3:30 We're actually legally required to remove snow from the roof of the car before driving. If you slam on the brakes with that chunk of snow on the roof it will become a projectile shooting forward, and even though snow seems pretty harmless it can cause MASSIVE damage
The grass roof is now mostly a traditional thing. But it is very effective as insulation, and require relatively little maintenance compared to other historical materials. And yes, it also looks amazing.
It's sod. Which insulates. Requires a sturdy building & rafters, but whole timbers takes care of that. First timbers, then planks, then a layer of birch bark , and finally the sod. 😊
Yes, we have these toilets as well 1:40 but most of them are closed. If they have open stalls it’s only 3-5 inches above the floor. Some older variants have more open stalls, but they are pretty rare today.
The American correction system is based on punishment. If a guy is sentenced for 20 years and is being punished every single day for 20 years, what kind of person is he gonna be when he gets out? That guy is gonna be your neighbor, so good luck with that.
Exactly, few people understand this. So usually they think, if you do a crime, you should be treated like an animal for all your time spent there as punishment. Sure, might be good and all when they are in prison, but then what? They do said sentence, get out, and have lost a bunch of opportunities to get back into a normal life (especially if growing up in a bad place to begin with). Be it completely broken mentally or that they can't get jobs and such since they are a convicted criminal. What do they do then? Go back to their old ways, and for the most part end BACK into prison. What logic is this? The fact is, no matter how naive the Norwegian prison system looks like from Americans or other countries with similar prisons, it works. The people going into prison usually stay out of prison. Heck, if they are lucky, they have actually gotten a better opportunity to become a better person or even educated before getting out again, and have a more normal life than they have ever had going in (bad upbringing, bad crowd etc).
I live in MALANGEN, and can confirm. That northern ligths picture is enhanced with color, and lights. The oilrig has hollow legs, and was floating in the water. Pulled by the boat ahead, and support-tugs. It is now secured to the bottom of the sea, and only visible from the narrowest part of the legs. The wintersunset is real. and the sunset lasts for around 1 hour... Some places, like in Malangen, we don`t se the sun for 13 week
And when you don’t win in the lottery, the «gambled» money mostly goes to the Norwegian Red Cross. In quite a few places there might also a box where you can put your ticket («pantelapp»), which then will support some local business.
I grew up Inn Finnskogen "The Finnish Forest". Where the treehouse cabin is. Yes, you can rent it. The Cabin is located in same municipality as the World Largest Toothpick, that you reacted to a couple of days ago. I've been thinking about making an English video about the Finnish forest. It's so much mysique and trolls and nuek and huldra there. Plus a very historic area.
@@TTDahl My mother's family is from Solør. Farming family from Arneberg. They have a seter in Finnskogen and everything. Lots of happy childhood memories from my summers there, Finnskogen, Flisa and my grandparents. 🤗
@Kari.F. oh how nice. My grandmother was a daughter of a finnish farmer in Posaasen and she married another farmer called Rokkerud.I have moved away 30km north to Elverum, and live there.
Slartybartfast got the award for the Norwegian coastline for a reason. But don't forget his special mention for New Zealand. :) (I've lived in both countries. ) Seigman and Seigdamer are great and I think they made Seigbabies for a while. I had to send a bag to a friend in the US because he didn't believe me they existed.
The Troll oil platform went in to Guinness Record book in 1996 as the largest object transported ever and also as the deepest concert place. No one have beat the moving object or concert record as of 2024. There were a band playing a concert 303 meter (~1000 feet) under water on the oil platform, another world record.
5:40 Still images don't really do it justice, because the Aurora Borealis (northern lights) are usually in motion and can range from barely noticeable (have you ever been driving at night - pitch black, and driven towards a town or city and there's an aura of light pollution or the light just kind of bounces off the clouds) to what you see in the picture... It's also not a nightly event - plus you have to remember that picture of the car with 2 meters of snow. There are a lot of cloudy and snow filled evenings... and shoveling. Thank god for snowblowers...
Ive seen that winter sunset and ive seen a sumemr version. I was camping with friends on an island in norway and we say tat sunset and the islands up ahead looked like balck clouds and it was beautiful
It's a reason i don't wanna too leave Norway for another country in the holidays. What's the point? Norway are one of the best country in the world for living, but also visit other city.
I know, but I think they can tone it back a bit and get the same results. Video games really aren't necessary. Do board games and book readings instead.
@Emperor_Nagrom The point is that life on the inside is supposed to mirror life on the outside, to make the rehabilitation easier on the mind of the inmate. It's a very simple, but very smart strategy.
I drive up and down Ekeberg every day, and some of the winter sunsets, when the sky is all red and orange, reflecting in the Oslo Fjord making the entire view orange, with the islands like black dots.❤
I celebrated my birthday at Preikestolen with a glass of whiskey 🥃🎉 and two friends from America who had never been to Norway before. That made the day so much more special. ❤ I got to show my American friends our beautiful country and share a beautiful memory. 🥰🇧🇻🇺🇲
How do you make gras grow on the roof?? Soil!! It's incredible. :) These days they have boards and plastic under it. Back in the days it was boards and birch bark. It's for isulation.
Actually it's a 'sperm-seed', a play by the artist on the nearby 'industries' that is an animal breeding station and the largest agriculture areas in the country.
The Oil platform u saw, is the biggest man made object that is moved on the ocean ; ) What u saw was when was finished and towed out to it's place in the North Sea, most off that is under water, just over 300 m deep. hehe I work for a short time one it on the final stages , before was towed out; ))
11:34 We pay a little deposit when we buy bottled beverages, so when we recycle them, we get appr. 20 or 30cents for each bottle or can. So it soon adds up!!!
Thank you for making these videos, I was born and raised in Norway and sometimes forget how nice it is to live in Norway, it's nice to hear your perspective who doesn't live here. 👍
I've never seen those can holders on trash cans, but I know it's pretty common to deliberately put bottles with "pant" (the deposit you get back for returning them) right next to the trash can or on top of it instead of inside it if you don't want to bother returning the bottle yourself, so that whoever want's to do that can do it without digging through the trash. I'm guessing those holders are from a more windy part of Norway because without them the bottles would tend to blow away.
Yes, we have over-top and under-bottom stalls also in Norway. It's usually the sign of money-saving going on. It's used for less savoury places and some older shopping malls. Usually the private style is preferred, though. But most places have a toiled for disabled people, that's bigger and has way more room and amenities.
No, there is no Krampus March in Norway. We have Julebokk (Yule Buck - which has similarities) and Juleskåka (lesser known but common in the far North of Norway). For Julebokk we may dress up and do trick or treating, sing songs, dance around the Christmas tree. For Juleskåka we'll do tricks on other people's farms, or try to sneak inside the room of our favourite girl for some late night smooching. If you're discovered, you have to knit seven pairs of mittens to the house owners.
No Tyler, I never get bored. I've driven quite a bit in Norway for 50 years and I'm just as overwhelmed when I see these enormous mountains that meet me almost everywhere from north to south. And of course the fjords. I get very humbled. I love my country….😃🐈🇳🇴
2:33 Many reasons like: Plants absorb and retain parts of the rainwater, insulation (both sound and temperature (against cold in wintertime, and heat in summertime)), increased lifetime (prevent UV), safety (keeps snow and ice on roof) and aesthetics (which clearly is demonstrated on the picture as you pointed out).
The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are an incredible sight to behold. I was blessed being in Tromsø on October 6, 2024 when there was the most colorful and longest running display in over 50 years (much like in the photo you showed). Tromsø is 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle; it´s a city of 70K+ with a university of 3k student body and there is also a botanical garden of arctic and alpine flora. Recommend you or anyone going to Norway should visit Tromsø, besides the Northern Lights in Winter, there is 24 hours of sunlight during the Summer months (Land of the Midnight Sun). When are you going?
10:44 so basically there is a system where bottles and cans cost a little bit more but you get the money back for recycling this makes Norway really good at recycling bottles
It's not Norway. Someone posted it as Norway and it's been repeated, but it's in Austria. It's Austria - exactly Tirol, village is Itter and the Name of the Group is "Lauda Pass"
The oil rig is that tall after production is done. Then it is towed out to the oilfield and it is lowered down into the water so about 100 ft of it is above water line.
The can recycling outside of the waste like that is also practical. We recycle waste, so plastic bottles should be reused, while metal cans should be smashed and melted like metals.
Im a mid 30's Norwegian, and ive never seen the aurora borealis, i live way south, and it rarely happens down here. Norway sure is beautiful, truly is, but i feel like the pictures people see of Norway for the most part is the best of the best views, not actually representative of how most of us live. Been watching a few of your videos regarding Norway and Norwegian history, and ive learned a few things i never knew as well.
The sculpture might look like a sperm cell, but given the name ‘Seeding’ and the fact that you up close can see that it actually is a germinating seed ;)
Grass on roofs are not normal for modern buildings in Norway, but are not uncommon. Mainly to insulate the roof of older cabins and farm buildings in windy areas without the shelter of tall vegetation like trees. The soil and grass draw most of the moisture away from the underlying timber and excess water is drained off by the steep angle of the roof.
There are some toilets that have some space bellow the stall walls, but it's a lot more privacy respecting than how it is in the US, and generally. Toilets here are either individual rooms with a toilet, trash can, and a sink, or it is just a toilet, and shared sinks outside.
i'm just gonna say it right now: If you ever visit Lofoten and are driving, please, for the love of god, don't randomly stop in the middle of the road when taking pictures. We have tight roads here, but for some reason, a lot of tourists think it's ok to just stop whenever when taking pictures 😑
There are also gummy’s like that but just babies with diapers. And the gummy’s are called Seigmenn but if you translate that you get strongmen or stickymen 6:32
Yep, and the ladies are called Seigdamer. I think the babygummies are called Skrikerunger? Crybabies in english. Seigmenn have been used as decour on home made cakes for as long as I can remember.
Interesting to see your reactions, I'm so used to all of this that I don't give it a second thought. The Krampus isn't as common in Norway as it is in Germany, more a local thing.
The reason the oil platform is so tall and standing out of the water is because it is being transported to location, as noted below it is the largest human made structure moved across the planet.
Norwegians live in a pittoresque landscape and cultural surrondings daily, and yes, we take it for granted most days. It comes not free of effort, we have to be aware of not littering and polluting our surroundings, and install systems that will take care of the beauty. And we miss home sorely when we're not there, and would find it hard and strange to cope elsewhere. But there are more countries in the world where this might be true.
@1:30 hehehehe funny,, yeah, in the children schools we had that , but that was way back in the 50-60 and 70`s afte that we got rid of it and made what you see in the first photo.
Ahhh...I hate that prison thing!! I have been a teacher in several Norwegian prisons. And I have been to this one. It's Halden. It's always Bastøy and Halden!! These are NOT typical Norwegian prisons!!!
01:09 I had the pleasure of using a Walmart stall, not very pleasant, the bottom portion being so freaking high up from the ground, and I think the top was far enough down that a tall person could easily look over if they wanted to. Norway does have toilet stalls in that fashion, but the bottom is far closer to the floor than in the USA, and I'm pretty sure the top is also much higher. This particular bathroom seems to be in a mall or something, otherwise there wouldn't be this many stalls, and in malls it's very common to come upon these kinds of stalls with regular doors. 02:37 I've heard they lay down a tarp of torched asphalt onto the roof, then the bedding for the moss/grass on top, though that's information taken from a video I watched on YT. And as far as I can think, aside from the aesthetics, it might give an additional layer of insulation from the cold? I'm really not sure, though.
03:35 No, that would be dangerous and illegal, they would have likely shoveled off the snow after taking the picture. I have never had to do this myself, but I can imagine 30 minutes earlier out the door for work would be the minimum for shoveling off that much snow. 06:50 This is Laban Seigmenn, though I don't know if "Seigmenn" is the same still, or if they changed that. They used to all be male, but at some point in the past - I don't remember when, or why - they suddenly started adding female shaped ones, too.
10:25 Don't just come anywhere to Norway expecting to see this, I'm pretty sure this is far more North in Norway than Oslo, while you do occasionally get red/orange skies like this down in the more Southern areas of Norway, it's usually nothing close to like this. 10:50 This must be new, or specific to a certain area in Norway, whatever the case is, I have never seen this in my 30 years growing up and living in Norway.
12:03 This looks like yet another of the many many AI or Photoshopped house images circulating the internet, I would never believe this sort of image without seeing it in real life. 14:00 Makes me think of my own interpretation of this statue as being "When Earth was fertilized by the Universe and gave life to all its animals and vegetation."
12:26 Lofoten... pronounced like loo-foo - tin. The letter 0 has an oo sound in norwegian. And the letter A has a long sound as well.. so Ah in Norwegian. Å sounds like aww.
I used to live In Finnskogen at Svullrya, part of Grue Finnskog. Really miss that place. Never seen this "cabin". :) We actually have a cabin in Finnskogen, but nothing like this. It's in the middle of nowhere in Åsnes. :)
The statue at the end, while definitively looking like a sperm, is actually supposed to be a seed starting to grow, and Stange where it is located is an area with lots of agriculture which is why they had it made. I will say though, everytime I drive past it, it makes me giggle, cause my brain does not think "seed" 🤣
Most prisons don’t look like this. There are one or two specific prisons that look like this. and it was in the news X months ago that they had a lot of issues or what not, so not perfect. And here in Oslo, there’s no snow yet and we’re in December… last year I believe there was snow. But not might come right before Xmas Eve. Hopefully😝
Well.. the concrete part of the platform is floating and being towed. When they let the air out the legs sunk down to the bottom and submerged most of the "legs"
3:00 This, and you would still have to come to school or work in time. No snow day here Students in Norway sharing kitchen and bathroom with 9 others, having a small room to themselves, meanwhile in prison: 4:00
When it comes to homelessness in Norway, we dont have homelessness in Norway unless it is done by own choice. .We have social service to help the ones with no income, so they get housing and food and clothes and what is needed to live, a few dont want a home even if they still get pension or monthly payment since maybe unable to work and choose to live as homeless. Some maybe are illegal immigrants and those wont get the free stuff or help from social service.
Krampus does not exist in Norway. This is an "alpine" tradition practiced in Austria and Bavaria. It is well known there and a yearly event (my wife is Austrian). Re the snow on the cars roof. It is specifically illegal to drive around with any amount of snow on the roof that could result in an accident if it flies off (and hits the car behind you). People have lost their license for doing exactly that.
the sperm statue is a representation of a cow farm that breeds and gets sperm from cows. its called GENO, and is one of the biggest and best producers in norway, Geno is not far away from this statue, thats why its there
A raw photo would not be colored. It would be flat, So yes pictures like that of the Aurora Borealis are color corrected too look like the real thing. That is what it looks like in real life though :)
Norwegian prisons are very humane, but you still loose your freedom, it is still seen as a punishment you don't want. It is meant to indicate to the prisoners that what they did was wrong, but it is also supposed to get them back on track to having a normal life.
To answer your oil rig question: We build our oil rigs this tall, to allow new sections of drill pipe to be added to the drilling apparatus as drilling progresses. Oil drill operations rely on the use of derricks for their production, hence the reason they need a certain height. For non english speakers, a derrick is basically another word for crane, with moveable arms.
No, you can't drive with snow on the roof of your car. You can't see very much, and you risk the snow falling onto your windshield. Also, I think it is illegal to drive with loose snow on your roof because of this. They just left it on there for the photo.
10:50 I have never seen that in my city in Norway, but yes they do check the trash bins for empty bottles. Mostly collected by beggars, or drug addicts that hang around in the park doing their drugs
I don't think that the Krampus march is in Norway. It's probably Austria or Switzerland. Found the source: It's Austria - exactly Tirol, village is Itter and the Name of the Group is "Lauda Pass"
Stall bathrooms exits close to what you know across Europe. But they mostly have doors that go all the way down or close to the floor like an inch or 2. All has proper toilets. Not the water bowls the US has.
Sadly there's a lot of fake aurora pics of "Norway" out and about now, but yeah - especially in the North - the winter sunset can be unreal. And so can the actual aurora. But AI pics and stuff makes it hard to divide facts from fiction these days... You'll just have to come and see for yourself. If you want to see the aurora, come in January or February. That's the coldest months with the biggest chance of clear skies (and fair warning, it's often cloudy in the North so it's best to stay minimum a whole week if not two while you're here).
3:30 We're actually legally required to remove snow from the roof of the car before driving. If you slam on the brakes with that chunk of snow on the roof it will become a projectile shooting forward, and even though snow seems pretty harmless it can cause MASSIVE damage
But true enough, the snow on the roof is often some of the last you remove. It's great to be able to access it from all sides first.
Same in Sweden. Snow left on the roof can easily cover your windshield and all of a sudden you can't see where you are going.
The grass roof is now mostly a traditional thing. But it is very effective as insulation, and require relatively little maintenance compared to other historical materials. And yes, it also looks amazing.
Actually, the true purpose of the grass roof was camouflage the vikings’ houses in case enemy jets fly overhead.
Plus, they often let the cattle graze on it. With the sparse agricultural land we often have, why not use it?
Not so much cattle, more sheep and goats.
It's sod. Which insulates. Requires a sturdy building & rafters, but whole timbers takes care of that. First timbers, then planks, then a layer of birch bark , and finally the sod. 😊
Yes, we have these toilets as well 1:40 but most of them are closed. If they have open stalls it’s only 3-5 inches above the floor. Some older variants have more open stalls, but they are pretty rare today.
And chances are, if they're open stalls, they're open on the top, not the bottom.
@@Henoik
OK! I haven’t been in all of the public bathrooms 😅
The American correction system is based on punishment. If a guy is sentenced for 20 years and is being punished every single day for 20 years, what kind of person is he gonna be when he gets out? That guy is gonna be your neighbor, so good luck with that.
If you treat poeple like animals they become like animals 🤷♂️
Exactly, few people understand this. So usually they think, if you do a crime, you should be treated like an animal for all your time spent there as punishment. Sure, might be good and all when they are in prison, but then what? They do said sentence, get out, and have lost a bunch of opportunities to get back into a normal life (especially if growing up in a bad place to begin with). Be it completely broken mentally or that they can't get jobs and such since they are a convicted criminal. What do they do then? Go back to their old ways, and for the most part end BACK into prison. What logic is this? The fact is, no matter how naive the Norwegian prison system looks like from Americans or other countries with similar prisons, it works. The people going into prison usually stay out of prison. Heck, if they are lucky, they have actually gotten a better opportunity to become a better person or even educated before getting out again, and have a more normal life than they have ever had going in (bad upbringing, bad crowd etc).
We do not have Krampus in Norway. That's from Germany.
We sort of do, Julebukk, but not as a march.
Yes, but this is very spesific German
@@stefflus08 Julebukk is not the same, and originates from our Nordic mythology.
You are wrong. It is more like a thing you believe in like Jesus for eksempel. Its not something that is in folktales all the time
@DIY_SURGE
NA, they're right. The krampusnacht is a southern germanic thing, not a north germanic one so does not apply to us in the Nordics. :)
@8:15 This picture of Troll A is from May 1995 when they towed the platform out to sea. Most of the concrete pillar structure is under water.
Heilt sant
Yeah. My dad worked on it. He had to walk sown and up the stairs inside the leggs each day.
Then platform will be lowered down on the seabed when it's out at the right position.
@@TrondLangeland no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A
I live in MALANGEN, and can confirm. That northern ligths picture is enhanced with color, and lights.
The oilrig has hollow legs, and was floating in the water. Pulled by the boat ahead, and support-tugs.
It is now secured to the bottom of the sea, and only visible from the narrowest part of the legs.
The wintersunset is real. and the sunset lasts for around 1 hour... Some places, like in Malangen, we don`t se the sun for 13 week
«Grass-roof» is cheap, good and long lasting insulation. 😊
We don't have krampus, that's wrong
yeah that video is from Austria
I’ve never seen this.
small bottles = 20 cent big bottles = 30 cent, In all food stores you can collect the money or gamble to win up to 100k $
And when you don’t win in the lottery, the «gambled» money mostly goes to the Norwegian Red Cross. In quite a few places there might also a box where you can put your ticket («pantelapp»), which then will support some local business.
I grew up Inn Finnskogen "The Finnish Forest". Where the treehouse cabin is.
Yes, you can rent it. The Cabin is located in same municipality as the World Largest Toothpick, that you reacted to a couple of days ago.
I've been thinking about making an English video about the Finnish forest. It's so much mysique and trolls and nuek and huldra there.
Plus a very historic area.
@@TTDahl My mother's family is from Solør. Farming family from Arneberg. They have a seter in Finnskogen and everything. Lots of happy childhood memories from my summers there, Finnskogen, Flisa and my grandparents. 🤗
@Kari.F. oh how nice.
My grandmother was a daughter of a finnish farmer in Posaasen and she married another farmer called Rokkerud.I have moved away 30km north to Elverum, and live there.
Slartybartfast got the award for the Norwegian coastline for a reason. But don't forget his special mention for New Zealand. :) (I've lived in both countries. ) Seigman and Seigdamer are great and I think they made Seigbabies for a while. I had to send a bag to a friend in the US because he didn't believe me they existed.
Sure skrikerunger (sour crybabies) loosely modelled after the 'sinnataggen' statue located in Vigerlandsparken, they were quite good!
Imagine digging your car out of the snow for hours just to realize you've been digging out your neighbours car instead.. 😅
Ha ha I did that at my work place. The car who stood beside my car had the same colour and size. It's frustrating but funny. 😂
That Krampus march is from Austria I think
:)
The Troll oil platform went in to Guinness Record book in 1996 as the largest object transported ever and also as the deepest concert place.
No one have beat the moving object or concert record as of 2024.
There were a band playing a concert 303 meter (~1000 feet) under water on the oil platform, another world record.
Katie Melua had a concert in the bottom of one of the legs..
It was Katie melua that had the concert and Think it is here on youtube.
@@norraforr ua-cam.com/video/7IYUZxPKLtM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ViMennEgmont
no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A
and this one:
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5:40 Still images don't really do it justice, because the Aurora Borealis (northern lights) are usually in motion and can range from barely noticeable (have you ever been driving at night - pitch black, and driven towards a town or city and there's an aura of light pollution or the light just kind of bounces off the clouds) to what you see in the picture... It's also not a nightly event - plus you have to remember that picture of the car with 2 meters of snow. There are a lot of cloudy and snow filled evenings... and shoveling. Thank god for snowblowers...
6:21 it can be safe depending on a few different things, but I wouldn’t recommend drinking water from a glacier unless you know its safe
Katie Melua held a consert at the bottom of the Troll platform in 2006, 303 meters below sea level
Ive seen that winter sunset and ive seen a sumemr version. I was camping with friends on an island in norway and we say tat sunset and the islands up ahead looked like balck clouds and it was beautiful
seter is a rural mountain farmstead used in the summer
It's a reason i don't wanna too leave Norway for another country in the holidays.
What's the point? Norway are one of the best country in the world for living, but also visit other city.
If you look at repeat offenders and compare the US and Norway the results are baffling and show's you why we do it the way we do.
I know, but I think they can tone it back a bit and get the same results. Video games really aren't necessary. Do board games and book readings instead.
@Emperor_Nagrom The point is that life on the inside is supposed to mirror life on the outside, to make the rehabilitation easier on the mind of the inmate. It's a very simple, but very smart strategy.
Also, about 1/3 of the inmates are foreigners, we do have very little crime here.
Love waking up in Norway and see the beautiful light in different colors from the sun ❤️🇳🇴❤️
I drive up and down Ekeberg every day, and some of the winter sunsets, when the sky is all red and orange, reflecting in the Oslo Fjord making the entire view orange, with the islands like black dots.❤
I celebrated my birthday at Preikestolen with a glass of whiskey 🥃🎉 and two friends from America who had never been to Norway before. That made the day so much more special. ❤ I got to show my American friends our beautiful country and share a beautiful memory. 🥰🇧🇻🇺🇲
How do you make gras grow on the roof?? Soil!! It's incredible. :) These days they have boards and plastic under it. Back in the days it was boards and birch bark. It's for isulation.
And the sculpture is a sprout growing from a seed. Not a sp3rm cell 13:28
Actually it's a 'sperm-seed', a play by the artist on the nearby 'industries' that is an animal breeding station and the largest agriculture areas in the country.
The Oil platform u saw, is the biggest man made object that is moved on the ocean ; ) What u saw was when was finished and towed out to it's place in the North Sea, most off that is under water, just over 300 m deep. hehe I work for a short time one it on the final stages , before was towed out; ))
So did I, Vats was cold.
ua-cam.com/video/7IYUZxPKLtM/v-deo.html&ab_channel=ViMennEgmont
no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_A
ua-cam.com/video/y8Nj2K15ZCU/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Kvaernervideo
11:34 We pay a little deposit when we buy bottled beverages, so when we recycle them, we get appr. 20 or 30cents for each bottle or can. So it soon adds up!!!
Thank you for making these videos, I was born and raised in Norway and sometimes forget how nice it is to live in Norway, it's nice to hear your perspective who doesn't live here. 👍
11:40 Modern cabin high above the ground (if the snow gets too deep)!
I've never seen those can holders on trash cans, but I know it's pretty common to deliberately put bottles with "pant" (the deposit you get back for returning them) right next to the trash can or on top of it instead of inside it if you don't want to bother returning the bottle yourself, so that whoever want's to do that can do it without digging through the trash. I'm guessing those holders are from a more windy part of Norway because without them the bottles would tend to blow away.
Yes, we have over-top and under-bottom stalls also in Norway. It's usually the sign of money-saving going on. It's used for less savoury places and some older shopping malls. Usually the private style is preferred, though. But most places have a toiled for disabled people, that's bigger and has way more room and amenities.
No, there is no Krampus March in Norway. We have Julebokk (Yule Buck - which has similarities) and Juleskåka (lesser known but common in the far North of Norway). For Julebokk we may dress up and do trick or treating, sing songs, dance around the Christmas tree. For Juleskåka we'll do tricks on other people's farms, or try to sneak inside the room of our favourite girl for some late night smooching. If you're discovered, you have to knit seven pairs of mittens to the house owners.
No Tyler, I never get bored. I've driven quite a bit in Norway for 50 years and I'm just as overwhelmed when I see these enormous mountains that meet me almost everywhere from north to south. And of course the fjords.
I get very humbled. I love my country….😃🐈🇳🇴
2:33 Many reasons like: Plants absorb and retain parts of the rainwater, insulation (both sound and temperature (against cold in wintertime, and heat in summertime)), increased lifetime (prevent UV), safety (keeps snow and ice on roof) and aesthetics (which clearly is demonstrated on the picture as you pointed out).
The Northern Lights (Aurora Borealis) are an incredible sight to behold. I was blessed being in Tromsø on October 6, 2024 when there was the most colorful and longest running display in over 50 years (much like in the photo you showed). Tromsø is 250 miles north of the Arctic Circle; it´s a city of 70K+ with a university of 3k student body and there is also a botanical garden of arctic and alpine flora. Recommend you or anyone going to Norway should visit Tromsø, besides the Northern Lights in Winter, there is 24 hours of sunlight during the Summer months (Land of the Midnight Sun). When are you going?
10:44 so basically there is a system where bottles and cans cost a little bit more but you get the money back for recycling this makes Norway really good at recycling bottles
i love your reacting to norway videos.
8:29 Krampus, I have never heard about this.
It's not Norway. Someone posted it as Norway and it's been repeated, but it's in Austria. It's Austria - exactly Tirol, village is Itter and the Name of the Group is "Lauda Pass"
We have some of those stalls where you can peek top and bottom, but those other stalls you showed are becoming more common than not.
The oil rig is that tall after production is done. Then it is towed out to the oilfield and it is lowered down into the water so about 100 ft of it is above water line.
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The can recycling outside of the waste like that is also practical. We recycle waste, so plastic bottles should be reused, while metal cans should be smashed and melted like metals.
That prison is not an ordinary prison, you have to earn your stay there with well behavior and other stuff in another prison and so on..
That prison is typical of our ordinary prisons.
didnt expect to see åsane vgs in the first photo xD
Aurora = Natures own fireworks...
Im a mid 30's Norwegian, and ive never seen the aurora borealis, i live way south, and it rarely happens down here.
Norway sure is beautiful, truly is, but i feel like the pictures people see of Norway for the most part is the best of the best views, not actually representative of how most of us live.
Been watching a few of your videos regarding Norway and Norwegian history, and ive learned a few things i never knew as well.
The sculpture might look like a sperm cell, but given the name ‘Seeding’ and the fact that you up close can see that it actually is a germinating seed ;)
Everyone, except the politicians in Stange refers to it as the sperm cell.
Grass on roofs are not normal for modern buildings in Norway, but are not uncommon. Mainly to insulate the roof of older cabins and farm buildings in windy areas without the shelter of tall vegetation like trees. The soil and grass draw most of the moisture away from the underlying timber and excess water is drained off by the steep angle of the roof.
There are some toilets that have some space bellow the stall walls, but it's a lot more privacy respecting than how it is in the US, and generally.
Toilets here are either individual rooms with a toilet, trash can, and a sink, or it is just a toilet, and shared sinks outside.
i'm just gonna say it right now: If you ever visit Lofoten and are driving, please, for the love of god, don't randomly stop in the middle of the road when taking pictures. We have tight roads here, but for some reason, a lot of tourists think it's ok to just stop whenever when taking pictures 😑
8:27 it’s under transport from where it’s build to where it’s going to live the life out in the North sea.
Most of the oil/gas rig is under water just like an iceberg..
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I recognized the prison. That’s the absolute maximum security facility in Norway
There are also gummy’s like that but just babies with diapers. And the gummy’s are called Seigmenn but if you translate that you get strongmen or stickymen 6:32
Yep, and the ladies are called Seigdamer. I think the babygummies are called Skrikerunger? Crybabies in english. Seigmenn have been used as decour on home made cakes for as long as I can remember.
Interesting to see your reactions, I'm so used to all of this that I don't give it a second thought. The Krampus isn't as common in Norway as it is in Germany, more a local thing.
The reason the oil platform is so tall and standing out of the water is because it is being transported to location, as noted below it is the largest human made structure moved across the planet.
Norwegians live in a pittoresque landscape and cultural surrondings daily, and yes, we take it for granted most days. It comes not free of effort, we have to be aware of not littering and polluting our surroundings, and install systems that will take care of the beauty. And we miss home sorely when we're not there, and would find it hard and strange to cope elsewhere. But there are more countries in the world where this might be true.
The turf on the roof was traditionally also just soil. The point was keeping the Birch bark roof from flying away.
@1:30 hehehehe funny,, yeah, in the children schools we had that , but that was way back in the 50-60 and 70`s afte that we got rid of it and made what you see in the first photo.
Ahhh...I hate that prison thing!! I have been a teacher in several Norwegian prisons. And I have been to this one. It's Halden. It's always Bastøy and Halden!! These are NOT typical Norwegian prisons!!!
01:09 I had the pleasure of using a Walmart stall, not very pleasant, the bottom portion being so freaking high up from the ground, and I think the top was far enough down that a tall person could easily look over if they wanted to. Norway does have toilet stalls in that fashion, but the bottom is far closer to the floor than in the USA, and I'm pretty sure the top is also much higher. This particular bathroom seems to be in a mall or something, otherwise there wouldn't be this many stalls, and in malls it's very common to come upon these kinds of stalls with regular doors.
02:37 I've heard they lay down a tarp of torched asphalt onto the roof, then the bedding for the moss/grass on top, though that's information taken from a video I watched on YT. And as far as I can think, aside from the aesthetics, it might give an additional layer of insulation from the cold? I'm really not sure, though.
03:35 No, that would be dangerous and illegal, they would have likely shoveled off the snow after taking the picture. I have never had to do this myself, but I can imagine 30 minutes earlier out the door for work would be the minimum for shoveling off that much snow.
06:50 This is Laban Seigmenn, though I don't know if "Seigmenn" is the same still, or if they changed that. They used to all be male, but at some point in the past - I don't remember when, or why - they suddenly started adding female shaped ones, too.
10:25 Don't just come anywhere to Norway expecting to see this, I'm pretty sure this is far more North in Norway than Oslo, while you do occasionally get red/orange skies like this down in the more Southern areas of Norway, it's usually nothing close to like this.
10:50 This must be new, or specific to a certain area in Norway, whatever the case is, I have never seen this in my 30 years growing up and living in Norway.
12:03 This looks like yet another of the many many AI or Photoshopped house images circulating the internet, I would never believe this sort of image without seeing it in real life.
14:00 Makes me think of my own interpretation of this statue as being "When Earth was fertilized by the Universe and gave life to all its animals and vegetation."
The tree house/cabin does exist. Its for rent. We have many airbnb tree houses in Norway 😊
That Photo with the cabins are real. I have been there many times 😀
I went to Norway 🇳🇴 a few times in the military. Only other country I'd live in. Amazing.
12:26 Lofoten... pronounced like loo-foo - tin. The letter 0 has an oo sound in norwegian. And the letter A has a long sound as well.. so Ah in Norwegian. Å sounds like aww.
I used to live In Finnskogen at Svullrya, part of Grue Finnskog. Really miss that place. Never seen this "cabin". :)
We actually have a cabin in Finnskogen, but nothing like this. It's in the middle of nowhere in Åsnes. :)
The statue at the end, while definitively looking like a sperm, is actually supposed to be a seed starting to grow, and Stange where it is located is an area with lots of agriculture which is why they had it made. I will say though, everytime I drive past it, it makes me giggle, cause my brain does not think "seed" 🤣
The grass roofs have become just something we do in the modern age. It started in the Viking age as a way to hide our houses from bomber planes.
Vikings started the grass roof thing to avoid detection by spy satellites.
8:35 this is not in Norway. Some place in Austria i think it was.
You should come visit Norway to see everything because it's wonderful that I live here.
Most prisons don’t look like this. There are one or two specific prisons that look like this. and it was in the news X months ago that they had a lot of issues or what not, so not perfect. And here in Oslo, there’s no snow yet and we’re in December… last year I believe there was snow. But not might come right before Xmas Eve. Hopefully😝
Well.. the concrete part of the platform is floating and being towed. When they let the air out the legs sunk down to the bottom and submerged most of the "legs"
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3:00 This, and you would still have to come to school or work in time. No snow day here
Students in Norway sharing kitchen and bathroom with 9 others, having a small room to themselves, meanwhile in prison: 4:00
When it comes to homelessness in Norway, we dont have homelessness in Norway unless it is done by own choice. .We have social service to help the ones with no income, so they get housing and food and clothes and what is needed to live, a few dont want a home even if they still get pension or monthly payment since maybe unable to work and choose to live as homeless. Some maybe are illegal immigrants and those wont get the free stuff or help from social service.
After all these videos I can help but ask, are you planning on visiting or moving to Norway?
9:32 i have been to prekestolen
Krampus does not exist in Norway. This is an "alpine" tradition practiced in Austria and Bavaria. It is well known there and a yearly event (my wife is Austrian).
Re the snow on the cars roof. It is specifically illegal to drive around with any amount of snow on the roof that could result in an accident if it flies off (and hits the car behind you). People have lost their license for doing exactly that.
the sperm statue is a representation of a cow farm that breeds and gets sperm from cows. its called GENO, and is one of the biggest and best producers in norway, Geno is not far away from this statue, thats why its there
I’m from Norway and have never seen or heard of that krampus thing. Looks cool though 👍🏻
A raw photo would not be colored. It would be flat, So yes pictures like that of the Aurora Borealis are color corrected too look like the real thing. That is what it looks like in real life though :)
the grass on the roof was used to feed the sheep in back in the day
The legs on the Troll platform, sinks into the sea, not that much is above the surface
Im from Norway and the 2 photo is real
Norwegian prisons are very humane, but you still loose your freedom, it is still seen as a punishment you don't want.
It is meant to indicate to the prisoners that what they did was wrong, but it is also supposed to get them back on track to having a normal life.
Experienced mountain people would never drink clacier water like that. There are 10000 years worth of dead animals in that stuff.
To answer your oil rig question: We build our oil rigs this tall, to allow new sections of drill pipe to be added to the drilling apparatus as drilling progresses. Oil drill operations rely on the use of derricks for their production, hence the reason they need a certain height. For non english speakers, a derrick is basically another word for crane, with moveable arms.
11:02 never seen that before
Prekestolen means pulpit in English. That's one helluva pulpit!
The Krampus march is in the middle- Europe, the Alp- countries
No, you can't drive with snow on the roof of your car. You can't see very much, and you risk the snow falling onto your windshield. Also, I think it is illegal to drive with loose snow on your roof because of this.
They just left it on there for the photo.
The gummies are Seigmenn and Seigdamer :) The Seigdamer is newer then the Seigmenn :)
10:50 I have never seen that in my city in Norway, but yes they do check the trash bins for empty bottles. Mostly collected by beggars, or drug addicts that hang around in the park doing their drugs
I don't think that the Krampus march is in Norway. It's probably Austria or Switzerland. Found the source: It's Austria - exactly Tirol, village is Itter and the Name of the Group is "Lauda Pass"
Stall bathrooms exits close to what you know across Europe. But they mostly have doors that go all the way down or close to the floor like an inch or 2. All has proper toilets. Not the water bowls the US has.
according to the buildings, I would guess the Krampus march is a Austrian or German thing, not Norwegian
The first picture, the toilet stalls, I have NEVER seen stalls like that. The common ones are just like the American ones.
I am 45 years old and have never seen or heard of Krampus March.
2:40 im a dumb Norwegian but i guess it function like isolation. and in newer times as decoys from the air. haha
Prison = make them angry. Norway = Rehabilitation. Who wins this bet?
Sadly there's a lot of fake aurora pics of "Norway" out and about now, but yeah - especially in the North - the winter sunset can be unreal. And so can the actual aurora. But AI pics and stuff makes it hard to divide facts from fiction these days... You'll just have to come and see for yourself. If you want to see the aurora, come in January or February. That's the coldest months with the biggest chance of clear skies (and fair warning, it's often cloudy in the North so it's best to stay minimum a whole week if not two while you're here).