圣诞节到啦！盘点10个国家的不同圣诞习俗(6)

挪威家庭从平安夜开始，每夜点燃一支蜡烛，一直到新年才结束。挪威人通常也在平安夜交换礼物。
The gifts are brought by Santa Claus or by small gnomes called Nisse, folkloric characters historically responsible for the prosperity of the farm and family who began being thought of as the bearers of Christmas gifts in the mid 19th century.
给人们送来礼物的有圣诞老人，还有小矮人尼森。传说尼森小矮人在历史上给农场和家庭带来了繁荣，19世纪中期，尼森小矮人开始被挪威家庭视为圣诞礼物的搬运工。
gnome[nm]: n. 小矮人
冰岛：在平安夜交换书籍

Iceland has the tradition of exchanging books on Christmas Eve then spending the evening reading them. The holiday season starts off with the delivery of the Bokatidindi, which is a catalogue of every single book published in Iceland. The tradition began in during WWII. Paper was one of the few commodities not rationed, and Icelanders could indulge in their love of books (and in giving books as gifts) as they weren"t in short supply.