NORWAY (Documentary, Discovery, History)

Bergin founded in the 11th century to control the fish trade along the entire Norwegian coast became the capital of a vast Kingdom it stretched from Ireland to Greenland and included the Shetlands the Faroe Islands and Iceland in 1350 the city came under German domination the merchants of the Hanseatic League set up their warehouses in the brigand district which at the time was right on the port rebuilt after the fire of 1702 brigands houses with their brightly colored wood facades are now listed as a unesco world heritage site the houses have become the showcase of Bergen the cultural capital Norway gateway to the fjords Bergen is undoubtedly the city that best represents the ties forged over the centuries between this country and the sea a unique fact in maritime history the ships of the Hurtigruten company have been providing passenger and cargo service along the norwegian coastline continuously 365 days a year since 1893 we leave bergen on board one of these coastal Express ships our voyage will take us to kickin us 2500 kilometers north on the Russian border sailing along the coast in and out of the most secret fjords we are about to discover Norway viewed from the sea during the night the boat stops several times in small ports to the north of Bergen we're headed for our first destination Allison it's ten the beginning in 1893 the Hurtigruten boats ran from trondheim up to tromsø and hammerfest so really later the line was extended in AU goes from bergen to coconuts beyond the we call at 34 ports racing or racing it flow better get a boat sail from Bergen and the round trip from Bergen to coconuts and back to Bergen to the covers about 2,500 nautical miles are we gonna talk dirt and family notice Camille that's almost 5000 kilometers kilometer Hudak nebith mera mera now the Hurtigruten company is moving more and more toward tourism RSA we still provide service for the local population people take the boat to go to the hospital or to do shopping in town skal Berserker they use it to visit family and friends and we have another important job delivering the mail to the coastal region conscious person especially to the northernmost region of Norway I've known Oregon the road from Bergen to ålesund is long and interrupted by fjords that have to be crossed by ferries so sometimes the Norwegians prefer to take the coastal Express and load their cars directly on the boat the passengers who are mostly tourists have a few hours stopover to visit the lovely town of ålesund this fishing port is one of the busiest in Norway from here trawlers sail up to the north to the barren sea and sometimes as far as Greenland but what gives the town its charm is its architecture in the old days as everywhere in Norway houses and warehouses were built of wood in 1904 a huge fire ravaged the city Harold who has a passion for his city's history tells us what happened after that Jurgen steel a and steel Art Nouveau style spread through Europe from around 1895 to 1910 Tom till from about a little rocky that was a richest period for Art Nouveau we get did right in the middle of that period me Alice only burned down the brand Nettie you will listen thomas astruc fifty architects descended on the city to work on its reconstruction Oh bene yes you saw okay you have foots in you done that they had been trained in Germany Scotland England France and Belgium etc a bad leg er what so V Dada they came with her ideas and put them into practice here ah Duff for for that's what explains this particular style of Art Nouveau you gas tea man nayi Ola soon said but what distinguishes a lasagne are the corner turret no you're not and the use of rough stone yeah no not and the freezes on the facades Amanda some and what is exceptional you saw is the uniformity of style in entire districts stay out before some men hang in there are many European cities with much more beautiful buildings were some this door but what's remarkable here that is that there are so many of them I will pass from among Athena extent of Art Nouveau architecture here is really impressive no so some tally in Gouda the passengers are back on board the holds are loaded so the Northeast casts off and continues its voyage towards one of Norway's most beautiful landscapes the Ganga yard we sail up the fjord for several hours traveling more than 100 kilometres inland these ancient glacial valleys invaded by the sea have become the symbol of Norwegian landscape and nature the gay hangar yard with its seven sisters the most famous of the many waterfalls that cascade down from the mountain peaks is one of the Norway's most frequently visited sites during the 19th century the king of England the Emperor of Germany and many other crowned heads would drop anchor every summer at the little village of gaya hunger nestled in the depth of the valley what you see here all around us is protected landscape areas so that means that it is not allowed to do any huge buildings or new development in the protected landscape area and that gives us a belief that we can do preserve our nature values for also for future generation but at the same time we also need development we do not want to be a historical museum or just to preserve it in the way we have today we need development we need also to create new working places to create new industries and businesses so we need to look upon how can we do that with taking care of our world heritage site when tourism started for over 100 year ago there were only farmers here and the farmers were were quite poor as well and when the first cruise ship or first cruise liner came into the field the farmers discovered that they could earn money on the tourism tourists or the visitors coming in so they started actually with transporting the tourism up to half the mountains to show them the view and to show them their beautiful nature landscape and it started with horses and and then continued with old automobiles veteran automobiles and today we have buses transporting tourism in the same way really showing visitors tourism the spectacular nature landscape which there the glaciers has created there in a way the knobblies turns around and heads back down the fjord towards the ocean through the night we continue north toward Trondheim a town protected from the ocean swell by the many islands stretching along the coast as we approach Trondheim we pass another Hurtigruten ship probably on its return journey from kicka Ness to Bergen United Norway's first capital Trondheim was for a long time the port of departure for the Viking expeditions to the lands of the far north they are also poisonous materials are we at the lungs and different lumps but yes you have known almost raw money and all that other barriers they finish it is too late so no is addictive our animal hope she goes very well I'm talking to the detective a good trondheim is the religious capital of Norway a huge Gothic cathedral of nidaros which was also the town's name in the Middle Ages is a reminder that in those days the jurisdiction of the archbishopric extended as far as Iceland and Greenland when the king of norway visits Trondheim he stays in this palace the largest wooden building in all of Scandinavia the colorful warehouses that line the river are with those of Bergen a prime example of wooden architecture fire water frost are so many enemies that those trying to preserve these buildings have to fight these warehouses are their remains and the memories of the city harbour beat for storing goods going out and in to the city and still preserved several dozen salami I think three dozens of the real old ones from the 1700s and early 1800s be mostly in timber that's his tight construction of log wood very special for Norwegian architecture all through the following day we continue our journey northward towards Valhalla in the Lofoten Islands you in the morning we cross the Arctic Circle 66 degrees 33 minutes north latitude this boat is the MS Lofoten it was built in an oslo shipyard in 1964 oh it's the only traditional boat left it doesn't have all the comforts of the new boats but there are passengers who will travel only on the Lofoten middle oh there whenever we pass another company boat going in the opposite direction we always greet each other like that you we're approaching Bo dude or where this little port is usually very busy for Buddha is situated right across from the Lofoten Islands many Norwegians take about the routine boats just to cross this vulva air the port of the la Fulton's it's also the opportunity to deliver a wide variety of goods train stops in Buddha is not not trailer note of Buddhas oh so it's much color from Buddha and far far since leaving Bergen we've made about 15 stops now on the Nord Leesville sale due west towards the Lofoten Islands at Slava air will leave the Nord 'less in a few days we'll board another Hurtigruten boat at a different law fought in part to continue our voyage law is the Swedish or old Norwegian word for links and food and means foot so if you look on the map it looked like a Lynx foot going out in it in the ocean but low also means the wind shade likely and low so it could be the foot that protects the fisherman from the bad weather front from the ocean but we don't really don't know what Lofoten means the shape of the islands is due to the ice age particularly the last one only twelve eleven twelve thousand years ago and in between is and the mainland they secured the West short and we have the Gulf current which also at that time was warm so this the snow cap or the ice cap that covered central Scandinavia just melted on the way out and it was only three to five hundred metre thick when it came out here and through that we have the nice rounded valleys you see in the back here and the peak sticking out of the eyes which was known attack and that is how the for Dennis is like it is today and it's actually just like it chop off of the Alps and drop down into the ocean that is the Fulton we bought a little excursion boat to visit trollfjord one of Norway's narrowest and wildest fjords maybe in the middle of the fjord we meet up with another court de Groot in boat to take on other passengers later in the day we take part in a rather surprising fishing party like this yeah then it's very important that you have your thumb on the line yeah otherwise it goes down too far yes on the way down you stop the pull your line here move the pole up and now if you don't catch anything you let it down a little bit more move the pole and I have already a fish so we just have to take it here we need fish for the sea eagles later on we gotta feed the sea eagles with fish we catch anyone whoa hello Joe a lot of work to do everything happens you're in center the capital of we are soon surrounded by a flock of gulls they're apparently used to coming around for a handout it's actually very hard together when they have the kids the Act they are PCs like in the summertime there was a lot of fish in the sea and they hunt for themselves our while and they should be one but we look skyward to catch sight of the first Raptors they circle for a good while then dive down to catch the fish we've thrown out to them we leave the trollfjord just in time to see the Sun setting on the la fortin's during the summer slowly the air is a sleepy port but in winter thousands of trawlers come from all over Norway to fish for scray a type of cod that comes to the warm waters of the low fortin's to reproduce so until next season the few factories still operating finish off processing the stock fish dried cod north of the Lofoten are the vesterålen Islands where we meet addled and Leila they are Sammy's once known as labs and they've chosen to return to the land of their ancestors I failed something special for this area yeah of course it's like my home it's like your flat in a in the talent and another person's flat in town and this is my area this is my my district and I love it it's a very important area for Sami people and some culture always has been and if you look down here on the both rocks we don't know what they are used to maybe to tame the animals in this and in the start it said they found a place here for a fire and that was a 1000 years old so I'm I get goose skin when I I'm passing this area and it's it's very important thing fallings for for that Sami culture this area somewhere life is part of in a different part of the years we have eight systems yeah it is no wages I have four and every season follow the radius yo to be arraigned their owner it's not just the work it's a lifestyle we had to follow the roundest then don't they don't follow us because they do the same thing at the same time every year and they have done these things for thousands of year the if you start in the spring all the cops they are born in May always and in July and August it's a very busy time for us because then we have to go up to the mountains and live with a radius to earmark the newborn calves and so lot of them and we had to go up there many times every summer we are very privileged hmm and to live this way we are also very very proud of the way we are there taking care of the nature we are living with nature in the nature of the nature and that's very important for us to to take care of it at harsh that we board our new boat the trophy or to continue our journey towards Trump sir the capital of the north throughout the 19th century Trump's served as the home base for all the polar expeditions to Spitsbergen and the Arctic those days are of course a thing of the past but the adventures of the great explorers like Amundsen and Nansen are still very present in the Norwegian memory during the stopover passengers can visit the Polar Museum and younger passengers who may be less interested in history can go to pool area to watch the sea lions at play the trollfjord leaves trumps at nightfall we embark on the last part of our journey which will take us to explore the northernmost part of Norway for many passengers the stopover in hunting swag is one of the highlights of the trip as it is the gateway to north cape agreeing so Harvey you you're some harsh on if you are Roland our work today are the same as they used to be you were among among your taboc is here there's more and Rosa and what's different is that before Hurtigruten transported almost everything from fish and sea produce from northern Norway to the South especially to Trondheim in Bergen nourish with you tell drama a multi beragon well usually called the fish processing has died out in certain regions gold no Alejo and methods have changed if boy will know that legal this means the transportation of fish has sharply decreased as well to deter the church well yell as for transport from the south to the north things are pretty much as they always were among among inaudible we ship fresh produce from the south of the country to the north so de llano Oh Tony had launched them mostly I feel almost everybody go to Northgate did at least because he's the main attraction here everybody wants to see the northernmost point in Bulow so they just take the bus main bus station there and they go up and not cake I'm come from Madrid and there everything is crazy pretty cloudy the whole time with people around and here it's just peaceful he's like something you cannot pay with money at all if his ten years ago there were 6,000 people here indeed it readies drunk that most of them earn their living in the fishing industry today there were only 3,000 of us and a mere hundred live from fishing so there are fewer and fewer of us we're getting older and the young people don't take up fishing a boon I live in Hana Kruger well they put seven on earth the heart of the feet life is wonderful everything yeah we have everything I'm never sick I never have a toothache it's not that I'll soon be 70 years old we've entered the Barents Sea heading for Kier Kunis the northern terminal for the coastal Express line you kickin s looks like a pioneer town it sprang up in the middle of the tundra after iron deposits were discovered in the region those boom times are long gone but far from being a handicap the present poor economy seems like a blessing to the Norwegians who have chosen to live here Jake Inez is a last frontier a last land of opportunity this is the statue showing the Red Army soldier who liberated this area in 1944 October and this was the first free part of Europe in the world war ii and as you can see he is standing on with his foot on a lump and that lump used to be an eagle and the eagle was representing the defeated Nazi German so it's quite different than it should it was meant to be last we know soon after the Russians became our enemies and Germany became our friends through NATO and they decided that the eagle had to be removed times have changed and the Russians are now our friends again and someone wants to have the Eagle back and they think that it could be located here in Cygnus somewhere so it's almost like a little detective story yeah we tell you we come here every weekend well in summer we fished some he's scaling it perform in four we gather berries and we hunt bizarro corporate well we've been hunting season starts in September so you're giving shoots no Partridge but then we have them for dinner in Davao or thon also having a handbag that way three quarters of an hour way on foot we have lakes full of fish in summer we go camping there so then I thought that's what we do here I mean Delia missed in winter we ride snowmobiles she was skiing the area function and we hunt sloths on it's a good life oh my that's been done for sixty years in this farm yes my father built this farm after the Second World War how I had 22 and I gonna buy some more cows and for next year I have 25 to 27 all the milk if for the cheese production come from my clothes yes and they are only one hour old - this milk when it go in the production so it's a fantastic product yes in the wintertime they cost not go also will be we have a take a care of all grass from the fields and right up on the second floor and and there there is very good it's very good food for four cows for for the milk and for the cheese we have so much light in the summertime we have a real Sun all day and all night normally yes and we load our batteries in that time and yes because I'm hungry you saw it in November and December and January yes I'm not isolated here I'm in the middle of the world you know yes I'm in the middle of the world it is a product for the FO Overtown it's only 40 minutes with my car yes and what else to the airport it is 40 minutes and it's another to two hours to Oslo in the under at the end of Norway it's called direct plane direct from here to also and then I'm three four hours from Paris I believe it's in the middle of the world yes you

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Length: 53min 11sec (3191 seconds)

Published: Tue Jul 28 2015