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It is time for the annual three days market in Trondheum, Martnan.
I am not sure, but some sources tells that Martnan has a tradition all the way back to around 1540. Anyway I remember it from my early childhoos as one of the year´s highlights.
Martnan is a mixture of fun, food, traditional arts and crafts, bric a brac and junk stuff.
For many years junk took a bigger and bigger part, so it was with great pleasure I found less of it this year, and instead more food, a lot more food.
And crafts.
And fun.
Like this woman who showed me how to do a special kind of weaving, brikkevev.
Or racks of hand knitted mittens in the traditional selbumønster (pattern from Selbu)
An international booth with crafted items from Belarus caught my interest.
A tivoli amusement park who came to town was an important part of Martnan when I was a girl.
And it still is.
Grandpa Johannes had 21 grandchildren, and he set himself a goal, to win teddybears for all of us at the raffle tombola at Martnan.
He must have used a fortune, and
he made his grandchildren extremely happy :-)
If i wrote this blog in Norwegian I would now quote Alf Prøysen´s song Teddybjørnens vise, The Teddy Bear´s Song.
Writing this I realised that Marta doesn´t know Teddybjørnens vise, so I had to sing it for her. All six verses. Sweet memories.
Blogging leads to so much........
......one can easily get addicted.
Martnan, the last week of June, a perfect time to come if you plan a visit to Trondheim.
