All over Norway, the Constitution Day is celebrated widely.
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- Maryland, USA 1944. WW2 – The Norwegian Crown Prince family in exile in USA during the war. Prince Harald celebrate the Norwegian National Day.
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- Nordal Grieg speech at a Norwegian coastal command station in 1942. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
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- Russ graduates in Oslo.
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- 17th of May celebration in New York in 1955, where a Norwegian men’s choir helps to reinforce the national feeling. Photo: NTB Scanpix
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- OSLO Peace in 1945. 17 may service with Akershus Fortress. Biskop Eivind Berggrav, with Crown Prince Olav. Photo: NTB / Scanpix
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- May 17th in 1943. The Constitution Day is celebrated all over the world, wherever there’s Norwegians present. The celebrations in New York are particularly renowned, and here they are celebrating dressed in bunads, and parading. Photo: NTB Scanpix
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- Crown Prince Haakon in Askerbunad, Crown Princess Mette-Marit in Rogalandsbunad, Princess Ingrid Alexandra, Prince Sverre Magnus, and Marius Borg Høiby in bunads from Vest-Agder, and the family dog Milly Kakao greets the children’s parade outside their home on the morning of May 17th in 2013. Photo: Stian Lysberg Solum / NTB scanpix
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- Postcard from 1814, with a strong national theme. Photo: Nasjonalbiblioteket
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- Lofoten, North Norway, 2010. May is a time of the year in Norway, when the weather can be quite mixed. There can be snow, there can be rain, or as in this case, wind. But the celebrations must go on, and luckily the national costumes are quite warm. Photo: Wikimedia Commons
