The sun has finally started to return to Northern Norway after a long polar night when the sun didn’t rise at all, and after four years living in the North I know exactly how Northerners are celebrating – with solboller! Interestingly, Northern Norwegian solboller, or sun buns, are different from Southern Norwegian solboller, also called solskinnsboller, or sunshine buns. Northerners do eat solskinnsboller as well, but these are not the buns they eat on soldagen, the day the sun returns after polar night. You can find my solskinnsboller recipe here. Northern Norwegians celebrate the day the sun returns after polar…
