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Padel courts are multiplying across Oslo faster than almost anywhere in Norway. Here's what's actually worth booking, who's winning, and where the hype gets ahead of itself.
Before mechanical refrigeration, Norway exported huge quantities of natural lake ice to Europe — a forgotten industry built on winter itself.
The Norwegian bunad worn at celebrations today is a twentieth-century reconstruction of older regional folk costumes, revived as a marker of national identity.
Old Norse mythology and vocabulary survive embedded in everyday Norwegian — in the names of weekdays, in place names across Oslo, and in common words.
Norway's right to roam extends to picking wild berries and mushrooms on uncultivated land, a legal framework with deep historical roots and a few regional exceptions.
Long before Christianity arrived in Norway, the depths of winter were marked by Jól, a midwinter festival whose traces survive in modern Christmas customs.
