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Haakon VII, born August 3, 1872 ; the second son, Carl, of Frederik VIII, King of Denmark, elected King of Norway by the Storting, November 18, 1905 ; accepted the crown through his grandfather, the late King Christian of Denmark, November 18, 1905 ; landed in Norway November 25, 1905 ; married, July 22, 1896, to Princess Maud, born November 26, 1869 (died November 20, 1938), the third daughter of the late Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Books of Reference
Books of Reference concerning Norway: 1. Official Publications
Statistisk Aarbok for Norge. (Statistical Annual of Norway.)
Publications of the State Departments.
Norges Statskalender for Aaret 1939. Efter offentlig Foranstaltning redigert av C. Lampe. Oslo, 1939.
Kongeriket Norges civile, geistlige, rettslige og militaere inndeling. Utgitt av det Statistiske Centralbyrâ. Osloy 1937.
Statistiske Meddelelser. utgitt av det Statistiske Centralbyrl. Oslo, 1882–1939.
Norges Bank, Monthly report of the economic conditions in Norway.
Norges Land og Folk. I. Smaalenenes Amt. II. Akershus Amt. III. Kristiania. IV. Hedemarkens Amt. V. Kristians Amt. VI. Buskeruds Amt. VII. Jarlsberg og Larviks Amt. VIII. Bratsberg Amt. IX. Nedenes Amt. X. Lister og Mandai Amt. XI. Stavanger Amt. XII. Söndre Bergenhus Amt. XIII. Bergens by. XIV. Nordre Bergenhua Amt. XV. Romsdals Amt. XVI. Söndre Trondhjems Amt. XVII. Nordre Trondhjems Amt. XVIII. Nordlands Amt. XIX. Tromsö Amt. XX. Finmarkens Amt. Kristiania, 1885–1916.
Reports on Norway, Foreign Offiee Reports, Annual Series. London.
Unionens Oplösning, 1905. Officielle Aktstykker. By J. V. Heiberg. Kristiania, 1906
The Northern Countries in World Economy. (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden.) Delegations for the Promotion of Economic Co-operation between the Northern Countries. Oslo, 1937.
2. Non-Official Publications
Norske Folks Liv og Historie. 11 vols. 1829–1938.
Norway Year Book, The. Oslo, 1938.
Baedeker’s Norwegen, Dänemark, Island, Spitzbergen. 14th ed. Leipzig, 1931.
Beckett (S. J.), Norway and its Treasures. London, 1914.
— The Fjords and Folk of Norway. London, 1928.
—A Wayfarer in Norway. London, 1935.
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Braekntad (H. L.), The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway. London, 1905.
Cook (T.), Guide to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. ‘ 17th edition. London, 1939.
Friksen (Sigurd), Norge, Schären, Fjorde imd Sonne. Hamburg, 1930.
Fischer (K.), Ed., Norway to-day. Oslo, 1937.
Franck (H. A.), A Scandinavian Summer. London, 1930.
Gjerset (Knut), History of the Norwegian People. London and New York, 1932.
Grimley (O. B.), The New Norway. Oslo, 1939.
Hammer (S. C), Oslo—Things seen in Norway. London, 1926.
Hardy (G. Gathorne), Norway (The Modern World Series). London, 1925.
Hielscher (K.), Dänemark, Schweden, Norwegen. Landschaft, Baukunst, Volksleben. Leipzig, 1932.
Larson (L. M.), The Earliest Norwegian Laws. London, 1935
Lieberenz (Paul), Im Lande der Renntiere. (Illustrated.) Berlin, 1933.
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Meyen, (Fritz), Norwegen. Berlin, 1934.
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— Norges Historie. Christiania, 1899.
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Vidnes (J.), La Norvège. Oslo, 1934.
3. Spitsbergen
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Isachsen (G.), Expedition Isachsen au Spitsberg (with maps). Christiana, 1916.
Nonsen (Fridtiiof), En ferd til Spitsbergen, Kristiania, 1920.
—Spitsbergen. Leipzig, 1921.
Rudmosk Brown (R. M.), Spitsbergen. An Account of Exploration, Hunting, the Mineral Riches and Future Potentialities of an Arctic Archipelago. London, 1920.
Wieder (P. C.), The Dutch Discovery and Mappery of Spitsbergen. Amsterdam, 1919.
Wordie (J. M.), ‘Present-day Conditions in Spitsbergen,’ in Geographical Journal, July, 1921.
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Epstein, M. (1940). Norway. In: Epstein, M. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270695_57
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