Ale drinking
According to tradition, the God who first taught ale brewing to humans?
Who is Odin
The age at which courting took place in traditional Norway among young girls who had been confirmed.
What is 14?
One of the two kinds of courtship gifts never given.
What is nothing sharp that could poke love out or shoes that could stamp love to pieces?
The type of building the groom and his friends typically dressed in on the day of the wedding.
What is a stabbur?
The food the bride typically passed around the morning after their first night in their new home in addition to the ale the groom passed around.
What is a honey cake?
The household activity considered unlucky to do during the ale brewing process.
What is sweeping the floor.
The social problem that resulted from the unsupervised visiting of young men and women that happened during night courting in storehouses or barns.
What is a high incidence of illegitimate births?
Objects she might knit him in return to say she was ready for a serious offer of marriage if he had given her a small band loom.
What are stockings or suspenders?
One of the typical meanings given for the bride's wearing of as much silver jewelry as could be placed on her bridal costume.
What is either the wealth of the family or protection from huldrefolk or underworld creatures who might kidnap the bride or disrupt the wedding.
The people from the bridegroom's party who first approached the bride's home to get permission to enter.
Who are two of the groom's friends?
The animal the ale horn came from which ale was drunk from in medieval times.
What is an ox or goat?
The meaning made of the girl's leaving the gift left by the boy on her doorstep without taking it in.
What is her lack of interest or refusal of the betrothal?
One of the most typical betrothal gifts from the man to the woman.
What is a mangletre (or a silver spoon or brooch or silk scarf)?
One of the two meanings typically made of the bridal crown falling off.
What is a bad omen or that the bride wasn't a virgin?
The length of time the initial party at the bride's house usually lasted before the church ceremony.
What are two or three days?
What the bride did upon arrival at their new home with the little bowl of ale she drank.
What is throwing it over the roof of the house?
The material that the Christmas braids made by girls to give to boys to wear on the brims of their hats was made of.
What is yarn of various colors with red showing the most interest?
Gifts the woman and her family made dozens of after the engagement to give to male members of the groom's family at the wedding.
What are knit and embroidered gloves?
The activity in addition to the loud shouting that typically announced that the wedding had been accomplished during the trip from church to the groom's home where the couple would usually reside.
What is the shooting of guns?
The gift given to the bride once the bridal procession arrived at the bride's house.
What is a horse with a woman's side-saddle?
The people responsible for brewing the wedding ale some weeks before the wedding.
Who are the men in the bride's family.
The gift the groom might traditionally carve and give to the bride in return for her giving him something like a decorated cheese to show her interest.
What is a wooden courtship spoon?
The typical morning gift given by the groom to his new wife the day after the wedding.
What is money or land?
The symbolic meaning in some areas of Norway of a pole topped by the figure of a chicken carried at the head of the wedding procession.
What is her fertility?
The length of time that courting and exchanging of sweetheart gifts usually lasted before the match was agreed upon.
What is a year or two?