a little fun You just choose to talk about cards, 2 days after of our card now again have to make a small addition ... "Hans ø" (no not his island) the small island up on the west side of Greenland as per. 14 / 6-22 (or Jun-14-2022 to avoid misunderstandings) - is divided with Canada (60/40 to Denmark) so now we are no longer only landlocked with Germany, but also with ... Canada. which makes America our "next door neighbor" ... it's a small world right?
Another fun fact about the war of 1864: It was after this devastating defeat, that the Danish flag was so widely adopted by the Danish public. After the flag had fallen from the sky in Estonia in 1219 and until shortly before this war the flag was only used by the king, state and government. And at one point it was in fact illegal for regular people to fly the flag. But after the defeat in 1864 the people of Denmark would increasingly come together around the flag for happy and sad occasions, little by little making the full-flown flag the symbol of all celebration that it is today, and the half-flown flag the symbol of sorrow. And that is is the story of why today all celebrations including Christmas and birthdays for Dane and foreigner alike are celebrated with flags, to mark that day special and worthy of celebration
After 1864 the Danish flag became illegal in southern Jutland. Instead the native Danes breeded a special local *pig, red with a white stripe,* representing the Danish flag. [EDIT: My text was 100 years off, "1964" by mistake) ]
Do you want facts about how disgusting the history it is ? 2-WW, Hungary was split in prices, until today you can see on the map, enough to google it, bit if not better go and see for your self, 100 percent Hungarian population towns. Town 100 percent Hungarian half in Slovakia half in Ukraine .......the town 100 speak Hungarian for the past 700 years at least family where split with border in the middle of the town, so families for the past 70 years could not communicate so not to be shut by the border army of Ukraine or Slovakia they developed a special way of communicating to inform other family members that mother has been sick, or any family member has died by singing out on the fields in Hungarian so the Slovakian and Ukrainian soldiers did not understand ......there are many towns like this by the border Hungary bordering Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania, I grow up in one of them and that's when I REALISED THAT SOMETHING IS FISHI with the history of eastern Europe, it is not right that the border it is in the middle of the town and I can not see my uncle, cousins, grand mom even do we where in the same town ....................and now we pretend that we care for Ukraine? seriously? British shoulders saved animals from shelters instead of Afghani people ..........are you serious ------------------- we talk about gay rights and in Ukraine before war 6 gay friends of mine were killed by ASOF group just because they were gay and ZELENSKY INTEGRATE THE GROUP AS PART OF Ukraine army .....................and now he is demanding ..........seriously .................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
For the third week now I have been living in a fog, I can’t eat, drink or laugh normally, the war doesn’t fly out of my head for a second. Ukrainians, stay strong, all our thoughts are with you. PLEASE HELP MHE B DIFFICULT SITUATIONS Of course, I am very ashamed to ask for help from people I do not know, but I really want to unlearn to be a Programmer. I have already started studying for the 2nd month, but I need practice, and a laptop for practice! Why programmer? since I am an orphan and I recently graduated from a technical school, for this reason the State no longer supports me and I have no income from the word "completely" My brother and I live in B in a small village and it is extremely difficult to find a job. We live rather poorly (but amicably), although we have our own apartment, we have not paid the utility bill for the second year. And I really want to start a better life for myself. Even B Pyaterochka was not hired for a job, because after the death of my mother I had Panic Attacks and depression, and therefore my sister sent me to a psychiatric hospital even if it was a long time ago but not give me a green traffic light to normal life after that. Recently, a friend offered me help and said he would help in learning, but you need a laptop for this. The training will be free, but the cheapest and most suitable laptop in our village costs 700€ The amount is quite large for me and it is unlikely that I will be able to save it up in the near future. . If it's not difficult for you, can you please bring the fulfillment of my goal closer. I will be glad and very grateful for any amount. At least 1€. I'm sure the world is full good people. And if at least some of them help me in achieving my goal, then the required amount will soon be collected. If you want to help me with the fulfillment of my small but strong dream, you can transfer any amount MICB 4028 1102 0437 4620
This video is so informative, even I as a native am learning so much. Thanks for being so on the point and not spending hours on preamples and post bones ;-)
Another great video from you guys. Keep 'em comming! :-) Back in 2009 a work assignment brought me to Ringsted, Iowa. A small town with only ~400 inhabitants. It was founded in the 1880s by danish emigrants, as you described. To this day, a large percentage are named Jensen, Hansen, Rasmussen, Jorgensen, Sondergaard and so on. Really nice people that to some extend tried to keep some danish culture in their daily life, like singing old danish songs, eating rullepølse and leverpostej and flying the danish flag - along with the american flag, of course. They had even translated the danish national anthem, "Der er et yndigt land", into english, but with focus on the content of the text, more than making it 'easy to sing'.
*I love maps.* Whenever I toss out old brochures from my travels abroad I always *keep the maps.* And later upon return I can find my way by the memory of maps I looked at decades ago. *Danmark til Ejderen!*
We love maps too - they play a weirdly major part in our relationship 😂 Derek only got a second date because he could identify a random country on a blank map of Europe (it was Belarus, so not exactly a given).
Loved this: learnt a lot about Danish history from this video. Mike poring over that map at the beginning looks like me with maps (and don't get me started on transit maps!) 😍 Enjoy your weekend, Derek and Mike.
Historian here, and one who absolutely love the wars of the 1800's and all the nitty gritty details that happened leading up to and in the aftermath of absolute monarchy - including, romanticism and the rise of nationalism and national identity, the reshaping of state laws including labor laws and of course, the loss of land. We had lost most importance at that point after the loss of the fleet in 1801 (and certainly after the bombing of the capital in 07) but you are right, especially in terms of trade and alliances, Denmark still had some sway. Very nice video. Danmark til Eidern! as they say. (slogan used by the nationalists in the late 1800's though apparently Christian the 10th didn't really get the memo that no one actually believed getting the border all the way down to Eidern was possible. Arguably they just believed it would be easier to negotiate from a standpoint of asking too much to begin with XD)
Thanks so much Eivind - we are trying to up our game a bit and keep things more… edutainment (education/entertainment). Those are the kinds of videos we like watching 😊🇩🇰
Yay! Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it - maps are on of our favorite things. We could stare at them for hours and just connect all the things we know and have a list of more to research. Fun fact, early in our relationship, Mike had a blank map of Europe and pointed to a country and said to Derek “what country is this?” - “Belarus, why?” - “okay, we can keep seeing each other.” 😂
@@RobeTrotting 🤣🤣 fun dating anecdote but, I understand completely. Maps are my go to 'thing' while traveling. I still redraw my daily route, if I'm city walking in Edinburgh, Napoli, or wherever... I adore maps! 🌍
My grandmother's grandfather became the first mayor of Elsinore, Utah, a small town of Danish-Americans named after Hamlet's castle in Helsingør, Denmark.
4:20 The told story is not complete. The population in the shown area wasn't cultural homogenous. Holstein was a predomenantly German speaking area, Southern Schleswig was a mix of Danish, German and Frisian and Northern Schleswig was except of the bigger cities Danish speaking. Furthmore was the Duchy of Holstein a fief of the Holy Roman Empire to the Danish Kingdom. With the November Constitution the Danish King wanted to incorporate the whole area into the Danish Kingdom which was a violation of the London Protocol of 1852. This led in the end to a war with Prussia and, not to forget, Austria.
Cudoes to you for making a video, that is more extensive on Danish national history, than most history lessons I ever took! I think it is importent knowledge for anyone to have anz yet, a lot of it are'nt even taught in gynnasium.
As a Dane born 20 kilometers from the German border, I really liked your story, my grandmother on father side, was actually born in the occupied old danish land, and when she sadly got old and sick, her last language was Germany/platdeutch. Regarding emigration she had 2 uncles that went to the USA,, sadly no real history about these two brothers, but in my family we had some beautiful teaspoons made in sterling silver, ingraved with a "S" on one side (family name) and Chicago in side of the spoon, so All of the family always thought that they did make it in the States
@@larsrons7937 det er sku okay, som gammel garder er det et must 😁😁😁 ved ikke hvad de unge garder råber på vin og ølgod idag. Danmark til Eideren forever 👍👍👍👍
We are coming to Copenhagen on June 29 through July 10. Staying one block north of Tivoli. I would really like a copy of the first map shown in this video. Can you point me to how to acquire one? Really enjoy your channel, thanks!
A very impressive video. You packed a lot of information into a very short time. It must have taken a lot of research. Two nitpicks: The EEC referendum was in 1972. Denmark joined 1/1-1973. And borgerlige is spelled borgerlige.
@@RobeTrotting, we absolutely don't learn enough. Always love your posts. My husband and I were there in 2019 during the heat wave, not a fan in stie !
The 1863 map doesn't distinguish between the kingdom of Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. The duchies were not part of the kingdom itself, but they were under the Danish king in other ways. Holstein and Lauenburg had purely German language and culture. Schleswig had mostly Danish language and culture, except for the southern part.
My ancestor came over in 1870 and I always wondered why. They were in the part of the country taken over by Prussia, so at 16 came to the US. Even today, that side of my family has very strong Danish pride.
😂 🏄 🦈 - in their defense we did a mention for NordVPN once but it was also about sports and how we keep up with American sports while abroad haha - I don’t think I could map a VPN mention fit in with maps.
@@RobeTrotting well, Map Men (on Jay Foreman's channel) do not and I can not stress that enough, *do not* weave in their sponsor messages with the theme of the video. But the effort put into them makes them amazing. Usually I skip sponsor messages (who doesn't) but I stay for theirs. Check them out if for nothing else then for the puns.
Another interesting period in Danish history is the England wars 1801, 1807-1814. England feared that the great Danish navy would fight for the enemy which lead to the famous navy battle outside Copenhagen in 1801. Even though our ships were without sails we (almost) beat the Nelson fleet. He had to use dirty tricks to win. They came back and stole the rest of our ships in 1807. The king then allowed all Danish ships to act as pirates, if an English ship turned up. I'm sure you guys can get the historic facts somewhere. Check it out.
Have you ever heard about the danish immigrant Jacob a. Riis. He might very well have been the most influential danish immigrant to come to USA. He wrote a book called "How the other half lives". It documented the horrible living conditions in New York in the 1890s and started an effort to better the living conditions of the poor.
Im not alltogether sure of this little tidbit, but from something i read a long time ago, George Washington had danish ancestors, there was a progression in his last name, that was explained, a danish colonist was named Vass, with some pronouncing difficulties, this became Wash, there were Wash's in the countryside and in town, so somewher along the line, it became Wash in town, and then later on Washington
An interesting map you could have included would have been of the north sea empire when under the rule of Knud den store (Canute the great) Denmark was an empire made up of iceland, norway, parts of sweden and then brittania. Empire collapsed as soon as Canute died of course
Very , very interesting ( I am Danish) I had no idea it was such a HUGE piece of Denmark that was lost to Germany. Thank you for showing the Maps! You are both doing such a great job!!!♥
Thank you for this historical perspective. The most practical thing about Denmark and the Danish, for me personally anyway, is that all of their kings have been named either Frederik, or Christian. The second most interesting thing about Denmark and its lingo is what Swedish people have told to me, online: That Danish & Swedish are markedly similar and if you learn one, you can easily learn the other, yay!
@@andersjjensen Interesting to know, thank you. I have also heard that Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are mutually intelligible, as well. My personal opinion of Danish is that it is spelled NOTHING like it is pronounced.
@@SuiGenerisAbbie Danish is spelled stupid, no argument there. Norwegian is (mostly) spelled like Danish is pronounced, but the Norwegians don't pronounce it that way (YAY!). "TV Swedish" is easy to understand if you already speak Danish, but "local-dialect Swedish" is next to impossible to understand unless they speak really damn slowly.... But generally, if you can READ any of the languages you can read the others (though Swedish has quite a few words - especially nouns - in common with German, so speaking a bit of that helps too). But I don't know many who can just have a fluent conversation with either of the others without saying "huh?" all the time :P
A fun story I was told while visiting Rømø was that apparently when they had to vote on wether to be Danish or German, 3 *people* voted germany, while the rest of the population voted for Denmark! Thats crazy to imagine
Also, Jeffrey Epstein had to use trickery to buy one of the smaller islands from the family of a Danish politician. Some of that dispute was still ongoing when Epstein died.
I was part of the 800 year old celebration, when they were blasting out "Dansing In The Street" all over Copenhagen, especially "På Rådhuspladsen" bloody good old times.
It’s so funny you say that, but that’s definitely what people looked for back then (at least I think they did it consciously). We visited where one of Derek’s an estor’s left Bavaria from in the 1730’s and driving in the landscape looked exactly like where his father was born and his family lived for generations (in a part of Pennsylvania that was German-speaking well into the 1800’s).
100 years after the referendum, in Germany there still is a political party for the Danes that stayed: the South Schleswig Voters' Association, which even has one seat in the Bundestag (the federal parliament).
SSW also holds seats in the regional parliament. Usually it gets twices as many vates as there are really people of the minority are in Schleswig-Holstein. Therefore it might try to represent the interest of the Danish minority, but is also voted for by others for regional reasons or because it is cool.
@@RobeTrotting Also "Newborn Lee Party". I have no idea what that mean. Some kind of reborn Southern general? Also, thanks for adding subtitles. Helps almost deaf people like me immeasurably.
You’re probably right about Knud’s North Sea empire - it’s hard to contextualize with today’s view of borders and sovereignty but maybe we should just cover that eta in a future video - it’s really fascinating.
Bring up LOTR map and fits with places in Denmark. Helms depp, isengard and many more are places you can visit in Denmark. And I think the elves was taken ispiration from elverum in norway.
Peak Danish Power? - Try to look back further to the lands of Canute the Great or a bit later the Kalmar Union. And what makes youthing Denmark was in need of money during WW1 - we were getting rich being neutral and trading. The only reason we sold the Virgin Islands for $25 million was that the alternative was to get nothing in return - they would have become USAmercian in any case.
Point 1 - I wouldn’t call that peak power or imperialism in the terms of modern nations states. Cnute’s North Sea empire is a really cool part of history, but the level of control, sovereignty, governance is a bit different. I also think the Kalmar Union fits a different classification and purpose (it was basically a defensive alliance to deter stronger neighbors). Point 2 - Denmark was hardly rich or getting rich during the war period - the Danish economy shrunk and trade was still much lower than pre-war trade. Plus the Virgin Islands were an added economic drain in another hemisphere. You can’t claim that America was going to annex the islands. The negotiations took 50 years.
@@RobeTrotting Where do you get the impression that Danish economy during WW1 was bad? The bad economic crisis happened after the war. The war ended in 1918. The catastroffic failure of Landmansbanken was in 1922 - nasty when a too big to fail bank fails. The workers might not have been so happy about the nasty inflation that happened after they just made a 5 year deal on wages with the employers, but there was plenty money in the country - ever heard the term "Gullash baron"?
you forgot to mention that Germany sent the soldiers that came back from fighting in France were sent to Flensborg after the 14-18 war, so that they would vote for this city to stay German although it is filled with the Danish history. Same as Danevirke and the wall that still stands from the Vikings. That was manipulated.
it sounds like a conspiracy theory. Of course, if you have an army or naval base plus a marine college in the city you have army personell working and living there from the rest of the country as well. Those institutions are part of the city and not just a made up trick.
Hey iam 2nd generation dainish technically my mom would be 1st gen born in America and considering my great grandmother on my dads side was also from Denmark iam actually over half but yes tottaly American wich I don't know if its actually a blessing or a curse but if its a curse I can change that any way love yore all,s get down positive energy and will to educate without sounding overbearing or condensending do you all possibly have any info on what it would take four a Danish decended American to say go back home at least the home of the blood and d.n.a and regain citizenship and culture and all that all though I must say alot of whats I been learning from you all and other research it explains alot of certain say family wierdnesses any way keep being you all,s kick ass selves
About reasons why Denmark is how it is: Andelsbevægelsen og foreningslivet - the cooperative movement and association life - associations and clubs such as in sports, hobbies, social activism & work, etc - These are some of the reasons for "The state of Denmark". Farmers joined together to start their own dairies and cut out the middle man. This was an American idea, by the way. It helped keep the small farmers in charge of their own lives, as in: "United we stand!" United. But in charge. Community. Almost communism. The word is common. And commonly misused. I'm not a communist, to be clear. But The Cooperative Movement was one of the best things that ever came out of the US, and it cushioned the blow of capitalism and gave Denmark a sense of common sense, which now somehow only resides here, in the North East of Europe with so much better life conditions due to the state representing the voters. France, the United Kingdom and the US all have the same two party hate-machine. You need more parties, coalitions and compromises, based on real and researched facts about how things work, things like vaccines and advertisement for medicine and mock wrestling. Sorry, this has turned into a rant. The idea is that socialism is the opposite of centralized power, be that thru money or votes. The idea is that the state represents the interest of all the citizens, against any economic entity or any other kind of un-democratic power. At least, that is my idea of socialism. It is almost the same as democracy. Only, my idea is to limit any form of power in the hands of one or a few individuals to a certain size, say you can have twenty times the minimum wage or the ownership of what equals twenty times the average size property. If the floor is level and the foundation is solid, the dancers won't fall so often.. Power corrupts. Money is power. Keep it simple - KIS*
@@RobeTrotting 😂😂 don't worry I wont, our Danish indoctrination program is coming along very nicely with you2 and Traveling' Young, soon all 5 of you will become one of us, one of us, one of us 😁😂😂😂👍🙌
You’re saying America was planning to invade overseas territory of neutral European countries during WWI and not GERMANY?! 😂 Please explain this “fact check” and why America paid 25,000,000 USD to Denmark instead of just “taking it”.
While i have no sources on this, as i heard it in school back in the day. However, clearly Germany was not, in 1917, going to send an amphibious assault across the Atlantic to seize the islands. Especially not as Denmark has well over 100000 troops fortified at the border, and good ports for a British landing. And a significant part of the danish population was itching for a rematch of 1864, now with allies. As Denmark allready exported food to the Germans they had neither the capacity nor an interest in war with Denmark. The US however indicated that the islands were "vital to the security of the navy during wartime", and could totally take them with no direct ill effect. However this might tip the balance towards Denmark joining the central powers, so 25 mil was cheaper than the diplomatic cost.
@@larskjar exactly. we sold them before we where invaded by germany( which never happened) because we thought america would anex them without paying us. it was a lose lose situation for denmark, like a lice between to fingernails.
@@RobeTrotting no im not. im saying in case denmark would have fallen to germany, america would have anexed the island like they did with for instance the philipeanes in the 1800s after the spanish american war.. we sold them with a gun to our head. but it was a german gun. not american. america couldnt have risked german occupied terrotory in its "territorial" waters back then anymore than america could accept missiles in cuba 40-45 years later. later on that sale was used as a token in the greenland and who they belonged too.
jeg er kun en historie buff der elsker alt om dansk neutralitet under 1. verdenskrig. jeg har reoler fyldt med bøger på dansk tysk og engelsk omkring alt fra vores kolonier til hvordan vi tabte dem. til vores 5 grundlove( du ahr sikkert kun hørt om de tre( henviser til de gange den er blevet ændret., er resultatet en ny grundlov) vi har et af verdens mest sammenhængende nedskrevne historier, dog ikke så prængende som den engelske. men mindst lige så underholdende.
Denmark allowed Germany to rig the voting of the border. They posponed the vote with allowed germany to move germans into the areas. and at the voting they allowed new german settlers to vote, while the danish citizen that had moved back to denmark, but lived in the area before, were not allowed to vote. The border should be at danevirke!
Honestly, how many of these settlers or moving people might that have been? 1 ... 2 % of the population? Do you think, this would have actually change the outcome of the voting??
wow. I'm really impressed with your research, great job and nice video.
Thank you so much 😀
a little fun You just choose to talk about cards, 2 days after of our card now again have to make a small addition ...
"Hans ø" (no not his island)
the small island up on the west side of Greenland as per. 14 / 6-22 (or Jun-14-2022 to avoid misunderstandings)
- is divided with Canada (60/40 to Denmark) so now we are no longer only landlocked with Germany, but also with ... Canada.
which makes America our "next door neighbor" ...
it's a small world right?
Another fun fact about the war of 1864: It was after this devastating defeat, that the Danish flag was so widely adopted by the Danish public. After the flag had fallen from the sky in Estonia in 1219 and until shortly before this war the flag was only used by the king, state and government. And at one point it was in fact illegal for regular people to fly the flag. But after the defeat in 1864 the people of Denmark would increasingly come together around the flag for happy and sad occasions, little by little making the full-flown flag the symbol of all celebration that it is today, and the half-flown flag the symbol of sorrow. And that is is the story of why today all celebrations including Christmas and birthdays for Dane and foreigner alike are celebrated with flags, to mark that day special and worthy of celebration
After 1864 the Danish flag became illegal in southern Jutland. Instead the native Danes breeded a special local *pig, red with a white stripe,* representing the Danish flag.
[EDIT: My text was 100 years off, "1964" by mistake) ]
@@larsrons7937 off by a 100 years
@@TheTykbry Thanks, I'll edit but mentionit.
Do you want facts about how disgusting the history it is ? 2-WW, Hungary was split in prices, until today you can see on the map, enough to google it, bit if not better go and see for your self, 100 percent Hungarian population towns. Town 100 percent Hungarian half in Slovakia half in Ukraine .......the town 100 speak Hungarian for the past 700 years at least family where split with border in the middle of the town, so families for the past 70 years could not communicate so not to be shut by the border army of Ukraine or Slovakia they developed a special way of communicating to inform other family members that mother has been sick, or any family member has died by singing out on the fields in Hungarian so the Slovakian and Ukrainian soldiers did not understand ......there are many towns like this by the border Hungary bordering Slovakia, Ukraine, and Romania, I grow up in one of them and that's when I REALISED THAT SOMETHING IS FISHI with the history of eastern Europe, it is not right that the border it is in the middle of the town and I can not see my uncle, cousins, grand mom even do we where in the same town ....................and now we pretend that we care for Ukraine? seriously? British shoulders saved animals from shelters instead of Afghani people ..........are you serious ------------------- we talk about gay rights and in Ukraine before war 6 gay friends of mine were killed by ASOF group just because they were gay and ZELENSKY INTEGRATE THE GROUP AS PART OF Ukraine army .....................and now he is demanding ..........seriously .................ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
For the third week now I have been living in a fog, I can’t eat, drink or laugh normally, the war doesn’t fly out of my head for a second.
Ukrainians, stay strong, all our thoughts are with you.
PLEASE HELP MHE B
DIFFICULT SITUATIONS
Of course, I am very ashamed to ask for help from people I do not know, but I really want to unlearn to be a Programmer.
I have already started studying for the 2nd month, but I need practice, and a laptop for practice!
Why programmer? since I am an orphan and I recently graduated from a technical school, for this reason the State no longer supports me and I have no income from the word "completely" My brother and I live in B
in a small village and it is extremely difficult to find a job. We live rather poorly (but amicably), although we have our own apartment, we have not paid the utility bill for the second year.
And I really want to start a better life for myself. Even B Pyaterochka was not hired for a job, because after the death of my mother I had Panic Attacks and depression, and therefore
my sister sent me to a psychiatric hospital even if it was a long time ago but not
give me a green traffic light to
normal life after that.
Recently, a friend offered me help and said he would help in learning, but you need a laptop for this.
The training will be free, but the cheapest and most suitable laptop in our village costs 700€ The amount is quite large for me and it is unlikely that I will be able to save it up in the near future. .
If it's not difficult for you, can you please bring the fulfillment of my goal closer. I will be glad and very grateful for any amount.
At least 1€. I'm sure the world is full
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Jeg lærer en hel masse om Danmark af jeres videoer, det er meget interessant :) Tak for at tage tiden til at lave sådan nogle velinformerede videoer!
Huh? Speak interwebs! Ya'..erh, dane?
This video is so informative, even I as a native am learning so much.
Thanks for being so on the point and not
spending hours on preamples and post bones ;-)
Another great video from you guys. Keep 'em comming! :-) Back in 2009 a work assignment brought me to Ringsted, Iowa. A small town with only ~400 inhabitants. It was founded in the 1880s by danish emigrants, as you described. To this day, a large percentage are named Jensen, Hansen, Rasmussen, Jorgensen, Sondergaard and so on. Really nice people that to some extend tried to keep some danish culture in their daily life, like singing old danish songs, eating rullepølse and leverpostej and flying the danish flag - along with the american flag, of course. They had even translated the danish national anthem, "Der er et yndigt land", into english, but with focus on the content of the text, more than making it 'easy to sing'.
*I love maps.* Whenever I toss out old brochures from my travels abroad I always *keep the maps.* And later upon return I can find my way by the memory of maps I looked at decades ago. *Danmark til Ejderen!*
We love maps too - they play a weirdly major part in our relationship 😂 Derek only got a second date because he could identify a random country on a blank map of Europe (it was Belarus, so not exactly a given).
@@RobeTrotting Well done, Derek! Those are the kind of lifeskills that count 💪
@@RobeTrotting Brilliant! The map was blank, white, that could be no other than White Russia, Belarus.
aahh maps!! I'm betting Mike loved this one :) Great job guys!!
Really enjoyed this video. It’s an excellent job of explaining some historical highlights without getting bogged down in the weeds. More please.
Another great video - I love your channel ❤
This has been my favourite video of yours of the last 2 years! Well done.
Yet another excellent video. Tusind tak!
Loved this: learnt a lot about Danish history from this video. Mike poring over that map at the beginning looks like me with maps (and don't get me started on transit maps!) 😍 Enjoy your weekend, Derek and Mike.
Historian here, and one who absolutely love the wars of the 1800's and all the nitty gritty details that happened leading up to and in the aftermath of absolute monarchy - including, romanticism and the rise of nationalism and national identity, the reshaping of state laws including labor laws and of course, the loss of land. We had lost most importance at that point after the loss of the fleet in 1801 (and certainly after the bombing of the capital in 07) but you are right, especially in terms of trade and alliances, Denmark still had some sway. Very nice video.
Danmark til Eidern! as they say. (slogan used by the nationalists in the late 1800's though apparently Christian the 10th didn't really get the memo that no one actually believed getting the border all the way down to Eidern was possible. Arguably they just believed it would be easier to negotiate from a standpoint of asking too much to begin with XD)
Lovely Video, Much love from jylland.
Thanks so much, we are overdue for a Jylland trip 😊🇩🇰
@@RobeTrotting you Guys are always welcome over here, very beautiful over here in the summer.
Amazing research and execution, very well done.
Glad to se you getting more serious (not that you were not before - but this is a considerably improvement)
Thanks so much Eivind - we are trying to up our game a bit and keep things more… edutainment (education/entertainment). Those are the kinds of videos we like watching 😊🇩🇰
Fabulous video, guys!!
Loved every minute ❤
hello from Hundested 🌸🌱
Yay! Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it - maps are on of our favorite things. We could stare at them for hours and just connect all the things we know and have a list of more to research. Fun fact, early in our relationship, Mike had a blank map of Europe and pointed to a country and said to Derek “what country is this?” - “Belarus, why?” - “okay, we can keep seeing each other.” 😂
@@RobeTrotting
🤣🤣 fun dating anecdote but,
I understand completely.
Maps are my go to 'thing' while traveling.
I still redraw my daily route, if I'm city walking in Edinburgh, Napoli, or wherever...
I adore maps! 🌍
My grandmother's grandfather became the first mayor of Elsinore, Utah, a small town of Danish-Americans named after Hamlet's castle in Helsingør, Denmark.
4:20 The told story is not complete. The population in the shown area wasn't cultural homogenous. Holstein was a predomenantly German speaking area, Southern Schleswig was a mix of Danish, German and Frisian and Northern Schleswig was except of the bigger cities Danish speaking. Furthmore was the Duchy of Holstein a fief of the Holy Roman Empire to the Danish Kingdom. With the November Constitution the Danish King wanted to incorporate the whole area into the Danish Kingdom which was a violation of the London Protocol of 1852. This led in the end to a war with Prussia and, not to forget, Austria.
Love your videos, happy you two enjoy Denmark :)
Nice work ! 🇩🇰😉
Cudoes to you for making a video, that is more extensive on Danish national history, than most history lessons I ever took!
I think it is importent knowledge for anyone to have anz yet, a lot of it are'nt even taught in gynnasium.
Charles Zanco immigrated with his father from Randers in 1835, he died at The Alamo.Some say he inspired the Lone Star design in State of Texas flag
Wow, that’s a cool fact! thank you for adding this 😊🇩🇰
Would like to know more about that, sounds exciting if correct 😁
Loooooove Texas, especially Houston, my number one place of work in the US
Superb lecture. Well done, mates.
Thank you Tommy 😊🇩🇰 Glad you enjoyed it!
As a Dane born 20 kilometers from the German border, I really liked your story, my grandmother on father side, was actually born in the occupied old danish land, and when she sadly got old and sick, her last language was Germany/platdeutch. Regarding emigration she had 2 uncles that went to the USA,, sadly no real history about these two brothers, but in my family we had some beautiful teaspoons made in sterling silver, ingraved with a "S" on one side (family name) and Chicago in side of the spoon, so All of the family always thought that they did make it in the States
*Danmark til Ejderen!*
(Nej, så nationalistisk er jeg ikke, men jeg kunne ikke lade være; min tip-tip-tip-oldefar hed Peter Hiort Lorenzen)
@@larsrons7937 det er sku okay, som gammel garder er det et must 😁😁😁 ved ikke hvad de unge garder råber på vin og ølgod idag.
Danmark til Eideren forever 👍👍👍👍
@@finnskrydstrup1850 *_Danmark til Ejderen!_* 🍺🍻
We are coming to Copenhagen on June 29 through July 10. Staying one block north of Tivoli. I would really like a copy of the first map shown in this video. Can you point me to how to acquire one? Really enjoy your channel, thanks!
In case anyone reads my original comment you can find that map at the major tourist places like palaces.
Your. Best video ever. Keep it up, guys. You are great!
Wow, thanks! 🤩 We will keep them coming 😊🇩🇰
i learn more about Denmark with you guys, than i ever did in school .... im 32.
A very impressive video. You packed a lot of information into a very short time. It must have taken a lot of research.
Two nitpicks: The EEC referendum was in 1972. Denmark joined 1/1-1973. And borgerlige is spelled borgerlige.
Thanks for the history lesson. I love Denmark.
Our pleasure! We do too and we don’t learn much about Danish history in the states.
@@RobeTrotting, we absolutely don't learn enough. Always love your posts. My husband and I were there in 2019 during the heat wave, not a fan in stie !
I think we need you to go to the Virgin Islands. That's why you have so much vacation here in DK. To go and educate us on these islands 😉😉
The 1863 map doesn't distinguish between the kingdom of Denmark and the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg. The duchies were not part of the kingdom itself, but they were under the Danish king in other ways. Holstein and Lauenburg had purely German language and culture. Schleswig had mostly Danish language and culture, except for the southern part.
My ancestor came over in 1870 and I always wondered why. They were in the part of the country taken over by Prussia, so at 16 came to the US. Even today, that side of my family has very strong Danish pride.
This was a weird episode of Map Men. No ad for surfshark...
😂 🏄 🦈 - in their defense we did a mention for NordVPN once but it was also about sports and how we keep up with American sports while abroad haha - I don’t think I could map a VPN mention fit in with maps.
@@RobeTrotting well, Map Men (on Jay Foreman's channel) do not and I can not stress that enough, *do not* weave in their sponsor messages with the theme of the video. But the effort put into them makes them amazing. Usually I skip sponsor messages (who doesn't) but I stay for theirs. Check them out if for nothing else then for the puns.
Fun fact; if you go to Søndergade, Kolding, you can see a bridge which was the old border from 1864-1920
Another interesting period in Danish history is the England wars 1801, 1807-1814. England feared that the great Danish navy would fight for the enemy which lead to the famous navy battle outside Copenhagen in 1801. Even though our ships were without sails we (almost) beat the Nelson fleet. He had to use dirty tricks to win. They came back and stole the rest of our ships in 1807. The king then allowed all Danish ships to act as pirates, if an English ship turned up. I'm sure you guys can get the historic facts somewhere. Check it out.
Have you ever heard about the danish immigrant Jacob a. Riis. He might very well have been the most influential danish immigrant to come to USA. He wrote a book called "How the other half lives". It documented the horrible living conditions in New York in the 1890s and started an effort to better the living conditions of the poor.
Im not alltogether sure of this little tidbit, but from something i read a long time ago, George Washington had danish ancestors, there was a progression in his last name, that was explained, a danish colonist was named Vass, with some pronouncing difficulties, this became Wash, there were Wash's in the countryside and in town, so somewher along the line, it became Wash in town, and then later on Washington
An interesting map you could have included would have been of the north sea empire when under the rule of Knud den store (Canute the great) Denmark was an empire made up of iceland, norway, parts of sweden and then brittania. Empire collapsed as soon as Canute died of course
Very , very interesting ( I am Danish) I had no idea it was such a HUGE piece of Denmark that was lost to Germany. Thank you for showing the Maps! You are both doing such a great job!!!♥
Thank you for this historical perspective.
The most practical thing about Denmark and the Danish, for me personally anyway, is that all of their kings have been named either Frederik, or Christian.
The second most interesting thing about Denmark and its lingo is what Swedish people have told to me, online: That Danish & Swedish are markedly similar and if you learn one, you can easily learn the other, yay!
Reading Norwegian is easy too. It's spelled the way it's said in Danish.
@@andersjjensen Interesting to know, thank you. I have also heard that Norwegian, Swedish and Danish are mutually intelligible, as well.
My personal opinion of Danish is that it is spelled NOTHING like it is pronounced.
@@SuiGenerisAbbie Danish is spelled stupid, no argument there. Norwegian is (mostly) spelled like Danish is pronounced, but the Norwegians don't pronounce it that way (YAY!). "TV Swedish" is easy to understand if you already speak Danish, but "local-dialect Swedish" is next to impossible to understand unless they speak really damn slowly.... But generally, if you can READ any of the languages you can read the others (though Swedish has quite a few words - especially nouns - in common with German, so speaking a bit of that helps too). But I don't know many who can just have a fluent conversation with either of the others without saying "huh?" all the time :P
@@andersjjensen Brilliant feedback for which I thank you.
A fun story I was told while visiting Rømø was that apparently when they had to vote on wether to be Danish or German, 3 *people* voted germany, while the rest of the population voted for Denmark! Thats crazy to imagine
Another fact about the US Virgin Islands is that the two main cities on Saint Croix are called Fredericksted and Chistiansted, after the Danish kings.
Also, Jeffrey Epstein had to use trickery to buy one of the smaller islands from the family of a Danish politician. Some of that dispute was still ongoing when Epstein died.
I was part of the 800 year old celebration, when they were blasting out "Dansing In The Street" all over Copenhagen, especially "På Rådhuspladsen" bloody good old times.
8:12 it seems Denmark got more land that a 50/50 split on votes would give. It looks like 75% had to vote for Germany, to stay in Germany.
You should visit the German minority in Denmark and the Danish minority in Germany. They have schools, kindergarten, libraries and more.
That’s a really cool idea Jacob. It’s not the brightest history but the modern part seems super interesting and another cultural experience.
Funny you should mention Nebraska, oe of the few places making me think - oh Im back home
It’s so funny you say that, but that’s definitely what people looked for back then (at least I think they did it consciously). We visited where one of Derek’s an estor’s left Bavaria from in the 1730’s and driving in the landscape looked exactly like where his father was born and his family lived for generations (in a part of Pennsylvania that was German-speaking well into the 1800’s).
100 years after the referendum, in Germany there still is a political party for the Danes that stayed: the South Schleswig Voters' Association, which even has one seat in the Bundestag (the federal parliament).
Wow, did not know that - thanks for teaching us :)
SSW also holds seats in the regional parliament. Usually it gets twices as many vates as there are really people of the minority are in Schleswig-Holstein. Therefore it might try to represent the interest of the Danish minority, but is also voted for by others for regional reasons or because it is cool.
I feel like you missed the chance of putting Schmeichel in the video guarding the borders of our curent map 😏
Hahaha 🤣 his hands protect us all!
@@RobeTrotting See!!!
👏👏👏👏 ;-)
Subtitles call DF "Donk's Faul Party". I move that this be their new name.
Seconded 🙋🏻♂️
😂 That’s actually really funny.
@@RobeTrotting Also "Newborn Lee Party". I have no idea what that mean. Some kind of reborn Southern general?
Also, thanks for adding subtitles. Helps almost deaf people like me immeasurably.
I think my mom got arrested at Rebild one year as she protested the Vietnam war and western imperialism
Wow! No way! That is really cool! Your mom sounds fantastic 🙌🏼
@@RobeTrotting Thanks and I was harmless just young women with bare breasts and banners :D
I'd argue that the north sea empire under Knud den Store or the kalmar union as the height of danish power.
You’re probably right about Knud’s North Sea empire - it’s hard to contextualize with today’s view of borders and sovereignty but maybe we should just cover that eta in a future video - it’s really fascinating.
Do you understand Danish, both written and spoken?
Written more easily.
Chr. X wanted the city of Flensburg back, not all of Slesvig.
Bring up LOTR map and fits with places in Denmark. Helms depp, isengard and many more are places you can visit in Denmark. And I think the elves was taken ispiration from elverum in norway.
Peak Danish Power? - Try to look back further to the lands of Canute the Great or a bit later the Kalmar Union.
And what makes youthing Denmark was in need of money during WW1 - we were getting rich being neutral and trading. The only reason we sold the Virgin Islands for $25 million was that the alternative was to get nothing in return - they would have become USAmercian in any case.
Point 1 - I wouldn’t call that peak power or imperialism in the terms of modern nations states. Cnute’s North Sea empire is a really cool part of history, but the level of control, sovereignty, governance is a bit different. I also think the Kalmar Union fits a different classification and purpose (it was basically a defensive alliance to deter stronger neighbors).
Point 2 - Denmark was hardly rich or getting rich during the war period - the Danish economy shrunk and trade was still much lower than pre-war trade. Plus the Virgin Islands were an added economic drain in another hemisphere. You can’t claim that America was going to annex the islands. The negotiations took 50 years.
@@RobeTrotting Where do you get the impression that Danish economy during WW1 was bad? The bad economic crisis happened after the war. The war ended in 1918. The catastroffic failure of Landmansbanken was in 1922 - nasty when a too big to fail bank fails.
The workers might not have been so happy about the nasty inflation that happened after they just made a 5 year deal on wages with the employers, but there was plenty money in the country - ever heard the term "Gullash baron"?
you forgot to mention that Germany sent the soldiers that came back from fighting in France were sent to Flensborg after the 14-18 war, so that they would vote for this city to stay German although it is filled with the Danish history. Same as Danevirke and the wall that still stands from the Vikings. That was manipulated.
We didn't know that or come across it. Thanks for sharing this.
it sounds like a conspiracy theory. Of course, if you have an army or naval base plus a marine college in the city you have army personell working and living there from the rest of the country as well. Those institutions are part of the city and not just a made up trick.
Nice... I think the most inaccurate thing (unfortunately) is that the "i" in "Dinesen" is pronounced like in "bee"
Noted 😊 I hope he doesn’t see this haha
The EEC referendum was NOT in 1973, but 1972 (Oct. 2)!!!!
Hey iam 2nd generation dainish technically my mom would be 1st gen born in America and considering my great grandmother on my dads side was also from Denmark iam actually over half but yes tottaly American wich I don't know if its actually a blessing or a curse but if its a curse I can change that any way love yore all,s get down positive energy and will to educate without sounding overbearing or condensending do you all possibly have any info on what it would take four a Danish decended American to say go back home at least the home of the blood and d.n.a and regain citizenship and culture and all that all though I must say alot of whats I been learning from you all and other research it explains alot of certain say family wierdnesses any way keep being you all,s kick ass selves
About reasons why Denmark is how it is:
Andelsbevægelsen og foreningslivet
- the cooperative movement and association life
- associations and clubs such as in sports,
hobbies, social activism & work, etc
- These are some of the reasons for
"The state of Denmark".
Farmers joined together
to start their own dairies
and cut out the middle man.
This was an American idea, by the way.
It helped keep the small farmers
in charge of their own lives,
as in: "United we stand!"
United. But in charge.
Community. Almost communism.
The word is common.
And commonly misused.
I'm not a communist, to be clear.
But The Cooperative Movement
was one of the best things that
ever came out of the US,
and it cushioned the blow of capitalism
and gave Denmark a sense of common sense,
which now somehow only resides here,
in the North East of Europe
with so much better life conditions
due to the state representing the voters.
France, the United Kingdom and the US
all have the same two party hate-machine.
You need more parties, coalitions and compromises,
based on real and researched facts about
how things work, things like vaccines and
advertisement for medicine and mock wrestling.
Sorry, this has turned into a rant.
The idea is that socialism is the opposite
of centralized power, be that thru money or votes.
The idea is that the state represents
the interest of all the citizens,
against any economic entity
or any other kind of un-democratic power.
At least, that is my idea of socialism.
It is almost the same as democracy.
Only, my idea is to limit any form of power
in the hands of one or a few individuals
to a certain size, say you can have
twenty times the minimum wage
or the ownership of what equals
twenty times the average size property.
If the floor is level
and the foundation is solid,
the dancers won't fall so often..
Power corrupts.
Money is power.
Keep it simple - KIS*
lurpak is arla lol Edit: alot of things is secretly arla
hey tjek out William s Knudsen the one dollar man ..
i livei in zone 1
Dane Law? Oh! To OLD?
I don't know any of the 4th july singers? ..BAD-BAd-Bad-Dane :-( ..I know
We didn’t either 😬
For the algoritme
HAHA 😂 Super appreciated 🙏
My niece claims that you have gone back to the US. Is that true?
That is not true, although we are going to a wedding in the US this weekend, we still live in Copenhagen 🇩🇰😊
@@RobeTrotting Thank you. Jeres udsendelser er stadig interessante. Så....
Try making a vedio when you only talk Danish
There is no point showing colour coded maps of distribution statistics without the key for the different colours.
Sorry for that - we figured the explanations aides enough, but noted for future videos.
Sadly enough nobody thought about they would fall in to epstein's hands😮😮😂😂
I'm Danish by the way so I don't have a pc-funny-filter for being funny 😁❤
😳
We love Danish humor anyway - way before we moved to Denmark haha. (just don’t cancel us 😂)
@@RobeTrotting 😂😂 don't worry I wont, our Danish indoctrination program is coming along very nicely with you2 and Traveling' Young, soon all 5 of you will become one of us, one of us, one of us 😁😂😂😂👍🙌
Kbh is not denmark.
Where is it then Steen? 🙄
thye virgin island story is not entirely true. america would have taken the island not germany.
You’re saying America was planning to invade overseas territory of neutral European countries during WWI and not GERMANY?! 😂
Please explain this “fact check” and why America paid 25,000,000 USD to Denmark instead of just “taking it”.
While i have no sources on this, as i heard it in school back in the day. However, clearly Germany was not, in 1917, going to send an amphibious assault across the Atlantic to seize the islands. Especially not as Denmark has well over 100000 troops fortified at the border, and good ports for a British landing. And a significant part of the danish population was itching for a rematch of 1864, now with allies. As Denmark allready exported food to the Germans they had neither the capacity nor an interest in war with Denmark. The US however indicated that the islands were "vital to the security of the navy during wartime", and could totally take them with no direct ill effect. However this might tip the balance towards Denmark joining the central powers, so 25 mil was cheaper than the diplomatic cost.
@@larskjar exactly. we sold them before we where invaded by germany( which never happened) because we thought america would anex them without paying us. it was a lose lose situation for denmark, like a lice between to fingernails.
@@RobeTrotting no im not. im saying in case denmark would have fallen to germany, america would have anexed the island like they did with for instance the philipeanes in the 1800s after the spanish american war.. we sold them with a gun to our head. but it was a german gun. not american.
america couldnt have risked german occupied terrotory in its "territorial" waters back then anymore than america could accept missiles in cuba 40-45 years later. later on that sale was used as a token in the greenland and who they belonged too.
jeg er kun en historie buff der elsker alt om dansk neutralitet under 1. verdenskrig. jeg har reoler fyldt med bøger på dansk tysk og engelsk omkring alt fra vores kolonier til hvordan vi tabte dem. til vores 5 grundlove( du ahr sikkert kun hørt om de tre( henviser til de gange den er blevet ændret., er resultatet en ny grundlov) vi har et af verdens mest sammenhængende nedskrevne historier, dog ikke så prængende som den engelske. men mindst lige så underholdende.
Arla is Swedish, not Danish :)
Ahh not 100% true. Arlas HQ is in Denmark and is owned by farmers in Sweden and Denmark and other countris.
Hehe. "Ny Borlig" is actually "Ny Borgerlige", but I don't hate your version :)
Oops - that was an unfortunate typo. Don't tell Pernille Vermund! 😂 "Two immigrants on UA-cam misspelled the name of your party".
Looks/sounds like the brand new re-writing of History....zzz
Oh.
You Are so wrong. You need to see at the history of All Denmark.
Denmark allowed Germany to rig the voting of the border. They posponed the vote with allowed germany to move germans into the areas. and at the voting they allowed new german settlers to vote, while the danish citizen that had moved back to denmark, but lived in the area before, were not allowed to vote. The border should be at danevirke!
Honestly, how many of these settlers or moving people might that have been? 1 ... 2 % of the population? Do you think, this would have actually change the outcome of the voting??
If you're gonna make a video where you write danish words you should do it right, for example, its not ny borlig but "Nye Borgerlige"!
Sleavig and holstein is still Danish in my eays, never will be German.
Well, try to communicate with Danish in Schleswig-Holstein and see how far you will get...