Home   Home Experience Magazine Buy it Read it Partners Nordic Links It's about Nordic Holiday Christmas Lucia Advent Recipes Events Gifts Trivia The Guide Contact Subscribe Subscriber Log In   Christmas in Scandinavia Holidays Scandinavian style Christmas in Scandinavia There’s no better time than Christmas time to get your feet wet when it comes to trying out Scandinavian traditions. Just like in America, Scandinavian Christmas celebrations have become more secular events during recent decades, opening up this festive time of year for everyone to enjoy, regardless of faith, nationality, or background. Leave it to the Scandinavians to know best how to brighten the darkest time of the year – after all, they’re pros! The Swedish Lucia The most Swedish of all celebrations..? The Queen of Light The Lucia celebration is something that Swedes themselves, and also the rest of the world consider as perhaps the most typical Swedish tradition there is. Advent - leading up to Christmas The time before Christmas 'Advent' As important as Lucia is the season of Advent, the four weeks leading up to Christmas. Recipes - Traditional food for Christmas Gravlax and surströmming—two of a kind The world's most smelly fish Travelers visiting the north of Sweden two hundred years ago, particularly foreigners with sensitive noses, spoke from time to time of the extraordinary stink that blanketed the countryside. Gifts - The green, the red, or under $20 A selection of gifts ideas from Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland. Something old, something new... Holiday shoppers looking for that special Scandinavian gift, need look no further - where to find the gift basket, a new green dishwasher or Woofy. Events - all across America Christmas and Jul basaars are everywhere The most important celebration If you are looking at this towards end of November, chances are you have already missed the majority of events in Noth America. Scandinavian Christmas Trivia In some countries, by law a time of civil peace Hyvää Joulua - Gledelig Jól - God Jul Santa Claus - Julemanden (Danish), Joulupukki (Finnish), Jólasveinn (Icelandic), Julenissen (Norwegian), Jultomten (Swedish)   NORDIC REACH. A Quarterly of Scandinavian Culture. Copyright © 2006 info@nordicreach.com