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1 year agoWhy is Maundy Thursday a holiday in Denmark and Norway but not in Sweden?
"Denmark carried out a much more extensive reduction of public holidays in connection with the Reformation," Goran Malmstedt, a history professor at Gothenburg University, told The Local. "In Denmark, the king decided in 1537 that only 16 of the many medieval public holidays would be preserved, while in Sweden almost twice as many public holidays were retained through the decision in the Church Order of 1571."
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