Police has confirmed that at least 80 teenagers were murdered at Utøya. The King sounded years older on the radio.

In latest news, the arrested suspect is now named in Norwegian media, as one Anders Behring Breivik (32), a self-styled nationalist and anti-islamist ( Read more... )

( The Norwegian Prime Minister speaks about the terrorist attacks in Norway: )

Just for the record, while I live in Norway, I live about a thousand miles away from Oslo, where the terror attacks today happened ( Read more... )

First, explain how funnelshaped glasses, imported from Bohemia, the Frankish Empire, etc., for a while were the most common shape of drinking glass in Viking Age Scandinavia ( Read more... )

Norwegian broadcaster NRK is currently broadcasting directly (on its NRK2 network) from the Northbound sailing of the Hurtigrute vessel MS NORDNORGE. Cameras film not the onboard life, but the seas and the landscape surrounding the ship, boats accompanying the ship, work in the harbour, cultural shows put on in harbour in honour of the broadcast, ( Read more... )

Today, for the first time this year, I did not need to wear my woolen long underwear while driving my scooter to work. Yesterday the temperature was around 10-12 degrees Celsius (50-53.6 Fahrenheit), but overnight it went up to around 25-28 degrees Celsius (77-82.4 Fahrenheit). Not a bad show for being about 100 miles North of the Arctic Circle, ( Read more... )

Is it just me, or did the princesses Beatrice and Eugenie ( look particularly intimidating today? )

So my old computer has been in a slightly poor way for a while ("Scanning Bios Image in hard drive"), and I've been considering getting a replacement - either parts to upgrade what I have, or a whole new computer - but I've dragged my heels a bit on the issue. However, effective last night, my old computer has definitely kicked the bucket - am ( Read more... )

And now I'm off to take 86 tourists to a sacrifice to the Norse gods, so the sun and summer will return. I have a good job.