Birth of Jesus marks the celebration of Christmas. Christmas is celebrated with great fun and fervor all over Norway. Spending vacations in Norway would be great way to celebrate Christmas. It would be a lifetime experience for you. Christmas in Norway signifies spreading love and peace among fellow human beings. This is an ideal time to express love and affection to loved ones. In Norway, people give beautiful Christmas gifts as their expression for love and care. They decorate their homes with Christmas tree, juletre, spruce or pine tree. Christmas tree in Norway is usually decorated with apples, candles, red harts, cornets, straw ornaments, tinsels etc.
A little gnome Nisse is immensely popular among Norwegian kids during Christmas. He guards all the farm animals. If the kids forget to place porridge bowl for him, then he plays funny tricks on them.
There is another immensely popular gnome in Norway who arrives during Christmas celebrations. His name is Julebukk or Christmas buck. He is quite similar to goat. Popular Christmas delicacies in Norway are traditional cakes, cookies made up of julekake, kryddekake, delfiakake, rosettbakels, fattigmann, smultringer, goro, silkekaker, pepperkaker, kokosmakroner, along with nuts, fruits, figs, dates and sweets. Sand kager is an immensely popular Christmas cookie in Norway. Other mouthwatering Christmas delights are codfish, boiled potatoes, rice porridge, punch and gingerbread.
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