Word: norwegians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left in the midst of the bloodless quarrel between Denmark and Norway over possession of the Greenland coast north of Scoresby Sound (TIME. June 8. 1931 et seq.}. Denmark-said Norway in effect, defending the rights of Norwegian hunters to settle there-had never fully explored this part of her huge colony. Dr. Koch proceeded systematically to answer that objection by proceeding north from Scoresby Sound, charting as he went...
Last week fishermen trawling the chill grey waters south of Bear Island, which lies along the track of the Amundsen route, sent reports to Tromso which, if investigation bears them out, will enable Norwegians at least to mark with a reverent X the spot where their great explorer died. One report said a "heavy object'' brought up in a net had been identified as part of the plane, but had broken through the net and been lost again. The Norwegian Government wondered whether other identifiable wreckage had been found, ordered an investigation, stood ready to send the Arctic...
...fluky goal before the half was out but McLean got one more chance to break the tie. When there were only seven minutes left to play, he sent in a corner kick, low and wide, to his centre, Werner ("Scotty") Nilsen. Nilsen received the pass on his broad Norwegian skull, gave it a resounding butt. The ball sailed past Chesney's long arm for the goal that ended the game, 2 to 1, gave the Westerners...
...three centuries Greenland was a republic. In 1261 it became a Norwegian colony and a government ship went once a year to Greenland; after 1410 it went no more. In 1585 an Englishman found only graves and Eskimos in Greenland. The Norse skeletons showed the effects of scurvy and rickets. In 1721 a Norwegian missionary tried again to make Greenland a white man's land, and Norway began to ship its convicts to Greenland. But in 1814 Norway lost Greenland. It was done by an Irishman's "lie" that last week reverberated through Norway and Denmark...
...Norway's little-known Arctic Council of peppery explorers warned Norway that Danes were planning to explore East Greenland, secure it for Denmark (TIME, June 8, 1931 et seq.). Acting quickly, Norway sent half a dozen men to plant the Norwegian flag among the sad-eyed Eskimos and puffins on a 350-mile strip of the eastern coast which they named Eric the Red Land. A year later another Norwegian expedition "seized"' more of East Greenland...