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search  Høgnorsk, meaning "High Norwegian", is a term for
varieties of the Norwegian language form Nynorsk that reject
most of the official reforms that have been introduced since the
creation of Landsmål. Høgnorsk typically accepts the initial
reforms that, among other things, removed certain silent letters
of etymological origin, while keeping most of the Landsmål
grammar intact.  Professor Torleiv Hannaas is often credited for
introducing the term 'Høgnorsk' in an article in 1922, "Høgnorsk
eller flatnorsk?". He used it analogously to High German
(Hochdeutsch),[1] pointing out that Ivar Aasen, the creator of
Nynorsk orthography, had especially valued the dialects of the
mountainous areas of middle and western Norway, as opposed to
the dialects of the lowlands of eastern Norway, which Hannaas
called flatnorsk (Flat Norwegian, like Plattdeutsch).  The
Høgnorsk movement grew out of opposition to the official
Samnorsk policy which aimed at evening out