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• Register til en del Norske Tidsskrifter (2 volumes in 1, in Norwegian; 1911), ed. by Ivar Saeter and Arne Arnesen (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Hvem er Hvem? Haandbok Over Samtidige Norske Maens og Kvinder (in Norwegian; Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co., 1912) (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Personalhistorisk Tidsskrift (partial serial archives)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Elite Images and Foreign Policy Outcomes: A Study of Norway (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1968), by Philip M. Burgess (PDF at Ohio State)

• Mountaineering in the Land of the Midnight Sun (Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott and Co.; London: T. F. Unwin, 1908), by Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Peaks and Pines: Another Norway Book (London et al.: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1899), by J. A. Lees (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)
• Three in Norway: By Two of Them (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1882), by J. A. Lees and Walter J. Clutterbuck (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Unprotected Females in Norway: or, The Pleasantest Way of Travelling There, Passing Through Denmark and Sweden, With Scandinavian Sketches from Nature (published anonymously; written by Emily and/or Helen; London and New York: G. Routledge and co., 1857), by Emily Lowe and Helen Lowe (page images at Google)
• A Winter Jaunt to Norway, With Accounts of Nansen, Ibsen, Björnson, Brandes, and Many Others (London: Bliss, Sands, and Foster, 1894), by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Natural History of Norway (2 volumes in 1; London: Printed for A. Linde, 1755), by Erich Pontoppidan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Pilgrim of Scandinavia (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Low, and Searle, 1875), by Lord Garvagh
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Polar Gleams: An Account of a Voyage on the Yacht "Blencathra" (London: Edward Arnold, 1894), by Helen Peel (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wild Norway (London and New York: E. Arnold, 1897), by Abel Chapman, illust. by Charles Whymper and Philip Chenevix Trench (illustrated HTML with commentary at fiftywordsforsnow.com)

• Hedda Gabler, by Henrik Ibsen, trans. by Edmund Gosse and William Archer (Gutenberg text)

• The Sloopers, Their Ancestry and Posterity: The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower, the Sloop, "Restoration" (Broadview, IL: Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961), by Jesse Hart Rosdail (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Norwegian Migration to America (2 volumes; Northfield, MN: Norwegian-American Historical Association, 1931-1940), by Theodore Christian Blegen (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Great Cycle (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1967), by Tarjei Vesaas, trans. by Elizabeth Rokkan (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Fourth Night Watch (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966), by Johan Falkberget, trans. by Ronald G. Popperwell (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Werewolf (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1966), by Aksel Sandemose, trans. by Gustaf Lannestock (page images at Wisconsin)
• The Bridal Wreath (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1923), by Sigrid Undset, trans. by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Bridal Wreath (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, c1923), by Sigrid Undset, trans. by Charles Archer and J. S. Scott (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Dreamers (American edition of "Mothwise"; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1921), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Feats on the Fiord, by Harriet Martineau
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Great Hunger, by Johan Bojer, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster and Charles Archer (Gutenberg text)
• The Growth of the Soil, by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster (Gutenberg text)
• A Happy Boy, by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson (searchable HTML at Bartleby)
• A Happy Boy (New York: Macmillan, 1917), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, trans. by Mrs. W. Archer (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A Happy Boy (London: W. Heinemann, 1917), by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, trans. by Mrs. W. Archer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Jenny: A Novel (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), by Sigrid Undset, trans. by William Emmé (HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)
• Kristin Lavransdatter (3 volumes in Norwegian; Oslo: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1921-1923), by Sigrid Undset (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Look Back on Happiness, by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Paula Wiking (Gutenberg text)
• A Mankind Witch (included on a Baen CD image; c2005), by Dave Freer
  • zipped CD ISO at thefifthimperium.com; 196 MB
  • zipped CD files at thefifthimperium.com; 195 MB
• Mothwise (London et al.: Gyldendal, ca. 1921), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Mysteries (New York and London: A. A. Knopf, 1922), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (multiple formats at archive.org)
• One of Life's Slaves (London: Hodder Bros., 1895), by Jonas Lie, trans. by Jesse Muir (Gutenberg text)
• Pan (in Yiddish; 1910)
  • reprint: multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Pan (second impression; London et al.: Gyldendal, 1921), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pan (based on the expurgated translation published by Knopf in 1921), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster, contrib. by Edwin Björkman (Gutenberg text)
• The Recluse of Norway (4 volumes; London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, 1814), by Anna Maria Porter
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
• Shallow Soil, by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Carl Christian Hyllested (Gutenberg text)
• Tales of Two Countries, by Alexander Lange Kielland, trans. by William Archer, contrib. by Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen (Gutenberg text)
• Thelma, by Marie Corelli
  • Gutenberg text
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Victoria (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1925), by Knut Hamsun, trans. by Arthur G. Chater (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Visionary: or, Pictures From Nordland (London: Hodder Bros., 1894), by Jonas Lie, trans. by Jesse Muir (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wanderers, by Knut Hamsun, trans. by W. J. Alexander Worster, contrib. by Edwin Björkman (Gutenberg text)
• The Pilot and His Wife (Edinburgh and London: W. Blackwood and Sons, 1877), by Jonas Lie, trans. by G. L. Tottenham (Gutenberg text)

• The Sloopers, Their Ancestry and Posterity: The Story of the People on the Norwegian Mayflower, the Sloop, "Restoration" (Broadview, IL: Norwegian Slooper Society of America, 1961), by Jesse Hart Rosdail (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Pocket Guide to the Cities of Norway (1944), by United States Army Service Forces Information and Education Division (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Illustreret Norges Historie (5 volumes (last in 3 parts) in Norwegian; Oslo: "Folkebladets" Forlag, 1885-1895), by O. A. Øverland (page images at HathiTrust)
• Norges Historie: Fremstillet for det Norske Folk (6 volumes in 12, in Norwegian; Kristiania: H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), 1909-1917), by Alexander Bugge, Ebbe Hertzberg, Oscar Albert Johnsen, Yngvar Nielsen, J. E. Sars, and Absalon Taranger (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Saga Library: Done into English Out of the Icelandic (6 volumes; London: B. Quaritch, 1891-1905), ed. by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon, contrib. by Snorri Sturluson
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume III: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume IV: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume V: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume VI: multiple formats at archive.org
  • all volumes; page images at HathiTrust; US access only

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