Kronborg Castle in Helsignør all done up for Christmas!!
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2024
- As we embrace the Christmas season in Denmark, it only made sense to visit Hamlet's Kronborg Castle in Helsingør. While it is a wonderful spot in the summertime, Christmas offers it's own style of charm. We were mostly alone as we explored the insight, caught a wonderful concert of renaissance music, learned about the channel between present day Sweden and Denmark, explored the casements under the castle, and of course had some æbleskiver and glogg!
Being only 1 hour from Copenhagen or 30 minutes from our home in Lyngby it is an easy half day or day trip from the greater Copenhagen area. There is a lot more to see and do in Helsingør which we will explore further in the summer, when it isn't snowing outside.
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I er en mega cool familie, tak fordi i valgte DK, vi har brug for jer her 🤍
Tak!!
In the basement of Kronborg also sit Holger danske (holger the dane) who was a old viking who later became knight of the France army, and the legendaries have it, that if Denmark ever gets attacked he wake up and defend Denmark. (ofcause just folklores) but been folklore since hes death in around 1250 or so.
I'm so glad you guys visited my home town and our beautiful Kronborg Castle. It's beautiful at night when they illuminate it.
Say did you know... the canons on kronborg is the worlds oldest aktive canons... they ate fired on royal birthdays, royal birth and whennthe queens ship goes its trip in spring and Again when it comes home... and it is the danish artillery that stands for the salut and have its home over by Esbjerg
I did not know that, super cool!!
fellow chicagoan in Copenhagen too - nice job!
Super cool, thanks! Let me know if you’ve found any good Italian beef :).
@@TravelinYoung haha oh man do I wish I can enjoy a “real” Italian beef sandwich on the regular here!
@@TravelinYoung I may have get it wrong to deduce that you like Italian food (beef). But arguably, the best Italian restaurant in Copenhagen is Enomania on Vesterbrogade.
Awesome episode.
As a Dane living in Helsingør. If you haven't done so yet, when this whole pandemic disappear, then go to Helsingborg. There you will see another castle that also belonged to the Danes. This castle also had cannons, because the cannons at Kronborg could not shoot all the way across Øresund.
The sound dues, as you correctly mentioned, paid a lot of Denmarks finances but Christian the 4th and other kings got to greedy and this instigated the wars against Sweden which we lost after an especially daring attack by Karl Gustav the 12th. The mad lad walked his army across both the little and great belt in winter as they were frozen and completely blindsided the Danish king. Thus we lost Scania(Skåne), Halland and Blekinge.
We joke a lot, that when the time is right, we will take back Scania(Skåne), Halland and Blekinge in Sweden as they were originally Danish and middle and upper Sweden do not actually like south sweden that much, because they think it still is too Danish.
I need to explore Helsingborg more and we've talked about doing an episode when it is nicer where we ferry across and back. We have been a couple of times but mostly to stay the night after seeing a concert along the northern coast of Sweden. We'd just crash in a hotel and then get up and ferry across to head home the next morning. I've never really walked around, but we will!
Love your videos! So exciting to see your impressions of Denmark 😊
The automated subtitles are living their own life sometimes 😅 “We’re here about to eat some babies and glute our favorite things” 😂
Great video. Once again you increase the level of joy in me by making videos in and about Denmark.
I must however also put down in writing that I fear that the Young family fall under the spell of the "promised-land" of Sweden.
It is my hope that you don't fall into that trap. I have nothing against Swedes, but I just think they have a funny smell to them, hehe.
Thanks! Haha, Sweden is alright. Admittedly I do like their glogg and they have a lot more bbq options :). There is also a good music scene in Malmo. But we’ve not been in a long time thanks to corona.
Sweden? isnt that just a region of denmark?
Next summer- nice locations to visit, could be in the northern part of Denmark, such as the town of Skagen, Jesperhus Flowerpark, Nordsøen oceanarium(a big Aquarium with almost all native species around Denmark) and so Many other fantastic locations around here. And maybe also use a day at Fårup Sommerland, which is a very familyfriendly and beautiful amusementpark, that never dissapoints Greetings from Jutland 😊
Thanks for the ideas. Northern Jutland is in the works for next summer!
@@TravelinYoung I'm sure you will have a great time! And good videos btw. It's very interesting for a dane to see americans thoughts about Denmark. When you guys someday get to learn proper danish, it really will be a gamechanger for your stay here. I know it's difficult to learn, but it will be more than Worth it!(You can even use It to talk to swedes and norwegians in their own language in most situations) Merry Christmas, and stay safe, great people!
If you go there in the summer, you should go to the 4.th of july celebrations at rebild bakke. It is the largest 4.th of july celebrations outside the USA.
I'm glad you'd been told about the opposite coast historically being Danish. The ship tax is actually the very reason why it isn't anymore! The Baltic Sea is (and especially was) a major trade hub, as it is surrounded by the entire coastlines of Sweden, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland, as well most of Germany's coastline and western Russia's. Øresund is not only the shortest route but, as far as I recall, also both the deepest and calmest waters, and besides, the only alternative routes also go through Denmark anyway. So for the British, Dutch, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, African, Asian, etc. merchants to trade with any of those countries, passing through Danish waters were the only option, giving Denmark upportunity to tax all of that trade, and of course everyone else was interested in seeing a change to that fact.
In medieval Europe, it was common for treaty negotiations between countries to host emmisaries from other countries. They would come to act both as mediators between the negotiating countries and as negotiators for their own countries' interests. Denmark and Sweden had been on-and-off warring for centuries, and two of these wars within a short time saw Denmark on its knees, one largely because fate had taken Sweden's side and given us a winter worthy of legend, freezing all the Danish straits to the point where the Swedish army could simply march right across the sea. The Swedish king Gustav had been warring in Poland and was granted passage through Germany, so he walked his army in through Denmark's back door, so to speak, up through Jutland, where he would normally have had to wait for spring in order to cross the straits and get to Zealand. The Danish king and government were aware of his movements and started planning defenses on Funen for the summer, but as fate would have it, the seas froze, allowing the Swedes to invade the completely unprepared islands through winter. A small army had assembled on Funen but wasn't quite ready yet and got trampled. Crossing the Great Belt from Funen to Zealand, parts of the Swedish army was lost when the ice gave, which had Gustav retreating to Funen, but he went on southwards across Tåsinge and Siø to Langeland, and from there succesfully across the Great Belt to Lolland, Falster, Bogø, and finally Zealand. Up through Zealand they met resistance again, but more akin to guerilla forces than any actual army, as no one could have imagined the Swedes would be there so soon. One of the local resistance leaders, nicknamed "Gøngehøvdingen", became a national folk hero then, but despite their efforts, the Swedes made it in great numbers to the capital, where the Danish government were besieged and suddenly looking at potential extinction. The Swedish government were willing to negotiate peace, but their demands were overwhelming and would make Denmark a tiny country with no real chance to compete internationally.
While some European countries were happy to see Denmark lose their mighty influence on international trade, they had no interest in seeing Sweden become an overwhelming superpower either, especially as the Swedes were looking to start collecting those taxes themselves, so they sent their emmisaries to influence the peace negotiations. So basically, diplomats from the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, etc. showed up hand in hand and said "Sweden, we support your victory, but you're gonna drop all those demands and only take this much land from the Danes, and you're gonna be happy about it. Or else we'll have to come to Denmark's rescue here and beat you back by force. Denmark, we're saving y'all's asses here, so you're gonna hand over those lands to Sweden and you're gonna be happy about it, or else."
And just like that, Denmark and Sweden sat on each their side of Øresund, the strait became international waters, and they both had to give up on collecting those taxes.
But we all know that Skåne, Halland, and Blekinge truly belong to Denmark. 😉
@9:28: Flagermus: pronounce as in flower moose
It is I never thought of that
Again a great episode.. Just a stupid question. Did you see/meet Holger danske the statue when you were looking for bats?
Thanks! We did see him! The video just turned out pretty bad because of the light that pulsates. That bit ended up on the cutting room floor :).
@@TravelinYoung fair enough 😁 your christmas videos gets me thinking on how many danish christmas tradition you do, and how many US tradition is a need to do for you?... Are you e.g doing advent calendars (julekalender) advent lights (adventskrans eller kalenderlys).. Some danes see alot of the advent tv some just do the classic matador tv series if you know that😋
@@happymazzjazz we still do some, but honesty our tradition over most of Maya’s life was to travel to new places and learn theirs. We’ve always traveled over the holidays.
That said, Miranda absolutely has an after eight advent calendar and I have been trying all the Julebryg I can find! We will be home this year so trying to soak in all the danishness we can and learn about the traditions here.
As for matador, I want to learn a little more danish first before I watch. I do know about it though as I think that may have been the first thing Danes said I need to watch once arriving.
@@TravelinYoung both of you have good taste regarding your "advent calendar" choice... This year its only my girl on 2,5 year, that gets something every day ( pakkekalender) some raps small presents in and hang them on a family advent calendar, others like us uses a christmas sock aka nissesokken. Its the "nisse" that gives here a present every day, if she behave and of cause gives the "nisse" som risengrød (rise porridge) 😁.. At the moment we (mom and dad) Are discussing with the nisse what to give our 2,5 year old (should it be healthy stuff, candy or other Things) 😁
Regarding beer.. Thats a tough one though. Because drinking some chrismas beers thats ok, but every time in the whole december maybe not.. But the difference of beer is large and also if its tapped or can/bottle.
Last one regarding Matador. You can get it on dvd with english subtitles. Yes its a classic and we danes love it. But I wouldnt say its a need to see but more a Nice to see, its pretty cathcy when you are half in.
Last last Thing. It whould be very Nice to here which christmas traditions, you have picked up on your other travels. Brgs Casper
@@happymazzjazz I guess I am not really doing a beer advent, but I am grabbing up new julebryg when I can to try. I am going to shoot a beer tasting video pretty soon with one of my Danish friends. We will see how that turns out and how we feel after :)
I have heard about Matador subtitled in English, I need to track that down.
I like your idea about traditions that we have, a lot of which came from traveling. I am working on a Danish Christmas video, I will make sure that during the end I focus a bit on our own traditions. That could be interesting to share. Thanks!
Speaking of Helsingør - did you get off the coast train at Humlebæk for a visit to the Louisiana art museum? Thanks for sharing
I have been (Joshua here) to the Louisiana museum once. We will definitely do a video from there when weather warms up and things are open again :).
How you guys feel visiting buildings and stuff that are older than the USA? :)
It is crazy, our house is older than the USA even :). Super cool!
Over the centuries, a lot of tax were collected on behalf of the Danish monarchs at Kronborg. In fact, ships would have to declare the value of their cargo, on the basis of which they would pay duty. And if they would declare a too low value in order to get away with paying a low amount in duty, the crown would have the right to buy the cargo at the declared value. A strong incentive not to try to cheat.
Did you not see Holger Danske?
We did, but the footage was too dark to use so I didn't include it here.
@@TravelinYoung
Too sad.
@@Remouladine Looking back I should have at least mentioned it and shown a picture as I have taken a few on other visits. Maybe I will just go back again :).
@@TravelinYoung Well dont be sad, the real Holger danske statue isnt there haha. Its located in a small town in Skjern in Jylland.
Did you vist Holger Danske? He sleeps at Krongborg Castle:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogier_the_Dane#In_modern_era
Hey, we did! Unfortunately the video footage didn’t turn out very well so I kept it out.
This thing you call a bunker it’s really call kassematterende
Hamlet. .