{"id":11370,"date":"2026-05-08T13:49:55","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=11370"},"modified":"2026-05-08T13:49:58","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T12:49:58","slug":"forgotten-norwegian-emigration-to-holland-and-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/forgotten-norwegian-emigration-to-holland-and-england\/","title":{"rendered":"When Norway Went to Sea: The Forgotten Norwegian Emigration to Holland and England"},"content":{"rendered":"

In 1880, the Norwegian historian Ludvig Daae published Nordm\u00e6nds Udvandringer til Holland og England i nyere Tid<\/em>, a work modest in scope yet significant in its implications. His purpose was to illuminate a largely overlooked aspect of Norwegian history: the forgotten Norwegian emigration to Holland and England that took place during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (Daae, 1880).<\/p>\n

The title may seem curious at first glance. Norwegians had, centuries earlier, ranged across the seas as Vikings and traders. Yet the movement described here belongs to a different age\u2014one in which Norwegians returned to the sea not as independent actors, but as part of a wider European maritime system.<\/p>\n

Daae recognized that between the well-known outward movements of the Viking Age and the later emigration to America, there existed another, quieter form of migration. This movement did not take the form of organized settlement across oceans, but rather unfolded within the maritime networks of early modern Europe. Norwegians entered a world already shaped by expanding trade, naval conflict, and increasing labour mobility across the North Sea (Sogner, 1994).<\/p>

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