Talk:Christmas in Norway

About the fjøsnisse
Should this be made into a separate article as well? For now I have made a redirect called "fjøsnisse" and pointed it to tomte, seeing as how the fjøsnisse and the tomte are essentially the same. Please do tell me if I overstepped my boundries. --Fat Hobbit 21:27, 14 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Does this merit its own article? I'd say Scandinavian "jul" is the same as Christmas, rather than a separate survival of the Pagan Yule. (Although Western Christmas in my opinion has picked up traits from both Pagan and Christian tradition.) 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (&lt; \) (2 /) /)/ * 15:24, 7 August 2007 (UTC)

Norwenglish
Could someone please give this article a good cleanup? In its current state it would serve as a great example of "Norwenglish", I've fixed a few mistakes but there's still plenty of bad language left. Also, Christmas soda is obviously brown and "fruit champagne" flavoured - all the rest are fakes and wannabes! ;-) --62.113.159.156 (talk) 20:20, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

I agree! This article is sub-standarad. I will take a shot at it. --Sparviere (talk) 05:28, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Move
I suggest this article be moved to Christmas in Norway and added to the category Christmas traditions by country. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 83.109.24.54 (talk) 20:51, 30 December 2009 (UTC)

Jol? really?
Who calls it that? I've only ever heard Jul. Tommkin (talk) 19:03, 11 April 2011 (UTC)


 * Jol being the Høgnorsk name for it. Pilum (talk) 10:22, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

The wild hunt
I've never heard of this theory before. Are there any citations to this? I would think the theory in the Julebukking article sounds more plausible. Pilum (talk) 10:29, 25 December 2011 (UTC)

Completely agree. This sounds like carolling or wassailing - widespread christmas practice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 31.209.45.139 (talk) 13:03, 25 December 2013 (UTC)

Update?
Hi,

AFAICS a few misconceptions have crept into this text; however, most of what is presented here seems to be the result of general observations, not so much RS quotes, and I hesitate to edit based on my own general observations alone. I'll specify some points below, and, if there is no disagreement, I'll edit it in in the future.

1. Pinnekjøtt exists in two variants, one of which is smoke cured.

2. Smalahove was NEVER EVER part of Jul. Sheeps heads are basically meatworks refuse, with, in less afluent times, too much of a meal to be simply discarded; but it was considered so gross that it was _not to be in the house during Jul_. In Voss, the last sunday before Jul is called Skoltesundag, on which day the last of the heads would have to be eaten so as to be rid of them before jul. There is a modern trend of ignorant foodie trendistas wanting to eat it for Jul, but if there is any place they won't do that, it is in Voss. For a reference, go see Ivar Løne (as I have), the guy in Voss who produces the bulk of Smalahove eaten in Norway.

3. Julebord strictly refers to the "actual" Jul celebration, which, like most othe xians countries, took place on Xmas Day (25th). Listing the details will show why the tradition is in severe decline: The celebration started with going to church for christ mass (which few people do anymore); on the return there was a meal ("første juledags frokost" or the original julebord) which is essentially a grand buffet of everything the house had to offer from its larders, with the proverbial "seven kinds" (of meat, fish, cheese, jam, cake ....)that drives the housewife nuts. Nobody bothers to spend a month making sylteflesk and syltelabber and leverpostei and ribberull and lammerull anymore, and people are so stuffed from the evening before that a julebord probably has come to be ... revolting. It is this tradition of getting together and eating that now has been moved out of the home and into the corporate world, leaving the work to restaurants and caterers, and, of course, with a certain calendar seepage allowing for julebord from October to January.

Apart from that, there's a lot of traditions that have been lost in, say, the last hundred years, habits that nobody remembers the reason for and bothers to keep up. Skittensøndag, Lussinatt, ligge i halm, julekake i kornkista ...

T 2001:4610:A:5E:0:0:0:8519 (talk) 15:00, 21 December 2014 (UTC)

Link to NO page?
Hi,

There's this:

https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jul

Worth a link?

T 88.89.219.147 (talk) 02:07, 4 October 2015 (UTC)

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