A Norwegian Christmas is filled with many celebrations and traditions, old and new. As the snow falls, the white landscape is the first sign of Christmas and Norway starts to prepare for their long season of juletid.
November
As the snow comes, Norway enters the Christmas season early with a series of Christmas parties. Work, clubs, schools [...]
Dance Day (or Dansens Dag in Norwegian) is celebrated all over Norway. Every year Norway joins with the rest of the world to promote dance on International Dance Day, 29th April. However, Norwegians love dancing so much that the closest weekend is also included and so we get to have a whole week of dancing [...]
Before Christmas our friends get together and have a decoration party. We pool together all our crafty-stuff, paper, toilet rolls, egg cartons, pictures, pine cones, and lots of glue and glitter. We play Christmas music as we make cards and tree decorations. This year we also made a Thankful Tree – a bare branch filled [...]
Norwegians love to social dance. I am often amazed at how many dance places there are in big cities, country towns and even coastal villages. Norway has its own traditional dance that involves a short man in a suit kicking a hat out of a maiden’s hand who is standing above him on a chair [...]
Sometimes it pays to have the right name. When the exclusive French fashion label Hermes opened their first store in Oslo last week, they made sure to arrange a spectacular opening party. Exclusive invites were sent out to numerous Norwegian celebrities and VIP’s, including investor and multi-billionaire Svein Støle.
However, there was a mix-up with addresses [...]
On any celebration table in Norway you can always find a Norwegian layer cake (bløtkake). What better way to celebrate Norwegian Constitution Day than with fresh cream, wild berries and a little bit of sponge in between.
Reindeer herding is more than just an occupation, it is a way of life and an integral part of the Sami culture and identity.
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 further ‘out of the way’ you go the more common it is to see folk cottages standing by the side of roads, along fjords or in a thicket of trees, minding their own business.
At full-moon the blue light almost looks electric. Our favourite jetty really knows how to surprise us for Christmas – especially with this ‘elfs-eye-view’.
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There is an opposition in everything. At the darkest time of the year, we celebrate Christmas. And at the exact opposite end, when the midnight sun is at its highest, we celebrate Midsummer.
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