SHARING A PAST SCANDINAVIAN HERITAGE CELEBRATED AT FESTIVAL.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer THOUSAND OAKS Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. - Wearing a blue viking-style tunic tu·nic n. A coat or layer enveloping an organ or a part; tunica. tunic a covering or coat. See also tunica. abdominal tunic see tunica flava abdominis. he made himself, Sven Lugar was a piece of living history Saturday. Using his skills in metal, wood and leather carving, the Tujunga resident had crafted two authentic tents and the sort of goods a viking would find for sale at a market fair, such as a wood engraving of the Norse god Odin and a knife with a handle carved with a dragon's head, its mouth clutching a piece of amber. ``I want to educate people in that vikings were not knuckle-dragging, hairy, stupid people as they are usually portrayed in movies,'' said Lugar, who programs emergency systems for police and fire departments. ``Compared to the rest of Europe, they were quite educated. They had a joy of life. What I want to show is they were real people.'' Lugar also carved from maple a reproduction of a viking-age lyre lyre, generic term for stringed musical instruments having a sound box from which project curved arms joined by a crossbar. The strings are stretched between the crossbar and the sound box and are plucked with the fingers or with a plectrum. found in the Sutton Hoo graveyards of England; he gladly demonstrated how to play the instrument. For Lugar, who first became interested in his ancestry at Christmastime 1958 because of a book his grandparents grandparents npl → abuelos mpl grandparents grand npl → grands-parents mpl grandparents grand npl gave him, this was his fifth year participating in the annual Scandinavian Festival at California Lutheran University Mission statement The University's mission statement is as follows: "California Lutheran University is a diverse, scholarly community dedicated to excellence in the liberal arts and professional studies. . The festival, in its 27th year this weekend, features arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. , Scandinavian delicacies such as aebleskivers - tennis-ball-shaped Danish pancakes covered in raspberry sauce - and entertainment. People brightly dressed as members of a 16th century Swedish royal court also mingled with the crowd. The two-day festival ends today. The festival was started ``more to honor the heritage of CLU (language) CLU - (CLUster) An object-oriented programming language developed at MIT by Liskov et al in 1974-1975. CLU is an object-oriented language of the Pascal family designed to support data abstraction, similar to Alphard. ,'' said Carol Keochekian, senior director of university relations. ``The land the college is built on was donated by Richard Pederson of Norwegian decent.'' Pederson, a Conejo Valley rancher, donated the 130 acres in 1957. Later surrounding land acquisitions contributed to the campus today. Keochekian said the festival attracts people from all ethnic backgrounds and attendance ranges from 10,000 to 15,000. Saturday's opening ceremony included a parade of flags from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and the singing of those countries' national anthems. Politicians - including Thousand Oaks Mayor Dennis Gillette and Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. chairwoman Kathy Long - presented proclamations to the university commemorating its festival. Representatives from Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Woodland Hills, and state Sen. Cathy Wright, R-Simi Valley, also presented certificates to the school. ``For the 27th time, the university is building or expanding a bridge between Scandinavia, the Baltic and this lovely university,'' said Martin Kofod, counsel general from Denmark, who visited just for the occasion. ``This bridge is invaluable to us.'' And in a first for the festival, four of the counsels general later participated in a Scandinavian symposium to discuss current issues, including the European Monetary Union European Monetary Union An agreement by participating European Union member countries that includes protocols for the pooling of currency reserves and the introduction of a common currency. and relations with the United States. ``I love it,'' said festival participant Sonia Ruud of North Hollywood. ``I'm Norwegian and my family loves Norwegian history. ``So it's really fun,'' said Ruud, a CLU alumna who has attended the festival once before. ``It's like almost taking a vacation.'' Ruud said she was looking forward to the folk dancing and the food. ``Where are the aebleskivers?'' she asked. ``I could go for one now.'' It was Arizona resident Gordon Mortensen's first time at the festival. ``It's great fun,'' said Mortensen, whose head was topped with a souvenir viking hat. ``I'm looking to buy some Norwegian sweaters.'' Mortensen said he comes to such festivals to keep in touch with his Danish roots and for the camaraderie. He and 50 Lutheran church members of Scandinavian decent came to California for the festival and to visit Solvang, a reproduction of a Danish village near Santa Barbara. Jenny Wang of Thousand Oaks brought her mom and 19-month-old daughter to the festival to get a glimpse of another culture. `I just wanted to see what it's like. I've never been to Sweden or the Scandinavian area,'' said Wang, who was getting ready to sample a Scandinavian hot plate - meatballs, potatoes, red cabbage and lefse lef·se n. A round flatbread of Norwegian origin, traditionally made of a potato-based dough and baked on a griddle. [Norwegian, from leiv, flat cake, from Old Norse hleifr.] . ``It's interesting.'' CAPTION(S): 2 photos Photo: (1 -- color) Holding the proper headgear headgear, n the apparatus encircling the head or neck and providing attachment for an intraoral appliance in use of extraoral anchorage. headgear, radiologic, n a device that is used to protect the head from injury by radiation. , a festivalgoer waits for a ``viking dog'' to be dished dished adj. 1. Concave. 2. Slanting toward one another at the bottom. Used of a pair of wheels. Adj. 1. dished - shaped like a dish or pan dish-shaped, patelliform concave - curving inward up by Kip Hacker, left, and Don Bielke. (2 -- color) Doreen Hamilton portrays the Queen of Sweden at the festival. Joe Binoya/Special to the Daily News |
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