Iceland Imagined: Nature, Culture, and Storytelling in the North Atlantic (Weyerhaeuser environmental books) by Oslund Karen

Author:Oslund, Karen [Oslund, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2011-07-14T16:00:00+00:00

Language politics also played a major role in Norway after its separation from Denmark and incorporation into the Swedish state in 1814 with the Treaty of Kiel. After centuries of union, the official language of Norway was Danish, although with considerable regional differences in pronunciation. During the 1830s, Norwegian nationalists such as Henrik Wergeland and Ivar Aasen deliberately sought to construct a Norwegian language that was perceived as “not Danish.” For this new standard, Aasen relied heavily on the dialects of western Norway, which were remote from the capital and had not been corrupted by contact with Danish. This language, first called Landsmål, and then Nynorsk after 1929, became established as a separate standard alongside Bokmål (called Riksmål before 1929), the language of the capital, which is closer to Danish in its written form.15

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