Презентация на тему Christmas in Norway

are more like the candles they are supposed to

represent. Christmas trees became common in Norway from around 1900. The custom of having Christmas trees is originally from Germany.

exchanged.
Christmas Eve is the time when presents are

exchanged. The gifts are sometimes brought by Santa Claus (called 'Julenissen' in Norway)

called 'Nisse'. There are also hobgoblins (Nisse) decorations. Children

pick up the presents from under the Christmas Tree and read the cards on the presents out loud.

go carol singing and most children do! Often children

will dress up as characters from the Christmas Story, such as the Shepherds and Wise Men, and go singing from house to house in their local neighbourhood. Sometimes they carry with paper stars on them.

that families light a candle every night from Christmas

Eve to New Year's Day.

or 1100, when Christianity first came to the area.

Before this people celebrated jul or jòl in the middle of winter. It was a celebration of the harvest gone and a way of looking forward to the spring. Lots of beer (juleol) was brewed and drunk in honour of the old pagan scandinavian gods.

Norway is the Musevisa (The Mouse Song). The words

were written in 1946 by Alf Prøysen. The tune is a traditional Norwegian folk tune. It tells the story of some mice getting ready for Christmas and the Mother and Father mice warning their children to stay away from mouse traps! It became popular very quickly and is now as popular as ever in Norway.