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Bergen, Norway 🇳🇴
(fr) Bergen est une ville du Sud-Ouest de la Norvège, capitale du comté de Vestland. Bergen est la deuxième ville du pays avec 278 121 habitants. C'est également une ville portuaire donnant sur la mer du Nord, une ville universitaire et un évêché.
(en) Bergen is a city in southwest Norway, capital of Vestland county. Bergen is the second largest city in the country with 278,121 habitants. It is also a port city overlooking the North Sea, a university town and a bishopric.
I often feel overwhelmed by Late Medieval - Early Modern finds in Irish and Scandinavian museums, much more so than by known human sacrifices, etc. All those knitted caps, mittens, warm cloaks - just regular garments of some person who was walking somewhere from somewhere and reasonably hoped to get there. Just can't shake the thought of some part of them still out there; still walking.
Part of a set of postcards for a personal project called 'Visit Scandinavia'.
Now that is pure adaptation!
As the days get darker and colder in much of the northern hemisphere, it’s easy to indulge in gloom. For the next few months, you’ll be shivering. You’ll be battling foul weather. Thanks to daylight saving time there will be no chance to see the sun after work.
The gloom leads to a common question: What can I do to cope with the dark and cold?
If you truly want to be happy during winter, though, this is the wrong approach to the season. Changing your mindset can do more than distracting yourself from the weather.
At first, she was asking “Why aren’t people here more depressed?” and if there were lessons that could be taken elsewhere. But once she was there, “I sort of realized that that was the wrong question to be asking,” she says. When she asked people “Why don’t you have seasonal depression?” the answer was “Why would we?”
It turns out that in northern Norway, “people view winter as something to be enjoyed, not something to be endured,” says Leibowitz, and that makes all the difference.
Lessons From The Far North
To be sure, there are some aspects of the near-polar culture that might be hard to emulate elsewhere. Small Norwegian communities are tightly knit, and strong social ties increase well-being everywhere. That said, there are lessons that can help anyone think differently about cold weather.