Wow, this video totally felt like a high quality documenary made for television. I love your videos and to hear about your thoughts and comments about Sweden. 🥰

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

Thank you!! I really appreciate it 😁

I'm half Swedish half American and I am studying Linguistics at the university. I have eaten horse meat. Many years ago there was a scandal when it turned out that horse and donkey meat was under a very long time being sold as cheap beef for school lunches and the food industry. So a lot of Swedes have eaten horse meat without realising what they were eating. The meat of our school "kalops" (a beef stew) was analyzed and turned out to be horse meat. So we started calling it "galopps" instead of kalops.. I used to work at a home for the elderly. And many of them used to eat horse meat. Some of them were from Dalarna and some of them were not. Tun comes from old Norse. It is originally what the common unowned ground between several houses with different owners is called. And it is what the word English Town comes from.

@theresalinden3797

10 ай бұрын

Galopps 😂😂😂😂

@nexieane7577

10 ай бұрын

Hur har jag missat detta, Galopps 😂

@oliviamoore3426

10 ай бұрын

Gallops omg, that got me laughing heaps, that’s funny a f 😂

@beccymalloy

10 ай бұрын

This happened in the UK too- apparently ready-made lasagne from Tescos supermarket and Burger King were the biggest offenders!

@ebbeollman1198

10 ай бұрын

A long time ago, before Sweden joined the EU, the import rate of donkey meat was unrealistically high. It was because the custom rates for meat from donkey vs. horse were far different (Donkey was cheaper and there was no simple way to tell the difference in an analysis). I have surely eaten cour de filet many times from a horse finding it delicious.

"What do you think the name was?" "hästkorv?" "No! The name of the horse!"🤣🤣

Gustafskorv is the sausage with horsemeat. But it is a mixture not only horse in it. Since my father is from Dalarna, I have eaten it since I was a kid, and always loved it. But nobody is raising horses 'only' for food.

@T0tenkampf

10 ай бұрын

I doubt the ones shown for export from the USA are either.

@dobbylollol

9 ай бұрын

So its pretty much almost like the original version of Falukorv? wich originaly contained horsemeat.

@friswing

9 ай бұрын

@@dobbylollol In the old days horses used to work in the mines, it was hard work, no fun at all I imagine, shortening the horses life-span.

@peterandersson1230

2 ай бұрын

House and ox meat. From the rope industri, they used the hides to make ropes.

The crossed arrows are crossbow bolts. The symbol of Dalarna. The "male" symbol is also iron as Borlänge has a large steel industry. The town next to Borlänge is Falun. It has a cupper mine. The symbol for cupper is the "female" symbol. It's an artesian spring. The ground water in the surroundings are higher than the bottom of the gore. Whith a permeable sand layer, under the dense upper soil, there are "pipes" through the sand, leading the water to the spring.

@Babesinthewood97

10 ай бұрын

Copper

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

I had no idea the male and female symbols were steel and copper!

@T0tenkampf

10 ай бұрын

@@Babesinthewood97 is it? what is the periodic table symbol for cupper?

@JesperRoos

10 ай бұрын

@@T0tenkampf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alchemical_symbol

@Werlath

10 ай бұрын

The rooster is a very old symbol of "the guardian" who averts evil spirits. My good guess is that it is from ancient norse traditions and that later on became absorbed by christianity, in order for the peoples to accept their new faith. The rooster is extremely common to have placed at the very top of churches, where it plays the same role as a guardian over the souls of the deceased. Pretty neat!

Happy to see you're back in Sweden and that you're still making videos!

Hi Meagan, welcome back. When I was a kid I was told the reason the doors on old log homes had such small doors, with high threshholds, was to keep the snow out and the heated air in during our long Swedish winters (since hot air rises and collects under the ceiling). But I was also told that they built them that way for home defence way back when. Those low doors with their high thresholds would slow down intruders and make them come in with their heads bowed down, giving those inside an oppotunity to bonk them over the head with something heavy (or sharp...) before they could do any harm. If the defence explanation for the door design is true or not I don't know, but it sounds kind of plausible to me...

@beccymalloy

10 ай бұрын

Im learning so much more about Sweden on this one thread - thanks for sharing this! :)

@vreevroow

9 ай бұрын

There's also the bit where people used to be tiny.

The horse sausage is called Gustafskorv and it is made in Gustafs 10 km SE of Borlänge. The Tuna place names are believed to be around 2000 years old. In the case of Stora Tuna the oldest known record of the name is from 1333.

@IsakMendel

9 ай бұрын

Tuna is elder Swedish for "pasture" or in modern Swedish "hage".

Hi Maegan. I just bumped into your channel. I just wanted to let you know that I grew up eating horse meat as a kid. My folks emmigrated from post-war europe. This was common fare to them and was easily found here in Canada as well. My Dad farmed in The Netherlands and used horses, not tractors. I was born here and still enjoy horse meat, especially smoked. It really is no different than eating any other meat, so enjoy! Most Canadians think it's disgusting and illegal to eat horse, but it is not in Alberta. We love our horses both for riding and some of us for eating. Cheers from a Canadian and former european resident of 4+ years living in Alberta, Canada (home of the Calgary Stampede; it's a really big international rodeo).

That dancing and singing around the pole at Midsommar reminded me that these are people who survive very long, very cold winters. I didn't think that city was ugly, either. I actually find small towns interesting. Thank you!!

@Meagan, the bubbly bits under the water are a natural spring. The "brunn" in the description plaque means well or spring. That's pure clean water bubbling up from deep under the earth. It's why the water is so clear! If you want to see a really big one, look up the Big Spring, Idaho. It's one of the sources of the Snake River that winds through Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and ends up in Arizona in the Grand Canyon!

@AndersCandell

9 ай бұрын

Reaction to seeing purest ever spring water bubbling out from the ground: "Ew!"

The "Quakakak"-part of Små Grodorna is literally the sound of a frog. "Quack". So you jump around while signing "Små grodorna är lustiga att se", then it's "Ej öron" (meaning no ears) so you wave your hans around your ears, and "ej svansar hava de" (meaning they have no tails) and you use your hands to show a tail. Then back to jumping as a frog.

The horse-shrimp sandwich (a sandwich with horse meat sausage and shrimp salad) at Torsångs café is a "killer", perfect as a light lunch when you are out touring on your MC. Very popular among bikers that like to visit that café. The horse meat sausage is very specific to the region. The horse meat sausage and the Falu-sausage are heritages from the Falu copper mine. They used a lot of horses to transport the ore within the mine and when the the horses couldn't work any more they used the meat for food. The Falu-sausage was made from the meat from ox'es they used the leather from to make all the ropes they needed for the mine and they needed a lot of strong ropes. Frostbrunnsdalen: The groundwater follows a really large and water rich sand ridge (Badelundaåsen) and the water is so close to the surface at that place so it seeps up through the ground so what you see is really clear and clean spring water coming up from "down under". "Bestående fägnad", The word "bestående" means (long) lasting or persistent and "fägnad" means joy or satisfaction. In this case it can maybe be interpreted that the "paprika" is for everyone to enjoy for a long time.

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

Aww I love that description of Paprikan!

Hamburgerkött is actually originally made of smoked horse meat, and is a topping for sandwiches. Nowadays, it's more common to be made out of cow. Små grodorna is actually a thing that makes fun of the french, and is just Swedish lyrics to part of the tune "Chanson de l'oignon". French eats frogs, so... Koack ack ack ack is just onomatopoetic words for the frog sound. Here's the original song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/omd2qtuImLm-nag.html

@AudunWangen

10 ай бұрын

Cool. I didn't know that 😂 Now I appreciate that song a little more.

Thanks for this posting. It has been some time. Nice seeing you back. Looking forward to further adventures. Thank you!

The “paprika” ❤. I’ve also played in that. G. W. Liljeqvist was a railway engineer, and became instrumental in expanding Borlänge from a village to the city it eventually became. He used to live where the park is located and it also happens to be close to the railway. The railway, connecting Gothenburg on the west coast with Gävle in the east, was completed along with a station house in Borlänge in 1875. On the midsummer pole you can see two arrows “Dalpilar”. These are crossbow arrows of a special type made in Dalarna. The shape of the arrow head makes it penetrate deeper. These arrows became the symbol for Dalarna and you can find it in the coat of arms which is a blue field with tip arrows in gold with silver tips beneath an open crown in gold.

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

Hästkött (Hamburgerkött) is sold in stores all over Sverige. It's basically like ham but darker.

@Babesinthewood97

10 ай бұрын

But it’s from a horse. Horses are like pets

@Babesinthewood97

10 ай бұрын

However, in the US they kill thousands of wild horses just to get them off the land, which isn’t any better.

@fridolfstor

10 ай бұрын

It's called Sweden in English not sverige

@Techcravers

10 ай бұрын

Sorry, jag förstår not what you menar@@fridolfstor

@petter5721

9 ай бұрын

Hosemeat is great 👍🏻

I've been watching you for a couple of years and I think you're absolutely wonderful. you seem genuine somehow. continue with this. HA DET GOTT HÄJ ❤️

Here's my translation of the sign: "For thousands of years, people have come here to the Frostbrunn valley to drink and wash themselves in the spring water. The spring water flows towards the north and was therefore seen as having especially potent healing powers. In Christianity, such a spring is called a Trinity spring. The water has the greatest effect when drunk during Trinity Eve and seven sips was supposedly a suitable amount of water. The water in the spring is groundwater that flows by self-pressure through the pipe. It comes from the Badelunda ridge's mighty sand deposit located beneath the Tuna plain. In the bottom of the ponds, you can see how the water behaves artesianly(?), i.e. it bubbles up due to the high pressure. The Badelunda ridge was formed during the melting of the most recent inland ice, and a huge part of the Borlänge citizens' drinking water comes from here." So yes, your summary was correct.

@target844

10 ай бұрын

The pipe is likely referring to the vertical green pipe that is full up the trough, it is in the video just after the sign. It could be referring to another pipe the water flows out through. There is no pipe at the bottom of the pond it is just water flowing up through the sand completely naturally, no water is transported horizontally in pipes below the ground. This will be a low spot with a ridge beside it. There will be some material on top of the sand on the slopes the water can't get through so the pressure build-up and it can it is force out down here.

It's such a treat whenever you've posted a new video.

Åhh, ny video!! Jättebra som vanligt. Alltid kul att se dig ge dig iväg på saker och göra reviews hahah

This has got to be your best video yet. Thanks.

Great video. This also proves why you never just accept someone else's opinion of a place. Also proves what I discovered during my military days; you can generally find both beauty and not so beautiful places pretty much everywhere.

Doorways are smaller because it takes extra materials to make doors and windows. Also, you will lose heat through those openings, so the smaller they are, the slower the loss of heat you have when people go in or out.

Off topic, but I saw you in a bar in Stockholm a few weeks ago and was a little star struck 😅

Surprising to see a video in my sub feed of my home town :P I was out and about those days in centrum, stora tuna kyrka, frostbrunsdalen, and the café because I was showing a friend from Puerto Rico around, would've been crazy if I'd seen you there ;P

You can get what is known as hamburgerkött in any deli aisle in Sweden, it is a smoked cold cut for sandwiches.

Helt underbar video, som vanligt!

I was about to say 'yeah you should go to Avesta' then you're flatmate called it, lol!! I live there at the moment but moving to Örebro (my sambo's hometown) soon hopefully! Enjoying your videos! :)

As a Swede I have never really thought about it... but "hamburgerkött" was a pretty common topping for sandwiches when I grew up. It was pretty heavily smoked though so I couldn't really tell the flavour of it, aside from smokey. Aside from that horsemeat wasn't a thing where I lived, in the north of Sweden. But. I have been to Kazakhstan a couple of times and they have lots of horsemeat in their food and that is really delicious. Tender and mild and just really good. Unless you have moral qualms about eating horse I can highly recommend it as a meat.

@tristarperfecta1061

10 ай бұрын

I have no qualms with it. I would try it if it was available where I live. I'm sure it healthier than cow

@viikmaqic

9 ай бұрын

horse.. its a animal with 4 legs, i dont mind eating cow and pigs. A horse would not bother me

Haven't had horse meat for 30 years. Remember it as having a heavy iron taste. They used to have thinly sliced horse meat as a topping for sandwiches, named "hamburgerkött".

What vlog camera do you use? It’s so good :) and I love your vlogs and videos❤

Gustafskorv (the horse meat sausage) is great, and my go-to meat topping. I’m glad Willys/Hemköp carries it nationwide.

I don't know but I think that "tuna" could be an old swedish word for town. Places like Vallentuna and sollentuna close to Stockholm have tuna at the end of their names. Sigtuna, which was the capital of sweden a thousand years ago, also have it. 13:46

@Roshmeck

10 ай бұрын

Correct. The ending -tuna is mostly used for a "centralort" in old swedish. Even further back it was used for a fenced off area.

@matswinberg5045

10 ай бұрын

@@Roshmeck Example: "gårdstun" the area in front of the house.

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

That makes way more sense than tuna the fish 😂

I recognized you in a Zeducation video, and I was sure I've seen your videos before and I had! I'm from southern Sweden and I wouldn't say it's common with horse meat but I eat it from time to time!

Horse is allowed for pet food in the US. One of the neighbors when I grew up cooked her own dog food for their pet back in the late 50's. I tried it, I thought it was pretty good.

I live there😅 And yes, Borlänge is not what you would call stunningly beautiful, but it is home 😊

Good to see you back!:)

Thank you for visiting Borlänge. There was much more happening here some years ago. But there are alot of famous people coming from Borlänge. Alot of musicians but also some of the greatest in sports and tv-profiles. Dalecarlia Cup still exists but it was much bigger before. Dreamhack and swedish versions of the Gladiators started in Kupolen. Kupolen also used to have famous artists and christmas markets. Not to mention that we had one of Swedens biggest festivals Peace & Love until just a few years ago.

Torsång has a special place in my heart. My hubby brought me there a beautiful summer evening our first vacation together. It was in 2000.Yes I met a "Dalmas" and moved to Dalarna. I didn't eat horse meat before I met him. Gustafs Hästkorv was a staple in his fridge. I learned to like it. Horse meat is sold all over Sweden. If you see a thinly sliced meat named Hamburgerkött for sandwiches, that is horse meat.

I am so glad to see your back Meagan. Love your videos. But, there are two things i think you missunderstood. The may pole is not an fertilety symbole originely, it´s a church cross. It was brought here by the germans during the hansa era. And the reason it looks like does says in the name. To "maya" something means in german to decorate something. Another fun part of the midsummer celebrations we do that we have imported also is the dance "små grodorna". The melody has it´s origin in france, "La Chanson de l'Oignon" (the Onion song). And was used as an march song during the napoleon war. The brittish soldiers changed the lyrics to "In step, little frogs" to heckle the french. Who was the brit´s enemy. Små grodorna was first sung during the midsummer celebrations 1920. And since then we are unfortnely stuck with it.

In Frostbrunnsdalen the water from the spring down under is running upwards, that's why it's so special. It's called a trefaldighetskälla and it was believed that to drink from this trefaldighetskälla (trinity spring) at a certain time of the year was gonna make you more fertile. The "bubbles" you see in the sand is actually water running upwards.

I spent a lot of time in Dalarna near Avesta as a child. 80s and 90s. But I don't think I've ever eaten horse meat. With one major exception. Hamburgerkött (thinly sliced smoked horse meat) which is a sandwich topping/pålägg. So there are probably a large portion of swedes that have eaten horse but might not realize it. Though I think that nowadays there are versions of it that's made from beef and pork. Nor sure when that started.

Soo nice to see you again!

I actually lived in Borlänge back in 2008. I studied at the university there. There is a residential area called Kärna ängar where my dorm was located. Sadly it's known to be one of Swedens worst areas :( And partially due to the city's uglyness I actually quit school and moved back to Linköping LOL! It would be great if you could visit my home town! There is a similar spot to Wadköping in Örebro here in Linköping with lots of old cute houses. I'd say it's better than Wadköping though ;)

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

I haven't been to Linköping yet! I always hear about, and I might've driven through it one time... I'll have to plan a trip there. :)

@selmabergman6367

10 ай бұрын

Tjärna ängar is home to many criminals as well, that's why it's considered a bad place. There's been some shooting and gang violence in the past years. The houses aren't very special either, just houses.

@mattiasandersson2315

10 ай бұрын

Och många somalier .

nice video meg! I live in the town falun (20min from Borlänge with car) completely different towns haha. people from Borlänge always say that we are more fancy

@giraff3560

3 ай бұрын

Nej, att ni tror att ni är mer "fancy" :)

Tack för en trevlig video! 😊

In Linköping we also have an “old town” part of the city. At some time it was a thing to move the old houses from Linköping city center to preserve them and at the same time be able to modernise the central parts of town. A bit sad in a way to not leave them where they have always been, but at the same time you can now have a better experience of how it used to look in an older city when many houses are all in the same place.

So fun to see, I live in Kristinehamn, and I agree it was not a great "Stadspark". Now they have changed it up alot, so if you have your way close again, you should come and see how diffrent it looks now! :)

Nice video...thx for sharing....

Horse meat if alright. Horse steak is quite nice, tastes kind of like deer/elk. A little gamey. "Hamburgerkött" is a widely used pålägg, that's also horse meat, but smoked and then sliced into thin slices to out in sandwiches. It's delicious. You should be able to find that in most grocery stores around sweden. Look in the ham section :)

2:43 I was like oh no! Because I've seen drunk people on their way home from the bars late at night urinate in that red paprika sculpture (NOT A JOKE), lived in Borlänge for about a year.

We need more videos from you!

nice to see you visiting my hometown Borlänge.

The crossed arrows with the crown on top is the heraldry of the administrative region (län) of Dalarna, when shown without the crown it is the heraldry of the historical province (landskap)!

Very cool video!

Kul att du är tillbaka! Enda jag vet om Borlänge är att den superba sångerskan Miss Li är därifrån.

Mycket kul och bra som vanligt😊

My town Södertälje being on that list lol, its not a lie and while Södertälje needs a refresh its not that ugly. Great video!

Those bubbly things are fresh water springs, pretty cool!

Everything in Sweden is gorgeous. Give us a tour of a no-go zone next time, I am very curious about those. Thanks.

@simon_a_s

10 ай бұрын

I live in Sweden and there are a lot of place you don't want to go. I would not go into "those places" if someone payed me... certain areas are among the most dangerous areas in Europe, no kidding. If you want to see the real Sweden, I'd stay away from most cities. I personally believe this country is quite dystopian nowadays. I travel to eastern Europe a lot and it's a breath of fresh air every time you get away from this place.

@isakpalsson9012

10 ай бұрын

While the "no-go" zones are real, I think their reputation is greatly excagarated. There are shootings every week or so in the newspapers. I wouldnt wanna be there in the dark, but thats due to what Ive heard and not what Ive experienced. I often bike through one when going downtown and have never felt unsafe, though ofcourse there are always people around so it's not like im gonna get robbed.

@beccymalloy

10 ай бұрын

@@simon_a_s erm..how many other countries have you been to and have you been to the more 'unsavoury' parts of town? Other than Eastern Europe. I'm interested to know!

@kajsan760

10 ай бұрын

I've been to several of those areas multiple times. I have friends living there, and lived there myself for a while. There's nothing to worry about for a visitor. Yes, people in criminal gangs shoot each other. That's very tragic. But you're not going to get beat up for visiting. The city often try to make those areas nicer by building parks etc, but private companies are usually reluctant to invest, so houses and businesses might not be up to date. And there's lots of immigrants, since that's where you can afford to live if you don't have a job or connections. I think some people afraid of the so-called no-go zones, are just afraid of Muslims.

@Sancto58

9 ай бұрын

She should go there and STAY there, since what I have understood she likes "Multiculture" like many others from the JewSA and from other European countries who move here, whom ALL are enemies of the Swedish people and should be TREATED accordingly.

Keep up your work, really appreciated 😊 I live in the Swedish town Nyköping. Would be fun if you visited sometime 😊

The kvack kvack dancing around the pole is the sound that the frog makes ( as you are a frog dancing around the pole).

From Sweden. Never eaten horse meat. I've heard about it but didn't until recently knew it was still something some did eat! Video was interesting and well created!

You might wonder, but horse meat has some good tradition in Germany as well and to be honest, living in Sweden for a year now, I haven't met it here. Anyway, in my hometown in Germany we have a great butcher's shop with delicious meat balls and sausages from horses - a must go on visits . Btw, did you ever visit the "most disgusting food"-museum in Malmö? Without horse meat, of course.

@zkakiz1

10 ай бұрын

if you search for hästkött on your local willys butiks homepage you may find it :)

@MeaganNouis

10 ай бұрын

There's a disgusting food museum in Malmö? I definitely want to see that 😂

love hästkorv! especially on knäckebröd with rödbetssallad

The reason why the doors were so small has to do with not wanting the heat to escape. Of course these were houses where poorer farmer families lived. For the aristocracy of the time you had better means of heating and the doors were of course bigger. And I vote for Hällefors in Västmanland as the ugliest city (if you could call it that). I lived there for a few months about 7-8 years ago. The ugliness is also exacerbated by the fact that lies so close to Grythyttan which is one the cutest little towns you’ll ever see. Happy to see you uploading again, Meagan. 😊

My late mother was from Dalecarlia and a horse meat was often eaten at home. I eat it nowadays when available (which is not very often, since I now live in Scania in the south).

I went to the Jussi Björling (now sadly closed) museum when I was in Borlänge back in summer 1997. It was fun learning and hearing about his performances in San Francisco. Met an Swedish au pair here in San Francisco and decided to visit the nearby town of Falun where she originated. I loved the town with the many lakes good for swimming.

@MrGunnar69

10 ай бұрын

Slightly more modern musicians from Borlänge are Miss Li, Mando Diao, The Hives etc. The small town of Borlänge has produced very successful musicians.

@shake544

10 ай бұрын

@@MrGunnar69 i think some members of the Hives were from Fagersta

Horse meat is great. Bet that tasted really good. Doors was small probably to keep the cold out. It's a fresh water spring that's naturally pressurized. There are lots of horrible small towns, especially in Värmland, dying town and the young inhabitants are drug addicts. Like Filipstad or in that region, not even worth going there. There are pizzerior and closed shops and gas stations, the vibe is so thick you can almost feel the last dying breath in some of those towns.

Can't confirm the pipe under the sand bit, but we do have spring fed rivers and lakes here in Florida. That's the "bubbles" you saw. It's water springs

10.56 Symbol at the first pair of... circles.. is "Dalarnas" weapons shield. The arrows above seam to just be the symbol of Dalarna. (well the official one) 11:16 it seam to say "main road (to?) mons pubis" 11:20 Less clear but i would speculate that it says "male anatomy" If the roaster have some symbolism, i don´t know. It just usualy is used to show the wind direction. There probobly is some background to that 15:02 it was probobly a school project.

Damn Borlänge. I think the year where 2004 we did some stupid stuffs there. I used to play music and where booked into a concert on what used to be called "kulturhuset Asken" (culture house Ash), however i got the booking on the phone so we printed 500 copies of a posters and put them up all over the town. We where booked on the phone so we put all of those "Kulturhuset Tasken" (ask your roomie about that) posters up the day before the concert. The people that organized the while thing panicked and we had to run out in town to erase all the "t"s from the posters. The posters ended up "Kulurhuse Asken". The next time i got to Borlänge that culture place was taken out of business. I am sorry for that.

Yes, the horse sausage Gustafskorv is really a "thing of Dalarna" and it was only just some thirty years ago, I believe, that it become available in stores all over Sweden. The sausage was only available to buy in stores within "the borders" of Dalarna. Before the early nineties it was common to, when visiting Dalarna, to bring home some of the Gustafskorv to our eager, longing friends and neighbors in other parts of Sweden. Since Gustafskorv is actually one of the very best toppings on a crisp bread sandwish! 🥳💖😁

I loved the "hamburgerkött" topping that my mother used to buy it a lot when I was little. I stopped eating it for several years though when I realized what kind of meat it was. I was HORRIFIED that I could have eaten my beloved horse that I used to ride when I was a kid that had to be eutanized due to an accident.

In many stores all over sweden you can by "hamburgerkött" (exact translation is "hamburger meat", but not to be confused with hamburger patty). You find it where you buy sliced ham and salami an other sandwich toppings. It is smoked horsemeat (sometimes it is beef instead, but most of them are horse) It is quite good, but I have only tried it a few times... it's a bit salty...

13:10 i listened to Michael Crichton’s 13th warrior book the other day and even though it’s a fictionalized novel there was a part in in where he described the houses having small door and how it was meant as a defensive measure. Like, if you are under attack, you can be guarding the door. And the attacker has to bend down to enter the door. Makes it easier to cut off their head with a sword as they enter the small door to attack the occupants. Again I dunno if that was true because it was the 13th warrior novel. haha but it would certainly be a genius idea.

Small doors on old houses is for keeping the warmth in. As when you open large doors you lose alot of warmth. The most important thing is to have a low-door as warmth rises. Yes a bit more difficult to get in and out but worth it when you dont have effective heating like in modern times.

My grandparents were from Dalarna, so we ate a lot of Gustafs korv growing up. I absolutely love it 😅

Welcome back anytime!

Hallo Meagan! Of course you can eat horse meat. We can even buy it in the south of Sweden (Karlskrona). It’s called “Gustavskorv”. My wife adores it (she’s from Borlänge), but I like it too.

I live 1km från Torsång Cafe so Hästräka FTW! ✌️ Thanks for your kind words that Borlänge is not Swedens ugliest town. ❤

I grew up next to Dalarna, and I don't remember much horse meat there, but yeah it's in every supermarket here in Dalarna, and it's my wife's favorite sandwich meat :) And "Bestående Fägnad" means lasting joy

Omg my history teacher was from Borlänge, spoke lovely dalmål but he also mentioned that Borlänge was known to be the ugliest town in all Sweden 😂😂😂🤣🤣 So funny that you mention it here as well!

Tuna does not refer to the fish, it comes from the old Norse word tun and means "fenced area" or "enclosed area". In Sweden, tuna came to mean "the main farmhouse" or "a central building for a town". The word is not really used anymore but still exists at the end of various Swedish towns (like Eskilstuna or Sigtuna). Fägnad = Happiness, Enjoyment, Satisfaction.

The symbol on the midsommarstång is likely the Coat of Arms of Dalarna

Even though I'm a father to a girl that has a horse, I've tried horse a few times and have found it to my liking, but then I'm also a hunter and therefore perhaps not overly sensitive. I liked this video, so you've earned yourself a new subscriber!

Cool video this is my home town since 1973 except that I lived in England for 5 years.

Really, this is the ugliest city of Sweden? You should see Kouvola in Finland; a lot of ugly Soviet-style concrete structures, which mostly reminds me of Pripyat.

I would love to see your video of Kristinehamn and hear your thoughts about it. Being from Kristinehamn I share your opinion about that park but there is another Stadspark that is much prettier.

As some have pointed out, that is a saucage made with horse meat, called Gustafskorv. Rather good imho. If everyone eats it or likes it in Sweden? No, it's probably a minority overall, like many other special food, like venison, veal, oysters, shrimps, broccolli, blood pudding etc. One either like it or hate it. Often it is based on people think its disgusting, because it was a cute horse. The taste is somewhat like venison, like moose or deer (kinda, not exactly). But yeah I like horse meat, and buy it from time to time. Its not common, but not rare to find in stores in some places. I think it may be more common in some parts (Dalarna possible, as they seem to like their horses!). I have even seen it in stores and "charken" at ICA, but very uncommon. There is a sandwich toping/ham though that is called "Hamburgerkött" that is made out of smoked horse meat (if you want to try it) that you could probably find in any normal food store. I realy like that toping on a good bread or "knäckebröd" with butter. Anyhow, take care. Cheers.

I am from Gustafs where the Gustafskorv is made. My old boss Grandpa started the company and his brother runs it now. My father in law is a chef and use to buy horse entrecote for like new years celebration dinner. It is delicious! :D

Horsemeat are sold in most grocery stores, look for "hamburgerkött" by the sliced ham/salami shelf. (in style from the german city of Hamburg) It's usually smoked horsemeat. It's going "out of fashion" I believe, only boomers remember when it was more common. Why horsemeat are significant for that area is because of the old copper mine in Falun. Many horses lived their lives down in the dark mine, and when they were "used", their skin were turned into ropes and their meat for food. The very popular Falukorv, everyone eats it and like it, was originally from horsemeat but today it's a porkmeat sausage with more flour and potato starch than meat in it. There's even an exception rule for "traditional food" to allow it to be called a "sausage" in the EU. Those competitions of "worst-in-some-way swedish town" always stirs up a lot of emotions, it's impossible to repeat them too often, people would choke from it, at least in Borlänge. The town of Köping once won the "most boring town" competition (Borlänge probably came second or shared 1st place, I guess). There's a great feature movie from 2018 about the reaction, look for "Tårtgeneralen".

@michaelgoetze2103

10 ай бұрын

My sister used to live in Falun. The old copper mine is really worth a visit.

I grew up 50 km from Borlänge... There are some nice places, but they’re few and far between. 😊 I actually was in Borlänge the same weekend as you. Wich is fun, since you stayed in ”my house” when you were in Visby. 🎉😊

Midsummer weekend it´s party time, on Sunday it´s more or less a hangover day :)

Have hade horsemeat as sandwichtoping many times, as other comments said it's usually called '"hamburgerkött" (read ingredients, can also be pigham)

Borlänge looks quite nice in your video. It has a lot of fountains and modern sculptures, for instance. It doesn't have to have a medieval touch to look nice. Perhaps the outskirts are the problem, catch-word Brusselization. Highways and cargo train routes are cutting through the city. There are malls with huge parking lots next to each other inside the city. I tried to find the town center, but couldn't find it, the center seems to be mostly industrial areas. The whole town looks like U.S. suburbs on Google Maps. Probably it really is like that, because the shop density in all the residential areas is very low. It seems to be a new built city following the American example. I love horse sausage. You can get it in Germany at the farmers market in my region. You won't get it at a supermarket/grocery store, though. It's different to the sausage in the video. Yours looked more like salami, which is hot- or cold-smoked or even only dried. The type I get is boiled, and you eat it hot.

@scider2

10 ай бұрын

Originally there were no malls outside the city centre, all shops were then located in the city centre. Later on though these malls were built and many shops moved to them. This is rather common but one positive thing with Borlänge is that it is walking distance to these malls from the city centre, often they are located much further away from the city centre.

You're not eating horse meat. It's horse sausage (Gustafskorv is the best in structure and taste), and it's delicious! Horse meat (beef and other) isn't different from other meat. It tastes really good.

58 year old Swede. Never had horse meat, never even seen it available on a menu anywhere. Must be a very local thing. Great video as always!

@jesperwall839

10 ай бұрын

Omöjligt att du har missat hästkött. Säljs i precis alla livsmedelsbutiker. Vanligast är hamburgerkött som smörgåspålägg. Gustafskorv säljs också i alla större butiker.

Du är tillbaka! :))) :D