You did not really go into the 2 different languages part so I though I might elaborate: After Norway had been part of Denmark for about 400 years we really needed to find our identity. So naturaly having danish as the official language would not fly. There were two different solutions to this problem. 1. Make a new language based on the different dialects "Landsmålet" (roughly "the country language") later called "Nynorsk" (new norwegian). 2. the second aproach was to make danish more norwegian over time. This language was called "Riksmålet" (the kingdoms language) or later "Bokmål" (book language). Note: these are both written languages. One does not speak Bokmål or Nynorsk. Everyone speaks norwegian, although we have different dialects. The majority writes bokmål, I think about 15% of students in the norwegian equivalent to high school have Nynorsk as their main written language.
Thanks for the clarification - I forgot to mention the two languages were closer to dialects because they differed in writing only. I'll pin your comment so more people can read
Lots of people speak Bokmål. About 20 % of Norwegians speak the Urban East Norwegian accent of bokmål, and then we have all of the posh accents spoken in different cities and towns around Norway, which actually are accents of Bokmål (although older speakers are usually closer to the more archaic Riksmål) - not dialects. We're all taught that everyone speaks dialects, but that's a political position - linguistically it's not true. I don't speak any dialect, I speak an accent of Bokmål. Most people do, however, speak local dialects.
22% writes "nynorsk" or "new norwegian", but only 3%-18% talks nynorsk or new norwegian. And there is no direct transaltion from the word "bokmål". Most peoples says West-Norwegian (nynorsk), or Traditional Norwegian (nynorsk), and Norwegian (bokmål)
At some stage you should mention the Sweden-Finland-Norway tripoint. It’s in a lake, and they literally built a bridge out and you can run through all 3 countries at once!
@@Efreeti there is annual skiing competition at this tripoint starting at Rayakoski town called "Friendship's ski track", where you can cross all 3 borders without visa FYI
I met a guy in Sweden that told his great great grandfather's farmlkand had the border drawn through it, and he ended up with his shithouse in norway and the rest of his buildings in Sweden. It was very amusing for him :D
Correction rant incoming. Apologizing in advance if any of my wording seems mean-spirited. EU and Nato are unrelated. Norway has an odd EU membership, It's only partial. We call it the EØS, so not a full member. The shopping between countries is free with limitations. No tax needed inside the limits. so... you may need to explain your meaning. Also, fun trivia, one of the bulges in the border with sweden (Lierne) was due to us getting em drunk during drawing up the borders. Another thing to note is, there was a region connected to that bulge we had to give up called Jamtland og Herjedalen. As for Border crossings with sweden, there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens. I've personally crossed atleast a dozen in the Trøndelag region alone. While with Finland, we only have 6 roads if I'm to trust my Nordlending colleague. As for the Russian border, you always could cross the border by car with a passport. But that's the only way. By foot or snowscooter you risk being fired at unless heading into russia, where you risk being fired ON. It is heavily patrolled on either side. Svalbard; you DO NOT have to carry a gun. You are legally required to carry means to defend yourself or scare off the polar bears. And as a side note, they mention that a firearm is also recommended, not required. You may NOT enter svalbard without a passport, the only reason the myth exists is because you can only enter by means of plane or ship through norwegian territory. And ships are subject to passport checks by the coastguard. With exception for the Schengen countries.
fun fact for those interested, Norway and Sweden invade eachother almost every winter because platoons get lost on patrol and end up in the other country, i have heard stories from many friends of them returning from an excursion and laughing so hard cause they found a sign, welcome to Norway on their way back... nobody seams to care but technically its an act of war. I wouldn't recommend trying that on the Russian border... if i recall correctly i think the technical definition of an invasion is 3 or more armed people (soldiers) in "uniform" crossing a border.
Russians are very pesky about their borders and it's understandable why. There was for a good while ago a man with a fishing rod testing a border-river in Finnmark that are very close to Russia. A russian patrol saw him and became so freaked out they emptied their clips on him. One vodka too many? He escaped umharmed though, as we know AK's are not suited for long distance. If they had killed him Russia would've been flogged in their business with the northern countries.
7:43 Unlike Norway, Finland has a lot of cities inland. It's just that the norwegian border is far away from everything else in Finland so there isn't a huge amount of people living there.
THANK YOU for reviewing Norway, and as a Norwegian I completely agree with the prices, except that sandwiches that are usually bought at gas stations (the absolutely most expensive place) are about 6 euros(still insane). Alcohol up to 4,7%(beer, cider) can be bought in any grocery store, but anything above that(up to 60%) has to be bought at vinmonopolet(Directly translated to wine-monopoly), and for a bottle of Smirnoff vodka (0,7L 40%) it would cost about 45 euros(not 100). Happiest people in general yes! But we might not seem like it. Hard to approach, isolated, difficult to get to know, but when you do break through to us(which is surprisingly quite easy), we'll be your best friend forever. About the trillion dollars, if we'd touch that, then the inflation would smash us like shit. We earn a lot, but the taxes take in total 80% of everything we get, though every penny gets shoved into some sort of safety though, so we live safe, but not in luxury... We don't wear gold shirts, but if we get a heart attack, we're covered.
Let's be Honest Official Not sure about the taxes (if i got you right there..?) - hishest income tax is at 49% (4 million kroner = 400k £) - wealth tax at 4% But if you take into account consumer tax, investments tax, import tax etc etc it might get to 80%, but those aren't used when you compare taxes between countries. Still i might have it wrong...
no, you're right, LL cool J. but the extra taxes is what makes the country so expensive, so most people on the political right like to count it in. not that it's really expensive for us norwegians, as we earn a lot too, and spend a smaller percentage of our income than most on food, fuel and so on, but as they are for an open market, they like to compare prices directly.
This is a country where even unemployed piece of shit like me has gaming PC's, 60" televisions, Playstations and whatnot, so the part about "not living in luxury" depends hugely on who you ask. ;)
.. Yeah, if you're un-employed and with good reason, anyway. I'm part-time employed and can barely make ends meet, so go away with your 60" TV and shit, Erik :O Are you sure we're both living in Norway?
It would also be fun if you mentioned the Norwegian territorial claims to Antarctica, and the fact that Norway actually has a "border" (if you could call it that) with Australia and the UK!
Nobody likes Sweden xD Finns jokes about swedes, danes jokes about swedes, norwegians jokes about swedes. xD But in the same time we all love each other ^^
FYI, Nynorsk is not a spoken language, but a written one based off of regional dialects and Old Norse. Bokmål is the common written language originating from the old Norse mixing with manly Danish and Swedish, and with some German. Nynorsk is merely more common in the western regions than elsewhere, it is rarely used exclusively. The language was actually created, unlike most languages. This written language's goal is to preserve the old Norwegian language and dialects, for instance, no words rooted in foreign languages are allowed. They will create new words instead of borrowing them, just like on Iceland. On the topic of Iceland, they still use a language very similar to Old Norse. Bokmål as mentioned evolved as a result of mixing. Through German trade, we got a whole slew of words, and due to being in union with both Sweden and Denmark for a long time our language changed. Most of the influence is from the latter. Most Norwegian you'll find is in Bokmål, and a lot of Nynorsk is mostly legally mandated within the government or literature. They are both written languages and no one "speaks" them, just their dialect.
The reason they need to check goods, and the biggest reason why we are not in the EU, is because Norwegian agriculture is so unprofitable (because of the geography, high wages and different standards on animal treatment, cleanness etc). So if it were to be free competition with the rest of the EU, most farmers would have to go out of business and we would end up having no means to selv sustain in the case of a blockade or anything like that. At least the theory. So there are very high taxes on foreign goods, and low on local, and this is not allowed in the EU, but in the EEA. At least my understanding.
Yeah, domestically-grown food is subsidized to sustain some form of self-sufficiency, and foreign food is taxed up. The money gained from taxes basically funds the subsidizations.
Finland has also large national agricultural subsidiaries. Norway could be even worse but difference is smaller than between Finland and France. National subsidiaries are a slightly larger total sum than EU. But it has been a political fight to keep the national subsidiaries.
I like how the only town that got a "hope I'm saying that right" was the one where two thirds of the name is in English. The rest of them where hilarious, especially Stavanger. :p
Another fun fact about Norway: The concept of the typical European village is allmost non-existent. By a village I mean a small urban community surrounded by farms or something simular that brings income. Instead Norway had towns by the sea that were used as trading centers and farms covering the inland that didn't belong to any small urban community
@@anwar6174 To correct myself from 4 years ago: There has more or less always been fishing villages. The concept of a villages based on agriculture however is pretty new compared to the rest of Europe. I don't remember exactly when, but I think the first "official" village based agriculture came in the mid 18th century
@@anwar6174 Before this, these communities were considered farmsteads which could become large enough to basically act as small villages themselves. However they are not officially regarded as such
There is a Soviet liberation monument in the town of Kirkenes (Right before the Russian border) which just shows how friendly Norway and the USSR/Russia have been to eachother.
@tesom Norway is in NATO because because we were post-1945, wisely, afraid of the Soviet Union after the Soviet Union had invaded Finland in 1939 and we could never have fought them off alone. That's your answer and you should really have understood that. As for Russophobia, that is a Kremlin propaganda invention that it likes to brainwash its citizens with. If you are phobic it means that you are irrational. Skepticism and waryness of the kremlin and Russian imperialism is rational and not phobic. I doubt you have traveled around much if you think that is highest in Norway. Pre-war, much of Norway, particularly in the north, was all for cooperating with Russia, particularly in Finmark. We also have traditonally before the war had an approach to Russia that is designed to not provoke Russia while still being in NATO. As for Russia, If Russia as a state was acting in a benevolent manner there would be nothing of that you call Russophobia, but since Russia is drugged on nationalism euphoria and dreams of empire of course neighbouring countries are skeptical. You would be stupid not to. That has nothing to do with Russians as a people, but your regime is ultra agressive and the propaganda shown on your TV so jingoistic and chauvinistic, so there are obvious precatiouns a neighbour must take.
Go to Lofoten if you want nature and have limited time :) Source: have travelled a LOT within my own country PS: recommend _not_ taking the big cruise liners, although I can understand why one would want to. Just know what you're going into if you do :p Edit: BRING GOOD FOOTWEAR if doing _any_ outbacking xD And no you can not bring high heels to Prekestolen..
the part where you went "you could theoretically cross the border here i guess, but it's not done" at 6:45 is pretty much where i live and cross the border to sweden haha
The ever-changing border between Norway and Finland is currently 736 kilometers long, not just 300-400 km. And there are six customs points between the countries, the same number as we have good road connections. But you can cross the border where ever you like, provided you don't carry goods that have to be checked by the customs.
This was a really entertaining video. I'm not too interested in the topic and thought I would lose interest fairly quickly (I'm not too sure why I even clicked on the video) but the guy narrating was so enthusiastic and made me really pay attention to the topic at hand. Great work on a well-made video.
He also forgot to mention Bjørnøya. It would also be fun if he mentioned the Norwegian territorial claims to Antarctica, and the fact that Norway actually has a "border" (if you could call it that) with Australia and the UK.
For the record, the goal of "Vinmonopolet" (the state owned monopoly on alcoholic beverages over 4.7%) isn't a means of increasing tax, but rather a way of controlling the distrobution of alcohol. Also, a bottle of "vodka" will set you back closer to €50 than €100. However that is still a high price compared to other countries like Denmark.
As for historical border contentions between Norway and Sweden, before the 1600's Norway nearly went all the way to Göteborg, but then we gradually lost those lands in several wars. Norway also had Jämtland and Härjedalen, where there even to this day is a minority population which considers themselves Norwegians, despite living in Sweden for generations. Though more than anything it is its own realm entirely. Then there is Trøndelag, for which a large swath of it became Swedish for a brief period, but it was then taken back. Trondheim also served as the capitol of Norway for a time.
kebman This is basically why I low key fucking hate Sweden. They took so much land away from us. I feel like they took advantage of us since we were with Denmark back then... and since Denmark was basically forced to side with Napoleon to avoid being invaded. And obviously, Norway had to side with them as well since they were with Denmark at the time. And Sweden realized that if they sided with Britain, they could control us and take us over if France lost (which they did) it’s just not fair; it’s such an asshole-ish dick move. Lastly, isn’t there some kind of rumor that says the king of Norway will never button all his cuffs in his shirt until Jämtland and Härjedalen are returned to Norway again? Is that true of not?
I do not know. These are things far in the past, and not really pertaining to any present sentiment. Especially since movement between the Nordic countries is easier than ever. In fact also during those times, the Swedes were seen as brothers (which they indeed are both culturally and ethnically). Battles such as "Lingonkriget" where opposing forces would rather pick berries than fight because on the other side were friends and family, is one such occasion. Even the officers colluded, and sent messages to the King that the enemy was slowing them down. In the end political ambitions towards the continent was what made the Swedes throw away the idea of Scandinavian "super" king, though we came very close. The Danish prince, and only heir to the Swedish throne, tripped on his horse and was killed, and shortly after the Swedes chose a Napoleonic king.
I don't agree with that. I want to help Sweden become great again, together with Denmark and Norway. Not that we're so freaking great also, but whatever helps. Even Denmark has a rampant problem with immigrants in the bigger cities. The current government didn't help against that, though it's better than nothing. But perhaps you're smarter, because you understood the way things were going much earlier.
+Ian Langsev It's not Swedens fault Denmark were stupid enough to attack them time and time again. Furthermore, the Napoleonic wars had nothing to do with us losing Jemtland, Herjedalen and Bohuslen. The first two were lost because Denmark though they could invade Sweden while they were preoccupied with the Thirty Years War, and then they got smacked. Then the last one was lost when Denmark came for seconds while they thought Sweden had their hands full with Poland-Lithuania during the Second Northern War (or the Deluge as it is also called). We also lost Trøndelag during that peace, but they rebelled and returned to the fold (and Denmark lost the entirety of Scania). What we did lose because of the Napoleonic wars though was Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe islands. The treaty that transferred Norway to Sweden as compensation for their loss of Finland to Russia only included mainland Norway, and none of those islands who had been inhabited by Norwegians for 6-800 years.
*The Samis* are called _native_ to Scandinavia, but the Swedish, Finnish and Norwegians are also *just as native* to the region. Well, unless you want to discuss things that happened over 10,000 years ago. The Samis were likely first to the North-East of the region, however the Norse were first to the South-Western coast. But again, this happened over 10,000 years ago... So discussing "who came first" in order to settle the matter isn't really a fruitful way to go about it. However, the Samis are a unique cultural minority in need of protection, and thus they are the only natives of Scandinavia that are _recognized_ by the UN. If it were up to the UN, though, all national identity in Scandinavia would be switched for globalist diversity, however...
If you study the Samis features, they seem to have come from Asia, up through the northern edge of Russia and westwards that way... they also have seafaring Samis, and one might think there is a link between them and eskimo's, and northern native americans.
either way the Samis have been oppressed in Norway and fit into the category of "Native people". So the point you're making really doesn't leave you with anything and you end up staring at the screen, wondering what the hell you just read. I mean, how could sit there and write three small paragraphs and highlight words about who technically were there first.
Oh, poor Samis. They're so oppressed, you see. Fucking socialist victim culture... You're probably one of those traitors who sides with that Swedish socialist, Löfven, who is best know for saying that "Sweden has no culture" and that "Sweden belongs to the immigrants, not the Swedish people". Well fuck you, traitor! I guess I forgot to tell you, I'm actually a Sami myself. However most Samis in Norway live in the capital, in Oslo, and many of them consider themselves Norwegian first. However the heritage is unmistakable, and both peoples have _strong_ historical and cultural ties to the region. In my opinion that should be recognised for _both_ peoples. That can't be undone by some traitor politician bowing to the One World Gov crowd in the EU or the UN. When Wikpedian edit warriors cling to the falsehood that only Samis are native to Scandinavia, it makes me _cringe._ For King and Country!
hahahhah no need to get so offended man. All I was pointing out that you're a know-it-all guy who writes pointless trivia on a fucking border video. You even did it when you in your response, dragging politics and immigration into it. Btw, hvis du er norsk så kan du slikke gulvet din skitne besserwisser
Says the guy who does the exact same thing. In any case, it's not being a besserwisser when you're correct. I'm glad you found that offensive, however! :D
An interesting thing is that when Norway and Sweden laid the borders, there were people from Sweden going the way up north. When they came to middle norway, East for Namsos you can see the borders going out east and then coming back west again further north. This is because the ones living in the area wanted to belong to Norwey. They therefore decided to bestow the Swedes and sent them eastwards. Just a funny thing to know
The border between Norway, Sweden and Finland was very open long before the EU, there is.. "The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary co-operation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomous areas of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and the Åland Islands. The representatives are members of parliament in their respective countries or areas and are elected by those parliaments. The Council holds ordinary sessions each year".
True, though the different diealects phonetlically resemble either bokmål or nynorsk. For example, people on the west coast will say things like 'kva' instead of 'hva' like in the east.
I think you should have mentioned the weird fact that norway is so bended at the top that in 50 percent of cases when you want to drive for example from oslo to finmark, you will reach faster by driving through sweden.
As a Dane, when a Swede and I argue over which country is better, the Swede pretends he can't understand me, I pretend ABBA isn't the greatest band of all time, and we both secretly admit to ourselves it's really Norway 😘😘😘.
Norway should invade Sweden, take our lands back that Sweden took from us like Jämtland for example. Then we force them to be in a union with us for 100+ years and see how they like it. That’d be the ultimate middle finger to Sweden from Norway! 😂🙌🏼 🇳🇴>🇸🇪 To be completely honest though, this is why I low key fucking hate Sweden 😂 they completely used and abused us. I could still be a Norwegian... but sadly due to Sweden, my ancestors left to America in the 1800’s... and now I’m a Minnesotan who simply wants to go back to my homelands. 🖕🏼CURSE YOU SWEDEN! Sorry not sorry 🖕🏼
As a Norwegian I think this was interesting, and also saw some wrongs: There are daily flights also from Tromsø. I think Russians fly directly from Russia. Jan Mayen had a weather station and someone from the Military there all the time. I think it is about 20 - 30 persons that are there 6 months at the time.
Exactly what I was going to say. Also fun fact, the medical station in Longyear is part of UNN (Tromsø Hospital) also the IT has to take flights to fix things up there from Tromsø Hospital.
The thing about Norway being expensive isn't so true for the people living there like myself. We earn more money to compensate that. So, things are mostly just expensive for tourists. Also, where I live in Hedmark, people visit Sweden just to buy sweets and stuff cheaper. My family is there every month or so, but we don't have to have someone check our wares when we travel back to Norway again.
You are fairly well informed for a non-native. Not many errors in the information as far as I can see. Gratulerer. :-P Always fun to see if what foreigners think they know about other nations but this was for the most part spot on.
No major wars in the last few hundred years? Damnit Toycat! I know you're young, but get a grip. 1940 (less than a hundred years ago) Germany under Hitler invaded, drove out the English/French/royal family, tried to put Quisling in charge and weren't driven out until the Russians/Allies got rid of them in 1945 then withdrew - so how is this aggression on Russia's part? ... I love Norway and your enthusiasm, you have one of the few channels that it's good to read the comments which is unusual.
Russia was vital in keeping Norway Norwegian during the 2nd WW. They fought valiantly to defend the north. We have statues to the fallen in many Norwegian cities, with the names of Russians who sacrificed themselves protecting Norway.
Thanks for clearing up the Tromsø issue : ) Also, it's been about 1000 years since Norway and Russia was at war with each other, although back then neither Norway nor Russia really existed. Another interesting thins is, that although Norway is an expensive country, Russians travel to Norway to buy nappies. Apparently they are really expensive in Russia.
Norway did exist 1000 years ago. The first king of a united Norway was Harald Hårfagre, who reigned from 872 to 930. Before that Oslo and the inland valleys were independent, they were called austmenn as opposed to nordmenn. Russia didn't exist until the 1500s though, and as such we've never actually been at war. It's sometimes mentioned when Russians and Norwegians meet, since Norway is the only neighboring country that Russia hasn't been at war with.
Russia consisted of many duchies and tsardoms, I believe the ones Norway tangled with were Novgorod and Pskov, which were later swallowed by Muscovy like all the other little Russian states. (Though Novgorod were by no means small)
Interesting. I've never heard of that, and after looking into it seems there were some skirmishes back and forth between Norway and Novgorod over border disputes in the early 1300s - but no outright war. In any case it would still be a conflict with the sovereign state of Novgorod and not with Russia as such. Come to think of it, Norway and Russia were on opposing sides in the later years of the Napoleonic wars. But the Norwegian military were an integrated part of the Danish military at the time, and as far as I remember no actual battles were fought between Russia and Denmark-Norway.
And still I don't think it would count. Norway was at best a client kingdom, at worst a colony of Denmark. I'm not sure whether or not the British felt that Norway was at war with them in the Napoleonic wars, as Norwegian ships captured British ships with letters of marque from the Danish crown. And to Bussigt, yes, Norway did sort of exist 1000 years ago, but Harald Hårgfagre only united Norway along the coast up to around Trondheim. The lands to the north, populated by the Sami, was not controlled by him, and as such Norway did not border and part of todays Russia until around 1300, when the Norwegian greater kingdom known as "Norgesveldet" started taking shape. Control over the northern parts of Norway was finally solidified, and much of Sweden also fell under Norwegian rule, along with several islands in the north sea. It was during this expansion that there was border disputes with Russian duchies, but with the few resources and low population that far north, it didn't end in full scale war. Norgesveldet ended in 1349 when the black death devastated Norway, and Denmark soon took over the remains. So if you don't count years of instability and civil war, Norway barely lasted 100 years (From around 1227 to 1349) as a strong, prosperous and expansive country before it was gobbled up by the Danes. This is also the reason why I say Norway didn't exist 1000 years ago, because it was more a collection of barely agreeing smaller kingdoms, and it was not uncommon that Norway was ruled by 2 kings at the same time. And this of course ended in a series of civil wars that lasted from around 1130 to around 1240.
Norway became Swedish when Russian Cossack camped in the royal park of our then-capital, Copenhagen. And 4 meter high walls around northern churches tells about "no war" not being correct as well.
Hi, as a Norwegian I would like to say that you are welcome to move here, although expensive, you will also get a higher wage, which helps a lot. With that said, I would highly recommend that you read up on the Nynorsk/bokmål subject. Both are written languages, and can almost be used interchangeably. We do not "speak" bokmål or nynorsk, but nynorsk would kind of sounds like some of our dialects on the western coast. Bokmål is the official written language, and comes from our time with the danish, almost like a merger between danish and old Norwegian. Old Norwegian that you referred to, is what we spoke during the viking-time and is basically what Icelandic is today. Keep up the good work!
i was pleased to see you included how the border between sweden and norway is placed due to water streams. Most norwegians dont even know this. Although you should have mentioned the sea boarder and how In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. To the North, the Jan Mayen Ridge separates it from the Greenland Sea. Nice video.
The sami are not native, they only have native status. The tribes got to scandinavia via Norrland and scandinavia was actually populatet, in the south, during the early stoneage if not iceage. I gues the sami can be called the native to northern Norrland. Just for clearity
Fride Rosendal well making sapmi an actual country would just make massive problems anyway. And we've managed sharing the land thus far so why not for a while longer?
your bruv Joey. That is the thing, if they are native though it does not make sense to call them native to Sweden, Norway or Finland. They are native to northern Norrland (or Finmark, in Norway). It does not make sense to call a people group native to a country that did not include their land area until relatively recently. (Birkarlar in Sweden taxed the sami in the 12th Hundreds I think, though I know some vikings ruled over traditional sami lands)
Fride Rosendal true, they are native to northern fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, just because they were added later to the countries doesn't make them less native. Are Inuits from Alaska not native because Alaska was a us state in the 50's?
your bruv Joey. True and I am glad we sort of agree. I am only saying, that by that logic the Inuits would be called the natives of the US. I just wrote it for clearity. Swedens ”natives” for example are swedes and the sami (though you could say that is not counting Skåne, Halland, Blekinge, Jämtland and Tordedalen)
You're pretty off when talking about demographics in the north. Most of the inhabitants in Northern Norway are indeed Norwegian, not Sami, and the place with the highest number of Sami inhabitants is Oslo. You're right with the fact that there are less people in Northern Norway compared to Southern Norway, but Sami people is such a tiny minority that your way of presenting where they live becomes pretty far from the truth. Historically speaking, the Sami people lived in Sápmi, a region covering Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, but you're about four-five decades off with your facts.
Sorry if my interpretation of your country offended you! However: "The Sami are the indigenous people of Finnmark, but Norwegians have lived for hundreds of years on the islands' outer parts, where they made up the majority. The Sami people still constitute the majority in Finnmark's interior parts, while the fjord areas have been ethnically mixed for a long time. This essentially holds true today." In Oslo, Sami people are 100% not a majority, the number is less relevant than the proportion with regards to the comments made in the video.
Saying that there is Sami majority anywhere is strange no matter how you twist and turn it, because there is no official count of the Sami population in Norway, so the number is based on the population in Sami territories (STN-areas), which in 2015 counted 55 674. This means that all people living in these areas are counted as Sami, and doesn't actually say anything about these people's ethnicities. All Norwegians (immigrants are counted in separate statistics) living in these areas will show up as Sami. If I were to move to Karasjok or Kautokeino this year, new numbers for 2019 would show me as a Sami, even though I'm not, just based on geography. Sure, there may be some villages or small towns with (real) Sami majority in the STN-area, but then you're likely talking about places with a few hundred inhabitants to slightly over a thousand, which again count for almost nothing when building statistics, and in the big scheme of things, you'd never put 'Sami' and 'majority' in the same sentence unless you're talking specifically about a certain village or small town.
Great video :) One small point about our border with Russia. Russia has only ever invaded Norway once, and that was to throw out the Germans (who occupied us during WW2). After they had done so, they quietly withdrew back to their own border without any fuzz. And that was under Stalin :)
You should do a video on Norway's territory in the Antarctic, Queen Maud Land, and the other borders there. Q M Land is the only one among them which is not contested by another nation! :)
Norway is actually furter north, further south, further west and further east than Sweden. You may wonder how Norway is further south. The answer is not antarctica, it’s not oficially owned completely by Norway. The answer is «Bouvetøya» an Island between south Africa and antarctica. It’s completely owned by Norway with a terrifying population count of: A couple pingus
Remember, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland (as well as Svalbard) are in a passport union as well, which allows us to live in each other's countries without having to immigrate.
Pity you didn't go into the maritime borders because those are also (maybe even more) important for Norway because of the fishing rights and oil? Jan Mayen and Svalbard themselves might not be very important but do greatly increase the waters they can claim.
Norge is pronounced “norr-gheh” n-British short “o”-rolled r-hard g-American short “e”. Or with the g pronounced as “yuh” like “norr-yeh”. And in some dialects (Nynorsk) it’s called “Noreg” which is pronounced exactly how you’d think it’s pronounced, except with a rolled r.
No One Important I was assuming ibxtoycat and his audience wouldn’t have a background in that so I described it in layman’s term’s rather than saying “It’s not /nɔɹd͡ʒ/ it’s /noɾɡə/or /ˈnɔrjɛ/; and in Nynorsk it’s /ˈnoːrɛɡ/.” But there it is now
Oh, you really know how of melt the heart of a Norwegian when talking so good about our country. Welcome back to stay! It's not so expensive when you work here, the pay matches the prices pretty much.
It frustrates me to no end that you call the sami the "native population". In Norway both norwegians and sami are native, and then, norwegians came to Norway first
As a swede it doesn't feel like a border really. Because of the nordic agreement. You can work and travel between the nordic countries without visa or passport (altough recently it has been some problems with the latter) if you are a citizen of a nordic country.
Thank you for this very nice video of our country. And yes, you are more or less dead on with everything. If you want a nice holiday to really experience beautiful nature in the Arctic, please visit us! And in the summer time we do have nice warm weather also. Up to 30C or even more in July/ August. Then you have Sweden and Finland, so why not make it a road-trip and visit the hole of Scandinavia? You will not regret it at all, beside the prices in Norway.. That is a downer. Another thing, high prices and taxes are something we get back in free health care etc. Erik
You said there are only 8 official border crossings between Norway and Sweden. Not correct, there are 48 road crossings. (and 4 railways) I know since I have crossed at all of them. Some of them are smaller roads with very light traffic, nevertheless they are official. Many of them have no customs station so they can not be used by lorries transporting goods. Also there are 6 crossings between Norway and Finland. Otherwise I enjoyed video! Though you barely scratched the surface of all the interesting stories that could be told.
"For most border crossings there is one customs station on one side of the border, but for some on both sides, one for each direction. A treaty gives the customs officers of one country the right to carry out clearance and checks for both countries.There are around 30 more roads crossing the border, without customs station (most notably E16), but they are not allowed to use if having goods needing declaration. Heavy trucks can be allowed to use them by pre-declaration. They are surveilled by video and temporary checks." I should've been clearer that I was talking on the customs points, thanks for the correction
I suspect that if a city was indeed cut in half between Norway and Sweden, there would be very few problems, as the culture is pretty much mutually shared. Perhaps the shops would all be in Sweden. In fact a lot of Norwegians has moved to Sweden for the cheap cost of living there, and conversely a lot of Swedes has moved to Norway for the high paying jobs.
As a Norwegian, I found this video pretty cool. If you're interrested, there is a story behind the border to Russia. That's got to do with the area known as Boris Gleb. The border originally followed the Pasvik river out to the sea but since there is a russian orthodox church on "the Norwegian side" of the river, Russia wanted that area. A deal was struck and Russia got Boris Gleb. The border was then re-established to follow the Jakobs river instead, out to Grense Jakobselv, for the last bit out to the sea.
Fun fact. The border between Troms and Finnmark used to be movable. Where the same people lived was Finnmark, and where the norwegians lived was Troms.
About Svalbard: You're not legally required to have a gun there. Guns are forbidden in places of business and its forbidden to have a loaded weapon while inside the town of Longyearbyen. When moving between or outside of towns and settlements you're legally required to carry suitable tools to scare/intimidate polarbears. This usually means a flare gun. However the territorial police/Governor (Sysselmannen) recommends that everyone should have weapons as well for a mean of "last stand" against a polarbear. Also for the russian border. It's heavily guarded by both Norwegian and Russian military along the entire border, however the relations between the two Colonels that are responsible for the border garrisons are good. There is also a small "deadzone" along the border where no one is permitted and trees are cut down for visibility. Any crossing outside the legal bordercrossing is a serious felony and the military at the border are given police authority to arrest and handle people crossing illegally. The military unit is a conscription unit led by professional command staff. This means that it is conscripts mainly handling all border issues first hand and is subject to a 6-month rotation. So every 6 months half the company finishes their conscription and is replaced by new personell that needs to be trained.
Norway won't join the EU because if they were a full menu they would have to give up some of there fishing sites and that would be crucial to them as 30% of their income comes from fish sold to other countries
Have you heard when Norway was trying to take Greenland from Danmark to go hunting. They went to the international court of Justice, lost and accepted it.
Stian Soisdal yeah, I’m really bummed out. I wish Norway had gotten it. Also, throwback to when Iceland and the Faroe Islands used to be part of Norway... and then Denmark took it from us. But then Iceland became independent.
The norwegians acctually lived up north BEFORE the sami people. They came in later, so they are not the native people. Also you forgot Bjørneøya, a very small island around the other island and Dronning Mauds land, wich lies in the artic in the south.
So what about bouvet island that belongs to norway but are like south of africa? also the language thing. Bokmål is a form of danish that has been norwegianified by the population over time and has then developed to be its own writing languague and Nynorsk is a pure writing languague based on what is most spoken across the different dialects around the country, so no one speaks nynorsk but there is a high chance that your dialect can be found in it.
You didn't mention that Slartibartfast designed our coastline. Also, saw a few other posts about our two forms of Norwegian...predating those forms was norse...which is now basically what Iceland uses, however the pronunciation has changed a lot. The writing is very much like it used to be tho.
Caged it's the consequences of having coastal mountains in glacier-prone latitudes. Just look at Greenland overseas. That was how Norway looked like in the ice age, and soon Greenland gets a similar, even more rugged coast when the ice on its eastern coast melts and drifts towards the sea, creating in effect, lots of temporary "ice rivers" which become fjords after the ice is gone. If you look at Tierra del fuego, Novaya Zemilya, South island, NZ, and east greenland you'll find similar coasts.
LOL to "Norwegian Loser" xD And thanks Professorbairos that is correct :D Few can boast having Fjords in the world, if you look at the actual literal meaning/description.
you forgot about the swedish crisis where since prices are so high here in Norway on beer candy and food that they go over to sweden on shopping trips for food and beer it is strict you can't have more than 8 kg of sugar combined (candy) when you travel back you can also have like 6,5 liters of beer or other combinations but if you exceed those limits you have to pay what they are worth in Norway there for there is a lot of people breaking the toll rules
To add to the fun: In Swedish, customs is called "tull", which in Norwegian means something along the lines of "nonsense". Norway also got an app to help paying customs when importing alcohol. You can pay the customs fee in an app and be on your merry way. Imagine that: "Paying customs? There's an app for that!" (Yes I use it. Better than getting fined and you don't waste any time having to declare your goods at the border.)
You got wrong on the two types of Norwegian. The blue is Nynorsk which is based on the spoken language and Old Norse. The red is Bokmål which is based on Danish and slightly on spoken language. Nynorsk is NOT a new variant of Bokmål. They are the same age but Nynorsk looks more like older Norwegian texts from 1300 and Old Norse. Bokmål looks like Danish. It's even called Norwegian-Danish in many occasions.
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You did not really go into the 2 different languages part so I though I might elaborate:
After Norway had been part of Denmark for about 400 years we really needed to find our identity. So naturaly having danish as the official language would not fly. There were two different solutions to this problem. 1. Make a new language based on the different dialects "Landsmålet" (roughly "the country language") later called "Nynorsk" (new norwegian). 2. the second aproach was to make danish more norwegian over time. This language was called "Riksmålet" (the kingdoms language) or later "Bokmål" (book language).
Note: these are both written languages. One does not speak Bokmål or Nynorsk. Everyone speaks norwegian, although we have different dialects. The majority writes bokmål, I think about 15% of students in the norwegian equivalent to high school have Nynorsk as their main written language.
Thanks for the clarification - I forgot to mention the two languages were closer to dialects because they differed in writing only. I'll pin your comment so more people can read
Lots of people speak Bokmål. About 20 % of Norwegians speak the Urban East Norwegian accent of bokmål, and then we have all of the posh accents spoken in different cities and towns around Norway, which actually are accents of Bokmål (although older speakers are usually closer to the more archaic Riksmål) - not dialects. We're all taught that everyone speaks dialects, but that's a political position - linguistically it's not true. I don't speak any dialect, I speak an accent of Bokmål. Most people do, however, speak local dialects.
22% writes "nynorsk" or "new norwegian", but only 3%-18% talks nynorsk or new norwegian. And there is no direct transaltion from the word "bokmål". Most peoples says West-Norwegian (nynorsk), or Traditional Norwegian (nynorsk), and Norwegian (bokmål)
I heard that some Sami people that learned Norwegian do speak Bokmål, because that's how the lessons are given in, is that true?
Mart Heerink yep
I just spent 20min learning about my own country by some British guy
Same 😂😂
samme
I am learning about my ancestors country
Samme
Your own country may not tel truth to his own pe people.
There’s only one country separating Norway and North Korea 😳
never thought about that but damn
Nicholas Remedios Yeah same.
actually 2 Russia and China
abdellah lissir Russia borders North Korea
@@tetzy3882 well you may have reason russia is big it have also border with usa
At some stage you should mention the Sweden-Finland-Norway tripoint.
It’s in a lake, and they literally built a bridge out and you can run through all 3 countries at once!
There's also a Norway-Finland-Russia "tripoint"
Ehh the n
ame in Swedish suggest a heap of stones...
@@Efreeti there is annual skiing competition at this tripoint starting at Rayakoski town called "Friendship's ski track", where you can cross all 3 borders without visa FYI
Treriksgrensa
I was waiting for this info the whole video, but did not happen, pity!!
I met a guy in Sweden that told his great great grandfather's farmlkand had the border drawn through it, and he ended up with his shithouse in norway and the rest of his buildings in Sweden. It was very amusing for him :D
Norwegian history shortened down right there.
hope they remembered to "check his cargo"
Love it. He had to go into another country to do his business.
Imagine going to the shithouse during COVID
@@Giddy_NOR 14 days of quarantine
Correction rant incoming. Apologizing in advance if any of my wording seems mean-spirited.
EU and Nato are unrelated. Norway has an odd EU membership, It's only partial. We call it the EØS, so not a full member.
The shopping between countries is free with limitations. No tax needed inside the limits. so... you may need to explain your meaning.
Also, fun trivia, one of the bulges in the border with sweden (Lierne) was due to us getting em drunk during drawing up the borders.
Another thing to note is, there was a region connected to that bulge we had to give up called Jamtland og Herjedalen.
As for Border crossings with sweden, there are dozens upon dozens upon dozens. I've personally crossed atleast a dozen in the Trøndelag region alone.
While with Finland, we only have 6 roads if I'm to trust my Nordlending colleague.
As for the Russian border, you always could cross the border by car with a passport. But that's the only way. By foot or snowscooter you risk being fired at unless heading into russia, where you risk being fired ON. It is heavily patrolled on either side.
Svalbard; you DO NOT have to carry a gun. You are legally required to carry means to defend yourself or scare off the polar bears. And as a side note, they mention that a firearm is also recommended, not required.
You may NOT enter svalbard without a passport, the only reason the myth exists is because you can only enter by means of plane or ship through norwegian territory. And ships are subject to passport checks by the coastguard. With exception for the Schengen countries.
"I love Norway, I even have a hat..."
NORJ
N O R J
Kevin Aalberg рот заткнис
Also, "Stavanjer".
Jeg elsker norge
Kim Jong-un
takk nå får du olje og fisk fra oss
fun fact for those interested, Norway and Sweden invade eachother almost every winter because platoons get lost on patrol and end up in the other country, i have heard stories from many friends of them returning from an excursion and laughing so hard cause they found a sign, welcome to Norway on their way back... nobody seams to care but technically its an act of war. I wouldn't recommend trying that on the Russian border... if i recall correctly i think the technical definition of an invasion is 3 or more armed people (soldiers) in "uniform" crossing a border.
Ha! I remember hearing about this in the ol' army
Russians are very pesky about their borders and it's understandable why. There was for a good while ago a man with a fishing rod testing a border-river in Finnmark that are very close to Russia. A russian patrol saw him and became so freaked out they emptied their clips on him. One vodka too many? He escaped umharmed though, as we know AK's are not suited for long distance. If they had killed him Russia would've been flogged in their business with the northern countries.
there are 10.000 german soldiers going to norway right now for a nato exercise. but it's still not an invasion. you need intend as well.
There is a war on between Noeway and Sweden. We fire jokes on each other: A swedish plane fell into the sea and an swedish sub blew up...
@@swunt10 Dont need intent for it to be an invasion, the soldiers coming to an exercise are all invited and therefor its not an invasion
7:43 Unlike Norway, Finland has a lot of cities inland. It's just that the norwegian border is far away from everything else in Finland so there isn't a huge amount of people living there.
THANK YOU for reviewing Norway, and as a Norwegian I completely agree with the prices, except that sandwiches that are usually bought at gas stations (the absolutely most expensive place) are about 6 euros(still insane). Alcohol up to 4,7%(beer, cider) can be bought in any grocery store, but anything above that(up to 60%) has to be bought at vinmonopolet(Directly translated to wine-monopoly), and for a bottle of Smirnoff vodka (0,7L 40%) it would cost about 45 euros(not 100). Happiest people in general yes! But we might not seem like it. Hard to approach, isolated, difficult to get to know, but when you do break through to us(which is surprisingly quite easy), we'll be your best friend forever. About the trillion dollars, if we'd touch that, then the inflation would smash us like shit. We earn a lot, but the taxes take in total 80% of everything we get, though every penny gets shoved into some sort of safety though, so we live safe, but not in luxury... We don't wear gold shirts, but if we get a heart attack, we're covered.
Let's be Honest Official
Not sure about the taxes (if i got you right there..?)
- hishest income tax is at 49% (4 million kroner = 400k £)
- wealth tax at 4%
But if you take into account consumer tax, investments tax, import tax etc etc it might get to 80%, but those aren't used when you compare taxes between countries. Still i might have it wrong...
no, you're right, LL cool J. but the extra taxes is what makes the country so expensive, so most people on the political right like to count it in. not that it's really expensive for us norwegians, as we earn a lot too, and spend a smaller percentage of our income than most on food, fuel and so on, but as they are for an open market, they like to compare prices directly.
You're both right. I counted all the other taxes as well just to show the extreme side of it, but yes we earn more as well.
This is a country where even unemployed piece of shit like me has gaming PC's, 60" televisions, Playstations and whatnot, so the part about "not living in luxury" depends hugely on who you ask. ;)
.. Yeah, if you're un-employed and with good reason, anyway. I'm part-time employed and can barely make ends meet, so go away with your 60" TV and shit, Erik :O Are you sure we're both living in Norway?
Your pronounciation of Norge couldn’t be more wrong.. 😂
Emil Hultling yeah, its pronounced more like Nohr-geh
And most of the towns & cities - even Stavanger was wrong ffs!!!
Farlig66 Stævænger
Dani, A foreigner could never understand XD
Snowjix im swedish so i understand
It would also be fun if you mentioned the Norwegian territorial claims to Antarctica, and the fact that Norway actually has a "border" (if you could call it that) with Australia and the UK!
Vizzie Norway came to antartica first so that is way They have claimes there.
well we were the first to get to the middle wasn't it?
Queen mayen
You see the place called "Puppebu" on Jan Mayen? Yeah. It means "Boob shack".
The reason for this is because the men stationed there got a visit from their spouses.
still, greatest name i've seen so far
Jonny Walorbro oh...
It’s right next to Nøttebu
I was just about to write a comment about it being called «titty shack» lol.
The way you pronounced "Norge" made me chuckle a little. Otherwise it was a really good video explaining Norway!
Thank you!
do norwegians joke about sweden like we finns do?
Nobody likes Sweden xD
Finns jokes about swedes, danes jokes about swedes, norwegians jokes about swedes.
xD
But in the same time we all love each other ^^
It made me cringe.
Its one thing to say it as a silly way to pronounce it, but to say: "Nordsh, which is Norwegian for Norway", is just a lie. xD
Norwegians joke about swedes AND danes, like swedes joke about norwegians AND danes :P
FYI, Nynorsk is not a spoken language, but a written one based off of regional dialects and Old Norse. Bokmål is the common written language originating from the old Norse mixing with manly Danish and Swedish, and with some German.
Nynorsk is merely more common in the western regions than elsewhere, it is rarely used exclusively. The language was actually created, unlike most languages. This written language's goal is to preserve the old Norwegian language and dialects, for instance, no words rooted in foreign languages are allowed. They will create new words instead of borrowing them, just like on Iceland.
On the topic of Iceland, they still use a language very similar to Old Norse.
Bokmål as mentioned evolved as a result of mixing. Through German trade, we got a whole slew of words, and due to being in union with both Sweden and Denmark for a long time our language changed. Most of the influence is from the latter.
Most Norwegian you'll find is in Bokmål, and a lot of Nynorsk is mostly legally mandated within the government or literature. They are both written languages and no one "speaks" them, just their dialect.
The reason they need to check goods, and the biggest reason why we are not in the EU, is because Norwegian agriculture is so unprofitable (because of the geography, high wages and different standards on animal treatment, cleanness etc). So if it were to be free competition with the rest of the EU, most farmers would have to go out of business and we would end up having no means to selv sustain in the case of a blockade or anything like that. At least the theory. So there are very high taxes on foreign goods, and low on local, and this is not allowed in the EU, but in the EEA. At least my understanding.
There are some places that are only monitored in the summer for example the border by langflån
Yeah, domestically-grown food is subsidized to sustain some form of self-sufficiency, and foreign food is taxed up. The money gained from taxes basically funds the subsidizations.
Well another reason why Norway is not in the EU is bc their people did not want to be in the EU.
@@Redbull_Ger_Dig_Vingar Yes, and the people voted 'no' mainly because of the agriculture and fishing industry, like Andrea G's comment explained.
Finland has also large national agricultural subsidiaries. Norway could be even worse but difference is smaller than between Finland and France. National subsidiaries are a slightly larger total sum than EU. But it has been a political fight to keep the national subsidiaries.
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That emoji fits so well
I got cancer when I heard him say it.
Cringe
Wow, didn't expect to learn so much about my own country.
Serr?
Reflection of education system
or sudden interest in these topics...
samme
I like how the only town that got a "hope I'm saying that right" was the one where two thirds of the name is in English. The rest of them where hilarious, especially Stavanger. :p
Another fun fact about Norway: The concept of the typical European village is allmost non-existent. By a village I mean a small urban community surrounded by farms or something simular that brings income. Instead Norway had towns by the sea that were used as trading centers and farms covering the inland that didn't belong to any small urban community
huh? theres alot of typical villages with farms around in Norway, where are you living??
@@anwar6174 To correct myself from 4 years ago: There has more or less always been fishing villages. The concept of a villages based on agriculture however is pretty new compared to the rest of Europe. I don't remember exactly when, but I think the first "official" village based agriculture came in the mid 18th century
@@anwar6174 Before this, these communities were considered farmsteads which could become large enough to basically act as small villages themselves. However they are not officially regarded as such
There is a Soviet liberation monument in the town of Kirkenes (Right before the Russian border) which just shows how friendly Norway and the USSR/Russia have been to eachother.
Friendly to ordinary Russians yes, but very wary of the Russian state and its intentions. We are a founding member of NATO for a reason.
@tesom Norway is in NATO because because we were post-1945, wisely, afraid of the Soviet Union after the Soviet Union had invaded Finland in 1939 and we could never have fought them off alone. That's your answer and you should really have understood that.
As for Russophobia, that is a Kremlin propaganda invention that it likes to brainwash its citizens with. If you are phobic it means that you are irrational. Skepticism and waryness of the kremlin and Russian imperialism is rational and not phobic. I doubt you have traveled around much if you think that is highest in Norway. Pre-war, much of Norway, particularly in the north, was all for cooperating with Russia, particularly in Finmark. We also have traditonally before the war had an approach to Russia that is designed to not provoke Russia while still being in NATO.
As for Russia, If Russia as a state was acting in a benevolent manner there would be nothing of that you call Russophobia, but since Russia is drugged on nationalism euphoria and dreams of empire of course neighbouring countries are skeptical. You would be stupid not to. That has nothing to do with Russians as a people, but your regime is ultra agressive and the propaganda shown on your TV so jingoistic and chauvinistic, so there are obvious precatiouns a neighbour must take.
I’m going to Norway this summer!! 🇳🇴
Jimmy Palermo Where in Norway?
Noooooooorrwaaaayyy
Jimmy Palermo cool xD
Jimmy Palermo west, north, south or east?
Go to Lofoten if you want nature and have limited time :)
Source: have travelled a LOT within my own country
PS: recommend _not_ taking the big cruise liners, although I can understand why one would want to. Just know what you're going into if you do :p
Edit: BRING GOOD FOOTWEAR if doing _any_ outbacking xD
And no you can not bring high heels to Prekestolen..
the part where you went "you could theoretically cross the border here i guess, but it's not done" at 6:45 is pretty much where i live and cross the border to sweden haha
The ever-changing border between Norway and Finland is currently 736 kilometers long, not just 300-400 km. And there are six customs points between the countries, the same number as we have good road connections. But you can cross the border where ever you like, provided you don't carry goods that have to be checked by the customs.
This was a really entertaining video. I'm not too interested in the topic and thought I would lose interest fairly quickly (I'm not too sure why I even clicked on the video) but the guy narrating was so enthusiastic and made me really pay attention to the topic at hand. Great work on a well-made video.
You forgot Bouvet Island!! It's located just south of Africa but is owned by Norway!
He also forgot to mention Bjørnøya. It would also be fun if he mentioned the Norwegian territorial claims to Antarctica, and the fact that Norway actually has a "border" (if you could call it that) with Australia and the UK.
Bouvet Island is Norways national island, movies like ailen vs predator, is rec there.
He forgot the history and South pole. Hjemtland og herrjedalen TH-cam look at old maps
InternationalSongs yea
"just south" of Africa xD
I love that Toycat is my Geography/History teacher.
Norway also owns Queen Maud Land in Antarctica
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Jepp
No one owns Antarctica, just greedy claims that they own lands in Antarctica. It same thing as some claim lands on the moon
1God1Fury Norway actually “discovered” Antarctica so when the Antarctica treaty comes up for debate in 2050 they have a big claim
Og ei lita øy som heter Bouvetøya. Søk det opp
Fun fact, Denmark gave Norway some ocean territory many years ago where they later found a lot of oil
i have lived on Svalbard for 2 years! a realy nice place to live! you need to visit there once atleast!
I share your love for norway. Went for year back was amazing
This guy speaks SO fast - genuinely thought he was talking Norwegian initially
I love Norway and I always will!
For the record, the goal of "Vinmonopolet" (the state owned monopoly on alcoholic beverages over 4.7%) isn't a means of increasing tax, but rather a way of controlling the distrobution of alcohol. Also, a bottle of "vodka" will set you back closer to €50 than €100. However that is still a high price compared to other countries like Denmark.
Im honestly so impressed by your attention to detail. Basically nailed everything. Love from Norway
As for historical border contentions between Norway and Sweden, before the 1600's Norway nearly went all the way to Göteborg, but then we gradually lost those lands in several wars. Norway also had Jämtland and Härjedalen, where there even to this day is a minority population which considers themselves Norwegians, despite living in Sweden for generations. Though more than anything it is its own realm entirely. Then there is Trøndelag, for which a large swath of it became Swedish for a brief period, but it was then taken back. Trondheim also served as the capitol of Norway for a time.
kebman This is basically why I low key fucking hate Sweden. They took so much land away from us.
I feel like they took advantage of us since we were with Denmark back then... and since Denmark was basically forced to side with Napoleon to avoid being invaded. And obviously, Norway had to side with them as well since they were with Denmark at the time. And Sweden realized that if they sided with Britain, they could control us and take us over if France lost (which they did) it’s just not fair; it’s such an asshole-ish dick move.
Lastly, isn’t there some kind of rumor that says the king of Norway will never button all his cuffs in his shirt until Jämtland and Härjedalen are returned to Norway again? Is that true of not?
I do not know. These are things far in the past, and not really pertaining to any present sentiment. Especially since movement between the Nordic countries is easier than ever. In fact also during those times, the Swedes were seen as brothers (which they indeed are both culturally and ethnically). Battles such as "Lingonkriget" where opposing forces would rather pick berries than fight because on the other side were friends and family, is one such occasion. Even the officers colluded, and sent messages to the King that the enemy was slowing them down. In the end political ambitions towards the continent was what made the Swedes throw away the idea of Scandinavian "super" king, though we came very close. The Danish prince, and only heir to the Swedish throne, tripped on his horse and was killed, and shortly after the Swedes chose a Napoleonic king.
This is the reason we Danes and Norwegians can agree on one thing. Fuck Sweden.
I don't agree with that. I want to help Sweden become great again, together with Denmark and Norway. Not that we're so freaking great also, but whatever helps. Even Denmark has a rampant problem with immigrants in the bigger cities. The current government didn't help against that, though it's better than nothing. But perhaps you're smarter, because you understood the way things were going much earlier.
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It's not Swedens fault Denmark were stupid enough to attack them time and time again.
Furthermore, the Napoleonic wars had nothing to do with us losing Jemtland, Herjedalen and Bohuslen.
The first two were lost because Denmark though they could invade Sweden while they were preoccupied with the Thirty Years War, and then they got smacked.
Then the last one was lost when Denmark came for seconds while they thought Sweden had their hands full with Poland-Lithuania during the Second Northern War (or the Deluge as it is also called). We also lost Trøndelag during that peace, but they rebelled and returned to the fold (and Denmark lost the entirety of Scania).
What we did lose because of the Napoleonic wars though was Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe islands. The treaty that transferred Norway to Sweden as compensation for their loss of Finland to Russia only included mainland Norway, and none of those islands who had been inhabited by Norwegians for 6-800 years.
i love how genuinely excited you are about borders
*The Samis* are called _native_ to Scandinavia, but the Swedish, Finnish and Norwegians are also *just as native* to the region. Well, unless you want to discuss things that happened over 10,000 years ago.
The Samis were likely first to the North-East of the region, however the Norse were first to the South-Western coast. But again, this happened over 10,000 years ago... So discussing "who came first" in order to settle the matter isn't really a fruitful way to go about it.
However, the Samis are a unique cultural minority in need of protection, and thus they are the only natives of Scandinavia that are _recognized_ by the UN. If it were up to the UN, though, all national identity in Scandinavia would be switched for globalist diversity, however...
If you study the Samis features, they seem to have come from Asia, up through the northern edge of Russia and westwards that way... they also have seafaring Samis, and one might think there is a link between them and eskimo's, and northern native americans.
either way the Samis have been oppressed in Norway and fit into the category of "Native people". So the point you're making really doesn't leave you with anything and you end up staring at the screen, wondering what the hell you just read. I mean, how could sit there and write three small paragraphs and highlight words about who technically were there first.
Oh, poor Samis. They're so oppressed, you see. Fucking socialist victim culture... You're probably one of those traitors who sides with that Swedish socialist, Löfven, who is best know for saying that "Sweden has no culture" and that "Sweden belongs to the immigrants, not the Swedish people". Well fuck you, traitor! I guess I forgot to tell you, I'm actually a Sami myself. However most Samis in Norway live in the capital, in Oslo, and many of them consider themselves Norwegian first. However the heritage is unmistakable, and both peoples have _strong_ historical and cultural ties to the region. In my opinion that should be recognised for _both_ peoples. That can't be undone by some traitor politician bowing to the One World Gov crowd in the EU or the UN. When Wikpedian edit warriors cling to the falsehood that only Samis are native to Scandinavia, it makes me _cringe._ For King and Country!
hahahhah no need to get so offended man. All I was pointing out that you're a know-it-all guy who writes pointless trivia on a fucking border video. You even did it when you in your response, dragging politics and immigration into it.
Btw, hvis du er norsk så kan du slikke gulvet din skitne besserwisser
Says the guy who does the exact same thing. In any case, it's not being a besserwisser when you're correct. I'm glad you found that offensive, however! :D
An interesting thing is that when Norway and Sweden laid the borders, there were people from Sweden going the way up north. When they came to middle norway, East for Namsos you can see the borders going out east and then coming back west again further north. This is because the ones living in the area wanted to belong to Norwey. They therefore decided to bestow the Swedes and sent them eastwards. Just a funny thing to know
The border between Norway, Sweden and Finland was very open long before the EU, there is..
"The Nordic Council is the official body for formal inter-parliamentary co-operation among the Nordic countries. Formed in 1952, it has 87 representatives from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden as well as from the autonomous areas of the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and the Åland Islands. The representatives are members of parliament in their respective countries or areas and are elected by those parliaments. The Council holds ordinary sessions each year".
bokmål and nynorsk is just how we write, we speak different dialects.
Maurius peoples speak bokmål but not nynorsk
@@kristianfossum2417 bruh what do ya mean, ever been to getto bergen?
@@kristianfossum2417 *people
Maurius in Bergen they talk bergensk
@@kristianfossum2417 yeah, nynorsk
5:11 Ibx: «Stavanger is bigger than Trondheim»
*Sad trønder noises*
The ny-norsk and bokmål is just written lanugage, nothing else really.
Nobody speaks either of those languages, they are not oral languages, purely written ones. Norwegians talk different dialects.
Andy [Xvixx] Hallo Andreas.
Pepperoni Pizza There is no offical way to speak norwegian either
True, though the different diealects phonetlically resemble either bokmål or nynorsk. For example, people on the west coast will say things like 'kva' instead of 'hva' like in the east.
østlandet er æsj.
I think you should have mentioned the weird fact that norway is so bended at the top that in 50 percent of cases when you want to drive for example from oslo to finmark, you will reach faster by driving through sweden.
As a Dane, when a Swede and I argue over which country is better, the Swede pretends he can't understand me, I pretend ABBA isn't the greatest band of all time, and we both secretly admit to ourselves it's really Norway 😘😘😘.
Love u brothers from Norway ! Greetings from a swede with Bohuslän and Jämtland roots!
then you have norwegian roots.. the precious belongs to us. not filthy hobitses :-)
alexander johansen I wish you guys will give me asylum if politics gets even worse here ;)
pls gib back land
Deadcruse1 Mannerheim Norway please invade Sweden and take control and get rid of this mess we have right now
Norway should invade Sweden, take our lands back that Sweden took from us like Jämtland for example. Then we force them to be in a union with us for 100+ years and see how they like it.
That’d be the ultimate middle finger to Sweden from Norway! 😂🙌🏼 🇳🇴>🇸🇪
To be completely honest though, this is why I low key fucking hate Sweden 😂 they completely used and abused us.
I could still be a Norwegian... but sadly due to Sweden, my ancestors left to America in the 1800’s... and now I’m a Minnesotan who simply wants to go back to my homelands.
🖕🏼CURSE YOU SWEDEN! Sorry not sorry 🖕🏼
As a Norwegian I think this was interesting, and also saw some wrongs: There are daily flights also from Tromsø. I think Russians fly directly from Russia. Jan Mayen had a weather station and someone from the Military there all the time. I think it is about 20 - 30 persons that are there 6 months at the time.
Exactly what I was going to say. Also fun fact, the medical station in Longyear is part of UNN (Tromsø Hospital) also the IT has to take flights to fix things up there from Tromsø Hospital.
The russians use the norwegian airport in Longyearbyen.
There’s no flights that directly from Russia to the northern parts of Norway anymore (I’m Russian who used to live in Norway)
The thing about Norway being expensive isn't so true for the people living there like myself. We earn more money to compensate that. So, things are mostly just expensive for tourists.
Also, where I live in Hedmark, people visit Sweden just to buy sweets and stuff cheaper. My family is there every month or so, but we don't have to have someone check our wares when we travel back to Norway again.
which also makes it great for Norwegians to be tourists, as pretty much any country will seem cheap right
Exactly. When my family and I goes to vacation in Spain or a similar country, everything is really cheap indeed.
Don’t forget Pepsi Max from sweden
We in Norway often travel to neighboring countries to by things for cheaper prices
True that, except London. That is still very popular among Norwegians.
You are fairly well informed for a non-native. Not many errors in the information as far as I can see. Gratulerer. :-P
Always fun to see if what foreigners think they know about other nations but this was for the most part spot on.
No major wars in the last few hundred years? Damnit Toycat! I know you're young, but get a grip. 1940 (less than a hundred years ago) Germany under Hitler invaded, drove out the English/French/royal family, tried to put Quisling in charge and weren't driven out until the Russians/Allies got rid of them in 1945 then withdrew - so how is this aggression on Russia's part? ... I love Norway and your enthusiasm, you have one of the few channels that it's good to read the comments which is unusual.
Russia was vital in keeping Norway Norwegian during the 2nd WW. They fought valiantly to defend the north. We have statues to the fallen in many Norwegian cities, with the names of Russians who sacrificed themselves protecting Norway.
THAT DESCRIPTION WHY
Autri Basu Because there's "Norway" he'd explain the video in a nutshell :>
LOL did not notice that, thanks!
*pun orgasm*
May I suggest this commercial video (it's related):
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Holy shit you mentioned my town Hamar! No youtuber ever has done that i think
Haha congratz ^^
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@@adrrodw4975 Enig
Hey neighboring kommune
Thanks for clearing up the Tromsø issue : ) Also, it's been about 1000 years since Norway and Russia was at war with each other, although back then neither Norway nor Russia really existed. Another interesting thins is, that although Norway is an expensive country, Russians travel to Norway to buy nappies. Apparently they are really expensive in Russia.
Norway did exist 1000 years ago. The first king of a united Norway was Harald Hårfagre, who reigned from 872 to 930. Before that Oslo and the inland valleys were independent, they were called austmenn as opposed to nordmenn. Russia didn't exist until the 1500s though, and as such we've never actually been at war. It's sometimes mentioned when Russians and Norwegians meet, since Norway is the only neighboring country that Russia hasn't been at war with.
Russia consisted of many duchies and tsardoms, I believe the ones Norway tangled with were Novgorod and Pskov, which were later swallowed by Muscovy like all the other little Russian states. (Though Novgorod were by no means small)
Interesting. I've never heard of that, and after looking into it seems there were some skirmishes back and forth between Norway and Novgorod over border disputes in the early 1300s - but no outright war. In any case it would still be a conflict with the sovereign state of Novgorod and not with Russia as such.
Come to think of it, Norway and Russia were on opposing sides in the later years of the Napoleonic wars. But the Norwegian military were an integrated part of the Danish military at the time, and as far as I remember no actual battles were fought between Russia and Denmark-Norway.
And still I don't think it would count. Norway was at best a client kingdom, at worst a colony of Denmark. I'm not sure whether or not the British felt that Norway was at war with them in the Napoleonic wars, as Norwegian ships captured British ships with letters of marque from the Danish crown.
And to Bussigt, yes, Norway did sort of exist 1000 years ago, but Harald Hårgfagre only united Norway along the coast up to around Trondheim. The lands to the north, populated by the Sami, was not controlled by him, and as such Norway did not border and part of todays Russia until around 1300, when the Norwegian greater kingdom known as "Norgesveldet" started taking shape. Control over the northern parts of Norway was finally solidified, and much of Sweden also fell under Norwegian rule, along with several islands in the north sea. It was during this expansion that there was border disputes with Russian duchies, but with the few resources and low population that far north, it didn't end in full scale war. Norgesveldet ended in 1349 when the black death devastated Norway, and Denmark soon took over the remains.
So if you don't count years of instability and civil war, Norway barely lasted 100 years (From around 1227 to 1349) as a strong, prosperous and expansive country before it was gobbled up by the Danes. This is also the reason why I say Norway didn't exist 1000 years ago, because it was more a collection of barely agreeing smaller kingdoms, and it was not uncommon that Norway was ruled by 2 kings at the same time. And this of course ended in a series of civil wars that lasted from around 1130 to around 1240.
Norway became Swedish when Russian Cossack camped in the royal park of our then-capital, Copenhagen. And 4 meter high walls around northern churches tells about "no war" not being correct as well.
Hi, as a Norwegian I would like to say that you are welcome to move here, although expensive, you will also get a higher wage, which helps a lot. With that said, I would highly recommend that you read up on the Nynorsk/bokmål subject. Both are written languages, and can almost be used interchangeably. We do not "speak" bokmål or nynorsk, but nynorsk would kind of sounds like some of our dialects on the western coast. Bokmål is the official written language, and comes from our time with the danish, almost like a merger between danish and old Norwegian. Old Norwegian that you referred to, is what we spoke during the viking-time and is basically what Icelandic is today. Keep up the good work!
i was pleased to see you included how the border between sweden and norway is placed due to water streams. Most norwegians dont even know this. Although you should have mentioned the sea boarder and how In the southwest, it is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by a submarine ridge running between Iceland and the Faroe Islands. To the North, the Jan Mayen Ridge separates it from the Greenland Sea. Nice video.
Too slow, I could still understand you
1.25x speed my dude.
Lol
The sami are not native, they only have native status. The tribes got to scandinavia via Norrland and scandinavia was actually populatet, in the south, during the early stoneage if not iceage.
I gues the sami can be called the native to northern Norrland.
Just for clearity
Fride Rosendal well making sapmi an actual country would just make massive problems anyway. And we've managed sharing the land thus far so why not for a while longer?
Fride Rosendal except the original settlers got killed of by the indo-Europeans except for the Sami and finish tribes, aka they are native
your bruv Joey. That is the thing, if they are native though it does not make sense to call them native to Sweden, Norway or Finland. They are native to northern Norrland (or Finmark, in Norway). It does not make sense to call a people group native to a country that did not include their land area until relatively recently. (Birkarlar in Sweden taxed the sami in the 12th Hundreds I think, though I know some vikings ruled over traditional sami lands)
Fride Rosendal true, they are native to northern fenno-Scandinavia and the Kola Peninsula, just because they were added later to the countries doesn't make them less native. Are Inuits from Alaska not native because Alaska was a us state in the 50's?
your bruv Joey. True and I am glad we sort of agree. I am only saying, that by that logic the Inuits would be called the natives of the US. I just wrote it for clearity. Swedens ”natives” for example are swedes and the sami (though you could say that is not counting Skåne, Halland, Blekinge, Jämtland and Tordedalen)
Norway is not that expensive when you work here
You pay much and get much
The most interesting part is the border with Norway, Finland, Russia. 3 different timezone. Where else in Europe can you see that?
When speaking Norwegian you always want to put the stress on the first syllable, so it’s pronounced HA-mar, not ha-MAR
Just me replying to 4 year old comment, but that's not true. stav-ANG-er, krist-i-an-SAND
You're pretty off when talking about demographics in the north. Most of the inhabitants in Northern Norway are indeed Norwegian, not Sami, and the place with the highest number of Sami inhabitants is Oslo. You're right with the fact that there are less people in Northern Norway compared to Southern Norway, but Sami people is such a tiny minority that your way of presenting where they live becomes pretty far from the truth. Historically speaking, the Sami people lived in Sápmi, a region covering Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia, but you're about four-five decades off with your facts.
Sorry if my interpretation of your country offended you! However:
"The Sami are the indigenous people of Finnmark, but Norwegians have lived for hundreds of years on the islands' outer parts, where they made up the majority. The Sami people still constitute the majority in Finnmark's interior parts, while the fjord areas have been ethnically mixed for a long time. This essentially holds true today."
In Oslo, Sami people are 100% not a majority, the number is less relevant than the proportion with regards to the comments made in the video.
Saying that there is Sami majority anywhere is strange no matter how you twist and turn it, because there is no official count of the Sami population in Norway, so the number is based on the population in Sami territories (STN-areas), which in 2015 counted 55 674. This means that all people living in these areas are counted as Sami, and doesn't actually say anything about these people's ethnicities. All Norwegians (immigrants are counted in separate statistics) living in these areas will show up as Sami. If I were to move to Karasjok or Kautokeino this year, new numbers for 2019 would show me as a Sami, even though I'm not, just based on geography. Sure, there may be some villages or small towns with (real) Sami majority in the STN-area, but then you're likely talking about places with a few hundred inhabitants to slightly over a thousand, which again count for almost nothing when building statistics, and in the big scheme of things, you'd never put 'Sami' and 'majority' in the same sentence unless you're talking specifically about a certain village or small town.
Wassup. Yeah, hi. The sámi will never ever be counted as a majority unless you talk about specific towns, for example my town :p
Sunna: If you don't mind, I'd love to know what town you live in!
Guovdageaidnu
Great video :)
One small point about our border with Russia. Russia has only ever invaded Norway once, and that was to throw out the Germans (who occupied us during WW2). After they had done so, they quietly withdrew back to their own border without any fuzz. And that was under Stalin :)
You should do a video on Norway's territory in the Antarctic, Queen Maud Land, and the other borders there. Q M Land is the only one among them which is not contested by another nation! :)
Norway is actually furter north, further south, further west and further east than Sweden. You may wonder how Norway is further south. The answer is not antarctica, it’s not oficially owned completely by Norway. The answer is «Bouvetøya» an Island between south Africa and antarctica. It’s completely owned by Norway with a terrifying population count of: A couple pingus
Remember, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark and Iceland (as well as Svalbard) are in a passport union as well, which allows us to live in each other's countries without having to immigrate.
272 dislikes are Swedish
M B Swedish beef with Danes and Norwegians and the Finns... Someone has a diplomacy problem
Nej
Nej norsk jävel
I guess so...
You wish :D Money money money, must be funny, in a rich mans world
Pity you didn't go into the maritime borders because those are also (maybe even more) important for Norway because of the fishing rights and oil? Jan Mayen and Svalbard themselves might not be very important but do greatly increase the waters they can claim.
Norge is pronounced “norr-gheh” n-British short “o”-rolled r-hard g-American short “e”. Or with the g pronounced as “yuh” like “norr-yeh”. And in some dialects (Nynorsk) it’s called “Noreg” which is pronounced exactly how you’d think it’s pronounced, except with a rolled r.
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No One Important I was assuming ibxtoycat and his audience wouldn’t have a background in that so I described it in layman’s term’s rather than saying “It’s not /nɔɹd͡ʒ/ it’s /noɾɡə/or /ˈnɔrjɛ/; and in Nynorsk it’s /ˈnoːrɛɡ/.” But there it is now
Well skarre-r works fine as well
Carl Marcus yeah and some skarre r dialects drop it at the end of a syllable
I hate rolled Rs...
You said you can only fly to Svalbard from Oslo. I'm pretty sure you can also fly there from Tromsø.
U sure? I have a friend who had to travel from the north to Oslo to take a plane to Svalbard
You can fly there from Alta, at least you could.
SAS is flying to Svalbard from Oslo and Tromsø. Norwegian is flying from Oslo.
Why didnt you talk about the islands norway own in the south arktic and queen maud land???
Oh, you really know how of melt the heart of a Norwegian when talking so good about our country. Welcome back to stay! It's not so expensive when you work here, the pay matches the prices pretty much.
It frustrates me to no end that you call the sami the "native population". In Norway both norwegians and sami are native, and then, norwegians came to Norway first
It's a bit racist. "They're more primitive, so they must be natives."
Next borders vídeo Brazil or Russia
When I took the Oslo Bergen train (there and back again), it was misty (both ways) :(
you should take it again!
As a swede it doesn't feel like a border really. Because of the nordic agreement. You can work and travel between the nordic countries without visa or passport (altough recently it has been some problems with the latter) if you are a citizen of a nordic country.
You need passports now.
i am from norway and love that you talk about norway i have never think you would talk about norway thank you
Just watched the Vox Borders video on Svalbard lol
Oh god, not that propaganda channel... take everything they say with a huge mountain of salt.
Thank you for this very nice video of our country. And yes, you are more or less dead on with everything. If you want a nice holiday to really experience beautiful nature in the Arctic, please visit us! And in the summer time we do have nice warm weather also. Up to 30C or even more in July/ August. Then you have Sweden and Finland, so why not make it a road-trip and visit the hole of Scandinavia? You will not regret it at all, beside the prices in Norway.. That is a downer.
Another thing, high prices and taxes are something we get back in free health care etc.
Erik
Jan Erik Bakstad "The hole of Scandinavia"? You must mean Denmark.
@@petretepner8027 lol
You said there are only 8 official border crossings between Norway and Sweden. Not correct, there are 48 road crossings. (and 4 railways) I know since I have crossed at all of them. Some of them are smaller roads with very light traffic, nevertheless they are official. Many of them have no customs station so they can not be used by lorries transporting goods. Also there are 6 crossings between Norway and Finland. Otherwise I enjoyed video! Though you barely scratched the surface of all the interesting stories that could be told.
"For most border crossings there is one customs station on one side of the border, but for some on both sides, one for each direction. A treaty gives the customs officers of one country the right to carry out clearance and checks for both countries.There are around 30 more roads crossing the border, without customs station (most notably E16), but they are not allowed to use if having goods needing declaration. Heavy trucks can be allowed to use them by pre-declaration. They are surveilled by video and temporary checks."
I should've been clearer that I was talking on the customs points, thanks for the correction
I suspect that if a city was indeed cut in half between Norway and Sweden, there would be very few problems, as the culture is pretty much mutually shared. Perhaps the shops would all be in Sweden. In fact a lot of Norwegians has moved to Sweden for the cheap cost of living there, and conversely a lot of Swedes has moved to Norway for the high paying jobs.
As a Norwegian, I found this video pretty cool. If you're interrested, there is a story behind the border to Russia. That's got to do with the area known as Boris Gleb.
The border originally followed the Pasvik river out to the sea but since there is a russian orthodox church on "the Norwegian side" of the river, Russia wanted that area. A deal was struck and Russia got Boris Gleb. The border was then re-established to follow the Jakobs river instead, out to Grense Jakobselv, for the last bit out to the sea.
Longyearbyen literally comes from English "long year", "by" means city and the "en"-ending just means "the". So Longyearbyen=The long year City.
True, but from what I remember, there was some American guy whose name was Longyear, and the name is after him..
I challenge you to do one of these videos with India's borders :P
Oh dear lord, yeah, I said Germany has a long and interesting story in that regard, India must be a definite #2
Would be way worse if he did it before 2015 xD
Toycat you forgot about Bouvet Island and Peter I Island!
And Dronning Mauds Land/Queen Maud Land
Fun fact. The border between Troms and Finnmark used to be movable. Where the same people lived was Finnmark, and where the norwegians lived was Troms.
About Svalbard: You're not legally required to have a gun there. Guns are forbidden in places of business and its forbidden to have a loaded weapon while inside the town of Longyearbyen. When moving between or outside of towns and settlements you're legally required to carry suitable tools to scare/intimidate polarbears. This usually means a flare gun. However the territorial police/Governor (Sysselmannen) recommends that everyone should have weapons as well for a mean of "last stand" against a polarbear.
Also for the russian border. It's heavily guarded by both Norwegian and Russian military along the entire border, however the relations between the two Colonels that are responsible for the border garrisons are good. There is also a small "deadzone" along the border where no one is permitted and trees are cut down for visibility. Any crossing outside the legal bordercrossing is a serious felony and the military at the border are given police authority to arrest and handle people crossing illegally. The military unit is a conscription unit led by professional command staff. This means that it is conscripts mainly handling all border issues first hand and is subject to a 6-month rotation. So every 6 months half the company finishes their conscription and is replaced by new personell that needs to be trained.
I've wanted to live in Norway for ages despite the cost of living. As a Brit I just hope it won't be too late when we're officially out of the EU.
We would welcome you :)
Pining for the fjords: Are you here 🇳🇴 yet?
@@user-yu3ci4sl8v Yes, I moved here nearly a year ago.
@@Pining_for_the_fjords Wow ~ That’s nice. Which place did you chose? I hope you like it here ☺️
Norway won't join the EU because if they were a full menu they would have to give up some of there fishing sites and that would be crucial to them as 30% of their income comes from fish sold to other countries
True, bust still Norway is the country that follows the most directives from EU. Only Malta follows more.
And the fact that EU today accept 40% "over-fishing". Not good in the long term.
Have you heard when Norway was trying to take Greenland from Danmark to go hunting. They went to the international court of Justice, lost and accepted it.
Stian Soisdal yeah, I’m really bummed out. I wish Norway had gotten it. Also, throwback to when Iceland and the Faroe Islands used to be part of Norway... and then Denmark took it from us. But then Iceland became independent.
Stian Soisdal Italy was the only country backing up Norwegian claims to Greenland 😂
Nynorsk sounds more Danish but bokmål is the main language (I Didn't Pay Attention In Class So If I'm Wrong Please Correct Me)
Critlent, it is the other way around, Bokmål is based on Danish.
Going to Svalbard by plane is not the only option to get there, you could also take a cruise with Hurtigruten. They also offer a cruise to Antarctica.
Today is a great day
Teeeering jantje
No
The norwegians acctually lived up north BEFORE the sami people. They came in later, so they are not the native people.
Also you forgot Bjørneøya, a very small island around the other island and Dronning Mauds land, wich lies in the artic in the south.
when you think about how exspensive Norway is, you know its real ^^
So what about bouvet island that belongs to norway but are like south of africa? also the language thing. Bokmål is a form of danish that has been norwegianified by the population over time and has then developed to be its own writing languague and Nynorsk is a pure writing languague based on what is most spoken across the different dialects around the country, so no one speaks nynorsk but there is a high chance that your dialect can be found in it.
You didn't mention that Slartibartfast designed our coastline. Also, saw a few other posts about our two forms of Norwegian...predating those forms was norse...which is now basically what Iceland uses, however the pronunciation has changed a lot. The writing is very much like it used to be tho.
Why is their coast so jagged?
Beacuse we feel like having one.
Becouse we are the best
Caged it's the consequences of having coastal mountains in glacier-prone latitudes. Just look at Greenland overseas. That was how Norway looked like in the ice age, and soon Greenland gets a similar, even more rugged coast when the ice on its eastern coast melts and drifts towards the sea, creating in effect, lots of temporary "ice rivers" which become fjords after the ice is gone. If you look at Tierra del fuego, Novaya Zemilya, South island, NZ, and east greenland you'll find similar coasts.
Fjords.
LOL to "Norwegian Loser" xD And thanks Professorbairos that is correct :D Few can boast having Fjords in the world, if you look at the actual literal meaning/description.
you forgot about the swedish crisis where since prices are so high here in Norway on beer candy and food that they go over to sweden on shopping trips for food and beer it is strict you can't have more than 8 kg of sugar combined (candy) when you travel back you can also have like 6,5 liters of beer or other combinations but if you exceed those limits you have to pay what they are worth in Norway there for there is a lot of people breaking the toll rules
To add to the fun: In Swedish, customs is called "tull", which in Norwegian means something along the lines of "nonsense".
Norway also got an app to help paying customs when importing alcohol. You can pay the customs fee in an app and be on your merry way. Imagine that: "Paying customs? There's an app for that!" (Yes I use it. Better than getting fined and you don't waste any time having to declare your goods at the border.)
yes norway
Norge is actually pronounced "nuo-duh-geh"
You got wrong on the two types of Norwegian. The blue is Nynorsk which is based on the spoken language and Old Norse. The red is Bokmål which is based on Danish and slightly on spoken language.
Nynorsk is NOT a new variant of Bokmål. They are the same age but Nynorsk looks more like older Norwegian texts from 1300 and Old Norse.
Bokmål looks like Danish. It's even called Norwegian-Danish in many occasions.