Brit Reacts to Differences between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish Vikings 

As a Dane, I will leave you with a really good, personal example of our Scandinavian sibling love. When Putin threatened Sweden, I got a little angry. I wasn't worried, I'd like to see him try. But I was angry. I swore right there that if he did attempt to invade Sweden, I'd personally go up there and help defend my brothers and sisters, why? Because if anyone's gonna invade Sweden, it's gonna be us

Yes, as a Swede I do love my brothers and sisters in the Nordic countries. Well...not Finland when it's hockey. And not Norway when it's skiing. And not Denmark when it's football. But other than that...❤

As an Englishman, I moved to Denmark in 1978 where I started a family. Sweet revenge!!! After years of being asked to say "rødgrød med fløde", I can also speak strangely now. 😀

Never mess with the Norse, and yes all Scandinavian brothers and sisters stick togeher if shit hits the fan. You really don't want to mess with Scandinavia.

Sweden went east, and people in the east called them the Rus aka the rowing people, in Finish and Estonia Sweden is still called Ruotsi. The Rus from Swden went down the Dnepr river in Ukraine and settled along it's shore and became the Kievan Rus that founded the city Kyev. Those people later founded Moscow and became Russia. It's one of the reasons why Putin is so hung up on Ukraine, the beginning of Russian history started in Kiev. A joke in Sweden is that Sweden is the founder of Russia because it has the name of the Swedes aka Rus.

I’m half Swedish half Norwegian… we always make fun of our Danes relatives 😂

Sweden and Denmark have fought each other for centuries and hold the record for most wars fought between them. It all adds up to around 30 wars since the 15th century

When the old castle fire of the castle "tre kronor" in 1697 happened, almost all written history from the Middle Ages was lost in the fire. Therefore, there are very few writings about Swedish Vikings preserved today.

I’m half danish and Norwegian ❤️ and are proud Viking 🇩🇰

We were Norse people. Viking is a verb, to go viking.

Fun fact: Current Queen Margrethe II of Denmark and the late Queen Elizabeth II of England were third cousins, with both royal ladies descending from Queen Victoria and King Christian IX of Denmark. The Danish royal lineage can be tracked all the way back to year 900, which goes to show how much of a continued influence Danish royalty and rule has had in England up until this day. This shared bloodline of course extends to the rest of the Scandinavian royalty too. Many royal bloodlines of European kingdoms are intertwined, but especially the Nordic and English bloodlines are very closely connected still. And yea we do love our pastries. It's a requirement as a citizen here :)

Yeah Dwayne 👍🏼 It's like U say It's very much Brother/Sisters ❤LOVE❤ Between Sweden 🇸🇪.Norway 🇧🇻.Denmark🇩🇰. Is really true..we just are the same people from the same genetic TIME ..I have self relatives in Norway and Denmark..🇸🇪🇩🇰🇧🇻..And i have a Norweigian as my neighbor next to my house in Sweden..❤️🇧🇻❤️🇩🇰❤️🇸🇪❤️

Funny video! It's true, we do have that sibling love between Sweden, Norway and Denmark. We make fun of each other, pretend we can't stand one another but in reality we do sort of love each other 😂 Finland does'nt have viking history and are not part of Scandinavia. Sweden does still celebrate one big pagan ceremony - Midsummer! It's more like our national day than our actual national day! You should check it out if you are in Sweden by then 😊

Not far from where I live there´s a rune stone that says "Ragnvald had theese runes carved. He was in Greece. He was the chieftan of the raiding party." 1000 years ago, imgaine that.

Ragnar Lodbrok, was according to some saga’s born in Uppland by the Swedish viking king Sigurd Ring. But he served as Jarl to the danish king, Hårik. The name Lodbrok was taken as he was said to wear a special kind of wolf skin pants that was coated with pitch.

He didn't say Norway took over England the second time, it was the Danes from Normandie, invading point from the France side

here in Norway, we still like to call York by its original name, "Jervik" hehe

He forgot to mention that leif eriksson discovered america.

In general you can see it like this: Norwegian vikings sailed northwest, Danish vikings southwest and Swedish vikings east and southeast

That the Swedes went east, the Danes and Norwegians west etc is not really true. If you read the Old Norse Sagas, Norwegians for instance very often went east. Then look at Swedish runestones from the original Swedish region (Svealand). Half of them tell of raids in England and other parts of western Europe. Further more, todays Sweden has large parts that originaly belonged to Denmark and Norway. That means the Swedes of today are actually a blend of all the Norse peoples.

I think he didn't mention Finland much because he was concentrating on the Scandinavian countries, as opposed to the Nordic countries. Scandinavian countries are Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Nordic countries are the Scandinavian countries plus Iceland and Finland. Much like England vs UK vs GB.

Sweden, Norway and Denmark didn´t exist at the time, as we know it today, just different tribes and clans and borders where all over the Scandinavia and changed alot. So you are right in the big landmass thought of yours, in a way :) They where all norsemen (people from the north), and english is in big part originated from the north germanic language.

The English being mainly Anglo-saxon, who came from the Angles and Saxon peoples, essentially. As the map indicates before the 6 min mark, Saxons being from a northern part of Germany and the Angles coming from the borderland of Germany and Denmark/southern Denmark. You'll have to go pretty far back for this move, but not so far back that the Romans were still there. Hengest and Horsa are two names that are mentioned as some of the earliest for this settlement/invasion if you want to look deeper. It'd be interesting to see your DNA results!

The south of Sweden was danish so in some way Sweden was a part off the danish invasion of GB.

Haha love the brotherly love between Sweden and Norway, its all good and fun.

I'm half Danish🇩🇰 and my father is from Jutland, and my mother is half Gambian🇬🇲 and half Bissau-Guinean🇬🇼 and my name is Franknarr pronounced like Ragnar without the F. Can be spelled like Fragnar or Franknarr.

The Swedes travelled east, controlling the trade routes to the Black Sea, colonising Finland and founding the Kievan Rus kingdom, which later became Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.

Living in Uppsala, history really is exciting ;)

Sweden: "Hahahaha! Sorry, i just thought of a joke about Skåne". Denmark: "Oh. Would you like to tell me?" Sweden: "You wouldn't get it".

The original video is fun to watch already. But, watching it "together" with you, gave yet another level of "interesting and fun". Thx for this reaction video. My highlight of this day, so far. .. Edit: Oh and, (friendly reminder) can you please add the link to the original video to the description? I find this should be common curtsey.

York is originally Yorvik. Many words (more than 600) in english language actually come from old norse, the language the Norsemen spoke. I completely understand you are hyped about you might have Norse genes. We are awesome! Who doesn't want to be awesome??? We Scandinavians love to roast each other. But if an outsider talks bad about one of the brothers. we will defend them!

It is a sibling thing for sure. Different to the Scots, Welsh and English relationship. There's a solidarity between us which means we're a little harsher on each other than the rest - in a similar vein to how we'll tell our own the harsh truths and take the mick outta each other about minor things just because it's fun. As an note, Saxo Grammaticus ( c. 1150 - c. 1220) is worth reading as an additional source. Often overlooked but similar to Tacitus, can be quite interesting to browse.

Finland had Vikings too, we're just not Scandinavian as it is a peninsula thing. Did you know that bluetooth is named after a Danish viking King Harald Bluetooth who combined Denmark and Norway and the bluetooth symbol is made of two runes that stand for the letters H and B? The more you know.

Nice video! I'm a Frisian from the Netherlands. My DNA-test results: 48% Scandinavian, 37,6% English, 10,2% North-West European and 4,2% Finnish. I could have some Norse blood, but it's hard to tell. Frisians, Saxons, Angles, Jutes and the later Vikings were genetically very similar! 😁

Skål from Norway!

Danes didn't leave much? How about the language. Today English relates to Danish much more than to any other germanic language to a degree where many linguists classify English as a scandinavian language and the reason scandinavians pick up English so easy.

I'm a Proud Dane living in Sweden at the moment! Skål!!

You definitely look like a genuine spare Viking 😂 Greetings from Denmark 😊

Thank you for reacting this. As a fellow Brit I have often wondered, idly, whether it was just the Danes who came to our shores. Although our family has lived in the South of England our family name, still rare today, is used for a character in the Beowulf tale (only mentioned once) so may be, like you we have some connection to the Danes too. Being 'English' is not so straightforward as I used to imagine. We have already traced English, Norman, Anglo Saxon, Irish, Scottish and Welsh ancestry so far, so a spot of Danish won't faze us I am sure.

The music in the background at the beginning of the video slaps and i need it.

Fair number of Scots, Brits and Irish are part Viking too. My most recent part are Danish ancestors who came to the US in the mid-19th century.

Yeah… Okay, a bit of banter coming up so bear with me here 😉: Denmark is the Boomer/early GenX:er who did the career thing early, made a name for themselves and a good amount of money, and now is the sort of drunk uncle who smells of tobacco, talks loudly and laughs a little too hard. Norway is the 90’s millennial/GenZ youngster who was a bit awkward but also curled/pampered as a child and then accidentally got rich and had glow-up and now thinks they’re top tier. Sweden is the middle child, the 80’s millennial/young GenX:er who’s trying to please everyone, mediating, solving everyone’s problems, trying to do everything right. The one who is actually doing good, but constantly being made fun of and has to take all kinds of shit from everyone, but just smile and laugh and not say anything because they just want to be loved, but is secretly burnt out and dying on the inside from the weight of it all, struggling with anxiety. We are all family though 😊

where do you get dna tests? i kinda wanna see mine. Lovely video, happy you learnt something new!

I’m from Sweden and it’s my favourite , we start by dancing at 12 and eating herring and drinking snaps. Then strawberriecake. Then games followed by barbeque 🥰

As a Swedish woman I love my sisters from Denmark and Norway. And I think we would be indefatigable if we became a united Scandinavia 😁👌🏼

Denmark and Norway is to the west so naturaly they traveled to west. And because Sweden is the eastern country of Scandinavia we traveled to east. To the lands of Rus which we called them. We fought, pillaged and captured people. I believe we also settle down in the land of Rus. But the land of east was not as prosperous as the land to the west (England and France) so we traveled more south through todays Eastern Europe. And we arrived to Constantineople todays Istanbul. We called it Miklagård (translation: Big city or big marketplace). Back then the famous church Hagia Sophia, today the famous blue mosque, has a viking grafitti. Constantineople was a central point for trade, where Europe meet Asia. So of course we can discover some buddha statues in Sweden from viking diging grounds. Because there was goods from around the world in Constantineople. And is it wierd that only vikings and chinese has dragons in their mythology? I believe that vikings might have seen some dragon statues from China and ask the traders about that creature and took it to their own. England has some dragon in their literature but you shared some viking culture. In Stockholm, Sweden, we have a famous statue in the town hall "St Göran and the dragon". Vikings in Constantineople was of course taller and muscular than the average people around that part of the world. So many rich people hired vikings as bodyguards.

we have another thing icommon, good heavy metal music

When he says there aren’t a lot of written sources about Sweden, he doesn’t mention one little known fact. The Royal Castle of Sweden, the Tre Kronor, burnt down to the ground in 1697. Among the many things destroyed in the fire was the whole National Archive and Royal Library where a lot of the historical texts that did exist had been gathered. So whatever texts and sagas that existed from the Viking age and even before were destroyed. Also, a lot of records seem to show that Swedes were at least involved in the foundation of Kyiv.

People tend to forget that "viking" isn't what we called ourselves. "Viking" basically means "pirate". All of us Scandinavians called ourselves "Norse" because it literally meant "from the North". We only took up the names like "Danes" and "Swedes" after we started uniting from clans into countries.

"so Denmark came first, and the Norway came after and took over England". No, he said the norse... which is a common term for both danes and norwegians, and it fact it were danes both times (but with some norwegians and swedens in their armies... so yeah, it could be said all three).

Actually... (don't you learn abt this in school, in the UK?) as an example on how ''all over the UK they got'' is how English and Norse-language influenced each other. Very common words in English, today, comes from the Nors language. Like: Husband, window, cake, egg and law, are just a few that comes from norse Vikings were all over the UK. Just as they were ''all over the world''... at least they got pretty far. America ''we all know', but just as they were able (because of the engineering mastery of the ships) could go far inland through the UK, all the way to Paris, but also through the river Volga -through Russia, Belarus, Ukraine and across the Black Sea to Istanbul/Constantinople. The did not stop there, cause further south Vikings met Arabs, and for the same way they got, anywhere basically, they went upriver on the Tigris river to Baghdad, Iraq (if we think the brits were shocked seeing vikings... Just think abt how the Arabs far inland Irq thought? Man..! I wish photo and video was a thing then!).

Greatings from Denmark. Did you notice what he said about “Bluetooth”? The word Bluetooth that is used today is taken from the name of a danish king Harold Bluetooth or Harald Blåtand as he is called in danish.

20:14 HAHAHAHAH! That hairy mountain man is not wrong haha ☮

He didnt talk about Finland becuse.. the swedish vikings settled in the south of Finland, befor later svedish kings conquerd the whole of Finland! The name Finland is probably by swedish origin, actualy latin (fine = end of/the bottom of?) or there could be a tribe.. its probably a swedish name for those living there? In any case the swedish vikings biggest impact was securing the traderoute to Constantinopel by establish Kiewan-Rus, that later become Russia!

Finland is Scandinavia’s adopted child 😂❤

Well that is how a Norwegan would tell just a nother "saga" to day. The "Swedes" where much more out and about then he clames theyu where. But they where more of mercenerys or tradesmen. Saladin and Charles le Main had vikings as hierd sodiers and as traders. As the Jewes, Cristians and Muslims would not trade with each oter the swedish vikings where hierd to do the trade as they where neutral in the wars betwen said religeus groups. Our long boats made it easy to travel the baltic sea and all the rivers that where conected to the baltics. And the ships chould even be draged across some landmasses to get futer inlnads if so where needed. But there whas nothing called Sweden back then. There there major "tribes" Östgötar (est-gots), Västgötar (Väst-gots) and Svear (Sveades) that lived in what whas to become Sweden later on. To day we know that "Swedish" vikings had stelemnats all across the baltic sea and along the rivers that is conected to it. They had large setllements in Russia and Urkraine for example. But even Hagia Sofia got some viking tags carved in to it. The Swedish Vikings where vritten about by muslim and roman/german historians. While the Norwevians where just dreaming up sagas in those days. So if you look for historical facts only in the sagas, you are missing a lot of viking history. Denmark whas always under atack from the Roman/German-empiere and Swedes where fighting on both sides as mercenaries or ass alied if there whas some family ties by marriage that whas usualy made to tighten bounds between familys and/or tibes back then. (No I am not drunk. But I do got dyslexia, hense the bad spelling from my part.)

Norwegian here. His view of the history is very correct. Except for one thing: Sweden went far beyond Scandinavia after the 16th century, and became incredibly powerful. Sweden was a superpower in the 17th century, even owning two military forts near Manhattan in the New World. These holdings were later conquered by the Dutch. Sweden then conquered parts of Russia in several battles. At this time, late 17th century, early 18th century: Sweden and Prussia were the preeminent warrior cultures in Europe, in addition to Poland-Lithuanian Commonwealth (another superpower at the time). But his cryptic non-sequiturs about people fleeing modern Norway for "freedom" - and how modern politicians are "doing the same as Olav Trygvasson" - are transparently demagogic and hyperbolic. Based on all that I have heard so far, he is - I bet - a Libertarian. Probably someone who spends meaningful time at the annual (right-wing) hippie communal anarchy gathering near Kristiansand. Someone who thinks *all* taxation is theft. I know several people like this. You can understand the demagoguery of his talk by the fact that he keeps enticing the listener without going into detail. He promotes curiosity to his political views by building up to it from the beginning, without providing context at the time. He wants your attention for something *entirely* different from the historical analysis of Norse history, hoping to catch several gullible vulnerables to his practiced political context. I'm sure we'll find that on his youtube channel. To his credit, this was a great video, and he kept his ideology *mostly* away from it.

It's important to remeber that nations as we know them, such as denmark, Norway, Sweden, England and France did not xist back then. it's a very modern invention.

Dwayne, im sure you have Viking genes, i Can see that in your humble side, grettings from the hippies from Sweden :)

I was born in West Yorkshire and lived between two former villages now part of a town. One in the valley was called Bradley (an Anglo-Saxon name) and the one on the hill called Fixby (a very very Norse name) It is two places showing the nature and extent of the Danelaw. BTW check out Jay Foreman's "Why are British place names so hard to pronounce?" It will show you indirectly the extent of the Danelaw. You know that in 1066 there were two invasions of England Harald Hardrada - from Norway / Denmark and William from Normany Harold II defeated Harald Hardrada at Stamford Bridge and marked the end of the Viking era The other invasion he rushed to Hastings and sadly lost to William dying in the battle and thus we have the Norman kings.

I haven't read all the comments so this might have already been said :) Danish/oldnorse words made their way into english language, if you want to look into that. Like: Link, husband, cake, window, they/them/there, towns ending on by/toft/kirk in that area, die, skin, again, sky (which actually means cloud but is used differently), skirt (the long shirts that went to like the middle of the thigh) - actually we borrowed it back when it got the meaning it has today and we named the clothing 'skørt' (which also means crazy XD we have some words that has two different meanings...). York is shortened from Jorvik (Horsebay), streetnames like Swinegate (pig/swinestreet) (Castlegate actually means street and not a gate). It's estimeted it's many hundreds or maybe over a thousand words. Regarding horse eaters (I think it was worded?): I know the vikings had a relation to horse meat, probably to do with worshipping Odin's horse Slejpner (modern Danish use of name) and Christiany forbid that. So that might have been th ereason he said that. So: how did that ancestry test go, I'm curious? :)

By the Siljan (sweden)shores you find the real Vikings or did he say arians ?(Herman Göring)

Half Norwegian half Scottish.. born in Canada and still honour my roots for both of my families heritage. 6’1” and 230lbs. Deadlift 500lbs naturally and can’t handle the 30 degree C heat of summer. The universe is balanced. 😘

Greeting from Scandinavia 🇩🇰✌️

Remeber the Viking's discover the USA as you se on the map they where at "vinland" as they called it is most northern east side of the USA and dicover that in the Viking time year 1000 or some. Think about that a sail boat with 20 man with not much food and water could sail so fare way from Norway haha it is a masterpice if you ask me!

Grimsby, Whitby, Derby and more seems to have something in common. Strangely, many towns and cities in Denmark also ends on by, which means town/city. You get the picture?

😳 6:20 The Icon we see everyday on electronic devices is "Magical".

The Danes are also the precurser to the Normans as well. I know that the Norwegian narrator is biased toward Norway, but in a nutshell, the Danes were the heart and most widespread raiders and conquerers. Danes took over most of the UK, parts of France, Frisia, and even raided the Mediterranean and Northern Africa. Norwegians pushed westward and established in Ireland, then founded Iceland and Greenland. Eventually finding North America which they called Vinland. Norway spent a lot of time feuding among their own. The Swedes crossed the Baltic and began raiding slavic lands (a region known as Courland). They went up the rivers and founded Russia. They were referred to as the Rus or Russian. (Meaning people of the red hair. In that age "Red" hair meant anything from blond to red to auburn hair). They rolled their ships across open grasslands on the Eurasian steppes to then rejoin rivers in their exploration. They eventually came south and attacked Constantinople with great success. The Emperor was impressed with their power and savagery and hired them on as Varangian Guards. He paid them heavily. That's the basic 3 viking groups geographically in a nutshell. PS. You should understand that the poor Swedes get picked on by Danes and Norwegians more so than Danes and Norwegians messing with eachother. The Swedes did get revenge by getting the Norwegians hooked on Lutefisk (Pickled herrings in snot) and they got us Danes too by taking back Southern lands that used to be Danish, after WW2, and later making better money from the pornography industry. In all seriousness, I love Swedes and Norwegians almost as much as my fellow Danes.

As a Swede living in an area that used to be Danish, I find the "big brother" thing quite amusing. More like the drunk uncle.

Cool headset bro

Never mess with the quiet guy.

23:05 ha Too much coffee 😂 not gonna lie they got os there 😂

About the dividing of the people it's the same in most countries. that the politicians and people in power want the rest divided and infighting instead of being united, because when the people divided they focus on eachothers differences and things they don't like, and the prejudices. example making a divide between natives vs immigrant, rich vs poor, people from the cities vs people from the countryside and so on. The only situations that people in power want the people united is in war times or if they want something done quickly.

You won't believe how many people that don't even think Swedes were vikings ^^ And they refuse to believe it, no matter how much I try to explain. ^^ Hopefully, this Norwegian will help change that :P Nice to see that you actually knew! :))

Ragnar Lodbrok and his sons were not danish, they were swedish, since Ragnars father, Sigurd Ring was a swedish king, altough maybe Ragnar ruled over denmark until his death

The only reason I know about King Canute is from Vinland Saga. That show has started me down a viking rabbit hole

If you guys want to see a breakdown of the The Rök Runestone search for this: "The Rök Runestone (with Dr. Henrik Williams)" Channel name: "Jackson Crawford" Enjoy.

sorry for that take over hallo from danmark take care i enjoyed :)

Really enjoyed this video with your reactions to it! Great content from both of you. Triggerwarning: Rape. I wanted to add something here tho, about "raping and pillaging", that the vikings always get accused of and I feel it's kind of important: There are no written sources to any rapes committed during these raids, even from church-books and annals that always wrote down cases like that. (Source historian Kim Hjardar in the book Vikinger i krig (vikings at war)). I am not saying that it never happened, but it is very important that we don't add stuff that are not recorded, often when we do that we add stuff from understanding our own culture and then disregarding trying to understand the other culture out of their own logic and premisses. There are therefore no reason for us to add rape to the pillaging, that we have seen being used as a weapon of war in our time, especially if the war have some origin in ethnic conflict or are attempted legitimized that way in the war propaganda. (Where rape then are used as some type of ethnic clensing). Women in Norway had pretty good coverage in the justice system (Ting-system) at that time, and could demand her rapist killed. You were asking about Finnland. They had a whole other culture than the Scandinavian, different language and peoples, and that is also why we distinguish between Scandinavia (without Finnland) and The Nordic countries (there Finnland is counted in). Thanks again for great video!

there are over 100 words in the english language that comes from the old norse language, words like dog and leg came from the old norse language.

Swedish vikings more often went east. The Kiev and Novgorod empires where created by Swedish vikings. Trade routes where created with Irak, Iran and Konstantinopel. The highest concentrations of silver treasure made up of eastern coins etc has been found in Gotland.

I'am Danish, but my great grandfather was Swedish, and I have a great grandmother from Norway.

William the conqueror was the illegitimate son of a Viking *he was called William the bastard, behind his back.

this is why scandinavian countries are great at speaking English, cause the germanic languages with other parts created the english language

Back in the day, York was called Jorvik.

The Finns where not Vikings and they are not a part of Scandinavia. They are however culturally tied to Scandinavia since they where a part of the Swedish kingdom for over 500 years.

As a Dane and a proud Scandinavian, I couldn't agree more. If any invidene country sets so much as a foot in either, Denmark Norway or Sweden. And those countries will come together like never seen since the viking era, and show why everyone on earth today knows who the vikings were, make no mistake we bite back and we bite HARD. We love and make fun of each other, but it's also just that, fun. The way it is with siblings. ​Find oplysninger

Yorks name is really Jorvik the Viking name :) . I went there to look around and ofc i visited the Vikingmuseum thou it was a while ago it can have changed but the museum queue was SO long, price TO high, driven around by a train in a little village so we could hear the talk and smell how it was. Also some dispalys to look at but imo it was not worth it, would not go there again if i knew then what i now know.

It was a made plan. The 3 different scandinavian vikings had differnet tasks. Danes to conquer big parts, the norwegians to rob everything and the Swedes to explore. Not interfering with each other. Back then we probably spoke almost the exact same dialect aswell

Most Swedish vikings interacted with Eastern Europe. So there's unfortunately not a lot of preserved litterary sources. The water level was higher back then, so it was very easy to travel by river all the way down to Greece/Turkey. The modern name for Russia is based on the eastern European name for swedes/vikings "rus".

Any town or village with the last two letters is BY then is a Viking settlement. By means village in Swedish.

A lot of British cities, York included, is actually founded by Danes?

Certain english words used today are influenced by old norse. Since danes had the biggest influence and actually settled in England, we most likely are the influencers. :P (Keep in mind, old norse - spoken by scandinavian people back then, were more or less the same through out the whole scandinavian peninsula, or atleast in the major countries there. Im just trying to say that it was basically the same language back then, more or less... Also both old english and old norse stems from germany, or germanic language tree, and its very possible that old english speaking and old norse speaking ppl might have been somewhat able to understand each other and be somewhat intelligibel.

I am frome iceland and oure language is the most like the old nors languages that the viking spoke. If you speak icelandik then you can read and understand the old writings frome the old nors language, of course ther have bin some smaller chances and some words end differently or the meaning has changed a bit, but you can understand moste of the context of the text.

He is talking about EU, it is sneaking in through trade and power "exchange"....We should make a Nordic Union with GB instead....

its because during viking era finland on maps had text "there be trolls dont go there"

Sorry U miss understood that the danish Vikings whom ruled eastern England also got Normandie from France, they later invaded England i 1066. Not the Norwegian Vikings.

It might be that the enduring Danish influence in England is not apparent to people living there. However, the English legal and parliamentary system is based on Viking law - and by extension, the American system as well.

And Now Orkney wants to rejoin Norway.. hahahahahahaha

Making fun of each other is what we have done since i was a child and even before. But at the end of they day we are brothers and sisters! i love Sweden and Denmark. I cheer for them in sporting events so forth.