From KCRW, this is nocturn.

From KCRW, this is nocturn. In northern areas of Scandinavia, some local people have a name for the period in winter

when the sun doesn't rise above the horizon. They call it the blue time.

From late November to late January, places like Trumps of Norway experience what's called a polar night, in which the hours that are not completely dark resemble a soft twilight.

Carrie Leibowitz got a Fulbright scholarship to study how people in Trump so cope with this two month period of winter when the sun is nothing but a memory.

People were talking about how excited they were for the winter, how excited they were for the snow, they kept talking about how cozy. people were

for the snow, they kept talking about how cozy things were.

This concept of Kousalig was coming up a lot, which some people may be more familiar

with the Danish word, uh, Hugo. And it's translated as coziness but it's sort of more than that

it's it's a very important cultural concept in Norway and anything can be kusilig, can be cozy. So not just like a restaurant or a house, but a conversation or a business meeting or a conference. All of those things can be Kushleg.

So it's coziness, but it's also sort of this

feeling of peaceful contentment, sort of that feeling of,

you know, that you have when it's dark and cold outside and you're wrapped

up inside in front of a fire and your loved ones are around you and you just feel like there's

nowhere you need to go or nowhere you need to be as an American outsider is the best I can come up with for what

Kuzulig really means. And I think it's especially important as you get farther north just like you know in the US

concepts of wintertime coziness especially around the holidays might be true everywhere

but might be more true or more important in Minnesota and Montana and Maine.

Scandinavia has some secrets for how to do winter right and the rest of the world is taking an interest.

More after this. the rest of the world is taking an interest.

More after this.

I'm Warren Alney.

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