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Why Medieval Wells Never Froze at -40°F While Yours Turn to Ice

In January 1432, a Scandinavian village north of Uppsala endured temperatures so brutal that livestock froze standing in their stalls. The Baltic Sea turned to ice thick enough to bear merchant carts. Yet every morning, villagers walked to their stone-lined wells, lowered their buckets, and drew up water as liquid and clear as it had been in summer. No ice. No frozen rope. No shattered bucket stuck to a block of solid water. Meanwhile, your modern well—engineered with galvanized steel, electric pumps, and PVC piping—turns into a useless ice sculpture the moment the thermometer drops below zero. What did medieval peasants understand about water, earth, and cold that we've completely forgotten?