''Gula Tidend'' (meaning ''Gula Times'') is a former

Norwegian Norwegian, Norwayan, or Norsk may refer to: *Something of, from, or related to Norway, a country in northwestern Europe * Norwegians, both a nation and an ethnic group native to Norway * Demographics of Norway *The Norwegian language, including ...

newspaper. It was established in 1904 by

Johannes Lavik Johannes Lavik (1 February 1856, Vaksdal – 14 February 1929) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor. He was a subeditor of the newspaper'' Bergens Tidende'' from 1894. He was a founder and editor of the Nynorsk newspaper ''Gula Tiden ...

, and disestablished in 1996. During

World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

in response to the censorship of the occupying forces the paper temporarily ended its operations on 10 April 1940, a day after the occupation. The newspaper was a proponent for the

Nynorsk language Nynorsk () () is one of the two written standards of the Norwegian language, the other being Bokmål. From 12 May 1885, it became the state-sanctioned version of Ivar Aasen's standard Norwegian language ( no, Landsmål) parallel to the Dano-Nor ...

in Western Norway, located in

Bergen Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula of ...

. Among its editors were

Per Håland Per Håland (7 January 1919 – 9 October 1999) was a Norwegian journalist and newspaper editor, and proponent for the Nynorsk language. He was born in Høyanger. He was a journalist for ''Høyanger Avis'' from 1939 until the outbreak of World ...

, who edited ''Gula Tidend'' for 25 years, from 1954 to 1979.

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