>>14
While Norway and Denmark was in union the language used by the overheads was Danish, when we broke loose from the union we also would like to use our own language. The problem then was that we still spoke Norwegian, but the written language was Danish therefore we had to make a new written language.
And now to your real question: bokmål is "norweginized danish" and nynorsk was made by a man traveling around while gathering words so he could make a written language more similar to how it was spoken.
>>15
Norwegian is very similar to Swedish and Danish, but its not the same. I think we use the same grammar-system, but words are not always the same.
It also seem like Swedes and Norse understand each other better than with the Danes.