Norway’s Constitution Day celebrated in Shetland
A MEMORIAL service took place at the Shetland Bus memorial in Scalloway this afternoon to mark Norway’s Constitution Day.
There was also a parade through Lerwick’s Commercial Street earlier in the day, while the Norway flag flew on top of the town hall too.
At the Scalloway event, local councillor Davie Sandison highlighted how in Norway the national day is “celebration of historical significance” but is also a celebration of children and the future.
The councillor, who chairs the SIC’s education and families committee, encouraged local schools to think of ways they could “collaborate across the water” with Norway. A video of clips from the ceremony had be viewed above.
The day is a national holiday throughout Norway, honouring the date of the signing of the national constitution in 1814.
Shetland has had cultural and historic connections with Norway since the 15th century, when the Northern Isles were part of the Norwegian kingdom, which also included Denmark and Sweden.
In the Second World War, locations in Shetland including Scalloway and Lunna House were used as part of the covert Shetland Bus operation when Germany occupied Norway.
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