Sorry this got so long… I hope it was somewhat helpful! If you want more tailored recommendations, feel free to drop me another ask or a message with more details regarding what type of poetry you’re interested in or if there’s a specific poet you’d be interested in exploring, and I would be happy to do a little research for you :-) If you want even more tips, here’s a list of the 100 “best” Norwegian poems of all time to get you started! :) I actually did a “challenge” a couple of years ago where I posted one Norwegian poem every day for two-three weeks (often along with an English translation), so check out the previously mentioned search terms or the tag #phcadventchallenge on my blog and you should see several poems I like and recommend! More modern poets include Lars Saabye Christensen, Gro Dahleįor my personal taste in poetry, you can search for ‘dikt’, 'poesi’ or just 'poetry’ on my blog. Hauge, Arnulf Øverland, Inger Hagerup, Halldis Moren Vesaas, Gunvor Hofmo, to mention a few (Most of these are 19th or 20th century poets). Other famous poets are Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, André Bjerke, Henrik Ibsen, Sigbjørn Obstfelder, Henrik Wergeland, Olav H.

My Norwegian teacher used a lot of Rolf Jacobsen’s poetry in the classroom. There are of course some classic poems and highly regarded poets that are likely to be taught more than others. If I’m not mistaken, I think it’s largely up to the teachers to choose the material they feel would be most beneficial for their particular class, so I’m not sure there’s a particular century or poetic movement in focus. I can’t really answer as to what most people are taught in school, as most poetry is taught in high school and I did the IB where things are done a little differently than in the classic Norwegian system. And no, it’s not a problem at all, I love answering asks <3 Hei! Oh my god, I’m honoured that you’d come to me with this question, even though I post so little about Norway and Norwegian these days.

Som eld by Sara Lövestam