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It's a bit strange that American's who mainly learn about English history and culture, then do not know that it was the Danish Vikings who invaded and settled in the half of England called the Danelaw, while the Norwegians mainly settled in Scotland and Ireland, and the Swedes were known as the Rus' who moved east, which is part of the present historical dispute between Russia and Ukrainian Rus (and Belarus) about who are the original Rus. Pretty much all Americans learn about the Vikings is about what the Danish Vikings did (invading England and the siege of Paris). Ironically, it was actually the pillaging Danish Vikings who introduced the word "law" and the concept of a jury to the English.
As well as greatly simplifying the very complicated and highly inflected Old English / Anglo-Saxon language indirectly - which was way more complicated than even German is today! - , as it over time merged with the closely related but grammatically different Old Norse language and transitioned into Early Middle English ( where you actually begin to be able to understand a lot more stuff with a little bit of effort 😂 - unlike with 99 % of OE 🙄 ) - a much simplified and completely restructured and now analytical (!) English language, where fixed word orders and prepositions indicate meaning, as opposed to the "synthetic" Old English, where the meaning of a sentence was expressed via loads of case endings for nouns and with associated articles for each case ( and even differently for three genders of nouns! ) along with a much freer word order. So there is a reason for the many deep similarities between the grammatical structures and vocabularies of basic core English and the three very similar modern Scandinavian languages ( almost like accents or even dialects of a mutual Scandinavian base language ) - and why English is a fairly easy language to learn for Scandinavians, since we already by magic "know" a lot of the basic stuff of English in advance and therefore often don't have to think very much. 😉 But sometimes it would be a lot better, if we did though, since there are so many very tempting traps - that almost beg for simple direct basic word for similar basic word translations - as you may have noticed, when Danes address you in their "best" Danglish? Maybe you could make a video about that topic? Danes confusing you in "English" / Danglish? 😂 Do check out Langfocus' brilliant video "Viking Influence on the English Language" and Melvyn Bragg's great TV-series "The Adventure of English" for more information - especially the first two of the eight episodes in this context. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CDAU3TpunwM.html ru-vid.com/group/PLbBvyau8q9v4hcgNYBp4LCyhMHSyq-lhe PS (Team) Handball is actually a Danish invention - Germany also claims it (🙄), but that was / is(?) a different sport played in a field with more players and a larger court.
i visited moesgaard museum and saw the rus viking exhibit, there are actually danish ties to the early rulers of Kyiv. people started living longer and more children survived, so the vikings started to travel an settle elsewhere and became the rus vikings that settled what we now know as Ukraine and Russia
@@madsmatras5691 .. I think Sweden and to some extend also Finland deserve vastly more credit for the early Ukrainian and Kyiv Rus' origin. Russia is just a highly wrongfully distorted and twisted later "copy" of the original, which is Ukraine.
@@agffans5725 well, this is just what i understood from the exhibit i saw in 2021. But again countries as we know them today didn't really exist so we can't really attribute anything to anybody.
@@madsmatras5691 yes, danish/swedish vikings did help the "ukrainians" to form the first state "Kyiv" in the slavic/rus area more than 100 years before statebuilding further north. Thats also why a lot of Kyiv ukrainians looks like danes/swedes with blonde hair.
This video does a good job at explaining the difference between Norwegian, Swedish and Danish vikings: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-73Xb4STUupI.html
Fun fact. Karen Blixen had been English speaking for so long that she wrote all her work in English. But of course the Danish translations was very precise as she did them herself.
Here is a little fun fact for you (although it’s a bit sad at the same time). Denmark and Sweden are the two countries that have fought the most wars with each other in history. It is said that we are the most peace-loving countries in the world, as no one else have signed so many peace treaties.
There's nothing to be ashamed of when celebrating you've learned something new. You've grown wiser and more worldly. Admitting there's something you don't know is incredibly hard for some people, and the Dunning-Kruger effect isn't exactly helping either, so enjoy every little bit you learn. Great video!
Imagine you move to denmark , living and working there for less than 10 years and recognise , in case of moving home to your Fatherland again , ..... you will loose all right to get pension payment from the danish pension found! Take care of the extrem high tax in denmark. I spend 51% Tax from my payment!
Not sure what you meant by additional locks, but in the Nordic countries the weather can get really cold. It's extremely important that doors and windows are tightly sealed when closed. All the more so when modern ventilation is installed, and small leaks can have a really large negative effect.
Thank you for your wonderful videos, which really help us Danes to see ourselves from an important different perspective. I really appreciate you not only coming to live here and contribute so very positively to Denmark and Danish Society, but also sharing your stories and experiences! Still, I can't help laughing, when you take up the subject of Vikings: You actually - and that goes for all three of you in your lovely American-born family - look to me as a native Dane EXACTLY like THE romanticized "poster model Viking Family": Perhaps except for language, you could blend immediately into any Viking reenactment festival representing 9th century Danes! 😀
Just a little FYI. The extra "locking bolts" in the doors aren't for security reasons. They're there to seal the door tighter against the frame, so less heat escapes (or enters, if it's summer).
Handball was invented in 1897 in Denmark - probably the first place in the world - by R.N. Ernst (1872-1937), employed by the school system in Nyborg, and Holger Nielsen (1866-1955), employed at Ordrup Latin- and Realskole. It thus began as a school play.
Fun fact: the gym hall of the school Ernst worked at is situated on 1st floor of Denmark's longest barrel vault. I was built under Christian III, but it present form with the exercise rooms upstairs "only" dates back to 1666 (Frederik III) Still a pretty old gym hall, eh? These days the table tennis club and the local amatuer theater use the facilities.
The handball sport was actually invented, because the students had been told by the school director that they were not allowed to play the back then new sport of football (soccer) in the school court yard - so they just started throwing the football around instead 😂
@@Bjowolf2 In an other version it's about it not being possible to play football - which was the only thing the boys really enjoyed -in the winter because the ground freezes. So Ernst thought up an indoor ball game for them to play.
I really love that you can actually teach us Danes our own history, the places around Denmark that I have never visited. I am going to watch your video about our flag since that part of my historic education has some big holes in it - I did know it was the oldest but there are a lot more to learn. Looking forward to many of your videos since your point of view actually tells me how foreigners have a look at Denmark. And you have definitely gone the extra mile to learn.
Thank you for another interesting video. Even if the title of the video sounds somewhat 'meh' to me, I'll watch it, and I'm always pleasantly surprised. Best wishes and please keep the videos coming 😍
About having to lift the door handle to lock a door (I believe it's called a three-point-lock), one major benefit is that it gives a better seal, eliminating cold drafts. This improves the insulation of your home.
Vikings, and especially the Danish Vikings, were mainly traders. They used the same kind of trade tactics as USA today hahaha. They went to other places and basically told them they wanted to trade with them and if they refused, the Vikings would invade and trash the place hahaha.
I will only comment on 1 thing, skipping the whole Norse/viking and European history 😉 Famous artists in USA, i do hope you know who Victor Borge was.. probably the single most talented, important and famous pianist in US history.. and he was danish. Passed away in 2000, 91 years old.
That channel is very biased and does give incorrect info on several topics.. one big one jumps into mind, a video where he claims one of the Norwegian kaupangs were the center of the Norse world, Norse trade, the oldest and most influential settlement in Scandinavia.. while the truth is both sweden and especially Denmark had bigger, older and more influential settlements and tradeports. He totally downplay the importance of Hedeby and the importance of the West Coast tradeports in Denmark. Alone on those facts i recommend anyone taking all his info as facts, to actually look it up themselves from other sources before spreading the false info. There is no doubt that the Danes, besides having the greatest numbers were the most prominent, successful and important Vikings/Norse (because we have to remember being viking was a "occupation" and not describing the Scandinavians as a ethnical nor cultural group)
Haha, we had one on our old car (after I got a ticket and made the discovery you suggest) and then the battery died and I got a ticket that day as well. I then got a solar one with our newer car and still haven't put it on it yet. But I have now finally conditioned myself to set the P-skive - I'm now like a hawk.
@@TravelinYoung Ha ha, I have been through exactly the same stages. Spoiler alert: with the solar P-skive you will one day discover that it does not work if your car is covered in snow ;) By the way, the latest parking fine I got this year was 830 dkk, ouch inflation!
Fun fact: I didn't know that the æ, å and ø were real separate letters. I always assumed they were like the accents that the French use. So for a long time I thought that Danish alphabet is really cool with a whopping 29 letters. Until I learned about the Slovakian alphabet. They have 46 letters!
I think we actually inherited the Æ / æ from "Old English" ( originally from Church Latin ) via English monks, who came over to Denmark to civilise us after the end of the Viking age around 1100 AD - one of them was even called Ælnoth ( of Canterbury ), so it was probably him 😂 If you study Old English documents, you will see the Æ / æ all over the pages. So now we Danes, Norwegians, Faroese and Icelandic folks are hoping to finally seeing some recognition from the English-speaking World for patiently taking so great care of your old letter for all those centuries - and to some day eventually seeing it reintroduced as an official letter in English 😉
The letters Æ & Ø are a little tricky. In the Icelantic language, "Ø" is in fact a special "a" sound ! Not something as "eu" And "Æ" is also prononced com- pletely different from Norwegian, Danish & Swedish 😮 Why ? I don't know...
Goldblatt: How to watch the Olympics from 2012 has some fine deskriptions of all the sports, incl handball that was played at the 2012 games. Available as ebook. I learned a lot from it on sports I knew nothing about. Read the handball section (a sport I knew) and thought it good.
Back in the day, big parts of Norway and Sweden were basically in the area were the people would be called "Danes" by the British :) The Danes even had a king on the British throne for some time :) We have 400 NAMED islands if I'm not mistaken :)
😂😂😂😂😂 I had so much fun watching this video. But Josh you forgot about the cakes for every season 😉🤤😂 You have a beer tasting with your friends so maybe you and Miranda could have a cake tasting for every season and tell us what taste you guys preferrer ?
Danish design look up Poul Hennigsen who spent a lifetime designing light and was also a political satirist, also the danish company Bang and Olufsen is a facinating story about design!!!!
The doors. We got one of those when we bought our house in Sweden. It’s not common here. BUT we get cheaper insurance because we have a “security door”, and that’s is nice.
When feeling a little sad with all going on right now ( global ). Nothing better to tune in and watch people laugh & smile. Just bought this new monitor watching videoes in 2160dp. 1080 stone age. Well better run now. Jantelov. Joke aside love watching your videos.
doorhandle. I have lived for 52 years as a dane. 5 years ago I moved and met for the first time to an appartment that has such door-locking-system. I had to ask my neighbor how to lock the door - your not alone 🙂
Ever heard about the danelaw, that ruled half of England for a century? The viking age started in Denmark, and the Vikings that went to the British islands, were mainly Danish vikings. It's also the reason why the English language has over 600 Danish Norse words. Some modern linguistic studies even say, that English is more related to old Danish, than to old German, because of the vikings.
If you are tech heads, you should know that the loudspeaker was a Danish invension, and the typewriter, so is the dry cell battery. and if you are diabetic a Dane made your life better by inventing insulin. Oh i guess i forgot Google maps, the endoscope, beer yeast, vaccoum cleaner, bobleplast,the Burger, magnetic sound recording, stomi bag, and a lot of other stuf, teknisk museum is worth a visit. Design wise Poul Henningsen "P.H" is a big one he also wrote a lot of very popular music texts.
Production of humane insulin is actually a Canadian invention ( Nobel awarded ), but it was a Danish company ( amongst others?) that really got the mass production going - today they are called Novo Nordisk.
@@Bjowolf2 Ok Canadian discovery, but a Dane perfected it, Hans Christian Hagedorn discovered NPH (Neutral Protamine Hagedorn) insulin, which prolongs the effects of insulin and means that people with diabetes can have fewer injections.
Reg. handball, the USA team is currently playing at the world championship held in Sweden and Poland, and on Saturday (21st of Jan) they'll go up against Denmark the reigning champions, so maybe you could try to reach out to the US team and have a chat with them about rules and stuff. Short notice of course, sorry about that; and I know probably not the best odds of actually hearing back from the team in any way, but just thought it could be worth a shot maybe
yes, as it is written, handball was invented in Nyborg on Funen by Ernst. the version we play today is his invention, just with some minor changes and rules.
Maybe you should try to see if you can get to see the movie "Margret the First" but the story is much longer Margrete 1. (1387 - 1396) she was appointed "representative wife and husband, guardian of the kingdom of Denmark". Shortly afterwards, she also achieved a similar title in Norway and Sweden.
The wiking age Danes have influenced the English language a lot, e. g. Some name of week days, husband + wife and there are 100s of other words originate from old danish/norse
@@KurtFrederiksen Yes, but these are often very basic core words that are used on a daily basis - NOT the loads of fancy Latin, French or Greek words that are rarely used or only in special situations ( medical, scientific, philosohical etc. ), and which a lot of average English speaking people hardly know the meaning of or wouldn't even dream of using under normal circumstances, since it would be regarded as showing off in their social circles.
@@KurtFrederiksen Where did I claim that they are? 😂 No, but you missed my point here - it will give you a very skewed picture, if you only count up all the words in the English dictionary and then simply calculate their percentages in terms of origin. You have to look at the words that are actually being used in normal everyday conversations, not a lot of those fancy words that are hardly ever used - or are only used in special situations - , especially where there exists simple Germanic ( AS + ON ) equivalents for them. ( we also have many very close cognates of these basic AS words in Scandinavia btw. , just slightly disguised along some fairly predictable lines ). And when you perform this more scientific analysis, you will then find that these Germanic core words on average constitute around 70 - 75 % of the words in a normal ( non-medical, non-scientific etc.) conversation in British English, but that number of course depends a lot on the social status, level of education, age and regional dialect of the speakers, as you correctly mention. These are all the core words that hold everything else together - the other words are "just" ( often much) later additions on top of an already existing core language, which seems very familiar to us in Scandinavia in many respects and is the main reason why English is a fairly easy language for us to learn, since we already by magic 'know' a lot of the basics in advance.
Thanks for a good, cozy and fun channel :) Have you ever been to the island of Mors? I live here and was born and raised here. You should try to visit the island if you haven't been here. There is, among other things, a shellfish festival in the summer, and then you should try to visit Jesperhus flower park, which is also located here. We have incredibly beautiful nature. And we'd be happy to give you a cup of coffee or beer if you should stop by :p
Besides LEGO we have some great inventions, the Loud Speaker by Peter L. Jensen, Telegraphone (magnetic tape recording) by Valdemar Poulsen, C++, Skype, google maps Hansen Writing Ball, The dry cell battery, Danish Pastry is from Austria :), Great Danes are Germans o.Oa , its legal to burn a Danish flag, Jette knows everything on Fyn, Jutlandia was the first UN hospitalship allowed to provide humanitarian help to civilians (Korea war)
If you are just a little into science history, a few of these Danish names may ring a bell : Niels Steensen (a.k.a. Nicolaus Steno), Tycho Brahe, Ole Rømer (speed of light), H.C. Ørsted (electromagnetism), Niels Bohr (quantum model). And you might want to look up Ellehammer, just for fun. Do you know which element is named after Copenhagen? And which is named after Bohr?
I’m Danish, I have trouble with those door handles too, having never lived in a place with that kind of handle. PS. Xmas brew and Easter brew are a stronger percentage - so I can very much imagine it was a happy discovery 😂🍺
Handball is a very good spectator sport. Lots of action, tough tacklings, lots of goals and often a very intensive atmosphere. And you can shout and scream. I think you would like it, the rules are not that hard.
you can go to your local public sport center, there you can try out a lesson in handball or the other sports they have for free. kids play it, its not complicated its like football you cant glue the ball to your shoe and run into the goal, the ball have to be in play same same but different
Fun, fun fact video 😃 Karen Blixen's pseudo name is Isak Dinesen...but yah, watch Out of Africa, as a Dane, Meryl Streep did very well and who doesn't enjoy a bit of Robert Redford?? 😉 What about?? shopping cards & the money/polet unlock? pant bottles? (although I think you've touched on that) oldest traceable Royal Family Danish colonies in the West Indies, West Coast of Africa and India? (road trip?) Real Danish pastry? Just some ideas 🤔 p s. Miranda, tsk, tsk ..the vikings, really? ..a history buff like you? 🤣 hello from Hundested 🌸🌦
I'm sure a lot of people don't know about the vikings thing. I watch the American version of Ghosts and that show has a viking ghost who hates Danes. It had me questioning myself n I've been to Denmark.
Hi guys. Fun video you have made again.👌 Speaking of handball, I think that Denmark will play America soon. I've never seen America play handball before, so it will be exciting to watch the match and I'm really looking forward to it.👍 So good luck to them in the tournament. ⛹️♂️ 🇩🇰 vs 🇺🇸
A few comments: - Handball was in invented in Denmark in 1897. - As you said Greenland is a part of the Danish Kingdom, but also Faroe Islands. Denmark and Norway was united until after the the Napoleon wars.
It is actually cheaper to buy design furniture. The resale value is much higher, and you dont really loose much. If you buy second hand, you can even make money owning designer stuff
Hi :) Did you have problems with connecting electrical wires in the socket, among other things to charge the mobile phone due to different voltages in DK vs US? Did you know that the old pontoon bridge that connected Aalborg and Nørresundby is still in use on the island of Curacao, one of the Dutch Antilles north of Venezuela. (The bridge was built almost 160 years ago in Aalborg, and came to Curacao in 1939) Have you visited the island of Læsø? There is a ferry connection from Frederikshavn. The island is known for their salt factory and their old houses with seaweed roofs. :)
@@TravelinYoung I didn't know that either, not until I visited the island myself when I was employed by Mærsk Line. It was one of the crew who told me that back in the early 80s. And another funny thing from that island is that when a Danish ship sails into the harbour, they play the Danish national anthem. :)
Is this a reupload? Or is it just me having the longest dejavu. Anyway fun video and I liked the lighthearted content. Can’t really blame you for not knowing most of these things. All though we like to think of ourselves as important, in the grander scheme we are in reality just a small little country, tucked away in Northern Europe. I’m not gonna give Miranda too much stick about not knowing about the Vikings. I blame Hollywood, even though we had the biggest population during the Viking age. And some of the most famous stories are about danish Vikings. Like attacking and occupying England, sacking Paris and subsequently founding Normandy. Hollywood always show Vikings leaving the fjords of Norway, when they sail out to conquer the world, or the mountains of Norway as the backdrop for the chieftain’s great hall etc. Guess we are just cursed with having a boring landscape. And while the Danish soil could sustain more people - hence the bigger population) it’s just not that dramatic in a cinematic context. Visiting a handball club is a great idea. And though it pains me to say. You should probably do that in Jylland, as it’s the heartland of handball. Alternatively go to Flenborg or Kiel. Here is a little video of an American attending a game in Germany, without knowing anything about the game: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ePT-5__ZvsM.html
On the handball Any small local public gym has a handball team. I bet you could walk to one, well, take a bus since you are in Copenhagen. But it's pretty simple. You have a right and a left wing, a right and left spare, a 'streg' (brawler), 2 midfield players a playmaker and of course a goalie. The playmaker set the play and you get about 2-3 mins to do your play on each end before you get whistled for 'nøl', unless you play gets interrupted, for playing to slow. No walking the ball without dribbeling(like basketball) And you can't step over the goalcage line, you can jump it. No tackeling, no grabbing shirts and obviously no punching. That was the quick explanation
Danelaw ..you can read about it...danes had England . Visite the Viking museum in York England norwegians went to Scotland mainly..and swedens east mainly if you watch TV there are programs about detektor findings here or better. Go to the National Museum...its so interesting and in copenhagen.....ok Vikings on Britsin they learn about it..many british people has Scandinavian dna...
Hi, we've been watching your RU-vid channel for awhile. My husband and I are moving to Billund in a couple of weeks, we have a 25 lb. Yorkie we're taking with us. Can you give us any info on what to expect upon arriving at the Denmark airport when bringing a service dog, and any advices. Thanks
most of the serious vikings were danish thats why english and danish are so similar because most of the words comes from danish and there are quite alot of both danish actors and bands, singer and other musicians who make it the US even the drummer in metalica is danish ..... i might be able to help you with the håndbold thing ..... i guess you know about J dag?
If you want to know whant handball is, have you heard of this site called RU-vid? ;-) Typing in "handball introduction" could be educational. 400 islands - wow! Comparee that tho the two closest Scandinavian countries with about a quarter of a million each (not all inhabited, of course)
Come to Brande(Home of Bestseller, among other great companies), and I will teach you guys Handball. I teach/ coach U5-U8, in our local club. Its introductory level, fore kids age 5-8;)
Would've loved to teach you about handball. However I don't have the connections that you are looking for in the Handball world even though I've played for quite some time. If you don't find anyone with connections then maybe try to reach out to one of the local clubs and ask if they were interested. It doesn't have to be a club that is playing at a high level for you to get something from it in my opinion.
The word Bluetooth was originally just supposed to be a "developing name", but (as far as I have heard) they made a mixup with some papers when they filed for some patent/name rights, so they accidentally filed for the right to use the developing name Bluetooth instead of the intended marketing name. I don't actually know it that's true, but if it is, it's a nice story :)
I mean, handball, football, i don't know the rules to any sport really lol! I can watch them, but im not a sports type haha :) Okay the door handles, i can relate to, i have NEVER had those smart door handles before i moved in where i live now, and my partner grew up with some of them, so he was so wierded out when i couldn't open the window, or lock the door haha!!
It was the icelandic viking, Leif den Lykkelige ((Leif the cheerful) Leif Eriksson) who was the first non-native to settle in New Foundland or Vinland (Wine land) as they called it.
@@sigrunwestrus68 If you wanna be technical about it, he was Icelandic, as his dads family was shunned from Norway. But yeah, our history books tend to mix up Danish and Norwegian history. Prolly due to us sharing kings for periods.
@@sigrunwestrus68 I’m Danish as you might have guessed, and I never said Norway was a Danish colony. I simply stated that our history books and sites include tales of a variety of tales. Including Norwegian and Icelandic. And said it might be because we at some point have overlapping kings.
Actually I prefer watching handball to football. The match is shorter with lots of goals . Intense matches with a loud audience close up. We are playing in the world cup now in Sweden/ Poland. If Denmark is playing in Malmø you should go watch it. But I guess tickets are hard to get now.
There are 1400 islands in Denmark. 443 of them are named (guess the size of the rest, I can forgive you for not knowing about those :) ) About the parking thing. Get a digital parking thing :) Even in Sweden they don't have it. I think we are about the only country in the world using it, and honestly I'd like to get rid of it. I did NOT know that the DK flag, Dannebrog, was the oldest in the world. THATS SO COOL!!
Eh... it"s the oldest still in use. And orriginally : Only the king was alaud to use it. But some 150 years ago that rule was canceled. But ! It is still not legal for anyone to use the almost similar "splitflag" version ! Another fun fact : The flag of England (not Union Jack) is the oposite of the Da- nish, on porpurse ! 😂 And in Norway they just added a blue cross.
danish and norwegian vikings were the ones attacking england. danish vikings were the most prominent in the time. also get a digital parking clock.. so you dont have to set it manualy
The handball rules are actually really simple and easy to understand, not more difficult then basketball and maybe even easier then football. The main problem understanding what’s going on while watching it, is that they don’t actually follow the rules anyway. In that way you could say it should be a popular game in the US. :P Anyway, you are not allowed to pull in the shirt of the an opponent, but they do all the time, and the referees usually don’t care. If you jump in over the area in front of goal you need to throw the ball before you touch the floor, but they land and shoot all the time and the referees still don’t care, at least they don’t most of the time. If you stand still and the opponent runs it to you, it’s the attackers fault, still they often get a 3 meter throw(same as a freekick in football). There are so manny other rules not being followed or at least being ignored by the referee most of the time. It’s really arbitrary what is called and what isn’t.
Someday, you guys need to visit my favorite island in Denmark. Fanø. It lies by a nice city, Esbjerg. And has its own special vibe and culture. You guys will love it.
Im absolutely shocked and a tad offended by #1, sorry Miranda but that is something everyone should know. England wouldn't be what it is today without the danish vikings. Im kinda annoyed that Norway and even Sweden keep getting the credit for that era.
The Danish Vikings Actually went to North america, before Columbus. And Handball, is actually invented by 2 danish Teachers. and then it just went worldwide, so yes a danish invention.
