Wonderful calming and informative video lass as always, fair play agus Nollaig Shona Duit to you and yours, stay safe look after yourself & others.☘🌲🌠🔥
Very interesting and well presented. Greetings from Northern Ireland. I worked as a chef in Israel for 10 years and the Jews celebrate Hanukkah in December by lighting candles for 8 days which is also a joyful holiday beginning on 25th Kislev in the Jewish calendar, which some believe was an inspiration for the Christians to choose the same date of "25th" in the corresponding December and having a festival of lights in a similar manner. Jesus Himsrlf attended Hanukkah in the Gospel of John, chapter 10, in the winter time where it is described as the Feast of Dedication ("Hanukkah" being Hebrew for "dedication"). 🕯
I am in Texas and one of the strangest things I’ve seen is my German heritage friends hanging a Christmas pickle ornament on their trees. My own family is of Cherokee and Swedish descent so I grew up with lutfisk and Glogg. I still do Glogg but I left behind the lutfisk - my Grandfather would go fishing for catfish in the spring near our home and use that instead of cod. It would sit in the canning room for weeks before Christmas, stinking up the whole house. Those are really the only traditions I remember. Cherokees are more about the weeks around October being third harvest. I don’t remember anything especially Cherokee about Christmas except fry bread and seasoned corn on the cob.
Thank you very much for sharing. I heard before about that pickle Christmas tradition (well at least that it's a thing in America and everybody thinks it's german), but I know nobody in Germany who has ever heard of that or who does that. I have no idea where this orginated and I'm growing more and more curious to find out😂 It's not typical german 😂 (I need to emphasize that, because it's so weird 😂). I know Glögg from our Christmas markets too, for we always have a scandinavian part, but I have never heard of lutfisk. Thank you very very much for sharing😇 Merry Christmas 😊🎅
@@kianukasceltictales3403 lutefisk is the usually spelling I think? It’s dried fish pickled (fermented) in lye (which rehydrates it). And lye smells terrible. As an adult, I like the flavor, but as a kid I dressed it and the smell. 😁, I grew up in the Swedish part of Texas, settled in 1843 (which is old in American history) 😉. The German parts, out in Fredericksburg and New Braunsfel always seems to have the Christmas pickle. Everyone always blamed their German grandparents for them? Most of the ornaments looked older, maybe Victorian, and there was a game of to find the pickle on the tree and get a special gift or dessert, I think. It’s been a long time. My actual German friends have no idea what it is, so I would guess it is something that came from the time of immigration. Maybe an Ellis Island thing. I’m sure the actual story is really fascinating, but my friends are all, “we hang a pickle on the tree because our parents did, and there parents did. Merry Christmas, and blessed solstice.
@@siduri9522 I live in Germany and never heard about a Christmas pickle 😂 and my parents also. So, yes maybe it is a tradition born on Ellis Island. Could be that people from the region of Spreewald invented it because they worked and work a lot with pickles. It would be really interesting to find out more! - By the way: German Wikipedia version says it is a tradition of the USA and that there people call it a German tradition. Myth says, that a Bavarian... Wait, I try to translate this.
DeepL did the work ;-)): In the United States, it is a Christmas custom to hang a Christmas pickle on the Christmas tree, somewhat hidden between the branches. Because of its green colour, the pickle is not so easy to spot. The first person to discover the Christmas pickle receives an extra present.[1] Glass blowers offer different sizes to adjust the difficulty to the age of the children and the size of the tree.[2][3] Origin The roots of the custom are unclear. In the United States, the custom is described as an old German tradition. In most German-speaking regions, however, the Christmas cucumber is unknown.[4] According to the opinion research institute YouGov, 91 percent of Germans surveyed in 2016 said they did not know the custom. Only 2 percent said they practised the tradition themselves.[5] Nevertheless, the 1909 catalogue of Lyra Fahrrad-Werke from Prenzlau in Brandenburg also offers a Christmas cucumber in its Christmas tree ornament range. Whether the Christmas gherkins that have appeared sporadically in German-speaking countries in more recent times can be traced back to an almost forgotten local tradition[6] or an adoption from the United States is unclear. Among other things, the myth was spread in America that the tradition goes back to an emigrant from the Kingdom of Bavaria named John C. Lower (originally Hans Lauer).[7][8] He is said to have served in the American Civil War on the side of the Northern States and, after his capture in April 1864, was finally transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp Camp Sumter near Andersonville, which later became known for its inhumane treatment of prisoners. According to the story, Lower was on the verge of starvation on Christmas Eve and allegedly only survived through the mercy of a guard who provided him with a single pickle.[9][10] After the end of the war, Lower is said to have returned to his family and from then on always hung a pickle on the Christmas tree in memory of his rescue. The exact origin of this legend is unclear; evidence for the authenticity of the events described is also unknown.[11] Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
A very illuminating explanation of older celebrations of Yuletide and the Winter solstice…before a Christianity adopted…Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄😄😉 Well done my dear 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
I grew up with Astérix as well! I’m from Canada. He was originally called Panoramix and then renamed Getafix in English. I believe he is Panoramix in French as well, but most of the books and movies I was exposed to were English translations.
I have the straw yule goat. Made several wooden ones. My family also dose the Advent with the candles. My dad went to Switzerland on his mission. He brought the tradition back to us and it's my favorite thing each year. I started doing a sort of yule log. Basically a candle holder I made out of a log where we just light the candles and sit around them in the solstice wich happens to fall on my birthday.
Great tradition😊 I think it's a beautiful thing to keep old traditions alive or revive them, even in an adjusted way. I try to do something for all of the eight festivals of the celtic year too🙂 In the end most of it is not so far from Christian traditions anyway. Especially here in Ireland😄
😢sadly, Yule ritual in Germany rigins was sacrificed a child into Holy Oak tree that represent God Thor, that's the reason many people convert to Christian, and many of secular people didn't know the dark side of Yule Ritual
Just to insurt something here. Yule is strictly Scandinavian from the Norse. The winter solstice is different it is not yule it's a Celtic thing. Bolth are very similar but come from different cultures. It's just in modern times yule and the winter solstice has been. Of course there is nothing wrong with celebrating both at the same time I am both a Norse and Celtic pagan so I celebrate them both at the same time. It's just important to know they are not the same thing. Other then that awesome video. I love the old traditions and want to bring them back. I also own a straw yule goat and made several little wooden ones
Thank you for pointing that out. I always consider the possibility, I might make mistakes (though I try my best to be as accurate as possible), but I actually read and heard several times that Yule has Norse AND Celtic origins. 🤔 In the end, I can only go from what I'm told and what I read. May I ask how you know or what makes you say that Yule has no Celtic origins? I'm always happy to learn😊 In any way, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. 😊
@@kianukasceltictales3403 Yule is clearly Germanic with no links to the 'Celts' - different peoples, different cultures. It would appear that various modern pagan groups have appropriated the term for their own use. However, the evidence for a specific 'Yule' celebration is vague.. There is no mention of it in the earliest Scandinavian references (but there was a feast in October) and it only first appears in 13th century (Christian) Icelandic writings - 300 years after the events were supposed have taken place and with no reference to the source material. In England the term 'Yule' was used by the 11th century Danish invaders to describe the festival of the Nativity and it was taken up by the English population and became widespread until 'Christmas' became the norm. It survived as the dialect word for Christmas in the North of England, the East Midlands and Scotland and in such phrases as 'yule log', 'yule candle' etc - all from the Christian era. And 19th century writers revived the word to conjure up a 'Merrie England' Christmas - Yuletide sounding suitably antique. The rise of such as TH-cam has taken this idea to extremes.
Wonderful calming and informative video lass as always, fair play agus Nollaig Shona Duit to you and yours, stay safe look after yourself & others.☘🌲🌠🔥
Thank you very much and merry Christmas 🎅
Very interesting and well presented. Greetings from Northern Ireland. I worked as a chef in Israel for 10 years and the Jews celebrate Hanukkah in December by lighting candles for 8 days which is also a joyful holiday beginning on 25th Kislev in the Jewish calendar, which some believe was an inspiration for the Christians to choose the same date of "25th" in the corresponding December and having a festival of lights in a similar manner. Jesus Himsrlf attended Hanukkah in the Gospel of John, chapter 10, in the winter time where it is described as the Feast of Dedication ("Hanukkah" being Hebrew for "dedication"). 🕯
Thank you for sharing this😊
I am in Texas and one of the strangest things I’ve seen is my German heritage friends hanging a Christmas pickle ornament on their trees. My own family is of Cherokee and Swedish descent so I grew up with lutfisk and Glogg. I still do Glogg but I left behind the lutfisk - my Grandfather would go fishing for catfish in the spring near our home and use that instead of cod. It would sit in the canning room for weeks before Christmas, stinking up the whole house. Those are really the only traditions I remember. Cherokees are more about the weeks around October being third harvest. I don’t remember anything especially Cherokee about Christmas except fry bread and seasoned corn on the cob.
Thank you very much for sharing. I heard before about that pickle Christmas tradition (well at least that it's a thing in America and everybody thinks it's german), but I know nobody in Germany who has ever heard of that or who does that. I have no idea where this orginated and I'm growing more and more curious to find out😂 It's not typical german 😂 (I need to emphasize that, because it's so weird 😂).
I know Glögg from our Christmas markets too, for we always have a scandinavian part, but I have never heard of lutfisk. Thank you very very much for sharing😇
Merry Christmas 😊🎅
@@kianukasceltictales3403 lutefisk is the usually spelling I think? It’s dried fish pickled (fermented) in lye (which rehydrates it). And lye smells terrible. As an adult, I like the flavor, but as a kid I dressed it and the smell. 😁,
I grew up in the Swedish part of Texas, settled in 1843 (which is old in American history) 😉. The German parts, out in Fredericksburg and New Braunsfel always seems to have the Christmas pickle. Everyone always blamed their German grandparents for them? Most of the ornaments looked older, maybe Victorian, and there was a game of to find the pickle on the tree and get a special gift or dessert, I think. It’s been a long time. My actual German friends have no idea what it is, so I would guess it is something that came from the time of immigration. Maybe an Ellis Island thing. I’m sure the actual story is really fascinating, but my friends are all, “we hang a pickle on the tree because our parents did, and there parents did.
Merry Christmas, and blessed solstice.
@@siduri9522 I live in Germany and never heard about a Christmas pickle 😂 and my parents also. So, yes maybe it is a tradition born on Ellis Island. Could be that people from the region of Spreewald invented it because they worked and work a lot with pickles. It would be really interesting to find out more! - By the way: German Wikipedia version says it is a tradition of the USA and that there people call it a German tradition. Myth says, that a Bavarian... Wait, I try to translate this.
DeepL did the work ;-)):
In the United States, it is a Christmas custom to hang a Christmas pickle on the Christmas tree, somewhat hidden between the branches. Because of its green colour, the pickle is not so easy to spot. The first person to discover the Christmas pickle receives an extra present.[1] Glass blowers offer different sizes to adjust the difficulty to the age of the children and the size of the tree.[2][3]
Origin
The roots of the custom are unclear. In the United States, the custom is described as an old German tradition. In most German-speaking regions, however, the Christmas cucumber is unknown.[4] According to the opinion research institute YouGov, 91 percent of Germans surveyed in 2016 said they did not know the custom. Only 2 percent said they practised the tradition themselves.[5] Nevertheless, the 1909 catalogue of Lyra Fahrrad-Werke from Prenzlau in Brandenburg also offers a Christmas cucumber in its Christmas tree ornament range. Whether the Christmas gherkins that have appeared sporadically in German-speaking countries in more recent times can be traced back to an almost forgotten local tradition[6] or an adoption from the United States is unclear.
Among other things, the myth was spread in America that the tradition goes back to an emigrant from the Kingdom of Bavaria named John C. Lower (originally Hans Lauer).[7][8] He is said to have served in the American Civil War on the side of the Northern States and, after his capture in April 1864, was finally transferred to the prisoner-of-war camp Camp Sumter near Andersonville, which later became known for its inhumane treatment of prisoners. According to the story, Lower was on the verge of starvation on Christmas Eve and allegedly only survived through the mercy of a guard who provided him with a single pickle.[9][10] After the end of the war, Lower is said to have returned to his family and from then on always hung a pickle on the Christmas tree in memory of his rescue. The exact origin of this legend is unclear; evidence for the authenticity of the events described is also unknown.[11]
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Lutfisk is Swedish spelling. :) @@siduri9522
A very illuminating explanation of older celebrations of Yuletide and the Winter solstice…before a Christianity adopted…Christmas 🎅🏻 🎄😄😉 Well done my dear 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😊👍👍
I grew up with Astérix as well! I’m from Canada.
He was originally called Panoramix and then renamed Getafix in English. I believe he is Panoramix in French as well, but most of the books and movies I was exposed to were English translations.
I would’ve loved to hear an attempt at “Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd dda” from you.
I'm not sure whether my tongue is able to do that, but I'll try.
Until then: Nollaig Shona Dhuit from Ireland😄🎅
I have the straw yule goat. Made several wooden ones. My family also dose the Advent with the candles. My dad went to
Switzerland on his mission. He brought the tradition back to us and it's my favorite thing each year. I started doing a sort of yule log. Basically a candle holder I made out of a log where we just light the candles and sit around them in the solstice wich happens to fall on my birthday.
Great tradition😊
I think it's a beautiful thing to keep old traditions alive or revive them, even in an adjusted way. I try to do something for all of the eight festivals of the celtic year too🙂 In the end most of it is not so far from Christian traditions anyway. Especially here in Ireland😄
Thanks for sharing; take care
😢sadly, Yule ritual in Germany rigins was sacrificed a child into Holy Oak tree that represent God Thor, that's the reason many people convert to Christian, and many of secular people didn't know the dark side of Yule Ritual
💚❤️💛
family is of German descent so mostly German traditions but also Irish so thanks for the info
A Germanic and Iranian festival of Yalda.
Just to insurt something here. Yule is strictly Scandinavian from the Norse. The winter solstice is different it is not yule it's a Celtic thing. Bolth are very similar but come from different cultures. It's just in modern times yule and the winter solstice has been. Of course there is nothing wrong with celebrating both at the same time I am both a Norse and Celtic pagan so I celebrate them both at the same time. It's just important to know they are not the same thing.
Other then that awesome video. I love the old traditions and want to bring them back. I also own a straw yule goat and made several little wooden ones
Thank you for pointing that out. I always consider the possibility, I might make mistakes (though I try my best to be as accurate as possible), but I actually read and heard several times that Yule has Norse AND Celtic origins. 🤔 In the end, I can only go from what I'm told and what I read. May I ask how you know or what makes you say that Yule has no Celtic origins? I'm always happy to learn😊
In any way, I'm glad you enjoyed the video. 😊
@@kianukasceltictales3403
Yule is clearly Germanic with no links to the 'Celts' - different peoples, different cultures. It would appear that various modern pagan groups have appropriated the term for their own use.
However, the evidence for a specific 'Yule' celebration is vague.. There is no mention of it in the earliest Scandinavian references (but there was a feast in October) and it only first appears in 13th century (Christian) Icelandic writings - 300 years after the events were supposed have taken place and with no reference to the source material.
In England the term 'Yule' was used by the 11th century Danish invaders to describe the festival of the Nativity and it was taken up by the English population and became widespread until 'Christmas' became the norm. It survived as the dialect word for Christmas in the North of England, the East Midlands and Scotland and in such phrases as 'yule log', 'yule candle' etc - all from the Christian era.
And 19th century writers revived the word to conjure up a 'Merrie England' Christmas - Yuletide sounding suitably antique.
The rise of such as TH-cam has taken this idea to extremes.
Yule is not of Celtic origin. It was the Vikings that brought it over. It has Proto-Germanic origin.