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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Norway |
 | | Norway, comprising the smaller division of the Scandinavian peninsula, is bounded on the east by Lapland and Sweden, and on the west by the Atlantic. |
 | | The name of king was borne by the chiefs and heads of separate clans, but their authority was limited and the rights of the subjects very extensive. |
 | | As regards territorial development in the Middle Ages, Norway had a number of tributary provinces--in the north, Finmark, inhabited by heathen Lapps; various groups of islands south-west of Norway as: the Farve Islands, the Orkneys, the Shetlands, and the Isle of Man in the Irish Sea, to which were added later Iceland and Greenland. |
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