Norwegian National Day
Saturday 17th May
Forget donning your chainmail and slaying a giant dragon, or drinking your body weight in Guinness (again).
It's now time to do it the Scandinavian way...
We at Itchy have been doing our research and here's a few things we have discovered:
(editors note: this is mainly internet spiel – we don't want an axe wielding imitation Nordic Viking at our door thanks!)
Interesting 'facts':
• It's apparently a well known fact that Norwegians love their hotdogs, eating around 100 hotdogs per person each year.
• Norway is actually more similar to Japan than you may think... eating much more fish that meat. Could make for an intersting fancy dress choice for the day.
• The national bread in Norway is lefse, a flat bread which doesn't actually require an oven.
• Norwegians are particularly fond of black liquorice and chewy sweets... no we have no idea why either, but hey, there's your present sorted at least.• Vikings weren't actually the murderous cut-throats that we tend to believe they were. They were actually farmers looking for more land. Aww bless
• One popular Norwegian tale is of a husband who gleefully trades places with his wife, only to find that her work is not as easy as it looks. It's called The Husband Who Minded the House. Equality rocks in Norway!
• Further north and above the Arctic Circle you will find the land of the Midnight Sun. Where the sun shines day and night for part of the summer.
Visit www.norway.org.uk for all the official information on what's going on across the UK for Norwegian National day.
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