It marks, together with Advent, the beginning of the Christmas season in Scandinavia. It is celebrated in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Italy, Bosnia, and Croatia.
I am going to have to change the chatlas. I didn't realize that as an Italian I was Scandanese.
Bummer! I went to a Lucia festival on Saturday, which was great fun! Oddly enough, though, they don't serve lussekatter, but we did get julekage and fruit soup and rosettes and lots of Christmas cookies. It's more of a fun church-basement sort of festivity, where the audience sits at tables and munches on goodies while the choir and children sing songs (and tell the story of Lucia for all the non-Swedes that get dragged along who don't have a clue), but I'd love to go to a more formal concert sometime!
I wonder if I can convince my grandma to make some julekage this year. She makes the best I've ever had! However, at 88, making bread isn't as easy as it once was, I'm afraid. I have her recipe, but I doubt I have her magical bread-making touch!
We did have glazed ginger snaps! (Ginger cookies have always been my favorite kind of cookies!)
So, erm, which traditions are Norwegian and which are Swedish? I should probably know these things, but around here it all gets mixed together. There's a pretty hot norwegian vs. swedes rivalry that goes on around here, but it's all in good fun and mostly involves telling dumb jokes, and the nationalities of the characters in the jokes gets switched depending on who is telling the joke. For example, my grandpa would beam with pride when he'd trained me - as a 5 year old - to refer to bullheads, when fishing, as Norwegians..."look Grandpa! I just got another 'wegian!" ;-)
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I am going to have to change the chatlas. I didn't realize that as an Italian I was Scandanese.
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I wonder if I can convince my grandma to make some julekage this year. She makes the best I've ever had! However, at 88, making bread isn't as easy as it once was, I'm afraid. I have her recipe, but I doubt I have her magical bread-making touch!
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So, erm, which traditions are Norwegian and which are Swedish? I should probably know these things, but around here it all gets mixed together. There's a pretty hot norwegian vs. swedes rivalry that goes on around here, but it's all in good fun and mostly involves telling dumb jokes, and the nationalities of the characters in the jokes gets switched depending on who is telling the joke. For example, my grandpa would beam with pride when he'd trained me - as a 5 year old - to refer to bullheads, when fishing, as Norwegians..."look Grandpa! I just got another 'wegian!" ;-)
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