Denmark's national flag is the world's oldest and longest-running flag. In the early 13th century, the Danish king Valdemar Sejr (Valdemar the Victorious) led his army on a crusade in present-day Estonia. During a battle on June 15, 1219, the Danes were on the defensive when suddenly a red banner with a white cross fell from the sky. As a result, the luck changed, the Danish army won, and Denmark got its flag. Love you
That's the legend anyway. The earliest verified record of it as the national flag of Denmark is from the mid-14th century - which still makes it the oldest national flag still in use.
I mean, as a Dane, we can't really escape the irony or the arrogance it takes to go to a foreign country to fight back the freedom rebels, losing, and then a flag falling from the sky in this foreign land, to which the Danish response is "MINE! I'M JUSTIFIED BY THIS FLAG GIVEN TO ME IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY! SMITE THE REBELS!". Yeeeaaaah, we can be a little self important ;-)
The Nordic flags all have crosses because the Catholics funded their monarchs. Denmark was split between Jutes, Danes and Scanians, but was united by kings who had the support of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany. Similarly, Sweden was a union of Geats and Swedes under a Christian king.
As per the contract, im here to let everyone know, i am infact danish. well done my fellow danes, you also fulfilled the contract, but our mission continues. Now on to the next video.
SO the reference about people in indian ocean speaking Danish. Basically, Bandiaterra(the flag you saw) is a nation created by Paul (Geography Now) as an April Fool's joke, like 9 years ago. So the lore about Bandiaterra is- It was settled by East African "Bandian" refugees and was heavily influenced by Denmark in the Age of Colonization, hence the Denmark reference.
That's my country! Danes can absolutely not get by conversationally with Icelandic people. Norwegians might be able to. We can speak to Icelandic people only because they learn Danish and English in school.
As a Dane, Norway is pretty easy, Swedish is managable, but english is second nature, even if no danes are fluent in english, which means knowing pretty much every single word.
@@ncard00 That is most definitely not what fluent means lmao, otherwise no one short of people with eidetic memories who've read all the dictionaries and thesauruses that exist for the language would be fluent
It's a common misconception that antidepressants make you happy. The reason why Denmark has a high percentage of antidepressant use is that there isn't the same stigma about using them. We are not more depressed than the rest of the world, we are just more comfortable doing something about it.
Yeah, right... Socialists are always the most dishonest people. Even about being socialist (usually just totalitarian thieves who use capitalism or anything they can to subjugate the people to keep themselves in the elites).
@@fosphor8920 Unfortunately, there's no real way to tell either way. It could also be a combination of the two (it probably is) but to which grade one or the other influences is... Hard to tell.
@@fosphor8920 With the way prescription medicine is priced and funded in Denmark, pharmaceutical companies have to look elsewhere if the want to get rich of their products. While not cheap, most medicine is affordable, and will not line producers pockets with lots of coins.
Just remember that there is much more to Denmark than just København (Copenhagen). Living here for more than 40 years , and as a child my parents took me to see most of the country. The point being, I still get surprised by the diversity and beauty of the country even though it is a small country. Only just over 16000 square miles.
5:29 Basically the Danish flag, named Dannebrog, was the first one in the line up. The other countries adopted the Danish into their own later on. The Danish flag is actually the oldest flag still in used today. Then again it was given to us by God in a battle, so it's not something you throw out. ( Could possible been blood on some linen too) It's from around the year 1209 or 1160, we are actual not really sure. The part about being given it in a battle from God means it's from 1208-1209, but we have possible pictures of it on coins from earlier. We did say it turned 800 years in 2019, so that is what most people agree on that is the used age of the flag.
Actually, H.C. Andersen wrote just as much for adults - if not more. There are so many levels to his stories, it is almost like you read two different stories depending on whether you read through the eyes of a child or an adult. He also wrote stories that I wouldn’t read for children, and he explored some very dark stuff.
As an born American with a Danish mother (and have been living in Denmark for going on 26 years now). I loved that episode lol. The sirens are an annual thing. First Wednesday every May at 12:00 pm for a few mins (usually 10) they test the air raid sirens and then after test the end of the warning. A separate uninterruptible power supply allows the sirens to work in the event of a power failure. The sirens are fixed to buildings or poles in cities and urban areas. It was actually one of the world's largest warning systems when they were installed :) Fun Fact: The siren network is automatically tested every day, but in silent mode. Queen Margrethe II is no longer the monarch of Denmark. Her son King Frederik X took over Jan. 14th 2024 after announcing that shocker in her New Year's Eve speech in 2023. So they had two weeks to get that up and running lol... but she still has her Queen title. A pretty unprecedented situation, as normally the new monarch is announced within 24 hours of the passing of the previous monarch. I am however happy with the change. I think it is nice for this to be a more joyous occasion rather than a sorrow filled one. I can only imagine how she must have felt when she was announced Queen barely 24 hours after her father had passed away... all the while still having to smile to the public. The Swedes & Norwegians are just sore over that they have never ruled over Denmark but we have over them both 😂 We like to pick a "fight" with each other all the time, but make no mistake. We will come and defend either of them if needed. I understand Norwegian just fine, but I do have some issues with Swedish - especially if they talk to fast 😂 and yes, English is practically a second mother tongue language for most Danes. I just cringe when I hear the Danish accent tho, especially if it is VERY THICK.
That siren thing is also here in Germany a nationwide alarm, tested at 12.00 h every first saturday each month. It is also the alarm signal for the rural voluntary only fire brigades, or any other catastrophic event. When operating, it is so LOUD, that can even beeing heard at neighboring villages. Established between WW1 and WW2.
Fun fact. He forgot to mention some of the most important colonizations. Denmark owned England and the Normandy. Many "non-peasant" words in English comes from French which got implemented when Danish vikings who had settled in nothern France (Normandy) invaded England. They did not speak the language. Only French and Danish. Therefor many higher class words are French inspired. The capital of Estonia (Tallinn) is also named after the Danes (Denmark also owned Norway, Iceland, northern Germany, some of Finland (as well as ruling a union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden))
The Normans had long since abandoned Danish culture and language and become completely French in the about 250 years that passed between being given Normandy and invading England. They did not speak Danish (which didn't really exist at the time) nor Norse. The words of Danish origin in current English were not imported by the Normans. While you are certainly correct that it was under Danish control, Iceland was a Norwegian possession until the dissolution of Denmark-Norway in 1814, at which point it remained with Denmark. The same goes for Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
We also sold the now US Virgin Islands because when Germany came here in WWII we wouldn't want the islands to fall into German hands, I'm bummed about it, Danish values and system in a tropical place? YES PLEASE!
@@Masterfighterx we sold the Danish West Indies to the US in 1917. It had nothing to do with WWII. The US wanted strategic bases and the West Indies were a huge drain on the Danish economy.
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album The Sandmen - Sleepyhead album Sort Sol - Glamourpuss album (heavily featured on Nightwatch, a Danish 1994 thriller featuring a very young Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in GoT)) Lukas Graham - not really my taste in music, but the guy is very talented. I find that his song "Not a Damn Thing Changed" is very underrated, considering the number of views "7 Years" has. Laid Back - "Bakerman" and "Sunshine Reggae"
Hi :) If you want to know more about the Faroes a video was just uploaded by The B1M called "Inside The World’s First Undersea Roundabout". It is a bit long (half an hour) but it is really good. Love your content, btw :)
In Denmark, quite a lot of vitamin pills count as antidepressants, so a doctor can prescribe them to you and you don’t need to pay full price. No other country has this and that is why our consumption of “antidepressants” seems high but is in reality lower, still somewhat high but not in the top 10 worldwide.
@@NoProtocol Also many antidepressants are also used for pain or injury related cases. As they can help regulate how you "feel" the pain and how it affect you. Not necessarily a good thing, as there can be side effects, and misuse of it. But it's something I myself have experienced, together with familie and friends. I don't know if it's the same in other countries.
There's also the fact that Denmark is somewhat more "open" about mental health issues such as depression, and there isn't as much stigma to talking about it as you might experience in other countries, so more people will be diagnosed with depression, because more people go to therapy when they are depressed.
@@NoProtocol no, it doesn't. Vitamins are most definitely NOT counted as anti-depressants. While doctors can prescribe vitamins to treat something, something like vitamin D is usually not, even if you have a chronic deficiency, like I do.
Loved the segment Denmark is definitely cool, as for an author recommendation the only one that comes to mind at the moment is Karen Blixen who wrote the memoir "Out of Africa" (1937) I read it years ago and found it quite interesting another memoir similar to this (although not from a Danish author) is "How I Found Livingston" (1871) by Sir Henry Morton Stanley this one is by far one of the best in the genre as well as one of the most well known and referenced I highly recommend it🙃
The most fascinating country I've learned about on this channel has to be Bhutan. Highly recommend that one. Since it's early in the alphabet, it's an older video as well, but that might also fit better, since recent videos are concistently and significantly longer. (maybe their length would not fit a video of yours as well)
@@NoProtocol The second most popular sport in Europe is handball, and I'm pretty sure is the second most popular sport in a lot of countries as well, i would say, 2nd most popular in the world
@@unknown-unknown69It's kind of mind blowing, but second most popular sport globally is Cricket, edging out Basketball on 3rd place. Basketball is played in way more countries but Cricket dominated nations are among most populated in the world.
nobody in Denmark cared about handball until we won something in it. We cared about football until our team began losing everything, then we switched out national sport to Handball.
@michaelsrensen2452 I'm just talking about what my eyes tell me. If you don't believe me or are too much of a football fan to notice, I don't rly care heh
One of my favorite Scandanavian words is the Icelandic skúffuskáld, or 'drawer-poet,' meaning a writer who tosses their work in a drawer rather than show it to anyone.
9:00 to answer this question: store hyledag (great howling day, the day that Denmark tests the sirens with sound, and now also the mobile emergency alert system) happens once a year, on the 1st Wednesday of May at 12:00 (12 PM aka midday), this year in 2024 it is on May 1st but it changes every year since the first Wednesday of May changes around a bit of course.
they made a second video on Denmark on their second channel, which was quite good. A few notes: Dannebrog is our national Flag, and the oldest (still used) in the world, the legend says that it fell from Heaven and inspired The Danish troops in Estonia in 1219 to win a significant battle, since then It's been our national flag, Sweden and Norway at this point was still under Danish Rule (sorta, difficult to explain shortly) anyway when they left they started Using their version of the flag, the same goes for most countries using the Nordic cross, they copy it from Denmark. Hygge, is generally just cozy, however it can also be exciting, generally speaking Hygge is often associated with Relaxation, friendship and good food/drinks. the Happiness scale looks at quality of life among other things, and since Denmark isn't the American version Scandinavia (That's Norway) we are content which allows us to rise the ranks. Regarding Anti-depresent, you're pretty much right. the Jante law is Quite interesting, however the way he boils is accurate enough. Don't think you are more than everyone else. the air raid Siren is tested once a year for set period of time on a set date, it's also now being used on our phones, last year being the first official test of the phone alarm.
I, not being Danish, will recommend the following for Danish music: * Ad Infinitum * D-A-D (originally "Disneyland After Dark" but had to change their name after a threat of lawsuit) * Memoir Sonata (very new band) * Myrkur
And if you're into this kind of music: Danheim, viking inspired music (100% danish with a lot of english lyric songs);Heilung Neo folk specializing in proto germanic folk music (band members are Danish, German and Norweigan)
For Danish authors, try H.C. Andersen (you know him), Karen Blixen (i bet you also heard about her), Søren Kierkegaard, Tove Ditlevsen, or for more modern stuff try Jussi Adler-Olsen :) For music, do you remember Barbi Girl by Aqua? Or DAD? Dizzy Miss Lizzy? Or what about Volbeat, Carpark North, Lukas Graham, Michael Learns to Rock, Nephew, MØ. If you what to try something that's very dear to many Danes look up Kim Larsen or Shubidua. Have fun and i'd love to see a follow-up to this video with your impressions of some of these authors and musicians :)
but the Krone is tied to the Euros, so if the euro dies, the danish krone dies... So it's basicly the same. Our politicians were quite mad when we voted NO to the Euro lol
Fun fact about the Flags. The Danish flag is the oldest flag in the world still in use, originated in the 1200s Norway, Sweden, Finland, and any other flag with a cross, took inspiration from Denmark :D
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the ongoing war (at the time) Denmark had with us Canadians. Look up Hans Island for more fascinating info on that one.
As a dane i'm really happy you Canadians also have a sense of humor. If memory serves, if was called the friendliest war, only riveled by the French - Dutch "war" for St. Marten 😂
H C Andersen's stories might be for children but if you compare his stories with those that was made from his works like Disney did you will find the originals quite dark
Yeah, Frozen 1 is very losely based on the snow queen by H.C. Andersen, but the little mermaid statue in Copenhagen has nothing to do with the Disney movie.
@@ncard00 The story the little mermaid by HC Andersen is the inspiration for the Disney version he also wrote a ton of other stories that Disney borrowed a lot from
@@ncard00 Disney’s film adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen The Ugly Duckling , black-and-white short film from 1931, as part of the Silly Symphony series. Processed into a colourised version in 1939. Walt Disney won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film. The Little Mermaid , feature film from 1989. With this film, Disney once again took the throne as the world’s leading storyteller and won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Disney’s first sketches for The Little Mermaid are from the 1930s. Fantasia 2000 , film from 1999, in which The Steadfast Tin Soldier is one of eight short films. The Little Match-Girl , short film from 2006, originally planned to be featured in Fantasia 2006. However, the film was dropped, so The Little Match-Girl became part of a DVD release of The Little Mermaid. Frozen and Frozen II, feature films from 2013 and 2019, some of the most popular Hans Christian Andersen film adaptations ever, are based on the fairy tale of the Snow Queen. Frozen won two Academy Awards, one of them for Best Animated Feature Film.
Antidepressants simple explanation. Vitemin D is classified as an antidepressant and most people take tham doing the dark winter times where there is not a lot of sun. The sirens is testet once a year on the first wednesday in May at 12 noon. And its over with in a minute or so and some times you will miss it if you work in a noise factory.
I can recommend the author named Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, some of his books have also been released in english. The series called The Devil´s apprentice. Music I can recommend Lukas Graham, and his song 7 years
The Indian Ocean, Denmark had a part of it at one point in time, we called it the golden triangle, wher we whent from Denmark to afrika, when from afrika to the indian ocean and back to Denmark(but we didten have the money to mentain it and sold it off). they test the sirens 1 evry year( to make sure that they still work) The Danish language is the 5 most difficult in the world to learn (in japan its a "high class skill" cus of the difficulty) All in all Denmark is a great place to live, if U can cope with the cold.
Hello from Denmark, please come visit sometime. I have heard the thing about potato in mouth language many times, we do have some rather "unappealing" sounds in language. The Danish "Ø" when in words is pretty much the sound of puking....
Concerning danish authors, I would recommend Henrik Pontoppidan. He won the Noble price for litterature in 1917. Particularly I would recommend reading "A fortunate man" / "Lucky Per" (two different translation of tha samme Book, i dont know which one is best), it is a bit long, however it is amazing. It also conways some a lot of the danish values.
Denmark had a musical "golden age" in the start 2000s where bands like The Raveonettes and Junior Senior got a lot of world wide recognition and to lesser extend Mew and the Fashion. So you might've bumped into some of them. Of course before that there was Aqua and Infernal. Today there's a lot going on. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour I've heard in multiple Netflix and HBO shows and did a lot of stadium concerts world wide some time ago and Lowly and Ice Age are doing ok too internationally. Trentemøller has been making music since the 80s and is widely regarded in the Copenhagen electronic circles as the godfather of electronic music here in Denmark and has taken a lot of now successful artists under his wings.
I live in the Netherlands and there the air raid siren goes off every first Monday of the month for testing. and we make the same joke here that the Germans are coming again
It used to be once a week in Denmark, when I was a kid. Now it's once a year, meaning people kinda tend to forget about it, making the surprise that much greater..
I learned of this while visiting my friend in Enschede, waiting for my friend outside the station wondering what was going on, when my friend arrived she laughed and said "oh did I not mention that?"
@@andreaslarsen6763 Even though Novo Nordisk is the most valuable company in Europe it's not really a widely known brand name. There's actually several Danish companies that are massive within their respective fields, like Rockwool, Vestas, or Coloplast as examples that are basically not known as brands whereas much smaller companies like Lego and Carlsberg are.
On the off-chance that you'er into Metal, here's a few suggestions: Illdisposed (Death Metal) Konkhra (Death Metal) Psyched Up Janis (Heavy Grunge) Ghost Iris (Metal, no clue about the genre) Rock: Magtens Korridorer (Rock, Danish Lyrics) Volbeat (Heavy Rock) Rap: Humleridderne (Humorous Rap, Danish Lyrics) Malk de Koin (Humorous Non-Sense Rap, Danish Lyrics) Alternative: Under Byen (Poetic Danish Lyrics) That's all I can come up with off the top of my head. Cheers!
I’m a Scotland who lived 18 years in DK for context, I worked in healthcare and have a qualification in consumer behaviour.. If you raise the expectation of happiness and contentment (hygge) and national cult status to an unrealistic point above the mean of Western Europeans at this Latitude/weather, the many Danes fall under those expectations and can’t cope. Success and failure are only perceptions based on expectations and so many more Danes are under that perceived happiness place and take AD. This constant need to be doing better than you are drives a lot of status purchases, Danes own on average 2.4 barbecues per household, they are amongst the highest purchasers of nespresso. People put themselves into one of the highest levels of personal debt in the world just to keep up with Søren next door just to be part of a national cult. The inverse side of jantelov is that you cannot be below the national norm either. It’s a fucked up place but fascinating to observe as an outsider-which you will always be if you are not born a Dane.
He missed the Danish pastries, dairy products and beer! Lived in Glostrup during college. Took a bag of pastry on the train back home and was half gone. Copenhagen still has the middle age charm as it was not bombed during the war, unlike London.
At a time Denmark actually had a Colony in India, "Tranquebar", which was Danish till 1845! Some old buildings are still to be seen from their quality and we still have connections, supporting the area. As well as the Danish Area in Africa, which is todays Ghana, and still with the old Forts from the Slave trade to the Danish Islands in the West indies, The present Virgin Islands.
The thing about antidepressants is that Denmark is pretty dark in the winter, so many gets affected by it and develop winter depression its treated by the andepressants............. the amount in the summer and spring are nothing near that
HI !! D.A.D is a great band for sure, but Volbeat is another great Danish band is the genre that deserves mentioning? Also, Lars Ulrich, the drummer in Metallica is Danish born. 🙂
Regarding Hans Christian Andersen, many of his stories has been Disneyfied to suit the younger audience. Quite a few of them are actually pretty dark, for example "The Little Match Girl." (Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne) :)
Though that sort of depends on the layer of interpretation you are working from. Having her dying happy and going to a better place, can be called 'happy end'.
It's still used and they(the military) test the system without the speakers every day and once a year first wednesday of May with the speakers Most of us use the cellphone version but the old sirens are still in place and used if needed because there can be areas without cell coverage or a tower being down
5:38 they are croses, symbol of cristianity. The danish flag(dannebrogsflag) has a very interesting story. Denmark has been a christian country since ~900 , and the flag is from ~1200. The flags simularity could have something to do with the size the danish emire used to be. It is quite amazing to read about.
The sirens used to be every wednesday at noon... when I was a kid and growing up.. but it was because they were old and could rust, if they didnt use them Today they are digital and are only tested once a year.... first wednesday in May at noon. :)
im not well versed in reading tbf. i dont really do it at all. The only Danish authors that comes too mind besides H.C.Andersen is Karen Blixen and Tove Ditlevsen. hope that helps a little atleast. appreciate ur videos alot :) have a nice day
As a Danish person, I can confirm that Danish does indeed sound like "a dude with a potato in his mouth", it can vary a bit depending on the dialect, but on the whole our language is not particularly elegant, let's say. Also, the thing he said about just mumbling the latter part of a word, while it might sound like a joke, is actually true; in many cases it actually sounds weird to a Danish person if you over enunciate a word, something people are prone to do when just learning the language, because they are taught the "official" pronunciation, and you can't really teach "mumble-speak" 😁
in 2019 15 June we celebrate that the Danish flag, Dannebrog, fell from the sky on this day in 1219. Apparently we have had our flag for 800 years. The Dannebrog is thus the world's oldest national flag.
OTher known Danish (no not the paistry!!!) Im not a fan myself but worldwide most known are "Aqua" the band with "Barbie girl" and Lars Ulrich who is the drummer and song writer in Metallica
@8:08That's neat. My mind jumped to the notion of "ignorance is bliss". I've got nothing to base that on, but forced to torture some logic to make work I might suggest looking for correlations between that "Janteloven" and any propensity for tolerance of view points. It's easy to form a rut in our world views from simple practice. Being exposed to more honest viewpoints can rudder us out of said ruts and show us things from another angle. But sometimes the world looks better in the rut, it's certainly more comfortable to stay in one. By that time however, you might begin experiencing Baader-Meinhof phenomenon; and, it's hard to turn back after you start recognizing examples around you in your day to day. Just a hypothesis.
Danish education and healthcare isn't free. It's just largely paid for by taxes - hence the heavily taxation. The sirens are actually tested each night, but without sound on. Once a year - the first wednesday in may at twelve noon - they are tested with sound. Up until about 30 years ago, they were tested with sound once a week nationwide. They cover about 80 % of the nation, but not the most rural/remote areas. They can activate either a few local sirens or the whole bunch at once. They are mostly used when there is a fire somewhere, where there's a chance of toxic smoke nearby.
The Danish flag fell from heaven during a war in 1219 ( it is the oldest national flag in the world) . Yes it did! But how did it get up there? There was a very creative Bishop that is suspected for shooting it up with one of the war machines. Anyway the rest of the nordic countries just had a lack of imagination and copied the flag, just with other colours. Of course it helped that they were Danish at some point in time.
The whole being able to understand each others language is a bit more complicated than he lets on. I would say that it really depends on which dialect you are exposed to. I as a Dane undertand people from Stockholm better than people from Skåne, eventhough Skåne is right across Øresund. This is mostly because of swedish TV. I would also say that Icelandic might have the same roots as Scandicnavian languages due to it literally being preserved version of old norse, but it's a huge stretch to say that people from Danish, sweden and Norway understand icelandic.
Hans Christian Andersen's original stories are not really for children only - As an example "The Little Mermaid" is a much much darker story originally, but was changed for children. Some of the stories feel like simple fairy tales for children when you read them as a child, but feel very different when you read them as a grown up. So even if you are an adult, I'd definitely recommend reading the original stories if you can get your hands on a translated version of the original ones.
Fun fact. Denmark and the United States boast the longest uninterrupted diplomatic relationship in the world, dating back to 1801. That's over 220 years of continuous official communication and exchange between the two countries.
The Danish flag is the oldest (1219), the Norwegian and the Icelandic are varieties of that one (they were a long time under Danish rule - maybe the reason). The Greenlandic flag is very different, but so is everything in Greenland 🇬🇱🤭 For more about Greenland look up Q's Greenland (shorts on TH-cam).
The joke is that HE speaks danish and is from that area. The vitamins part, vitamin D is categorised as an antidepressant as they can be given to you by your doctor. This is in order to insure that financial support can be given to those who are getting them as a prescription. As you mentioned it is very dark up here and vitamin D deficiency is a problem for most people on some level.
I think "Happy" is the wrong word to use in this context, Content, would be more precise 🙂The best English translation of Hygge, that I have heard, is the art of creating a nice atmosphere, which isn't unique, what is unique, is, that we have a word for it
Iceland has a completely different language than Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It's kinda the same with people from the Faroe Islands. We don't understand them. This makes them very unique as supposedly, as is said in the video, were the languages closest to them. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish people generally can communicate, but some are better at it than others.
Fun fact. (But rather long history lesson, Sorry) It is a common misconception that the Nordic flags are based on the danish flag. That is only partly true. The Swedish flags actually is derived from the Kalmar union flag (red cross on yellow) after Swedish independence from the union in the early 16'th century. The Norwegian flag is the Danish flag with a blue inner cross representing the alliance with Sweden. The Finnish flag, from 1918, is based on the other Nordic flags, and so is the Icelandic. In conclusion it started with the Danish flag but over time evolved. That is why the flags is so similar.
8:09 The two can not be related at all. First of all, the happiest country in the world is actually more "the most satisfied country in the world", if you look at how it's determined, so happiness is a misleading word in this case. And as you say, antidepressants is a term that covers many different types of medicine and is also more easily available in Denmark. But Denmark is actually the only country in the EU that's seen a decline in the consumption of antidepressant (-4%) in the last decade, where all other countries has seen an increase. So while Denmark might have had the highest consumption of antidepressants in 2011, it is now below tenth place, while still remaining its second place as the happiest country in the world (Finland being in 1st), a spot which Denmark has held for the last five years.
The potato in the mouth when speaking is from swedish and Norwegian perspective. I am Swede and understand 99% of written danish. But when they open their mouth it sound like some made up blur. It is strange that we used to speak the same language before. 😂
Denmark's national flag is the world's oldest and longest-running flag.
In the early 13th century, the Danish king Valdemar Sejr (Valdemar the Victorious) led his army on a crusade in present-day Estonia. During a battle on June 15, 1219, the Danes were on the defensive when suddenly a red banner with a white cross fell from the sky. As a result, the luck changed, the Danish army won, and Denmark got its flag.
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That's the legend anyway. The earliest verified record of it as the national flag of Denmark is from the mid-14th century - which still makes it the oldest national flag still in use.
And has it's own name to "Dannebro".
@@jensjohansen2205 Dannebrog. Med et g.
I mean, as a Dane, we can't really escape the irony or the arrogance it takes to go to a foreign country to fight back the freedom rebels, losing, and then a flag falling from the sky in this foreign land, to which the Danish response is "MINE! I'M JUSTIFIED BY THIS FLAG GIVEN TO ME IN A DIFFERENT COUNTRY! SMITE THE REBELS!".
Yeeeaaaah, we can be a little self important ;-)
The Nordic flags all have crosses because the Catholics funded their monarchs. Denmark was split between Jutes, Danes and Scanians, but was united by kings who had the support of the Holy Roman Empire of Germany. Similarly, Sweden was a union of Geats and Swedes under a Christian king.
I have watched your videos since you had so little subs, im Danish and this video make me so happy, thank you.
As per the contract, im here to let everyone know, i am infact danish. well done my fellow danes, you also fulfilled the contract, but our mission continues. Now on to the next video.
SO the reference about people in indian ocean speaking Danish. Basically, Bandiaterra(the flag you saw) is a nation created by Paul (Geography Now) as an April Fool's joke, like 9 years ago. So the lore about Bandiaterra is- It was settled by East African "Bandian" refugees and was heavily influenced by Denmark in the Age of Colonization, hence the Denmark reference.
Haha ok, now I need to go find his April Fools video
@@NoProtocol Indeed. ✨✨
@@NoProtocol There are many of his April Fool's videos about fake countries
I thought it was because we own land on the us Virgin Island. Sankt Thomas, Sankt Jan og Sankt Croix. But i didnt get it apparently:)
That's my country!
Danes can absolutely not get by conversationally with Icelandic people. Norwegians might be able to. We can speak to Icelandic people only because they learn Danish and English in school.
Yeah nah, Norwegians don't understand Icelandic either.
Not even Faroese understand Icelandic, but it is close. With a bit of effort you would crack the code quickly
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As a Dane, Norway is pretty easy, Swedish is managable, but english is second nature, even if no danes are fluent in english, which means knowing pretty much every single word.
@@ncard00 That is most definitely not what fluent means lmao, otherwise no one short of people with eidetic memories who've read all the dictionaries and thesauruses that exist for the language would be fluent
It's a common misconception that antidepressants make you happy. The reason why Denmark has a high percentage of antidepressant use is that there isn't the same stigma about using them. We are not more depressed than the rest of the world, we are just more comfortable doing something about it.
Oh yeah? I would argue the danish people are depressed and the capitalists have found a way to monetize it.
Yeah, right... Socialists are always the most dishonest people. Even about being socialist (usually just totalitarian thieves who use capitalism or anything they can to subjugate the people to keep themselves in the elites).
@@fosphor8920 Unfortunately, there's no real way to tell either way. It could also be a combination of the two (it probably is) but to which grade one or the other influences is... Hard to tell.
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With the way prescription medicine is priced and funded in Denmark, pharmaceutical companies have to look elsewhere if the want to get rich of their products. While not cheap, most medicine is affordable, and will not line producers pockets with lots of coins.
@@fosphor8920when i was on antidepressants i payed about 2 dollars for a month worth of pills. Not very good capitalists then
Denmark is a brilliant place to visit. Highly recommend it. I visited and just wanted to live there.
Just remember that there is much more to Denmark than just København (Copenhagen). Living here for more than 40 years , and as a child my parents took me to see most of the country. The point being, I still get surprised by the diversity and beauty of the country even though it is a small country. Only just over 16000 square miles.
@petertuxen4930 and we have 26 different dialects
When was the last time you were here? Things have changed ALOT in the past 10 years.
Thanks!
Thank you as well (:
5:29 Basically the Danish flag, named Dannebrog, was the first one in the line up. The other countries adopted the Danish into their own later on. The Danish flag is actually the oldest flag still in used today. Then again it was given to us by God in a battle, so it's not something you throw out. ( Could possible been blood on some linen too) It's from around the year 1209 or 1160, we are actual not really sure. The part about being given it in a battle from God means it's from 1208-1209, but we have possible pictures of it on coins from earlier.
We did say it turned 800 years in 2019, so that is what most people agree on that is the used age of the flag.
Actually, H.C. Andersen wrote just as much for adults - if not more. There are so many levels to his stories, it is almost like you read two different stories depending on whether you read through the eyes of a child or an adult. He also wrote stories that I wouldn’t read for children, and he explored some very dark stuff.
As an born American with a Danish mother (and have been living in Denmark for going on 26 years now). I loved that episode lol.
The sirens are an annual thing. First Wednesday every May at 12:00 pm for a few mins (usually 10) they test the air raid sirens and then after test the end of the warning. A separate uninterruptible power supply allows the sirens to work in the event of a power failure. The sirens are fixed to buildings or poles in cities and urban areas. It was actually one of the world's largest warning systems when they were installed :)
Fun Fact: The siren network is automatically tested every day, but in silent mode.
Queen Margrethe II is no longer the monarch of Denmark. Her son King Frederik X took over Jan. 14th 2024 after announcing that shocker in her New Year's Eve speech in 2023. So they had two weeks to get that up and running lol... but she still has her Queen title. A pretty unprecedented situation, as normally the new monarch is announced within 24 hours of the passing of the previous monarch. I am however happy with the change. I think it is nice for this to be a more joyous occasion rather than a sorrow filled one. I can only imagine how she must have felt when she was announced Queen barely 24 hours after her father had passed away... all the while still having to smile to the public.
The Swedes & Norwegians are just sore over that they have never ruled over Denmark but we have over them both 😂 We like to pick a "fight" with each other all the time, but make no mistake. We will come and defend either of them if needed. I understand Norwegian just fine, but I do have some issues with Swedish - especially if they talk to fast 😂 and yes, English is practically a second mother tongue language for most Danes. I just cringe when I hear the Danish accent tho, especially if it is VERY THICK.
The siren testing happens once a year (every first Wednesday of may)
We test sirens every months first monday in Finland. I guess we have ''some'' reason to test those more often. :D
Just adding that the sirens are actually tested every night but without sound. Once a year they are tested at noon with sound.
@@mikeyb2932 alright. The speakers are tested once a year
Or every weekday at 12:00 if u live in Kalundborg... Granted it´s only 1 of the sirens...
Back in the day, they was tested, with sound and all, once a week. Every wednesday at 12 o' clock. They changed it back in 1994.
That siren thing is also here in Germany a nationwide alarm, tested at 12.00 h every first saturday each month. It is also the alarm signal for the rural voluntary only fire brigades, or any other catastrophic event. When operating, it is so LOUD, that can even beeing heard at neighboring villages. Established between WW1 and WW2.
Nationwide? Does it not happen in the cities or something? Never heard it in Berlin or wherever I've been in Saxony.
Might be different now, but I was Au-Pair in München (Germany) in 2000, and back then I never noticed that sound - and I would have if I heard it...
We have that stupid siren in the Netherlands, every first Monday at 12 noon.
Music: Try listen to Volbeat and The Danish National Symphony Orchestra (DNSO)
Fun fact. He forgot to mention some of the most important colonizations. Denmark owned England and the Normandy. Many "non-peasant" words in English comes from French which got implemented when Danish vikings who had settled in nothern France (Normandy) invaded England. They did not speak the language. Only French and Danish. Therefor many higher class words are French inspired. The capital of Estonia (Tallinn) is also named after the Danes (Denmark also owned Norway, Iceland, northern Germany, some of Finland (as well as ruling a union between Denmark, Norway and Sweden))
The Normans had long since abandoned Danish culture and language and become completely French in the about 250 years that passed between being given Normandy and invading England. They did not speak Danish (which didn't really exist at the time) nor Norse. The words of Danish origin in current English were not imported by the Normans.
While you are certainly correct that it was under Danish control, Iceland was a Norwegian possession until the dissolution of Denmark-Norway in 1814, at which point it remained with Denmark. The same goes for Greenland and the Faroe Islands.
We also sold the now US Virgin Islands because when Germany came here in WWII we wouldn't want the islands to fall into German hands, I'm bummed about it, Danish values and system in a tropical place? YES PLEASE!
@@Masterfighterx we sold the Danish West Indies to the US in 1917. It had nothing to do with WWII. The US wanted strategic bases and the West Indies were a huge drain on the Danish economy.
When I was at School in U.K., we sang a song from our songbook called “Roses From Fyn”
Dizzy Mizz Lizzy - Dizzy Mizz Lizzy album
The Sandmen - Sleepyhead album
Sort Sol - Glamourpuss album (heavily featured on Nightwatch, a Danish 1994 thriller featuring a very young Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (Jaime Lannister in GoT))
Lukas Graham - not really my taste in music, but the guy is very talented.
I find that his song "Not a Damn Thing Changed" is very underrated, considering the number of views "7 Years" has.
Laid Back - "Bakerman" and "Sunshine Reggae"
Apua. And Scooters 😊
I read the "Last Kingdom" series of books, they refer to Vikings as Danes. To them viking was something you do, like we're going viking.
Hi :) If you want to know more about the Faroes a video was just uploaded by The B1M called "Inside The World’s First Undersea Roundabout". It is a bit long (half an hour) but it is really good. Love your content, btw :)
In Denmark, quite a lot of vitamin pills count as antidepressants, so a doctor can prescribe them to you and you don’t need to pay full price. No other country has this and that is why our consumption of “antidepressants” seems high but is in reality lower, still somewhat high but not in the top 10 worldwide.
That’s interesting, does a vitamin D tablet count? In which case, I could understand why the stats are high.
@@NoProtocol It does, yeah. I take multi-vitamins and i am part of that statistic, because they contains vitamin D
@@NoProtocol Also many antidepressants are also used for pain or injury related cases. As they can help regulate how you "feel" the pain and how it affect you. Not necessarily a good thing, as there can be side effects, and misuse of it. But it's something I myself have experienced, together with familie and friends. I don't know if it's the same in other countries.
There's also the fact that Denmark is somewhat more "open" about mental health issues such as depression, and there isn't as much stigma to talking about it as you might experience in other countries, so more people will be diagnosed with depression, because more people go to therapy when they are depressed.
@@NoProtocol no, it doesn't. Vitamins are most definitely NOT counted as anti-depressants. While doctors can prescribe vitamins to treat something, something like vitamin D is usually not, even if you have a chronic deficiency, like I do.
Loved the segment Denmark is definitely cool, as for an author recommendation the only one that comes to mind at the moment is Karen Blixen who wrote the memoir "Out of Africa" (1937) I read it years ago and found it quite interesting another memoir similar to this (although not from a Danish author) is "How I Found Livingston" (1871) by Sir Henry Morton Stanley this one is by far one of the best in the genre as well as one of the most well known and referenced I highly recommend it🙃
Nils Bohr was a famous Physicist.
The most fascinating country I've learned about on this channel has to be Bhutan.
Highly recommend that one.
Since it's early in the alphabet, it's an older video as well, but that might also fit better, since recent videos are concistently and significantly longer. (maybe their length would not fit a video of yours as well)
Handball is such a underrated sport globally.
Agreed. Kickball as well
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The second most popular sport in Europe is handball, and I'm pretty sure is the second most popular sport in a lot of countries as well, i would say, 2nd most popular in the world
@@unknown-unknown69It's kind of mind blowing, but second most popular sport globally is Cricket, edging out Basketball on 3rd place. Basketball is played in way more countries but Cricket dominated nations are among most populated in the world.
nobody in Denmark cared about handball until we won something in it. We cared about football until our team began losing everything, then we switched out national sport to Handball.
@michaelsrensen2452 I'm just talking about what my eyes tell me. If you don't believe me or are too much of a football fan to notice, I don't rly care heh
One of my favorite Scandanavian words is the Icelandic skúffuskáld, or 'drawer-poet,' meaning a writer who tosses their work in a drawer rather than show it to anyone.
Norwegian here, two danish artists I like, and listen to are Oh Land and Mikkel Hess (Hess Is More). Worth a listen!
BTW ... In Denmark vitamin D is viewed as an antidepressiv drug ...
9:00 to answer this question: store hyledag (great howling day, the day that Denmark tests the sirens with sound, and now also the mobile emergency alert system) happens once a year, on the 1st Wednesday of May at 12:00 (12 PM aka midday), this year in 2024 it is on May 1st but it changes every year since the first Wednesday of May changes around a bit of course.
they made a second video on Denmark on their second channel, which was quite good.
A few notes:
Dannebrog is our national Flag, and the oldest (still used) in the world, the legend says that it fell from Heaven and inspired The Danish troops in Estonia in 1219 to win a significant battle, since then It's been our national flag, Sweden and Norway at this point was still under Danish Rule (sorta, difficult to explain shortly) anyway when they left they started Using their version of the flag, the same goes for most countries using the Nordic cross, they copy it from Denmark.
Hygge, is generally just cozy, however it can also be exciting, generally speaking Hygge is often associated with Relaxation, friendship and good food/drinks.
the Happiness scale looks at quality of life among other things, and since Denmark isn't the American version Scandinavia (That's Norway) we are content which allows us to rise the ranks. Regarding Anti-depresent, you're pretty much right.
the Jante law is Quite interesting, however the way he boils is accurate enough. Don't think you are more than everyone else.
the air raid Siren is tested once a year for set period of time on a set date, it's also now being used on our phones, last year being the first official test of the phone alarm.
What is the name on their second channel ?
@@trj0511 don't remember, and I can't find the video either, however geography now has made a few Denmark videos.
I, not being Danish, will recommend the following for Danish music:
* Ad Infinitum
* D-A-D (originally "Disneyland After Dark" but had to change their name after a threat of lawsuit)
* Memoir Sonata (very new band)
* Myrkur
Kashmir is also a nice band.
@@fastertove Thanks, will look into it! Greetings from your friendly neighbouring country to the North.
And if you're into this kind of music: Danheim, viking inspired music (100% danish with a lot of english lyric songs);Heilung Neo folk specializing in proto germanic folk music (band members are Danish, German and Norweigan)
Thanks for sharing.
For Danish authors, try H.C. Andersen (you know him), Karen Blixen (i bet you also heard about her), Søren Kierkegaard, Tove Ditlevsen, or for more modern stuff try Jussi Adler-Olsen :)
For music, do you remember Barbi Girl by Aqua? Or DAD? Dizzy Miss Lizzy? Or what about Volbeat, Carpark North, Lukas Graham, Michael Learns to Rock, Nephew, MØ. If you what to try something that's very dear to many Danes look up Kim Larsen or Shubidua.
Have fun and i'd love to see a follow-up to this video with your impressions of some of these authors and musicians :)
Not Euros, Krone. Currently 6.89 to the dollar, so he may be confused, or he may have gone somewhere very pricey.
Thank you for this correction!
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I feel I was a bit short, so I've added a bit, but you're very welcome :)
It was a very pricy burger, so yeah 21 Dollars or close to 150 kroner is not wrong for the most expensive burger in Copenhagen
but the Krone is tied to the Euros, so if the euro dies, the danish krone dies... So it's basicly the same. Our politicians were quite mad when we voted NO to the Euro lol
Fun fact about the Flags.
The Danish flag is the oldest flag in the world still in use, originated in the 1200s
Norway, Sweden, Finland, and any other flag with a cross, took inspiration from Denmark :D
I’m surprised he didn’t mention the ongoing war (at the time) Denmark had with us Canadians. Look up Hans Island for more fascinating info on that one.
That war ended some monhts ago. The island got divided between the two countries. So funny enough Canada has a land border to Denmark
As a dane i'm really happy you Canadians also have a sense of humor. If memory serves, if was called the friendliest war, only riveled by the French - Dutch "war" for St. Marten 😂
Poul Anderson is a famous SF author with Danish roots.
Denmark IS lovely. Only been to Copenhagen, but it was super cool.
Music from Denmark, check out the "Danish national symphony orchestra".
Im danish :D Thank you for reaction to a video about our country! :D
Invented insulin? Let's not get carried away 😂
Actually it was two canadian doctors that discovered the usecase for insulin
H C Andersen's stories might be for children but if you compare his stories with those that was made from his works like Disney did you will find the originals quite dark
Yeah, Frozen 1 is very losely based on the snow queen by H.C. Andersen, but the little mermaid statue in Copenhagen has nothing to do with the Disney movie.
@@ncard00 The story the little mermaid by HC Andersen is the inspiration for the Disney version he also wrote a ton of other stories that Disney borrowed a lot from
@@ncard00 Disney’s film adaptations of Hans Christian Andersen
The Ugly Duckling , black-and-white short film from 1931, as part of the Silly Symphony series. Processed into a colourised version in 1939. Walt Disney won an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
The Little Mermaid , feature film from 1989. With this film, Disney once again took the throne as the world’s leading storyteller and won an Academy Award for Best Original Score. Disney’s first sketches for The Little Mermaid are from the 1930s.
Fantasia 2000 , film from 1999, in which The Steadfast Tin Soldier is one of eight short films.
The Little Match-Girl , short film from 2006, originally planned to be featured in Fantasia 2006. However, the film was dropped, so The Little Match-Girl became part of a DVD release of The Little Mermaid.
Frozen and Frozen II, feature films from 2013 and 2019, some of the most popular Hans Christian Andersen film adaptations ever, are based on the fairy tale of the Snow Queen. Frozen won two Academy Awards, one of them for Best Animated Feature Film.
For a Danish book I would recommend Søren Kirkegård - Either/Or.
Amazing philosophical book.
Antidepressants simple explanation. Vitemin D is classified as an antidepressant and most people take tham doing the dark winter times where there is not a lot of sun.
The sirens is testet once a year on the first wednesday in May at 12 noon. And its over with in a minute or so and some times you will miss it if you work in a noise factory.
I can recommend the author named Kenneth Bøgh Andersen, some of his books have also been released in english.
The series called The Devil´s apprentice.
Music I can recommend Lukas Graham, and his song 7 years
I would recommend “Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne” by Peter Høeg.
Then you get a touch of the Greenlandic as well
9:49 Also the reason behind many of the place names in the north of England, usually those ending in -by, -thorpe, -holm, -thwaite, etc.
Ida Corr is one musician that most people don't think of as Danish.
Those lurpak adverts are legendary 😊
Please come and visit us in Denmark!
The Indian Ocean, Denmark had a part of it at one point in time, we called it the golden triangle, wher we whent from Denmark to afrika, when from afrika to the indian ocean and back to Denmark(but we didten have the money to mentain it and sold it off).
they test the sirens 1 evry year( to make sure that they still work)
The Danish language is the 5 most difficult in the world to learn (in japan its a "high class skill" cus of the difficulty)
All in all Denmark is a great place to live, if U can cope with the cold.
Hello from Denmark, please come visit sometime.
I have heard the thing about potato in mouth language many times, we do have some rather "unappealing" sounds in language. The Danish "Ø" when in words is pretty much the sound of puking....
Volbeat is a danich band and the drummer in metallica is Danish
Concerning danish authors, I would recommend Henrik Pontoppidan. He won the Noble price for litterature in 1917. Particularly I would recommend reading "A fortunate man" / "Lucky Per" (two different translation of tha samme Book, i dont know which one is best), it is a bit long, however it is amazing. It also conways some a lot of the danish values.
Thanks so much for the recommendation!
Denmark had a musical "golden age" in the start 2000s where bands like The Raveonettes and Junior Senior got a lot of world wide recognition and to lesser extend Mew and the Fashion. So you might've bumped into some of them. Of course before that there was Aqua and Infernal. Today there's a lot going on. The Asteroids Galaxy Tour I've heard in multiple Netflix and HBO shows and did a lot of stadium concerts world wide some time ago and Lowly and Ice Age are doing ok too internationally. Trentemøller has been making music since the 80s and is widely regarded in the Copenhagen electronic circles as the godfather of electronic music here in Denmark and has taken a lot of now successful artists under his wings.
Other artists.
Kato - DJ
Volbeat - Metal
Aqua
Lukas Graham
Jonah Blacksmith
Medina - her english songs
Despite being labelled American, we do take pride in Metallica as well because of Lars Ulrich, without him, no Metallica and he's from Denmark.
@@Masterfighterx True that
No Protocol Awesome Video Today!!🔥🐐🐐💎
When the pandemic first hit and we worked from home, i watched an episode of this every morning with breakfast.
I live in the Netherlands and there the air raid siren goes off every first Monday of the month for testing. and we make the same joke here that the Germans are coming again
It used to be once a week in Denmark, when I was a kid. Now it's once a year, meaning people kinda tend to forget about it, making the surprise that much greater..
I learned of this while visiting my friend in Enschede, waiting for my friend outside the station wondering what was going on, when my friend arrived she laughed and said "oh did I not mention that?"
The 3 most famous Danish brands world wide I would say is: Lego , Maersk (worlds biggest logistics/shipping company) and Bang&Olufsen ( Audio&Hi-Fi )
Novo nordisk, biggest company in Europe by market capitalisation
probably Carlsberg has a spot in the top 3
@@landersen8173 Ahh yes, you're probably right !! 😀
@@andreaslarsen6763 Even though Novo Nordisk is the most valuable company in Europe it's not really a widely known brand name. There's actually several Danish companies that are massive within their respective fields, like Rockwool, Vestas, or Coloplast as examples that are basically not known as brands whereas much smaller companies like Lego and Carlsberg are.
On the off-chance that you'er into Metal, here's a few suggestions:
Illdisposed (Death Metal)
Konkhra (Death Metal)
Psyched Up Janis (Heavy Grunge)
Ghost Iris (Metal, no clue about the genre)
Rock:
Magtens Korridorer (Rock, Danish Lyrics)
Volbeat (Heavy Rock)
Rap:
Humleridderne (Humorous Rap, Danish Lyrics)
Malk de Koin (Humorous Non-Sense Rap, Danish Lyrics)
Alternative:
Under Byen (Poetic Danish Lyrics)
That's all I can come up with off the top of my head. Cheers!
Thank you for all of these! I don’t dislike metal but I also don’t listen to it often. I’ll give them a try
@@NoProtocolWell, Psyched Up Janis are a personal evergreen band for me. It's not too hard. ;-)
And Volbeat are pretty well known throughout the world
I’m a Scotland who lived 18 years in DK for context, I worked in healthcare and have a qualification in consumer behaviour.. If you raise the expectation of happiness and contentment (hygge) and national cult status to an unrealistic point above the mean of Western Europeans at this Latitude/weather, the many Danes fall under those expectations and can’t cope. Success and failure are only perceptions based on expectations and so many more Danes are under that perceived happiness place and take AD. This constant need to be doing better than you are drives a lot of status purchases, Danes own on average 2.4 barbecues per household, they are amongst the highest purchasers of nespresso. People put themselves into one of the highest levels of personal debt in the world just to keep up with Søren next door just to be part of a national cult. The inverse side of jantelov is that you cannot be below the national norm either. It’s a fucked up place but fascinating to observe as an outsider-which you will always be if you are not born a Dane.
He missed the Danish pastries, dairy products and beer! Lived in Glostrup during college. Took a bag of pastry on the train back home and was half gone. Copenhagen still has the middle age charm as it was not bombed during the war, unlike London.
Those are Austrian in origin, though. Also, the British bombed both Copenhagen and Aarhus.
Other Danish musicians: Lukas Graham, Kim Larsen, Pretty Maids, Savage Rose, Secret Oyster, Aqua (Norwegian singer), D.A.D., Volbeat
At a time Denmark actually had a Colony in India, "Tranquebar", which was Danish till 1845! Some old buildings are still to be seen from their quality and we still have connections, supporting the area. As well as the Danish Area in Africa, which is todays Ghana, and still with the old Forts from the Slave trade to the Danish Islands in the West indies, The present Virgin Islands.
I love your videos
The thing about antidepressants is that Denmark is pretty dark in the winter, so many gets affected by it and develop winter depression its treated by the andepressants............. the amount in the summer and spring are nothing near that
I recommend listening to danish band called "D-A-D" and their fantastic record "No fuel left for the pilgims" the song is "Sleeping my day away"
I will do! Thank you for the recommendation (:
Currently listening to Sleeping My Day Away, I’m liking this one. I also just enjoy this genre of 80’s rock
HI !! D.A.D is a great band for sure, but Volbeat is another great Danish band is the genre that deserves mentioning? Also, Lars Ulrich, the drummer in Metallica is Danish born. 🙂
Regarding Hans Christian Andersen, many of his stories has been Disneyfied to suit the younger audience. Quite a few of them are actually pretty dark, for example "The Little Match Girl." (Den lille pige med svovlstikkerne) :)
Though that sort of depends on the layer of interpretation you are working from. Having her dying happy and going to a better place, can be called 'happy end'.
The siren is not used anymore. You get a signal on your cellphone. When I was a child the sirene was checked every wednesday at noon.
It's still used and they(the military) test the system without the speakers every day and once a year first wednesday of May with the speakers
Most of us use the cellphone version but the old sirens are still in place and used if needed because there can be areas without cell coverage or a tower being down
5:38 they are croses, symbol of cristianity. The danish flag(dannebrogsflag) has a very interesting story. Denmark has been a christian country since ~900 , and the flag is from ~1200.
The flags simularity could have something to do with the size the danish emire used to be. It is quite amazing to read about.
Many of H.C.Andersens farytales are dobble so both for children and grown-ups. He also wrote novels for adults.
The sirens used to be every wednesday at noon... when I was a kid and growing up.. but it was because they were old and could rust, if they didnt use them
Today they are digital and are only tested once a year.... first wednesday in May at noon. :)
Geography now: Finland? :) Also something about Finland? :)
im not well versed in reading tbf. i dont really do it at all. The only Danish authors that comes too mind besides H.C.Andersen is Karen Blixen and Tove Ditlevsen. hope that helps a little atleast. appreciate ur videos alot :) have a nice day
As a Danish person, I can confirm that Danish does indeed sound like "a dude with a potato in his mouth", it can vary a bit depending on the dialect, but on the whole our language is not particularly elegant, let's say.
Also, the thing he said about just mumbling the latter part of a word, while it might sound like a joke, is actually true; in many cases it actually sounds weird to a Danish person if you over enunciate a word, something people are prone to do when just learning the language, because they are taught the "official" pronunciation, and you can't really teach "mumble-speak"
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I love how our former Queen used her New Year's speech to give her two weeks' notice to her employers the Danish people
in 2019 15 June we celebrate that the Danish flag, Dannebrog, fell from the sky on this day in 1219. Apparently we have had our flag for 800 years. The Dannebrog is thus the world's oldest national flag.
OTher known Danish (no not the paistry!!!) Im not a fan myself but worldwide most known are "Aqua" the band with "Barbie girl" and Lars Ulrich who is the drummer and song writer in Metallica
@8:08That's neat. My mind jumped to the notion of "ignorance is bliss". I've got nothing to base that on, but forced to torture some logic to make work I might suggest looking for correlations between that "Janteloven" and any propensity for tolerance of view points. It's easy to form a rut in our world views from simple practice. Being exposed to more honest viewpoints can rudder us out of said ruts and show us things from another angle. But sometimes the world looks better in the rut, it's certainly more comfortable to stay in one. By that time however, you might begin experiencing Baader-Meinhof phenomenon; and, it's hard to turn back after you start recognizing examples around you in your day to day.
Just a hypothesis.
Hello from the Faroe Islands
I live in Denmark, cool reaction
Danish education and healthcare isn't free. It's just largely paid for by taxes - hence the heavily taxation.
The sirens are actually tested each night, but without sound on. Once a year - the first wednesday in may at twelve noon - they are tested with sound. Up until about 30 years ago, they were tested with sound once a week nationwide. They cover about 80 % of the nation, but not the most rural/remote areas.
They can activate either a few local sirens or the whole bunch at once. They are mostly used when there is a fire somewhere, where there's a chance of toxic smoke nearby.
Svend Aage Madsen is one of my favorite Danish authors. And Pontoppidan is also great. Ect.
The Danish flag fell from heaven during a war in 1219 ( it is the oldest national flag in the world) . Yes it did! But how did it get up there? There was a very creative Bishop that is suspected for shooting it up with one of the war machines. Anyway the rest of the nordic countries just had a lack of imagination and copied the flag, just with other colours. Of course it helped that they were Danish at some point in time.
The whole being able to understand each others language is a bit more complicated than he lets on. I would say that it really depends on which dialect you are exposed to. I as a Dane undertand people from Stockholm better than people from Skåne, eventhough Skåne is right across Øresund. This is mostly because of swedish TV. I would also say that Icelandic might have the same roots as Scandicnavian languages due to it literally being preserved version of old norse, but it's a huge stretch to say that people from Danish, sweden and Norway understand icelandic.
Hans Christian Andersen's original stories are not really for children only - As an example "The Little Mermaid" is a much much darker story originally, but was changed for children. Some of the stories feel like simple fairy tales for children when you read them as a child, but feel very different when you read them as a grown up. So even if you are an adult, I'd definitely recommend reading the original stories if you can get your hands on a translated version of the original ones.
D:AD: (Disneyland After Dark) is the best Danish band ever! Take a listen. Greetings from Denmark!
The siren is tested the first Wednesday in May every single year
The dansh flag holds the world record of being the oldest continuously used national flag, that is since 1625 😎
I always like a fun fact
It is way older than that. From 1209 I think.
Fun fact. Denmark and the United States boast the longest uninterrupted diplomatic relationship in the world, dating back to 1801. That's over 220 years of continuous official communication and exchange between the two countries.
The Danish flag is the oldest (1219), the Norwegian and the Icelandic are varieties of that one (they were a long time under Danish rule - maybe the reason). The Greenlandic flag is very different, but so is everything in Greenland 🇬🇱🤭
For more about Greenland look up Q's Greenland (shorts on TH-cam).
The joke is that HE speaks danish and is from that area.
The vitamins part, vitamin D is categorised as an antidepressant as they can be given to you by your doctor. This is in order to insure that financial support can be given to those who are getting them as a prescription. As you mentioned it is very dark up here and vitamin D deficiency is a problem for most people on some level.
The happiness index is not much about happiness it`s more a security index. do you fell safe is what they translate to happy.
I think "Happy" is the wrong word to use in this context, Content, would be more precise 🙂The best English translation of Hygge, that I have heard, is the art of creating a nice atmosphere, which isn't unique, what is unique, is, that we have a word for it
Denmark, we the people don't tan; they rust.
Now we got King Frederik X (Formerly known as Twitter).
That one made me giggle
Iceland has a completely different language than Norway, Sweden and Denmark. It's kinda the same with people from the Faroe Islands. We don't understand them.
This makes them very unique as supposedly, as is said in the video, were the languages closest to them. Swedish, Norwegian and Danish people generally can communicate, but some are better at it than others.
Fun fact. (But rather long history lesson, Sorry) It is a common misconception that the Nordic flags are based on the danish flag. That is only partly true. The Swedish flags actually is derived from the Kalmar union flag (red cross on yellow) after Swedish independence from the union in the early 16'th century. The Norwegian flag is the Danish flag with a blue inner cross representing the alliance with Sweden. The Finnish flag, from 1918, is based on the other Nordic flags, and so is the Icelandic.
In conclusion it started with the Danish flag but over time evolved. That is why the flags is so similar.
8:09 The two can not be related at all. First of all, the happiest country in the world is actually more "the most satisfied country in the world", if you look at how it's determined, so happiness is a misleading word in this case. And as you say, antidepressants is a term that covers many different types of medicine and is also more easily available in Denmark.
But Denmark is actually the only country in the EU that's seen a decline in the consumption of antidepressant (-4%) in the last decade, where all other countries has seen an increase. So while Denmark might have had the highest consumption of antidepressants in 2011, it is now below tenth place, while still remaining its second place as the happiest country in the world (Finland being in 1st), a spot which Denmark has held for the last five years.
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The potato in the mouth when speaking is from swedish and Norwegian perspective. I am Swede and understand 99% of written danish. But when they open their mouth it sound like some made up blur. It is strange that we used to speak the same language before. 😂
😂😂😂 Ja ja og i lige måde 😂😂😂