{"id":2206,"date":"2019-12-06T16:15:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/?post_type=artikler&#038;p=2206"},"modified":"2025-09-01T11:22:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T11:22:00","slug":"how-northern-norway-became-norwegian","status":"publish","type":"artikler","link":"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/artikkel\/how-northern-norway-became-norwegian\/","title":{"rendered":"How Northern Norway became Norwegian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-ingress\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"vnn__ingress\">\n\t\t\t\tBelow is a glimpse of the dramatic story of when King Christian IV made Northern Norway Norwegian in the early 17th century. \n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">We Norwegians are used to thinking\nthat Norway has been Norway ever since all the small kingdoms were unified\nunder the rule of Harald Fairhair. Yes, even that our borders have been fixed\never since then, save perhaps for the eastern regions we lost to the Swedish in\nthe mid-1600s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fact is, however, that up here\nin the north, we didn\u2019t get a fixed border with Sweden until 1750, and the\nRussian border wasn\u2019t set until 1826.&nbsp;The path to establishing these\nborders was fraught with international warfare, clever trade agreements,\nskyrocketing taxes, espionage, bloody pirate raids and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-gallery gallery-count-3\">\n\t\t<ul><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000655_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-size=\"1226x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">01<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000655_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" alt=\"The mighty coastlines have seen mighty battles (C) Terje Rakke Nordic-Life\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000655_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"The mighty coastlines have seen mighty battles (C) Terje Rakke Nordic-Life\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003402_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-size=\"1202x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">02<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003402_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" alt=\"A fishing village close to Nordkapp \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.como\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003402_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"A fishing village close to Nordkapp \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.como\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000546_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-size=\"1204x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">03<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000546_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Snow plastered mountains backdropped by soft sunset (C) Terje Rakke Nordic Life\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/000546_Terje-Rakke-Nordic-Life_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"Snow plastered mountains backdropped by soft sunset (C) Terje Rakke Nordic Life\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vnn-gallery-figcaptions\"><figcaption>01: The mighty coastlines have seen mighty battles (C) Terje Rakke Nordic-Life<\/figcaption><figcaption>02: A fishing village close to Nordkapp \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.como<\/figcaption><figcaption>03: Snow plastered mountains backdropped by soft sunset (C) Terje Rakke Nordic Life<\/figcaption><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Swedes wanted a coastline<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Swedish king and the Russian\ntsar had been warring over the Arctic for 25 years when they finally made peace\nin 1595. As a result of the peace treaty, Sweden was forced to withdraw from\nlarge areas of land in the Kola Peninsula and draw their border further west.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the Swedish king was no fool.\nHe used this opportunity to stretch his new border all the way out to the\nArctic Ocean and into an area Denmark-Norway had claimed a long time ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also took care to draw this new\nborder so that the Swedish-controlled Finland had unobstructed access to the\nNorwegian coast. And as if that wasn\u2019t enough, he negotiated a new and clever\nsolution with Russia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fishing village Vads\u00f8 would from now on be neutral territory and answer to two kings and one tsar. In one fell swoop, King Christian IV had not only lost valuable land in the bountiful north, but he was also saddled with a miniature state well inside his Dano-Norwegian realm. In other words, an unfettered spy\u2019s nest had landed right in the middle of the Danish king\u2019s pantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>All these Swedish goings-on had\ntaken place without Denmark-Norway being invited to a single negotiation, and\nthat is a recipe for trouble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sweden threaten Denmark-Norway from severe sides<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The Arctic was not the only place\nwhere Sweden was making itself at home during this period. All around the\nBaltic Sea and south toward \u00d8resund, the Swedes were forging on with clever\ntrade agreements and sharpened bayonets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The idea of being surrounded on\nall sides by a hostile power likely made King Christian\u2019s blood run cold. The\nSwedes were making a power-grab for his dual kingdom and they were coming\ncloser by the day. War was inevitable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Kalmar War was the fight for the Arctic<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The war over the Northern Cap\nstarted in 1611, and almost two years of bloodshed and death for soldiers and\nstarvation and suffering for civilians followed until peace and agreement was\nnegotiated at last. When it did, it happened at the request of King James,\nChristian\u2019s brother-in-law on the Scottish throne.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The actual warfare, which took\nplace near Kalmar in southeastern Sweden, was largely a draw, but\nDenmark-Norway drew the longest straw in the peace negotiations. The city and\nfortress of Kalmar were returned to the Swedish, but Sweden was ordered to pay\ncompensation to Denmark-Norway at the staggering amount of one million\nrixdollars. In return, Swedish ships would be exempt from paying Sound tolls to\nthe Danish king.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The biggest success for King\nChristian, however, was securing the Northern Cap. Sweden had to relinquish\ntheir claim to Finnmark and access to the Arctic Ocean. The enemy had been cut\noff and the Northern coastline had forever been assigned to Dano-Norwegian\nrule.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Kautokeino and Karasjok become Norwegian, and new border markers are erected<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The inland border with Sweden,\nhowever, was never included in peace negotiations. That border was not\nestablished until 137 years later, when&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordnorge.com\/ost-finnmark\/?News=301\">Karasjok<\/a>&nbsp;and Kautokeino, among other\nplaces, are released from Swedish jurisdiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final border treaty was signed\nin Str\u00f8mstad in late 1751. It fixed the Swedish-Norwegian border from Kornsj\u00f8\nin the south to Nesseby in the north and established 374 border markers, both\nbig and small.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Since then, new border markers\nhave been erected every time the border has been inspected, and currently,\nthere are around 800 markers along our eastern border, which is more than 2,537\nkm long. Many of these markers still have the old heartstones, with the number,\nerection year and the king\u2019s name engraved.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<div class=\"wp-block-vnn-gallery gallery-count-3\">\n\t\t<ul><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003443_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_-1.jpg\" data-size=\"1920x1255\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">01<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003443_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_-1.jpg\" alt=\"Both reindeer and fishing are part of the Varanger Summer \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.com\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003443_Bjarne-Riesto-riesto.no_www.nordnorge.com_-1.jpg\" data-caption=\"Both reindeer and fishing are part of the Varanger Summer \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.com\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003779_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-size=\"1010x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">02<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003779_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Reindeer were a means of survival in the past(C) J\u00f8rn Tomter\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003779_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"Reindeer were a means of survival in the past(C) J\u00f8rn Tomter\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\">\t\t\t\t<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003921_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-size=\"533x800\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"block-gallery-count\">03<\/span><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003921_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" alt=\"Sami culture is ever present across all Northern Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula in Russia (C) J\u00f8rn Tomter\" data-full-url=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/003921_Joern-Tomter_www.nordnorge.com_.jpg\" data-caption=\"Sami culture is ever present across all Northern Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula in Russia (C) J\u00f8rn Tomter\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t<\/li><\/ul><div class=\"vnn-gallery-figcaptions\"><figcaption>01: Both reindeer and fishing are part of the Varanger Summer \u00a9 Bjarne Riesto riesto.no \/www.nordnorge.com<\/figcaption><figcaption>02: Reindeer were a means of survival in the past(C) J\u00f8rn Tomter<\/figcaption><figcaption>03: Sami culture is ever present across all Northern Norway, Finland, Sweden and the Kola Peninsula in Russia (C) J\u00f8rn Tomter<\/figcaption><\/div>\t<\/div>\n\t\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Reindeer grazing in two different countries <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>This new inland border was not\nwithout its costs and personal tragedies. The inland region was the most\nimportant reindeer grazing district, and with the new border, the Sami people\nwere divided across three nation states, Denmark-Norway, Russia and Sweden-Finland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Despite certain land rights on\nboth sides of the border and a dedicated Lapp Codicil, the Sami had a tough\nroad ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1826, the local unrest in the\nso-called joint district of Neiden, Pasvik and the Russian Pechenga grew so\nsevere that something had to be done. Norway ceded its uncontested claims to\nthe Kola Peninsula. In return, we got a large strip of land east of the Pasvik\nRiver, close to&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nordnorge.com\/no\/?News=61\">Grense Jakobselv<\/a>&nbsp;and the border, which follows\nthe Pasvik River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the mouth of the river, the\nborder takes an unexpected curve. That\u2019s because the Russians wanted to secure\nthe orthodox Boris Gleb Chapel on the western bank of the river. As recently as\n1944, the Finnish areas on the other side of the Pasvik River were\nredistributed and turned over to the Soviet Union. The Skolt Sami in the\nso-called \u201cFinnish corridor\u201d were relocated to Sevettij\u00e4rvi, just south of the\nNeiden border crossing, whereas many of the Finns or Kvens were relocated to what\nis currently S\u00f8r-Varanger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On both sides of the border, these\npeoples have continued to cultivate their culture, their language and many of\ntheir customs, even though it has been\u2014and still is\u2014challenging to live as a\nminority in both Russia and Norway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A multicultural region now exists<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Borders are fixed, but the\nNorthern Cap continues to be a multicultural region, heavily influenced by its\npast. Various Sami peoples, as well as Kvens and Finnish, Russian and Norwegian\npeople, live side by side with immigrants and visitors from all over the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Different cultures enrich each\nother, both in everyday life and during cross-border festivals to celebrate\nlife in the Northern Cap. Just dive in, as we say up here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Joy knows no borders, and the\ncompass needle always points north!<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"vnn__byline vnn-grid has-no-author has-no-date has-tags\"><div class=\"vnn__byline-tags\"><ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_se-og-gjore=culture-and-history\" rel=\"tag\">Culture and history<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_se-og-gjore=polarhistory\" rel=\"tag\">Polar history<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_omrder=northern-norway\" rel=\"tag\">Northern Norway<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=autumn\" rel=\"tag\">Autumn<\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/nordnorge.com\/en\/experiences-and-activities\/?fwp_sesonger=spring\" rel=\"tag\">Spring<\/a><\/li><li><a 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