Wife's Day or Konudagur in Iceland
Wife's Day or Konudagur in Iceland is held on February 22. Celebrated on Sunday from 18 to 24 February. This event in the third decade of the month February is annual. 
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In Iceland women´s day is celebrated on the first day of Góa, the 5th winter month of the old Norse calendar. Earlier, in the medieval times, it was between 8th and 14th of February.
Góa is a personification of winter, the wife of king Thorri, and known in the Nordic culture since ages back.
Husbands were and are supposed to be attentive to their wives on the first day of Góa, the "Konudagur". They are supposed to give their spouses presents, or/and flowers on this day and arrange baking of nice cakes.
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