{"id":77189,"date":"2025-03-23T07:00:12","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T07:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/?p=77189"},"modified":"2025-03-20T11:42:36","modified_gmt":"2025-03-20T11:42:36","slug":"nordic-day-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/dagur-nordurlanda-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nordic Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nordic Day \u2013 a day of Nordic cooperation and friendship \u2013 is today, 23rd March, and in 2022, it is also celebrated that the Nordic Society in Iceland will be 100 years old. To mark the occasion, a has been set up A website reviewing the anniversary year<\/a> and will oversee all the Nordic events that will be on the programme during the anniversary year. Also, the Collection of short stories<\/a>, which have their roots in Norse relations.<\/p>\n

Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has twin towns around the world and became a member of the Nordic Twin Town Association with Frederiksberg in Denmark<\/a>, Uppsala in Sweden<\/a>, B\u00e6rum in Norway<\/a> and H\u00e4meenlinna<\/a> in Finland<\/a> in 1951. Then, Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur has its twin towns Tv\u00f6royori in the Faroe Islands<\/a> and 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.<\/p>\n\"\"\n

The flags of the Nordic countries were flown at the town limits on Nordic Day, to mark the 100th anniversary of the Nordic Society.<\/p>\n

Today, these twin towns primarily focus on cultural, sporting and commercial links, and meet regularly at biennial twinning events. 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. Young people in Hafnarfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur aged 16-18 with a keen interest in human rights issues are given the opportunity to Apply to participate in the twinning association's event in Uppsala<\/a> but the application deadline expires on the day of the Nordic Countries.<\/p>\n

On the occasion of the Nordic Day on 23 March 2022 and the 100th anniversary of the Nordic Society (1922-2022), the The Nordic Society<\/a> and the Nordic House to a Nordic reception at the Nordic House on 23 March at 16:30. Light refreshments will be served.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dagur Nor\u00f0urlanda \u2013 dagur norr\u00e6ns samstarfs og vinarhugar \u2013 er \u00ed dag 23. mars en \u00e1ri\u00f0 2022 er \u00fev\u00ed fagna\u00f0 a\u00f0 Norr\u00e6na f\u00e9lagi\u00f0 \u00e1 \u00cdslandi ver\u00f0ur 100 \u00e1ra. Af \u00fev\u00ed tilefni hefur veri\u00f0 sett upp vefs\u00ed\u00f0a sem fer yfir afm\u00e6lis\u00e1ri\u00f0 og heldur utan um alla \u00fe\u00e1 norr\u00e6nu vi\u00f0bur\u00f0i sem ver\u00f0a \u00e1 dagskr\u00e1 \u00e1 afm\u00e6lis\u00e1rinu. Einnig […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":19177,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","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-77189","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\/77189","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\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77189\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hafnarfjordur.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77189"}],"curies":[{"name":"WordPress","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}