1 ANGLO-NORSE REVIEW THE ANGLO-NORSE SOCIETY – LONDON Patrons: H.M.Queen Elizabeth II H.M King Harald V Hon. President: H.E. The Norwegian Ambassador. Chairperson: Dr Marie Wells web: www.anglo-norse.org.uk NORSK-BRITISK FORENING-OSLO Hon.President: H.E. The British Ambassador. Chairman: Michael Brooks Editor: Marie Wells Oslo contact: Elisabeth Solem
[email protected] [email protected] Contents Page Editorial 4 XU: Norway’s Secret Sevice during WW II. Sir Richard Dales 4 Elverhøi in 2020. John Bridgeman 9 How I come to be Living in the UK/Norway. The Editor 13 From Ice Cream and Chocolate to Fish & Chips – the Export of Natural Ice from Norway to Britain. Per Norseng 14 From Runners to Wheels. Winter Communications in Norway in the 19th Century. Bjarne Rogan, 19 First Year Report of an Anglo-Norse Scholarship-Holder at NTNU. Hamish Hay 23 Innovation in Salmon Farming Compiled by Tim Gilbert 26 Front cover: Memorial to Arvid Storsveen, Arvid Storsveens Plass at the corner of Hasselhaugveien and Prestegårdsveien, Blindern, Translations of Recent Non-Crime Norwegian Oslo. Photo Kari Anne Rand Fiction. The Editor 28 2 3 Editorial in the reception of Hotel Continental in Oslo, half of which had been taken over by the Nazis, so he was in a good position to eavesdrop. One of the few stories he did pass First and most important, I hope that all our members, their families on to his children was that on the evening of 7 May 1945 a man in plus fours entered and loved ones are well, and have avoided, or survived Covid-19.