A mysterious package dated 100 years ago will finally be opened after generations in a small Norwegian town heeded to the instructions written on the wrapping: ‘To be opened in 2012’. The parcel was sealed in 1912 and left in the care of the council in Otta, a town 180 miles north of Oslo.
After surviving two world wars and years in bank vaults, archives and on display behind glass the contents will be revealed at a ceremony tomorrow night.
The parcel was left in the council's care in 1920 by Johan Nygaard, who had wrapped and sealed it eight years earlier on the anniversary of the legendary Battle of Kringen. It is believed that the contents of the package may have some connection to the battle 400 years ago.
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Kjell Voldheim, a registrar at the local museum, is one of two people who will open the mysterious parcel.
‘We have no idea what could be inside. It is going to be so exciting!,' he told Norwegian newspaper Verdens Gang. 'We have thought a lot about what it might be.'
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