| From: [email protected] (Anders Blehr)
Newsgroups: soc.culture.nordic
Subject: Re: Norway's National Bird ?
Date: 13 Jan 92 11:40:14 GMT
Sender: [email protected] (NetNews Administrator)
Organization: Div. of CS & Telematics, Norwegian Institute of Technology
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected] (John Woods)
writes:
|> Hi - could somebody fill me in on this? My dad recently asked
|> (apropos of nothing at all) if I knew what Norway's national bird was.
|> He reckoned there wasn't one, but he won't believe me telling him
|> there is one until I can tell him what it is. Help!
The `fossekall' is Norway's national bird. I don't know what it's
called in English, though. It's a tiny bird which spends most of the
day searching for food in small waterfalls (Norwegian: `foss', hence
its name; `kall' is dialect and may be translated with `chap'.) and
rivers in inland Norway.
|> ...John Woods
- Anders.
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