Brit Reacts to 101 Crazy Facts about Norway Part 1 

Norway has been a member of NATO since 1949 and still is, as a fouding member.. Our former prime minister of Norway is the General of Secretary of NATO as of this date. We are however not a part of EU, as it was said in the video :)

The guy that created the Nobel Prize, Alfred Nobel, is Swedish, but his wife was from Norway and before Alfred died she requested that the peace prize should be held in Oslo.

On languages: Norwegians and Swedes have an easier time communicating with each other in speech, even though Norwegian and Danish are closer related in written text. This is most likely due to Norway being under Danish rule while developing their written language, but always had closer ties to their Swedish neighbors along that lengthy border. (And nobody understands the Danes, or why they insist on speaking like they've got a hot potato (or a piece of Lego) stuck in their throats.) On Svalbard: Considering it's climate and geographical position, I feel it would be common sense that if anyone survives living on Svalbard for 7 years, they've earned their rights to be Norwegian citizens.

The plague is not a myth. BTW his pronunciation is pretty bad. Written Danish is very similar to bokmål, but spoken Swedish is generally easier to understand for a Norwegian. Most Norwegians have watched quite a bit of Swedish TV, especially children's series (based on Astrid Lindgren's books for instance), so we're probably more used to hearing Swedish.

I think you misunderstood a bit... Norway has been a member of NATO since 1949, but NOT a member of the EU.

We are full member of NATO - since 1949

The black plague part is real. The number of survivors is a result of the isolation of some settlements that escaped the plague.

Being half Norwegian I feel we need Norwegian videos as well. 😉😉Thanks Dwayne.

7 years in Svalbard may seem like a loophole to norwegian citizenship . If you like winter 10 months a year and working in the coalmines there 😄It is no sun for 4 months (it is quite close to the northpole) And you have to carry a weapon everywhere because of the polarbears. I would assume that most people from warm countries would find it diffcult to adapt for 7 years in that environment 🥶 But it is stunningly beautiful and wild up there! And there are of course a lot of different jobs to get. Like servise/health/tourisme/different craftsmanwork/teachers etc etc. No one is allowed to recive benefits on the island. If you don`t work you are out. ( pardon my rusty english) Greetings from Norway 👋👋

The black death (bubonic plaugue) is not a myth. It's real and it did kill almost half our population. It pretty much existed in all of Europe, but Norway got hit particularly hard.

danish is like listning to crows chatter, while sweedish is somewhat understandable for us in norway

Regarding your question about Norway and NATO, Norway has been a member since the very start of NATO, which was 1949. Norway was one of the founders along with 11 other countries.

Written Norwegian and written Danish are much more resemblant of eachother while spoken Swedish and spoken Norwegian are more resemblant of eachother. :) But if we go back in time there was runic Danish and runic Swedish which was essentially the same language. And in this trend, Norwegian did not share those resemblances. Which is a possible link to why Norwegian, Faroese and Icelandic fall under their own branch called "West-norse" :) Danish and Swedish share the east-norse branch.

14:15. Dwayne. As a Norwegian I'm shortly explaining to you about the union of Sweden, Norway & Denmark. (The way we're taught in school.) Norway was a country affiliated with the other two (Sweden & Denmark), a little more forward the Swedish just left us with Danish, we became our own nation but the Norwegian language (at least writing language) is based off of Danish. Two people: Ivar Aasen & Knud Knudsen made Nynorsk (Aasen) & Bokmål (Knudsen). Nynorsk is based off of the farmers' dialects and the Bokmål is a Norwegian version of Danish. Both the two were teachers and saw kids had a hard time writing Danish while they spoke Norwegian. So they made the two writing languages to make school easier. In 1814 we got our own rules. But it wasn't until 1905 we were 100% our own country with Norwegian leaders. So shortly told: Sweden left us with Denmark, Denmark "gave up on us" around like 1850's I think, then Sweden took over again and in 1905 we were our own independent country. (Other Norwegians if I'm wrong please correct me.)😅

We are a member of Nato sins 1949. The british military comes here to joine the Cold respons training every other year.

One important thing to know is that The Nobel peace prize is IN Norway, not from.

6:55 - It's an "intentional loophole". The government is trying to incentivize more residents in Svalbard to make it more prosperous. So there are no VAT tax there, nearly no tax at all actually, and, as the fact here states, you are on Norwegian soil when you're on Svalbard and don't need a visa to go to that exact place. (Getting there can be a bit of a challenge though), after 7 years you should be granted citizenship automatically, but you can apply after just 2-3 years. But to be honest, I don't know of any way to get to Svalbard without first going through mainland Norway =) (so it requires a visum anyway to just get onto whatever transport up there)

Fact about the early winter Olympics, it was not uncommon for norwegian participants to travel far to join in on this event. it's documented that a surprisingly large amount of participants traveled more than twice the distance of the olympic race itself on their skies in order to join. And it was also considered a honor to host and offer these participants a room in your home during this event. So these participants was treated almost as if they were royalties/celebrities by the local community.

We are still a member of NATO, we have been since 1949, it's EU we're not a member of but we are a member of the EFTA (European Free Trade Association). We had two votes on whether or not to join the EU, in 1972 (53.5% against) and in 1994 (52.2% against).

I was born next to the Swedish border so shopping in Sweden was a big deal. Like Pippi in the candy store. Still a thing, especially for us who don't live that far from the border. Some products are 3 times more expensive in Norway, and ofc it's not fish oil at the "Systembolag" we are looking for. And hark hark, some of us, other cancer stuff. Growing up in Norway with Pippi Longstocking and Emil on the TV. Good memories. All the great things from the writer Astrid Lindgren made me learn and speak the language pretty well. No doubt Norwegians understand/speak better Swedish than the other way around. Swedes - take that as a complement. You have and still produce so much good entertainment. You guys influence us. Music, movies, and writers.

Oh, and Norwegians loves to be praised. Talk friendly about Norway in front of Norwegians and you'll have a friend for life. This comes from the fact that we are deeply aware how small and insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things, so when larger countries talk about Norway in a flattering way it's almost a national news sensation.

Yea you need to check werevsvarbard is and what is there and what work you can get. Its not rly a loophole..

Sure, you can move to Svalbard, but there's NO social services, so if you don't have a job, you better be rich. There's a bit of a lack of buildings, too, and I wouldn't suggest sleeping outside, even in the summer. There's a reason why everyone is required to carry a rifle when leaving town. WWI, while Norway was neutral, some Norwegians fought on the side of the British. Tryggve Gran, who flew from Scotland, across the North Sea to Norway in 1914(just when the war broke out, actually) became an officer in the Norwegian Army Airforce in 1915, and in 1916 he joined the British air force under the name of Teddy Grant, with a Canadian Passport. He is believed to be the one who shot down Herman Göring, the man who later became head of the German Luftwaffe. (I believe they met during WWII, and compared notes) He also refused to take part in an attack of a German city during WWI because the Kaiser was supposedly there. Tryggve Gran actually KNEW the bloke and didn't want to join the hunt. The Kaiser was actually pretty well-known and respected here in Norway. He organised the rebuilding of the town Ålesund after it burned down. And his ship was a common sight along the coast.

Norway is a member of NATO but not the EU. :) Norway`s former prime minister Jens Stolltenberg has been the leader of NATO since 2014.

Lots of history in Norway. Where I live is the church from the 12th century. The oldest parts of the church are 924 years old. Greetings from Norway.

Both danish and Swedish are very similar to norwegian, however Swedish is more similar when it comes to speaking, and danish is more similar when it comes to writing

The reason the King fled to England and stayed there during the war is because he himself was related to the english royal house and so was his wife. She was an English princess before coming the queen of Norway.

Bruh how can you forget something you heard in the video less than 10 seconds later. like saying Norway is not in NATO right after the video told you it is, the leader of NATO is a Norwegian politician. not in the EU. the EU and NATO are not the same thing.

The Svalbard loophole; good luck with 7 years of darkness and depression - to become a Norwegian! :D

If I’m happy? It depends how you define happiness, but I feel happy when watching your reactions. The answer is yes to your other questions from the video.

Alfred Nobel is from Sweden so all other Nobel prizes are awarded in Sweden. For some reason the Peace Price is awarded in Norwway. Fun fact: Alfred Nobel did advent the gun powder:)

The Danish Language is closer to Norwegian than Swedish, but Danes sound like there’s a potato stuck in their throat when they’re talking, so we often understand Swedes better.

Denmark is closer to Norway- 434 years in a union. We were a founding NATO member and still are member, General Secretary is Norwegian.

Yup we shops in Sweeden. And we call it the Harry trip

5:48 No. Sweden and Norway has two very different cultures from each other. but yes some people in norway go shopping in sweden, not every day obv, and now the currency is almost identical so there is no point.

I think you got tripped up by the quick commentary there buddy. They said we joined the UN after WW2, that we are a founding member of NATO, and that we've never joined EU despite our close ties to the union.

The Nobel Prize is Swedish, but Norway was in union with Sweden, so that is why the Peace Prize has ended up in Norway.

I'd say that the written form of Danish and Norwegian Bokmål are incredibly close, because Bokmål actually stemmed from Danish, and was (and still is) more common in cities and bigger towns, where the elite lived. Nynorsk is a fair bit different, and is, ironically, the *older* form of Norwegian, despite the name literally translating to "New-Norwegian". This is because after Bokmål had been established, Ivar Andreas Aasen, who considered himself a Norwegian patriot, wandered Norway on foot to basically combine different dialects all around the country's countrysides, where they didn't speak the form of Norwegian that had been combined with Danish, into... well, its own written form of Norwegian.

5:57, oh yes. The ruler/powerful/higher ranks people was mad at us shopping in Sweden so often because we use our money in Sweden and therefor Sweden gets it. So they said shopping in Sweden is “Harry” which means weird, they wanted a negative impression on it to stop people from shopping in Sweden. That didn’t work though, the people just named the daily visit in Sweden for “Harry-tur” y’know, ‘weird trip/strange trip’ something like that. It would be like: “want to come join in a Harry-tur?”

Gamlebyen is the same as The old town. I was born in Gamlebyen and lived there til I was 6 years.

We are a founding member of BATO, but we are not in the EU. We are sort of, via the EØS, together with Switserland and Island. Jens Stoltenberg....fotmer prime minister of Norway is now secretary general of NATO. We are VERY much a part of NATO, but partial members of the EU. :)

I think Norway is the fourth most cloudy 🌨️ ☁️☁️☁️ country on the world 🌎

The danish the language is closer to Norwegian because one of the fonts is more like Danish than the other font

As mentioned above, Norway is and has always been part of NATO, we are however not part of the EU.

in regards to your question about language similarities, written norwegian is closer to written danish while spoken norwegian is closer to spoken swedish. both the norwegians and the swedes makes fun of the way danes speak by claiming danes speak like they have a potato(sometimes watermelon) in their throat.

19:20 - weell... they were REALLY sorry about it... But common, we assisted a LOT in preventing Hitler from getting nukes. The sabotage (by norwegians, trained in the UK) of the heavywater plant here. That was a big step towards preventing the nazis of getting nuclear weapons during 2nd world war. (then the US did the silly thing of dropping them on Japan when they got it developed.).. War.... what is it good for?.... absolutely nada

Ah, you had a slight misunderstanding, first he said Norway was a founding member of NATO, but then he said not a part of EU. We have signed the EEA; European Economic Area (same as Island and Lichstenstein), and the Schengen agreement. So we have a lot of cooperation and regulations that EU menbers have, but not all of it and can negotiate some things. (Would probably be a good idea also for UK?). There were some other things you asked us elaborate on as well, for instance the history and Scandinavian languages. The scandinavian countries (Norway, Island, Sweeden and Denmark was called the norse culture and had the norse culture in common. It was sort of a branch of the germanic cultures and further the indo-european of course. The tribes in Europe were gobbeled up by the romans, and later the pope church, and then crazy Charlemagne. The scandinavian norse culture had both the advantage of geography, but also gerilja warfare against the curches and monastairies, and what we call the viking age started in 791 with the attack on Lindesfarne monastary in England. The scandinavians had intel that Alkuin, Charlemagnes propaganda minister were supposed to be there, but he had canselled the trip. Anyway, the norse fought to keep their culture, religion and self governance. The viking age WAS like Game of Thrones, especially in Norway, kings were murdered all the time. And sometimes the scandinavian countries went to war with eachother (often with complicates schemes), but most of the time they were good friends and cooperated on in stead of being victimes of massacres as germanic and celtic tribes in rest of Europe was, the norse attacked, settled and with great success traded with vast aerias in a lot of directions. Amongst other things were founders of Dublin, founders of Kyiv together with locals and so on. But over to the scandinavian languages, as I said it was a sort of unified culture already long before the viking age. After 2/3 of the norwegian population were exterminated by the black plague, in 1349, we got help from Denmark to rebuild societal structures, and there were some drama between Norway, Sweeden and Denmark for some hundred years. Norway were basically exploited by the others up until we made our own constitution in 1914, and won our independence in 1905. Not without drama. So Norway were kind of fed up by the others, but rebuildt greatly by the advantage of lots of wood, fish and our waterfalls for energy. We took a blow in WWII, but got Marshall help from the americans, and basically got pretty wealthy, and then we struck oil and got super wealthy. Our socialism and welfare system helped a lot to get that wealthy. First of all we denied nobles after our independence, and since we have a lot of villages at the coast and hard weather people had to help eachother to survive (as it always have been through the ages), wich strenghened local democracy. Our form of religion afther the age of enlightenment we adopted the lutherian branch of protestantism, wich made greed a sin. If someone got wealthy the wealth were used to build local societies. As a lot of fishermen died at sea, everyone chipped in to a fund to help the widows and families, and thus the welfare system were made. It has nothing to do with oil, although then we could expand the social equality further. The oil fund were set up from start, and the revenues was owned by the people, not oligarcs. During the time we were under Denmark they changed the names on the map, they changed peoples last names, and as most of the academics studied in Denmark and books were published in danish, it sort of were a influence that were... not norwegian, the way we speak. There are a LOT of dialectes in Norway, due to the spread out settlements, so a guy called Ivar Aasen travelled through the whole of Norway and collected the dialectes, and launched the "new, but old) language of nynorsk (new norwegian) in 1850, based on a cross section of the dialects. Approximately 25% of Norway uses it, and that means geographically vast areas of our country, but not in the large cities, wich is why the percentage seems low. Also another question you asked were about the Nobel Peace price. Alfred Nobel were influenced by the philosophical ideas of liberal internationalism, inspired by british thinkers actually. A lot of norwegian intellectuals were, in addition to the democratic ideas from the french revolution and all that stuff, so also people like Fridtjof Nansen, that in additional to having rock star status in the world from his expeditions engaged in refugees and basicly set the standards for the international rules of refugees rights in the world today. Much of our socialism today we have really cool people that when living in exile diaspora in Europe visioned what Norway should be and fought for the constitution and independence. It was important to fight the hegemony of the elites and nobles (that we had endured under Denmark and Sweeden, and give the power back to the ordinary people. They also had national romantic ideas about the hardship and pride of fishermen and farmers, and also wanted to fight poverty and win womens rights. When we won independence their ideas to a great extent were implimented. Sorry about the TL:DR text here, but could be handy stuff to know about Norway.

Norwegian and Danish language and are similar in written language, but Norwegian and Swedish people understand each other when we talk. Here in Norway we say Danish sound language sounds like they have a potato in the throat when they speak 🙈😆. And Norwegian and Swedish people have problems understanding the counting of numbers the Danish people do 😛

Norwegains shop in sweden, however swedes seeks work in Norway.

During ww2 Norway was only really neutral by name as they allowed British ships to sail in Norwegian waters. After a confrontation of a British and a German ship in Norwegian waters (I don’t remember the details) Norway helped the chose to help the British ship and the Germans caught in to the biased neutrality and invaded Norway 😋😋

Danish is more simular to Norwegian(Bokmål) writing/typing, but in oral communication, swedish is closer to the Norwegian laguage. Norwegian (nynorsk) is not close to any of them. Bokmål was made of danish. we didnt know how to write, so we learned it from danes. Therefor a man named "Ivar Aasen" went across the country and listen to different dialects and norwegian language and made "Nynorsk" which means "New Norwegian" in english. but Bokmål is the most used writing language

So as mentioned in the video Norwegian, Danish and Swedish are all languages that have things in common and Norway has been the weaker partner in unions with both Denmark and Sweden. What I have experienced is that in written form if you use Bokmål, then danish is closer to norwegian. However a lot of people, especially those living in the eastern part of Norway, will say that orally swedish is closer to norwegian.🙂

A lot of Norwegian people go shopping in Sweden ❤

18:00 - yes. We are not in the EU... you missed that he wasn't talking about NATO (which we are in). We just have the EØS-agreement, making a lot of deals to compromise "being in the EU" while not actually in. You guys just went out of EU, so... hehe.

as a norwegian, i think swedish sounds like a feminine/''gay'' version of norwegian. and danish sounds like.. well danish sounds like, imagine seeing someone drowning and they come up try to shout but theire mouths is full of water and they make all gagging sounds etc. thats how they sound to us :) i live 5 min away from the border and i understand most swedish, but i know some people on the west coast and they really struggle to understand swedish. might be because of dialects too.

This video should almost be named: "101 facts about Oslo" xD

If people wanna live on Svalbard and they survive for 7yrs, they deserve to become a Norwegian 😂

so bokmål (book language) is most similar to danish, but nynorsk ( new norwegian) is mostly simmilar to swedish

Danish is easier to read as a Norwegian, as our written language is very close to Danish. Spoken, Norwegian has a LOT of dialects, and they often differ quite a lot from official written Norwegian. Swedish is easier than Danish to understand by hearing it, it sounds a lot more similar.

Norway was a founding member of nato in 1949 and we’ve been member since 1949. But we are not a eu member. Also living in Svalbard for 7 years means that you need to work. There’s no social service there

5:54 / 19:39 YES, but not only in sweeden, but also in Finnland and in russia

14:10 - very interesting question. Most of us understand every other. (except for people in Oslo. They don't understand anyone. Even the norwegian dialects. xD). Southern Norwegians (like myself) have a much more distinct "danish accent" in our dialect. Further north, things start sounding more Swedish and Finnish. But for the most part, Sweden, Denmark, and Norway, can speak each others languages, since they are, kinda, the same one... Written danish is nearly indistinguishable from written norwegian. (Written in "bokmål" that is... Not the stupid "new norwegian" or "Nynorsk" that is a language we're trying to "make" that is our own. For the most part, people here don't like it).

3:33 As a Norwegian I'm constantly filled with the joysies. Every day is a new opportunity to froth over with happiness and exitement. Sure, the rural areas are boring and the cities are mostly expensive shopping centeres, and the bars are regulated in a way to prohibit people from getting intoxicated. Although you can manage to catch a buzz in the over priced bar, they are legally not allowed to get you drunk. This sort of failure to allow adults to be personally responsible, is part of the reason why people have such bad drinking habits. It's socially acceptable to get wrecked on a Saturday, but to have a beer in the week is a sign of alcholism. This is all a bit crude and simplified of course, but the gist of it is that, although I personally am ecstatic to live in such a cold and caring society, we're sort of treated as oversized toddlers. So in our ignorance, there's a lot of bliss. We don't worry much about the cost of schooling, healthcare, social wellfare, security, but we are also quite arrogant and ignorant to the actual state of the world. We are cushioned by our nice national government media who serve as propaganda disseminators when neccesary. It's all good and dandy in my life as a Norwegian. However I can't help but feel as something is missing... Something important. With rising tensions and increased conflict surrounding parts of the community, there seem to be an identity crisis amongst the younger generation. I think we need to take back control of our nation, but people in general are quite happy with how the state choose to run things. What might save us is the influx of people and their additional cultural baggage. If we don't start to get right with God, then this whole nation shall go to pieces. A lot of foreigners seem to know this and remind us. Let's not forget what the cross in our flag stands for. It's good we seperated state and church because the church has become incompetent. Yet we must not seperate our lifes from God, because that is to be cosmically and universally suicidal. Much love breddas and sistars.

I don't get why there's a debate in the comments. Norway is a founding member of NATO, we've got the former prime minister as Secretary General in NATO. Done deal. While there was some debate about how much each country contribute out of their budgets we're still full members.

Yes i am from Norway

Kristiania is Danish, as name, from the Danish king

The black deth, or as we here in norway call it svarte dauen realy happend, and it cilled about 60-65% of our population

And after that -We almost started a nuclear holocaust incident. A Norwegian comedy trio called KLM made an absolute mockery of the Russian President. Not the first time either might I add. The poor US President with sleepless nights thinking about the pending threat of nuclear war. And up there in the North, some snow-people makes fun of the one who can and will press the launch button.

The Christmas tree, or Yule tree as we call it, has another connection. In Norwegian, the species is named Gran, but in English, it is named Norway Spruce and it was given that name by the British. So it's only fitting that you should get your Norway Spruce from Norway. :)

Danish and Norwegian are basically identical in written language while swedish and Norwegian is very alike in speaking language. There is debate if swedish, danish and Norwegian actually should be each their language instead of just dialects of each other

UK 67mill, Norway 5.5mill, UK 244km2 norway 385km2

Swede’n language is more similar to Norway’s,but the way they write is closest to the Danish written language.😊

I am from Norway and we used to be the nr1 happiest country in the world. Being second best just makes me depressed... :D /jk

spoken language is closest to swedish, but written language is much closer to danish.

Norway is a part of NATO and has been that a long time, but we are not a member of EU. I have never heard about the newclear bomb , so I don’t believe that

The "Scandinavian" languages are a bit.... weird. Technically Swedish and Danish is closer related to each other and Norwegian and Icelandic are closer related. This is if you look at a language tree, where Norwegian and Icelandic are on the "old WEST Norse" branch and Swedish and Danish is on the "ols EAST Norse" branch of the "north Germanic" branch. BUT, modern Norwegian is heavily Danishified and came from "middle Norwegian" and "Dano-Norwegian" two forms of Norwegian that existed during the Kalmar Union. However, Norwegian isn't just Norwegian. We have a lot of spoken dialects and two different written forms. We have "bokmål" (book form) and "nynorsk" (new-Norwegian). Nynorsk is a written form of Norwegian that was created as a combination of "all" Norwegian dialects and ironically even tho it is called NEW Norwegian, it has more in common with old Norwegain than bokmål. Bokmål on the other hand is a written form based on Danish, and closely resembles how the Oslo dialect is spoken. So even tho Swedish and Danish technically are closer related to each other than to Norwegian, modern Norwegian is so closely based on Danish that Norwegian and Danish practically are closer

Norwegian is basically Danish, but pronounced in Swedish.

Yes

The writing form in Norwegian me more close will danish writing and it when it comes to speaking Swedish is closest

we are in Nato but as EU or Europa we are not meaning we do not use the € currency

Some historical points: Norway habitually beat Sweden in wars, so losing in 1814 was unusual. Denmark and Norway was forced on Napoleon's side after UK stole the Danish ships. They would prefer to stay neutral. The union of Sweden and Norway was very loose. The referendum in 1905 was not according to every rules of election, even lacking the "no" alternative several places. It's not Hakon, but more Hawkon.

We are closer talking Danish and writing Swedish

"Akerselva" and "Akerselven" is just slang... "River - Rivah..." - The Akers River/Akers Rivah. AND the fact that was missing here is that the Akerselva/Akerselven splits the city into east side and west side. East side is more chill/laid back slang-way of speaking while the west side is more correct. .......Snobby xD EAST SIDE is the best!

8:15 We have ALWAYS been part of NATO, for as long as NATO has existed. Its the EU we voted No too twise.

Swedish is closer to norwegian by far. They dont even need to speak slow for me to understand what they are saying xD

they are both simaler ro norway i know that since i am a norwaigen and i like this vid

Oh sister language is Swedish. I am from Norway.

Does anybody know what happened to 101 facts ?

1/10 of Finland is part of the Scandinavia peninsula, but not considered part of Scandinavia. 0/10 of Denmark is part of the Scandinavian peninsula, yet it is considered included because Denmark once ruled southern Sweden. Thus, strictly speaking, only Norway and Sweden are parts of Scandinavia. Scandinavia is a geographical term while The Nordic is a political one and includes whatever countries are in favor of severe legalized coercion and theft.

And you misunderstood. Norway is part of Nato but not EU.

Danish are closer to Norwegian in writing but unless a Danish person slows down when speaking i would have trouble understanding, i have also experienced having to switch to English for them to understand me.

I'm from Svalbard

The "ghost ship" from England is not a myth, but it has later been thought to be inaccurate. It did arrive with the black death (svartedauden) which was a bubonic plague in 1949, but there is evidence of people getting sick with it in 1948, before this ship arrived. With regards to NATO we are and always have been a member, they however changed very quickly to the EU of which we are not a member and there has been two referendums where we voted no to membership in the EU. And with regards to the research rocket from Andøya - the first president of Russia after the disolvement(?) of the soviet union, was known to be a bit on endge (and frequently drunk), which have been the butt of many jokes and satires. We like making fun of our neighbours I guess, as we have lots of jokes about the swedes as well...

The danish language is closer to Norwegian than swedish

We have been a member of NATO for more than 70 years😂

Hell is old norse for cliff. nothing to do with the devil and stuff like that.

so is findland at 1 st then danmark and then is norway

Ghost ship arriving in Bergen, in 1349... Black Death.

did he Bokmål and Nyorsk, Bokmål is correct, but Nyorsk doesn't quite add up, it's Nynorsk not Nyorsk. it's supposed to be Nynorsk and Bokmål, but about 85%-90% off the population still uses Bokmål.

look in on christiania in denmark, its a intressting story.