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PoetryThe Lay of HaroldHaraldskvæðiÞorbjörn hornklofi · 900A dialogue between a valkyrie and a raven, in praise of the king victorious at Hafrsfjord.LiteraturePublic domain
EpicPeder PaarsLudvig Holberg · 1720A Danish merchant, on his way to his fiancée, is shipwrecked and becomes the plaything of the gods, like an ancient hero.Literature
PoetryThe Trumpet of NordlandNordlands TrompetPetter Dass · 1739A pastor of the far north describes in verse a province of fishermen, its landscape, its people and their trades.Literature
PoetrySkabelsen, Mennesket og MessiasHenrik Wergeland · 1830not translated into EnglishA young poet sets out to tell in verse the birth of the world and the whole history of mankind.Literature
PoetryNorges DæmringJohan Sebastian Welhaven · 1834not translated into EnglishMocking sonnets against national enthusiasm, at the height of a literary quarrel.Literature
TaleNorwegian Folk TalesNorske FolkeeventyrPeter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Moe · 1844A collection published in instalments and in volumes from 1841 to 1844, in a written language close to the speech of the country.Literature
PoetryNorske FolkeviserMagnus Brostrup Landstad · 1853not translated into EnglishA Telemark pastor publishes the ballads that the peasants of the region were still singing.Literature
NovelThe District Governor's DaughtersAmtmandens døttreCamilla Collett · 1855In the house of a senior official, daughters raised solely for marriage discover what feeling costs.Literature
TheatrePeer GyntHenrik Ibsen · 1867A verse drama in which a young Norwegian braggart, banished from his village, searches for himself among the trolls and then at the ends of the earth.Literature
NovelGarman and WorseGarman og WorseAlexander Lange Kielland · 1880Two merchant families bound by the same firm, in a town where money and the Church lay down the law.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelThe Family at GiljeFamilien paa GiljeJonas Lie · 1883In an officer's household with no money, the daughters' fate depends on who will ask for their hand.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreBeyond Our PowerOver Ævne IBjørnstjerne Bjørnson · 1883A pastor who believes in miracles sets out to heal the woman he loves through prayer.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelFra Kristiania BohemenHans Jæger · 1885not translated into EnglishTwo young people of the capital between the café, alcohol and revolt against bourgeois morality.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelHungerSultKnut Hamsun · 1890A novel of 1890 in which the narrative leaves events behind to follow, minute by minute, a starving consciousness.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryDigteSigbjørn Obstfelder · 1893not translated into EnglishA first book of unrhymed verse, in which a man looks at the modern city without managing to recognise himself in it.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreThe BalconyBalkonenGunnar Heiberg · 1894A woman follows her desire from one man to another, and the stage watches without judging it.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryHaugtussa: The Clairvoyant Mountain MaidHaugtussaArne Garborg · 1895On a moor in the south-west, a poor young girl is given the gift of seeing what no one else sees.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelHellemyrsfolketAmalie Skram · 1898not translated into EnglishFour generations of the same poor family, each busy shaking off the one before.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryNyingerHerman Wildenvey · 1907not translated into EnglishSummer verses, light and rhymed, written by a young man back from America, which were to make him known.Literature
TheatreDriftekarenHans E. Kinck · 1908not translated into EnglishA smooth-talking cattle dealer returns to his home country and puts a whole village to the test of his words.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryDigteOlaf Bull · 1909not translated into EnglishA first book in rhymed verse, in which love, the city and death are spoken in an old form.LiteraturePublic domain
TheatreUngenOskar Braaten · 1911not translated into EnglishA lone working woman is offered the chance to entrust her child to people richer than herself.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelStigerenKristofer Uppdal · 1919not translated into EnglishA foreman gets an old mine running again with boys from the farms, and clashes with his own men.Literature
CinemaGypsy AnneFante-AnneRasmus Breistein · 1920A foundling grows up on a large farm without ever quite belonging to it.Cinema
NovelKristin LavransdatterSigrid Undset · 1922A wealthy farmer's daughter chooses the man she loves against the wishes of her family, and bears the weight of it all her life.LiteraturePublic domain
CinemaPanHarald Schwenzen · 1922A solitary hunter from Nordland and a merchant's daughter, after Knut Hamsun, in images shot on location.Cinema
NovelThe Fourth Night WatchDen fjerde nattevaktJohan Falkberget · 1923A priest newly arrived in a mining town loves a married woman, and his faith is shaken by it.Literature
NovelThe People of JuvikJuvikfolkeOlav Duun · 1923A line of peasants from Trøndelag moves, over six books, from the law of the fathers to the conscience of a single man.LiteraturePublic domain
NovelAlberta and JacobAlberte og JakobCora Sandel · 1926A teenage girl in the Far North feels stifled between parents who are at odds and a awkwardness she has to hide.Literature
CinemaTroll-elgenWalter Fyrst · 1927A poor hunter must kill an elk said to be a ghost in order to win the daughter of a rich peasant.Cinema
PoetryHustavlerArnulf Øverland · 1929not translated into EnglishPoems in the form of precepts, in which a man of the interwar years says what he owes to others and to death.Literature
CinemaDen store barnedåpenTancred Ibsen · 1931A spineless unemployed man and a young single mother, in a working-class boarding house in Oslo, based on a popular play.Cinema
PoetryJord og jernRolf Jacobsen · 1933not translated into EnglishA first book in free verse, in which nature and machines enter the poem in equal measure.Literature
NovelA Fugitive Crosses His TracksEn flyktning krysser sitt sporAksel Sandemose · 1933A respectable man goes back to the town of his childhood to understand why he killed.Literature
CinemaGryr i NordenOlav Dalgard · 1939Women workers at a match factory stop work, and the whole town has to choose a side.Cinema
CinemaTante PoseLeif Sinding · 1940An old aunt invites herself for Christmas to a house where no one expected her, and imposes her rule there.Cinema
CinemaBastardHelge Lunde and Gösta Stevens · 1940A taiga hunter, the son of a peasant woman, must choose between his father's blood and his mother's.Cinema
CinemaDen forsvundne pølsemakerToralf Sandø · 1941Two private detectives set out to look for a missing pork butcher, in a farce from 1941.Cinema
PoetryAll That Is Mine DemandFrihetenNordahl Grieg · 1943Fighting verse written in exile for an occupied country, which received it by radio and through smuggling.LiteraturePublic domain
PoetryJeg vil hjem til menneskeneGunvor Hofmo · 1946not translated into EnglishA young poet emerging from the war seeks the way back to the living, in a shattered world.Literature
NovelMeeting at the MilestoneMøte ved milepelenSigurd Hoel · 1947A resistance fighter charged with unmasking an informer finds, far from Oslo, the witnesses of his youth.Literature
NovelNothing Grows by MoonlightAv måneskinn gror det ingentingTorborg Nedreaas · 1947One night, a woman confides in a stranger what an unrequited love has cost her.Literature
CinemaKon-TikiThor Heyerdahl · 1950Six men who set out from Peru on a primitive craft film their own crossing of the Pacific.Cinema
NovelLillelordJohan Borgen · 1955A boy from a good family leads two lives that must never cross.Literature
NovelThe BirdsFuglaneTarjei Vesaas · 1957A simple man who reads messages in the flight of birds sees a stranger enter his sister's life.Literature
CinemaNine LivesNi livArne Skouen · 1957A lone man, frozen and unable to walk, is carried towards the border by people who risk their lives for him.Cinema
CinemaLake of the DeadDe dødes tjernKåre Bergstrøm · 1958Six friends investigate the disappearance of their host, and the legend of a forest lake begins to answer back.Cinema
CinemaThe Wayward GirlUng fluktEdith Carlmar · 1959A film about two young people who flee the city for an abandoned farm, where the arrival of a vagrant disturbs their isolation.Cinema
CinemaThe ChasersJaktenErik Løchen · 1959A film about a love triangle during a hunt in the mountains, in which a narrator talks with the characters he introduces.Cinema
NovelMoment of FreedomFrihetens øyeblikkJens Bjørneboe · 1966A humble court clerk secretly keeps a register of human cruelty.Literature
CinemaOlsenbanden - Operasjon EgonKnut Bohwim · 1969A crime comedy in which a small-time crook from Oslo plans, with his two accomplices, the theft of a treasure kept in a museum.Cinema
CinemaMaria MarusjkaOddvar Bull Tuhus · 1973A film about a lighthouse keeper, his wife and his daughter, whose balance wavers when a writer comes to rent a cabin on the island.Cinema
CinemaThe Pinchcliffe Grand PrixFlåklypa Grand PrixIvo Caprino · 1975An animated film in which a bicycle repairer, a magpie and a hedgehog build a racing car to challenge a rival.Cinema
CinemaWivesHustruerAnja Breien · 1975A film about three school friends who, after a reunion party for former pupils, give themselves a few days of freedom together.Cinema
CinemaThem and UsLasse & GeirSvend Wam and Petter Vennerød · 1976A film about two idle teenagers from a Norwegian suburb who wander the city after a night in a cell.Cinema
CinemaOrion's BeltOrions belteOla Solum · 1985Action film in which three Arctic sailors stumble upon a military secret that several powers would like to keep quiet.Cinema
CinemaPathfinderOfelašNils Gaup · 1987An adventure film in which a young Sami, the sole survivor of his people, agrees to act as guide to the raiders who killed his family.Cinema
NovelShyness and DignityGenanse og verdighetDag Solstad · 1994A novel of a single day: a literature teacher loses his composure over an umbrella, and his whole life comes flooding back.Literature