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Meanings of landsmaal in English

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nynorsk

One of two official languages of Norway; based on rural dialects.

        nynorsk
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        Nordenfjeldske Kunstindustrimuseum, Dortheim, tapestries, old and new Norwegian patterns and designs by Gerhard Munthe.
        Final Report of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission
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        A new Norwegian ship aims to counteract rough seas by making its own waves with internal water tanks.
        Wired
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        Photo: Madman I should've guessed that the new Norwegian geopolitical thriller Occupied would in the end prove frustrating.
        Radio NZ
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        SIPTU miners held an underground occupation of the mine in protest at the use of the new Norwegian drillers.
        The Irish Times
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        Background: This study presents data on the prevalence and incidence of drug-treated diabetes mellitus in Norway based on the new Norwegian Prescription Database (NorPD).
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        Usage of landsmaal in English
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        More important are the Landsmaal translations beginning with Ivar Aasen's in 1853.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        All of which goes back to the present condition of Landsmaal.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        Aasen knew that Landsmaal was adequate to the expression of the homely and familiar.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        The Landsmaal arose from a movement after 1814, to make Norway independent of Denmark in language also.
        Poems and Songs
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        A pure Landsmaal translation cannot satisfy, and many Norwegians refuse to recognize the Riksmaal as Norwegian at all.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        But, despite its archaisms, Landsmaal is a living language and it has, therefore, unlike the Karathevusa of Greece, the possibility of growth.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        When we move to the circle of the high-place lovers or the court, I cannot feel that the Landsmaal is quite so convincing.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        They are all in Landsmaal and they represent quite clearly an effort to enrich the literature of the new dialect with translations from Shakespeare.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        They were earnest and, in the case of Aasen, successful attempts to show that Landsmaal was adequate to the most varied and remote of styles.
        An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway
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        In 1858 Vinje went over completely to the Landsmaal (see Note 80), and in this form of dialect found his natural medium of expression.
        Poems and Songs
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