Norse fowk

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Norse fowk
nordmenn
Norwegians (ethnicgroup)b.png
St. Olaf  • P. Tordenskjold  • N. H. Abel  • F. Stang
H. Ibsen  • E. Grieg  • F. Nansen  • E. Munch
R. Amundsen  • E. Groven  • L. Ullmann  • O. G. Solskjær
Pr. Märtha  • Pr. Mette-Marit  • S. Jensen  • L-M. M. Jünge
Total population
12 milliona[citation needit]
(0.17% of the world's population) a
Regions wi signeeficant populations
Banner o Norawa Norawa[a]:4,305,886[1]
Banner o Unitit States Unitit States 4,712,232 [2]
Banner o Canadae Canadae[a] 521,390[3]
Banner o Brazil Brazil[a] 465,441[4]
Banner o Unitit Kinrick Unitit Kinrick[a][b] 13,798[5]

also c. 42,000 Orcadians an Shetlanders
Banner o Swaden Swaden[a] 48,385[6][7]
Banner o Australie Australie 32,850[8][9]
Banner o Denmark Denmark 16,320[10]
Leids

Norse
Closely related (mutually intelligible) languages include Danish and Swedish. Other related languages include Faroese and Icelandic, and to a lesser extent, all Germanic languages.
Norwegian Americans: Historically Norwegian, but later English because of Americanization.
Releegion

Mainly Lutheranism and more recently Secularism. Also see Religion in Norway. Historically Norse paganism  
Sib ethnic groups

Faroese, Icelanders, Germans/Austrians,[11] Danes, Dutch, Swedes, Shetlanders, Orcadians, Scots, English, Normans
Other Germanic ethnic groups
Footnotes
a. ^ Does not include people of Faroese, Icelandic, Orcadian or Shetlandic ancestry. Does include persons with partial Norwegian ancestry.

b. ^ Note that there are millions of Britons of Scandinavian ancestry and ethnicity, though mixed with others.

Norse fowk (Norse: nordmenn) constitute baith a naition an an ethnic group native tae Norawa. They share a common cultur an speak the Norse leid. Norse fowk an their stryndants are foond in migrant commonties warldwide, notably in Unitit States, Canadae, Australie an Brazil.

References [edit]

  1. ↑ "Without immigrant background" : Population 1.1.2010 (4 305 886 [1])
  2. ↑ The 2000 American census reports that the United States, in the 2000 census, has 4,477,725 inhabitants of (partial) Norwegian ancestry.
  3. ↑ Shows a list over Canadas different ethnic groups, reports that there is 363,760 persons reporting Norwegian as one ancestry in Canada, of these 44,790 reported only Norwegian.
  4. ↑ The 2000 Brazilian census reports that Brazil, in the 2000 census, has 465,44 inhabitants of (partial) Norwegian ancestry.
  5. ↑ Number of Norwegians registered at the Embassy for living in each of these countries.
  6. ↑ Swedish Statistics from 2005. Shows the official number of Norwegians in Sweden at page 20.
  7. ↑ Sweden: Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth, by year
  8. ↑ Swedish Statistics from 2005. Shows the official number of Norwegians in Sweden at page 20.
  9. ↑ Australian: Stock of foreign-born population by country of birth, by year
  10. ↑ Statistics Denmark:FOLK2: Population 1. January by sex, age, ancestry, country of origin and citizenship. Statistics Denmark. Retrieved on 3 August 2012. .
  11. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named hpgl.stanford.edu
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