He was the first King of Norway in 800 years, the first democratically elected king (he said he would be king only if all of Norway voted on a monarchy), he denied German calls for surrender in WWII and preserved the democratic institutions when the war started, then after having left for the UK in exile continued to organize resistance. He is the embodiment of what a good (constitutional) monarch should be. Think of him like a combination between Washington with Lincoln.

True. He really was a great man.

Historia är aldrig historia - utan en paus i nutid .

Norgeshistorie? 14:43: Se lige på de fire i bilen. Kongen - dansk. Kronprinsessen - svensk far og dansk mor. Bodyguarden er Max Manus. Norsk far og dansk mor. Et af de største øjeblikke i norsk historie - og tre af hovedpersonerne er halvdanskere. 😁

Ja

It's quite the opposite but okay.

@@Defferleffer The explain

@@DukeofDenmark2 It's more likely that the Norwegians originally came from people who settled around what is modern-day Denmark, Southern Sweden, and Northern Germany. Also the first king of Norway (after independence in 1905) was a Danish prince. The royal family of Norway today is still of the same house as the Danish one.

@@Defferlefferfirstly im not that big of an idiot i do know who Haakon was, and secondly, when the Danes came to Scandinavia, they firstly setteld, and some of Them wanderd longer up north. The firstly Got through Sweden, and after time their accent changed a little bit. And you are sadly incorrect.

Well - Crown Princess Ingrid of Denmark was a strong anti-fascist from the day she arrived in Denmark, from Sweden. She really took up the fight to keep the south of Jutland to be annexed by the nazis - and she knew exactly was she was doing. BTW she worked very closely with a left social democrat. So - this Bernadotte passed every test with flying colors.

The Swedes refused to grant sanctuary to the Norwegian Royal family.

Listen pal ,it was touch and go who invaded you first ,you can't be helping the Nazi war machine,Narvik and be considered anti Nazi

Your statement about the Swedish royal family is simplistic and silly. While King Gustav V behaved poorly, the Crown Prince of Sweden and his British born wife, Crown Princess Louise, were certainly anti Nazi as were Prince Carl and Princess Ingeborg - the parents of Crown Princess Marthe of Norway and the late Queen Astrid of the Belgians. Princess Ingeborg was also the sister of King Christian X of Denmark and King Haakon of Norway and made no secret of her allied sympathies.

True.

Det er det.

He always spoke in Danish his entire life. All his speeches were in Danish, this one as well. But written Norwegian is basically the same as written Danish, it's only in the spoken form that they differ quite a bit. So as long as the Danish speaker will try to speak slowly and clearly, and as close to the written form as possible, then almost everyone in Norway will understand. With Swedish it is the opposite. Norwegian and Swedish are very similar when spoken, but it is more different when it comes to writing, with very different spelling and ortography. I am Norwegian myself, but I will say that I understand all 3 languages reasonably well.

​@@ruralor Thank you for this explanation

I find his speech quite understandable. As OP explained, Norwegian and Danish are already very very similar in terms of vocubulary, but has different prononciations, but Haakon VII spoke something that kinda sounded like a mix between Danish and Norwegian pronounciation, quite easy to understand imo.

@@TheArrowedKnee Yes, he tried to "Norwegify" his pronouciation a little bit. Like, all the words where Danish has a hard k ("kære"), but Norwegian has a soft k ("kjære"), King Haakon often ended up with some kind of hybrid version ("k-i-ære"). But there isn't that much, it's mostly Danish. Another factor in this is that very posh and formal Danish is easier for us Norwegians to understand. Try to listen to a speech by Queen Margrethe, it's always quite easy. Watching a Danish movie is harder.

My late father was old enough to remember his radio speeches during the war and he said: "He never learned norwegian but the norwegians loved him!" And that's true. I am danish and I will say he spoke danish 'adjusted' to norwegian. The two languages are very similar, but of course there are differences and 'false friends'. However with the king there was NO problem as he spoke slowly and clearly. And no one ever questioned his language skills. Edit: I can recommend this video about the three monarchs. Truly remarkable. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rdGHeq-rttW3nZ8.htmlsi=04Ck8qnmzqPEDlSc

De spiller ja vi elsker, i tillegg til kongesangen.

Veeeel, forut for dette gikk 5års okkupasjon og en verdenskrig. Mens jeg er enig i at å oppleve et øyeblikk som dette, må være noe temmelig spesielt, så er årsaken til/bakgrunnen for, det ikke noe å ønske seg.

Skulle helst ha gått uten okkupasjon

er nok det eneste som kan redde landet fra å gå til hel, ja man ser jo sveriges tilstand @@torehaaland6921

But Sweden also trained a Norwegian land army and armed the resistance in DK and N....so the truth is not black and white.

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