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The reason for these These historic larps to be were held in wintertime was to be able , primarily to provide another form of larps that was suited to do in games during the larp traditional off-season period of the winter holidays. In contrast to their predecessors, the fantasybased fantasy-based [[summerlarps]] , winter larps required rented cabins needed to be rented in order to be able to handle the protect players from cold weather. The summerlarps ' use of tents or pineshelters pine shelters was inadequate due to the temperature and the snow. Cabins where were rented through active larpers that had connection with the organisations of connections to the Norwegian Scoutmovement Scout movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scouting).

Many of these larps was were played during the Easter Holidays.Traditionally norwegian Norwegian families go into the mountains and visit old familyowned family owned cabins or farms during the Easter holidays.The cabins often have poor sanitation fascilitiesfacilities, no electricity and is are heated with firewood.

These are holidays where the family spends a lot of time outdoor during daytime, and gather around a long table to share common meals evening time. Singing and playing cardgames is often also a part of this holiday. The winterlarps can be viewed as the larpers of Oslos mimicking these traditions into their larptraditionlarp tradition.