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I have spoken about this before, but I just want to say how much I enjoy celebration of Midsummer, in the context of Arctic location and culture.

I see it like the Light within us is especially visible during this particular holiday, the bonfire and grill/BBQ events around our area. People enjoying some mild alcohol-containing drinks like cider, alcopop/rusbrus or beer (I don’t like beer myself, but most other people here love it). The Light of the Midnight sun, the comfortable temperature outside, the feeling of community and our roots in both pagan and Christian traditions. The moments of spending time outside in awe of nature.

Can you tell I absolutely adore this holiday?

Thank you all for reading ❤

It’s one of my favourites and it’s special to our family as Kven people interested in learning the Kven language and history of our ethnic group. It’s not as well-known as Samefolkets dag but I celebrate both with enthusiastic feeling of belonging to something greater in meaning than just being Kven; it’s more about the community and humanity we all share.

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This day 6th of February is Samefolkets dag and it is important to me for several reasons, the Sámi culture is honored and there are a lot of Sámi related topics in the news. Sámi traditional food and traditional clothing are big part of the celebration as well as the Sámi languages and music. I feel like it’s about diversity as well as the unique features of Sámi culture.

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I’m from Norway and we celebrate Midsummer in late June, Sankthans. I like just walking outside watching people and the places the bonfire is and with the BBQ celebration. I choose sometimes to have several cans of cider being outside, and we live somewhere that’s close to nature so the view we have is absolutely wonderful.

Our summer is short and our winter is very long, so summer time is special to us in ways difficult to explain to even many Norwegian Southerners, they have true Sankthans as well but not Midnight sun like here and they have a slightly shorter winter.

so we have a mix of Christian and pagan tradition during Midsummer, people get together and light bonfires and grill/BBQ celebration outside. And often alcohol for the adults, people should not buy alcopop to underage teens, it’s illegal in Norway.

I’m looking forward to this holiday, thank you for reading this blog ❤ ❤

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Note: some text in Norwegian language

because our Arctic winters are so long, we really appreciate the Arctic summer even when it’s far from warm: I feel good in summer time even at 10°C and rainfall. We have the all-day light during our summer holiday; the Midnight sun and it’s magical really we are so used to it but it’s still wonderful to experience.

Norwegian; Jeg gleder meg sånn til sommerferien i år, jeg skal være mye ute i hagen og drikke kald energidrikk sammen med kald rusbrus og pærecider rundt midnatt i det vidunderlige solskinnet og den magiske stemningen vi opplever rundt det. Å bli litt solbrun fra å være ute i solskinnet og få nok D-vitamin fra naturen, jeg tar D-vitamin (kosttilskudd) hele året fordi jeg alltid ligger lavt i nivå på blodprøver. Ha på musikk på iPod og noen ganger koble den til høyttaler når jeg trenger en oppmuntring.

so summer holiday is my favourite because it’s wonderful spending time together outside in the garden or walking to local store or visiting family and drinking cold drinks together in the summer warmth, or just being by myself contemplating the meaning of this joy and being happy for what is good for our family, and also for our society as a whole. We all deserve peace ☮️💜