American Reacts to 45 Facts About Norway | Part 1
ฝัง
- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ม.ค. 2024
- Submit a video suggestion here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FA...
As an American there are some many things about Norway that I don't know about. Today I am very excited to learn about 45 unique facts about Norwegian culture that I have never learned about before. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
The main reason why pay is a bit of a taboo subject in America is that it is a made up concept from the people in charge so that the workers don't see how big of a difference in salary each worker gets. There is no problem with paying people differently if no one talks about it.
A few years ago, Norway had to clarify for foreign tourists looking forward to seeing the Midnight Sun that it's not about a second sun, but rather it is still the same sun they are used to seeing 🤭
Do they also have to tell them not to stare directly at the Sun?
@@markussmedhus9717 Dunno. But given the rationale provided in the context, I would consider it the safest option.
let me guess, it was american tourists, right?
It was Hurtigruten (Norway's most important coastal steamer) that was sued.
They changed their brochure in order to prevent this happening in the future...
@@evilmessiah81Lol....they had to be Americans. I'm not going to say Americans are ignorant.....but we are.
Danish is easier for Norwegians to read, while swedish is easier to hear. Don't know what it's like for the other two.
Norwegian is much easier to understand for Swedes, unless they are from the south near Denmark - maybe.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 For me, as a Swede, Danish is easier to understand, I have a real hard time with Norweigan, if they don't speak very clearly on like NRK. Reading is just as easy/hard. I'm from the Sthlm-area.
@@knowledgeisgood9645 U just need to listen... i´am Danish and i can understand Swedish and Norwegian if i try alittle... It´s really not that hard.. Northen Swedish can be hard..
@@GuinevereKnight I have been in over 25 Swedish cities, and no one anywhere had problems understanding Norwegian. Sometimes someone can ask again of course as they didn't listen the first time as it weren't Swedish.
.
@@V3ntilator That sounds good, I don't know how you speak so I can't tell. All I know is that I have a hard time understanding norweigan, maybe these other swedes thought it was easier or you speak real clear. I can't say anything about anyoone elses expercience than my own. I can understand some, but I really have to try hard. Danish is second nature kind of. Probably depends on what you are used to in languages and dialects and how clear/fast someone speaks. It's great that you can travel around Sweden and be understood. I think the many dialects makes it harder, they sound very different to me. Even if I get 50% norweigan and could sort of figure out the rest, that only helps if you want directions or something short and sweet like that. All swedes/norweigans are different... :)
The most important rule: No Pharma advertising.
that goes for every developed country except the US and New Zealand.
Jep One minutes To advertise + 10 sec Side effects with 3x fastened
No pharma and politics
A lot of people don't realize that the Vikings had settlements in Canada hundreds of years before Columbus ever got lost
And only about 14 000 years after the first Nation peoples
True Norway got their first
Leifur was Icelandic @@Olaves10
I watch your videos so much that every time I put one on my dad says, "whats going on everyone im just a typical average american"😂
It 210 years since we got our constitution… it was 200 years in 2014
I saw that too. I'm not going to criticize Tyler for his math skills but millions of Americans have a difficult time with basic math....and please don't give them geometry or algebra....lol
Came looking for this comment. Americans are clearly very good at math!
Quick maffs right there from Tyler, lol. Not surprised though, based on his reading skills. 🤣🤣🤣
Sure 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤔🤔🙄😂😂
If You was born 10 years ago, how old You be today. Fck all f.. Kg High school sudents say some 12, 11.. MANY of them started to calculate🤔🤔 im now 23 sooo... AND Wrong answer. Happy To be🇫🇮
Both Sami and Norwegians are equally indigenous people in Norway and our first ancestors have both been here since over 10,000+ years ago. What later became the Sami and Norwegians was since formed by the arrival of later waves of people emigrating here in several waves during the Mesolithic Era(Stone Age) and after.
It is kind of annoying how Americans in particular seem to actively interpose their own understanding of history on Europe in general, and somehow believe that "indigenous" = people like the native Americans, wich is not what the word actually means....
The Sami people actually had their land stretching over large parts of what's today Norway, Sweden and Finland.
@@FreddeSkywalker No they didn't ... Sami where not nationbuilders..... they where tribes and they where nomads, yes there are in the sagas about how a viking king married a sami princess ... truth is that if you try to research on who came first among Sami and Norse ... you will fail, you probably will not get to study what you need to do of various acheological findings.
I live in Finnmark and here they have found archeological evidence of ancient hunting holes where they extracted oil from whales among other thing, they have evidence of various Tufte (housings) from like younger and older stoneage, and they do not claim these are sami people.
And while we are talking about it ... Kven are also old community they are not getting the same protection as Sami because ... Sami is indiginous people while Kvens are just a minority (I'm kven btw, and most likely but can't prove grandparents spoke sami, so most likely out from where they came from ... I'm sami too... but most of all, I'm Norwegian first).
@@arcticblue248 I recommend that you read a bit more about the people before you come with more ignorance... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1mi_peoples
Yes, populating from south and north was pretty much simultaneous. About 10,000 years ago, both ends. Neither group is indigenous.
@@FreddeSkywalker What do you mean when you claim @arcticblue248 is ignorant? Nothing he said was wrong. And he is right when saying that the Sami was never one united nation, but several small groups tied together by shared language and culture. As were most Norwegians as well before Harald Hårfagre united the country into a single nation. I do agree that the Sami has lived across both Norway, Sweden, Finnland and Russia. But they have lived inside the borders of our/their respective nations, and never had a country of their own. I honestly dont understand what the argument between you two is here? But just linking a wkipedia article without any more substance behind it, and claiming this somehow disproves anything he said is really lazy and adds nothing of value.
Actually, it's common all around the globe (north of the polar circle) the the sun never sets in the summer as well as it never rises during the winter. This means Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia (Siberia), Alaska and Canada.
If you go to Brooklyn you will find Leiv Erikson park, Leiv Erikson greenway, Leiv Eriksson tennis court, Leiv Erikson statue and so on ;)
Fjord has to be one of the best words on the planet. And having been there last year, it certainly won't be my last visit to Norway.
Norway builds its tunnels underground? Shocking 😅
The tunnel doesn't go from Bergen to Oslo. The distance is 288 miles (464 km), and the tunnel is 15 miles (24,5 km).
The stone age people who came to Norway 10 000 yrs ago, were neither Sami nor Germanic. We - the Germanic and the Sami - came later, some 3 000 yrs ago, perhaps - mixed with the stone age people, and sort of divided the land between us. The Germanic people mainly along the coast, the Sami mainly in the mountains. (Oversimplified, of course). It is perhaps easy for an American to misunderstand the thing about the Sami, comparing them to Native Americans, with Europeans coming very much later. The story is somewhat different here.
There is no doubt the Germanic immigrants and the immigrants from Asia mixed with the stone age people. We know that for sure. It is confirmed by continuity in archaeological findings, linguistic findings and genetic findings.
Those who arrived in the Northern part were not Sami. Sami ethnicity arose at the spot as a fusion between those who lived in the country before and those who arrived. It is therefore just as wrong to say that the Sami immigrated 3,000 years ago as to say that the Sami have lived in the country for 10,000 years. What we can say, however, is that the Stone Age people are ancestors of both Sami and Norwegians.
Sami language contains a large proportion of unknown origin. Linguists believe that these are remnants of languages that were spoken on the site before the influx of immigrants from the east occurred. Remnants of the language are also found in Norwegian, but to a much lesser extent.
Sami and Norwegians have more than 90% common gene mass. This according to gene researcher Sturla Ellingvåg. Recent history denies that there has been widespread mixing between the two peoples, so this must have happened a very long time ago, before Germanic and Asian immigration to the country. The Sami are genetic Europeans. Asian DNA is a very small part of Sami DNA.
I suppose we can say that Norwegian ethnicity arose in the same way as Sami ethnicity, if the term Norwegians/Norse is descriptive of the mixed group that arose in the south of the country at such an early time. I don't know if historians operate with that term at the time. In any case, it is the same population group that we are talking about.
yeah, i really hate it when they refer to the sami as the indigenous people of norway, but people keep doing it. maybe its because they are smaller in numbers than us or something, people like to sympathize with a minority these days.
@@kjartan.-wv2hp Indigenous people is a political term for people without their own state. This is the reason the Sami have the political status indigenous, and not the Norwegians. Norwegians are just at indigenous historically as the Sami, but since Norwegians have their own state they do not need the protection given to people who are not allowed to control their own land. Yes, the Sami are definitely indigenous in both terms. Read my other comment.
@@ahkkariq7406 i understand that, but in the video tyler called them "the original people of norway", because that is what people hear when they see " indigenous". I dont care what is the political term, i care what people understand by the term, and im just saying, i dont like that indigenous is used for them, as if we are not original to norway.
The ice started to retreat 15000 years ago along the southern coast, Dogerland went under the waves around 12000 years ago.
The earliest signs of settlements are 11000 years ago near the coastline in Agder county. The oldest remains are around 9500 years old .
Multiple waves of immigration (at least two) results in that no one today has a direct detectible DNA trace of the earliest people in Norway.
Both the Sami AND the Germanic peoples are indigenous to Norway...
Hey, hey hey! Queen Margrethe the first was not Norwegian. She was Danish. She was the daughter of Valdemar Atterdag. And she was born in Copenhagen in 1353. She was the regent of Denmark. BUT she married King Hakon VI of Norway and thereby she also became Queen of Norway and Sweden.
11:48 To be fair, it only claimed that the queen of Norway also governed Sweden and Denmark, it didn't say she was Norwegian herself. But it's a fair assumption to make, so good with a heads-up.
The Sami are not just the indegenous people of Norway, they are indegenous to Lapland, which stretches across the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and a part of northwestern Russia
They are not indigenous, they are an old world peoples belonging to Scandinavia, but not indigenous.
@@MartinL.A. And literally every other source a quick Google search on the topic comes up with says the same thing, that they are considered the Indigenous people of Northern Scandinavian/Kola Peninsula
I am a native swedish speaker and Norwegian I can sort of understand if I really focus, but what danish I have heard has been pretty much uncomprehensible to me, in writing I can sort of "decrypt" it, but hearing a native speak danish, first of all the ones I've heard speak so fast that one sentence sounds like one word, and also they tend to talk "like they have a hot potato in their mouth" 😅
the coastline paradox is such a cool concept
A way to look at the similarities between Norwegian, Danish and Swedish is to think about the English (uk), English (us) and English (aus)
A little more different than that though...
They aren't identical but have the same germanic root and much the same cadence and grammar
Fun fact: Columbus actually never set foot on the North American continent and only once on the South American continent during his 4 voyages to the new world - in present day Venezuela.
The reason we have many lakes is the same reason we have fjords: Very hilly topography.
The fact about the Sami being 10k years old in Norway is wrong. The archeological evidence suggest a presence that dates back 2-4000 years, Sámi settlement of Scandinavia does not predate "Norse/Scandinavian" settlement of Scandinavia, as sometimes popularly assumed. You could also say that the "norse" peoples original ancestors populated south Norway approx. 10k years ago, emigrating northwards, right after the ice age ended and the ice was gone in south Norway. That is why we have so much in common with the other germanic tribes further south. The earliest agricultureal settlements appeared around the Oslofjord 6-7000 years ago. The sami migrated from the east and came later.
we have sea sami settlements from around 10 000 years ago on the islend where I come from and thats been proven by archioligests from Oslo and tromsø, its the reindeer hearders who came last and its them you are talking about
Claiming to know who was first is kinda stupid. The fact is we don't know. But we know there have been people here for at least 10.000 years. If there were people here before the ice melted, that's a question we probably never get an answer to.
The income/tax info is public, but they later changed it so that when anyone looks it up, you will be notified who that was, which has limited the nosy-ness a lot.
The income, tax and wealth that is public, is the amount AFTER all deductions are done, so the real income and wealt are often a great deal higher. If you (for some reason) have 1.000.000 NOK in the bank or stocks, the house is worth 2.000.000, but you have 3.000.000 in house mortgage, your public wealt is 0.
Except we call Christmas for "Jul", which is an older tradition than Christmas (it basically got usurped when Norway got christened)
the coastline paradox is not only for norway, its true for every country that have a coastline
basically the smaller the messuring stick/smaller step the longer the coastline will be
a 1km step will go straight where a 10 m stick will go in and out and follow the landscape more, a 1 m stick will follow the coastline even better (and therefore be even longer). when you approach an infinitely small step, the coastline will approach infinitely length
Winter is roughly 4 months, from november to february. Then spring ranges march through may, and autumn starting about september and ending with around halloween.
Don't forget second winter😅
I don't agree. March is definitely a winter month in Norway
Depends on where you live@@Merete86
For me, March is more of a winter month than November, although I would probably count them both. Up here in the northern fjords, March is guaranteed to have snow all month, whereas November might not have any or it might have a lot. That said, I would be more okay with calling March spring than calling November fall :D Spring here is mostly considered "snow + sun".
@@MrMudbill Exactly, it all depends on where you live. There’s also early spring, late spring, late winter/fall/summer etc. It’s not set in stone.
5:20 - there's a different UV picture on every page in the passport. I just checked mine. And the name of the place depicted is also in UV (You can see it on the top there it says "Lofoten" in UV visible ink)
If you're Norwegian, and have a UV light, have a look at your passport page by page. I bet most Norwegians didn't know that either =)
Your ignorance of the world outside of your own is stupendous.
The winterseason is from about 15 october to 15-17 of may some places, but in the capital of Oslo it ends around march.
Interesting channel you got Tyler! I love your good vibes! Learning new things about Norway from an American is very entertaining! From a Norwegian point of view😃
"Not something that any Americans know about or experience ever."
Um, Tyler, are Alaskans not Americans?
-----
@user-kq5ke5yb6k
-----
- He clearly misspoke...
Although to be fair, 'Alaska' is comparable to 'Svalbard' in this respect.
-----
As a child, I only had access to one Norwegian channel and two Swedish channels on TV. I believe this is why Norwegians understand Swedish so well. Additionally, reading Danish is easy for us because it's very similar to Norwegian. It's interesting to note that Norway was once "owned" by Denmark, and most books were written in Danish back then.
Currently, I live about 100 km south of Oslo, and I've been fortunate enough to witness aurora borealis here twice this spring, a rare occurrence that I've never experienced before.
Contrary to popular belief, not all beaches in Norway are cold. In the south and southeast, they can reach very high temperatures, making them suitable for swimming. The water temperature can easily reach 21-22 degrees Celsius, a surprising fact for many.
On a lighter note, my son (about 12 years old at the time) and I watched an American movie and noticed something peculiar, but what? Eventually, my son exclaimed, "I've got it! There are no subtexts!" (He speaks English American every day, and very well. Sometimes he forgets Norwegian words and speaks English instead). It was an amusing realization that added to our movie-watching experience.
I live in Bergen, me and my friends were gonna pull an all nighter last summer to see the sunrise (at 4am) but it never got like dark dark, we didnt even realize the sun started riding inside the tent we sat in
The Sami are not the sole original inhabitants of Norway. Norway is more than just parts of Finmark. Mid- and South of Norway have had northern germanic people for just as long. As a matter of fact newer research seem to suggest it was even longer. I think it´s more correct to say that both these groups are original inhabitants. Western Hunter Gatherers came to this area 12000 years ago.
Well, it is the 10 year anniversary of the 200 year anniversary, at least....
400,000 lakes!? Yes, maybe if you count every puddle and garden pond as a "lake". The more commonly accepted number is around 20,000
That sounds more like Finland
Just on the island I live we got 4000 +-100 lakes that got either trout or char in it so I belive it fully
Now its very dark and cold here around Oslo. -23 C or -9.4 F. And a lot of snow too.
It's much, much colder i Oslo right now than Tromsø. But in Tromsø the sunrise is not until 11:45 on January 15th 😊
Hi Tyler. I find myself curious as to why, and/or what made you focus on Norway of all places?
yeah, when he could cover the greatest Scandinavian country Sweden instead. :D
He's got a bunch of other youtube channels as well for other countries
he does?@@simeng
@@RuthlessMetalYT Ye, try search for "tyler reacts" or check out Tyler Rumple and Tyler Bucket :D
@@RuthlessMetalYT😂 You are too funny
Yeah, America doesn't have big lakes. Oops, Lake Michigan....
Yeah, America doesn't have deep lakes. Oops, Crater Lake, Lake Tahoe....
(There are fjords, too. And mountain ranges. Bonus: hot deserts....)
You realize that what you are doing is comparing one country to basically an entire continent? That’s like comparing Michigan to all of Europe. The fact that Norway has such a diverse geography as it does, is actually quite remarkable considering the size and location of the country. Not so sure the same can be said about the US when you take into consideration the huge area. But I’m sure you don’t want to hear any of that. Also, if you truly believe that the US is so great, and Norway is so small and insignificant, then why do you feel so threatened? You have the mindset of a very insecure person, and it really shows.
@@ludicolo378 Hi there. Reading your comment above, you seem to assume a lot about him feeling insignificant to US/America. That's not what I get from his comment. Tyler is notoriously saying that we in US don't have this and that, as if Alaska and Rocky Mountains don't exist. He does not seem to know the diversity of the US that well.
@@norse-nilsbjasa Tyler might not seem to know too much about his own country, but you have to remember his videos isn’t geared towards americans. But as usual certain americans can’t stand to hear that somewhere else might be better than the US, and that not everything revolves around them. The commenter above is one of these people, ALWAYS bitching on every single one of Tylers videos. This was actually one of their more tame comments, 99% of the time, he/she also has to crap on Norway/norwegians while trying to promote the US. Which is not cool. Tyler might be ignorant or uneducated, but that’s better than being straight up rude. As I said, mostly norwegians are watching these videos and pretty much all of us know that the US is much more diverse than what Tyler makes it out to be. So don’t worry about that.
@@ludicolo378 All cool. I do wish Tyler would read the comments to his videos, he could increase his knowlege a lot around the different topics he reacts to. That beeing said he is getting better at pronouncing, and remembering facts about things, places, culture.
@@norse-nilsbjasa Yeah, I agree. Let’s hope he gets better and better with time.👍
The clip illustrating the polarnights is actually from swedish yt. Jonna Jintons video: "How to live with the dark swedish winters - polarnights and midnightsun" a beautiful, educationel video wich will help you get the grip of these fenomonens.😊
Yes!! I want him to see that video. I think he'd really like it 😊
I want you to try out the soda type solo.
It's also illegal to advertise for alcohol. We recently had a case regarding that in my home town that made national news. Inspectors deemed an artistic painting of an old lady, who incidentally held a wine glass with red liquid in it, as advertisement for alcohol, and demanded that they had to remove it. Totally absurd 🤬
in norway now its soo much snow and i think its cool that you post about norway becuase i am from norway and if you want to see in the norwagian news then the most popular and free is called VG and a anouther one is called Dagbladet and keep up the great work
1:53 - Exception for inland dialects (which nobody understands), and southern Swedish. :P Those are just something else.
Advertising on holidays, like the days in Christmas, Easter and so on that many Norwegians are not at work, there are not ordinary advertising on Norwegian television. You get advertising for specific illnesses and human rights and so on, that days. That I really like. Those days are not commercial but instead the advertising reminds us to think about the people around us that is not as fortunate as most are.
The name fjord comes from Norway.
Winter is also not half the year; we have four distinct seasons each being 3 months
Though given how recent Summers have been it feels like it some times.
The commercial for kids do happen, it is only illegal on channels run from Norway, on channels from like UK or America it still game on.
Tyler
Norwegians are also good at ski jump shooting!
Per Inge Torkelsen reference? ^^
07:36 Worth pointing out that, while it is publicly accessible to anyone, whoever gets checked will be notified by the system that they were checked, and I believe the notification includes the name of the person or business that checked them out. I don't think this used to be the case several years ago, but last I checked I'm fairly sure it told me that if I checked someone that they would be notified about it.
Yeah, in the past it was not possible to see who checked you. Now you need to login. I believe this was done to stop potential criminals using this information?
Hi i’m from Norway and i love your videos and i would love to see you try Duolingo and try to Learn a little bit of Norwegian there ❤️
Im a Norwegian and I speak Danish and swedish and English and some German. The reason for German is that the speachclang the sound of the words is simular, when it comes to the Norwegian language is almost identcal.
i have a sweedish friend and im norwegian and we can talk our native languages to eachother when speaking toghether
There's a Heritage Minute about Vikings being the first European visitors to North America. They landed in what would events become Canada.
In 2004 I am really really sure I saw a commercial for Burnout 3: Takedown. Best buy and commercial ever!
14:23 That roundabout is in Vallaviktunnelen by Voss, not in Lærdalstunnelen
5:00 - They must have given some of that info. You even knew the name :) Leif Erikson. He called it "Vinland det gode", roughly translated to: "The good Wine land".
Being a Norse explorer, he can in some ways be called "Norwegian", but can just as much be called "Icelandic", since the countries didn't exist back in the Viking age. But yeah, beating Columbus by a mere 500 years or so. There's not that much know about exactly what caused him to end up there, but most seem to lean on him being on his way to Greenland, and drifted of course and hit in Newfoundland instead. Only evidence that remains of it are the documentation about Leif's travels, and a few Viking settlements uncovered in Newfoundland back in 1960.
I have been to almost all the islands in Norway. There are many hidden treasures
I love this..❤❤❤❤
I live in Norway, and we learn the difference between the nordic country's language, tradition and people in school! 🤗
About understand each other’s language in Scandinavia, really depends on the person and religion. If I go to big cities with tourists or places in Norwegian borders they mostly understand me in Sweden. Oder wise very many has issues understanding me. And I am from eastern Norway so my Norwegian is quite similar to the way we write it. People with different dialects have even more issues. Same with places in Denmark. I mostly understand all Swedish due to me growing up with Swedish television and more fun stuff there. However I have some issues understanding people from Skåne. The same is with Danish language. And I understand most Danish, I do not speak Danish and have issues understanding people from Lollan. And I love travelling in both Sweden and Denmark. I do not agree that the difference is like Uk (eng) USA ( eng)And Au(eng) Sweden really has very many different words then us in Norway. I found that out when my University curriculum was either in Swedish, Danish or English. My daughter don’t understand Swedish at all. She do however understand Danish in some parts of Denmark if they talk slow and clear. Like Copenhagen.
To be fair, a lot of us Swedes have a hard time understanding people from Skåne as well. Danish is easier. 😉😅
No, winter is not six months, - but you may have snow available for three months, at least if you are driving up to a near by mountain.
Ok sjelden snøen er gått i februar altså. Selv om Mars er såkalt en vår måned er det ofte mer snø i mars enn både januar og februar. I år har snøen ligget siden 15. oktober. Så det variere i Norge hvor lang vinteren er! Og kan vare opp til et halvt år selv på Østlandet .
It depends on where you live. In the north of Norway I definitely concider the winter to be from October to April. We don't always have snow in October, but it's cold and dark and definitely winter. We always still have snow in May, but I see May as spring.
I@@user-ke9iu3ov9m I agree that it depends where you live, and it is also changing over time, - 40 years ago I expected to get the first snow in October, - now we seldom have much snow before December.
Have to correct!...the number 27 fact,in the Lærdalstunnellen... you use pictures from the vallavik tunnell....the roundabout you see is before entering the hardanger bridge:) which is almost 1.4km long:) i live just 10 min from there:)
Check out "The Brendan Voyage", very entertaining book and film by Tim Severin -- true story of Irish sailor monk Brendan discovering America in the 5th century AD (a good few centuries before the Norsemen) and the 1970s reconstruction of his boat and travels.
TRhey are now building the liongest and deepest tunnel - Rogfast. It goes down to 371 meters below sea level.
I live far north and winter is not really 6 months almost ever. Sometimes it snows in september but is quickly melted not to return until late october or even sometimes as late as december. I remember many Chrismas days without any snow
Same sex marriage has been possible in Denmark since 1989. First referred to as registered partnership - but as everybody claimed they were going to a wedding, in 2012 it was changed and the few remaining differences were removed.
Winter is more like 9 months in Norway.
The coast line can wrap to and a half time around the earth.
Britanica - The ancestors of the American Indians were nomadic hunters of northeast Asia who migrated over the Bering Strait land bridge into North America probably during the last glacial period (11,500-30,000 years ago). By c. 10,000 bc they had occupied much of North, Central, and South America. The First Amerindian Natives are postulated to have come from Asia through the Bering land bridge between 30,000-12,000 years
Here i live we have two underwater tunnels. Hitratunnel snd Froeyatunell.
you can compare to a degree Norwegian/Danish/Swedish as comarabilly close to English(usa)/ English(Uk) /English (Au) to a degree many of the word and wording are same but some is not but we understand that from what rest of the sentance is and we do an estemaate of what they mean and try to say.
The last fact about the lenght of the coastline is more a mathematical fact than a fact about Norway. You can say the same about any country with a coastline.
Yeah, you’re right. It was Leiv Eiriksson who “discovered” north America first, about year 1000. But it was not the US, it was Newfoundland, Canada.
Yes, we were the first to discover America, except the tens of millions of people who lived there when we discovered it. :)
@@jeschinstad Yes, but they were wild people and primitive.
@@steinarhaugen7617according to who? They built Macchu Picchu, Ingapirca, Chichen itza and much much more. They had art made of gold like no other.. pretty ignorant statement unless you were sarcastic. The wild people were the Spanish conquistadors that slaughtered them all
@@steinarhaugen7617: I have not seen any evidence of that. Most people who live today, are in some ways more primitive. Because they have no abilities of their own, but rely on buying things that others have made.
The Iroquois Confederacy lived in the north eastern North America. They had participatory democracy government with executive, legistative and judical branches. The Great Law of Peace was the constituition of the Iroquois Confederacy and it's 117 artikler.
The framework of goverment in the Confederacy inspired the founders of US as they wrote the US constituition. They also stole the Iroquois nations symbol, the bald eagle.
Benjamin Franklin included referances to the Iroquois Confederacy in his writings.
Education and facts are your friends. It will prevent you from making stupid comments.
And to Day (1.5.2024) we have 80 cm of snow and -21*c 🥶😅 ( 80 cm = 2 feet and 7.5 inches. ??)
Midnight sun and darkness in winter is not unique for Norway. Every place north enough has this, or south enough in the southern hemisphere (although summer there is in and around December). Just get your globe and have a look. It's not complicated. 👍
To be fair, no one knows how long any coastline is, in any country. And the same goes for measuring any objects circumference as well. But you can use agreed upon standardization to get as close to the real as answer as is practically necessary.
As a Norwegian myself, I wonder where this fascination with little Norway comes from? I like your videos but I just wonder where this fascination comes from? Do you have relatives from here perhaps?
Tyler:
You should really check out the brilliant video from Langfocus called "Viking Influence on the English Language" to see how much the clash and merger between the closely related Old English (Anglo-Saxon) and Old Norse languages simplified and completely restructured the English language - into a sort of new Germanic creole base language within just 150 years ( only 5 - 6 generations ) - almost beyond recognition for speakers of OE - , as Old English transitioned into Middle English ( also with a lot Normannic / French & Latin words added on top of it of course.).
Even today it's still fairly easy for Danes - and the other Scandinavians with their very similar languages - to learn English because of these events and all the deep similarities between our basic vocabularies and grammatical structures and those of English.
It's as if we already mysteriously "know" a simplistic older Pseudo English in advance and then just need to fill in all gaps and climb a few hurdles here and there. 😊
Hei. Tyler leser ikke kommentarene, men ber om å få linkene til google linken i det lysegrå feltet under videoen.
@@norse-nilsbjasa Mange tak 😉
Norway dominates winter sports, sure, but we have world champions in all kind of summer sports as well, spanning everything between beech volleyball and marathon, including chess, not to mention motorsports ranging from rally to offshore racing, yeah, and sailing.
As a native English speaker who studies Norwegian, I find spoken Swedish much easier to understand than spoken Danish. Danish sounds wild to me lol. I recently visited the South of Sweden and was surprised at their accents sounding quite similar to Danish in some respect, however.
Watching television in USA is a living nightmare. There's commercial breaks every 5 minutes where they just puke out all kinds of commercials. It's insane. In Norway we have almost no commercials during television shows, so you can watch a show without loosing your mind.
Nooooooot true I get LOTS of ad’s
Having a transparent society is both good and bad. One good thing about it is that it helps fight corruption and shows for example if politicians have income or interest in the mining industry while they make decisions on opening a mine and things like that.
2024 - 1814 = 200 years
Flawless delivery :D
About snow.. No snow here in s.west. Sometimes few days. You have to drive to the mountain to go skiing.But here in Rogaland county we got nice beaches. Bye!
Income is public, but not actual income (like on a payslip). It’s net taxable income (total income from all sources minus all deductibles). But most of the time actual income can be deduced from those three data points. Also, it’s public, but you have to log in with personal id and those you look up are notified that you looked. I remember as a child all the old folks going to the tax office to look at actual lists.. gossiping for weeks 😄
In regards of Leifur Eiríksson (Leif Ericsson or Leif the Lucky) then it is claimed in the video that he was Norwegian which is incorrect.
He definitely was of Norwegian descent but he was born in Iceland during the Icelandic Commonwealth (established in 930 and lasted until it fell under Norway in 1262) so claiming "Norwegian" is simply incorrect ;)
Leifur definitely was Icelandic but one could also claim that he was a Greenlander since his father (Norwegian born) Eiríkur rauði Þorvaldsson (aka Eric the Red) was outlawed from Iceland and established a settlement in Greenland and moved his Icelandic wife and children there.
Bjarni Herjólfsson might have been the first Noreman to see Vinland.
The United States did have a no advertising targeting children policy that was changed sometime in the 1980s I believe (I'm Canadian so my American legal history knowledge is a little rusty).
Hi. I’m really happy that you spend time and energy on learning more about the world. However, and I don’t want to sound condescending, but you really hit home the impression/fact that the US education system/culture is so self-centric that you literally know jack-shit about anything beyond US ( or even state) borders . We do exist and we offer plenty alternatives to the (in my opinion) inferior American way of life. But, as I said, I do encourage your exploration.
McOrd
1:02
It depends on exposure and what each person has as native language.
Norwegians generally understand the other two languages.
But it's sort of a one way intelligibility.
Swedes generally understand spoken Norwegian relatively well, but we have a number of false friends in our languages, words that sound the same but have different meanings.
A Dane will generally be able to read Norwegian Bokmål just fine, but might struggle with spoken Norwegian.
Swedens and Danes generally struggle with each others languages.
That said, Swedes and Danes with more exposure to the other two languages understand them well.
It starts out unintelligible, but with exposure and practice it starts feeling like a *really* weird dialect instead of a completely different language if that makes sense.
2:38
That's where you're wrong.
We're a lot bigger then you think.
4:20
Yeah, Norway was first with the anti-discrimination laws, but Iceland actually where the first in Europe that made gay relationships legal, in the fourties.
4:38
Remember Norwegian spelling and letter sounds now.
"Leif" isn't pronounced like that at all in Norwegian.
12:55
That's not entirely true.
*People* have lived in Norway for 10 000 years.
Since the ice age.
However there's also evidence that the people who lived here where neither Norwegians nor Sami, although both groups have mixed with the people that used to live her back then.
The Sami mixed with them in northern Norway, Norwegians in southern Norway.
Then both groups spread, the Sami reached Trøndelag first, mixing with the people here, then the Vikings arrived with their warrior culture and superior metal weapons and farming and took over the best lands assimilating and displacing the Sami along the coast, gradually expanding northwards.
The people who lived in Norway before the Sami and the Norwegians left their traces in the form of place names in a language that is neither Norwegian nor Sami nor related to either, and in the DNA of both ethnic groups.
I im Norwegian and can speak Swedish and some danish. But understand more then I can speak tho. But that’s normal
Magrethe the first was Danish queen, and Norway was under Danish rule for 434 years before coming under Swedish rule for 91 years, which is only 210 years ago
It was not Norwegian Vikings who discovered North America. Called Vinland. It was from Iceland, Leif the happy, (Leifur Eiriksson).
See carlawiberg6282 below, it was an Irish monk, Brendan, 500 years before Leif who was the first...
@@norse-nilsbjasa It has never been proven. His story was written by someone else. It corresponds roughly to the Bible. Everything has happened if you want to believe in it.
For the time being shouldn't we just stick to Leif the Happy?
Leifur heppni - Leif the Lucky - we have no information about his happiness through the Icelandic Sagas 😅
Iceland was settled by Norwegians.
Pretty sure it was Leif Ericson in the year 1000
Love your channel I am Norwegian.
First! Just like my Viking ancestors said when discovering America
Are we still doing that? It's 2024.
@@markussmedhus9717 " It's the current year so I've lost all sense of humor, most likely due to my multiple covid shots" - Markus Smedhus, 2024
@@Emperor_Nagrom
Most Norwegians are pragmatic when it comes to healthcare, I just had the 2 shots. The bare mininum. Because I'm not a sissy about syringes nor conspiracy-poisoned.
But it figures you'd lean right-wing.
They are so bereft of humor all they've got are stale references to dated internet culture. No, a reference is not inherently funny.
@@markussmedhus9717 Well, you not reading up on science reports and don't understand stats are not shocking to me. How about you go do some research instead of naively believing what you were told 3 years ago and have memory holed since. Multiple countries are suing, excess death and blood related sickness is through the roof since day 1 of the clot shot rollout. But hey, I guess you're dumb enough to believe kids having heart attacks are just a normal thing, that athletes and reporters dropping dead on live tv at an alarming rate is nothing to care about, they even had to come up with a new term, Sudden Adult Death Syndrome, or SAD for short, to explain it away. Because healthy people just dying out of the blue is normal, riiiight? Last year Danish scientists tested hundreds of thousands of batches of the clot shot and found something you won't like, concidering you got the same shit running through your veins, but that is something for you to know when you start critically thinking and doing your own research instead of just relying on VG and Dagbladet🤡 But hey, if you're such a little scared boy that you'd rather take rushed experimental gene therapy with no long term studies instead of letting your immune system protect you from something that has like a 99.94% survival rate, then I guess you had it coming when your immune system starts going to shit, or even worse, get a clot to your brain or heart attack. I wish you the best, since you clearly can't take care of yourself, I hope you won't get adverse effects, but you probably don't think hopes and wishes are going to help someone either.
8:05 trust😊
Norwegian, as spoken and written in Oslo and the south east is really just a Danish dialect. Hence "Nynorsk" " New Norwegian" was.... Hmm...let's say invented or constructed.
Akkurat/ exactly! 👍
All written languages are invented or constructed, bokmål included. Bokmål is not a dialect, because it’s not spoken. We write bokmål because Danish used to be the official written language, quite far from spoken Norwegian, even in Oslo. Later we constructed bokmål based on the Danish written language tradition.
@@mortenslettmyr6143 Well. Correct, but; Norwegians in Oslo, myself included, usually write the the way we speak and speak the way the words are written. From early childhood i spoke bokmål. If i did not my mothers hand would make a visit to my face.
@@hansmarheim7620 I understand what you are saying, but still you can’t speak bokmål. You speak standard østnorsk or some East-Norwegian dialect. I grew up in Oslo myself, and I say «jæi», not «jeg» and «di», not «de»; «de» instead of «det» and «resturang», but still write «restaurant» etc., so noone speak as they write.
@@mortenslettmyr6143 Morten. Det er rimelig korrekt, men østnorsk uttale ligger veldig tett op til norsk bokmål. Særlig i Oslos vestlige bydeler. Norsk bokmål ligger veldig tett opp til dansk bogmål. Men dansk tale er et godt stykke vekk fra dansk bogmål. Mens byen Skagen, i Danmark staves "Skagen", vil en jyde si "Ske-jeen" og skrive Norge, men uttale det Nåår-ve. (Ligner litt på Norway i uttale). En løk skrives og uttales "løk" i Norge, men en dansk "løg" uttales omtrent som "låi". Det er på bakgrunn av disse ting jeg mener at norsk bokmål og østnorsk/Oslo tale ligger helt tett opp til hverandre. Da jeg var ung sa vi fremdeles: "Takk i lige måde". I dag vil de fleste både skrive og si " Takk i like måte". En danske sier "Tak i liie mååde", eller endog " mååe" Men skriver "Tak i lige måde". Jeg tror at det er godt at norsk bokmål og østnorsk tale ligger tett på hverandre. Det gjør det lett for barn og utlendinger å lære norsk både mundtlig og skriftlig. Skrift og tale er jo kun redskap til å kommunisere. Så er det jo meningsfylt at de to likner hverandre mest mulig. Så er det jo selvfølgelig gammel norsk, ny norsk og alle dialektene....... Visste du at mens vi sier"Kaudervelsk," sier danskerne "Volapyk,"? 😉
Yup way before Columbus. Hi from Danmark
Longest winter I can remember was from early september- mid june dont know what year but I was born in 06 so im betting after 2010 but we could drive snowmobile the whole time