Daughters of Norway
Celebrating Our Norwegian Heritage for over 100 Years!

2026 Arrangementer (Events)

Døtre av Norge ønskes deg velkommen til å delta i våre begivenheter!  Vi har et fantastisk søsterskap.  Bli med oss i å bevare vår kulturarv
(The Daughters of Norway welcomes you to participate in our public events!  We have a wonderful sisterhood.  Join us in preserving our heritage.)

Check the List of Lodges to find a lodge near you!  Each lodge offers various cultural, informational, guest speakers and crafts at their monthly meetings as well as field trips to Scandinavian events.

Non-Daughters of Norway events are preceded with an asterisk*.

April 9 Finland's Mikael Agricola’s Day, Day of the Finnish Language (customary flag day).  Mikael Agricola’s day has been in the almanac since 1960. Agricola is known as the father of literary Finnish and a Finnish Protestant reformer. Mikael Agricola is also an important figure for the Finnish almanac, as his Prayer Book, published in 1544, contains the first calendar in Finnish.

April 23 Iceland's First Day of Summer which is always the Thursday after April 18.  

April 25 Denmark's Faroe Islands' Flag Day

April 27 Finland's National War Veterans’ Day (customary flag day).  National War Veterans’ Day has been in the almanac since 1988. It falls on the day on which the Lapland War ended in 1945. War Veterans’ Day commemorates our war veterans. In honor of War Veterans’ Day, a televised national celebration is organized in a changing locality.

April 30 Sweden's King's Carl XVI Gustaf Birthday Konungens födelsedag

April 30 Sweden's Walpurgis Night (valborgsmässoafton) is the eve of the Christian feast day of Saint Walpurga, an 8th-century abbess in Francia, and is celebrated on the night of April 30th and the day of May 1st. This feast commemorates the canonization of Saint Walpurga and the movement of her relics to Eichstätt, both of which occurred on May 1 870.