Santa Lucia | A Swedish Christmas Tradition

Santa Lucia is a beloved Swedish Christmas tradition. Lucia is a Lady of Light, representing light within the darkness on the winter solstice. Many Swedes love to celebrate this day, lighting candles, and eating saffron buns. I love to create my own Lucia dress designs. I hope you enjoy learning about this wonderful holiday tradition!
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[@FootLucy1013]

We celebrate St. Lucia in my family since I was born!

[@thefrontendfiend]

It's nice seeing tradition being kept even in times like these.🕯️

[@FatemaFantom]

Yeah, brings back memories from middle school! :D

[@helenabringner6580]

Lucia was earlier Freja and called Frau Holle in Germany. We used to light all the candles to light up the darkness. Even the lussebullar is from celebrating Freja. We did it on the full moon closest to the winter solstice. The date is changed by the church and funny enough it correspond with celebrating the name Lucia, meaning the Bringer of light.

[@mariebray9831]

I made some St. Lucia buns, that made a good breakfast. They work good even if you have a summer Christmas instead of a winter one.

[@DaisyViktoria]

That sounds amazing! I am all for eating Lucia buns in any climate!

[@conniehute8954]

My family (Father, Grandfather and Grandmother) were Swedish. Both Grandparents were Swedishish Immigrants and came to Bishop Hill, Illinois the first communal Swedish Colony in America! Since my Father’s passing in 1996 I have been finding out more of my Swedish Heritage with my cousin in Sweden whom I have found over the Covid situation. I love hearing stories, listening to Swedish and seeing photos of my family there! I love your video and the music! Thank You!

[@luxferraa]

My Man is swedish and I feel the same of Lucia. I have always been fascinated with the celebration, so it is fun to be able to share it with him.

[@bojanknezevic9509]

Daisy you are beautiful Lucia.

[@McNerdyCostumesandProps]

Such a wonderful learning experience and a beautiful gown!!!

[@DaisyViktoria]

Thank you so much! It's such a cherished holiday - and I love the gown too! ;)

[@J8n3eyr3]

Love it. The candles give such a different quality of light. Very calming video.

[@DaisyViktoria]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it. This was super fun and cozy to put together. Candles have such a peaceful feeling.

[@AriallaMacAllister]

Thank you for sharing your much cherished tradition. I greatly enjoyed this video, as well as the one about the beautiful dress you made.

[@DaisyViktoria]

Thank you so much, and I am so glad you enjoyed them!

[@Elingebeth]

This is so nice! And I really appreciate your spoken Lucia song. Glad lucia! /viewer from Sweden

[@DaisyViktoria]

Glad lucia och kärlek till dig!

[@LauraIngallsGunn]

What an absolutely beautiful video! Your dress looks amazing. Truly lovely work!

[@DaisyViktoria]

Thank you so much! It was really fun to set this up and do something a little different and special.

[@phoenixperson8296]

I'm Norwegian, so It was really interesting to learn about the slight differences between Swedish and Norwegian Lucia! And that song at the end, we sing it too!

[@Meiiiow]

Why Scandinavia adopted Lucia is due of our past belives and old religion/tradition it is why we still have midsummer celebrate. Not many want to remember that

[@sofiew.andersen4548]

I'm from Denmark, and feel the same. We also celebrate it

[@sofiew.andersen4548]

The Danish tekst Nu bæres lyset frem stolt på din krone rundt om i hus og hjem sangen skal tone Nu på Lucia-dag hilser vort vennelag Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia Her ved vor ønskefest sangen skal klinge gaver til hver en gæst glad vil du bringe. Skænk os af lykkens væld lige til livets kvæld Santa Lucia, Santa Lucia

[@PocketFullofPoseys]

I loved this!! God jul!

[@DaisyViktoria]

God jul to you as well friend!

[@lizmerritt8682]

Lovely. Merry Christmas.

[@DaisyViktoria]

Thank you, and Merry Christmas to you as well!

[@dragonlea13]

Thank you so much. The dress you crafted is absolutely exquisite. I learned about Sainta Lucia Day a few years ago, as it is my birthday. I find it so interesting that on the old calendar it was the winter solstice, and now the 21st is, which is my brothers birthday. We always thought our heritage was German, but recently found a long lost cousin who informed us it is Swedish, and we still have relatives living on the same land from the 1500’s. I am very grateful for your explanation as I would love to add these traditions in our family. Have a blessed holiday!! Much love and light. My name is Christina, but the Apaches gave me the name “Woman with the sun around her head”.

[@DaisyViktoria]

That is so wonderful! Thank you so much for sharing this, I love hearing your story. I hope your holiday season is amazing!

[@mandipowell7797]

My brain caught the few Swedish words that are very similar to German (that I recognized). 🧡

[@DaisyViktoria]

Yay that's so awesome! Likewise, sometimes I hear a German word or two I recognize from Swedish!

[@Meiiiow]

Swedish today is taken from german, dutch, french, latin as it blended together and made the language as is it today.

[@CraftsyPenguin]

Beautiful! I am glad you did this video, it's great to hear about this kind of tradition. In Czech republic the Christmas are mostly seen less religious and more like a popular holiday too. In old Czech tradition, Lucie was one of the important figures of Advent celebrations. She was likewise dressed in white, sometimes represented by a white masked figure with a long paper beak and equipped with white goose feathers which she used to check the households for dust and dirt - she checked if the household was properly cleaned for Christmas. There is also an old czech saying tied to the day of (saint) Lucie: "Svatá Lucie noci upije (ale dne nepřidá)." Meaning "saint Lucia sips from the night (but does not add to the day)" as it used to be just after the longest night of the year.

[@DaisyViktoria]

That is so cool! Thank you so much for sharing this tradition. I very much appreciate reading it. Czech Lucie tradition sounds wonderful.

[@nian60]

You did a good job with reading the Swedish text. :) Thanks for the video. Lussebullar and glögg are nice.

[@DaisyViktoria]

Tack så mycket! Yes they are very nice indeed! Looking forward to making some glögg soon.

[@Avilhoesa]

Love to learn a bit more of this tradition! Santa Lucia is not very celebrated in Portugal, at least not on my family's island. So, I always get curious this part of the year! Christmas is a very religious holiday for us until today ! Best season for me ♥️

[@AnnoyedKitten]

Have no idea how I ended up here, especially when it's April and after Easter. 😂 But it was fun to see you play around with the traditional Lucia dress. Nice work with your dresses! 😃 One thing though, because I am trying very hard to kill this myth, the goats does probably not have anything to do with Thors goats. Very common thing that people talk about, but that is actually probably very wrong. There are extremely little proof for this. (I talk about this in a couple of my videos about Swedish traditions) It do has a non-Christian tradition from start, but seems to have much more to do with being a harvest goat. Goats have been a symbol for fertility all over Indo-Eurpoean tradtiotions for what seems to be thousands of years. Nice to see that you embrace our strange and crazy traditions that we have in Sweden. Hope you continue with this! 💖//The Swede that is also a history and folklore buff.

[@mellisartandcrafts]

I can totally relate to your facination of her. I always loved this tradition, too. And I don't have any swedish relation :D Lovely video, these buns look delish :D

[@DaisyViktoria]

They are so good! Yes, Lucia is just such a heartfelt tradition. There is something about it that really calls to us.

[@melusinenoArashi]

Have a wonderful Yule.

[@DaisyViktoria]

Thank you, and I hope you do as well!

[@TexasCuttingBoards]

My family was originally from Varmland

[@Janttura]

I understood some of the words in Swedish version! Have a nice Christmas/Yule/Joulu ❤️ We have some borrowed words from Swedish and one of those is Joulu. Sounds almost the same but is written differently. "Yulen är här" is propably one of the only Swedish songs I like to listen over and over during the holidays - as a suggestion 😉 Greetings from Finland 🇫🇮

[@DaisyViktoria]

That is so cool! I love how we can pick up words in similar languages. Also, thank you so much for the song suggestion. BTW we suspect my grandfather had some Finnish blood.

[@henzcarltupas328henzcarltu2]

Hi 👋 new viewer from 🇵🇭 Philippines, I'm Filipino and I already familiar the story of these beautiful Princess 👑of light 🕯️ question is .... I'm a guy, I once tried this wearing a wreath with electric candles, are those real candles in top of your head your wearing? Looks wonderful but quiet dangerous in case those candles are loose and there's a tendency it might fall. Be careful of wearing candles

[@Meiiiow]

One skandinavian tradition that americans take part of is the kissing under the mistle.. the God mother Frigg and wife to odin birthed a son beloved to all. He was named Balder and his mother went to evry animal and plant and ask them not to harm her son but she forgot one and the God of strife Loke found that out and made a Arrow of the mistle that murderd Balder. So after her misstake that she forgot the mistle she made a vow to kiss under it at her sons death day so she never forgets

[@Benjamin-rp4hq]

We celebrate Lucia as swedish Americans as well. Lovely celebration. although I would not see it as "transcending" religion. Quite the opposite. I see these celebrations pointing to and making sense of themes that transcend human experience and draw us into greater understanding of the realities of God and the fall of man. Of Christ and Satan. Of good and evil. Light and darkness. The core realities truly have divine origin.