American Reacts to AMAZING Facts About Norway (Part 1)
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- As an American I am not very familiar with knowledge of cultures outside of the United States. Today I am very excited to learn about some very interesting facts about Norway and Norwegian Culture. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
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You should travel to Norway!!!🇳🇴
He can stay at my Airbnb in Trysil, the ski destination.
Don't think of it as "Norwegian". It's old Norse, a common language used in the Scandinavian countries. That was "exported" to the English language from the Western countries; Norway and Danmark.
The words; Sky, egg, window, cup, fork, knife, skull, sky and about 200 more "English" words have Scandinavian origin.
Axe, skirt, shirt, they, them, helmet, scissors... The list goes on and on!
@@Kraakesolv Thank you! I couldn't hink of them from the top of my head. I just said about 200...
Blood,leg, slaughter, murder,there are so many!
@@moonflower507 All the best ones!
layercake
King Bluethooth was actually Danish, he was fameous for his skills to comunicate.
Bluetooth comes from a danish viking king Harald Blåtann (Bluetooth). Thats what I have heard.
True, and the bluetooth technology is actually Danish. Credit where credit is due!
I remember in the 80`s smuggling skateboards from Sweden to Norway. Felt like a bootlegger.😄
My brother did this, but the police off course had to take it and he had to pay a fine too for bringing it to Norway, he was about 13 years old 😢 and a few months later it became legal, but he didn't get it back as it was destroyed. It was just a cruel thing to do to young boys ( girls didn't skate). He didn't get a new one either, but it might have been a good thing for him as he is kind of the bad luck guy that always get hurt.
😂 Remember we did that as well. It made it twice as fun, felt really badass 😎
I remember in the skatebord discussion, physicians(MD) said the fractures kids got were very complicated, and therefore it was better to prohibit the thing. The Movie "Life of Brian" was also forbidden for a number of years(bacause it was deemed blasphemy). When it was allowed, parts of it was not allowed to be subtitled. Whitch added to our amusement. Completely Texas was a normal thing to say about things wild and crazy, but younger generations don't say it anymore. Many of the words that come from old Norse, are words that come from the language vikings spoke. The danes occupied and ruled over parts of old England for about 300 years, under the dane law. Norwegians vikings also attacked Ireland and the north of England/Scotland and islands. Examples of words are the names of the weekdays and randomly the word "ombudsman". Blutooth comes from the name of the first danish king, with letters from the written language "runes", used by the vikings.
WOW did you get a haircut it looks amazing
Fake snow in winter? Maybe some years around Lake Tahoe (California/Nevada), but not in Aspen (Colorado), Park City (Utah), Bozeman (Montana)....
The northeastern quadrant certainly doesn't need fake snow, although its mountains don't reach as high as in The Rockies.
Around 7% of the English vocabulary is Norwegian, or more precise, Old West Norse and there are additionally a few more percent from Old East Norse, which would be Danish and Swedish today. Fukka was not a bad word at all. In fact, in the Norwegian church books, there's a lot of old letters where it is used by priests in very serious contexts. I remember one particularly well. In English it said something like; «The Church can not bless this marriage, because although you have already fucked, she is your niese and you must get special permission from the King». This was in the 1500s, I believe Norway was still Roman-Catholic, so it was not the modern hip-hop priest. :) We have a current example of the same thing in the Norwegian language today; the Norwegian word for "fuck" is "pule" and is considered an impolite word, although it is really just short for "kopulere", which means "copulate", which is a very polite word for sexual intercourse. :) It's funny how people come to decide that some words are bad.
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@jeschinstad
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- How very 'Carlin' of you...
As a little extra to what you talked about in regards to the words 'fukka' and 'pule'.
Maybe it has gone out of fashion nowadays, but it used to be a running joke in biology to walk up to someone and tap them on the shoulder, and say 'Scapula'.
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_English_words_of_Old_Norse_origin
"That's French to me", we have a similar saying in Norwegian, but it's Greek. "That was completely Greek to me", if you had zero understanding of the subject.
Bluetooth was developed by a Swedish guy.(For the company Ericsson.) "Lars Magnus Ericsson".
However yes the name is inspired by "Harald Blåtann"
The color TV thing was a joke. Some small very conservative, fundamentalist religious sects believed that pretty much everything "worldly" under the sun was a sin, and lived very similar to the way conservative Mennonites lived. It was a dig at old fashioned, Norwegian puritanism. Hard to get the joke for people who don't know the background.
Axe, friend, brother, sister, blood, sword, knife, neighbor, hand, knee, shoulder, foot, toe, hand, knuckle, eye, ear, hair, liver, bread, gold, silver, music, book... I couldn't go on, but you get the gist of it: The English language is FULL of words you use in your every day language that were introduced by vikings. I didn't know how many there were extent of that until I read an article about it years ago, written by an American professor of linguistics. According to him, no other language has influenced modern English language more than the old Norse (or old Norwegian) of the vikings. Not even Latin, which came as a big surprise to me.
The reasons were varied, but primarily focused on economic worries and cultural resistance to rapid technological change.
Authorities feared that introducing color TV would widen economic disparities, as only the wealthy could afford color sets. They also worried about the cultural impact and increased production costs for Norwegian content.
Oh. I didn't know skateboarding was illegal. I used to skateboard a lot in that period of time 😄
Well, Tyler, you,ve actually got quite a lot of good skiers in USA. Also skiresorts. Like Aspen Colorado and Lake Placid NY. Lake Placid have hosted the winterolympics twice...
And they’ve also hosted Winter Olympics in 1960 Squaw Valley California and 2002 Salt Lake City, Utah👍
Skiing activities among children in Norway are usually on cross-country skiing in daily day life. The skis and shoes are light, and made for both walking and running on slopes. This type of skiing is fantastic for developing children's balance and body control, and the fact that children are such active users of skis in Norway is certainly part of the reason that Norway crushes all other nations in cross-country skiing, and that we are also among the best in alpine skiing. Besides, learning to master skiing is great fun as a child. Just imagine going down hills at full speed as a kid - and knowing you're in control! It's like going to the amusement park every other day all winter. Sledding a toboggan is of course also fun, but since skiing is more challenging it is also more fun.
Yes it was the Sámi that originated the cross country skiing in Norway, not Norwegians nor the Vikings… even the one pole and the type of bindings was Sámi in origin.
@@kilipaki87oritahiti
You are right. Everything indicates that the skis were used among the Sami before the Norwegians adopted them. What is Norwegian is skiing as a form of sport.
One of the best female cross-country skier in the world is American, Jessica (Jessie) Diggins. Known for "digging deep", never giving up and keep going even if her mind telling her to stop. She is also very popular among xc-skiing fans and competeters for being fair, caring and nice to everyone
We just heard of her, The best female skiier was Marit Bjørgen ( read her merit)and after her it was Therese Johaug (read her merit too).. Now they both are retired. You only heard of her bcz our skiiers are transaction to our young once, so we can start ruling again...😊
For what it's worth the guy who said "we don't want it in color" was being sarcastic
Einar Førde was a true progressive, and he had a great sense of humour!
There are in fact 2-3000 words in the English language which have roots to old norse. You can see a separate TH-cam videoe on this topic.
Completely Texas do indeed mean completely out of controll in Norway. That being said, the older generation do have a romantizised view on texas from all the old cowboy movies in their childhood. Today - with their book censoring, we're off course shocked even by Texas standards.
Me as a Swede; "just that one state?" Seems like half of the states is completely unhinged
Wait until they hear about Florida
Us Norwegians doesn't use "Texas" just for the state Texas. It's just a world for anything if it's crazy. Where ever it may be!
The Norwegian language teacher Karense has just made a video about this for Norwegian learners
Yup, when a situation is out of control, we say it's 'helt texas'/completely texas.
"Skateboarding is not a crime!" was a slogan here. many teens were chased off by hired security guards in parking garages and other public spaces.
Now it's fortunately completely legal and there are tons of skateparks being built both by private volunteers and local government.
@Don_Coyote The whole "Helt Texas" thing started somewhere between the 60's and early 80's when comic books about "the wild west" was extremely popular here in Norway.
Of course those were filled with guns and recklessness and I'm pretty sure the stories from those books were supposed to take place long before the 60's and 70's.
So it's more like a idea of what the media and entertainment industry has made the general area around Texas out to be, and not what modern day Texas actually is.
Most Norwegian people know that.
My father was born in 1960 and he still has close to 100 books stored away somewhere in his house.
The word "helt" translates to completely, so "helt Texas" would mean that somthing is "completely wild".
Tyler also misunderstood the news part, as we don't usually report about stuff from Texas here in Norway, that would be random.
However, if something in Norway, say like an event was kinda crazy, the headline of the news could say that this event was"Helt Texas" for example.
You have to realise that back in those times, most Norwegians were simple, law abiding farmers, so the idea of bandits and gunmen riding horses seemed pretty "wild" to them.😆😆
For children - mini skis are very popular. Check it out! ;) And on behalf of all of us following you for quite some time - what about a video of your every day life? Who are you? What do you do for work and fun? What does your surroundings look like? :)
Open container, in California it’s a hefty fine if you have an open licorbottel or beercan in the passenger compartment of your car, but in SC you can drop in to a nightclub and by a drink in a plastic mug for the road.
In most of Europ it’s ok to have a on the road party as long as the designighted driver is sober!
Back when my older brother was skating, they`d run after you with clubs and sht, and they would break your board and tear down the ramps, one time they set one on fire, because they couldn`t tear it down.
He later started rollerblading instead xD
NOW though, skating has made sort of a resurgence, but it`s not likethe 90`s when people were training every day to get good, watching Rodney Mullen videos et cetera lol, more like teens using it as transportation, although occasionaly I`ll see someone actually doing tricks, good to see (:
about bluetooth, that comes from the danish viking king Harald Blåtann, so not Norwegian, unfortunately...and one more thing, the city York in UK comes for Norwegian Jorvik, so your New York comes from Norway :)
Harald blåtann (harald blutooth). He's basically a danish viking king. in a battle he got a blow to his face making one of his teeth dead, which made it blue. hence the name. He was actually quite impressive in many ways. Also english have absorbed norwegian words for a literal millennia. It's because a lot of norwegian raiders and traders ended up settling in england. Murica do have kinderegg as illegal tho.
Kinder eggs is illegal in the US, which dumbfounds at least me. People can own guns, but a chocolate egg with a toybox inside is apparantly too dangerous
The most impressive word adoption is that norse actually replaced an english pronoun. These are almost impossible to replace as they are used every day. "Dei" became "they"
No, the inventor of Bluetooth is NOT from Norway, but it is named after a Viking king, Harald Bluetooth, which the name for the tech came from. Something like that, but don't shoot the messenger if there's some inaccuracies, as I'm no viking historian/scholar. And the name you were looking for for the symbol, which you struggled with, is 'Rune'. You know what runes are, I hope? So the short answer is that the name and symbol is norwegian/norse, but the invention itself, is not. We did invent the aerosol spray can, the paperclip, and the cheese slicer, though. And skis probably, too.
Technically, Bluetooth was invented by swedish telecom manufacturer Ericsson and named after a danish king, but hey, at least very scandinavian 😂
I heard that the technology for bluetooth was initially invented by someone at NTNU in Trondheim (in Norway) and sold to Ericsson (in Sweden), but I’m not sure.
The skeptics come from southern norway.. In northern norway ( from Trøndelag,Lofoten,Troms og Finnmark) we are much more open and welcoming.. That’s what’s the immigrants I’ve met have said.. They said that in the soth they are colder,and keep their distance,but up north we are warm,smiling and including… (må bærre kødd litt med dokker sør førr trøndelag😅 Men ærli talt,æ har bodd sørpå i fleire år,å æ stortrivdes på plassn,men folkan va en smule vanskeli å få i tale😊)
True, but you also get told Søring a lot if you move from the south to northern Norway 😂
Blue tooth was Danish
Yes, Skype was invented in Sweden
No, colour TV was never illegal, but some was sceptical.
BTW, York is a Norse word. It meant soil or land.
The Vikings had a huge influence on England. It was mostly Dane’s but also Norse. Like in e.g.?York in England.
Stricktly speaking ... the symbols where norse, Runes ... that you found all over scandinavia, but the words Bluetooth comes from H (harald) and B for "Blåtann" .. or Bluetooth a Danish viking King.
@@arcticblue248Yes, the symbols are Scandinavian runes, of course.
York was called Jorvik under norse rule
@@WeserBlitzEU Yes, names change over time.
Dashboard = From the Norwegian word daskebord. The dashboard protects the driver from being hit by the horses tail.
Marshall = Marskalk (from Norwegian/German ++) The original meaning is "stable-boy" (Mer=female horse + skalk = servant.)
In one of your videos, less than six weeks ago, it says "Texas is slang for CRAZY!" with big letters and you can't remember it? The quiz I told people last week to make would never work
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@adipy8912
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- I also remember a while back that he was given the fact/information about the 'Skateboarding'-thing too...
Some things can and do fall through the cracks, but man, it happens a lot with Tyler, it seems.
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"helt texas" is like when you have a home party and it becomes like the movie Project X.
Texas is one of the states that represents guns in the Norwegian mind. Cowboys with guns. Then relate anything cowboy in history, lawlessness, riding wild bulls and horses... which is crazy to a Norwegian. Also remember norway is a gunless country.
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@karebear7149
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- I would argue that the word 'gunless' is a highly relative term.
It depends on what you mean by 'gunless'...
Yes, true, it's gunless in the sense that it's illegal to walk around with a gun on your person for a civilian in public.
Even for protection in daily life unless you are taking your weapon(s) for a checkup before renewing one or more of your licenses.
But there are no laws against owning weapons in Norway, except for a few restrictions in regards to type and use case.
The rules and regulations regarding safety and storage of said weapons are very strict.
Not to mention, the respective licenses are pretty strict too, to say the least.
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You need to read the comments Tyler
Jaywalking is quite a weird phenomenon for us Europeans
No, Texas is used like an adjective in Norway. Meaning 'crazy'.
Skateboarding was seen as harmful to the urban environment, not in terms of littering. They were probably afraid that wild youths would run down old people and children in the streets, and that they would make so much noise that it became unpleasant to be in the cities.
We do not talk about Texas. We use the name to refer to a situation being extreme in Norway.
Helt Texas is one of the first word I got screamed in my ears.
But it was ok, we did mak a mess. Kids 😂
it was Texas at my neighbors farm Saturday
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@kendexter
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- I feel the expression 'Texas' has changed a lot over the years.
It hasn't always had such a negative connotation as it seems to have these days.
It used to be to note the similarities, like f.e. in regards to the aesthetics, but as I said, not in a bad way.
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we don't use it in a negative way really.. Texas is are like wild action with a lot happening and not meant Crazy crazy , crazy have more mental underneath the word depending on what . can be a crazy boat but very few would say that .. is like a "texas boat" Sinnsyk Gal Galskap
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@kendexter
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- So if I understand you correctly, the term 'Texas' nowadays is more like a synonym for 'Chaotic'?
And not so much as to say 'Troublesome' and/or 'Unpredictable', or did I miss something...
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Kinderegg!! fun fact Egg is Viking word
Egg kjem frå Noregg.....
16:13 I rarely see the Texas thing. just some weird trend that caught on I guess. No idea if it's still trendy to use this word.
Norway has a split or two step alcohol law, it is beer and wine at 18 years old. While 40% and up to max 60% is at 21 years old.
Helt Texas (All Texas, not totally, totally is totalt in Norwegian language, so All fits better i think) it means crazy as in wild on the border of insane but yet not there.
If one think about cowboys and wild west it is Texas that comes to mind because of the numerous western movies that was aired on tv here back in the days, people did love them.
I am not so sure that anarchy fits in, it is laws, heavy laws, wild laws with death penalty that we do not have here, yeah, i never did think of anarchy in that back in the 70's, but wild and wild west.
The black and white clip was of Einar Førde who was delightfully sarcastic towards the hypocritical conservatives. He did not mean that
in norway we say " it's greek to me" when we dont understand😂 meanin the greece language
if you want to learn more on the nordic language influence on the english language I really recommend this video by canadian language enthusiast Langfocus where he talks about multiple examples of how modern english has been affected by the vikings th-cam.com/video/CDAU3TpunwM/w-d-xo.html
Well, while Norway is extremely fact based, it wasn't always like that. Norway was very much run by religious people, and low and behold - the monent they were asked to take a hike, the country developed very fast indeed on all areas.
taking a hike is a positive thing in Norway. hehe
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Window is a Norwegian word.
Of course the english word is adapted in the spelling.
We are masters of swearing in Norway
If "helt Texas" would be newly coined today, I think it would be Florida instead. 🤣
In America it’s illegal too be naked at television , it’s only how we are!
However, to be shot to pieces in slow motion, is okay....
Where the word fuck comes from is not entirely clear. The first examples in English are from the 15th century and it is probably a Germanic word borrowed into English, perhaps from Nordic languages.
- In the Nordic languages, there were variants on the verb that meant moving something quickly back and forth. In Swedish dialects, for example, there is the verb fokka, which means to move quickly. This meaning may then have been transferred to a sexual act.
Even if the F-word i rather new, you got several hundred word fron old north in English. For example Windows is a old Nordic word "vindauga" that is an air hole in the ceiling above the fireplace. Other word that came from the Vikings are knife, skin, leg , loose , odd , wrong , die, cast, take, egg, ill, call for mension some. Even some of the grammar in English descents from Old Nordic.
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Are you saying weed is getting criminalized again in the US?
Skateboarding is legal in Norway, but you can't do it in places where there are signs saying not to. Normal things are legal here. But a thing that is not legal here which might be in some countries is prostitution., it''s the same as in USA, but not in Germany there it is legal, there it's actually a legal job, and there are brothels there, proper healthcare and all too. But in Norway maybe a decade ago or so it became illegal due to the massive amounts of hookers in Oslo streets I think.
Color TV was NEVER illegal, however, our only broadcaster for many years NRK chose not to broadcast in color in the late 60s because color TV was a hot topic, many thought TV was getting too good, tha it would ruin family life, if all ppl did was watch TV
Think you misunderstood the Texas thing. We dont report on something happened in Texas, could be something happend anywhere, texas is just a word basically. A synonym for crazy.
Isn't Kinderegg illegal in the US?
Skype is'nt Norwegien, neither is blue tooth technology.
Skype was a Danish-Swedish co-lab between the creators of Kazaa and Blue Tooth technology was created by a Swede.
The runes depicted are from the Futhark, the written alfabeth of Norröna (Or Norrønt, as it is called in Denmark).
I studied it as a propedeotic language in university and a large part of the Norse languages have their origins in the language, culture and religion od the old Norse.
As an example, most weekdays are named after God's of the old Norse religion, in Norröna.
The runes, according to the Asatro, have magical powers and should'nt be messed with in a casual manner.
If you don't understand something, it is greek to us.
"Who even uses Segways?"
Something tells me that Tyler doesn't know who George W Bush is :)
Ban Skateboarders!
nobody says "bag" for `veske`- handpurse.
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@tomasjensenspo
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- Don't forget that 'purse' is a type of bag...
Heck, even a 'clutch' is a type of bag.
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That is greek to me! (Not french.)
In norway they where afraid that we would be lazy and Just look at colortelevision and Just use segway instead of using our feeth. The gouvernment are obsessed of that we are going to be active 😉
Handball must be nr2.
Right? Skiing would be very area based.
Skateboards wasn't considered harmful to the environment, but society/ the public. This guy's English skills is a bit off!
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@ragnarkisten
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- You are definitely overthinking this thing with the accent...
For the sake of the argument, I'm gonna give him/them the benefit of the doubt and say that...
I'm pretty sure that he/they put the accent on really thick for comedic effect.
Pretty much just taking the piss out of themselves like so many English speakers do to begin with, anyway.
As for the skateboarding...
Yeah, you are spot on there for the most part.
One thing, however, environment doesn't necessarily mean 'Nature'...
If that happened to be the case, then 'Mountain-biking'/ and other 'Off-road'-bikes/cars should also have been illegal for pretty much the same reasons.
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@@BizzyX78 accent? I haven't said a word about that in my post. Does one use skateboards in the mountains?
French to you, is Greek to us Norwegians.
Norwegian government thought that skateboarding would brig criminal Califonia culture and disrespectful, thuggish behaviour. Police would confiscate boards. Tear down illlegal ramps. Give Fines to those found skating. Boards and wheels/trucks had to be smuggled in separate bags from other countries
FloridaMan
4:34 you pronounced it with accent like you were trying to speak danish, Norwegian words are no pronounced like this.
it's ma like master, ge like geometry.
You think too much of in the context of English American, but you need to remember that English is a Germanic language related to Norwegian originating in England. Old English used to be very similar to Old Norse before they changed it. Funny how white Americans knows so little about ''their own language'', yet they love to throw around: ''speak English, this is America. GO back to your country'' whenever someone is bilingual or they hear another language... but the huge paradox and irony, America doesn't have any official languages as America was colonized. America i neither European or English! English exists today due ti the various peoples to invaded, conquered and settled Britain the British isles like the Celts (Celtic: Britonic), Romans (Latin), Anglo Saxons, Normans (French), and the Norse/Vikings predominantly from Denmark and Norway (Old Norse), as the Swedes went east to Russia, Turkey and Africa.
I think there is an issue with his translation when he say environment i think he means the community or "miljøet" whitch can mean environment but its more how you can make it annoying for the people around you
Another thing, if you happen to walk into your local grocery store after 20:00 or, god forbid after 18:00 on a Saturday, no cold sixpacks of beer for you
Its idiotic and a constant source of jokes here. Another thing is, Alcohol is sold by a government owned monoply, and is why we simply putt over
to Sweden and fill upp the trunk with Vodka, Wisky and Beer and hope for the best.. :) It usually works very well
B#%$h meaning femake dog comes from old norse
Kinder suprise
These guys arent funny (the way they speak is annoying), and the main guy exaggerate in every video about Norway. Not much of the things he say has a lot of relevance…
Vikings were not only norwegians! You are messing up history when you believe everthing nordic comes from Norway! And you are spreading false information!
The earliest forms of English were spoken by the Anglo-Saxons, who settled in England in the 5th century. The Anglo-Saxons were a mixture of Germanic tribes from Germany and Scandinavia They brought with them their own language, which was called Old English.
To this day, German influences still dominate, which is most evident in the English royal family and the English language.