Hygge is a Norwegian word as much as a Danish one, and in a 2011 study of Danish middle-class families the anthropologist Jeppe Trolle…
Cross the border from Copenhagen to Oslo and the word does not change. Hygge is Norwegian too, spelled the same, widely used, and carried in Det Norske Akademis ordbok with a definition a Dane would recognise.
By Scandinavia Standard · Aug 29, 2026






























