I'm half Danish, part Welsh, Norwegian and Cherokee. My full blood Danish father and my US-born mother were nuts when it came to Christmas. As the eldest child of seven kids, I was heavily involved in the baking, decorating and so forth for this holiday, but at my age now, I do not do very much for Christmas, thank you! Too old and tired. :)
Well I am from the United States of massachusetts and I love watching Norwegian tradition ,food , and culture.. I enjoyed watching your educational video very much 😊
The production quality is insane! The editing and narration is so professional. This could easily have been a bbc documentary. Two thumbs up 😃 Keep up the good work ❤️
In Minnesota, I was at a Norwegian church Christmas supper, and I couldn’t eat the lutefisk either, but the rye bread and butter was great, and the frutsuppe or fruit soup, was great. A friends dad started Nordicware, and the many different cookie making utensils were very interesting. Merry Christmas, and happy new year.
Look all countrys have their nice crismas traditition Norway have our and Spain or other countrys celebrate this and that is nice i think we have our way other countrys have their way :) It is no special with the norwegian way actually :) I actually like the US way even if i am born and live in Norway "but" the ribbe and aquvit" will i never abandone!!!! Looks like the americans celebrate in a much more intensity than in Norway! In the US they eat dry boring turkey lol i can't understand why that is so popular ? we eat turkey only on new year eave "never" other days in a year! Even some peoples have ribbe also in that day because of the boring turkey haha! We don't like turkey much here in Norway.
My paternal grandmother was Norwegian. She migrated to HOT Australia after WW1. I hope to visit Norway one day. My Swedish friends love knitting, weaving, sewing also.
A lot of Norwegian families go to church before eating the Christmas dinner (even if they usually don't)! There are many Christmas concerts all over Norway in December which are very popular,
I've uploaded two new documentaries about Christmas - one is about the incredibly violent Viking Christmas (ua-cam.com/video/EIAb-9gwnvY/v-deo.html) and the other explores the origins of Norwegian Christmas Traditions (ua-cam.com/video/cbTGgli2FMo/v-deo.html). Give them a watch if you want a more historical perspective on Christmas! If you really enjoyed the video, you can help me fund future projects and help me become a Professional Content Creator[TM] by becoming a member of the channel (click the Join button) or via Patreon (www.patreon.com/ParminderGill) I'll soon be uploading extended editions of videos (such as this one), behind-the-scenes, outtakes and exclusive content. Thanks! CORRECTIONS 13:38 and 17:34 Tyttebærsyltetøy was incorrectly translated as Cranberry Jam, it should have been Lingonberry Jam 17:22 The Norwegian word for gravy is "Sjysaus". Beklager! Jeg laget videoen før jeg begynt å lære norsk. 17:49 Reading Luke 2 appears to have been an old tradition - Norwegian Wikipedia mentions it: nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juleevangeliet#Bruk
That was a really good overview of Christmas in Norway. I would disagree reading bible verses is common on Christmas Eve and point out that people usually don't serve Christmas dinner as a buffet, but they either have ribbe, lutefisk, pinnekjøtt or torsk (cod) depending on the region their family traditions are from. But those things are just minor details, every family have their own traditions.
Well ribbe ( pork ribbs) is the most folk in "østlandet" south east who eat and "Vestlandet" Bergen and such is "smala hoved" smoked head of a sheep and pinnekjøtt (smoked ribs from a sheep). North in Norway they eat torsk "cod" so it is the way it have been for as longs as i can remember. And the folks in the souhtern country they eat almost the same as in Oslo (østlandet) and some pinnekjøtt there as well. But my mom she is 70 years now and she still baking 7 diffrent kind of biscuits every cristhmas and the sand cake is my favorite lol !
@@rytterl well I and my wife and Daughter, spent 10. Days in Norway, Oslo. We worshipped in the Domekirke, which Was well attended. This was in 2,007. We also visited a Church, on the way Back to our hotel. Yeah. My Father was Norwegian, Han Komma fra Alesund. 🤔
As a Norwegian living is Stavanger, I felt this was an excellent explanation of how we celebrate Christmas 👍 Some might say "that isn't _exactly_ how we in 'insert tiny community here' celebrate Christmas, so your video is bad!", but you pretty much covered every main point, and I will link this video when trying to explain to my American friends how we celebrate Christmas (with your permission), because it's viewed from someone who isn't native 😇👍
I don't have any need to bring back the old Julebukk, but we still dress up our kids like little santas and go julebukk each christmas. Sing carols and get snacks in return. It is also fairly common that adult dress up like julebukk with masks and go from door to door to get some alcohol. They get invited in and gets a glass of beer/wine or a shot or two of aquavit. Really fun!
@@eddale5557 think you need to get out of the big cities to find this. Feel like the old traditions are a bit stronger on the countryside than in the city.
When I was a kid we did "Julebukk" each year, it was a tradition, where we dressed up in costumes and walked from door to door and sang Christmas carols, receiving candies and food. Sadly this tradition has been "replaced" with Halloween.
Interesting though the original tradition according this documentary gathers the souls of the dead ..sound like lifeless tradition to me...corps ...but the gathering friends and giving if something like baking was nice tradition noted this around if counties share our baking goods with neighbours good things to your household and way met greet neighbours for season festivity. Sometimes need change traditions.....
@@ParminderGillVisuals well. Norwegians just love watching everything about their country. And don’t get me started on videos where they taste Norwegian candy/snacks 😂
Living on the border with Minnesota/North Dakota I’ve actually volunteered to make Lutefisk. Not realizing it was soak in lye& then cooked & served with butter? I couldn’t get pass it soak in lye & boiled! It stunk! There are lots of Norwegians in this area. They can’t get enough of lutefisk. Merry Christmas to all of you in Norway! 😎🇺🇸🎄
I am bornm raised and live in norway. This made my cheeks wet from national pride. The device shown at 7:45 is called a "spark" it means kick in norwegian. you can transport your loved one on such a device in some few winter weeks.
If there is one holliday tradition that we Norwegians take seriously, it's Christmas, or Jul as we call it.. Just like our viking ancestors who celebrated a pagan festival tradition around the same time of the year called Yol/Yul. We have kept the same name on the holliday, despite Christianization.
Jul (Yuletide) was not really a christian tradition so it can be celebrated by anyone without having to involve religion. Like "good christians" they tried to forbid. demonize or steal every pre-christian tradition. Kinda fun that we still have weekdays named after the the sun, the moon and pre-christian norse gods.
Jul is the only the ting we need i don't care about easter or pinse it is Cristmas who brings familiy together in my oppinnion no other ting is for me any important! 1 thing in a year that's it :)
God is our original father and one day we will return back to him!!! Our body is a gift from God and i have to delete all my tatoos!!! I don't know why i did these stupid things!!!
Kids walk "julebukk" still, at least in North Norway. They go from door to door wearing costumes, though most of the costumes are made by the parents, and sing carols and psalms in return for Christmas cookies, maybe some candy, and if they're lucky some small gifts. This happens in "romjulen", the week between Christmas and new year's eve, and it's somewhat similar to the American Halloween tradition.
Great video! Although I wonder, is this family more religious than others, cause in my so far 44 christmases in Norway - celebrated in the south, in the far north, at about ten different familie's homes - we have never read those Bible verses. Although I know it's tradition in Churches.
Christmas in Germany is very much the same. Ok the dishes in Norway are a little bit different 😉. We have a lot of older traditions too, but a lot of Germans do no longer know them. Pork is very important for the new year, because it brings you luck. The German saying "Schwein gehabt!" means you have pork = luck! The "Raunächte" with "Knecht Ruprecht" are very similar to the wild hunt.
I gravy/sjysaus brukes kraft til å lage sausen - sauce/saus trenger ikke nødvendigvis det (peppersaus/Béarnaise osv). Sjysaus e en type saus, men ikke alle sauser er sjysaus :)
Thank you for inviting us into your holidays! I was in Oslo and Drammen back in 97 for Morten Harket’s Vogts Villa tour ua-cam.com/video/zBVtXMAxR84/v-deo.html As I am from Michigan, and don’t speak Norwegian, I had no idea what he was singing about. But Norway was friendly and beautiful.
England is the only country in the UK that has Father Christmas who is actually a figure from English folklore and is a totally different person from Santa Clause/Saint Nicholas. Over the years the two figures have merged into one but only in England do they refer to Father Christmas.
17:50 Really? Never heard anyone reading "Luke 2" from the Bible as a Chistmas tradition before and is certainly NOT a norwegian christmas tradition. This must be common for this particular family and friends.
Then again norway is a loooong country and south norway does not even know shit about north norway so why cant it be a tradition? Its just depends who are you asking and were are you asking it. There are alot of stuff my family does not do there. But that is because we live in north norway and he talked mostly about the south and i cant say they dont either.
We ain't shy, but people over age of 65 did not have english in school so thats why many just move from you or say they dont have the time, but people age 45 and down most all speak very good english and love to talk to new people!! And it's not truth that is very expensive at stores, every store has cheap goods as we call: firstprice, coop extra, those cost very little!
@@lillia5333 quite correct. I'm 70 and will turn 71 later this year. Growing up in Oslo we were taught English from 6th grade, at 12 years of age. Personally I studied English all the way through high school, at 19.
And one quarter of the Flytoget fare with Vy, if you're 67 or above. And you get there just as fast, although with slightly fewer departures to choose from.
People need to stop calling lingonberries for cranberries. That's like calling lemons for bananas because they're both yellow fruits. Not all red berries are cranberries.
@@ParminderGillVisuals Of course the one part i went for a drink i lost the part xD Glad you did! Medisterkaker is amazing :D you said it tasted like sausage in a different form. What kind of sausage are you referring to, not Julepølse i hope because they are very different haha
You forgot the nortern norway tradition of cod during xmas. Also norwegians are known to be very secular, so I'm willing to bet reading from the bible is very seldom. Then again xmas is a family tradition with old parents and grand parents.
@@ParminderGillVisuals We call it word enhancers ... :-) but also ... Cod is what some eat for dinner, how common it is I don't know, most I know eats Ribbe or Pinnekjøtt and some eats Kalkun :-)
Really depends. My grandparents are from senja and swearing there is quite frequent. Everyone in senja and other common fishing places like lofoten eat mostly cod, or lutefisk as we call it. Extremely good fish topped with a sauce made from mustard and browncheese, with bacon, potatoes and mashed peas.
Yet another Norwegian claiming taxation isn't all that bad. Don't forget 25% on almost everything you buy, as long as it isn't petrol, tobacco, cars or alcohol. Then you pay 50% tax or even more. And there is the road tax, registration tax, toll roads everywhere, import tax and so on. Do you still think there isn't a lot of taxes in Norway???
@@_Viking If you compare the overall tax burden of a single person in Norway it's 27.6% of wages, while in the US it's 26%. The average for the OECD zone is 25.5%. (2018 numbers). Cost of living in Norway is high, but this evens out when we consider the GDP per person and purchasing power in GDP per person which is far ahead of the USA. Out of these countries (OECD) the USA is the only country that does not have universal healthcare, a working free education system, working public transport and so on. All in all there are very few social safety nets in the USA, making poverty and subsequently crime a much bigger problem. This means US citizens get's an extra "tax" on top of this, payed to private corporations if they want comparable health care and so on.
@@KjetilBalstad in Norway there are not only tax on income. Your employer pays tax (18%?) just to pay you your salary. Then you pay tax on whats left for you. Also there is all kinds of taxes on everything you buy. 15% on food, 25% on almost everything else, and upwards to more than 100% on tobacco and alcohol. Healthcare cost you 8% of your income. In total, taxation is far beyond what it is in America. Don't forget that. Norway is great if your income is low, US is great if you have high income.
@@gullfeber Well, our high income doesn't help much when a lot of things are equally priced. Houses, food, and especially services cost a lot in Norway. A carpenter or electrician easily costs you $100 an hour. And even though Norway produces a lot of oil and gas, gasoline costs $8-9 a gallon. A pack of cigarettes costs $18! Alcohol is also very expensive. That's the result of high taxes on everything, not only your income. But when the government removed all tax on electric cars, then you see Teslas everywhere in Norway.
I guess that explains why I don't like taking pictures not even with my own family that I'm not related in blood 54% German what left split between Swedish and Norwegian.
Yes, I was surprised to see it in a video about Norway. That plant is originally from Mexico. Americans began to import them in from Mexico to use as Christmas decorations. 200 years later they're all over the world at Christmastime.
Medisterkaker shouldn't be grainy, if it's grainy then its a kjøttkake. Medisterkaker is supposed to be completely smooth inside since it is made from a very fine paste made of pork, fat, and spices. Should be a fine light color inside. Kjøttkaker are very inferior to Medisterkaker.
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Medister er også kun laget av svinekjøtt, mens kjøttkaker er av storfe. Jeg vil også legge til at kjøttet av svin ofte er kvernet med litt ister for å få den fin og feit :)
I suspected Norwegians to be a bunch of secret pagans. 🤡Many of the cold northern countries still celebrate the winter and summer solstice. And it’s a huge celebration. Oh well, old traditions and practices die hard.
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"the transport system is frequent in the cities, but can be infrequent in rural areas" understatement of the century
I'm half Danish, part Welsh, Norwegian and Cherokee. My full blood Danish father and my US-born mother were nuts when it came to Christmas. As the eldest child of seven kids, I was heavily involved in the baking, decorating and so forth for this holiday, but at my age now, I do not do very much for Christmas, thank you! Too old and tired. :)
Very enjoyable video; thank you very much. ❤️👏👏👏🎄🎄🎄👏👏👏❤️
Well I am from the United States of massachusetts and I love watching Norwegian tradition ,food , and culture.. I enjoyed watching your educational video very much 😊
The production quality is insane! The editing and narration is so professional. This could easily have been a bbc documentary. Two thumbs up 😃 Keep up the good work ❤️
@@ParminderGillVisuals yeah that would be about
Right. Typisk BBC. Ja.🤔🤨
Great video overview of Norwegian Christmas. Thank you for putting it together and sharing it!
In Minnesota, I was at a Norwegian church Christmas supper, and I couldn’t eat the lutefisk either, but the rye bread and butter was great, and the frutsuppe or fruit soup, was great. A friends dad started Nordicware, and the many different cookie making utensils were very interesting. Merry Christmas, and happy new year.
Iam from Cyprus but Christmas in Norway is stunning! LOve you spectacular Norway !!
Look all countrys have their nice crismas traditition Norway have our and Spain or other countrys celebrate this and that is nice i think we have our way other countrys have their way :) It is no special with the norwegian way actually :) I actually like the US way even if i am born and live in Norway "but" the ribbe and aquvit" will i never abandone!!!! Looks like the americans celebrate in a much more intensity than in Norway!
In the US they eat dry boring turkey lol i can't understand why that is so popular ? we eat turkey only on new year eave "never" other days in a year! Even some peoples have ribbe also in that day because of the boring turkey haha! We don't like turkey much here in Norway.
In my country Cyprus also we eat turkey on Christmas!!!.Norway is the best country in the world 🌎
My paternal grandmother was Norwegian. She migrated to HOT Australia after WW1. I hope to visit Norway one day. My Swedish friends love knitting, weaving, sewing also.
A lot of Norwegian families go to church before eating the Christmas dinner (even if they usually don't)! There are many Christmas concerts all over Norway in December which are very popular,
Very nice video. Thanks for uploading, and Merry Christmas to you.
I've uploaded two new documentaries about Christmas - one is about the incredibly violent Viking Christmas (ua-cam.com/video/EIAb-9gwnvY/v-deo.html) and the other explores the origins of Norwegian Christmas Traditions (ua-cam.com/video/cbTGgli2FMo/v-deo.html). Give them a watch if you want a more historical perspective on Christmas!
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CORRECTIONS
13:38 and 17:34 Tyttebærsyltetøy was incorrectly translated as Cranberry Jam, it should have been Lingonberry Jam
17:22 The Norwegian word for gravy is "Sjysaus". Beklager! Jeg laget videoen før jeg begynt å lære norsk.
17:49 Reading Luke 2 appears to have been an old tradition - Norwegian Wikipedia mentions it: nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juleevangeliet#Bruk
This was such a wonderfully made and enjoyable video, thank you !!
Thank you so much. I have always wanted to see Norway, especially the fjords!
I'd be interested in highlights of the Norway in a nutshell tour. Also a tour around Bergen. Looking forward to your next Norway video!
Your videos are so well put together. It deserves much more view and appreciation. Thank you very much :)
That was a really good overview of Christmas in Norway. I would disagree reading bible verses is common on Christmas Eve and point out that people usually don't serve Christmas dinner as a buffet, but they either have ribbe, lutefisk, pinnekjøtt or torsk (cod) depending on the region their family traditions are from. But those things are just minor details, every family have their own traditions.
yeah norway isnt exactly the most christian country to say the least
Well ribbe ( pork ribbs) is the most folk in "østlandet" south east who eat and "Vestlandet" Bergen and such is "smala hoved" smoked head of a sheep and pinnekjøtt (smoked ribs from a sheep). North in Norway they eat torsk "cod" so it is the way it have been for as longs as i can remember. And the folks in the souhtern country they eat almost the same as in Oslo (østlandet) and some pinnekjøtt there as well.
But my mom she is 70 years now and she still baking 7 diffrent kind of biscuits every cristhmas and the sand cake is my favorite lol !
I concur with EspenX.
Agreed. Norway is a very secular country. We don't dabble much in religion in this way. This is probably more of a family tradition in this family.
@@rytterl well
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Daughter, spent 10.
Days in Norway, Oslo. We worshipped in the
Domekirke, which
Was well attended.
This was in 2,007.
We also visited a
Church, on the way
Back to our hotel.
Yeah. My Father was
Norwegian, Han
Komma fra Alesund.
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Gravy is called Sjy (is also funny enough a word to describe ''the ocean'' in the north of Norway) in Norwegian.
As a Norwegian living is Stavanger, I felt this was an excellent explanation of how we celebrate Christmas 👍 Some might say "that isn't _exactly_ how we in 'insert tiny community here' celebrate Christmas, so your video is bad!", but you pretty much covered every main point, and I will link this video when trying to explain to my American friends how we celebrate Christmas (with your permission), because it's viewed from someone who isn't native 😇👍
Thank you for sharing this fun video.
This was great. Picture perfect Norwegian christmas. Thanks for sharing 😊
I would love to see the old ways come back
Wow!! Excellent video! I am planning to go to Oslo for Christmas and this is an exceptional video. Thank you!!
Thank you for the beautiful presentation 👍😁All the best and Merry Christmas for everyone 🎅✌👏😁
Really interesting and we'll made. I would like a version of christmas in Bergen. I would also like to see more on the Christmas markets.
Beautiful christmas video about Norway 🎄 Merry christmas
I don't have any need to bring back the old Julebukk, but we still dress up our kids like little santas and go julebukk each christmas. Sing carols and get snacks in return. It is also fairly common that adult dress up like julebukk with masks and go from door to door to get some alcohol. They get invited in and gets a glass of beer/wine or a shot or two of aquavit. Really fun!
Julebukk is out not seen one in 20 years no kid's do that anymore or adoults for what i have seen here in Oslo!
@@eddale5557 think you need to get out of the big cities to find this. Feel like the old traditions are a bit stronger on the countryside than in the city.
When I was a kid we did "Julebukk" each year, it was a tradition, where we dressed up in costumes and walked from door to door and sang Christmas carols, receiving candies and food. Sadly this tradition has been "replaced" with Halloween.
And seeing the Christmas food in this film made my mouth water, I just love pork belly and the Juletallerken
Its up to you to continue the tradition. Not society.
Interesting though the original tradition according this documentary gathers the souls of the dead ..sound like lifeless tradition to me...corps ...but the gathering friends and giving if something like baking was nice tradition noted this around if counties share our baking goods with neighbours good things to your household and way met greet neighbours for season festivity. Sometimes need change traditions.....
I already subscribed to youway2norway so when I saw this, I said let me check this out. Glad I did. I really enjoyed this video. Good work
Christmas is the most awaiting holiday 😀
lets be honest, its a video about norway so we all know its just gonna be us watching XD
Jepp xD
@@marita2g no shit
@@ParminderGillVisuals well. Norwegians just love watching everything about their country. And don’t get me started on videos where they taste Norwegian candy/snacks 😂
@@marita2g lmao completely right
I enjoyed watching it! Hello from the USA
Living on the border with Minnesota/North Dakota I’ve actually volunteered to make Lutefisk. Not realizing it was soak in lye& then cooked & served with butter? I couldn’t get pass it soak in lye & boiled! It stunk! There are lots of Norwegians in this area. They can’t get enough of lutefisk. Merry Christmas to all of you in Norway! 😎🇺🇸🎄
eally appreciate your effort!! The vlog is well made and the narrator is excellent, thank you and happy holidays!
The "gravy" at 17:23 is called Sø. At least where im from up north
Cool video. Can't wait to visit. Great segment on the Julebock, which is so rare to see, but no mention of Julenisse?
Well I might have needed some material for the sequel...
@@ParminderGillVisuals Yes, please! Everybody loves Julenisse! 😉🎄
GREETINGS from Upstate New York.
I am bornm raised and live in norway. This made my cheeks wet from national pride.
The device shown at 7:45 is called a "spark" it means kick in norwegian. you can transport your loved one on such a device in some few winter weeks.
@@ParminderGillVisuals Thank you. Made my day
oml I love Piku's hair, makeup, and fashion, absolutely stunning!!! Perfect color for Christmas time too
After watching your video, I am def. going to put Norway on my ‘to visit’ list next year instead of Iceland. Nice vid, thank you.
Do both! Iceland is better in winter, Norway is better in summer. If enough people are interested, I'll put together a Norway road trip video guide
Love this Takk!
Norway is beautiful. She is beautiful.
If there is one holliday tradition that we Norwegians take seriously, it's Christmas, or Jul as we call it.. Just like our viking ancestors who celebrated a pagan festival tradition around the same time of the year called Yol/Yul. We have kept the same name on the holliday, despite Christianization.
celebrating the sun the new fresh born sun :)
Jul (Yuletide) was not really a christian tradition so it can be celebrated by anyone without having to involve religion. Like "good christians" they tried to forbid. demonize or steal every pre-christian tradition. Kinda fun that we still have weekdays named after the the sun, the moon and pre-christian norse gods.
@@pantzman but if you think of it it is all based on the Sun
Jul is the only the ting we need i don't care about easter or pinse it is Cristmas who brings familiy together in my oppinnion no other ting is for me any important! 1 thing in a year that's it :)
God is our original father and one day we will return back to him!!! Our body is a gift from God and i have to delete all my tatoos!!! I don't know why i did these stupid things!!!
So enjoyable! Thank you! From US. (Boston area).
So beautiful.
I live in California in the USA I wish I could have a White Christmas. Norway would be like a magical place to be for Christmas!
I live in California (high desert) and two years ago we had lots of snow. Beautiful, but it lasted only a few days!
Kids walk "julebukk" still, at least in North Norway. They go from door to door wearing costumes, though most of the costumes are made by the parents, and sing carols and psalms in return for Christmas cookies, maybe some candy, and if they're lucky some small gifts. This happens in "romjulen", the week between Christmas and new year's eve, and it's somewhat similar to the American Halloween tradition.
It makes me glad they're keeping the culture alive in the North. Is Jul-Anders still a thing there?
@@ParminderGillVisualsNot that I recall, no, at least it wasn't usual in the area of North Norway that I come from.
I am of Swedish descent. We share a lot of common cultural activities.
Great video! Although I wonder, is this family more religious than others, cause in my so far 44 christmases in Norway - celebrated in the south, in the far north, at about ten different familie's homes - we have never read those Bible verses. Although I know it's tradition in Churches.
Christmas in Germany is very much the same. Ok the dishes in Norway are a little bit different 😉. We have a lot of older traditions too, but a lot of Germans do no longer know them. Pork is very important for the new year, because it brings you luck. The German saying "Schwein gehabt!" means you have pork = luck! The "Raunächte" with "Knecht Ruprecht" are very similar to the wild hunt.
Gravy is Sky, or skysaus in norwegian :)
*sjy oppan gangnam style
Sjy for meg...
Trodde Gravy var saus jeg.
@@etk86 Helt rett !
I gravy/sjysaus brukes kraft til å lage sausen - sauce/saus trenger ikke nødvendigvis det (peppersaus/Béarnaise osv). Sjysaus e en type saus, men ikke alle sauser er sjysaus :)
Great video thanks for sharing :)
Thank you for inviting us into your holidays! I was in Oslo and Drammen back in 97 for Morten Harket’s Vogts Villa tour ua-cam.com/video/zBVtXMAxR84/v-deo.html As I am from Michigan, and don’t speak Norwegian, I had no idea what he was singing about. But Norway was friendly and beautiful.
So much fun
we have many if the same customs and foods at this time of year. except luttefish lol.
Looks like a movie , amazing tho!😍
It's really Christmas!!! And I'm Forever💃🤸. My friend is there with my relative, a family member.Just wait for me,okay. I Love You Norway🥳✈️
Nice!!! God Bless!!!
England is the only country in the UK that has Father Christmas who is actually a figure from English folklore and is a totally different person from Santa Clause/Saint Nicholas. Over the years the two figures have merged into one but only in England do they refer to Father Christmas.
Norwegian word for what you call gravy...is called SJY......and often that is the ground to make . SAUS :)
Sjy is actually broth, when you add thickening ingredients it becomes gravy (saus)
Need too commentate on the topic julebukk. We used go julebukk and sing to people for candy. We dressed up as santas and angels and sing carols.
What about the christmas three partys ( Juletre fest ) where the kids dans around the Xmas three.
Tree, not three. I know, they're both "tre" in Norwegian and easy to mix up.
I had Lutefisk with Lefse in Wisconsin, USA, only once. Uff da!! Does anyone still make Rosetten?
Gravy in Norge is sos, depending on the dish it is either brun (brown) or sur og såt (sweet and sour... it is white)
Paaji great documentary
17:50 Really?
Never heard anyone reading "Luke 2" from the Bible as a Chistmas tradition before and is certainly NOT a norwegian christmas tradition.
This must be common for this particular family and friends.
Then again norway is a loooong country and south norway does not even know shit about north norway so why cant it be a tradition? Its just depends who are you asking and were are you asking it. There are alot of stuff my family does not do there. But that is because we live in north norway and he talked mostly about the south and i cant say they dont either.
Joda, det er tradisjon flere steder. Både den og Jenta med svovelstikkene spesielt.
@@madelen9279 Ikke en "norsk tradisjon".
Muligens lokale tradisjoner.
It's a tradition in the area where I come from at least, north west Norway.
Yeah never heard of it before. Noone I know does it
Interesting! I love Christmas and learning about how other cultures celebrate. I don’t know about that old goat tradition it sounds pagen and creepy.
Not that all our space is *actually habitable* , but yeah I guess the towns are small and reasonably far apart all across the country.
I enjoyed this😅
Intte Akavitt please
We ain't shy, but people over age of 65 did not have english in school so thats why many just move from you or say they dont have the time, but people age 45 and down most all speak very good english and love to talk to new people!! And it's not truth that is very expensive at stores, every store has cheap goods as we call: firstprice, coop extra, those cost very little!
Of course we had english in school. I'm 68 and we started learning english in third grade. People older than me had english in school.
@@lillia5333 quite correct. I'm 70 and will turn 71 later this year. Growing up in Oslo we were taught English from 6th grade, at 12 years of age. Personally I studied English all the way through high school, at 19.
Nice effort, let's hope the algorithm works.....
Flytoget is twice the price ad Vy, just to mention it.
And one quarter of the Flytoget fare with Vy, if you're 67 or above. And you get there just as fast, although with slightly fewer departures to choose from.
Most of that is like in Sweden too. Just the food that's a bit different.
After finding out about the Flying Jacob, I am highly suspicious of Swedish food :D
@@ParminderGillVisuals 🤣🤣🤣 That was a popular dish in the 70's.
We do have a name for gravy. its Saus
we seem to go crazy in the late fall with pumpkin spice flavored everything! its annoying.
Is Parminder a Norwegian name ?
Nope, it's North Indian/Punjabi. You might have heard of another Parminder (Nagra) who starred in Bend it like Beckham and ER.
People need to stop calling lingonberries for cranberries. That's like calling lemons for bananas because they're both yellow fruits. Not all red berries are cranberries.
Of course we have a name for gravy- it's sjy
Its not cranberry but lingonberry.
You didn't try MEDISTERKAKER!??!?!
@@ParminderGillVisuals Of course the one part i went for a drink i lost the part xD Glad you did! Medisterkaker is amazing :D you said it tasted like sausage in a different form. What kind of sausage are you referring to, not Julepølse i hope because they are very different haha
I live in Drammen 🙂🙂
I live close by, zip code 3409👍👍👍and I can see Drammen's bright lights from my balcony.
You forgot the nortern norway tradition of cod during xmas. Also norwegians are known to be very secular, so I'm willing to bet reading from the bible is very seldom. Then again xmas is a family tradition with old parents and grand parents.
@@ParminderGillVisuals We call it word enhancers ... :-) but also ... Cod is what some eat for dinner, how common it is I don't know, most I know eats Ribbe or Pinnekjøtt and some eats Kalkun :-)
Really depends. My grandparents are from senja and swearing there is quite frequent. Everyone in senja and other common fishing places like lofoten eat mostly cod, or lutefisk as we call it. Extremely good fish topped with a sauce made from mustard and browncheese, with bacon, potatoes and mashed peas.
@@eirikhagen2845 I though the people up north would prefer something they didn't eat all year round at xmas, but I guess not.
@@TullaRask yeah it is prepared in a totally different way luckily.
I find it funny how everyone believe taxes in Norway are high, until they do a comparison...
Yet another Norwegian claiming taxation isn't all that bad. Don't forget 25% on almost everything you buy, as long as it isn't petrol, tobacco, cars or alcohol. Then you pay 50% tax or even more. And there is the road tax, registration tax, toll roads everywhere, import tax and so on. Do you still think there isn't a lot of taxes in Norway???
@@_Viking If you compare the overall tax burden of a single person in Norway it's 27.6% of wages, while in the US it's 26%. The average for the OECD zone is 25.5%. (2018 numbers).
Cost of living in Norway is high, but this evens out when we consider the GDP per person and purchasing power in GDP per person which is far ahead of the USA.
Out of these countries (OECD) the USA is the only country that does not have universal healthcare, a working free education system, working public transport and so on. All in all there are very few social safety nets in the USA, making poverty and subsequently crime a much bigger problem.
This means US citizens get's an extra "tax" on top of this, payed to private corporations if they want comparable health care and so on.
@@KjetilBalstad in Norway there are not only tax on income. Your employer pays tax (18%?) just to pay you your salary. Then you pay tax on whats left for you. Also there is all kinds of taxes on everything you buy. 15% on food, 25% on almost everything else, and upwards to more than 100% on tobacco and alcohol. Healthcare cost you 8% of your income. In total, taxation is far beyond what it is in America. Don't forget that.
Norway is great if your income is low, US is great if you have high income.
@@_Viking norway is certainly great with a high income as well... more money = more shit to buy
@@gullfeber Well, our high income doesn't help much when a lot of things are equally priced. Houses, food, and especially services cost a lot in Norway. A carpenter or electrician easily costs you $100 an hour. And even though Norway produces a lot of oil and gas, gasoline costs $8-9 a gallon. A pack of cigarettes costs $18! Alcohol is also very expensive. That's the result of high taxes on everything, not only your income. But when the government removed all tax on electric cars, then you see Teslas everywhere in Norway.
Some of these prices a completely wrong
I had lutefisk it tasted like fishy, Jell-O! I think I would enjoy Norwegian Christmas food but please no Lutefisk.
I guess that explains why I don't like taking pictures not even with my own family that I'm not related in blood 54% German what left split between Swedish and Norwegian.
USA here.
This video is great, but yall are drinking the wrong Julebrus, it is supposed to be the one and only Dahls brown Julebrus.
Er det bedre enn hamar og lillehammers julebrus?
@@ParminderGillVisuals jepp, alltid Dahls
We eat lefse. Lots of lefse and drink more alcohol than other Americans during the holidays.
Actually the version shown in Norway (23.12) is the Swiss version, the German one is much better👍😂
try raspberry balls ( raspeballer)
kompe
det heter ikke bringebær baller dude
Video
Nej tack intte
Hils Morten og Anu ;-)
Christmas star? It's calle poinsettia
Yes, I was surprised to see it in a video about Norway. That plant is originally from Mexico. Americans began to import them in from Mexico to use as Christmas decorations. 200 years later they're all over the world at Christmastime.
530£ on presents? HAHA, more like 2000£ (and thats for a normal family)
Medisterkaker shouldn't be grainy, if it's grainy then its a kjøttkake. Medisterkaker is supposed to be completely smooth inside since it is made from a very fine paste made of pork, fat, and spices. Should be a fine light color inside. Kjøttkaker are very inferior to Medisterkaker.
Medister finns i to utgaver.
Medisterfarse er glatt og finmalt.
Medisterdeig er grovere malt, mer som kjøttdeig.
Begge brukes til Medisterkaker....
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 Medister er også kun laget av svinekjøtt, mens kjøttkaker er av storfe. Jeg vil også legge til at kjøttet av svin ofte er kvernet med litt ister for å få den fin og feit :)
I like Santa Clause better 😂
No dyed red Raggedy Ann hair. So bizarre.
What's truly bizarre is how your surname describes the potency of your flatulent emissions.
I suspected Norwegians to be a bunch of secret pagans. 🤡Many of the cold northern countries still celebrate the winter and summer solstice. And it’s a huge celebration. Oh well, old traditions and practices die hard.