Girls from the north country fair

Today my friend Torunn and I went to a place called Seljord in Telemark county to go to the annual fair called Dyrsku'n.

It's the biggest farm-and handcraft fair in Norway.

Even though it was pouring rain: 

I just read online that there was 21.355 paying people there today.

We didn't mind the rain. 

We just put on our GoreTex and rubber boots.

The fair has been going on since the 1860's. 

I think that's pretty cool.

Here are some pictures from back in the day

Today it pretty much looks exactly the same. Only in colors.

 

We just walked around all day and looked, bought and ate.

You can get a lot of free food samples.

And the food is gooood. Mostly really authentic Norwegian food like:

Moose sausage

Homemade organic veal hot dogs

Homemade rasberry lemonade

Pastry

Cheese with stinging nettle 

Local porridge 

MmmMMmmM....

Well, I bought this t-shirt:

It's sick.

Nynorsk is one of our official languages.

Also known as Hillbilly Norwegian.

That's how i speak.

People in the cities hate it.

And a nice artist drew my picture.

Stunning. 

When I was googleing images for Dyrsku'n i found this.

I've seen it before and I'm pretty sure it's taken in Idaho actually.

But the commet under this photo was too funny not to share.

(Sorry, English speaking friends, it's one of those things that are only funny in Norwegian)

Ein frå Burtigard Glosimot på veg heim etter å ha vore på køntrifestival, Maran Ata-stemne og Dyrskunn i 2003. Bilde er frå Dyrsku-plassen med Skorve i bakgronn. Snoen kom i september det året, og etter tradisjon i Seljord betyr tidleg sno på Skorve sein jul.

That's it.