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In Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Halloween night in 1917 brought snow, disguises and an ultimatum at the front door.
In a Norwegian story recorded in 1909, Sterke Nils watched a man struggle up through the waters of Svartetjørn in Telemark.
In the autumn of 1902, Danish immigrants living around Omaha, Nebraska, began discussing a move to the Canadian Prairies.
On Christmas Eve in 1834, Danish parish priest Johan Frederik Biering had a song prepared for his family at Tåderup rectory.
When Edvard Andersson recalled the Easter masquerades of his youth in Värmland, the disguises were designed to fool the neighbours.
In a poem attributed to the Norwegian poet Þorbjǫrn hornklofi, King Harald has already grown tired of sitting beside a fire.