First Hate - Meditation Interlude
Lueenas, Ida Duelund, Maria Jagd - Loro
Astrid Sonne - How Far
Suzanne Menzel - Summer Rain
Goss - Thank God For Fitness
CTM - The Way A Mouth Is A Mouth
Loke Rahbek, Frederik Valentin - You Everything
Kasper Marott - Mosens Tone
School Of X - Mi Sueño Favorito
Synd og Skam, Jonas Okholm - Interlude
GENTS - Essential Oils
Anders Rhedin - Equilibrium
Atlantis Transit Project - Bird Perspective
Dinner - Copenhagen
First Hate - A Girl Called Friday
The song was written in 1771 as a drinking song for the “Norske Selskab”, Norwegian students in Denmark. It was confiscated and banned when it was tried published because of the strong Norwegian patriotic contents, and was not officially published until 13 years later, in Trondheim 1784, 30 years before Norway became independent.
Gratulerer med dagen! Ha en god 17. mai 🥰
Listen along here.
A modern recording of the song here and Norwegian lyrics under.
Norges Skaal.
For Norge, Kjæmpers Fødeland,
Vi denne Skaal vil tømme,
Og naar vi først faae Blod paa Tand,
Vi sødt om Frihed drømme;
Dog vaagne vi vel op engang
Og bryde Lænker, Baand og Tvang;
For Norge, Kjæmpers Fødeland,
Vi denne Skaal udtømme!
Hver tapper Helt, blandt Klipper fød,
Vi drikke vil til Ære;
Hver ærlig Norsk, som Lænker brød,
Skal evig elsket være!
Den vrede Livvagts Vaabenbrag
Forklarer trolig Nordmænds Sag.
Hver ærlig Norsk, blandt Klipper fød,
Vi drikke nu til Ære!
En Skaal for Dig, min kjække Ven,
Og for de norske Piger!
Og har Du en, saa Skaal for den!
Og Skam faae den, som sviger!
Og Skam faae den, som elsker Tvang
Og hader Piger, Viin og Sang!
En Skaal for Dig min kjække Ven,
Og for de norske Piger!
Og nok en Skaal for Norges Fjeld,
For Klipper, Snee og Bakker!
Hør Dovres Echo raabe: "Held!"
For Skaalen tre Gang takker.
Ja tre Gang tre skal alle Fjeld
For Norges Sønner raabe Held;
Endnu en Skaal for Dig mit Fjeld,
For Klipper, Snee og Bakker!
In honour of my trip to Denmark I want to thank SKAM and Young Royals for doing what four years of danish classes could not do; make me understand Scandinavians
*For the purposes of this list international Shows are TV Shows not produced by or for an American, Canadian or British platform. They may or may not have an American distributor. For example Bitter Daisies can be included because it's a Spanish production that Netflix simply bought while Elite can't because it is a Netflix Spanish production.
People in the United States who were not born in another country tend to be at least perplexed and sometimes panic-stricken when exposed to languages other than English.
This joke which I heard from a teacher says a lot about us linguistically...
Q: What do you call a person who speaks two languages?
A: Bilingual.
Q: What do you call a person who speaks one language?
A: An American.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau puts most of us to shame. In addition to his native Danish, he speaks English fluently and German & Swedish very well. A few years ago I saw a clip of him from a Swedish talk show with a Norwegian host. After a couple of minutes they all switched to English – perhaps to attract international viewers for the segment. Nikolaj spoke a little Norwegian and commented on how Norwegian was becoming more hip in Denmark because of the 2015-2017 TV series Skam.
When he was in Germany to promote his film Second Chance, NC-W did this interview. It’s mostly in English but they speak German towards the end. The interviewer complimented Nikolaj on the quality of his German.
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Nikolaj’s wife is a Greenlander and he probably speaks Greenlandic to some degree. And as he mentioned in the clip at the top, he appeared in a French film even though he’s not fluent in French.
You make more friends and create good will when you speak to other people in their languages – even if you just have a rudimentary knowledge.
For those who celebrate 17th of May, and everyone else ❤️
(thats the king and prince of norway)
Today Norway celebrates it's national day/ constitution day. For those who doesn't know, today in 1814, the Constitution of Norway got signed. In there, it declared that Norways was independent from other countries. We had been in union with Denmark and wanted to be independent from Sweden, which would last until 1905.
In 1864, the first norwegian parade was held in the capitol, but only for boys. It wasn't until 1899 that girl were allowed in the parade. During the WWII, every parade and using the colours of the flag was banned. The 8th of May, we were liberated and the flag became a strong symbol for us. But this day is not a holiday, but it helped celebration on 17th may nine days after.
It's also to note that Norway have children parade. This is like 'the day that belongs to the children'. Each school gather up in cities and parade around the town, waving flags. Parents, family and other people gather up to watch the parades. Afterwards, there's often a lot of candy stands in the cities where people can by candy floss and ice cream. The elementary schools often sell cakes and have games for the children.
In Oslo, the capital, you will see military soldiers in the parade. Cities often have parades for the 'citizens' too. There, people that participate in sports can come, people that are part of a political party can come too. Often the people that are in sports will dress up in their sportswear. I used to swim, and people would sometimes dress up in swimsuits and parade in that. There is also a parade for those who graduate out of high school, called Russetog. There children can collect cards that the graduates often throw out and watch the cars that many will buy and remake with their own logos and music. It's a whole thing!
A lot of people will also wear Norways traditional clothes. They're called bunad or festdrakt and a person chooses the clothes depending on were they are from. People will also wear the tradition clothes of the Sami people, called kofte. But a lot of people wear nice dresses and suits.
Sorry for the long post! This is simplified, because it would literally be too long if I'm going to state every important factor and name that led to the celebration we have today. I would have put more gifs up in this post, but most of those about norway is about skam...and not so helpful.
Hi, I'm coming to Copenhagen in two weeks and I wondered if I could ask you a question about language. I used to live in Oslo so I can speak some Norwegian and I'm wondering if I can use it there? If I ordered in a cafe for example would people be able to understand me? I know Danish has a different accent and some different words but I want to make an effort
uhhh that's so nice! hope you'll have a lovely time here, and let me know if you liked copenhagen, and what you went to visit and such!
there are some similarities between danish and norwegian, even though they're two different languages. personally i understand norwegian pretty well (... mostly thanks to skam), but idk how well, in genereal, danish people understand norwegian, because it's not something we learn in school, and it's not like we watch a lot of norwegian movies or tv-shows... of course some, but not that much. personally i find norwegian hard to understand if the person are talking very fast and if they're not speaking clear enough. but since you're going to denmark, maybe just try and use the norwegian that you know, because it's a good way to try it out and improving it. and i would say that if you ordered in a cafe in norwegian, the person should be able to understand you, so i would say go for it, and let me know how it goes! also... hope i answered your question okay