The Høgnorsk movement grew out of opposition to the official Samnorsk policy which aimed at leveling out the differences between Nynorsk and the other main variety of Norwegian language, Bokmål.
O movemento Høgnorsk naceu da oposición á política oficial Samnorsk, que pretendía unificar a variedade Nynorsk coa outra variedade principal de noruegués, o Bokmål.