Another hello from Norway

[mooseontheloose]

What else can I say? Welcome to APUG David!

[Ole]

Welcome David - just keep quiet about that scanner.

[Davidap2009]

Thank you all for your welcome. I must like living in Norway as I have lived here for 17 years now.
I'll keep quiet about the scanner and let you judge from my efforts


Emily @f1.4 by Davidap2009, on Flickr

[Thomas Bertilsson]

Hello David,

Welcome to APUG from St Paul, Minnesota, and Helsingborg, Sweden.

Nice portrait you posted!

- Thomas

[Thingy]

Welcome on board David. I go on cruises to Norway every year because I love it (and the cooler climate) so much. Have you visited Svalbard? I've been there twice and didn't want to leave Ny Aalesund! Svalbard is much more beautiful than Groenland. I hope the natives can understand you! Whenever I visit I have to speak in Danish as they cannot understand my Norwegian (Bokmaal), and then they reply in Norwegian which I find easier to understand than Danish!

Have you learned any Nynorsk yet, so you can read Draumkvadet?

Here is Moes version from the 1890s:

[extract]

Han la seg ne um joleaftan,
sterkan svevnen fekk,
vakna 'kji fyrr um trettandagjen,
då folkkji at kjyrkjun gjekk.
Å de va Olav Åsteson,
som heve sovi so lengji.

[Davidap2009]

Hi Thingy,

I have never been to Svalbard .However I'd like to. Yes the natives understand me I have lived here for 17 years and I lived 8.5 years in Denmark. I can understand Nynorsk spoken ,it is more of a problem if I have to read it :0).
In addition I do not write well in Norwegian .
I see from your sig you have an F4 …snap I have an F4s :0)

[Thingy]

Hi David

I have just bought the F4..... what a lovely camera, and so much lighter than my Ebony 45SU!

You can see some of my images of Svalbard in the APUG Scandinavian group.... and practice your written Bokmaal.

http://www.apug.org/forums/groups/skandinapug.html

Regards

Steve

[nhemann]

David,
What part of the country are you living in? I lived in Mandal for about a year doing some work with the shipyard there and I'm pretty sure that the wife gets tired of my telling her how much I loved being in Norway.

[Davidap2009]

David,
What part of the country are you living in? I lived in Mandal for about a year doing some work with the shipyard there and I'm pretty sure that the wife gets tired of my telling her how much I loved being in Norway.

I live just outside Drammen on the Kongsberg side. I've lived here for 17years now so I must like it too :0)

Thingy.
Nice shots from Svalbard :0)

[papagene]

David - hello and welcome to APUG.