Thanks, that is another reason to move there.
With regards to our old rivalry there is a film by the Danish director Lars Von Trier called Riket (Riget in Danish) which basically means "The Kingdom". There is this Swedish doctor working in Denmark and one night he stands and look at the lights from the Swedish side and starts singing a song that is an homage to Sweden and then says: "Thank you Swedish watch tower, with plutonium we will force the Dane to his knee" (he means a nuclear reactor that is on the Swedish side that he actually looks at) "Here is Denmark, shat from lime and water, there is Sweden, cut out from granite." "Bloody Danes" (Danskjävlar) (In German Dänischteufel). Jävel means devil but it is a cuss word since in religious language we say Satan and the closest I can think of is the English Bloody Danes. In French maybe something like "Fils de pute Danois"? As I said, I really like the Danish and Denmark except when we play them in soccer and handball where we have great rivalries. In the last 20 years they have produced some decent hockey players, in the WC in 2003 they beat the US 5-2 and tied Canada (2-2). Don't know if they have ever beaten us, I know it has been close a few times. Before 2000, Norway was the 3rd best Nordic country in hockey but Denmark has been better in the last 20 years. Too bad their way of talking is so hard to understand, Swedes and Norwegians understand each other in spoken words quite good, but the writing in Norwegian is closer to the Danish writing. Norway was part of Denmark until 1658 when Denmark lost a war with Sweden and Sweden invaded Denmark. After that Norway was part of a union with Sweden that they broke on May the 17th, 1905. When I watch sports and Sweden is not involved I always support whatever Nordic country that is playing. Finland mainly in hockey, they have good rally drivers as well., Danish in soccer and handball and Norway in skiing, alpine and cross country, ski jumping. Finland is not technically a Scandinavian country (totally different language group) but it was part of Sweden for 800 years and according to the DNA test I did, I have about 40% of Finnish DNA. My grandfather that I never met was Finnish, his last name was Antilla, my grandmother was a so called Finn Swede, a Swedish named and Swedish speaking person who live in Finland and that had been there for hundreds of years. You can see that in hockey there are Finns with Swedish last names.
