Those who want to stay at home often go to their country houses or open cycling season.

Norwegian students will rest: from 12 to 22 April.

Lutheran Easter

Lutheran Easter is celebrated on Sunday after the first full moon, come after the day of the vernal equinox (March 20). It is central event of the Lutheran calendar and the main church festival of the year dedicated to the great mystery of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Norwegian Lutheran Easter Traditions

Spring is in the air, new life is growing, and the sun is back. Decorations in the house change to the appropriate spring-summer range of colors.

In this festive season, the distribution of Easter eggs full of chocolates and chocolates is commonplace. friends and relatives. Although Easter is a religious holiday, many do not celebrate it as such. Easter is synonymous with holidays in Norway - some people leave for their houses, go hiking or skiing, or go abroad to other places. Others prefer to stay home to avoid crowds and traffic.

For Norwegians who live near the Swedish border, many of them go to Sweden on Great Thursday shopping, because in Sweden it is not a state holiday, so the shops there are open.

Easter is also a time of gardening and homework for some Norwegians.

The traditions of Lutheran Easter are in many ways similar to the Easter customs of Catholics and Orthodox. Easter solemn worship begins on Holy Saturday, a few hours before midnight. In a dark temple (in which all the lights are extinguished in advance), one lit candle is decorated, decorated with the first and the last letters of the Greek alphabet - alpha and omega. These letters represent the first and last point. of the earthly existence of Christ and symbolize the beginning of that new life that awaits every true christian in heaven.

On the first day of Easter, Lutherans have decided to exchange gifts, donate money to strangers poor and homeless. Also on a holiday, folk festivals and concerts are organized. In some Lutheran churches a ritual of burning stuffed Judas is performed - disciple of Christ who betrayed his Master for thirty pieces of silver.

At the festive table, the Lutherans always present traditional Easter. Dishes: Easter cakes, painted eggs and Easter cheesecakes. Very popular in Norway there is on Easter a dish of rye flour and malt called mummy.

Mummy is made from rye flour and malt with added salt and sugar. Porridge is baked for several hours at low temperature. Mummy is rich in protein, fiber and trace elements, in particular iron. it low-calorie dish (115 kcal per 100 g). Mummy usually eat cold, with cream, sugar or vanilla cream

By its roots, the cooking technology of mummy goes back to ancient Persia, and in Norway began to prepare the dish since the XVIII century. Then the area of manufacture Mammy covered Southwest Finland , and from there spread to all regions of the country. In the old days mummy was very popular in Karelia, where most of the dishes made in a furnace.

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