actual history. All popular, no science. I'm bloody angry! No, this is not pedantry: www.popsci.com/science/larg...

As you talk about Greenland, please make sure you are talking about the >56,000 Inuit who have called the Island their home for thousands of years. Here are 2 stories that include their voices, concerns, and hopes. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... canadiangeographic.ca/articles/buy...

Just read this (which two people did Norway send to Greenland, wrong answers only) to @rolfandersen.bsky.social and his immediate response was Pompel og Pilt and I was like hæ?? and then he showed me this... and now I'm traumatized along with a generation of Norwegian children.

Eg sit på bussen inn til byen og høyrer på folkloristkollega @idatolgensbakk.bsky.social snakke om når jula slutter på NRK Hordaland. Kjekt! Er det 13. eller 20. dag? Eller er det Kyndelsmesse? samla.no/viewer/image...

I see several people suggesting that the Christmas tree & decorations should be gone by Epiphany, which is tomorrow. This year, as per usual, I intend to adhere strictly to the Norwegian idiom "twentieth-day Knud (or Canute) chases Christmas out", meaning that everything stays up until January 14.

pour one out to an icon www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Eksport av *hva* til det amerikanske markedet sa du..?

me too, gävlebocken, me too

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

En klassiker på julbordet!

Another beer post for the evening: In 1241, Pope Gregory IX informed Archbishop Sigurd Eindridesson (r.1231-52) that children who are baptised in beer can not be considered to have been properly baptised.

Really exciting book news out of Norway. And while the article focusses on the sealskin binding, I'm even more excited by the fact that these neumes are not square, which suggests a date well before 1200.

The last survivor of the Crimean War died in 2004. "Timothy" spent 40 years in the Navy. After retirement, having moved in with the Earl of Devon, she revealed she was a girl. She would wander round his garden wearing a sign that said. "My name is Timothy. I am very old. Pease do not pick me up".

Genuinely delighted to download a PhD thesis from a university repository where the author has neglected to remove the words "BITCH THIS IS YOUR THESIS" from the filename.

📢 NEW Will of the Month Post 📢 October's will is an unusual & poignant example of a married woman who made a will Margery Gadyng died in childbirth in 1540 - she declared her will to the midwife & women attending her, leaving them bequests of ribbons & rosaries sites.exeter.ac.uk/materialcult...

Big Jim's bike trip to Braemar. Stick with it to the end. The pay off is worthy of Beckett. youtu.be/cZk2jV5gJbM?...

Fascinerende eksempel på medias ansvarsfraskrivende ordbruk. Selv etter at profilen er dømt for å ha kjørt på en syklist, så skriver VG at hun "fikk syklist på panseret", og at "bilen hun kjørte havnet i et sammenstøt". Hun "hadde et sammenstøt med en syklist". WTF

Nasjonalbiblioteket, for en fantastisk institusjon! Satser på å få tid å bidra litt her jeg også. Savner fortsatt den ukentlige fredagsutfordringen da NB la ut et knippe bilder fra ukjente steder og ba publikum om hjelp.

Det er fredag! Da spanderer vi et lite eventyr som Jørgen Moe omtalte som "Eventyret er forskjellig og meget humoristisk, men lader sig ikke gjenfortelle" (gjett hvorfor). Det er en variant av "Mannen som skulle stelle hjemme", skrevet ned i Hardanger i 1846. Moes eget manuskript gjengitt her:

En arkiv-anbefaling! Svenska Litteratursällskapet i Finland har finfine digitaliserte samlinger av folkekultur, og det kanskje aller fineste er Maximilian Stejskals fotosamling av folkelige styrkeprøver og leker. 1/x

This manuscript by Anselmus Faust, dated 1612, is the oldest surviving European manual on bookbinding. Written in Latin & Dutch, it was created for the St Bernard's Abbey near Antwerp. What makes it especially unique is its rare dos à dos binding: 2 books bound back-to-back, sharing a single spine.

For de som skal følge resultatene til mdg utover kvelden, en liten bruksanvisning: - Tidligere stortingsvalg har valgdirektoratet laga en offisiell prognose basert på innkomne forhåndsstemmer og tidlig opptalte valgtingsstemmer, men det gjør de ikke i år.

Today: at @unibergen.bsky.social for the SAMLA workshop on Digital Archives & AI Tools!

Second day of the SAMLA.no workshop: Sanita Reinsone discussing the mapping shared interests and collaboration direction with a digital focus #digitalhumanities

In an ethnographic study of youth political organizations, one of my PhD students found that the primary driver of engagement wasn't concern about particular issues but rather the chance to do something fun together with friends (eg, make posters for rallies, or go to meetings with free food).

Norwegian home invasion.

Good news - they must have received a new shipment of badminton birdies as many sets of badminton were played #OTD in 1945... also Japan announced its surrender. #VJDay

Slightly diminish a band: h-uh

Det er ikke sånn at gutter bare magisk har blitt skeptiske til likestilling. Det er store krefter i sving som jobber knallhardt for reversering av likestilling.

🎶 Jens Jens Jens Jens 🎶

Kjekt at ein politikar tør å seie dette, endå kjekkare at det er ein politikar det er vanskeleg for dei å ignorere

An abomination. An affront to free speech and an acute threat to the consensus on terrorism www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

May I also add to this thread of early modern images of happy student life?

“If you just go back indoors, now, that’ll be the end of it…”

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

53. In your first draft, over-reference rather than under-reference. Always err on the side of caution, and you can edit the references if they seem excessive in later drafts.

18. I still prefer print outs or photocopies of primary documents rather than using two screens when writing

17. The edited collection is an underrated publication method and is particularly useful for communicating historical research trends

13. Historians could do a lot worse than read film theory to understand about narrative history and the construction of history as a process

Anlegget, når første fase er utbygd, vil bli operasjonelt styrt fra et helt annet sted enn Narvik. I beste fall vil lokale få kontrakt på enkelt vedlikeholdsarbeid, slikt som å skifte ut defekte disker i RAID-systemer. In verste fall vil slike folk bli flydd inn fra Sveits. Arbeidsplasser?

Minner alle på dette intervjuet med Erna under korona. Ikke stem høyresiden til høst.

When she was just 26 Florence Merriam wrote the first guide to birding with binoculars in 1889. And she slipped in this incredible feminist gem:

Om fakelore! En 🧵. Faget mitt er folklore - bokstavelig talt folkets (dvs alles) lærdom eller tradisjonsoverført kultur. Tradering, altså prosessen med å overføre noe, skjer på mange måter, handlingsbårent, i skrift og tale, på og av nett. 1/

Aw Harald of Norway, 88, marking Norwegian sovereignty on the Bear Island 🥹 This what actual kings do: they chill all their lives in purely representative functions but inconvenience themselves to faraway windy islands with crutches at the age of 88 when it’s needed #nokings

Handy tip from an 18th century medical guidebook – always remember to prepare your medicinal woodlice in the same manner as your bees

The amazing detail in this story is this lad's neighbour frantically whistling to try and draw the ship's attention to the dangerous local hazard known as [checks notes] Norway. If it hadn't noticed houses are generally stand on vessels a bit of whistling probably ain't going to do it, fella.

Jeg fatter ikke hvordan NRK skal kunne forsvare dette.