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Rasmus Werner/ Arctic Challenge.

It’s time for Arctic Challenge!

29/02/2008 :: Get ready for a week of extreme snowboarding at Oslo’s hallmark ski slope, Holmenkollen. + More

Culture

Norwegian chess hero

Sasa Dimitrijevic20/09/2007 :: When Norway’s Magnus Carlsen was nine years old, he trounced his father at chess. Seven years later, the 16-year-old chess talent is playing against the heavyweights of the chess world. + More

Culture

Terje Håkonsen sets new world record

Photo: Frode Sandbech/TAC06/03/2007 :: Norwegian snowboard legend Terje Håkonsen has set a new world best at the Oakley Arctic Challenge in Oslo, with the highest snowboard jump of all time. + More

Culture

Kjetil Andre Aamodt retires

15/01/2007 :: The world’s most successful alpine skier ever has announced that he is retiring. + More

Culture

Winter sports in Norway

What do Norwegians do in winter while snow and ice cover large parts of their country? They go cross-country skiing, ski-jumping, downhill skiing. At weekends, during their holidays, after work. When the snow melts in the lowlands in ... + More

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Directorate for Cultural Heritagedirectorate Cul heritage

+ Urnes stave church inscribed on UNESCO’s World Heritage List in 1979. (Photo: Riksantikvaren)

Norwegian Film Institutenfi

+ The NFI preserves, supports and distributes Norwegian and foreign films

Ibsen worldwideibsen

+ Read about Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen

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