Special events and other funny days

Shrove Tuesday (not a public holiday, but always falling on a Sunday)

Shrove Tuesday will always fall on a Sunday 49 days (7 weeks) before the first day of Easter, ie in the period 1 February to 7 March, (or in leap years 2 February to 7 March).

The word fastelavn itself comes from the German word vastel-avent which means fasting evening, ie "the evening before fasting".
The name is pronounced "fastelaven", and is often misspelled as such.

Originally, Lent was on Tuesday night, Shrove Tuesday, before Lent.
But gradually, Lent was extended to t ...

In Norway, Mother's Day is celebrated on the second Sunday in February
The first Norwegian Mother's Day was celebrated in Bergen on 9 February 1919, and was initially organized by religious organizations, but it was the Oslo women Dorothea Schjoldager and Karen Platou who in 1918, in collaboration with non-profit organizations, business people and the mass media, gained a foothold. to establish Mother's Day as an annual event in Norway. The day has later turned into a family day, where mothers are served with, for example, coffee in bed in the morning, flowers and cake.

Mother's Day has ...

St. Valentine's Day, in Norwegian also called All Hearts' Day, is celebrated on February 14 every year as a celebration of love and romance. The day is celebrated especially in English-speaking countries by buying gifts and sending love letters or cards, often anonymously.

Valentine's Day has been celebrated in England since the 17th century which took its idea from the myth of Saint Valentine. Valentin was imprisoned after the Roman emperor Claudius II threatened imprisonment and the death penalty for those who did not renounce Christianity. Valentin did not want to renounce his god, and was t ...