🇸🇪 Is THIS What REALLY Goes On In SWEDEN?! American Couple Reacts "Swedish Midsummer for Dummies"
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Swedes are very fond of traditions and that it is celebrated the same way every year. The comment made in the vid; it’s more important how than why” is completely true.
You can think of Midsummer as 4th of July minus the fireworks but with viking roots. The human sacrifices were back in the Viking era - approx a thousand years ago. So REALLY old days! And it's true that we have a babyboom every spring.... 😂
yeah in our old religion Astro whit thor, oden and loke and couple other gods
Far from everybody has a country house - “lantställe” - but most people know someone who do. If you’re lucky, in the Stockholm Archipelago.
So typical for many countries 😁
The larger bottle in the beginning of the infographic you thought was wine is actually supposed to be either Aquavit or Vodka. Sweden is part of the so called vodkabältet (the Belt Of Vodka) that stretches from Russia to Iceland, that's why the protection is crucial. The thing about the frog song, "Små grodorna" (The Little/Small Frogs), has its roots in a British army diddle ridiculing the French. And the May Pole (as with the Christmas Tree) is an imported custom from the area of Germania and is not really a fertility symbol, but it's very clear how that can be mistaken as such. In Sweden the Midsummer celebration has replaced the celebration of the Summer Solstice, hence the mix-up with the sacrifices (if they were wheat, fruit, animal or human I actually don't know, but I think you can imagine what happens between warring tribes). You have to keep in mind that this is a VERY old tradition that was held long before Christianity was established in Sweden and has kind of survived since then. (Wait till you hear about Midvinterblot.)
Oh, sweetie, 🤭 I do (really do) think it’s a fertility symbol, a huge rod with two balls, stuck in the ground to fertilise it… like…yeah.😳😁❤️
Fertility in this context is about food, nature and babies. In autumn you have the harvest markets and such. My family were at home this year, just the closest family. We picked flowers for a vase, barbecued and strawberry cake for afters, and danced "The little frogs" around our kitchen island. No special sauces here, no one in my family is any grill experts. We did Souvlaki, the greek barbecue stick with tzatziki.
There are celebrations in town too, usually at the outskirts. If you don't have an invitation to a cottage somewhere you go there, dance around the maypole and have a picnic. If you visit Sweden during midsummer you can celebrate at open air museums like Skansen or Jamtli.
Or city park. 🥳
They forgot to tell you about the Viking-background/heritage.. That is a major reason to why this event still takes place !! :D
They did shortly mention it.
Recently just discovered your channel and just want to say that I really enjoy watching your reactions, especially about Sweden (where I'm from :)). You guys are such wonderful people. All love to you
According to the icelandic sagas we had 3 times we had blot (sacrifice): autumn, winter and spring. (And we mostly sacrificed animals, but not only)
Today you might find midsommarblot, but that is a neo-pagan thing.
I spent one midsummer in the city (Sthlm) and it was SO quiet midsummers day (the day after the celebration). I only saw people with other heritages on the subway, a lot of places were closed and I felt like I had the city all to myself. I usually do as the other swedes and celebrate close to water on the countryside.
All throughout history, there were many religious (pagan, polytheist, spiritual and monotheist) that practiced some form of ritual human/animal sacrifice meant as a gift to the gods, but there were many religions that also prohibited such acts. Want the women of your village to be fertile and bear many children, sacrifice a goat, want the gods to make sure your crops survive, sacrifice a cow, etc. Today, most of these religions no longer practice such things and have adapted to the modern world... although the abrahamic faiths are slow to change.
1:36 nr 4 is not wine but a bottle of aquavit (a strong spirit originating in the Nordic countries with a dominant taste of caraway, dill, or both)
As for the flowers under your pillow, you need to pick 7 different flowers and sometimes also jump over 7-9 fence yards.
Fun fact, små grodorna or "little frog" is an old military march of the Napoleonic era. The onion song is the english name of the french military march. So "little frogs" is also to joke with the french :)
The May pole is a pagan fertility symbol but I have never ever heard anything about human sacrifice in the past..
The only thing close would be the soltice ”blot” when ancient swedes would offer up sacrificies to the gods.
That’s because there were no witnesses…
@@ghostviggen True 😂
I'm born the day before Spring Equinox! 🤔
swede born in march represent
Me too. 😂😂😂
Hello, My fellow martian. 😂
The silence in the cities on midsummer is eerie... No cars, no people. Everyone is away celebrating Midsummer.
There are a few areas in the UK, where if you scratch the surface you'll find people still holding on to some of the old pagan traditions. Padstow, in Cornwall celebrates the beginning of Summer with "Obby Oss Day" - with a huge maypole, ancient song, dancing, drinking and a lot of, shall we say "fertility" going on.
Human sacrifices were once pretty much universal. From the Old Testament:
- Abraham nearly sacrificed his first-born son to God.
- In several places human sacrifice to Moloch is mentioned as if Moloch was some evil foreign god. But according to scholars, Moloch was actually the title used for the regular Jewish God when sacrificing humans to him. Apparently this was concealed later when the practice was made illegal.
- When the Israelites were about to win their war against Moab, the king of Moab publicly sacrificed his own first-born son to a Moabite god. Who proceeded to help the Moabites so they won against the Israelites. (This also shows that early Jews weren't monotheists in the strong sense. They acknowledged the existence of other gods, sometimes even feared them. They just didn't worship them.)
(This is no stain on the Jewish religion. They seem to have abolished the practice earlier than most cultures.)
However, there doesn't seem to be much evidence that this was practiced specifically on Midsummer. The idea seems to come from the 2019 horror film "Midsommar".
Nature is pretty open to all in Sweden so, if you don't have a house, you take the train or bus to the nearest nature. There are also communal events open for all who chose to come. You can actually get pretty far without a car here and we have a lot of nature per capita.
Fyi though; most nordic holidays are a mix of the basic "get drunk, eat good food, have fun, get laid" mantra. Human sacrifices hasn't been a thing since the vikings.
summer homes are fairly common in sweden if one of your family owns one you can ask them if you can live there during a vacation if possible.
Asa Or Nors as we are... yes there were 7 of males offering in Upsala.. we Vikings
That's why most people in Sweden are born in March or April.
They forgett to actually mention that midsommar is about celebrating nature and sun.
Human sacrifice is also in the bible. In most religions actually
As a sidenote, the population of all of the COUNTRY of Sweden (Roughly the size of the state of California, USA) is more or less equal to the population of the CITY of greater London (or 1/2 Metro area population of New York City), so having kids is a need to keep the country populated, so fertility made popular is the standard.
Often you do not get so much sleep,if your young😊
No BBQ sause, grill it natural and have 3 to 5 diferent sauses you can dip the meat in.
It was more common with animal sacrifices in midsummer during the viking age, but yes, human sacrifices did occur.
Hospitals has extra staff 9 months after this party.You know what I mean.
I think they were joking with the movie Midsummer. No human sacrifice existed.
This is funny shit and true.
The celebrarion is on a number of marked posirions. They are not always in the countryside, but often on the edges pf larger villages or suburbs that is sort of country like. There is actually quite a lot of people living in the suburbs or villages, and there is also quite a few people having summer homes. This is probobly around half rhe people.
.the othet half simply travles to someone who is in the other half. Typicallt young people, studemts that live innthencity that visit older relaties.
The origonal point of missummer was to avoid inbreading. So young single people would get as far away as possible from where they was born so they could meet someone they would be less lilely tp be related with.
Ironically, today it works pretty much the opposite.
I'm swedish and my birthday is in...March...hmm...
It's celebrated on John the Baptiste day.
Everyone (almost) evacuates the cities. Do they own a country place? No. Do they know someone who does? Yes! Or they can rent.
You can have tent With you😊
Human sacrifice was never a part of midsummer. (…other holidays though…)
the midsummer selebrating in sweden is true, and we doing it to selebrating the summer is here. but the swedes doing weird shit like dancing like frogs and shit, and even grown people like 40-50 years old doing it and it looks rediccolous weird. I never use to selebrating this shit, most likley i go for an cruise on the swedish ocean and eat some nice food and go to the bar for the shows and drink some beer// me from sweden
No, not at all. Everybody doesn t have a cottage in the countryside. We live in the main city we don t do those things like in your video. Of couse we eat good food with friends and family or only with the family. We go to the beach and bath, have a BBQ picknick. No all babies are not born around march. Many many babies were born in summer. So the truth somewhere else, midsummer celebrations are old traditions. Some follow, some don t.
As a Norwegian, I can say that parts of the party reflect the Norwegian national day celebration. Otherwise, I wonder why you Swedes use protection if it's a fertility party? Ah! Now I see. It is just another "Swedish joke" for us Norwegians.
I think there’s a movie around this festival. It’s lil Mind twisting..“ Midsommar” it’s called. Interesting culture
im born in april my mom in april my brother in mars =)
l'm swedish but have lived in different places in Europe in my 76 years ! I don't celebrate Midsummer at all , never have 👵
Do they have such cults like in the movie?
@@wclac yes sacrifices are mandatory
At times your American accent is quite difficult to understand - and you also talk fast and while the narration is going on, which makes it even garder to understand you.