Human Wrongs Watch
By Johan Galtung*
Jondal, Norway, 31 July 2017 – TRANSCEND Media Service – Norway is divided very clearly into three parts: the North and the two parts of the South, the West and the East separated by chains of mountains, plateaus (vidder) and emptiness (there is no town between Notodden in the East and Odda in the West).
Johan Galtung
And by language, by unmistakable dialects.
In the East “standard Norwegian”, “bokmål” evolving from Danish after 400 years Copenhagen rule, deeply contested in the 19th century.
In the West Old Norse had left more of an impact and the net outcome was called New Norwegian, “nynorsk“, also partly in the North.
But the basic difference is sing-song in West and North, and flatness in East (“flatnorsk“, neither “jeg” for I, nor “eg“, “je“).
Plus, more important in this connection: geographic orientation.
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