Norwegian and Nordic languages and literature

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Books and articles about Norwegian literature and authors

SCUP (Scandinavian University Press)
Scandinavian University Press’s digital publishing platform for academic journals and open access research books.

Bibliografi over norsk litteraturforsking (Bibliography of Norwegian research in literature)
Norwegian literature after the year 1500 and general literary criticism and literature theory.

Collett Bibliography: Literature by and on Camilla Collett
References to books and articles in books, journals and newspapers – by and on Collett, published in Norway and abroad.

Digitized books from the National Library (Nasjonalbiblioteket).

Diktbiblioteket
Recerences to Norwegian poetry. Search by title, first line, author, theme/topic.

Hamsun Bibiliography: Literature on Knut Hamsun
Bibliography on the work of Knut Hamsun.

The International Ibsen Bibliography

Norart  (Norwegian and Nordic index to periodical articles)
References to articles from  Norwegian and Nordic journals and annals. Covers mainly the period 1980-2020, but some journals go further back, the oldest to 1894.

Norsk litteraturkritikk
Bibliography over literary reviews and criticism published in Norwegian media. It also includes a few reviews of Norwegian literature published in foreign media

Wergeland Bibliography
On Henrik Wergeland and his works.

Norwegian newspapers

Atekst, Retriever
Media archive with full text articles from a large number of Norwegian newspapers. Reviews of authors and book reviews. Note! If the page asks for Retriever Login, reload the page (F5 or Ctrl+r).

The Newspaper database of the National Library
In the newspaper database of the National Library’s online library, you will find a large collection of digitised newspapers from both recent and older periods. Local newspapers are also included. The collection contains newspapers dating all the way back to the 18th century. Some newspaper issues are openly available to everyone, while access to the rest can be requested. The requirement is that use is related to research or documentation purposes.

Nordic literature

Bibliotek.dk
Denmark’s national library catalogue and discovery service. Lets you search for books, articles, music, films, and other materials held in Danish libraries

Libris
Shared database for Swedish academic and research libraries. 

Project Runeberg
Open Access database with full text editions of older, classical Nordic fiction and nonfiction.

Additional resources

Dictionaries and encyclopedias

ISLEX-ordboka
Multilingual dictionary with Icelandic as a source language and Swedish, Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) and Danish as a target language. Contains approx. 50,000 entries with translations.

NAOB - Det Norske Akademis Ordbok
In Norwegian only. The national major dictionary of Norwegian Bokmål and Riksmål from the early 1800’s to today. NAOB is based on the historical work Norsk Riksmålsordbok.

Ordbog over Det norske Folkesprog (Ivar Aasen)
Norway's first descriptive dictionary based on the systematic collection of the Norwegian spoken language, written in Danish by Ivar Aasen in 1850. Available as a free e-book from Google Books.

Ordbøkene
Dictionary for Bokmål and Nynorsk words (Norwegian only, no English translations).

Ordnett
General dictionaries that translate English, German, French, Spanish and Italian words and phrases into Norwegian. In addition, you will find the service "Språkvett" with articles about language use and spelling.

Store norske leksikon
Free national encyclopaedia from the Kunnskapsforlaget.

Websites

Forskningsmiljøet Norsk sakprosa
News website for the research environment of subject oriented prose in Scandinavia.

Korrekturavdelingen
Writing rules and advice on spelling and punctuation. The target audience is Bokmål users (no English).

Kulturdirektoratet
Website for Arts Council Norway, the main governmental operator for the implementation of Norwegian cultural policy.

Språkrådet
Website for the Language Council of Norway, Norway's consultative body on language issues.

Norwegian Research Information Repository (NVA)

Collects publications and other research results, and makes them openly available in a common national solution. This makes results from Norwegian research available in a single service.

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