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Viken, Norway

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Viken (Old Norse: Vík or Víkin) or Vika, was the historical name for a district in southeastern Norway, including the modern day Swedish province Bohuslän, which consisted of the area surrounding the Oslofjord and Skagerrak, the strait running between Norway and the southwest coast of Sweden and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark. [1]

31 relations: Akershus, Østfold, Bagler, Battle of Nesjar, Bohuslän, Borre, Norway, Buskerud, Civil war era in Norway, Denmark, Districts of Norway, Einar Haugen, Grenland, Haakon V of Norway, Jan Terje Faarlund, Jutland, Knut Helle, Kungahälla, Norway, Olaf II of Norway, Old Norse, Oslo, Oslofjord, Per G. Norseng, Ranrike, Sarpsborg, Skagerrak, Sweden, Tønsberg, Vestfold, Vikings, Vingulmark.

Akershus

Akershus is a county in Norway, bordering Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud, Oslo, and Østfold; it also has a short border with Sweden (Värmland).

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Østfold

Østfold is a county in southeastern Norway, bordering Akershus and southwestern Sweden (Västra Götaland County and Värmland), while Buskerud and Vestfold are on the other side of Oslofjord.

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Bagler

The Bagli Party or Bagler (Old Norse: Baglarr, Norwegian Bokmål: Bagler, Norwegian Nynorsk: Baglar) was a faction or party during the Norwegian Civil Wars.

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Battle of Nesjar

Battle of Nesjar (Slaget ved Nesjar) was a sea battle off the coast of Norway in 1016.

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Bohuslän

Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast.

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Borre, Norway

Borre is a village in the municipality of Horten, Vestfold county, Norway.

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Buskerud

Buskerud is a county in Norway, bordering Akershus, Oslo, Oppland, Sogn og Fjordane, Hordaland, Telemark and Vestfold.

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Civil war era in Norway

The civil war era in Norway (Norwegian: borgerkrigstiden) began in 1130 and ended in 1240.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Districts of Norway

The country Norway is historically divided into a number of districts.

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Einar Haugen

Einar Ingvald Haugen (April 19, 1906 – June 20, 1994) was an American linguist, author and Professor at University of Wisconsin–Madison and Harvard University.

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Grenland

Grenland is a traditional district in the county of Telemark, in the south of Norway.

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Haakon V of Norway

Haakon V Magnusson (10 April 1270 – 8 May 1319) (Old Norse: Hákon Magnússon; Norwegian: Håkon Magnusson) was king of Norway from 1299 until 1319.

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Jan Terje Faarlund

Jan Terje Faarlund (born 3 May 1943) is a Norwegian linguist and professor emeritus of North Germanic languages at the University of Oslo.

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Jutland

Jutland (Jylland; Jütland), also known as the Cimbric or Cimbrian Peninsula (Cimbricus Chersonesus; Den Kimbriske Halvø; Kimbrische Halbinsel), is a peninsula of Northern Europe that forms the continental portion of Denmark and part of northern Germany.

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Knut Helle

Knut Helle (19 December 1930 – 27 June 2015) was a Norwegian historian.

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Kungahälla

Kungahälla (Konghelle, Konungahella) was a medieval Norwegian settlement in southern Bohuslän at a site which is located in Kungälv Municipality in Västra Götaland County in Sweden.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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Olaf II of Norway

Olaf II Haraldsson (995 – 29 July 1030), later known as St.

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Old Norse

Old Norse was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and inhabitants of their overseas settlements from about the 9th to the 13th century.

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Oslo

Oslo (rarely) is the capital and most populous city of Norway.

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Oslofjord

The Oslofjord (Oslo Fjord) is an inlet in the south-east of Norway, stretching from an imaginary line between the Torbjørnskjær and Færder lighthouses and down to Langesund in the south to Oslo in the north.

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Per G. Norseng

Per Gudbrand Norseng (born 6 October 1951) is a Norwegian historian.

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Ranrike

Ranrike or Rånrike (Old Norse Ránríki) was the old name for a part of Viken, corresponding to southeast Norway (Oslofjord area) and the northern half of the modern Swedish (Norwegian until 1658) province of Bohuslän (roughly identical with Álfheimr of Scandinavian mythology).

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Sarpsborg

Sarpsborg, historically Borg, is a city and municipality in Østfold county, Norway.

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Skagerrak

The Skagerrak is a strait running between the southeast coast of Norway, the southwest coast of Sweden, and the Jutland peninsula of Denmark, connecting the North Sea and the Kattegat sea area, which leads to the Baltic Sea.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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Tønsberg

Tønsberg is a city and municipality in Vestfold county, southern Norway, located around south-southwest of Oslo on the western coast of the Oslofjord near its mouth onto the Skagerrak.

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Vestfold

Vestfold is a county in Norway, on the western shore of the Oslofjord.

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Vikings

Vikings (Old English: wicing—"pirate", Danish and vikinger; Swedish and vikingar; víkingar, from Old Norse) were Norse seafarers, mainly speaking the Old Norse language, who raided and traded from their Northern European homelands across wide areas of northern, central, eastern and western Europe, during the late 8th to late 11th centuries.

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Vingulmark

Vingulmark (Old Norse Vingulmörk) is the old name for the area in Norway which today makes up the counties of Østfold, western parts of Akershus (excluding Romerike), and eastern parts of Buskerud (Hurum and Røyken municipalities), and includes the site of Norway's capital, Oslo.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viken,_Norway

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