BRIT reacts to 7 Crazy Facts About DENMARK We Can't Believe

In this video I find out more some crazy facts about Denmark and Danish people to learn some more things about this Scandinavian country!
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[@omega1231]

As a Dane i love that we have strict naming laws, so parents can't name their child something ridiculous. Parents don't own their children in Denmark, children have their own rights and the naming laws are part of those rights, when the child is old enough they can legally change their name if they want to, but we do not view it as a parent's provocative to deal with their child however they please, parents have responsibilities which gives them certain rights as legal guardians but beyond that, the child is their own person. As other's have pointed out, you can apply for permission with the state for a certain name, but there is no right given to parents to just do however they please and in my opinion, that is a very good thing. If you are a good parent then you won't have any problems of course.

[@spyro257]

in Danish: Wienerbrød, translated into Vienna Bread, acknowledging the bakers from Austria, by using their capital's name in German, Austria's official language: Kopenhagener Plunder, translated into Copenhagen plunder, acknowledging the bakers from Denmark, by using their capital's name so Denmark and Austria, are saying TY to each other, for mixing the best Danish baker recipes, with the best Austrian baker recipes, making it even better...

[@spyro257]

Robe Trotting, an American couple that moved to Denmark 5-6 years ago, and Travelin' Young, an American couple that moved to Denmark 5-6 years ago, with their kid, are both 2 good channels, talking about living in Denmark, and going out to see the country...

[@Alhem11]

Big difference between the two channels, Robe Trotting tries in all videos to make money from affiliate marketing, Travelin' Young doesn't.

[@spyro257]

@@Alhem11 who cares?? that's not why, he reacts to stuff, it's for the info...

[@Lupinemancer87]

One of the funniest laws in Denmark still in use today, is: If the ocean between Denmark and Sweden freezes over and Swedes crosses it, you can beat them with a stick.

[@TheKIMANO]

That law is a myth because it never existed. At least not as an actual law. It is possible that many years of conflicts with Sweden once animated a "people's law" that "allowed" to beat Swedes who ventured across the ice, but that is something else. Even if there was such an old law, it would be legally dead because it has been unused for so long or because the general criminal law forbids you to beat anyone, - including Swedes ;-) So we have to settle for beating them in football.

[@muhest]

One of the reasons for the “Navnelov”, is for the care of the child. Children can be ruthless. And if you go to school with a weird or funny name. Looking forward to 8-9-10 years of being picked on simply due to your name. Given to you by the two people who were meant to look out for you. But ultimately failed at it.

[@DullyDust]

Regarding our topography: Since having moved to the Netherlands, I have realized how much I miss the landscape that the last ice age gave us, I miss the hills and valleys that the glaciers carved into the land, because the Netherlands is extremely flat compared to my beloved Denmark

[@jolandaschrieken987]

Danmark er også flad og is, glem det. Det var mange års tilbage at vi fik rigtig meget is og sne.

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

Ah yes. The Danish Alps.... Denmark is a big "PANDEKAGE" 🤣🇧🇻

[@akyhne]

Pro cyclists actually hate competing in Denmark. Either there's a strong wind, or it constantly goes up and down, which makes it hard to find a rhythm. Don't underestimate the Danish alps 😎

[@tw418]

Ipad and iphone calender also has the week numbers, so it’s not that hard to check 😊

[@Freya-010]

I like the naming regulations laws. Simply put, having the option to call your child “shit” and doing it is borderline child abuse, no matter how you spell it. The government knows that people can be cruel enough to their children, but this way the country laws will protect the children’s future in work places.

[@alexuni9217]

really appreciated the christiania high joke :'D

[@Randalftown]

the only reason that the law is around is to protect the kids from being named dumb shit. You can pick your own name but you have to submit an application to have it added to the name registry.

[@stagger5863]

I’m Danish, thinking the “swearing words” are a colorful way of expressing yourself

[@justtubbo]

My middle name is Tuborg, like the beer, and that's protected :)

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

There are 6 vowel letters plus Æ, Ø Å. Y is a vowel. There are loanwords where Y is a consonant, like yoghurt and yoga, but they are very few.

[@Krydolph]

It blew my mind when I realized Y wasn't a vowel in english...

[@grantofat6438]

Danish has 4 more vowels than English, because in Danish "Y" is a vowel.

[@ane-louisestampe7939]

We wanted our son named Liam, but the office's registrer (no digitalization yet) was some years old and Liam wasn't in it. I explained it was a VERY common name in the UK (Dad's English). She said NO problem! If it isn't already accepted it will be. I'll call you, if you need to apply. Never heard from her.

[@charpost62]

even bfore they loosenedthe rules yoy could use a names that comes from a parents country. Like kim is/was not a girkname in Denmark however if 1 parent came from a country where Kim is a girlname you could legally call a girl Kim

[@akyhne]

4.143 Danes are called Liam. There are 42.123 called Jens. There 23.004 called Jonas. I highly doubt you weren't able to call your child Liam.

[@zoolook666]

Week numbers can be turned on in your Outlook calendar. It is not only used in Denmark

[@badnewsbadger6660]

You wonder how it is so hard to locate the highest natural point of Denmark. I'll try to put it in perspective. First of all you got a country with no noteworthy drastic changes in elevation, so if you are travelling up or down a stream of water and suddenly see land towering over you you instantly think WOW that is tall and your mind will then subconsciously clock that in as probably the shift in elevation you've seen anywhere. Then you got a hill area near by and although you feel a shift in elevation while walking the roads it is never really a struggle to walk it, turns out it is slightly more above sea level than the other place but still we are only talking a couple of feet in difference. The last place is a farmers field, we talking flat as a pancake in terms of land elevation, but that pancake is located less than a foot higher above sea level than the hilly area. So while you've been walking around doing all your surveying of high points all over the country at no point in time have you ever gone higher than half way up the Empire State building.

[@NiklasMJ]

week numbers are really usefull when you are talking about multiple days or a ''timeframe'' for which you are available, working or whatever. So instead of saying well i am gonna be working from the 4th of september to the 8th. you can just say i am working uge 36.

[@joeheart5808]

you can technically name your kid anything but then it has to be accepted by the queen/state my brothers name was accepted by them

[@Glaaki13]

One of my friends went to school with parsley her name was pernille in the eyes of the state

[@skambim]

wow i just checked my name in that search engine, apparently i'm the only one with that name in the entire country.

[@SusseBo]

I know of a young boy who is called Viking. He is about 12 years old.

[@akyhne]

You can name your child whatever you like, as long as it is approved. It just have to be a name that's not offensive, ridiculous or anything, and the name will then be added to the list of approved names, for others to use.

[@andersstrygerlarsen4443]

You can`t have any of the Sen names (Jensen Larsen Nielsen and so on) unless you are descendants of someone with a sen last name. It’s literally meaning “son of” so Jensen is Jens son and Nielsen is Niels son, and so on. It’s an old naming tradition that have been abandoned long ago

[@BigAndTall666]

The marker at "Møllehøj" is a millstone (for obviuos reasons)! 😂😊

[@Joliie]

16:35 yeah careful about calling it flat, many especially the Dutch will come here for a nice Bike cycle vacation, it might look flat on a map, it is very hilly and lots of elevation, so you will get a good workout when you cycle around here.

[@cn8412]

01:08, yeah, the list really isn't that restrictive. It's fairly easy to get a name added. It's simply to avoid a sorts of abuse, like names that will haunt the children. You probably couldn't get away with naming your child Ass Hat, for example.

[@teinhart]

2:09 I remember a couple of years ago, there were some Facebook drama over the naming registry, a couple wanted to name their child, something which was not in the registry, it was a name either from Germany or France I’m not sure I don’t remember, but it started a discussion and people looking into what names we’re allowed, I don’t remember them all but one, “balcony box” yep you read that right, “balcony box” is or was an acceptable name to name your child.😂

[@leonthedane4467]

Also in Denmark we have a thing called: bonus pater familias. It means the avrige Dane is expected to know. It protect us against: rubbers suing us for tripping while rubbing us or companies being suid if you deside to dry you cat in the microwave. And yes, Danish is weird: to have a garden is: at have en have....

[@Gadeberg90]

I don't think the naming law is that strict at least not anymore, hell one of our entertainers has children called Stærkodder/Strongotter, Modig/Brave and Fri/Free. Plenty of rediculous names, I think it is more in place to prevent someone calling their child somthing cruel or something like Adolf or Hitler. There is one place that could be considered a mountain, but almost all of it is under water. But the geological enviroment, might qualify. And I'm not sure if the law still exist, but it did a few years ago, that if the sund/water between Denmark and Sweden froze over then it would be legal for a Dane to beat a Swede with a stick if they walked over the ice.

[@ritabaving1009]

You can still call your child whatever you want. But you can 'only' registrer the name of the child from the tens of thousands legal names plus possible the name you apply for.

[@ritabaving1009]

I never use weeknumbers. I've never bothered learning them so their number really doesn't mean anything to me.

[@TheHaraHaraJinxie]

I’m one of the people with a protected surname, only 105 people in Denmark have it

[@Mike-zx1kx]

True that you only can have one surname but it can be a connected name. My Danish sister´s surname are Lena-Susanne.

[@karstenjohansen6881]

The name law is about protecting kids from crazy parents 😂😂😂

[@clubardi]

fun fact; my surname is so rare in Denmark that there's only 10 people with it, including myself

[@willow8186]

I’m Danish and don’t worry, I don’t get week numbers either lol 😂 My mom uses them all the time because that’s what they did at her job.

[@TheKIMANO]

I don't think you should underestimate that Danes are a practical people. When for many years it has not been absolutely certain what Denmark's highest point is, it is simply because no one has found it particularly important to know.

[@Knudjensen54]

In USA a lady named her boy "Tater Tot",you have to limit people,they cant do it themself,apparantly-......

[@perhaar]

You can always apply for a first name that is not on the lists, and most likely get it approved. 👍

[@D3trix_Lotus]

If the name isn’t unreasonable and “misunderstandable” the government just approves is, no problem. My daughters name is often used in the US, but wasn’t approved in Denmark yet, the priest just sent it in and it was approved without us ever having heard from the government no problem.

[@kimfabricius4463]

OMG !!

[@Shifu56]

I'm a dane and I when people say a week number, I ask - when is that?

[@hassegreiner9675]

China use week numbers as well, however shifted one week in relation to Europe.

[@ReginnKunnr]

Cheers from Denmark. Concerning the namelaw, I consider myself an libertarian and I used to hate the namelaw (and other stupid laws like it) with a passion, until I was given an interesting example for why the law also could be considered a good thing. Example: Lastename: "Reeh" or "Reh" or "Ree" (it is mores or less pronunced the same in danish); Firstname: "Gunnar" a pretty common name in Denmark, and part of the list of accepted male names mentioned in video. HOWEVER! When pronouncing the full name in danish it's pronounced exactly like the danish word for gonorrhea. Imagine that name being called up in public.

[@deathkampdrone]

You can still apply for weird names, and much of the time it will get accepted. There was a guy who wanted to be named "Synthesizer", but he couldn't for copyright reasons. So he changed it instead to the danish word for "silverguitar". So, just saying, you can still pick a stupid name in Denmark :))

[@akyhne]

So he died?

[@Lorentari]

interestingly - You only legally have ONE surname in Denmark, all other names are legally your first names (no middle names technically exist) - This also means that it is perfectly valid to call yourself by any of your names except on official documents

[@rickybuhl3176]

On the naming thing - I was born in DK over 40 years ago and I do somewhat wish 'Ricky' hadn't been on that bloody list, having spent the 90s in England. Less of an issue in a country like Denmark where they never showed Eastenders lol. Surname is protected though and makes ancestry tracing nice and easy. fml Week numbers! Been back nearly a decade and still can't get my head to work on week numbers. Simple but somehow unnecessarily cryptic, especially when it's used to just to refer to something only a fortnite away.. Agri - I mean Danish Bacon, Lurpak and plenty of British dairies are run by Arla (a Danish/Swedish co-op). And they weren't wrong, the coof and politics pulled the plug on the fur industry, 'no comment' being the safest option considering it hit harder and faster than foot & mouth did the UK cattle farmers but we're just not talking about it.

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

17:03 😮 You guys are talking rubbish here. Ejer Bavnehøj or even Møllehøj isn’t by any means “slightly higher” than Himmelbjerget. Himmelbjerget measures 147 meter above sea level while the two others are in the 170 meter region, divided by a couple of meters.

[@gingerporskjaer7587]

You have been in DK for 6 years and still don’t speak Danish. I understand it’s harder if there are 2 English speaking people in the household but 6 years!! I wonder if you live in Copenhagen where it is easy to not use Danish.

[@margrietpetersen2396]

Regarding the name, it isn’t that complicated. At the end of the day, anyone can legally change their name if they don’t like the one given to them by their parents. If I got a Viking, Human etc name, I will definitely change it.

[@Bjowolf2]

I think they tightened the name law, when "creative" parents started coming up with all sorts of ridiculous first or middle names a la Tarzan, Batman or Laban ( a laban is a bad guy, scoundrel, scallywag etc. ) etc., that could potentially be harmful to the children. But I am pretty sure you can get new names recognised officially, so it's not really a problem for sane parents 😂 I think these Robe Trotting guys got their story about our tallest hills mixed up a little bit - it was 2 - 3 other nearly equally high hills that were competing for this "great" honour. The problem was whether you should count the burial mount on top of one them as part of the natural hill or not - and also that one of the hills had been eroded, since it was first measured. Himmelbjerget is only around 147 meters tall ( not counting the tower on top of it 😉 ), so it was never a competitor in the first place.

[@kennijrgensen7016]

I was the second person in Denmark, to be called Kenni. So my parents har to get i approved by the goverment.

[@Krydolph]

*edit* maybe I should watch before I pause to comment... I though they were done talking about names *edit* The namelaw has gotten very lose, if you want a name that isn't on the list, you can apply, and there is a good chance it will be allowed. Now it is mostly if it is something that will bring you a lot of trouble, or seems very wrong to call someone, it might be denied. Also, while we might not call anyone apple, or even the dansih word for apple, Chili is a girls name, no sure if that is better :) A few years back "storm" was a popular boy name - it means the same in dansih as english.

[@grantofat6438]

So you could name your kid Awsome Camel. I am sure they will appreciate that as grown ups.

[@anette7283]

I dont think it has ever been a problem

[@miravlix]

A mistranslation by the guys when they call it Heaven Mountain, HimmelBjerget is Sky Mountain. Himmelen er overskyet I dag. Is classic weather talk about it being a gray cloudy day, it's not talking about a religious heaven.

[@_-martin-_]

You want your kid to be named "Play Station 3" ?

[@jeanettehansen35]

If you dont name the child their first name Will be Christian for boys and Margrete for girls and mothers last name

[@Weise1001]

the name apple isnt a problem, hitler is though, and thats the idea for the registry.. also the registry is a work in progress, meaning names are added

[@emiljuhl50]

The lav on names is so you don't call your child Hitler, shit or another name you can be bullied for

[@janolsen9856]

yep but there was a problem with somebody wat to name there son phillip but spelled phphphillip so????

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

There is a boy named Christophpher. It took the parents 9 years to get it made official.

[@anette7283]

No yoù cant call your kid kùntakinte jensen

[@Glaaki13]

also you can seek to get a name

[@Kj-cp2el]

One of the reasons for the name law, is actually to protect the child from stupid parents who wants to call their kid “Apple”

[@cassio2999]

I want to call My son litte fart

[@Gert-DK]

Can you call your child Jesus in the UK?

[@Krydolph]

why not? It is a very common name in USA (or mexico, as it is often mexicans called it)

[@busybee3817]

Well danish speak english.. but u dont speak danish.. says ,more about you guys than us