Today I went to see Frilandsmuseet in Copenhagen. I felt extremely satisfied watching those traditional houses and farm houses. I also had a few questions on my mind about why they had beds in the walls like shelves and doors, why there were as smaller rooms in the barn area and how the women really lived in those days? This has answered all those. Im originally from India and I do see some similarities with these houses, water facility, tools used, art and things used in the house. What a nostalgic experience for me today. I just loved it
Thank you for a wonderful insight into Danish rural life in the past. An idyllic way of life particularly as the community lived and worked together. This really is something that was shown to be changing in the film and has virtually disappeared in modern society. And we call it progress!!!
Can you love a country or place when you’ve never been there before? This is how I feel about Denmark and Danish culture at the moment, but it’s as though I’ve been there before. Is it just because I want to go there?
This was similar to films we had in school (BBC) and to me, now sound patronising in their approach, but I still found it interesting. My only thought is that they could have told us the Danish words when describing things. Maybe you could do an edit and insert captions?
@@Skjalden Thanks because it is confusing when he said things like the extra room to the kitchen where they did the washing etc was called a scullery because that is the English word unless it is a shared word?
Great concept! They could all in honesty tell the wife they needed to use money for beer. Then they paid beer fines to each other and at the time, beer only were able to last a few weeks before it became bad (until the Danish brewer Jakobsen,, that founded Carlsberg, invented a stable yeast that prolonged it to a year or more. Same yeast became the base for all large global breweries the following decades, they all got their yeast from Jakobsen!) and thus they had to do something collectively to not end up with old beer.....! So they thus also in all honesty could go home to the wife next day with a headache and say they had to do what they had to do. Pure business off course. Would look bad to leave the others behind to eradicate it own their own. Not all "middle age thinking" were backwards LOL.
We sometimes have a tendency to cherry-pick things we liked from the past. I think we should implement more things that we want from the past, instead of dreaming what once was.
Today I went to see Frilandsmuseet in Copenhagen. I felt extremely satisfied watching those traditional houses and farm houses. I also had a few questions on my mind about why they had beds in the walls like shelves and doors, why there were as smaller rooms in the barn area and how the women really lived in those days? This has answered all those. Im originally from India and I do see some similarities with these houses, water facility, tools used, art and things used in the house. What a nostalgic experience for me today. I just loved it
Thank you for a wonderful insight into Danish rural life in the past. An idyllic way of life particularly as the community lived and worked together. This really is something that was shown to be changing in the film and has virtually disappeared in modern society. And we call it progress!!!
My great grandparents were from Fyn (Særslev and Hårslev) and my great grandfather made the wooden shoes you see here. They came to the US in 1901.
Now I'll be singing 'Jens Hansen har en bondegård' for the rest of the day
Happy Ostara Man!
Happy Ostara, ÞúnráR.
Would you guys be surprised if I told you that the British voice over was by agent 47’s voice actor David Bateson?
It floored me!
What sort of hats are they wearing in the Funen village in the video?
Happy Ostara. They said my last comment could not be posted.... New subscriber from Germany here.
Hello Kati, viele grüße nach Deutschland, I hope you have a happy Ostara :)
Can you love a country or place when you’ve never been there before? This is how I feel about Denmark and Danish culture at the moment, but it’s as though I’ve been there before. Is it just because I want to go there?
A curious fact, the red frigian hats of some danishs farmers in the report, are the same that the catalans farmers' hats.
This was similar to films we had in school (BBC) and to me, now sound patronising in their approach, but I still found it interesting.
My only thought is that they could have told us the Danish words when describing things. Maybe you could do an edit and insert captions?
When I have the opportunity to go there again, I will take you into some of their houses, and tell you what we call this and that thing in Danish.
@@Skjalden Thanks because it is confusing when he said things like the extra room to the kitchen where they did the washing etc was called a scullery because that is the English word unless it is a shared word?
@@colinp2238 I doubt that scullery is a shared word, it is called a bryggers in Danish.
@@Skjalden I did not think it was but I was trying to illustrate my point, the narrator should have distinguished that is the English term for it.
@@colinp2238 Yes, you are right about that.
Fines paid in ale? Crazy
Great concept! They could all in honesty tell the wife they needed to use money for beer. Then they paid beer fines to each other and at the time, beer only were able to last a few weeks before it became bad
(until the Danish brewer Jakobsen,, that founded Carlsberg, invented a stable yeast that prolonged it to a year or more. Same yeast became the base for all large global breweries the following decades, they all got their yeast from Jakobsen!)
and thus they had to do something collectively to not end up with old beer.....! So they thus also in all honesty could go home to the wife next day with a headache and say they had to do what they had to do. Pure business off course. Would look bad to leave the others behind to eradicate it own their own.
Not all "middle age thinking" were backwards LOL.
@@Mike-zx1kx didn't know that about the yeast thing with the ale. Neat fact there, thanks!
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The way the English dub pronounces "Funen" makes it sound like an herb.
I love history but it makes me grateful to be living in the third millennium.
We sometimes have a tendency to cherry-pick things we liked from the past. I think we should implement more things that we want from the past, instead of dreaming what once was.