Alt for Norge S01E04
This week’s show opened with the competitors zooming down a fjord, Nærøyfjorden, in a speed boat. Their destination – Gudvangen! The folk enthusiast twinkled her fingers in the water and popped them in her mouth. ’I taste my ancestry’, she said. Gudvangen is where her Norwegian family come from. She had always seen pictures and [...]


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How Norway became a country is shrouded in mystery and folklore. The most well known tale is of Harald Hårfagre who gathered the small kingdoms of the north into a unified nation in 872AD – and of course, this story is about love.
The sun never goes down during this season but the mountains to the East are so high that the sun still has to raise above them in the morning hours and an artificial dawn-effect wakes the city.
The bunad is a traditional Norwegian costume worn by both men and women. It can either come from established rural traditions or have a more modern design inspired by historical patterns and cuts.
Towards the water in a beautiful pocket of leafy oak trees is the Byneset Church.