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    Warum ist Norwegen im Vergleich zu Schweden und Finnland so gebirgig?


    Warum gibt es im ganzen Land ein großes Gebirge und warum ist Norwegen trotz der großen geografischen Unterschiede seinen skandinavischen Brüdern so ähnlich geblieben? Und nicht ganz anders werden als das isolierte Island mit Sprache und Kultur?

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    2. squirrel_exceptions on

      We invested in mountains early, when they were just pebbles really, and everyone else was raving about steppes and holes and shit, but we just knew there’d be a future in mountains for recreational purposes, and soon decided to intersperse them with ocean to make a new thing called fjords.

    4. emmmmmmaja on

      They formed during a collision of the continents Baltica and Laurentis, about 450 million years ago. The same one that caused the ones in Scotland and the Appalachians to form btw

      And if you look at where people in Norway live, you’ll see that most are in coastal areas, so relatively easily reachable. Plus, for a very long time, Norway was under Swedish/Danish rule, which obviously „helps“ with the upkeep of a shared culture and language. In fact, it was the push away from Danish that eventually required some effort.

    6. runawayasfastasucan on

      >And not become a lot different like isolated Iceland with language and culture?

      You should look up the origins of the icelandic people. Norway came under danish and swedish rule, which shaped us a lot.

    8. imthetype on

      Boats and colonization(union, but lets be honest). Danish used to be mandated for a long while, even was the only available writing language.

      I never thought about it, but the mountains is probably the reason for such diversity in norwegian dialects.

    9. DifferentVariety3298 on

      Because we have the mountains and they have all the fertile land.

    10. AlarmingBarrier on

      Denmark used to have a lot of mountains, but they used them all to build their brick housing. Norway was fortunate enough to have a lot of woods, so we could build wooden houses and spare the mountains

    12. annik1 on

      one of the reasons is in the ice age there were huge glaciers that literally moved land and rock and carved out mountains. Maybe norway was squished between two big glaciers 😀

    21. Pyrhan on

      >Why is there a large mountain range across the country

      It’s called the the [Caledonian Orogeny](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_orogeny), it was once part of the [Central Pangean Mountains](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Pangean_Mountains), an ancient mountain chain as tall as the Himalayas, that existed near the Earth’s equator.

      Continental drift and the formation of the Atlantic split this mountain chain. The remnants form the Norwegian mountains, but also the Apallachians in the US, the Atlas mountains in Morocco, the Scottish highlands, etc.

    22. commencement on

      When Baltica and Laurentia collided, 400-450 million years ago it created the Caledonian mountain chain. The mountains used to be a lot higher, but the ice ages grinded them down to the level they are now.

      For why we are more similar than Iceland, Iceland is still pretty darn similar, but mainly distance and because Norway is rich in natural resources, there was extensive trade as well as political unions, because Denmark and Sweden liked to argue over us like we were dessert.

      TL;DR: Continental smash ages ago and long boat ride harder than short.

    24. hauki888 on

      This is like asking why is there the Mt. Blanc in Chamonix but then no mountains in e.g. Paris.

    25. Federal_Cobbler6647 on

      There used to be mountains in Finland, called Karelides. But they are so old that they have eroded away. For example Koli is example of remaining parts.

      Norwegian mountains are 400 million year old. Karelides (remains of those) are 2 billion year old.

    27. Ok_Lack3855 on

      Well it was all flat to begin with, but when God was looking to place Greenland, he pushed down south easterly with his shovel a little too hard. Ah! He said, that’ll work out fine as a place for my fat ass when I sit down and admire my own work afterwards.

    28. Salt-Composer-1472 on

      I remember vaguely that there might have been glaciers during ice age that moved across Finland squishing the landscape, and I guess parts of Sweden,too?  

    29. Zefix160 on

      The Caledonian mountain range (~490 to ~390 million years ago) formed around modern day Norway, Scotland, and Eastern Canada, but moved away from each other as the continents began to drift. The mountains still remain.

    30. AyntRand on

      We DID become alot different; Iceland is the only nordic country that did not change.
      If you go back a thousand years, the languages in Norway, Sweden and Denmark was very similar (norrønt). Norwegians settled iceland, so they also spoke the same language. However, the scandinavian languages changed alot in the coming centuries due to influences from continential Europe. The same is not true for iceland.
      So, in actuality, the question isn’t why Norway remained similar to its scandinavian brothers; but rather, why did Norway change with the other Scandinavian contries.

      My answer is politics, distance and trade. Some time after Norway became a single kingdom under Harald Hårfagre, we had a borgerkrig (sivil war(?)) that lasted for over a century. Our position was weakened, and we spend alot of time in unions with Sweden and Denmark. Iceland, being part of the kingdom of Norway for much of this time, was also in these unions, but too far away to actually be significantly impacted culturally.

    32. DummeBirger on

      Sweden and Denmark had been bullying us for such a long time, so in the middle of the night, we put all their mountains in a large skreppe and snuck them out. We didn’t re-assemble them here in Norway until we were completely free from Danish and Swedish rule. When they came by later and asked if we had seen their mountains, we were all like „Huh? Mountains? Oh yeah, you used to have some of those, didn’t you? We haven’t seen them. Have you asked Austria?“ And since neither swedes or danes understand norwegian that well, they just smiled and nodded, and we haven’t heard anything about it ever since.

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