The issue to be discussed here is how society’s views of the Laestadian revival has changed over the course of the revival movement’s first 100 years. The article claims that society’s emerging view of the revival is characterized by two different positions. The first period is typical of the last part of the nineteenth century and is characterized by the fact that the evaluation of the revival took ...

This article studies the stories of Russian citizens who were born in Germany but reside in Russia. Most of them had relocated to Russia as a result of the withdrawal of Russian troops from Germany after 1990. Analysing individual data from the 2002 and 2010 censuses, the author traces the lives of children born into the families of Soviet military men based in East Germany after World War II. Over ...

I motsetning til den utbreidde oppfatninga om at «det moderne gjennombrotet» i den skandinaviske litteraturen møtte motstand og fiendskap, syner opplagstal at Henrik Ibsens <i>Et dukkehjem</i> (1879), eit av dei sentrale gjennombrotsverka, blei hans største salssuksess, og at boka nådde nye grupper av lesarar. Eit rikt materiale frå lærarutdanninga i Tromsø gjer det mogleg å følgje Ibsen-lesinga der ...

Norwegian work on microdata started out with the full count 1801 census and census and vital records from around the capital. Today, most census and ministerial records from 1801 until the mid-20th century have been scanned, transcriptions are being completed, much is encoded and made available via the websites of the Digital National Archives and UiT The Arctic University of Norway. This article ...

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 ...

Denne oppgaven handler først og fremst om hva to kvinnelige mystikere, Hadewijch fra Brabant og Mechthild fra Magdeburg, på 1200-tallet skrev angående vita apostolica, et religiøst ideal basert på Jesus og apostlenes liv. Hovedpoenget i vita apostolica, eller det apostoliske liv, var frivillig fattigdom, og dette konseptet influerte mange i høymiddelalderens Europa. Det førte også til endringer både ...

Yarn and textiles recovered from prehistoric Dorset and Thule culture sites in the Eastern Canadian Arctic have raised questions about the extent and timing of indigenous and Norse interaction in the New World, whether the yarn represents technological transfers between Greenland's Norse settlers and the Dorset, or whether these Indigenous Arctic groups had independent fiber technologies before ...

The rock art of northern Norway is well-known, not least due to the UNESCO World Heritage sites at Alta dating back to c. 5200 cal BC. It is perhaps less well-known that northern Norway also has earlier rock art dating back to c. 9000 cal BC. While the early phase of rock art is dominated by large, natural sized animals such as elk, reindeer, bear and whale in a naturalistic style, the later period ...

Avhandlingen tar sikte på å gjøre rede for alle jernaldergraver av germansk art med dokumenterte dyrelevninger innenfor Tromsø Museums forvaltningsområde. Den kvantitative analysen viser flere konsekvente tendenser som forbinder ulike nedleggelsesformer (og dyrearter) til ulike perioder og områder. Oppgaven inneholder flere oversiktskjemaer som viser funnfordelingen i de 66 gravene i utvalget, og ...