Editing Norwegian language (section)

===Decline of written Norwegian===
In the late Middle Ages, dialects began to develop in Scandinavia because the population was rural and little travel occurred. When the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]] came from Germany, [[Martin Luther]]'s [[Upper German|High German]] translation of the Bible was quickly translated into Swedish, Danish, and Icelandic. Norway entered a union with Denmark in 1397 and Danish, over time, replaced [[Middle Norwegian]] as the language of the elite, the church, literature, and the law. When the union with Denmark ended in 1814, the [[Dano-Norwegian]] [[koiné language|''koiné'']] had become the mother tongue of around 1% of the population.<ref name="now">{{cite web |url=https://www.ntnu.edu/now/intro/background-norwegian |title=The Norwegian language |first=Olaf |last=Husby |date=October 2010 |website=Norwegian on the Web |access-date=11 September 2016 |archive-date=22 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190322153110/https://www.ntnu.edu/now/intro/background-norwegian |url-status=live }}</ref>