r/norsk • u/dwchandler • May 09 '21

Søndagsspørsmål #383 - Sunday Question Thread

This is a weekly post to ask any question that you may not have felt deserved its own post, or have been hesitating to ask for whatever reason. No question too small or silly!

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u/knoberation Native speaker May 11 '21

https://folkeeventyr.no - a collection of old Norwegian folk tales (mostly tales for children). These may tend to use somewhat strange/outdated language, so I would not rely on them as a reference to how Norwegian is spoken/written today in practice.

https://eventyrforalle.no/index.php/eventyr - similar but has fewer of the Norwegian tales, and more international ones translated into Norwegian (Grimm, H. C. Andersen, Beatrix Potter etc). The language in these is a bit more "normal" by today's standard, they are probably translated more recently.

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u/knoberation Native speaker May 11 '21

Should also mention that the Norwegian tales tend to have some dialect words, these might be hard for you to translate before you have a better grasp of the language. So I recommend starting with the second link.