Sauna time in Finland!

Checking in from Finland on the last day of finnish winter- the spring solstice! Winter offers a variety of activities to do in Finland- including warming yourself up in a finnish wood sauna, ice fishing, ice skating and much more! I will show you few of my favourite things I have been doing on ice in Finland and will heat up the old sauna to say goodbye to the winter! Also, I will play you the rumbling sound of ice, one of the coolest sounds I have ever heard! And if you are thinking about going to Finland in winter and the borders reopen- I highly recommend doing so!!! Winter has so much to offer in Finland!
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• Sauna time in Finland!
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[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thank you for watching, really appreciate it! Wishing you a wonderful spring!!!

[@anne-marirebane5104]

Pistachios monsters :D

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Very very scaryyy ones

[@MarculinoJalao]

Amazing vídeo!

[@helenakoivisto4459]

Kiitos! Ihana video!

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Kiitos paljon katsomisesta! Kaikki parhaat!

[@ButterFly-zh8ho]

Ice singing. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h5WQdKqAlpaGfqc Midnight sun in southern Finland, 2 months without night. kzbin.info/www/bejne/amfTfmiMZZWgrJY Wood Sauna. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lZbdpKCLpKahgac 2 old traditions : "saunamakkara", the sausage which was cooked on the stones of the sauna at the end. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYXFkIucm9yUpLM "saunavihta" the whip of flexible branches of birch to whip oneself in the Sauna. kzbin.info/www/bejne/aqjad4F3lKaUb9U

[@manuelkruize9869]

interesting to hear and learn about Finland!

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

It is a fascinating country! :) Thanks for watching!!

[@RoastedMarshmelon]

Moi! Really nice video! I love Finland, I love nature, ice and snow, and your level of energy :) You're cute and very funny! I hope to visit Finland and experience the ice-singing (so cool!) and I also just learned about the kick-sledge! By the way, you're really good at skating for a beginner, I'm impressed 👍🏼👍🏼 Cheers from Quebec, Canada :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thank you so much for the comment!! :) Finland is not too different from Canada! Been to Toronto couple times and I can see some similarities :) and haha you should have seen my first steps with the skates, I felt like a uncoordinated cow!

[@SK-nw4ig]

Thank you for mentioning saunatonttu! I still throw the last löyly for saunatonttu. I know few people who do. Not at all lost tradition.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Yay, I am fascinated by the saunatonttu, always like these kind of mythical characters! So do you throw the löyly and then go out?

[@SK-nw4ig]

Yes. The last water thrown on kiuas is for saunatonttu only, so when I'm done with my löylying, I throw water for the saunatonttu while thanking them, and then I leave immidiately. Some people also greet the saunatonttu when they enter sauna. Some do that outloud and some in their minds. Feel free to join this tradition

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@SK-nw4ig I definately will and tell others as well to start doing this!! I read that people also leave food for them!! Love your insight, kiitos!!

[@just42tube]

Saunatonttu is commonly used word in Finland. But it obviously has some Swedish tomten tonttu mixed with Finnish sauna. A more Finnish word would be saunahaltija. There is also kotihaltija / kotitonttu, as a close relative. These words and believes must be from times before the invasion of Christianity. Christianity is fairly hostile to older believes. But as it invaded these parts of world it partly took advantage of older believes and festivities giving them some meaning in the Christian story. Some things remained and where labeled superstition. I don't know if anybody was murdered as witch for offering something to kotihaltija, but I don't think so.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@just42tube Ahh good to know!! For sure the Christians messed with the old beliefs, thats why its so cool if there are some saunatonttu still alive and people throw löyly for them!

[@Matiaza]

16:09 "ou mai gaad" My estonian friend used to say that exactly the same way, haha.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahah its funny actually a lot of estonians say it with a thick accent to make fun of people who say it, like exaggerate it and say it loud and slow hahah like OUUU MAIII GAAAD the world is ending now, he did not do this to you!

[@thorben75]

As always a very nice video thank you so much for sharring all these things with us :) (sry for my bad english)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Your english is good!! Thank you so much for watching and supporting, appreciate it! :)

[@mikaeleastman5210]

Spring for us on the northern hemisphere

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Good catch, of course! Happy fall to peeps on the south side!! Thanks for the correction! :)

[@mikaeleastman5210]

@@ViiveKaiRebane No worries,have great day!

[@ngaphambiarritz6808]

NICE VIDEO. THANKS

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

So nice of you, thank you for watching and commenting! Happy spring!

[@humis69]

Viive-Kai=Delay-Perhaps (sorry, I just had to 🙃) All the best from Oulu 🤗

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahha someone told me that, I had no idea it means anything! Thank you for watching!! :)

[@humis69]

@@ViiveKaiRebane 🙃

[@annsander]

great share ..thumbs up and a happy week

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thank you so much! Happy spring!!! :)

[@tainahollo8567]

I noticed you lighted the fire in the environment friendly way: on the top! :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Always! The man who built us a chimney told us to put the logs in a night before and light it from the top in the morning! So much easier to get the fire going with just one match! Thank you for noticing and watching, appreciate it!!

[@postscriptum2839]

Tulihan se sieltä : "PERKELE !" :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Haha its funny that I have no idea where I learned that word but I know it.

[@RoastedMarshmelon]

It's the very first Finnish word I learned 😂🥲

[@UncleHam1337]

Senkin tonttu, puhut erittäin sujuVASTI :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahah kiitos!!!! :)

[@timoterava7108]

Thanks for your brave effort with the pronunciation of sauna. I think it was me who was biching about it...? 😁 Also you nailed the word saunatonttu at the end! 👍 Perhaps next word could be "löyly"? It means both the operation of throwing water onto the stones of the "kiuas" (sauna stowe) and the steam that comes out as a result.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahah thanks for calling me out on it, I needed it! Dont want to disrespect the sauna! But it is a work in progress haha saunah comes so automatically! :D I will have to ask a Finn to tell me löyly and kiuas, otherwise I will learn them wrong! Thanks for watching!

[@mt451]

Saunatonttu is the right name :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Got it, thanks! :)

[@mt451]

Take concern that atmosphere bends sun 6 degrees from horizon :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hmm what you mean?

[@tkmjees]

You have to try ice-swimming before the spring comes.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Haha I already looked up the ice saws but I am very good at finding excuses why today is not a good day to do it :)

[@samhartford8677]

Oh so effing know this about the midnight/midnight sun. Not sleeping anyway generally, but now that when I wake up 4-5 am no chance of falling asleep again, given the hint of daylight...as in from the February...

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

I know what you are talking about, we also have no darkness in summer in Estonia, but I am a heavy sleeper so it wont bother me! Maybe some blinds would help on the windows?

[@drmic3401]

Check out the noise of cracks and crevasses on glaciers if you get the chance! If you spend a whole day or maybe camp on the glacier overnight you should get to experience it. Cheers from a bit more spring-like DK.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

I am so fascinated by this sound!!! Camping on a glacier sounds like a dream! Thank you for watching and for the recommendation!!! :)

[@antbjark104]

Interesting I didn't know camping on the glaciers was a thing. Why do people do it?

[@antbjark104]

it is when doing very long climbs?

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@antbjark104 I didnt know either but I would say because it seems freaking cool haha! :)

[@drmic3401]

​@@antbjark104 Yes I imagine mountaineering routes are the most common reason. Can be for work too, several colleagues camp for weeks or months on the Greenland ice sheet for climate research, like drilling ice cores. Maybe someone just for fun like when I sleep in my hammock in the forest next to home. Hmm soon it's full moon too! You know, 'some people juggle geese' :-D

[@Idefixu]

Nice to hear you used to play basketball. Me too. We won a couple of Finnish Championships as juniors. The older I got the less competitive I was. Not tall enough, not fast enough, could not jump high enough. I did not have the physics nor the "hunger" to go on and be good enough as an adult. Check out a brand new video about building an ice sauna using huge blocks of ice taken from the lake Lappajärvi, which is a crater lake created by a huge meteorite long time ago. Search for "Ice + hot steam" In the video they mention they made a huge ice carrousel too. I think there is a video about that as well. To build the carrousel they had to saw a lot of ice, so they used some of the removed blocks of ice for building a sauna. Pike is ok. They sell pike file in grocery stores. Not too expensive. Much cheaper than kuha. They sell a lot of Estonian kuha in Finland, it's cheapers than Finnish kuha. I do not know the English or Estonian for kuha. What a lovely dog you have!

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Kiitos! We used to come to Lahti easter basketball tournament all the time haha so many basketball memories from Finland! Sleep on the classroom floors and freakin love it! Just watched the ice sauna haha they are crazy!! I would have played it safe and built it on the land not on the lake haha thanks for the recommendation! Jack says hi! :)

[@dannoah1002]

Viive, your video popped up on You Tube...another video treasure! thanks so much! Your hair looks great! In USA, we pronounce " sauna" phonetically..."saw-nah" is the pronunciation in the states. Take care Viive, Daniel

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thank you for watching, appreciate it!!! All the best!

[@just42tube]

Big part of the world has wrong pronunciation. USA is not alone... But on the other hand their sauna tradition and customs are often also different, so perhaps Finnish sauna and the mispronunciation actually also mean different things. With some vines there has also been similar misinformation. Some vines where named as versions of European vines, which was misleading. Different climate and earth made them different from the originals, which actually where named after the places where they are grown in Europe.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@just42tube Interesting to know about the vines! Makes sense though! I think the wrong pronunciation comes from them not being able to say it correctly, just like we say english words with an accent

[@just42tube]

@@ViiveKaiRebane I had never thought that sauna would be difficult for native English speakers to pronounce. I had thought the confusion coming from English spelling system or of the difference to Finnish Spelling. Finnish has more direct and simple mapping between letters and sounds. English has this unfortunate history of having old writing system which is out of sync with modern English.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@just42tube That was just my guess! I tried to teach them to say my name correctly but ended up being just V or Viva (las Vegas) because they were actually unable to say Viive!

[@amiloaa]

I Really Love You =)

[@ratflail215]

You are so cute. I hope you like our country.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thanks :) I love your country!

[@nigonkouk1770]

Sauna is like ... Saw Naw ;|)

[@aerohogpete5794]

Small detail: when you throw löyly the temperature in sauna actually decreases. That is due water vaporising to steam which needs energy. It feels hotter though because of the increased moisture (steam) in the air.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Ahh good point, thanks for the detail, makes sense!! :)

[@simmysims9209]

Finnish is always pronounce as it's writen and you can combine any words you need so there is saunakahvit, remonttikahvit, tuparikahvit, retkikahvit, nuotiokahvit and etc. Coffee just goes with everything. 😛 I have a electric sauna in my aparment and a wood sauna in my cottage.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Thanks for watching& for the info! I struggle with the g b d, k p t and kk pp tt because we say it way differently is Estonia, I feel like you dont say these letters as written! We pronounce D the way you say T, and T the way you say TT so for example if I would read Riisitunturi I would use strong T but you say with soft D! Just will take time to get used to that :) But hhaha ok just out of curiosity, what is remonttikahvit? The coffee you drink while fixing something?

[@simmysims9209]

@@ViiveKaiRebane It's just a example that you can combine coffee with any activity 😁

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@simmysims9209 Seems like there is always an excuse to drink coffee haha

[@thoso1973]

"Finnish is always pronounce as it's written..." - but Finnish usually looks, as if 'written' by a drunk muumi troll dancing on a keyboard. :)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@thoso1973 Hahaha omg that made me laugh so hard!! Thank you for that!!! :D

[@Skege1000]

If you hear banging sound from the stove after you thrown water on the rocks, then it's the Saunatonttu saying that you've thrown too much water.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahah okaayyy so I went to sauna today and it happened and I was like, so sorryy saunatonttu, didnt mean to! Haha love it, thank you so much for telling me this!!!

[@zekevarg3043]

Eihän ole niin vaikeaa sanoa SAUNA. :) Ei se ole mikään sååna. Miksi joka toinen kerta sååna ja sauna? Sovitaanko että sanot SAUNA tästä lähtien? :) Hieno koira ja kiva kanava.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Kiitos paljon katsomisesta! I know SAUNA is not a hard word haha but my brain is not functioning when I have to say it, goes automatically to english saunah! Have to reprogram the brain! Hyvää kevättä!

[@olliepj8971]

Greetings from southern Finland. If you want to learn more about those mythical greatures you're living with visit The Finnish Storyteller. Aurinkoista kevättä!

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Kiitos!!! This is so cool, definately gonna listen to her videos! Appreciate you telling about her! Aurinkoista kevättä!

[@joniharkonen1460]

saunatonttu eats food, if you left in sauna.

[@nigonkouk1770]

I don't know if this is a good question or not, but, "do you have a plan to get out of the ice if you ever fall in or something"? just wondering, don't know why I thought of that.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Haha well they were driving cars on that ice so I am not too worried, but of course I have a plan! I will have Jack dig a tunnel straight to sauna if that happens and then I will swim there!

[@nigonkouk1770]

@@ViiveKaiRebane LoL

[@oxegiare1652]

Tôi để ý thấy anh thắp lửa theo cách thân thiện với môi trường! : )

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Tôi đã làm! Cảm ơn!

[@nigonkouk1770]

Think of that Beatles song... Saw Naw Naw Naw'''''''''''''''' Hey Jude'' ;|) LoL i think thats the song

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Hahah is that how they teach finnish haha great tip!

[@AmisBros]

SUOMI PERKELE

[@nigonkouk1770]

Yea', I can eat a whole bag of Pistacchios without even realizing it'

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

I swear they just disappear, some kind of magic

[@suokkos]

Saunatontti=Saunkrunt (yes. Important but not very common) Saunatonttu=Saunpäkapikk (protection gnome or elf of sauna) There are also kotitonttu (majapäkapikk), myllytonttu (veskipäkapikk), aittatonttu (aitpäkapikk), navettatonttu (lautpäkapikk) and many others. If you take good care of your gnomes, they will protect your dwellings. Joulutonttu has gained foreign influences like joulupukki. They are Santa Claus' elves. Hiisi may have been similar protector for nature (eg. Hiidenmaa=Hiiumaa) or culture (eg. grave yard or sacred grove) location. But historical meaning was perverted by Cristian times long before first written records. At least the sacred location meaning was preserved for those locations.

[@SK-nw4ig]

Yeah, not too far off with the tontti either, the word originates from the word tonttu.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Waittt whattt hahah what is saunatontti?? Does it also live in sauna? Krunt means the place where you build the buildings, so I am confused! I love you have all these tonttu! Now I know your secret for a rich society, the tonttu takes care of the business! For us Hiis is a sacred forest only, and was turned into a pagan worship place as well but quite frankly we are very proud to be pagans if it means liking the old trees more than the God in the sky :)

[@SK-nw4ig]

@@ViiveKaiRebane yes. Tontti is place where you build buildings. It origins from the word tonttu, because every building also has it's own tonttu.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

@@SK-nw4ig Ahh I see! Thank you so much for that! Love how tontti came from tonttu, so cool! So tonttu lives in tontti :)

[@SK-nw4ig]

@@ViiveKaiRebane And I should continue: in the olden days when a person was planning on building their home in a certain place, they should have to get along with the spirit (tonttu) living in that spot first, and then build their home. This is where the tonttu/ tontti comes from.

[@amiloaa]

Have you learn any finnish language?

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Just a bit :)

[@dominiquetamer8242]

And they sweat and swim nude, they have a healthy relationship to body and nudity.

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Absolutely :)

[@nigonkouk1770]

Oh', and Finland makes the best Vodka known to man'''''''''' :[) LoL

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Haha I bet!

[@nigonkouk1770]

Do you have a boyfriend ? ;|)

[@ViiveKaiRebane]

Jack eats any man that comes closer than 100 meters to me.

[@nigonkouk1770]

@@ViiveKaiRebane LoL yea ;|)