A vintage guide to learning Norwegian. The author, Einar Haugen, was a leading scholar of Norwegian and Scandinavian culture. It was important that the learner also had a sense of time and place. Thus, the book includes many photos around Norway.

Spoken Norwegian

Chapman, Kenneth G.

Haugen, Einar

Holt, Rinehart, & Winston Publishers

Beginning Norwegian

George G.Harrap & Co.,Ltd

For more than forty years, the Haugen Norwegian–English Dictionary has been regarded as the foremost resource for both learners and professionals using English and Norwegian. With more than 60,000 entries, it is esteemed for its breadth, its copious grammatical detail, and its rich idiomatic examples. In his introduction, Einar Haugen, a revered scholar and teacher of Norwegian to English speakers, provides a concise overview of the history of the language, presents the pronunciation of contemporary Norwegian, and introduces basic grammatical structures, including the inflection of nouns and adjectives and the declension of verbs.

Norwegian-English Dictionary: A Pronouncing and Translating Dictionary of Modern Norwegian (Bokmål and Nynorsk) with a Historical and Grammatical Introduction

History

Europe

University of Wisconsin Press

A child prodigy, Bull was admitted to the Bergen orchestra as first violin at the age of eight. He soon was idolized on both sides of the Atlantic for his superb improvisations and his ability to play the violin polyphonically. Though he was hailed as “the Paganini of the North,” some critics labeled him a charlatan for his apparently magic tricks on the violin. Bull counted among his friends the great names of his era: Schumann and Lizst, Emerson and Wagner. Longfellow and Hans Christian Andersen modeled characters on him, and he was in part the inspiration for Ibsen’s Peer Gynt. Although he spent most of his adult life abroad, Bull was a tireless promoter of Norwegian art and culture. His concert improvisations were rooted in his native slåtter (folkdance tunes), and he modified his own instrument using the Norwegian Hardanger fiddle as a model. By mid-century, Bull realized his dream of establishing a national theater in Bergen. He gave Henrik Ibsen a start in theater management, employed the poet Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, and promoted the music of Edvard Grieg. His attempt to establish a Norwegian colony, “Oleana,” in the United States, however, failed through poor management. The words of the poet Aasmund Vinje, “That surely would be a man to write a book about,” have been taken to heart by authors Einar Haugen and Camilla Cai. In addition to providing the first comprehensive listing of Bull’s works (with full descriptions of all known sources), analyses of his compositions and their influences, and reviews of his performances, this biography gives life once again to a fascinating and flamboyant figure.

Ole Bull: Norway'S Romantic Musician And Cosmopolitan Patriot

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Studies linguistic problems that affect social and cultural life through discussions of the variety, functions, and learning of language.

Language As a Human Problem

Reference

Bloomfield, Morton W.

Foreign Language Study & Reference

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

1976 Hardcover. No dust jacket. rubbing on top and bottom of spine. some wear, otherwise nice clean readable copy.

The Scandinavian Languages: An Introduction to Their History

Harvard University Press

Ibsen's Drama was first published in 1979. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions."A dramatist for all seasons" Einar Haugen calls Henrik Ibsen in this series of lectures given in honor of the 150th anniversary of the Norwegian playwright's birth. Using a modified version of the communications model developed by linguist Roman Jakobson, Haugen provides a readable, succinct analysis of Ibsen's thinking and dramaturgy. He examines the ways in which Ibsen the author communicated with his nineteenth-century audience and is able, still, to move and inform playgoers today.Haugen brings to this work a lifetime of familiarity with Ibsen in Norwegian and in translation, and he draws upon his own experience as a theatergoer and as an observer of student and audience reaction to the plays. Ibsen's Drama will bring pleasure and a deeper understanding of the playwright to students and playgoers alike.Einar Haugen is Victor S. Thomas Professor of Scandinavian and Linguistics, emeritus, at Harvard University. He is author, editor, or translator of many books and articles in linguistics, literature, and immigrant history, notably The Norwegian Language in America  (1953), The Scandinavian Languages (1976), and Land of the Free (1978).

Ibsen's Drama: Author to Audience (Minnesota Archive Editions)

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

University of Minnesota Press

From rear cover notes: "The Scandinavian languages constitute the northern branch of the Germanic family of languages; the earliest written evidences of any Germanic language are found in the runic inscriptions of Scandinavia, dating back to 200 A.D. Here Einar Haugen provides a concentrated survey of the development of the Scandinavian languages from earliest Proto-Scandinavian down to the six modern standard languages: Icelandic, Faroese, Norwegian (nynorsk), Norwegian (bokmal), Danish, and Swedish...."

Scandinavian Language Structures: A Comparative Historical Survey

Words, Language & Grammar

Immigrant Idealist: A Literary Biography of Waldemar Ager, Norwegian American (Author Series)

Norwegian Amer Historical Assn

Spoken Norwegian Book 1 (Units 1-12)

Spoken Language Services

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