I had a Swedish teacher in high school, and she was known for being very, very strict. Then, after knowing her for several years, we went on an excursion, and I got to see her "non-business" side. She was so relaxed and such a nice person, when she didn't have her disciplinary hat on. I wish she had been like that all along. After those school years, I've started to teach myself Swedish again. Cheers to Swedish people, you're (mostly) awesome!
@@SvensktTroll I'd say it depends a bit on the generation with post 1970ies generations beeing gradually more flexible in our general apperance but still keeping at least buisness casual, at work and with strangers.
Dynamite (from the Greek dynamis, "power") is a class of explosives, with a pasty consistency, and consists of nitroglycerin mixed with other substances, including diatomaceous earth, which is used to absorb the nitroglycerin. Dynamite was invented in 1866 in the town of Krümmel by the Swede Alfred Nobel. In the past, it had been difficult to use nitroglycerin as an explosive in, for example, rock blasting because pure nitroglycerin was then used. The nitroglycerine is an oily liquid, which explodes easily on impact, and due to seepage from the boreholes through cracks in the rock and also in other ways had caused many accidents. Only through dynamite could nitroglycerin be used for rock blasting in a simple way with reasonable risk. Previously, only the considerably weaker black powder had been used for this. The invention of dynamite was epoch-making for rock blasting, because through its use the number and size of boreholes could be reduced to a fraction of what they were before. Dynamite also made large tunnel works possible, for example.
Some months ago, I mentioned that you're about to become the most educated American ever. Then (without hesitation), you nailed Malmö, Göteborg, and immediately recognizing the Karl VII statue, and the Vasa debacle... thus you can now claim that "educational-trophy". 🏆Enjoy it. And I even trow in an extra special-made medal for you. 🎖 Keep up the good work.
I believe the architecture with the famous stepped facades around Stortorget you mentioned were built by(or at the very least was heavily inspired by) the many Dutch and German merchants trading and settling in Sweden and Denmark. It shows up a lot in places where the Hanseatic League had a big presence.
Yes, that is exactly what it is - "Hansa style". Hansa was in medieval times a league of (filthy-rich) merchants who cooperated with each other and had a lot of power. They even "owned" several trade-cities around European ports, that were called "Hansa cities". They were so powerful they dictated rules to rulers. Think of them as medieval East-Indian company, but in Europe. In Sweden Hansa-city was in Visby (I think). Gansk (Danzig) in Poland, Amsterdam in Netherlands. Stockholm was never part of Hansa.
I once did a roadtrip from Boston to Rangeley, Maine. A couple of times my wife and I were asked by our American hosts if we liked the scenery and small towns we passed through. Our answer was: "Yes, it's lovely. But it looks just like home." We are Swedish. So yes, you are absolutely correct about the resemblance between Sweden and New England. Of course there were a lot of differences too, but the landscape when you get closer to Canada looks a lot like the pine forests and lakes in the Nordics.
Stockholm is a really beautiful city, also my birthplace, so I’m a little biased. The pulpit in the church is where the priest stood and held his sermons so everyone could see him and he could look down on them from above.
As a man with big interest in military history I find Stockholm very interesting in this subject. I recommend visiting fortress as Vaxholms fästning, Vaxholms kastell, Rindö redutt, Ryska vallarna, Oskar-Fredriksborg, Johanneshovs skans, Siaröfortet, the coastal fortress of Landsort and Arholma.
The weeds on the roofs are making a big comback nowdays, it retains a lot of water and makes buildings (and the whole sewer system) more durable against heavy rain since the weeds acts like a water cictern of sorts. Modern building codes in Sweden dictates that for every square meter of say office space you build, you have to build x ammount of green space as well (I don't remember the ratio, it's called the "GYF", Grönytefraktion or green space fraction), and the cheapest way to do that is to cover your roof with greenery, since it doesn't require additional land other than the land you're already building on. It has other pros as well, like reducing heat island effects and binds co2, improving air quality and urban biodiversity (mostly for bugs and birds).
As a comment on your "New England" comment: I went to Nova Scotia, Canada and it sure felt very Swedish in a way too. The downtown city itself felt a bit more "North American" in a way that I can't really explain, but once you left the most central parts it started feeling Scandinavian, and when going by bus to the outskirts, through forests and all that - felt just like home :) And I would never throw shade at wanting to visit such a place! As you said: stepping stones!
very few of these videos of stockholm suggest to take a cruise ship to åland and helsinki and get a view of the archipelageo and cheap housing and dinner for two days and a look at helsinki included
First time I see something from you. You're so well-read it seems to me and I can tell you've got a fascination for a lot of this stuff (I can also tell you like history and geography just like me). So if you'd plan on letting Sweden and Stockholm be your first trip, we'd be honored to have you here! ps. Rick Steve's Europe is amazing, watched so many of his videos before travelling to different places in Europe.
Regarding your question of dynamite. It was very powerful and more safe and stable to use, thanks to the mixture and formula. Nitroglycerin (one of the ingrediens) could explode just by "looking" at it! 😉/ Patrik from Sweden
If Im not wrong that sword you liked in the start is a famous sword for executions. Thats why it dont have a tip. But I cant remember who it was being executate with it. Might have been some famiy/reletives to one of the kings.
Oh, and the main advantage of dynamite over other explosives at the time was stability - it worked by binding a sensitive liquid substance in kieselguhr (a type of clay) so it could be safely transported and used without being set off by impacts.
Stockholm is beautiful. I am happy I get to visit it often since both my sons moved there for work. Cheap vacation for me, staying at one of their places 😀 I live in Borås, and I love my town. Even if it does rain a lot here.
I'm a Stockholmare and after these years with pandemic, this is brings forth so many emotions. This was Stockholm what I remember it was when I was full of energy and I had so much expectations of life. The original video was uploaded when I was 24, Jees, time flies by.
As someone who have lived in or close by Stockholm for 50 years this is just the same old tourist trap list as it has always been. Sure, all this is here, but don't expect to make a weekend tour and manage to see it all. I'm not trying to take my home city down, but it's just that Stockholm is so much more than these traditional destinations. This video made a great job at making everything not look like the usual tourist destination you probably find when visiting Stockholm. As someone who have lived in this city for a log time, I have ten times other locations to visit that would make your visit not end up with the same boring photos and sad nick-nacks as all the other tourists, while still having a great time and seeing the real Stockholm. I'm not offering guidance here, but if you're visiting either take your time and discover the city by your own (I know that's not for ideal vacations), know someone living here, or perhaps get some tips through social media from residents willing to inform you of what's good at the time of your visit. As long as you don't ask someone like me. I still have some regrets for telling some tourists asking me the direction to the city hall (the brick building with the tower) that it had collapsed during some works on the docks. I walked them one street over , where they should have seen it if it was there to prove it. The backdrop of buildings on the other side of the water was very similar to what it would have looked like, so they believed me. I just enjoy pranking people. If you who I pranked read this: Sorry! But it was funny.
Regarding the roof at the red old house at Stortorget in Gamla Stan. I think the influence came from the Hanseatic period. You can also see them in nothern Germany. For example in Lübeck. The architecture of the Hanseatic period can be found in old cities in countries around the Baltic Sea.
Yeah. It's not swedish, it's hanseatic. I went to Gdansk earlier this year and the whole old town looked like that, so beautiful. Even the modern buildings along the river was made in that style but modern.
@@brickan2 I have to stop posting when I'm drunk. I don't even recall posting that text above. "raining and snowing"? What? I've been to Stockholm literally dozens of times (
The Hanseatic era brought a lot of craftsmen to Stockholm, of course also businessmen. That period of time changed a lot in Sweden in many aspects. From the language to politics. Swedish has more loanwords from German, especially Low German (Lübeck, was a Hanseatic town in the Low German speaking area for instance) than Denmark, which shares border to Germany. For a while more people in Stockholm spoke German than Swedish. Many Swedish Stockholmers spoke both Swedish and German. The German ways to organize the political scene rubbed off, and many German and Dutch men had high positions in the city. Those "high ranked" gentlemen and wealthy businessmen had houses built for them and their families, more modern than the originally Swedish buildings were. One modern thing was larger windows, with glass. That was something basically only the King, churches and noble men had. In Sweden the word for that hatch to let light in and smoke out was called 'vindöga', 'wind eye'. Shortly you can say the Germans pointed at the windows and told the gasping crowd "FENSTER", and the crowd repeated "FÖNSTER". And still we call it 'fönster'. In both Danish and Norwegian the 'wind eye' remain, in modified versions. It's interesting that English, like German, had the Latin word for window 'fenestra' used parallel to window for a long time, but stay with the Norse wind eye. Yes, window come from the Old Norse 'vindauga'.
Seeing Svartsö pop up was a surprise! My mother was born and raised there, so I spent maaaany many weekends there as a child, and entire summers. It's a whole different world. So quiet. So peaceful.
Finns inga tunnelbanor på 100 meters djup. Det finns också tunnelbanor på högre höjd än 25 m. Största delen av tunnelbanan befinner sig inte nedsprängd i berggrunden.
I am from Gothenburg, and we love to tease the east coasters that Gothenburg is the "best coast". But I have to admit, our capitol is one of the most beautiful cities in the world (especially in summer time), and I recommend anyone to visit. And especially people like you, Connor, who really appreciate history. It is like you said lesser known history than in Rome or Athens, but equally as interesting. You would absolutely love it! I also don´t think you are wrong in thinking that a good way of travel is to travel somewhere familiar, but different. Many americans choose London beause of the language, but all of Scandinavia is equally approachable because everyone starts learning english in 3rd grade.
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We, on the east coast, call Gothenburg “Sweden's armpit”. That's just how we roll in these two cities... 😉
Sergels Torg is easily recognizable with its tile pattern and glare obelisk fountain. The lower level has shops and restaurants around the edges and also to the left in the video the entrance to the largest subway station in the network.
I've grown up in Stockholm and my son is born here. It will always be my home. So here's some fun facts: Starting off with "The King's garden", it was strictly off limits to everyone except those in the royal household. Next to the garden is a medieval church Saint Jacob, in this church the first ever, public school was held. It was open to everyone, regardless of social status. The students lived in a dorm on the other side of the garden and had to walk around the whole thing to get to school. This school later became independent (still public) as St Jacobi, and was moved around, even renamed a few times before being permanently closed in 2002. After almost 400 years of educating commoners. Why bring that up? Because Carl Milles was a student there, so was August Strindberg and any more famous Swedes. And some less famous, like me. Also some of the people in the golden Hall in the city hall are decapitated due to construction error. Moss, grass or any vegetation can be a good investment as an insulator. They keep the rood cool during summer and the heat during winter. Don't know how well they keep moisture out but grass roofs do have their perks.
The issue with the ship wasa was that there was to little ballast weight in the keel which made the ship unstable once it started listing by the sails. A nice reaction keep up your good work, with greetings from sweden.
Dynamite revolutionized the way the world used explosives since it made it safe to transport. Keeping a barrel of black powder was really risky since it could explode from chocks
I have been to all these places at least once but I actually used to live in the boring building in Stortorget @10:36 - meaning the bigger building furthest to the left, on the top floor where the living room is the four windows on the upper left hand side in the video.
Similarly, Helsinki is the foreign city I've visited the most. Might be because I have family there and it's a lot of fun to call Sveaborg "Sveaborg" to Finns.
I love going out on a boat from into the Stockholm archipelago. One of my favorite memories as a teen was when I had a summer job out on one of the islands there, picking berries and helping a farmer. I took a boat out there and it was so a beautiful and calming ride.
Skansen also have a zoo and one of the most famous stages in the country, where the event Allsång på Skansen (the practice of singing famous songs in unison) , is held.
The raised platform you ask about in churches is “The preachers chair” the place where the priest talks to the congregation from a raised position serving several purposes: 1 closer to god, 2 easier to overlook the congregation 3 Easier to hear and see.
Stockholm is a lovely place to visit. I went for a week a couple of years ago to watch my son run in the half marathon that is run around the city centre.
I’m dragging thing out of my memory from my science class in 9th grade (translated from my Swedish mind). Alfred Nobel went to France in his early 20s and there he met some scientist named Pelouze. Don’t quote me on this but I’m certain it was mentioned one lesson that this is where Nobel first came in contact with nitroglycerin which really intrigued Nobel, and he wanted to explore further with the different substances and after some trial and errors and adding on other substances than those he came in contact with in the France. Nobel found the substances mixture that would be called dynamite and if I remember correctly it worked better than black powder due to it not generating as much smoke, and it could also be controlled so it became more safe to work with (they could time when the explosions would take place). This created a more financially efficient way to do the work and more safe work place in the mines for the miners. I wish I could translate the names of the substances and what he added and explored with, but sadly my English doesn’t stretch that far (I just know the Swedish words for things in the periodic time table). The one thing Nobel invented was the ignator cap, which was part in the controlled explosions. The humid mines was an issue with black powder, but with dynamit and Nobel’s invention to isolate it he managed to get around the humidity that ruined many explosion attempts and took time away from the mining. Lol, I’m sorry I’m explaing this in such a terrible way, but hopefully it answers some of your question tied to why not use what was aldready invented to create an explosion. An added bonus which I had forgotten I remembered, Nobel took out a patent for 355 of his inventions. I guess as a Swedish student your science teacher will focus a TON on Alfred Nobel due to his major contributions. Vasaskeppet/The Vasa ship museum is that dark to preserve the ship. Had they put too much light on it, they would have ruined it. Something about the wood. It’s also rather chill in there. My relatives are from Stockholm, but I grew up in another city in Sweden. Every time I went to visit them for my school breaks and holidays etc. they would take me to museums and other historical places in the city. It was great because it made all the things we read about in school so much more fun to learn about when I could also see the places in real life (it also saved some of my papers, due to being able to wing it from my visits in Stockholm, when I hadn’t opened my school books). From an ex lazy student to stressed out law uni. student😅
After the reactions seeing the video, you really should be travelling to Sweden! We have a lot of history & landscapes to learn about here in the north of the world. Don't worry about the language, we Swedes learn english from the 3rd grade, so you manage well with your american english here in Stockholm & in the rest of Sweden!
Many of the styles of architecture originated in the Germanic countries. This style travelled throughout the Hanseatic Cities, mostly from the Low Countries, all the way to the Baltic nations. Cities like Bergen & Gdańsk had a large population of Dutch merchants.
That shot at the start on the boat? He’s pretty much standing right on top of the spot where Vasa sank. I work in the port of Stockholm, and one of my most common workplaces is just off screen to the left. And on the right side of the screen you see a red fortress - that’s Kastellet, an old artillery fort that in 1990 was the site of Sweden’s most recent military coup… though a much more moderate one than you might imagine. ;-) As for military power, as recently as the 50s Sweden had the fourth most powerful air force in the world.
14:42 Dynamite is a solid that incorporates nitroglycerin, the most common explosive of the day. Nitroglycerin is an explosive liquid which is very volatile, which means it's dangerous and expensive to transport -- one unfortunate shock and the transporter becomes history and geography, which means a lot of danger pay. Plus delays. Dynamite doesn't have that problem because it's stable until triggered by fire.
14:25 Construction workers found that nitroglycerin had several advantages over black powder: it required fewer and shallower holes than blasting with black powder. But nitroglycerin is highly unstable and a lot of accidents happend. Nobel found a way to make nitroglycerin safe to handle....
I've lived in Stockholm since 2010 and still haven't been to the Vasa museum, Nobel museum, the archipelago, Drottningholm castle and many of the other places shown here! Tourists see more of Stockholm in a couple of days than I see in a decade... 😄
So do a staycation or play a tourist on a day off. I do it in Copenhagen and it's a lot of fun. I have visited Vasa but I mostly explored the amazing vintage stores and walked around and went metro sightseeing. It's the most special thing in public transportation ever. I look forward to visiting in the summer. Juleferien was a bit too cold to explore everything.
Hi again . a roof with dirt and gras are often first done with a layer of tree shingles ( often of pain) up on that a layer of birtch bark witch is extrimly resistant against water and to rotten can lay there for a couple of hundred years and over that it is a layer of dirt that you spred gras on often with flowers and roofleaks(onions) to hold the dirt in place. KJ
14:25 Dynamite exposes. The gases from the dynamite cracks the rock. Gunpowder does not explode but burns very quickly. If you take the gunpowder out of a cartridge and light it on fire, it burns with a sizzling flame in a few seconds. You can't do that with dynamite. Then you would have no hands left or maybe half you disappeared in less than 0.001 seconds. The dynamite could be used to control the explosion. For the first time, you could blast so that mountains became completely smooth. Gunpowder burns, Dynamite explodes. Alfred Nobel also invented the smokeless gunpowder. When you make a film about the civil war in the US, you have to the guns smoke. 1861 to 1865. The smokeless gunpowder invented Alfred Nobel 1870.
Black powder has too little power in it. They used nitroglycerin instead, but it couldn't withstand blows or temperature changes. Alfred Nobel invented a mass that you could soak up the nitroglycerin in and then it was no longer sensitive to shock and you could treat it a little as you liked without it exploded. But a small gunpowder cartridge was needed to start the explosion later. Before dynamite, a bump in the road when transporting nitroglycerin could cause the wagon to turn into a cloud of flying toothpicks.
The breakthrough with dynamite was that it is stable and powerful. Nitroglycerine (the "base" of dynamite) is a powerful explosive, but is so reactive that it was incredilby risky to use (and store...). Black powder is safer to handle, but not nearly as powerful. What Nobel did was find a way to bind nitroglycerine to a solid, making it much safer to handle. Which, in turn, made blasting for tunnels, canals, etc much safer.
Yes the pulpet was elevated in Lutheran churches. They were made so the congregation really could hear the sermon held in their own language. And yes it is hebrew JAHWE. God's name.
When it comes to your feelings about roller coaster I would say that the right word is sensibel. The grass on the roofs is there to keep the birch bark under it in place.
@29:00 or so. About why the Wasa Ship sank. I was at the Museum with my father a few weeks ago and asked this exact question. Apparently it was not the weight that was the issue. Or.. Well.. As the ship was empty they had 30 men run from one side to another to test the stability and they could not do more than three laps before the Ship master (or whatever title the guy responsible for the construction had) stop it because he feared that the ship would topple over. So even without cannons and other weight added the ship was unstable. The have done modern maths looking at the stones added at the bottom of the ship to keep it stable and it is a perfect amount for its size. They built another ship, a "sister ship" that was almost identical but it had an additional 1m width (on each side I think but not sure) and that ship was stable and lasted for over 40 years of service. So it was not neccesarily about weight or weight management or weight distribution, it was simply too narrow and too tall (ship is 4 storeys tall from the bottom of the hull to the top of the stern, not counting all masts and sails.
From what I've learned the ship bilder had never built such a big ship and in thosse days shipbuilding was more learn by doing so it's easy to see why hade that misstanke.
About the dynamite greatness.. It was the first stabile high explosive (black powder is a low explosive just as gunpowder..), before that the only high explosive fit for blasting rock were nitro glycerine which is highly unstable.
In Sergels torg there are Subways, but they are deeper down and what you see under there is a mall like place
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It's always interesting to see your home town through somebody else's eyes, this time with a meta level added. I'm a bit blind to the city's beauty, I guess that's what happens when you have spent your entire life in a place. The Stockholm archipelago is probably the most amazing part of Stockholm. It consist of more than 24.000 islands with different characters. Most of them only accessible by boat (or in the winter hovercraft). The further out you get the less vegetation you find, until is just rocks. Not having access to a boat in Stockholm is like not owning a pair of skis if you live in Aspen. :-) I'm lucky to have 700 meters to my boat and a 20 minute boat ride to Vaxholm (seen in the video). Life could be much worse! A good thing to know about the is the “Every mans right” (Allemansrätten) that makes it possible for you to go anywhere you want, pick berries, put up a tent, etc. There are some minor limitations, but you will not find any “No trespassing” signs in Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam Please excuse the broken English.
The main difference with dynamite is that dynamite is actually detonated, while black powder is just burning. Black powder burns very fast, however, it is no where near the detonation of dynamite
I like that you mentioned New England a few times, cause living in Sweden, I get a very similar feeling when I see movies, series, pictures etc from New England. I think that area of US is the one with the most similarities to Europe (since it was the area first settled in larger numbers by the English) and many of the coastal cities and coastal areas reminds me a lot of both Sweden and other European nations like Netherlands, UK, Denmark and so on :)
Great reaction, man! Although I'm from Sweden and have lived here almost all my life, I've only been to Stockholm a handful of times because I live on the opposite side of the country in Göteborg (Gothenburg), but I've loved every visit there. Göteborg is also a nice city with it's own identity, and if you want to check it out, I suggest the video The COOLEST City In Sweden. :)
That "weird" balcony inside a church was where in the past the priest would stand and preach. They didn't do it at the altar. Altars were only used for addressing God and it was done with the priest facing the altar and having the back to the rest of the parish (that's why old altars aren't "tables" but look more like something hanging on the back wall of the church. But even with the table-style altars, the priests didn't face the public - they faced the altar.).
That elevated thing in the Cathedral is the pulpit, and was common in Catholic churches pre-Vatican 2. In Catholic mass, the priest presiding used to look at the altar, thus giving his back to the attendants. So, when the priest needed to address the attendants (v.g. the sermon) he wouldn't do it from the altar but from the pulpit. This was reformed in the Vatican 2 counsel in which the altar was moved forward and the priest would preside looking at the attendants. Pulpits became unnecessary. However, while the altar have been modified, most churches built before hadn't removed the pulpit. Protestant churches had adopted this design before, but the Stockholm cathedral was build as a Catholic one. I don't know the particularities of the Church of Sweden and why the pulpit is still there after near 500 years. If it was never used since or if it served some function.
23:33 Sweden has most Islands in the world close followed by Finland and third in the world is Norway. Finland however do have most lakes in the world.
Alfred Nobel worked with explosives long before he invented the dynamite, nitroglycerine was very unstable and also couldn't be detonated with a fuse, his little brother died in an explosion while experimenting with it so Alfred Nobel started working on making it more stable A number of his factories were destroyed in explosions due to the instability of nitoglycerin and I think he was rich a few times in his life and bankrupted a couple times in his life before he invented the dynamite Only in Sweden are we so proud of a ship that was so unstable that it sank before it gets out of the harbour that we create a museum for it 🙂
The elevated "balcony" in larger churches are where the preacher preaches. I'd guess that it's off center as to not block the view of the front of the hall, and elevated so that he can be seen and heard. More formal ceremonies are held at the front of the hall, at the altar. This elevated booth is called a "predikstol" in Swedish, literally translated as "preachers chair". The lettering _is_ in Hebrew. It says INRI, and abbreviation or the Latin "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum": Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
The fact that the style of buildings is similar is because some builders and stonemasons were considered the best in all of Europe. They traveled around and made lots of money. The fact that the US doesn't have that style of buildings that are old is because they never had to travel. They, apart from others, eg farmers, always had work. "Fun" fact, the building you paused at and the ones next to it have some white rocks. According to history, there is a stone for each head that was cut off at the "Stockholm massacre".
The video you are reviewing is actually a good representation of Stockholm, the city I call home. You’re right about Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel prize. Also Sweden is a large arms exporter with industries as SAAB Aerotech and Bofors, maker of the Carl Gustaf anti tank weapon and Archer highly mobile artillery. Sweden under Gustaf Adolf as he is known now, encompasses all of modern border Sweden, Finland, parts of Russia, all of Norway, Denmark and northern Germany and Poland. Sweden shrunk over the years to todays borders only separating from Norway in 1905. But it was a peaceful transition and Sweden have not been fighting in any wars since around 1895.
23:30 When it comes to the number of lakes in Finland and Sweden there is no absolute data to compare that uses the same definition of what constitutes a "lake", as far as I know. Please let me know if I am misinformed. Anyways, SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) carries a registry of all of Sweden's lakes that are larger than one hectare (100 x 100 meters, meaning 10 000 square meters, a unit often used to measure land). Going by their definition of what constitutes a "lake" (one hectare or above) Sweden has about 100 000 to Finland's about 56 000. However, there are loads of small bodies of water that fall below that 1 hectare threshold. More than 90% of the world's lakes are smaller than 1 hectare, thus smaller than what the (lazy?) SMHI has so far been willing to count as a lake, meaning that the number of lakes by a broader definition is far larger in both countries. As far as I know, Finland has actually counted their below 1 but above 0,1 hectare bodies of water while Sweden still hasn't been arsed to. 0,1 hectare is about a quarter of an American football field, for those that are not familiar enough with the metric system to roughly imagine the size of the area we're talking about. If I recall correctly the complete Finish count, including lakes above 0.1 hectares (as opposed to only above 1 hectare) is around 185 000. Researchers that have guesstimated the corresponding number for Sweden have arrived at a point somewhere in the 300 000 to 500 000 range, but the legwork has simply not been done and therefore it's highly speculative. We Nordic countries have a very sibling-like relationship to our neighboring countries, which boils down to poking fun at one another as well as having friendly competitions and rivalries, but when push comes to shove we've got each others' backs. The way I like to think about this whole lake count situation is that we both have an astounding amount of "lakes" per square kilometer of land and that perhaps it's fine to not have any definitive measurement. :)
Dynamite offered a safe and controlled method of using the more powerful nitroglycerine blast. Before that they used nitroglycerine in its more dangerous and unpredictable liquid form. Dynamite saved lives.
29:08 yeah it's kinda a celebration of failure, but in all fairness no one really understood the mathematics that goes into building ships well enough at the time so problems like that happened a lot. If it wasn't for the breeze that toppled her she probably would have been resigned to more of a parade ship instead with a lot fewer canons, that's what happened to a lot of other ships like her.
I had a Swedish teacher in high school, and she was known for being very, very strict. Then, after knowing her for several years, we went on an excursion, and I got to see her "non-business" side. She was so relaxed and such a nice person, when she didn't have her disciplinary hat on. I wish she had been like that all along. After those school years, I've started to teach myself Swedish again.
Cheers to Swedish people, you're (mostly) awesome!
That's what most swedes are like. Work is very serius and once that is done you put it away and relax.
Haha, tack så mycket. Desamma till er Amerikanska/Engelsk män också. :)
@@skyanton8453 En äkta svensk man hatar jänkarhoror
@@SvensktTroll I'd say it depends a bit on the generation with post 1970ies generations beeing gradually more flexible in our general apperance but still keeping at least buisness casual, at work and with strangers.
@@SvensktTroll Good name.
Dynamite (from the Greek dynamis, "power") is a class of explosives, with a pasty consistency, and consists of nitroglycerin mixed with other substances, including diatomaceous earth, which is used to absorb the nitroglycerin. Dynamite was invented in 1866 in the town of Krümmel by the Swede Alfred Nobel. In the past, it had been difficult to use nitroglycerin as an explosive in, for example, rock blasting because pure nitroglycerin was then used. The nitroglycerine is an oily liquid, which explodes easily on impact, and due to seepage from the boreholes through cracks in the rock and also in other ways had caused many accidents. Only through dynamite could nitroglycerin be used for rock blasting in a simple way with reasonable risk. Previously, only the considerably weaker black powder had been used for this. The invention of dynamite was epoch-making for rock blasting, because through its use the number and size of boreholes could be reduced to a fraction of what they were before. Dynamite also made large tunnel works possible, for example.
Some months ago, I mentioned that you're about to become the most educated American ever.
Then (without hesitation), you nailed Malmö, Göteborg, and immediately recognizing the Karl VII statue, and the Vasa debacle... thus you can now claim that "educational-trophy". 🏆Enjoy it.
And I even trow in an extra special-made medal for you. 🎖
Keep up the good work.
Karl XII 🙂
Karl VII or Charles VII is a 15th century French king. Also, Göteborg is the second largest but it's close enough.
I believe the architecture with the famous stepped facades around Stortorget you mentioned were built by(or at the very least was heavily inspired by) the many Dutch and German merchants trading and settling in Sweden and Denmark. It shows up a lot in places where the Hanseatic League had a big presence.
Distincly remember it being called the "Hansa style", or something along those lines.
Yes, that is exactly what it is - "Hansa style".
Hansa was in medieval times a league of (filthy-rich) merchants who cooperated with each other and had a lot of power. They even "owned" several trade-cities around European ports, that were called "Hansa cities". They were so powerful they dictated rules to rulers. Think of them as medieval East-Indian company, but in Europe. In Sweden Hansa-city was in Visby (I think). Gansk (Danzig) in Poland, Amsterdam in Netherlands.
Stockholm was never part of Hansa.
I am Swedish. You should definately come to Sweden in the summertime! Don't miss Gothenburg!
I once did a roadtrip from Boston to Rangeley, Maine. A couple of times my wife and I were asked by our American hosts if we liked the scenery and small towns we passed through. Our answer was: "Yes, it's lovely. But it looks just like home." We are Swedish. So yes, you are absolutely correct about the resemblance between Sweden and New England. Of course there were a lot of differences too, but the landscape when you get closer to Canada looks a lot like the pine forests and lakes in the Nordics.
Swedish research estimates around 221,831 islands, and around 1,000 of them are inhabited.
I guess it´s the reversed. Most islands are not habited.
Stockholm is a really beautiful city, also my birthplace, so I’m a little biased. The pulpit in the church is where the priest stood and held his sermons so everyone could see him and he could look down on them from above.
Also because he is placed closer to god.
But mostly, i think, to be able to be heard by the whole congregation in a time before microphones.
As a man with big interest in military history I find Stockholm very interesting in this subject. I recommend visiting fortress as Vaxholms fästning, Vaxholms kastell, Rindö redutt, Ryska vallarna, Oskar-Fredriksborg, Johanneshovs skans, Siaröfortet, the coastal fortress of Landsort and Arholma.
The weeds on the roofs are making a big comback nowdays, it retains a lot of water and makes buildings (and the whole sewer system) more durable against heavy rain since the weeds acts like a water cictern of sorts. Modern building codes in Sweden dictates that for every square meter of say office space you build, you have to build x ammount of green space as well (I don't remember the ratio, it's called the "GYF", Grönytefraktion or green space fraction), and the cheapest way to do that is to cover your roof with greenery, since it doesn't require additional land other than the land you're already building on.
It has other pros as well, like reducing heat island effects and binds co2, improving air quality and urban biodiversity (mostly for bugs and birds).
I have brought colleagues from UK, Germany top Wasa many times. everyone of them said….this was ”way above my expectations”
As a comment on your "New England" comment: I went to Nova Scotia, Canada and it sure felt very Swedish in a way too. The downtown city itself felt a bit more "North American" in a way that I can't really explain, but once you left the most central parts it started feeling Scandinavian, and when going by bus to the outskirts, through forests and all that - felt just like home :)
And I would never throw shade at wanting to visit such a place! As you said: stepping stones!
very few of these videos of stockholm suggest to take a cruise ship to åland and helsinki and get a view of the archipelageo and cheap housing and dinner for two days and a look at helsinki included
First time I see something from you. You're so well-read it seems to me and I can tell you've got a fascination for a lot of this stuff (I can also tell you like history and geography just like me). So if you'd plan on letting Sweden and Stockholm be your first trip, we'd be honored to have you here!
ps. Rick Steve's Europe is amazing, watched so many of his videos before travelling to different places in Europe.
Regarding your question of dynamite. It was very powerful and more safe and stable to use, thanks to the mixture and formula. Nitroglycerin (one of the ingrediens) could explode just by "looking" at it! 😉/ Patrik from Sweden
If Im not wrong that sword you liked in the start is a famous sword for executions. Thats why it dont have a tip. But I cant remember who it was being executate with it. Might have been some famiy/reletives to one of the kings.
Oh, and the main advantage of dynamite over other explosives at the time was stability - it worked by binding a sensitive liquid substance in kieselguhr (a type of clay) so it could be safely transported and used without being set off by impacts.
Stockholm is beautiful. I am happy I get to visit it often since both my sons moved there for work. Cheap vacation for me, staying at one of their places 😀 I live in Borås, and I love my town. Even if it does rain a lot here.
Vem ska berätta?
@@balizztic3911 berätta vad?
I'm a Stockholmare and after these years with pandemic, this is brings forth so many emotions.
This was Stockholm what I remember it was when I was full of energy and I had so much expectations of life.
The original video was uploaded when I was 24, Jees, time flies by.
It's the "Predikstolen"/ The Pulpit / Preacher's chair, you see by the wall at the front left side.
As someone who have lived in or close by Stockholm for 50 years this is just the same old tourist trap list as it has always been. Sure, all this is here, but don't expect to make a weekend tour and manage to see it all.
I'm not trying to take my home city down, but it's just that Stockholm is so much more than these traditional destinations. This video made a great job at making everything not look like the usual tourist destination you probably find when visiting Stockholm. As someone who have lived in this city for a log time, I have ten times other locations to visit that would make your visit not end up with the same boring photos and sad nick-nacks as all the other tourists, while still having a great time and seeing the real Stockholm.
I'm not offering guidance here, but if you're visiting either take your time and discover the city by your own (I know that's not for ideal vacations), know someone living here, or perhaps get some tips through social media from residents willing to inform you of what's good at the time of your visit.
As long as you don't ask someone like me. I still have some regrets for telling some tourists asking me the direction to the city hall (the brick building with the tower) that it had collapsed during some works on the docks. I walked them one street over , where they should have seen it if it was there to prove it. The backdrop of buildings on the other side of the water was very similar to what it would have looked like, so they believed me.
I just enjoy pranking people. If you who I pranked read this: Sorry! But it was funny.
Regarding the roof at the red old house at Stortorget in Gamla Stan. I think the influence came from the Hanseatic period. You can also see them in nothern Germany. For example in Lübeck. The architecture of the Hanseatic period can be found in old cities in countries around the Baltic Sea.
I think it has to do with raining and snowing. Add some decorations, and there you go.
Yeah. It's not swedish, it's hanseatic. I went to Gdansk earlier this year and the whole old town looked like that, so beautiful. Even the modern buildings along the river was made in that style but modern.
@@brickan2 I have to stop posting when I'm drunk. I don't even recall posting that text above. "raining and snowing"? What?
I've been to Stockholm literally dozens of times (
The Hanseatic era brought a lot of craftsmen to Stockholm, of course also businessmen.
That period of time changed a lot in Sweden in many aspects. From the language to politics. Swedish has more loanwords from German, especially Low German (Lübeck, was a Hanseatic town in the Low German speaking area for instance) than Denmark, which shares border to Germany. For a while more people in Stockholm spoke German than Swedish. Many Swedish Stockholmers spoke both Swedish and German.
The German ways to organize the political scene rubbed off, and many German and Dutch men had high positions in the city.
Those "high ranked" gentlemen and wealthy businessmen had houses built for them and their families, more modern than the originally Swedish buildings were. One modern thing was larger windows, with glass. That was something basically only the King, churches and noble men had. In Sweden the word for that hatch to let light in and smoke out was called 'vindöga', 'wind eye'. Shortly you can say the Germans pointed at the windows and told the gasping crowd "FENSTER", and the crowd repeated "FÖNSTER". And still we call it 'fönster'.
In both Danish and Norwegian the 'wind eye' remain, in modified versions.
It's interesting that English, like German, had the Latin word for window 'fenestra' used parallel to window for a long time, but stay with the Norse wind eye. Yes, window come from the Old Norse 'vindauga'.
Seeing Svartsö pop up was a surprise! My mother was born and raised there, so I spent maaaany many weekends there as a child, and entire summers. It's a whole different world. So quiet. So peaceful.
The subways in Stockholm is between 25 to 100 meters below ground level! In the bed rock.
Finns inga tunnelbanor på 100 meters djup. Det finns också tunnelbanor på högre höjd än 25 m. Största delen av tunnelbanan befinner sig inte nedsprängd i berggrunden.
Another beautiful part of Sweden is my home region of the High Coast (Höga Kusten)
I am from Gothenburg, and we love to tease the east coasters that Gothenburg is the "best coast".
But I have to admit, our capitol is one of the most beautiful cities in the world (especially in summer time), and I recommend anyone to visit.
And especially people like you, Connor, who really appreciate history. It is like you said lesser known history than in Rome or Athens, but equally as interesting. You would absolutely love it! I also don´t think you are wrong in thinking that a good way of travel is to travel somewhere familiar, but different. Many americans choose London beause of the language, but all of Scandinavia is equally approachable because everyone starts learning english in 3rd grade.
We, on the east coast, call Gothenburg “Sweden's armpit”. That's just how we roll in these two cities... 😉
@ As someone from the south coast of Karlskrona I can say we make fun of you both equally😘
@@zapid6733 What's a Karlskrona? 😁 No, seriously, that's though news, coming from "Pungpinan". 😀(And yes, i did my military service in the navy).
Sergels Torg is easily recognizable with its tile pattern and glare obelisk fountain. The lower level has shops and restaurants around the edges and also to the left in the video the entrance to the largest subway station in the network.
I've grown up in Stockholm and my son is born here. It will always be my home. So here's some fun facts:
Starting off with "The King's garden", it was strictly off limits to everyone except those in the royal household. Next to the garden is a medieval church Saint Jacob, in this church the first ever, public school was held. It was open to everyone, regardless of social status. The students lived in a dorm on the other side of the garden and had to walk around the whole thing to get to school.
This school later became independent (still public) as St Jacobi, and was moved around, even renamed a few times before being permanently closed in 2002. After almost 400 years of educating commoners. Why bring that up? Because Carl Milles was a student there, so was August Strindberg and any more famous Swedes. And some less famous, like me.
Also some of the people in the golden Hall in the city hall are decapitated due to construction error.
Moss, grass or any vegetation can be a good investment as an insulator. They keep the rood cool during summer and the heat during winter. Don't know how well they keep moisture out but grass roofs do have their perks.
I am from Stockholm and I love how you embrace my town and my country. If you travel here some day please let us know!
The elevated platform you see in our churches is called "predikstolen" in Swedish. It means from the chair/place where the priest preaches.
The issue with the ship wasa was that there was to little ballast weight in the keel which made the ship unstable once it started listing by the sails. A nice reaction keep up your good work, with greetings from sweden.
There is a big shopping mall under Sergels torg.
In the church there is a raised place for the priest so that everyone could see and hear as there were no loudspeakers in the past
Dynamite revolutionized the way the world used explosives since it made it safe to transport. Keeping a barrel of black powder was really risky since it could explode from chocks
I have been to all these places at least once but I actually used to live in the boring building in Stortorget @10:36 - meaning the bigger building furthest to the left, on the top floor where the living room is the four windows on the upper left hand side in the video.
33:36 i love how he says bansdand when its dansband
Stockholm(Tukholma) is the foreign city that I've visited the most, thanks to cheap ferry-cruise prices. Greetings from Helsinki 🇫🇮🇸🇪
Voi vittu! !!
Similarly, Helsinki is the foreign city I've visited the most. Might be because I have family there and it's a lot of fun to call Sveaborg "Sveaborg" to Finns.
I love going out on a boat from into the Stockholm archipelago. One of my favorite memories as a teen was when I had a summer job out on one of the islands there, picking berries and helping a farmer. I took a boat out there and it was so a beautiful and calming ride.
5:26 so yeah we bought the horse armour dlc before it was cool : P
Skansen also have a zoo and one of the most famous stages in the country, where the event Allsång på Skansen (the practice of singing famous songs in unison) , is held.
The raised platform you ask about in churches is “The preachers chair” the place where the priest talks to the congregation from a raised position serving several purposes: 1 closer to god, 2 easier to overlook the congregation 3 Easier to hear and see.
McJibbin have really learned ALOT over the last years. Well done.
Stockholm is a lovely place to visit. I went for a week a couple of years ago to watch my son run in the half marathon that is run around the city centre.
Not Stockholm Marathon then?
@@annicaesplund6613 no half, it’s run in September.
@@suemcbride1106 Lidingöloppet!
I’m dragging thing out of my memory from my science class in 9th grade (translated from my Swedish mind). Alfred Nobel went to France in his early 20s and there he met some scientist named Pelouze. Don’t quote me on this but I’m certain it was mentioned one lesson that this is where Nobel first came in contact with nitroglycerin which really intrigued Nobel, and he wanted to explore further with the different substances and after some trial and errors and adding on other substances than those he came in contact with in the France. Nobel found the substances mixture that would be called dynamite and if I remember correctly it worked better than black powder due to it not generating as much smoke, and it could also be controlled so it became more safe to work with (they could time when the explosions would take place). This created a more financially efficient way to do the work and more safe work place in the mines for the miners. I wish I could translate the names of the substances and what he added and explored with, but sadly my English doesn’t stretch that far (I just know the Swedish words for things in the periodic time table). The one thing Nobel invented was the ignator cap, which was part in the controlled explosions. The humid mines was an issue with black powder, but with dynamit and Nobel’s invention to isolate it he managed to get around the humidity that ruined many explosion attempts and took time away from the mining. Lol, I’m sorry I’m explaing this in such a terrible way, but hopefully it answers some of your question tied to why not use what was aldready invented to create an explosion. An added bonus which I had forgotten I remembered, Nobel took out a patent for 355 of his inventions. I guess as a Swedish student your science teacher will focus a TON on Alfred Nobel due to his major contributions.
Vasaskeppet/The Vasa ship museum is that dark to preserve the ship. Had they put too much light on it, they would have ruined it. Something about the wood. It’s also rather chill in there. My relatives are from Stockholm, but I grew up in another city in Sweden. Every time I went to visit them for my school breaks and holidays etc. they would take me to museums and other historical places in the city. It was great because it made all the things we read about in school so much more fun to learn about when I could also see the places in real life (it also saved some of my papers, due to being able to wing it from my visits in Stockholm, when I hadn’t opened my school books). From an ex lazy student to stressed out law uni. student😅
After the reactions seeing the video, you really should be travelling to Sweden! We have a lot of history & landscapes to learn about here in the north of the world. Don't worry about the language, we Swedes learn english from the 3rd grade, so you manage well with your american english here in Stockholm & in the rest of Sweden!
Many of the styles of architecture originated in the Germanic countries. This style travelled throughout the Hanseatic Cities, mostly from the Low Countries, all the way to the Baltic nations. Cities like Bergen & Gdańsk had a large population of Dutch merchants.
That shot at the start on the boat? He’s pretty much standing right on top of the spot where Vasa sank. I work in the port of Stockholm, and one of my most common workplaces is just off screen to the left. And on the right side of the screen you see a red fortress - that’s Kastellet, an old artillery fort that in 1990 was the site of Sweden’s most recent military coup… though a much more moderate one than you might imagine. ;-)
As for military power, as recently as the 50s Sweden had the fourth most powerful air force in the world.
The style of the housing is called "Hansa" and that was the name of my Danish grandmother.
14:42 Dynamite is a solid that incorporates nitroglycerin, the most common explosive of the day. Nitroglycerin is an explosive liquid which is very volatile, which means it's dangerous and expensive to transport -- one unfortunate shock and the transporter becomes history and geography, which means a lot of danger pay. Plus delays. Dynamite doesn't have that problem because it's stable until triggered by fire.
14:25
Construction workers found that nitroglycerin had several advantages over black powder: it required fewer and shallower holes than blasting with black powder. But nitroglycerin is highly unstable and a lot of accidents happend. Nobel found a way to make nitroglycerin safe to handle....
I've lived in Stockholm since 2010 and still haven't been to the Vasa museum, Nobel museum, the archipelago, Drottningholm castle and many of the other places shown here! Tourists see more of Stockholm in a couple of days than I see in a decade... 😄
So do a staycation or play a tourist on a day off. I do it in Copenhagen and it's a lot of fun. I have visited Vasa but I mostly explored the amazing vintage stores and walked around and went metro sightseeing. It's the most special thing in public transportation ever. I look forward to visiting in the summer. Juleferien was a bit too cold to explore everything.
@@charisma-hornum-fries Thank you, that's a great idea! :)
Hi again . a roof with dirt and gras are often first done with a layer of tree shingles ( often of pain) up on that a layer of birtch bark witch is extrimly resistant against water and to rotten can lay there for a couple of hundred years and over that it is a layer of dirt that you spred gras on often with flowers and roofleaks(onions) to hold the dirt in place. KJ
14:25 Dynamite exposes. The gases from the dynamite
cracks the rock.
Gunpowder does not explode but burns very quickly.
If you take the gunpowder out of a cartridge and light it on fire, it burns with a sizzling flame in a few seconds.
You can't do that with dynamite.
Then you would have no hands left or maybe half you
disappeared in less than 0.001 seconds.
The dynamite could be used to control the explosion.
For the first time, you could blast so that mountains became completely smooth.
Gunpowder burns, Dynamite explodes.
Alfred Nobel also invented the smokeless gunpowder.
When you make a film about the civil war in the US, you have to
the guns smoke. 1861 to 1865.
The smokeless gunpowder invented Alfred Nobel 1870.
Black powder has too little power in it. They used nitroglycerin instead, but it couldn't withstand blows or temperature changes. Alfred Nobel invented a mass that you could soak up the nitroglycerin in and then it was no longer sensitive to shock and you could treat it a little as you liked without it exploded. But a small gunpowder cartridge was needed to start the explosion later. Before dynamite, a bump in the road when transporting nitroglycerin could cause the wagon to turn into a cloud of flying toothpicks.
Also the funny thing is that the buildings is still looking and it’s the same since forever. And not destroyed. It’s well conserved. It’s crazy
The breakthrough with dynamite was that it is stable and powerful. Nitroglycerine (the "base" of dynamite) is a powerful explosive, but is so reactive that it was incredilby risky to use (and store...). Black powder is safer to handle, but not nearly as powerful. What Nobel did was find a way to bind nitroglycerine to a solid, making it much safer to handle. Which, in turn, made blasting for tunnels, canals, etc much safer.
Yes the pulpet was elevated in Lutheran churches. They were made so the congregation really could hear the sermon held in their own language. And yes it is hebrew JAHWE. God's name.
Dynamite was way safer than black power which could more easily go off by accident or get ruined easier by weather or something else.
When it comes to your feelings about roller coaster I would say that the right word is sensibel.
The grass on the roofs is there to keep the birch bark under it in place.
As a Swede that have spent a lot of time in America it makes me happy to se an American educate them self and appreciate Scandinavia ❤️
The church balcony is called "Predikstol" - "Preachers chair". It's where the preacher preaches.
Pulpit is the word for it... and yes :)
The peaking roofs of nordic architecture originated in building roofs the snow would slide off of rather than collect on and risk breaking.
@29:00 or so. About why the Wasa Ship sank.
I was at the Museum with my father a few weeks ago and asked this exact question. Apparently it was not the weight that was the issue. Or.. Well..
As the ship was empty they had 30 men run from one side to another to test the stability and they could not do more than three laps before the Ship master (or whatever title the guy responsible for the construction had) stop it because he feared that the ship would topple over. So even without cannons and other weight added the ship was unstable. The have done modern maths looking at the stones added at the bottom of the ship to keep it stable and it is a perfect amount for its size.
They built another ship, a "sister ship" that was almost identical but it had an additional 1m width (on each side I think but not sure) and that ship was stable and lasted for over 40 years of service.
So it was not neccesarily about weight or weight management or weight distribution, it was simply too narrow and too tall (ship is 4 storeys tall from the bottom of the hull to the top of the stern, not counting all masts and sails.
From what I've learned the ship bilder had never built such a big ship and in thosse days shipbuilding was more learn by doing so it's easy to see why hade that misstanke.
About the dynamite greatness.. It was the first stabile high explosive (black powder is a low explosive just as gunpowder..), before that the only high explosive fit for blasting rock were nitro glycerine which is highly unstable.
charles is pointing towards russia with one hand, and a sword in the other hand as a warning to never let our guard down
I am from Sweden and have been on almost all what was shown here in the video. (:
In Sergels torg there are Subways, but they are deeper down and what you see under there is a mall like place
It's always interesting to see your home town through somebody else's eyes, this time with a meta level added. I'm a bit blind to the city's beauty, I guess that's what happens when you have spent your entire life in a place.
The Stockholm archipelago is probably the most amazing part of Stockholm. It consist of more than 24.000 islands with different characters. Most of them only accessible by boat (or in the winter hovercraft). The further out you get the less vegetation you find, until is just rocks.
Not having access to a boat in Stockholm is like not owning a pair of skis if you live in Aspen. :-)
I'm lucky to have 700 meters to my boat and a 20 minute boat ride to Vaxholm (seen in the video). Life could be much worse!
A good thing to know about the is the “Every mans right” (Allemansrätten) that makes it possible for you to go anywhere you want, pick berries, put up a tent, etc. There are some minor limitations, but you will not find any “No trespassing” signs in Sweden. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_to_roam
Please excuse the broken English.
The main difference with dynamite is that dynamite is actually detonated, while black powder is just burning. Black powder burns very fast, however, it is no where near the detonation of dynamite
Thank you for remembering Gothenburg, where I have lived all my life. 👍🏼
I think the balkony thing is where the priest can stand and preach
Hi, you need to get a glimse of Uppsala and the dome where Gustav 1/Gustav Wasa is burried.
Sweden has more lakes the Finland
Sweden has more everything than Finland
I like that you mentioned New England a few times, cause living in Sweden, I get a very similar feeling when I see movies, series, pictures etc from New England. I think that area of US is the one with the most similarities to Europe (since it was the area first settled in larger numbers by the English) and many of the coastal cities and coastal areas reminds me a lot of both Sweden and other European nations like Netherlands, UK, Denmark and so on :)
Great reaction, man! Although I'm from Sweden and have lived here almost all my life, I've only been to Stockholm a handful of times because I live on the opposite side of the country in Göteborg (Gothenburg), but I've loved every visit there. Göteborg is also a nice city with it's own identity, and if you want to check it out, I suggest the video The COOLEST City In Sweden. :)
10:03 In that building on that floor you’re point to, I was once offered an apartment
The building at 25:00 is where i go to my hair dresser.
That "weird" balcony inside a church was where in the past the priest would stand and preach. They didn't do it at the altar. Altars were only used for addressing God and it was done with the priest facing the altar and having the back to the rest of the parish (that's why old altars aren't "tables" but look more like something hanging on the back wall of the church. But even with the table-style altars, the priests didn't face the public - they faced the altar.).
That elevated thing in the Cathedral is the pulpit, and was common in Catholic churches pre-Vatican 2. In Catholic mass, the priest presiding used to look at the altar, thus giving his back to the attendants. So, when the priest needed to address the attendants (v.g. the sermon) he wouldn't do it from the altar but from the pulpit. This was reformed in the Vatican 2 counsel in which the altar was moved forward and the priest would preside looking at the attendants. Pulpits became unnecessary. However, while the altar have been modified, most churches built before hadn't removed the pulpit.
Protestant churches had adopted this design before, but the Stockholm cathedral was build as a Catholic one. I don't know the particularities of the Church of Sweden and why the pulpit is still there after near 500 years. If it was never used since or if it served some function.
(and I paused and wrote this comment two seconds too early)
Great video!
Always makes me wonder. How they often phrase it as...Entitlements! Or as any good and honest man would call it: *Inalienable human rights!*
Beautiful city horrendous place to live, longest 2 years of my life, and before people get on my back this is just my experience
The stand is the place where the Dominee spoke to the ful church ! ( no mick in those dais remember !)
23:33 Sweden has most Islands in the world close followed by Finland and third in the world is Norway. Finland however do have most lakes in the world.
No, Finland has 56000 lakes and Sweden has 100000.
@@stormmoster Finland has 188.000 approx
Love from Stockholm.🇸🇪🙏👌🌞😎😇❤️
The sword you're admiring is actually a headsman's sword, a sword for executions. That's why it doesn't have a point.
21:00 you are right it has an subway
Alfred Nobel worked with explosives long before he invented the dynamite, nitroglycerine was very unstable and also couldn't be detonated with a fuse, his little brother died in an explosion while experimenting with it so Alfred Nobel started working on making it more stable
A number of his factories were destroyed in explosions due to the instability of nitoglycerin and I think he was rich a few times in his life and bankrupted a couple times in his life before he invented the dynamite
Only in Sweden are we so proud of a ship that was so unstable that it sank before it gets out of the harbour that we create a museum for it 🙂
The elevated "balcony" in larger churches are where the preacher preaches. I'd guess that it's off center as to not block the view of the front of the hall, and elevated so that he can be seen and heard. More formal ceremonies are held at the front of the hall, at the altar. This elevated booth is called a "predikstol" in Swedish, literally translated as "preachers chair".
The lettering _is_ in Hebrew. It says INRI, and abbreviation or the Latin "Iesus Nazarenus Rex Iudaeorum": Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.
The fact that the style of buildings is similar is because some builders and stonemasons were considered the best in all of Europe. They traveled around and made lots of money. The fact that the US doesn't have that style of buildings that are old is because they never had to travel. They, apart from others, eg farmers, always had work.
"Fun" fact, the building you paused at and the ones next to it have some white rocks. According to history, there is a stone for each head that was cut off at the "Stockholm massacre".
The video you are reviewing is actually a good representation of Stockholm, the city I call home. You’re right about Alfred Nobel, who invented dynamite and founded the Nobel prize. Also Sweden is a large arms exporter with industries as SAAB Aerotech and Bofors, maker of the Carl Gustaf anti tank weapon and Archer highly mobile artillery.
Sweden under Gustaf Adolf as he is known now, encompasses all of modern border Sweden, Finland, parts of Russia, all of Norway, Denmark and northern Germany and Poland. Sweden shrunk over the years to todays borders only separating from Norway in 1905. But it was a peaceful transition and Sweden have not been fighting in any wars since around 1895.
23:30 When it comes to the number of lakes in Finland and Sweden there is no absolute data to compare that uses the same definition of what constitutes a "lake", as far as I know. Please let me know if I am misinformed. Anyways, SMHI (the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute) carries a registry of all of Sweden's lakes that are larger than one hectare (100 x 100 meters, meaning 10 000 square meters, a unit often used to measure land). Going by their definition of what constitutes a "lake" (one hectare or above) Sweden has about 100 000 to Finland's about 56 000. However, there are loads of small bodies of water that fall below that 1 hectare threshold. More than 90% of the world's lakes are smaller than 1 hectare, thus smaller than what the (lazy?) SMHI has so far been willing to count as a lake, meaning that the number of lakes by a broader definition is far larger in both countries. As far as I know, Finland has actually counted their below 1 but above 0,1 hectare bodies of water while Sweden still hasn't been arsed to. 0,1 hectare is about a quarter of an American football field, for those that are not familiar enough with the metric system to roughly imagine the size of the area we're talking about.
If I recall correctly the complete Finish count, including lakes above 0.1 hectares (as opposed to only above 1 hectare) is around 185 000. Researchers that have guesstimated the corresponding number for Sweden have arrived at a point somewhere in the 300 000 to 500 000 range, but the legwork has simply not been done and therefore it's highly speculative. We Nordic countries have a very sibling-like relationship to our neighboring countries, which boils down to poking fun at one another as well as having friendly competitions and rivalries, but when push comes to shove we've got each others' backs. The way I like to think about this whole lake count situation is that we both have an astounding amount of "lakes" per square kilometer of land and that perhaps it's fine to not have any definitive measurement. :)
Dynamite offered a safe and controlled method of using the more powerful nitroglycerine blast. Before that they used nitroglycerine in its more dangerous and unpredictable liquid form. Dynamite saved lives.
It's called a pulpit that's where the sermon was given from.
the priest sometimes talk from those places, its so the people can get a better view on the priest.
11:24 the balcony is called ''talarstol'' (speakers chair) it's for the priest to stand and have mass i believe you call it.
*Predikstol
29:08 yeah it's kinda a celebration of failure, but in all fairness no one really understood the mathematics that goes into building ships well enough at the time so problems like that happened a lot. If it wasn't for the breeze that toppled her she probably would have been resigned to more of a parade ship instead with a lot fewer canons, that's what happened to a lot of other ships like her.
It is where the priest stands and preaches so that he has an overview of the entire congregation and that he can be seen and heard well.
You’re Very welcome to visit Stockholm and the rest of the country.
Black powder are incredible unstable and dynamite made it alot more safe and stable to blow things up