Day Trip to Roskilde, Denmark!!
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- Опубліковано 7 сер 2022
- We took a day trip to Roskilde and visited:
- Roskilde Cathedral - roskildedomkirke.dk/english/
- Viking Ship Museum - www.vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/en/
- Bonus - We sailed out in the harbor on one of the ships at the museum!
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Lady, the Danish Vikings were the most Viking of them all - they were considered the most powerful military and political force among the Northerners and their influence on western Europe is well documented. In fact, most of what we know about Vikings today comes from the Danish Vikings. It was mostly the Danish Vikings who raided the Brits and settled in Britain - this Viking territory became known as the Danelaw.
I’m not sure Norwegians would agree with all those statements.
@@camp4600 We were same country for many occasions. Lets not talk about human made borders. We are the same people living near each other on the same planet.
Yes but ever since the Viking Show everyone thinks Vikings are from Norway. But yes it is true Norwegian Vikings took some small Islands and the Swedish Vikings went into Russia. The Danish Vikings (no borders were defined at that time) took most of England. Vikings are like 99% Danish. It also stems from the Cimbr and the Teutons that most likely originated from Jutland (Denmark). The Norwegian effort to change history about the Vikings are futile. Vikings at their best is Danish warriors
@@traver1965 to be fair to our nordic brothers saying that vikings are 99% danish is not true. the norwegians settled the shetland islands ,faroe islands, iceland, greenland and discovered north america. also they were active in ireland founding the citys of waterford and dublin. they along with the swedes also participated in several attacks on england. the swedes gave name to modern day russia as one of their leaders was called rus. also danes and norwegians traved to russia and ukraine. try youtubing evidence of vikings in south america by robert zepehr. they have found mummies of dogs from the danish island of als. so it turns out that perhaps king canute (knut) the great had sent a expensionaly force down there !!
Its crazy how much hollywood and pop culture has made vikings purely "norweigian", because the steroetypes are tall blonde moutain dwelling people... which is absolutely not true, Denmark history is seriously overlooked, ofcourse Norway also had vikings but they werent raiding like the danes, they kept most in norway and had wars inland, but ofcourse some of them set sail not for war but for exploring, my point is people think vikings are norweigian, when they in fact are a lot more Danish, sad what an inacurrate TV show can do..
You can also see a Greenland qajaq there. I am from the town of Nanortalik, which is friendship town with Roskilde.
Thank you for showing Roskilde nicely! Love my home city ❤
It is wonderful, we love it there. Such a cool place.
From the 11th century until 1443, Roskilde was the capital of Denmark. Before then, we had our headquarters in Jelling.
We should have mentioned this, thanks for sharing!
Wich seems odd... Jelling as a town (village?) doesn't seem like much these days. One would hardly imagine this once to be the seat of power in Denmark driving past these days. But it is worth the visit, great Museum, we really enjoyed our stay there!
Glem ikke Ribe :-)
@@85Vikingen Faktisk kan vi først tale om en egentlige hovedstad da den oprettes i København, flere byer havde tidligere stor og magtfuld betydning, som fx. Roskilde, Ribe, Viborg, Nyborg og Lund i det nuværende Sverige. Den primære årsag for vores "i tidligere tider" manglende hovedstad er at, kongen rejst rundt i landet og afholdte Danehof, inddrev skatter, afviklede domssager samt regerede landet sammen med "rigets bedste mænd"
@@ronjarverdatter8188 Dit skriv giver ikke mening. Der skal nok lige rettes lidt i det 😊
Aw man, I work at the museum and I´ve sort of had my eye out for you guys all summer, and then you visit on my day off :( But still really nice to see that you had such a good time, and also fun to see a place that I go to every day and getting to recognize all my colleagues
Bummer, sorry we missed you!
Wonderful to see Miranda in center and absolutely beaming with joy.
In too many early videos she was just Josh's sidekick and would get interrupted and talked over by Josh all the time.
More Miranda please!.
Danes were the most vikings. People often think it was the norwegians because of tv-shows like Vikings. But in truth, the danes did most of the raiding, most of the famous vikings were danes, most of the sagas are danish or about danish vikings. They were in Britain, france, the netherlands, they took Paris.
Yes, makes sense. Darn TV shows!
"First we take manhatten, then we take Berlin" Leonard Cohen.
Well the Norwegians had a better Publicity Agency! And the vikings in Normandy mostly came from Denmark!
I think the main reason is that people confuse "Norsemen" with "Norwegians". Which does make some sense, since Norwegians in the Scandinavian Languages are literally called Nordmænd - Northmen.
Fun fact. My great grandfather was the one to set up the new Margretespir (or Margrete Spire) after the original was damaged beyond repair
Hi me being a dane my self im verry happy you guys really wanna go out to the world and share our country couse its a country thats almost overseen by anyone so keep up the good work :)
Not by us germans... we are right now in Hvide Sande on the west coast... it would be fair to say you have a bit of a german invasion going on here (we have more german neighbors here than back home in germany).
Lots of swedes and norwegians, dutch as well. And quite a lot more italians than the last few years.
For me, denmark is one of the places i have to drag all my friends to... once they were here they want to come back. I love it here and i really don't want to go home.
Nice of you to visit my home town - since 1951!
😂😂😂😂😂😂 thank you for a fun and beautiful video
I’m glad you had a wonderful time in Roskilde again 🙏🏻🙏🏻
way back when i lived in the states i was told that most vikings came from norway. in reality back in them there viking days denmark had the biggest population of the 3 scandinavian countries accounting to statistics cirka 50%; norway and sweden around 25% each. whenever they make viking movies they always portray the beautiful norwegian fjords because it fits so well the ruggedness of the viking image. in reality not many crops grow on steep mountain cliffs . so boring flat denmark rarely gets any mention !! ragnar lothbrok and his sons were all danes. about 2 years ago i saw the results of an english dna research on the angle saxons. the angles came from what was then southern denmark , but i always considered the saxons to be german. it turns out that they also where danish, not german. that was really surprising. the latest viking movie staring nicole kidman called the northmen which was about the story of amleth / hamlet was about danish vikings. in reality amleth lived on the small island of mors situated in the limfjord around 500 years or so prior to the viking age . i haven't seen it ,but was told it was filmed alot in iceland which again doesn't look much like denmark.also the teutones and cimber tribes were among the first to attack the roman empire around that time as well. they came from himmerland in the central part of jutland.
Really interesting!
Hil hil great story thank you 😊
Jeps, it's all true! 🇩🇰
You’re right. Amled/Amleth supposedly lived on the little island Mors, and, again supposedly, around the “Feggeklint” area where the castle was supposed to be.
I don’t think that there have been any archeologic excavations around the area but this shouldn’t stop an interesting story.
Prince Amled/Amleth is supposed to be buried in an old bronze age grave hill close to the small village “Ammelhede” which is situated just outside Randers, close to the road to Grenå.
ua-cam.com/video/M6Y5HqK0-GA/v-deo.html
@@kasperkjrsgaard1447 never ruin a great story with facts!
I just went there myself about a week ago. I got to be the leading oarsman port side, so everybody else had to follow my rhythm on that side. It also meant that I got to be one of the guys setting the sail by pulling the robe to raise it. All in all great fun and I do recommend that people try it, if they get the chance.
Super cool video. Loved that you guys went on the boat and got to sneak a bit of video of it.
Btw there’s a medieval festival happening in Horsens Jylland on the 19-20th of August. This is the first proper one after the whole Covid shut down.
I am glad you visited the viking ship museum - I normally visit at least once a year, quite easy as I live only 60 km away.
Loved the music score. Pirates of Roskilde Fjord 😄 Awesome!
Thanks for a really nice video from Roskilde. The boats where fund 20 km.north of Roskilde at a narow part of the Fjord.
You are out in the field, video on location, my favorite kind of your videos
Have you looked at the Viking history in Sweden they used to take long boats down river through what is Russia to the cells east I think you might find a great interest for a video as well
It's one of the oldest cities in Denmark. The beautiful cathedral on the top of the hill in the centre of the city is visible miles away (as far as 20 km) from all directions. Also Roskilde has a lot of water springs quite close to the cathedral (10 or 12 - it used to be more than 22 in the middle ages). That is the highest number of springs of any city north of the Alps. And Roskilde has several other churches. One of them - Sct. Jorgensbjerg Church near the habour was built around 1080 with some parts dating as far back as year 1040.
And Roskilde literally means the Spring of Roar/Hroar/Ro (legendary king)
I was born and raised in Roskilde. Lived close to the Viking ship museum and often played by the harbor and the museum. (now lives in Kbh N) In 1980 I was confirmed in Roskilde Cathedral, there were so many of us confirmed that we filled the whole church, it was a very special experience. (April 13, 1980, I was 13 years old)
So was I, but in the year 2000. Me an my family was seated at the left on the second row, so we had double seats :)
Roskilde is my favourite city in Denmark :) I lived in Trekroner for a while and loved walking into roskilde, also went to boserup forest alot for the 5km walking route ;)
I think the Margethe the 1 is the most awesome ome. She might have been the most awesome ruler in Scandinavia. I am from a town called Sorø. Margrethe was buried here but the crazy dudes in Roskilde kidnapped her. So much for dividing dead Kings and Queens.... Anyway I have been in Roskilde many times and the "aura" from the church is insane. It is like the whole of Denmark is buried here. I can highly recommed going to this church. It is very weird to be surrounded by 1000 years of royalti
Amazing video and amazing channel guys
Thanks so much!
You guys just seem to have so much fun whereever you go!👍
I loved the music from the Cathedral-video .....what was it?
Seems I need to add Roskilde on my itinerary, the vikingeskibsmuseet would most certainly scratch my itch.
You should, well worth it!
Roskilde is a great city...so much to see if you're a real history buff!
I enjoy being there, to do the exact same things...plus, I've been keeping an eye on how the work on Margrethe II's sarcophagus, is proceeding 🤔
hello from Hundested 🌸🌱
Amazing boat ride.. Seems pretty fun
Super fun!
@@TravelinYoung especially when you are not rowing ha.ha
Since the pre-viking age, Denmark ruled both presentday Norway ( indepent in 1814 ) and Sweden ( independant 1563 ) The Anglo-Saxon ( =England ) called the vikings - Danes, lived under Danelaw ( Danish Law ) and paid Danegeld. Why ? - because Denmark was the only country with enough forces to Conquer England. The “Norwegians” just exploring Ireland, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland and North America. The “Swedish” viking went east and establish Trading router to Istanbul. Danish vikings conquered England ( by Sven Forkbeard, Canute the Great etc ) And the Kings lived in Lejre , just outside Roskilde from 500 - 983 and when Harald Bluetooth made Christianity the official religion, he founded Roskilde in 983 and made it the new Christian Capital of Denmark ( and therefor also Capital of Scandinavian ) That is why it was important to protect Roskilde and sink the ships, now found in Roskilde vikingship museum. Beside written sources, the DNA scientist - Eske Willerslev also concluded this in a dna-study of 400 viking skeletons, in 2021.
Super interesting, thanks for sharing!
@@TravelinYoung its also why almost all Royal Monarchs are buried in Roskilde Cathedral. In Lejre, there is also a museum and you can actually walk into the remains of 6 vikings halls, escavated in the 1980’s. And around 1 km from this site, in Skjoldungernes Land, they have build a full scale replica of theese viking halls found in Lejre. Worth a trip. And just to make it full circle : Normandy, France ( = Northmans Land ) was established by the Danish viking - Rollo And his Great Great grandson - William the conquer, who conquered England 1066, due to his heritage after other Danish Kings of England, is the reason why the English Royals are in family with the Danish Royals.
@@TravelinYoung If you have ever wondered about the many deep similarities in basic vocabulary and grammar between English and the three very similar Scandinavian languages, that will often look like some weird form of older Pseudo (Middle) English at the basic level to the eyes of an English speaking person, this brilliant video from Langfocus about 'Viking Influence on the English Language" should be of great interest to you folks:
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This one is also well worth a watch: 😉
How the Vikings Changed the English Language
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Even today English is a fairly easy language for Danes and the other Scandinavians to learn because of these many deep similarities - as if we by sheer magic already know a simplistic older Germanic ( AS + ON ) core English in advance and mysteriously feel at home straight away ( not having to think very much, which is of course always a good thing 😉) - and then "just" need to fill in all the gaps and climb a few hurdles here and there - like the peculiar "Ungermanic" use in E of the word "do" and the use of "-ing" with word tenses to express the progressive mood.
So English is almost second nature to us - also because of massive influences from movies, TV-series and music etc. in recent decades -, whereas the German language with its complicated grammar still remains a big and scary mystery to most Scandinavians, who can typically only get along in German at the most basic level - or just give up straight away or don't bother at all.
@@jackieolsen7707 You mean William, not Edward 😉
@@Bjowolf2 correct
Welcome to my city
Tak!
I sense a "slight" Danish theme on Miranda's choice of nail polish. 👍
To me Vikings have always been a mixture of Swedish, Norwegian and Danish berserkers.
Swedes are only the spare Vikings 😂
My hometown ❤
Nice one to have :).
Yay i live here al my life most fantastic city ! :-D
Aaaaw you should've eaten on the Saga Fjord restaurant ship while you were there😬😄
Yeah, we didn't really eat anything. We grabbed food after we got back home. Would have been good to also get food and show that, I agree.
I too was married there :)
I bet it was incredible!
Elsker Roskilde - min fødeby. Tak for at vise lidt af den frem ❤️ Nu har jeg boet på Bornholm i 20 år. Her er også super skønt 😊
I live here, like 10 minutes away from Roskilde Cathedral.
good night-mazing channel. all the best!brother! 📹
As always, a good video guys! Miranda is shining - she is in her history-mode :) But as head of the Brisket-Should-Have-More-Moments-In-The-Young-Videos- Movement I have some concerns ... :)
Keep your wonderful work!
Thanks! Haha, yeah, he had to sit this one out. We need to find more activities where he can participate. He's just been chillin' lately.
Miranda, you look fantastic! 💜🌻
Did you see the fireworks at the Tall Ship Races in Aalborg? It was incredible
We didn't make it to Aalborg for the Tall Ship Races this year, but we plan to in the future.
heck you're 10 minutes from my house it would be fun if I just came down and said hello well i hope you had a good day down at the harbor it's a Nice place in Roskilde 👌
The ships you see in them museum was not found i the harbour...
They where lokated at Skuldelev, about 20 km north of Roskilde.
Roskilde ❤️
You know, you are quite good at this: Telling me, a dane, about sites in my own country. AND you're really nice people... :🙂
Sailing in a Viking ship must be a marvellous experience. :-) I have never had the pleasure, but a couple of years ago I created and published a comic book in which my heroine is aboard The Sea Mare (invented for the purpose) undercover, trying to arrest a wanted murderer, who is also aboard. Long story short: It all culminates across the Northern Sea during a storm. Plenty of drama, action, high waves and wet experiences. :-D
It is a blast!
Hey friends if is too late this year but your famili like vikings then you must writhe on your wall at home remember viking show in Frederikssund a fantastisk outdone show with story's from the old sagas login online from start June then you wil find it I am shout you will love it you go early you can eat on wiking maner on long table 😉 an see wiking juveleri an buy them me an my fameli doit almost every year you can go bihind the cene an see viking House 🏠 try it
It would be really nice to know where to find the beautiful and wonderful music that you use. As a musician, I can get quite obsessive sometimes about finding out whi made this or that fantastic track. Please do tell me who made the lovely music on this one! It is all very special and I know nothing about it! Yours truly.
Thanks! I use epidemic sound for the music in each video. Just depends on the mood and what I think feels right. So it’s a wide range of artists.
brother which camera you use for video?
try looking up this funny norwegian guy .his site is norse magic and beliefs - differences between norwegian,swedish and danish vikings. he a says the danes did most of it!! quite honest and a surprising statement coming from a norwegian !! he is very knowledgeable and amusing ; well worth watching !!
Brace yourself England the Youngs are comming!
Can’t believe you didn’t include Herslev Bryghus now that you were in that part of the country. Maybe a subject for another video?
We didn’t have time to visit that trip, but we did go for J-day waaaaay back in an early video about Christmas in DK back in 2020.
The boats in the museum are called "Skuldelev skibene" after where they were found. It is 30 km north of Roskilde, closer to Frederikssund. So you started out wrong.
They did find some viking ships, when the build the harbour for the reconstructed vikingships, bur none of them are on display.
And finaly - the ship you where sailing comes from the Faroe island. It is not a "real" vikingship. It dates, if I remember correct, from the late 1800. So it is the last type of longboat, that dates back to the viking longboat.
I look at this title and have a hard time not calling it "Rockslide"
If you place a piece of "thin" foam over the microphone of your smartphone, it will remove most of that annoying wind noise straight away.
If I am not mistaken, you can actually buy these mic hoods for some smartphones - or simply make your own ( just attach them with some double acting tape with a cut out hole, where the mic hole is 😉 ).
Yeah, we had a cover for it but it fell off and got lost just the other day. I was a bit surprised it made that much of a difference, but apparently it does! I ordered a pack of 40 online so I will always have backups now in case it gets lost in the future :).
@@TravelinYoung Phew! 😂
Yes, it is some sort of resonance phenomenon, like when you blow over the top of a bottle and produce a whistling tone.
I have a question. I have been to Roskilde 2 times, 1 time with Danish relatives by car. And 1 time by train on my 1st Denmark trip. Is it easy to get around Roskilde without a car?
Yeah, you can walk to most things pretty easily if you plan to stick around the parts of the parts of the city we show here.
@@TravelinYoung thanks, I only visited museum on my 2nd time in Roskilde. Worth a 2nd time when I return.
Hi, great video. I never did like the “Brutalism” architecture of the museum in Roskilde. Luckily it’s in bad shape, so I’m told, so maybe we’ll get something more impressive to look at in the future. They also have an extremely well preserved Viking ship in Norway called “Osebergskibet” from around 820.
I can't believe you didn't know, that the danes conquered and ruled England :-( ...........You see signs of the danes in place names ending with e.g. -thorpe -by -kirk.
Old danish word: York = town.
Boats really? Thin ice here, Youngs,calling them boats, hmph.
Haha…ship ship.
Josh! This is getting rather silly.
Just order a wind screen for your mics. 🙂
Ha we have them but the windscreen for mine fell off and we didnt know it until we were there. We have new fuzzy windscreens on the way! - M
"Best" tourist question ever - from an American (!) tourist to a Danish tour guide:
"So does your native Viking population live in reservations here in Denmark?" 🙄
I would have replied:
"Yes, of course they do - behind tall electrical fences for our protection, especially when the Viking men really go berserk and battle each others to the death during the autumn months over the Viking women ... " 😂
No they built a spaceship and left the earth and will come back one day and save us all
Not a lot of Viking discipline when rowing... 🤣
The present Viking King could claim a fleet of manned and armed warships from his Chiefs, named the "Leding", intended for war! And the Norwegian "Leding", and never claimed in full, was below 400 ships! According to Danish popular author and historian, Palle Lauring, the Danish Leding, and which was several times claimed in full during the attacks on England, was around 4000 ships!!! The last time a "full Leding" was gathered in Limfjorden, near the famous Aggersborg, ring-fortress, was by the unfortunate King, Knud d 4. Hellige (Saint!) in 1086, who could not decide when to start the attack. So he finally had to flee with a few of his loyal men and ended in, of all places, St. Albans Church in Odense, where he claimed Sanctuary by the Altar! But real Vikings didn't care about such nonsense, so he was killed in the church with his men! His bones, as also his Bishop, is to be seen in the church to this day!
One of the not so loved and repaired ships in the Ship Museum is supposed to have been one of the Leding ships, intended for the Kings asking for a fleet.
I think it is also the ship with the little carved "Dragon Head" in its side, as also on the reconstructed sailing ship!
I personally never understood the glorification of the vikings, they had some neat boats though :D
The boats are both awesome and seemingly unbearable to spend extended amounts of time on. Not sure how they did it!
@@TravelinYoung they had sore asses !!
Dude! How long have you lived her🤣? The "D" in "Roskilde" is silent, so it's "Roskile" 😊 ! Mr and Mrs Young😉. You need to know this stuff, to pass those frustrating languages classes. Denmark needs well educated folks like you, and Maya 😃 !!! Apart from that! As always! A FANTASTIC VLOG 👍!
Old Eng. brydhlop = wedding, litt. a bride leap ~
Dan. & Nor. bryllup,
Swe. bröllop.
Interesting fact:
The Ro(ar) in the name Roskilde [ros-keel*-le] ( Roar's Well or Spring, OE cwylla ! ) is according to legend the King Hrothgar of Beowulf fame, who was helped by his Geatish ("Swedish") kinsman and warrior Beowulf and his crew, when his kingdom was threatened by the dreadful monster Grendel, who was killing several of his men every night in and around the royal hall Heorot ( Hart / Hjort ).
So next time you may want to go to nearby Lejre ( or Lethre in older Dan. 😉 ), where these dramatic events are said to have taken place according to legend, and where there is an iron age etc. research center, which now even has a full scale replica of a huge royal iron age / Viking age hall (2020), based on the data from the archeological excavations of the remains of several such halls that have been discovered in that area in recent years - some of which even date from the right age ( c. 600 - 700 AD ).
So it would seem that there is at least some degree of historical thruth behind all these legends about the first (inofficial) kings ( Shieldings / Skjoldunger = descendants of King Shield / Skjold ) of at least the Eastern part of present day Denmark in their royal seat in Lejre.
sagnlandet.dk /en/denmarks-largest-viking-kings-hall/
lejremuseum.dk/en
It is definitely on my list to visit Lejre!
While it is believed that the ships in the museum were sunk to protect Roskilde, they were blocking the fjord about 20 km from the town.
da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuldelev-skibene
If ya ever come to Odense, the home of Hans Christian Andersen, I would enjoy meeting you. 28 year expat here in OD