important people Flashcards
Bjorstjerene Bjornson Avelstad
- Won the nobel prize
- wanted nordic countries to cooperate
- viewed them as siblings
Ivar Aasen
- father of nynorsk
- Norwegian language researcher and poet
Wergeland & Knudsen
Both worked for Norwegianizing Danish
Helge Ingstad
- Norwegian explorer
- found Remnants of Vikings settlement in L’Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland
Nils Aslak Valkeappaa
- Finnish Sami
- Multimedia Artist
- Performed Joik
- Wrote poetry
Erik the Red
- was an Icelander
- was a murderer
- went to Greenland, found settlements
Hans Egede
- Was minister of Norway
- “Christianized” the Inuk of Greenland
Svante Arrhenius
- Swedish
- Founder of Physical Chemistry
Arne Naess
- Norwegian
- philospher
Gro Harlem Brundtland
- Was PM of Norway many times
- medical DR
- was Head of WHO at one time
Roald Amundsen
Norwegian Explorer -
- used the ship the “fram” to go to Antarctica
- reached the south pole
- died a hero’s death
Fridtjof Nansen
Norwegian Explorer
- won a Nobel Peace Prize
- made the first crossing of the interior on cross-country skis.
Borge Ousland
Most Famous living Explorer
-First person to cross Antarctica solo
- his personal identity has been shaped by the Arctic
Otto Sverdrup
Mapped the northern regions of Canadian Islands
- motion of Europeans coming over and mapping
Knud Rasmussen
Inuit/Danish
- polar explorer
- anthropologist
- First European to cross Northwest passage on a Dogsled
- “father of eskimology”
