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)
- (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)
- The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway as updated through 1995;
- Provided by Stortinget, the national parliament.
- (17 May, 1814; English translation)
- Arkivverket: Digitalarkivet / The National Archives' Digital Archive
- The major vital data source for Norway
- Sorted and searchable by:
- type of record
- county at the time of historical interest
- county at present
- 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)
- Norwegian Local History Manuscripts (Click on "KILDENE")
- 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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EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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