New Year's Eve in Denmark / What to Expect / Expat in Denmark
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
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Hi! I'm Kelly, an American wife and mother living in central Denmark. In this video, I will tell you all about how to celebrate New Year's Eve in Denmark! You will learn about traditional Danish food for New Years as well as Danish dessert for New Year's Eve, how they celebrate New Year's Eve in Copenhagen and what fun New Year's Eve activities you can add to your New Year's Eve traditions this year!
*No matter where you live, please check with your local "kommune" or county to find out what the rules are for fireworks where you live! Also, be sure to wear protective gear and stay safe! In Denmark, most areas allow you to light off your own fireworks from Dec. 27 to Jan. 1, but it is always a good idea to check! Happy New Year!!*
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We also watch the 90 yr birthday and cheer along with the soused waiter
I realize Im kinda randomly asking but does anyone know of a good place to stream newly released series online ?
@Jonathan Kingsley try FlixZone. You can find it by googling =)
I can add a little story about a rather new tradition on TV as started back in the seventies, I am not sure which year. But it is the 90 years birthday, it was transmitted back then.
One of my colleagues (we were employed in DR) stored the program for fun. Later he played it for fun and a producer saw it by incident, and since then the 90 years birthday have been a tradition on new years evening just before midnight.
I hope you can use this little story🤗
Happy new year🎊
We watch that every year. I forgot to mention it in the video, but it is in my blog post with a few other things! :)
@Kurt Bellmandk - remember the one year it WASN'T shown? Holy Toledo! What an uproar!
It's STILL very very funny 😂😂😂 "Same procedure as last year Miss Sophie?" 😁😁
@@peterlarsen7779
That's right, there was one year it wasn't shown. I have send it a number of times during the years. I don't think anyone dare to take it out ever.
@@bellmandk disaster 🤪
The special thing about the Queen's New Year's speech is that it is broadcast live.
Often the queen in the speech has, for some subject, a call for better behavior of the Danes. We actually expect that in the speech.
When I was a kid, all the kids cut newspaper into confetti and then during the evening, we walked around and knocked on doors, if a door was opened we would shout "godt nytår" and throw confetti inside
That sounds like fun! :)
also the shavings cream
Thank you for reminding me about the mailboxes! I totally forgot and this year we've already had so much trouble with the local teens so better be safe!
I've personally never really watched the Queens speech. I used to always watch the 90 year birthday (or 80 year depending on which of them they show) it's hilarious! Haven't seen any of them in ages though. I might see if they're available here on RUclips.
I've been alone on NYE for many years, by choice and spend it watching my favourite movies, eat yummy food etc.
That sounds nice too! :)
Instead of taking the mailbox down, you can put a tupperware like container filled with a saltwater solution in it - when the firecracker is dropped into the mailbox it is put out by the water. Use saltwater as it won't freeze in case of sub-zero temps.
@@peterlarsen7779 it's easier to take them down. I have two, one is a beautiful vintage one and they're mounted on two pieces of wood attached to my shed. I'll just unscrew the wood and everything will come down easily. (also I don't take any chances with my vintage one)
Maybe it's gone a little out hand the last year's, but when I was a kid in the seventies, it was all about fun, the bike went up the flag post, and yes we blew up mailboxes, and as you said, it is expected
Hi Kelly.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
The sausages your husband eats for New Year are kålpølser (cabbage sausages). They have nothing to do with cabbage, but are served with grønlangkål (stewed green cabbage). It is a South Jutland tradition.
Previously, you could only get these sausages around New Year in Southern Jutland (and on Als), but over the last 10 years you have been able to buy them in stores all over the country all year round.
Very interesting to know. Thank you! :)
In my family we always watch "90-årsfødselsdagen" a quater to midnight New years eve. We know most of the lines and laughs every year as we have never seen it before.
HAPPY NEW YEAR! ❤️😄🎉
Ooh - your new year's evening looks absolutely wonderful! And fireworks 🎆 awkward adulescents are very fond of noisy fireworks! 😂 When I was a little kid my parents would light the fireworks at 8 o'clock, this tradition kinda just lived on!
The very first year in Denmark New Year's eve caught my parents by surprise, so instead of the pricey New Year's dishes, like the traditional cod, we had pork chops with rice.
My brothers and I loved that so much that we made that our new New Year's tradition 😄 due to Corona were sort of a little behind, so we'll have ham and stewed kale with caramelised potatoes - because we actually ended up eating the traditional duck roast on Christmas eve 😦😄
The most important New Year's tradition, though, is the Queen's speech! Always makes it odd to time the dinner 😙👌🏼and jumping into the new year from a coach or a stool - and then, "yoohoo!" 🥂
Sounds wonderful, Jakob! I hope you have fun with your traditions this year! :)
some of our friends, have taken the tradition of "jumping into the new year" to the next level, as they put it: The new year is coming newborn and naked, so do we. " Seeing 4 adult people slightly drunk, and stark naked, trying to jump into the new year .... o.m.g ,. but hey ... we only have the fun we make ourselves right?
Happy New Year from the Oregon Coast.Enjoy the videos.Tak
Great video! I really liked, that you got all the things (what i can remember) and traditions about New Year in this video. Although the only thing i can say you maybe forgot or don't know off, is that when it's midnight people jump off their chairs and yells "Happy New Year!". Don't know if this maybe is just a regional thing or not, but great video either way!
I did mention that in my blog with a few other things that I missed. We have never done that though. I am not sure why not! :)
@@MyNewDanishLife Ah okay. Well we also know someone who doesn't do it too, i think it's more of a thing people decide themselves if they want to do it or not. But anyways thanks for replying! ;)
Godt nytår til dig og din familie ❤ bedste hilsner fra stige i Odense ❤❤ og forsæt med at lave videoer de er sku hyggelige 👍👍👍🥰
Mange tak skal du have! ;)
Those sausages are called "kålpølser" (even there's no kål in them). It's a tradition from the south of Jutland.
serpentinerne is completely normal around all of Denmark:)
I absolutely loved those as a kid - now being the one who does the cleaning I'm less enthusiastic 😂 love how kids can still get exited about them, tho! 🤗
Blow them in stead of throwing them ☺️
Kelly, I loved this video (like every other one)! Our Danish custom was/is to eat herring at the stroke of midnight. I had a heck of a time getting it this year, but I did, so my jar is all set and I will be poised at 11:59, ready to enjoy! Maybe I should start celebrating when it is midnight in Denmark. Is all of Denmark in one time zone? I found a website where I can watch previous Queen's new year's speeches. It's not easy being a Dane in Belvidere, Illinois!
@Librarian Linda - yes, Denmark is all in the same timezone.
There is a Danish-American society in Iowa. I think there might also be one in or near Milwaukee. Maybe they have things going on from time to time. I remember meeting someone years ago at the Milwaukee Folk Festival that is put on every year in November. That is how I found out. I can't' remember details since it was so long ago! ;) I hope you have a nice New Year's Eve! ;)
@@MyNewDanishLife I learned of the Iowa area from your video. I already have their event for next year on my calendar! Covid better be done by then!
In my household on Fyn, we blow in the ring to undo the streamers.
it's really fun just to blow on them in different places and try to aim to make them hang on things.
I will have to try this! :)
Children walking from house to house new years evening to get candy, is a tradition only seen in Sønderjylland (Northern Slesvig).
Hej.. Godt nytår til dig og din famile, og tak for din venlige måde at tale om os danskere på.
Mange tak, og i lige måde. ;)
So right Fynshav is the hometown of your husbond. Riding down Bakken in a sæbekassebil and then visiting the Olsens family. That's nice.
My father in law made my boys a saebekassebil! :)
@@MyNewDanishLife That's nice.
Happy new year every body May God bless you 😍❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏
Here is an idea, blow them instead of throwing Them. So much much fun. Im a dane ☺️
That's how we ddo it. Pull themapart in smaller pieces, like 1-3 circles, and blow them over the table. Very Corona-safe :D
Happy New Year,,hopefully 2021 better than 2020
I agree! :)
Interesting Kelly. I'm not familiar with a localized tradition of drinking shots with the neighbours. But I am familiar with New year's celebration which often includes drinking øl, brændevin and eating (smørrebrød). :)
I think it is a regional thing, maybe?
@@MyNewDanishLife You're probably right Kelly. Like dialects, there appears to be varied micro-cultures (in Christmas / New Years' celebrations) in different areas of the country. :) Skål. :)
I had the kale one New Years Eve - I was soooo disappointed. I want Cod or a roast - elsker cerpentiner.... We used to hoist peoples bikes up on the flagpole, and put shavingfoam on vindoes and keyholes
oh my!! LOL
Steamed cod garnished with diced fried bacon, chopped Hard boiled egg, chopped pickled bertroot, grated horseradish, chopped parsley, and tyttebær jam (=cranberries)... Served with boiled potatoes and a cream&mustard sauce... That is the traditional new years menu in the north of jutland.... And now I'm hungry 😁🎉..... And the queen also tells the Danes off almost every time 😊... In the villages here the people walk around the neighbours to say happy New year. kids sneak around in small bands around the gardens during new years eve, to steal or move whatever you have outside (and have forgotten to lock away) ... Trashcans, wheelbarrows, furniture, the garden gate....they change the things around, so you can find your patio chairs on the neighbours terrasse, his trashcans will stand at another neighbour, , and the garden gate or your bike would probably be up on the flagpole....😊.
Normally there's a big screen where you watch the guard change so those there can watch the queen's speech.
A tradition in our family is after midnight, the champagne, kransekage and DRs Pigekor singing "Vær velkommen" and fireworks. We always get nice toasted bread with prawns and mayonnaise and lemon juice.
the idea of giving "something for something" starts early in Denmark,
So now that we have candy leftovers from Christmas, we might as well share them with the little kids, for a little "show" ...
they simultaneously get the pleasure of firing fireworks, (under supervision), while we adults, have time to cook,
without constantly asking: "When are we going to eat ?, When can we fire off? etc."
time is enjoyed by everyone and they come home, with healthy red cheeks, after being out in the fresh air for a few hours.
Hi Kelly!
1) Actually, where I live, there's also been some fireworks shot off before Christmas - and it's illegal, both before Christmas and even before Dec. 27th., as well as after Jan. 1st. IMHO, I would like to see a ban on fireworks sales altogether, and have the towns/cities put on displays - it would be far more beautiful, and a WHOLE lot safer illiminating all the injuries each year. Shooting off fireworks between Jan.1st and Dec.27th requires a police issued permit here in Denmark. Fireworks are also heavily regulated here (especially after the Seest explosion)
As my son was growing up, I did my best to reach him responsible use of fireworks. We would both wear safety goggles, never going back to a dud, and during New Years Eve evening, we would shoot off a little bit at a time as the evening progressed, and the rest of it at midnight.
2) Regarding New Years Eve dinner, there are a few meals which as far as I know are traditional - I'm not sure as to whether or not it's a regional thing.
a) Boiled cod with mustard sauce and potatos (of course)
b) Forloren skildpadde w. hardboiled eggs and sherry in the sauce (faux turtle - it has NOTHING to do with turtle)
c) Tarteletter with either the chicken & asparagus, or with peas and carrots.
d) Boiled ham or "cabbage sausages" with either creamed kale or creamed spinache, potatos and/or caramelized potatos.
3) Those streamers I find are easier to spread out by holding it gently in the circle formed by your thumb and index finger, then holding it close to your lips and blowing into the hole.
4) The Queens speech and changing of the guard. At times her speeches have been a bit controversial, but trends to express the years events quite well, and giving people something to discuss and reflect upon. The changing of the guard is always something special.
5) The Copenhagen town square as you said more or less like Times Square. Though this year of course the square is cordened off because of Covid-19.
6) The mail box! It happened to my ex and me one year. The lock was found in a yard at the far end of the street.
You can put a tupperware or similar filled with salty water instead of taking it down.
Extra) Re the safety glasses/goggles, IMHO everyone - young and old and everyone in between - should wear them when setting off fireworks. I have experianced the "trick AND treat" in the Copenhagen area when I was young. You are correct about the Holy 3 Kings on Jan.6th. It used to be that the Christmas holiday lasted until the 6th included...but no more as you know. In Sweden e.g., it is still like this. I had never heard of this tradition with the shots. Interesting.
Thanks for the video...as always interesting to hear your take on our traditions.
Wishing you and the family a very happy and prosperous New Year! 🎉🌟🎊💥🎉🍾🥂🎉🎉🎉🇩🇰🇺🇸
its legal until 5th of jan
@@user-io4sr2dh3p - according to borger.dk, it clearly states "you may only use fireworks between the period of Dec. 27th to and including Jan. 1st". Just sayin'.
@@user-io4sr2dh3p as Peter says it's only legal between Dec 27 and Jan 1. Its been like that for some years now not that anything is done at other times but yeh. It's been an all year thing here, unfortunately
I didn't know that about the fireworks. We have never bought any, so we hadn't looked into the laws. Thanks for the information! :)
@@n9nnascreativeandrandomstu858 - Thank you!
I'm from aeroe and is a big thing dressing up on hellig tre konger, we do it to times, on the north side. In marstal where I'm from we do it on Fastelavn
That is so good to hear! :)
Shots of aquaveit for the adults.. Count me in!
Unfortunately the town hall square will be closed this year due to covid-19
I heard about that. I wonder if there will be any problems with crowds in other places.
New Intro.. nice. I was wondering about those sewing projects :) Happy new year
My channel originally started as a sewing channel. If you look at some of my most popular videos, you will find that some of them are about sewing. Only after I moved to Denmark did I start to shift the theme to Denmark! :)
Thanks! :)
Happy New year
Happy New Year!
@Kelly Not really this year because of covid, but usually they have big screens in front of the palace, so when you have watched the changing of the guard you can watch the speech on the big screens in front of the palace
My family begin our new year evening with the traditional: Stegt flæsk med persillesovs (I don't know the english word for it). Then we put on a boardgame or doing some quiz... then the good things comes in little by little. There is always: Kransekage (I don't know the english name) and Champagne and Verdi. Than some indoors bombs and confetti. We end the night with: 90 years birthday (German - with english speaking). We laugh everytime. Than is time to sea some fireworks from indoors. The champagne, kransekage and 90's years birthday is a traditional in many danish home. I love those small bombs... we have a lot of fun with it.
We usually eat homemade hotdogs at new's year. Just because it's easy and delicious.
- Januar 6 - sound like fun
- A baking alu form with water inside the mailbox stop the fire.
You should get strawberries dipped in dark chocolate for champagne, kransekage doesn't fit champagne, as it's very sweet, and champagne is sour. I know it's common in Denmark, but combining them unfortunately doesn't help the champagne or the kransekage.
ANother amazing tradition is the TV broadcast of 90 Year Birthday (Dinner for One) and Mr. Beans New Years, but 90 Year Birthday is THE new years broadcast and it has been for years.
I also rememeber going out to spray silly string on peoples houses, egging houses, throwing TP, all that stuff. I don't think it's as popular as it was when I was small. WHich is goos honestly cause a lot of people have to get up early right after New Years and waking up with egg on your car sucks.
Bordbomber💥 🇩🇰😍
We do The same thing as your husband did on yaers eve Day. Thats on the other side of Sønderjylland close to Rømø
I've never heard of anything like that on Zealand, but it sounds like a tradition we should try to make!
it is much easyer to just leave you mailboks open, if it is open it will not be destroid
The kids in our neighborhood/town must be getting more creative then. :)
Never experienced or heard of kids knocking on doors and getting treats on New Year's in Denmark.
When i was a kid "making trouble" was very common, however, and we were even to a small degree encouraged by my family.
We would just do innocent stuff like tossing toilet paper in people's trees and bushes.
Others would do more problematic stuff like putting tooth paste and shaving cream on people's windows, doors, in their locks(!) and on their cars (damages the paint).
Some would also rearrange, destroy or steal garden furniture or whatever they could find in your garden.
So just in case, you want to make sure you don't have any loose items outside during New Year's.
Here too. After dinner, the kids went out to make trouble on the street and not get cought :) If other kids had already “done” the street, we went to an other one :) Im from the Århus area and i also dont know about the knocking on door things - but it sounds really nice :)
Oh wow!
@@123qaszx Sounds like a wild night! :)
@@Donnah1979 We will be careful! :)
A small correction! Further down there is someone who writes that the 90th birthday is German, with English speaking. I think it would be a shame for the two excellent actors - not least the waiter - if people are pictured in it. Not least because the servant's use of language is as much a part as the play itself. But the connection to the German is good enough, as it is actually an old German theater piece. But the one we see is a 100% English production ☺️
Vi always play pakkeleg (literally "gifts game") New Year's Eve. Ask your husband. 🙂
The way to not get a mailbox blown up, is to put a brink of water in the bottom.
besides all mailmen have newyears celebration vacation between 24th to 31st.
Dressing up i Think only happens in that town or in Jylland. Ive never seen it in around copenhagen, only heard about it! 😂
I'm not familiar with it myself and I'm from østjylland.
It wasn't really dressing up. Just a silly hat. My husband says it is very much something from their town. I wonder how it got started!
Any future discussion of DR children’s TV shows esp-Dillerman and his large anatomy?
Probably not. LOL I wrote about some of them in the Berlingske newspaper here in Denmark a few months ago. That was before "John" came about.
Back in the day it wasent only the kids that went around. But also the young teens. Where they got candy they woulden't pull pranks on new year's eve. Skelde ??
Where are you from, Torben?
@@MyNewDanishLife im from Sønderjylland between AAbenraa and Sønderborg
Legally you can only use fireworks dec. 27- jan 1.
I always open my mailbox because you cant blow up an open space.
Yes. We always take our mailbox down just to be safe! :)
I was born on Als too and grew up there (from 0 to 20 yo) and I never saw or heard of what you call "trick and treat". Hmm...?
Nor heard of adults dressing up and get shots. Wonder where on Als your husband is from?
I lived in Nordborg and Sønderborg.
@@Finnec123 Det foregår i stadig i stor stil på Syd- og Midtals, dog mest i "landdistrikterne" uden at være nedsættende. Og hvis du ikke har tændt belysningen over hoveddøren, kommer du ikke til at opleve det.
Food, in generel most people just goes for something 'fancy' :-) But once it used to be "new year cod".
People are indeed taking down their mailboxes - not everyone (we don't), but a lot of people with expensives mail boxes removes them.
Goggles for kids are pretty much handed out for free anywhere you can buy fireworks.
Nope, never heard of that tradition?!?
6th of january, shots??? Never heard of it, but count me in :-D
Sorry Kelly, the food you eat on New Year's Eve is no go!
Sausages ??? 😂
What was on the table is only eaten by old people on an ordinary Wednesday night.
I am beginning to think that there are modern Danes and traditional ones. I feel that no matter how old I am, I will probably be in the "traditional" group! :)
January 6 is de hellige tre konger. The tree holy kings and it’s apparently the day the kings came to see the baby Jesus.
Haven’t heard about the shots but a lot of people keep the Christmas tree and sometimes all the Christmas decorations up until January 6
De sidste julegodter skal spises på Helligtrekonger.
You picked the wrong nationality to marry into if you don’t like marzipan! My father was Danish so Christmas and New Years were all about the marzipan. The only thing I don’t want it in is my stollen - plain sweet dough with fruit and nuts ( with butter of course)
Believe me, the Danish-ness wasn't the reason. LOL
Usually you would blow the streamers out... Give it a try
så ingen grønlangkål ?
watching the queens speech is a most if you are a Dane you are watching her speech full stop
Nope, hate that crap!!!
just put water in the mailbox
And Hellig Trekonger is not a Hollyday! Why don't you learn about it, before you talk about it here on RUclips!!!
It is a holiday...Some people actually celebrate it in Denmark... Who needs to learn now? Boo yah!
hvorfor snakker du ikke dansk engelsk stammer jo fra dansk på samme made som usa er en dansk kolini
I always skip the speech! SO BORING!
Man skulle tro du lige var kommet til landet, der er helt klare regler for fyrværkeri prøv lige at læse det inden du lukker sådan noget gylle ud
Oh Peter! I really hope you have a good day today!
@Peter Skovgaard Man kan godt gøre opmærksom på den slags og stadig opføre sig pænt, du trænger til at blive opdraget ordentligt.
Snak ordentligt, du er ikke på Twitter