Norway

 N O R W A Y

Some houses in Norway.

**Material Aspects of Culture:** **Art:** **Coat of arms:** there are two kinds of coat of arms in Norway "State of arms of the Norwegian Kingdom", and "Royal arms of the king of Norway". State of arms of the Norwegian Kingdom, has a red background with a golden crowned lion holding an axe in the middle, it has a crown on the very top with a cross. This version was designed in 1992, and adopted in 1905. Royal arms of the king of Norway, is much fancier but still has the lion in the middle. Instead of a cross on the crown there is the golden lion. There always has to be a crown on the top of the coat of arms. **History** Magnus barfoot (1093-1103), was the first king in norway to use an heraldic lion. A heraldic lion is a lion who shows royality. In 1280 there was added a crown and an axe to the lion. The axe had killed ST.Oval in the battle of stiklestad in 1030, when they were fighting against some other regions.ST.Oval was a really mature king who norway very much loved, they say that he is "Norways only king". The coat of arms have changed through time but there has always been the lion on. Norways coat of arms is the oldest coat of arms in the world. They shared it with Denmark once. In norway they use their coat of arms on top of some of the castles, and shields, and all kinds of other royal stuff.They don't actually use it on mail boxes and as cafe names, they more use it for spacial occasions, they belive that it's part of their country as it also is.links:[] Music Food ﻿﻿Religion Literature

**Holidays**
**norways holidays are quite similar to ours like they celebrate easter and christmas too; They also celebrate lots of other holidays like we do. Down below is the list of holidays they celebrate.**

Date ﻿ English Name ** Local Name Remarks **
__ January 1st  __ New Year's __Første nyttårsdag__ __ ﻿ Moveable Sunday’s __ ﻿ Palm Sunday __Palmesøndag__ Sunday before Easter Sunday Moveable Thursday Maundy Thursday Skjærtorsdag The Thursday before Easter Sunday. __ ﻿ Moveable Friday ﻿ __ Good Friday __Langfredag__ The Friday before Easter Sunday Moveable Sunday Easter Sunday Første påskedag Moveable Monday Easter Monday Andre påskedag The day after Easter Sunday __ May 1st  __ Labour Day __Første mai__ International Workers' Day May 17 Constitution Day Syttende mai or Grunnlovsdagen Celebration of the Constitution of 1814 __ Moveable Thursday  __ Ascension Day __Kristi himmelfartsdag__ 40 days after Easter Moveable Sunday __﻿__ Pentecost Første pinsedag 50 days after Easter Moveable Monday Whitmonday Andre pinsedag 51 days after Easter December 24 Christmas Day Første Juledag Christmas Day. Nearly all Northern countries celebrate Christmas on The 24th December. __ December 25  __ St Stephen's__Day Andre Juledag__ A Christian saint's day celebrated on 25 December in the Western Church and 26 December in the Eastern, church. December 31 ﻿ New Year's ﻿ Nyttårsaften__ ﻿ "The day of the new year"; The last day of the Year. Non-Material Aspects of Culture: Ideas about modesty Ideas of Beauty **Childraising** Relationship to animals <span style="color: #f9a80b; display: block; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS',Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ideas about sin Ideas of Justice

<span style="color: #ffff00; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Ideas about Disease **Roles based on Age** **Roles based on Class** <span style="color: #57e0be; display: block; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">Roles based on job

<span style="color: #000000; font-family: Webdings,sans-serif;">Roles based on sex