Michele Fauble Aug 14, 2016:

My thought was that if this was written by a Norwegian in 1901, the writer may have used terms from spoken Norwegian/dialect. ('Mask', 'snekke' are similar to Swedish 'mask', 'snäcka'.)

Michele Fauble Aug 14, 2016:

Dano-Norwegian "At the start of the 20th century, written Dano-Norwegian was mostly identical with written Danish, with only minor differences, such as some additional Norwegian vocabulary in Dano-Norwegian." m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dano-Norwegian

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jeffrey engberg (asker) Aug 14, 2016:

Its called Riksmaal https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riksmål

Michele Fauble Aug 14, 2016:

Dano-Norwegian text?