In the mid-19th century, when Norway needed a new written language of its own, after being under Danish rule. The process of getting this new Norwegian written language was not simple, as no way to do it was agreed upon. There were two rival ways of obtaining the new Norwegian written language. One was to adopt a newly created language based on older dialects, which would more closely reassemble Old Norse. This approach was founded by Ivar Aasen. The other approach was to use the Dano-Norwegian that many people already used, and standardize it by gradually changing the Danish words to Norwegian. This idea was founded by Knud knudsen and is what led to bokmål. These two different approaches clashed in what was later known as Norway's language conflict. The rivalry between Knud Knudsen and Ivar Aasen took place in the mid-19th century. At that time the theories and attention in language planning were focused on the pure linguistic aspect. This meant that the social aspect was not taken into account at that time. The practice of including social factors in linguistics, which is called sociolinguistics, was used only later when Nynorsk and Bokmål were introduced and had long been mandatory for teaching in schools. We will use theories of language planning, to compare with what the Norwegian government did when introducing and legislating Nynorsk and Bokmål. This will help shed light on why Norway ended up with two written languages ​​and why the use of Nynorsk dramatically declined. When we consider Nynorsk, Bokmål and the language conflict as a whole, we will of course take into account the fact that language planning is a modern linguistic tool and that they currently... middle of paper... suggested logical modernization, stylistic development and internationalization by Kaplan and Baldauf. We will not use them in the Norwegian case, we are instead interested in another processing which is also very important. The aspect of getting the public to produce literature, use it in the media and basically in all parts of everyday life. This is very important for maintaining and evolving the written language, in order to ensure that it adapts to new needs and changes that occur with the development of society and technology: “... literacy in a language is difficult or impossible to maintain if there is nothing to read other than literacy materials” (Language planning - from practice to theory, page 43, line 6 from the end) The task of encouraging and ensuring that the public has access to many different materials, it is the government's job.