Norway 1387 - 1814

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Online medieval Norwegian diplomas provided by the Dokumentasjons Prosjektet.
Searching is by keyword or (more practical for browsing) by volume and page number.
(1050-1590; Old Norse, Latin, Swedish, Middle High German, and other language transcriptions)

Sources for the History of the Medieval (Germanic) Empire.
Includes recorded conferences of the Hanseatic League.
(800-1503; Latin and contemporary vernacular transcriptions with critical apparatus)

Medieval Norwegian laws (digitized by the Danish Royal Library)
(1300-1600; facsimiles)

(Scandinavian literature, sagas and chronicles; transcriptions)

(Transcribed data)

(1536; transcription)

Norsemen (and -women, including Lapps) as portrayed in 16th-century Italian illustrations.
(16th century; facsimiles & commentary)

(1604; facsimile of 1855 printing)

(1524-1633; transcriptions)

(14 November 1665; transcription)

Digitized court proceedings from selected areas
Now accessible in a searchable database.
An English-language description is available.
(1680-1687; transcriptions)

(15 April 1687; transcription)
Provided by Lovdata website's Gjeldende Lover (Laws in Force).
(Transcriptions)
(1670-1699; facsimile of Schous Forordninger printed in 1795)

Formally lodged with the Danish chancellery.
(1704; transcription).

Presented by the National Library of Norway.
(1716-1718; facsimiles & commentary).

(1789; transcription excerpt)

A selection of documentary sources by and about Gjest Baardsen,
a famous criminal and escape artist in early 19th century Norway.
(1791-1849; facsimiles and transcriptions)
Includes a link to Gjest's official homepage

The Constitution of 1814 (Grunnlova or Grundlov) as originally drawn up at Eidsvoll.
(17 May 1814; transcription)
See also The Eidsvoll Diaries of 1814
The 1814 Constitution as updated through 1995;
Provided by Lovdata website's Gjeldende Lover (Laws in Force).
(17 May, 1814; transcriptions)
Provided by Stortinget, the national parliament.
(17 May, 1814; English translation)

The major vital data source for Norway
Sorted and searchable by:
type of record
county at the time of historical interest
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100 most recent databases.
(1660 to present; searchable databases)

(13th through 19th centuries; transcriptions)

Includes primary and secondary documents, provided by Don Mabry.
(Transcriptions, facsimiles and commentaries, mostly in English)

A website, sponsored by the Usenet newsgroup "soc.culture.nordic,"
in form of a chronology, but with links to primary documents.
(800-1994; English transcriptions and commentary)

(Gradually the Land Became Our Own)
An interactive connection of images, documents and commentary.
(10,000 BCE to the present; images, video clips, facsimiles and commentary)

(Facsimiles).

A major digitization project of the holdings of the Norwegian Folk Museum.
Reproductions of over 200,000 artifacts and photographs from the collection.
(Facsimiles and photographs in a searchable database)

A project for documenting Norwegian history
through various types of documents & databases.
It is particularly strong in documenting court proceedings & protocols,
but is equally impressive in medieval materials and Norwegian place names.
(Norwegian transcriptions and photo facsimiles, some English interfaces).

Maps of the North Atlantic from "Vinland" to Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.
Digitized by the Danish Royal Library together with the Grønlandsbeskrivelse.
(1570; facsimiles)

Full text manuscripts selected as part of an online course in reading Gothic script.
Digitized by the history faculty at the University of Bergen.
(1594-1878; manuscript facsimiles)

One year of assorted diary entries and personal testimonies
from the year the constitutional convention was held in Eidsvoll (Akershus).
(January-December 1814; transcriptions)

The Bergen (Hordaland) fire of 1701 in documents, maps and images.
(19 May 1702; facsimiles & commentary)

Digital archive of the Barony of Rosendal in Sunnhordland (Hordaland),
Documenting the estate domain and its history.
(1641-1908; facsimiles & commentary)


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