Prince Frederik is now King Frederik as the Queen stepped down early this year... Robe Trotting have ALOT of good content about denmark so keep watching :)
As a Norwegian, I'm quite envious of all the stunning architecture (especially all the castles), parks, avenues, etc. Yes, we have gorgeous nature over here, but the "human made" outdoor stuff in Denmark is unrivaled.
And i envy your nature more than anything, I'm an outdoorsy person and it's getting difficult finding new places here to explore 😂.. And I do think that Oslo have some great architecture as well...😊
The English Royal family has danish influence all the way back to its begining. William the conquer 1066 was of danish heritage ( his Norman father & grandfather identified themselves as Danes ) and even in current time - Queen Elizabeth’s husbond - Prince Phillip was a danish Prince.
@@frankhermansen243 Yes, and Rollo came from Normandy. The part of France nordic vikings got for not causing trouble in the rest of France. Normandy means "Les Normands" - people from the North.
@@lonejensen5798 yes the france king convinced him to join after paris had been set on fire, and he got the coast parts (normandie) so the vikings wouldn't attack through the rivers again.
This video is a bit outdated. Queen Margrethe II abdicated on 14 Jan of this year after exactly 52 years on the throne so Frederik X is now the King of Denmark.
what i love the most, is to see 2 guys not born Danish, talking so proudly about my contry. thanks, and i have seen a lot of the videos they have put out on youtupe, nice guys
Well, if we are talking about famous Danish actors, then obviously Mads Mikkelsen and his brother Lars Mikkelsen ( Grand Admiral Thrawn, but also known from The Witcher, Sherlock and as the Russian president in House of Cards), just as the highest paid actress in Hollywood Scarlett Johansson is a Danish-American citizen and likewise Viggo Mortensen, Connie Nielsen (The Devil's Advocate, Rushmore, Mission to Mars, Gladiator, One Hour Photo and Queen Hippolyta in the DC superhero films Wonder Woman and Justice League among plenty of other films), Jesper Christensen (the Spectre villain Mr. White who survive to be in 3 James Bond movies and get to bump off Mads Mikkelsen), Nikolaj Lie Kaas (the assassin Mr. Gray who keep trying to bump off Tom Hanks in Angels & Demons), Amanda Collin ('Mother' in the HBO Sci-Fi series Raised by Wolves), Claes Bang (The Northman and as Count Dracula in the 2020 TV series Dracula) and so the list goes on.
Did you really say that “they have beaches in Denmark?”. Almost every country has beaches, except for the countries surrounded by other countries of course.
It is probably the distance to a beach that is interesting. Denmark is a country of mostly small islands, so no one lives more than 52 km from the sea.
A lot of these facts surprised me as well. As a Swede, I obviously knew a few of them, having visited Denmark a bunch of times, but not all. I've actually never been to Copenhagen, living in Gothenburg it is easier for me to take the ferry to Fredrikshavn (in northern Denmark, Copenhagen is in the south), but going there for Pride is now on my bucket list.
Denmark was also the first country in the world to legalize pornography. 😅 First time watching your vids - and damn you are easy on the eyes and ears. I like that you listen instead of talking all the time as some do. And you are right there are many similarities between the UK and Denmark - even the humour is the same... So come visit us. We'd love to see you make a video about your Danish experience...
Fun to hear you say, Denmark is actually a lot closer to Britain than you thought. So true man! Danes and Brits share the same dark sarkastic humour, that is often troublesome for other ppls to fully comprehend. Swedes are the orderly Scandinavians (read The Germans). Norway are the funny Scandics - bordering silly. Danes are just bunkers man! We're raving bunkers. Give us a shout, when you go to CPH. Will happily show you places and stuff. Greetings from CPH...
As a Dane I can say that their pronunciation is actually good. Many people have a hard time pronouncing Danish words, but It can be done better than they do. If you ever go to Denmark, make sure to do your homework. The video is 3 years old, so some of the comments about modern day isn't true anymore, plus there is a lot to learn about Denmark. They only cover like 5% of the interesting facts about Denmark. Just wanted to correct you on what you said at 19:06 Denmark has a age restriction on buying alcohol same with cigarettes. But many sellers are bad at checking id. You can't just buy it.(According to the law) Btw. the fact that many people don't know that Lego is from Denmark, annoys many Danes. It also annoys many Danes that people say that the plural of Lego is Logos, even though it's Lego (One Lego, more Lego).
My own long description short of Denmark is that it’s a simpler version of England; only we drink coffee instead of tea (and sometimes even at the oddest times, day or night).
Also our princesses are both foreigners but they dont speak a little bit better, thats an insult. The Americans in Denmark that i know would need to live in Denmark for 200 years to sound anywhere near what Mary or Marie does. They're closer to Sandi Toksvig from QI thanthese guys. Sandi is not the only dane in England thats well known, you had a guy on Antiques roadshow in the 90s, he was just like a dane as well. Both have kept their danish alive whilst living in England, i did the same with English when moving to Denmark.
Hello! I have been to England many times. I Love England. Especially the countryside and all the little villages and pubs. Also love London which I think is a big city with many small villages (neighborhoods). You have preserved all the old houses and made them modern in the inside. I think Denmark is a lot like England. Many people actually say that. I live in Sweden but like to go to Denmark as it is not far from where I live. 2.5 hours by train and you are in Copenhagen. I think you will love Denmark. What is special about Denmark and food are various small sandwiches (It's called Smörrebröd). Eat it with a "Tuborg" and "En lille en" That is, a beer and a schnapps Have fun in Denmark.
Rosenborg slot is truely very beautiful. I am danish and pass by Rosenborg castle everyday on my way to school, ill never find it boring to look at! Another thing... Not getting asked for ID would be a lie, Ive been asked for ID plenty of times. I feel like they are guessing our age at this point lol. Cause they dont ask for ID from my friends, they appear older than me, when infact im 2 years older.
Danish pastries evolved from Vienesse pastry, and so visiting Wien, you´ll find it hard to find the comparison today. Same goes for the Wienerschnitzel and Wiener-sausage.
Some call us the "Latinos" of Scandinavia/The Nordics. But we are much closer, culturally with the Nordics than the south - we are not loud in public (unless we are drunk) and we also liked it when corona ended and the 2 meter rule stopped, so we could go back to 5 meters in distance to others xD
LEGO of course is from Denmark. Been to Legoland with amazing Lego buildings, astles and many other things. An amusement park too. The most famous danish musician is Lars Ulrich of Metallica.
The UK? haha we ruled the UK before it became a kingdom infact it was because of Danish Vikings breaking the smaller kingdoms within england that made it possible to unite all the UK. They are supposed to check the age before selling the alcohol 16 for light alcohol and 18 for hard alcohol but rarely is it controlled as young people just get a buyer if they are denied. You should properly watch a video on the Danelaw when Danes set up shop in UK
Derek and his Husband Michael have been living in CPH now, for 7 years. There Danish has improved 😀 Born and mostly raised in CPH, these two guys taught me a lot about my own City and our History! There research is top notch ! I've checked ! He said in the "EU". Norway is not part of the EU ! Yes! The UK was the largest producer of Oil in the EU, before Brexit! Dude..., come on 🤣 ! You should have been taught much of this in School.....☺! I do like your react though 👍❤ 👍 !!
"u have beaches in Denmark? i didnt know that" Denmark only has 0.2% of it's border being land, the part connecting Denmark to Germany, with the last 99.8% being water, so yeah, we have beaches... in fact, we have so many beaches, u can take every single person living in Denmark, and they can have a 1 meter wide beach space for your self, from where the water starts, to wherever it ends inland... small correction to the Danish pastries... Danish and Austrian bakers came together, when they all came to Denmark, taking the best they had, and mixed it with the best we had, making the Danish pastery what it is today, but we call the base dough that we use for most of it, 'vinerbrød', translation, Vienna bread, but in Austria, after they came back home, they took the base bread with them, and called it 'Kopenhagener plunder', translation, Copenhagen bread, so we honour their help to us, by naming the bread after their Capital, and they honour our help to them, by naming their bread after our Capital... the Danish flag, is the oldest continuous flag in the world, not the oldest over all...
Yes Denmark and UK is very similar in a lot of ways. Much of english is actually old norse, like cow (ko) is norse and beef (boef) is french. But especially I think about english influence during and after WW2, where everything was inspired from the UK/US culture (not like before WW2, where it was inspired by Germany).
I don't think that guy could have found a placce in Copenhagen with a harder name to pronounce than Gråbrødre Torv. Yes he did not even come close, but hats off for trying.
Our Crown Prince, who is now King, was told by his parents, that he could not marry a Dane - not sure about the oil thing. I also think Norway is most producing
There are alot of similarities between Britain and Denmark. Maybe it’s not do surprising considering all the vikings that first raided, then settled in Britain. Lot’s of english words, road names and such are actually danish words🇩🇰
@@dwaynesview True, the Norwegians mainly settled in Ireland and Scotland but there were Danes in Ireland as well from around 849 Ad and they came as conquers. The Danes back then was much more organized compared to the Norwgians, raising large armies in which there would obviously also have been both Norwegians and Sweds as there was ties (for good and wores) across Scandinavia, but Denmark was the "political powerhouse" at that time.
Once Denmark owned Sweden and Norway and England, but at one time pledged to German Barons.... but we got it back. We have a lot of British brotherhood and I'm so sorry Brexit put a big gap between our brothers and sisters on the British isles. Please come and visit us, I believe you'll love it. Have you heard of the Danelaw in your history lessons? Our languages are very similar and a lot of places in England have Danish origins.... Welcome to Denmark brother🤗
Hi, I have seen some of their videos and I, as a Dane, think they are doing a good job. As to their pronunciation in Danish are ok, but the Danish language is hard get right as a foreigner. Many Danes enjoy themselves with foreigners who try to speak Danish and come up with the classic Danish language tests: "Rødgrød med følde" translated: Red porridge with cream. You pas the test if Danes isn't laughing their asses off. ;D
I didnt know where he was even though ive been to gråbrødre torv many times.. we rarely understand English speakers speaking danish. I follow some Americans that live in Cph and i never understand where they've been when the husband speaks.... But English speakers are alwas 99% wrong when trying to pronounce danish words.. but how can we not have the oldest kingdom when we have a longer history than most places ? The flag is the oldest as well...
the only law on alcohol in denmark is that you are not allowed to buy alcohol under the age of 16 for alcohol under 16,5% and anything above that you need to be 18, you also arent allowed to buy alcohol for underage people. so you can drink alcohol at any age, but not buy it
Denmark was the original colonial oppressor, having colonies spread from north America to India. Centuries before the British Empire. All the other Nordic countries once broke their shackles and liberated themselves from the Danish yoke. Iceland was the most recent, about a generation ago.
Hmmm 🤔, where did my comment go … strange, will have to try again then: Hey there, dear Dwayne 🏴 You’re doing a great job and I’m really happy for you, that you have finally “discovered” Denmark 🇩🇰 … ;-) Hope for you to one-day being able to go there and see respectively experience things (plus country and people) for yourself. Looking forward to more of your reaction videos, especially (now) as to themes regarding and relating to Denmark. If you’re into history and/or how countries relate to each other and/or are affected by wars, then maybe also dive into the years 1848-1850 / 1864 / 1920 where Denmark fought wars against Prussia/Austria, thus lost big parts of the country and then (1920) got parts of it back (relating also to Germany losing World War I). That’s why still today we have a Danish minority in Germany 🇩🇪 and a German minority in Denmark 🇩🇰.
Oh wow! I can't wait to take a deep dive into your history, monarchy, and culture. I've been learning about Sweden and Finland so much that it's time to learn about you guys, too. There is so much rich history that im missing out on.
Take your time, @@dwaynesview, will be following your channel and looking forward to contents not only about Denmark … ;-) Hope, you enjoyed my support-coffee ☕️ - cheers
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He speaks really bad Danish when you think about how long they have lived in Denmark. In another video I saw, he couldn’t even pronounce the letters æ, ø and å.
Brits and Danes have been mixing for many decades , the first we know of is when Jutes, Angles, Saxons and Frisians migrated to Britain, the Jutes and Angles were from Jutland Denmark, later you have the Vikings and for a while they ruled England most well known for Brits is King Canute/Cnut who was a Danish King ruling England, Denmark and Norway he is burid in England, I also believe his father Svein Forkbeard died in England and I don't think he has been found, dna testing of Anglo-Saxons and Danish Vikings show Anglo-Saxon dna is very similar to modern day Danes and Dutch and Danish Viking dna is indistinguishable to Aglo-Saxon dna =same people diff. tribes , Danes and Brits have love of beer, football and irony/sarcasm in common as well as the weather , what is very different though is Britain is much more a hierarchical society compare to Denmark , we also have a similar flag to the St. George both is sad to be inspired from crusaders , Denmark just officially started using the flag for the country earlier than what is confirmed in England however they are more or less from the same period
Hvilken Knud? - Knud d. Hellige flygtede fra England og ned gennem Jylland og nåede Fyn og Odense hvor han døde. Hans grav er nu i domkirken i Odense - Skt. Knuds Kirke.
There are indeed a lot of cultural and linguistic similarties in Denmark with England / Britain for historical reasons. So a lot of the basic words are actually surprisingly similar to their English counterparts - often just a slightly alternative spelling or some simple and quite systematic sound shifts apart- as are several grammatical features, and It's therefore fairly easy for Danes - and the other Scandinavians with their very similar languages ( Norwegian & Swedish ) - to learn English, since we by magic already "know" a lot of the basics of English in advance as well as large chunks of the overall structure - and therefore don't have to think very much most of the time 😊 Check out the brilliant video from Langfocus called "Viking Influence on the English Language" to see how this unexpected linguistic situation came about, and how profoundly the very complex and highly inflected Old English (Anglo-Saxon) language was transformed in this long lasting fusion process between the already closely related OE & Old Norse languages into a whole new much simplified and completely restructured Germanic creole language that is often much more similar to its Scandinavian cousin languages than to its originally West Germanic sibling languages ( Frisian, Dutch & Low "German" (from Saxon)). 😊
I simply do not understand why you post something on your RU-vid platform that others have shown. It's pure copy and in my world it's only to get as many views on your channel as possible to score measly mammon. Sad to see many RU-vidrs using this unsympathetic method.
To be honest, as a Swede, i would recomend Denmark more than Sweden. Why? More relaxed atmosphere, while Sweden is a more highspeed working type of society and people are a bit cold during workhours, Denmark has a more relaxed feel to it. The food and beer is also better in my opinion. And its a bit more south so the climate is a bit more stable. Sweden is better for winter in the north (Southern Sweden only has rain during winter) Denmark is better in the summer.
Yeah, if someone is looking for a white xmas, there's a much greater chance amongst our more northern brothers. Statistically, our chance is 7% iirc. And the reason we have so many beaches is because we have no mountains, apart from on the island of Bornholm. Edit: our weather resembles that of the UK much more, because of the gulf stream, and lack of larger land masses.
@@dgh25 😄 costa Kalundborg... especially this particular week... we haven't had this kind of late summer for almost 80 years. But have to say that this is not normal.
@@darkheart9044 true, true... but Norway and Sweden also have lots of coast, but a rather large amount of it is either cliffs or rather rocky "beaches"... the coastline of DK is much more sandy.
Wienerbrød/Danish pastry is a Danish invention. In Vienna, they call it a Kopenhagener. What got imported from Austria was the croissant, which was invented in Vienna. It got adjusted to Danish taste in Denmark, by adding sugar and more butter. And by adding jam, custard or frosting.
@@klausolekristiansen2960 or marzipan in the croissant 🥐 like 7-11 have/had not sure if they still do, haven't been in one for years now. But that one was sooo gooooood 🤤😂
Well, its a truth, but not a complete one. It WAS the Viennese bakers who opened up Denmark to sugared bread with such things as marzipan and iced glazing and the like, jam probably being a Danish addition to that new thought and easily adopted by the new bakers. Note that these socalled Kopenhageners all have jam in them. Before they came, making any kind of sweet cakes or bread was virtually unknown in Denmark. I understand your pride in Denmark, being one myself, but it is a fact that cannot be disputed that the sweet types of bread were ushered into the common Danish contience and liking by the Viennese bakers during the bakers strike.
They glassed pretty quick over famous Danes. I could mention Mads Mikkelsen, Connie Nielsen (Gladiator), Viggo Mortensen, all actors, Lars Ulrich (Metallica founder and drummer), Victor Borge, Leslie Nielsen (comedians), Hans Christian Ørsted (discovered electromagnetism), Ole Rømer (discovered the speed of light), Tycho Brahe (revolutionized astronomy) and many more.
The Danish inventor Valdemar Poulsen invented the tape recorder - in c. 1899? - an early version using steel wire instead of plastic tape with magnetiseable particles - for obvious reasons.
Frederik is now King Frederik X. And Queen Mary a peasant - 🤣🤣🤣 Re gay marriage: the first couple to get married was two elderly men who combined their names Axel and Eigil to a new sur name Axgil. Before the wedding they had been together for 40 years (that's a long engagement 😊)
Both our countries have King's now, how strange lol! That's so lovely. If they were already a elderly gay couple, they must have lived through the most troubling times.
I have heard other people say this, but it always astounds me. How can you be surprised that there are beaches in Denmark? I can think of nothing more Danish than a sandy beach. They are everywhere.
I guess many people, who may think of the Scandinavian countries as very similar to each other, will just imagine the Danish coastline looks the same as the images they may have seen of the Norwegian fjords or even the Swedish rocky islands?
fun fact in Austria Danishes are called "Dausher plunder" or "Kopenhagener plunder" so Austrians don't agree it's an Austrian thing they see it as a Danish thing, yet you constant see Danes and others tell the story about how it's not a Danish thing, the corret way to explain it is that the Austrian bakers made a certain kind of bread made by very thin layers of dough with butter in between , similar to the dough of a croissant , we don't know if they stuffed it with anything, when the Austrian bakers left people kept asking for them, and then Danish bakers started to make pastries that way and it developed from there into different pastries , so more like a cooperation between the Austrian way and the Danish that explains why you can't get them in Austria and if you find something similar they call it Copenhagener or Danisher
@@heinedenmark Danes are always drunk, hardly an excuse. They negotiated and decided to follow the equidistance principle for maritime boundary. A perfectly normal practise between nations. So, nothing was given.
Dane here and they are a little wrong on some things, but in general a good information video. What goes the end about alcohol we do have check when people needs to buy alcohol or cigarettes. You need to be 16 to buy beer or wine and 18 to buy stronger stuff. What goes for your comment of us being more like Britain than Norway/Sweden I disagree though you could look into history back to the viking age and see how big an influence we had on Britain and that will explain some of your thoughts for sure :D
Gråbrødretorv (Grey Brothers Square) is prnounced more like "gruh brir thre torw". Frederik is king now, Margrethe passed the throne recently. "Bakken" just means "the hill" "Centralhjørnet" means "Central Corner", and I heard that it is supposed to be a joke name, bc a corner is usually not a center.
I don't usually comment but finding out you were gay after feeling you seem very genuine and open minded about everything you watch made me wanna comment and just say you seem like such a wholesome man to hang around with With that being said I just gotta say I appriciate you, much love from Umeå, Sweden
