11 Facts About Norwegian literature

Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people.

The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skaldaspillir.

Period from the 14th century to the 19th is considered a Dark Age in the nation's literature though Norwegian-born writers such as Peder Claussøn Friis, Dorothe Engelbretsdatter and Ludvig Holberg contributed to the common literature of Denmark–Norway.

Medieval Norwegian literature is closely tied with medieval Icelandic literature and considered together as Old Norse literature.

Norwegian literature recorded Norse mythology in the form of the Prose Edda, a book of poetic language providing an important understanding of Norse culture prior to Christianity.

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Norwegian literature was the author of the Heimskringla, a detailed history of the Norwegian kings that begins in the legendary Ynglinga saga and continues to document much of early Norwegian history.

Norwegian literature was virtually nonexistent during the period of the Scandinavian Union and the subsequent Dano-Norwegian union.

Reformation was imposed on Norway in 1537 and the Dano-Norwegian literature rulers used it to impose Danish culture; this was effected through the pulpit as well as through written records, as pastors were trained in Copenhagen.

At least as important in the creation of a Norwegian literature was the effort to introduce a pure Norwegian language, based on the dialects spoken in the areas more isolated from capital.

Norwegian literature has since remained at short prose genre, and is today considered one of Norwegian literature's finest short story writers.

Norwegian literature argued for a renewal of Norwegian poetry, and spread knowledge of foreign literature through translations of English modernist writers like T S Eliot.