Carolyn's BBC Audio File's Norwegian reference is to nålbinding, which has blessedly given me a excuse to finally post all my bookmarked references to this ancient Scandinavian technique...

Naalbinding, also called needle knitting, makes ..."a sturdy, elastic fabric. In regular knitting, each loop is only connected to those directly above and below it, but in naalbinding each loop is connected to at least one on either side as well. Naalbinding is much slower than knitting, but it will not run." Phiala is a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and has information on the simplest possible stitch and five variations. Lady Morganna has more illustrations and some pictures of garments made by using this technique. (The stocking is in the Norsk Folkemusset on Bygdøy... I've seen it!) And here is a list of nålbinding pieces dated to the Viking Age in northern Europe, along with discussions of the stitches utilized and a list of additional resources. There's also a yahoo group dedicated to nålbinding. If you have Folk Socks, you can see a sock made from this technique on page 32.

Trivia: The different names (nålbinding, nålebinding, nalbindning, naalbinding, etc...) you see mentioned here are not all a big mish mash of spelling errors, it represents the different Scandinavian languages (Norwegian, Danish, Swedish) and the "aa" is an alternate spelling for å, used for the poor people in the world who don't have the å to the right of p. The ø and æ, by the way, are to the right of l and make it very difficult for me to readjust to US keyboards where I hit enter instead of '. Enough trivia? Shutting up now! ;o)