Twilight of the Twin Kingdoms - A Short History of Denmark-Norway 

wow congrats. I wish you had been in the chat though

@@micahistory RL intervened. Next time!

@@NorthernHistory ok would you like to be friends?

Tordenskiold was and is still held up as a patriotic figure in Norway. To many, he's the only iconic figure of the 18th century. Every country views historical persons differently, through their own lens!

You're also welcome for Holberg ;D

@@GangeHrolfr Thanks ☺and we´ve practically stolen Henrik Ibsen too.

@@landersen8173 So has the rest of the world, it's all good my friend :D

​​@@GangeHrolfrYeah. And Krøjer, and Haakon the VI.

my name is cay jens joost thorgrimson what history is in the name of warrior sons im dane

@@caythorgrimson ja jeg har så også fået et par flere navne på frakken end bare det fra Holland. Blev sgu nødt til at skære i det for at få plads til en simpel underskrift. Men det er lovligt at bruge patrinomer igen, så man kan tage faderen eller moderens fornavn til efternavn med henholdsvis søn og datter som slutled.

@@citizenVader lol bro a true ilu

@@citizenVader din måde ay sige du er f dane

@@citizenVader lad mig gæt amar??

the dream team ;)

Yeah, the Danish king did everything he could to get out of it, including sending his own son to Norway to set the Swedish takeover up for failure and provide a way for Norway to return to the Danish royal line via succession.

Norway was ceded to Bernadotte, the king of Sweden, not Sweden. Thus the united kingdoms, not kingdom.

I will definetly make a more in-depth film on an interesting subject related to Denmark-Norway in the future.

Search and ye shall find oh ye of little faith.

Should rather appologize for taking all of our colonies away from us in 1814

Hi Jens. You are of course entitled to your opinion. I merely state my views in this video, and there are hundreds of ways to interpret and analyse these 400 years of history. Norway as 'property' is of course polemic, as Norway was traditionally thought of as its own crown and territory - but no Norwegians were consulted on the matter. I mentioned the "false period" because that was a quote what came to taint the romantic view of the period and I tried to nuance that view. I don't try in this video try to dig too deeply in how to judge such a long period of time that is now so steeped in myth and nation-building, but tried to give a brief glimpse of what some thinkers thought of it in its aftermath. Thanks for watching!

@@NorthernHistory Is it worth pointing out that no Norwegians were consulted, when the Danes involved didn't have a choice? In either fighting in the war, or having to give up Norway after they lost?

@@Jo-Heike I felt it was worth pointing this out to a modern viewer, yes - in the context of seeing Denmark-Norway from a Norwegian point of view. Most people don't really know what an absolute monarchy was like or operated like in that day and age.

@@NorthernHistory Eneveldet.

It is said that frederik 3 would rather give up skåne in 1658 to sweden, than norwegian land? Norway was not handed over so easy as it is told in the video in 1814. Norway was not a colony, but always regarded as a independant people. The norweigian sailors and soldiers where highly valued in the navy and in the army. Copenhagen was full of norweigian students and sailors and also many Germans. If denmark had contiued the fight for Norway, denmark would probably had been split up to the swedes and Britania. This idea did the swedish King (who was now a french former officer) propose to the britts. Denmark was even offered the most of the northen German baltic sea borders ,by the russians, if they gave norway to schweden and then joined up against napoleon. This was rejected period by the danish King.. so the King did everything he could to keep his beloved norway under the crown. It is important to be objektiv and not colored by nationalism when the history is told. Nationalism did not exist as we know it today. Norwegian policy was danish policy and vice versa at the time. Like it it not. That said, norway would had become indepent over time, because of the rise of nationalism. Which also happend in Holsten and schleswig. Denmark always mentioned norway as an independant People under the crown. Denmark was in danish history described as denmark-norway. Unlike scania, Halland , Blekinge, bonus len which where delibertly forced in to the swedish state to wash away there danisch ,and for bonus len, norwegian history, language and mentality The pursuit to kill norwegian tradition and habbits was never a political goal. However the writing was danish, which of course had a big impackt and did actually wipe out the original norwegian language. But the norwegian was still regarded as norwegians by the danes and the King, danish writting or not. That is the big difference.

Hi, of course.

Danes and Norwegians are brothers and there is a lot of love between the 2 countries now… now the Swedes.. that’s a whole other story… haha. In all seriousness Scandinavian like to razz each other but we do love each other. 🇩🇰🇳🇴🇩🇰🇳🇴

@@kknudsen4907 Vi er Vikinger!!!!! Jan

Undskyld.

Are you danish, by any chance?

I quite explicitly state on the video (and on this channel in general) that Nordic history is told from a Norwegian point of view. Nationalism is unavoidable because you somehow have to capture the mood in how modern Norway was born out of the union of the two kingdoms.

So sad that you are beset with delusions.

lmao

I'm not gonna take a political stance on this, but Sweden's immigration policies differs extremely from Denmark, it's basically night and day. Look it up.

Letting you into Scandinavia would also be suicide.

@@gingerconnoisseur7395 - A few sexual assaults and grenade attacks are a small price to pay for the joys of vibrant diversity, eh?