It’s not a wall of ice! It’s a normal road after a snow plow cleared it. Probably from a mountain road. We have a lot of roads crossing mountains. 😅
@janmorganfroynes5032 Жыл бұрын
I believe it's at the end of Lysefjorden, at the top after driving up Trollstigen. At least it looks like it, saw a documentary the other day on how they remove the snow from the roads there.
@AndreasFphoto Жыл бұрын
@@janmorganfroynes5032 Lysefjorden and Trollstigen are located in completely different parts of Norway :)
@Missliss5536 Жыл бұрын
This is quite common in like northern Norway. I have seen it
@janmorganfroynes5032 Жыл бұрын
@@AndreasFphoto Shit sorry, used the wrong name. I just use the same name for the road in Lysefjorden as it also looks like Trollstigen😂 My bad, I should've been more specific
@marcusMakoT Жыл бұрын
As a Norwegian, I never realised the English pronunciation of Farts-humper before 🤣🤣
@wolfyboy Жыл бұрын
omg! XD
@Gazer75 Жыл бұрын
@8:35 That hot-tub is probably sitting on someones porch with 2m of snow in the area. Most likely a cabin somewhere.
@NeigeNoctua Жыл бұрын
1. Skis has been around for many many years, not just in Norway, so yeah vikings did ski. 2. Norwegian forest cats can become big, but they are smaller than maincoons, most of them aren't normally that big 3. Roar is a normal name in Norway, but it is not pronounced like the English word roar, like for example the "a" has a longer sound.☺
@Kraakesolv Жыл бұрын
And Ragdolls are even larger than Maine Coons. I think Norwegian Forest Cat is fourth on the list or something.
@TheAccidentalViking Жыл бұрын
That movie 'Veiviseren' was good and set in like the 1200's wasn't it? They used skis.
@ulvsbane Жыл бұрын
The oldes pair of skis was found just outside of the town of Skellefteå in Sweden and have been carbon dated as 5,200 years old. That makes them older than the pyramids of Egypt.
@MrMagmey Жыл бұрын
About 1 in 500 males in Norway is named Roar
@ahkkariq7406 Жыл бұрын
@@ulvsbane The pair of skis from Sweden is of the arctic type. That type of ski came to Scandinavia via the Sami on Cola.
@Randomdude21-e Жыл бұрын
Petter solberg : its not the fart that kills you, its the smell. Fart : speed Smell : the crash
@m4rt_ Жыл бұрын
1:15 I remember when I watched Black Widow and they showed Norway. I had the same reaction as the guy in the picture. "Eyyy, Norway!!!!!!!!"
@arnehusby1420 Жыл бұрын
The Penguin was a Mascot. But its also a powerful Missile System.
@Inadharion Жыл бұрын
Pew pew. Noot noot.
@mkitten13 Жыл бұрын
Roar is definitely a common Norwegian name, but it's spoken very differently than the English word (the Norwegian way to say Roar is "Roo-ar" - so with two syllables rather than one) The Norwegian name Odd, however is pronounced more similar to the English word (slight different vowel sound). I like to make the joke if someone named Odd was married to someone named Randi (female Norwegian name - not pronounced quite like the English Randy, but if a Norwegian was to speak English they might use the English pronounciation) and they had to introduce themselves to someone in English, lol. "Hi, I'm Odd, she's Randi" :P Names can be a funny thing internationally. You will always find normal names in one language that ends up having some kind of weird meaning in another language. I've learned that my first name is a hentai genre in Japan. I once had an Indian colleague whose name (spoken out loud) is the same as our word for "jealous" (it was probably spelled differently). And yes, speedbumps here are called "fartshumper" we sometimes also refer to them as "fartsdumper". There's a Norwegian race car driver who once famously said "It's not the fart that kills, it's the smell" (Fart = speed, Smell = bang)
@AOhans Жыл бұрын
If I remember right, the Norwegian forrest cat is the second largest catbreed in the world. Its also the ony one that can climb down a tree head first since its claws is so strong
@skinnyjohnsen Жыл бұрын
My deepest respect for how much you have learned about Norway since I first saw any of your videos.
@eivetjafrasenja Жыл бұрын
In our history around year 1100, Birkerbeinere did save our baby king by skiing him from Trondheim to south Norway and did get him over to sweden. There are movies and books this historie.
@Skarfar90 Жыл бұрын
Polar bears are not found in the wild on the mainland of Norway, but on the Svalbard islands, they can be found roaming around. Forest cats can get quite large, pretty close to the size of Maine Coons. Unlike the Maine Coon, they have a narrower face structure, and they usually have thicker and sleeker coats. There are a few subtle differences, but they are otherwise similar.
@brreklingberg Жыл бұрын
In Denmark some elevators will show "I fart" in the elevator display when it is moving. Translates to something like "At speed"
@WDaland Жыл бұрын
there is a video on youtube called "The INCREDIBLE Story - How NORWAY Opens its MOUNTAIN roads!" it shows the machines clearing these roads
@BelieveNoGod Жыл бұрын
At 7:05. It's the plowed road across one of the mountain passes. This sometimes last until early June. And at 7:35. It's a joke. Polar bears, or Ice Bears as we say in Norway. Doesn't come to mainland Norway.
@tkrokeid701 Жыл бұрын
That scuba picture is from a pair of guys stalking the Google Streetview car, waiting for it to drive by. I can't remember what town, though. A few years back.
@dollophead2235 Жыл бұрын
12.45 Fenestra, is that you (It's from a book called nevermoor)
@Norwegian_Turtles_Meat Жыл бұрын
The oldest Ski that has been found in Norway is about 5000 years old, and even older once has been found in Sweden. So the art with the man sking from the horsemen is real (Or they did that way back in time up here in Norway)!
@janneteresegausel70943 Жыл бұрын
I have never heard about the penguin before either, and I am from Norway. The polarbear only exist in Svalbard. Svalbard is a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean. Located on top of the world, it contains endless areas of unspoilt, raw Arctic wilderness. About funny names....my dads name is Odd😜
@AudunWangen Жыл бұрын
We had an apprentice named Odd Roar. Too bad his last name wasn't Nerdrum or something. That would have pleased the meme gods 😂
@MaidenViking_ Жыл бұрын
@@AudunWangen Odd Simen is worse. At least if you say Simen the norwegian way to an american
@AudunWangen Жыл бұрын
@@MaidenViking_ Touché 🤣
@GreyMinerva Жыл бұрын
@@MaidenViking_ I know of a man called Odd Willy... ;) Bernt Kristian can also get a few gasps/laughs - or just plain old Bård. :D
@sirijensen9839 Жыл бұрын
Neither have I, this penguin is not well known..
@lazygamerz Жыл бұрын
10:00 some people saw the google earth car coming and sat next to the road in crazy outfits to wait for it so they could get on camera. Are a few of those moments captured for all time around in Norway.
@John_1920 Жыл бұрын
04:22 Yeah, yep, I don't know much about him, but if I'm not mistaken, he's the Royal Guard's Mascot-like animal, treated with high respect. 13:50 Fartshumper is Norwegian for Speed Bump. Fart = Speed, and Humper = Humps. Fun fact, Speed Bumps is the American English version of the British English Speed Humps, and "er" in Norwegian is often used to signify "Plural," just like the "s" in English is often used for the same thing. 14:44 In English you would probably pronounce it by combining the words "Row" and "Are" and removing the "w." I think that's the best combination that you could get for an accurate English pronunciation, as I don't think English has words that have speakers pronounce the letters the same way you would in Norwegian.
@norsewings9018 Жыл бұрын
About being mentioned on the Internet (or in movies/TV) - I always get excited when I watch the Harry Potter and The Philosopher's Stone scene with the "NORWEGIAN Ridgeback"
@m4rt_ Жыл бұрын
6:00 If I remember correctly there is a version of this meme that shows more countries that are hidden in the Norwegian flag.
@matthewbergeron3641 Жыл бұрын
Omg that hot tub in the middle of the snow is 100% a thing we do in Canada aswell. Most people only use their hot tub when it's insanely cold outside
@OriginalPuro Жыл бұрын
I don't think a single Norwegian has ever contemplated about the fact that "farts-humper" means what it means, in English. I don't think anyone will, either. The part where the bodybuilders were inside tiny houses was a part of some comedy show some years back, I don't recall which, but it was just comedy.
@rytterl Жыл бұрын
I have. It made me chuckle when I realised it when I was a kid.
@ulvjenta88 Жыл бұрын
@@rytterl same thanks to cartoonnetwork (we did not have it in norwegan dub) i did learn english pretty early i dont rember how how mutch i got kicked oute of class for laughing of her bad english but got told of "now, now we dont bully the teacher" 😅 But farts humper yes it made me giggle, my friends just fund me odd 😅
@Haukevind Жыл бұрын
The cat may actually be a US breed that is called Maine Coon. They do look a bit like Norwegian forest cats, but are bigger.
@froeyjabeth8913 Жыл бұрын
I was looking for a comment explaining this, def a Maine Coon and not a Norwegian Forest Cat.
@line_sh Жыл бұрын
Yeah and the picture is definitely from America or something because of the light switch, it’s not a Norwegian type.
@svenwesterlund3405 Жыл бұрын
@@line_sh Even if the picture is from another country than Norway, the cat could still be a Norwegian Forest Cat. Breeders export and import animal all over the globe.
@line_sh Жыл бұрын
@@svenwesterlund3405 no this cat could not be a Norwegian Forest Cat because it is a Maine Coon.
@svenwesterlund3405 Жыл бұрын
@@line_sh Reacted mostly to you commenting on the light switch. That alone will not determine the breed of the animal.
@tomkirkemo5241 Жыл бұрын
It's not a wall of ice, it's a wall of snow. It is about the snow depth on some mountain passes here...but here where I live (centtral East-Norway) we only have like 4 0r 5 feet. I live in a place that get a lot of snow to be in this part of the country.
@Randomdude21-e Жыл бұрын
You should react to snowremoval of norway its an art i would say. They find the road via gps
@Luredreier Жыл бұрын
14:20 The syllables is Ro-ar, and honestly there's a slight pause after "ro"
@thatstupidchick7934 Жыл бұрын
14:56 The Norwegian word for Cowboy is actually cowboy.... That's how imaginative we are when it comes to language 😂
@gunlindblad6816 Жыл бұрын
About the road: it is quit notmal in the north part of scandinavia you can accually se one of the rads getting opend for spring. Search for vildmarksvägen, sweden. The snowwalls after opening the road is about 6 m. It is exiting to see.
@AlexWalker_Ghost Жыл бұрын
vikings also did use skies :D so 17:47 is true :) sort of XD we didnt bring them with us, due to we didnt raid at winter time, most of the time
@mariamysager2789 Жыл бұрын
Visiting my norwegian family for christmas, all of our family went into their giant hottub 23 december in the evening with snow all around. It was great. Norwegian forest cats a very large.
@ByynDawg Жыл бұрын
Norwegians are just happy to know that people know about us even tho we are mentioned quite a lot for our size, but it's almost like we expect to be known as much as other countries as france and germany 😅😅
@bobmalibaliyahmarley1551 Жыл бұрын
Norwegians consider Norway pretty much ''secluded'' when it comes to the world stage. If we were talking in terms of ''Lord of the Rings'' I guess Norway would be ''The Shire'', a place that people out in the bigger world might have heard this or that about, but they don't really know much about it or where it's even located.
@staruletto9194 Жыл бұрын
Norwegians are just really tall Hobbits 😂
@angelgracerock1896 Жыл бұрын
I think the Shire would be all of Scandinavia, and Norway is just somewhere in the Shire
@whiskeythedog578 Жыл бұрын
we own a big slice off the antarctic. ofc we need a penguin in the ranks. just saying... all hail nils olav. i'll do a bad one about norwegian names... ""hi, we are odd, bård (pronounced bored) and randi..."
@mjrdainbramage Жыл бұрын
Also Simen (pronounced like semen), and Even (pronounced more, or less like seven without the S). Surnames kan also be fun, like Søraas, which an english speaker would sometimes pronounce "sore ass".
@Golnosh Жыл бұрын
There's a funny joke here in Norway from the rally driver Petter Solberg. His english wasnt great, so during an interview, he said "Its not the fart(speed) that kills, its the smell(bang)" completely seriously. The speed bump meme reminded me of it
@eirikarnesen9691 Жыл бұрын
by far the best quote of all time
@louiseerbslisbjerg7854 Жыл бұрын
The NFC's (cats) are very real. I have an NFC/housecat mix and she's huge. She looks mostly like a regular housecat but she has longer legs, longer and wider tail and she's 12 kg's at her heaviest, during mid-winter. A little above average even for the NFC's, never the less, her mother was one. She get's bushier over winter but still quite agile, which is typical for the race.
@jrgenaarvik7671 Жыл бұрын
While they are big, they are not this big. This is a manipulation with perspective.
@Gh0stHack3r. Жыл бұрын
Also search for "Statens vegvesen - Brøyting av Trollstigen 25. april 2016" to se how roads are opend up after some winter snow
@Gh0stHack3r. Жыл бұрын
Opening of trollstigen road: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIHbcql-mdd-bLc&ab_channel=Statensvegvesen Or this one, Sognefjellveien: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHTMqH6jeLh7mqs&ab_channel=OleGudmundBj%C3%B8rk
@m4rt_ Жыл бұрын
13:50 reminds me of some broken English a guy said: "It's not the fart that kills you it's the smell" (fart is Norwegian for Speed, smell is Norwegian for explosion/bang)
@bjrnarestlen1234 Жыл бұрын
Concerning Roar, we had a diplomat in the USA called Odd Bull :) We also have "Randi", and "Soraas"
@Artisten Жыл бұрын
I think we got a Simen Faye-Schjøll 😂
@Thundertyra Жыл бұрын
If you want to watch something like the picture wit the man on skis you saw, should watch a move called “Birkebeinerne” (“The last king” in English) it’s based on a true story and it’s pretty cool
@david82633 Жыл бұрын
Hottubs (Stamp) are actually very popular when on winter cabin trips
@offenban Жыл бұрын
about that penguin. there is actually a norwegian produced anti ship missile named penguin, designated AGM-119. It is/was used by the us navy sea hawks helicopters.
@arcticblue248 Жыл бұрын
About the snowday ... yes I do remember it was worse before here in Norway, as a young child my town where hit by a bad blizzard for several days ... and when it was over it took 3 weeks to dig the town out of the snow to some kind of normality. But did we not go to school ? NOOO we had to go at school even while the blizzard was happening. I remember holding on to my mom as she was following me to the school (her job was next to the school anyway), as we walked on top of the snow the roads where closed with too much snow. in some houses people had to climb out of their second floor to get out of the house as first floor was snowed down. Been a while since we had that much snow .... hehe it was also back then pretty shady electric powerlines so they broke down quite often during winter, you just had to prepare for several days without electric power during winters.
@evelynjohansen4671 Жыл бұрын
Yes,true story!:) I remember it too, and we never got a day off, had to go to school no matter what:) Came a bit late to school , when we could't open the door because of all the snow. It was a bit exciting
@hratgard Жыл бұрын
The Ski meme is referencing the Birkebeiner historic event. Where the political party/rebels - Birkebeinere - fled on skies across the country to protect an usurper to the crown. In modern times its a super long skiing completion - much much longer than regular competition event, held every year. =) So yeah, its 'true'.
@kjtheman Жыл бұрын
The one with the scooba divers.. just 2 boys, that ran after a Google-car and that's the image that was saved.. its somewere on google maps
@DivineFalcon Жыл бұрын
11:37 It's a joke about how Sweden and Denmark for centuries took turns in occupying Norway.
@hwplugburz Жыл бұрын
10:59 its dryed out seaweed on eroded stones at the shoreline..
@norwegiangadgetman Жыл бұрын
Deep snow around the road... kzbin.info/www/bejne/fIHbcql-mdd-bLc Local mountainroad in my county. Usually opens for traffic in late may. A funny story from when I was in the Norwegian Air force. This was long before 2000... They set up a kindergarden on the base, right next to a taxiway. (All the kids had their personal ear protectors and everything.) Anyway, the base commander was interviewed about it for the armed forces magazine, and was asked 'but what about the noise?' The commander responded with 'The pilots will just have to learn to live with it'...
@tordlindgren2123 Жыл бұрын
Once i saw a collection of unfortunate signs. Three underneath each other. The translation is: "drive slowly - children are playing - speed bumps" now put that into a single sentence. Couldn't stop laughing.
@sigrunwestrus68 Жыл бұрын
When you use an elevator in Norway, the sign wil say "I fart". Meaning....it's moving. :-D
@MrMagmey Жыл бұрын
Some common Norwegian names, Bård (pronounced board) Frank, Bent, Simen, Christian, Bent, Odd and Randi and for surnames we have names like Angel, Aas, Ruud and that’s just from the top of my head
@oceanmythjormundgandr3891 Жыл бұрын
Polarbears are just in Svalbard (an island further north than mainland Norway). So unless you live there you are very unlikely to run into wild polar bears in Norway.
@zcdat Жыл бұрын
Great video, Tyler 🙂👍 My name is Kurt Roar, and my sons name is just Roar... It's a pretty usual name in Norway, and btw, I known what a roar is 🤪🤣👍
@Luredreier Жыл бұрын
12:59 Norwegian forest cat is a thing, but that's a Lynx I believe? And I guess the lynx is technically kind of a cat, and it *does* live in the forest...
@BobTarzan Жыл бұрын
Not big enough to be Lynx… and that one also got a long tail. Lynx and bobcat got really short tail.. facial features and the overly pointy ears, of that cat makes me think Maine Coon cat… not Norvegian forest cat.
@avienated Жыл бұрын
@@BobTarzan Good call on the tail, I thought it was a lynx too, but the tail looks too big and bushy.
@Luredreier Жыл бұрын
@@BobTarzan Maybe, the tail seemed really short compared to the body to me. Isn't the main coon partially descendant of the Norwegian forest cat? Or am I remembering that wrong?
@Luredreier Жыл бұрын
@@avienated I actually thought that the tail in the picture was short compared to most cats I've seen (in relation to the body). But this cat has a totally different fur then a lynx now that I've looked at a picture of one.
@BobTarzan Жыл бұрын
@@Luredreier Not sure if anyone knows the origins of Maine Coon, its different theories including descendant of Norvegian Forest cat brought by the Vikings. They related somehow. But I'm not saying it is a Maine Coon cat. To me it just looks like one, especially the face. Norvegian Forest cat got more kittylike face... but this looked more like a Lynx in the face.. Sharp lines and alomst masculine like a male Lion.
@tomkirkemo5241 Жыл бұрын
Polar bears are not found on the Norwegian main land. They are on Svalbard and some unpopulated islands out in the Arctic Ocean
@exentr Жыл бұрын
If you can dig tunnels in mountains, you can dig in ice and snow. Norway is a founding NATO member. The air force has NATO standard. "Farts-humper". Indeed funny. Language works like that. A scene from All for Norway the americans learn to say Gratulere med dagen (Happy birthday). Some destroy the pronounciation. The camera crew laugh their ass off and the contender asks 'Do I say something bad?' I would say 'Farts-d-umper'. Skiing is a thousand years long tradition as a sport it was invented in the 19th century, I guess.
@CeliaNightstep Жыл бұрын
that cat might just be a mix between NFC and Maincoon cause its face doesnt look entirely maincoon but it also looks too big to be an NFC
@odog9805 Жыл бұрын
The prison you always see on the internet is Halden jail. Its more modern than all the other jails in Norway. Some jails are old and outdated.
@blubottl Жыл бұрын
That hottub is on their porch, not in a hole in the ground 😄they just had to dig it out from beneath last weeks snowfall i guess
@Farnora Жыл бұрын
😏 6 flags, not 5. 🙂 Picture 5 "What it is really like." is a famous picture from Google Maps (taken from Norway). The guys in the picture had been told that Google was coming to photograph the local area. They waited until the camera had been set up to take the birdseye picture, and entered it dressed like this. You could say they pranked Google Maps. 😂
@telarl.5154 Жыл бұрын
This video was hilarious, and my side split from laughter😂🤣
@Jmvars Жыл бұрын
In my hometown the only time school is cancelled is when the water in the school freezes, so I'd say that's accurate.
@avlinrbdig5715 Жыл бұрын
the penguin Nils Olav III is a Brigadier general in the army... we dont have many generals, so he is quite powerful.. tobad he cannot speak and give orders. Yes.. those snow-walls are real..
@rockmuschel Жыл бұрын
Those scuba divers are just 2 people pranking the google street view car.
@SilvanaDil Жыл бұрын
"Roar" is an example of onomatopoeia. (See how succinct that was?)
@styphstro4925 Жыл бұрын
LOL, not in Norwegian. It's the equivalent of Roger in English. Tell me you're unsuccessfully trying to look intelligent without telling me you're unsuccessfully trying to look intelligent.
@apriqui5657 Жыл бұрын
The cat is supposed to be an eurasian lynx(in norway called Gaupe)
@matthewbergeron3641 Жыл бұрын
That one Norwegian prison is great. Based on that one i wouldn't be surprised if they were all alot better than many prisons in north america, but in the video of that one insanely nice prison they specify time and again that it is one of the only of it's kind, even in norway
@nimander5483 Жыл бұрын
The Norwegian Air Force is slightly more advanced than depicted. They fly F-35s now. Used to be F-16.
@bodan1196 Жыл бұрын
So they put two F-16's together and added a little? Yeap, sounds norwegian. Clever folks 😊 ❤ from "big brother".
@MaidenViking_ Жыл бұрын
I pretty sure the cat is a Maine Coon. Norwegian Forest cats can look like them, but are not that big in size
@artificiusintelligence4996 Жыл бұрын
5:42 i never knew, and I’m native and close to half a century old 😂
@erikjrn4080 Жыл бұрын
Norwegian prisons may be nice, for prisons, but, if they're nicer than your apartment, you should probably do something about that. 7:19 Ah, yes! My old school road! I recognized it instantly, even though, in my time, it wasn't plowed, and getting a ride to school was out of the question. One time, my skis came loose, I sank through the snow, and was lost for two weeks, before I managed to tunnel my way home. I was never worried, though; like all sensible Norwegians, I had packed my rucksack for all eventualities, including being buried in snow for a fortnight. True story, and, if you believe it, I'll give you half price on a bridge I'm selling! Seriously, though, you can find roads like that in Norway, every winter; your best bet will be in the mountains, but anywhere with some elevation and distance from the coast holds promise. The only place in Norway where you stand a decent chance of successfully feeding your child to a polar bear, is on Svalbard. I don't want to recommend it, but, from what I hear, for some people, it might result in an upgrade in living conditions, so... If you have an outdoor hot tub at your mountain cabin ("hytte") in Norway, and a lot of Norwegians do, it's just a matter of time before you find yourself at 8:15. Well, if you like shoveling snow, really love hot baths, your s.o. won't stop nagging until you've cleared away the snow, or you're the s.o. that wouldn't stop nagging. Beware, though: divorce is always an option. "Trump's hair" is a photo of weeds in the shoreline near Tromsø, taken in winter, at low tide, when the weed is dead and dry. Basically, it looks like Trump's hair, but is actually more like Biden; Trump is a lot of things, but 'dry' isn't one of them. The Norwegian air force (11:12) mostly uses F-35s, which are somewhat bigger than the planes in the picture, but also less elegant. Weirdly, though, the picture probably is from pilot training, either for formation flying or for basic maneuvers. Running around gives a better spatial awareness than a simulator, is cheaper than both simulator time and air time, and is a shitload safer than putting a trainee in a $400 billion plane. It also allows face-to-face communication, time out for talking (can't spend simulator time on that), and exclusive focus on the movement of the plane (rather than technical procedures). Not to mention, it's much better cardio than pretty much anything else, short only of human powered flight. The silly little plane is needed to indicate the position and angle of the plane in the maneuvers, and must be large enough that the "pilot" views it from "inside", for proper visualization of the maneuvers. I don't know this because I'm a fighter pilot; I know it because I'm interested in military history, and, believe it or not, military pilots have been running around like that since WWI. Damn! My cat barely weighs in at 8 kg (17.5 lb)! That beast has to be at least twice that! Even accounting for some photo manipulation and a lot of hair, it's definitely a big cat. From the angle, it's hard to tell if it's the face of a Maine coon or a Norwegian forest cat. While Norwegian forest cats can get large (mine is a _skinny_ 8 kg), Maine coons are generally bigger, with some being outright gigantic. My money is on that being a mislabeled Maine coon, which is an American breed. Both are natural breeds, i.e. arose without being deliberately bred by humans, are adapted to cold climate, and they're speculated to be related. "Fartshumper" consists of two words, with two inflections; 'fart' means speed, '-s' makes it "related to speed", 'hump' means mound/bump (which is also one of the meanings of 'hump' in English), and '-er' makes it plural. "Speed hump" is used in English, but is generally avoided in emotionally immature regions. The name _Roar_ is a contraction of _Rodgeir,_ and is from Old Norse _hroðr geirr,_ which means "praised spear". It's cognate with the English name _Roger._ I'm not going to try to describe the pronunciation, because I'd rather slam my head into a brick wall than explain the Norwegian o-sound to an American. The fact is, there are English words with both the æ-, ø-, and å-sound, but none with the Norwegian o-sound. The skier in the picture is a Birkebeiner. The Birkebeiners were one of the parties in a civil war in the 12th century, and were known for their very successful utilization of skiing as military transportation. Most famously, two Birkebeiners transported the two year old Haakon Haakonsson, later to be king, across the Norwegian mountains, midwinter, during a blizzard, while under pursuit from the opposing faction.
@mskatonic7240 Жыл бұрын
12:58 they're a real breed! You can have them as pets. They're cats but bigger and fluffier. See also the similarly sized American breed called the Maine Coon.
@maritrasmussen90235 ай бұрын
The guy skiing away from the battle field is most likely true. People used to ski for please, transport, war. Also Roar is pronounced Roo-ar.
@ErusPhoebus Жыл бұрын
the cat one is true, it's like a Main Coon just slightly bigger.
@baggieboo7944 Жыл бұрын
We can also be called 'odd' and also 'bård' which is pronunced 'board'
@m4rt_ Жыл бұрын
Possibly my favorite place name in Norway: Hell - Gods Expedition
@galenthom Жыл бұрын
Farts Humper means speed bump in Norwegian.
@vidarro8681 Жыл бұрын
The penguin Sir Nils Olav promoted to Brigadier by Norwegian King's Guard at Edinburgh Zoo :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/fqKQZ6qLjMuZoaM Ps. To those who doesnt know: Penguins do not live in the northern part of our globe.
@karebear326 Жыл бұрын
No worries, i didnt know about the penguin either and i am from Norway 😅🙈
@TheKonkylien Жыл бұрын
I had a black Norwegian forest cat. The bastard was 22 pounds. So yeah they are big, but not as big as the picture. I believe that cat is a Lynx.
@Xirque666 Жыл бұрын
Could be a Maine Coon.
@eldridbakk8623 Жыл бұрын
Norway forest cat called gaupe
@roarskjelderup5656 Жыл бұрын
My dad is named Roar😂
@LeNaInLoVe Жыл бұрын
There are Norwegian Forest cats, bigger than "ordinary" cats, but the one here, is most likely a HUGE american cat Maine Coon. The forest cat is about 2/3 of the size of a MC. What's special w the NFC, is it can climb head down a tree, and their ability to survive the harsh climate. Sir Nils Olav 😂😂 forgot about him... my oldest brother's name as well, and also senior to Sir Penguin. Polar Bears are just to be found on SpitsBergen (78 degrees North), NOT on Norwegian Main Land.
@MaidenViking_ Жыл бұрын
Yeah I also thought it looked like a Maine Coon. I've seen Both breeds, bot MC are huge
@jeschinstad Жыл бұрын
It makes perfect sense to me that Norway has a penguin who s a Brigadier. We are after all one of the powers of Antarctica, which is ruled by penguins. We need someone to control those people. Have you seen them? It's like Wall Street. They must be kept under control. What does not make sense, is that he is a sir. I will never call anyone sir in Norway.
@KjetilBalstad Жыл бұрын
Norwegian Forest Cats are real, but that cat is a Maine Coon...
@Luredreier Жыл бұрын
Pinguins only exists south of the equator except in ZOOs. And that friend essentially thinks that we're basically cold like the south pole.
@christiineee Жыл бұрын
*_HEY:)_* You should watch this Norwegian sketch, that is the origin of the one meme you reacted to, with the bodybuilders and small houses 😂 It comes with English subtitles 😊
@christiineee Жыл бұрын
kzbin.info/www/bejne/oWW3e56GgbOSnZo
@tomkirkemo5241 Жыл бұрын
:D I have never realised that "fartshumper"-thing, it's actually written in one word.
@norkannen Жыл бұрын
Scuba divers ran after Google streetview car 😂
@niklasvilhelm7247 Жыл бұрын
A Norwegian did in fact save a prince from some bounty hunter's/killer's by skiing away! I live in Norway and i've had far to many classes about this crap so look it up or no question's!😂🤣😎
@kunilsen2519 Жыл бұрын
Norway is a mix between Sweden and Denmark no? I think that was the point with the: "Norway: exists Sweden and Denmark: Wait, that's illegal." meme. At least that is how I understood it.
@RoaldRoberts4 ай бұрын
Yes, they are named Roar 😄
@toveselnes77 Жыл бұрын
“Fart” means speed in Norwegian, “hump” means bump=speed bump
@marioborgen Жыл бұрын
13:42 Speed in Norwegian is fart. 17:52 skiing was invented between 8000 and 7000 bce
@matthewbergeron3641 Жыл бұрын
That cat is legit. I reminds me of a lynx
@LarsEspen Жыл бұрын
We know englsih very well, but we don't think about what means something in english like fartshumper, and yes that is how to say speedbumps xD
@harleykeenerspotatogun8010 Жыл бұрын
8:57 its not local hottub its hot tub you at home, we one at home but it look differetn