Storting building
Yellow-brick parliament of eighteen sixty-six, guarded by granite lions on a sloping forecourt.
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This guide to the Storting building in Oslo takes you to the summer of nineteen forty, with Norway occupied, its king in London, and the country's parliamentary leaders handed a letter they were asked to sign. It follows King Haakon the Seventh and Reichskommissar Josef Terboven through the first months of the German occupation. Best heard at the foot of the slope between the two granite lions on Karl Johans gate.
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