Why do many Danes eat pork on Christmas Eve, and where do rice pudding and caramelised potatoes come from? This guided tour at Den Fynske Landsby traces the old roots of the Christmas traditions we still keep, and shows how the holiday was celebrated very differently about 200 years ago.
The museum curator leads the tour and explains where the customs come from, including Christmas beer, the Christmas ghost, the Christmas seal and the age of the Christmas tree. The story of why Christmas falls on the date it does is, as promised, a tangled one, and the tour sets out to untangle it.
