CountriesNorwayRank 22 of 988 words5 placesNorway8 English words in this atlas point back to Norway, spread across 5 places.ShareWordThe placeRelationshipConfidencetelemarkThe ski turn is named for a Norwegian county.TelemarkFrom the placeWell attestedtelemark skiingModern skiing was largely worked out by farmers in one Norwegian county.TelemarkFrom the placeWell attestedtelemark turnA Norwegian county's turn is why ski jumpers still lunge on landing.TelemarkFrom the placeWell attesteddamkjerniteThe rock keeps a dialect spelling of a Norwegian lake name that the maps stopped using.DamtjernFrom the placeWell attesteddamtjerniteTwo spellings of one rock name survive in petrology because a Norwegian lake was respelled after 1921.DamtjernFrom the placeWell attestedlaurdaliteOne of the rock names Brøgger coined while mapping the Oslo rift, spelled the way the valley was spelled in 1890.LardalFrom the placeWell attestedNorwegian forest catKing Olav V declared it the national cat of Norway.NorwayFrom its peopleWell attestedskutteruditeThe cobalt from these mines colored the blue of European glass and porcelain for a century.Modum MunicipalityFrom the placeWell attestedElsewhere in the atlasUnited States153United Kingdom108Italy63France57Germany29Greece29Canada22Turkey22People's Republic of China21Spain20Japan18India16Mexico13Belgium12All 98 countries →