I'm Swedish, but other people also watch these videos. Though, let me tell you its actually hilarious for someone like me who can understand everything on a spiritual level. Especially the kinds of videos where other people react to Swedish related things :3
I just love so see vids of people coming to Sweden and see what they know about Sweden before they came just gets shot down. There is sooo much talk about Sweden that is not even close to the truth. Like the word Viking, there is no word Viking that the "Vikings" used. Closest you can get to it is "North Men". The same with Berserker, closest means "Bear Pelt". That was for special honour guards or special worriers. Sorry, I really love the "Viking" stuff, and yes, I do watch the TV Serie. I´m only human
As a fellow Scandinavian, I was seriously expecting some “broken english”. But every single one of them was every articulated. I æm very imprest altså.
I'm gonna be honest, I've never shopped at IKEA, but there is one out in Tempe, Arizona USA so I'm going to check that store out. Love Team Sweden. you don't forget where you come from that's what I respect about your country, and your hockey team
My roommate thinks majority of Swedish Men, and Women are Blondes, oh brother, Oliver Ekman Larsson's not a blonde, oh boy, and I rarely stereotype about people and their countries, that's like saying Spanish women are dark haired, not true. Geez, lol.
I’m Swedish, living in England. And I can’t even say how many times people say to me “but you’re Swedish, you can’t be cold” just because I’m used to the snow and winter doesn’t means our veins are made of ice, mate!
Im from norrland but live in stockholm. So i get the same thing. Love to reply "underskatta inte kyla, har känt personer som frysit till döds" (rough translation: dont underestimate the cold. I knew people who froze to death). The look on their faces is priceless
I get the same thing but it’s about warmer weather. But you are a latina, you should love warmer weather and should be more used to the heat. ERHM NO! I live in Sweden and have been all my life 😂 I love snow
Exactly like I've met Canadians and most live out here where I'm at in Arizona USA. I gotta tell you they don't miss Canada up there the ones I've spoke to they like it out here where I'm at because of the warm weather.
We were in L.A. in the audience in a recording of "The Voice" in 2019, and a guy walked around with his microphone on stage to get the audience pumped up for the show. He came to our side and asked where everybody was from, and we screamed "Sweden!!", he immediately bashed us (for him, jokingly) for IKEA! He asked us why we had to have such difficult assembly instructions, that he would never buy anything at Ikea because of their instructions.. blablabla.. 🙄 Anyway, everyone else in the audience thought it was funny.. 🤔 Two backstage employees, that happened to be Swedish, had heard that and reacted with "wtf?😂". They found us in the exit que afterwards and chatted with us to make sure we weren't deeply offended. They said they were going to "confront" him later.. 😂
@@designstinamarshmallow9868 I would have had a hard time not responding that, yes it takes at least some intelligence and practicality to follow an instruction on how to screw two pieces of wood together.
Least amount of an accent: 1. Landeskog. He sounds like an American who is just fluent in Swedish 2. Lundqvist. Barely has an accent but you can tell he isn't from North America 3. Klingberg. In Dallas where it's the south and he's being influenced by a whole different type of accent now
Fun fact - the Swedish Vikings actually founded Russia. First russian "king" was a swedish viking (Oleg year 879) who united the tribes under one rule. In Konstantinopel the swedish vikings was called "Rus", after their boats that they row. Hence the name "russians" and after that the area "Rus"
The people in the area now called Russia called the viking raiders "Rus men" alot of the Vikings stayed behind started settlements. That's kind of what Vikings did and setting up triad routes. So they became Russians. Now, i'm not saying that Russians are of Scandinavian decent. Some probably are, and there is a mix between Scandinavian and Slavic dna. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. They formed a state known as Kievan Rus', which was initially a multiethnic society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated with Slavic, Baltic and Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their common language.
Most famous Swedish brand: IKEA. Best Swedish brand Autoliv Safety Centre. Inventions: Wrench, Adjustable Wrench, Dynamite, Celsius (temperature), Pacemaker (life support), Tetra Pack, Zipper, Three Point Seat Belt (The founder of Autoliv that today is the worlds largest company that makes seat belts and airbags that is also founded in my hometown and it's the same town from which the wrench comes from too.)
One stereotype about vikings is indeed the iconic horned helmets. These did not exist, and i'm sure that while they would look intimidating to a foe, they would be useless in battle. Could you imagine facing off with someone with a helmet like that? It's a perfect thing to grab a hold of and tear the man down. And yes, we were warriors, but at the same time vikings were also traders. The view that the vikings only were strong brute berserks, who raped, pillaged and burned is a litte narrow minded. In reality, most nordic folk was simple farmers.
Simple farmers with a desire for adventure, huh? Not too many other people traveled the world like the Vikings did back then, remember this is not too far from the age of the Roman Empire. They traveled, looted, fought and traded all the way from north America to Constantinople. Few other people can claim to have done that until the age of colonization. And regarding the helmet, it's true the vikings did not have such helmets. Though there have been plenty of cases where soldiers have worn horn helmets. Just google "Teutonic Helmet". So "useless in battle" must be disputed, psychology, as you said, must play a role here. Sun Tzu said that wars are a moral contest that are won before they are fought. Looking intimidating surely played a big role, important enough even though they risk having a disadvantage in the actual combat.
The "teutonic helmets" with ornaments were most likely for ceramonial purposes. There is a version of a turkish helmet with a single pike on the top that they supposedly used to charge their enemies with. In most cases helmets in battle has been for protection only, and in most cases they prioritze seeing your enemy rather than intimidating your enemy or using your helmet it to fight with... they had far more efficient weapons wielded by hand to do that, as I'm sure you know.
Sabat Sabotskij yes you are absolutely right. Was just pointing out that that such helmets actually have existed (for various reasons) but as we all know, contrary to the myth the Vikings never used such helmets.
Attitude is everything and the way their players carry themselves is amazing. Personality wise, OEL, Gabriel Landeskog, Nikolas Kronwell they're all great.
Swedish humility from the traditional attitude of "let's not think we are better than anyone". Common view is if you have a too big ego it tends to come back to bite you in the ass.
1:35 - THIS is true. Swedish chef is NOT well known in Sweden, except for swedes who have American friends who ask about him. (The story behind him is quite fun though. *Supposedly* (there's no preserved video of this) there was a chef from Dalarna who supposedly went on a US cooking show to present Swedish food, became so god damn nervous that he just started reading the recipe in Swedish (with Dalmål dialekt) ) But - if you mention this to a swede, make sure to show them some clips cause most people can't really remember what the swedish chef sounds like.
Yeah, Landeskog has been in the US since his teens. You'd never know he's Swedish by his accent, and Lundqvist, Backstrom, and Kronwall have been there so long they've almost lost it too.
Dave David it's weird how that works tho because Daniel alfredsson and the sedin twins have been in North America for years but still have a fairly noticeable accent
Some of their accents are pretty revealing as to where in Sweden they're from as well. Fredrik Claesson has exactly the same prosody that he (being from Stockholm) has in Swedish - look at the video where he translates hockey terms. Bäckström also has that nasal and almost kinda whiny twang that characterises an accent from Gävle, while Henrik Sedin's Northern Swedish accent shines through in his English too.
Ikea in Sweden is so obvious. It's almost like it's just there and it always goes on. We don't talk about it too much because there's no need to, it's the obvious choice.
Opus Dei was just acknowledging that lundqvist and landeskog have near perfect American accents. I recognize that all of them have a degree of Swedish accent, but it’s their English that I’m complementing for not sounding as much like their native language. Most athletes who come to the states for a short time still have heavy accents. Landeskog nearly sounds more American than some of the people around me
2:50 Agreed. It's pretty much guaranteed that even if you've never purchased anything at IKEA you still have at least one thing from IKEA at home. It could be a computer desk, lamp, night stand, coffee mugs, towels or something.
Answers: Meatballs - God yes. If there's no meatballs it's not a Swedish feast. How often it's eaten is probably exaggerated though. IKEA - Yep, Swedes on average definitely visit IKEA a lot. Go-to place if you're young or need something basic. Vikings - A lot of the mentality about being tough/being bearded draws parallels to the vikings. But it's mostly something other countries mention about scandinavians than ourselves. Swedish chef - No that's an American talk show thing. Nothing Swedish about it except for the name. Just a meme.
That's what's so funny are the Swede's reaction to the Chef....that it has nothing to do with Sweden or Swedish culture, However, the character is rumored to be based on Lars Backman, a real Swedish chef that Jim Henson based his character on. Supposedly Jim Hensen had seen a failed TV pilot show with Lars where he was throwing spoons and pots etc...out of frustration. Lars claims that he looked like that Chef back in the day. Jim Henson never admitted to this, but it seems to be the case.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_B%C3%A4ckman
I actually meet Kronwall and his brother when they where playing for Djurgården here in Sweden and one of my friends had a summer place that was almost next door to him here.
@Per Capita The team is named after the island Djurgården which is part of our capital Stockholm. On that island we have a lot of museums, one amusement park name gröna lund (the green grove) and our zoo named Skansen. Stockholm has 3 different teams that call the city home and comes from different parts of the city. Djurgården IF, Djurgårdens idrottsförening (sports association). AIK, Allmänna idrotts klubben (general sports club) and Hammarby IF.
Swedish-American watching this. BTW, I have never been to an Ikea. I live in Moorhead, Minnesota, just across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, and neither city has an Ikea, even though at least one-fourth of everyone who lives here is Swedish-American. But I do have plenty of bookshelves of the assemble-it-yourself kind that Ikea is famous for.
I was born and raised in Skellefteå, Sweden... whenever I see the snow (I just have to look out of my window as I write this), I just want to put a bullet in my head. Words cannot describe how much I hate the winter... I am working on moving to California.
They look like the nicest white guys ever. i always felt like nordic people were the nicest and most peaceful white people. And also they have amazing features that stands out. Peace !
0:28 - I'd say Claesson has reached the 3rd level of swedish-american accents. Listen to the word "very". Level 1: "värry" (this is the 'i am inga from sweden' accent where all consonants are pronounced way too heavily to suit the english language) Level 2: "wäry" (this is where you're not great at english and try to over-americanize, turning V into W) Level 3: you've reached pretty far but still sometimes make a sound which is a weird mix between a w and a v.
There are alot of interesting facts about vikings. For one most People in The nordic countries were farmers. The term viking was for those that went out on raids (and often had a farm at home). They conquered pretty big parts of France (Normandie. Man from the north), and The british isles. Thats why you guys got your weekdays names from Like thursday (thorsday) and teusday (tyrs day). We also have moon-day and sun-day. Vikings kinda funded what later became russia as well. And if you wanna read about cool stuff The vikings did? Google about how they were often used as bodyguards by the byazntian emperor (present day turkey). Man, the vikings sure did travel
As a swede I have to disagree. I'm not saying he's bad at English, but you can still hear an accent. Swedes generally have a decent English vocabulary, but they suck at pronunciation and grammar (at least that's my experience from living in Stockholm).
me as a history expert here getting tilted that the picture of the viking has horns on his helmet... vikings had no fucking horns on their helmets, get over this stereotype
Timpas Tofflor Dumbfuck? This just took a turn to the worse. Can’t you have a normal conversation on the internet these days? What did I do to deserve being called that? Dumbfuck isn’t even a real word...
I´m a swede myself, and we all speak fairly good english, but viking is a word we often mispronounce. I dont know why! Sure, english is not our first language, but why do so many swedes say one particular word wrong so often, that is what I query.
Vikings didn't have horns on the helmet. They had nose guards and the more expensive ones eye guards. The axe is wrong too, no double blade. We still are pragmatic.
Just to get this right - you need the scientific name. Lingon (in linginberries) is: Vaccinium vitis-idaea and nothing els. You can either just stir them with sugar (rårödrad lingon) or boil them with sugar and some water (lingonsylt) "Sylt" is sort of jam... And since we talk about swedish berries. Blåbär - is not the same as blueberry. The swedish "blåbär" is Vaccinium myrtillus whilst the american is Vaccinuim corymbosum. The difference is that the V. myrtillus is smaller and the pulp is dark purple.
Whoa hearing other Swedes speak English makes me realize why my British teacher told me I sound like I was an American girl instead of Swedish xD I speak with a heavy American accent
No offense to any Swedes but who remembers Don Cherry's quote about the first Swedish players to play in the NHL in the 70s. " Boy I'll tell ya what, that Hammarstrom character for the leafs could play the whole game with an egg in his pants and it wouldn't break" in reference to lack of physicality , man has that ever changed 👍🇨🇦🇸🇪
Did he say ONE Ikea furniture? what a joke, a swede has at least TEN! I'm not even lying when I say ALL of my furniture is from Ikea... 90% of what I own is from Ikea.
2:29 Let's specify that: "It's -dark- pitch black when you go to school and -dark- pitch black when you get back." You'd sit there first period in class and look out the window and it would be dark outside-,like a black hole. And now researched has discovered ("discovered!") that teenagers don't just like to sleep in in the morning, it's scientifically proven that that is their biological clock to do so. And you were at 8:10 in the god damned morning in the pitch black-to add insult to injury. ⏰💤 And meatballs are _delish!_
Why do i now when i see Fredrik Claesson immediately think of Will Wheaton from Startrek TNG/Big bang theory... It must be the beard.. Has to be the beard... :D
I´ve always thought that only Swedish people watch these videos just to see what other countries think of us
Toivo Why would only Swedish people watch these? Too see what other people think about us? When in the video do we get an American’s opinion?
Because you get to know in what way Americans stereotypes Swedes
Toivo But we didn’t get any American views of Sweden? Only swedes explaining obvious stuff to Americans?
I'm Swedish, but other people also watch these videos. Though, let me tell you its actually hilarious for someone like me who can understand everything on a spiritual level. Especially the kinds of videos where other people react to Swedish related things :3
I just love so see vids of people coming to Sweden and see what they know about Sweden before they came just gets shot down. There is sooo much talk about Sweden that is not even close to the truth. Like the word Viking, there is no word Viking that the "Vikings" used. Closest you can get to it is "North Men". The same with Berserker, closest means "Bear Pelt". That was for special honour guards or special worriers. Sorry, I really love the "Viking" stuff, and yes, I do watch the TV Serie. I´m only human
2:24 It was dark when we went to school and it was dark when we got home from school, little depressive
Ludvig Bjellebeck I think all the Nordic countries can relate to that
stockholm have 45 minutes less day december 21. I live in northern Denmark
Ludvig Bjellebeck svenska människorna är gay. finland is best
That's how it is right now.
Is almost like that for danes.. I go to work When is Dark and I get home When is Dark
As a fellow Scandinavian, I was seriously expecting some “broken english”. But every single one of them was every articulated. I æm very imprest altså.
I think they sounded less fluent than the average Swede.
I'm gonna be honest, I've never shopped at IKEA, but there is one out in Tempe, Arizona USA so I'm going to check that store out. Love Team Sweden. you don't forget where you come from that's what I respect about your country, and your hockey team
My roommate thinks majority of Swedish Men, and Women are Blondes, oh brother, Oliver Ekman Larsson's not a blonde, oh boy, and I rarely stereotype about people and their countries, that's like saying Spanish women are dark haired, not true. Geez, lol.
Blonde, Brunette, Redheads don't matter to me, I'm more into the culture than anything else.
they all play in the US / Canada and all live there, so of course there won't be any broken english lol
I’m Swedish, living in England. And I can’t even say how many times people say to me “but you’re Swedish, you can’t be cold” just because I’m used to the snow and winter doesn’t means our veins are made of ice, mate!
Im from norrland but live in stockholm. So i get the same thing. Love to reply "underskatta inte kyla, har känt personer som frysit till döds"
(rough translation: dont underestimate the cold. I knew people who froze to death).
The look on their faces is priceless
I get the same thing but it’s about warmer weather. But you are a latina, you should love warmer weather and should be more used to the heat. ERHM NO! I live in Sweden and have been all my life 😂 I love snow
I'm from Yorkshire and lived in Stockholm for a while. Somehow Leeds always feels much colder even though it isn't!
Hello there, how are you doing?
Exactly like I've met Canadians and most live out here where I'm at in Arizona USA. I gotta tell you they don't miss Canada up there the ones I've spoke to they like it out here where I'm at because of the warm weather.
2:40 ”Where are you from? Sweden? Hm, Ikea!” Where are you from? America? Ah, McDonalds!
Good idea. I’ll try to respond like that from now on.
We were in L.A. in the audience in a recording of "The Voice" in 2019, and a guy walked around with his microphone on stage to get the audience pumped up for the show. He came to our side and asked where everybody was from, and we screamed "Sweden!!", he immediately bashed us (for him, jokingly) for IKEA! He asked us why we had to have such difficult assembly instructions, that he would never buy anything at Ikea because of their instructions.. blablabla.. 🙄 Anyway, everyone else in the audience thought it was funny.. 🤔 Two backstage employees, that happened to be Swedish, had heard that and reacted with "wtf?😂". They found us in the exit que afterwards and chatted with us to make sure we weren't deeply offended. They said they were going to "confront" him later.. 😂
@@designstinamarshmallow9868 I would have had a hard time not responding that, yes it takes at least some intelligence and practicality to follow an instruction on how to screw two pieces of wood together.
Ikea for Americans is like omg fashion furniture.😅
For a swede Its like wallmart 😂
Raul Castellanos True
not really, im swedish and dont know a single person who goes to ikea if its not to buy furniture
@@jjean1808 I go there to just check it out and eat lunch
I’m from Canada but I’m living in sweden with my swedish husbands & I like how they all wanted to say Wikings instead of Vikings
@@motheringmateo3750 Do you have several husbands?
Henrik has been in the US too long so he has no accent anymore :(
see thats my knowledge of hockey thought he played for new york rangers!
Gabe sounds like an American.
Don't worry, dude. Henrik Lundqvist does play for the New York Rangers!
How sad
he definitely has an accent still e.e
Least amount of an accent:
1. Landeskog. He sounds like an American who is just fluent in Swedish
2. Lundqvist. Barely has an accent but you can tell he isn't from North America
3. Klingberg. In Dallas where it's the south and he's being influenced by a whole different type of accent now
Fun fact - the Swedish Vikings actually founded Russia. First russian "king" was a swedish viking (Oleg year 879) who united the tribes under one rule. In Konstantinopel the swedish vikings was called "Rus", after their boats that they row. Hence the name "russians" and after that the area "Rus"
The Vikings also had a town in England called "Jorvik" later called York, in America a city was named New York.... :)
London is from the word Lunden.
yes very true and all other scandinavians claim that sweden never had vikings and that swedish vikings never did anything big lol so stupid.
The people in the area now called Russia called the viking raiders "Rus men" alot of the Vikings stayed behind started settlements. That's kind of what Vikings did and setting up triad routes. So they became Russians. Now, i'm not saying that Russians are of Scandinavian decent. Some probably are, and there is a mix between Scandinavian and Slavic dna. The scholarly consensus holds that they were originally Norse people, mainly originating from Sweden, settling and ruling along the river-routes between the Baltic and the Black Seas from around the 8th to 11th centuries AD. They formed a state known as Kievan Rus', which was initially a multiethnic society where the ruling Norsemen merged and assimilated with Slavic, Baltic and Finnic tribes, ending up with Old East Slavic as their common language.
@@anklepick9524 How about Scarborough, sounds a lot like Skaraborg to me?
Finally they tell the others that that damn Muppet show isn't that famous
The Swedish men are so grounded and so laid back, love it, and specially Henke 😍
Tillymea Ström you’re saying it like you’re not from sweden.
Boy, have times changed. 😊
Most famous Swedish brand: IKEA.
Best Swedish brand Autoliv Safety Centre.
Inventions: Wrench, Adjustable Wrench, Dynamite, Celsius (temperature), Pacemaker (life support), Tetra Pack, Zipper, Three Point Seat Belt (The founder of Autoliv that today is the worlds largest company that makes seat belts and airbags that is also founded in my hometown and it's the same town from which the wrench comes from too.)
MetalHead Glöm inte Koenigsegg världens nya snabbaste pruduktions bil
Don´t forget the Computer Mouse, the LCD-screen! GPS also was Swedish origin, but tricked out of the inventor´s control by "smart" lawyers.
It’s actually a myth that the Vikings had horns on their helmets
Kristofer Sj nah not the ”hövdingar”
@@elliothopkinss yes, it was actually invented by the costume designer of Richard Wagner's, for his opera "Der Ring des Nibelungen" from 1876
Kristofer Sj WHAET?
@@elliothopkinss nope they newer had horns
@@Jockeb91 actally they have found one viking with horns on his helmet
Backlund went to IKEA when he felt homesick LMAO
all swedes do honestly lol (including me)
If I ever were to move to another country I would also visit IKEA if I got homesick
3:12-3:14 The Duality of man
One stereotype about vikings is indeed the iconic horned helmets. These did not exist, and i'm sure that while they would look intimidating to a foe, they would be useless in battle. Could you imagine facing off with someone with a helmet like that? It's a perfect thing to grab a hold of and tear the man down. And yes, we were warriors, but at the same time vikings were also traders. The view that the vikings only were strong brute berserks, who raped, pillaged and burned is a litte narrow minded. In reality, most nordic folk was simple farmers.
Simple farmers with a desire for adventure, huh? Not too many other people traveled the world like the Vikings did back then, remember this is not too far from the age of the Roman Empire. They traveled, looted, fought and traded all the way from north America to Constantinople. Few other people can claim to have done that until the age of colonization.
And regarding the helmet, it's true the vikings did not have such helmets. Though there have been plenty of cases where soldiers have worn horn helmets. Just google "Teutonic Helmet". So "useless in battle" must be disputed, psychology, as you said, must play a role here. Sun Tzu said that wars are a moral contest that are won before they are fought. Looking intimidating surely played a big role, important enough even though they risk having a disadvantage in the actual combat.
The "teutonic helmets" with ornaments were most likely for ceramonial purposes. There is a version of a turkish helmet with a single pike on the top that they supposedly used to charge their enemies with. In most cases helmets in battle has been for protection only, and in most cases they prioritze seeing your enemy rather than intimidating your enemy or using your helmet it to fight with... they had far more efficient weapons wielded by hand to do that, as I'm sure you know.
The helmets with the hornes is from the bronze age
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Sabat Sabotskij yes you are absolutely right. Was just pointing out that that such helmets actually have existed (for various reasons) but as we all know, contrary to the myth the Vikings never used such helmets.
Going to IKEA without eating meatballs is like driving a Volvo with no Eddie Meduza on full volume. It goes hand in hand, you see.
Ingen fattar förutom svenskar haha
Räggaree, Räggare
I can't understand how absolutely no one seems to know that the vikings never had horns on their helmets!
There were ceremonial helmets like that earlier in Scandinavian history.
Attitude is everything and the way their players carry themselves is amazing. Personality wise, OEL, Gabriel Landeskog, Nikolas Kronwell they're all great.
Swedish humility from the traditional attitude of "let's not think we are better than anyone". Common view is if you have a too big ego it tends to come back to bite you in the ass.
"It's dark when you go to school and when you go home" is so true. Went home today at 5 and it was so fucking dark. The sun starts to set at 3.
Denver has a fantastic IKEA with a great location, Landy is a lucky man.
1:35 - THIS is true. Swedish chef is NOT well known in Sweden, except for swedes who have American friends who ask about him. (The story behind him is quite fun though. *Supposedly* (there's no preserved video of this) there was a chef from Dalarna who supposedly went on a US cooking show to present Swedish food, became so god damn nervous that he just started reading the recipe in Swedish (with Dalmål dialekt) )
But - if you mention this to a swede, make sure to show them some clips cause most people can't really remember what the swedish chef sounds like.
That's not entirely true. I grew up in the 70s and 80s and we had The Muppet Show on Swedish television regularly, as a childrens show.
@@dracopticon7788 Whoa! Had no idea. Thanks. Growing up in the 90s I never saw him - except on American shows
Their accents differ so much lol
Yeah, Landeskog has been in the US since his teens. You'd never know he's Swedish by his accent, and Lundqvist, Backstrom, and Kronwall have been there so long they've almost lost it too.
Dave David it's weird how that works tho because Daniel alfredsson and the sedin twins have been in North America for years but still have a fairly noticeable accent
Some people don't want to lose it. being basic isn't unique
Ryss mygg I assume nobody wants to lose it but I don't think it's something they can control
Some of their accents are pretty revealing as to where in Sweden they're from as well. Fredrik Claesson has exactly the same prosody that he (being from Stockholm) has in Swedish - look at the video where he translates hockey terms. Bäckström also has that nasal and almost kinda whiny twang that characterises an accent from Gävle, while Henrik Sedin's Northern Swedish accent shines through in his English too.
Ikea in Sweden is so obvious. It's almost like it's just there and it always goes on. We don't talk about it too much because there's no need to, it's the obvious choice.
Damn they have absolutely zero accent, especially lundqvist. Props boys
No, they have an accent. If you are not a complete degenerate you can hear it.
Opus Dei was just acknowledging that lundqvist and landeskog have near perfect American accents. I recognize that all of them have a degree of Swedish accent, but it’s their English that I’m complementing for not sounding as much like their native language. Most athletes who come to the states for a short time still have heavy accents. Landeskog nearly sounds more American than some of the people around me
Man I'm Swedish, and I was thinking the exact opposite.
stephen moore landeskog completely sounds American
JHaras right, I feel like they have quite strong accents.
Holy shit Kronwall is buff
2:50 Agreed. It's pretty much guaranteed that even if you've never purchased anything at IKEA you still have at least one thing from IKEA at home. It could be a computer desk, lamp, night stand, coffee mugs, towels or something.
Answers:
Meatballs - God yes. If there's no meatballs it's not a Swedish feast. How often it's eaten is probably exaggerated though.
IKEA - Yep, Swedes on average definitely visit IKEA a lot. Go-to place if you're young or need something basic.
Vikings - A lot of the mentality about being tough/being bearded draws parallels to the vikings. But it's mostly something other countries mention about scandinavians than ourselves.
Swedish chef - No that's an American talk show thing. Nothing Swedish about it except for the name. Just a meme.
The Swedish Chef sounds a lot more Norwegian than Swedish
Atzy What do you mean?
That's what's so funny are the Swede's reaction to the Chef....that it has nothing to do with Sweden or Swedish culture, However, the character is rumored to be based on Lars Backman, a real Swedish chef that Jim Henson based his character on. Supposedly Jim Hensen had seen a failed TV pilot show with Lars where he was throwing spoons and pots etc...out of frustration. Lars claims that he looked like that Chef back in the day. Jim Henson never admitted to this, but it seems to be the case.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lars_B%C3%A4ckman
Fun fact: Vikings never actually had horns on their helmets
There were ceremonial helmets like that earlier in Scandinavian history.
Henrik could be a hollywood movie star
He does our Head and shoulders commercials so... Close enough?
Ah, yes. Picnic in the snow. Little known fact, eggs taste best if eaten while sitting in a snow drift.
Very true.
It's funny how these guys embrace the chef and find humor in it
3:44 - LOL Gabe’s face 😆🤣😂
Love from Jakarta,Indonesia...my boyfriend is a Swede,he live in Stockholm
Good choice...
They're so calm and mild, I just want to tickle them.
Vikingarna hade inte horn på hjälmarna!!
And all I can think of is head and shoulders...
Schampo killen
Please do not pick but was that real interview? I thought it was a joke or parody.
Bäckström: We don't eat it that often.
Sedin: I've had it every day this summer.
I loved the face Landeskog made when he said "really?" in minute 3:44.
Yoma Rosado21140 LOL X3
I actually meet Kronwall and his brother when they where playing for Djurgården here in Sweden and one of my friends had a summer place that was almost next door to him here.
@Per Capita The team is named after the island Djurgården which is part of our capital Stockholm. On that island we have a lot of museums, one amusement park name gröna lund (the green grove) and our zoo named Skansen. Stockholm has 3 different teams that call the city home and comes from different parts of the city. Djurgården IF, Djurgårdens idrottsförening (sports association). AIK, Allmänna idrotts klubben (general sports club) and Hammarby IF.
@Per Capita no problem. Stockholm kommer alltid först oavsett lag
Lundqvist is soooo handsome 😍
Aabir Nawaz IKR
3:54 - That little whistle sound right there is the most Swedish thing, no matter what anyone tells you!
Kronwall looks like an old man lol
dude he is an old man
Swedish-American watching this.
BTW, I have never been to an Ikea. I live in Moorhead, Minnesota, just across the Red River from Fargo, North Dakota, and neither city has an Ikea, even though at least one-fourth of everyone who lives here is Swedish-American. But I do have plenty of bookshelves of the assemble-it-yourself kind that Ikea is famous for.
dude... you call urself a swede but never been to ikea? not okey man!
I was born and raised in Skellefteå, Sweden... whenever I see the snow (I just have to look out of my window as I write this), I just want to put a bullet in my head. Words cannot describe how much I hate the winter... I am working on moving to California.
skrivbok I love winter!
Well, we're all different... myself, I am looking for work in the LA area. I'm done with Sweden.
From Luleå... I get depressed everytime it isn't snow outside xD
skrivbok Landsförädare!!
Vad är ditt problem, egentligen?
They look like the nicest white guys ever. i always felt like nordic people were the nicest and most peaceful white people. And also they have amazing features that stands out. Peace !
@4:05 Brent Burns actually got to be a vikning in Vikings, kinda cool.
Nice to see Bäckström in this. Landeskog would be well-suited for media.
Great video of Swedes looking at the floor.
Ipad*
They have humility, something Americans can't even spell.
0:28 - I'd say Claesson has reached the 3rd level of swedish-american accents. Listen to the word "very".
Level 1: "värry" (this is the 'i am inga from sweden' accent where all consonants are pronounced way too heavily to suit the english language)
Level 2: "wäry" (this is where you're not great at english and try to over-americanize, turning V into W)
Level 3: you've reached pretty far but still sometimes make a sound which is a weird mix between a w and a v.
wow, their English is so good!!!
Lendeskog looks like James Van der Beek.
There are alot of interesting facts about vikings.
For one most People in The nordic countries were farmers. The term viking was for those that went out on raids (and often had a farm at home).
They conquered pretty big parts of France (Normandie. Man from the north), and The british isles. Thats why you guys got your weekdays names from
Like thursday (thorsday) and teusday (tyrs day). We also have moon-day and sun-day.
Vikings kinda funded what later became russia as well.
And if you wanna read about cool stuff The vikings did? Google about how they were often used as bodyguards by the byazntian emperor (present day turkey).
Man, the vikings sure did travel
You can barely tell Landeskog is even Swedish, he literally has no accent
XpRtNoScOpEz most swedes don't have accents when speaking english
Wrong, a shit ton of Swedes suck at English.
indeed. luckily, not one of them :p
As a swede I have to disagree. I'm not saying he's bad at English, but you can still hear an accent. Swedes generally have a decent English vocabulary, but they suck at pronunciation and grammar (at least that's my experience from living in Stockholm).
Impulse true but the younger generation are hella fluent with barely any accent at all because of influence of American social media.
You should have made them say "Bork, bork, bork"
Några andra svenskar här?
Simon Burton 🙋
Jag
Det finns många svenskar
Nä
No, absolutely no swedes would watch a video about sweden.
Lol i love these stereotypes! as long as they are used in a joking manner. Coming from a swede
me as a history expert here getting tilted that the picture of the viking has horns on his helmet... vikings had no fucking horns on their helmets, get over this stereotype
Cliev Teutonic helmets
Some Vikings did as a psychological way to scare off enemies, these helmets inspired later knights to design theirs similar.
No. This was made up by 19-th century authors.
Hjalmar J not vikings dumbfuck. Just teutons.
Timpas Tofflor Dumbfuck? This just took a turn to the worse. Can’t you have a normal conversation on the internet these days? What did I do to deserve being called that? Dumbfuck isn’t even a real word...
Did he say a picnic in the snow?
Atleast he said" with hot chocolate" lol
I don't know if it has anything to do with the camera angle, but I just noticed they all have the same nose. lol
That was really fun to see as a Swede atleast! Haha
Swedish people are really good at English
Sweden is best
no too many immigrant atm
You mean: Sweden is bäst. =D
Du menar Sverige är bäst
Sweden is a joke
Bark yea
I love how there's enough swedes in NHL to even make these videos
Where is Karl
Backlund
I’m sitting on a ikea couch while watching this
what country am i from?
Jesus Christ, Kronwall is freaking huge.
Viking helmets didn't have horns though.
They wore hockey helmets already back then!
Yeah We swedes have ikea all over our homes. 6 out of 8 furniture in my room is ikea
TIMMY from south park sounds like he lives in Örnsköldsvik.... 🤔
It's him!!! It's the shampoo man!!!
Why do we swedes say "Wiking" insted of "Viking"...*sigh*?
Because english isn’t swedish people’s first language? *sigh*
I´m a swede myself, and we all speak fairly good english, but viking is a word we often mispronounce.
I dont know why!
Sure, english is not our first language, but why do so many swedes say one particular word wrong so often, that is what I query.
Isn't the english word "Viking" only spelled with a 'V' because it's an anglicization of the original word?
the origin of the word "viking" is unclear and very much debated. some think it comes from the word "wijk", but again, it's debatable :)
But even if it was spelled with a W, it would still be pronouced as a V in scandinavia, even during the viking era...I think...
I don't own a single item of furniture that isn't from Ikea...
Vikings didn't have horns on the helmet. They had nose guards and the more expensive ones eye guards. The axe is wrong too, no double blade. We still are pragmatic.
"Wikings"
Keep Calm
and
HACKA LÖKEN!!!!!
Just to get this right - you need the scientific name.
Lingon (in linginberries) is: Vaccinium vitis-idaea
and nothing els. You can either just stir them with sugar (rårödrad lingon) or boil them with sugar and some water (lingonsylt)
"Sylt" is sort of jam...
And since we talk about swedish berries.
Blåbär - is not the same as blueberry. The swedish "blåbär" is Vaccinium myrtillus
whilst the american is Vaccinuim corymbosum.
The difference is that the V. myrtillus is smaller and the pulp is dark purple.
vikings didnt have horns on their helmets and used swords instead of axes, they used them but they were harder to make cuz they were curved
Is that the correct (Swedish) way to pronounce IKEA? I thought it was like "ee-kea".
What what I think so
They pronounce it like americans for some reason. That's not how we say it here in Sweden
You're absolutely right about how we swedes pronounce IKEA! 👍🏼
Fun fact! Meatballs originated from Turkey, but were populerised by Sweden! I can say this with confidence because I'm Swedish myself
Whoa hearing other Swedes speak English makes me realize why my British teacher told me I sound like I was an American girl instead of Swedish xD I speak with a heavy American accent
Im swedish and yeah i definitely have ikea items. But they are very practical.
Hello, can we be friends?
The winter is the same in Finland too😆
Emila Aleksandra ja tätähän ei kukaan tienny
ku kuitenki yhtä pohjosessa ollaa
Hey Henrik, there are Vegetarian Swedes as well
Q: Do you know how you can tell that someone is a vegetarian?
A: You don't have to, *they'll* tell you within 5 minutes of meeting them
Robert Hall there's also this thing called vegetable-"meat"balls
even ikea has it🌚
R.I.P. Ingvar Kamprad
One thing I learnd from this video is that hockey players have absolutley no shoulders lol
VAFAN! SNUUUS GRAPPAR!! SNUUUUS!!!
No offense to any Swedes but who remembers Don Cherry's quote about the first Swedish players to play in the NHL in the 70s. " Boy I'll tell ya what, that Hammarstrom character for the leafs could play the whole game with an egg in his pants and it wouldn't break" in reference to lack of physicality , man has that ever changed 👍🇨🇦🇸🇪
Did he say ONE Ikea furniture? what a joke, a swede has at least TEN! I'm not even lying when I say ALL of my furniture is from Ikea... 90% of what I own is from Ikea.
Swedish meatball guy: Korgi Korgi Korgi Oi Oi Ahhhhh..........
Jag måste säga att ingenting är bättre än att koka upp Köttbullar och pitepalt men då kommer jag från norra Sverge Och jag bor I Chillwack BC
they all sound North American and that bothers me a lot as an American
OMG These guys are gorgeous : )
The vikings didnt have horns on the helmet ;)
y'all should've done this with Finnish players and got Mikael Granlund on here, GOD he'd be so awkward
2:29 Let's specify that: "It's -dark- pitch black when you go to school and -dark- pitch black when you get back." You'd sit there first period in class and look out the window and it would be dark outside-,like a black hole. And now researched has discovered ("discovered!") that teenagers don't just like to sleep in in the morning, it's scientifically proven that that is their biological clock to do so. And you were at 8:10 in the god damned morning in the pitch black-to add insult to injury. ⏰💤
And meatballs are _delish!_
Why do i now when i see Fredrik Claesson immediately think of Will Wheaton from Startrek TNG/Big bang theory... It must be the beard.. Has to be the beard... :D
The vikings never vore any corns on their helmets
literally so many players are from sweden holy
over 100.