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My profile used to mention being a dull simple lad, not being able to tell water from champagne, and having never met the queen.
Heh.
Because it's hard to mention the Viking who found America without saying his name. Especially when there's a Leif Erikson day to explain, as seen in the Spongebob clip.
My school did about a half class on him, but that was because he was the first person to "discover" Canada, so it makes sense.
How do you plan on getting past these guys?
Also is Denmark the only place where the military still parades through the streets daily with a military orchestra and all traffic having to get out of the way?
Supposedly it is a tourist attraction. They by the way also do it in Århus when the queen is staying at Marselisborg Palace. And they do it every day in Copenhagen no matter if the queen is there or not.
Also notice how they are walking in the middle of the road to block traffic from both sides.
Also is it just me or doesn't it sound like Sousa borrowed a few things from this Danish flag march?
Why teach the pronunciation instead of just saying the name though? Also one would assume that since he apparently is that prominent in the US they would have made a note about how to pronounce it.
Because saying the name is how pronunciation is taught, not a formal lesson. Just like for Porsh or Volkswagon with a W sound.
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My grandmother corrected me on Leif's name, so ever since I knew. Does that makes me more Danish than the rest of y'all?
She needn't have come from Wales. You could be quarter Scandi for all I know.
You should be pretty grateful that we even have Leif Erikson Day, poor pronunciation aside.
Other than that and our annual Lemeard Week, there's not a whole lot of celebration of Scandinavia in the states.
Other than that and our annual Lemeard Week, there's not a whole lot of celebration of Scandinavia in the states.
I'd say there's also the Minnesota Vikings, but they don't seem to celebrate often?
True. Still, I'm sure there are lots of little commemorations around there. There are enough here in places like Dannevirke.
Leif was a dirty Norwegian... Though jest aside there was no difference between Scandinavians back then. The language hadn't even split up yet.
There also is Elk Horn. It even imported the Danish religious conflict between the Grundtvigs and the Inner Mission. The Inner Mission believing that things like dancing, partying, fun, toys, etc. were spawn of the devil and hence made their village just across the hill from Elk Horn to not have to live with those dirty Grundtvigs...
And they have a Danish wooden wind mill there which was shipped over from Denmark back in the 60s.
Dannevirke???
Must have been some patriotic Danes who founded that town. Does it lie in NZ?
What kind of commemorations is it?
Lots of cheesy Viking stuff. A long boat children's playground, horned viking velcome signs, and last I checked the occasional cultural festival. So the usual.
There were a lot of Scandinavian settlers of the Rangitikei valley area through to Hawkes Bay in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's where I get my Nowegian ancestry.
There were a lot of Scandinavian settlers of the Rangitikei valley area through to Hawkes Bay in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It's where I get my Nowegian ancestry.
Why did they have to leave?
See, a lot of Scandinavians came to the Great Lakes region because they couldn't engage in dairy farming, practice Lutheranism, and establish social welfare programs at home. I'm touched that America provided a safe haven for them to do such things.
Poverty mostly. My great great grand mother saved up to make sure all her kids could buy a ticket out of the hell hole of poor Kristiania. Up until the 60s or 70s it would have seemed a good call.