Morten Thomassen surely enjoyed writing this article about a second place for Norway in 1996 on home soil. ESC Covers google translated it from Norwegian to English.

There’s nothing quite like singing on home soil and coming second.

Top position and no cost incurred with having to organize the following year.

The home crowd will also be super happy and this was probably exactly what Elisabeth Andreassen experienced in Oslo Spektrum in 1996.

We were a full 48 points behind the Irish winner so the danger of victory was basically not very great and down to Sweden in third place it was a comfortable 14 point.

The Swedes also won the qualification for this year’s international final, where a jury in all participating countries except Norway listened to the other countries’ contributions on cassette and voted on the basis of what they heard there.

The song “I Evighet” has a slightly special peculiarity, this is actually the only second place in the competition achieved without getting 12 points from any country.

Bettan as we also our only silver winner who participated for the fourth time in the international final.

It has always ended with a place in the top ten list, so you can only say that this lady has ESC flair so it will last.

A still very flourishing ongoing career in spite of that, it is probably asked whether she tries her hand in this competition more.

But, with that lady I feel that you should never say never, she last tried in 2015 and would like to try again.