Valborg is a very old holiday

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Here in Sweden we celebrate Valborg
a holiday so everyone gets drunk and lights big fires

Valborg is a very old holiday. Walpurgis Mass Eve has been celebrated in Sweden and Finland since at least the Middle Ages and originally comes from the Catholic celebration of Saint Walpurgis in Germany. Today, the bonfires of the Walborg Fair are above all a way to welcome the long-awaited spring. Even in farming society, this time marked a change in agriculture with what we today call spring farming. But in that society there were several times that marked springtime

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