What did northern European peasants do all winter?

DIE

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i don't think medieval northern europe had an abundance of tropical mountain villages

I obviously mean go to another country.

They thrashed the corn
They brewed beer and made butter
They mended clothes and such
Animals still had to be tended to
Probably slept a lot because candles were expensive

I hope this is bait.

Truly.

i don't think medieval northern european peasants had the economic freedom to go to another country every winter

underratted

According to Varg they had high festivals year round

At least in Finland/Sweden they used to do a lot of trading during the winter. Transport over the Bothnian Gulf was a lot easier when it was frozen over (not that it was of any significant difficulty in the summer either).
A lot of our agriculture here consists of forestry, and most of the felling was usually done during winter, also because of easier transport.

I remember reading about a small French village where they still do this. It was described as a sort of "hibernation".
I doubt it's true though.

You just need to find food along the journey. You dont need money.

Pretty sure they just ate and fucked.

>money was practically unknown in rural France until the late 19th century

what a load of fucking bullshit

i don't think medieval northern europe had an abundance of food laying around the countryside in the middle of fucking winter

In Norway? They slept, freezed and did what little they could do. Everybody would tell you how old they were by how many winters they endured. Weak and old would often get sick and die, children who were born in winter likely didn't survive.

>As money was practically unknown in rural France until the late 19th century
> there was little motivation to do anything other than conserve energy

So stupid.

qi.com/infocloud/hibernation

What kind of retarded source is that?
Why do people like you post here?

Protip: Everything on this board works that way.

they were doing other jobs so they can focus on the rush to reap or sow during other times of the year

>qi.com/infocloud/hibernation

Damn, that French-English rivalry i never gonna disappear completely, is it?

>Pretty sure they just ate
Rye porridge

>and fucked
Hairy unkempt pussy that has pushed out five babies before she was 17.

Not so "comfy" now, is it?

They hide on their caves

Watch a docu like Tudor farm or look at books of hours.

Preserving foods
Maintaining fences, outhouses, buildings, barns
Ice skating
Domestic chores
Threshing grain
Wage labor or doing work at home
Celebrate TWELVE FUCKING DAYS OF CHRISTMAS

Depends, beeswax candles can be expensive, tallow candles not so much and rush lights were downright cheap. A fire provided some light at any time.

Porridge is foor poorfucks from rural Scotland and Finland

Northern European age of marriage was mid 20s so kids before 20-25 was an anomaly rather than a rule.

>this didn't change during literally one thousand years

Porridge for poor fucks or marriage?

Well, you didnt.

Also the streets werent that safe, you still could get robbed and killed

don't know what's up with these yuropoors giving up on life because its cold. in canada winters are the best season for trapping. you also had ice fishing and some game hunting. of course this is also the season to tap maple trees. before snowmobiles skis and snowshoes were often used for transportation through snowy terrain.

tea used to be a big deal in Canada during winters. people would often be drinking it all day to keep warm.

>don't know what's up with these yuropoors
>speaks about a time when the most canadians had been in the country for about a generation

I'm talking about the mid 1700s to early 20th century

Underrated post

its a question about pesants

trapping and game hunting got pesants executed

Hunting =/= poaching

dont know if the general population could realy do that, maybe just in certain areas or so, think you had to have some equivalent of a licence or family trade

unless you just knew your way around your wood and fuck the police

might be wrong

Sometimes paying was enough but it was mostly boar and deer that was protected and even then exceptions were made sometimes. Pests were encouraged to be hunted during some seasons.

>Seven months of winter

Vigorous shitposting.
I know, because it hasn't changed one bit since that time.

also walking to another country is a REALLY long walk

>ywn eat boiled vegetables and drink vodka with creepy old men in a foggy russian forest discussing feels and dostoevsky
why live

It's actually from Rehepapp, a film set in Estonia.
youtube.com/watch?v=G4uDX-_b9n4

You do know that Victorian writers were really describing their own underclass when they were talking about medieval peasants, right?

Deer and boar yes, but I'm pretty sure the lord wouldn't mind if the peasants were catching squirrels and small birds

Many Norwegians worked in the forest. As was mentioned earlier, it was easier to transport during winter, you can just pull the logs on the snow, and there's less obstracles overall, and frozen water.

There was probably a lot of wool work too. People tend to undervalue that because it was something women did, but it's one of the most time consuming things that was done, and it took a lot of work.

On the coast, it was also common to go fishing for long periods of time to make some money.