The tale of the Norwegian "Russ time"

Strap yourselves in for a sobering peek into Norwegian customs. This is a close up of a red suit that is iconic here. It’s called a «russedrakt» (Russ suit), «russ» being the term for a high school graduate. Since we’re all vikings here, simply graduating would be far too easy, so we decided to combine exams with a month-long drinking competition. To make it even more challenging, we give the graduates really big busses - which is an excellent choice for a first vehicle - and make sure they have stereos of proper ear-bleeding capacity. To top it off, the biggest party of all is set to May 16th, the day before the national holiday, where they are required to spend the morning in parades, surrounded by screaming children and brass music, reciting nonsensical rhymes from memory. (Like: chickelacke, chickelacke, show, show, show) The survivors of this cruel ordeal, will have definite proof of man- and womanhood, and can claim their rightful place among adults, where they will spend the best years of their lives working off the hangover. This suit in particular belongs to Jenny from Ålgård, who knows she’ll need the strength of the Seer these coming weeks.