What imagination!
Merry 🎄 Christmas

It's a wonderful artwork, especially the cats eyes.

Giant black cat, with the moon in their eyes, is behind the house, it's holiday magic. That's a very creative painting, thank you for posting your art, Ocelot II.

Cold breeze. Thank you.

🎁🎄❤️

Great tale (tail!) Thx for sharing

I have actually performed it in a choral arrangement, in Icelandic, which seems like a blend of Norwegian and Klingon. We learned how to pronounce it by listening to this exact recording.

There is a neat channel on YouTube which discusses older things related to Icelandic among other topics:

The song is a real earworm, too.

We marinate in Swedish and Norwegian culture here! I have heard that carol, and know pretty much by heart Berede väg för Herran and Gläns över sjö og strand, and a whole bunch of Norwegian carols. You couldn't get away from Swedish/Norwegian culture here if you wanted to. I won't eat lutefisk or surströmming, though. The music is great but the cuisine not so much, except for the pastries.

Lutefisk and surströmming, agreed.

Other critical culinary questions:
Blodpudding?
Ostkaka with lingonberries?
Rye bread?

A much less critical question but still of interest . . .

Do you have experience of towns in MN hanging "God Jul" signs instead of "Merry Christmas" signs as the town's Christmas celebratory decor?

And a most important question . . .

Is the best color for a Dala horse red, blue, or black?

However, if music is the topic, here is an enjoyable song, too, even if it is for a different celebration:

Lingonberries, etc. are readily available. You can get brunost at any large grocery store. There are several places in Minneapolis where you can get Scandinavian food, e.g. Ingebretsen's Market. https://www.ingebretsens.com/shop/food and Crown Bakery in Anoka. I have no knowledge of God Jul signs in small towns because I rarely visit them, but I wouldn't be surprised to see them in Lindstrom or Mora. I think most Dala horses are red but I'm Norwegian, not Swedish, so I don't know much about them, except that there's a giant one in Mora and it's red.

. . . to MN, it would be neat to check them out.

Out of curiosity, does Norwegian culture have a tradition of Sköna maj singing in the springtime? Maybe it is purely a Swedish (or USA Swedish) custom of roving around town and singing Sköna maj to greet the spring, though. I imagine that might not be seen in Minneapolis, but the smaller towns might still do it. That is why I mentioned that song: it normally seems to involve a wandering choral production, so I thought that might be of interest.

I love the painting 😍🎨