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It's not lingonberries, It"s strawberries and wild strawberries (the smaller ones). Everyone who wants to can make a flower crown, or you can buy or get help from someone you celebrate with. Yes, everyone is welcome - to the different official celebrations around the country, for the private ones you need to know someone. Summer solstice is celebrated in several countries in Europe, this is how us Swedes do it. Danes, Norweigans and Finns calls their celebrations something else and celebrate differently. Welcome to join! 🌸
Yeah, here in Norway we call it Sankthans and celebrate it on the 24th of June. Exactly at the oposite end of the year from Chrismas Eve. And even if it has a name derived from a christian saint, the celebration is mainly to celebrate the summer solstice. We make huge bonfires, have barbeques and and enjoy life !
Ye, Midsummer is like a celebration to the the sun/ light . As its like one of the brightest days of the year
The Small Frogs Song is a "translation" of a French Army Marching song, it's basically making fun of the French.
Each make their own crown.
On EVERY holiday, we eat pickled Herring.
Pretty sure any foreigner would be welcome to a midsummer party
My cousin lives in Portland, Oregon. She is from Jämtland, Sweden.
She is involved in a Swedish association and they celebrate traditions as Lucia and Midsummer. Everyone are welcome and those events are very well attended. 🥗🍀🌱
And yes, you make your own wreath. With a little help from the experienced if you are a beginner.
In Jämtland county in Sweden, on the island Frösön (Frejs island) stands the World northenmost runestone, raised around 1030.
I believe the "pauses" in Swedish language you mention come mostly from the fact that there are a lot of compound words, like 'snapsvisor' (snaps - a drinking shot, visor - songs). In English, it'd be two words, so there'd still be a pause, but unlike Swedish it's also written as two separate words.
Also, the Tooth fairy - or Tandfen - is a thing in Sweden as well.
To add on for anyone who doesn't know Swedish: depending on where or if we add a minute pause in a word, or if we move the pronunciation stress, it can become a different word. For example, two g's in a word will make a difference. Like with vägg = wall (stress on the g's), väg = road (stress on the ä).
It's not really a pause either. It's a change in tone, a tonal pattern.
Linguists call it the grave accent (or type two) that we use in compound words.
This is the traditionell midsummer celebration . It's also popular to barbecue and play lawn games for exemple kubb ,brännboll , beer pong :) 🍓🥂
My family have always woven the flower wreaths themselves (never bought any, as I saw someone mention you could buy plastic ones). I made one this year as well, even if I didn't go to any Midsummer pole to dance. I just had it on for the buffeet. But yes. If you make it, you can go out alone or with family members who wants to join (or drag the kids along to keep them occupied until the dancing). You pick the flowers you want (you can also pick some thin birch branches for filler) and then you sit down with some sewing thread or similar and bind it all together into a circle.
Honestly, the biggest obstacle for foreigners would be to find one of these celebrations. They're usually local. In and around cities, you might have one set up by some charity or official body, in which case a lot of people might be there. But yeah, if you're in Sweden for the Friday marked as "midsummer's eve" (it's a moving date, the Friday closest to around 21-24th of June) and find a place that says they'll have a pole, you can go there. Watch or, if you're brave without a guide, join the circle around the pole. If you're willing to get into the ring, few if any will say no to you joining. As you saw, the dancing can get rather silly. Hence why teens who are with friends might not want to join in. Lol The midsummer dinners/lunches are usually held with family, but you can bring something to eat for the pole dancing. Essentially, have a picnic. Or find someplace that serves food.
If you ever get the chance - check out Battery Park at Midsummer. Usually thousands of Swedes, lots of festivities.
The berries that was used was strawberrys, and wild strawberry, on Swedish the last one is named " Smultron" they are about the size of a raspberry kinda, mby slightly smaller.
The flower crowns are homemade, thats not anything i seen sold in stores, but then again im not really a person that would go to a flower store. Im half Swede and half Finnish. So my family kinda never celebrated Midsummer. The only times i been celebrating midsummer is when some friend had invited me
In the old days, it was the girls who picked seven wild flowers and put them under the pillow, the boys would jump over seven old wooden fence yards. But since it today is rare with the old wooden fence yards (especially nearby ones), the tradition with flowers has partly also spread to the boys.
The tradition of midsummer is probably the oldest tradtion we have. It is from long before Sweden was christianed. From the vikings ages. The may pole is a fertilty symbol. A pole (symbol for a phallus) that is stuck into mother earth for better harvests. And the two rings.. Well, I´m sure you can figure it out for yourself what they symboize, knowing what the pole itself is a symbol for. In the last two centuries the feast has became a lot of fun for kids. And when they fall asleep the adults have their own parties where almost anything might happen
It's how Sweden celebrate Midsummer (summer solstice). In Denmark we have a big bonfire (preferably around 10 PM), and sing a song or two - maybe someone even make a special speech.
Tooth faerie - really the parents (spoilsport 😊)
We used to celebrate every beginning of a new part of the year. But in todays Sweden we ”only” celebrate the summer and spring. Our celebration of autumn and winter merched into halloween and christmas. As a foreginer you are very welcome to take part in the celebration of midsummer:)
Flower crowns can be bought (mostly plastic) or you can make your own. Some set up crafting stations.
MidSummer day is sooo much bigger than the National day(6th of June) for most Swedes.. One reason might be our Nation once was almost as large as half of Europe( or larger..), and as a War-country , to maintain that area you`ll probably have to keep fighting and provide that "Old Nation" with a lot of needed things like forever.. Not to mention the own Peoples will to fight + the opponents you hurt.. I guess the developement of weapons + the impossibility of Warfare in a huge and fastly growing Country was hard to keep up with during the centuries back then..(..being "War-fatigue" and losing the will to fight for an area you had no Historical connection to made it impossible.., and imagine constantly need to find "new" soldiers back then.. ) I believe this caused Old Sweden to lose the Old territory ?!... Today most Swedes are very peaceful if not "pushed up against the Wall ",..You could probably say we don`t see the reason for fighting whilst losing many of our relatives, just for the need of more Land..If you don`t "over-populate" our Nature what is the need to "own" everything ?? , If having peace It`s so much easier to share things with others than to kill and to be killed yourself... All of this probably explains why MidSummer is our actual "Independance Day"/National Day !?! We have learned the hard way what expansive Warefare brings to a People.. and this also explains Swedens attitude in WW2...and BTW , who wants to celebrate the fact that "We" lost approx. 90% of the Land area we once had ?? :D :D // I like your vids a lot.. you educate us at the same time you yourself learns more..it`s a win-win.. keep up the good work + have a great life !! :D
I can say right away that if you are in Sweden and visiting the big midsummer celebrations, everyone is welcome to participate. Then depending on which one you visit, they help show you how to make your midsummer wreath to wear on your head. There are none ready-made to buy, but you make them yourself.
When it comes to the food eaten on Midsummer Eve, it differs depending on where in Sweden you live. Up in the North in the county of Lapland, it is more common to grill than to eat herring and potatoes, other cities and counties prefer to eat something other than just herring and potatoes. Then there are those who stick to the tradition that it should be herring and potatoes. BUT what everyone eats after dinner is strawberries with lightly whipped cream.
If you can't go to Sweden from the USA to be able to celebrate Midsummer, you can visit Minnesota or New York to see and participate in the Midsummer celebrations.
Midsommar is from the beginning a German tradition. The Maypole is phallos symbol, representing the God Frey. In the Viking Age, they believed that if you offered to Frey on Midsummer Solstice, you would have a great harvest in the fall. So, yes, Midsummer was (and still is) “mating season”. Most babies here are actually born in the middle/end of March. Nine months after Midsummer. It’s also the holiday where we drink the most alcohol. We celebrate Midsummer more than our own National Day (Independence Day). I hope that cleared things up for you a bit.
Oh, and we also have the Tooth Fairy, but instead of putting the tooth under our pillow, we put it in a glass of water.
Sure you can join - there often are communal festivities going on around the country.
You just need to know where and when ...
We also have the toothfary in Sweden 😊
Midsummer is the best time of the year. Forigners are very welcome! We love to share our traditions!
A little fun fact is that the melody for The Little Frogs Dance is the French Napoleonic song Chanson de l'Oignon. It being a song about frogs makes it more like a mockery of the French.haha.
If you come, everyone whould invite you for the fun. We want you to feel welcome and join the fun. Evening is bbq and beer outside in the sun since it hardly goes down at all. We all leaves the citys and celebrate in the smaller countryside that day the city is closed down.
There are public gatherings where you can dance around the pole and perhaps have a picnic. But unless you are invited to someone's party, or have one yourself, the food, snaps and singing isn't something we do as a community. Most inner cities are closed down on Midsummer and those who can travel to the countryside so apart from the public celebrations Sweden can be a bit dull for a tourist during Midsummer.
About how to pronounce our special letters:
Å/å - like the a in "all" or the ou in "four", for example
Ä/ä = lite the a in man, or the ai in fair.
Ö/ö = lite the i in "sir"
If you pronounce a word without it's dots, it usually change the meaning completely
For example about "a" vs "å" and "ä":
Tar = takes (anything)
Tär = draining energy
Tår = tows, or tear
Example about o and ö
Bor = lives
Bör = should
And yes, we often emphasis several vowels in a word. One reason is that we have a lot of confound words, as in the example you saw "snapsvisa" where snaps is one word, and visa is one word, and when you confound them you keep the emphasis' in both snaps and visa.
we also have a number of Midsummer celebrated in the UK
The reason for the pauses in our words, such as "snapsvisor" is because here in Sweden we tend to smash 2 words together all the time for no apparent reason. So in this instance it is actually 2 words ("snaps" and "visor"), so when we say it we still say it as 2 words even if we put them together when spelling! I have no idea why we do this! Perhaps too much snaps is the answer! ;-)
Celebration of the summer solstice is what midsummer is about, a ancient tradition that goes way beyond the viking age. I would say that celebrating the shortest night of the year here in Scandinavian goes back to iron age, or maybe even further.
The stone settlement in southern part of Sweden called Ale Stones are belived to be some sort of summer solstice cult place, like the Stonehenge in UK, and according to C14 dating method Ale Stones are around 5500 years old.
I think that maybe America are too young as a nation yet to had the time to develop such traditions, I mean your history doesnt go back more than a few hundred years, but if you would ask the indians Im sure they have their old traditions to celebrate events like summer solstice.
Fun fact. The song Little frogg which we dance to is acually a French military marching song. The Onion song. ua-cam.com/video/p3BHyOhVXmE/v-deo.html. 😂😂😂
Midsummer is also celebrated here in England, in varying forms. However, before the Norman Conquest, it was a more important day, and to the pagan Anglo-Saxons was incredibly important. The Anglo-Saxons and the wider Germanic world, which included Sweden, shared a common religion (Germanic paganism/heathenry), of which Midsummer’s Day, or Midsumordæg in Old English, is an existing remnant of that has survived until modern times.
Far as I know you can't buy real flower crown at stores you have to make it, I think there are some cheap semi plastic ones but rarely see them, the whole point is to do one yourself, if you can't there are always someone who can.
You are very welcome to participate, and make your own flower wreath. Unless it's in someone's garden, that would be weird unless they invite you. I know it rains a lot in the summer in Sweden, but 'mudsummer?😀. I think a lot of the pausing comes from the narator trying to be extra clear.
Oh, it comes from religion and beliefs, but modern sweden doesn't think about those reasons anymore. It's just a tradition we simply do now. Like all traditions we have xD It's just cozy, fun and a reason to get drunk
It's Paganism so yeah old norse religion
@@torgrim123No, nothing to do with vikings.
aaah yes the old tradition of Mudsummer
I thought Connor had discovered a new ancient British tradition! 😅
No judging you for asking, but buying a pre-made flower crown is the saddest thing I heard today.
You make it yourself. Or if someone makes it for you, it's probably someone you know.
And everyone is welcome to join the dancing (if it's not a private celebration on their lawn). All over the country there are communal events. As long as you are in (at least) a moderately populated part of Sweden you can find these. You probably won't even need to research where beforehand. Just follow all the people with flower crowns and picnic baskets going to it.
And everyone would welcome you. It's always fun when someone not familiar with the dances tries it. And no need to feel embarrassed! It's more embarrassing for the Swedish adults still doing it. But you just can't help it. It's tradition.
Yes, you can find places in the US where they celebrate Swedish Midsummer. I’m not sure where But i guess somewhere in Minnesota and i think they had some celebrations somewhere in New York too.
I believe they have a celebration in Battery park, NY
Lindsborg, Kansas... Sweden Hills, Japan.
If you want to watch a horror movie i highly recommends ari asters midsommar. It's based on the midsommar theme, altho for us swedes it's more like comedy.
And i'd say it barely qualify as a horror movie but eh.
It's an interesting movie i'll put it like that.
We have the tooth fairy too, but we put the tooth in a glass of water instead of under the pillow
I think the French have a mouse who collects the teeth rather than a fairy.
Are you a true Swede then you pick your own flowers and make your own crown…. Buying crowns and having plastics should be illegal… And the small berries on the grass straw is called smultron. It’s really sweet and grows both in gardens and in the wilderness :) And when I was young, a old tradition was also to pick 7 flowers and put under your pillow on the midsummer night, and then you could dream about the man that you would marry...
In Sweden the kids put the tooth in a glass of water. And the ”tooth fairy” comes at night and take the tooth but put a coin in the glass instead. 🙂
That is not a traditional Maypole though, it shouldn't be a cross no.
Start of summer!? The word literally tells you it's the middle of the summer. After it it's almost over. Sadly not many people do all the traditional stuff. Been long time for me. T_T
3:00 Yeah nobody goes to buy something pre-made, that would be blasphemy haha.
Haha å isn't an a.
We also have the tooth fairy here.
Yeah of course in the public ones you can just join, but with a family you gotta find someone to invite you haha.
It's the second biggest celebration after christmas. But I'd say new years could be bigger or just about.
Today the middle/end of june is considered the begining of summer and june, july and august are considered to be the summer months. In some quite old songs ”july, august and september” are described as summer months. If we go even further back maybe may, june and july were ”labeled” summer months due to harvest-cycles. Midsummer is held during the summer solstice, when the sun is at its highest position, when the nights are lightest/brightwst nights - thats whats most important. Maybe way back in time the word ”summer” refered to the this (the summer solstice) in a more intimate way.
To have a person from an other country there wakes Swedes hybrid 😅 a lot. Yoy would be forced to do traditional things NO ONE does, just to show how very exotic! we are 😅
literally about fertility
midsummer is a european ritual well we all have the pagan route.
As a foreginer you are more or less forced to participate!
Anyway, those danses is kinda childish and embarasing.. its more or less the purpose, becuse then everyone is equal!
"Swedish Midsummer Pole Dance Jamestown"
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Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this something that was celebrated throughout the whole of Europe? It's not exclusive to Sweden. It's just that Sweden hasn't moved on and still celebrate it whilst other countries have moved on from it.
... and forget that "pagan origin" stuff.. That's of course just BS.