Norwegian literature
Norwegian literature
By category
Norwegian language
List of writers
Writers - Novelists
Playwrights - Poets
Essayists
Literary theory - Critics
Literary Prizes
Ibsen - Vesaas - Hamsun
Collett - Bjørnson
Wergeland - Dag Solstad
Jon Fosse - Sigrid Undset
Norwegian literature is literature composed in Norway or by Norwegian people. The history of Norwegian literature starts with the pagan Eddaic poems and skaldic verse of the 9th and 10th centuries with poets such as Bragi Boddason and Eyvindr Skáldaspillir. The arrival of Christianity around the year 1000 brought Norway into contact with European medieval learning, hagiography and history writing. Merged with native oral tradition and Icelandic influence this was to flower into an active period of literature production in the late 12th and early 13th centuries. Major works of that period include Historia Norwegie, Thidreks saga and Konungs skuggsjá.
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