2. Geography
• Population:
5 million people,
one of the smallest in Europe
• Area:
385.000 square kilometers,
one of the largest in Europe
• Language: Norwegian
• Capital city: Oslo
• My hometown: Haugesund
3. Northern Lights
• Norway is far north.
• In the winter in the northern parts of Norway
the sun never rises. It is cold and dark all day!
• But sometimes you can see the Northern
Lights!
4. Midnight Sun
• In the summer in the northern parts of
Norway the sun never sets. It is bright and
sometimes sunny all day and all night!
• Because the sun may shine at midnight
it is called the Midnight Sun.
5. Norway is a fjord country
A fjord is a deep bay
or inlet along the coast,
sometimes surrounded
by tall mountains …
…with often glaciers on top
onthe top.
6. Norway is a monarchy
King Harald,
Queen Sonja,
and the Royal Palace
7. Norway is rich on oil
• Oil was discovered under the ocean floor of
the North Sea. Big oil platforms drill for oil,
and the oil is transported in pipelines to land
where it is refined and sold.
• Norway has become
a rich, but expensive
country.
8. Fishing
• Because so much of the country is a coastal area,
fishing is very important.
9. Famous Norwegians
• Roald Amundsen(1872-1928) was
the first person to reach the
South Pole, in 1911.
• He used dog sleds
to reach the pole.
• Edvard Munch (1863-1944) is
Norway’s most famous
painter.
He painted “The Scream”.
10. • I went to Oslo to the
Munch Museum an this
is Me and the “Scream”!
13. Nobel peace prize
• The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded in Oslo
every year for important work in making or
keeping peace in world.
Nelson Mandela
Martin Luther King Jr.
Mother Teresa
The Red Cross Amnesty International
14. Sports
• Most kids play football (soccer). But winter sports
like skiing and hockey are also very big.
• And the Norwegian women
have been World Champions
in both handball and soccer.
15. Holmenkollen in Oslo
• This is the biggest
ski jumping and winter
sport arena in Norway.
16. Norwegian people
• Norwegians truly love nature, their mountains,,
forests and sea . It is very popular to own a
simple, wooden cottage (called hytte) in the
mountains, sometimes in very remote places,
even without electricity and running water.
• Many people cross-country ski.
17. Brunost (Brown cheese)
• is a “national treasure” and is loved by old and
young alike
• it is made from goat’s milk which is boiled for
hours until most of the water has evaporated
and the sugars have caramelised.
• Brunost is always served
using a cheese slicer.
18. The Viking Age
• Between the years 800 and 1100 the Vikings
lived in Norway and in other Northern
countries.
• They were famous for sailing huge distances
and raiding and plundering people in other
countries.
• But they also traded
with people from
other countries.
19. Vikings on sea
• The Vikings were very good sailors. They built
boats that were very long and narrow.
• They were called longships or dragonships,
because they had giant wood carvings of
dragons.
• Each longboat could carry over 100 people.
• They were sailing vessel, but also had oars,
which made it easier to navigate.
20. Longboats
• These viking ships are in a
museum in Oslo.
21. Viking discoveries
• Norwegian vikings sailed to England, Scotland,
Ireland, Iceland and Greenland.
• Around 500 years before Christopher
Columbus ‘discovered’ the American
continent, Vikings had visited its shores,
landing in what is now Canada in around AD
1000.
22. Viking runes
• The viking alphabet is called runes. They were
carved on stones and wood.
• They were made up of straight lines..
24. Helmets with horns?
• Many people think of the Vikings as always
wearing big helmets with horns.
Actually, there was only one Viking helmet
found in Norway, and it didn't have any horns.
25. Viking Longhouses
• Viking homes were long rectangular buildings. Often
one end of the longhouse was used as a barn.
• Country homes throughout the Viking World range
from 30-60m long by 5m wide.
26. Inside of a Longhouse
• There weren’t any beds in an average Viking
Longhouse. People would sleep wrapped in furs on
benches which were attached to the walls of the
dwelling.
• A fireplace would be
somewhere in the
middle of the floor.
27. Viking weapons
• The Vikings were greatly feared
for their strength and skill in
battles.
• They mostly used swords, axes
and shields.
28. • Norwegians are Christians
and built their churches
from wood.
• Before Christianity they
believed in many gods:
Odin – chief of gods
Thor – god of lightning
Frey – god of nature
