@@timholstpetersen79 I am German and also love Denmark. I live 70 km away from Haithabu (large Danish Viking settlement in northern Germany), I think I also have the right to not call myself a Viking. Hello to all Vikings. 😉
I am German, too. I don't think I have ever met another German - or Dutch for that matter - that has a negative view on Denmark. Everybody loves Denmark. It's sooo close to perfection❤❤🇩🇰
Glazed roof tiles. these are baked with a glass-containing suspension that hardens during baking. This glaze layer then protects your roof tiles against the growth of mosses and algae. And if they are white they reflect the heat, black tiles don't.
@@eichzoernchen never seen a slate roof in my 47 years of living in denmark. im 110% its glazed tiles. estimated lifetime on glazed tile roof is around 100 years and the reason to why many use it more and more.
I do have a black shiny tegl roof... They last for at least 50 years... After the period where we used straws, tegl became the standard roofing material... Glad to see you had a great trip to Denmark... :)
When it comes to roofs, "tegl" is called tile in english. Black, shiny roofing is most likely plastic. It's good stuff, probably has 20 years in it, and costs less than half of what the slate it's meant to emulate does. But still: Plastic. Meh 😞
They’ve found almost complete viking ship in Norway by turn of the century. Called Oseberg ship. So we do have a very good idea how a viking ship is bouild and work.
Interestingly, my grandfather was a homesteader in western Jutland, and one of the many ways he made an extra income was harvesting and preparing reeds for thatched roofs.
Mead: Take 10kg or liter of honey and 20 liter of water and mix together. Boil the mixture for sterility. Put it in a room, were the temperature is around 10-15 °C (50-59 °F) and wait for it to cool off. Put yeast in it. Wait for 3 weeks for it to stop fermenting. Transfer the mead withtout the yeast to a new container. Best after 1 or 2 years maturing. Alc % will be around 16-17 depending on the yeast you use.
Yes. Making mead is not really that hard, and it's easier than making beer, and you don't need that much equipment. You just need to make sure everything is sanitized. I believe people here use champagne yeast, and they ferment it for longer before bottling, but it probably depends on the yeast and temperature. You can also put in fresh or dried fruits, berries or spices to add flavour, like orange peel, lemons, ginger, raspberries, clove or cinnamon.
@@AudunWangen If you use a champagne yeast it will ferment out dry, which is not period correct. The yeast strains they had at the time would die of at probably 13-15% at best. And travellers from the time describe it as sweeter than wine, so we know they purposefully added more honey that what the yeast could fully ferment.
@@andersjjensen I'm not personally that meticulate about the historicity, as long as it tastes good and makes me drunk. I'm quite sure most Vikings would agree 😜 I think the historically accurate way to do it is to use meadowsweet and dried wild flowers, honey and water to create a wild yeast starter, but that's way too complicated for most people, and can more easily spoil your brew. In many countries it's not allowed to sell commercially, because you can't be sure it's "clean".
@@AudunWangen You don't need anything but honey to get wild yeast. It's full of it. It's completely dehydrated by the high sugar content of the honey, but as soon as you mix in the water it rehydrates and starts working. That is, unless some noggin decided to boil the honey (so everything on a store shelf) before jarring it. That said, dry mead is like dry white wine: it makes your tongue feel like a cat tongue. And fermenting it all out also makes it taste a lot more like white wine than mead. I'm not saying "go for sticky sweet", but for people interested in mead I advise trying something on the sweetish end, as that better portrays what mead really is: "White wine with nectar" :P
@@andersjjensen Sure, honey contains wild yeast, but meadowsweet acts as a disinfectant, and I'm guessing the flowers add some ingredients that make the yeast happier? I don't know about the wild flowers in the starter, and probably the Vikings didn't either (they thought the whole brewing process was magic), but I believe that is the most historically accurate recipe. Mead is actually much older than the Viking age. It dates back to at least 6500BC, and perhaps much longer. The mead I drank wasn't that dry, but had a very distinct, nutty, mossy and smokey honey taste and a little sweetness. I'm not sure how they made it, but there's many ways to skin a cat, as they say. You can add sweetness after it is done fermenting, and you could possibly also stop fermentation early by using potassium sorbate, cold crashing, pasteurization, centrifugation or a combination of those or other methods. Also, there's different strains of champagne yeast with different alcohol tolerance levels. Anyway, I liked it. That's the important part 😁
I'm from Denmark. I live (and grew up) about 400m from the Viking Museum 🙂 By the way, they are going to rebuild the museum from scratch in order to secure the old ships against future floods.
Congratulations on your pregnancy. As a Dane it's always to watch videos from Americans who have a tually visited Denmark. Looking foraard to my next trip to USA. Unfortunatfly it will not take me to Utah - only North Carolina.
Welcome back and a huge congratulations with your baby ♥️ Ahhh I just moved from Roskilde, it’s such a beautiful city but you have been so close to “sagnlandet” where you could experience the Stoneage, Iron Age, and the Vikingage it’s so amazing and you can actually live there to see how life was back then.
Congratz on your HailBaby. Super you enjoyed Roskilde and exercised your inner viking. Mead is an aquired taste - sadly not for me - but happy that you guys liked it. Next time you visit Roskilde I highly recommend a visit to Roskilde Cathedral - where our royalty is buried (at least most of them).
Viking museum is a cool place - also for kids. Very odd anyone asked you for a tip in Denmark its normally included in the bill. Few Danes ever give tips.
The shiny roof are splitting the population in two. The ones who have them and their neighbours. The neighbours don't like the shine. Our roof are cheap plates, but they should last at least 20 years. So we're happy and so are our neighbours. 😅Good luck with your (no longer) so little bump.
Great to see you back and thanks for your review upon my country (Denmark). You dont need to make reviews on the other Nordic countries. Total waste of time. *kidding* In the Nordic we like to tease the other countries. And make fun of them. But deep inside we love them. Afterall we have been into more wars than any other countries (not including the Viking age) so now we just love them. If you want mead you can make it yourself. It is easy. Lots of recipe on the Internet
Roskilde is my hometown. When i was a kid they would have summer"camps" where Longship would be build by kids and adults the old viking way. Those that were safe and sail ready would be tested, before those properly build made the full trip across the ocean from Denmark to England and back. I kinda wish they still did those cuz it would be a good excuse to get some proper exercise. Glad you liked your trip to this little flat island of the world. Stay safe Heidi.
Dear Heidi, I'm really happy that you had all these experiences! Regarding mead.... it's really easy to make at home. I'm doing it just for a hobby and if you want to learn how, I can tell you, and I can point you to some really good, instructive videos here on TH-cam, those are the videos that helped me too a lot when I started making mead myself! There's very little equipment necessary and it's the sort of thing that you prepare in an hour (at most) and then you can forget about it for weeks, it makes itself pretty much.
I come from a fjord like Roskilde, and yes, you pronounced it just right. We have our own local viking burial site, and during the summer, volunteering is huge, so we help out the museum build ships and maintain the place. Hope you all are fine. Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
The tip is included in the price in Denmark by law, so the waiter should not have asked for a tip. Maybe he/she was new and inexperienced and did not know. Still, I am Danish and often add an extra tip when I eat at a restaurant when the service is good, even if I know a tip is also included in the price. Maybe I am a bit oldfashioned. I am from the time before the tip got included. Even so I know many other Danes that do the same. I have a feeling the restaurant owner can grab the automatic tip leaving the waiter emptyhanded.
After just one visit to Denmark and your work/life priorities have changed to the better, LOL. Congrats with the pregnancy. Productive year! Maybe you have not felt good but you look better than ever! The glazed tiles originally were used on castles and palaces and many switched to them when leaving hay roofs behind. Now you also can get them where they function as solarpanels, thus each tile are it´s own connected panel. Vikings in general did not walk around with horn helmets however several costly horn helmets have been found and all those are believed to have only been used in ceremonial context´s. Viking ships were used around 1000 years ago and are made of organic matters why it are close to a miracle that some have been found at all. I have been to the museum and are actually impressed how much they have been able to put together. The best preserved they have found that are there are actually found in the inlet to the Fjord (not lake) you sailed on and then had been deliberately sunk to prevent any arriving enemy to enter with to many ships at the same time.
Ohh mead, its very good.. I don't really drink any kind of alcohol as my stomach cant handle the acidity, but mead, i get a little glass of mead! We just bought 6 flasks last weekend haha! I'm surprised its not easy to find.. Maybe someone should start selling it abroad haha! When i was at the museum, on a school trip, they mentioned that they also make the replica ships like it would have been made back then, same tools and by hand. So cool! I'm so glad you liked your trip here, i do think Denmark is sometimes underestimated as a tourist destination, so its nice to hear someone loving it so much! I watched ConnorVA/ConnorDawg's stream his one day in Copenhagen and he also had so much love for us haha!
Roskilde is a nice place. Been living here for over a decade. It has character, is big enough for all the amenities you'd want, is close to Copenhagen and has direct connection to the mainland and other islands.
Love hearing your travelling experience. You narrate your time away in Europe so well!! Now I want to go to Denmark! I hope you, hubby and lil one are doing well :)
Hey Heidi :) I don't know if is the Thyroid problem or the microphone, but around 0:34 and other times in the video you sound like you have a lisp and sometimes there seems to be some artifacts of noise canceling where there shouldn't be, making your voice sound kinda "muffled" Try turning up the gain on the microphone, and lower the volume to compensate :)
fantastic to see people from other countries visit cities other than Copenhagen when they come to Denmark, the fact that you visited the city I live in is just great I hope you had a good experience at the harbor
Hi heidi, i am from Denmark, the meal you showed after the boat trip, i think it is actually "tapas". It is food and a way of eating it, originally from spain (i think). It has become very popular in Denmark since about 2010, a lot of café's and restaurants have it on the menu. Even Museum cafeteria's have it on the menu.
Hi Heidi. Next time in Denmark go to Ladbydskibet by Kerteminde on island of Fyn (~funen) A complete Viking Ship in the spot it was buried 1000 years ago. Giving a absolute picture og the type of ships. A full replica sailing the fjord besides the hill.
Bikes are everywhere in Denmark :D There are bike paths covering the entire country :) (about the tipping?, they probably heard you were American, and would just help) (We do tip in Denmark, when we get extra good service, but here is the catch - tip in Denmark, are DIVIDED equally by all the servers.
Roskilde is my hometown and I worked at that museum for 2 seasons some years ago and did those guided tours. I would have loved to be the one who showed you around 😊.
Do come back to take one of the longer 3 to 4 week viking boat trips, where we invade 1-3 eastern English harbor towns (the amount of towns visited depends upon the resistance) ;)
When I went on that exact same viking boat trip, they made sure that the most experienced persons were in front, so you don't get the second lady that disrupt the entire rest of the line. I ended up being first on the starboard side, so I had the crucial role of being in sinc with the first portside person.
It's not entirely guess work regarding the ships. A Norwegian find called the Oseberg ship has filled in alot of those holes, but yes all viking ships found in Denmark was found in the sea so they were in pieces by the time they were escavated, which is in itself a very interesting process (large walls inserted into the water around the remains and then pumping the water out).
PS I should add that these were the same kinds of ships that Norwegian viking Leiv Eriksson sailed when he and his crew discovered America around the year 1000. Leiv Eriksson is considered the first European to set foot on the American continent, around 500 years before Christopher Columbus. They landed in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. They settled there, but mysteriously disappeared some years later.
Hi Heidi I've been thinking a lot about where you've been and how you've been feeling, if you were okay, but luckily I can see that you are and I'm happy about that. I hope you get a nice house with good internet. like here in Denmark🇩🇰👍😊
There are holes in our knowledge about the technic used for building viking ships, but there is no doubt about the sizes. Also the guess are fairly good as we can fill in the wholes with other finds. About the technic we can study tool marks on the finds, and see if we get the same marks when building a ship the way we think they did. That is actualy what Roskilde Viking ship museum is doing. All the ships are build with only the tools that was avalible to the vikings.
Straw roofing on houses definitely isn't "poor." It's quite expensive in upkeep generally. Which is why you do not see new houses with straw roofing very often. It tends to be on older buildings, often those protected by law as legal protections mean you can't change the original appearance of the building. That said you also get new constructions with it, my foster parents built an "eco house" with it, and also lived in a old straw roofed cottage/farm house before that when I lived with them.
The "black tiles" are just like the ordinary red tiles, just with a ceramic layer on top, as you are able to buy similar yellow and green tiles! For a price, naturally! Finn. Denmark
Man from Roskilde here. One very important thing that you might not have been told or just forgot to mention is that the replica ships they build, they build them with the same tools the vikings used and they can take years to make.
We do have such roof tiles in Germany, too, in various colors. Red ones are most common, but there are blue, black and greem ones as well. Black is not so good, because it heats up most in the sun. And there are pretty well preserved examples (for being 1000 years old) of Viking ship in museums in Sweden. There is one twice as big as the one you sailed in. They were the state of the art ship in their time, nobody else had anything even close as good as the Viking ships.
You can mead ( Mjød) in the US online 😊 and it is made in Denmark and and bottled in a clay bottle, if its not in a clay bottle then its not the real deal I also want to say there is so much more to Denmark than Copenhagen and Sjælland, if you come back to Denmark come and see Jutland / Jylland 🙂
The shiny tiles are great for many reasons. Just ask your neighbours. If you build a new house in a new neighbourhood or virgin residential area then I'm pretty sure it is fly but ask your neighbours in an already established - /old neighborhood because there was a court case where someone was ordered to remove their new roof because it reflected the light straight into the neighbours house and these cause enough nuisance to win a court case. Similar to the argument that you don't complain about the smell and noise from a farm if you move to the farm but if someone establishes a farm or especially an industrial farm inside a residential area then the complaint about the noise and smell stands much stronger.
You forgot your super cool outtro music. I concider that blasphemy! I actually love that track so much, that I've started using it, in my miniseries of Cities:Skylines map making. And get back to Denmark soon 😎 🇩🇰
i was there as a student on maritime line over 20 years ago its a great place i love that you loved it and it sound like a typical tour in a big boat with ppl who dont know how to row but somehow manege to anyway hehe :)and yes hail hubby deffo belongs here love that you loved it :)
A word from Europe .... we also know Roskilde from a welknown music festival. Mead is easy to make yourself .... just seach google, there are vids on YT how to make it
Of course you have been missed, but your health will always comes first… I am from Denmark (Jutland the real Denmark... 😆) and have therefore been excited to hear more about your experiences... I like your videos so keep up the good work and stay strong… ☺👍
2:05 I don't think that's technically a viking ship, but it's a closely related ship descending from the same linage. I've sailed a ship like that too. I miss doing so. In central and northern Norway we traditionally call the top person on the boat a "høvedsmann", essentially "chieftain" or "headman". They're traditionally *not* a absolute top authority on board but rather first among equals. Typically the most experienced and respected sailor. Someone respected both by the owner of the boat and the crew. 3:39 On the other hand, that wooden piece is more of a viking ship thing then something we use in "modern" (1800s) traditional fishing vessels. 4:41 When I went to school one of the other students made some mead. (Technically not entirely legal, but it ended up successful and worked out well) 5:29 Kind of. The thing is that first of all, Denmark isn't the only place with Viking ship remains found. We got several in Norway too. Secondly, we have a living boatbuilding tradition in Norway of the same lineage as the Viking ships. There's *some* differences, in part because the wood types used in Viking ships almost went extinct, and the new wood types used couldn't be worked with axes as efficiently as the old ones could, so the news ones where made with planks made by sawing wood (only really possible after the invention of saws that where thin enough). And of course there where *some* developments since then... Our biggest issue is that a lot of the viking ships we've found has been pressed a bit flat by things on top of them like Earth or sediments etc... And also, if we look at the "modern" shipbuilding techniques the wood is put under tension and shaped, so it's not as easy as just looking at the shapes and putting them together like Legos. Anyway, I'm seeing both ancient and "modern" traits in that boat you where sailing. More ancient then modern, but still. 5:53 Danish and Swedish viking ships where smaller then the really big Norwegian ones. If you ever get a chance you should go to Borg in Lofoten in Norway. They have a full scale *large* viking ship, showing you just how big they could get. Although that isn't the biggest one known from stories it's a better representation of what Norwegian viking ships used for raids on the west coast of England, Wales, Scotland and on Ireland would have looked like. Denmark also had bigger ones then what you probably saw, although they like the Swedes tended to make smaller ones, more suitable for rivers and shallow waters, while Norwegian ones where better suited for open oceans.
Have you tried Elk Horn, Iowa, for someone manufacturing mead? Elk Horn has a very large population of decendants of danish immigrants. They pride themselves of their danish heritage, and some of the older people there still speaks danish. A lot of shops advertise with “authentic danish - pastries/bread/cheese, cold cuts and stuff like that. (It’s not very authentic, I have to say), but there moght be a brewery of mead or two around there.
I don't know if you still read comments from an old video like this, but i'll give it a go. I can't say if there is any shops that sell mead in Utah, but i was on vacation in Cincinnati, Ohio and at Jungle Jims they had a big selection of danish branded mead. I know it is a long drive from UItah, but if you know someone that is traveling in that area anyways, they could bring you a few bottles.
those shiny tiles are clay burned and glazed the strawroof is old style and very ekspensive (not sure i spelled that right) cause there arent many who does that kind of work any more
Wonder why it's called rowing? I once ended up in a (tourist style) canoe with a classmate that did canoeing as a sparetime sport. He navigated the waves and got us into sync in a way we ended up being the fastest canoe of the class while not being totally worn out when we got back... when you're in sync you save a lot of energy.
I've had a chat with an archaeologist that is on call for those findings of ships etc. From iron and viking age. Some of it is guessing, of course, as it's very rare to find a fully preserved ship. But Roskilde is supposed to have the best preserved ship from that time.
GGs Heidi & Hail Hubby. Rowing - you just experienced the early stages of 'reasons for sail development' lol Edit: Hubby not fancy a 'Brew at Home' mead kit !?
Yeah, tip options are rare here in Denmark, I think I've only seen at a turkish or other middle eastern run restaurant in Taastrup (20-30min train ride out from Copenhagen)
I am portuguese and I have lived in DK for just over a decade :) And have black roof tiles ... if you go even further from Copenhagen, you will also find neglected straw roofs - a whole ecosystem lives in there ^_^
Damn that belly is getting big Heidi 😅 really happy for you! Being asked for a tip is VERY rare here in Denmark. Maybe because it was a tourist place, they felt they could do it. Can’t wait for part 3 on the Denmark tour 😊
The one place you encountered that asked if you'd like to place a tip, is most likely not actually because they expect it. It's typically because some card terminals have a setting where tipping excess is built in and you have to accept or deny it before you can pay for your meal. Since it's written in Danish they probably assumed you wouldn't understand it, and therefore asked you verbally instead:) Tipping here isn't unusual on restaurants, especially among mid-older generations leaving 5-10% tip for a meal is fairly common -but you're never expected to pay it. It's 100% voluntary and acceptable to not pay tips
The inner city of Copenhagen (assuming that was the area you spend the most time), on purpose have fewer parking lots (those that are around as buildings and cellars) than what could be filled, to force people to public transportation and bikes
One of the Skuldelev viking ships- Havhingsten- was rebuilt in Roskilde, the original was built in 1042 in Dublin Ireland, and the replica was back for a visit in 2007/08, 1000 years later.
I saw Havhingsten arrive in Dublin. Amazing ! The year before that I took a 5day course ‘how to sail the square sail (Viking)ship’ at the museum. We sailed one of the smaller Skuldelev-replica’s, Kraka Fyr. And Kraka Fyrs’ captain was part of Havhingstens crew. I did research then for a Viking age novel I was planning to write. Havhingsten (sea stallion) has a crew of 100+… Jan from Belgium
in Danish, tipping actually means drinking money and is seen as such. there is nothing wrong in principle in giving a small extra payment if you think you have received an extraordinary service. but you must know that drinking money is usually shared among all employees in a large pool. In contrast to e.g. In the US, tips are NOT part of the salary. We consider it a matter of course that it is the task of the restaurant or bar to pay its staff decently. Wait staff are also less persistent / irritating in Denmark than in countries where tipping is common.
My neighbor has glazed black tiles. I live on the 2nd floor compared to him... I have a balcony facing him and his roof blinds me. I don't blame him, he didn't know when he installed it. He was actually sad when he heard me mention it in passing at a neighborhood meeting.
Years ago I took a 5day course ‘how to sail the square sail (Viking)ship’ at the museum. We sailed one of the smaller Skuldelev-replica’s, Kraka Fyr. The biggest replica , Havhingsten fra Glendalough (Sea Stallion from Glendalough) sailed from Roskilde to Dublin where the original ship was build 1000 years earlier . I was there when she arrived in Dublin. Kraka Fyrs’ captain was part of Havhingstens crew. (100+) Then I did early research for a Viking-age novel that I planned to write. The project was delayed because of severe health issues but now, years later, it’s almost finished…. Jan from Belgium
I am happy if you are happy! As a tourist, I realy hope that you got "bang for your bucks"! Its kinda this.. like all over the world, touristy places is often expencive! Its this, Copenhagen airport is the airport hub for scandinavia/other nordics.. cheaper airplane ticket.. more money to spend at ones destination!
Hi Heidi: If you search for Max Miller (Tasting history) here on YT and look for mead, you can find a video where you can find links to buy mead and mjød (mjoed) in US. Hope I'm not too late with the info.
In the Bronze age (800-1000 B.C) in Denmark, there WHERE helmets with horns.. ! -BUT the vikingage were about 700-1050 A.D. (so about 1500 years apart) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veks%C3%B8_Helmets
Congratulations with the baby!
Roskilde Fjord is not a lake. It is a fjord, an inlet, an arm of he sea.
I am german and i do love DENMARK ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Ich bin Dähne und ich liebe Deutschland.
@@timholstpetersen79 I am German and also love Denmark. I live 70 km away from Haithabu (large Danish Viking settlement in northern Germany), I think I also have the right to not call myself a Viking. Hello to all Vikings. 😉
I am German, too. I don't think I have ever met another German - or Dutch for that matter - that has a negative view on Denmark. Everybody loves Denmark. It's sooo close to perfection❤❤🇩🇰
@@bjorndebar8361 Only in weekends. 😉
@@Gert-DK Ok, nice. 😁
Glazed roof tiles. these are baked with a glass-containing suspension that hardens during baking. This glaze layer then protects your roof tiles against the growth of mosses and algae.
And if they are white they reflect the heat, black tiles don't.
could also be a slate roof
@@eichzoernchen never seen a slate roof in my 47 years of living in denmark. im 110% its glazed tiles.
estimated lifetime on glazed tile roof is around 100 years and the reason to why many use it more and more.
@@eichzoernchen could be, but slate is not as shiny.
i layed 100 of slate roofs in Denmark and the can be Shiny if the painted over ... but my gress is that is a glazed tile roof. @@MrLarsgren
@@eichzoernchenno you don’t confuse the two, we have both in Denmark slate isn’t shiny when compared to glazed tiles.
I do have a black shiny tegl roof... They last for at least 50 years... After the period where we used straws, tegl became the standard roofing material... Glad to see you had a great trip to Denmark... :)
50 years is awesome. We've got to ditch this shingles thing. haha
When it comes to roofs, "tegl" is called tile in english. Black, shiny roofing is most likely plastic. It's good stuff, probably has 20 years in it, and costs less than half of what the slate it's meant to emulate does. But still: Plastic. Meh 😞
@@Smo1k Not in Denmark, here we dont have plastic roof.
@@Smo1k not plastic, but a glass layer to the painted tile. Quite expensive actually.
@@Smo1k Black tile roof is made ceramic, and they do last for at lest 50years
They’ve found almost complete viking ship in Norway by turn of the century. Called Oseberg ship. So we do have a very good idea how a viking ship is bouild and work.
Same in Germany. You can see an entire boat at the viking museum at Haitabuh (Schleswig).
Thatched roofs are common in central and northern Europe, often reed rather than straw. In winter a duvet for the house and keep it cool in summer.
Interestingly, my grandfather was a homesteader in western Jutland, and one of the many ways he made an extra income was harvesting and preparing reeds for thatched roofs.
And they are most certainly not made for the poor.
Insurance is usually more expensive with a thatched roof.
Congratulations Heidi, it looks like you and your hubby had great fun there take care.
These thatched roofs are typical for Northern Europe in the Netherlands, Germany and Denmark. However, they are not cheap and quite an investment.
Yes. Not something you see on new houses, but they look cool.
Mead: Take 10kg or liter of honey and 20 liter of water and mix together. Boil the mixture for sterility. Put it in a room, were the temperature is around 10-15 °C (50-59 °F) and wait for it to cool off. Put yeast in it. Wait for 3 weeks for it to stop fermenting. Transfer the mead withtout the yeast to a new container. Best after 1 or 2 years maturing. Alc % will be around 16-17 depending on the yeast you use.
Yes. Making mead is not really that hard, and it's easier than making beer, and you don't need that much equipment. You just need to make sure everything is sanitized. I believe people here use champagne yeast, and they ferment it for longer before bottling, but it probably depends on the yeast and temperature. You can also put in fresh or dried fruits, berries or spices to add flavour, like orange peel, lemons, ginger, raspberries, clove or cinnamon.
@@AudunWangen If you use a champagne yeast it will ferment out dry, which is not period correct. The yeast strains they had at the time would die of at probably 13-15% at best. And travellers from the time describe it as sweeter than wine, so we know they purposefully added more honey that what the yeast could fully ferment.
@@andersjjensen I'm not personally that meticulate about the historicity, as long as it tastes good and makes me drunk. I'm quite sure most Vikings would agree 😜
I think the historically accurate way to do it is to use meadowsweet and dried wild flowers, honey and water to create a wild yeast starter, but that's way too complicated for most people, and can more easily spoil your brew. In many countries it's not allowed to sell commercially, because you can't be sure it's "clean".
@@AudunWangen You don't need anything but honey to get wild yeast. It's full of it. It's completely dehydrated by the high sugar content of the honey, but as soon as you mix in the water it rehydrates and starts working. That is, unless some noggin decided to boil the honey (so everything on a store shelf) before jarring it.
That said, dry mead is like dry white wine: it makes your tongue feel like a cat tongue. And fermenting it all out also makes it taste a lot more like white wine than mead. I'm not saying "go for sticky sweet", but for people interested in mead I advise trying something on the sweetish end, as that better portrays what mead really is: "White wine with nectar" :P
@@andersjjensen Sure, honey contains wild yeast, but meadowsweet acts as a disinfectant, and I'm guessing the flowers add some ingredients that make the yeast happier? I don't know about the wild flowers in the starter, and probably the Vikings didn't either (they thought the whole brewing process was magic), but I believe that is the most historically accurate recipe.
Mead is actually much older than the Viking age. It dates back to at least 6500BC, and perhaps much longer.
The mead I drank wasn't that dry, but had a very distinct, nutty, mossy and smokey honey taste and a little sweetness. I'm not sure how they made it, but there's many ways to skin a cat, as they say. You can add sweetness after it is done fermenting, and you could possibly also stop fermentation early by using potassium sorbate, cold crashing, pasteurization, centrifugation or a combination of those or other methods. Also, there's different strains of champagne yeast with different alcohol tolerance levels. Anyway, I liked it. That's the important part 😁
I'm from Denmark. I live (and grew up) about 400m from the Viking Museum 🙂
By the way, they are going to rebuild the museum from scratch in order to secure the old ships against future floods.
Congratulations on your pregnancy. As a Dane it's always to watch videos from Americans who have a tually visited Denmark. Looking foraard to my next trip to USA. Unfortunatfly it will not take me to Utah - only North Carolina.
Welcome back and a huge congratulations with your baby ♥️
Ahhh I just moved from Roskilde, it’s such a beautiful city but you have been so close to “sagnlandet” where you could experience the Stoneage, Iron Age, and the Vikingage it’s so amazing and you can actually live there to see how life was back then.
Oh dang, that's super cool!
Lejre is an awesome place, been there several times, not in over a decade though, live in Jutland now, so its a longer journey.
Congratz on your HailBaby. Super you enjoyed Roskilde and exercised your inner viking. Mead is an aquired taste - sadly not for me - but happy that you guys liked it. Next time you visit Roskilde I highly recommend a visit to Roskilde Cathedral - where our royalty is buried (at least most of them).
Viking museum is a cool place - also for kids. Very odd anyone asked you for a tip in Denmark its normally included in the bill. Few Danes ever give tips.
The shiny roof are splitting the population in two. The ones who have them and their neighbours. The neighbours don't like the shine. Our roof are cheap plates, but they should last at least 20 years. So we're happy and so are our neighbours. 😅Good luck with your (no longer) so little bump.
the Viking museum at Roskilde is great. Our one on the Lofoten, Norway , is great, too😀
Great to see you back and thanks for your review upon my country (Denmark). You dont need to make reviews on the other Nordic countries. Total waste of time. *kidding* In the Nordic we like to tease the other countries. And make fun of them. But deep inside we love them. Afterall we have been into more wars than any other countries (not including the Viking age) so now we just love them. If you want mead you can make it yourself. It is easy. Lots of recipe on the Internet
Roskilde is my hometown. When i was a kid they would have summer"camps" where Longship would be build by kids and adults the old viking way. Those that were safe and sail ready would be tested, before those properly build made the full trip across the ocean from Denmark to England and back. I kinda wish they still did those cuz it would be a good excuse to get some proper exercise.
Glad you liked your trip to this little flat island of the world. Stay safe Heidi.
Dear Heidi, I'm really happy that you had all these experiences!
Regarding mead.... it's really easy to make at home. I'm doing it just for a hobby and if you want to learn how, I can tell you, and I can point you to some really good, instructive videos here on TH-cam, those are the videos that helped me too a lot when I started making mead myself!
There's very little equipment necessary and it's the sort of thing that you prepare in an hour (at most) and then you can forget about it for weeks, it makes itself pretty much.
Well pronounced - Roskilde🙌👏🥰 - I live In Roskilde. The water and Viking history is important to all of us here…glad you enjoyed our city…🤗❤️
glad you liked our little country 😃
I come from a fjord like Roskilde, and yes, you pronounced it just right. We have our own local viking burial site, and during the summer, volunteering is huge, so we help out the museum build ships and maintain the place.
Hope you all are fine.
Greetings from Denmark 🇩🇰
I'm living in a house in the danish countryside with a black-tiled roof. It has become quite popular. But it is esthetic more that isolating.
The tip is included in the price in Denmark by law, so the waiter should not have asked for a tip. Maybe he/she was new and inexperienced and did not know. Still, I am Danish and often add an extra tip when I eat at a restaurant when the service is good, even if I know a tip is also included in the price. Maybe I am a bit oldfashioned. I am from the time before the tip got included. Even so I know many other Danes that do the same. I have a feeling the restaurant owner can grab the automatic tip leaving the waiter emptyhanded.
just a little note, you were on Roskilde inlet not a lake :)
Congratz!!!
After just one visit to Denmark and your work/life priorities have changed to the better, LOL. Congrats with the pregnancy. Productive year! Maybe you have not felt good but you look better than ever!
The glazed tiles originally were used on castles and palaces and many switched to them when leaving hay roofs behind. Now you also can get them where they function as solarpanels, thus each tile are it´s own connected panel. Vikings in general did not walk around with horn helmets however several costly horn helmets have been found and all those are believed to have only been used in ceremonial context´s. Viking ships were used around 1000 years ago and are made of organic matters why it are close to a miracle that some have been found at all. I have been to the museum and are actually impressed how much they have been able to put together. The best preserved they have found that are there are actually found in the inlet to the Fjord (not lake) you sailed on and then had been deliberately sunk to prevent any arriving enemy to enter with to many ships at the same time.
Ohh mead, its very good.. I don't really drink any kind of alcohol as my stomach cant handle the acidity, but mead, i get a little glass of mead! We just bought 6 flasks last weekend haha!
I'm surprised its not easy to find.. Maybe someone should start selling it abroad haha!
When i was at the museum, on a school trip, they mentioned that they also make the replica ships like it would have been made back then, same tools and by hand. So cool!
I'm so glad you liked your trip here, i do think Denmark is sometimes underestimated as a tourist destination, so its nice to hear someone loving it so much!
I watched ConnorVA/ConnorDawg's stream his one day in Copenhagen and he also had so much love for us haha!
Roskilde is a nice place. Been living here for over a decade. It has character, is big enough for all the amenities you'd want, is close to Copenhagen and has direct connection to the mainland and other islands.
Love hearing your travelling experience. You narrate your time away in Europe so well!! Now I want to go to Denmark! I hope you, hubby and lil one are doing well :)
AH thank you, cat!! 🥰
Hey Heidi :)
I don't know if is the Thyroid problem or the microphone, but around 0:34 and other times in the video you sound like you have a lisp and sometimes there seems to be some artifacts of noise canceling where there shouldn't be, making your voice sound kinda "muffled"
Try turning up the gain on the microphone, and lower the volume to compensate :)
fantastic to see people from other countries visit cities other than Copenhagen when they come to Denmark, the fact that you visited the city I live in is just great I hope you had a good experience at the harbor
Hi heidi, i am from Denmark, the meal you showed after the boat trip, i think it is actually "tapas".
It is food and a way of eating it, originally from spain (i think).
It has become very popular in Denmark since about 2010, a lot of café's and restaurants have it on the menu.
Even Museum cafeteria's have it on the menu.
Actually my cousin has been one of those building that ship, and he has traveled around with it sailing to england and other countries....
Been there, done that :) and yes it was cool 👍
"Moore the boat." 😊🤭 And congratulations with the baby. Take good care of yourself.
Hi Heidi. Next time in Denmark go to Ladbydskibet by Kerteminde on island of Fyn (~funen) A complete Viking Ship in the spot it was buried 1000 years ago. Giving a absolute picture og the type of ships. A full replica sailing the fjord besides the hill.
Mead is usually sold at various fairs, including viking fairs and medieval fairs.
Great Video. A big hello from Dianalund in Denmark and a even bigger congratz on the babybum. It is good to see you again. ❤🎉
Bikes are everywhere in Denmark :D There are bike paths covering the entire country :) (about the tipping?, they probably heard you were American, and would just help) (We do tip in Denmark, when we get extra good service, but here is the catch - tip in Denmark, are DIVIDED equally by all the servers.
Roskilde is my hometown and I worked at that museum for 2 seasons some years ago and did those guided tours. I would have loved to be the one who showed you around 😊.
Do come back to take one of the longer 3 to 4 week viking boat trips, where we invade 1-3 eastern English harbor towns (the amount of towns visited depends upon the resistance) ;)
When I went on that exact same viking boat trip, they made sure that the most experienced persons were in front, so you don't get the second lady that disrupt the entire rest of the line. I ended up being first on the starboard side, so I had the crucial role of being in sinc with the first portside person.
I have never been asked for a tip.
But i don't come from Copenhagen (fortunately 😁)
Aarhus is the place in Denmark 🤘
Glad you enjoyed.. hurry on back.
Thanks for the video, glad you enjoyed our little country
There is a little mead brewery just a little north of Roskilde. But its hard to everything on limited time.
It's not entirely guess work regarding the ships. A Norwegian find called the Oseberg ship has filled in alot of those holes, but yes all viking ships found in Denmark was found in the sea so they were in pieces by the time they were escavated, which is in itself a very interesting process (large walls inserted into the water around the remains and then pumping the water out).
PS I should add that these were the same kinds of ships that Norwegian viking Leiv Eriksson sailed when he and his crew discovered America around the year 1000. Leiv Eriksson is considered the first European to set foot on the American continent, around 500 years before Christopher Columbus. They landed in present-day L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland, Canada. They settled there, but mysteriously disappeared some years later.
Hi Heidi I've been thinking a lot about where you've been and how you've been feeling, if you were okay, but luckily I can see that you are and I'm happy about that. I hope you get a nice house with good internet. like here in Denmark🇩🇰👍😊
There are holes in our knowledge about the technic used for building viking ships, but there is no doubt about the sizes. Also the guess are fairly good as we can fill in the wholes with other finds. About the technic we can study tool marks on the finds, and see if we get the same marks when building a ship the way we think they did. That is actualy what Roskilde Viking ship museum is doing. All the ships are build with only the tools that was avalible to the vikings.
Straw roofing on houses definitely isn't "poor." It's quite expensive in upkeep generally. Which is why you do not see new houses with straw roofing very often. It tends to be on older buildings, often those protected by law as legal protections mean you can't change the original appearance of the building. That said you also get new constructions with it, my foster parents built an "eco house" with it, and also lived in a old straw roofed cottage/farm house before that when I lived with them.
The "black tiles" are just like the ordinary red tiles, just with a ceramic layer on top, as you are able to buy similar yellow and green tiles! For a price, naturally! Finn. Denmark
I did the sail trip with one of the Viking ships a few years ago and it was great. One if the coolest tourist things to do in Denmark ❤
The Hive Winery, Layton Utah has mead.
Congrats on the baby.
Man from Roskilde here.
One very important thing that you might not have been told or just forgot to mention is that the replica ships they build, they build them with the same tools the vikings used and they can take years to make.
Congratz with HailBaby ❤, love from Copenhagen.
We do have such roof tiles in Germany, too, in various colors. Red ones are most common, but there are blue, black and greem ones as well. Black is not so good, because it heats up most in the sun.
And there are pretty well preserved examples (for being 1000 years old) of Viking ship in museums in Sweden. There is one twice as big as the one you sailed in. They were the state of the art ship in their time, nobody else had anything even close as good as the Viking ships.
Hey its Danmark- We dont do sun:(
@@sole129 Well, hope for global warming. Oh, hang on, then you are underwater, so no sun again... :)
@@petebeatminister Sad but true:)
But are those old tiles glazed?
@@klausolekristiansen2960 The old ones mostly were not, but the newer colored ones are.
The horns on the viking helmets were used for mead.
Just like beercan helmets are used today.
I am glad you had a nice trip to Denmark
Regarding the black roof you saw it was probably black glazed ceramic tiles. Its normal in Denmark. Metal roofs are not common in Denmark anymore.
You can mead ( Mjød) in the US online 😊 and it is made in Denmark and and bottled in a clay bottle, if its not in a clay bottle then its not the real deal
I also want to say there is so much more to Denmark than Copenhagen and Sjælland, if you come back to Denmark come and see Jutland / Jylland 🙂
The shiny tiles are great for many reasons. Just ask your neighbours. If you build a new house in a new neighbourhood or virgin residential area then I'm pretty sure it is fly but ask your neighbours in an already established - /old neighborhood because there was a court case where someone was ordered to remove their new roof because it reflected the light straight into the neighbours house and these cause enough nuisance to win a court case.
Similar to the argument that you don't complain about the smell and noise from a farm if you move to the farm but if someone establishes a farm or especially an industrial farm inside a residential area then the complaint about the noise and smell stands much stronger.
You forgot your super cool outtro music. I concider that blasphemy!
I actually love that track so much, that I've started using it, in my miniseries of Cities:Skylines map making.
And get back to Denmark soon 😎 🇩🇰
Becoming Denmark should be the goal of every country. It's truly the greatest country on earth❤❤Greetings from Germany
Glad you liked our country, hi from Greve in Denmark
i was there as a student on maritime line over 20 years ago its a great place i love that you loved it and it sound like a typical tour in a big boat with ppl who dont know how to row but somehow manege to anyway hehe :)and yes hail hubby deffo belongs here love that you loved it :)
Biking is big in all danish cities. If you go further in the country you will see less, but still way more than anywhere in the US.
If you want mead you should order it from Michigan. Not sure which brand is best, but they produce a lot in the US.
A word from Europe .... we also know Roskilde from a welknown music festival.
Mead is easy to make yourself .... just seach google, there are vids on YT how to make it
Of course you have been missed, but your health will always comes first…
I am from Denmark (Jutland the real Denmark... 😆) and have therefore
been excited to hear more about your experiences...
I like your videos so keep up the good work and stay strong… ☺👍
2:05
I don't think that's technically a viking ship, but it's a closely related ship descending from the same linage.
I've sailed a ship like that too.
I miss doing so.
In central and northern Norway we traditionally call the top person on the boat a "høvedsmann", essentially "chieftain" or "headman".
They're traditionally *not* a absolute top authority on board but rather first among equals.
Typically the most experienced and respected sailor.
Someone respected both by the owner of the boat and the crew.
3:39
On the other hand, that wooden piece is more of a viking ship thing then something we use in "modern" (1800s) traditional fishing vessels.
4:41
When I went to school one of the other students made some mead.
(Technically not entirely legal, but it ended up successful and worked out well)
5:29
Kind of.
The thing is that first of all, Denmark isn't the only place with Viking ship remains found.
We got several in Norway too.
Secondly, we have a living boatbuilding tradition in Norway of the same lineage as the Viking ships.
There's *some* differences, in part because the wood types used in Viking ships almost went extinct, and the new wood types used couldn't be worked with axes as efficiently as the old ones could, so the news ones where made with planks made by sawing wood (only really possible after the invention of saws that where thin enough).
And of course there where *some* developments since then...
Our biggest issue is that a lot of the viking ships we've found has been pressed a bit flat by things on top of them like Earth or sediments etc...
And also, if we look at the "modern" shipbuilding techniques the wood is put under tension and shaped, so it's not as easy as just looking at the shapes and putting them together like Legos.
Anyway, I'm seeing both ancient and "modern" traits in that boat you where sailing.
More ancient then modern, but still.
5:53
Danish and Swedish viking ships where smaller then the really big Norwegian ones.
If you ever get a chance you should go to Borg in Lofoten in Norway.
They have a full scale *large* viking ship, showing you just how big they could get.
Although that isn't the biggest one known from stories it's a better representation of what Norwegian viking ships used for raids on the west coast of England, Wales, Scotland and on Ireland would have looked like.
Denmark also had bigger ones then what you probably saw, although they like the Swedes tended to make smaller ones, more suitable for rivers and shallow waters, while Norwegian ones where better suited for open oceans.
Have you tried Elk Horn, Iowa, for someone manufacturing mead?
Elk Horn has a very large population of decendants of danish immigrants. They pride themselves of their danish heritage, and some of the older people there still speaks danish.
A lot of shops advertise with “authentic danish - pastries/bread/cheese, cold cuts and stuff like that.
(It’s not very authentic, I have to say), but there moght be a brewery of mead or two around there.
I don't know if you still read comments from an old video like this, but i'll give it a go.
I can't say if there is any shops that sell mead in Utah, but i was on vacation in Cincinnati, Ohio and at Jungle Jims they had a big selection of danish branded mead. I know it is a long drive from UItah, but if you know someone that is traveling in that area anyways, they could bring you a few bottles.
those shiny tiles are clay burned and glazed the strawroof is old style and very ekspensive (not sure i spelled that right) cause there arent many who does that kind of work any more
I hope you are getting better, I missed you? Good luck to you and new baby. 🥰
Hello Heidi
Warm regards from Germany
🤗🙋♂️
Wonder why it's called rowing?
I once ended up in a (tourist style) canoe with a classmate that did canoeing as a sparetime sport.
He navigated the waves and got us into sync in a way we ended up being the fastest canoe of the class while not being totally worn out when we got back... when you're in sync you save a lot of energy.
I've had a chat with an archaeologist that is on call for those findings of ships etc. From iron and viking age. Some of it is guessing, of course, as it's very rare to find a fully preserved ship. But Roskilde is supposed to have the best preserved ship from that time.
I have a shiny dark red tile roof 😊. But that’s in Germany.
GGs Heidi & Hail Hubby.
Rowing - you just experienced the early stages of 'reasons for sail development' lol
Edit: Hubby not fancy a 'Brew at Home' mead kit !?
Would've loved to see a vlog from Denmark :)
cool Glad you had fun :)
Yeah, tip options are rare here in Denmark, I think I've only seen at a turkish or other middle eastern run restaurant in Taastrup (20-30min train ride out from Copenhagen)
Looks like HailHubby had a lot of fun 😁
I am portuguese and I have lived in DK for just over a decade :) And have black roof tiles ... if you go even further from Copenhagen, you will also find neglected straw roofs - a whole ecosystem lives in there ^_^
Damn that belly is getting big Heidi 😅 really happy for you!
Being asked for a tip is VERY rare here in Denmark. Maybe because it was a tourist place, they felt they could do it.
Can’t wait for part 3 on the Denmark tour 😊
The one place you encountered that asked if you'd like to place a tip, is most likely not actually because they expect it. It's typically because some card terminals have a setting where tipping excess is built in and you have to accept or deny it before you can pay for your meal. Since it's written in Danish they probably assumed you wouldn't understand it, and therefore asked you verbally instead:)
Tipping here isn't unusual on restaurants, especially among mid-older generations leaving 5-10% tip for a meal is fairly common -but you're never expected to pay it. It's 100% voluntary and acceptable to not pay tips
The inner city of Copenhagen (assuming that was the area you spend the most time), on purpose have fewer parking lots (those that are around as buildings and cellars) than what could be filled, to force people to public transportation and bikes
One of the Skuldelev viking ships- Havhingsten- was rebuilt in Roskilde, the original was built in 1042 in Dublin Ireland, and the replica was back for a visit in 2007/08, 1000 years later.
All 5 Skuldelev Ships are rebuild in Roskilde.
I saw Havhingsten arrive in Dublin. Amazing ! The year before that I took a 5day course ‘how to sail the square sail (Viking)ship’ at the museum. We sailed one of the smaller Skuldelev-replica’s, Kraka Fyr. And Kraka Fyrs’ captain was part of Havhingstens crew.
I did research then for a Viking age novel I was planning to write. Havhingsten (sea stallion) has a crew of 100+… Jan from Belgium
I lived in Roskilde for a couple of years. And I never got to row a viking ship. Interesting how things just become ordinary when you grow up there.
in Danish, tipping actually means drinking money and is seen as such. there is nothing wrong in principle in giving a small extra payment if you think you have received an extraordinary service. but you must know that drinking money is usually shared among all employees in a large pool. In contrast to e.g. In the US, tips are NOT part of the salary. We consider it a matter of course that it is the task of the restaurant or bar to pay its staff decently. Wait staff are also less persistent / irritating in Denmark than in countries where tipping is common.
Viking >> Biking. Duuu-uuuh...!
Greetings from CPH ❤❤❤
My neighbor has glazed black tiles. I live on the 2nd floor compared to him... I have a balcony facing him and his roof blinds me.
I don't blame him, he didn't know when he installed it. He was actually sad when he heard me mention it in passing at a neighborhood meeting.
Years ago I took a 5day course ‘how to sail the square sail (Viking)ship’ at the museum. We sailed one of the smaller Skuldelev-replica’s, Kraka Fyr. The biggest replica , Havhingsten fra Glendalough (Sea Stallion from Glendalough) sailed from Roskilde to Dublin where the original ship was build 1000 years earlier . I was there when she arrived in Dublin. Kraka Fyrs’ captain was part of Havhingstens crew. (100+) Then I did early research for a Viking-age novel that I planned to write. The project was delayed because of severe health issues but now, years later, it’s almost finished…. Jan from Belgium
+100, but not all together. 65 each shift…
🎊🎉 Congratulations with the baby 🎉🎊
I am happy if you are happy!
As a tourist, I realy hope that you got "bang for your bucks"!
Its kinda this.. like all over the world, touristy places is often expencive!
Its this, Copenhagen airport is the airport hub for scandinavia/other nordics.. cheaper airplane ticket.. more money to spend at ones destination!
most off what beging found is at the national museum in copenhagen
Hi Heidi: If you search for Max Miller (Tasting history) here on YT and look for mead, you can find a video where you can find links to buy mead and mjød (mjoed) in US. Hope I'm not too late with the info.
In the Bronze age (800-1000 B.C) in Denmark, there WHERE helmets with horns.. !
-BUT the vikingage were about 700-1050 A.D. (so about 1500 years apart)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veks%C3%B8_Helmets
tasting history with max miller has recipes for making ur own mead. glad u enjoyed coming here.