Chasing Danish history through Estonia 

I think - that you will end up know more about Danish history than many Danes do. Thanks a lot for a great piece of work -:)

This was interesting. I learned quite a few new things and Estonia is now on my to do list.

I remember Dannebrog 800 anniversary events that were held here in 2019. It was nice. Also their language sounds nice, I sometimes listen to Kim Larsen, Tommy Seebach or whatever the algorithm comes up with. I've also met some Danish troops here. Good lads.

The Orthodox Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is quite hated by Estonians as it was built as a symbol of Russian imperialism in a traditionally Lutheran medieval old town and there were even serious plans of demolishing it in the 1920s.

The swedish island of Gotland off the swedish east coast, has lots of connections to Denmark. King Valdemar set up court there. Beautiful nature, charming towns and exiting history.

In 1985 I went with my 9. klasse to Leningrad for our “skolerejse”(school trip) before we graduated. Our”tolk” (interpreter) was a young woman from Estonia. She had never been outside Estonia before she had the job to interpret for us. Her danish was eloquent and way more “perfect” that that of our teachers. Very impressive. I still remember how astonished we all were about her language. She had learnt Danish from sitting in a small booth for hours on end. Impressive yet scary in a way

I think it's fine with most of us, that your sponsored, to some degree. I like that your totally honest about it ! No BS 👍 ! BTW! You Youngs are doing a great job selling Denmark and the rest of Europe to us. Estonia wasn't on the top of my bucket list. It just got upgraded 😊 ! Posted on my FB site. You need to go to the USVI (Dansk Vestindiske Øer). Danish from 1672 -1917. Be aware. They drive on the left. A CBP officer told us that it was something they still did, after the Danes left. He was shocked, when we told him that we'd been driving on the right for more than a 100 years 😎 ! Didn't manage to visit St.Croax. But St.Thomas and St.John were amassing 👍😀👍.

Thank you for this very very interesting video, I can´t remenber learning anything about Estonia in school. I would love to visit Tallin, such a beautiful city.

Great and interesting video. As a Dane, I learned a couple of new things here. Didn't know about the castle in Narva. Yout trip through Tallinn made me homesick - I spend New years there 2018/19 - 4 days. I loved the city.

Welcome to the Estonia!

Thanks for the guided tour, Josh! - You've definitely made me want to visit these places myself.

Nice to "revisit" Tallinn, thanks.

Thank you for sharing our history. Next time mayby the old part of Sweden: Halland, Skåne og Blekinge.

Thank you so much for sharing 😊 VERY intresting history 👌

Very interesting, much appreciated.

Nice new format/topic, cool.

You should check out Vitus Bering. His story is very interesting. He was a Danish cartographer and explorer in Russian service, and an officer in the Russian Navy. He is known as a leader of two Russian expeditions, namely the First Kamchatka Expedition and the Great Northern Expedition, exploring the north-eastern coast of the Asian continent and from there the western coast on the North American continent. The Bering Strait, the Bering Sea, Bering Island, the Bering Glacier and the Bering Land Bridge were all named in his honor.

Cool video, Josh! I honestly did not know any of the places you visited in Estonia, but it was very educational. Looking forward to your next video! For historical danish sites, I recommend you check out Dannevirke in northern Germany. It was built as a defensive wall for Denmark and dates all the way back to the viking age. It was even used by the danish army in 1864, when Prussia invaded.

Thank you for a great history tour 👍

Great video ! 👏

Loving all the b-roll

You could visit Schleswig, here is a danish minority a population of approx. 50,000 people, most of them living in Flensborg, which was Danish until 1864. If you have any questions you can contact me

You should visit Skåne, Blekinge and Halland in South Sweden. It was former east Danmark before 1658 and the peace of Roskilde when Danmark was forced to hand over the three provinces after they lost a war to Sweden. Their is a lot of interesting history contacted to Danmark in this part of Sweden.

Can’t believe I haven’t seen this before 👍🏻😊🇩🇰Great job touring

great vid

Wow, this video is so educational from a Danish point of view. I learned about Dannebrog as a kid, but now I feel inspired to visit Estonia. It must be very exciting for you to teach us Danes all this and you must feel very international being a US guy tracing Danish history in Estonia right on the border to Russia! Cool. Thanks for sharing

Tallinn, nice :)

Interesting place. Good thing that the Baltic countries have joined NATO and the EU, now that Putin apparently wants to recreate the USSR by force. Other places with Danish history : Danelagen 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 (viking towns in England) and De vestindiske øer (Virgin Islands) that we sold to the US.

Ireland or Sweden are obvious choices to visit regarding Danish history :) Ireland (Eire) mostly about the Vikings (You cant visit a pub in Galway and tell people your a Dane, without getting hours of stories about the Vikings - Most Irish people loved them, even though we weren't exactly friendly visitors back then haha) And Sweden about the wars, Kings ect.. :) There´s also the border to Germany, which has been moved up and down several times :)

I think you should check out the Slesvig (Schlesvig)Holstein area. It's a very interesting place and shows the conflict between Germany and Denmark along the years and into WW2... Moreover, Great Video !!

Narva has an other danish connection. In 1700 Denmark-Norway together with Russia and Polen Sachsen attacked Sweden. Then Sweden ruled Estonia. The battle between Sweden and Russia at Narva, was won by Sweden. Carl XII and his soldiers (Karoliner), but when they continued in to Russia, they wasn't so lucky. Lost big at Poltava.In the WWII there was another Battle at Narva, between Soviet union ans Germans holding the city. 150000 russians and 20000 germans was killed in the 7 month siege and battle. The town was in ruins. Other battles has been at Narva. Sweden and Russia 1581 and Estonia-Sovjet union 1918-19.

Here is a list from the top of my head: Greenland Iceland Faroe islands Off course Sweden and Norway England Normandy Guldkysten, Ghana Vestindiske øer New Foundland Tranquebar, Indien Have a nice trip ;-)

Chasing Danish history... Great idea! You could make a trip to Skåne and I recommend you take the very short ferry ride from Helsingør to Helsingborg because that city in of itself is worth a visit. Malmø was once Denmarks second largest city and Lund was where the Archbishop of Denmark resided.

I believe having read somewhere that the invasion of Estonia required 3000 ships and is thus the second largest naval operation in history after D-day.

You could have taken back home something sweet - Kalev, Estonia’s most beloved chocolate brand has a chocolate box called “Tallinn” and the illustrator for it is Mads Berg and he is Danish.

To combine some Danish and US history - you could do a trip to the Caribbean and to the old "Danish West Indies" islands that the US purchased in 1917 from Denmark (Saint Thomas, John and Croix).

Linn in old Estonian language meant Castle, in modern Estonian town. Linna in Finnish still means castle.

I love this video and this concept 🇩🇰🇩🇰🎉🎉😁🤩👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 I would love, if you went to Visby (Gotland, Sweden), Greenland, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Vinland (Canada), The gold Coast in Ghana, Danish Westindies (currently U.S. Virgin Islands), Schleswig (Germany).

In Tamil Nadu, Tranquebar; and in W. Bengal, Serampore//Frederiknagore; and rather briefly, the group of islands called the Nicobars, were all subjects of Danish colonial interest in India;; On the Danske Guldkyst, in what is now Ghana, were some 5 busy trading emporiums, the oldest, in what Is now Accra (Ft Christiansborg) and four more trading forts eastward along Ghana's coast. Next, across the Oresund, is the Swedish, but formerly Danish, province of Scania. South of Danish Jutland are the southern parts of that peninsula, the German provinces of Schleswig and Holstein, formerly under the Danish crown. Also under the Danish crown for a significant number of years was the island of Rugen on which, like Estonia, might be found Danish traces. Most people already can name the present "Danish Realm" as well as the long relationship with Norway from which Danish gets her "Oldenburg Dynasty" as well as Iceland which was "inherited" from Norway (to become an independent republic in 1944). As for Estonia, some Danish influence might also be visible on Saaremaa.

Very neat, Joshua!! Not much in the Danish history books in school about Estonia, apart from the flag of course..

You should visit the Faroe Islands ( I think you already went to Iceland)

You should probably go to Dannevirke.

I find it impressive how popular Denmark seems in Estonia, considering that we were foreigners occupying their land. I don't know how good or bad we were treating the population back then, but I guess Estonia has been so much worse things since then, so perhaps we're just "not so bad" 😁 Anyway, again this time, I like the new format a whole lot. So I hope it'll be sustainable in the long run. Great video and great storytelling, without digging too deep into boring details.

The word *linn* in old estonian meant 'castle or 'fort''. Since towns developed aroud the castles, the word transferred to also meaning the new type of settlement. Estonians in 13th c. did not have town, so they didn't have a word for it. For example in Saaremaa there are ruins of a danish castle called Maasilinn. Maasi being the name of the village there. There are other examples for 'linn' w/o towns.

nice experience you have ... but it is a little wild is to think that the word "York" is an old Nordic word for "city" (in Danish: "by")

Maybe visit Skåne, there is quite a bit of history between Denmark and Sweden there. Other parts of Sweden or Norway would be nice as well.. You could also visit Normandy (named after the norsemen) which has quite a bit of viking history. Anyways, love these videos regardless :D

Almost all of England was Danish for a couple of hundred years. The Danish capital in England was York, short for ”Jorvik” (=horse bay). A lot of placenames bear traces of Denmark in Britain too. ”Rugby” is for exemple Danish, and comes from ”Rokby” (=the city of Ravens). Of course, in the viking era, danish didn’t exist. In those times both Norse and Swedish vikings spoke the same language as the Danish vikings - ”dansk tunga” (=Danish tongue). The English language of course originated in the south of Denmark (Angeln is near Kiel in the north of Germany) around 450, so when the Danish vikings arrived in England in around 800, the languages were quite similar. Therefore a lot of Danish words entered English in those days: ”husband” comes from ”husbondi”, ”leg” comes from Old Norse ”leggr” (=leg), in Danish ”laeg”. Words like ”is” and ”are”, ”am”, ”they”, ”them”, ”their”, and so on, comes from the vikings at that time. The grammar of English is heavily influenced by the Danes. Before the Vikings English grammaticly much more resembled German. We can go on. Denmark is very closely linked to the British history. I must mention too, that vikings founded Russia in 862. The name ”Russia” comes from the name of the Vikings - ”Rus”. The name derives from ”Roslagen” in the archipelago of Stockholm, Sweden. The name means ”rowing teams”.

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Tallinn, such a pretty place, full of some lovely people! The castle in town, reminded me of the Crusader Castles in Rhodes, Carcassonne & Malta..😉 Looking for something Danish, then you can travel from Tranquebar, India where DK had a small colony in 1620's to St.Thomas, St, Jan & St. Croix, in the West Indies where we plundered and colonized along with the rest of 'them' from 1670's-1917. We sold them to the US, for strategic placement and to help DK out of the financial crisis created by WWI where DK was neutral and suffered the import/export trade blockades. Of course there is still 'the North' to explore 😉 and even the coasts of Spain & Gran Canaria, where Danes have settled and you can have frikadeller for dinner! Happy journeying! hello from Hundested 🌸 🌱

Tjek out Trankebar in India 🇩🇰🙂

du you know about to the two "Danish" cities in America Solvang and Elk horn

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You wanna know about other places where Denmark has made their footprint A place Denmark had an influence upon once was the West Indies, yeah it was actually Danish territory until we sold it around 100 years ago to the United States for $25million.... As I understand it, there are still many Danish street names over there Norway was also once Danish, Island too until 1944, but you have been there and then the southern part of Sweden is also old Danish territory, stolen from os in a war with Sweden in 16 hundred and something Great video by the way. it is impressive how much you go up in Denmark

Then you would will have an reason to go to Carabien ( St Thomas, St Jan and St. Croix ) which is a dark side of Danish history. Colonised in 1672 and sold to the US in 1917. Or Norway & Sweden, which was ruled by Denmark, the last time from 1397 until 1817 ( Sweden rebelled in 1523 ) by the Kalmarunion made by the Danish Queen - Margrethe the 1. ( the Kalmarunion is also why Greenland is under the Danish Crown )

I think a trip to north Germany.Before it was east Germany.Or DDR.Mecklenburg ,Pommeren.There are a lots building down there..The danish "buildig King" Chr d. 4..Ex. in Greifwald and Rygen.But take care they still understand danish..He.he

That was not much good. But I can tell you something interresting. The myth of the danish flag, Dannebrog, falling from the sky in Estonia originate from a meteor that fell in the bronze age in Estonia. It is mentioned in the sagas as a scary sunset in the east. The crater can still be seen. It is on the island Saaremaa, Øsel in scandinavian. and it is called Kaali Crater. But I guess you did not visit there.

For an interesting historic city with links to Denmark, consider visiting Lund. It is less than an hour's drive from Copenhagen. Lund is in Skåne, which - together with Halland and Blekinge - was Danish until it became Swedish with the peace agreement in 1658.

Her er lidt beskrivelse af steder nær og fjern som der kan besøges, lige fra Ghana, Gotland, Skåne, Dansk Vestindien, Trankebar og selv for mange danskere det ukendte Serampore, tjek det fx. på Wikipedia, plus mange andre steder. Link. da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danske_besiddelser#Afviklingen_af_kolonierne_i_Asien

Hej 😁. Dejlig video 👍. Er der en der kan fortælle mig hvordan jeg sætter oversætter på under kommentaren . På forhånd mange tak. Mvh Lars

Gōteborg in Sweden - I find it interesting that's the only city on their west coast, there always has been swedish. To the south of Gōteborg - Danes, to the north - Norwegian

A. Nevsky cathedral is a symbol of Russification for ethnic Estonians, so we dislike it. Estonian culture is mostly based on Lutheranism like in other Nordic countries and Finnic tradition which we share with Finns.

Wow! That was really interesting with lots of info which was unknown to me. Tallinn looks really beautiful, a bit like Riga in style but that's perhaps only logical.

Yes, I am 70 so I konw our danish history, and I am proud you want to teach others about it. And as you said in another video "I dont want to be poltical", I dont either, but what I found interesting in this video is to watch an american carmly whatcing out of a window in a ruined castel looking just 400 meters into the russian border. Didnt that scare you ? Russia is so close to us. If Young respond I will tell you why Russia is called Russia (or in danish RUS-LAND), it is a story about the Vikings.

Love the fact you where in my home country! Live in Norway and been watching your videos before just supper!did you know first real king of Norway was a slave as a child in Estonian island!

When you say "Germans" - I suppose it's the Teutonic order, you think of?

Next time you are in the US. You could Visit Elk Horn In Iowa. That town has really danish history

too bad yoi missed Viljandi! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viljandi_Castle

Relax you dont have too do danish stuff always but of course we love it we are just courios of your danish life ( : ( :

14:07 the most hated church by Estonians as the sign of Russification.

If you ever want to see a darker part of Danish history you should go to the beautiful Ghana where Denmark used to get slaves to take to the West Indian Islands. Our school used to have a friendship school in Obuasi, Ghana and I went there to visit the school back in 2007.

Ur not right about tallinn coming from taani linn, danish town.

Well Ghana has a lot of danish history... more a dark side, but very important to remember.🇬🇭🇩🇰