Bun Day
The votes have been tallied and newscaster Svanhildur H�lm Valsd�ttir was for the second year running named Iceland�s sexiest woman.EW/Iceland Review Online Feb.24.04
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To celebrate her second straight title, Svanhildur decided to forgo the three-day rental car provided by Avis. Instead, she�ll hang out at the local supermarket and collect free Bollur. That�s right, yesterday was Bolludagur (Bun Day), the day when Icelanders stuff themselves with cream-filled pastries.
Bun Day is always the Monday of the seventh week before Easter. (I know, easy for me to say.) The tradition is said to come from pre-Reformation times, when �it seems to have been common for people to begin the Lenten fast by eating no meat for the two days before Lent proper began,� according to the book �High Days and Holidays in Iceland.�
