The first bunads were clearly related to the most familiar folk costumes. Where knowledge of old traditions was uncertain, inspiration was drawn from separate parts of costumes or from other regional elements like rose painting, wood carving or embroidery. In recent years, interest in Norwegian bunads and folk costumes has steadily been increasing. This is especially apparent on May 17th, when there is an incredible show of gorgeous costumes from all over the country. The cradle of ski sport In Norway, skis have been necessary because of geographical and weather conditions.
Norse mythology speaks of skiing and hunting in the heroic poems.
He began using stiff bindings around the heel so that the skier could turn and jump without losing his skies. The Telemark ski he constructed was narrower at the middle and became the prototype for all later ski production. Morgedal was as such a natural place for the Olympic flame to be lit before the Lillehammer Olympics in 1994. After crossing Greenlands's inland frozen wasteland from east to west, Fridtjof Nansen wrote that skiing is the most national of all Norwegian sports, and what a fantastic sport it is too. If any sport deserves to be called the sport of all sports, it is surely this one .