''Sogningen'' was a Norwegian newspaper, published in

Vikøyri Vikøyri is the administrative center of the municipality of Vik in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located at the mouth of the Vikja river on the south shore of the Sognefjorden, roughly near the midpoint of Norway's longest fjord. The ...

, then part of Sogn og Fjordane county.

History and profile

''Sogningen'' was established in 1897, and was published in Vikøyri by Rasmus Thorsen as the

Conservative Party The Conservative Party is a name used by many political parties around the world. These political parties are generally right-wing though their exact ideologies can range from center-right to far-right. Political parties called The Conservative P ...

organ in

Sogn Sogn is a traditional district in Western Norway ''(Vestlandet)''. It is located in the county of Vestland, surrounding the Sognefjord, the largest/longest fjord in Norway. The district of Sogn consists of the municipalities of Aurland, Balestra ...

. It faced competition from another local newspaper, ''Sognefjord'', from 1912 to 1919, which was started by former (1911 to 1912) ''Sogningen'' editor-in-chief Dankert Skagen. Editor-in-chief of ''Sogningen'' from 1912 to 1913 wa P. Stensaker, and from 1913 to 1925 Thormod Liljedahl. When ''Sogningen'' was moved to

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in 1925, new editor became Richard Christoffer Schelderup Knoff. He owned the newspaper to 1948, but long before that he had installed his son Richard Knoff, Jr. as editor. It was stopped in 1942 during the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany, but resumed from 1 August 1945. In 1951 it was moved back to Vikøyri, and editors were Halvdan Brekke and Thormod Liljedahl (again) before it was moved further to Leikanger. Here, bookprinter Ingvald Husabø had established a small newspaper conglomerate. ''Sogningen'' was tightly synchronized with Centre Party newspaper ''Sogns Avis'', and the two newspapers were finally merged in 1972 under the name ''Sogningen/Sogns Avis'' (since 1993: ''

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'').

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