English is soo influenced by old Danish. I've been to England and in some of the small villages on the East Coast, I had an easier time understanding the locals than my friend from London. I just had to take on my grandparents rural dialect from Jutland (which is basically Danish with English grammar), and we were good.
@hildajensen6263 When I say Old Norse, I refer to the language spoken in all 3 Scandinavian countries at the time. I am Swedish and had the same experience in some parts of England and even more in Scotland. I actually had no idea that *that* many Scottish words had the same meaning and produced just as Swedish (or Norse) until I got there! I don't know how many times they started to explain a Scottish word to me, and I was like "yeah it's the same in Swedish, so I understand" 😄
@@EEmB Well, I just wrote Danish because I assumed my experience could be related to there being dialects in the language even back then. But that is all on me, so let keep it Norse by al means. 😁
Basically most skr words. Skrabe - scrape, skrubbe - scrub, skrue - screw. And of course a bunch of other words. On top of that English syntax is the same as Norwegian/Danish, in opposition to German and French.
The Danes were extremely good at integrating, so a lot of the language died out , which is one of the reasons why "Danish" are not spoken. That being said , more than 900 words in the English language are of Nordic/Danish origin , like window (vindue), stool (stol) sun (sol) etc etc
@Glaaki13 It does mean male farmer. But only if he was the head of a household. In older texts, it is also used in the meaning of "married man". As in he is my husband. - However anyone living on his farm could use that sentence, so context is important.
Christiania was recently "shut down" the open sale of Hash and Marijuana at least.. Its still open though and now you can take pictures in there which was prohibited in some areas before(wonder why) 😂 Still a special and interesting place, with some nice bars, and recreational areas. Definitely worth a visit😊 (And no its not legal here, but in Christiana it's accepted by the people who live and spend time there)
You speak a lot of Danish in your everyday language around 900 of the most used everyday words in English are Danish such as, for example, egg, elbow, husband, arm, wife, slave, knife, bask, both, call, die, dream, fellow , flat, fro, get, give, tail, ill, law, loose, nay, raise, rugged, sister, swain, take, though, weak, window... and some of the personal pronouns: they, them, their + most words beginning with the letters "sk": skin, skirt, sky... and scant, scrape and scrub
The Anglo-Saxons spoke Old English, and the Angles came from Jutland/Northern Germany, so the Norse and Anglo-Saxons could kinda understand each other. Just like how the Icelandic can interpret Old English quite well. But Modern English became a thing because of William the Conquerer, who brought Normans to England and gave them lands, which meant the ruling class spoke French. And eventually Old English and French merged and formed modern day English.
Many good movies and series have been made in Denmark. "The Castle" was big in England, but if you want to see Danish films, I can (among other fine movies), recommend: - Riders of Justice - Flickering Lights - Another Round - The Celebration - The Hunt - Land of Mine - The Purity of Vengeance
Also your queen Victoria eldest son married into the danish Royal family, so we're very tight. Harry and Will are cousins to Joakim and Frederik of Denmark, the latter is now the king of Denmark, and we use his nickname Frede a lot. He's very loved by the danes as hes cool as hell. 😊
@@GuinevereKnight yup,i switched them even though i had it right on my head... Cheers. But yes Frede is everyones fave and the one that runs the Copenhagen Marathon every year..
Like many other things, skype , 365, A lot of Google's well-known brands etc.was developed/discovered in Denmark, but we never take credit for all these things, it's not in our nature 😏🇩🇰
Bluetooth was officially registered in Sweden by a small and upcoming startup known as Ericsson... but they had R&D departments all over the Nordics, so it kinda made sense to name it after a Danish viking king that managed to keep people together despite having slightly different cultures.
Old English sounds more Dutch to me than Icelandic. Anyway if you consider the South West Danish dialect... it's quite close to old English. Look up Eddie Izzards attempt at using old English in the Netherlands. The thing is that both Dutch and Danish people claim that the other language sounds like English and German combined with their own language.
5:00 Yes, if IKEA hadn't opted out, we would now be one nation with a larger GDP than Russia, and the capital would have been located in Kalmar, Sweden... that's part of why I don't appreciate being called Swedish. Anyway we have good relations with our brothers and sisters today, so it's no biggie.
Bro, colour doesn't matter if you behave like a local. Of course I can see you're a tad more tanned than me, but that all becomes a small detail if you talk the way I'm used to and we can relate on other topics, for instance you mentioned biking in your previous vid. I'm not colourblind but I sure wouldn't let anyone be racist towards you, they'd end up with this pale potato dismantling their whole upbringing in public... if that's what it takes to make people act civilised. ... sorry, I ended up in rant mode.
The swedes invading Poland and some German regions are why my middle name is of German origin... back in the 1600's my ancestor went to DK to get revenge against the swedes... my own great great (don't remember how many greats) grandfather ended up as a baker for the military, stationed at Kastellet in Copenhagen. It's incredible how much you can learn from ancestry websites.
16:00 you should watch A Royal Affair .. it explains how DK went from monarchy to democracy. Edit: but you're right, we are in no hurry to entirely abolish our royals... they're great diplomatic entities, especially when dealing with countries that are not very democratic.
Language: it is not that complicated. You actually DO use the same grammar as Scandinavians. English=Anglish roughly said. Old English was formed on Proto Norse. When the Romans left, Angles, Saxons and Jutes arrived (500 years before many of them were called Vikings....). Their languages were Proto-Norse dialects (Proto Norse is the predecessor of Old Norse, which the Vikings later spoke). Old English started building on that language form. Ofcourse there have been many later influences that actually means that English vocabulary is a total mix of other languages, and even 30% of English are borrowed words from French. Frisian is the language that comes closest to English these days. Frisian is still alive along the west coast in the areas Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from. Should Danes now say: not in Jutland!! That's right. But the Jutes who started settling in the now England were Jutes who at an earlier stage had already migrated south and settled along the now Dutch coast, -south of the the Angles and Saxons. Names for the language groups today: English is called West-Germanic together with Dutch and German and others. Scandinavian languages are North-Germanic languages. But English, as a little twist, has the North-Germanic grammar.
Another interesting royal fact: Danish King Christian IX is considered the Father-in-Law of Europe after having married off his children to the mightiest countries in the world. His children were: King Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, King George I of Greece, Empress Maria Feodorovna oF Russia, and Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover. So, if you watch Anastasia that's the Danish Queen of Russia or rather Empress. Also, Queen Margrete I was one heck of a awesome woman!
The language that the people in the far west of Denmark speak an accent of danish, that is very close to a lot of English words. There are a lot of words that means the same thing.
@@dwaynesview .. Skype on the other hand was founded by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden (in a 50/50 ownership). They sold the majority of their share to eBay for $2.6 billion, but since they kept 14% of the shares, they also made loads of money when Skype was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion
Google maps was on the other hand invented by the Danish Rasmussen brothers, though at first it went by the name 'Where 2', but Rasmussen then also invented Google Wave in 2004 before they sold it all, but Rasmussen then further designed the Google Maps pin while now working for Google.
I would recomend watching a video about the Swedish power era. Since it involves Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. There is a good one by A. J. Merick called How Powerful was the Swedish Empire?
If you are impressed by a 20 course meal at NOMA, then The Alchemist Holistic dining in Copenhagen would shock you even more, because it consists of 50 courses of food-art "impressions", and is an experience of gastronomy, dining art, as well as science, technology and design, and lasts for 4-6 hours and will cost you around £750 a person (including a Wine pairing Essential).
Basically the english language is half danish half french. (Not entirely accurate but even so (its Also largely latin, and dutch) Most maritime Words are of danish origin such as: Ship=skib Sail=sejl To sail=at sejle Boat=båd Rope=reb Rig=rig Mast=mast Etc etc. as Well as many base words such as: knife=kniv, skin=skind, window=vindue, swine=svin, Goat=ged Silver=sølv Pot=potte Etc. Etc. In some ways the “peasant” words in english are mostly danish whereas the “finer” word in english are mostly french fx. Room (in danish rum) vs chamber (in french chambre) Or the difference between the animal and the Meat Cow (ko) becomes beef (boef) Calve (kalv) becomes veal (veal) Etc etc. Also many government and military reltared words are french Cavalry Siege Soldier Justice Treasury Etc etc.
The line of kings are being considered to be a little longer due to new evidence from England. Apparently it was Gorms wife Thyra who held the real power, and Gorm was married to her as her instrument in her rule. A lot of the old sagas mentioned different lands and places, it's now a good bet that England and it's northern islands are very much a big part of the sagas, so today scholars are looking into the older "history" as we used to know as legends, to actually give us more facts than legends.
Looking forward to see your future vlog on visiting, or even moving to Denmark 😄 Weed is not legal in Denmark. Back in the days, I guess the government din't want to be as aggressive in preventing the weed sales and smoking of it in Christiania, because it largely stayed within Christiania and was controlled by actual hippies with non-violent values, which you still see represented by the rules that was listed in the video. And the military base was not in active use when they took it over, so it is more of a "squatters rights"-situation 😉 Big gangs have infiltrated Christiania for decades, selling hard drugs and bringing in weapons, claiming territory where it's not their right to do so. The gang wars got worse, multiple people have been killed or wounded in relation to this, the residents of Christiania tried keeping the peace but to what avail in this situation, and many felt it became a dangerous place to just hang out. The police have continuously raided the Freetown and the weed/drug sales have largely moved to the social medias and is still accessible pretty much everywhere. But I hope that also means that the people living in Christiania and visitors of the Freetown can breathe a bit easier now, and that they get to fix a lot of the things the gangs have ruined over the years ❤ I used to love to hang out in Christiania when I was younger, but it lost its hippie-magic once the gang involvements got too obvious and, in my opinion, changed the whole mood of the otherwise "super chill" freetown of Christiania to a more "hipster"-vibe today.
A lot of equality come from what happened in other countries! like the French revolution made Royals give away power and the the Russian revolution gave power to workers unions
yes, restaurant NOMA won worlds best restaurant 4 times, in only 5 years, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, which is a crazy thing to get for any restaurant...
Actually... The frisian language is more similar to the old english they spoke back in those days. Frisia, of course is along the west-coast, and the archipelago of the Netherlands. It is also believed to be the oldest, and most conserved, still spoken language in the west-germanic branch, i.e. Dutch, German and English. :) The original frisian settlers were indeed danes too, though. :P So you could say that Frisia is the connection between the scandinavian England and the more common England. Oh, and also, Poland was the first foreign lands the goths, set their foot in during the migration period back in 300 - 600 AD, and this was EARLIER than the Viking age. The Goths were originally from the middle of modern day's Sweden in Uppsala.
Thanks for reacting to my country. You are more than welcome to visit us. It is "hyggeligt" as we say here. If you want to know more details about our royal family, I can recommend this video: "History of Denmark & Succession of Frederik X & Queen Mary" (Channel: History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday).
England almost speak danish! Some English words of the over 400 words that decents from danish/norwegien Hund/hound glas/glass hiv/hive kniv/knife brød/bread stol/stol Stjæl/steal skib/ship mølle/mill Græs old dansish is grass Skole/school bog/book is/ice and there is much more Like in old germanic kniv was calle knife And å is aa and an ø is like saying oe half of each letter And the æ that sounds like ae together The english and danish words is so close also the reason why us in the north learn it Quick because you Can only hear it sounds the same if you know how both language letters sound
Scandinavians (Danes, Norwegians, Swedes) don't understand much Icelandic at all, it's just words here and there, but not at all enough to have a conversation. Leeds and Copenhagen appear to be almost identical in population size. However, if you also include urban arieas (city region), Leeds is a bit bigger.
Even though you don't speak Danish you still retain some of our old words to this day. 'kn" words like knee, knight, knuckle (back then the k wasn't silent) came from viking 'influence'. words with a k sounding c came later on from latin.. You got K from old norse. This is also why the letter C is in the bottom percentile of commonly used letters in Danish. Just a fun fact if you ever play hangman with a Dane, you should probably not pick c in the beginning 😉
....if you are visiting Denmark and really what to get a feeling for who the Danish people are and Denmark's different cultures, I would recommend that you not only visit Sjælland/Copenhagen. Visit North Jutland (Nordjylland), Middle of Jutland ( midtjylland), South Jutland ( Sønderjylland) and the Island of fyn. Denmark is so much more than Copenhagen (The Island of Sjælland). It is said that Aalborg is the "capital of North Jutland; Aarhus/Århus is the "capital of Middle of Jutland; Sønderborg is the "capital" of South of Jutland; and Odense is the "capital" of The Island of Fyn. Just a suggestion 🙂 👍
Danish Kings from a certain point in time are always called Frederik or Christian , if the King is Christian his oldest son will be named Frederik , the oldest daughter will be Margrethe
Icelandic sounds the way it does because its the nordic language that is closest to old norse bacuse of its location. Its actually scandinavian languages that has adapted. So dont think you would sound like that to be honest. Sweden has the highest jewish communities of the nordic countries with around 15 000, danish the second largest with around 6 000, after that Finland, Norway and Iceland. Many of the jews that had to flee denmark immigrated permanently to countries like sweden, the uk, us and israel. A good mix of everything is the best! It results in understanding, curiosity, knowledge and respect. ❤ I so envy people that can research their ancestry so far back. I know that 3/4 od my family has been in scania since it was danish, the last part I cant research which is sad.
Okay, just of the bat here, I can assure you that you don't learn Danish, even though you can take classes and trips, the language is very flexible and you can get confused by the different ways to use it. I say this as a dane and even I after 52 years in Denmark can be baffled over the language and I got top grade in my verbal exam.
christiania has been nerfed many times now, just recently the pusherstreet got demolished. a lot of years back they got forced to pay rent just like the rest of denmark
Well English is a Germanic language, same as Old Norse and Old English - so you kinda do speak a related language because English developed from those same languages*. Angles and Jutes (Northern and Southern tribes from the mainland of Denmark) were 2/3 of of the Anglo-Saxon invasion. We'd already taken over by the time the Vikings arrived lad. Vikings were just trying to take over again as later generations kicking the earlier ones' backsides. Angles formed or grabbed - Mercia, East and Middle Anglia - the root of the name England - Angle Land, and Northumbria. Jutes took over Kent and the Isle of Wight whilst the Saxons formed Wessex, Essex and Sussex. Although today the Angles look to have come from the Danish/German border region - that's due to the modern borders - Hedeby was at the southern end of Denmark at that time - today falling into the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Back then Denmark went a bit further South, so the Danish-German borders were rather different. *de, dem, deres (DK) they, them, theirs (EN) - now add a Kidulthood/wannabe bad boy London accent and it's really not very different lol
I'd say that Kings back then was just as power hungry as some Presidents are today. And I don't think there is a lot of money saved, by shutting down the monarcy - Presidents/Prime ministers are probably most likely just as expensive - and as you say, I'd almost be like cancelling history or "killing" history in it's tracks..... That's just my opinion.... And I love our "new" King, Frederik the 10th & Queen Mary
We (Sweden) like our king, but mostly because he's funny, he sometimes can't write his name and is often a bit confused of where he is or what he's doing. He has Dyslexia so it's a bit mean to joke about him, but still, most see him more as a clown than a monarch
Yes, he made me role on the floor once. He was in China, walking the wall with some high ranking chinese. Then suddenly he pickpockets a wallet from one of them and runs with it. The king plays a theif. It was so funny.
Christiania isn't as interesting as it sounds, when visiting as a tourist, they have some cool bikes and drugs were readily available, but I'm told that Pusher street has been shut down. Still a cool place though.
You’re not related to frederik the 2nd i’m sorry to say. It says “your great grandmother’s EX PARTNER’s wife’s (so new wife to the partner and therefore not blood relation to you. The partner being your great grandmothers ex husband) so and so. Hope it makes sense😂 But you’re always welcome over here😊😊
Noma is dead and gone... But it was a place you booked a year in advance, and saved up so you had 300 quid so you could go and have ants covered in chocolate. One of those places. I like fancy, but im out when it gets too pretentious... I would much rather have tried the gourmet hotdog place that Simon Juul had to be honest...
Kristiania was set up by Hippies around 1970-71, protesting against the 'old' society, as you said in another video, young people tend to be revolutionary.
So the reason why the English language isn't like the nordics is because of an event known as the great vowel shift changing the sounds of vowels in English away from the more nordic sounds.
The people of England was not vikings. They lived a more refined life with french and latin lessons, and embroidery and dances and generally being more propper around the dinner table. Scandinavia was rougher and more about dying in fierce battles and drinking Mjød and singing songs about being a nutter, than sitting and doing crochet and so on. Thats why the vikings could raid England so many times. You weren't ready for the sheer berserker mode these guys turned up with. You got used to it fast though so we couldn't hold the land we'd been given in the end. We where given a lot of land in England together with titles and money if we would just stop invading and raping away. Thats why so many English towns and places have Scandinavian names. Anything that ends with By tells us we used to be there... You have Derby and even Danby for example. The latter meaning Danish Town. York is probably the most known danish held town. But of course we influenced Scotland a lot, they have i ken you.. in danish jeg kender dig. And bairn is børn here. Pigeon is a due up there, same in the scandi languages. And then there's Kiosk, a very very danish name that even sounds weird from a Brit. Kiosk means shop that sells goods basically in scandi languages. But that's a very old viking name for that, so ,aube where they got the skins and fur for a outfit for, swords too i would guess.
@@dwaynesview nope, it's the best most Americans say, the danes dont give a fuck as they say... They felt unsafe being gay in America and that's gone now they say... They've made videos about that whole coming to Denmark and why it was a good choice..
Its sad that you had fokus at the capital. Denmark is much more then that. See it for yourself you will be amazed by little towns and what they have too offer. Sadly you did't even mention Bornholm which also is a eiland in the Oester see ... Denmark is so much more. Come and see it
You do use a shit load of scandi words, but i dont think most brits know that... The weekdays is mainly Roman stuff from their gods, but Thursday is clearly from Torsdag from our god Tor or Thor as Marvel would say.
The Romans named the weekdays after the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. But four of the days they use in English are the Northern Gods Tyr, Oden, Thor and Freja. In Swedish instead of Saturn's day (Saturday) we use Lördag which basically means lögardag (the day you wash/bath.)
@@LindaSjoeblom oh yeah, Tyrs dag Tirsdag. Odins dag Onsdag. Tors Dag Torsdag. Frejas Dag Fredag... So instead of thinking the Romans was the main it was the other way around. Wonxer why i did that, old maybe.? 😁
You have sooo many Old Norse words, so you DO speak it already. The influence in English of Old Norse is very stong.
English is soo influenced by old Danish. I've been to England and in some of the small villages on the East Coast, I had an easier time understanding the locals than my friend from London. I just had to take on my grandparents rural dialect from Jutland (which is basically Danish with English grammar), and we were good.
@hildajensen6263 When I say Old Norse, I refer to the language spoken in all 3 Scandinavian countries at the time. I am Swedish and had the same experience in some parts of England and even more in Scotland. I actually had no idea that *that* many Scottish words had the same meaning and produced just as Swedish (or Norse) until I got there! I don't know how many times they started to explain a Scottish word to me, and I was like "yeah it's the same in Swedish, so I understand" 😄
@@EEmB Well, I just wrote Danish because I assumed my experience could be related to there being dialects in the language even back then.
But that is all on me, so let keep it Norse by al means. 😁
Basically most skr words. Skrabe - scrape, skrubbe - scrub, skrue - screw. And of course a bunch of other words. On top of that English syntax is the same as Norwegian/Danish, in opposition to German and French.
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Our queen Margrethe and Queen Elizabeth are actually third cousins, so yeah they are kinda related to each other.
Bluetooth was invented by the company Ericsson in Sweden.
That's right but it was named after a Danish king
Yes, they were brainstorming searching for a name for it and one suggested the old Danish Viking King Harald Blåtand=Bluetooth
The Danes were extremely good at integrating, so a lot of the language died out , which is one of the reasons why "Danish" are not spoken. That being said , more than 900 words in the English language are of Nordic/Danish origin , like window (vindue), stool (stol) sun (sol) etc etc
that 900 words number is much higher, as over 2000 words have been found to come from there...
What's Stol meant to be in English ? because Stol the danish word becomes chair in English.
Husband is funny as its male farmer in danish husbonde
@Glaaki13 It does mean male farmer. But only if he was the head of a household.
In older texts, it is also used in the meaning of "married man". As in he is my husband. - However anyone living on his farm could use that sentence, so context is important.
@@ebbhead20 , A chair has a back and arms, a stool has not , like the ones in bar. So stool is absolutely used in English
Christiania was recently "shut down" the open sale of Hash and Marijuana at least..
Its still open though and now you can take pictures in there which was prohibited in some areas before(wonder why) 😂
Still a special and interesting place, with some nice bars, and recreational areas.
Definitely worth a visit😊
(And no its not legal here, but in Christiana it's accepted by the people who live and spend time there)
You speak a lot of Danish in your everyday language around 900 of the most used everyday words in English are Danish such as, for example, egg, elbow, husband, arm, wife, slave, knife, bask, both, call, die, dream, fellow , flat, fro, get, give, tail, ill, law, loose, nay, raise, rugged, sister, swain, take, though, weak, window...
and some of the personal pronouns: they, them, their
+ most words beginning with the letters "sk":
skin, skirt, sky... and scant, scrape and scrub
The Anglo-Saxons spoke Old English, and the Angles came from Jutland/Northern Germany, so the Norse and Anglo-Saxons could kinda understand each other. Just like how the Icelandic can interpret Old English quite well. But Modern English became a thing because of William the Conquerer, who brought Normans to England and gave them lands, which meant the ruling class spoke French. And eventually Old English and French merged and formed modern day English.
Yes but even William was of Norse descend
You are right.. Du har ret
Queen Margrethe II reigned as Queen of Denmark from 14 January 1972 until her abdication on 14 January 2024.
idk if i missed it but i think the fact that our king Fredrik was a part of the frogmen team is pretty f*cking cool i wont lie
You certainly don't have to apologize, we came to occupy England back then in the Viking Age 😏🇩🇰
Many good movies and series have been made in Denmark.
"The Castle" was big in England, but if you want to see Danish films, I can (among other fine movies), recommend:
- Riders of Justice
- Flickering Lights
- Another Round
- The Celebration
- The Hunt
- Land of Mine
- The Purity of Vengeance
Also your queen Victoria eldest son married into the danish Royal family, so we're very tight. Harry and Will are cousins to Joakim and Frederik of Denmark, the latter is now the king of Denmark, and we use his nickname Frede a lot. He's very loved by the danes as hes cool as hell. 😊
Frederik is the cool King, Joakim the prince. So not the latter but the first, right?
@@GuinevereKnight yup,i switched them even though i had it right on my head... Cheers. But yes Frede is everyones fave and the one that runs the Copenhagen Marathon every year..
@@ebbhead20 My fave too as a Dane-Swede! And Queen Mary! 💗
Hey
Dwayne's View, I'm actually from Denmark, it's so cool that you think my home country is cool
Like many other things, skype , 365, A lot of Google's well-known brands etc.was developed/discovered in Denmark, but we never take credit for all these things, it's not in our nature 😏🇩🇰
This Dane from Jutland,, i am the only, getting tired of facts about Denmark,, when 90% is about Copenhagen 😅
Kanoooth 😂 fun way to pronounce the name Knud 😅
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Most English streamers pronounce my name knotknot so funny, what's up with the u how does it become an o ?
thank you for your channel. I am a dane, and you would definitely be a great dane.
'Denmark is a small country'
Yeah, we have a land border with Canada
Sadly the Whiskey War is no more but we got a land border out of it ay..
Bluetooth is invented in Sweden...
But the guys who invented Google Maps was danish, but were living in Australia.. but still danish
It was the Swedish company Erikson that invented bluetooth.
Bluetooth was officially registered in Sweden by a small and upcoming startup known as Ericsson... but they had R&D departments all over the Nordics, so it kinda made sense to name it after a Danish viking king that managed to keep people together despite having slightly different cultures.
Old English sounds more Dutch to me than Icelandic.
Anyway if you consider the South West Danish dialect... it's quite close to old English.
Look up Eddie Izzards attempt at using old English in the Netherlands.
The thing is that both Dutch and Danish people claim that the other language sounds like English and German combined with their own language.
5:00 Yes, if IKEA hadn't opted out, we would now be one nation with a larger GDP than Russia, and the capital would have been located in Kalmar, Sweden... that's part of why I don't appreciate being called Swedish.
Anyway we have good relations with our brothers and sisters today, so it's no biggie.
Bro, colour doesn't matter if you behave like a local.
Of course I can see you're a tad more tanned than me, but that all becomes a small detail if you talk the way I'm used to and we can relate on other topics, for instance you mentioned biking in your previous vid.
I'm not colourblind but I sure wouldn't let anyone be racist towards you, they'd end up with this pale potato dismantling their whole upbringing in public... if that's what it takes to make people act civilised.
... sorry, I ended up in rant mode.
The swedes invading Poland and some German regions are why my middle name is of German origin... back in the 1600's my ancestor went to DK to get revenge against the swedes... my own great great (don't remember how many greats) grandfather ended up as a baker for the military, stationed at Kastellet in Copenhagen.
It's incredible how much you can learn from ancestry websites.
16:00 you should watch A Royal Affair .. it explains how DK went from monarchy to democracy.
Edit: but you're right, we are in no hurry to entirely abolish our royals... they're great diplomatic entities, especially when dealing with countries that are not very democratic.
Language: it is not that complicated. You actually DO use the same grammar as Scandinavians. English=Anglish roughly said. Old English was formed on Proto Norse.
When the Romans left, Angles, Saxons and Jutes arrived (500 years before many of them were called Vikings....). Their languages were Proto-Norse dialects (Proto Norse is the predecessor of Old Norse, which the Vikings later spoke). Old English started building on that language form.
Ofcourse there have been many later influences that actually means that English vocabulary is a total mix of other languages, and even 30% of English are borrowed words from French.
Frisian is the language that comes closest to English these days. Frisian is still alive along the west coast in the areas Angles, Saxons and Jutes came from.
Should Danes now say: not in Jutland!! That's right. But the Jutes who started settling in the now England were Jutes who at an earlier stage had already migrated south and settled along the now Dutch coast, -south of the the Angles and Saxons.
Names for the language groups today: English is called West-Germanic together with Dutch and German and others. Scandinavian languages are North-Germanic languages. But English, as a little twist, has the North-Germanic grammar.
The heart of the reindeer is my favorite part, smoked. If I could, I'd eat that for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, every day.
Another interesting royal fact:
Danish King Christian IX is considered the Father-in-Law of Europe after having married off his children to the mightiest countries in the world. His children were: King Frederik VIII of Denmark, Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom, King George I of Greece, Empress Maria Feodorovna oF Russia, and Crown Princess Thyra of Hanover.
So, if you watch Anastasia that's the Danish Queen of Russia or rather Empress.
Also, Queen Margrete I was one heck of a awesome woman!
The language that the people in the far west of Denmark speak an accent of danish, that is very close to a lot of English words. There are a lot of words that means the same thing.
Bluetooth is actually Swedish
Just went on Wikipedia which isn't always the best source but tends to be 90% accurate lol! Apparently it was invented in Sweden.
@@dwaynesview .. Skype on the other hand was founded by Janus Friis from Denmark and Niklas Zennström from Sweden (in a 50/50 ownership). They sold the majority of their share to eBay for $2.6 billion, but since they kept 14% of the shares, they also made loads of money when Skype was sold to Microsoft for $8.5 billion
Google maps was on the other hand invented by the Danish Rasmussen brothers, though at first it went by the name 'Where 2', but Rasmussen then also invented Google Wave in 2004 before they sold it all, but Rasmussen then further designed the Google Maps pin while now working for Google.
Copenhagen population is about 1.500.000 today so not quite comparable with Leeds
I would recomend watching a video about the Swedish power era. Since it involves Finland, Norway, Denmark, and Sweden. There is a good one by A. J. Merick called How Powerful was the Swedish Empire?
If you are impressed by a 20 course meal at NOMA, then The Alchemist Holistic dining in Copenhagen would shock you even more, because it consists of 50 courses of food-art "impressions", and is an experience of gastronomy, dining art, as well as science, technology and design, and lasts for 4-6 hours and will cost you around £750 a person (including a Wine pairing Essential).
Basically the english language is half danish half french. (Not entirely accurate but even so (its Also largely latin, and dutch)
Most maritime Words are of danish origin such as:
Ship=skib
Sail=sejl
To sail=at sejle
Boat=båd
Rope=reb
Rig=rig
Mast=mast
Etc etc. as Well as many base words such as:
knife=kniv,
skin=skind,
window=vindue,
swine=svin,
Goat=ged
Silver=sølv
Pot=potte
Etc. Etc.
In some ways the “peasant” words in english are mostly danish whereas the “finer” word in english are mostly french fx.
Room (in danish rum) vs chamber (in french chambre)
Or the difference between the animal and the Meat
Cow (ko) becomes beef (boef)
Calve (kalv) becomes veal (veal)
Etc etc.
Also many government and military reltared words are french
Cavalry
Siege
Soldier
Justice
Treasury
Etc etc.
Tivoli is the 3rd oldest. Christiania was abandoned at the time. No cameras or photos in Christiania.
The English language already have several Danish words. Knee, Knife and Window, are all derived from the danish words Knæ, Kniv and Vindue.
The line of kings are being considered to be a little longer due to new evidence from England. Apparently it was Gorms wife Thyra who held the real power, and Gorm was married to her as her instrument in her rule. A lot of the old sagas mentioned different lands and places, it's now a good bet that England and it's northern islands are very much a big part of the sagas, so today scholars are looking into the older "history" as we used to know as legends, to actually give us more facts than legends.
Looking forward to see your future vlog on visiting, or even moving to Denmark 😄
Weed is not legal in Denmark. Back in the days, I guess the government din't want to be as aggressive in preventing the weed sales and smoking of it in Christiania, because it largely stayed within Christiania and was controlled by actual hippies with non-violent values, which you still see represented by the rules that was listed in the video. And the military base was not in active use when they took it over, so it is more of a "squatters rights"-situation 😉 Big gangs have infiltrated Christiania for decades, selling hard drugs and bringing in weapons, claiming territory where it's not their right to do so. The gang wars got worse, multiple people have been killed or wounded in relation to this, the residents of Christiania tried keeping the peace but to what avail in this situation, and many felt it became a dangerous place to just hang out. The police have continuously raided the Freetown and the weed/drug sales have largely moved to the social medias and is still accessible pretty much everywhere. But I hope that also means that the people living in Christiania and visitors of the Freetown can breathe a bit easier now, and that they get to fix a lot of the things the gangs have ruined over the years ❤
I used to love to hang out in Christiania when I was younger, but it lost its hippie-magic once the gang involvements got too obvious and, in my opinion, changed the whole mood of the otherwise "super chill" freetown of Christiania to a more "hipster"-vibe today.
Tivoli garden is from 1843 not 1943. The video is several years old. Some of the facts are not entirely correct🤔
Icelandic is the Scandinavian language that nowadays comes the closest to Old Norse :) But whatever: also they were settlers from Scandinavia.
A lot of equality come from what happened in other countries! like the French revolution made Royals give away power and the the Russian revolution gave power to workers unions
yes, restaurant NOMA won worlds best restaurant 4 times, in only 5 years, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2014, which is a crazy thing to get for any restaurant...
Actually... The frisian language is more similar to the old english they spoke back in those days. Frisia, of course is along the west-coast, and the archipelago of the Netherlands. It is also believed to be the oldest, and most conserved, still spoken language in the west-germanic branch, i.e. Dutch, German and English. :) The original frisian settlers were indeed danes too, though. :P So you could say that Frisia is the connection between the scandinavian England and the more common England.
Oh, and also, Poland was the first foreign lands the goths, set their foot in during the migration period back in 300 - 600 AD, and this was EARLIER than the Viking age. The Goths were originally from the middle of modern day's Sweden in Uppsala.
Your clock is showing the correct time two times each day🤣🤣
It doesn't work 😭🤣
Thanks for reacting to my country. You are more than welcome to visit us. It is "hyggeligt" as we say here.
If you want to know more details about our royal family, I can recommend this video: "History of Denmark & Succession of Frederik X & Queen Mary" (Channel: History Tea Time with Lindsay Holiday).
England almost speak danish! Some English words of the over 400 words that decents from danish/norwegien
Hund/hound glas/glass hiv/hive kniv/knife brød/bread stol/stol
Stjæl/steal skib/ship mølle/mill
Græs old dansish is grass
Skole/school bog/book is/ice and there is much more
Like in old germanic kniv was calle knife
And å is aa and an ø is like saying oe half of each letter
And the æ that sounds like ae together
The english and danish words is so close also the reason why us in the north learn it Quick because you Can only hear it sounds the same if you know how both language letters sound
You are speaking danish, 800 Woods in english today comes from danish( Windows in english is vinduer in danish)
Christiania, if you visit, will give you close to the same vibe as Camden Lock area in London! Both equaly worth a visit❣️🇩🇰🇬🇧🇸🇪
AHH it's like Camden, I get it now. Very hippy and underground vibe.
Scandinavians (Danes, Norwegians, Swedes) don't understand much Icelandic at all, it's just words here and there, but not at all enough to have a conversation.
Leeds and Copenhagen appear to be almost identical in population size. However, if you also include urban arieas (city region), Leeds is a bit bigger.
The video had 1 flaw it said Tivoli was the 2. Oldest amusement park it is the 3td
Cool
Even though you don't speak Danish you still retain some of our old words to this day. 'kn" words like knee, knight, knuckle (back then the k wasn't silent) came from viking 'influence'. words with a k sounding c came later on from latin.. You got K from old norse.
This is also why the letter C is in the bottom percentile of commonly used letters in Danish. Just a fun fact if you ever play hangman with a Dane, you should probably not pick c in the beginning 😉
....if you are visiting Denmark and really what to get a feeling for who the Danish people are and Denmark's different cultures, I would recommend that you not only visit Sjælland/Copenhagen. Visit North Jutland (Nordjylland), Middle of Jutland ( midtjylland), South Jutland ( Sønderjylland) and the Island of fyn. Denmark is so much more than Copenhagen (The Island of Sjælland). It is said that Aalborg is the "capital of North Jutland; Aarhus/Århus is the "capital of Middle of Jutland; Sønderborg is the "capital" of South of Jutland; and Odense is the "capital" of The Island of Fyn. Just a suggestion 🙂 👍
They say that Islandic is the closest to what they spoke back in Viking time
Danish Kings from a certain point in time are always called Frederik or Christian , if the King is Christian his oldest son will be named Frederik , the oldest daughter will be Margrethe
Icelandic sounds the way it does because its the nordic language that is closest to old norse bacuse of its location. Its actually scandinavian languages that has adapted. So dont think you would sound like that to be honest.
Sweden has the highest jewish communities of the nordic countries with around 15 000, danish the second largest with around 6 000, after that Finland, Norway and Iceland. Many of the jews that had to flee denmark immigrated permanently to countries like sweden, the uk, us and israel.
A good mix of everything is the best! It results in understanding, curiosity, knowledge and respect. ❤
I so envy people that can research their ancestry so far back. I know that 3/4 od my family has been in scania since it was danish, the last part I cant research which is sad.
We also have the world's oldest gay bar in Copenhagen, which opened in 1917.
Most danes are related to the danish royal family in some way., I´am a direct descendant of Gorm the old and a few 100s years forward..
Okay, just of the bat here, I can assure you that you don't learn Danish, even though you can take classes and trips, the language is very flexible and you can get confused by the different ways to use it. I say this as a dane and even I after 52 years in Denmark can be baffled over the language and I got top grade in my verbal exam.
No, he says Bluetooth is named after a Danish king, but it was invented in Sweden.
christiania has been nerfed many times now, just recently the pusherstreet got demolished.
a lot of years back they got forced to pay rent just like the rest of denmark
Well English is a Germanic language, same as Old Norse and Old English - so you kinda do speak a related language because English developed from those same languages*. Angles and Jutes (Northern and Southern tribes from the mainland of Denmark) were 2/3 of of the Anglo-Saxon invasion. We'd already taken over by the time the Vikings arrived lad. Vikings were just trying to take over again as later generations kicking the earlier ones' backsides. Angles formed or grabbed - Mercia, East and Middle Anglia - the root of the name England - Angle Land, and Northumbria. Jutes took over Kent and the Isle of Wight whilst the Saxons formed Wessex, Essex and Sussex. Although today the Angles look to have come from the Danish/German border region - that's due to the modern borders - Hedeby was at the southern end of Denmark at that time - today falling into the Schleswig-Flensburg district of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Back then Denmark went a bit further South, so the Danish-German borders were rather different.
*de, dem, deres (DK)
they, them, theirs (EN) - now add a Kidulthood/wannabe bad boy London accent and it's really not very different lol
I'd say that Kings back then was just as power hungry as some Presidents are today. And I don't think there is a lot of money saved, by shutting down the monarcy - Presidents/Prime ministers are probably most likely just as expensive - and as you say, I'd almost be like cancelling history or "killing" history in it's tracks..... That's just my opinion.... And I love our "new" King, Frederik the 10th & Queen Mary
We (Sweden) like our king, but mostly because he's funny, he sometimes can't write his name and is often a bit confused of where he is or what he's doing.
He has Dyslexia so it's a bit mean to joke about him, but still, most see him more as a clown than a monarch
Yes, he made me role on the floor once.
He was in China, walking the wall with some high ranking chinese.
Then suddenly he pickpockets a wallet from one of them and runs with it.
The king plays a theif. It was so funny.
He he - we are family. I am a decendent af Valdemar, the brother of Frederik 3.
LOL! 🤣 Hello cousin 1000 times removed haha
Christiania isn't as interesting as it sounds, when visiting as a tourist, they have some cool bikes and drugs were readily available, but I'm told that Pusher street has been shut down.
Still a cool place though.
You’re not related to frederik the 2nd i’m sorry to say. It says “your great grandmother’s EX PARTNER’s wife’s (so new wife to the partner and therefore not blood relation to you. The partner being your great grandmothers ex husband) so and so. Hope it makes sense😂 But you’re always welcome over here😊😊
the city of london, the vertican and Washington D.C. are all seperat countryes
To late to see cristaina, the removed it like 2 mouth ago :)
You actually do.
Noma is dead and gone... But it was a place you booked a year in advance, and saved up so you had 300 quid so you could go and have ants covered in chocolate. One of those places. I like fancy, but im out when it gets too pretentious... I would much rather have tried the gourmet hotdog place that Simon Juul had to be honest...
Yeah it sounded pretentious to be honest, I like good food too. Not sure Noma would be my sort of place.
@@dwaynesview I never felt any desire to go there that's for sure..
Kristiania was set up by Hippies around 1970-71, protesting against the 'old' society, as you said in another video, young people tend to be revolutionary.
So the reason why the English language isn't like the nordics is because of an event known as the great vowel shift changing the sounds of vowels in English away from the more nordic sounds.
look up how many nordic words you use every day.
The people of England was not vikings. They lived a more refined life with french and latin lessons, and embroidery and dances and generally being more propper around the dinner table. Scandinavia was rougher and more about dying in fierce battles and drinking Mjød and singing songs about being a nutter, than sitting and doing crochet and so on. Thats why the vikings could raid England so many times. You weren't ready for the sheer berserker mode these guys turned up with. You got used to it fast though so we couldn't hold the land we'd been given in the end. We where given a lot of land in England together with titles and money if we would just stop invading and raping away. Thats why so many English towns and places have Scandinavian names. Anything that ends with By tells us we used to be there... You have Derby and even Danby for example. The latter meaning Danish Town. York is probably the most known danish held town. But of course we influenced Scotland a lot, they have i ken you.. in danish jeg kender dig. And bairn is børn here. Pigeon is a due up there, same in the scandi languages. And then there's Kiosk, a very very danish name that even sounds weird from a Brit. Kiosk means shop that sells goods basically in scandi languages. But that's a very old viking name for that, so ,aube where they got the skins and fur for a outfit for, swords too i would guess.
Well English speakers do speak a bit of Danish..😂❤
Thank the vikings...
Take it easy with your camera on Pusher Street in Christiania if it´s still there. Otherwise just enjoy the free spirit.
Hello
You should follow Robe Trotting, a gay couple from America living in Denmark. They can tell you the ups and downs about living here... 😊
Why? Is it not good for gay people living there?
@@dwaynesview nope, it's the best most Americans say, the danes dont give a fuck as they say... They felt unsafe being gay in America and that's gone now they say... They've made videos about that whole coming to Denmark and why it was a good choice..
Vesters from Danmark wind turbine
Its sad that you had fokus at the capital. Denmark is much more then that. See it for yourself you will be amazed by little towns and what they have too offer. Sadly you did't even mention Bornholm which also is a eiland in the Oester see ... Denmark is so much more. Come and see it
Haha love your video, if/when you hit copenhagen, hit me up - im a guide and would love to show you a bit around :)
Thanks, I'm glad you enjoy the vids. Ha I may have to take you up on that offer when I'm there 😄
No you would have spoken old norse which was very close to old english
It is sad to see that most of the videos you are doing is about Copenhagen. Denmark got many beautiful places
yes you do meny wod on english ar the same in Danmark ... windos .. very clos vindu ... and meny think ar not speld the same but pronaunst clos
You do use a shit load of scandi words, but i dont think most brits know that... The weekdays is mainly Roman stuff from their gods, but Thursday is clearly from Torsdag from our god Tor or Thor as Marvel would say.
The Romans named the weekdays after the Sun, the Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Saturn and Jupiter. But four of the days they use in English are the Northern Gods Tyr, Oden, Thor and Freja. In Swedish instead of Saturn's day (Saturday) we use Lördag which basically means lögardag (the day you wash/bath.)
@@LindaSjoeblom oh yeah, Tyrs dag Tirsdag. Odins dag Onsdag. Tors Dag Torsdag. Frejas Dag Fredag... So instead of thinking the Romans was the main it was the other way around. Wonxer why i did that, old maybe.? 😁
Dont go to copenhagen it is insanly expensive go to Aalborg or Aarhus instead its like you guys Think denmark is only copenhagen 😂
Walt was supposedly not a fan of the Jews just like his German friends though whether this is true or hate mongering I do not know
Yeah I don't actually know what was so bad about him. Sometimes people like to spread propaganda.