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Breathtaking Glaciers, fjords and snow capped mountainous terrain are not just what you get to feast your eyes upon in Norway. Come home to Norway, a place where the sun doesn’t set for weeks in its northern most parts. Come for yourself and check out the picturesque wilderness and sleepy villages and towns that have so much to offer ranging from magnificent sceneries to memories of the Masters of the seas, | |
The Vikings. Getting to spend Christmas amidst all this grandeur would be a delightful experience for you and your family. Experience a blasting Christmas in Norway.
Christmas is a happy event in Norway and celebrations start from the 13th of December itself, which marks the Saint Lucia ceremony. At dawn, the youngest daughter of the family puts on a white robe and a sash, a crown made out of evergreens and with a tall-lighted candle in her hand and her brothers accompanying dressed as star boys (wearing long white shirts and pointed hats) she wake her parents and serves them coffee and Lucia buns, lussekatter.
Homes are lit up and the sweet smells of the resin, hyacinths, red tulips, spices and tangerines fill the air. Christmas trees are decorated with apples, red harts, cornets, straw ornaments and children eagerly wait for the little gnome Nisse or Julebukk, a goat- like creature to turn up with showers. He is known by several names like "Christmas buck,” fjøsnissen and is supposedly the protector of farm animals. He plays pranks on children if they don’t serve him with a bowl of special porridge- a tradition that dates back to the Viking times when pagans worshipped Thor and his goat.
Norwegians love to eat rice porridge on the 23 December, lillejulaften, or on 24th morning and it holds a magic almond inside. One who finds it gets a prize. Before dinner, they take gløgg, a traditional spicy drink with raisins, chopped almonds and red wine. On the 24 December or Julaften, folks attend church services and then the traditional dinner follows.
The dinner consists of ribbe, (served with "cabbage à la norvégienne", surkaal, potatoes, carrots, cauliflower, sprouts, prunes and brown sauce), salted and dried ribs of mutton, pinnekjoett, (served with potatoes, carrots and mashed swedes), or lye-treated codfish, lutefisk (served with potatoes, bacon and pea stew) while traditional cakes and cookies like julekake, kryddekake, delfiakake, rosettbakels, fattigmann, smultringer, goro, silkekaker, pepperkaker, kokosmakroner steal the show. Another popular ritual is that of the "Christmas buck" when children go from door to door asking for sweets.
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