Try :
<?php _e('[:no]Norwegian
[:de]German'); ?>
But I am really not sure what you are trying to accomplish.. There might be abetter way of doing it ..
Are you trying to show the switch language links or just showing some string indifferent languages ?
Qtranslate is one of the greatest wordpress plugins , andit has all what you need ( if andwhenyouelaborate on the problem ) but If all fails , it has a simple function to detect current language , so you can use :
$lang=qtrans_getLanguage();
if ($lang=="de") {
// SOMETHING in German
}
else if ($lang=="en"){
// SOMETHING in Norwegian
}