{"id":14615,"date":"2021-03-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/dagur-nordurlanda-er-i-dag-23-mars\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T15:17:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T15:17:18","slug":"nordic-day-is-today-23-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/dagur-nordurlanda-er-i-dag-23-mars\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Day is on 23rd March today."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nordic Day is celebrated on 23 March every year. This year marks 70 years since Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur became a member of the Nordic sister city chain with&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.frederiksberg.dk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Frederiksberg in Denmark<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uppsala.se\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uppsala in Sweden<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.baerum.kommune.no\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">B\u00e6rum in Norway<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hameenlinna.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">H\u00e4meenlinna<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.hameenlinna.fi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in Finland<\/a>. Then, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has its twin towns. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvk.fo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tv\u00f6royori in the Faroe Islands<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avannaata.gl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Illulissat in Greenland<\/a>. Cooperation between the towns began after the Second World War when they felt the need to strengthen the relationship between the Nordic nations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dagur-nordurlanda-2021.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"center lazyload\" href=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 578px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 578\/434;\"><\/p>\n<p><sup>The flags of the Nordic countries were flown at the town hall on Nordic Day to mark 70 years since Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur became a member of the Nordic Friendship Towns Association.<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>Today, these twin towns primarily focus on cultural exchange, sporting and commercial links, and meet regularly at biennial twinning festivals. The meetings consist of events by youth, sports and cultural groups from the towns, as well as conferences and seminars on various common issues for the Nordic towns. Due to the pandemic, the twinning meeting that was due to take place in Uppsala this spring has been postponed until May 2022. The twinning association also promotes visits by school groups and study visits between the locations.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion of the Day of the Nordic Countries, encourages <a href=\"http:\/\/www.norden.is\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Nordic Society in Iceland<\/a> Everyone can host their own Nordic dinner party. The Nordic societies have collected recipes for starters, main courses and desserts, one dish from each country, which can be used to put together the finest dinner party.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/foreningen-norden.dk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Nordisk-gaestebud-opskrifter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Nordic dinner party \u2013 menu<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FADBRoJvhWg\">Nordic dinner party \u2013 cooking video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>The Nordic Council of Ministers is this year celebrating its fiftieth anniversary. To mark the occasion, five discussion forums will be held to discuss what the Nordic countries have achieved together.<\/p>\n<p>Cultural matters will be in the spotlight here in Iceland, and the Nordic House and the Nordic Association are hosting a panel discussion where <a href=\"https:\/\/nordichouse.is\/vidburdur\/virdi-menningar-a-nordurlondum-a-krisutimum-norraent-menningarsamstarf-i-fortid-nutid-og-framtid\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The value of culture in the Nordic countries in difficult times and for the future \u2013 Nordic cultural cooperation: past, present and future will be discussed.<\/a>. The event, which will be held at the Nordic House, will be streamed from 17:00 to 18:15.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/dagur-nordurlanda-2021-rosa.jpg\" alt=\"Nordic Day 2021 - Rosa\" href=\"\" class=\"center lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 578px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 578\/434;\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"imgcenter\">Mayor R\u00f3sa Gu\u00f0bjartsd\u00f3ttir sent congratulations to the mayors of the twin towns on the occasion of the day.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dagur Nor\u00f0urlanda er haldinn h\u00e1t\u00ed\u00f0legur \u00feann 23. mars \u00e1r hvert.&nbsp;\u00cd \u00e1r eru 70 \u00e1r fr\u00e1 \u00fev\u00ed a\u00f0 Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur ger\u00f0ist a\u00f0ili a\u00f0 norr\u00e6nu vinab\u00e6jarke\u00f0junni me\u00f0&nbsp;Frederiksberg \u00ed Danm\u00f6rku, Uppsala \u00ed Sv\u00ed\u00fej\u00f3\u00f0, B\u00e6rum \u00ed Noregi og H\u00e4meenlinna&nbsp;\u00ed Finnlandi. \u00de\u00e1 \u00e1 Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur vinab\u00e6ina Tv\u00f6royori \u00ed F\u00e6reyjum og Illulissat \u00ed Gr\u00e6nland. Samvinna \u00e1 milli b\u00e6janna byrja\u00f0i eftir heimsstyrj\u00f6ldina s\u00ed\u00f0ari \u00feegar [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_breakdance_hide_in_design_set":false,"_breakdance_tags":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frettir"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14615\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14615"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}