RingeriksAvisa is a local gate to Internet in the Ringerike area. We are located in the town Hønefoss, 58 kilometers northwest of Oslo.

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Buskerud College

Buskerud College (www.hibu.no) is Norway's third largest business school and has about 600 business students and offers undergraduate and graduated studies in business administration. The school has programs in finance, accounting, marketing, strategy, management and management information systems. Additionally, the school has 1200 students involved in other programs (e.g., engineering, computer science, statistics).

The school employs 30 faculty members in business administration. In addition to being involved in research, the professors make significant commitment to local and national businesses to bring the students close to the experience of leading companies. Such companies are Hakon Gruppen (grocery retailing group), Color Line (cruise/ferry), Orkla (consumer brands), and Kongsberg-Gruppen (defense, aerospace, maritime).

Buskerud College is located in three cities: Kongsberg, Drammen and Hønefoss. Hønefoss is the center of business administration, and the city is located 50 km outside Oslo, the capitol of Norway. The location near Oslo brings the school close to most large Norwegian companies as well as Oslo's shopping and entertainment area. The public transportation services between Hønefoss and Oslo are safe, inexpensive, fast, and frequent – also at night. Hønefoss is a small Norwegian city of 30.000 citizens, and is surrounded by beautiful nature with easy access to lakes, beaches, rivers, and mountains. The city has all necessary infrastructure, shops, banks, public offices, etc., and offers the students literally everything within walking distance.

Amerikabilder

“Amerikabilder. Den norske Vesterheimen 1860–1960” (Images of America: Norwegians in their Western Home 1860-1960) is an interesting travel of discovery through 100 years of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada. The 320-page large format book consists of the immigrants’ personal pictures, as well as postcards, notes and newspaper clippings that portrays their new life in America. Most of the 270 carefully selected photos have never been published before. The unique images were first collected by Steinar Hybertsen and then Knut Djupedal wrote the text in Norwegian. This rare book is published by Aschehoug, one of Norway’s largest publishing houses.

Steinar Hybertsen left Hønefoss, Norway for America in 1973 with a skiing scholarship in his pocket. He was an amazing cross-country champion. He received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration in Wyoming, and a Masters degree in International Marketing in Phoenix in 1979. Until 1993 he worked for several international companies, but today he’s a renowned Norwegian-American film producer. During the last 16 years his company, Shybert Productions has produced several one-of-a-kind documentaries about Norwegian-Americans. He resides in Edwards, Colo.

The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø (UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. Go to the page

National information in English:
Visit Norway
The Monarchy, government, political system in Norway
Statistics Norway
The Viking Ship Museum
Stave Church - Medieval Wooden Churches in Norway.
Medieval images
The Nordic Pages
Norway.com (The Blog)

The Norwegian slaveship "Fredensborg"
Fredensborg is the best-documented wreck of a slave ship from the transatlantic slave trade found to date. Remains of the cargo and artefacts that were rescued, and preserved archive material, provide an outstanding picture of life aboard a European slave ship engaged in the Atlantic triangular trade. ENTER

Facts about Norway

 
Local information in English:
See our photofile or a video from the falls in Hønefoss.

Norwegian Goes Back In Time To Enrich The Present
Since retiring from a long and distinguished career in the oil industry, Norwegian Torkild Waagaard has dedicated his life to following his fascinating Viking ancestry as far back as to the Bronze Age. Read more here
 

Local history:
Veien Cultural Heritage Park.
See the map of our district
Read about Anna Colbjørnsdatter
When the Swedes were beaten at Norderhov in 1716

Did you know
that the only viking helmet ever found, was found at Gjermundbo, Ringerike?

Try one of the local hotels: 
Klækken Hotell
Sundvolden Hotell
Sundøya Fjordhotell
QualityHotell Ringerike

Cowhorns on Viking helmets
In the pictures from romanticism, we can see vikings with wings on the helmets. Richard Wagner´s opera, "Der Ring des Nibelungen" was put on for the first time in 1876 in Bayreuth, Germany. The costumemaker, professor Carl Emil Doepler, created a few viking helmets with cowhorn. In matter of fact, he inventet this type of helmet at that time! So - viking helmets with cowhorns are only fairytales.
Kilde:"Levende historie" nr 4/03

The Gjermundbo Viking helmet, reconstructed by Torkild Waagaard. You can read more about him here.

A Comforter Tree


Not in need for your comforter anymore? Take it to the comforter tree in Hønefoss and wait for the fairy who takes it away!

Hønefoss