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...city name "Trondhjem" (pronounced Tr?ny?m) seems melodiously beautiful to the sturdy Norse citizens who live there, on cheese and fish pudding, almost within the Arctic Circle...
Came news last week that the Norwegian Storthing (Parliament) had changed the city's name to "Nidaros" (pronounced Nee-dar-oss)?effective Jan. 1, 1930. To many a Trondhjemmer's ear the sound of "Nidaros" is ugly, coarse, repugnant. Soon 25,000 irate citizens (nearly half Trondhjem's population) mass-met under a lowering sky, furiously handclapped speeches of indignation as rain began to patter, signed under umbrellas a potent petition of protest. On dispersing to their homes they expressed their feelings further by breaking several Trondhjem windows...
Prince Ibrahim of Egypt and a score of guests, including three women, swam about in nightclothes until rescued after the royal yacht Nazperwer (Beautiful Lady) had struck a rock off the foggy Norwegian coast near Trondhjem and sunk in eight minutes...
Settled on the arm of a fjord cut on the coast of Norway stands the town of Trondhjem. Hidden in the dark dust of archives of the Association of Science in this town, lay for many years a manuscript. Last week it came to light: a rough copy in verse of Love's Comedy-second important play of the greatest of modern dramatists, Henrik Ibsen...
Bojer was educated in a military school at Trondhjem where the boys received free teaching and keep and even a little pay. Here, he says, he heard Knut Hamsun, who was already well known as a writer, lecture. Later, he became a clerk in an office; then, what he calls a "literary tramp," acting as newspaper correspondent, writing books, reading much. After he was married and became a householder he settled down at Hvalstad near Christiania, where he now lives with his family...