Christmas,celebrated in remembrance of the birth of Jesus,has long been the year´s most important holiday,
In peasant society,it was a celebration for the whole household,where it had good access to fresh food.
In Sweden,the Christian Christmas is celebrated from Christmas Eve,December 24,to thirteen days,January,6.
Christmas celebrations in Sweden has elements from the pagan,Christian,Nordic and Germanic traditions from the Viking age onwards.
However,with Sweden´s Christian around the middle of the 1100s started the Christian and pagan traditions to be mixed.
Most contemporary traditions originated from the 1800 and 1900 centuries.
During the 1800s,it became after a German model,common to bring in and decorate a Christmas tree.
During the 1900s came the Christmas gifts to become the financial gifts that were distributed by land,with the example of the saint St.Niklaus.
Thirteen weekend celebrated the memory of the three wise men´s visit to Bethlehem.
Christmas stockings were on the spot during the lit tree,and the dining table is spread.
What kind of food you eat may still vary depending on where you are living in Sweden,or from where you came from.
But some of the most common classic Christmas dishes in Sweden are: Christmas ham,pork sausage,baby move,herring salad,pickled herring,liver paté,bread flavored with wort,potatoes and stockfish,veal preserve,meatballs,rice porridge.
Christmas dinner begins often with a happy snaps and mumma or must.
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