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Seven women wearing the Hardanger bunad. Source: The National Library of Norway’s collection of images.

Hardanger headdress-pleating

A few years ago, no one but Ingebjørg Byrkjeland knew how to pleat the headdress traditionally worn with folk costumes…

Social customs, rituals and festivities
Traditional crafts

Traditional costumes in Norway, craftsmanship and social practice

Few countries in the world can boast such a widespread and common use of traditional costumes as Norway. Traditional costumes…

Social customs, rituals and festivities
Traditional crafts

Boat pulling at Bjørkedalen

Boat pulling is the the process of bringing a finished clinker-built wooden boat out of the boat shed at Bjørkedalen…

Social customs, rituals and festivities
Traditional crafts

Traditional use of clinker-built boats

For at least two thousand years, open clinker-built boats have been rowed and sailed in Norway. In days gone by,…

Knowledge of nature and the universe
Oral traditions and expressions
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