Dutch "Christmas" Tradition - Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 5 ธ.ค. 2017
- Last night, throughout much of the Netherlands, children unwrapped presents brought to them by Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) and his assistants Zwarte Piet (Black Peter) - but aren't they a whole 20 days early? In this video we're going to take a look at the Dutch tradition of Sinterklaas which is also observed in parts of Belgium, Luxembourg and Northern France. The history behind how the real-life Saint Nicholas went from a Turkish Bishop to the figure of Sinterklaas who is himself the inspiration for "Santa Claus."
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Hoop dat iedereen een fijne sinterklaas heeft gehad ;)
ja zeker weer lekkere slofen gekregen jij dan?
Een nieuw muziekinstrument en wat kleinere dingetjes zoals sokken, een boek en bakjes voor in de keuken
You wanna slapbox for like 5 seconds? Dankjewel
jezus eindelijk een duidelijke video van een echte nederlander over sinterklaas leuk
Dankjewel - hij was hard nodig!
zekers zekers. Je zou eens moeten kijken of je een volledige, beetje Bill Wurtz stijl achtig een video over de hele geschiedenis van heel Nederland moeten maken. zou nog best wat weergaven opleveren denk ik :p leuk kanaal
EpreTroll ja das waar
Love Sinterklaas & Zwarte Piet, growing up in Aruba Even though the Sinterklaas gifts were cheap and more utilitarian compare to the ones of Santa Claus
Sinterklaas gift: a new backpack
Santa Claus gift: a Lego Castle
That's really interesting how the two different figures bring different presents! Thanks for sharing :)
Some might consider Lego more utilitarian ;) atleast I did!
Sinterklaas in not About expensive gifts but little gifts and some sweet like candy and pepernoten natuurlijk
Omg, also from Aruba here!
Je kan mooi zingen xdd
Top kek ;)
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Mobutu Obama mijn mening
History With Hilbert lekkerbek, stille Willem uitgecheckt
That's actually all really cool. As my family is from German descent, I also knew the connection between Sant Nikolaus and Santa Claus, but it is interesting to see how other countries and nationalities experienced similar traditions!
Shan Piercy Yeah it is, there's so many different traditions in just Europe alone :)
I have a question, i as a german unterstand nearly everything you say in dutch and can read Most of the language allthough i never learnd it or spend more than like 2 weeks in holland. is it the same the otherway around, do you feel the same with german? Sry for Bad english
when spoken slow enough german can be quite easy to understand aswell for me.
Karlos Yea all most always expect for when you guys use you’re words we don’t have words for
Reading it is easier than understanding it spoken.
I understand quite a bit of German as well :)
Es fällt uns nicht so schwer. Texte sind insbesondere einfach.
God I forgot most of your commenters write in Dutch, the weirdest looking Germanic language from an English perspective. (Seriously what's with all the 'J's
flyingkoopa45 That's all well and good if you can explain why choir and chore are pronounced so differently 😂😂
Go ask the Normans that question..
Damn Frenchmen.. ;)
I think you use too much c lol
Zoveel j's gebruiken wij helemaal niet
Sinterklaar kapoentje, legt wa in mijn schoentje...
Gooi wat in me laarsje, dank u Sinterklaasje!
How about a "Historic holidays with Hilbert" singalong CD?
Marc Scholtemeijer Somehow I don't think I'm the next Bublé..
We also celebrate Moș Nicolae (Elder Nicholas) in Romania, it isn't anything huge in my country, but we still get candy today.
We still have Santa too though and he is the one kids actually look forward to, since he actually brings presents.
Andrei Enache we also have santa (he is named Kerstman: Christmas man) he also gives present only a lot of kids aren't taught that he is real
Your Dutch is a lot better than I thought it was, at what age did you move to the UK?
I was actually born over here but my parents raised me bilingual :)
History With Hilbert Wow, they did a great job then.
History With Hilbert Dutch/Fries I guess??
Santa Claus is a sort of New World combination of old World figures including the Dutch Saint Nicholas, British Father Christmas and the more Germanic Chris Kringle into one super character. While the mishmash has replaced many of the old world figures (in the UK for example Father Christmas has been completely replaced with Santa Clause although he is still sometimes called Father Christmas and many Britons don't even know they used to be different characters) the Dutch Saint Nicholas seems to be holding his own.
I’m from North Brabant and as far as I know everyone here opens their presents on the eve of the 5th, not the 6th.
Nielsly I think then it must just be the Belgian types
Came here because you got recommended on Shadiversity's channel, had to see the video about Sinterklaas. Your comment about New York becoming New Amsterdam once more has got you a subscription, looking forward to the video about Zwarte Piet.
Sounds cool!!!
Wow, ik wist nooit dat jullie op de 5e al je cadeautje deden uitpakken. Super interessant
He wasn't a Greek Bishop in Turkey - He was a Greek Bishop in either the Byzantine Empire or say a Greek Bishop in Anatolia or Asia Minor
Which are in modern Turkey :P
DEUS VULT CONSTANTINOPLE
Leuk gedichtje dat je voor je moeder had geschreven :).
This is cool, never knew about it
YEAA SINTERKLAAS DE BAAS
Sankt Nikolaus is also celebrated in Germany but only with relative small presents like sweets and candies. On the fifth of december the kids clean a boot and put it outside over night and on the sixth the little gifts are inside the boot so the kids can take them. Sankt Nikolaus also has a compagnion called Knecht Ruprecht who would hit the bad kids...
Hilbert, I want to learn dutch as a fluent english speaker, and someone with a rudimentary grasp on german, how easy will it be?
زب بدوي كبير مش مطهر once you master the sound differences it shouldn't be too hard at all :)
At the time turkey was the byzantine empire
En wij noemen sinterklaas ook wel sint nicolaas
iamnotreal313 it’s in the 390 A.C so It’s not even the Byzantine empire but the Roman so sinterklaas is an Roman
Jo Jonathon from the Jojo lands boy Byzantium is Rome!
Ethnically Greek - as were a lot of people in Asia Minor before the arrival of the Turkic peoples from Central Asia during the Middle Ages :)
Greek speaking - Greek national identity came centuries later. At the time people of various ethnic backgrounds spoke Greek.
In Flanders the horse is called "Slecht weer vandaag" which means "Bad weather today".
I don't know why, I just think it's odd for a name.
How did you know I was headbanging?
When I was littke I was told that Amerigo was a descendant of that 9 legged horse of Wodan tho I don´t know if that´s true within the story of St. Nicholas and everything around it
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@@wowjack8944 9 ;)
Jeg liker sangen du synger! :D ❤🇳🇴
Loven the Silvern Beard Dude!
3:49
Hij is en blijft Slecht weer vandaag voor mij!!!
En niemand kan mijn mening veranderen!!
And this whole time I can't get Vunter Slaush from South Park out of my head.
In Flanders, Belgium the horse of Sinterklaas is called "Mooi weer vandaag" or Nice weather today. And it's a white horse.
Fun fact: The Indonesian and Javanese (probably as well as the other Indonesian regional languages) word for Santa Claus is also Sinterklas~
vunter slash?
I've always called it Pakjesavond, never even heard of Sinterklaasavond, but apparently my keyboard recognises it as a word so you get a pass
"-and the Dutch speakers to stop headbanging" oh wow
guilty
Greatings from Shad
Thank you :)
Good video
Thanks!
Christmas is Total different thing then then Sinterklaas
"i will give you some time to recover your ears and for the dutch people to stop head banging"XD
We do Sinterklaas on the 5th and Santa on the 25th lifes too short to not celebrate when you have an even half decent reasoñ, im Irish and we live in Ireland my girlfriend is Dutch and our daughter is...spoilt rotten in December by the looks of things.
In Belgium Sinterklaas' horse is called Slechtweervandaag
Pakjesavond is way more common than sinterklaasavond
Ah, Zwarte Piet and his famous joint.
Zwarte Wied
Net iens ien fan de fryske ferskes?
the horse in belgium is called slechtweervandaag
it's really weird to hear you speak dutch, i expected it from the title (and profile pic). because i need to kind of recalibrate to dutch if i come from an english video. (shad's video ofsmaller channels he recommends)
yes i am dutch.
Ik weet wat je bedoeld :P Dan is het vast nog veel erger als ik gelijk Engels met Nederlandse woorden erbij ga praten :P
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in deze video zeg je dat Brabant "interessant" is.
is dit een soort van friese micro-agressie tegen brabanders???
Huh, mijn familie uit Brabant viert het altijd op de avond van 5 december, en noemt het 'pakjes avond'. Daarnaast zou het wel mooi geweest zijn als je had genoemd Hoe de Sint uit Spanje komt, maar verder, wel leuk om dit soort dingen te horen in het Engels.
Edit: Laat maar, de stoomboot kwam een beetje later in de video aan :P
... bring the controversy! :)
The inspiration of Santa Claus is a mix of sinterclaas, Odin and a British figure whose name i can't recall
Maar Sinterklaas avond is ook pakjes avond genoemd tog?
Headbanging still continues... on my desk... with my face...
._. *cringe*
I await with some trepidation your Zwarte Piet video... I hope you can find the right balance between both sides. I myself prefer a slight reform to shave off the worst features of the character.
It should be out sometime soon. I just hope we get a discussion going at the end of the day :)
History With Hilbert there has been way to much gezeur around this hope it end soon
Only the 18th century aesthetic caricature features i hope.
I certainly hope there will be given attention to the fact that Piet isn't a human but a demon which I found out studying Zwarte Piet myself.
Ben Flokstra he is based on a demon from pagan culture but is not a demon. Krampus from germany is a demon zwarte piet is human.
I’m Dutch and Sinterklaas sounds so much like Santa Claus
Ffs ik zat te headbangen op sinterklaas gedeelte schrok me de pleurus toen je dat zei
Krampus isn't based in St. Nicholas. He is St. Nicholas' companion, essentially Santa's Little Helper demon.
Right you are - should have explained that instead of just mentioning
Another name for Krampus is Knecht Ruprecht
Sat eating pepernoten watching this.
the sinterklaas in the book of jan schenkman was partly based on the very popular book "der struwelpeter". That was the big hit in the Netherlands when he wrote his book. This book (translates as "piet de smeerpoets") In this book sinterklaas punishes piet(de smeerpoets) by blackening him up with ink. This punishment was for mocking "moriaantje zwart als roet". So the popular black piet in schenkmans hit childrens book actually was a boy punished for racism......And schenkman based him on a moor. "mooriaan". As the dutch were traditionally scaring their kids with moors. Few people know that untill the USA, just a few years before, successfully fought the corsairs.(barbary wars 1815. Actually the first usa navy wars) "Black" Moorish troops had enslaved Europeans as far as vissingen and Ireland ever since the Romans left. The popular misconception that zwarte piet "must be a slave" is wrong and exactly the opposite. As the nineteenth century version moor is a slave-raider. In the schenkman book zwarte piet actually was depicted in clothes we would now link to disneys alladin. Not to a slave in the Americans. All in all the basis of sint and piet is far older then the dutch slavetrade or even the catholics. Every old folktale on the planet knows yin&yang like black and white mythical figures. But for more on this, please search for the movie "wild santa"
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im TRIGGERED
Actually, if you look up "oud hollandse pepernoten" they're not round but more like blocks. Rectangular blocks. Not unlike the runes picture.
The round ones are called kruidnoten the blocks are pepernoten
In het zuiden doen we het ook gewoon op de 5de, alleen in belgië niet
hoe wist je dat ik mijn hoofd aan het bewegen was
Swimming to the Christmas tree?
That 9th limb isn't a leg you know.
Hahaha 😂😂
H S exactly what I was thinking.
great video p.s. we have 13 jónasveina
Can you tell me a little about this tradition?
the children put shoes in the window and in the night one of the jónasvein will come and put a toy, candy or if the child was bad they get a potato but if the child was really bad Grýla will come and will take the child home with her and throw it in to the pot and eat it p.s. English is my second language
The best part of the video was when Suzie was allowed to scratch.
I thought the entire christian european world celebrated "St Nikolaus" (as we call it in Germany), being catholic we celebrate on the 6th. The zwarte Piet is not a thing here though :D So I am stoked to see what is up with this (moorish?) character
With your Odin thing I am not sure, since the wise man is one of the character archetypes found in all periods and all over the world.
BTW wasn't there also a story about St Nickolas where he miraculously fed Myra with a hundred sacks of grain from a ship headed to Rome, without any of the sacks missing when the ship reached Rome? I mean you could also get this miracle done with editing the record, but you need a miracle to be a saint AFAIK
6:57 ik moest echt mee zingen
Hey op simige eilanden in indonesie word er ook nog sinterklaas gvierd
I thought the horse was called Slechtweervandaag.
Kidding? As long as I have any say in the Dutch democratic system, it will become New Amsterdam once more.
9:25 lol :))
5th of december is PAKJESAVOND
We call the horse Amerigo and the Belgians may call it something wrong. Haha, geweldig.
DUDE YOU'RE DUTCH BUT YOU SOUND BRITISH,THAT'S AWESOME! I AM FROM ARUBA BUT I SOUND AMERICAN,HAHA! GROETJES UIT ROTTERDAM!
We call him Sinterklas in Indonesia, minus one "a".
MAKE INDONESIA DUTCH AGAIN
"First of all Santa Claus didn't *used to do* anything...and he didn't eat tapas" _David Sedaris' short story "Six to Eight Black Men"
Im Dutch and I hope Santa see’s this C:
HAPPY ST NICHOLAS DAY ❤
Are you going to make a video on Michael I of Romania, considering that he died recently?
I guess that’s where we get ho ho ho
My parents are from Belgium so
Hey Hilbert did the Dutch still celebrate this holiday even when the 3rd Reich invaded or did they our law it?
Good question.. They changed the anthem.. Maybe they fucked with this too..
Customary WILHELMUS VAN NASSOUWE BEN IK VAN DUITSEN BLOED!
Yes actually and they changed the words to praise the RAF or the Dutch Resistanr
here in Indonesia the word "sinterklas" basically used to mean Santa Claus (yes, tied to christmas and yes, with presents opened on the 25th. We do have Zwarte piet though - in the old punishy-putty-childy-in-sacky form. And no plural, for there's only one :p (if he appears at all that is, nowadays he usually doesn't))
(and "Santa Klaus dan Zwarte Piet" wouldn't actually be a very strange phrase here)
That's really interesting how the Dutch traditions have been retained but still there's a difference - thanks for sharing!
Indonesians also celebrates Christmas/Sinterklaas?
Everywhere sinterklas and santa Claus are actually the same person, the just Made a new person out of the original santa Claus, so he is actually based on our sinterklas. And we also celebrate christmas so we have two christmas holidays in one month 😄
What's up with you dutch and spain? You love 'em or you hate them. Your anthem says you always served spain, but then every dutch I've heard says the enjoy having beat the spanish, but then you sinterklaas comes from spain, your supposed to be protestant, but also have had catholics in both southern holland and amsterdaam, like, pick one and go with it, stop being so complicated.
greetings from italy
Andrei Skobtsov Well, we did “serve” Spain once upon a time because the Low Countries were part of the Habsburg domain. Our anthem is sung from the point of view of our father of the fatherland, William of Orange. The point of the anthem is that William always served the Spanish king faithfully, but the king betrayed the Dutch people with his centralisation and persecution of Protestants.
We don’t hate Spain, don’t really like them that much either. They are our football rivals, but we also like to go on holidays there. It’s kind of a love/hate relationship, but it’s not really all that serious.
Most Dutch are atheist anyway nowadays, although Catholicism is still prominent in the south and we do have a bible belt of mostly Protestants from the south-west of our country to the center.
MrNotASn1per the football rivals are the Germans
Wombat Niet echt. WK 2010 never 4get
Wombat Yes, that’s true. The Germans are our other big rivals.
We were at war with them, yet we sold them food and weapons. It is complicated indeed.
Ps, South Holland is a protestant province, so try to use South Netherlands next time. Otherwise it gets even more confusing.
Sinterklaas kapoentje gooi wat in me schoentje gooi wat in me laarsje danku Sinterklaasje
im northen dutch yaaaaaay
Wist niet dat de protestanten op de avond zelf hun pakjes krijgen hoe verteld ge da dan aan de kinderen?
Jo Jonathon from the Jojo lands hij klopt dan aan (moest ik gisteren doen)en dan liggen de cadeautjes voor de deur , maar het is wel moeilijk ja
Jo Jonathon from the Jojo lands Sommige mensen/families huren/vragen zelfs andere mensen of vrienden om Sinterklaas en zwarte Piet te spelen als ze op bezoek komen.
Voor hen kwam het dan van de "Kristkindl"
Volgens mij gebeurt dat in heel Nederland. Mijn familie komt uit het katholieke Zuiden en daar kreeg iedereen cadeautjes op pakjesavond, niet pas 's morgens de dag erna. Dus het zal eerder een verschil tussen Nederland en België zijn.
send me some pepernoten please!!
my ears they where just sand blasted....
I Always thought you were from the UK but i guess im wrong ;-;
Anthony Small I'm a bit of both really, I grew up in Northumberland but my parents are both Dutch :)
History With Hilbert Oh, that's cool 😁
Kinda annoying that people think that Sinterklaas is a "rip-off" Santa Claus but it's just the other way around....l
Why are moor's black in paintings when they were mostly Arab or berbers why isn't there skin color orange but they are always black in paintings for me it makes no sense
@joanne chon but the moor's were not black they were mostly Arabs or berbers if all moor's were black then why do Spaniards look what e and se look Arab but none of them look like a light skin
@joanne chon and yes I agree black is strong beautiful and wise
Juan Moreno Those are artistic representations not historical representations that were made by orientalists from the 20th century long after the moors were gone.
Eindelijk!!! Zo lang gewacht op een objectieve video die het gewoon uitlegt aan de niet Nederlanders
Jim Hollonders en Butenlanders kin prate wot jim wolle, Mar in Fryslan halden wy Swarte Piet, SWART!!
First you got sinterklaas. And the people take it to america. And there it is santaklaus.
IK BEN NEDERLANDS IK HOU VAN SINTERKLAAS
In België word het paard slecht weer genoemd.
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