American Reacts to 101 UNIQUE Facts About Norway (Part 1)

[@theguy3632]

To clear it up for once: Scandinavia = Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Nordic = Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.

[@TullaRask]

Yes he makes it way too complicated in the video.

[@Miamia_01]

@@TullaRaska lot of these videos always include finland. It’s so weird. Seen several, no wonder people watching gets confused when they learn it wrong

[@Miamia_01]

@@TullaRaskand the guy also says how to pronounce Norge without even saying it right😂 better to say Norway then.

[@TullaRask]

@@Miamia_01 Yes the english sees to have a problem with the sharp G in the middle of a word. They do have it at the beginning in "Get" 😅

[@DraslyThe1]

@@TullaRask They have many words with sharp "G" in the middle of a word, they have no problem saying it, its just they dont know how to pronounce it!

[@CM-ey7nq]

I used to work for the Norwegian branch of a huge multinational corporation. One day a rep from the US headquarter came to fire approx. 90 % of us (as part of a global cutting costs measure) and we were supposed to be placed under Swedish administration. Some HR rep in the US had apparently picked up that there might be some historic issues there. So they decided to put us under Danish administration instead. Yeah, no history there... Just about 400 years of it :)

[@SebHaarfagre]

Hahaha that makes sense

[@annicaesplund6613]

🤣

[@peterc.1618]

It looks like that HR department skipped the cultural sensitivity module in their training.

[@helena298]

The name Norway in Norwegian (Norge) Is not pronounced as Nogche (or how he pronounce it in the video. It is pronounced at the end like the beginning of Get (without the t) Nor Get -t = Norge (in the Norwegian dialect/tongue). Hope this helps some of you. Lots of love ☺️

[@rockmuschel]

this

[@SebHaarfagre]

@@rockmuschel ^Yup

[@DivineFalcon]

It's hard for Americans to not pronounce their R's like a pirate. I know Americans that have lived here in Norway for decades without managing to break that habit.

[@peterc.1618]

@@DivineFalcon We (native English-speakers) have problems pronouncing an e-sound at the end of words, it tends to come out as the diphthong ay.

[@ToreDahl]

It's not that hard, it's two syllables, so just divide it up. NOR like in "north" and GE as in "get". So just drop the th-part in the first and the t in the second. NOR-GE.

[@sundhaug92]

Yes, our full title is the Kingdom of Norway ... we're a monarchy

[@kingofpenguins4157]

Yes we are a monarchy on paper, but we are also a democracy. As far as I know at least

[@zionsawyer3658]

well... are we relly. monarchy . lol but ok .. good joke ... we have something new. if we are not joking.. but yes kingdom of norway..

[@kingofpenguins4157]

@@zionsawyer3658 we are a monarchy on paper but we function as a democracy.

[@zionsawyer3658]

@king of penguins so new....🧐🤨 are u trying to tell me... I know.. and no.. what we are is called corrupt😮‍💨🤫...

[@kingofpenguins4157]

@@zionsawyer3658 how is a democracy corrupt? we have a king and royals, but they have minimal amounts of power compared to other countries. the prime minister and the political parties that were chosen by the public have most of the power.

[@Contentious_Point_]

Yeah, there's more to Fairhairs story though, -Harald wants a girl(think her name was Gyda) -The girl wants to marry "the king" -Harald swears to not cut his hair 'til he IS king of Norwegians -Harald leaves the country in order to gather swords(military force) -Harald returns , subjugates a significant portion of the Jarls(often translated to "Earls", but this is a bad translation) -Fights the battle of Harfrsfjord(name translates to Sea-fjord) outside of Stavanger, you should check out this story as well

[@DonGorgen]

And legend has it that Haralds hair kept growing after his death until 100% of norway was united.

[@LasseEklof]

Alfred Nobel (1833-1896) was a Swedish chemist and inventor - he invented i.a. the dynamite. He established the Nobel Prize, of which Chemistry, Physics, Medicine and Literature are nominated by Sweden, while the Peace Prize is nominated by Norway, as Norway at the time was in union with Sweden.

[@SebHaarfagre]

"as Norway at the time was in union with Sweden." This is misleading. Alfred Nobel _deliberately_ chose Norway because he thought it would be the best representative to host it. It being in a union is completely irrelevant (other than the fact that he knew more about Norway maybe for them being so)

[@LasseEklof]

@@SebHaarfagre That Sweden and Norway were in a union when Alfred died (1896) and he in his will established the Nobel prizes is a fact, but whether the union was the reason or not no one knows. The Norwegian website "The Nobel Peace Prize" writes - "Hvorfor Norge? - Ingen vet med sikkerhet hvorfor Alfred Nobel ønsket at akkurat fredsprisen skulle deles ut av en norsk komite - eller hva som fikk ham til å inkludere Norge i Nobelprisene overhodet." ---------------------------- Pensjonert direktør ved Det Norske Nobelinstitutt, Geir Lundestad, om hvorfor Alfred Nobel ba Det norske Storting utse medlemmene til fredspriskomiteen. "Nobel etterlot ingen forklaring på hvorfor fredsprisen skulle deles ut av en norsk komite mens de andre prisene skulle forvaltes av svenske komiteer. På dette punktet må vi altså nøye oss med kvalifiserte gjetninger. Her er den mest sannsynlige: Nobel, som tilbrakte mesteparten av livet utenlands og skrev sitt testamente i den svensk-norske klubben i Paris, kan ha blitt påvirket av den norske unionen med Sverige. Siden de vitenskapelige prisene skulle deles ut av de mest kompetente, altså svenske, komiteene burde dermed den gjenstående prisen deles ut av en norsk komite."

[@herrbonk3635]

@@SebHaarfagre Don't think he would have chosen Norway if it hadn't been in union with Sweden though.

[@Gran_Torino]

4:00 he means obese not overweight. Norway’s overweight rate is not that far off from America’s, but we have far less people who are obese and morbidly obese. I noticed that personally as well when I lived for a while in the U.S.

[@Fuxser]

I know you gor different channels for every country and i’ve watched some of the other videoes you do on other countries, but i believe u enjoy Norway the most and that means the most! You just pop out tons of great videoes and i love it! Hope you have a great rest of the week!

[@jbcool]

what other countries does he react to?

[@evebenstad]

I think it's just Norway, UK and Canada..

[@Farnora]

He uses different names; Tyler Rumple and Tyler Bucket for the other channels. I remember when I found out. Felt almost like he cheated on me. Didn't watch any videos of his for a month. 😏 Got over it though.😁

[@evebenstad]

@@Farnora 😄😄😄 I completely understand 😆🤣

[@shaky87]

As a Norwegian, we used to name the 50(+) states in our english class, and find their place on the map.

[@R3TR0221]

Only 50 (for now)

[@sundhaug92]

Yeah "tigerstaden" is a nickname of Oslo. Almost every town in Norway used to have a Danish name. "Gamlebyen" is lit "the old town". In Oslo you also have "Løvebakken" - Lion hill, which is a nickname of the Storting (strictly speaking it's the area in front of the building, since that's a small incline cornered by lions (with lions also being a part of the royal coat of arms)

[@peterc.1618]

The name 'Tiger Bay' was used by sailors as a slang term for the docklands in the Welsh capital Cardiff. I wonder if those sailors might have been Norwegian.

[@norXmal]

We generally learn from early as the stone age(Can't remember if we started at Paleo-, Meso- or Neolitikum) which is around 2-3 million BC to 8000BC, depending on which stage and work our way through each epoch, it's been quite a while since I had the subject and was mainly taught about it in elementary school.

[@jeschinstad]

Game of Thrones? Norway once had a king named Gandalf. (Gandalv Alvgeirsson:)

[@jon5355]

Game of the rings then ;P

[@kdr377]

Introvert from Norway here. I do love the space^^, and generaly good people😊

[@m4rt_]

5:35 the Nobel Peace Prize is given in Norway, the rest of them are given in Sweden.

[@PseudocoreERKO]

I was a bit shocked i heard an american say " norway is next to new zealand right "... is world geography not put high emphasis on in US education system ?

[@maf1746]

As of 2020 residents of Svalbard cannot automatically become Norwegian citizens and the amount of time living in Svalbard does not count as time spent living in Norway. They also cannot automatically move to the Norwegian mainland .

[@CharlesGreenfield-c9h]

6:35 This is purely because of dialect! The only difference are the endings, which are an 'a' ending and an 'en' ending. People in Oslo usually use the 'en' ending, and other regions near Oslo use 'a'. Not too sure if there's anyplace major that also uses an 'en' ending apart from oslo, but there must be.

[@Andkrias]

if you want a quick explanation of Scandinavia vs the nordic countries, you can watch CGP Grey's video called "Where is Scandinavia?"

[@m4rt_]

Fun fact, we didn't call our self Vikings, we just got called that. We said where we were from and who we were, nothing much beyond that. We were just people from various places in Norway... who also plundered a lot.

[@okklidokkli]

Is that really a fun fact? Seems like the origin and use of the word 'Viking' is very uncertain.

[@m4rt_]

@@okklidokkli It was not used by the vikings an a name for themselves.

[@John_1920]

01:42 First line of Wikipedia "Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway," it's called "the Kingdom" because we have had Kings and Queens all the way back to the Viking Era, just like how Britain is called the United Kingdom because it has United several Kingdom(s) throughout England's history, thus Britain becoming known as "the United Kingdom" instead of "the Kingdom of Britain" like Norway. 16:24 I have heard - so I can't tell for sure if it is true or not - that a majority of the Norwegian Farmers happened to be part of the 40 to 50 percent that died from the Black Death, which caused the Norwegian King at the time to fear for his subjects' lives, as now there were not enough food being produced within Norway to handle feeding all of its population. He went to Denmark seeking aid for his country, but the Danish King at the time scoffed and agreed to provide aid on the condition that Norway now belonged to him, thus starting the Norwegian age of the Danish Rule.

[@peterc.1618]

The UK = The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, imagine having all that in all EU languages in your passport; now we make do with the four UK languages plus French and Spanish.

[@mischievousprobe6467]

I would like to add an alternative explanation of the term viking. Vik means coast and ing is an old norse affix for person of, so person of the coast is a possible translation of viking.

[@gold_h1075]

Vik/ ei vik is not just any coast, it refers more specifically to an indent in the terrain at the coast.

[@EEmB]

Alfred Nobel is a Swedish man, who invited the dynamite.When he wrote his will to establish the Nobel Price Norway was still in a Union with Sweden. All of the prizes are handed out in Stockholm, Sweden except the Peace Prize that is handed out in Oslo. Why that is, no one really knows, but there are several theories and speculations to why Alfred Nobel wanted Norway to be the ones who chose who will get the prize.

[@muninn9674]

One thing to note on the term viking: in Old Norse the term Vikingr was given to those of us who went raiding, or in Old Norse; Viking.

[@cecilieklaunes3626]

You should indeed look into Svalbard!

[@Gran_Torino]

Another interesting fact about the Nobel prize is that it’s only the Peace Prize that is awarded in Norway. All the other Nobel Prizes (literature, mathematics etc.) are handed out in Sweden. That is because Alfred Nobel (the namesake of the award) was Swedish. However for some reason he stated in his will that the Peace Prize would forever be handed out by a Norwegian committee. As the Nobel Prize in itself almost has been regarded synonymously with the Nobel Peace Prize a lot of Swedes have at times been frustrated with Norway still being the country that awards it - to our utmost joy.

[@annicaesplund6613]

At the time of his death 1896 Norway was still in union with Sweden (until 1905).

[@Gran_Torino]

@@annicaesplund6613 Yes, but Norway still had its own parliament, and Alfred Nobel’s will stated that the peace prize would be awarded by a committee of five people chosen by the Norwegian Parliament.

[@Bighand4]

29: Viking is not a definition of people/population, but something you do. To go on viking is to go on an exploration/raid.

[@Kraakesolv]

Norge has a hard g like in egg. Not like in germ.

[@Avant-GardeFarm]

How lucky am I? Norwegian AND Canadian

[@Avant-GardeFarm]

@@Halvor1970 født i Norge, bor i Canada og har begge statsborgerskapene. Er i Norge nå og vanligvis 4-6 uker i året.

[@Avant-GardeFarm]

@@Halvor1970 Har bodd i Canada siden 1991, var 24 når jeg immigrerte. Er ‘hjemme’ mye da mine eldre foreldre og mine brødre og alle barna or barnebarna deres bor her. Hører på NRK hver dag. Har to voksene barn som snakker 4 og 5 språk.

[@Avant-GardeFarm]

Jeg snakker alltid norsk med barna våre og mannen min snakker fransk. Sammen snakker vi engelsk.

[@Patrikch100]

you should check Lang Focus videos about Nordic languages, norwegian and how simillar is norwegian (bokmal) and danish in writting.

[@linnea9017]

One important king missing in that history lesson. Olav the holy. He tried to cristen norway in the early years of 1015 until his death in 1030. A massive battle (not far from where I live actually) went down. And so did he. He was killed in the battle. it was simply said cristians versus pegans. Even though he managed to crisitan norway he did not survive it. He was the sainted and it is said to be laid to rest under nidarosdomen cathedral in Trondheim. Wich used to be the capitol under the name Nidaros. Trondheim was 1000 years old in 1997. I was born there. Also the olympics was held in Norway in 1994 as well. And of course we did win a lot. However these days we win to much. Regardless Trondheim and trøndelag have a very old and interesting history. Where I live the first laws of Norway where written. Next to my house it is graves from the bronze age. Yup that is before the vikings. Also just a fem hundred meters from where I am sitting now it was a viking harbour. I have a question for you. How did you end up doing this vlogs. What made you so interested in Norway? Would be fun to hear. Pst you gotta learn how to say Norge properly. ;)

[@karebear326]

The ghost ship - a ship carrying the plague, so the sailors all died

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Only the peace prize is awarded by Norway. The other prizes are awarded from Sweden. The Nobel ceremony is held in Sweden, in Stockholm's town hall.

[@annicaesplund6613]

No, but the banquet is in the City Hall. The award ceremony takes place at the Consert house in Stockholm, Sweden, for all categories except the Peace Prize which is awarded at the Town Hall in Oslo, Norway.

[@skinnyjohnsen]

The "g" in Norge is pronounced as you have in get, go, give. And you do pronounce the E( as in Pet, set, vet).

[@herrbonk3635]

Unless you come from Sweden, where we say Norrieh and Sverrieh :)

[@larseikind666]

Viking doesn't derive from a specific location. The word "vik" means "bay". And seeing that the vikings travelled by boat then than makes much more sense. And the "ghost ship" probably points to the introduction of the black plague in 1349.

[@kl3ppe597]

@tyler walker from norway here, and im pretty sure your my cousins doppelganger :D you 2 are sooo similar, even the small distinct things you do with your mouth and face when you talk :D

[@thomasdahl2232]

Harald Hairfair (Hårfagre) vowed not to cut his hair until he gathered all of Norway under one king - as the Viking era had lots of kings for different areas. Which gave him his name.

[@zoearcee5909]

if i remember correctly, my commune have a population density of like 2 people per km. yes we norwegians love our personal space.

[@eivindkaisen6838]

Akerselva/Akerselven, the Aker river: the difference is just the definite article. The river part, elv, is grammatically feminie, and in moderate bokmål, you can choose between the definite article -a or -en. (I know, that's difficult to get for monolinguals speaking a language without grammatical genders.) There was a survey some years ago that showed that about 10% of Americans couldn't find the US omn a map even when the borders were drawn in. So why should you know about a sparesly populated country at the edge of civilization on a continent you've just barely heard of?

[@m4rt_]

He is really good at wrongly pronouncing Norwegian things.

[@OriginalPuro]

You'd be equally shit at it if you tried to pronounce, let's say, Albanian, for the first time. Mirëmëngjes, try to pronounce it properly.

[@m4rt_]

@@OriginalPuro yeah, but with some practice I would be able to do it better. He didn't even try.

[@m4rt_]

@@Halvor1970 Han kunne ha prøvd å lære seg å si det riktig.

[@freewill8218]

@@Halvor1970 Norska är enkelt att lära sig. Danska är där i mot obegripligt.

[@Janihavik]

To go Viking means= raiding and/or pillaging. I think it's a terminology of what a person is doing rather then a name for a group of people.

[@bjrnarestlen1234]

Norway has been involved in most of the recent global conflicts. We bombed Libya, we've had troops in Afghanistan, and we've trained Kurds in Iraq. We have UN soldiers in other current and past UN operations as well. Here's a series showing Norwegian forces in Afghanistan: kzbin.info/www/bejne/n2nRlmimr7qGaac

[@torsmork]

The official, full, long form name of Norway is "The Kingdom of Norway".

[@kirstimeretearnesen1202]

More Game og Thrones from the real world. In Trondheim, my hometown, the real Blood Wedding tok place in 1206. The Kings sister was married to a man Named Torgrim. There was a civil war at the time between Baglerne and Birkebeinerne. The King was Birkebeiner, and in the early morning after the wedding Baglerne came and attaced while the wedding guest were sleeping, there had been a lot of alcohol consumed at the wedding. Many were killed, but the King and also the groom escaped.

[@matthewbergeron3641]

Kingdom just means "King's Dominion/Domain" or "King's Land", so if you got a king, and he owns anything then Kingdom is what you got. It's colloquially used to refer to any land under a monarch or royalty, king or queen. This change occured in the English language after the UK got so butthurt after being called a Queendom by half the world in the 1800s, when Queen Victoria took over. There are reports of government officals trying to intimidate and/or fine writers or people of influence within the UK, when using the word Queendom at all, even when used in fiction or when talking of other nations. Luckily for all the angry old men who care about getting called a Queendom, it looks like it's going to be a "Kingdom" again for the foreseeable future

[@Rochakfacts]

Great!

[@MessyMeep]

The "ghost ship" that arrived in Bergen was full of sailors, they were just dead, from the black plague.

[@OriginalPuro]

Yes, my country's name is The Kingdom of Norway. Our King is King Harald V of the Kingdom of Norway. PS: Oslo was nicknamed the Tiger city because "it eats you alive". No joke, that's why it has that nickname, Oslo is a ferocious city and if you can't handle it, it will eat you up and spit you out. PS2: Overweight means something different in Norway than in the US, if you're overweight in Norway you can lose a few pounds, if you're overweight in the US you're obese.

[@okklidokkli]

He has reacted to our monarchy many times, but the info doesnt always stick well. I guess for some americans the connection between monarchy and kingdom isn’t that obvious...

[@karinhusas1370]

Recommend you to watch: Jaychel ! It’s 2 Americans young people visiting Norway 🇳🇴 (18.54 min)

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

And he totally slaughtered that pronunciation of Norge/Noreg: Norche/Nor’eeeg. We’d never say it like that. CRINGE🤡🤡🤡🫣🫠🚮👀 It’s different due to the two official written languages that we have: Bokmål and Nynorsk. And due to poverty and malnutrition people didn’t only live shorter lives, but they where also shorter. This wasn’t only in Norway, but a global phenomenon. Now days people are much taller, as well as bigger due to the foods we eat, sedentary lifestyle, and not having to forage, and hunt for the food we eat. It’s no longer about survival, but pleasure.

[@ChairyCrasher]

Ja

[@mimicray]

Akerselven and Akerselv are not different spellings "-en" means "the" interpreted to English it is named "Aker's river" or "The river of/in Aker"

[@norXmal]

Mainly because of the separation of classes by that river, but also because the industrial parts was on mainly on the East side of the river in the past. The dialects are coined: Øst og vestkantmål, but today they are more or less fused.

[@pigedehekkan]

Nice to watch a typical average USAian reacting to whats outside USA. Will you travel to somewhere outside USA some time?

[@UnicornPrincess87]

That Oslo was former named Kristiania is true. And we say The Tiger City yes. Or as we say Tigerstaden🙂

[@Un4Given71]

Norway has a king, so yes, it's a kingdom.

[@arildtronstadhagen4337]

No part of Finland is part of scandinavia! the scandinavian countries are Norway, Denmark and Sweden.

[@OriginalPuro]

If you never hear about Norway in today's climate in Europe, you're missing something. NATO, lead by Jens Stoltenberg (former Prime minister of Norway) has daily meetings and Norway is in the news because of this, almost every day. Today Norway decided to give Ukraine Leopard-2 tanks, for instance.

[@Miamia_01]

In the US they only show news state by state within the country. That’s my experience, Im sure there are ways to find world news or you search for it online but strangely enough its either only news from the state you are in or of the 50 states.

[@ebbhead20]

Norway. Sweden and Denmark are kingdoms pal. Kings and Queens be here.. 😎

[@veridicusmind3722]

The Kingdom of Norway indeed!

[@janhaheim1348]

once upon a time a king of demark called kristian counqerd norway and founded the capital kristiania, once we got free of danish rule we changed it to Oslo,, Kristian also founded 2 other towns Kristiansand and Kristiansund and they still have the same names today

[@TheGamerNonsense]

The one about akerelven/akerselva isnt really two different ways of saying it its just a dialect thing were people from more north of norway tend to use a instead en at the end of words using specifications its like saying the at the start of something. The aker river would the translation be.

[@norXmal]

I'd say it was more west part of Oslo that tended to say Akerselven and the eastern side tended to end their words with -a instead of -en. Øst og vestkantmål is what it is coined as, which ironically was separated by that river, but today both dialects has more or less fused together.

[@SebHaarfagre]

Uh... no lol Upstuck daddy boys from West Oslo call it "Akerselven" while proper East (or central) Oslonians call it "Akerselva" ;) It has nothing to do with dialects. It's an Oslo only thing. (Of course there's history and sociology tied to this but it's better said like this) Edit: I guess you call it "sociolect" or something Oh and reading further/elaborating on the correct part of what you wanted to say: "-a" endings are female, "-en" are male, basically (and other dialects use more "female" words). I think this is the best and easiest way to explain it to a foreginer. But no matter what a "Vestkantboi" might tell you, the sun will never be "male" nor will a door be. It's "solA" and "dørA" not "solEN" and "dørEN" uff uff uff _shudders_

[@TullaRask]

Danish Kings liked and like to call things and cities after themselfs. It's a bit rediculous really when they are all called either Fredric or Christian.

[@marenlunde4860]

Or Christian Fredrik 😅

[@TullaRask]

@@marenlunde4860 Yes quite 😂

[@UltimaSRi]

New York was New Amsterdam earlier as well rite?

[@eivindkaisen6838]

Ant THAT started off as La Nouvelle-Angoulême

[@sastrabeng]

im a direct decendant of erik blood axe and others,they came from a small place called namsos in norway,and we went viking,its a verb.. we are and where norsemen..

[@Gh0stHack3r.]

Vikingur = Explorer (more a profession of seafaring norse men and explorers.) Also traveled to the Americas really early back in the 800-900, and later as be-knighted Templars (Warriors forced into kristianity), then Norwegians Emigrating mostly setteling in same area today Minnesota via water ways all way to todays city of Duluth.

[@bjrnarbjrnarsson5845]

This is how the Minnesota Vikings came to be 🏈

[@Luredreier]

11:45 He butchered "Norge" but got "Noreg" fairly close to right. "Norge" has the same sounds as in "Noreg" except flipped.

[@rosab8026]

😂😂😂...realmente el parecido con " Juego de tronos" se extiende a todos los países de Europa ...tienen una muy larga historia, muy semejante....

[@bmwtoyz]

The word Viking comes from when we where sailing to other contries. Raiding and plundering. This was called Viking on the native language

[@BergenDev]

The "ghost ship" is referring to the Black plague. Fun times.

[@Kari.F.]

The g in Norge is pronounced like the g in longer, and the e at the end is pronounced exactly like the e in Edward.

[@janhaheim1348]

Oslo was a hard town to live in back in the days, lots of crime and violence so it got nick named the tiger city

[@Gh0stHack3r.]

Yes we have a 3000+ year old Norse history here in Norway, lot's have happened during all that time...

[@SebHaarfagre]

You found some of the history cool or interesting so here's one you should check out! It's short, ridicolous and awesome: Sigurd Jorsalfare / Sigurd the 1st or Sigurd the Crusader :D I won't say anymore lol kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJqxmpmnhqehqdE is the best one (compactly perfect) but it's short (just over 3 minutes) so maybe couple with something/someone else. 16:32 This king was agreed to lead a union of the three kingdoms, _by_ the three kingdoms. He had several sons. The sons and him basically f*ed things up and all of them died or got exiled and the union fell to his *WIFE* which was Margaret I of Denmark. Sweden eventually opted out (while Norway remained) and this prompted centuries of bickering between the Scandinavian kingdoms (/empires!) and probably shaped the history of entire Europe, if not the world. (Denmark-Norway and Sweden were major powers and the "infighting" that started with Olav IV. basically meant that Denmark-Norway lost all holdings in Central Europe, Sweden lost all holdings in Eastern Europe and Norway lost territory to Sweden and Denmark).

[@ananonymouslamp8861]

Great videos! But why did you start making videos about just Norway?

[@SebHaarfagre]

Not everything in that video is as ambiguously presented as it should be. For instance: "Viking" was a verb (å gå viking/vikinge). Boats were launched from inlets (vik; viker plural) and often dragged over lower passes to save time (fjords could go inlands for many many many miles). The logical and deductive origin of the name is this, in my opinion (this is one of the theories but it's the one that makes sense and isn't/can't exclusively be a result of confirmation bias). When you took boats (longships) and launched them from a vik (near/where they were built) you went viking. Everyone knew what those ships were meant for. Also it made sense to make landfall in inlets (viker) too or riverbanks. Contemporarily, you couldn't "be" a viking, there was no such thing. They were this and that person, of this and that king or area. Or they were a certain combat role or civilian role. "Viking" was just the act of going on raid or expedition, basically. When you read a book once in a while or a couple of times per year, it doesn't make you a "reader" as an official title. If I work full time as a metalsmith, knitting one wool cap once doesn't make me a "knitter". But I did knit. A lot of retrospective denominations comes from the perspective of the receiver, not the instigator.

[@spyvingen]

Like your vids :) Any chance of Swedish reacts?

[@Glundberg84]

I have read that after the Black Death, there were only around 150 thousand Norwegians left. 😮

[@TrymYoutubeMainChannel]

Norwegian Vikings discovered America before columbus

[@Xaranthos]

Not Erik Blodøks, Eirik 😂 Regards from an Eirik.. haha

[@m4rt_]

Why does the guy in the video keep on talking about Oslo... there are other places in Norway. For example Trondheim, which once was the capital of Norway.

[@yorukkizigeziyor]

Very beautiful ☺👏

[@Luredreier]

5:44 Most of Nobels prices are rewarded in Sweden where Nobel is from. However back then Sweden still kind of had a bad reputation for being militaristic while Norway being generally neutral and not having existed as a independent country for long enough to be involved in any wars didn't... So we got the peace prize. Of course, if this had happened today the outcome would have been very different. Norway is a part of NATO and therefore takes part in more military activity then Sweden that's still neutral.

[@Yahcheh]

7:25 its easy to know where Norway are on the world map, you just seek the the D,ick of the earth. xD

[@TullaRask]

No 31, the legend is about the black death which he didn't say :)

[@Luredreier]

7:38 Perhaps check out our Neighbourhood too? Like the Baltics?

[@gmy79]

Yes, Norway is called a kingdom because Norway has a King. That easy.

[@5ilentDisco]

Our Viking heritage is something i love alot being Norwegian. not gonna lie. ahah

[@emilaleksandertutanshansen8349]

its not nyosk, its nynorsk, which translates to new Norwegian, its a insanely accurate video tough

[@mjelves]

again, it's not "Nordzj"! The guy in the video clearly didn't do his homework

[@Jmvars]

Viking is a profession.

[@SageOfHeaven]

pff, Norwegians get awkward when we meet each other on the web, especially if it is a video about Norway :P Like, bragging is bad in Norway, but we do like secretly want to brag about our country. So we are super attracted to any video with the word Norway in it :D

[@kimmeh3139]

"Vikings" weren't a people we weren't Vikings we went "Viking" witch basically meant raid/pillage as a means to secure wealth, "Trell" (basically slaves but not really) and glory you should watch some videos about the viking age it's kind of poorly understood and riddled with people sputing nonsense but there are quite a few videos about the topic that are really good

[@apeflight5553]

Well, they went on viking. Viking isn't a verb, it's a noun. It's something you go on

[@MichaelEricMenk]

Trell is a slave. Slave had diffrent rules around the world. The Norse treated their slaves well compared to other places.. That the Norse treatment of slaves were better than other places do not change the fact that they were slaves. The Norse would on trips pick up the locals and sell them as slaves other places. One location the Norse picked up slaves was the Dombas, and they would sell them in Constantinople, at the time a large trading hub. Trading was also done along the route in Kiev and Novgorod.

[@lilletrille1892]

Trell=thrall

[@olenilsen4660]

Oslo´s population might be healthier in a physical, bodily sense. However, they´re generally not all there cognitively. They should really not be left alone to make any significant decisions, as all of their desicion making abilities are impaired. The Nobel price doesn´t have anything to do with Norway! It´s a Swedish thing, except for this one price, the peace price. They somehow figured Norway should have this ceremony. 12:01 - It´s NOT "NYORSK" - It´s "NYNORSK"- "NORSK" is the main part, it´s what means "Norwegian". NY means new. Bokmål means something along the lines of "Book language". It´s by far the most common. But Nynorsk helps a lot with understanding some of our dialects.

[@morganhenskjold3062]

Viken is the larges county in Norway

[@bjornjensen8244]

In population: Yes. In area: No

[@stevengerrardlf]

I live in Norway

[@SebHaarfagre]

15:47 The plague lol

[@guardianofkindness8603]

You said Norge wrong. Do u Maybe have any other social medias so i Can learn you some norwegian?

[@DonGorgen]

Well, you know norwegians, having a low population density is perfect for us lol. Also why did the guy only mention 1 of our territories, we have more than that. Like Jan Mayen and Queen Maud Land.

[@thomasdahl2232]

Norge is pronounced like "Nor" as in Neither, and Ge as in the surname Geller.

[@herrbonk3635]

_"Nor" as in Neither_ ??

[@DonGorgen]

Vikings is not the people, it's more like a "jobtitle" like warrior or berserker

[@olenilsen4660]

15:00 - who figured out this part of the story? That Vikings should come from the Viken county???? Pure BS. There was an old time county named similarly, but more likely it came from the fact that Vikings more often than not lived in a "Wick", sheltered from most weather, and this is also what they sought upon landing in foreign territories. A wick, or in Norwegian: "Vik" is a body of water sheltered on two sides by steep geography. It means most weather anomalies will fly over or around, and most of the time, it´s pretty fair inside the Vik. 16:50 - Oh, no, no, no - nobody in Norway is taugh all these details. We want to teach our kids important things. Why would you need to know about every Viking king? How would this help you pay any bills as you grow up? We still keep track of the Union dissolution with Sweden in 1905 (barely), but the main thing is our constitution which we celebrate at large May 17th every year. Those viking endeavours, however are just footnotes. They won´t help anyone unless you choose to be a historian.

[@laila-holm]

Im not good at geography either, but we learn about other contries, - not all of course. And continents, - where and many contries history. - At exam history, when i was 14 or 15, my topic was the US sivil war, - and name all the states on a map. And alianses in world war 2 (and yes, how late the US waited to help... Pearl Harbor😉,, = must teese you a bit by use humor and irony. Nnow the US Army are ... no, ,not about that this time