Editing Norway (section)

===Early modern period===
{{Main|Denmark–Norway}}
After Sweden broke out of the [[Kalmar Union]] in 1521, Norway tried to follow suit,{{citation needed|date=May 2015}} but the subsequent rebellion was defeated, and Norway remained in a union with Denmark until 1814. This period was [[Nicolai Wergeland|by some]] referred to as the "400-Year Night", since all of the kingdom's intellectual and administrative power was centred in [[Copenhagen]].
[[File:Eerste fase van de Zeeslag in de Sont - First phase of the Battle of the Sound - November 8 1658 (Jan Abrahamsz Beerstraten, 1660).jpg|thumb|The [[Battle of the Sound]] between an allied Dano-Norwegian–[[Dutch Republic|Dutch]] fleet and the Swedish navy, 8 November 1658 (29 October [[Old Style|OS]])]]
With the [[Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein|introduction of Protestantism]] in 1536, the archbishopric in Trondheim was dissolved; Norway lost its independence and effectually became a colony of Denmark. The Church's income and possessions were instead redirected to the court in Copenhagen. Norway lost the steady stream of pilgrims to the relics of [[Olaf II of Norway|St. Olav]] at the [[Nidaros]] shrine and, with them, much of the contact with cultural and economic life in the rest of Europe.

Eventually restored as a kingdom (albeit in legislative union with Denmark) in 1661, Norway saw its land area decrease in the 17th century with the loss of the provinces [[Bohuslän|Båhuslen]], [[Jämtland|Jemtland]], and [[Härjedalen|Herjedalen]] to Sweden, as the result of a number of disastrous wars. In the north, its territory was increased by the acquisition of the provinces of [[Troms]] and [[Finnmark]], at the expense of Sweden and Russia.

The [[Great Famine of 1695–1697|famine of 1695–1696]] killed roughly 10% of Norway's population.<ref>"''[https://books.google.com/books?id=6oOCfHxQDtwC&pg=PA153 Finding the family in medieval and early modern Scotland] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230417101736/https://books.google.com/books?id=6oOCfHxQDtwC&pg=PA153 |date=17 April 2023 }}''". Elizabeth Ewan, Janay Nugent (2008). [[Ashgate Publishing]]. p. 153. {{ISBN|0754660494}}</ref> The harvest failed in Scandinavia at least nine times between 1740 and 1800, with great loss of life.<ref>"''[https://books.google.com/books?id=eGsCGAdH4YQC&pg=PA63 The savage wars of peace: England, Japan and the Malthusian trap] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220128101941/https://books.google.com/books?id=eGsCGAdH4YQC&pg=PA63 |date=28 January 2022 }}''". Alan Macfarlane (1997). p. 63. {{ISBN|0631181172}}</ref>