Origins. Similar to Indigenous Dutch Travellers, there is very little information on the history of Indigenous Norwegian Travellers, they may have mixed with the Yenish people in the past, and have many Yenish loanwords in their language, they have lived with the Romani Travellers for centuries and have intermarried with them often.. Names for the group

Norwegian Travellers refer to themselves by various names, such as romany, romanoar, romanisæl, vandriar (Wanderers), etc. In contrast to Sweden, in Norway a distinction is made between romanifolket and rom (i.e., Roma groups that arrived since the 19th century) in the official legislation on national minorities. Language