Norwegian here, just some small corrections to a fun collection of weid facts, Hope that’s OK. 1. Norway was ruled by Denmark, not Sweden from 1380 to1814. Both of dynastic reasons and because of the black death killed most of the ruling class. After the Napoleon wars, Norway was forced into a far looser home-rule union with Sweden (1814-1905). 2. Amundsen reached the pole in 1911, as leader of a Norwegian expedition, using the polar ship "Fram". 3. Bohus fortress is close to the border, but in present day Sweden. 4. Roller skies are maily used on public roads (a bit dangerous), not on slopes. 5. Viking legends (sagas) are stories about (most likely) real people and do contain some traces of factual information. The folklore has pagan nordic and germanic roots, mixed with local versions of common, medival European myths and legends. Both inspired Tolkien! 6. The sami (some of them) herd reindeer, not sheep.
Would have been cool to include some of the animals that originate from Norway like; Lundehund ,this dog has 6 toes on each foot, can bend it's neck backwards, it's front feet can open straight out like it's opening it's arms and it can close it's ears. Fjording or Fjord horse, one of the world's oldest and purest breeds known to exist in Norway at the end of the last ice age and used by vikings as war horses. It has a distinctive two toned mane with a dark stripe on the middle. Norsk Skogkatt or Norwegian Forest Cat, one of the biggest cat breeds in the world, they have double-layer coating that repels water and it's said the vikings used them on their ships to catch mice, it's thought to be the forebearer of the Maine Coon.
Quisling was never a legitimate ruler of Norway during WWII. The parliament had used a law in the constitution letting them do an emergency change. The governement used this emergency clause from England and ruled Norway with both the King and all our fortune from England during the war. The gold reserve had been moved together with the government and the king while the nazies were chasing them around. Massive achievement.
Not only will peeps carry rifles in Svalbard, it's _mandatory_ to carry a rifle outside town. At least one in the party needs to carry due to the threat of polar bears. Several tourists have been maimed or killed by polar bears due to not heeding this order. At night, flares and traps also have to be set.
One comment to pronounciaton of native Norwegian words like "bunad" The stress is always on the first syllable, and unstressed syllables are never long. The "u" in bunad is long and stressed, the "a" is short.
My cousin had a dispute about Black Metal with ... Varg Vikernes. Varg sent my cousin not-so veiled death threats for having a different opinion about the history of Black Metal.
Haha you really butcher these names! _Akershus festning_ can be roughly translated to Acre's House Fortress. An acre is ofc a measuring unit, moreover it's the amount of land one man can plough. It comes from the Norse word for a field, which is ákr. So, Akershus really means _The House of the Acres_ or _The House of the Fields,_ i.e. the castle that presides over the peasants living on those fields. Old English and Norse are really closesly related, so much so that it was mutually intelligible some 1000 years back. That's why a lot of Modern English contains so many Norse words, such as acre. Betcha didn't know that!
Yeah....there were a bunch of things I didn't "know" about Norway .....but that is just because those random "things" you present are wrong. The amount of misinformation is so large that I won't even try to list them. I don't understand the point of making a video when the research done is so crappy.
Fun fact in the northern regions by law you have to carry a rifle on you outside at all times because of polar bears. Another key feature of modern Norway are their highly subsidized social programs, all paid for by the oil and gas industry and secured for the next century by their discovery of the 4th largest lithium deposit in the world.
You´re wrong, As of 2016 there were 482 988 licensed hunters, and about 130.000 members of DfS. There’s probably significant overlap, but this means that roughly 10% of Norway’s population has a fire arms license of some sort. First of all, maybe take a quick search on the internet, second of all, read about DfS (Det frivillige Skyttervesen) Membership to own a gun there is 100$ a year. Than you can also go applying for a permit (to own a gun) its not that hard actually. Jeg selv har en pistol og en m4 rifle! Jeg er medlem av DfS. I tillegg har jeg jaktkort som betyr at jeg har lov fra staten å eie våpen. Dette inkluderer en Glock 16 for selvforsvar. @@TullaRask
I’m from Norway and i didn’t even know these things, because they are absolute bullshit. The research done for this video is so crappy, you did us wrong…
For one I think it should have been mentioned that Bohuslän fortress is in present day Sweden. Used actually to be Norwegian though. Then there were some wrong dates and factual mistakes regarding who ruled over Norway when. Long story short, after some unfortunate royal marriages Denmark ended up ruling over Norway until they lost the Napoleonic wars and had to cede it to Sweden in 1814. Then Norwegians were so obstinate and unruly that Sweden though men för helvete då and let Norwegians rule themselves since 1905. Other than that I thought the video was pretty interesting.
Thank you Kebman! I figured, being my first video, there would be a small number of inaccuracies, but calling it all absolute bullshit I thought seemed a bit harsh too, considering other endorsements. But, I supposed everybody needs to have haters, even small-scale TH-camrs like myself! Always trying to improve, and I always appreciate your comments!
@@nick_geo Welcome to the internet! The lengths some peeps will go to scrutinize obscure shit is just AMAZING. Too bad they aren't trying to cure cancer. xD
You claim that there are many things that "aren't common knowledge about Norway" .....but with your video you were able to create a few new "facts"..... Facts that no one ever has heard about before.....simply because they are just fantasy spin of yourself.... When it comes to Norway's history ....specially up against Sweden....the list of mistakes are to extensive to name. Norway's coastline is around the double of what you claim ....and is the SECOND LONGEST coastline in the world only after Canada. The most correct source of such information is to get the data directly from the Norwegian state mapping authority....which has measured the coastline to .....over 103 000 km..... Hence over two and a half times around the Equator. Your idea of the term "fjord" is inadequate.... In reality is there nothing that says that there must be mountains surrounding it or that it must cut into the land. A fjord is simply a body of water that people must cross in order to get from A to B. ....and NO ....the mountain that risk to fall into the fjord ....is not located in/at Geirangerfjorden ....but in Storfjorden ....which further in leads to Geirangerfjorden. ....and NO if the mountainside slides out into the fjord it will NOT create a "tsunami". You just display a complete ignorance of what the term means. The correct is that it will form a flood wave..... There is nothing special with Norway having a sector claim in Antarctica. There are a number of other countries having their own claims there also. ....and NO....Roald Amundsen did not get to Antarctica, for his South Pole expedition, with a Belgian ship. He got there with a Norwegian ship named FRAM. It is exhibited in Oslo ...for anyone to see. Since when was Finnmark "just a barren plateau"...????? When it comes to the Sami population ....your idea that they still are living a "semi-nomadic" life as reindeer herders ....is a misconception..... that time is long gone.... There is just a minority of them doing reindeer herding today. Most of them do ordinary work as any other Norwegian ....as bus driver...as doctor....as professor....as minister in the government of Norway ....or as...... When it comes to the painter Edward Munch ....he did NOT donate his work to the government....but he donated it to Oslo city municipality.... The Viking ship named Osebergskipet are not "reconstructed". It's the real deal ....the original one..... ....and NO....there does not exist moose in Norway ....or anywhere else in Europe for that matter.... Moose is solely the North American variant and a close relative of the European species called ELK (elk in English, elch in German, älg in Swedish, elg in Denish and Norwegian .... and also which is not the North American species that is named elk....). Genetically those two are distinct / clearly separated ...and has no common habitats. Just check out science on that area.... I'm certainly not impressed and I don't understand that someone can publish a video with so much misconception and mistakes. It is even worse than poorly researched.... There were to much crap to remember it all. Title of the video would be better to call it 50 misinformation about Norway.... made up by yourself....
Bro calm down 😂 this was my first video and half of the things you say are wrong aren’t entirely wrong. “He didn’t donate it to the government, he donated it to Oslo Municipality”. Sure! That has zero to do with the government. I appreciate the engagement, chief
@@nick_geo Dude....try to educate yourself a bit. You obvious don't know what you're talking about. Name one single thing which I've mentioned that is wrong....and good luck with that....l!!!! Each and everything I've stated can be proven correct. ....and the mes of a list of your "facts" are much longer than what I've listed. It's irrelevant what number of video you post. Facts need to be reality checked..... To your information is Oslo City Municipality independent from the Norwegian state government. Two completely different things. Oslo has 100 % ownership of the art donated ....and the state government has 0 % ...hence have no saying in those matters..... It's the taxpayers in Oslo who pays for the costs for what the city handles of art ....or whatever.... A minimum of insight and research is required before posting something called facts..... Best advise is simply to delete your "production".
That was a lot of periods in one comment. 1. As for the coastline, have you heard of the coastline paradox? Depending on the resolution of your measure, a coastline can essentially be indefinite in length. Due to this fact, the length of our coastline is contested, and differs from source to source, and also depends on whether you're talking about mainland Norway or if you count islands and overseas territories as well. I mean, if you count Queen Maud Land, which is basically a fifth of Antarctica, we have the longest coastline in the world. And even here, you're wrong. According to Kartverket, we have slightly UNDER 103.000 km of coastline. 2. Your definition of the word "fjord" is also wrong - but we may very well have gone to different geography classes, so I even went to Store norske leksikon to check. They say that a fjord is basically a valley filled with water from the country's coastline. Last I checked, you cannot have valleys without mountains. 3. "Flood wave," the way you use it here, is a poor direct translation from Norwegian to English of something that can otherwise be translated as "tsunami," so again you're wrong. 4. The Belgica expedition, on which Roald Amundsen was a mariner, was indeed a Belgian expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Fram was in fact not used by Amundsen before 11 years later. Fram was, at this time, used by Otto Sverdrup to travel to the Arctic, not the Antarctic. 5. As for Finnmark being a "barren plateau," Finnmark is a lot more sparsely vegetated than the more Southern parts of Norway, thus being a barren plateau. 6. As a Sami person myself I find it hilarious that you think reindeer herding makes us a "nomadic people." A bunch of us do herd reindeer, and a very important industry in Sápmi is indeed reindeer herding. And, just like the Inuits are known for their face tattoos and dog sledding, I am very fine with us being known for our reindeer herding. 7. The word "government" has a much broader meaning in English than in Norwegian, so sit your ass down and take a chill pill. 8. Osebergskipet was, in fact, reconstructed at the University of Oslo before it was transported to Bygdøy, where it now is located. 9. Learn to write our brethren's language "Danish" correctly in English before you decide to criticize an American for how they speak English. I think an American knows their mother tongue better than you do. In fact, the difference between elk and moose is simply linguistics. Biologically speaking, they're the exact same species (alces alces) regardless of whether you find them in North America or Eurasia.
@@nick_geo On behalf of the rest of Norway I would like to sincerely apologize for whomever this dude is. I'm not even sure he is Norwegian himself, seeing as he managed to "debunk" all of your points using a bunch of falsehoods or misunderstandings himself. I would tell him to fuck off, but that's way too civilized for me.
The only thing you need to know about Norway is that it's on the periphery, geographically and culturally, where people spend half their lives struggling in icey darkness and rely on food imports to survive because they don't have enough arable land to grow food. This is why Norway's akways going to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Artificial wealth per capita has no inherent value. It's an unsustainable state of mind. The curse of oil.
@CM-ey7nq Artificial wealth, parasitising foreign economic activity. It has no inherent value for Norway when international economic crises unfold. It adds little to Norway's actual economy. Norway has failed to invest in itself. It has one of the least skilled onshore economies in Europe. It's a petrostate that failed to invest in itself when it had the chance. A per capita figure jotted down on a piece of paper doesn't translate into wealth. It's wholly reliant on the outside world for its existence, due to its unfortunate geography. Still one of the poorest countries in Europe, in reality. If you consider wealth to be just the accumulation of artificial currency, then you probably disagree, but it still doesn't change anything for Norway. Norway was making economic progress by generating wealth in Norway from its independence up to when it discovered oil. Then they got complacent and lazy. The curse of oil. Cancel out the artificial wealth, which could disappear at the drop of a hat for a number of reasons, what's left for Norway? What did Norway ever get out of it? Perspective, especially regarding wealth and what it means, is everything Norway failed to grasp. Cursed by greed and oil. The reality is that Norway always had more important things to invest in at home than accumulating a trillion-dollar oil fund to brag about. Get washed up with a suitcase full of artificial wealth on a remote uninhabited desert island and let me know how much it's really worth. The most valuable currency we have, apart from essentials like food, is people. And that's where genuine investments are made to develop a sustainable, equitable society. Norway isn't it.
Norwegian here, just some small corrections to a fun collection of weid facts, Hope that’s OK. 1. Norway was ruled by Denmark, not Sweden from 1380 to1814. Both of dynastic reasons and because of the black death killed most of the ruling class. After the Napoleon wars, Norway was forced into a far looser home-rule union with Sweden (1814-1905). 2. Amundsen reached the pole in 1911, as leader of a Norwegian expedition, using the polar ship "Fram". 3. Bohus fortress is close to the border, but in present day Sweden. 4. Roller skies are maily used on public roads (a bit dangerous), not on slopes. 5. Viking legends (sagas) are stories about (most likely) real people and do contain some traces of factual information. The folklore has pagan nordic and germanic roots, mixed with local versions of common, medival European myths and legends. Both inspired Tolkien! 6. The sami (some of them) herd reindeer, not sheep.
Would have been cool to include some of the animals that originate from Norway like;
Lundehund ,this dog has 6 toes on each foot, can bend it's neck backwards, it's front feet can open straight out like it's opening it's arms and it can close it's ears.
Fjording or Fjord horse, one of the world's oldest and purest breeds known to exist in Norway at the end of the last ice age and used by vikings as war horses. It has a distinctive two toned mane with a dark stripe on the middle.
Norsk Skogkatt or Norwegian Forest Cat, one of the biggest cat breeds in the world, they have double-layer coating that repels water and it's said the vikings used them on their ships to catch mice, it's thought to be the forebearer of the Maine Coon.
Love the energy and focus you use in your videos!
Real fact 2: Norway acctuly has the «2nd» longest coastline
I love that you threw in some metal lore
Hey homie dude, subscribed!
Quisling was never a legitimate ruler of Norway during WWII. The parliament had used a law in the constitution letting them do an emergency change. The governement used this emergency clause from England and ruled Norway with both the King and all our fortune from England during the war. The gold reserve had been moved together with the government and the king while the nazies were chasing them around. Massive achievement.
Awesome job man! Can't believe this is your first video, keep it up!
This was a pleasant surprise! You do of course not pronunce everything correctly. However, your facts didn't seem wrong to me at least :)
We also have the longest under sea tunnel (with emergency tube).
Not only will peeps carry rifles in Svalbard, it's _mandatory_ to carry a rifle outside town. At least one in the party needs to carry due to the threat of polar bears. Several tourists have been maimed or killed by polar bears due to not heeding this order. At night, flares and traps also have to be set.
One comment to pronounciaton of native Norwegian words like "bunad" The stress is always on the first syllable, and unstressed syllables are never long. The "u" in bunad is long and stressed, the "a" is short.
BASED!
The worlds longest and deepest undersea tunnel is in Norway.
My cousin had a dispute about Black Metal with ... Varg Vikernes. Varg sent my cousin not-so veiled death threats for having a different opinion about the history of Black Metal.
Varg is great
The Sami people are mostly famous for hearding raindeer 😊
Haha you really butcher these names! _Akershus festning_ can be roughly translated to Acre's House Fortress. An acre is ofc a measuring unit, moreover it's the amount of land one man can plough. It comes from the Norse word for a field, which is ákr. So, Akershus really means _The House of the Acres_ or _The House of the Fields,_ i.e. the castle that presides over the peasants living on those fields. Old English and Norse are really closesly related, so much so that it was mutually intelligible some 1000 years back. That's why a lot of Modern English contains so many Norse words, such as acre. Betcha didn't know that!
I did not! Appreciate the insight
Yeah....there were a bunch of things I didn't "know" about Norway .....but that is just because those random "things" you present are wrong.
The amount of misinformation is so large that I won't even try to list them.
I don't understand the point of making a video when the research done is so crappy.
Thank you for taking the time to watch ❤️
I mean, there's a lot of European moose here, but the Canadian moose wins hands down in weight and size lol. Go Canada!
Fun fact in the northern regions by law you have to carry a rifle on you outside at all times because of polar bears. Another key feature of modern Norway are their highly subsidized social programs, all paid for by the oil and gas industry and secured for the next century by their discovery of the 4th largest lithium deposit in the world.
In Svalbard you need to own a rifle by law yes, but not mainland Norway as in Northern Norway, like Tromsø, Kirkenes, Bodø etc
@@DraslyThe1 It's only allowed to carry rifles on Svalbard. In the rest of the country you need a bloody great reason to do so.
You´re wrong, As of 2016 there were 482 988 licensed hunters, and about 130.000 members of DfS. There’s probably significant overlap, but this means that roughly 10% of Norway’s population has a fire arms license of some sort.
First of all, maybe take a quick search on the internet, second of all, read about DfS (Det frivillige Skyttervesen) Membership to own a gun there is 100$ a year. Than you can also go applying for a permit (to own a gun) its not that hard actually. Jeg selv har en pistol og en m4 rifle! Jeg er medlem av DfS. I tillegg har jeg jaktkort som betyr at jeg har lov fra staten å eie våpen. Dette inkluderer en Glock 16 for selvforsvar. @@TullaRask
I’m from Norway and i didn’t even know these things, because they are absolute bullshit.
The research done for this video is so crappy, you did us wrong…
For one I think it should have been mentioned that Bohuslän fortress is in present day Sweden. Used actually to be Norwegian though. Then there were some wrong dates and factual mistakes regarding who ruled over Norway when. Long story short, after some unfortunate royal marriages Denmark ended up ruling over Norway until they lost the Napoleonic wars and had to cede it to Sweden in 1814. Then Norwegians were so obstinate and unruly that Sweden though men för helvete då and let Norwegians rule themselves since 1905. Other than that I thought the video was pretty interesting.
Thank you Kebman! I figured, being my first video, there would be a small number of inaccuracies, but calling it all absolute bullshit I thought seemed a bit harsh too, considering other endorsements. But, I supposed everybody needs to have haters, even small-scale TH-camrs like myself! Always trying to improve, and I always appreciate your comments!
@@nick_geo Welcome to the internet! The lengths some peeps will go to scrutinize obscure shit is just AMAZING. Too bad they aren't trying to cure cancer. xD
@@nick_geo Sure, it’s not all but still man… But if the facts were cool This video would definitely be better 👍
Link to Varg Vikernes about nazism? Know people that know him, so
Trenger ikke late som, vi skjønner det
Afaik Varg denounced Nazism in his now deleted videos on TH-cam, and called it youthful ignorance. He's still a nature fascist tho.
The only thing you got correct in this video was that the Viking age originated in and the (real) vikings came from Norway.
Showing the suicide foto is really disrrspectfull to his family
It’s literally on the release’s sleeve art. That shit’s been out there for decades.
You claim that there are many things that "aren't common knowledge about Norway" .....but with your video you were able to create a few new "facts"..... Facts that no one ever has heard about before.....simply because they are just fantasy spin of yourself....
When it comes to Norway's history ....specially up against Sweden....the list of mistakes are to extensive to name.
Norway's coastline is around the double of what you claim ....and is the SECOND LONGEST coastline in the world only after Canada.
The most correct source of such information is to get the data directly from the Norwegian state mapping authority....which has measured the coastline to .....over 103 000 km..... Hence over two and a half times around the Equator.
Your idea of the term "fjord" is inadequate.... In reality is there nothing that says that there must be mountains surrounding it or that it must cut into the land. A fjord is simply a body of water that people must cross in order to get from A to B.
....and NO ....the mountain that risk to fall into the fjord ....is not located in/at Geirangerfjorden ....but in Storfjorden ....which further in leads to Geirangerfjorden.
....and NO if the mountainside slides out into the fjord it will NOT create a "tsunami". You just display a complete ignorance of what the term means. The correct is that it will form a flood wave.....
There is nothing special with Norway having a sector claim in Antarctica. There are a number of other countries having their own claims there also.
....and NO....Roald Amundsen did not get to Antarctica, for his South Pole expedition, with a Belgian ship. He got there with a Norwegian ship named FRAM. It is exhibited in Oslo ...for anyone to see.
Since when was Finnmark "just a barren plateau"...?????
When it comes to the Sami population ....your idea that they still are living a "semi-nomadic" life as reindeer herders ....is a misconception..... that time is long gone.... There is just a minority of them doing reindeer herding today. Most of them do ordinary work as any other Norwegian ....as bus driver...as doctor....as professor....as minister in the government of Norway ....or as......
When it comes to the painter Edward Munch ....he did NOT donate his work to the government....but he donated it to Oslo city municipality....
The Viking ship named Osebergskipet are not "reconstructed". It's the real deal ....the original one.....
....and NO....there does not exist moose in Norway ....or anywhere else in Europe for that matter.... Moose is solely the North American variant and a close relative of the European species called ELK (elk in English, elch in German, älg in Swedish, elg in Denish and Norwegian .... and also which is not the North American species that is named elk....).
Genetically those two are distinct / clearly separated ...and has no common habitats. Just check out science on that area....
I'm certainly not impressed and I don't understand that someone can publish a video with so much misconception and mistakes. It is even worse than poorly researched.... There were to much crap to remember it all.
Title of the video would be better to call it 50 misinformation about Norway.... made up by yourself....
Bro calm down 😂 this was my first video and half of the things you say are wrong aren’t entirely wrong. “He didn’t donate it to the government, he donated it to Oslo Municipality”. Sure! That has zero to do with the government. I appreciate the engagement, chief
@@nick_geo Dude....try to educate yourself a bit. You obvious don't know what you're talking about. Name one single thing which I've mentioned that is wrong....and good luck with that....l!!!! Each and everything I've stated can be proven correct. ....and the mes of a list of your "facts" are much longer than what I've listed. It's irrelevant what number of video you post. Facts need to be reality checked.....
To your information is Oslo City Municipality independent from the Norwegian state government. Two completely different things. Oslo has 100 % ownership of the art donated ....and the state government has 0 % ...hence have no saying in those matters..... It's the taxpayers in Oslo who pays for the costs for what the city handles of art ....or whatever....
A minimum of insight and research is required before posting something called facts..... Best advise is simply to delete your "production".
Thanks for the advice, Captain!
That was a lot of periods in one comment.
1. As for the coastline, have you heard of the coastline paradox? Depending on the resolution of your measure, a coastline can essentially be indefinite in length. Due to this fact, the length of our coastline is contested, and differs from source to source, and also depends on whether you're talking about mainland Norway or if you count islands and overseas territories as well. I mean, if you count Queen Maud Land, which is basically a fifth of Antarctica, we have the longest coastline in the world. And even here, you're wrong. According to Kartverket, we have slightly UNDER 103.000 km of coastline.
2. Your definition of the word "fjord" is also wrong - but we may very well have gone to different geography classes, so I even went to Store norske leksikon to check. They say that a fjord is basically a valley filled with water from the country's coastline. Last I checked, you cannot have valleys without mountains.
3. "Flood wave," the way you use it here, is a poor direct translation from Norwegian to English of something that can otherwise be translated as "tsunami," so again you're wrong.
4. The Belgica expedition, on which Roald Amundsen was a mariner, was indeed a Belgian expedition to the Antarctic Peninsula. Fram was in fact not used by Amundsen before 11 years later. Fram was, at this time, used by Otto Sverdrup to travel to the Arctic, not the Antarctic.
5. As for Finnmark being a "barren plateau," Finnmark is a lot more sparsely vegetated than the more Southern parts of Norway, thus being a barren plateau.
6. As a Sami person myself I find it hilarious that you think reindeer herding makes us a "nomadic people." A bunch of us do herd reindeer, and a very important industry in Sápmi is indeed reindeer herding. And, just like the Inuits are known for their face tattoos and dog sledding, I am very fine with us being known for our reindeer herding.
7. The word "government" has a much broader meaning in English than in Norwegian, so sit your ass down and take a chill pill.
8. Osebergskipet was, in fact, reconstructed at the University of Oslo before it was transported to Bygdøy, where it now is located.
9. Learn to write our brethren's language "Danish" correctly in English before you decide to criticize an American for how they speak English. I think an American knows their mother tongue better than you do. In fact, the difference between elk and moose is simply linguistics. Biologically speaking, they're the exact same species (alces alces) regardless of whether you find them in North America or Eurasia.
@@nick_geo On behalf of the rest of Norway I would like to sincerely apologize for whomever this dude is. I'm not even sure he is Norwegian himself, seeing as he managed to "debunk" all of your points using a bunch of falsehoods or misunderstandings himself. I would tell him to fuck off, but that's way too civilized for me.
The only thing you need to know about Norway is that it's on the periphery, geographically and culturally, where people spend half their lives struggling in icey darkness and rely on food imports to survive because they don't have enough arable land to grow food. This is why Norway's akways going to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Artificial wealth per capita has no inherent value. It's an unsustainable state of mind. The curse of oil.
So, how come they were one of the richest countries in the world long before thet found oil?
@@hepphepps8356 they were the poorest nation, Sweden actually just gave it away because it cost more to keep it.
What about the sovereign wealth (or petroleum) fund?
@CM-ey7nq Artificial wealth, parasitising foreign economic activity. It has no inherent value for Norway when international economic crises unfold. It adds little to Norway's actual economy. Norway has failed to invest in itself. It has one of the least skilled onshore economies in Europe. It's a petrostate that failed to invest in itself when it had the chance. A per capita figure jotted down on a piece of paper doesn't translate into wealth. It's wholly reliant on the outside world for its existence, due to its unfortunate geography. Still one of the poorest countries in Europe, in reality. If you consider wealth to be just the accumulation of artificial currency, then you probably disagree, but it still doesn't change anything for Norway. Norway was making economic progress by generating wealth in Norway from its independence up to when it discovered oil. Then they got complacent and lazy. The curse of oil. Cancel out the artificial wealth, which could disappear at the drop of a hat for a number of reasons, what's left for Norway? What did Norway ever get out of it? Perspective, especially regarding wealth and what it means, is everything Norway failed to grasp. Cursed by greed and oil. The reality is that Norway always had more important things to invest in at home than accumulating a trillion-dollar oil fund to brag about. Get washed up with a suitcase full of artificial wealth on a remote uninhabited desert island and let me know how much it's really worth. The most valuable currency we have, apart from essentials like food, is people. And that's where genuine investments are made to develop a sustainable, equitable society. Norway isn't it.
@@hepphepps8356 Who told you that? An insecure Norwegian in denial?