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Norway's Bandy Association
Norway's Bandy Association ( no, Norges Bandyforbund) is the governing body for the sports of bandy, floorball and field hockey in Norway. History Norwegian bandy was originally organised by the Football Association of Norway, but an independent federation for the 'winter football' was established in 1920. In the first years, this was called ''Norges Ishockeyforbund'', because bandy was called ''ishockey'' (ice hockey) back then, since it is a form of hockey played on ice, but when the Canadian sport of ice hockey came to Norway, the international name bandy was adopted for what was actually bandy, and the term ''ishockey'' was reserved for what now is called ice hockey. The present name ''Norges Bandyforbund'' was consequently adopted in 1929. The Norwegian bandyforbund has been pushing for bandy to be an Olympic sport, and their argument being that bandy has the second most players within winter sports behind hockey with 500000 players. Presidents * Halfdan Ditlev-Simonsen, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football Association Of Norway
The Norwegian Football Federation ( nb, Norges Fotballforbund, nn, Noregs Fotballforbund; NFF) is the governing body of football in Norway. It was formed in 1902 and organises the men's and women's national teams, as well as the league systems for men and women (whose top levels are respectively the Eliteserien and Toppserien). The current president of NFF is Lise Klaveness. By 1 January 2004, there were 1,814 clubs organized in Norway and 373,532 registered players. It is the largest sports federation in Norway. The NFF joined FIFA in 1908, and UEFA in 1954. The NFF was part of an unsuccessful joint bid with the SvFF, the DBU and the SPL to host the UEFA Euro 2008 championship. The SvFF invited the NFF to join them in bidding for the UEFA Euro 2016 championship. The NFF and Norwegian politicians expressed support for such a proposal, but Euro 2016 was eventually awarded to France. Foundation In Spring 1902, Lyn invited representatives from Grane and Spring (both now defunct ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ski- Og Ballklubben Drafn
Ski- og Ballklubben Drafn is a Norwegian multi-sports club from Drammen, founded in 1910. The club, which takes its name from the Norse name of Drammen, was founded as a merger of the clubs Ulf (founded 1905) and Njord (founded 1906). In 1916 it incorporated the skiing club Drammen SK (founded 1881). The men's bandy team won the Norwegian national championship 19 times. It was one of the founding members of Norway's Bandy Association in 1920. The men's bandy team folded in 1997, merging into Drammen Bandy. The club also has sections for association football and skiing. The skiers Thorleif Haug, Olympic Champion, Oscar Gjøslien, Henry Gjøslien and 1950 World Ski Jumping Champion Hans Bjørnstad Hans Bjørnstad (18 March 1928 – 24 May 2007) was a Norwegian ski jumper who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the ski jumping gold medal at the 1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Lake Placid, New York Lake Placid ... represented the club. The men's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Einar Osmark
Einar is a Scandinavian given name deriving from the Old Norse name Einarr, which according to Guðbrandur Vigfússon is directly connected with the concept of the einherjar, warriors who died in battle and ascended to Valhalla in Norse mythology. Vigfússon comments that 'the name Einarr is properly = einheri" and points to a relation to the term with the Old Norse common nouns ''einarðr'' (meaning "bold") and ''einörð'' (meaning "valour").Vigfusson (1874:121). Einar as given name *Einár (rapper) (2002–2021), Swedish rapper * Einar Jan Aas (born 1955), Norwegian footballer *Einar Arnórsson (1880–1955), Icelandic politician *Einar Axelsson (1895–1971), Swedish actor *Einar Benediktsson (1864–1940), Icelandic poet and lawyer *Einar Blidberg (1906–1993), Swedish Navy vice admiral *Einar Bollason (born 1943), Icelandic former basketball player, coach and TV analyst *Einar Bragi (1921–2005), Icelandic poet * Einar Bruno Larsen (1939–2021), Norwegian footballer and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sten Holljen
The STEN (or Sten gun) is a family of British submachine guns chambered in 9×19mm which were used extensively by British and Commonwealth forces throughout World War II and the Korean War. They had a simple design and very low production cost, making them effective insurgency weapons for resistance groups, and they continue to see usage to this day by irregular military forces. The Sten served as the basis for the Sterling submachine gun, which replaced the Sten in British service until the 1990s, when it, and all other submachine guns, were replaced by the SA80. The Sten is a select fire, blowback-operated weapon which mounts its magazine on the left. Sten is an acronym, from the names of the weapon's chief designers, Major Reginald V. Shepherd and Harold J. Turpin, and "En" for the Enfield factory. Over four million Stens in various versions were made in the 1940s, making it the second most produced submachine gun of the Second World War, after the Soviet PPSh-41. Histor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Riis (bandy)
Arne Gurstad Riis (June 21, 1923 – April 29, 2009) was a Norwegian actor. Riis was engaged with the New Theater from 1949 to 1957. In addition, Riis appeared in eleven film and television roles. He made his screen debut in 1951 in Edith Carlmar's film ''Skadeskutt''. In the 1960s Riis worked for NRK's Television Theater. He played his last television role in 1982 as a Norwegian in the Swedish TV series ''Polisen som vägrade svara''. Riis was married to the singer Nora Brockstedt. Filmography *1951: ''Skadeskutt'' as Holst, an engineer *1952: ''Det kunne vært deg'' as the mailman *1958: ''I slik en natt'' as a man at the border *1958: ''Ut av mørket'' NRK Television Theater *1961: ''Frisøndag'' *1961: ''Den anstendige skjøgen'' *1962: ''Hånden på hjertet'' *1963: ''Særlingen'' *1965: ''Frydenberg'' *1965: ''Raude roser åt meg'' *1965: ''Smeltedigelen'' TV series *1982: ''Polisen som vägrade svara The Swedish Police Authority ( sv, Polismyndigheten) is the nation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leif Rosenqvist
Leif is a male given name of Scandinavian origin. It is derived from the Old Norse name ''Leifr'' (nominative case), meaning "heir", "descendant". Use in the Nordic countries Spelling and prevalence Across the Nordic countries, the most commonly occurring spelling of the name is ''Leif'', however, there are some well-established regional variants: * – Leiv * – Lejf * – Leifur * – Leivur In Norway, about 17,000 men have Leif as their first (or only) name. In Sweden, 70,000 men have the name Leif, about 60% of them as a first name. As of 2018, about 15,000 Danish men have Leif as their first name. In Finland, as of 2012, 4,628 men have Leif as a first name. In the U.S. , as of 2015, 6,415 men have Leif as a first name. Pronunciation Because the Scandinavian languages differ in their pronunciation of the digraphs and , the name Leif may be either pronounced as an approximate rhyme for "safe", or approximately like the English word "life", In Sweden, Finland, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frigg Bandy
Frigg (; Old Norse: ) is a goddess, one of the Æsir, in Germanic mythology. In Norse mythology, the source of most surviving information about her, she is associated with marriage, prophecy, clairvoyance and motherhood, and dwells in the wetland halls of Fensalir. In wider Germanic mythology, she is known in Old High German as , in Langobardic as , in Old English as , in Old Frisian as ''Frīa'', and in Old Saxon as , all ultimately stemming from the Proto-Germanic theonym *''Frijjō''. Nearly all sources portray her as the wife of the god Odin. In Old High German and Old Norse sources, she is specifically connected with Fulla, but she is also associated with the goddesses Lofn, Hlín, Gná, and ambiguously with the Earth, otherwise personified as an apparently separate entity Jörð (Old Norse: 'Earth'). The children of Frigg and Odin include the gleaming god Baldr. The English weekday name Friday (ultimately meaning 'Frigg's Day') bears her name. After Christianization, t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
