Comments on: Easter Traditions in Norway

By: Janeen Ence

Janeen Ence — Sat, 03 Apr 2021 04:05:53 +0000

I’m in joying everyone’s comments. I am taking my 13 year old granddaughter to Norway April of 2022. We have Viking blood. Can’t wait!!!

By: Wendy

Wendy — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 22:41:47 +0000

Sadly, it’s not just the Noggies. DR1 (Danish TV) is showing lots of Midsommer Murders

I have my reminder set on the TV box for it 😀

By: Liz Beavan

Liz Beavan — Sat, 07 Apr 2012 15:27:17 +0000

My husband and I (both Brits now living in Telemark) both have a good chuckle about the Easter crime, it took us a while to work out what it was all about.
Norwegians really do love their traditions and particularly their holidays and even though we have lived here for 5 years now we are still learning about them. Really nice to live in a country so passionate about their culture and have such a sense of their nationality, I think it a shame you can’t find the same thing in the UK.

I opt for the marzipan and chocolate eating at Easter time and leave the winter cabins, Turkey and crime novels to the Norwegians =)

By: David Nikel

David Nikel — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 16:14:23 +0000

In reply to Odd Helge Lindseth. No need to apologise! Always good to have information verified ;) Enjoy the white wine, and enjoy Lewis... I think I'll be doing something similar after all!

By: Odd Helge Lindseth

Odd Helge Lindseth — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:25:45 +0000

In reply to Odd Helge Lindseth. Sorry, David! Just read your link to the “A New Life In Norway” blog which told the story behind the Norwegian Easter crime novel. Read that after I sent you my comments! So it was no need for me to repeat it! Sorry again, David! I’ll drown this mistake in Italian white wine later (together with inspector Lewis and DS James Hathaway ...). :-)

By: Odd Helge Lindseth

Odd Helge Lindseth — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:42:52 +0000

Thanks for a great post!

Norwegian’s love for crime novels and detective shows over the Easter period dates back to the Saturday before Easter in 1923 (I’m not kidding! 🙂 ). A publishing house paid for ads on the front page of several newspapers for their latest crime novel “The Bergen train robbed last night!” and some mistook the ad for actual news and quite worried they contacted the newspapers for more news as they had friends and relatives on the Bergen train. And from that Easter on every publishing house has launched their new crime novels before Easter and the Norwegian “påskekrim” (Easter crime novel) phenomenon was born. It has been a marketing thing every Easter since then.

This tradition was followed in the TV age as the Easter TV crime became a tradition as well, especially English detective shows (Norwegians love English TV drama as well as English football!). For me it’s really Easter when watching another bloody murder among the upper classes in the English countryside! 🙂 Strange Easter tradition, I agree!

Easter is indeed time for chocolate … and Easter marzipan (“påskemarsipan”), another Norwegian Easter tradition! Better save something for inspector Lewis later tonight! Happy Easter! 🙂