It is not actually rice pudding, it is a Norwegian dessert called Rice Cream (or, some sources say that it is merely a rice porridge.)
The dinner of Christmas takes flight with the traditional rice dessert (with a lucky almond hidden for someone to discover)-- a bowl is also brought as a gift to the Barn-Elf, so that he will continue to watch over the animals, and refrain from mischievous ways.
it is not rice pudding, but rice prodige.
And the nisse is more a mix between an elf and a gnome.
It is done to keep the nisse happy. When it is happy it helps out on the farm, makes the animals happy etc.
if the nisse is not happy, it will make a havoc. the animals will be difficult, the horse will have knots in its mane (kalled nisseknute) and mice will eat the food.
If they don't then the elf is expected to spend the coming year playing tricks on them - so it is sort of "protection money to the elf who is running a low-level protection racket... :-) According to the folklore of rural Norway, there is a barn elf ("Fjøsnisse") living in the forests and on farms. This barn elf can play tricks on people if he is not well looked after. Some people in Norway today still put out a bowl of rice porridge sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon to keep their barn elf happy.
so the barn elf doesnt sneak into their houses at night nd eat their souls
Barn av solen - 1955 is rated/received certificates of: Norway:15
for the heck of it
The people (the stupid masses) stare at barn owls and then the owls fall over and die.
Because they love to do that kinda of stuff its cute.
i think they visited the barn 2 days a week !
It's just a barn. As far as I know you can't go inside but you can meet up with people there.
it means six people in a barn
Barn hens are limited to the space available within the structure of the barn or facility in which they are housed. While barn hens are not confined to cages, they are confined indoors to reduce exposure to predators and disease. Barn hens are NOT free range, they are cage free which seems to confuse many people.
They were milking the cows!
4. Cats dont have feet, they have paws
brooms are important to colonial people because they were used to sweep out the barn or house. They sweeped out dirt, grass, hay, and anything else that was unwanted in the house or barn.