Finnmarksløpet er Europas lengste langdistanse hundeløp. Det gikk første gang av stabelen i 1981 og har gått hvert år siden, med unntak av pandemiåret 2021. Løpet har fått stor betydning for Finnmark og er med på å vise fram fylket for et stadig større publikum. Denne artikkelen løfter fram utviklingen fra å være et lite villmarksløp for noen få interesserte til å samle hele Finnmark i et av landsdelens ...

Given the recent trend toward the instrumentalization of memory of the Great Patriotic War (GPW) in Russian federal memory politics, this article examines regional features of this trend by assessing the transformations that occurred in the monumental GPW commemoration in the post-Soviet Murmansk region. The case study analyzes the process of creating war memorials dedicated to the Battle for ...

The history of the Pasvik River, demarcating Norway’s border with Russia in the north is inextricably linked with issues of security and national interests on the one side, and exploitation of natural resources and business interests on the other. This applies not least to the war years, as German warfare in Europe increased the value of the hydropower and the strategic metals of the border region. ...

Any machine learning method for transcribing historical text requires manual verification and correction, which is often time-consuming and expensive. Our aim is to make it more efficient. Previously, we developed a machine learning model to transcribe 2.3 million handwritten occupation codes from the Norwegian 1950 census. Here, we manually review the 90,000 codes (3%) for which our model had ...

Kystlandskapet og dets ressurser har gjennom alle tider vært viktige for befolkningen i Nord-Norge. Det gjelder også for fangstfolk i periodene yngre steinalder (ca. 5000–1800 fvt.) og tidlig metalltid (1800–0 fvt.) som primært livnærte seg av fisk, sel og sjøfugl. Derfor er det litt av et paradoks at de avbildninger vi finner for eksempel i bergkunsten i utstrakt grad er av landpattedyr. Hvordan ...

In this article the authors examine the activity of the Russian public figure, the goldmining entrepreneur and employer M.K. Sidorov and his relationship with Norwegian shipowners and marine mammal hunters, engaged in sealing and walrus hunting in the area around Novaya Zemlya and in the Kara Sea. In the 1860s and 1870s M.K. Sidorov tried to carry through a largescale project for the opening up of ...

This article examines the efforts of Norway’s council of the realm to rescind the governing offices and trading rights of Hamburg merchants in the Faroes between the mid-1520s and mid-1530s. The limited body of prior research on the subject focuses on the commercial aims of opposing parties, treating their dispute as part of the long-standing conflict over the western Norwegian town of Bergen’s ...

Background: Studies across the globe generally reported increased mortality risks associated with particulate matter with aerodynamic diameter ≤ 2,5 μm (PM_2,5) exposure with large heterogeneity in the magnitude of reported associations and the shape of concentration-response functions (CRFs). We aimed to evaluate the impact of key study design factors (including confounders, applied ...

Å ættleie tyder å gje barn fødde utanfor ekteskap – såkalla uektefødde barn – arverett ved å «leie dei» inn i ætta.2 I landskapslovene kunne den ættleidde ta arv jamsides med den ektefødde, men etter kvart som kyrkja sitt syn på ekteskap vann fram gjennom mellomalderen, endra også synet på uektefødde barn seg. Kyrkja si ekteskapslære sette spor etter seg i alt lovverk, også i Landslova, og etter ...

This chapter studies how far the reconciliation of a troublesome shared past through historical fiction can be considered a general characteristic of pan-national movements in nineteenth-century Europe. A cross-case analysis shows that this praxis was most widespread and most intricately developed in Scandinavianism, while it to a lesser degree also left its mark on pan-Germanism as expressed through ...