Quotes About Norwegians

there is virtually no trace of the Danes in the British genome. Compared to the Angles' and Saxons' and even the Norwegians' genetic legacy in the north of Scotland, there's an absence of Danish DNA despite a long adventure

Obama's Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Noruega fue invadida el mismo día que Dinamarca, pero los noruegos estuvieron luchando durante dos meses. ¿No nos convierte eso en unos cobardes?

He (coach) looks for size, speed being rare among Norwegians and Germans, and for malleability or what he calls attitude.

Scandinavian conquests and settlements, such as Stearsby in northern England, where both the prefix Stear-, derived from the Scandinavian personal name Styrr, and the suffix -by (settlement) are Scandinavian, or Toqueville in Normandy with the Scandinavian personal name Toke as prefix and a French suffix: ville. An analysis of place-names also makes it possible to distinguish between areas settled mainly by Norwegians and those settled mainly by Danes.

I was struck by the date Norwegians placed on this change in attitude. The clear consensus: it was around 1980. For Nigerians, too: "When money became everything was in 1985." Egyptians I interviewed identified a similar shift in the 1980s.

An increase in the visibility of inequality would compound the effect, as the Norwegians discovered.

5) The word Vikings means "fighting men." Vikings included Danes, Norwegians, and Swedes.

Jsme Norové a jsme všichni divní. A protože všichni jsou divní, je svým zp?sobem normální být divný, proto záv?r zní, že nikdo z nás není divný. Jsme jen Norové.

Three children had just disappeared—blue-eyed Norwegians from the streets toward Gowanus—and there were rumours of a mob forming among the sturdy Vikings of that section.

As I say, we Norwegians love our woolens, and you can buy some beautiful knitwear in Oslo. They might cost you a bit - but they will last.

If the U.K. wants a commercial access treaty to the European market, the British must contribute to the European budget like the Norwegians and the Swiss do. If London doesn't want that, then it must be a total exit.

Norsk Hydro wanted to know the purpose of such a large order, but with experiments using heavy water now labeled SH-200, a high-level military secret, the IG Farben representative offered only silence. Not long after, the Norwegians did find out, from Jacques Allier, what that purpose was: the potential development of an atomic bomb.

Until fairly recently it would only have been a slight exaggeration to say that most Norwegians, if they were not themselves farmers or fishermen, were their children.

I think Scandinavian Paganism, to us here, is more interesting than any other. It is, for one thing, the latest; it continued in these regions of Europe till the eleventh century; 800 years ago the Norwegians were still worshippers of Odin. It is interesting also as the creed of our fathers; the men whose blood still runs in our veins, whom doubtless we still resemble in so many ways.

the Norwegians of Chicago were widely regarded as a frugal, industrious, and upstanding people, who enhanced the moral character of the metropolis.

We're Norwegians. You know, the Vikings. My deadlift was 310 pounds. I mean, I was very, very strong - and I didn't take steroids. I did it all on my own.

Still hovering at the back of my mind is a stereotype of Norwegians as descendants of ax-wielding barbarians, but this ancient image clashes wildly with the gentleness, honesty and generosity of the Norwegians I have met on my journey.