https://vo.rs/tags/g%C3%A4vle/Recent content in Gävle on vo.rsHugoenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-gavle-goat/Sun, 11 Dec 2022 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/encore/the-gavle-goat/<p>Every December a Swedish city builds a thirteen-metre goat out of straw, plants it in the main square, and then more or less holds its breath to see whether the thing survives to New Year. Most years it does not. The Gävle Goat is the strangest running gag in Scandinavia, a monument that exists partly to be admired and mostly, it seems, to be set on fire, and it has been playing out this way since 1966.</p>