24 Hilarious DENMARK Memes | Americans React 

"Fueled by remoulade, snaps and a deep hatred for PostNord" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Usually nisse øl (the children's beer) is practically alcohol free, at most the same as a alcohol free cider, so like less than 1% it's the same with the children's sparkling water, almost no actual alcohol, but it is fairly common to let children taste wine and beer, they usually hate it.

The ''Finnish flag'' comes from a danish tv-commercial joke where a waiter asks if they're finish (finished eating) and he replies ''No, I'm danish''

God I love that picture of our Queen just fucking cheering. Margrethe is special to all of us.

I honestly thought "bae" was just americans on the web being too lazy to write "babe". I learn so much from you guys! :D Loving that "choke like the russians at the euros" phrase btw

As a dyslexic Dane I defiantly relate to the nightmare that is only saying half the letters in a word. Honestly when Danes switch to English I think it’s our way of saying “We know our language is difficult and doesn’t make a lot of sense. We apologies. Let’s just do this in English, I’m not gonna force you to do it in danish”

2:46 I sell furniture and have had quite a lot of customers practicing Danish over the years. In the beginning I always did that (Sorry about that). Then I got an American colleague who told me foreigners want to practice Danish in real life situations, which of course suddenly was very obvious. From then on I always tell the Danish practicing customers (in Danish) that I am fluent in English but I would very much like to continue in Danish if they are up for it. Great conversation starter and usually gives an appreciative smile. Edit: Grammar

I have a Welsh friend who's learning Danish and he describes speaking Danish like speaking old medieval English. He also says that he was surprised by, how many of the words in English are the same in Danish or have their origins in the Danish language. On the Dutch vs Danish thing. Both are of Germanic origin. Both sound somewhat similar when spoken. I have a couple of friends from The Netherlands and as long as they speak a little slower, I can speak/understand them. They also tell me that they can somewhat understand Danish as long as we speak slowly. To me Dutch sound/reads kind of a combo of Danish/English/German - which is a neat hint to know, if you need to read something in Dutch.

Guys! Do not put yourselves down! Your Danish pronunciation is getting better and better! hello from Hundested 🌸🌱

The border between Denmark and Sweden is actually on the bridge and is marked with signs. Usually you just drive to fast and miss them 😄

I'm still laughing at the two Sweden/Denmark memes. 🤣🤣 I actually talked to a Swede a while ago and she offered to give back Skåne, which I pointed out was taken from us in the 1600s. 😁😁 I think we agreed that she should get her king to call my queen. Since they are cousins, they ought to work something out 😂😂

The secret to all postal services in Denmark, is to specifically request they deliver at a self-collect drop point (there are tons of them all over every city/town). Usually postmen deliver multiple packages per drop point and they are pre-scheduled, so there is less risk that your package is wrongly delivered, and speed of delivery is far more consistent due to the pre-scheduled points on their delivery route.

It’s crazy. you can get a driving license then your 16 buy a firearm then you turn 18. But for buying an even watered down beer, you have to be 21…. Funny you legally can shoot your dads beer cans before you even are allowed to drink them😂🤣

If you guys feel up to it … then pick one or two of your danish friends, and ask them to *only* speak danish. It will force you to also get in the mindset and not resort to “safe zoning” in english. Challenge yourself and your friends. Just choose the one, two or three friends who are up for it. (Or even better … get a job in a daycare. Working with kids who are themselves learning the language seriously speed up your danish learning curve.)

The most fun I have when trying to teach non-danes our numbers is to explain the number 58. Which goes: 8+(2,5*20) Yeah, our numbers are math problems for everyone else^^ our numbersystem is based on 20, not 10 so 50 is 'halvtreds' meaning 'half of the 3rd' 20+20+10* half of the 3rd. Makes sense right^^

Your videos are entertainingly edited, Gentlemen. I always appreciate them. 1) Guys, I think it is courteous to try and sprinkle some Danish words into your conversation rather than not to try at all. The same goes with French and Polish, and / or any foreign language. It is always better to TRY than not bothering to try at all. My French teacher always insisted" Il faut essayer. (You must try). The only way to fail at anything ... ANYTHING, is ... not to try. 2) Danish is VERY HARD to pronounce. Please do not feel at all badly if you cannot say such correctly, even after several years of trying. Even Danes will tell you that, as kids, they really struggled with their native language, even. That darn soft "D" is a bear!

I'm literally crying, this video is spot on hahahahah, it's one of the funniest videos, and as you said in an earlier video, Danes love to make fun of themself.

6:32 To be fair. This is the brief history of Denmark, or Swedens, historic relation with any European nation. From the 11th to the 18th century, European nations, with a sea border, had these alternatives in relation to Denmark/Norway: 1) Pay protection money to Denmark/Norway 2) Or, get harrassed, plundered and beaten by the Danish navy/a Danish+Norwegian+Geatish(*) viking fleet. And between the 16th to 18th century, European nations had these alternatives in relation to Sweden: 1) Pay protection money to Sweden. 2) Or, get harassed, plundered and beaten by the Swedish army. Denmark and Sweden (and the Ottoman Empire), was the big, bad, bullies of Europe for hundreds of years, and bullies doesn't like competition from other bullies. One big reason for all the European colonialism, outside Europe, is that the other, weaker, European nations needed, something to pay with to not get bullied by Denmark, Sweden and the Ottoman Empire (e.g. the Barbarossa Pirates). Also, Sweden produced almost all the iron necessary to produce weapons grade steel in Europe (e.g. Sheffield steel was made with 100% Swedish iron, the only other sources of good iron was tiny, tiny providers in Toledo and the Middle East). Denmark built all the good warships and cannons, for all the other European nations, except the Ottoman Empire (this was why the Swedish navy ships was junk (unless stolen), they didn't sell to Sweden). If nations wanted high quality weapons or fleets, to be able to defend themselves, there was no alternative providers, and the sellers could demand any price they wanted. Very frustrating, especially since the people in Western Europe, considered Danes and Swedes as uncivilised barbarians. (*) The Geatish vikings, used to do a lot of plundering and other fun stuff, together with the Danish and Norse vikings. Then they formed an alliance (Sweden) with the Rus of Scandinavia (a former enemy, most of the time prior, and also the founders of the Kievan Rus Empire, but those ties was cut when Sweden was formed), and started to nibble away on Danish, Norse and Sami territory, until Sweden also got big and strong enough, to start harrasing all the other European nations.

As I recall, the English term, Guinea Pig, comes from the guinea pigs came from South America and the ships from South America, first sailed to Guinea (because of the currents in the Atlantic Ocean.) and THEN sailed to England. And as guinea pigs sometimes sound like little piggies, they of course were named pigs from Guinea, or Guinea pigs! And the Danish version, you guys are spot on: Marsvin comes from German "Meerschwein", sea pig. Again: They came with ships from over the sea and they sounded like piggies, so sea pig! ^^

The Margrethe meme, is from a ballet show, that she was helping her friend (fru Heering)with, every year. This is in the pause between the to, very different parts of the show, where all of the kids (dancers) had these little snacks. It is behind the old cinema in Næstved

Long time viewer here, got to say this was one of the better formats you have done! Not to speak ill of you former videos, they are all great! Very entertaining, thanks for another great video!

The Danish speaking Dutch is kinda a interesting meme, because they're not exactly far off. In Denmark most kids learn German(Or otherwise Spanish or French) in Folkeskolen. In German, "deutsch" is the language spoken while 'Dutch' in English is the spoken language in the Netherlands. Both words are pronounced quite similarly which might explain the meme. On a historical note, there were quite a lot of Danes in the Netherlands in the old days. So, technically, yeah, quite a few Danes knew Dutch in the past.

That choking joke also applies the other way around - to whenever I try to speak English with an American dialect xD My mouth feels like it's filling up with foam for some reason. Also, Mike, that is one stellar shirt you've got there!

"The TV would not lie to me" - I love how you said that with that pretend straight face :P

The editing is ON POINT! Lovely hilarious video, enjoyed quite a bit

I only recently discovered you two. As a dane, it's really amusing to see how things here look from your perspective, since everywhere else in the world is filled with a lot of american media. I can comment in danish from now on, if you want the practice (though I wouldn't blame you, if you'd rather I didn't XD).

Great video as always. One minor point, I almost always watch you on the phone, and the text in the memes is a bit difficult to read. Maybe upscale it a bit, and use smaller frames for your faces? We know how handsome you are anyways 😂 But maybe most of your viewers are on bigger screens, and in that case disregard everything above. Keep the videos coming.

Loving the game show format, here! This video makes me realise the hard work you guys do with the language: not only is it a difficult language to learn/pronounce, but then when you do try, you get eyerolled and switched to English. 💪 Good on you for persevering. Thanks again for another fun video. And yeah, Queen Margrethe is awesome. 🇩🇰

Derek at 7:30 talking about the Øresundsbro: "I didn't fact check that, but I'm just assuming that the TV wouldn't lie to me" Every danish person: "You're american, you were raised by lying TV's...." But most danish TV you can actually trust, unless it's a political debate

When I worked in service, I was the guy that would switch to english whenever an American tried to speak Danish. I wasn't trying to be mean, in my head it was an opportunity to get some proper practice in.

Found the narrator/sports commentator transition between Derek and Mike funny. And the memes kinda fit 😆

Yes the border between Denmark and Sweden are approx. halfway up the slope of the bridge on the Danish side. I cross that bridge every day

Det bringer altid smilet frem at se jeres videoer!!

10:23 Hatred for Post Nord” and DSB. In my experience most people actually hat the later more. Like in the song “det er jul det cool” the singer says: “det er vinter man forventer vel lidt kulde og sne, men det er da klart at sådan en sag må komme bag på DSB.” That song was written in the 90’s (I think) around 30 years later, it still fits oh so well.

Dronning Margrethe is NOT wearing daisy earrings. Her flower is the marguerite, which becomes clear once you look at her name. It's also why the most scenic routes are marked with a sign depicting a marguerite.

Sweden and Denmark has had so many wars that the DNA can't be seperated (makes my Ancestry DNA test results a bit annoying when I want to figure out the Danish parts of my family tree that has some brick walls because somebody lied about the names of a father)

The netherlands (lowland) was a viking area/colony back when, and just as english its language is partly based on the old nordic/viking language. The different modern languages has gone each their own way with pronounciations. When i went to the netherlands i was able to scrounge through the written language and understand most of it to an extent where i could get the context, based on a mix of danish, german and english as a base.

Both languages are…………challenging to the years….😝😂😂😂 that comment and the way it was delivered, made me spit from laughter

I would love to see a video on the rules on eating danish food!! (to avoid tourist mistakes in Denmark 😭)

1:50 You could also mention the word "fart", a favorite word of the Young family. 😄

Swede: "Bäste bror! Låt oss glömma gammalt groll och låta fred råda mellan oss!" Dane: "Jeg er enig! Det er bare dumt at slås! Lad os få fred mellem os!" Swede: "Vad fan sa du om min morsa?!" *The true cause of most wars between Sweden and Denmark.

Great editing and awesomely fun video!

LOL, the toppings meme made me cry from laughter. Good job, guys. It took me a minture to get the t-shirt joke "Lille fredag".

LOVE the editing! 🙌

at 3:49 i want to point something out Svin = the bad word of pig, like when your trying to insult someone Gris = Is the word pig

Your videos have made me consious about talking with people learning Danish. I ask if they want to talk Danish, and don't just switch directly to English.

Great video guys! This was really funny. And you’re right, most Danes hate PostNord. For good reason!

Speaking of Americans not knowing Danish from Dutch.. My partner and I were shipping a package to a friend in Austria, but the package was returned to us because -Australia- didn't accept packages for a while during the covid lockdown. So we call in and ask about it, and no joke, while on the phone with this postal lady, whoose entire job it is to know countries so that packages get shipped out to the correct places, asked us if Austria was part of Australia. We told her: "no, it's part of Europe," and she seemed so genuenely confused about it. Like look lady, I know the words are close, but this is literally your job, how do you not know this? TToTT (They also refused to refund us for the returned package despite the error being on their end, and shipping from America to Europe is expensive, so it was just insult to injury at that point) Anyway rant over lol

The last one is so true. I always feel so bad, for people who move here. I worked with international students for a while, and we tried our best to help them set things up as soon as possible, but I have heard some students having issues several months into their 1 semester stay. Yikes.

As always, great job!!

Deep hatred in deed. Yes. i’m a Norwegian and part time Skawbo. So I ordered my cool beers from KIHOSKH as close to my home as possible. It was delivered across town which even in Skagen meant it cost me 200 kr to go to that place and back by taxi 😳 Also, it’s my birthday today and I would love a shout out as the Red Sox are disintigrating and also it would be nice! Thank you guys for adding danishnes to me stuck normally in Norway.

HERRING ON WHAT?! Make that 101 subscribers lost. >:( (jk, lol)

11:25 That’s a picture I took of my little sister a few years ago, didn’t expect to see that here😆

My son, 2 years old, actually managed to find a cylinder containing an unopened bottle of Glenfiddich, open it, take the bottle out, open it, drink a good 2 to 3 cl, and put everything back where it came from without anyone noticing. We wondered why he was behaving strangely. (Or did his big brother think it would be funny?). Re the last meme: Don't you still have to get a residence permit?

2:40 That’s usually a phase when you try to learn a new language! First, it’s just all senseless rabble. Then you begin to distinguish the rabble and recognize each words, without knowing it’s meaning. Then you get some of the words.. then you can sometimes decipher a sentence, and when you begin to really learn it, it’s all up in your head, and you may have it grammatically correct in your head and everything, but when you’re put in the spot, you get some words out and either it tends to fizzle out or you don’t quite nail the point you wish to communicate.. and that’s actually a good sign, that means you’ve come far, and you ofc. still needs to practice, but one can feel discourage when they hit that phase, but flip it on its head instead and be happy that you’ve reached that point. Something that most native English speakers don’t quite comprehend or get under their skin is, language has a huge impact on a given culture and alter how subconsciously change the perception on the world around you. Each expression, and how you say it and how the language is structured does something on how we’re wired as a human being. I recommend to stick by learning, take one step at a time, there’s a ton of wisdom to harvest, you two will have your own code language when you walk around the States, and it’s easier to learn a new language when you’re in the country that’s speaks it. It’s hard! It’s tough! It’s not a sprint, so take your time, remove pressure (like expectations) from yourself and don’t bash yourself. Danish is hard, but since as you know, it actually has a profound impact on English, you may find something that’s recognizable!

7:34 Yeah the border is accually just on the middle of the bridge. The island that the tunnel comes up at is Denmark and thereby it is Denmark untill the middle of the bridge

That first summer with two or three days of sunshine during all of the summer months seems a bit off seeing as the average amount of sunshine hours in Denmark between 2011 and 2020 has been 1718 hours. If you take away 8 hours per night that's like more than every third day would have had sunshine from sunrise til sunset :)

I love the "Lille Fredag" t-shirt

I enjoyed this so much! I thought those memes were very funny, and close to 100% right! 😆😂😂👍👍

When a Danish person switches to English, it is not a snub. It is to be accommodating. I do think that if you plan to permanently live in Denmark, it is a good idea to learn the language. I would do the same if I moved elsewhere. But if you can speak English, then I honestly don't care if you learn Danish. I don't think Danish people would be offended if you didn't learn the language... I think they would be frustrated if you didn't make the effort to be able to communicate with people of Denmark. And that is either Danish or English (Or German if you live in the south of Jutland).

5:37 Well i would kinda say summer is the greatest hour of the year here in Denmark 😆 Atleast that used to be true but for the pasted couple years it has been like april to august that has been nonstop summer...

Have to chime in here, have lived in both USA and Canada, and the last meme is true for both contries. Tried to buy a car, when we first got to USA, not possible without a bank account, couldn't get a bank account without social security number, and getting at credit card was impossible, you had to have a credit score first ?!? Guess it shows that we are all minions in a capitalistic world? :-D

We used to be happy about our postdelivery system. They were fast and delivered the mail to the correct door. Of cause a rare mistake could happen but it was rare. I remember mail getting from me to the person i wrote to the next day or at the latest the day after. and it was not even very expensive to mail someone. But that was before it was sold. I blame it on Sweden BTW i think you asked for coffee in a very understandable Danish. Also KB Nisseøl 🙂 I drank it when we had Risalamande or Risengrød when i was a child. Many many years ago, I still cant eat Risengrød without Nisseøl

You two sweethearts should have your own national tv show. I love it. 😅😊

"BÆ" is not pronounced like "BAE"! You say it like "bay". To get "bæ" right, begin as if to say bay, but cut it short before the y. By the way I saw a sign with the name of a village called Bækager. Etymologically it's bæk (creek) + ager (field). But it could be misinterpreted as bæ (poop) + kager (cakes).

It's funny to think that bae becomes bæ(poop) in danish, but also skat becomes scat(poop) in english.. 🤔😂

Lol, they gave that beer to us in kindergarten. A risengrød and nisseøl combo. I think that’s pretty normal around Christmas

Hah! One of the reasons Postnord - which operates at a loss in Denmark - still exists is that the Government in Sweden while naturally offering full e-services and uses it internally still often sends paper copys through snail mail. Denmark on the other hand sneakily signed the PostNord agreement - then their government immediately stopped using snail mail. So for years and years Sweden has been forced to carry Denmarks part of the PostNord. But of course you need a functioning snail mail system. You can't automatically assume everyone has a smartphone or a computer to receive government decisions on. I think that's even true in Denmark - but then Denmark is a very small country with almost everyone living in Copenhagen so I assume the government officials just get on a bike and deliver the decisions personally...

that beer has close to zero alcohol in it, and its very sweet ^^

Never had an issue with Postnord here in Jylland. Could be that it's a more local issue?

12:00 100% correct, I even remember drinking that beer myself at the age of maybe 8-10 years old. It's worth mentioning thought that it is basically non alcoholic (

Spot on with Post Nord...

SPOT ON with the chips 😂

Good fun. Did your schedules not allow you to film together? The Kims crisps Meme was weird/wrong! They are the same as any other!

LMAO 🤣 ! Mike ! You got the "T-shirt" right 🤣 ! It's Thursday and the day that "Party life" begins. Friday is when it's just.............., until Sunday! For you 🇬🇧 speaking people out there. Thursdays are considered "Little Fridays" The day you get ready, for the upcoming Weekend Yeah! "Postnord"" is the perfect example of, why selling a National well functioning company, to private Industry, doesn't necessarily make it better..., just more expensive. Postnord Sucks! Come on guys! Getting our kids drunk, makes it easier to get them to sleep 🤣 ! Get into the program 😀 !

So you talk about how difficult Danish is to pronounse, which I totally get because Danish pronounciation is just hopeless honestly, but I was wondering if you understand Danish when it is spoken/written? Sometimes it is much easier to listen/read a language than it is to speak it😅

The spiderman thing, is SO TRUE! I am Danish, and the bureauCRAZY is made, so you go insane before you get anything done :-D

5:56 Honestly the weather this year has been WILD. I mean we could wear shorts and t-shirts IN👏APRIL👏 if not earlier. It has been crazy.

Your guys videos just keep better and better. Besides missing this video last week, i usually always look forward to your thursday uploads. Honestly you guys are fucking precious.

That circular thing at the end (too small to read at 1080p) sounds like England, but then I realize that immigration and bank laws have been locked down so hard with requirements for having a "proper" home and job, it might approach these problems even though most of the other things are supposed to flow directly from residence permit or citizenship.

Fun fact, Denmark and Sweden has spent the most years at war of any two countries in the world

"I think they also make bread or porridge out of it or something." We make a porridge we call bread 😉 It's called øllebrød (literally "beer bread") because it's made from, well, beer and bread. It's a way to use up stale rye bread, you pretty much just soak slices of rye bread in the beer (hvidtøl, the sweet, dark beer the kid is drinking, I think it would be quite heinous with regular beer) until it's all soft and pretty much dissolved, then simmer it on the stove until it's thickened and then serve it with whatever Danes in your proximity grew up with or suffer the displeasure of a Dane witnessing food rules being broken 😂 Classic toppings include things like whipped cream, milk, æggesnaps (yolks, sugar and vanilla sugar stirred until white and fluffy), or various jams. Usually only one, mind you, although some might sprinkle on a bit of extra sugar in addition to the topping of choice. This is something many people grew up with, as it's an easy dish to make and porridge of all kinds is a popular baby food, which is why they might have strong opinions about which topping is correct. If you want to try something I don't think a lot of people know about anymore, you mix one bottle of hvidtøl (33 cl) and one bottle of citronvand (25 cl). Citronvand being the bright yellow soda which has fallen mostly out of favour but I do usually see it in the various Brugsen stores. At least outside Copenhagen, I don't know what the state is citronvand access is in the capital. Be aware that if you just google citronvand you'll most get articles about the health craze of drinking water with lemon juice in the morning. Very much not the same thing 😆 Harboe still makes the right kind of citronvand so you can always try searching for that, if you want to try it. This was the drink that was often served with dinner in my father's childhood home. He was born in 1946 in Northern Jutland and grew up on his grandmother's farm so this is a fairly old, rural tradition. And because it was a treat those two bottles were shared between him and both his grandparents. Getting a whole soda to yourself, something everybody takes entirely for granted today, was reserved for maybe birthdays and Christmas back then if you were lucky. Back then there was still rationing after WWII and even without it, frugality was a virtue in general to most people living rurally.

11:24 at the hotel in the US, we went for a cold softdrink and the bartender asked for documentation that everyone was 21, my friend wasn't and could not buy a Cola and his reaction of utter disbelieve replied with: You gotta be 21 to buy a coke :D

I belly laughed all the way through this, until you put herring on plain bread and asked for leniency because it was Julefrokost 😁🤣... 🤦‍♀️... still very funny 😄

Yes, PostMord is a disaster. Almost every time I oder something off of the internet, I get a text with "We tried to deliver, but nobody was home" even though I sit 2 meters from my front door and nobody has been in my driveway (cameras). When you call them and tell them to come back, they just pretend to call the delivery truck and "he didn't answer".

My fiancé is Danish and i made the decision to try and learn. If i try say more than two words of Danish in Aalborg they just smile then talk English almost like "Appreciate the effort but...please stop" 😅

I just loves your videos about Denmark though you should try it in danish - you have been here for some time 😂😅🤗🧡

It’s nice you say things in danish shows us that you care abot talking danish in Denmark

Argh how can you get better if they stop you 🤦🏻‍♀️ patience is non existing 😬 .. but beside that I laughed Big time. It’s so funny seeing your videoes 😅 Thx for the laugh 🙌🏻

I will accept you for whatever you are. No danish phrases are required. As far as I am concerned you are very welcome here.

I love you two guys. Having worked a lot more years, than I care to think about, in US led coalitions all around the globe, I have learned at least two things: There is noone I love more than americans as individuals. At the same time, there is nothing I fear more, than the US as a system. On the danish Language: -Danish is so difficult, that only around 6 million people are intelligent enough to speak it!!! -Danish is so easy, even small children can speak it!!!! Keep up your spirit and good work.

Well in the North most were of the nordic faith, and the british wanted us to be christians. So the cross on most of the nordic flags make sense. Tho little fun fact: The red on the danish flag, is the symbol of the bloodshed we created for many years.

It isn't just Danish and Dutch getting confused by Americans. Swedes and Swiss also gets mixed up from time to time.

When you cross the bridge by train to Malmö, you can see the danish colors meet Swedish colors. That’s where the border is.

As a Swede in Stockholm the idea that Danish winters are dark sounds funny! :D And Stockholm is only about 1/3 of the way north in Sweden. Denmark and Sweden having had many wars is of course true, but for the first few centuries it's not really Denmark vs Sweden but rather constellations of powerful families against eachother with both sides usually including families based in both kingdoms and many having lands in both kingdoms. Had the Kalmar Union survived all the wars before then might have been seen as pre-unification civil wars instead of counting as wars between Denmark & Sweden.

Also the Dutch is propberly because of stuff like 1864, where we lost most of Jylland to germany, till WW1, and during WW2 we had germany as our rulers, and they forced children to learn german.

Regarding the Nordic flags... The English flag is the reverse color version of Dannebrog

Danish guy here - have been mistaken for dutch, so that meme checks out

The shirt Mike's wearing with the text "lille fredag" means "little friday" which is thursday and is probably the biggest party day after friday and saturday.

Fun part actually is. Denmark is one of the oldest western cultures and nations. First mention was done by the Romans. And because of location they directly and indirectly was the power in Scandinavia for many 100 of years ( South of Sweden and Norway was part of Denmark longer than its been Swedish or Norwegian ) That is why the Scandinavian nations are very much the same, they all spring from Danish. And Denmark was also one of the great powers way back, one of the biggest realms. most wealthy. biggest navy. oldest royal line in the western world. And started many nations up. The pope gave the Danes the right to rule Britain, and in many ways Danish rulers controlled England for many 100 of years, not just during Danelaw. Because the last so called Saxon king was a part of the Danish royal family, so was the people before. And when the Normans came, they used the fact they where connected to the Danish royal family as a way to get the pope to sanction it, because again the pope had given the the danish rulers right to rule England. This actually means around 11% of the English language comes from Danish ( English is in general a new language just as the nation is not that old, so its made up with a lot of older languages, like Danish, also why many have a easier time learning English. ) Point is, when you speak English you actually say many words that comes from the Danish language. For flag. As said Denmark is one of the oldest nations in the western world. Have the oldest royal family in the western world. And have the oldest national flag in the world. Denmark was around before Norway was a thing, Sweden was not even something Swedes knew was gonna happen. England was not an idea. and so on. So this flag is the oldest national flag in the entire world, and also the flag that is most copied. All the Nordic nations have copied the danish flag ( The design is called the Scandinavian cross ) in part because Denmark was for a very long time in control or indirectly in power over the Nordic lands. Other nations, and orders and even companies have also copied the design, making the danish flag the oldest and most used and copied flag.