NATION Norway - the twin nation
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- The Norway film tells the story of Scotland’s twin nation. We have the same population, share the oil, gas and fishing resources of the North Sea and have similar geography. But over the last 200 years Norway has withdrawn from a Union with first Denmark and then Sweden and has invested its oil wealth wisely while Margaret Thatcher squandered ours. This much we already know. But did you know Norwegians have chosen to continue paying some of the highest personal taxes in the world to stabilise their oil-based economy - using the oil fund only to top up budgets not underpin them? Did you know hydro was the first big energy revolution, possible because Norway had no feudal landowners blocking the development of free energy for all? And - perhaps most importantly - did you know the widespread ownership of land in the 19th century meant Norway created one of the world’s widest electorates and therefore one of its most egalitarian parliaments? These democratic achievements underpin Norway’s success every bit as much as independence and raise hopes and tough questions about Scotland’s future. Can we hope to use renewables to match the incredible achievements of our twin nation?
As a norwegian travelling in scotland, ive always been welcomed by you scotts. If i ever meet one of you in my home town i will return the favour.
A genuinely fascinating and enjoyable film (not to mention educational).
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Ola Normann???? are you sure that's his real name? that's basically the Norwegian version of like John Doe.
Well, just almost. It's spelled Ola Nordmann
Well yes, but I have met 2 Ola Normanns in my life so...
jepp it is :P im norvegian so i know what i talk about ;) but its not a Usual name ,Rather a rare name :)
same as mine XD english name XD but its many Kenneths but not Very many
Kenneths sure name is norvegian as Fuck :)
@@jonnydisco3524 there's a lot of Norwegians named "Normann" too.
As a Norwegian, it was interesting to watch this and learn more about what separates our countries, but also the many similarities. Norway had the good fortune of having people in power that put the nation first, something we still have in our political system, although perhaps to a lesser degree. Certainly, Scotland would need the same if you went independent, people willing to work for the greater good and not their own interests. Where the nation is more important than party politics or business interests. I wish you the best of luck and I look forward to visiting an independent Scotland.
@مُحمد العربي why are you asking "why"? What part of Einar Bolstad's statement are you questioning?
" *something we still have in our political system* "
No we don't, they barely even pretend to anymore. Norway will lose everything that makes it great in a matter of decades.
@@PajamaJazama you're delusional, Norway is one of, if not the most, stable country in the world. It's economic and political stability is unrivaled. Being successful without being an EU member while still having excellent trade with them, is unique. There isn't one European country that has the political or economic power to make much of a different at the global level. Which is why the EU is so important. It's amazing how much of an impact Norway makes while being so relatively small.
@Amber G I agree, but maybe for a different reason. We shouldn't put party or national interest first. The US needs to put global interests above all. We have the power to make a difference on the global stage and are responsible for using it for the betterment of humanity. Unlike what Trump is doing.
@@musicmanmatt87 Oh yes, I agree with that. I don't think the future is bright though. I disagree about the EU, the agreement between Norway & the EU is utter trash. It's basically most of the responsibilities with little of the power. Luckily, several parties actively want to leave that agreement as well, I don't think any actively support closer ties to the EU. Most want to leave it up to the people. Norwegians should know from history that unions are trash, and that the major powers of Europe have always been trying to curb their independence.
I am Norwegian and feel very related to Scotland.
ankra12 im also norwegian and feel very for hjaltland and Orkney they are still legaly norwegian land... but Scotland AS a land? Why?
I’m Norwegian and I don't.
Do you drink a lot of Whiskey and eat fried Mars bars 😁 difference is, you don't need another 'nation' to prop you up like Scotland does England ✌🙂
Wake up my Scotland brothers... Don't become like London, don't become like Sweden or France.
Be proud of your nation, your people, your family, your land, your home... like I am of mine. 🇳🇴
God bless you all ✝️
Join us in the EEA, I think Norway would welcome an independent Scotland with open arms.
That's a very interesting idea. It's probably not realistic for an independent Scotland or Northern Ireland to join EU anytime soon even if they want to. But although the UK as a whole isn't welcome in EFTA, Scotland and NI should be.
Barn in norwgegian means children - I understand it's Bairn in parts of Scotland
Like, Estonia really want to get in to the nordic club, but honestly we're still saving that seat for Scotland. Your welcome, when ever you're ready.
We badly, badly need our own media in Scotland. This is a superb starting step on that road. Keep up the good work!
Considering some aspects of the culture, the shared history and their fierce longing for independence, I've always considered Scotland to be much closer to us scandinavians than to the english.
I've also always liked the idea of a "North Sea Confedaracy" as an alternative to mainland europes EU. As with most of my population(norwegian) we have no interest in becoming a puppet state of the EU(Germany/France). But a north sea confederacy with shared foreign policies, trade, etc, could very likely become a true power player on the world stage, all the while retaining their respective nations independence and determining their own domestic policies. The best of both worlds so to say. Scotland would without a doubt be a treasured member of such an political entity.
In any case I wish all the best for the future of our scottish cousins, and hope to someday visit the higlands myself :)
The mainland is too powerful, too much control, a northern union can be better, because a lot more in common, then with the mainland.
As a Canadian from Alberta, I wish we were as smart about our oil as Norway.
The oil smartness came from an Iranian guy who was able to get a job on something he was very good at just because there was no Norwegians capacitated for the job, otherwise he would be sent to fix beds in a hotel and the story would be different
@@priscilapiotrowicz9893 I was talking about the Heritage Fund.
Kira learns Norwegian me too:
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@@priscilapiotrowicz9893 from iraq, not iran
Never thought I'd hear a Scouse Norwegian, that's like a whole new breed of human.
I was looking for that comment!
Great film...I believe Scotland will be an independent country in the future...I have no doubt about that.
Its surprising there is anyone left in Scotland, with Norway being so close.
Very interesting. Wish America would pay attention to this and go green!
This video is absolutely devastating for the British establishment. A damning indictment. Now if only we could get everyone in Scotland to watch it.
@Carlos Saraiva Lol ! Wake up, the jocks would have the begging bowl out, & be rattling the tin, IMMEDIATELY!! Without us, ie, the rest of the U K, specifically really England, they'd be bankrupt, this is the reality, they're actually poorer than Greece. Scotland is furnished with more funding per capita, than any other part of the U K, (Barnett formula) us English would be far better off without them ! So off you go Scotland, do us a favour, please ! Make sure you grow your oats well. Hydrocarbon wealth wasn't put by sensibly like The Norwegians have, so, if you think you'll have much more of that wealth, gamble away, doubt Scotland could afford to draw out of the sea bed, they want to dissolve a union with us (politicians, not the majority of electorate - they're not all stupid), but want to stay in the European Union, they voukdht afford the subscription & would be a poorer nation in the tske from it, rather than vastly over paying like the U K, us ! fo now! Unbelievable thinking by some of you, crack on, cheerio ! 👋
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Thank you for this video. As an American with all of my ancestry from Norway, I enjoyed watching you highlight the good things about Norway, and still speak frankly about issues. Btw, I've always loved (loved!) the Scottish accent, for what it's worth. I learned a great deal about Norway as you walked through the process of learning from Norway's success. Having had a father that was a drunk and domestic abuser, and his father being a drunk and domestic abuser, and my mother's family of origin being severely abusive. I have gravitated, over the years toward all the parts of my roots that are positive. Thanks again.
@@tas5622 I don't know who the hell you're talking to, but it's not me! Your comment is yours. I did not even suggest, or infer your question! And, why your Reply is highlighted, I have no idea. Your comment and behavior is the kind I increasingly I have avoided! Your comment makes no sense, unless a given person launches into misguided assumptions. SMH
@@davidjordahl I apologize for my comment, It was insensitive. I am sorry you had to go through a difficult childhood. I hope you have learned from it. Again, really sorry I wasn't thinking right when I commented that.
I lived the best part of 8 years in Oslo. I was astonished by the opportunities available there. My time there ultimately led me to vote yes in 2014.
Good thing
You have the resources, the brains, the grit and the will to stand on you proud own. You will know how to empower every adult Scot, give him and her more equal opportunity and a real chance to fullfil his or her dreams, leap out of unnecessary poverty and turn you country into Europe's brightest and environmentally greenest jewel. Go Scotland!
As a Norwegian i love both Scotland and Ireland and hope they both will grow economically and become strong independent countries. :)
and keep immigrants from Middle east and Africa out!!!
@@Crusader1984 Sadly they probably wont
@@sentinel1877 It said they’re willing to sacrifice their nationality and their traditions to the EU and the globalist
Imagine looking at Norway and thinking the Union works for Scotland. Brilliant series 🎬👏
A right wing government funding radical left wing news with millions each year.
That's press freedom.
Also: What an absolute 10/10 film/documentary, love your productions.
Skål to my Scottish brothers!
I miss Scotland.. Never been, but it felt so close! 🇳🇴
May you be free of England soon. You deserve and can do it. Long live Scotland.
I have always associated Scotland with Scandinavia.
It's really not. It's totally shackled to London and very dependent.
@@norwegianzound It is maybe so, but not in my association.
Don't.
You have to admire a country and people which abolished the very concept of nobility/aristocracy.
Sheer, unadulterated brilliance.
Add in the reality of widely distributed land ownership, and you are looking at a society which is structurally, fundamentally, egalitarian.
As opposed to Scotland, with an aristocracy and an incredibly limited land ownership....
Feudalism never took root in Norway, most of scandinavia really, but moreso in Norway.
We had no abolition in reality.. both the Danes and Swedes never bothered to give large counties or chunks of land, only two or three names come to mind.. basically - being the poor runt of the litter didn't make it an honour to have a title or land given to you... I think that helped.
And - the Viking legacies, which were sort of feudal, both protected Norwegian sovereighood , and carried the traditional independent land ownership... Basically 80 % of us still live near the sea, and we have always relied on seasonal management of resources... So we were always pretty mobile too.. common ownership and availability of resources are everywhere, even in the oldest laws.. ownership without responsibility is historically completely unacceptable. Look at the Hebrides and how they lived for... Well, always.
but - feudalism has been successfully abolished in maaaany other countries, it basically leaves the UK as the only country to be applying anything of importance related to the concept of private or royal land..
Norway lost 65% of its population in the black death. Percentage-wise more than any other nation on Earth. Yet we still funded a grand fleet that still outgunned our Scandinavian brothers, even while sitting in a union with them. For the longest time, the unions were the lesser evil compared to having to recover from the plague on our own. Our people were poor, but the state being poor is a myth. Thanks to fishing, even though the populace was poor for 450 years after the plague, they would never starve and the state could focus on the urban population for distribution of aid. And still another chunk of population was lost to Northern American emigration.
@@BloodpactORG so.. no wonder that we are not loved accross Scandinavian countries.
Not one of the other nations will tell you that they would prefer to have been gouverened by Norway rather than the Danes.
Still, the point of the issue here is... Is small better than big.?
Do you need to be a small unit to succeed, or do you unite and get a better deal..
Norway is in itself, not a united bunch of .. similar thinking people, and never was.
Nations are convenient inventions, but .. if you are suggesting that collaboration and communication is intended to promote communal growth, I guess Norway will do as an example of how to unite and still not lose an individual level of responsibility and freedom based on the way you use it, not a given.
Norwegians, like other Scandinavians, became the genetic material basis for many upper classes in other parts of Europe. In France, the Norman aristocracy was entirely Norwegian (more specifically from the Sunnmøre provice in Western Norway), the same Normans who form the basis of British nobility.
Scotland should become independent ASAP.
In Norway the government supports the press. Here in the US, the press supports the government. Well...not the entire government, only the half they like and it is pretty homogeneous.
I love you Norwegeans - except you stole all the beautiful mountains :-) (Finn, I'm Danish)
Right back at you my Danish brother, but come on, atleast we left you with Himmelbjerget✌️😂
@@AreEia And we poor Danes are not even allowed to go see the Real mountains - blody coronas :-) I lived about 20 kilometres from Himmelbjerget 8 years of my life :-)
@@f1nn0 Yeah, not being able to travel really sucks. Hopefully we will see some changes in the coming year, because I dont think the general population can take much more of this restriction crap. Ah, cool, and I gotta say, that although flat you guys do have a beautiful country as well ;) After travel opens up again I am going for a bikeride holiday in Denmark :) Best wishes and stay safe, from your neighbour the mountain ape :p
Th evolution of Norway is a pretty example of the usefulness of peaceful negations. The nation did cast its own destiny in peace making its own citizen fall in love with the country, enjoying life in the country. The opposite in many countries did cast very destructive destiny associated with very low-quality life, humiliation, and mass destruction in many cases. Many other countries teach, and urge citizens to go to, and for, war with other countries to win a negotiation and/or natural resources. They call it "Victory." The evidence mounted up over millions of years shows that people shape their own Destiney when they elect a government that citizen do not even know one single person of them. The support to tyranny government, hailing for war, killing each other to win a dominance is prized with high rank "National Medals." It is very much obvious that people cast their own Destiney, sadly to their own destruction. When does that time come when peace, understanding, feeling the beauty of life become part of national curriculum that we teach to our students? Nowadays, students are taught how to advance in technology, producing advanced weapons...other instruments to kill each other. This is what they called "High Quality Education'" and "Technological advances." Every nation must get back to the definition of "Beauty" to have what remains in life goes in peace, harmony, and the enjoyment of very short life.
Lesley, I truly enjoyed this documentary. You know, some nations have it, but others, unfortunately, haven't. I'm not judging, not at all. People, in many countries, provinces (in Canada), aren't given the chance to enjoy their country. Peoplee, all people, like myself having a physical limitation, or not, must have a say in order not just to exist, but to live. :-) Steve in Québec, Canada .
Great video. This was made 2 1/2 years ago and considering the discussions you have in Scotland these days I greet my brothers and sisters in Scotland that are working for independence and wish you good luck.
I'm an American of Scottish, Irish, English, German, and Dutch descent.
I found this program so culturally and socially inspiring.
Fascinating the connection between Scotland and Norway, and other countries of Northern Europe.
Thank you for such an informative video.
I notice this video is very orientated around Oslo. Scotland includes the Isle of Skye, Lewis, Harris, the Orkneys and Shetlands. Norway includes Svalbard (formerly called Spitzbergen) which is a long way from Oslo.
Just imagine Westminster and the English had not squandered the wealth from North Sea oil. Scotland would be very rich indeed. Despite this I see no reason why Scotland can’t go it alone as part of the EU family. Puts London in a huge bind as all the nuclear weapon capabilities are also in the hands of the Scots! Didn’t think I would see it, but in my lifetime we will see the final demise of the British Empire for good!
My friend Lesley, thank you for this video :-) we had a hut in Carnoustie near Dundee where we went for the summer holidays every year, very similar to these guys in Norway, our nation’s are very similar only Scotland is restricted by this dreadful union the U.K. our huts were built for to give families a home after the war and continued as a family holiday home for many years afterwards
I came across this by accident, what's the chance of it being broadcast on BBC Scotland?
It is a great film. Someone shared it to The Forty Five on facebook. LOL great joke Jim regarding this being broadcast by any BBC never mind BBC Scotland.
@@FrozenWillow1980 Aye, if I was 40 years younger I think I'd go. Probably better to try freeing Scotland though, I've got used to the language.
@@rbdogwood I think we need our own media. Catalonia is not even a sovereign state and they have their own media. It's disconcerting when the tv and the BBC was invented by Scotsmen and yet, the BBC denigrate our country, through the very media and tool we invented in the first place. I would like to see more positivity in the media about how great our country is and how great it can be. Ain't going to happen whilst being shackled to wastemonster though :/
@@FrozenWillow1980 Agreed. In the end it'll be a vote that swings it, hopefully a nice peaceful democratic one, but possibly feet on the street. I prefer change to revolution, they tend to end up where they started, usually because the heavy weights pull that part of the wheel down. Since it's the money rather than the rich people that is heavy, it's just a matter of evening things out. I'm not sure people have ever achieved that, and it looks as though you need some rich people to achieve anything. Florence Nightingale, James Watt, Baird and Fleming were all better off than the majority and required investors money to make a difference. That said, if the average person has at least some disposable income, crowd sourcing can bridge the gap. It's the rich / poor pyramid slope angle that lies at the heart of it.
Making a documentary about Norway, and the first subject is named "Ola Normann". Hilarious.
Jeez ho, I'm paraphrasing, but...
"The oil revenues became enormous and we needed a fund to hold it all. Now we only take out if we need to balance our budget. It's a small amount because we didn't reduce the other taxes. Our system is as if we don't have oil. It has worked enormously well. The only worry now is that the fund may have become too large."
If that section alone was broadcast across Scotland the Union would wobble.
Lesley and Phantom Power, this one is the most important of your works.
The reason Norway has a budget surplus is the huge current account surplus, they make sure the former is larger than the latter so that the private sector can run a surplus. This is rather like 19thC UK when we had a huge current account surplus so we could have a balanced budget and the orivate sector surplus was invested overseas.
It is absolutely vital for Scottish sovereign independence to have your own monetary sovereign currency and make better use of it for the common goid like in Norway, not pandering to the global elite as the UK has done.
Check out the Scottish modern money theory group on Facebook.
Scotland is more than welcome to be a part of Norway. Must mentioned Orknisland and the Foerisland from the mighty norwegian vikingage!
I met the most beautiful girl in Scotland and it was a flaming romance. Love you Scottish people, you are so fun and exciting
You did what?! I believed the Norse Vikings took them all back to Norway 1000 years ago! ..maybe some slipped away then..
I notice a pattern. Whenever a foreign person explains Norway, they spend time in Oslo or the eastern part and claim all of Norway is the same. I'm sorry, but this is not always correct. Cultures differ a bit from east to west to south to north.
I hope a lot of scottish see your great videos and find inspiration to become an Independent nation sometime in the future ❤❤🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰🇩🇰
Its important to point out that Norway was a big and prosperous country before the Black death, then we came into a union with Denmark for over 400 years. The thing with Sweden only lasted 90 years, and cannot be compared with Scotland. It would have been the same if Scotland was ceded to Ireland now, and then gradually got freedom some decades later.
Another thing: If the Swedes had treated us right when we got our 8ndependence in 1905, they would have given back the Norwegian territories they occupied from Denmark-Norway during our union. That is Bohuslän (Norw: Båhuslen), Jämtland and Härjedalen (Norw: Jemtland and Herjedalen) and Idre Särna/Idre Særna. The Swedes kept this areas, rejected the people there to write the Danish-Norwegian language, and the population is now completely assimilated into Sweden, and most of them look upon themselves as Swedes.
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I worked in Stavanger in 1986, I was able to see the comparisons between our countries, but, within a short time I also identified that Norway was in a much stronger and more secure situation than Scotland. I wanted that for my country, I still want that, it’s why I voted Yes and why I’ll vote Yes again.
we alwais wote NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I want our country to be independent simply for Self Determination. Anyone watching this video, the full way through and watching just how a country can operate independently, which is really not that dis-similar to our own country and then saying "I'm voting no" in my view are traitors to this country. Or 40 year old single people still living in mamas basement completely dependant on getting fed from her, being lazy and doing nothing. Knowing the potential we have in being independent, but voting against it, is akin to cutting your nose off to spite your own face. Get out of Mamas basement no voters. Look at the potential we have and take it with both hands.
Why does this not have more views? It's spot on, it's true, it's very very well made, and mind opening.
Interesting and encouraging.
Edit: And of course, why is Scotland in a union? It makes no apparent logical sense except being intimidated militarily by England?
Well, is it too late to be able to unpick the union? The union has existed since 1603 when James VI of Scotland became James I of England & Ireland as well. The union of Parliaments took place in 1707. That is over 300 years. The devolved Scottish Parliament is much newer.
Excellent film!
Very interesting documentaries! Studying successful and similar examples in order to speculate how a potential sovereign Scotland should be planned. Now that Brexit is official, I hope you get to decide again, this time for good.
7:49 Parts for that fountain are rare. I know this because I live in a city in Northern Australia and we have a replica of that fountain. It was broken for a few years and that's was because the parts needed to fix it were in Norway.
That fountain is regularly subject to “soap attacks” 😂
Scots Picts Vikings,/ Norwegian Vikings same folks it appears
I guess Scotland is a bit like north Norway for Norway.
Scotland and Norway used to be so close. Closer than England.
I appreciate that Oil Museum curator didn't try to downplay Climate Change.
And today, the PM claims that "Norwegians does not have historical claims to Norway".
I am born and raised in America...however my last name is Kindred as in the bible....means Friendship as well it has some ties too the Scottish decent and maybe my father said that some Norwegian decent on my grandparents side of our family.
I have always wanted too find out my true heritage and would love to follow my roots and actually make a move to Norway to settle down and live the rest of my life and learn your languages and dialect that flows with your language as well.
I don't know if I can do this at my age of 58 yrs but I would love to seek a new way of lifestyle and follow a more pleasing and content people.
Calling the government partly right wing says a lot of the political chart in Norway. The "right wing" party in Norway is hardly any different from the democrats in the US. How much press freedom are there in a country where most of the press has similar views as Bernie Sanders in the US? As a Norwegian I can't even name a "right wing" paper in Norway. There's a online paper that's considered very right wing (shares a lot with Trump supporters in the US), but is hardly taken serious by anyone.
To call the Frp extreme right is also not correct. But that says everything about where the Norwegian media are politically. People who brag about everything Norwegian at the same time as they cannot get the country given away to Arabs fast enough are hypocrites.
Scotland join Norway. Lets rule the sea
Brexit should give every scot the incentive to run their own! Btw, Norway’s land is expensive, it’s farmers subsidized to the effect of paying higher costs at the grocery. Norwegian farmers are so embedded that if a Norwegian wants to be a farmer many choose to go cross border to Sweden where land is available. That was was a few years ago anyway as I was told. Swedes run to Norway for jobs and Norwegians run to Sweden for shopping in a mild sort of way. I love Norway! It’s so accessible, so open and beautiful. It’s people are wonderful hosts. Scotland could have it their own unencumbered by the state below. I’ve always wondered why Scotland wasn’t their own country? Don’t say that out of any bias, but that Scots have so much to offer in their own right. Perhaps I give to much opinion? Thanks for sharing...
Reasons to be cheerful. Come on Scotland!
Perhaps, rather than independence, with the pending collapse of the UK, Scotland could join into a union with Norway.
Social democracy has working very hard since the times after WW1 to remove dynamics of class difference. In Britain you still have remains of class society. I heard it said that that the difference on managers income and the cleaning lady in the same place, are typical around 3 times in Norway. Just roughly. but there is a consensus that one of their prime ministers said, " It is best for everybody when everyone has it Ok". There is a basic truth in that. A tribe of Amazone indians will say the same thing I believe. I been there a lot, and this is not " socialism" or anything I think, It is just remains of a culture where everybody had to help everybody else to get by and make wheels turning.
Great stuff Phantom and Lesley! Interesting and something really to aspire to...
Very interesting film. By the way, Stavanger is the fourth largest city in Norway, but the third largest metropolitan area including the city of Sandnes and some surrounding villages and small «towns» . :-)
Slowly does it.. good luck Scotland !🏴
It's never a good time to get a revival of fierce nationalism, no one functions in isolation.. but social democracy combined with good market economy is not difficult, as you seem to have noticed.
Thnx for such a flattering doc..🇳🇴 we definitely do have some issues overe here, but this was interesting to see.
PS. I'm Norwegian, But ... My dear gradma was Scottish 💕🏴 I'd love a Scottish passport 😉
Far from everyone in Norway have access to a hut. But the nation are soaked in the old hunting, fishing and being close to the out door life ideal, The small population has little to none class division. I guess you can compare this mentality to a tribe in the Amazon jungle. They take care of everybody and do not let anyone live under a bridge suffering.
Stretched a little.
I been in many countries and see that a country is pretty much the sum of its populations mentality.
Everyone have access to the huts of Turistforeningen.
Scotland can make it anytime, just like our small countries in Scandinavia, Estland and the Faroe Islands. When I think over the time being Danish: watching my grandparents holiday pictures from Norway back in the 50's where the tunnels weren't dug, driving small roads over the mountains. We started visiting Norway when i was 8 months old in 1968, still driving through this beautifull landscape, through the 70's. But sure things went fast. I worked in Norway 1986, meeting modern tunnels and the Norwegians much more confident. And now they are better off than Denmark!
But dear Norwegians: Olsenbanden is ours! The former East Germans can confirm that as they loved it too. Was surprised when visiting people near Rostock that they even knew the names of the actors. I would love to watch your Norwegian version some time.
And sorry to say: Norwegian Sunset might be sung at many Norwegian funerals, but genious Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was Danish :)
Vakre og omklig Norge. Hurra for Skotland
As Norway, becoming independant, still wanted to have a Royal Family they got the younger brother of the Danish king. I really don't think the Scottish would make the same move thinking of "The Spare"
That's not true about the huts. When I was young there were huts on the way to Peebles and at Port Seaton before the caravan park. They were got rid of in the 1960s by Westminster Government.
We`ve had our glory days in Norway... Hopefully it all goes to our fellow vikings in Scotland now. You deserve it. Brexit! Scotland be free!
BRITAIN made Denmark enter the war on Napoleon's side. Wasn't quite our idea. Denmark was neutral. But the Danish fleet was larger than the British, so better be safe than sorry: the British made a sneak attack on a neutral country to sink the fleet. And then Denmark was dragged into the war on Napoleon's side. Thank you, Britain
Every third Norwegian have a boat, not really yacht, but at least a boat. Not sure, but close to truth.
Very enlightening and interesting. Not only did I learn a lot about Scotland, but also about Norway, my home country.
oil fund grew by 600 billion kr since this video was released lol
Every norwegian does not own a hut XD and to be fair, the working class families who got these huts back in the 20s are mostly very wealthy by now. atleast if they own a hut like that
The state doesnt subsidise anything in norway, the correct term would be the taxpayer subsidises these things
Go Scotland Go. GO FOR IT!
We could always take back Shetland and Orkney if you like. ;-)
Really informative presentation. Great learnings for Australia as our recidivism rates are a staggering 68% and our prison population has doubled in the past decade. Your emphasis on dynamic security makes absolute sense. I would love to see this model trialled in VIctoria Australia. Thank you MIchele Justice student
I cant speak for all Norwegians, nor do I know how the Scots feel. However, all the Norwegians I know (im a Norwegian my self) view Scots as a lost family member, gone astray somehow. We feel at home among Scots, like visting a cussin...well thats not the right term. Well, its hard to explain, like a brother you didnt know you had? Do you understand? Like different, but yet so "known"...very hard to explain. Its like something is there that you cant put your fingers on, and that you dont share with other cultures (except for our mornic sibelings in Scandinavia, which we very much feel are part of a family...but thats obvious, same DNA, same history, same languange more or less, same culture, same shitty food and so on). Yet, we feel something simular with Scots, very very interesting, and something many Norwegian have pointed out. Sorry for my English, but yeah who cares.
Dag Ut As a swede, I agree. The norsemen are our brothers, the finns our sisters and you scots are our cousins :)
I absolutely agree with you here. When I first visited Norway, it felt like a second home. The landscape, the culture, the people. I felt very content and happy to talk to the Norwegians I met on my visits. Sadly, it did also feel like they knew more about England but that’s to be expected given the much larger population and how much we are drowned out by their voices! Hopefully this will all change and we feel connected again soon :) I will be definitely back to visit beautiful Norway! Haste ye back!
As a Norwegian I agree.
Also remember that Norway basically colonized all the islands around Scotland, up to but not limited to, Isle of Mann. Orkney had the last true remaining Old Norse dialect in the world, but it has sadly been "Scottified" by the British government. Might be 1 or 2 persons left that can speak it (off the top of my head).
Norwegians launched invasions from the north. Then assimilation happened.
But even then, with all this, Scotland was always a similar cultured people (except they were more shamanistic when we were polytheistic during the Viking age) and with quite a Scandinavia-ish topography geographically speaking.
England is mostly swamps and fields and low hills, and "corrupted" by Romans, and later on Normans (although they were indeed direct descendants from Norway and Denmark ;) ... and maybe a few people from Swedish tribes)
Anyways I digress, sorry I can go non-stop on these topics lol
Have nice day
Me, a norwegian cringing at that iconic Norwegian-English accent. :D
"There is no better place to live" nice to hear that.
Norway-Scotland when?
That final music track sounded like it came from Southeast Asia
Eh I just need this clip for a video I’m making. I’ll be crediting you don’t worry! 27:55
aye go for it
Norway had very close ties to Scotland in the Middle Ages, when the power of the country was located on the West Coast, with Bergen as the capital. Later on, when the power shifted eastwards to Oslo, the ties with Scotland weakened, while becoming stronger with Sweden and Denmark.
Yea, Might not be everyone in a family, but I think at least one in the family has a hut in norway.
Superb film. All unionist 'Scots' should hang their heads in shame. The 'union' with England has robbed Scotland of its health, wealth and self-respect. Scots must vote for independence and detach themselves from their corrupt southern neighbour. SAOR ALBA
Great tv
Go Scotland !! ,
It's your time Scotland.
Is that why so many Scotts have Nordid facial phenotypes? Because of Germanic influence?
Interesting. Thanks for create and share. I wish the best to the people of Scotland!
Ahh the hytte...
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very informative
Dear Scotland, just don't copy it. Be yourself!