#norge

[svennomaani]

Hej Nordiska vänner and everybody

There is a thing called Runeberg.org that is like Project Gutenberg, but focusing on Nordic texts. They have scans of old books, from which a computer has extracted the text, and that automatic text needs to be proofread and corrected to match the scanned page.

Its a lot of stuff in Swedish but also plenty other languages too (Danish and Norwegian and Finnish, but also German, French, English, Latin...)

So if you wanna do some volunteer good work in the world you can help out with the proofreading. It's all done in the browser, I've been doing it on the phone, so it really doesn't take anything special.

Some stuff is in blackletter, which can be hard to read if youre not used to it, but there's also stuff in more modern fonts.

Here are the instructions in how to do it:

I'm currently proofreading a Finnish translation of Danish stories from the 1800s. You can arrange the titles according to language, so you can find the ones you can read.

There are at least a couple of "English-speaking person travels in Sweden and describes what's there" -books that are in English in the time period I looked at.

[visitheworld]

Fairytale view in Olden / Norway (by Sigurd Loseth).

[gfxced]

Summer Nights of Telemark Norway July 2022

[engenxfutfem]

Ingrid

[grandboute]

Le Kamak en Norvège - Sail and ski trip in Norway

[countriesgame]

Please reblog for a bigger sample size!

If you have any fun fact about Norway, please tell us and I'll reblog it!

[betomad]

Lofoten, Norway. photo by Jakob Radlgruber

[heritageposts]

For my Norwegian followers:

Bli med på Norges største markering for Palestina, til nå. Hele landet for fred i Gaza, 16.desember! . . . Det blir markering i flere norske byer og tettsteder 16. desember. I Oslo blir det kl. 13.00 på Eidsvolls plass, foran Stortinget.  Hvis alle gode krefter går sammen kan vi klare å lage Norges største demonstrasjon!

det blir demonstrasjoner over hele norge på lørdag! sjekk linken - eller palestinakommiteens facebook side - for mer informasjon om hva som blir den nærmeste demonstrasjonen for deg

[visitheworld]

Sorfugloy / Norway (by Jan-Harald Finstad).

[moneyisnobject]

"Colossea"

Colossea is a megayacht with a detachable superstructure, and that superstructure just happens to be a blimp. It's not just any blimp, though: it's a modern interpretation of the iconic, history-making Norge (ex N1), which marked the first verified expedition to the North Pole on May 12, 1926.

The creation of Roald Amundsen and Lincoln Ellsworth was piloted to glory by Captain Umberto Nobile at a time when humanity's dream of flight was just beginning.

Courtesy: Pierpaolo Lazzarini

[engenxfutfem]

Ingrid

[blackswaneuroparedux]

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[aroundtheworldmp3]

Norway, 1988

[vintage-norway]

Vintage photos from Norway 1900-1940s

Photos by: Anders Beer Wilse

Wilse was a pretty active photographer who documented the life in the country and in the cities!