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1846 painting by Adolph Tidemand illustrating Norwegian Christmas traditions. Jul or jol is the term used for the Christmas holiday season in Scandinavia and parts of Scotland. Originally, jul was the name of a month in the old Germanic calendar.
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Norway's food traditions show the influence of sea farming and farming the land, traditions with salmon, herring, trout, cod, and other sea food, balanced by cheese, dairy products and breads. Lefse is a common Norwegian wheat or potato flatbread, eaten around Christmas.
View history; Tools. Tools. move to sidebar hide. ... Christmas in Norway (2 C, 5 P) S. Christmas in Sweden (4 C, 19 P) Pages in category "Nordic Christmas ...
Modern vision of a nisse, 2007. A nisse (Danish: [ˈne̝sə], Norwegian: [ˈnɪ̂sːə]), tomte (Swedish: [ˈtɔ̂mːtɛ]), tomtenisse, or tonttu (Finnish: [ˈtontːu]) is a mythological creature from Nordic folklore today typically associated with the winter solstice and the Christmas season. They are generally described as being short, having ...
“Christmas is about the birth of Jesus, and white aligns with God’s promise of life everlasting and the purity, hope and goodness that Jesus’ life and death represent,” Sawaya says.
While Christmas trees, sweets and treats, and gift-giving have remained mainstays of the celebration, America still loves to reinvent and innovate traditions to capitalize on a season so ...
Neapolitan nativity scene in Naples, Italy. The practice of putting up special decorations at Christmas has a long history. In the 15th century, it was recorded that in London, it was the custom at Christmas for every house and all the parish churches to be "decked with holm, ivy, bays, and whatsoever the season of the year afforded to be green". [4]