It came to Norway with the missionary liturgy books from England. It became popular in France, Germany, and Northern Italy and dominated the German handwriting scene for nearly 300 years. The Carolinian Miniscule writing was a standardization of numerous handwriting styles and was created at the time of Charlemagne about 800 A.D. It consisted of letters of various heights in a four-line pattern. The writing in these books was called Carolinian Miniscule. While books and documents have been written in Norway since the early 1000s A.D., only a few fragments from Latin Missals have survived to this day. History of Handwriting in Norway –800 to 1600 A.D. It was developed in Germany as the foundation of the older writing of the early 1500s and came to Norway a few decades later. The later script is then called the newer Gothic script. To prevent confusion it is now usual to call the Gothic script from the middle ages older Gothic script. Therefore it was not unnatural that this later handwriting was also named Gothic. Many of the same strokes are again found in the newer Danish or Norwegian handwriting. That which came to be called Gothic script is a rather narrow and angular script which was in use from the end of the 1200s to the end of the middle ages.
Their fondness for the antique had its counterpart in that they did not like the slender, pointed forms which had predominated in architecture, fine arts, and literary works up to their time. It comes from the humanists of the Italian renaissance. The word Gothic was originally a belittling expression which means barbaric. But when the modern handwriting, Latin script, became the national script then the old script had to be called something else. Earlier it was customary to call it Danish or Norwegian script. Gothic handwriting was not called such until the last half of the 1800s.
2 History of Handwriting in Norway –800 to 1600 A.D.The FamilySearch moderator for Norway is SteuartRC
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