Viele Menschen, die in der Nähe von Bergen lebten, entwickelten eine eigene und einzigartige Kultur aus den umliegenden Gebieten (z. B. Tibet, Kaukasus, Baskenland usw.), aber Norwegen ist seinen skandinavischen Brüdern trotz der großen geografischen Unterschiede sehr ähnlich. Warum?
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Von batukaming
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No, because we live on the coast, not in the mountains themselves. It’s not like Tibet or Hunza or any place like that.
Just consider how much easier transport is when you have the ocean and don’t have to transport goods over mountains.
Most people here don’t live in the mountains, so instead, they developed a more coastal identity that’s closer aligned with that of the other Northern countries/regions that heavily relied on sea trade for most of history.
We’re mostly farmers and fishers. My family is all farmers going back centuries. The mountains were just something to get around
Depends on who you ask …
Depends where you live.
I grew up on the west coast so we consider ourselves more coastal people first and mountain people second.
When I lived in the Innland region people considered themselves more farmland and forest people first.
But there are several areas where people definitely consider themselves mountain people first and foremost.
But in general most Norwegians consider themselves a sea nation first since it has always been from the sea we have gotten most of our trade, food and naval history.
No, just oil-people
We are traditionally much more a fishing and sailing people. Along the coast there are thousands of places where we have been living and fishing as long as we have lived here.
80% of the population in Norway lives 10km from the sea…
No, but the Danes think we are. They have a special name for us.
Danes consider norwegians fjell monkeys
They consider themselves fjeldaber
Some Norwegians are mountain people. Most are coastal people. A rare few are both.
We’ve got more in common with the dutch than we do tibetans
Not many of us live in the actual mountains. It’s in the coastal flats, low inlands and valleys where people live.
We’re also far from the equator so winters are long, and it’s almost impossible to farm, or do anything but hike up in the mountain because of permafrost. Mind you, the hiking possibilities are great 😃
I mean, there is more of a relationship with the mountains here Then what you’d see in the rest of Scandinavia. But almost the entire population lives on the coast so that’s still is what the Norwegian culture is predominantly tied to. We do have a bunch of Sæter dotted all over the place up in the mountains especially here on the west coast. Basically Farmland halfway up mountains where is more flat. Farms built cabins for when animals graze up the mountain.
Mountain people as in living in the mountains? No
Mountain people as in loving to hike on them? Yes
When I visited one of my cousins said to me, „You will be surprised to learn we come from mountain people.“ My ancestors were copper miners! We visited Røros and Hessdalen and saw the home my great great grandfather was born in. It wasn’t very populated up in those mountains, though.
As many mention here: most people live along the coast. What I haven’t seen anyone mention yet is that we are surrounded by mountain-landscape at the same time… Living by the coast will still give you access to hilly terrain if you live from the south up through the west, and there are a lot of fjords and valleys where you live between mountains.
Those mountains are why norwegians are fit.
It’s just workout walk to the store and back.
This map is awesome, where did you get it from.
Not really, we are coastal people first. While we enjoy mountain hikes and the like, almost everything of value generated in Norway comes from the ocean
Well, the Danes call us „mountain apes“, so i guess so
Quite few Norwegians live in the mountains, we are more „valley people“. Or maybe we are the village people. 😛
Heck yea we do
You can’t really live in the mountains in Norway, it’s too far north, so it’s too cold. In Bhutan you can farm at 1000 meters, in Norway you can’t.
People in here argue that Norwegians usually don’t actually live on the mountains, which is true, but I’d argue we are still mountainous people as many of us seek to the mountains for trekking and skiing in our free time.
Google Norway population density map and notice how 95% of Norwegians live on the coast, not the mountains
I’m Norwegian-American and am somewhat amused that the sports I gravitated to, without any parental influence, are mountaineering, sailing, and skiing, both Alpine and Nordic. Whether this is coincidental or genetic is hard to say.
Weird answers here. Yes most people live on the coast and not on the mountains.
But the proximity of the mountains definitely shape us. They provide our nature and trekking experience. They are the reason why dialects and geographical differences appear.
They are how we resisted the Germans in ww2.
They set us apart from most of the rest of the world and they are a source of our pride. We all live closer to wild nature mountains with clean drinkable streams than 99% of the rest of the world.