Refugees are still coming across the sea, 124 last night alone.
But it has to be said that Norway has developed a remarkably calm routine in dealing with the "temporary migrants".
At first glance, the newcomers may look different from the average Norwegian of the 21st century, and at second, third and probably fourth glance they may speak, eat and pray differently.
But liberal society has found a modus vivendi for coexistence with the Stone Age, Viking Age and 19th Century refugees, and as for xenophobes, kept at bay with events like Rock Against Timeism - let them " Norway to the Norwegians!
Newcomers who lived in Norway a hundred, a thousand or more years ago simply don't care.
A British "time migrant" makes his way from London to Oslo in the second season of "Beforeigners," a liberatingly funny satire from HBO Nordic that tells of a "culture clash" wrapped in a crime thriller.
His name is Isaac Ben Joseph (Billy Postlethwaite), said to be an investigator involved in the hunt for Jack the Ripper in 1888, and of course it doesn't take long for Joseph to meet our hero from the Oslo police, Lars Haaland (Nicolai Cleve Broch). and Alfhildr Enginnsdottir (Krista Kosonen), crosses paths.
A badly battered woman's body was found in a subway shaft.
The sensitive Lars and the rough Alfhildr actually have other problems.
Lars, who lost his wife to a pipe-smoking moralist from the 19th century in the first wave of refugees and became addicted to medication as a result, has just come out of rehab.
Still, he keeps believing he's seeing the Norse god Odin (Sigrid Kandal Husjord), and that may or may not be a good thing.
Alfhildr, on the other hand, Oslo's first policewoman with a "multitemporal background", drags around a tendency to sleepwalk as a late consequence of her time travel.
Which is why the former shield maiden of the Viking chief Tore Hund (Stig Henrik Hoff) seeks treatment from an old Norse fortune teller, a lascivious “Völva” (Hedda Stiersted).
But who doesn't have mental problems?
Even the hipster-bearded time migrant Olav (Tobias Santelmann), who has become a well-known YouTuber, has to carry his parcel – because the registration office refuses to register him under the name “Olav Haraldsson, King of Norway”.
In desperation, the influencer came up with the idea of looting the grave of his son Magnus in Nidaros Cathedral in Trondheim and using the skull for a DNA sample.
Parallel to the crime thriller about the woman's corpse and the dubious Jack the Ripper investigator, the new season also continues the story set in season one about "Olav the Holy" and his adversary Tore Hund (who currently works as a bicycle courier).
The unbridled, cheeky all-round humor of the first season is rarely found in the sequel.
The satire recedes into the background, the crime more prominent.
But this reversal of the ratios is proving to be a smart move.
Series creators Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin ("Lilyhammer") have realized that gag fireworks can't go on forever, and they've also realized that you don't have to continue for the time being.
Weaker scenes are compensated for by the charisma possessed by the Finnish actress Krista Kosonen as Alfhildr, who sometimes talks hard drinking in Old Norse.
The mischievous joy with which Tobias Santelmann embodies the shaggy King Olav, who, among other things, attends a driving lesson ("Olav Haraldsson gives no right of way!"), contributes greatly to the success of the sequel.
Born in Freiburg and raised in Norway, he has most recently been seen as the obnoxious investment banker in the series Exit, the sinister family man in Darkness and the worried Crown Prince Olav in Atlantic Crossing.
For "Beforeigners" Santelmann draws on the experience he acquired as "Ragnar the Younger" in the British historical series "The Last Kingdom".
Is his "Olav the Holy" still satisfied with today's Norway?
You will see.
Beforeigners
has been available in the ARD media library since Sunday.