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Roar (given Name)
Roar is a Norwegian masculine given name derived by the Old Norse name ''Hróðgeirr'', and equivalent of the Norman- French name Roger. Notable people with the name include: * Roar Adler (1915–2007), Norwegian newspaper manager * Roar Berthelsen (1934–1990), Norwegian long jumper * Roar Christensen (born 1971), Norwegian football midfielder *Roar Flåthen (born 1950), Norwegian trade unionist and politician * Roar Grønvold (born 1946), Norwegian speed skater and Olympic medalist * Roar Hagen (born 1954), Norwegian illustrator * Roar Hagen (footballer) (born 1971), Norwegian football goalkeeper *Roar Hauglid (1910–2001), Norwegian art historian and publicist * Roar Hoff (born 1965), Norwegian shot putter *Roar Johansen (footballer) (born 1935), Norwegian footballer * Roar Johansen (football coach) (born 1968), Norwegian football coach * Roar Kjernstad (born 1975), Norwegian figurative painter *Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 1976), Norwegian ski jumper * Roar Øfstedal, Norwegian ice h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Norwegian Language
Norwegian ( no, norsk, links=no ) is a North Germanic language spoken mainly in Norway, where it is an official language. Along with Swedish and Danish, Norwegian forms a dialect continuum of more or less mutually intelligible local and regional varieties; some Norwegian and Swedish dialects, in particular, are very close. These Scandinavian languages, together with Faroese and Icelandic as well as some extinct languages, constitute the North Germanic languages. Faroese and Icelandic are not mutually intelligible with Norwegian in their spoken form because continental Scandinavian has diverged from them. While the two Germanic languages with the greatest numbers of speakers, English and German, have close similarities with Norwegian, neither is mutually intelligible with it. Norwegian is a descendant of Old Norse, the common language of the Germanic peoples living in Scandinavia during the Viking Age. Today there are two official forms of ''written'' Norwegian, (literally ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Hauglid
Roar Hauglid (26 December 1910 - 18 November 2001) was a Norwegian art historian, antiquarian and publicist. Biography Hauglid was born in Kristiania, now Oslo, Norway in 1910. He was the son of Kristian Hauglid (1864–1927) and Hedvig Hansen (1871–1946). He attended Oslo Cathedral School and the University of Oslo and received his magister degree in 1937 and doctorate in 1950. He worked as an antiquarian and wrote several books on Norwegian cultural history, most notably stave churches. He replaced Arne Nygård-Nilssen as head of the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage, serving from 1958 to 1977. He was decorated Knight, First Class of the Order of St. Olav, and Commander of the Order of the Polar Star The Royal Order of the Polar Star ( Swedish: ''Kungliga Nordstjärneorden'') is a Swedish order of chivalry created by King Frederick I on 23 February 1748, together with the Order of the Sword and the Order of the Seraphim. The Order of t .... Selecte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Strand
Roar Strand (born 2 February 1970) is a Norwegian former professional footballer who played as a midfielder, mostly for Rosenborg. Strand was capped 42 times for the Norway national team. He is the player with the fourth-highest number of appearances in the Norwegian top division. He has won 16 league titles, more than any other player in history and the Norwegian Football Cup five times, and he has scored goals in 21 consecutive top flight seasons. Club career Strand was born in Trondheim and played for Rosenborg his whole career, except for the 1993 season when he was loaned out to Molde FK, from he made his debut in 1989 till he retired in 2010. He mostly played as midfielder but as an allrounder he also played as winger and wingback. Strand won the Norwegian top division 16 times (11 consecutive) as well as the Norwegian Football Cup five times with Rosenborg. He participated in the UEFA Champions League 11 times with Rosenborg and played 71 Champions League matches and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Stokke
Roar Stokke (born 22 August 1959) is a former football player, coach and commentator, from Norway. In the mid-1980s he played for Strindheim IL. Ahead of the 1988 season he left for Nardo FK. In 1993, he was playing head coach of Nardo. In 1994 Nardo barely missed promotion to the Norwegian Premier League, marking the heyday of the club's history. Stokke was offered the position as head coach of Tromsdalen UIL, but refused. However, he resigned from Nardo in September 1995 after disagreements with the board of directors. He was later football commentator in the radio station P4 Radio Hele Norge P4 Radio Hele Norge AS Norway's leading national, private radio station with 24% national market share, about one million daily listeners and two million weekly. P4 Radio Hele Norge operates a nationwide public service-licence, with official req ..., and also worked as key account manager in DFDS Tollpost. When Knut Th. Gleditsch died, he left a vacant seat as the main football comment ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Pedersen
Roar Pedersen Bakke (24 November 1927 – 9 November 1989) was a Norwegian ice hockey player, born in Drammen, Norway. He played for the Norwegian national ice hockey team, and participated at the Winter Olympics The Winter Olympic Games (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques d'hiver) is a major international multi-sport event held once every four years for sports practiced on snow and ice. The first Winter Olympic Games, the 1924 Winter Olympics, were h ... in 1952, where the Norwegian team placed 9th. References External links * 1927 births 1989 deaths Ice hockey players at the 1952 Winter Olympics Norwegian ice hockey players Olympic ice hockey players for Norway Sportspeople from Drammen {{norway-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Øfstedal
Roar Øvstedal (born 1953) is a Norwegian former ice hockey player. He played for Manglerud Star, and won the Gullpucken Gullpucken ( translit. ''the Golden puck'') is awarded by the Norwegian Ice Hockey Federation (NIHF) to the best Norwegian ice hockey player each year. The award is subject to consideration which means it is not necessarily awarded every year. ... in 1978. References * 1953 births Living people Norwegian ice hockey players 20th-century Norwegian people Manglerud Star Ishockey players Place of birth missing (living people) Date of birth missing (living people) {{Norway-icehockey-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Ljøkelsøy
Roar Ljøkelsøy (born 31 May 1976) is a Norwegian former ski jumper who competed from 1993 to 2010, and twice finished runner up in the World Cup. Career He won his first individual World Cup event on 25 January 2003 and was a very consistent competitor in the 2003/04 and 2004/05 seasons, finishing runner-up in both. In 2003–04 he won seven out of the last eleven competitions, finishing ten points short of eventual winner Janne Ahonen. In addition to winning eleven individual and three team World Cup events, Ljøkelsøy won the ski jumping event at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival in 2004. He then won the individual and team gold medal at the 2004 Ski Flying World Championships in Planica. At the 2005 Ski Jumping World Championships, Ljøkelsøy won a silver medal on the individual large hill and a bronze on the team large hill. In 2006, he retained his Ski Flying World Championship in Kulm, winning with over twenty points to the next competitor, despite feeling ill. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Kjernstad
Roar Kjernstad (1975, Espa, Norway) is a painter who specialises in traditional figurative work. He trained at the Nansen Academy in Lillehammer and at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, focusing at the latter on study of the Old Masters. In his view, painters and artists in general should be craftsmen. He is a part of the traditional figurative school of painting, which is related to The Kitsch Movement of Odd Nerdrum and the retrogard movement. But unlike Nerdrum and according to the retrogardists, Kjernstad still believes that traditional and figurative artists should claim the term "art Art is a diverse range of human activity, and resulting product, that involves creative or imaginative talent expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power, or conceptual ideas. There is no generally agreed definition of wha ..." rather than use the name "kitsch" for their work. The use of the term "kitsch" shows no respect to the skills traditional and figurati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Johansen (football Coach)
Roar Johansen (born 19 November 1968) is a Norwegian football manager. Johansen has been youth coach and goalkeeper coach at Moss FK, and has coached national youth teams for women. Johansen became the main coach of Sarpsborg 08 FF after Conny Karlsson in the summer of 2009. One year later, Johansen and Sarpsborg 08 celebrated promotion to 2011 Tippeligaen. For this achievement, he was named "Coach of the Year" in 2010 Norwegian First Division by tipsgaming.com. In 2013 he managed Ull/Kisa. After a stint in Hønefoss he went on to Bærum Bærum () is a municipality in the Greater Oslo Region in Norway that forms an affluent suburb of Oslo on the west coast of the city. Bærum is Norway's fifth largest municipality with a population of 128,760 (2021). It is part of the electoral ... ahead of the 2015 season. He was sacked after the 2015 season and started working with marketing and media in Sarpsborg 08. This job lasted until the end of the 2022 season. References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Johansen (footballer)
Roar Johansen (8 July 1935 – 23 October 2015) was a Norwegian association football, footballer and Manager (association football), manager. As a defender for Fredrikstad FK, Fredrikstad he helped win the Tippeligaen, league title in 1956–57 Norwegian Main League, 1956–57, 1959–60 Norwegian Main League, 1959–60 and 1960–61 Norwegian Main League, 1960–61, and the Norwegian Football Cup, cup title in 1957 Norwegian Football Cup, 1957, 1961 Norwegian Football Cup, 1961 and 1966 Norwegian Football Cup, 1966. In total he played for Fredrikstad from 1952 to 1967. Johansen was also an important player for the Norway national football team, Norwegian national team. He was capped 61 times; including a Norwegian record of 54 consecutive international matches between 18 September 1960 and 24 September 1967 (which was also his last international). He played in Norway's shock 3-0 win against Yugoslavia national football team, Yugoslavia in 1965. He went on to coach Fredrikstad FK ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Hoff
Roar Hoff (born 21 May 1965) is a retired Norwegian shot putter. He finished twelfth at the 1994 European Championships and eleventh at the 1995 IAAF World Indoor Championships. He became Norwegian champion in 1992 and 1999. His personal best throw was 19.52 metres, achieved in June 1994 in Drammen Drammen () is a city and municipality in Viken (county), Viken, Norway. The port and river city of Drammen is centrally located in the south-eastern and most populated part of Norway. Drammen municipality also includes smaller towns and village .... This places him eighth among Norwegian shot putters through all time. References 1965 births[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roar Hagen (footballer)
Roar Hagen (born August 9, 1971) is a retired Norwegian football goalkeeper. He started his career in Tistedalens TIF, but went on to larger club Fredrikstad FK. He was the youngest squad member for Norway in the 1989 FIFA World Youth Championship. After the 1990 season he was bought by SK Brann, but after a few months he returned to Fredrikstad. However, Fredrikstad had already secured a replacement for Hagen, and so Hagen was loaned out to Kvik Halden FK. Already in April 1991 he returned to Fredrikstad, but in July 1991 he left again. Before the 1992 season he joined Sogndal IL, and played in the Norwegian Premier League Eliteserien () is a Norwegian professional league for association football clubs. At the top of the Norwegian football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Contested by 16 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion ..., but the team was relegated. After the 1993 season he was replaced with Andre Ulla, and returned to Tist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
