Lentorama 2019: Resurrect My Globe!

Day 24: Denmark

While Norway celebrates Easter with murder mysteries, Danes go for something less scary and more arts and crafty. Danes will write a letter called a gækkebrev, which is kind of like a cutout snowflake, but with a poem or riddle on it. It gets sent out a few days before Easter, with the sender's name represented on the letter by dots (one dot for each letter in the person's name). If the recipient can guess who sent the letter the sender owes them a chocolate Easter egg, if they can't they owe the sender an egg.

This apparently has its roots in letters sent by young people as a way of flirting (the letters would often include a flower called the snowdrop), but it's now more widely done among friends and families. This article suggests it came over from Germany as early as 1600.