Hardangerbunad is a collective term for bunads from the villages in the traditional district of Hardanger, Norway, with various local varieties. The bunad includes the areas Kvam, Granvin, Ulvik, Eidfjord, Jondal, Ullensvang and Odda.
Hardanger is one of the areas in Norway that has had a strong folk costume tradition, and with the national romantic in the late 1800s, the church clothes from this area were lifted to be a Norwegian national symbol, and the Hardangerbunad therefore has the nickname Nasjonalen, in English "The National".[1] The Hardangerbunad was used by women from all over Norway to show support for dissolution of the union between Norway and Sweden in 1905.[2]
- ^ Dette er Norges første bunad Dagbladet May 16, 2012 (in Norwegian)
- ^ Hol Haugen, Bjørn Sverre (2006). Norsk bunadleksikon. N.W. Damm & Søn. ISBN 8249607570 (in Norwegian)