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Nina's Blog - Saturday 17th May 2025

Saturday 17th May 2025, 17:25

Today is Constitution Day, always referred to simply by the date 17. mai. Pronounced something like this

This was the first time for many years that I have walked alongside the procession. I found it very emotional, almost to the point of tears. I just wish the rest of the world could be like this. We celebrate Constitution Day with a children's procession not a military one. The message is inclusion not power. People dress as they please, most in some kind of finery but some in very everyday clothes. Some women wore very short dresses and others floor length and everything in between And of course many wore bunad which is a kind of national dress that varies from valley to valley in the details of the colours and decoration.
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BohoBabe · M
Americans aren't allowed to celebrate this anymore.
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@BohoBabe

https://www.stoughtonfestivals.com/
BohoBabe · M
@Thinkerbell I'll allow this, since it's more about being a Viking.
ninalanyon · 70-79, T
@BohoBabe I'm confused, what do you mean? Surely the equivalent is Independence Day on 4th July, don't you have some kind of celebration then? I'm sure I've seen American ex-pats having a barbecue in a park in Oslo on 4th July.

Or did you mean Norwegian ex-pats celebrating 17. mai while living in other countries?
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@BohoBabe

The Vikings never heard of the syttende Mai festival.
BohoBabe · M
@Thinkerbell That's fake news.
Thinkerbell · 41-45, F
@ninalanyon

Boo-boo is just being silly.

Americans of Norwegian ancestry celebrate 17. mai, as shown in the link I gave him.

https://www.stoughtonfestivals.com/