Thursday 1st December 2022 Coronavirus update. Covid-related restrictions have greatly eased and our programme of events restarted on 1st November with an excellent talk by John Gilmour. We look forward to continuing our normal activities in the new year and details of the next events will be posted here. Please …
Warm Woodhaven welcome for Norwegian veterans 17 September 2015 To honour the great number of Norwegian servicemen stationed in Scotland during WWII, a special visit was made by seven Norwegian war veterans to Scottish shores this autumn. Here they are at Woodhaven, wartime base of 333 Squadron, today a sheltered …
Mjøsikale at the Castle! – Lillehammer choir to lift the rafters in Edinburgh 23 April 2015 Lillehammer choir ‘Mjøsikale’ hopes to lift the rafters of the Great Hall of Edinburgh Castle when conductor Inger Grini Skagsoset rouses her lively chorus of voices to song on their forthcoming visit to the …
Norwegian eyes on Edinburgh – artist’s city residency 25 September 2014 Norwegian artist Roar Kjærnstad trained in Flanders at the Royal Academy of Art (Antwerp) where he studied the ‘Old Masters’ Rubens, Van Dyck and Rembrandt. He has just completed a month long residency in Edinburgh (exciting times for an …
Tartan noir? ‘Norwegian Night’ sees light of day 16 September 2013 He knew, by streamers that shot so brightThat spirits were riding the northern light. Walter Scott’s ‘Monk of St Mary’s aisle’ may have looked up at the ‘streamers’ of the aurora borealis and shivered with fear – summoned to …
Two Norwegian travellers in Scotland go ‘North by Northwest’ 07 September 2013 Two Norwegians have gone ‘north by northwest’ in the Scottish highlands and islands and written up their travels in book and blog. Though their itineraries are carefully planned and calmy followed – a far cry from the frenetic journey …
Norwegian-Scottish Friendship Our Association, which meets in Edinburgh, is one of 7 Norwegian-Scottish friends societies in Scotland. There are also societies in Glasgow, Aberdeen, Dunfermline, the Highlands, Orkney, and Shetland, as well as the students society, NORSA, in Edinburgh.
Norway’s tartans Norway enjoys a long tradition of tartan. A tartan ‘mønster’ – not a euphemism for Scotland’s ‘Nessie’ – is a tartan ‘check’ or ‘skotskrutet’. Several Norwegian tartans, both tradtional and contemporary, are registered in the Scottish Register of Tartans, the national repository of tartan designs maintained by the National …
Bergen refuge for fleeing Scottish Marquis John Graham, 1st Marquis of Montrose (1612-50), Covenanter turned Royalist, was forced to flee Scotland after defeat at the battle of Philiphaugh. Choosing to escape to Norway, he had his men search all the coast and harbours to the north of his Montrose home …
Syttende Mai i Edinburgh Edinburgh’s Syttende mai parade – the 17th May or Norwegian Constitution Day parade traditionally takes place along the capital’s main thoroughfare, Princes Street. At the boom of Edinburgh Castle’s ‘one o’ clock gun’, the pigeons fly and the parade begins!
