Fun Facts about Norway
• The cheese slicer was invented in Norway in 1925 by Thor Bjørklund.
• The official Christmas tree in Trafalgar in London has come from Norway
each year since 1945.
• Kaia Gjendine Slålien was one of the people that inspired Edvard Grieg.
• Sognefjorden is the largest fjord in Norway and third largest in the world.
It’s the world’s longest ice-free fjord and it stretches 205km inland from the ocean.
• The famous Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet. Henrik Ibsen’s home place was Grimstad, Norway and it’s the sunniest place in Norway.
• The Norwegians founded Dublin, Ireland, in A.D. 836.
• Norway’s national symbol is the lion.
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