By cait sidhe|January 15th, 2024|Categories: Viking History|Tags: history, Norwegian culture|Comments Off on Feast of Fafnir
Lutefiskfestivalen: An authentic modern Norwegian lutefisk experience
Anyone who has been to a church basement in the Midwest has likely encountered the Norwegian American tradition of the lutefisk dinner. Now you have a chance to have an upscale, gourmet lutefisk experience like it is in modern Norway! The inaugural Twin Cities Lutefisk Festival—hosted at Norway House—will welcome award-winning Norwegian chef, Rune Veslum, and his team to prepare lutefisk the [...]
Nordic Unrest
Opening the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society's 2023-2024 concert season, Norwegian Pianist Oda Voltersvik returns with a program exploring the depths of Nordic angst with piano works by Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, and Brian T. Field. She will be joined by cellist Christine Lee for the second half of the program to perform Grieg and Laura Netzel. The Seattle concert will be performed [...]
Nordic Unrest
Opening the Northwest Edvard Grieg Society's 2023-2024 season Norwegian Pianist Oda Voltersvik returns with a program exploring the depths of Nordic angst with piano works by Edvard Grieg, Jean Sibelius, Atli Heimir Sveinsson, and Brian T. Field. She will be joined by cellist Christine Lee for the second half of the program to perform Grieg and Laura Netzel. The Seattle concert will be performed in [...]
Lille Lørdag
Looking for a way to cope with still being stuck at home as we pass the one-year mark of the pandemic? We need to look no further than the Norwegian tradition of lille lørdag.
Uplifting streaming from Norway
Much of the content that makes its way to North America may give you the feeling that Norwegian TV and movies are either gruesome (think Norsemen, Borderliner) or dead serious (Occupied, Beforeigners) or both (The 12th Man, 22nd July).
Norwegian companies pay employees to bike to work
With Norwegian society gradually re-opening since May, many offices are open for business again. To ensure that public transportation in Oslo can allow for proper distancing, authorities have asked residents to work from home, and to only use buses, trains and trams for essential travel.
How Norway’s evolving dugnad tradition keeps the pandemic in check
Dugnad (pronounced doog-nahd), literally, “voluntary work,” is a Norwegian cultural tradition where members of a community work together toward a common goal for the greater good.
Kvikk Lunsj and the Candy Bar War
Norway’s Kvikk Lunsj and England’s Kit Kat have long been the subject of comparison - Which came first? Which tastes better? Who has cooler packaging?
Allemannsretten – the Freedom to Roam
or all the similarities between Norwegian and American culture, I am perpetually fascinated by the differences, sometimes small and sometimes gaping, that I occasionally stumble across. One of the most interesting to me is the Norwegian concept of allemannsretten (ALL-eh-mahns-ret-en). Literally meaning “everyman’s right,” allemannsretten is also called “the freedom to roam” in English.