As a Norwegian from the west part of the country, I understand the Skåne/Malmö-dialect very well. It's the most charming of all Swedish dialects. I also understand Danish. Bigger problems with Icelandic and Faroese though. And Finnish and Sami language is a totally different thing....
About this reaction: First of all the map of Finland covered a lot of Russia.... And about the Danes eating potatoes whilst speaking... the saying where i live here in Sweden is that they haven´t swallowed their porridge before speaking...🤣🤣🤣 A quick anecdote about that is that a language study found that Danish children were far behind in their language development up to about 5 years of age compared with the rest of europe. Because they couldn´t hear what their parents said... apparently they luckily catch up quickly after that! 🤣🤣🤣 And about our royals - they tend to be in stockholm most of the time.
I live in Helsingborg, 20 min ferry ride from Helsingör Denmark. I dont understand danish, other than a few words here and there. I went to a festival once, and met som other swedes but the lived in the very far north. They did not understand me with my dialect (skånska) It resulted in that we spoke english to one and other.
6th of November, Gustavus Adolphus day of death, is the day when we eat 'Gustav Adolfs- bakelse', delicious small cakes with his portrait, made of chocolate, as the top of the delicious treat. It's specially popular in the cities and towns he created, like the Western Swedish places like Göteborg (Gothenburg), Borås and Vänersborg.
Iceland is at most 18 million years old and, to my knowledge, the only volcanic island that's never going to turn back into a seamount due to erosion, as the hotspot it sprung from sits right under the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, meaning it's stuck there forever because the island's being pulled both east and west at the same time and as such not moving at all.
Hi McJibbin, I like your videos and that you are always genuine and don't edit out when your focus drops :) Anyway, I like how you seem to be a fan of Gustavus Adolphus, and the king would himself actually probably appreciate setting up Gothenburg (Göteborg) as the capital - seeing as Gustavus founded the city way back in the day. He set up the city right where it is as a big middle-finger to the Danes :) The reason Stockholm has been the tradtional capital of Sweden is because the city was located pretty much at the center of the Swedish kingdom, which back then encompassed Finland too. When the Swedish Empire was around, Stockholm was in an even better position, as Sweden also controlled Estonia and Latvia. There is also the fact that it is far away from Norway and Denmark, which were enemy territory back in the day.
As a Swede being from Malmö, no we do not understand the danish better then other parts of Sweden. The rest of Sweden however think we sound like danish people and often jokingly refer to us as danish 😅
I have some friends in Skåne and I honesty dont think your dialect sounds like danish, but its fun to teasing eachothers, I have often heard similar things the other way around to so :) A good example is ”everything north of Gothenburg is Norrland”
The potatojoke is simply because even if norweigan, swedish and danish is similar is danish prounciations very different from norweigan and swedish so for norweigans and swedes does danish sounds like if someone spoke their own languages… but with a potato in the mouth 😅
Maybe could happen between Denmark Norway and Sweden however Finland and Icelands languages and Culture are completely different finnish is not even a Germanic language like all the others it would be like merging spain with Italy wouldn't work
I dont know who made this original vid and im still watching at 8mins. Have i missed something but why Karelia is added to Finland? 2.nd confusing moment 8:17 United kingdom? Am i tripping?
This is interesting vid but i suggest you to be pretty sceptic about it really. Theres a LOT of things proposed as a facts that are closer to bullshido than reality. But yeah most of it is still atleast close to truth
Sami's aren't white. They are pretty dark skin colored indigineous people in northern europe. Like indians in the "new world". And I mean "dark colored" compared to latter inhabitants of the region.
20:10 sounds reasonable. And theres been going some planning to make same between Helsinki and Tallin. Tho i thinks its been tried few times without real success
That are the NORDIC countries and NO that will not happen. This isn't the first time you react to exactly this topic. Is it also the same video and who is making them? It aint us...
@@MaxTheLegend_YT I don't know what you are talking about. I'm not watching. Besides, a Dane who doesn't know what countries are in Scandinavia should'nt be making videos. These are the Nordic countries. If someone doesn't know that, the rest of the "facts" will probably be just as correct...
@@GuinevereKnight Finland joined and later Iceland was a part of Denmark. the Scandinavian countries of Sweden Norway and the kingdom of Denmark formed the united Scandinavia.
In the unlikely event that all these nations were to unite, they all bring something to the table. The Swedes? Good aircraft (Saab). The Finns and Norwegians, good soldiers, though not that many of them. Iceland? Humongous dudes. Denmark? They bring the most important thing of all; bacon. No European army can fight without bacon, it’s the first rule of war (see Isaac Arthur’s podcast for confirmation of this).
As a Norwegian from the west part of the country, I understand the Skåne/Malmö-dialect very well. It's the most charming of all Swedish dialects. I also understand Danish. Bigger problems with Icelandic and Faroese though. And Finnish and Sami language is a totally different thing....
Love your videos McJibbin! Greetings from Finland!
Iceland and Finland are not Scandinavian.
This is about the Nordic countries.
About this reaction: First of all the map of Finland covered a lot of Russia.... And about the Danes eating potatoes whilst speaking... the saying where i live here in Sweden is that they haven´t swallowed their porridge before speaking...🤣🤣🤣 A quick anecdote about that is that a language study found that Danish children were far behind in their language development up to about 5 years of age compared with the rest of europe. Because they couldn´t hear what their parents said... apparently they luckily catch up quickly after that! 🤣🤣🤣 And about our royals - they tend to be in stockholm most of the time.
I live in Helsingborg, 20 min ferry ride from Helsingör Denmark. I dont understand danish, other than a few words here and there. I went to a festival once, and met som other swedes but the lived in the very far north. They did not understand me with my dialect (skånska) It resulted in that we spoke english to one and other.
6th of November, Gustavus Adolphus day of death, is the day when we eat 'Gustav Adolfs- bakelse', delicious small cakes with his portrait, made of chocolate, as the top of the delicious treat. It's specially popular in the cities and towns he created, like the Western Swedish places like Göteborg (Gothenburg), Borås and Vänersborg.
Iceland is at most 18 million years old and, to my knowledge, the only volcanic island that's never going to turn back into a seamount due to erosion, as the hotspot it sprung from sits right under the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, meaning it's stuck there forever because the island's being pulled both east and west at the same time and as such not moving at all.
Hi McJibbin, I like your videos and that you are always genuine and don't edit out when your focus drops :)
Anyway, I like how you seem to be a fan of Gustavus Adolphus, and the king would himself actually probably appreciate setting up Gothenburg (Göteborg) as the capital - seeing as Gustavus founded the city way back in the day. He set up the city right where it is as a big middle-finger to the Danes :)
The reason Stockholm has been the tradtional capital of Sweden is because the city was located pretty much at the center of the Swedish kingdom, which back then encompassed Finland too. When the Swedish Empire was around, Stockholm was in an even better position, as Sweden also controlled Estonia and Latvia. There is also the fact that it is far away from Norway and Denmark, which were enemy territory back in the day.
Well geopolitically it's already happened for a long time ago.
As a Swede being from Malmö, no we do not understand the danish better then other parts of Sweden. The rest of Sweden however think we sound like danish people and often jokingly refer to us as danish 😅
I have some friends in Skåne and I honesty dont think your dialect sounds like danish, but its fun to teasing eachothers, I have often heard similar things the other way around to so :) A good example is ”everything north of Gothenburg is Norrland”
The map of Scandinavia should, of course, include Greenland
Ferry from Hirtshals to Oslo and from Frederikshavn to Gothenburg
This is ALTERNATIVE history of course there are differences in population 8:17
The narrator is danish, that is why æø sounds danish hehe
8:18 What you said was accurate, however this is alternate history
19:41 I think that part of the ocean is 300m deep and is not practical for building a tunnel
The potatojoke is simply because even if norweigan, swedish and danish is similar is danish prounciations very different from norweigan and swedish so for norweigans and swedes does danish sounds like if someone spoke their own languages… but with a potato in the mouth 😅
This is projecting an alternative reality... 🧐
Maybe could happen between Denmark Norway and Sweden however Finland and Icelands languages and Culture are completely different finnish is not even a Germanic language like all the others it would
be like merging spain with Italy wouldn't work
I dont know who made this original vid and im still watching at 8mins. Have i missed something but why Karelia is added to Finland? 2.nd confusing moment 8:17 United kingdom? Am i tripping?
This is interesting vid but i suggest you to be pretty sceptic about it really. Theres a LOT of things proposed as a facts that are closer to bullshido than reality. But yeah most of it is still atleast close to truth
Maybe watch part 1 first!
Maybe watch part1 which covers this hypothetical counties history
@@iirokarimo4565 its about a hypothetical scenario where northern europe united, like alternative history
Sami's aren't white. They are pretty dark skin colored indigineous people in northern europe. Like indians in the "new world". And I mean "dark colored" compared to latter inhabitants of the region.
Финляндия - это не скандинавия.
20:10 sounds reasonable. And theres been going some planning to make same between Helsinki and Tallin. Tho i thinks its been tried few times without real success
The fins love this map 😆
The longer coast line than the Us even from Maine to texas ?
Eh. Karelia? Scandinavian (Danish) West Indies?? That map is so not up to date.
That are the NORDIC countries and NO that will not happen. This isn't the first time you react to exactly this topic. Is it also the same video and who is making them? It aint us...
He is Danish
@MaxTheLegend_YT A Dane should know it won't happen again. Strange.
@ In part one, it was Sweden-Norway that unified the united Scandinavia ca 1840(if I remember correctly)
@@MaxTheLegend_YT I don't know what you are talking about. I'm not watching. Besides, a Dane who doesn't know what countries are in Scandinavia should'nt be making videos. These are the Nordic countries. If someone doesn't know that, the rest of the "facts" will probably be just as correct...
@@GuinevereKnight Finland joined and later Iceland was a part of Denmark.
the Scandinavian countries of Sweden Norway and the kingdom of Denmark formed the united Scandinavia.
Intresting in a fantasy way but it's not worth for your time to react to fictious alternative history.
In the unlikely event that all these nations were to unite, they all bring something to the table. The Swedes? Good aircraft (Saab). The Finns and Norwegians, good soldiers, though not that many of them. Iceland? Humongous dudes. Denmark? They bring the most important thing of all; bacon. No European army can fight without bacon, it’s the first rule of war (see Isaac Arthur’s podcast for confirmation of this).
Finland has more soldiers than most European countries, so definitely way more than Norway. What Norway has lots of is oil and cash 😅