• Dano-Norwegian (Danish and Norwegian: dansk-norsk) was a koiné/mixed language that evolved among the urban elite in Norwegian cities during the later...
    10 KB (1,006 words) - 06:00, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Denmark–Norway
    Tharangambadi), and the Danish West Indies. The union was also known as the Dano-Norwegian Realm (Det dansk-norske rige), Twin Realms (Tvillingerigerne) or the...
    44 KB (4,304 words) - 14:56, 13 November 2024
  • Skov (meaning 'forest') spell it Schou. The difference between the Dano-Norwegian and the Swedish alphabet is that Swedish uses the variant ⟨ä⟩ instead...
    15 KB (1,509 words) - 02:09, 1 September 2024
  • derived noun Dano-Norwegian means "Danish and Norwegian". It can have two related meanings: the former (1536–1814) union between Denmark and Norway or its people;...
    585 bytes (104 words) - 11:15, 1 May 2019
  • commonly used since the past union with Denmark- to Dano-Norwegian, the koiné spoken by the Norwegian urban elite, especially in the capital. When the large...
    25 KB (2,100 words) - 18:26, 1 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Comparison of Danish, Norwegian and Swedish
    language of the kingdoms. The urban Norwegian upper class spoke Dano-Norwegian, a form of Danish with Norwegian pronunciation and other minor local differences...
    92 KB (9,076 words) - 18:56, 26 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danish overseas colonies
    Danish overseas colonies and Dano-Norwegian colonies (Danish: De danske kolonier) were the colonies that Denmark–Norway (Denmark after 1814) possessed...
    24 KB (2,102 words) - 14:50, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norway
    Konungs skuggsjá. Little Norwegian literature came out of the period of the Scandinavian Union and the subsequent Dano-Norwegian union (1387–1814), with...
    226 KB (20,850 words) - 23:57, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norwegian language
    forms of written Norwegian, Bokmål (Riksmål) and Nynorsk (Landsmål), each with its own variants. Bokmål developed from the Dano-Norwegian language that replaced...
    83 KB (6,890 words) - 15:39, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danish slave trade
    pp. 1–50. ISBN 9764100295. Martens (2016). "Royal slaves in the Danish-Norwegian West Indies 1792-1848: Living in autonomy". Scandinavian Journal of History...
    24 KB (3,044 words) - 01:43, 16 November 2024
  • Riksmål (category Articles containing Norwegian-language text)
    continued using Dano-Norwegian. Riksmål got an official writing norm in 1907, and in 1917 a new reform introduced some elements from Norwegian dialects and...
    9 KB (1,026 words) - 21:13, 31 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Copenhagen
    dispatched to neutralize the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. On 2 April 1801, Parker's fleet encountered the Dano-Norwegian navy anchored near Copenhagen. Vice-Admiral...
    225 KB (19,177 words) - 22:29, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of the Danish navy
    The Royal Dano-Norwegian navy began with the founding of a joint Dano-Norwegian fleet on 10 August 1510, when King John appointed his vassal Henrik Krummedige...
    11 KB (1,020 words) - 19:26, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greenland
    Greenland (category Former Norwegian colonies)
    of Inuit. In the early 17th century, Dano-Norwegian explorers reached Greenland again. When Denmark and Norway separated in 1814, Greenland was transferred...
    178 KB (16,833 words) - 23:37, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Norwegian language conflict
    dialect. After the Treaty of Kiel transferred Norway from Denmark–Norway to Sweden–Norway in 1814, Dano-Norwegian (or "det almidelige bogmaal") was the sole...
    43 KB (5,602 words) - 12:31, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Peter Tordenskjold
    Peter Tordenskjold (category Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy personnel)
    a Royal Dano-Norwegian navy officer and nobleman. Born in Trondheim, he travelled to Copenhagen in 1704 and eventually join the Dano-Norwegian navy, rising...
    21 KB (2,562 words) - 18:05, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Dynekilen
    Battle of Dynekilen (category Battles involving Norway)
    between a Dano-Norwegian fleet under Peter Tordenskjold and a Swedish fleet under Olof Strömstierna. The battle resulted in a Dano-Norwegian victory. On...
    8 KB (827 words) - 02:07, 23 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dano-Swedish War (1657–1658)
    Dano-Swedish War of 1657–1658, known in Denmark as the First Karl Gustav War (Danish: Første Karl Gustav-krig) in Norway as Krabbes Feud (Norwegian:...
    5 KB (354 words) - 16:56, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Racism in Norway
    under Danish rule during the time that Norwegians participated in the Dano-Norwegian slave trade and the Dano-Norwegian colonization of the Caribbean. In 2013...
    5 KB (503 words) - 23:41, 12 October 2024
  • HDMS Hielperen (category Frigates of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy)
    Hjelperen) (literally: the Helper) was a 16-gun defence frigate in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy. Commissioned in 1787, she took part in the Battle of Copenhagen...
    3 KB (171 words) - 16:23, 27 October 2021
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Lyngør
    Battle of Lyngør (category 1812 in Norway)
    fought between Denmark-Norway and the United Kingdom in 1812 on the southern coast of Norway. The battle ended in a Dano-Norwegian defeat, and marked the...
    12 KB (1,463 words) - 19:15, 25 August 2024
  • was the appointed head of the Norwegian Government in the absence of the Monarch during the Dano-Norwegian union. As Norway was a separate kingdom, with...
    41 KB (659 words) - 14:56, 29 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for European colonization of the Americas
    of Latvia Dano-Norwegian West Indies (1754–1814) Danish West Indies (1814–1917) Dano-Norwegian North Greenland (1721–1814) Dano-Norwegian South Greenland...
    104 KB (11,454 words) - 15:06, 9 November 2024
  • HDMS Søehesten (category Barges of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy)
    Seahorse") was an 18-gun barge (in Danish: defensionspram) of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, commissioned in 1795. During the Battle of Copenhagen on 2 April...
    2 KB (127 words) - 14:29, 2 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for HDMS Najaden (1796)
    HDMS Najaden (1796) (category Frigates of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy)
    frigate of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy, which she served from 1796 until the British captured her in 1807. While in Dano-Norwegian service she participated...
    17 KB (1,729 words) - 12:50, 28 July 2023
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Colberger Heide
    Schleswig-Holstein. The battle was indecisive, but a minor success for the Dano-Norwegian fleet commanded by Jørgen Vind, assisted by Grabow and King Christian...
    9 KB (904 words) - 16:53, 12 November 2024
  • overhoved and Norwegian overhode (head of a family, chief) calques German Oberhaupt (ober "over", Haupt "head"). Danish samvittighed and Norwegian samvittighet...
    41 KB (3,865 words) - 04:09, 17 September 2024
  • Norwegian Academy, is a Norwegian learned body on matters pertaining to the modern Norwegian language in its Dano-Norwegian variety, now commonly known...
    5 KB (563 words) - 18:30, 28 October 2024
  • HDMS Indfødsretten (1786) (category Ships of the line of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy)
    (Danish, lit. Citizenship) was a 64-gun ship of the line in the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy commissioned in 1787. She was one of a class of five ships designed...
    5 KB (285 words) - 09:04, 3 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for HDMS Najaden (1811)
    HDMS Najaden (1811) (category Frigates of the Royal Dano-Norwegian Navy)
    Eyeing an opportunity to enforce the blockade and break the back of Dano-Norwegian seapower, the British deployed the 64-gun third-rate ship-of-the-line...
    7 KB (589 words) - 17:40, 28 October 2024