Kardemomme by and it’s law

Outside of Kristiansand there is a place called Kristiansand Dyrepark (Dyreparken Zoo and Amusement Park). This area contains animals, as well as a few children’s stories from Norway. Two of the main ones being Kaptein Sabeltann and Kardemomme by. Kaptein Sabeltann is a sea captain leading the ship The Dark Lady and his crew.

Kardemomme by (Cardamom town) is a small town in a story written by Thorbjørn Egner where the main rule can be read on the following pictures in multiple languages:

The Kardemomme by-law in Norwegian: “Man skal ikke plage andre, man skal være grei og snitt, og for øvrig kan man gjøre hva man vil.”

The Kardemomme by-law in Bosnian, English and Kurdish.
English: “You shall never bother others, you shall be both fair and kind, and whatever else you do I shall not mind.”

The law in German and Spanish.

The law in French

The drawn picture in the photo above is a drawing representing Bastian, who is the policeman in Cardamom town, and in charge of the law that the town is well known for.

Dyreparken

In the middle of August 2014, I moved to the south of Norway to study. After moving down, I spent a day in Dyreparken with some of the people I study with. Dyreparken (or Kristiansand Zoo and Amusement Park as they call it on their english websites) is a Zoo and an Amusement park outside of Kristiansand, where one can see many different animals in their own habitat.

The park works closely with World Wild-life Foundation, to save animals in danger of extinction, like the Nordic lynx, wolf and wolverine. They refer to the park as “The Living Park”, and write that “The Living Park is a place to be remembered – a park to be revisited…”.