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American Reacts to Learning the History of Norway
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- Опубліковано 19 сер 2024
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In America you are not taught much about the history of many different European nations, including Norway. So today I am very happy to correct that by learning about and reacting to the history of Norway. After getting a brief introduction into Norwegian culture during my previous video I am very interested in what this video recapping Norway's history has to say. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
How to quickly grow an audience: give Norwegians any attention at all, and they will flock to it. We're like guys who never get compliments :P
Same. Love from Denmark 🇩🇰
Haha right.
Soooo true😂😂
He should make reaction videos about our lovely but less successful neighbors Denmark and Sweden! Would be hard to find impressive things to react to, but I'm sure with some creativity he could do it!
@@altfornorge2221 LOL 😂
They should mention that Leiv Eriksson discovered America. That would blow his mind :D
He was icelandic. Cheers from Iceland 😀
@@MrKorton That is nitpicky in the extreme :) Leif's father Erik the red was Norwegian, and while Leif might have been born on Iceland, that was really a Norwegian settlement at the time as well :)
@@PlacidDragon no it isn't 🙂
You wouldn't say that Scarlett Johansson (born and raised in USA) is Danish because her father is from Denmark would you?
Leifur Eiríksson (aka Leifur heppni / Leif the lucky) was born and raised in Iceland by an (expelled) Norwegian immigrant Eiríkur Þorvaldsson (aka. Eiríkur rauði /Eric the red) and Þjóðhildur Jörundsdóttir (who was born and raised in Iceland). The Commonwealth of Iceland was not under Norway so claiming that people born there "where Norwegian" is simply wrong 😉
@@MrKorton who did current Iceland "belong" to back then?
@@kimberlysperzel2598 No one. It was by all accounts uninhabited, although it is likely that Inuit and Celtic fishermen might have visited it at times.
'Imagine what would have happened if Norway had invaded England', err just rewind and look at Viking activities over the previous 250 years.
The previous 250 years?
@@PullupAddict The Viking raids, conquest of Northumbria and establishment of the Danelaw :)
@@sangfroidian5451 ah ok
Don't blame us!It was the Danes😁
Yeah, Vikings certainly had a huge impact on England. In fact, Danish tribes have been a massive part of English history, when you think about. First the Anglo-Saxons, who migrated to Britain from Denmark (Angles) and northern Germany (Saxons) in the 5th century. Then came the Vikings with their conquests and the Danelaw. And then finally the Normans, who came from (mainly Danish) Norsemen who had previously conquered and settled in France. Basically it's only the earliest Celtic settlers of Britain, who didn't originate in Scandinavia in some form.
Vikings discovered America as the first Europeans. Native Americans traded with them. This was long, long before any British settlers landed there. Pretty cool.
And 4 centuries before the Spanish!
@@internetual7350 more than 3 decades ;) actually about 4 centuries :)
@@MrPicky Fuck, I meant centuries 😭
@@internetual7350 I thought so, just couldn't stop being picky 🤣
@@MrPickyFair enough!
It's not easy to summarize 1200 years of history in 20 minutes, so we'll forgive some inaccuracies. Norway did actually dominate the British isles for quite some time, and in fact, many modern historians now believe that English is more based on Scandinavian language than vice versa. But to not mention that Norwegians discovered America some 500 years before Columbus, is a bit unforgivable from a Norwegian perspective. :)
True. Even before the Kingdom of Norway was united and formed, Viking lords successfully invaded most of Britain's then Kingdoms and paganized them all in the late 9th century. Except for the last christian Kingdom of Wessex at the lower west of the British isle, which only survived due to its King Alfred (which was later called the Great). At one instance, he got lost in the swamps and was nearly killed. But later he managed to reconquer the Bristish Isle by smart diplomacy and warfare. Now you imagine how history might have completely changed (e.g. Christianisation of the world) if King Alfred had failed.
If you're interested to know more: The TV series The Last Kingdom has its synopsis based on these historical events. At least the first season of the show seems historically somewhat accurate.
No historian believes that because it's patently false (plus it's not historians who determine that). English is a West Germanic language, most closely related to Frisian, and more distantly related to North Germanic languages like modern Norwegian. We do have a very significant percentage of our vocabulary that came from the Norse population that once controlled large parts of the British Isles, and we were certainly influenced by them in many ways, but our underlying language is not based on theirs.
@@jawbone78: Fascinating statement.
@@rincemind8369 South of Scotland, it was Danish Vikings, not Norwegian Long live King Tveskæg and King Knud, these Danes were also kings of England :0)
@@jawbone78 the English grammar is purely based on north Germanic language. English and Scandinavian grammar is very similar to each other. That can not be said if you compare English with Dutch or German.
Funfact:
Vikings established the city of York in northern England naming it "Jorvik" and built a community.
York is as you know based on naming New York.
(Or "New Jorvik" as we norwegians would call it.
Just kidding.)
I like pissing off the Americas by calling it New Amsterdam.
@@MissCaraMint
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For the Byzantine thing, look up the Varangian Guard; Mercenaries found work for the Emperor of Byzants. He didn't trust locals to be his personal guard and thus wanted independent and competent mercenaries who had no stake in local politics. This became a very long relationship.
Varangian comes from Væring, which is what the Vikings called themselves. F.x. If you lived in Svolvær, you were a Svolværing. Svolvær is one of the few places having retained its Viking age name.
Viking was an act, not a people, so to speak. They went on viking; loaded their ships and went off to trade.. originally. Then someone had the idea that they didn't have to pay if they didn't want to, because so many places were poorly defended and had great riches. One assumption is that just like someone might cry "We're on holiday" they would cry they were on Viking.. hence the name stuck.
East romans*
The word "Viking" during the viking-age was used as a verb. As in "Hey pal! Wanna go on viking?" which meant to go plunder and explore. They were not known as "vikings" during their own lifetimes, rather they would be called Norsemen "North-men". But in later times the act of viking would become their known title. Basically they were medevial pirates. -Archaeologist
Thank you for that. It annoys me to no end that we call them vikings, because it was an advanced and beautiful culture and not just a bunch of madmen killing and plundering. As a fun fact, I have still not found another country where one of the most serious crimes was the act of not drinking alcohol to a stupor.
@@jeschinstad Sadly, the culturall, social and technological sides of vikings has been largely overlooked. Maybe its not as interesting as great wars and big men, but nevertheless important history :D
@@soolve1: Well, actually, I think that the story of women is more interesting than the story of men, because the story of men is the same everywhere, it's just stories of bravery and strength, and that is a story you've heard before. It's like the story of Indio versus the story of Rambo, it's just that the background of Indio is a bit more interesting than that of Rambo, but none of them are as interesting as the story of Samson in the bible, right(?) and none of them are as strong as Samson was. But the story of women are always different and new wherever you go, but they are particularly interesting in Norway, where women could get a divorce a thousand years ago. That is not normal in the world, it's special and that makes it interesting. So it's like, sure, we're great men. And then what?
@@jeschinstad 100% agree! :)
The name viking comes from the Swedish word Vik which means roughly 'long shallow coast'. Which was the vikings main defense as their boats were very shallow going and thus could be boarded basically from a beach.
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Honestly most Europeans probably think of anything after the Napoleonic wars as "modern history".
So 1814 and onwards...
More like 1750-ish.
A third of the population "in the first year"*** in total around 2/3 of the population died during the plague, and Norway lost it's written language due to most of the people that could write had died. A common norwegian last name is "ødegård" which means "desolate farm" as people moved into abandoned farms and didn't know the real name because everyone was dead, names of farms were usually used as last names at that time.
As a Canadian I thought it cool for an American to learn so much about my country. Not gonna lie, I also learned a lot LOL! This country is so big, it's hard to casually see it all. Anywho, I'm glad you're moving on to other cool countries. We all learn together and it's fun!
12:05 - Man...I think you need to dive a little deeper into what the Vikings did with England and Scotland..... I think that a lot of your thoughts here are MUCH closer to reality than you are aware of. Things you need to check out is
...where do you think "Anglo" in "Anglo Saxon" comes from?
...check out how "RUSsia" was formed in the Viking age.
...and check out when the Vikings briefly visited America...long before Columbus.
Don't forget France and Normandy. Even Naples in Italy.
Danes and other scandinavians did conquer large parts of the brit islands and held a large part it was called Danelaw, fact english still have about 700 words derived from scandinavian dialects.
the angles weren't vikings, nor were they from scandinavia
@@barnsleyman32 If you look at a map the "Angles" extend well into current day Denmark. But they were mostly from northern Germany.
Norwegian here and our history is definitely a fascinating one! Also, my hometown of Bergen (Norway''s second biggest city) got mentioned at 14:40 although it was during a very scary time for those who lived back then and got hit with the black plague. Still, it's a mention nonetheless and the harbour in our city has strong historical ties to Germany and the warfare back then. Great reaction video, it made me sub to your channel! :)
Greetings from Stavanger, Bergen is a great city
Norway fell apart after the black death and became a part of Denmark for 500 years.
Greetings from Asker. Bergen is a fantastic city, but has a little too much rain.
Norway is still a monarchy to the present day.
the official title of our country is still to this day The Kingdom of Norway too
In practice the norwegian monarchy has no real power but has a huge symbolic impact.
All new laws declared by the norwegian parlament has to go through the king. The king has a veto power to deny signing in new laws but it has only been used 2 times in history and everyone agreed at the time. If the king uses his veto power the parlament kan just remove the king so the power is purely symbolical.
@@alexander90able the parlament can just remove the king without the peoples support, but it would be career-suicide. Around 80ish % of the younger generations are for monarchy, and to even change the constitution you need 2/3 of the parlament to agree ( which has never even gotten close to that target after several attempts).
Did you know theNorwegian vikings discovered America loooong before Columbus
It was Leiv Eiriksson he was from island
Norway the brother country greeting from Denmark 🇩🇰🍺
'Vik' means 'inlet' or 'harbour'. From 795 AD sea raiders from the harbours - therefore called 'Vikings', of Norway, Denmark, and Sweden, brutally raided a great deal of Europe, later settling in some areas. We English at first drove them off, then later were conquered by Canute the Great of Denmark. By a fluke the English monarchy resumed in 1042.
Some Vikings sailed down the great Russian rivers to the Black Sea. There they met an Empire, based on Constantinople ( now Istanbul, Turkey). The Roman Empire had never died out in the East, although it became more Greek than Latin, and at this stage is usually referred to as the 'Byzantine' Empire, after the old name of Constantinople, Byzantium. Their Emperors found the Vikings physically very impressive, and hired them as their Imperial Guard. This is what Harald Haardrada had been doing, which is here mentioned.
Knútr or Knut, not Canute ;)
@@91NSXno60 English speakers can't say 'kn'-sound so Knut or Knud would be pronounced "nute", which is just all kinds of wrong. That's why they put the 'a' in Canute. To make the pronunciation more accurate. Although I would argue that 'Kenute' would be a better approximation of the sound.
You can say the viking age is the period the northern people realized it was profitable to loot e.g churches and open the sails to see the world. They settled down in various islands, looted and traded with people. They started as a farmer society and the leaders/small kings("høvdinger") were big farmowners, even had several farms, and protected their people if they were loyal. Sometimes the small kings or represetants of a farm/village would meet at a "ting" to judge e.g a criminal. (Women could also come). The vikings were also interested in making relationships. Which are one of the reasons Norway later became Christianized. After Norway became one, they later made an union with Danmark and Sweden. Then the black death happened (killed almost all of the nobility) and in the Danmark-Norway union, Danmark decided Norway was too weak to be it's own country and was redused to a territory instead. 400 years later the Napoleon's wars happened and Danmark choose to fight with France. When Napoleon lost, it was decided that Norway should become a part of Sweden instead. Before the sweds arrived, were the Norwegians ablr to make a constitution 17.may 1814 and declared themselves as an independent state. (You should search: 1814 christian fredrik norway, for a fun backstory of the constitution). Ofc the sweds were not happy and the Swedish army came. Luckily a compremise happened and Norway were allowed to keep their constitution and the staus as an "independant state" while in an union with Sweden. In 1905 the Sweden-Norway union ended. Norway was neutral in ww1, but was dragged into the ww2 war and was unwillingly occupied by the nazis.
(There are more history, but I'm too lazy to write in more or in more detail)
Other stories worth searching about is the Norwegianization ("fornorsking")
Norway is possibly the only country in the world that has plundered England more than the other way' round
Denmark. That would be Denmark, we carved out half of England for our own personal kingdom for over a hundred years. However our norwegian brothers were very active in Scotland and Ireland
@@martinjacobsen2992 True!
Loved that comment.....always fun to have a beer with the brits! Love from Norway!
@Martin Jacobsen Well I think we can call it a collaboration.
check out some of the ww2 videoes on norway, very interesting and im loving the videoes from you. a american willing to learn about our country is rare but always a nice suprise
Some interesting scenarios played out here in WW2 for sure. As a resident of Rjukan I might be biased though :D
Good to see you are educating yourself which is awesome. It’s does make me realise how out looking our (UK) education system is as we were taught all this at school so some of the terms eg Scandinavia we just know and always have
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A union doesn't mean that the participating kingdoms are *unified* just that they're in a *union* under the same king.
You are most likely daily using something “from” the Viking age.
They mention king Harald in the video that united Norway and Denmark. His full name was Harald Blåtand (in English Harald Bluetooth). If you look at the bluetooth symbol on your phone you will find that it is a combination of the runes for H and B, initials for Harald Blåtand.
By the way; Vikings from Denmark did conquered England and ruled there for a while.
Curious to know why you chose Norway to learn more about? Not that Im complaining, its fun to watch you react to stuff we grew up learning about in school, and get your perspective on it.
Norway basically elected to have a monarchy when we gained our independence in 1905, thus unlike most other nations our constitutional monarchy is actually a democratic decision.
Og den nye kongen iUK eropkalt etter den Danske prinsen Norge valgte som konge i 1905.
You should do a video on the norse mythology. Itll blow your mind how crazy it is. :)
To clarify the loss of lands:
We lost lands in Sweden (Bohuslän, Jämtland, Herjedalen), Iceland and the Faroe Islands to Denmark.
In other words, they stole from us, but never made up for it.
In 1814 when Norway split from Denmark after more than 400 years, the lawmakers had simply forgotten their history and that Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands had entered into the Kalmar Union as a part of the Norwegian empire and not as a part of Denmark, therefore they were not “given” back to Norway when the split became official. Had they remembered, I wonder if the islanders would have wanted to remain a part of Denmark, Norway or to gain their independence the same time as Norway did (well, at least to some degree - sorry Sweden)
@@ladythalia227 Yeah, well, that was lands that got lost in to Danish hands, Sweden also took land from us, at least we got Trøndelag back.
Well Iceland used to be its own free state before Norway "forcefully" (using the local families/chiefs to battle each other) took it over. But Norway seems to have treated Icelanders better than the Danish so perhaps it would have been better to be a part of Norway than Denmark.
@@MrPicky Yeah, we can at least agree that Danish are the worst, even Sweden was better, towards us at least.
Just be glad that the British or Dutch didn't occupy you.
@@Carlium Yep, totally agree!
Gange-Rolv ,Göngu-Hrólfr a Viking ,was given the area of Normandie in France. His grandson Wilhelm conquered England in 1066, and became king over England and his successors are the origin of the English throne today. Gange means walking, he was given this name because he was so big that he couldn’t sit on an islandic horse
This was amazing! Really interesting to watch, I hope we’ll see more reactions to other countries history 😊❤
Thanks for being interested and open like that, I enjoy seeing you learn new things :)
An interesting information is when Norway and Sweden, which had been united into one country since the beginning of the 19th century, became two separate states again in 1905, there were no acts of war between the countries, which is unusual.
Fjords are long and narrow inlets, but they don't have to have steep sides. There are different shapes, but the most famous and Picturesque fjords have steep sides.
You should check out the similarities between the Norwegian language and English. It might surprise you that you already know and use a lot of old Norwegian words.
Remember, most borders in the last 1000-2000 years have changed countless times and countless (civil) wars were also to blame for these changes.
I'm someone who is is an American, who loves history especially Norway. Not all Americans are what you claim to be. I personally love my documentary..all of the history I can i will learn. 😀 don't glump me with someone who knows nothing about Norway when I love learning about all the Scandinavians 😀
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Essentially both the Normans and Norwegians where invading in 1066, and if the wind direction had been different and the Normans had arrived first history might have been very different.
But as it is, the Brits defeated the Norwegian army but was defeated by the Normans after a forced march south to face them.
i love the little "aaah" what an american hear about old timey taxation from a foreign nation
Love your videos. Cheers from Norway 🇳🇴
Oh fun, this channel looks like one of many I've seen of Americans discovering Norway, becoming fascinated by it and visiting us. Upon visit realizing it's amazing in person too and moving here. Well on behalf of all Norwegians you are welcome whenever you choose to move here.n
Countries didn't really exist in the Viking age, but the western parts of Scandinavia went to Britain and France and beyond, I believe vikings controlled at least half of what is now England at one time.
The eastern Vikings, what is now Sweden, went east, to Russia and Turkey, I've read that they went as far as to Siberia.
The Swedish Vikings were called "Rus", which is sometimes told to be the reason why Russia is called Russia.
In what is now Ukraine, the Swedish Vikings, there called Kievan Rus, were called in to take power, since they didn't have a strong enough defence or ruler, or something like that.
Fun fact: Fjord, Troll and Ski are all norwegian words which the english language has "borrowed", also, Norway is still a Kingdom and a Monarchy BUT also a Democracy, with out royal family holding more of a cultural meaning than a political meaning now adays, though our king still has a right to demand a full veto. When the Nasiz attacked they actually tried to get us to come over to their side and give outselves up politically, and even when the state were concidering saying yes, the king for the first time in hundreds of year used his Veto right to deny any form of complying with the Nasiz and so we faught them. This is also the last time since then the veto right of the king as been used.
Also, it was the People of Norway, Sweden and Denmark who were the viking people.
The video you watched failed to mention anything about the Sami (indigenous) people of norway, sweden and denmark, and how much they influenced norway in the viking ages. Harald Finehair (Harald Hårfagre) was for example married to one. And that the sami also taught the vikings shipmaking and such. And how the relationship between the norwegians and the sami people evolved into racism and discrimination, how they were forced to become more like norwegians and renounce their own culture.
We of the sami people aren't from Denmark, and you forget to mention that we are also from the northern part of Finland and a bit of Russia
Harald Hardråde who died at Stamford Bridge is almost a side note in history lessons for British school kids but he lived an incredible life and he's considered 'the last of the vikings', whatever that means, and his death marked the end of the Viking age
Betty White talks about St. Olaf ALL THE TIME in the the Golden Girls. Now I know why. She tells the dumbest/funniest stories... worth watching a highlight reel on your own time of for the channel.
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Norway did not take part in WW1 or the Crimean war, but traded with both sides in both wars leading to the death of many Norwegian sailors in our merchant fleet.
Ref 11:35
History did change because just a week later "William the Conqueror" invaded from what is now France and the English kings army was already severally weakened by the battle at Stamford Bridge and the forced march down to the south. Neither one off these two battles probably would not have succeeded on their own, but when it happened in the span of just a few days the English army lost.
you should watch Geograhy now Norway ! It is a channel that makes geography of different countries. :)
Yes my Norwegian great grandfather was from a ship building family. After visiting Australia as a ships Captain he then emmigated and married a woman he met on his first trip.
Harald the hairfair unified norway by force according to the icelandic sagas. It is mentioned as one of the main reason iceland was settled. Some didn't want to submit to his power.
In June 1905 Norway had an referendum where the people got to choose between creating a republic or a democratic monarchy, where 78,94% of the people wanted a monarchy. So the Danish Price Carl became King Haakon VII of Norway. Today his grandson is King Harald V of Norway. All the kings that has been on the throne since 1905 has been named after Norwegian viking kings.
Hello, Quantum, I see you have taken the trouble of putting in prince Carl instead of Christian Frederik, so now what you have written seems absolutely right! It might call for my deleting my comment, but I'll just leave it as it was anyway (below), as it still has some informational value.
By the way: When Danish prince Carl was first asked would he take on being king of Norway, he said he would be sorry to leave his work as a Danish naval officer, but he would do it IF he would thereby do Norway a service. (The story is that the Norwegian representation in Copenhagen asked would he please come and see them, and he just got on his bike and biked over and asked them what did they want to talk about. - This in central Copenhagen anyway, not far.) Then there were some rather vocal Norwegian voices calling for republic. Prince Carl therefore said that he demanded to know the opinion of the people. So he was the one who called for a referendum. When it turned out as it did, that gave him a very strong position, of course. - Princess / Queen Maud was glad to go to Norway, preferred that to central Copenhagen, although they had been spending a lot of their time in Britain. Maud had as a youngster been known as a tomboy, and in Norway she liked skiing - wore long skirts when skiing too, and got better at it than king Haakon.
I originally wrote:
A mix-up about the year here: Christian Frederik was the Danish prince chosen to be throne pretender of Norway in 1814 (he was king for some months in 1814 but had to yield to Sweden). In 1905 Norway chose Danish prince Carl, a younger brother of prince Christian, who in 1906 became crown prince of Denmark. Prince Carl was a working naval officer and married to Maud, the daughter of the British king Edward VII. He took the name Haakon (name of several Norwegian kings in mediaeval times), and they gave their son Alexander the old kingly Norwegian name Olav (also from kings of the middle ages). Haakon's sister was actually married to a Swedish prince (also by the name of Carl), whose daughter Märtha later married the Norwegian crown prince Olav (i.e her first cousin). So the Swedish dynasty Bernadotte has continued to be represented on the Norwegian throne after all. (Actually the Norwegian crown was first offered to Swedish prince Carl, but king Oscar would not permit it. He was very hurt by Norway breaking away, and deemed the claim to independence to be unconstitutional / illegal (quite right), but did us the incomparable service of NOT making war on us. His son prince Carl, though, was rather in favour of war for a while.)
- Yes, quite right, almost 80% of Norwegian voters went for monarchy in 1905, and it has served the country extremely well. Haakon and Maud were very well connected and brought us important alliances in political Europe, something of very great concern (just look at all the constellations, rivalries, wars in Europe over several hundred years).
- But the Swedish kings from 1814 to 1905 had served us well too; Norway has nothing to complain about. It is very doubtful whether we had the economic basis to be independent in 1814, and Danish prince Christian Frederik later became a very conservative king in Denmark. The Swedish crown prince in 1814 was actually ADOPTED, for political reasons and chosen by the Swedish political establishment; they 'electrified' Europe by choosing one of Napoleon's ablest generals, Jean Baptiste Bernadotte! He became king Carl XIV Johan of Sweden and Norway when king Carl XIII died in 1818.
- In global politics most things can happen, but the relations between the Nordic countries (Scandinavia plus Finland and Iceland) have developed in such a good way that war between them is today unthinkable.
@@marianneskanland310 I'm sorry, i mixed up prince Carl and Christian Frederik.
But i give a round of applause and bow down for that summary! Amazing job 👏😄
@@quantumfairing2216 Glad you liked it! You give me too much credit, though. Much of what I know about those historical issues is simply school learning, remembered from way way back when I was young, and some of it has been sort of present in my lifetime or of general interest in my lifetime. I am not a historian and I often don't remember or I make mistakes, certainly more serious than Prince Christian Frederik vs Prince Carl.
- In my youth I studied some anthropology, in New Zealand, actually, so I sat in Auckland and read about the archaeology of Europe, among other places Ertebølle (cf another comment of mine in this thread, about the ice age etc). I certainly visited it some years ago when I had a holiday on Jutland in Denmark. It increases one's sense of history. In social anthropology, marriage and descent systems and hence genealogies were thought simple and elementary, but I always liked it! One reason why royal genealogies are interesting, is that it is often possible to know very much about the individuals, whereas the ordinary Tom, Dick and Harry of ancient times remain ghostlike.
- So why do I comment about such topics to these "Americans React" videos? Well, it is interesting to see these cheerful young Americans taking an interest, but maybe I tend to get too teacherish. Tyler here remarks that the American school system may be nothing much on things like European history. I don't know, though, that our own history teaching in school is any better on American history. A friend who knows the USA well says that there is a lack of geography teaching in the American school system and that that is worse?
- I posted some comments similar to this one to a video-reaction by a different American, McJibbin: "American Reacts - Swedish Monarchs Family Tree". There, an interesting commentator posted, calling himself Crown Prince Sebastian Johan of Ponte Corvo. A question from me in a reply drew another posting by him, a very long and fascinating one about Bernadotte's career and possible aspirations in France and Sweden-Norway. The name given by the commentator himself brings to mind another interesting family! You can find his and my comments in the thread if you like, and some meandering and chuckling I did about Ponte Corvo and Murat in a comment I wrote which starts "Hello again, Connor." It was history coming close - at least for fun.
I would actually recommend reacting to some more content about the 2011 terror attacks in Norway, it is such a moving topic with SO much interesting information that everybody should know of
Berserker does not mean "Angry man". It means Bear-pelt (status symbol).
The danes ruled england for years mixed with the english who moved to america.So it's your own history.
Harald Hairfair (or Harald Hårfagre, his actual name) actually united Norway
One of the reasons behind Germany actually invading Norway during WWII, was the 'Altmark Incident', which took place 16-17 February 1940. What happened was that the German tanker 'Altmark' entered Norwegian waters, and was, unknown to Norwegian authorities, carrying around 300 British POWs. Unfortunatly, the British had their suspicions, and demanded that they be allowed to inspect the tanker, only to be denied by Norway as Norwegian officials had already inspected the ship, and failed to discover any prisoners.
Still, the British decided to ignore Norway, and boarded Altmark on the eve of February 16th, at which point the Altmark had ran itself aground in an attempt ram HMS Cossack.This resulted in the discovery of the POWs, and the deaths of 6-8 German sailors. Norways failure to defend its neutrality, with Britain ignoring the neutrality of Norway and Germany ignoring prohibitions against the transport of prisoners in Norwegian waters, became an argument for invasion, for both the Allies and Germany. In fact, the Altmark Incident became the final agrument for the German invansion of Norway, due to the Germans no longer believeing that their merchant ships transporting iron ore from Norway would be safe.
Norway never officially capitulated in world war 2. the King, his family, and the government fled Norway and went to Britain. From there they continued resistance against Germany.
If you ever wonder how far Vikings reached, you can find runic inscriptions in Haga Sofia in Istanbul
I live in a pretty cheap boat that's 26 feet long. The ocean has always been the friend of the Scandi.
Kind of nuts that I'm here at the beginning of this channel that has 9 subscribers, I assumed you'd have many thousands already and I am sure you will
Almost 1000 now.
Norway, Sweden and Denmark are the lands of the Vikings. Several of them also settled in Iceland, the Orkney Islands, Shetland and in England. The Vikings from Norway with King Leif Erikson went to America and traded with the natives several hundred years before Christoffer Columbus.
Our Viking king Olav den hellige Christianized Norway. Previously, we believed here in the Norse mythology with the gods Thor, Odin and Frøya.
Norway and the Vikings invaded England several times, took home gold, wealth, prisoners etc. but were eventually defeated.

The Vikings took slaves on their raids in the British Isles and Eastern Europe. They kept slaves, but also traded them for goods and gold.
Yup, we were under Danish reign from 1537-1814. 1814 is when we established our own constitution, on May 17th, which we still celebrate. The union with Sweden was a consequence of a tradeoff between Sweden and Denmark, and it ended June 7th 1905.
What we call the black death here in Norway, is commonly called the bubonic plague in the UK. When I went to school in the 80´s, it was all blamed on the black rats who they thought spread it, and the brown rat, in latin "Rattus Norvegicus" was entitled with the annihilation of these black middle-eastern rats, and more or less famously stopped the plague this way. Nowadays, scientists calculate that the spread was more likely to be done by humans, as rats would not travel that far, so fast. They would more likely establish in one location and breed until food was so scarce they would need to spread.
Looking at the map of the "Kalmar union" - you can see that parts of modern day Finland, Iceland, Greenland and the Faroe Islands were included. However, not all of modern day Sweden and Norway, in the North is included.
Now, Scandinavia, you ask - what´s that? You should read a little more than the first line on Wikipedia - the name originates from the Scandinavian peninsula, which includes Norway, Sweden and a little bit of northwestern Finland. Denmark is usually included, and Finland excluded. This has to do with languages and politics throughout the history. Scandinavians in the most commonly used sense, all understand eachother across language barriers. At least decently.
There is this show called Beforeigners and random people from the past showed up in our future. Its so funny seeing Olav Trygvasson eating kebab with this plastic fork on the gas station.
Many americans are (excuse my English) very high on yourselves. But very polite. 😊 I have visited America twice, once on a cruise in the Carribean, and once in Florida.
Americans in Minnasota know almost everything about Norway. Since there is almost just as many Norwegians living there as in Norway. There is also a show about Norwegian-Americans come and compeat in Norwegian stuff for many many years.
Ideas: you can listen to norwegian music, taste norwegian food, travel to norway, watch a video om norwegian culture, nature etc
from 950 to about 1250, the Vikings were the emperor's bodyguard, we called Constantinople for Miklaborg = Gold city
Norwegian here. My cousin is American and just passed the Norwegian Citizen Test! :D
Viking is tecnikly a profedsion or vork title. When the cheften, jarl, Earl whatever, gathered a raiding party and set off to foregiean lands in their longboats it is called to go viking
The name Stamford Bridge is one with great significance in English history, having been the site in Yorkshire of a successful battle against the Vikings in 1066, immediately prior to defeat by the Normans at the Battle of Hastings.
However the naming of Chelsea Football Club's stadium is all about local landmarks rather than conquest from abroad.
"Stamford Bridge" is considered to be a derivative of "Samfordesbrigge" meaning "the bridge at the sandy ford". Eighteenth century maps show a "Stanford Creek" running along the route of what is now a railway line at the back of the East Stand as a tributary of the Thames.
Fun fact Chelsea FC is not located in the part of London called Chelsea but in the neighbouring borough of Fulham. Fulham FC have their football ground on the banks of the Thames.
Just listen to the videos, you don't need to repeat the talking points 17 times :p
Actually later estimates puts the figures for the Black Death up to 50-60% and it changed Norwegian society for ever. Ironically, it provided better living conditions and more freedom for the ordinary farmer, as the state all but collapsed, and tax collecting became a flimsy thing. Some trace the Norwegian independence-culture and equality mindset stems from the centuries after the Black Death, when the Norwegian Nobility became extinct/migrated/intermarried into the Swedish/Danish nobility.
Hello Tyler Walker! Nice to meet you 👋. I’ll follow your channel, because I really like your American accent.
Between 1820 and 1920 alot of Norwegian emigrated to America. Actually, its more citizens with Norwegian heritage living in USA today, than there is citizens in Norway. Norwegians where popular in America for their carpenter skills
Vikingr refers to a person, viking refers to an activity, like sailing in viking. War, looting pillaging trips..
Love your curiosity! Only way to get knowledge.
Scandinavia is named after the mountain ridge that makes up the Norway/Sweden border.
Danmark owned big part of england in the viking age....
If you grew up in Minnesota as a Scandinavian you DO know all about Norway and Sweden.
A Danish colleague told me some 25 y ago about his exchange student year in the US and
and the serious and humble asked question he got from another student.
"What about Vikings. Do they have like [Indian] reservations and things like that?"
11:15 yep! Most of middle and Northern England was ruled by Scandinavian, mostly Danish, folk for centuries. It left its mark on the culture and language to this day. It is interesting to see what might have happened if the Battle of Stamford Bridge had gone the other way. The Normans would still have invaded in the South and with no English king to lead an army to fight them, would have likely got to London unopposed. So we'd have had England divided between Norman rule in the South and Norwegians in the North. As opposed to the Normans taking over the entire country. That's a very different timeline. Means England might never have unified, different rulers in the North, probably no British Empire and no USA as we know it.
Fun fact norway lasted longer than france in ww2
King Harald Fairhair took the previous kings as Jarls who continued to rule their land, but under him.
Norway and Dane vikins, occupied Enland and Scotland a few times. And raided all around Europe, etc. And was often payed really well as merceneries for different empires .
He unified Norway, his name is Harald Hårfagre, im from that city :) We`ve got a monument build as three words
The Viking era is basically Scandinavia(Norway mostly, but also Sweden and Denmark) in the period 799-1066.
The battle of Stamford bridge in 1066 actually marks the end of the viking age. Also interesting was that only two weeks later the normandie guys succesfully invaded England. Imagine if the vikings waited the attack by 15-16 days.
We are also a subtle people. Good examples are how the vikings called Constantinopel "Miklagard", which translates to "big farm" and it had a million citizens and how this history video do not mention the norwegian that most likely discovered America, Leif Erikson. :D
great video, important history!
Thank you! As a decedent of one of the petty queens, I thank you.
The city I live in is more than a thousand years old. There is a lot of history here.
Interestingly, we have had a dyad in the force. And a triad, meaning both two kings and three, at the same time. Around the time of the Norwegian Crusade (the 2nd), Sigurd the Crusader ruled with his two brothers until they died. Before being proclaimed King of Norway, Sigurd was styled as King of the Isles and Earl of Orkney. He returned to Norway from Jerusalem in the year 1111.
Norway successfully invaded England many times, first in 793 Lindisfarne. The University of Oxford was attacked and sacked 3 times. There are many other figures and countless raides on England, but not only by Norwegians. For instance Cnut(Canute) the Great, a Dane, was King of England from 1016, King of Denmark from 1018, and King of Norway from 1028 until his death in 1035 You should watch Vikings and The Last Kingdom.
Speculum Regale, or Konungs skuggsjá , Kongespeilet from 1250 or so comes recommended
I think 40% of the land of norway which Denmark seized is mainly Iceland and Greenland
Great video!Can you react to norwegian prisons??You will be surprised when you see what it is like..Have a great day!😊
Yeah. Check out "Halden Prision" . It will blow your mind😂
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Trondheim. Are won of de five Bigset citis in norway
There was no British army in 1066 (Battle of Stamford Bridge). It was English. Scotland and England were separate countries. (Britannia had been a Roman Province roughly equivalent to present-day England.) The Romans gave up on Caledonia (Scotland).
The Norse (future Norwegians) colonised a lot of Scotland (Orkney, Shetland, the Hebrides, and the west and far north of Scotland) and the Danes occupied the eastern two-thirds of England under Canute, who ruled England, Denmark and Norway. The occupied part was called the Danelaw, and the rest of England had to pay Danegeld (protection money).
The first British encounter with Scandinavians was in the Monastery of Lindisfarne (793), which was sacked and looted, and half the monks killed, the other half being sold into slavery.
Bysatin would be Turkey today.. so there was no flight.. took some time to travel..
Viking was an occupation... Thus you went viking which could be, piracy, pillaging, war or simply trading.
We did invade and did control England for 100 years. Because of us you speak correctly
I am from northern part of Norway ... ;) the best part
To be clear, Scandinavia is a peninsula on which you'll only find Norway and sweden, Denmarks is more of a hang-around..
I aqually learnd bout my Heritage too in this movie :)
If you like the history of Norway then you should also check out the history of Sweden