Surviving Christmas in The Middle Ages...

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During the Middle Ages, winter was a particularly harsh season, cold and dark, with short daylight hours and no need to be out working in the fields. So, there was no better time to take twelve days off, from Christmas Eve until Epiphany on 6th January, and party. Except for the obligatory church services, that’s exactly what the Medievals did, with feasts, fun, and celebrations. Let’s travel back in time and take a look at Christmas trolls, holiday hooligans, and fire hazards in the Middle Ages. Welcome to Medieval Madness
00:00 Introduction
3:49 Football
5:38 The Mummers
6:41 Caroling
8:02 Christmas Dinner
10:30 Icelandic Trolls
11;41 Jousting
12:24 The Yule Log
Narrated by James Wade
Written by Lisa E Rawcliffe
Edited by Jamit Productions
Thank you for watching.
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[@americanadreaming]

Video starts at 3:49.

[@allnewjient7651]

thx 1/4 of the video is a commercial,after 2 commercials and prob a few in between from yt. lets unsub this crap.

[@altramen7045]

thanks

[@SW-kr9fl]

Thanks. Hate those irrelevant ads. I pay for adblocker to stop seeing that crap

[@ezo2161]

@@SW-kr9fl Even then, you now get ads embedded into loads of videos. It's an onslaught of absolute greed

[@MacLeodddd]

It's insane that I'm paying money for an "ad free experience" on youtube, and there's advertising within the videos. What a ripoff.

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

Deal Dash is one of the biggest rip-off scams in Internet history

[@danieldanieldadada]

It is Contemporary Madness!

[@Ziorac]

I was thinking the exact same thing. You have to pay them to be able to bid on certain items for an extended period of time to have a chance to win anything at all. It's basically a slot machine with people always losing out....

[@bestoniko]

Yup, Established Titles (the Lord/Lady nonsense) and Kamikoto (pseudo-Japanese knives made in China) and Deal Dash are all linked to the same entity. Scott Schafer made a great video about them.

[@Contessa6363]

Along with Uber eats and all that

[@conclavecabal.h0rriphic]

@@Contessa6363lol not door dash…. *deal dash*

[@mattyvee]

A quarter of this video is shilling for deal dash…. You gotta shorten the ads it’s cheapening your channel and making your videos a chore.

[@glendanison3064]

Deal Dash is run by the same outfit that runs the Established Titles scam

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! We assume your comments are based on the poorly researched KZbin video about Established Titles. We'd like to suggest the following material: the video How Not To Do Business Part 9 (Established Titles) by the KZbinrs Fact Fiend, which we feels does a more thoughtful analysis of the Established Titles business. Regarding DealDash specifically, we do not hide the fact that we are a pay-to-bid auction site. Our business model wouldn't be sustainable if we were tricking customers into purchasing something they don't understand. It's a unique twist on auctions where you pay to bid, and the majority of our users are repeat customers that have been with us for years and come back again and again because of the great deals they get. Learning the mechanics might take some effort, and we understand that not everyone ends up enjoying it, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. Please feel free to reach out to them if you have any other questions about us.Have a wonderful rest of your day!

[@Envy_me94]

That advertisement spot was ridiculously long.

[@seanramsay9043]

Thank you for the almost 4 min commercial about a scammy website…. Loved that.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you think we are scammy. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@joenathan4880]

The better Business bureau is for profit - the help you manage your reputation and you can buy higher scores. The bbb itself is ironically a scam.

[@Skibidiplushies]

​@@joenathan4880 truth. MLM companies prove that too.

[@Scaramanga7]

It's amazing that it seems every premodern society has a ridiculously violent ball game.

[@heikemotzek5954]

🤣 so true. I have just come back from Chichen Itza (Mexico), where the Mayans thought that a rubber ball weighing a good few kgs was a really good "toy" to attempt a header with... to a goal / ring that was quite a few metres up on a wall.

[@fool1shmortal]

Testesball is not that violent compared to ones like those times in whatever civilization. Healthy young men need some danger and bodily collisions in our life or we get soft and worsely (my term) perverted.

[@e.a.b.k7048]

May your demons slumber and your wine glass stay full 🍷 Seasons greetings fellow watchers🎄

[@athenahitchin7738]

Thanks for the great video but did you have to spend a third of it showing how to use the site you advised, felt misleading to the video.

[@RochellBarbara4690]

Making good quality videos ain’t free

[@Contessa6363]

Merry Christmas to the Medieval Madness Community and Staff!! May your Yule Log burn bright!! ❤🎄🎄🎄🎄❤

[@BronnyJames2025MVP]

Christmas is a capitalist scam to steal your hard earned money!

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

Most people don't have fireplaces.

[@toomos9844]

@@MatthewTheWandererwho

[@MatthewTheWanderer]

@@toomos9844 What!?

[@chedderz66]

Thumb down for the Deal Dash ad

[@DealDashOfficial]

We'd give it a two thumbs up 😄

[@theconqueringram5295]

Eh, still not as bad as working retail on Christmas.

[@MDW1101]

I love paying for youtube premium for the ad free service just to have my favorite channels shove their own commercials inside the video, for 3 solid minutes! Talking about bidding on something on a website that doesn't ship to his country. 3 mins of a 13 min video. 😂

[@_Shadoh_]

You shouldn't give KZbin any money, they don't deserve it! I'd never pay for YT premium in my life! Adblockers do exist.

[@MDW1101]

@@_Shadoh_ can you do background and black screen with ad blocker?

[@isabelpontes6592]

that was such a long ad and for such a shitty company too

[@grapeshot]

So Christmas back then was more like Mardi Gras🎉🎉🎉

[@takku88]

As a history nerd I really enjoy your videos.

[@Chernochegger]

Does it bother you that half the images are from 100s of years after the middle ages?

[@user-qd9bm5dz6x]

We still have Mummers in Philadelphia . But the party is on January 1

[@shallowgod5539]

Honestly, I thought you were better than AI art thumbnails.

[@ImmortalVampire19]

So nearly 4 minutes of a 13-minute video was devoted to an advertisement? That's definitely some kind of madness - not medieval though...

[@tylertodd4774]

I would love to see sources or a bibliography in the info section. It would enjoy looking up these works.

[@greendragon4058]

Great idea

[@GPWfiles]

He really be promoting scams

[@boogiesmell5181]

And not for the first time either.

[@rebd00mer93]

I absolutely LOVE the episodes that talk about how holidays were celebrated back in the middle ages. Thank you for this video!!

[@h.huffen-puff4105]

Living in the Middle Ages sounds like a recipe for anxiety.

[@kneegrow3906]

Better than having to suffer with brainwashed, woke trash all day.

[@honkeykong85]

I mean,to be fair,living in modern society is as well

[@movealongtoots]

I doubt the average person was as anxious as today. It was normal and they had an actual sense of community in their daily lives unlike today where you’re mostly a face in a crowd

[@jasa4176]

Another great episode - Thanks for putting this together and a Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to you sir.

[@dylhemsley9458]

Merry Christmas to all at Medieval Madness.

[@Noneofyourbusiness57817]

If DealDash only ships to the US and canada then how are you using it? Liar 🤥

[@knowthycell]

Gimme a break

[@WhiteErFox]

Happy Christmas back at you, looking forward to next year's video's!! :)

[@lilbullet158]

I remember Carroll Singing in December; Guying in November and Bob'a'Job in the Summer... There again, the world was in B/W back then...

[@lilbullet158]

@@BeeLZBeeb (understatement), We were a bit naughty back when we were kids. I remember the first wave of Indian migration back in the 70's (to get some extra pocket money), we used to go Carroll Singing at their house *In the middle of summer* telling them is was an _"English custom...."_ Proper little rascals ... lol

[@cecileroy557]

Thanks - I enjoyed this very much!! Merry Christmas! 🎄

[@wolfgang6442]

Yk its just videos like these that remind me on how lucky we have it nowadays when celebrating Christmas and not having to do any wierd customs or sacrifices for it must've been harsher way back then

[@ignachioelsmith9053]

Tank you for another interesting and entertaining video. Hope you have a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year.

[@shellyraymond4337]

Interesting video as usual! Merry Christmas and have a Happy New Year!

[@cherylreznor181]

Over a quarter of this was an advertisement :(

[@danieldanieldadada]

Be a gentleman and let us know at what time the video starts.

[@heidihochrein7912]

Happy Christmas to you!

[@David-xh9cw]

Fantastic as always bud, have a good one!

[@rhondajohnson8310]

Merry Christmas and I hope you got your throw!! Cheers!

[@debbiestevens7530]

Happy Christmas medieval madness

[@carlyrennae3963]

Yay Christmas vid ❤ happy holiday's everyone 🎄🎅💜

[@ladyjusticesusan]

I’m surprised to see you endorse Deal Dash. It’s a scam and I’m disappointed to see it here.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey lady! Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you think we are a scam. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@bobsgirl100]

Love your channel. So good!!! So they loved football too! How funny that the women joined in!

[@bellatr1xdh]

Have a lovely Xmas too😊

[@bretfisher7286]

Fire and festivities. They always combine at the holidays, toward disaster. Thanks for this most interesting piece, and warm and bright holidays to you-- and all.

[@yvonnewilson2242]

Great video and all but... *DID YOU GET THAT FAUX FUR THROW, THO?*

[@shireecox122]

Merry, Merry Christmas 🎄

[@Stan-lq1ep]

And a wonderful Xmas to you my dude

[@mirrorblue100]

Merry Christmas!!

[@deedrawscoloringpages]

Merry Christmas!

[@neoAREAXIS]

1 quarters ad... 😢

[@claudettes9697]

Merry Christmas 🎄

[@beebeelicious]

Merry Christmas 🎁

[@dionvandenberg]

Three minutes of ad time for a very scammy sounding bidding site is a huge letdown. I really like the channel, but this stuff will make people turn away.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! Sorry to hear you think we sound scammy. Thanks for your comment. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@dionvandenberg]

@@DealDashOfficial @DealDashOfficial integrity is such an interesting choice of words within the context of your business model. Let's agree to disagree, shall we?

[@jujubees5855]

​@@DealDashOfficialplease don't asphyxiatiate on your 💩copypasta comments. To the person paid to do this, you deserve as much respect as telemarketers at a scam call center. The ones who get cussed at with all of the deserved venom.

[@jamesmckean3221]

I've just had an epiphany!

[@kneegrow3906]

Yeah, ill never vote for them again either.

[@PlaymateTessiNumberOneFan]

Merry Christmas Winter is coming

[@davymckeown4577]

happy Xmas mate

[@Yo_Kelz]

Deal dash?? just lost a view lol

[@elliotpoplawski767]

ad took up a third of the video. nice

[@HootOwl513]

I had heard that on the day after Christmas, the fuedal Lord, ordered that the leftovers from his feast be boxed up, and held as a prize for the villiage serfs to settle with a prize bout. The winner taking the spoils. The nobles bet on the outcome. Hence the term Boxing Day and the sport of Boxing.

[@antoniomoreira5921]

Not sure it's the right niche but if anyone's interested in Medieval society, religion and tradition I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@daywalker6847]

Thanks for the football history.... maybe do a episode on football.. or a series on sports... idk if you've did on already

[@kartos.]

what a great example of why in video advertising is trash

[@tonicendejas1443]

Can you make a video about medieval life in Spain?

[@gandalfstormcrow8439]

😂 Starts at 33:9

[@florianlassnig9769]

Spreading cheeks for scams. Classic

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hi there! Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you think we are a scam. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@florianlassnig9769]

@@DealDashOfficial sound TOTALLY like something s shady company would say

[@Whiteboykun]

JOURING THE MIDDLE AGES

[@Psyche0delic]

Everything about christian holidays were Pagan customs that were stolen, er i mean "absorbed", by christians into their various holidays. The Yule Log is just one of those things. There are many more.

[@youdunnitagain]

Merry Christmas, love and appreciate your videos. That being said, shame on you for accepting Deal Dash as a sponsor.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! Sorry to hear you feel this way about us. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@david-lx7uj]

Mummering is still a (disappearing) tradition in NFLD.

[@explorationgmer1336]

We should bring it back 😂

[@LyriixLKE]

I'm just astonished you decided to put a 3-minute plug in the beginning of your video... need to put that stuff at the end bro

[@fraserihle4847]

Bro fuuuuuuuucccckkkk off with those long ads

[@clayeagle9594]

The best medieval channel.

[@Mr.WestcottX]

Indeed. Amazing history Channel.

[@madsingh]

4:30 looks like my hometown Kingston upon Thames

[@miyllofromearth7143]

What’s the intro music right at 0:01 ?

[@fool1shmortal]

I!m sure there were many farming families that celebrated Christmas piously. They probably outnumbered us city folk, though there were likely a decent number of practicing Christian’s of whatever kind there, as well.

[@leemclaren2518]

Hey man. Pretty sure in Kirkwall (Orkney) the village still played a brutal game of a similar football game "Ba" where the people are split into 2 teams (the uppies and the doonies) northerners and southerners and its about getting a ball into a goal at the ends of the town. Pretty sure its only men that get involved too. Can be brutal but theh then all celebrate and get drunk after it 😂 check it out

[@JerryListener]

Hey, ad whiners... get Premium - no ads to cry about. Thank you for a triumph of a channel!

[@Chernochegger]

Bro is this whole video an advertisement?

[@JerryListener]

Man trolls used to be much worse.

[@stuffiavonludenberg4329]

My advice would be if someone is sponsering your video make the ad short and precise. Most usually take 90 seconds cause if you drone on for too long people will loose interest before the actual video starts. 3 minutes for a for a 13 minute video is ridiculous. Hope that in future videos you learn to pace your adverts better! I love mediheval stuff so Im not going anywhere also people cam easily just skip pass to the actual video.

[@erinpickels6814]

Excuse me... 2 POUNDS of saffron?!?!?!

[@shootincoyotes]

I have a couple Pieter Bruegel's hang in my house.

[@rochelleoconnor6676]

I like your channel but I agree with others, a third of the footage being dedicated to a scammy American website doesn’t speak to me, even if it operated in the UK. Also, your content needs to be longer and explain jargon terms and notions we may not be familiar with, thus aiding our learning, which we came here to enhance. Having such a long advert in a short video is not good!!

[@Grimmjow251]

Longest ad ever

[@GwenS320]

Yah that yule log tradition probably never happened like that especially in Scandinavia. Given how fast the tree would burn and the size of average trees in Scandinavia. Unless they where somehow importing sequoias from America 1 tree simply wouldn't last long enough. And that's without pointing out the danger of having a burning tree laying across a probably wood floor in a house likely made largely of wood. It simply wouldn't be practical. Historically speaking it's far more likely there where multiple yule logs possibly from the same tree that where fed into the fire to keep the yule logs burning. It safer more practical and physically possible unlike the whole tree idea. There's some truth behind the old joke. If you get lost in a Scandinavian Forest, just stand up.

[@rebeccabrandt751]

Did you get the throw?????

[@marthavanderweide1156]

Why that rotten commercial in the start? We want to know about celebrating in the medieval times, we don't want commercials

[@danielkarlsson8850]

I just cant will all these AI thumbnails

[@ALLISEEIS6S]

"Basically">"RISK FREE"

[@johannalappi]

Eli 13 minuutin videossa kolmen minuutin mainos??

[@RUSHx51]

The length of that ad is egregious…and for a scam site. Be better. If you’re hurting for cash just say that.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you think we are a scam. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@Thorfinn_Vinland]

What was it like to celebrate new years in the middle ages?

[@bla2220]

Two non-skippable ads before the video started followed by a 4 minute video for a scam company and after the video plays another two non-skippable ads. WTF!!!

[@Footballislife1900]

Middle Ages or 1800’s??

[@Chernochegger]

A lot of these pictures are not from the middle ages

[@witty1k]

Deal dash shouldn’t exist anymore, I remember watching commercials for this shit when I was like 8-9ish. I am now 20. please don’t use their site.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hey there! But we do exist 😄. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@preshisify]

😷 ☕ 🎄

[@sevenstars004]

Well, I wanted to watch this but they got to their Deal Dash crap and after advancing the video by ten seconds about ten times and he was still droning on about f*cking Deal Dash scam, I said screw it and stopped the video. I get sponsors but you have to get that I don't pay for KZbin Premium to listen to multi-minute ads. Ashame. I liked this channel. Too bad this was the last time I'll watch a video from it.

[@DealDashOfficial]

Hi there! Thanks for your comment. Sorry to hear that you think we are a scam. We have been in business since 2009 and we continue to persist precisely because we have an absolute dedication to integrity. We're audited yearly, have done several 3rd party audits of the auction bidding itself, and we're an A+ accredited business with the BBB. However we understand that there may be skeptics, so that’s why all customers are entitled to a 100% no-questions-asked refund on their first purchase of bids. Hope to see you around soon!

[@Brandon-ex8ui]

Holy shit 3 minute ads in the beginning. Do you wanna lose subscribers!

[@smashleybreaks]

Not sure what a cucking stool is but it sounds horrible. Merry Christmas!