WHAT IS SWEDISH MIDSOMMAR? TRADITIONS, HOW TO CELEBRATE!
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Hey everyone! I celebrated my first Swedish Midsommar a few weeks ago! In this video, I'm going to show you my celebration, as well as talk about what Midsommar is, why it's celebrated, and how to prepare for it!
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Lovely to hear Skånska. Du har blir duktig på svenska.
When you are sober you say "Snaps" in Sweden, when you had a few you say "Schnaps" or maybe "Schna-ha*hic*aaaps". It all depends on your state and how late in the afternoon. ;)
It’s important to point out that snaps and schnapps are two different things. Wikipedia has two articles, ome for each. Snaps is the Swedish/Danish one, usually an aqvavit. O.P. Anderson is one of the most popular ones.
skitsnack va kommer du ifrån?
@@kramasnu3826 You failed to understand my point totally. And I would never base anything I say on Wikipedia alone.
@@tonynordlander9626 Vad menar du? Var jag kommer ifrån är väl irrelevant? Eller svarade du på fel del av tråden för att du inte visste hur man svarar rätt?
@@JEmmertz Men snälla lilla aggressiva snutteplutt. Ta det inte så personligt. Läs de där artiklarna innan du avfärdar dem. Och, jo jag fattade visst att du förskte skoja till det. Men drycken Schnapps ÄR en annan sak än snaps, och det var det långt innan Wikipedia ens fanns. Men det är en bra startpunkt för information.
(Helan går in English)
"Hell and gore"
Hell and gore,
Chung hop father Allan lallan ley.
Hell and gore, Chung hop father Allan ley.
Oh handsome in the hell and tar
and hell are in the half and four
Hell and gore... [chug the snaps]
...Chung hop father Allan ley
The Maypole is not used for "poledancing" and the shape of the maypole has its origin very far back. We don't intentionally celebrate midsommar as a fertility feast anymore, but statistically, there is a peak in births in march, compared to the months around it.
It’s such a beautiful celebration!! So simple and non-consumeristic.
Valborg och midsommar är Sveriges bästa traditioner. Mys.
You did good drinking the whole snaps! 😀 That is actually what the song "Helan går" means. It translates to "if you don't drink it all, then you don't get half of it either", so basically drink everything or not at all. 😁
Nearly, but not quite. The first shot is called "Helan", the second "Halvan". If you don't drink the first, then of course you cannot drink the second either. (I could list the names of the first 15 shots, though I have never had that many - I would probably have passed out long before that! 🙂)
Traditionally if you pick 7 (or 9) flowers during the Mid summer night and put it under your pillow you could dream of your future love.
It was also tradition to collect the Midsummer night dew as it was said to be imbued with special magical properties.
That snaps song actually says to drink all of the snaps, every place i have celebrated midsommar you drink it after the last "helan går" then when everybody has finished the snaps you sing "sjung hopp faderallan lej" :D So they did it wrong Skåningar... ;)
Also known as "Hell and gore"... ;-)
Hello, Kim! Thank you once again for an interesting episode! Being an old Swede (and actually living in Malmö!), I find it fascinating to get "outside views" on who we are and what we do.
Midsommer(-s Eve, actually) is probably the most genuinely Swedish holiday we have, and probably should be counted as an unofficial Swedish national day.
Europe is interesting though - we live on a continent where people have intermingled and mixed for thousands of years, and what today is typically Swedish is actually a combination of influences.
The maypole, for instance, originally comes from Germany.
And the song you mentioned, "Små grodorna", or the little frogs, where you hop around the maypole and behave ridiculously (!) is originally a French folk song.
And this is how you find Europe just about everywhere, but it's the COMBINATION of influences that in the end becomes "unique", in this case as a Swedish tradition.
And presumably, you didn't forget to put seven different flowers under your pillow when going to bed after the partying? 😎
The midsummer pole is altso cald "Majstång"/"maypole", frome "maja" that means to ornate with green leafs.
Midsummer eve is magical.. if one pick seven flowers and put under ones pillow one suposed to dream about the one that one going to get married to!
An modern update.. if one dreams about the wrong person.. one have probably picked the wrong flowers.. a new try next year!
Greetings from Finland once again!
Nice to see that you still do videos. So here in Finland we celebrate midsommar too, but we call the day "Juhannus". It is the last saturday of june as we have it. Cultural difference is huge if we compair to Sweden. At juhannus people gather together with friends or families and usually goes to summer cabin or some festivals that are all over the country. Some areas also have "juhannuskokko" that is massive bonfire and people gather there to celebrate. There is little bit different traditions depending what area you live.
But anyway juhannussauna is very traditional in whole country. Sauna is always important in finnish celebretions and allmost everyone goes to sauna at juhannus. Second thing is that most of the people grill them food at juhannus. You can basicly anything but sausages are the most common thing to grill. Many people also smokes salmon at juhannus. Of course we eat sallads, fresh and potato sallad are the most common. Also new potatoes is big part of the juhannus food.
Drinking alots of beer or/and vodka is very common too. Some fancier people propably drink wine, but most of the people drinks hell of alot beer.
Then there is many kinds of "weird" beliefs and some spiritual things that people do. If young woman gathers seven different flowers from the field and puts those under her pillow, she might see a dream from her upcoming fiance (this is very old habbit). Those bonfires that i told earlier is for the reason too keep bad spirits away and to get good crops to harwest in late summer / early fall.
If the wether is good, people do many kinds of outside activities. Throwing darts, playing mölkky or some other outdoor games. If you are at cabbin that has lake next to it or the cabbin is on by the or in island there is lots of swimming too. First we heat up saunas and go to sauna and then we go for a swim. Sauna will be heated for whole evening as long as people are up unless everybody thinks that they are not going to sauna anymore. Some people might sit in sauna for hours and cool of once in a while in water or terrace. If you don´t have lake, river or sea at your cottage, people might bath in palju. Its little bit had to explain, but is something like a jacuzzi/bathing barrel. Here is video what it looks like czcams.com/video/OPICdKT1z4Y/video.html if you are interested to see.
Later evening people make campfires or ignite grills for sausages. Then we basicly socialize with other people and drink as long as possible. That might go all night long and some are still drinkin early at morning before they are ready to pass out. Like i earlier wrote we really drink alot of beer. Some might drink whole 24-pack or even more during the day and night and many people buys more than one 24-pack for Juhannus. Usually at least two that you wont run out of beer by acident 😂.
Well that´s about the main things about finnish Juhannus. Having fun outdoors whole day drinking heavy and eating well.
One more interestin fact is that babie are born 9 months after Juhannus more then any other time in the year. So you can guess what else happens alot at Juhannus 😄.
So cute in that midsummer outfit ! 😀
The Midsommarstång is a fallos symbol showing Frey putting his seed into the earth and that would bring a agood harvest
Love your youtube videos! Did you bring any of the Swedish midsummer traditions back to the States?
Hej, jag har börjat titta lite på dina videor, och gillar dom och hur du berättar om Sverige. Tack!
Amazing video Kim! ❤️
Thanks Bob! ❤️
Liked how you described a typical Svenskt "Midsommar" and showed us how the flower crowns are made. The decorations, drinks, food and liquor looked amazing around the buffé' table. You got a great voice at singing "Midsommar sånger." So wonderful to see you and Joakim enjoying with friends at having a great time and everyone so nicely dressed for the occasion. "Trevlig Midsommar!" 😊
"Små grodorna"
Litle frogs litle frogs are fanny to see , they don't have ears or tails . ......
It is a french marching song from Napoleon era (La Chanson de I'Oignon)
Which the english turned into a nid song , because they ate frogs in France
The swedish variant until about 1890.
It is part of making love out in the bushes if yuo are not too drunk .
Hope yuo had fun !
You were very beautiful with flowers in your hair (like most girls do). Glad you had a good time on Midsommarafton 😊
The song is about you having to take the whole, if you don't take the whole, you shouldn't really get any more booze.
So yeah you have to take the whole thing when you sing Helan Går.
almost correct, we do have alot more ferries around nowadays. But no the fantasy kind, but the mental illness kind.
The "midsommarstång" is a very, very old tradition from times before Sweden was a christian country. It is a symbol of a phallos that´s been stuck iinto mother earth for better harvest. It´s easy to understaand why it´s shaped as it is when you know that.
It is a cross representing that the Kingdom of Sweden was created through the Church.
I've heard that Lindsborg, Kansas is the place to celebrate midsummer in the US, but I haven't been there myself.
Love it, & you! 😘
So unbelievably good looking, charismatic, lovely, clever and fun. The whole you is just breathtaking, really. Just look at you in that gazebo! It's like if someone brought down the sun and put it in that chair in there, you absolutely RADIATE. Your husband must be the happiest man walking the face of the earth. Good for him.
Its allways free to aprichate beuty. Even if allready spoken for... ( And 25 years too young for me hahaha )
I think you are hinting at "Små grodorna" (the small frogs) when it comes to songs and those movements.
Looked like fun day
Happy you enjoy it
There are diffrent ways to read and disect the maypole, what it's diffrent part means.
Like the rings are the sun and the moon.
On some you got a "David Star" on the center but they are what Dan Brown, in his books, called signs of the male and the female coming together.
Some say the dancing in a ring is to turn the wheel of life and death.
So the whole pole is a sign of new life begining and old life ending.
Not just the funny sexpole as some call it....
The flowers shall be picked in the wild 👌
I just want to say we miss and see you It was nice to see you Goran man crazy movie about USA or something hope all is well with you
The song is Små grodorna (The little frogs)
Hi Kimberly Sorce !
Awesome girl now you're a real swedes.
Skål Tom ☕😄
the song is Små grodorna= little frogs.
Another tradition things that the girls was to pick 7 different flowers at the field or forrest and put it under the pillow in bed the saying was that they then dream about hers future husband.
A nice tradition i think.
Another tradition regarding flowers is that you put 7 different types of flowers (any types) under your pillow and then you´ll dream of the person you eventually marry.
I wonder if I just missed the Midsommar celebrations. I was in Copenhagen on June 5 for a cruise, and sailed right past Malmo on my way to Germany, and then ended up in Stockholm 4 days later. I was really bummed that I didn't have time to hop over and explore your beautiful city.
Midsommar was june 23
Im swedish and i wathed this vid
The song you looking for is called "Små grodorna" In english that meens "Little frogs" :D
Love your videos btw !!
Small frogs and small pigs
Min första reaktion var att "sådär firar man inte midsommar"😂 kul ändå att det skiljer sig så mycket beroende på var man bor i Sverige. Älskade att ni band era egna kransar👏👏👏
You also have to swim naked in the sea or a lake, a river will do if nothing else is available, otherwise it's not a proper midsummer.
Kimbely,du ser jättefräsig ut.
The Midsomarstång is a phallic symbol, in Dalarana it's left erected as it was on Midsommarafton all year.
The "Helan" in the song referrs to the full glass and "Halvan" to the half full glass, meaning you (according to the song) at some point only drink half of the snaps. That said it never made much sense to me so I always drink the whole thing :D
Kimberly,du ser jättefräsig ut
When you do dance around the pole you don't sing about ducks or rabbits. The only animal you sing about is frogs ... 'Små grodorna' (The small frogs they have no ears or tail ...) It's a song for children, which all other songs also are. You learn those songs as a child, and then you teach your children. Song tradition. This day we celebrate more then National day.
räven raskar över isen. Björnen sover.
And the song about the small frogs is a misunderstood, completely literal interpretation of a mockery song English soldiers sang about their enemy the French. "Frogs" is what they call them. That's why they made that text, to a French melody, a French military march called the song of the onion (Chanson de l'Oignon).
What about prästens lilla kråka? 🙂
Vi säger snaps eller nubbe😊 där jag bor.
Don't forget to pick seven different flowers to put under your pillow!
We call the food "svenskbord" because it is basically the same at Christmas, Easter and Midsummer.
svenskbord? I'm a swede over 70 years old and I have never heard svenskbord. I think you mean smörgåsbord if it's like buffe otherwise it's just a dinnertable.
@@bjorreb7487 Me and my friends always say svenskbord instead of julbord, påskbord and midsommarbord.
Smörgåsbord?
1:40 no, the trolls moved to the internet
Små grodorna is originally a French song about onions.
The song is originally from the Napoleon era and the frog theme is actually making fun of the french. The English lyrics is about “frogs”, which is of course the English euphemism for French people. England was at war with France at the time. The Swedish version is inspired by the English version but the original context of the frogs has lost its meaning.
@@Jonsson474 Do you have a source for that?
@@SteamboatW From the SVT page:
Den sång och lek som kanske mest av alla förknippas med midsommar har inte någon svensk koppling från början - utan uppfanns under krig mellan fransmän och engelsmän.
Melodin till Små grodorna har sitt ursprung i en fransk sång, som användes av engelsmännen under napoleonkrigen som en nidvisa om fransmännen. I Sverige plockades melodin upp i slutet av 1800-talet, då folklekar ökade i popularitet.
- Man brydde sig inte så mycket om historiken utan det var mer fokus på leken, säger Maria Björkrot, antikvarie på Dalarnas museum.
@@Jonsson474 Thank you! Now I'll be able to research a bit further!
Sverige deltog i napoleonkrigen på Englands sida, så sången kan mycket väl ha funnits här redan för 200 år sen. Från början handlar sången om hur viktigt det är med lök för de franska soldaterna.
If you wonder why Swedes celebrate midsummer with its long days and "white nights", all you have to do is spend a dark winter here. Then the reason will be very obvious!
mer osanning från jänkare o tyskar här om svenska traditioner
Sounds like you were describing the song "Små grodorna", meaning "Little Frogs" ... Don't ask ...
Long long ago it was just a pole. It was the christians who added the cross 😂
You forgot about one thing. I you want to know who you will marry when you grow up you can pick seven different types of flowers and put them under your pillow and then you will dream about the person you will marry.
Underbart att höra skånska.
"Små grodorna"
Speaking of Midsommar according to some old folklore if you're a single woman who wants to get married. Go out and pick 7 different types of flower and put them under the pillow. Then the future husband will appear in the dreams that following night...
You mest up a bit in the song befor tholla lay you take the drink and keep singing after you have drink the snaps.
Seeing fairies and trolls roaming about merely requires a little DMT. :)
Helan går Means that you have to drink the whole schnapps. He who doesn't take (Helan)the whole he doesn't get the half either... Ingen biter av!
Not to be that guy, but you are obliged by Swedish law to inform viewers when something is sponsored (Readly).
Oh, but your English cousins celebrate midsummer
In Sverige, men take their wife's last name.
Wrong
Wrong.@@notsureiL
you do NOT buy the flowers for the flower ceown thats a big NO NO. Too bad almost haff your videos are haff comersials now
Kimberly är alldeles för fin för att plocka vilda blommor som vanligt folk.
@@francisdec1615 do not matrer take the colture where you are or go home