2) Going medieval to go modern

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Norway suffered a four-hundred-year-long rule by Denmark and subsequently Swedish rule for almost a century. When Norway became a fully independent nation in 1905, it reinvented itself as a national entity by establishing a joint and common Norwegian language. Norway chose, however, to accept two standard modes of written Norwegian: Bokmål and Nynorsk. Both variants are equal in status—the Nynorsk variant, however, being closer in expression to spoken variants. When it comes to the more ident...

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