Sweden is a Lutheran country, I don't know if this is relevant or not but Good Friday used to be a sort of day of mourning when I first moved there. Even the Thursday preceding it, called Skärtorsdag ( meaning "Cut Thursday") was a time of mourning. Funereal music on the radio, all entertainment closed, people went about with long faces. I was very surprised! By the late 1960s this was coming to an end. Now the whole holiday period is one of eating and celebration. A time to eat roast chicken, buy cream filled bakelser including Semlor (see http://ift.tt/1K2vekr), painting and decorating eggs, and when children expect presents, usually chocolates. The semlor get more creamy and larger every year. The contrast between the mourning for Christ on the cross and the resurrection is no longer there. The long weekend (from Cut Thursday to Easter Monday) is also used to travel to the mountains and go skiing.
Easter in Sweden
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