Major General Sir Nils Olav III, Baron of Bouvet Island and the current Colonel-in-Chief of the Norwegian King’s Guard. As ...

He started from the bottom, now he's here. Well, at less than three feet tall, Brigadier Sir Nils Olav is still kind of at the bottom of the Royal Norwegian Guard. But the king penguin, who lives at ...

TRONDHEIM, Norway — Also known as the Old Kings’ Road, St. Olav’s Way is one of the northernmost pilgrim trails in the world. Stretching 400 miles, the medieval pilgrimage route starts in the ...

Sir Nils Olav III is a king penguin, but only holds a rank equivalent to brigadier general in the Norwegian Army. Give him time: He'll rise through the ranks eventually. He's held a long career for ...

OSLO, Norway, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A new book raises questions about the lineage of Norway's King Olav, saying the royal physician, and not King Haakon, may have been his biological father. Tor ...

Nils Olav already has medals for good conduct and long service. He made honorary colonel-in-chief of the elite Norwegian King's Guard in 2005. And on Friday he was knighted. Subscribe to read this ...

Last week we looked at the presidents, PMs and kings who have attended run-of-the-mill fixtures on foreign soil and were stumped by King Olav V's mystery trip to Selhurst Park. Fortunately Norwegian ...

OSLO, Norway (AP) — Olav Thon, a billionaire entrepreneur recognizable for his bright red cap who went from selling leather and fox hides in his youth to build one of Norway's biggest real estate ...

Olav Andres Leite, 92, passed away peacefully on August 8th, 2025, in Simsbury. Born in Bergen, Norway, in 1933, to Karl and Mimmi Leithe, he had two younger brothers—Kåre Leithe and Arne Leithe. Both ...

BRECKENRIDGE — Olav Pedersen has helped blind men see. While miracle worker isn’t on the list of his many talents, he has shed light on skiing — a sport long thought to be off limits to the blind and ...

Much is written about Norway's incorporation of its folk tradition into jazz, not especially different than what Americans have been doing within their own borders. The highly influential Jon Balke ...