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Part 2 of 3: Danish Christmas – A Danish Christmas Eve

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Two Norwegian Girls

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Hey. I'm back, the crazy Dane who was in your paper last week as well. Today I'll write a little about Christmas Eve.

Our family starts on the 23rd. We have rice porridge with cinnamon-sugar and a big scoop of butter in the middle. To that, we drink Christmas Beer called Nisseøl. It is so sweet and with 1.5 percent alcohol so the children have a little as well.

When we have eaten all we can, the rest is put in a big clay bowl and we all take the bowl to the attic of our shed where it is placed with a bottle of Christmas beer for the house elf. A...

 
 
 
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