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Opening of Ohthere's Old English account, translated: "Ohthere told his lord Ælfrede king that he lived northmost of all Norwegians…"

Norway has two official names: Norge in Bokmål and Noreg in Nynorsk. The English name Norway comes from the Old English word Norþweg mentioned in 880, meaning "northern way" or "way leading to the north", which is how the Anglo-Saxons referred to the coastline of Atlantic Norway[1][2][3] similar to leading theory about the origin of the Norwegian language name.[4] The Anglo-Saxons of Britain also referred to the kingdom of Norway in 880 as Norðmanna land.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b "Nomino 6:6". Nomino. Season 2 (in Norwegian). 4 October 2016. Event occurs at 22:18. NRK. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. ^ a b "Sår tvil om Norges opphav" (in Norwegian). Forskning.no for Universitetet i Agder. 29 February 2016.
  3. ^ Skre, Dagfinn (2020). Rulership in 1st to 14th century Scandinavia. De Gruyter. pp. 3, 5–10.
  4. ^ Krag, Claus, 2003: "The early unification of Norway." I Knut Helle (red.): The Cambridge history of Scandinavia 1. Prehistory to 1520. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 184–201.

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