11-12-2009, 10:33 PM
Very interesting, Stein. My wife is Swedish and Norwegian on her father's side and her mother was from New Foundland. Her Grandfather on her father's side was Swedish while her grandmother was Norwegian. I had heard that this was unusual since Swedes and Norwegians didn't get along very well, but this is the first time I've heard of any details about the history of the two countries. It was also interesting to me that her uncle Otto was in the Norwegian Merchant Marine and was in New York Harbor when the Germans invaded Norway while his wife, Mary was in Norway and as far as we know was fighting with the resistance. Mary never wanted to talk much about her experiences during the war. Uncle Otto and his crew turned the ship over to the Americans to sale under the U.S. flag resupplying England and later the rest of Western Europe as it was liberated from the Germans