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The most Norwegian thing you will ever hear
What could be more Norwegian than...

Stewart Shelline
Nov 41 min read


Adopted in...
Stewart and I went to Norway in October 2024 and I can't wait to go back! This is the Bergen train station...so clean...so efficient. I am about equally divided between Dutch, Welsh, Danish, and Swedish, so I was a bit reluctant to join the Sons of Norway because I am not a 'SON' of Norway, nor am I Norwegian. I had no idea how fun it would be when I chose to whole-heartedly participate. I'm bumbling through Norwegian on Duolingo, learning how to bake Norwegian cookies, an

Heidi Shelline
Oct 221 min read


Gårder
My dream farm on the cover of "Farms in Berg, Rokke and Asak." When I was a boy, I spent many happy hours at my grandparents home in Lindon, Utah. Through my grandfather's stories of his time in Norway as a missionary, I grew to love Norway and its culture. I don't remember that my grandfather talked much about the farms in Norway, but I do remember a simple painting he and my grandmother displayed on their living room wall. It was an idyllic farm scene, complete with rolling

Stewart Shelline
Oct 224 min read


Deep Fjords: The Norway Garden
For more than 77 years, the Norway Garden at the International Peace Gardens has been a home away from home for those longing to connect with the places and people of Norway.

Stewart Shelline
Apr 3012 min read


From the Archives: Humble--and hopeful--beginnings
The Sons of Norway Leif Erikson Lodge 6-83 was organized on November 5, 1966...

Stewart Shelline
Feb 108 min read


From the Archives: Fiskeklubben
Did you ever attend a Fiskeklubben lunch in Salt Lake? Do you know someone who did?

Stewart Shelline
Feb 33 min read


Book Review: Happy Times in Norway
Happy Times in Norway, by Sigrid Undset Years ago, a brief reference in one of E. B. White's essays caught my attention. Titled A Week in...

Stewart Shelline
Jan 164 min read


Freedom Fighter: Jakob Johan Dreyer Jr.
Shortly before WW2, my grandfather Howard Engh’s cousin, Kari Sidselrud, married an enterprising man named Jakob Johan Dreyer (Jr). The...

Paul Stout
Jan 165 min read
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