Dannebrog - The legend of the Danish National Flag

[@Tommytoms12]

As a Dane I’m so amazed and grateful for the quality of this video and the research that went into. Absolutely class my friend! 🇩🇰🇺🇸❤️

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks! It was fun :).

[@emilpedersen7223]

Love this im a dane and proud

[@hellowell3743]

I don't know why this popped up in my recommendations but I feel I have learnt a lot from it. Solid presentation of the history. Safe travels!

[@GertvH]

What an amazing presentation and dedication throughout this video. Great job Joshua!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@finmarfc]

Your videos are getting more and more impressive. Very professionel and a Big thanks for the good shows and the updates from our history.

[@TravelinYoung]

@@finmarfc thanks for saying that! Part of the fun for me is to learn more and find ways to improve. It means a lot for that to be noticed :).

[@droobgaming6451]

As a danish history teacher - well done mate! Keep up the good videos :)

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much, will do :).

[@nesnahprotsdam]

These videos are slowly reaching professional documentary level of effort and production. Well done!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks for saying that :).

[@karlb9265]

Interesting documentary on the Danish flag. Thank you.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thank you! It was fun to make.

[@SphinxDG]

VERY well done, Josh. I totally enjoy your storytelling. I took the liberty, to pimp your channel to all my North American friends. Have a nice Tuesday. Greetings to the 3 of you, and a pat on the back for Brisket. 👍😎🌞☕🍰

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks! :)

[@QuayNemSorr]

Such amount of work and time you put into these videos. It's a joy to follow you. Thank you for your effort.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks for saying that, it is our pleasure :).

[@theguidingstone]

I absolutely love your for making this video ❤️👌

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@Joonaskaa]

Great editing. Music choices are great as well.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@joenthesaorgian]

Obviously, a lot of research and work was involved in this video, certainly, and some interesting material. Very well done, thank you.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks for saying that!

[@rowlfDK]

WOW... That is next level dedication.... Great video and presentation of history and legends. You guys rock :D

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much!

[@eskilelgaard8786]

I love your videos. Thank you for all you guys for all your work!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much, we appreciate you watching!

[@AshtonishingJelly]

I haven't noticed you did this! I only know because you mentioned it in another video! I am exited to watch this one!

[@poulmadsen7969]

I am going to Estonia soon and I've seen your video from Talling once before and I wanted to recapitulate what you had said about Dannebrog. Thanks for sharing this video

[@AbsSolut]

We love U love our history.........

[@veronikabruce9463]

Awesome Josh! Talk about devotion. :)

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks :).

[@avejst]

Great video as always Thanks for sharing your ride with all of us :-)

[@TravelinYoung]

You are welcome, and thank you!

[@Zandain]

I just loved this video, Josh! You made a fairly complex history lesson, easy to understand, for outsiders 😉 Great work! 👍 hello from Hundested 🌸🌱

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks! I’m glad you enjoyed it!

[@denmark39]

You are committed! 🙌 Enjoy your stay at “home”

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@skovbllin]

Great story telling, very cool joshua, can`t WAIT to hear more on friday

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much, I am editing the video right now :).

[@dortesalkvist7451]

Great video 🙏🇩🇰 Would love more video like that 💚👍😊

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!!

[@CarlCOts]

Soo cool you where in my hometown and where my good friends Danes got there flag!🇩🇰🇪🇪

[@Danmark35]

Love this kinda video, really well done Josh..👍👍

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much, glad you enjoyed it!

[@jan-elojrgensen2197]

#BRILLANT Someone please give you and you family the Order of the Dannebrog You deserve it more than so many that got it for just serving their own carreer.

[@midsue]

Great history of the Danish flag 🇩🇰

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@Sher_khan32]

Amazing presentation ❤

[@michaelklein20]

Great job as always!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks man!

[@martinpetersen7536]

i relly liked this style of video keep up the good work :D

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks so much, I’ll do my best :).

[@helensahagian1501]

Thank you. That is awesome that you would travel that fare. You are a Great Dane. They should be very proud and happy to have you.I do love that flag.. 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 I like to meet you when I come to Denmark.🇺🇸🇩🇰🇺🇸🇩🇰

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks! It was a fun adventure.

[@klausolekristiansen2960]

I took part in the 750 year anniversary celebration. I was 9 at the time. My father was in the militia ("Hjemmeværn"). They arranged a beacon chain across the country. Each beacon was lit when the people there saw the light of the preceding beacon. There were also smaller fires where we baked snobrød. Maybe snobrød was an idea for try it on Tuesday? You really spare no effort to make these videos. I am much impressed.

[@TravelinYoung]

Super interesting! We did eat some snorbrød in our video from Egeskov last Halloween. It was before we started the try it on Tuesday segment, but we have had it once.

[@jacobjacobsen2798]

Josh, this video is really all over the place! 10/10👍

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@mikkelchristensen9724]

As always great content. Keep up the good work.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@nightravenonline]

Thank you also ! carry on with the good work. .

[@TravelinYoung]

You are welcome! We plan to :).

[@cartooncrazy1438]

It's wonderful that we have such good relations with all these countries

[@olexxr8503]

As a soldier abroad seeing the danish flag returning to camp is so soothing, you know your home and safe for a while .. 😁

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

You know more about Denmark - and have seen more of Denmark - than most danes. As a dane I can only say thank you. 🤗

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, you are welcome :). It is a lot of fun so it is my pleasure to learn about and explore DK.

[@JuanPedrazaxXXjk]

Mi Like y mi subscripción, saludos desde México.

[@MsJakobsen]

Great story telling 👌 Until 1834 the Dannebrog was the kings flag only and the ordinary Danes were not allowed to use it. After 2. Slesvigske krig (war) 1864 against Austria and Preusia regarding Slesvig-Holsten where Denmark lost 1/3 of its landmass, 40% of the population and its 2. largest city (Flensborg), the Danes became very nationalistic. It's from that period that Danes decorated Christmas trees with garlands of Dannebrog and also trompets and drumms (not seen so often anymore) and also using Dannebrog much more frequently in other situations than most other countries. When I visited Tallinn a couple of years ago I went to see a small church. The monk in the entrence said: Oh you're from Denmark... your queen was just here. Take two steps forward and look up". I was were puzzeled.. was queen Margrethe in the church? I took two steps and looked up.. No queen. The monk said "your flag your flag" and yes Dannebrog was hanging from a pole high on the wall. It turned out that queen Margrethe had been to the church one month earlier to celebrate the 800 year of Dannebrog falling from the skyes, and they build the church on the spot.(says the myth)

[@TravelinYoung]

Ha, funny!

[@Masterfighterx]

800th year* 😉

[@MsJakobsen]

@@Masterfighterx haha yes 👍 thank you

[@liskofod8711]

Thank you so much 🤗 I Hope you enjoy Your parrents 💞 I wish I could go 20 years back and I LOVED to visit Them 💞

[@gabunka65]

Spændende og respekt for den måde I oplever Danmark på, med nysgerrighed og uden fordomme.

[@TravelinYoung]

Tak!

[@mafiapanda]

Great video, love this kind of stuff. Gives me tom scott vibes

[@TravelinYoung]

What a complement! Tom Scott is great, thanks for saying that :).

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

Very cool format, being able to visit the different places tied to one well told story, must have taken a lot of planning and editing. Those will of course take longer, and be more expensive, to produce, so I like how you're doing multiple topics in parallel. Also, it's so good to see the restrictions getting lifted, little by little.. Now you can finally be Travelin' again :) I like the format as I said, but I also like the more generic ones where you basically just put a perspective on the Denmark that I think I know so well, often there are details I've gotten so used to that I don't really notice them. Of course I've been taught the story of Dannebrog in ground school, but I've never been to Tallinn. In the same spirit you could also do pieces about the wars between Denmark and Sweden and England, perhaps even cover the dispute we have with Canada (Hans Ø), tho I know that one would probably be quite expensive, but if so, you could also cover how the relations between Denmark and Greenland are, and why we can't just sell it. (Perhaps find some cooperation with Royal Greenland and Aalborg Akvavit? 😁 but you'd probably also need some help from either locals up there or the Danish defense, if you want to get close to the island). Great video, thanks!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks for this. We will continue to do videos in the old format as well. I’m hoping to be able to do something special like this once a month. These keep me energized as I’m able to have a bit of an adventure along the way. It was a lot of fun! And thanks for the ideas!

[@BenjaminVestergaard]

@@TravelinYoung oh if, you want more ideas about Danish connections, look into our colonial times: you could start with a nice work vacation in Dansk Vestindien, then go visit the small settlements we had in Africa, India (Dansk Ostindien), and perhaps visit "the Danish island" in Guangzhou, China. There are plenty of places to visit with a Danish connection. Anyway, make it your own format, I really liked this episode.

[@benjaminchristensen8485]

It's interesting to see the director of the Danish Cultural Institute keeping the myth alive... When I worked at the Danish Cultural Institute in Tallinn (now merged with the institutes of Lithuania and Latvia). Well... When I was doing guided tours I was asked not to tell the origins of the myth in Tallinn, Estonia. In the early 1500s the Danish fransiscan munk Peder Olsen (Petrus Olai) was collecting tales of the Danish flag, and mentions the two original sources (since lost) which both ties the myth of the flag falling not to the battle of Lyndanisse (Tallinn) in 1219, but rather to the southern Estonian town of Viljandii in 1208... but first of all that was a minor battle of less importance and that part of Estonia later became part of the German part of Estonia... so Olsen decided to move the event to a more important battle and a place that became the center of the Danish presence in Estonia... and thus we have the myth now set in 1219 in Tallinn... wrong year... wrong city... Also note that big "wave-like" monument above the monument to the flag... it was originally planned to stand in front of the old monument, and have the flags of all the Nordic countries in color... when the plans were made public, I was asked to write a strongly worded complaint about this, as it would (according to the Danish cultural institute at the time), be equivalent to placing a Canadian flag permanently on the Statue of Liberty. In the end the flags of the other nations were left without color and the monument was moved to the platform above the old monument to Danish flag. Oh... and it will be interesting to see you in Narva... Not far from there is a very odd historical monument in Danish history... in the small town of Sinimae stands the only (I believe) monument celebrating the Danes who joined the Waffen SS and fought on the German side in WW2.

[@denmark39]

And the real story: it was just a white sheet coloured with blood ( I’m sure ) … still the flag came from unity. Who is behind the nazy monument? Government level or?

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

@@denmark39 there’s also the fact that the flags with crosses were very common at this point in time. Valdemar Sejr was fighting for the Crusades and he very likely looked into the sun for too long and then looked at a uniform with a cross and thought that was what he saw. Either way, no matter what the true story is, which we are likely never going to find out unless someone invents a time machine and see what Valdemar saw and not just what Saxo and Absalon told, the meaning behind the story of the Danish flag remains the same. Because of the “sign from God” the Danes mustered enough strength to win the battle. And the flag became a symbol of Denmark’s strength. No matter the origin, the message Can not be taken away from it.

[@Hansen710]

A better gues, if we dont get the timemachine. Is that the flag is given at the same time as the other scandinavian flags, when we stopped bieng vikings. And this flag celibrates the loss of our old religion and culture

[@christinaj.jensen4805]

@@Hansen710 Well, we know that wasn’t true. The Swedish flag didn’t become like it is now until after the dissolving of the Kalmar Union in 1523, based on the Kalmar Union’s red and yellow flag. And the Norwegian flag was inspired by both the Danish and Swedish flags in 1905. For Iceland and Finland it seemed to withstand the close connections with the Scandinavians, as Iceland had been part of Norway and Denmark, and Finland had been part of Sweden. The Kalmar Union’s flag came to be by Margrethe the I. Again, based on the Danish flag that had existed for over a century by this time.

[@maj-britt5756]

Amazing video!!!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@torebjarnarson8466]

The effort in this video is amazing!! Keep it up!

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks, it was a lot of work but also a lot of fun :).

[@twisterwiper]

Nice video. I learned a few new things about my flag 😊

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks, and that is cool!

[@locknado5532]

So cool! :D Great video as always! (Not sure I would have dared to try Kama, so good on you for giving it a shot!)

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, thanks, it wasn’t so bad :).

[@isadora9773]

Well done! Great video :D

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks!

[@Maridun50]

I was in Tallinn 2018/19 for New Years. Great experience. Of course we visited the spot where Dannebrog according to legend fell from the sky and saved the day for Valdemar the Victorious. Also enjoyed several great restaurants and cafe's like Olde Hansa, Peppersack and Majasmokk. Did you visit any of those`?

[@thomasfaaborg739]

Some of the danish kings where members of the Knights Hospitaller/order of st. John and would fight side by side with the other knights of the order. The estonians where trying to split up the danish forces during the battle. The danish forces would converge around the king who was fighting under the flag of the Knights Hospitallers. The flag of the Knights Hospitallers is a white cross on a red background.

[@jonasbrandt4399]

Nice detail that you (almost) didn't change clothes. Great editing.

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, thanks for noticing. I tried to be consistent but the day that I was at the museum I felt I should dress a tad nicer :). And I forgot to keep the backpack on in a few shots as well. So much to plan.

[@nicholaswoollhead6830]

Hey man, your effort is appreciated. Cool video. Cheers

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks for saying that.

[@nicholaswoollhead6830]

@@TravelinYoung while I've got you - you've said your a bit of a war history nerd. Those fights where we conquered Estonia were part of the later Baltic crusades for Denmark, first begun by Valdemar den Store and Absalon (check out their graves in Roskilde and Sorø). They eventually sold the right to profit from Estonia to none other than the Teutonic knights. That deal was actually finalized at Malbork Castle.

[@TravelinYoung]

@@nicholaswoollhead6830 yeah the tie back to Malbork is interesting as we were just there! The tour guide who took me out East gave me some details on what happened when and after the Danes left. So fascinating!

[@jesterman1013]

Aha! We were on a goose chase to find the painting while we were in DK, only to find it was in Lithuania!! 🤦‍♂️🤣🇩🇰

[@sorendk1]

Hi Joshua :) Wauw, I didn´t know that Talin means Danish city.. Cool :D Speaking of Danish history, one thing you'll probably hear about sooner or later, is our love/hate relation to Sweden :D There´s a lot of funny (and not so funny..) stories about our "dear neighbors" in our history books, you might find interesting. Ooh and our relation to England and Ireland has quite a lot of exciting history too. So if you into that, you wont run out of tales anytime soon :D

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, I think there are danish tales all around :).

[@marius8598]

I am danish so i love he wa ou eah

[@merlilindberg9461]

Wow, so cool! Can you please make a similar flag vlog about the Estonian flag? I'd like to use your vlogs in my English classes.

[@TravelinYoung]

Super cool you show them in class. I’ll have to look into the history of the Estonian flag.

[@sulevturnpuu5491]

@@TravelinYoung It was one of the variations of student organisation flags involved in independence movement. The deeper origins of colours are unclear. A popular explanation can be seen on this photo kzbin.info/www/bejne/h6K2mXxjdpWsea8 and is motive of the flag song.

[@MrDslacker]

Nice Editing ;-)

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks, it was a bit of work but a lot of fun!

[@CarlAlex2]

You can fly the dannebrog at night if you light it fully with a spotlight or something similar. There is also a black with white cross version that we really dont want to see used. (It was the flag of mourning until 1743)

[@pm71241]

Nicely done ... ... The pragmatic guess is probably that it was just some Knights Hospitaller interfering in the battle ... Hmm... on second thought... it turns out that they didn't use the white cross on red background before the 13th century ... so... who knows.

[@casperbocher]

Joshua literally flew all over the world to shoot this video, this guy is build different

[@isabellaglerupnielsen4496]

Viset Viborg please t is really fun

[@cslarsen1968]

Great video! More of those please. Perhaps a follow-up with the Danish Split Flag. Lots of different versions. The “versions” are different for ships/boats, government buildings, military unit flags, and especially the royal family’s flags (they each have a flag). Of note is that the red colour on Navy’s flags actually is different from the official flag colour.

[@TravelinYoung]

Thanks and that is a cool idea!

[@finncarlbomholtsrensen1188]

As a common guest to Malta, down south, they have and also fly the Crusaders flag, which is very similar to the Danish, but with equal size red rectangles. And we know of German Crusaders fighting close to Valdemar, so it may have been one of their flags he brought home. By that time the flag looked very different from the present version, and this isn't as legendary and fun as the story. On Malta they say it was a worn flag that Valdemar got his hand on! 😄

[@Joliie]

When you watch these videos it seem so simple, but the planing and writing of what to say, what to film etc, is going to take time also the research, not bad at all. So the Danes didn't invade your parents backyard or is it an old Viking Outpost? The thing I took notice of, was the fact that you seen more Danish flags since you got here than you see the Stars and Stripes in the US, I think Hollywood spoiled us, thinking that every house/home in the US would fly a flag on the porch.

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, Vikings didn’t make it here :). I found it interesting as well. No one in the us has a real flag pole in their yard. They often have a small thing to put a flag near their front door, but those are mostly used during holidays. Going past summer houses or allotment gardens in DK I was surprised and impressed how many flags I see. I think is kinda cool.

[@henrikfossmichelsen5013]

BTW - if you like pears, if you not already have tried "Clare Friis". As far as I know it's only grown in Denmark. If you buy some - go for the big ones. I prefer the green and hard, they are crispy, sweet and fresh.

[@EkelundDK]

Hej Young familie Danish first, english at the end. Jeg har fulgt jer noget tid, og nyder jeres videoer meget. Det er spændende at se tilflyttere fra udlandet fortælle om deres oplevelse af Danmark. Den første video jeg så, videoen med Nem-ID, så ud til at Maya vinker foran rådhuset i Frederiksværk. Er det korrekt? Hav det godt allesammen, det er dejligt at se at i har det godt her i lille Danmark med den lange historie. Hi Young family I’ve been following your channel for a while, and I’ve enjoyed your videos. It’s interesting to see foreigners tell about their experiences when visiting Denmark. The first video I watched, the one with Nem-ID, it appears that Maya is waving in front of the town hall of Frederiksværk. Is that correct? Take care everyone. It’s nice to see you enjoy our little country with its long history :) Regards, Ruben from Frederiksværk.

[@christiantheplayer6789]

Er glad for at være dansker🇩🇰

[@StoneTitan]

Will be interesting to see if the story goes further back than that. Granted it likely wouldn't be the Flag of Denmark before that time. (It is however interesting to note how Dannebrog look a lot like the italain noble house of Savoy) Similar mindsets leading to similar results or if some from Savoy participated on one side or the other in the war will probably remain a speculation.

[@dettenavn7652]

You don't have to take it down if you keep it illuminated, if you search "Koldinghus Night" you will see it

[@ConfusioNIntrusioN]

if you think about it, then you know no flag ever false from the sky by itself.. it's clearly a flag from the holy crusaders that we adopted here in denmark.. there's even a pope or something in the painting :)

[@nielschristiansen8043]

You are totally right. The flag did not fall down from the sky but from a horse. Among the soldiers were crusaders wearing a red cloth with a white cross. Many crusaders in the Middle Ages wore a white robe with a red cross but the reverse was also the case. So there are probably several red robes with white crosses that have fallen down from a horse in this battle. So in that way you can say that Dannebrog fell from the sky - but probably no more than two max two meters

[@agffans5725]

Actually there were at times great confusion, with some not being able to distinguish Danish warships from that of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John of Jerusalem, who were active from year 1099.

[@larslindthomsen7370]

Hi 😊. Nice video and you do a great job 👍. Maybe it is the same as kærnemælk you buy in Denmark. It must be so nice to come home to the USA😁. Sincerely, Lars. PS Google Translate.🇱🇷🇩🇰

[@theotherguy8007]

If you want to known more about the workers and farmers of denmark and the town you live in. Then go to brede museum it should be 5 min away in car or 20 min beautiful walk from where you stand at 1:32. Or Frilandsmuseet that is like 2 min away. Which is a big outdoor area with alot of houses etc. where you can see how people lived at that time.

[@henrikfossmichelsen5013]

If you ever get tired of your day job, I think you could be a movie editor in Hollywood.

[@TravelinYoung]

That is super nice of you to say! I’d take an editing job in Denmark, don’t want to leave for Cali :).

[@henrikfossmichelsen5013]

@@TravelinYoung 50 thumbs up

[@robertschweizer6061]

Try the restarant "Old Hansa" in Tallin They serve food like in the middel age and dress like it

[@henningrasmussen8225]

When you visit Sweden -Stockholm visit the fantastic Lund cathedral and show and tell (:

[@BigAndTall666]

Lund is a former part of DK also... 😆

[@citizenVader]

The theory goes that some soldiers ran out of the right size of stones, and bundled up a few in a flag. And thereby created the small wonder during the fighting. The bundled up stones must have opened and the flag fell down.

[@larsdahl5528]

As far as I understand, then it was a monk's cape that was used to bundle up the stones. however, that happens somewhere else in 1208. First later (1256 ?) it got (creative storytelling) connected to the events in 1219 (Something about Denmark took over a siege from the Prussians, and with the Prussians gone... Well, there was no longer any reason to resist.). The original monk's cape got stored as a catholic holy relic until the war in 1839 (Three years war?) where Austria-Prussia invaded and burnt it.

[@sulevturnpuu5491]

@@larsdahl5528 comment above speaks about the myth originally coming from smaller battle in 1208.

[@hoegild1]

Great video, but you missed the opportunity to talk about all the stories about what happened to the original (nobody knows, but we usually blames the Swedes for burning it- because well its the Swedes). We actually had a national flag even before that- the Raven banner, but that one got lost in some long forgotten war (probably with the Swedes).

[@TravelinYoung]

Perfect for a follow up :).

[@Gert-DK]

And I thought, it was Miranda that was the historian in your team.

[@TravelinYoung]

Haha, I do enjoy history as well. But I’m the cameraman usually, so if Miranda is with me she tends to handle the details on camera :).

[@nyhuus85]

Well done you pressent us danes perfect, next time try found out any thing about holger danske

[@klauslehrmann3906]

You drank the entire glass? Ouch!!!!!

[@TravelinYoung]

Ha, I did!

[@klauslehrmann3906]

@@TravelinYoung You can't drink glass. You neew to chew it first. Nice getting a reply :). I wonder what you three and perhaps Maya's visiting friends would think of my picture titled "Pride Never Died". Spoiler... it strongly features Dannebrog. A bad thing you were in Hillerød doing your video on this town before I ever found your channel. It would be neat to say hello in person :).

[@Maridun50]

Actually the king - Valdemar the Victorióus - was on a crusade to Christianize the heathen Estonians. That is why 15. th of June is called Valdemarsdag (Valdemar's day) and is an official flagday.

[@sandreid87]

Fun fact: The flag with the two pointy ends is only allowed to be raised by institutions related to the danish royal family.

[@amaliethorlundhaahr8896]

We Danes loves to put the flag up on birthday. It is not at birthday without the flag. If a birthday was a color it would be 🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰 to me😊.

[@Bjarne_Duelund]

You must have prepared this video well 😃

[@knudplesner]

you are missing the date June 15, 1219 Valdemar (King) Day June 15 According to legend, Danish King Valdemar II set out to conquer the pagan Estonians and convert them to Christianity. During the night of June 15, 1219, the Estonians made a surprise attack on the Danish camp. As he raised his arms toward heaven to pray for help, the Danish archbishop discovered that as long as he could hold his arms up, the Danes were able to push back the enemy. But when they dropped from weariness, the Estonians gained ground. Eventually a red banner with a white cross floated down from the sky and, as the archbishop caught it, he heard a voice from the clouds say that the Danes would win if they raised this banner before their enemies. A messenger took the banner to King Valdemar, and the Danes won the battle. Schools, sports organizations, and Boy Scout troops in Denmark often hold pageants on June 15, also known as Flag Day, in which they reenact the story of the Dannebrog (the Danish flag) and King Valdemar. The red and white flag can be seen flying everywhere on this day in honor of its miraculous first appearance.

[@gsattrup]

Remember Denmark is a monarchy The first flag is the Queen's Flag, Dannebrog burgee. So the normal Dannebrog, and then pennant.

[@Whoopz]

1:12 It feel from the sky in 2019?! ;)

[@TravelinYoung]

Yeah, it is super disappointing when I work really hard on something only to notice an error like this after it is up on KZbin. It happens though and I say 1219 correctly enough times I think most people get it.

[@Whoopz]

@@TravelinYoung Yea I understand, was just messing with ya. I'm certain some people don't even know the actual year to begin with which is even more upsetting!

[@srenclausen8534]

Talinn actually translates to the city/castle of the danes.

[@synnest]

That is just one theory that the name Tallinn comes from Taani Linnus (Danish castle), others say it comes from Tali linn (winter town).

[@Elkjær_Nersting]

I think us Danes as well as you Americans might be some of most flag-loving people in the world. PS: I didn't know you were buying youtube ads!

[@TravelinYoung]

Ha yeah, I just started to experiment a bit. I find it’s easy to get forgotten and missed on YT, so I’m buying some ads for videos that got lost in the shuffle to bring us back into the feed.

[@Elkjær_Nersting]

@@TravelinYoung I feel like you guys have very good potential for growth. First of all, we love when foreigners talk about-and praise-our country, and I think a lot of Americans will also want to learn more about the mythical socialist utopia that is Denmark. On top of that, all of your videos are very high quality. I definitely won't be forgetting this channel any time soon

[@TravelinYoung]

@@Elkjær_Nersting that is super nice of you to say! YT and it’s algorithm is fickle. I myself get lost in a rabbit hole of content not related to my primary interests and my favorite channels disappear from my feed. So I figure I’ll help nudge a bit with occasion ads for the folms that also happens to. I have an anonymous account I use to really see how my viewing and search behavior influences what is presented to me. Currently it’s all short baseball clips, camera reviews, and vr fails. I have to search for creators I really like to get them back in my feed.

[@UmQasaann]

I've heard in history class that the Danish flag was made when someone put a Christian cross in a white sheet of cloth and someone spilled blood over it.

[@MsMissX]

I like the video is that you could have touched a bit more on how we use the flag very differently. In US it is a sign of national pride. In Denmark we use it more to marcate that either you or the nation has had a good turn. Like in Denmark it is your birthday. Then let us decorate your desk with flags. Denmark won against all odds in football in 1992? Great let us raise our flag in celebration because our tiny nation did what no one (including ourselves) thought possible. So in Denmark the use of flag is much more tied into possitive events than a symbol of national pride.

[@TravelinYoung]

Ha, your description of raising the flag in 92 was to celebrate the tiny nation winning. That includes National pride :). I think in Denmark it is a little of both and not used almost exclusively for national pride.

[@MsMissX]

@@TravelinYoung I assume you mean Hi not Ha since the later indicate a rather arrogant tone towards me in the rest of the conversation. Yes some national pride but far more a focus of the pride coming with happy events and flats out in the daily life. When we had the Muhamed pictures many put the flag away because they felt. Oh now it is not populair anymore. So better to hide it and that is my main point. National pride is far more comon in Americans than in Danes. We more feel it on special occations because well blast we did something nice and good. Who has heard about Denmark outside Denmark? No nead to stand shouting your a dane from the rooftop. Most people belive it is the capitol of Ikea anyway.

[@galdessa1]

@@MsMissX Capital of Sweden actually.

[@jorgenrh7598]

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[@citizenkane4831]

Yes, really good job there Josh. But while you're at it about old Scandinavian history. Why don´t you make a video about the Kalmar union? And how king Christian II (or Christian the tyrant, depending on which country you are living in) became the king of Sweden after Stockholm's bloodbath. And all the reasons why and consequences around that. And if you plan any in comparison with danish snaps. Try Swedish snaps, try Nyköping brännvin, Gammal Norrlands, Gammel opland aquavit, Stockholms bränneri akvavit or, Herrgårds aquavit. In one of your try it on Tuesday

[@akselromme9490]

I im from Danmark

[@lillepind74]

Wow! That is quite a tour to tell an apocryphal national myth. Thank you!

[@knudplesner]

And our flag song at 28:25 kzbin.info/www/bejne/qIaze4OOoM6Ag7s every June 15

[@jacobklunder8552]

The painting might not correctly represent the weapons and armor of the time. :p

[@gravballemandendk]

big diffrence is, we dont pledge an alliance to the flag like americans have to. or at least is expected to.

[@TravelinYoung]

To become a citizen you are required to declare allegiance to Denmark. A flag may not be involved, but that is just a mere symbol anyway.