Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land

Keeping Christmas: Yuletide Traditions in Norway and the New Land
ISBN-10
0873513894
ISBN-13
9780873513890
Series
Keeping Christmas
Category
Religion / Holidays / Christmas & Advent
Pages
355
Language
English
Published
2000
Publisher
Minnesota Historical Society Press
Author
Kathleen Stokker

Description

This book brings home the stories and origins of the treasured customs which Norwegians use to celebrate the Christmas season. Norwegian immigrants carried with them centuries-old folk tradition, which they held especially dear at Christmas time, remembering family members left behind. But the US, the immigrants and their descendants met the newly evolving traditions of the commercial American Christmas, a powerful homogenising force in a nation of immigrants. Stokker describes and traces the development of folkways on both side of the ocean, from their origins to their practice today. With fascinating details, with scores of accounts of ancient and modern Christmases, with recipes and photographs, this book reminds Norwegians and Norwegian Americans of their connections to each other and explains how their celebrations differ on this joyous family holiday.

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