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Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking December 2015 Capital Viking Norwegian Festival & Bazaar Friday, December 4, 10 AM to 7 PM Saturday, December 5, 9 AM to 4 PM Christ Lutheran Church (across from Norway House) 3820 Meredith Dr., Fairfax, VA directions Our 45th Annual Norwegian Festival and Bazaar will be Friday and Saturday, Dec. 4 & 5. We’ll have all the imported foods and gifts you can imagine, plus traditional live music, dancing, and cultural demon- strations. Some of the participating artisans and bakers are highlight- ed on pages 4 and 9. The Norwegian Café will serve the famous Fosaaen pea soup, Norwe- gian-styled pølse, riskrem à la Ardis Morton (see her recipe on page 7), and more. Enjoy a new selection of baked goods to enjoy onsite or buy some to freeze for Christ- mas. Come early for the julekake, frystekake, kanelboller, and skolebrød. We’ve doubled the order of nokkelost so hopefully we won’t run out early this year. The Fjord horses and Lundehunds should be great fun — they will come on Saturday as long as there is no active precipitation. See page 10 for a complete schedule of events. To sign up to help, please fill out the online signup form or call Marie at 703-815-3467. Featured this month: December Lodge Event: Calendar of Events ............................. 2 Juletrefest Norwegian Tree Lighting .................. 3 Join Sons of Norway .......................... 3 Friday, December 11, 6:45 PM (note date change) Meet the Festival Artisans ................ 4 Norway House Ardis Morton’s Holiday Recipes ..... 7 3846 Meredith Dr. Salute to Festival Bakers ................... 8 Fairfax, VA 22030 directions Members Meet Andsnes ................. 10 Virtual Pilgrimage Report ............... 12 Join us for our annual Norwegian Juletrefest, Friday, Dec. 11 at 2016 Officers Elected ...................... 15 Norway House. Please bring a favorite Christmas dish to share. New Viking Museum for Oslo ....... 17 Arrive by 6:45 and we'll have dinner at 7. Afterwards, we'll sing Genealogy Announcement ............. 18 traditional Norwegian and American Christmas songs accompa- December Birthdays ........................ 19 nied by Marguerite Kause on the piano. Litt på Norsk ..................................... 20 Reading Circle ................................... 21 The Lodge will provide Christmas gift bags for children. If you “Come to the Table” ....................... 22 are bringing children, please RSVP to Youth Director Annemarie Lodge Information ............................ 24 McCaslin at [email protected] to ensure we have prepared Holiday Fliers ............................... 25-27 enough gift bags. VOL. 51, NO. 11 PAGE 1 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking December 2015 Juletrefest Holiday Lodge Calendar Party Note date change: Fri- All activities are at Norway House unless other- day, Dec. 11, 7 PM. wise stated. Directions: www.norwaydc.org/ See page 1. directions. SON Holiday Festival & Bazaar Norw. Language & Dec. 4 & 5 Conversation Christ Lutheran Church (across the street from Every Wednesday (no classes Dec. 23/30) Norway House). See page 1 and Beginner 6 pm, Interm. 7 pm, Adv. 8 pm. www.norwaydc.org/events/bazaar www.norwaydc.org/language Page 21. Norwegian Church Service Other Area Events Sunday, Dec. 13, 3 PM Norwegian Christmas Tree Lighting Emmanuel Lutheran Church, 7730 Bradley Blvd., Tues., Dec. 1, 6 PM (Note date change) Bethesda, MD Union Station (West Terrace), Washington, DC A tradi- Norwegian language service. Christmas Celebration tion since 1996. See page 3. with Jultrefest. All are welcome. Contact Lasse Syv- ersen, 301-641-7908, [email protected] Swedish Bazaar & Saint Lucia —SWEA Sat, Dec. 5, Bazaar 11 AM-5 PM, St. Lucia 5 PM Scandia DC—Dancing House of Sweden (Swedish Embassy) Sat., Dec. 19. 7-10 PM. Holiday Party 2900 K St. NW Greenbelt Community Center, 15 Crescent Dr., Green- Washington, DC [email protected] belt, MD (dance studio on lower level). Recreational Scand. dance group. Live music. Christmas Market at Cana Vinyard www.scandiadc.info/ or contact Linda Brooks & Ross Dec. 12 & 13 1 — 7 PM Schipper at [email protected] or 202-333-2826. 38600 John Mosby Highway, Middleburg, VA Nordic Christmas http://canavineyards.com Wed, Dec. 24, 2:30 PM See page 8. Augustana Lutheran Church 2100 New Hampshire Ave. NW, Washington, DC Am. Scan. Assoc. Christmas Festival Advent wreath lighting by the children, texts, music, Sat., Dec. 12, 5:30 — 9 PM from all the Scandinavian countries. Contact Lasse St. James Episcopal Church, Syversen, 301-641-7908, [email protected] 11815 Seven Locks Rd., Potomac, MD See page 27. St. Lucia Pageant, Bazaar, Santa, Dancing See page 26 and Nordic Dancers of Washington, DC www.scandinavian-dc.org/2015-Flyer-ASA-Xmas.pdf Meets most Wednesdays, 7:30 PM Highland View Elem. School, Mid-Atlantic Norwegian Dancers 9010 Providence Ave., Silver Spring, MD Sat., Dec. 12, Potluck at 6 PM, concert/dancing at 7:30 Learn Scan. Dances. No partner or experience needed. 3812 Denfeld Ave, Kensington, MD 20912 Chris Kalke 301-864-1596, [email protected], Fiddler Vilde Aaslid plays at Sonia's. Vilde's concert will or https://sites.google.com/site/nordicdancersdc/ be a brief tour of Western Norway. Beginners, watch- ers, singles/couples welcome. Bring clean shoes, food Norwegian Embassy Calendar to share, and bucks you can spare. Contact Jenny at Check www.norway.org/News_and_events/ [email protected] or 301-371-4312. http://MAND.fanitull.org Event-Calendar/ for local events added after the Capital Viking is distributed. VOL. 51, NO. 11 PAGE 2 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking December 2015 catching or- Norwegian Christmas naments. Finding new Tree Lighting, Union uses for oth- erwise for- Station, Dec 1 gotten items The nation’s capital gets a taste of Norwegian is a core ten- culture and celebration of friendship and peace et of the sus- at the Annual Norwegian Christmas at Union Sta- tainability tion on Tuesday, December 1st at 6:00 p.m. One movement. of Washington's most popu- lar holiday traditions since 1997, the tree is a gift from Norway to the people of Washington D.C. and a sym- bol of Norway's appreciation for the strong friendship and relations between the two nations. The Embassy will provide beverages and light refresh- ments. Santa will be on hand The Norwegian Christmas tree will be on display with presents for the kids. through December. To read more, with links to free Norwegian music for streaming, please vis- This year's theme is Celebrating Norwegian Mu- it norway.org/music. More information on the sic. During the first week of December, popular Christmas Tree display can be found here: music by a wide variety of Norwegian artists will www.norway.org/News_and_events/Christmas- stream in the area near the tree – which will be 2015/Christmas-Tree-Lighting-at-Union-Station/ decorated with shiny, colorful CDs. Norwegians #.Vk5yl3arSUk rarely use physical media anymore, so they’ve upcycled those otherwise unused CDs into eye- Join Sons of Norway, If you need your member- Renew or Reinstate a Member- ship number of if your mem- ship, Give a Membership bership has lapsed call 800- 945-8851 or send an email Current Dues: Individual $56.50 to [email protected]. (International = $32 + District $14.50 + Children 15 years of age or Lodge $10) under who have a parent or Spouse $ 49.50 grandparent who is a Sons of Norway member may sign Youth $23.25 up for a free Heritage Membership. Youth Your children & grandchildren are FREE! ages 16-23 who have a parent or grandpar- ent who is a Sons of Norway member may To join as a new member visit our Lodge web be a free Unge Venner member. site www.norwaydc.org/membership or call 800- 945-8851 or email [email protected]. VOL. 51, NO. 11 PAGE 3 Washington Lodge 3-428 Capital Viking December 2015 Meet the Festival Artisans By Denise Bowden We are fortunate to have many talented artisans giving demonstrations at the Festival this year. In addition to those highlighted below, Lucy Lyons Willis will demonstrate Hardanger embroidery and Solbjorg Jansberg will demonstrate Nordic knitting. Nordic Weaving by Linda Hurt Dressing the loom in one of Linda Hurt’s weaving Lodge member Linda Hurt will demonstrate Nor- classes at the Alexandria Art League, and sam- dic weaving, and will give adults and children a ples of her work. chance to practice on looms she will provide. Stop by her display in the main room (next to the spinning experience lead to weaving (including waffles and krumkake) to try your hand. inkle, card, tapestry, and rigid heddle), wet felting, needle/dry felting, and sprang. Growing up in Wisconsin, Linda’s adventure with fiber began at age 7, watching her mother knit. At Linda enjoys small looms and is particularly inter- age 9, Linda learned crochet and embroidery and ested in freeform weaving and Scandinavian band then embraced sewing and tatting. From these weaving. These two styles are on opposite ends formative years, the artistic field was wide open of the weaving spectrum. She is on the weaving and she advanced to spinning—where she has faculty at The Art League, Alexandria, VA. spun everything from dryer lint to quiviut. The Norwegian Knitting and Crochet by Lynn has won several ribbons for her knitting entries at Rundhaugen the Montgomery County and Maryland State Fairs, including a Champion rosette for a hat and Lodge member Lynn Rundhaugen learned how to mitten set in the Selbu pattern. She entered a knit and crochet as a special “Winter Wonderland” young girl, but her inter- knitting contest at the Mary- est in knitting, especially land State Fair in 2012, and in the Norwegian style, won first prize for her really began during a “kjærestevotter” (lover’s family trip to Norway in mittens – three mittens for 2010.