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Nome, Norway
Nome is a municipality in Telemark in the county of Vestfold og Telemark in Norway. It is a part of the traditional region of Midt-Telemark and historically of Grenland region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Ulefoss. The municipality of Nome was created on 1 January 1964 when the two former municipalities of Holla and Lunde were merged. Nome consists of a number of villages including Lunde, Ulefoss, Helgen, Flåbygd, and Svenseid. The area of the farmlands is 26.8 square kilometers (as of 2013); barley is farmed on 4.9 sq.kilometers. General information Name The municipality of Nome was created in 1964 and the name was taken from a lake in the river of '' Eidselva''. The meaning of the name is unknown (maybe related to the first element in the name Numedal). Coat-of-arms The coat-of-arms is from modern times. They were granted in 1989. The arms are silver and blue and are divided ''party per bend sinister'' to look like steps. It is me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ulefoss
Ulefoss is the administrative centre of Nome municipality in Telemark, Norway, located near the border of Grenland. Its population is 2,699. It occupies both sides of Ulefoss falls on the river Eidselva. Ulefoss is one of Norway's oldest industrial communities, with sawmills operating from the 1400s, and mining and ironworks from the 1600s. It is still largely an industrial site, with a number of people employed in the iron foundry and mechanical industries. Ulefoss has primary school, lower secondary, and upper secondary school Søve. A variety of shops and restaurants, a library and culture centre are also located here. Øvre Verket is a group of old workers' dwellings; today a culture and crafts exhibition. The newspaper ''Kanalen'' is published in Ulefoss. Iron foundry Ulefos Jernværk, an iron foundry located here, was established in 1657 and produced pig iron until 1877. Wood-burning stoves were important products until the 1950s. Hydroelectric power is now used for the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms
A coat of arms is a heraldry, heraldic communication design, visual design on an escutcheon (heraldry), escutcheon (i.e., shield), surcoat, or tabard (the latter two being outer garments). The coat of arms on an escutcheon forms the central element of the full achievement (heraldry), heraldic achievement, which in its whole consists of a shield, supporters, a crest (heraldry), crest, and a motto. A coat of arms is traditionally unique to an individual person, family, state, organization, school or corporation. The term itself of 'coat of arms' describing in modern times just the heraldic design, originates from the description of the entire medieval chainmail 'surcoat' garment used in combat or preparation for the latter. Roll of arms, Rolls of arms are collections of many coats of arms, and since the early Modern Age centuries, they have been a source of information for public showing and tracing the membership of a nobility, noble family, and therefore its genealogy across tim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liv Mildrid Gjernes
Liv Mildrid Gjernes (born 2 June 1954 in Lunde, in Telemark, Norway) is a Norwegian artist and has given name to the contemporary style of decoration, sculpture, and furniture design known as Gjernes style. She lives and has her atelier in Eidsfoss, in Vestfold in Norway. She studied in Bergen high-school of art and design and at the Institute for Furniture and Room. Apart from being chosen for vast number of sculptural decoration assignments for private and public institutions, she was commissioned by the Norwegian government to produce its wedding gift to Princess Märtha Louise and Ari Behn Ari Mikael Behn (; , or ; 30 September 1972 – 25 December 2019) was a Norwegian author, playwright, and visual artist. Known as Mikael Bjørshol until 1996, Behn achieved early literary success with his 1999 short story collection ''Trist so ... on 24 May 2002. The gift consisted of two cupboards specially designed for the wedding-couple with the title "Ikons for the Hearts". In e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Norse
Old Norse, Old Nordic, or Old Scandinavian, is a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their Viking expansion, overseas settlements and chronologically coincides with the Viking Age, the Christianization of Scandinavia and the consolidation of Scandinavian kingdoms from about the 7th to the 15th centuries. The Proto-Norse language developed into Old Norse by the 8th century, and Old Norse began to develop into the modern North Germanic languages in the mid-to-late 14th century, ending the language phase known as Old Norse. These dates, however, are not absolute, since written Old Norse is found well into the 15th century. Old Norse was divided into three dialects: Old West Norse, ''Old West Norse'' or ''Old West Nordic'' (often referred to as ''Old Norse''), Old East Norse, ''Old East Norse'' or ''Old East Nordic'', and ''Ol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of Bergen
The University of Bergen ( no, Universitetet i Bergen, ) is a research-intensive state university located in Bergen, Norway. As of 2019, the university has over 4,000 employees and 18,000 students. It was established by an act of parliament in 1946 based on several older scientific institutions dating back to 1825, and is Norway's second oldest university. It is considered one of Norway's four "established universities" and has faculties and programmes in all the fields of a classical university including fields that are traditionally reserved by law for established universities, including medicine and law. It is also one of Norway's leading universities in many natural sciences, including marine research and climate research. It is consistently ranked in the top one percentage among the world's universities, usually among the best 200 universities and among the best 10 or 50 universities worldwide in some fields such as earth and marine sciences. It is part of the Coimbra Group and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odd Einar Haugen
Odd Einar Haugen (born 1 May 1954) is professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen, Norway. He was born and grew up in Lunde, Telemark, but moved to Bergen in 1973 when he began his studies at the university. He is not related to the American linguist Einar Haugen. Haugen took his cand.philol. (master's) degree at the University of Bergen in 1982. The subject for this thesis was two of the interpolations in the Old Norwegian ''Barlaams ok Josaphats saga''. He defended his dr.philos. thesis at the university in Bergen in 1992, on the quantitative and qualitative textual criticism of ''Niðrstigningar saga'', ''Stamtre og tekstlandskap'' (2 vols.). In the period 1982–1992, he was working as a research assistant in Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen. He was appointed professor of Old Norse Philology at the University of Bergen from 1 January 1993, and he remains in this position (as of 2021). In two periods, he has also been guest professor at the Univers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Knut Ragnar Mikkelsen
Knut Ragnar Mikkelsen (born 18 March 1951) is a Norwegian police chief. He was born in Lunde, Telemark, and graduated with the cand.jur. degree. He was a police superintendent in the Oslo police from 1981 to 1988, and worked as police inspector from 1990 to 1997. From 1 November to 31 December 1994 he was acting chief of police of Oslo. He was the chief of police of Drammen from 1997 to 2001, and in 2001 he became assisting director of the National Police Directorate National Police Directorate ( no, Politidirektoratet) a government agency subordinate to the Ministry of Justice and Public Security which heads the Norwegian Police Service The Norwegian Police Service ( no, Politi- og lensmannsetaten) is t .... References 1951 births Living people People from Nome, Norway People from Lunde, Telemark Norwegian police chiefs {{Norway-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inge Grødum
Inge Grødum (born 13 August 1943) is a Norwegian illustrator. He was born in Ulefoss, and attended the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry from 1970 to 1973. He worked for the newspaper '' Nationen'' from 1973 to 1987 and in ''Aftenposten ( in the masthead; ; Norwegian for "The Evening Post") is Norway's largest printed newspaper by circulation. It is based in Oslo. It sold 211,769 copies in 2015 (172,029 printed copies according to University of Bergen) and estimated 1.2 milli ...'' since 1987. He has published several books with collections of his editorial cartoons. He won the ''Editorial Cartoon of the Year'' award in 2002. References 1943 births Living people People from Ulefoss People from Nome, Norway Norwegian illustrators Norwegian women illustrators Norwegian editorial cartoonists Oslo National Academy of the Arts alumni {{Norway-artist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gisle Straume
Gisle Straume (26 August 1917 – 1 December 1988) was a Norwegian actor and theatre director. Personal life Straume was born in Holla, the son of farmer and headmaster Eivind Straume and teacher Brita Monsine Skanke Aarnes. He married actress Julia Back in 1948. This marriage was later dissolved, and in 1963 he married journalist and actress Sonja Cora Christensen. Career He was employed at Det Norske Teatret from 1945 to 1951, at Den Nationale Scene from 1951 to 1952, and again at Det Norske Teatret from 1952 to 1955. He served as theatre director at Rogaland Teater from 1956 to 1958, and for Den Nationale Scene from 1963 to 1967, and worked for the National Theatre in Oslo from 1959 to 1963 and from 1967 to 1976. Straume was particularly popular for his role as "lektor Tørrdal" in ''Stompa'' (a Norwegian adaptation of the Jennings Jennings is a surname of early medieval English origin (also the Anglicised version of the Irish surnames Mac Sheóinín or MacJonin). No ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
August Cappelen
Hermann August Cappelen (1 May 1827 – 8 March 1852) was a Norwegian painter. Cappelen was best known for his melancholic, dramatic and romantic landscape compositions. Background Hermann August Cappelen was born in Skien, Norway. He was the son of Diderik von Cappelen (1795–1866) and Margaret Noble Severine Henriette Løvenskiold (1796–1866). Both the Løvenskiold and Cappelen families were prominent Norwegian families of merchants, land owners, civil servants and politicians. His family were the owners of prominent iron works and various other properties. His grandfather, Diderik von Cappelen (1761–1828), was member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. He grew up at Holden, a manor in Ulefoss in the Grenland district of the county of Telemark. After school graduation in Skien in 1845, he went to Christiania to take another exam at the Royal Frederick University. He subsequently went to Düsseldorf, where he studied with Hans Gude. Cappelen w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herman Severin Løvenskiold
Baron Herman Severin Løvenskiold (30 July 1815 – 5 December 1870) was a Norwegian-born Danish composer, most noted for his score for August Bournonville's 1836 version of the ballet ''La Sylphide'' for the Royal Danish Ballet in Copenhagen. Biography Herman Severin Løvenskiold was born at Ulefoss in the municipality Nome, Norway. He was the son of Eggert Christopher Løvenskiold (1788–1861), director of the Ulefos Iron Works. In 1829, his family moved to Denmark. He was trained in music by composer Peter Casper Krossing. He also went abroad where he studied in Vienna, Leipzig and St. Petersburg. Following his return to Denmark, he composed music for a number of dramatic works at the Royal Danish Theatre. From 1851, he was the organist at Christiansborg Castle Church (''Christiansborg Slotskirke'') on Slotsholmen in Copenhagen. This church, which dated from 1738-1742, was frequently attended by members of the Danish Royal Family. Notable works *''La Sylphide '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
