What games do children play in Norway?

Answer 1

You start school when you're six. You go to elementary school for seven years and leave when you 13. Next you go to teenage school which is like junior high. That's 8th, 9th and 10th grade and then you are done and can choose to not go to school anymore or go to high school for three more years. However you are entitled to 13 years of school and free university. In Norwegian schools you are in a class that you share all your subjects with. Norwegian schools are not strickt at all. Children soon find that they can do whatever they want whitout severe consequences. It is almost impossible to get a detention in a norwegian school. In fact I do not think it is legal anymore.

Answer 2

Today? Video Games ;P but I take it that's not your question...

A couple of popular ones for very small children:

Gjemsel: (eqivalent of Hide and seek)

Tikken: (equvalent of tag)

Mor, far og barn: (equivalent of house, litteral translation: "Mother, father and child)

Stiv heks: (Lit: "Stiff witch") It's much like tag, except the one that is the "witch" is tasked with "freezing" everyone else. When you are touched by the witch, you have to freeze in a pose (standing up, with your arms and legs spread out), and are not allowed to get in to the game again before someone who are still running about manages to crawl under you, and out on the other side. Witch wins if all are "frozen" (<== I loved this ^^)

Bro, bro, brille: (Much alike "london bridge is falling down" , but really, this is too old in Norway to be taken from there... Litteral translation: "bridge, bridge, glasses")

Two children stand up, holding eachothers hands, with their arms raised as high as they can, and the others will walk underneath the "bridge" that is form underneath the arms of the two standing up. Everyone is singing a little song that is associated with the game (and from which the name of the game is derived), and when the song ends, the "bridge" collapses, trapping the unlucky one that is underneath at that time.

Once caught, a child must (without telling the others which) choose between two random sides... for instance the "orange-side" or the "banana-side". When all have been caugt and assigned to a side, a rope tug decides which side is the winner.

Just for my own fun, I'll see if i remember the song

Note: Melody is nothing alike that of "london bridge is falling down)

Bro Bro brille

Klokken tikker elleve

Keiseren står på sitt høyeste slott

Ser ut over land

Ser ut over vann

Fare, fare krigsmann

Døden skal du lide

Den som kommer aller sist må i den sorte gryte

trans:

Bridge, bridge glasses

The clock is ticking (turning) eleven

The emperor stands at his highest castle

looking over land

looking over water

Danger, danger man of war

You shall suffer death

And the one that comes in very last, must go in the black pot

Fun fact:

Further investigation on my end made me realize that this game is actually pretty dark, as many old games are.

Back in the day, you were supposedly to choose between moon and sun upon capture, and the subsequent tug of rope used to sybmbolize a battle between the living and the dead 0o just.... wow....

Answer 3

Children in Norway do a lot of the things we do everywhere else in the world. They go to school, play sports, go sledding, go skiing, etc.

Answer 4

Mon. Tues. Wed. Thur. Fri : Go to school - play games at the PC / watching TV - go to bed.

Weekends: Play games on the PC / watching TV - go to bed.

Answer 5

the same "kind" of games children play everywhere

Answer 6

things like you kids in america! lol