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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
Social customs, rituals and festivities
Traditional crafts