Celebrate Easter in Sweden: Visit Sweden For Easter Vacations!
Celebrate Easter in Sweden: Visit Sweden For Easter Vacations: Easter is on its way and is going to be celebrated on Sunday, 21 April 2019. You all must be eagerly waiting for the day to hit as soon as possible because you will have a celebration on that day. But do you know different countries celebrate Easter differently? As we all know that we are foreigners and we know very less about how Swedish people celebrate this weekend and how they celebrate Swedish Easter. So, in this article, we are going to tell you how Sweden celebrates its Easter Day.
In other countries, Easter is celebrated on a religious basis and the holiday is to celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ but in Sweden, Easter has become a secular holiday rather than a religious holiday. Sweden follows many traditions just like other countries and one out of those traditions in the Easter egg. Easter egg is mostly placed on the Easter table for decorations. Other than the Easter egg, there are other things that are placed along Easter egg. Pickled herring, salmon and even lamb give company to the Easter egg.
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A Swedish master’s student Sven Palmen says that on Easter’s evening, they paint the Easter egg and they don’t go to the church but spend their time with family. He said, “On Easter Eve we paint eggs and you get candy eggs. We don’t usually go to church but prefer to spend a quiet evening with the family. On Easter Day we have dinner together. The main meal is something we call Påskbord which consists of meatballs, pickled fish and eggs. Then, on Easter Monday we usually just relax at home with the family.”
Some children practice a fun tradition that is similar to Halloween. On Easter Day, children dress up as witches with different outfits while some of them paint their faces and run from house to house in their neighborhoods asking for sweet.
As we all know that every festival is incomplete without it’s sweet and on Easter, sweets are necessary according to the Swedish traditions. On this day, you can find sweets anywhere of different color and shapes. There are different shapes of sweets from chocolatey eggs to bunny rabbits.
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Apart from these things, Easter in Sweden is celebrated by placing or decorating with birch twigs. Birch twigs remind us about the sufferings of Jesus Christ. These can be found in streets and outside the houses. Nowadays, these twigs are painted and glued with feathers and are placed in the vases. The whole house is wrapped by the vases and it looks beautiful. This is the new Swedish ritual that is now followed by everyone.
“We spend Easter Eve decorating eggs and making cakes. At midnight we go to church for the Easter Mass where we light candles and sing. The next day at breakfast we have eggs and bread dipped in wine that we get from church. Lunch consists of a sort of bread baked with cheese that we call ‘Pasca’ and lamb cooked with wine and herbs in the oven. Usually, on Sunday and Monday night, young people go out partying with their friends”, says a Romanian master’s student.
Easter has its own importance in different countries and it is celebrated differently in every country. Each celebration has importance and rituals of its own. So, if you ever visit Sweden during the Easter time then take part in the above-mentioned celebration and try to feel how much fun it is to celebrate Easter in Sweden.
