It would be delightful do have them reunited to sing this again so we could see their faces:) amazing that they could sing so beautifully with masks. Such a challenging time no doubt for the world. ❤
@lalaloveyou518611 ай бұрын
This is a very informative video thank you. As far as letting dudes take the role of Lucia all I have to say is seriously? Why do dudes need to have their hand in everything? I’m a fan of dudes but they need to know when to stop and just let us have something that is all our own besides childbirth
@AnnoyedKitten2 жыл бұрын
This showed up in my "recommended videos", probably because I just posted how to bake Lussekatter. How nice to see a really nice video explaining our strange Swedish traditions. :) //Agnes
@claudiamoraes35503 жыл бұрын
Vacker hyllning!
@antiwacks40173 жыл бұрын
Lucia is actually a thousands of years old pagan scandinavian tradition. A celebration of the return of light, in northern Scandinavia, after over a month of darkness. In Sweden we still call it lusse or lussi (ljósi in old norse) which means light. The church later made it a christian tradition, as they did with Midsommar, Jul and so on.
@JaneDoe-wd5zk3 жыл бұрын
Are there any prayers to Lucia
@antiwacks40173 жыл бұрын
@@JaneDoe-wd5zk Not that I know of
@AnnoyedKitten2 жыл бұрын
Not really. This is a very common misconception, spread happily by the 19th century academics that wanted everything to be Old Norse and pre-christian and hopefully also fertiliy cults. I usually call them "sexually frustrated white men that had nothing better to do". ;) Later studies have discard this idea though. Yule is form pre-christian era, but not the Lucia tradtion. The old Yule starting at the 13th december before we where Christian (which then changed it to 24th because of a change of calendar) but the Lucia figure has not any sources at all until late 18th cent. The earliest mention of her at all is 1764. Lussi or Lusse has nothing to do with Ljosi, it comes from Lucifer and that is a medieval tradition, also borrowed from Germany. Before there was a Lucia, students went around dressed up as different characters, singing and begging for booze and food and it is said that Lusse, aka Lucifer, had great power over this night, since all bigger yearly celebrations usually are connected to folkmagic. Folkmagic does not necessarily has anything to do with old heathen times either. The Lucia character showed up as a way for the upper class to stop the rather noisy bawling of drunk students outside their windows and was also borrowed from Germany. //A Swedish ethnologist and historian.
@heartartg920710 ай бұрын
Du skojar va? Lucia namnet är ju från cicilien och var kristen. Har inget med Skandinavien att göra. Hon var helig som ville leva för Gud.
@treblegames843 жыл бұрын
Wow No one’s going to mention how they’re singing in masks and socially distant and sound like angels
@juliecummings3714 жыл бұрын
Beautiful blend of voices. Such talent!
@michellerudolph19264 жыл бұрын
Just lovely. Such beautiful voices. Way to go Tiah and all of the Ladies of this choir.
@winifredbrown54064 жыл бұрын
Beautiful voices and concert!
@kshurty4 жыл бұрын
Lovely tribute to the Swedish Nightingale!! Thank you!!
@jenniferwood35894 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful!
@symbolicplace71184 жыл бұрын
So wonderfully informative and captivating Dag, as always! Very grateful for the online lecture right now. All the best to the Swenson Center and the great people who work there!
@tombengtson13224 жыл бұрын
I enjoyed this video.
@jeanniem764 жыл бұрын
I'm a Swenson and my family settled in Lindon, Utah in the late 1800s
@mdg9365 жыл бұрын
Great upload! Haha I liked how nonchalant he was about that gift. Basically, "Oh, I won't be using this, so I guess you can have it if you want..."
@4thekore6 жыл бұрын
The furthest family member I found so far is a L Swenson which is a father in law to the oldest family member I found around 1829ish. Both making the passage from Sweden to Minnesota around the 1860s. Wish I could find more.
@SwensonCenter6 жыл бұрын
Hi Josh, if you need help with Swedish genealogy research, please read more about the Swenson Center's services here: www.augustana.edu/swenson/genealogy or contact us: www.augustana.edu/swenson/about
@Lkristina656 жыл бұрын
I’m looking for information pictures etc of Bethlehem Lutheran Augustana church located on atlantic ave and pacific street Brooklyn New York
@SwensonCenter6 жыл бұрын
Hi Nathan, for research help please email your question to [email protected]. Thanks!