Skål!
The rules are rather similar in my country … and b.t.w., Max von Sydow is a Swede too :)
When there’s a skål all around the table, all look one another in the eyes, and nobody puts the glass down on the table before the hostess. Little differences…
Our hostess doesn’t have to stay sober all throughout the dinner. Would be really interesting to hear a Finn’s take on this — I don’t know what they do there.
I always had a hard time drinking pure booze like that, during my drinking years, but eventually I picked up a technique, that made them go down easily! LOL