Another 👍👍👍👍video 👏. Great to be able to see family when you’re so far away from home. Very nice city🙂. Thank you for sharing your journey 😘. Now I can check this place off as another place traveled, for me 😂. Can’t wait to see where you are taking me next 😘❤️🙏😇😂💕🙏🙏🙏
Such a beautiful city. It’s unfortunate that the Scandinavian countries are so expensive. Sadly, that prevents me from visiting, until I hit the lottery😀 Safe travels🙏✌️👍👏🏻🤙
Just avoid the biggest cities and cost of stay and eat will be much less. Same problem in every country, the Capital city is always the most expensive city. With that said, sure compared to many other countries in world even swedens cheapst places will be expensive.
Great to watch you in my/our city Stockholm! 🙂Although the video felt short it was good to see that you could meet family and see some of the city! Try a visit in the middle of summer next time, 25 degrees, blue skies and sunshine - then it is just paradise. Love the water around the 14 islands, and the scenery. Nice to see you do the Kalles and egg!! So good on a piece of bread. Looking forward to Switzerland!
We would love to come back and spend some more time in Stockholm and hopefully get outside the city as well. There is always a next time. Glad you enjoyed the video and thank you for watching!
Why Stockholm is where it is: I would say that it is, or at least was, a very strategic position. Some of the oldest cities of Sweden were located on the sea shore: Västerås, Sigtuna and Birka (the last now only an archeological site). Sea? Västerås and Sigtuna are inland on the shores of lake Mälaren! Yes, now they are but around the year 1000 this was not a lake but a very narrow bay of the sea. The position of Stockholm controls the entry to that bay. Any place in and around Stockholm that today is lower than about 4m above sea level was submerged in those days.
Where did you hear that story about the founding of Stockholm? I'm swedish and never heard that before! Fun story tho 😊 No, the real reason is the location. It's right on the inlet for this massive lake, so by controlling the inlet you controlled the entire country. And it's the only place you could cross if you wanted north or south of the lake. Still today you gotta go by Stockholm if you wanna go north, the alternative is a massive detour. And also, what do you mean Kalles is not caviar? It IS! 😂 And it's a very special swedish thing, not for everyone. I love it, can't eat eggs without it, glad you liked it!😊
@@Skepsissw Yeah maybe :) It's just a "sägen"... probably not entirely true ;) Except the part that Sigtuna was sacked by Estonians, and they decided to block off the entrance to Mälaren where stockholm is at.
@@zulupox But where would a tourist hear this myth? I can't even find it when I google it. Is there some museum you can read it, or is just this myth children in Stockholm hear as children?
Happy New Year! We are doing great. Just taking a little holiday break while friends are in town visiting. We will be back to our normal schedule in a couple of weeks. Thank you for watching and following along!
A rune stone in a house like that would make me think that they didn’t really care much about the message or symbolism - it was probably just building material in their eyes. In a small church near where I live (in Sweden), there is a rune stone build into the outer wall of the church and can be seen from outside (it’s called Landerydsstenen, the Landeryd rock). What I don’t really understand is why a church would want these rune stones near churches or even built into them, but now that I looked into it a local museum notes that that some of them had a Christian message and symbols. Maybe some vikings still kept the tradition of making rune stones even if they converted to Christianity? This made me curious to investigate further. 😅 Another really interesting rune stone is the Rök rune stone. Recent studies by Professor Per Holmberg gives a new perspective to the riddles of the world’s longest rune script. That’s worth some googling. 😎
While they probably didn't know how to read it they most definitely put symbolic value on it. You can see the cannon that is put into the street, the cannon and the house are both roughly mid 17:th century so they saw it as something important which had to be protected when they put it there. Whether you find what medieval people did sensible to you or not it is a very well documented fact that they did build them into church walls as well as place them outside churches when they found them. This practice was in no way exclusive to the later rune stones which do have Christian symbolism on them, they'd do this with pretty much any rune stone they dug up. Many rune stones still stand outside churches. Most likely whoever had that stone put in their wall in the mid 17:th century either considered it a good luck charm or just a status object and a connection to the past. Whatever their reasoning was they obviously valued it since it's protected by a cannon from roughly the same era.
@@danvernier198 Rune stones had no "symbolic value" for the regime and powerful church after christanity took over during the 1100s. It was regarded as junk, more or less. It wasn't until the 1700s enlightenment that people started paying much attention to rune stones again. Even more so during the 1800s national romanticism, of course.
@@danvernier198 But you are right that _some_ people cared about runes, paganism, etc. But that wasn't politically correct at all. You could have your head chopped off for less :)
@@herrbonk3635 Absolute nonsense! There are tons of runestones that are placed symbolically by medieval Christians all over Svealand. Just look at the Upplands runinskrifter database or any local museum site around the Stockholm area such as the Stockholm city museum, runestones placed by older churches are incredibly common and there are plenty of articles about it. Your pre-conceived notices about medieval Christianity does not matter when we have overwhelming evidence for the practice.
Except most of them weren't randomly in walls and the ones that are such as the one in Täby church were remodeled. Most of them such as the ones in Vallentuna, Danderyd and Ekerö were either found specifically under the church entrance or have later textual evidence of having been placed in the entrance. A bunch of medieval churches having runestones serving as the literal thresholds to enter them isn't random behaviour or just quarrying them as construction material. What they did when they remodeled the entrance way of Täby church in the fifteenth century where the stone is smashed up and put in different places in the wall is what you do if it's just construction material. Putting it as a threshold to enter the church like the twelfth and thirteenth century people did isn't random. Putting them clearly legible from the outside like the seventeenth century people did isn't random.
