Christmas Traditions

St. Olaf's Christmas traditions include exchanging hand-made gifts.

St. Olaf holds a Christmas pageant, with the shepherds and the angels and the two (not three) wise men.

After the pageant, the residents would go down to the town square and try to form a circle.

Then everyone would go home and smoke kippers to get their homes to smell like kippers.

In keeping with the spirit of Christmas, it was traditional to let all the animals sleep inside their owners' homes that night. Unfortinately, the next morning, the rumors would start, and they would continue until New Year's, when everyone would resolve that it would never happen again. But then, the next year, all it took was a little eggnog and one wise guy saying, "What the hell! It's Christmas!"