Why did a separate Norwegian literary language not develop during the Reformation?

During the Reformation, a separate Norwegian literary language failed to develop primarily because the Bible was not translated into Norwegian.1

While the Reformation introduced Martin Luther’s High German translation of the Bible to Scandinavia, it was quickly rendered into Swedish (1541), Danish (1550), and Icelandic (1584), but not into Norwegian. Consequently, literary Old Norwegian fell out of use, and Danish became the official language and the primary literary medium throughout the union of Denmark and Norway. This linguistic shift, combined with the centralization of cultural and academic life in Copenhagen, meant that no distinct written Norwegian emerged until the 19th century.123