New Year's Eve in Denmark / What to Expect / Expat in Denmark

Kålpølser er en sønderjysk tradition og de spises med sennep og grønlangkål. Jeg glæder mig til begge dele😋 Det er også en sønderjysk tradition at børn går rundt til naboer og ønsker godt nytår. Børnene skyder lidt krudt af og får slik som tak. Jeg gjorde det som barn i 70'erne og 80'erne og børn gør det stadig hvor jeg bor. Godt nytår til dig og din familie🎉🎊🎇🎆

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)

Hej.. Godt nytår til dig og din famile, og tak for din venlige måde at tale om os danskere på.

Godt nytår til dig og din familie ❤ bedste hilsner fra stige i Odense ❤❤ og forsæt med at lave videoer de er sku hyggelige 👍👍👍🥰

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.

Dressing up i Think only happens in that town or in Jylland. Ive never seen it in around copenhagen, only heard about it! 😂

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

Angående beskyttelsesbriller, så er det sgu da ikke noget man kaster rundt med ved bordet, er du småtbegavede

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

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

We do The same thing as your husband did on yaers eve Day. Thats on the other side of Sønderjylland close to Rømø

Usually you would blow the streamers out... Give it a try

We also watch the 90 yr birthday and cheer along with the soused waiter

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.

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....😊.

Happy New Year from the Oregon Coast.Enjoy the videos.Tak

Husk at "HOPPE" ind i det nye år. Fra et bord, en stol eller andet. Det er en gammel tradition der skulle forhindre " dårlige eller onde ånder" i at følge efter dig i det nye år..

just put water in the mailbox

Happy new year every body May God bless you 😍❤❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🙏

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.

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

Any future discussion of DR children’s TV shows esp-Dillerman and his large anatomy?

We usually eat homemade hotdogs at new's year. Just because it's easy and delicious.

@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

hvorfor snakker du ikke dansk engelsk stammer jo fra dansk på samme made som usa er en dansk kolini

Those sausages are called "kålpølser" (even there's no kål in them). It's a tradition from the south of Jutland.

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...?

Vi always play pakkeleg (literally "gifts game") New Year's Eve. Ask your husband. 🙂

Your husband are probably from Kegnæs on Als due to the tradition on "hellig tre konger".
In a nabo village (Adsbøl) 3 km. from where i am living, you a supposed to be served until your discise is blown.
Coming from that part of Denmark he must hav kålpølser, he can't survive a noter yer without them.

I always skip the speech! SO BORING!

Shots of aquaveit for the adults.. Count me in!

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.

watching the queens speech is a most if you are a Dane you are watching her speech full stop

Legally you can only use fireworks dec. 27- jan 1.
I always open my mailbox because you cant blow up an open space.

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

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 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.

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 ☺️

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

Bordbomber💥 🇩🇰😍

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.

Children walking from house to house new years evening to get candy, is a tradition only seen in Sønderjylland (Northern Slesvig).

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.

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.

The way to not get a mailbox blown up, is to put a brink of water in the bottom.

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.

- Januar 6 - sound like fun
- A baking alu form with water inside the mailbox stop the fire.

Happy New year

it is much easyer to just leave you mailboks open, if it is open it will not be destroid