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Haakon VII, born 3 August, 1872; second son of Frederik VIII, King of Denmark, elected King of Norway by the Storting, 18 November, 1905; accepted the crown, 18 November, 1905; landed in Norway, 25 November, 1905; married, 22 July, 1896, to Princess Maud, born 26 November, 1869 (died 20 November, 1938), the third daughter of the late Edward VII, King of Great Britain and Ireland.
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Books of Reference concerning Norway
1. Official Publications
Statistisk Aarbok for Norge. (Statistical Annual of Norway.)
Statistisk-Økonomisk oversikt. (Statistical and economic survey.)
Norges Statskalender. Annual. Oslo.
Kongeriket Norges civile, geistlige, rettslige og militaere inndeling. Utgitt av det Statistiske Sentralbyrà. Oslo, 1941.
Statistiske Meddelelser. Utgitt av det Statistiske Sentralbyrà. Oslo, from 1882.
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 Ant. X. Lister og Mandai Amt. ZI Stavanger Amt. XII. Söndre Bergenhus Amt. XIII. Bergens by. XIV. Nordre Bergenhus 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 Office Reports, Annual Series. London.
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.
Norway. A Handbook. Compiled by the Royal Norwegian Government. London, 1944.
All for Norway. An illustrated book about Norway, containing articles issued on the occasion of King Haakon’s 70th birthday. London, 1942.
2. Non-Official Publications
Norway. National Travel Association of Norway. Oslo, 1946.
Norwegian Church Struggle. London, 1943.
Norway Year Book, The. Oslo, 1938.
Norway’s Export Trade. Oslo, 1939.
Beckett (S. J.), Norway and its Treasures. London, 1914.—The Fjords and Folk of Norway. London, 1928.—A Wayfarer in Norway. London, 1935.
Braekstad (H. L.), The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway. London, 1905.
Christensen (S.), Norway is My Country. London, 1943.
Cook (T.), Guide to Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. 17th edition. London, 1939.
Eriksen (Sigurd), Norge, Schären, Fjorde und Sonne. Hamburg, 1930.
Grimley (O. B.), The New Norway. Oslo, 1939.
Hambro (C. J.), I saw it happen in Norway. London, 1940.
Hardy (G. Gathorne), Norway. (‘Modern World’ Series.) London, 1925.
Hamman (Mrs.), Mission to the North. New York, 1941.
Harris (G. R.), Progressive Norway. Washington, 1939.
Hauge (E.), Odds Against Norway. London, 1941.
Keilhan (W.), Norway in World History. (‘Cross Road’ Series.) London, 1944.
Lehmkuhl (H. K.), The Invasion of Norway. London, 1940.—Hitler Attacks Norway. London, 1943.
Lorentzen (O.), Norway, Norwegian Shipping and the War. London, 1942.
Lyle (A.), Die Industrialisierung Norwegens. Jena, 1939.
Reusch (Hans), Norges Geografi. I. Naturen og Folket. Oslo, 1927.
Rotherp (Agnes), Norway: Changing and Changeless. London, 1939.
Schwitters (Ernst), This Norway. London, 1944.
Seaton (G. W.), What to See and Do in Scandinavia. New York, 1939.
Slingsby (W. C.), Norway: The Northern Playground. Oxford, 1940.
Steffens (H. K.), Den norske Centraladministrations histoire, 1814–1914. Kristiania, 1914.
Vidnes (J.), La Norvège. Oslo, 1934.
Warbey (W. N.), Look to Norway. London, 1946.
Werenskiold (W.) (editor), Norge vårt land. Oslo, 1936.
3. Spitsbergen
Oxford University Expedition to Spitsbergen. 3 vols. 1921–24.
Spitsbergen Papers, 2 vols. London, 1925–29.
Glen (A. R.); Young Men in the Arctic. London, 1935.
Gordon (Seton), Amid Snowy Wastes. London, 1922.
Holtedahl (Olaf), Notes on the Geology of North-western Spitsbergen. Oslo, 1926.
Nansen (Fridtjof), En ferd til Spitsbergen. Kristiania, 1920.—Spitsbergen. Leipzig, 1921.
Rudmorse Brown (R. M.), Spitsbergen: An Account of Exploration, Hunting, the Mineral Riches and Future Potentialities of an Arctic Archipelago. London, 1920.
Staël von Holstein (L. F. W.), Norway in the Arctic. London, 1932.
Stefansson (V.), Arctic Manual. New York, 1944.
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Steinberg, S.H. (1948). Norway. In: Steinberg, S.H. (eds) The Statesman’s Year-Book. The Statesman’s Yearbook. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230270770_47
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