American Reacts to 10 Unusual Facts About Norway
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Sometimes I feel like watching videos about random or unusual facts about Norway is the best way for me to increase my general understanding of Norwegian culture. I am very interested to react and lean about 10 facts and unusual things about Norway, in part because I really have no idea what to expect! As an American reacting to Norway for the first time in my life I learn something new every time. If you enjoy my reaction feel free to leave a like, comment, or subscribe for more videos like this!
Hi Tyler, here is another fact about Vikings and Norway, did you know that the norwegian/icelandic Leiv Eiriksson was the first european to discover America, and not Colombus as you are tought in school?
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@@Catherine.SunnyMeadows Which is in (North) America
@@Catherine.SunnyMeadows lol, bring out the atlas again ;)
@@Catherine.SunnyMeadows Correction: Happy Valley-Goose Bay
Yea but china discovered it significantly sooner, so battling over first european is kind of moot
Winter sport is huge in the Norwegian culture. Especially skiing.
Oh dear God. Grandiosa being called “fancy” is probably the funniest thing I have heard this year.
Vikings didn't have horns on their helmets!
To go Viking basically meant to go travel abroad for trade or plunder, so the Vikings were the people traveling, not the people staying at home.
Horns was for drinking, not on helmet... Helt rett! :)
The word Viking came from the Name Vik, which is what we called skagen before, so people traveling and trading from the Vik were vikings.
@@oblivionnokk3531 I think it has to do with the general term "vik", ie inlet/bay/fjord.
It's easy to jump to conclusions, like some claim that the word "Russia" comes from Vikings from Roslagen.
I din't say they (or you) are wrong, just that I'm not convinced.
@@matshjalmarsson3008 Well. I go from the explanation used by historians as claim to the word, but it is clear that Skagen when named Viken was named so due to the word Vik, as it litteraly is a Vik 😅
@@oblivionnokk3531 Skagen is a place in northern Denmark.
What you're thinking of is Skagerrak, however, it wasn't just Skagerrak that in olden times were called Viken, it was the coastal regions near Skagerrak and the Oslofjord.
And yes, one theory is that the word Viking may be derived from that land, another theory is that it's derived from the general concept "vik".
About winters/snow/skiing: all places is Norway get some amount of snow during winter. The coast tends to have milder winters than the inland (Gulf Stream), and many places, particularly in the north and in the mountains, can get tens of feet of snow. Temperatures can drop well below 10-20C in many places for periods of time. Winter sports is very much a big deal here, and lots of public funding go towards making sure every kid in snowy places have access to organized winter sports. With an emphasis on fun, of course. When it's cold and clear and three feet of powder in the hills, we go. No excuses.
Hey Norway isn't that selfish, a few years ago Norway wanted to give away the peak to a mountain shared by Norway and Finland to commemorate the Finnish 100th independence day, (this would have become Finland's highest peak) but sadly the Norwegian consitution put a stop to that, despite massive political will.
Also, about the christmas tree for Britain, Norway also supplied the bronze used in the Statue of Liberty, built in France.
They could give it away if they really wanted. That's like Americans say u can't take our guns away its in our constitution. They and we has changed it before.
@@viking_nor If we could, we really would, like we love Finland and still, we would yet hold northern europes tallest peak. Not really a loss, but our constitution is binding on not giving away land.
And Sweden supplied the bolts for the Eiffel Tower. Not related, other than the fact that it seems there has been some major impact metal exports from Scandinavia xD
@@Luggruff And norway shipped wooden poles to Amsterdam to keep the houses standing above water, but how is that relevant to a mountain top?
Not to sound superior but it is copper that was from Norway. It was mined from an area known as Kopervik. My father in law grew up there and told me this fact.
We Danes say that Norwegians can ski before they can walk, there are 5000 year old rock carvings in Norway with people skiing.Most Danes, but also Norwegians and Swedes, went on Viking raids, a mixture of trade and robbery, most in the North were farmers, however.
We are deffo born with skis on our feet. Gave my mother alot of pain giving birth to me tho..
Ha. I was born to two professional slalom coaches. My mother trained British SAS soldiers back in the day. Somehow my genes got confused. I’ve been dubbed the only person they’ve been unable to learn to ski. Sabotaged my skis in the fifth grade and they didn’t bother buying me a new pair. Win for me!
React to: norwegian king's speech - norway is one 👍😁👍🇳🇴
that speech is so powerful!
As a Norwegian I loved watching this. You're very welcome to visit Norway. I recommend going up north in the winter time to see the northern lights and massive amounts of snow.
The first time I visited Norway was in late June of 1988. I flew into Oslo and continued to Stavanger on the southwest coast of the North Atlantic. While the flight was approximately an hour it goes over so many snow capped mountains. Most of the valleys were clear of snow. During winter flying the same path it is completely blanketed by snow.
Driving into the mountains in the winter from Stavanger to a ski resort the snow accumulation as went deeper into the interior of the country snow built up quickly. Going up to the first mountain range the snow went from 18 inches. We drove through three tunnels on the way. After traveling past four mountain ranges when we arrived there was approximately twelve feet of snow at the base of the mountain at the ski resort. You can see it on film but being there you start to grasp how massive the mountains of Norway are. I personally felt like an insect looking at the surroundings. There is no substitute for being there.
Hi Tyler! Nice reaction as always 🙂 But if you really want to learn about Norway and the Norwegian people, you should react to The Kings Speech - Norway is one. I bet you will be surprised 🙂
Prices got so high, because most people make their own Christmas cookies, up to 7 different brands and almost all brands includes butter. So if you didn't get butter it would effect your christmas wich is why people was so willing to pay a lot for it.
I could watch your videos about Norway for hours, LOL. You seem like such a fun and humble guy. I always smile watching 😃 Btw there isnt snow here for a lot of months, and it gets less and less snow (normally from December to March/April but the last years it hasnt even been snow on Christmas). Spring is April-May. Summer from June-Aug and Fall from Sept-Nov.
Some internet guy reacting to a video about Norway and 1000 norwegians come to watch. It's always amusing. (LOL yes, I'm norwegian too)
And then the Norwegians communicate with each other on English in the comments section.
Hey, found your channel a little while back and I am completely hooked. You provide such a calm and reflected environment in your videos. :) Being a Norwegian currently studying abroad, I also get very proud ofcourse. I so appreciate how much content you've created already on our little northern kingdom. You've quickly become my go-to youtuber to put on 10/10
You should check out videos on the Norwegian prison! You will be shocked of the difference from american prisons ;)
th-cam.com/video/zNpehw-Yjvs/w-d-xo.html Video on Halden high security prison in Norway.
th-cam.com/video/0IepJqxRCZY/w-d-xo.html
No shock whatever to discover that, just like their legal system, their healthcare system, their political system ,their general education system ~ the US prison system is an abject failure.
vikings should be huge in America. They did discover the place, after all. oh, and no, they did not wear helmets with horns.
It is in Minnesota :) Hei å hå.
@@monki_sudo Wrong, Vikings met natives and trade things... and raid something they want. Torsken
@@monki_sudo The history you find here: th-cam.com/channels/lfHrHvX1byPvPouM-j8bEA.html
@@monki_sudo Denne gørra burde du ikke komme med her, dette er faktisk en amerikaner som vil lære noe og så kommer du med sånt..? Gå til historie siden jeg ga link til å prøv det samme der, lykke til med uhøfligheten du viser. Kvalmt er meget dekkende.
dude america is a massive country with beautiful wonders. amazing nature.
Snow is seasonal in Norway, and yes winter sports is BIG. Most people like to go hiking on skis in the winter. In the summer there is very little snow, however we do have one ski-lift that is only open during the summertime on the Folgefonna -glacier.
Også på Strynefjellet👍😊
My home town is the oldest city in Norway, and it's very much dedicated to the Viking history.
We have a ship-yard and viking boats open for the public!
There ar a whole festival each year dedicated to it, and people every once in a while have stalls selling their handkraft viking things at the towns market
i live in the south, and we have snow about 4 months a year. but lately it's been less. If u go a little more north or higher in altitude u can get up to 6-9 feet of snow in the winter time in regular places and even more in some other places. It's not usualy snow all year. it's seasonal.
Yes, skiing is one of the core things in our culture, so deeply rooted that it's a national treasure.
Been like that for many, many generations too
It has all sorts of traditions with it, from the time of year you go, to where you go, and what you bring with you.
One of the most traditional things is going to the mountain or cottage during Easter, bring friends and family, Pack lunch - sandwich or hot dogs, Kvikklinsj (Milk chocolate) orange and hot chocolate.
Then you go home and have a hearty meal, usually lamb - if Easter time.
Some celebrate Christmas in the same manner, my family do this every year for both celebrations
Yes, winter sports is definitely part of Norwegian culture. We say that norwegians are born with skis on their feet. Many people learn to ski as soon as they learn to walk. There isn't snow all year, EXCEPT on the glaciers which we have a few of.
Some things worth mentioning about the video you reacted to. The video makes a very picture perfect representation, and reality is often a little more interesting.
The reason salmon wasn't used for sushi is because Pacific salmon isn't safe to eat raw, while Atlantic salmon is. The first to make salmon sushi was a restaurant in New York, it seems, but importing atlantic salmon made it possible for the Japanese to eat it too, back when sushi was not globally consumed. It technically started with Norwegian exporters introducing salmon to Japanese importers, but this has often been hyped up, in reality salmon sushi was already a thing in sushi restaurants across the US and it was the Japanese themselves which found how to best use it in sushi and thus set the standard for salmon sushi.
Jostedalsbreen is not the largest glacier in Northern Europe as said here, but it is the largest in continental Europe. The largest in Northern Europe is Vatnajökull, while the largest glacier in Norway is Austfonna located on Svalbard. The largest glacier in all of Europe is Severny Island ice cap in Russia. These three larger glaciers are all on islands, so Jostedalsbreen is still the largest on the continent. This all changes when you use different kinds of definition of what a glacier is and isn't, sometimes Severny and Austfonna isn't counted as glaciers, but, Vatnajökull is a glacier by all definitions and is always larger than Jostedalsbreen.
The butter crisis came as a result of Norwegian restriction on importing dairy products. Apart from certain famous European cheeses Norway does not import dairy products, so when weather caused a shortage in dairy production there wasn't enough butter for christmas. I found that crisis particularly interesting as it happened, because Norway was forced to import butter and it allowed me to try butter from different European countries. France, Denmark, Belgium, the UK, the Netherlands. I got to see what European butter is like. And it was trash to be honest. The EU has different rules when it comes to pasteurisation and different practices of feeding cattle, causing a very different tasting butter not suitable as a spread on bread or in the traditional christmas rice pudding, which Norwegians eat with sugar, cinnemon and a lump of butter(which melts in the warm pudding). The European butter was good for frying things in the pan though, but apart from that it was pretty bad.
The Christmas tree given to Britain is ridiculed by the citizens of London every year. This is because Norway is a country further north to the UK, so the wild spruce are less dense and look very poor compared to British spruce, especially when reaching that size. It's really not ideal to have huge Norwegian spruce which was just found in the woods in trafalgar square, and the main reason London keeps accepting it is because of the sentimental value. You don't wanna turn down a gift which is supposed to show gratitude for WW2 efforts, no matter how bad the tree looks.
That pizza shown in the video is nothing like what grandiosa looks like. Grandiosa is a cheap flat bread made with sparingly use of toppings made to imitate pizza and tastes like cardboard, it comes from Sunnmøre and should tell you all you need to know about people from that region(I live in Sunnmøre, I'm allowed to say it). It used to be the most consumed dish a couple of decades ago, but I think everyone agrees now that the unofficial national dish today is tacos. Norwegian tacos is derived from American style tacos, but with a lot more salad and vegetables and almost never beans, and it's almost always made with pan fried minced meat(or ground beef, as you Americans say).
I once was at a dinner party where tacos were served in which there also were Mexicans invited, and boy did they complain about minced meat used in tacos. But Norwegians use minced beef for every imported dish; every kind of pasta dishes(including bolognese!?!), lasagne, chili con carne, stroganof, home-made pizza, burrito, taco, nacho, kebabs, asian dumplings, spring rolls, moussaka, goulash, stews, and even tikka masala(though it's minced chicken or lamb for that, in respect to hindus I guess). I wouldn't be surprised if I one day see mince used for sushi, it's like every imported dish is just different varieties of mince made to imitate foreign food.
Wow Nabium. What a great comment. I was going to write something about the London tree and butter, but you did it so much better.
@@lillia5333 Thanks, dude. Or dudette! :) I appreciate it.
Yeah I'm afraid Tyler is getting a bit of a "glansbilde" view of Norway through these youtube videos. Good thing we're here to give some context.
OMG, you made me laugh about the minced beef. Though some of us try to actually use beef and chicken, at least sometimes. Then it's the price...you know. Then we use minced beef to make our kjøttkaker, of course.
I wasn't aware the Brits were laughing of the Christmas three, but it makes sense. Poor Brits, who won't say no thanks out of politeness. It is the first thing we learn at school about the British, that they are so polite. Maybe we should tell them they are allowed to say no thanks?
About the Grandiosa - it's a great starter when you are in a hurry. I usually put on some leftovers, extra onion, ketchup, cheese and spices, and then I am good to go. In good Norwegian spirit, we use what we have and make the best out of it.
@@ahkkariq7406 Yeah it's actually a big thing in Britain. I've seen it ridiculed on panel shows and in British papers again and again for years and years, it's become a Christmas tradition to complain about how ugly the tree on trafalgar square is. They don't always know about the history of the tree of course.
And you're allowed to like grandiosa, I'm just being a snob. I'm never in a hurry anyways as I'm chronically ill. :] lol
@@Nabium to me i dont care where the food is made as long as it edible.....Lidl sandwiches taste good for example
keep in mind, that those 24 million pizzas are the brand Grandiosa alone, so the total amount is probably way higher. I for one do eat between 2 - 10 pizzas per month, but I never eat grandiosa, I just don't like frozen pizzas very much. I make my own or sometimes I buy a takeaway pizza.
One of the inalienable advantages one have finally achieved by becoming an adult is that one does not have to go skiing.
-Jens Bjørneboe, Norwegian author and hater of skiing
I go snowboarding at both summer and winter seasons, No less than 2h drive away
You can look up Folgefonna, it is amazing.
Snowboarding and skiing in t-Shirt mid day then cool of during dinner time, BBQ and swiming in the sea.
During that butter crisis some people from Finland packed theirs cars/rowing boats full of cheap butter here and crossed the Lapland border to sell the butter like 100€ per pack.. I think at the peak it was like 250€/500g packet
Viking was actually something you did. basically when you went to raid and trade in other countries. Alot of people compare vikings to pirates-
Hi:) I love your reactions about Norway i have watch a lot of them as a dude who live in Norway:) But the thing about the christmas tree in Trafalgar square, it is Norway who give that tree to the britans to show our aprisiation to the british people for helping us out during WW2, when we was under German ocupation during WW2:)
Getting a full grasp of how the Norwegian culture works is difficult even for some Norwegians to be honest, but generally we are a shy but loyal people, making us seem introverted and somewhat clique-y.
Norways prison in Halden, is a thing I like about Norway. The values of people, rich or poorer .
2:50 yes very much, basically everyone skies every winter, and go to your own little cabin with your friends and family, at Easter you usually ski a lot, and it’s also snow (at least in some of norway) from end of October to the middle of may ish
hi tyler, I'm from Norway and have always been fascinated by people from other countries who react to Norwegian things, as you say, Norway is an interesting country for those who don't live in Norway, but when you live in Norway, it's different haha but after a good time. since I've watched all the videos on the channel again and I'm impressed by how much you're willing to learn if you want to have a perspective on things you're wondering about. let me know and I'll try and explain things as best I can
Its funny how you describe vikings. Because in norway we look criticly on what they used too do
Winter sport is a big part of the culture. Its seasonal in most parts of Norway, but ofc we have mountains that has snow all year around. Kids often start with cross country skiing and slalom/snowboard at the age of 3-5 years old
❤ your videos of my country, as always ❣️Totally addicted to your great channel ❗️😊
Hey, Tyler. Yes, winter sports, especially skiing, is a fundamental part of our culture. The holidays generally won’t be considered “good” without having done at least one good trip of cross-country skiing. And during the winter, a lot of people love going to skiing centres (what you’d think of as skiing “resorts” though they won’t necessarily need to have a hotel connection). There are entire cities and communities in Norway economically dependent on ski-tourism, both domestic and international. So you could say that winter sports are a pretty big deal in Norway 😅😅
Vikings is in our history and as our ancestors :) The backbone still lives in us.
@@monki_sudo God? No way. Thats the newer guys that a few follows, i dont care.
@@monki_sudo Raknehaugen I Ullensaker i grow up there.. The point is?
Try dna test.. mayby you are a asian? I guess..
I didn't feel the butter crisis, but my grandmother was a bit unhappy that she had to pay double for the butter for the seven different kinds of cookies she feels compelled to bake for christmas
Yes, winter in Norway is seasonal, all tho in some places there can be snow more often that others
Yeahh, butter in Norway, is like gold for mostnorwegisn household especiallyin December month, when everyone starts with christmasbaking, without butter in the marker is definitely a crisis. That is norwegian in a nutshell😅🌸🍃
Re the tree on Trafalgar Square in London every Christmas: You had a remark, Tyler, that you didn't know Norway supported Britain in the Second World War. But it was the other way around, mostly: Norway was occupied by Germany, Britain supported and helped Norway, like it did the other countries attacked by the Nazis. So the tree is Norway's expression of gratitude. (Hmm, the tree last Christmas or one of the last years looked sort of sorry, more bare and more branches broken than usual. There was much criticism and blushing about it here in Norway, but for some reason the mayor of Oslo (the tree is felled next door) thought it looked SO fine.)
Although skiing is very much a sport now, it didn't start like that, but simply as an efficient and quick way of moving across snowy ground, when/where there were/are no roads. Only in winter, Tyler! There is not snow on lowland grounds in summer. Even up north the climate is mellowed by the ocean, which carries the Gulf Stream with it all along our coast.
There are always snow on some mountain tops. But in the winter here where I live we kan get up to 6 feet of snow. But in the mountains it can be like 10 feet. The sommers are nice though. :)
snow is seasonal, the amount varies from year to year, last two years have been quite extreme in my area with multiple meters coming down in short amount of time.
Winter sports is seasonal. The clue is in the name.. I live in the south west of Norway and we never have snow (almost).
I live in northern Norway. One time there was 24cm’s of snow here I’m not even joking. My entire leg was in snow while walking
Hi :) As a Dane, i have been told from a Norwegian friend, that their babies allmost is born with skis on their feet... hihi.... but i'm sure of, that they do learn how to ski very early age. In that way, they are very good at skiing when they are youngsters, and that's why so many Norwegians do win so many medals.
About the butter crises..... at 9:45 into the video, the video shows a "Lurpak" butter package..... but it's a Danish butter brand.
Norway don't have many cows or green areas to make butter for the stores, but a lot of the Norwegias who lives on the mountains outside the big cities often have their own cows to support the family their needs of milk chees and butter. :)
The scandinavian vikings was from Norway, Sweden and Denmark. And they did travel different ways on their journeys. The Swedish vikings did travel to the east, to Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania and more east via the rivers into Russia. And Norway did go north west to Shetland Islands, Faroe Islands, Iceland and Greenland. And the Danish did go west and south to England and France. I'm not 100 % sure, if it was the Norwegian or the Danish vikings who did go to New Foundland (The Wineland). :)
Norway was a part of the Danish Crown in a long period of time. It's just a little bit over 100 years ago that Norway become an independent country. :)
I don't know if you have ever seen or listen to the Eurovision Song Contest, There were a very great song from Denmark about vikings in 2018.
The story behind the song is about a viking who refused to go into war and violence in the new lands they visited. It's a strong text to spread out for the world today.
The viking was Magnus Erlendson. He was a Jarl of the Orkney islands of present day Scotland. He was executed with an axe to the head, deemed as a coward by other vikings, but later on he was sainted by catholics.
Peace from Denmark. :)
I'll put a link for you with the song here below.
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Well Norway have been independent since 1814 but was in a union with Sweden until 1905. We regained our independence. We were independent before the Danes came
@@lucaeriksen True :)
Norwegian Vikings also went to Scotland and down to Ireland, and it was the Norwegian Viking Leiv Eriksson and his entourage who went to New Foundland.
Funny that during the butter shortage there was plenty of cream on the shelves. I simply brought it home and made butter. I believe the lack of butter was an error at the Tine dairy company.
Grandiosa is frozen Pizza, they showed the box of the fancy version of it xD The most sold type of Grandiosa, dont have much on it :D
To give you some grasp of the amount of snow. In a normal year just about 40 Terra Watt of electricity is produces from the it when it melt.
On some av the glaciers the snow is often more then 20 feet. Lower regions have regulary 7-10 feet of snow, but that very a lot out on the coast around Bergen and Stavanger there are often hardly any snow at all, both just a 45 minute drive away there can be 6 feet.
And yes, ski is a very an important part of norwegian culture.
My dad learned to make his own butter during The Butter Crisis 😂😂😂
Only 3 hours into the new year, and it’s gonna be tough to beat how I laughed when I heard “apparently, Vikings are a part of Norwegian history” 😂 and yes, there might be more wealth here, but the prices are high, even for us
Vikings didn’t have horns on their helmets, that’s just a myth.
Norway isn’t a big country, but it’s long -so winter varies in length.
I live not far from Bergen, and typically we have 3-4 months of winter and summer and about 2-3 months of spring and autumn. Where I live winter temperatures (in Celsius)varies normally from plus 8 to minus 12, but can be as low as negative 23 -and summer temperatures varies from plus 17 to plus 28, but can often go as high as 35. Naturally this varies with where in Norway you are, especially the maximum and minimum temperatures -but overall it’s not a huge difference.
Indeed, skiing is something pretty much every Norwegian (except for the nerds) do. Even for high-level CEOs in big corporations, completing a ski marathon (like "Birken", birkebeinerrennet) is considered a badge of honor. It's very much part of Norwegian culture.
:-D minnesotan counties have 15-40% norwegian decent people, thats why the minnesota vikings are the minnesota vikings. dakotas also have a big portion of norwegian decent, the norwegian consulate in minnesota is generaly more important than the embassy in DC.
Had it not been for Norwegian sailors, World War II could have turned out differently, yes. Norwegian war sailors were very important, so goods came from the USA to Europe. I had someone in my family who was involved in 9 shipwrecks.
Gas is more like 20-22$ right now
1. Yes, most Norwegians do know how to ski (both slalom and cross country) and skate, and quite a lot do it on a regular basis. But along the parts of the western coast, there in seldom snow in the lowlands. Summer skiing is possible on glaciers. 2. Well ... yes and no. Just as much the California salmon roll. ;-) 3. Yes, maybe. But more based on 19th century romantic nationalism than the true story. Mixed with some awful viking kitch. No horns, please! 4. Yes, I do live in a beautiful country. But many countries are beautiful. 5. True. 6. The "crisis" was more a media frenzy. No real shortage in most shops and most people just smiled. 7. Never thought about the system! 8. Jokingly. That cheap Grandiosa is really not nice! 9. Not anymore. The Norwegian crown gained a premium value after the 2008 financial crisis, but is far weaker now. But Oslo is still not cheap! 10. Petrol prices are about the same in many European countries. Noway often tiny bit above, but not much.
"Norsemen" is a comedy show from the Viking age from Norway. They even speak with weird english accents. It's perfect. And its a story, not skitch
The reason that Project Japan pushed for salmon to be used in sushi, is that you can charge about 4x for sushi fish then you can for fish for grilling. Some Japanese folks, including some sushi chefs, still refuse to eat raw salmon because the salmon you can fish in Japanese rivers is not considered safe to eat raw.
Yes it is some times allvais snow in Norway but it is on the tall Mountains, and it can snow a lot on your trampoline 😅but it is a lot of fun playing in the snow❤🎉🇳🇴 and it is some ting in Norway but if you want to go there you need to go there in the winter, it is cald Norefjell, i have bin there and it is soo much fun it's a pool and you can go skieng ⛷ and get Breakfast in the morning and sleep there ❤🎉🇳🇴
The christmas three is a gift TO the UK from Norway 🙂 a thank you for the support during ww2.
we always have the north of Norway where it's usually snowing all the time I think I'm not that familiar with the area there I know for fact its allot of snow there however on my side we have the mountains in seasons and a little longer we always have snow because of the tall mountains
PS i live by the sea Bergen which means we always get a lot of rain so we get that snow mud you saw in that video but during this time of year people go to the mountains for skiing and snowboarding and so on very common they have elevators for people to get up slide down not that i like it
The funniest thing about the butter crisis was reading danish reactions to it. Amongst several comments being somewhat bitter about our oil and how they didn’t feel sorry for us one dane exclaimed: But just imagine if it was us who lacked butter??? I laughed for days at this.
in 2021 my southern city had 48 days of snow in february,march
There is allways snow in the mountains up north, many glaciers. But snow falls 10 days a year,some places have snow from september to may. Sometimes snow is falling in the middle of the summer. We were Vikings. Vikings were pirates and rapists🫣 But also great explorers and traders of the sea. You should check out Heilung, Wardruna and Kati Ran. (bands who make "viking" music.
If you understand Scandinavian history, you may find it amusing that the only category named after Denmark are things you step all over. You know, because ikea is Swedish in origin
You will get there. Trust in the process.
We have a saying in Norway that you are "born with skis on your feet."
The snow is seasonal yes. But if you go more inland then the snow will stay longer higher up in the mountains, obviously. And northern Norway has longer winters than southern Norway, just because its so far north and cold up there.
we are in fact skiing all the time. if there is no snow we use rolling skiis instead
no, the butter crisis was hilarious. It came on the news out of the blue, and it was talked about everywhere. Most of us younger people just went "well, i guess we're going without butter for a few months." i think the boomers and the silent generation got the hardest slap from it.
the grandiosa is an frozen oven pizza basically some sauce cheese and toppings on cardboard. i have no clue what that pizza they showed was but it was certainly not a grandiose. maybe a dr oetkers or a Rustica.
Cross contry skiing is our national sport, and the athletes are national heroes. Every grammer school has mandatory skidays and moest kids can ski well before they start school. Skiing to a norwegian is like Curling to a Canadian. (And you are well on your way to becoming an honorary norwegian Tyler 😊😉👍)
Thank you for all your research videos on Norway, I am learning a lot! Great country. Look for a photo from Pulpit Rock, Norway, with an amazing view over the fjord. Some true WW2 history can be found in the book "The Shetland Bus", which was not a bus, but a system of small fishing boats transporting secret agents from Norway to the UK for safety from the Germans. A fascinating story of bravery in wartime.
And now for something completely different - you may want to find out what New Zealand has to offer. Temperate climate, from the sub tropical north, to the fjords in the south, with volcanic activity and hot springs in between. Fascinating indigenous people, research the Maori customs. Go island hopping, sail in an America's cup racing yacht, visit Hot Water Beach, try the original bungee jump. Stunning scenery, magnificent beaches, no dangerous wildlife trying to bite you. What's not to like?
It is facinating to see how similar Norway and New Zeland is spite being on the opposite sides of the world. Both long slanky landmasses with indeginous people, Sami and Maori, very similar nature, just look at the Lotr films, you could barely tell the diffrence between the New Zeland clips and the Norwegian ones. Both quite wealthy and democraticly driven countries. Love from Norway to the New Zelands, we should be brothers in most ways tbf.
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The horns is a myth caused by a ceremonial helmet from the bronze age (not the viking age)
No viking helmet yet has been found with horns.
I remember the butter shortage. That barely affected me, as I have no problem using other fat sources. In fact, I dont use butter for anything if I can use other oils. Dont know why, its to much taste in butter I guess.
In the Norwegian capital of Oslo we have i indoor ski-center
If you can find Josh Gates expedition unknown "The viking sunstone", you'll learn a lot more about the vikings. And Norway was the viking "capital" from mid 800 to 1030.
Hi Tyler. Food in Norway is very expensive, so many Norwegians who live close to the Swedish border travel over to Sweden and shop because food, sweets... and alcohol... are much cheaper there. Many years ago it was the opposite.
Check out the series "Norsemen". A really good Norwegian series about vikings.. Mix up Monty Python with Vikings and you got Norsemen. Enjoy!
Ah the butter crisis lol good times lol
Dont be fooled by the Grandiosa thing. It is by no means good. Personally I think the only reason it is so "popular" is because a lot of Norwegians, younger people escpecially, are just to lazy to make food. Also you can see a lot of younger people (in their 20s and early 30s) buy Grandiosa on their way home from the pub around midnight
It is said that Norwegians are born with skis on their legs, which means that all children are taught from an early age to ski in the winter. We have winter months in which we have snow, but also spring, summer and autumn
In England we had developed a good civilization in 795 AD, with much learning and scholarship, only for the monasteries and all coastal areas to be raided by the 'people of the inlets/harbours' - 'Vikings'. Then great armies of Vikings came inland. It was a nightmare.
I've seen a suggested explanation for this. The Frankish Empire was steadily expanding in France, Germany, the Low Countries, Switzerland, Austria, and even further afield. The Frankish ruler Charles the Great - 'Charlemagne' - got himself crowned as 'Holy Roman Emperor' in 800. But twenty years earlier he'd, with great brutality, forcibly 'converted' the North German Saxons to Christianity.
The Scandinavians were then pagan, and particularly the Danes thought that they were next. So their kings then allowed their more adventurous types to go plundering and raiding the Christian kingdoms to their South, thus effectively curbing Central European expansionism.
Sorry.... apologizing for all of us norwegians, sweedes and definately the danes, it was all their fault. They made us do it!!
I saw a documentary from an Island, I do think it was Islay. The inhabitants were so proud of their history, and of the fact that they survived the ravages of the vikings. Until they took genetic tests and discovered that they themselves had more Viking blood than they thought.
If you thought 10$ was bad, that was 2012, today it's a lot more
Hi Tyler... i havent scrolled through all your videos, but might i ask what Your facination for Norway comes from? :)
Viking actually never had horn on their helmets, thats more of a hollywood viking. The real vikings were people form Norway, Sweden and Denmark about 800-1000 years ago. They also used axes and bows much more than they used swords.
Regarding snow and winter...
How Nordic countries do their laundry: th-cam.com/video/IBkOOYbPrAo/w-d-xo.html
Or another video from the same channel talking about the Swedish (Norway's neighbour) winter:
Living with the Dark Winters in Sweden | Midnight sun & Polar night: th-cam.com/video/3zTR4ayDG38/w-d-xo.html
When Norway did have the butter crisis they did go to Sweden and buy the butter there. Its
cheaper in Sweden then in Norway.
A Norwegian called Sondre Nordheim was the fist to do ski to a sport. And there is always snow somewhere in norway. Skandinavia= Norway, Danmark and Sweden. And Vikings came from Skandinavia. BTW i em Norwegian
It's interesting how many countries "adopted" pizza and they just adapt it to their taste, change the ingredients and put what they eat on a "pizza" . I saw a kebab pizza in Germany and I think there was actually fish on the pizza?
i like banana on pizza
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'Vikings were a part of Norway???'. Is dear Tyler for real? It's a good thing he's pretty.
Vikings: short summary
Vikings were people who lived in Scandinavia (northern europe) from 790-1066 AD. Most vikings were also normal farmers but to boost their wealth they would plunder and explore. They would take slaves (aka Trells) from for example England, and take them back to their home. There the Trells would work for them and maybe even eventually become more welcome into the family that owned them.
Thanks to their shallow boats, they could get really up into rivers where most other boats could not go.
The modern language closest to what was spoken by the vikings, is Icelandic. That language has hardly changed since ancient times.
It's entertaining to watch these videos, but it would have been helpful to know how old they are. There should also be a link to the original video in the description as a courtesy to whoever made it.
I don't remember the butter crisis. Pretty much everything is expensive here.
search Norwegian vikings. Has a museum about Vikings in Bergen
The most selling book series of all time "One Piece" is written by an author fond of the vikings. Maybe without us, that series would never be?
If I recall, the word Viking means raider, so basically they were pirates to put it simply
Make a video of fleinsopp (viking shrooms) picking in Norway.