The term jul is common throughout Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, Scotland and the Faroe Islands. Whereas the start of jul proper is announced by the chiming of church bells throughout the country in the afternoon of 24 December, it is more accurate to describe the season as an eight-week event.

Celebrating Christmas, or Jul, in Norway involves a whole host of preparations, lights, events, and traditions that last a whole season. White snow and decorations add to the magic.

2024年11月26日 · Norwegian Christmas, or jul, is a joy to celebrate. While some of the traditions for Christmas in Norway are reminiscent of the Danish Christmas celebration, there are so many that are unique to the country and culture. Not to mention the landscape; it’s pure magic to be surrounded by mountains and guaranteed snow, North Pole-style.

2024年11月29日 · The Christmas celebration in Norway (‘Jul’) is a feast of events, preparations and traditions that last a whole season: white snow and decorations, the warmth from open fires, the sound of giggling children playing in the snow, handmade gifts at numerous small and big Christmas fairs and markets.

2024年2月8日 · Norwegian painter Nils Bergslien’s Julereia painting of 1922 shows trolls and humans, one a fiddler riding a reindeer, and many apparently tipsy, in a ribald procession through a traditional farmyard. Its message is that being swept along with it …

2021年12月23日 · In Icelandic and Faroese it is still called jól, while in modern Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish it is now called jul —”Yule” is simply the anglicized spelling of the name. As Christianity spread throughout Europe, Yule was one of the winter festivals that was absorbed and rebranded by the new religion.

2020年1月9日 · In Norway, jul has been divided into time slots to mark specific traditions. After Advent comes the following: juleaften–juledagen–andre juledag (Christmas Eve–Christmas Day–Second Christmas Day), romjul or mellomjul (“Between Chrismas”), nyttår (New Year’s), and trettendedagen (Epiphany), at the end of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

2020年12月12日 · That being said, most people use jul to refer to the week stretching from Christmas Eve to New Year's Eve. The full jul period is made up of five phases: advent, julaften, romjul, nyttår, and epiphany. So, jul follows a Christian calendar but has retained several pre-Reformation and pre-Christian elements.

On Christmas Eve in Norway, many families leave a bowl of rice pudding or porridge for him so that he is friendly to them and keeps his jokes within limits. The idea of Julebukk is a very old one and was most likely known by the Vikings. In earlier times during Christmas in Norway, one person dressed in

2024年11月16日 · The Christmas celebration in Norway (‘Jul’) is a feast of events, preparations and traditions that last a whole season: white snow and decorations, the warmth from open fires, the sound of giggling children playing in the snow, handmade gifts at numerous small and big Christmas fairs and markets.