Why Norway Has NOT Changed in The Last 1000 Years
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- From the Viking age to modern-day Norway, we will have a closer look at this country and try to figure out how it is possible that Norway, a small Scandinavian nation, has barely changed in the last 1000 years.
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HELLO THERE:
We are Joe and Liisu, relatively new to RUclips but really excited to be a part of this community. We live small and sustainably in my home on wheels (a lovely van called Freyja) and from time to time out of our backpacks (we have not named the backpacks yet). On this channel, we ask you to join us on our travel adventures off the beaten track where we show you the beauty of untouched nature and wander into places most tourists don't dare to go.
This episode is full of Viking Knowledge, super great job, thank you so much for sharing! 👍🥰🙏
So glad you enjoyed it 🙏😁.
It was truly an interesting journey for us as well 😊
@@WildVikingTravels It is my pleasure, thanks to you too! Happy travels! 👍🥰🙏
Maria and the Forest is a wonderful Norwegian channel you may want to check out. She is amazing-she teaches foraging, using natural dyes, etc...lost skills. She also has a lot of vlogs filming all around Norway as she travels for work (with her partner). She's a wonderful content creator, like yourselves. Thanks for sharing your travels with us.
Many thanks for a great vlog! Norway looks wonderful and you both come over as such positive, kind and intelligent people! Thank you for making me smile this Friday morning!
Thanks so much! 😊
And so glad to hear that you enjoyed the humor in this one 😅😁
Thank you again for a wonderful vlog from my old country Joe.
Another fact, is that there hasn’t been a civil war nor a real war in Norway for nearly a 1000 years, which is very unique in this world. As long as you look away from the Nazi-invasion of Norway in 1940.
Norwegians were finished fighting and wars, because of the Viking period and all the wars and fighting that happened then. So yes correctly; Norway hasn’t changed in a millennium.
Glad you enjoyed this adventure!
It was truly interesting for us to make as well and we learned a fair bit about this wonderful country 😁👍
Depending on how you define a "real war", I find it hard to claim that Norway hasn't seen real war for 1000 years. There has been war in Norway the past 1000 years. There was almost constant civil war in Norway from 1000 to the 1200s, as part of the consolidation of Norway as one kingdom with one king. Christianity was introduced through scheming warlords and earls, using christianity's doctrines of obedience as a tool to consolidate power. In the Napoleonic wars, for instance, many thousands of people died from starvation as a direct consequence of the British blocade (the Terje Vigen poem describes this wars effect on Southern Norway pretty well). This war did not see much war on land, however. But during the great nordic war(s) between Norway-Denemark and Sweden we had several wars (that Norway-Denemark usually lost). The fact that Norway lost land areas equal to two counties (Bohuslen + Jemtland-Herjedal) to Sweden attests to these wars. The Kunghelle fortress city north of Gothenburg, Sweden (previously Norway), was besieged 14 times, Oslo was sacked and burned, and also fights in Tøndelag. BUT, we can say that Norway hasn't had a civil war for almost 500 years, and no real war for 80.
OH my Thor 😂
Seriously one of the Best vlog I’ve seen in a Long time! 👏🏼
Great work incredible work you have done a lot of research and scripted/ edited so well Great story telling I’m amazed you can do this,(thinking if tv programs that need a team of researchers editers etc staying in comfy hotels fast Wi-Fi etc …yes I know Wi-Fi isn’t an issue in 🇳🇴 Norway it’s good all around but budget is for sure )let alone at the back of a van! It’s not short of magic!
Norway is not a place people necessarily put on their bucket list when visiting Europe but it should be this is truly an incredible land of beauty that once you put foot in you keep coming back to explore more! I totally fell in love with this place as I put stepped out of the plane coming from London(where we had a really horrible time at the airport) the warm welcome from these pretty shy people felt like no other! Even my husband (a very unemotional Brit) was taken back and said I found mother land…
This vlog a lovely tribute to Norway and Norwegians and I can not wait to go back and see more of this truly special land!
Thank you I cannot wait to see more ❤
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Sabrina!
Your comment just made our evening 🙏😁.
You are absolutely right, at times it can be rough doing all of this from the back of the van and producing one video every week, but it is also quite fun at the same time. No day is ever the same and while doing it we learn so much about the world ourselves.
And yes Norway really is a wonderful country and we hope to bring you along on few more interesting adventures in the Northern part of this land.
Best wishes
Joe and Liisu 🙏😁
Hello from a Danish woman ! You are so right about our long cold winters . Allready starting September getting very cold and very dark during the winter months
The food was spot on too ! . My husband and i are planning a trip to Norway for hes birthday . I hope you would make a trip to Denmark , so much to explore here also . Thank ypu so much for another exciting video . Its such a joy to follow your trips around the whole world ! Safe travels 🌟🫶
Thanks for a very cool vlog. Btw, the porshe, IS electric. All cars starting with E in the license plate, is 100% electric.
Best regards from a Norwegian guy in Spain :)
Thanks for the info!
And glad you enjoyed the video 😁👍
We enjoyed this one Joe & Liisu, thank you for the information
Agust here in Northern Norway now and +19C . indian summer
I absolutely loved your storytelling. I will be going this summer, and your videos have brought a different perspective of Norway. Thank you for sharing your journey.
Six months of winter? I have lived all my life in Norway, over 60 years, and I have never experienced 6 months of winter. In southern Norway there are 3 - 4 months of winter, but in northern Norway there can be up to 6 months of winter.
True, I guess it comes down to what we consider winter as snow can be found in Norway all year round 😅
@@WildVikingTravels Snow all year round over 2000 meters up in the mountains, yes, but no people live there. 🙂 I live near Bergen and there is little snow even during the winter. The snow usually rains away after a few days.
You make interesting videos. I like your videos but stick to the facts. This is Norway, not Alaska. The Gulf Stream heats up the country and makes the climate better than one would think. In the very south of Norway, there is hardly any snow at all, in the area near Kristiansand.
@@steinarhaugen7617He stuck to the facts, but he didn’t go in every detail- south and north etc. And if you compare to the countries they travelled to before, this was an easy explanation otherwise the video would’ve been too long I guess. I live in southwest of Sweden and would say we nearly have 3 months of summer. This summer lasted for one month😥. The rest of the year it’s cold, not real winter, but it’s really cold🥶.
I must admit, in these times, I wish I was Norwegian🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴❤️😍
@@steinarhaugen7617You know as well as the next Norwegian that there are big differences between north and south. You do point out that there is a difference, but asking someone to stick to the facts, is kind of rich coming from someone that obviously doesn’t know all the facts him self. I’m born and raised above the arctic circle, and winters can be a lot longer than 6 months. Some years we have snow from the end of September, and last sometimes all the way through mid June. And I’m not talking of cute and small angel puffs in small quantities, I’m talking about meters upon meters. How many other differences exist between north and south? Endless! Considering all the other facts he included, and were pretty accurate, I bet he asked someone about the average duration of wintertime, before making that a part of his video. I suggest you get down from you factual high horse, before your pride gets bruised by your ignorance.
@@steinarhaugen7617that's because of climate change, even southern Norway used to be really cold with long snowy winters
Really enjoyed your vlog great info about the vikings thanks
Thank you for the kind words!
Pro video, enjoyed watching. Thanks
Of course you found Gudvangen 😉
I am impressed by how good you are at finding the best and important things 👍
Even Queen Sonja picks up rubbish on the shore..
Thanks for both your portrayal and having done your research! Had you still been in Norway I'd have made you waffles!
Looking forward to your next video!
Good episode today! Stay safe and have fun ❤
Great work- thank you for educating us :-) Greetings from Colombia
Our pleasure!
Thank you for the kind words!
was on our way up there to gudavagnen but we got stopped by the floodings and went to Rjukan instead
Norway has had their hydro-power setup before they discovered oil, so hydro-electricity has always been very accessible to norwegians. Our oil has been mostly for exporting and our hydro-electricity has been (mostly) for our own consumption. It makes a lot of sense for the government to want to make the shift to EV not just for environmental reasons, but for economical reasons too. Hydropower is cheaper and renewable. We have to thank the topography of the Norwegian nature for that. 😁
Ahh sweet, what a nice way to show both, the historical settings and a modern town :)
Thank you!
Yea, it really was an interesting episode for us to make as well!
Bergen is the second largest city. Just btw.
Haha I love your humor 😂I totally saw Chris on that Thor totem 🤣
Nice video's, from a Norwegian viking :)
Tervitused Soomest - Greetings from Finland. I am totally crazy about Norway and I want to travel there again and again. I'm already planning a trip for next summer for to see the middle part of the country between Trondheim and Bodø. That's the area I haven't explored yet.
3 Kroneren was one of my favorite places to eat for something cheap and simple. My favorite restaurant was Fjellskal at the fish market.
I really want to visit a viking village in norway someday! I would love if I could move there or sweden honestly, especially a cabin in the woods of the north.
What a curious video! But it's a beautiful zone where you were
Glad you enjoyed it!
Yea Norway really is beautiful and it is such a pleasure to be traveling here 😁👍
Thank you for the fine representation of my beautiful city of Bergen and the Viking era, yes Norway's finest city 😱😱
To go Viking originally meant to travel by boat to different inlets, Exploring and trading. But during a period of poverty and desperation, the raids started. That was the start of it. But over time, it turned into pure greed for some of the chieftains. But during the whole of the Viking age, there were still many that went Viking as tradesmen. There is proof they traded throughout Europe, and along the Silk roads far into Asia. And even though there is little evidence of it, it is hard to believe that they didn't cross into Africa. The Gibraltar Strait would be child's play for a sea faring nation. they also traded with the peoples living along the Kara Ocean, and they did discover America. Although there is a chance the Phoenicians reached America even earlier. Under no circumstances were Christopher Columbus the discoverer of America.
Interesting and lovely place
My favorit aercheological find is a smith's mould in which he can cast both crosses and Mjølners at the same time. The Vikings were pragmatic people. Scandinavians still are!
Great video 🤩
STUNNINGLY INTERESTING video!
Many thanks!
It was such a interesting adventure for us as well 😁👍
@@WildVikingTravels : I'm SOOO HAPPY to READ IT! :)
Wagners prop helmets with horns were probably based on some of the archeological finds of old jewelry depicting warriors with horns. Thoguh most of them depict a warrior with hawk or eagle heads as horns, not bull horns. Though no such helmet has been found, they probably existed and were made completely of metal, used for ritual or intimidation purposes. We see this trend in Scandinavia go back to the Bronze Age where alot of stone carvings of horned warriors can be found. We even found two Bronze Age helmets with long curved horns likely decorated with horse hair mohawks and feathers.
So the concept of a viking with horns on his helmet isn't as strange as it might seem. It's just a shame that so few helmets have survived. Other than the Vendel helmets in Sweden and Gjermundbu helmet in Norway there has been no other semi-intact helmets found from the viking age (and vendel period) in Scandinavia. But alot of small pieces have been found from many such helmets so I don't doubt that the horned helmets we've seen depicted on golden plates were real. They had them 2000 years earlier after all.
The history is very interesting and totally different from my home country of Finland…
There was a quite big war between the christian vikings and the paganistic vikings in Stiklestad which resulted in many of the traditional vikings left for Iceland(Island) and other places, like the Faroe Islands. The brutality of Olav the "holy" was similar to what we see groups like isis and other fanatic religious groups conduct today. Christianity was forced like most of the "modern" religions today. Nothing really ever changes in the shallow, naive and tribal minds of humans. Hope you enjoy my homeland Norway :)
Its simple, back in the old days, when people refused trade or was rude, we AXED them the question again, nowadays, people are less likely to say no to our trades.
As a thinking Norwegian, I have to ask.. Is electric cars REALLY that good for nature and society? Can you really have an after marked on EL cars? What does it cost to replace batteries? Who digs the cobalt for the batteries? What country makes the battery packs? What does it cost for shipping of these battery packs, where to it go to get recycled? Do we want the wind mills to produce the extra electricity needed to support the "green initiative" ? How many birds have to die to produce this ugly windmill electricity?
I will keep my good ole Mercedes GL 350 CDI, diesel powered family car bought at after marked for an affordable price. No African kids have been digging the resources to build it.
I love the video, also look up Borgr viking museum in Lofoten. Have a nice trip!
great informative video. Norway is eons ahead of NA countries.!
Hope our country lives up to your expectations 😀 Enjoy yourselves 😀 See you next time😀
Heyhey.
For sure!
Norway is beautiful and every day we discover something new and beautiful!
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How can people say that Vikings are violent? What was different between the Spanish Inquisition, and the Knights raid or the building of the different empires? Norse were farmers, hunters, and gatherers. Thank you for enlightening people.
Brutality and destructiveness was definitely one aspect of the Vikings. But it's definitely true what you say. Paganism itself was more peaceful than all of today's "modern" religions combined. That's also why it's had quite a comeback in Europe in recent years. Which is good to see
You should ask indians and Africans about British people and what they have done in the past.
@@laveenr that's what I am trying to get out :)
Good videos guys!
Christianity did not remove or end violence and slavery in Norway, but only introduced a different form of the same thing.
No, Christianity changed a lot in Norway to the better.
@@gunnara7625 Enlighten me!
Specify what made the lives of ordinary men better in Norway, after the introduction of Christianity?
This could be interesting!
kõik on korras nagu norras =)
we didnt just become christians, king olav the holy made us christian. become christian or die. the fight of stiklestad is considered the beginning of chritianity up here even though olav the holy declared us christians in 1024 a few years before the fight of stiklestad, which he died in and somehow won.
Love you gays❤
Norways conversion from the old norse religion ( thor, odin and vallhalla) to Christianity was not a smooth ride. You had the choice of converting or die a death so horrible that you would quickly change your religion. Norwegians were christiened the same way that they raided!
By the way, Vikings did not just raid! They were excellent tradesmen!
Correct, Christianity was enforced by the sword.
And why I think Christianity stuck very poorly in Scandinavian countries.
I was taught the more popular North mythology stories as well as Näcken and trolls long before I learned about Christianity.
So people calling Scandinavian countries judeo Christian always make me laugh, it's really paper thin.
Thursday is actually Thor’s day.
Tuesday (tirsdag/tysdag) from Ty, another norse god, Wednesday (Onsdag) from Odin, Thursday (Torsdag) from Thor as you mentioned, and Friday (Fredag) from Frey. Saturday (Lørdag or Laugardag in Norwegian) the day to bathe or wash yourself, Sunday and Monday after the sun and the moon.
@@peacefulminimalist2028 Saturday - Saturn’s day.
@@ErmakBrovar For the ancient Romans and Greeks yes.
@@peacefulminimalist2028 phylologically
The christian "vikings" where the most violent ones, so something must be wrong in your conclusion here.
"Olav den hellige" was one of, if not the worse mass-murderer in Norwegian history, and he was the one introducing christianity to the people, and he was also the only Norwegian the christian church ever has wanted to relate to their religion..
Why do you believe christianity, the most violent religion in human history, suddenly became a good thing when it was introduced by sword to Norway?
I don't believe in Christianity.
Not religion at all to be honest.
I just told the story of Norway as a country know for their peaceful ways of life.
I am not saying you believe any religion.
I am just asking you why you believe christianity was a good thing when the brutal christians forced their evil religion on the peaceful farmers in Norway?
The "vikings" you are talking about, with swords and Armour, was the christian ones.
Before christianity become a thing, Norway was more peaceful then after.
It was also the christianity that destroyed the women's rights, and set their rights back for about 1000 years.
Before christianity there was many powerful females in Norway, just like today. But after the christian bloodbath, where the christians forced people to baptism, it would take almost 1000 years to get Norway back on track, and become the modern society of human rights you see today.
The thing is that the people in most of Norway was never actually christian, they just had to play along to stay alive in a country where the christian church had all the power, and killed non-christian people.
i invite you to research about islam and become Muslim.....
ehh for the 1000th time... valhalla is not norse heaven. it is an afterlife for warriors. there are many different afterlifes in norse paganism, valhalla is just one of many. to say valhalla is heaven is just disgracefull and ignorat. what can one do in walhalla? drink alcohol, eat and brawl while beeing drunk. what other thing can you do? fight with armor and weapon. what if a man was beaten by his or her drunken father regularry while beeing a child? it is not much of a heaven to them. it is just beeing abused all over again. pls don't be ignorant about this folks. norse paganism is now beeing chosen by ppl all over the globe, for it is such a real experiance and not just the regular fake religius stuff that so called christian posers do. eyy i'm a christin person, meanwhile does not read the bible, and only appears at the temple during christmas and maybe easter. but the latter is not common.
Sure, Valhalla is not heaven as such there sure were many different options for afterlife in Norse religion, yet I didn't feel like it going deep into this topic would have added anything to the point of this video.
And brother.... Saying that people are choosing Norse paganism all over the world is a simple lie.
Yes people are atheist (and so am I). There are even new wave of naturalistic religions, but no more are they based on glorifying violence and to an extent I understand that you would like to call them the same this as they were 1000 years ago, but it is simply not true...
@@WildVikingTravelsofc not the same religion as there once was. 98% of the information is erased from history due to christianity. we are mostly reliying on celtic paganism and wiccan pratices to recreate the way of life and worship of the norse gods, spirits and nature.
@@doublesalopetoimcre Let me guess, you're not even from Scandinavia? Just being butthurt on our behalf? :)
fantastic storytelling, thank you. much love from Budapest
@@WildVikingTravels The christian "vikings" where the most violent ones, so something must be wrong in your conclusion here.
"Olav den hellige" was one of, if not the worse mass-murderer in Norwegian history, and he was the one introducing Christianity to the people, an the only Norwegian the christian church want to relate to their religion..
Why do you believe Christianity, the most violent religion in human history, suddenly was a good thing when it was introduced to Norway?
YES Vikings was horn"y" xD danm bud... you allmost made me piss my self on that 1 xD