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NST’s Forty-Nineth Year

Midnattsolen Systtende Mia 2024

Voting for Althing Officers Election ended April 10. The results of the election are hereby announced:
Officers serving NST for the term 2023-2024 are:

Over the past few weeks, you have heard a lot about the intent to close of the Norwegian Consulate General in Houston. Much has been happening in the background, and we wanted to update you about this.

A massive 1,100-year-old graveyard leads to a surprising new view of the Nordic legacy in Britain
Smithsonian Magazine

OSLO TO BERGEN VIA
TELEMARK AND HARDANGER

NST member Morten Lamøy featured at Galveston Art League Member Show.

Two-time world champion Karsten Warholm broke a 29-year-old world record in the 400m hurdles, the longest-standing record in men’s track.

The Norwegian clocked 46.70 seconds at a Diamond League meet in Oslo on Thursday. American Kevin Young held the record of 46.78 from the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

Clifton Norwegian Settlement Reporting on the history and site in Bosque County.

Amundsen is a Norwegian film, released on 15 February 2019, that details the life of Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. It was directed by Espen Sandberg and was distributed in Norway by SF Studios.

About the Show
A princess steals the heart of the president of the United States in an epic drama based on the World War II relationship of Franklin Roosevelt and Norwegian Crown Princess Martha. Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Sex and the City) stars as Roosevelt, opposite Swedish star Sofia Helin (The Bridge) as the beautiful Martha, who flees the Nazis with her three young children and lives under Roosevelt’s protection. The eight-part series co-stars Tobias Santelmann as Crown Prince Olav and Harriet Sansom Harris as First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt.

Althing Officer Election Results 2021

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

Ringness House Article in the Norwegian American Magizine.

Michael Anderson ZOOM Concert on 09/18/2020

BY JAMES J. S. JOHNSON, J.D., TH.D. * | SUNDAY, MAY 1

Syttende Mai is a celebration of Norwegian culture and coming together with family and community. In a time when in-person parades and parties are on hold, you can find ways to celebrate Syttende Mai while maintaining a safe physical distance. Here are some ideas for a home-based celebration:

The Karl & Sedsel Questad Farm –
19th Century Norwegian Rock Structures in Bosque County Texas –
A Case for Preservation –

Archaeologists in Norway using ground-penetrating radar have detected one of the largest Viking ship graves ever found. By Andrew Curry

Some lesser known history about Leif's family, friends, and their friends -- gives a bigger picture on the interrelated of Vikings who lived when Leif Eiriksson lived.

Viking chapter of the Norwegian Society of Texas would like to invite you to the 44th annual Leif Eiriksson Banquet!

The Statue of Liberty originally called Liberty Enlightening the World symbolizing liberty in the form of a woman wearing flowing robes and a spiked crown of seven spokes (symbolizing the seven oceans and the seven continents) who holds a torch aloft in her right hand and carries in her left a book of law inscribed "July 4, 1776". The broken chains, symbolizing the overthrow of tyranny, lie at her feet.

The Norwegian American

Clifton: Norwegian Capital of Texas and more...

The Scandinavian Club of Albuquerque has invited members of the Norwegian Society of Texas to attend their 2016 Julefest to be held Sunday, December 4 in Albuquerque.
Contact Lana Hills at 505-271-2159 for tickets.

Fall is here and it’s time to celebrate the Norse explorer Leif Eriksson
who is credited with being the first European to reach North America.