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Norway contains all the complete chapters on this stunning country, excerpted from ricks fulllength scandinavia guidebook and leaves out the chapters on other scandinavian destinations. From the age of the vikings, norway has given the world art and architecture, ranging from its famous wooden stave churches to the paintings of edvard munch, scandinavias most celebrated artist. This page was last edited on 24 february 2020, at 16. The landscape painters who invented norway apollo magazine. Rorvik tells nrk that the book billy goats gruff at the water park was born by coincidence the time he was asked to form a norwegian team at a nordic picture book conference in stavanger a few years back.
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