Settle in with your spindle this evening to mark St. Distaff Day. Yes, a distaff is an object, not a person, but the English name for today is, indeed, St. Distaff. Less poetically minded people may refer to this as Roc Day, “roc” being a synonym used mainly in northern Europe for a distaff. This… More On the close of St. Distaff Day
Immigration is in the headlines these days. Ingebretsen’s was founded by Charles Ingebretsen Sr. who emigrated from Norway in the early 1900’s, the only member of his family to leave the country. It is good to remember the courage of people who emigrated here in the past, and who are still coming to find a… More The Emigrants — An Important Story
Happy 201st birthday to Marcus Møller Thrane, a Norwegian author, journalist, and the leader of the first labor movement in Norway (it was later known as the Thrane movement “Thranebevegelsen”). Thrane was born October 14, 1817 in Christiania, now Oslo. As an adult Thrane worked as a teacher for the workers’ children at the large… More Marcus Thrane — A Founding Father of Norway’s Labour Party