swedish traditions by ek14c
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Swedish Traditions By EK14C
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Sweden• Capital: Stockholm• Language: Swedish• Area:450,000 km² (174,000 sq mi)• Density of population • 21.5/km2
55.6/sq mi
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Celebrating LuciaOur Lucia celebrating is based
on a story of Christian saint from Italy called Lucia. She sacrificed herself to the Christian belief when she was executed for what the believed in.
But this is not the reason we celebrate Lucia. We see her as something symbolizing the days getting longer and brighter, as a bringer of light.
We celebrate Lucia on the 13th of December.
How we celebrate LuciaWhen we are celebrating
Lucia we have something called a Lucia parade with people dressing in white dresses singing songs about Lucia
On the day of Lucia we eat a lot of ginger bread and saffron buns
COSY FRIDAY- FREDAGSMYS
Cozy Friday is a pretty new tradition/trend that a lot of people in Sweden ”celebrate” every Friday in different ways. It established itself in 1990s when a crisp company´s commercial was shown on Swedish TV. The meaning of the tradition is that we swedes want to celebrate the fact that the weekend is finally here after a long and tough week of hard work.
Things we do on Cosy Friday
• Eat tacos• Relax in the sofa with family and friends• Watch television• Eat different kinds of snacks
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MidsummerAlso known as St. John’s Day. The day coincides with the solstice in June, as in the northern hemisphere coincides with the midsummer, which in Sweden is the 23th of June.
The Day is mentioned that John was born about six months before Jesus, why John the Baptist's feast day was added to the June 24, six months before Christmas. John the Baptist is one of the few saints which celebrates the birthday rather than the date of death.
• Music- On the midsummer day we sing typical Swedish songs such as ”small frogs” and dance around a maypole.
• Food- We eat herring, potatoes, meatballs and drink schnapps.
• Games- We play a game called ”kubb” where the goal is to nock each others wooden towers down.
MAY DAY AND WALPURGIS
DAY
May day has been celebrated since 1890 and it is in memory for the Haymarket Massacre and which occurred in Chicago May 4, 1886 when striking workers demonstrated for the eight hour day at Haymarket Square, 200 policemen intervened and began to disband the demonstration, when suddenly someone threw a bomb from a side street. In the chaos that followed the police started and some workers shelling each other which led to seven policemen and at least four worker's death.But may day is celebrated the arrival of spring with a celebration.
How to celebrate:You don’t have to go to school.Have a picknickHave demonstrations
Walpurgis Day is celebrated on April
30th, in memory of saint Walpurga
who was an abbess in Germany.
The tradition has very little to do with
religion and everything to do with the
arrival of spring. The tradition is.- That you make a bonfire
- Quires who sings to welcome the
spring- Games and competitions
Crayfish party• Late summer, autumn, crayfish season
• 1907 there was a sickness spreading in Sweden. It was called crayfish plague. A lot of crayfish died so they started to import them. They were easy to obtain, so everybody began to eat them.
How is it celabrated?
•With food like salmon, meatballs and of course crayfish.•A lot of drinking.•Traditional songs
”Helan går”
Sour herring premiere
BackgroundSour herring premiere was founded In 1500 because it was salt deficiencyin Sweden.
Sour herring is a kind of fish that are preserved.The cleansed fish are salted and it smells very bad.
When?The 3rd Thursday in August is the premiere of eating sour herring
Ramadan in Sweden9th month of the year in the Muslim calendar. One of the 5 pillars.
Fasting for 29 or 30 days and you have to refrain from food, drinks, smoke and love. Sunrise to sunset. You are supposed to learn about patience, humility and increase your knowledge about the religion. They pray to Allah.
This year Ramadan is celebrated from 18 June to 17 July.
After they have fasted for a month they end it with the a big party that sometimes last up to 4 days and it is called Eid al-fitr.
110 000 muslims in Sweden
The national day of Sweden
• 6:th of June• Gustav Vasa was crowned king in
1523• An important constitution was also adapted 1809
How do we celebrate the Swedish National Day?
The royal family of Sweden celebrates the National Day with a ceremony in Skansen in Stockholm. The ceremony includes people wearing the traditional peasant costume and the rising of the Swedish flag. Anyone can come and join the celebration. Normally people do not celebrate the National Day at all. But for some it is a day when you spend time with your family and relatives. It is very common to have a small BBQ.
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St Martin’s Day − or Mårten GåsSt Martin’s Day is a celebration of the goose.In early November geese are ready for slaughter, and on St Martin’s Eve, November 10, it is time for the traditional dinner of roast goose.
BackgroundSt Martin of Tours originally took the goose as his personal symbol, because when trying to avoid being ordained bishop he had hidden in a goose pen, where he was betrayed by the cackling of the geese. He celebrates his name day in November, when the geese are ready for killing.
St Martin’s Day
St Martin’s was also an important day for those who believed in chance. If it snowed that day there would be no snow at Christmas.
If the holiday coincided with a Friday or Saturday, the coming winter would be harsh.
Svartsoppa ("Black soup") is a soup consumed traditionally and mostly in the province of Scania in Southern Sweden. The main ingredient is goose blood (or sometimes pig blood).
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FIKAFika is Swedish for a coffee break that´s more about socializing than drinking coffee. And something sweet is also welcome.
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