Oslo, Norway

by Thea Viktoria Hillestad

Artwork: Misha, Katherina and Thea

Joined Jan 2020
Published Books 1

The 17th of May

The 17th of May is our national day. We celebrate, because we got our own constitution in 1814. We had been in a union with Denmark for over 400 years, and now we were our own country. Everyone was very happy, and the children had a parade in the streets.

This has became a tradition.

On the 17th of May now, children still go in this parade. They go through the middle of Oslo, past the castle. The parade is filled with happy children and a lot of Norwegian flags. At the evening many people get together with their families and friends to eat good food. Children that goes to school often meet at their school and play games and eat cake.

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Bunad – Our national costume

Our national costume is called bunad. We wear it on the 17th of May and other special ocations. It exists many different types of bunad. The difference is where the bunad is from. Women wears a long dress, a shirt, and an apron, while men wears trousers that stops at the knee, stockings and a jacket. You can also have a lot of other accessories, but this are the most usual things







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Bilderesultat for bunad Bilderesultat for bunad menn

Homenkollen

Holmenkollen is a ski-jump, Oslo. It is a landmark and Norways most visited tourist attraction. It is probably the most famous ski-jump in the world. Holmenkollen is the oldest ski-jump that is still in use

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Holmenkollen is a popular place for tourists to visit. It is located in Oslo and from the top of Holmenkollen you have an amazing view over almost the whole town.

It opened the 30th of January, 1892

It has room for 70.000 spectators

Olympics – 1952

World championships – 1930, 1966, 1982, 2011

World cup = 35 times

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Oslo, environmental main state

In 2019 Oslo was announced to be the environmental main state. This is a price that is awarded to a City every year. The first time they handed out the price was in May 2008, in Stockholm.

Oslo have been close to getting the title many times before, but it wasn’t until 2019 Oslo won the price. The subways in Oslo is a great reduction and was one of the reasons we won. From now on, Oslo will work to become even more environmentally friendly.

Misha S. Eide

Cross country skiing and and other sports

In Norway we have many good athletes at the top level. Mostly cross-country skiing, but we also have some footballstars. Our biggest stars within cross-country skiing is Therese Johaug, Johannes Høstflot Klæbo, Ingvild Fulgstad Østberg, Marin Jonsrud Sundby, Emil Iversen, Maiken Caspersen Falla, and many others.

But you might now Marit bjørgen and Petter Northug to. They have now resigned, but was to of Norways biggestcross-coutry skiing phenomena.

Marit is the most winning winer olympicks of all time, and is called the world championchip-queen. She is one of Norways biggest athletes of all time, same as Petter.

Misha

In Norway we also like to play football, and we have some stars there to. Here are some of them:

Ada Hegerberg is Norway’s top 1 female player. She is now playing for the French team Lyon, with many other star-athletes from different countries. Ada also won the gold ball in 2018, and was one of the candidates to win it in 2019.

You have also may heard of Martin Ødegaard. He now plays for Real Sociedad, but is on loan from Real Madrid fc. He is still young, so he has a lot of time, but we hope that he will be back in Real Madrid soon.

We also have Joshua King that playes for Bournemouth, and Caroline Graham Hansen that plays for Barcelona.

Norwegian food

Maybe you have heard about brunost? Norway have a brown cheese called “brunost”. It is pretty sweet and taste a little caramel. Norway is also known for their fish. Especially salamon. We also have oter typical norwegian dishes. Meat cakes with potatoes and