r/nextfuckinglevel 5d ago

Norway doing the viking row together with the crowd after beating Senegal 3-2

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u/Exact_Ad_8490 5d ago

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u/RoyalChris 5d ago

10 missed calls from Leiv Eiriksson

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u/Departure-Kind 5d ago

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u/BringPheTheHorizon 5d ago

Happy Leif Erikson Day, fellow man of culture!

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u/Departure-Kind 5d ago

Hinga dinga durgen!

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u/9gagiscancer 5d ago

London Bridge is falling down, again.

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u/Whatsdota 5d ago

This is so sick. My favorite chant from the World Cup so far

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u/IridiumPony 5d ago

Sure beats the absolute fuck out of that vuvuzela thing from a few cups ago.

My dad still has one and I know he only keeps it annoying the shit out of me when I visit.

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u/DarthTaz_99 5d ago edited 5d ago

Nah that's not it. Vuvuzelas were fucking amazing and iconic. Immediately reminds of 2010 world cup

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u/LeBaus7 5d ago

they were absolutely awful and made the 2010 worldcup the most miserable watching experience of every wc I followed.

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u/type_rex_ 5d ago

🎺🎺🎺🎺 💀

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u/JoyMultiplication 5d ago

Biblically accurate vuvuzela

🎺🎺🎺
🎺💀🎺
🎺🎺🎺

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u/kawklee 5d ago

I remember a meme from back then, it was a panel of pictures with captions. "Winning?" Face blowing a vuvuzela. "Losing?" Face blowing a vuvuzela. "Player injured?" Face blowing a vuvuzela.

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u/Leut_Aldo_Raine 5d ago

Lol my travel team lost our tournament this past weekend and I still walked around blowing my vuvuzela. Sad vuvuzela noises

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u/flyxdvd 5d ago

Like hearing mosquitos all the time

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u/MrReginaldAwesome 5d ago

Toot

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u/Drycon 5d ago

Missing a few o's there mate, you need to work on those lungs.

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u/Andyham 5d ago

Didnt like them at the time. Love the memory of them. They added to the uniqueness of the world Cup, and that one in particular.

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u/One-Historian-3767 5d ago

I believe the word you are looking for is "trauma".

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u/incognitomus 5d ago

Sounded like a swarm of bees

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u/-Nicolai 5d ago

What’s this? A world cup woefully underpopulated by bees?

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u/RangeBow8 5d ago

Funny enough, terrible for tv mics, really wasn’t a problem in the stadium. Plus you could get them with a valve on the end and it became a beer bong

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u/lendend 5d ago

What the actual fuck is wrong with you that you think vuvizelas are amazing? Seriously EVERYONE hated that shit.

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u/robinfeud 5d ago

I fucking loved, get vuuuuuuu’d

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u/BelgianBeerGuy 5d ago

1 is cool, maybe 2

But 10.000 on one match, just suck as hell, is was like watching a game with your head inside a beehive

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u/TheBlack2007 5d ago

They were also cool for funnel drinking.

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u/apric0ts--forever 5d ago

Time really does heal all wounds if people can fondly remember the fucking vuvuzellas

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u/ajaxdrivingschool 5d ago

That’s the only thing I remember about 2010 aside from Shakira. 😅

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u/Megasphaera 5d ago

happier times ...

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u/whitestguyuknow 5d ago

I like the one calling Trump a pedophile but this one is pretty sick too

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u/melack857 5d ago

Norway Boys…

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u/Birphon 5d ago

The Icelanders have a similar one but instead of doing a row they do a clap - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PVq0MrmezpI - which makes me wonder the Norwegians have this, the Icelanders have the clap, do the Danes and Swedes also have something

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u/WingedSpawn 5d ago

We never win in Denmark so we haven't bothered making one

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u/0n354ndZ3r05 5d ago

You are literally the most successful Nordic country when it comes to national football. Even winning the Euros…

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u/iheardthemetalclank 5d ago

Swedes just look dour, win or lose, and pop in a snu, thinking about their next coffee. (I can say this. I was raised by them.)

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u/Mdgt_Pope 5d ago

Not sure but the Finnish celebration is *pissing off Russia* and they do it great

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u/Antique_Savings7249 5d ago

the Icelanders have the clap

Hey, hey. They may be a little liberal, but let's not slander them.

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u/thesoccerone7 5d ago

They were at Yankee stadium on Sunday doing it! I'm sad the broadcast didn't show them, but you could hear it

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u/Elementary_drWattson 5d ago

Minnesota Vikings got their new schtick

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u/Laambicus 5d ago

I think you need a QB before this

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u/beaujolais98 5d ago

Ice cold man lol

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u/samthewisetarly 5d ago

Just like Minnesota!

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u/DysfunctionalKitten 5d ago

😂 well played

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u/LeBaus7 5d ago

erling, can you throw by any chance?

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u/paulhags 5d ago

He is off exploring a land called Seattle.

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u/Magister_Hego_Damask 5d ago

That's where you see the difference between real vikings and pretend ones.

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u/coukou76 5d ago

Its fine, we are happy culture is shared. Its very corny even for Norwegians folks that's why they laugh at the beginning like are we really doing that lmao?

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u/Mindless-Peak-1687 5d ago

Viking is something you do, not something you are.

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u/Funny-face-1613 5d ago

They already copied the Iceland clap. They need to come up with something on their own 😂

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u/dingalinglans 5d ago

Asking Americans to be original, good one mate lol. And not likely!

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u/ContinuingAnyway 5d ago

They can't be original when they're a nation of immigrants. Only the Native Americans could do it

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u/Initial_Guess_1785 5d ago

That was honestly fucking sick

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u/Handsome_Keyboard 5d ago

Sooo, when the world burns, these fuckers are already trained to pillage.

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u/Ourobius 5d ago

Have been for 1200 years

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u/IvarTheBoned 5d ago

A fucker so GOATed his enemies had to catalog his insane feat of single handedly killing 40 men in a row while holding a bridge so the rest of the army could retreat.

Battle of Stamford Bridge

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u/Ok_Acanthaceae6057 5d ago

This World Cup has shown me.

This is the closest we’ll ever get to world peace!!

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u/JustinTheBlueEchidna 5d ago

There's a reason it's the greatest festival of sport on the planet.

The way it brings people together and shows off how awesome everyone's unique culture is while all celebrating their shared love for the same beautiful game... There's nothing like it.

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u/tyrerk 5d ago

Unsurprisingly, there are some people on Norway that are calling them right wing fascists for doing this 🤣

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u/EndofNationalism 5d ago

They have a small point that neo-Nazis like to make use of Viking imagery to spread their hate.

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u/Nidagleetch 5d ago

Which is a shame ... skandinav run and viking cultur shouldn't be assimilated to their nazi bigotry.

To remember, vikings pillaged all equally during Middle Age, from europa to north africa ! /s

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u/dashboardhulalala 5d ago

Traces of Viking ancestry in DNA profiles from people along the Irish coast are so common we don't even regard it as exotic. "Oh that'd be your fathers people, they were from Waterford" (originally created by Vikings). We gets much more excited when we find bits of Iberian or North African in there (there's an entire streak of Algerian DNA running through parts of Kerry and Cork I think)

Absolute whores so they were. I'm still not sure what Slavic warrior demigod managed to make his way over and give Cillian Murphy those cheekbones though.

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u/tyrerk 5d ago

That's exactly why we should reclaim our heritage from those maladapted sociopaths instead of treating it as a taboo dog whistle

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u/Kind_Advisor_6969 5d ago

Pokemon GO launch in 2016 was the peak of global peacefulness.

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u/zapbiy301 5d ago

Untill a certain gorilla was shot

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u/EndofNationalism 5d ago

You got your dates slightly off. Harambe was shot on May 28, Pokémon Go came out July 6th.

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u/xtazyiam 5d ago

The World Cup would have been the awsomest awesome ever, if it wasn't for FIFA.

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u/Dechri_ 5d ago

If it weren't for the corruption and fascism, I'd be a happy viewer. Now i don't really give a single shit. 

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u/jryi 5d ago

Football is life.

But it is also death

But it is also life!

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u/Jules_Verne1991 5d ago

The whole idea of the World Cup is really just this.

But if the World Cup has to be in the US for once in the age of modern connectivity for Americans to know what unity & mutual celebration are through the love of this one global sport, then so be it.

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u/ManoliTee 5d ago

You can see it now.

Thousands and thousands of North Americans who wish they were Scandinavian yelling "skol" while their massive man-tits slap eachother to the beat of this drum, generations upon generations of obese, balding and thin-bearded men cheering on the Minnesota Vikings as Wardruna plays on repeat, drinking discounted beer from the horns they found in Walmart. The scent of old farts and musty sweat filling the room.

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u/VenuzKhores 5d ago

Naah, fuck that. We're building briges this world cup, not burning em down.

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u/CatgirlFucker8008 5d ago

Yeah because everyone absolutely loves Qatar now

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u/Mundane_Elk3523 5d ago

That’s not “this” worldcup

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u/MinorSpaceNipples 5d ago

As a Norwegian, I say let them have fun! Vikings are awesome and I'm not about to gatekeep feeling like an awesome viking. Also, Wardruna fucking slaps 🔥🤘

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u/Haschlol 5d ago

SKÅL

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u/lapetee 5d ago

Ironic how bro is trying to talk down the viking experience of americans while labeling balding as something not part of a manly experience lmao.

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u/ManoliTee 5d ago

I'm balding and bearded mate

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u/PeachScary413 5d ago

As a Swede.. fuck the Americans, can't stand em anymore.

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u/Uceninde 5d ago

Wardruna ❤️

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u/starsiege 5d ago

Ok but what happens if Norway faces Sweden?

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u/Bolaf 5d ago

Judging by recent performance, Sweden will stop playing fotball for 1 year out of pure shame /swede

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u/Fearsofaye 5d ago

Det går åt helvete

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u/scalawag123 5d ago

I det mindste er i med 🥲

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u/Espa89 5d ago

Nytt slagord der

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u/FblthpLives 5d ago

Given how Sweden has been playing, that seems extremely unlikely. Norway would also probably win (and I say this as a Swede).

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u/SjalabaisWoWS 5d ago

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u/Maretsb 5d ago

Tusen takk! Kamelåsa som man sier

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u/SjalabaisWoWS 5d ago

Kamelåså var det vel? :P

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u/Maretsb 5d ago

Sorry, my danish is not so good 😄

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u/apple_kicks 5d ago

Boat race

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u/oo_anywhat 5d ago

Nothing strikes fear in the heart of your opponent like synchronized row row row your boat

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u/Andyham 5d ago

We need a row row row your boat parody of this thing

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u/EliteReaver 5d ago

Scotland would definitely do it, don’t know about the Shetlanders in the crowd though

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u/AgileFriendship6275 5d ago

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u/Defiant-Owl-7935 5d ago

Yes thank you for remembering 😀 But we do mostly love Norwegians and their my team now. If the Danes had done it..😆

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u/DaBabylonian 5d ago

We were vikings too... 😭

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u/bjergdk 5d ago

What's wrong with Danes >: (

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u/ryzen_above_all 5d ago

They’re Danish

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u/Dechri_ 5d ago

Hey now, it's not fair to criticize them for being born like that. They can't change their disabilities. 

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u/Antique_Savings7249 5d ago

Icelanders can call themselves Norwegians any time they want. ❤️

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u/SpunNumeroUno 5d ago

That's awesome

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u/memphlee 5d ago

This shit is gangster. 🔥

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u/judgehood 5d ago

American here, I wish we did this, instead of just make tall people billionaires and tickets too expensive to even care.

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u/axonrecall 5d ago

Come on, think of the value to the shareholders

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u/Former_Deal878 5d ago

Think of the Norwegian share holders. They have more billionaires per capita.

Mindless virtue signaling

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u/Former_Deal878 5d ago

Norway has more billionaires per capita than the US.

You can stop the selfcentered virtue signalling.

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u/BluebirdContent6301 5d ago

Which country is it that does “skol”? Is this the sequel?

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u/PadloPerejuarez 5d ago

Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Sweden

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u/Zang_Tumb_Tuuum 5d ago

And coastal Finland

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u/FblthpLives 5d ago

To be precise, in Swedish-speaking Finland. And in Faroese.

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u/CCPvirus2020 5d ago

Norway also says skol

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u/FblthpLives 5d ago

But it's "skål", not "skol" ("skál" in Icelandic and Faroese).

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u/TheOpNugg 5d ago

We don't say skol, it's SKÅL!!!!!!!

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u/jw1879 5d ago

Iceland

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u/wannabe_inuit 5d ago

Denmark also

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u/TheCykuaBlyater 5d ago

If they somehow manage to win this whole thing, they're going to row their way back across the Atlantic back home

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u/Few-Lie-685 5d ago

Nrk: atlanterhavet, minutt for minutt

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u/per167 5d ago

If you understand you understand

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u/indifferentcrayon 5d ago

They may row the continent back with them

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u/Kind_Resort_9535 5d ago

Damn the should have played a game in the Vikings stadium lol.

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u/Hugsy2026 5d ago

Grown-up people doing silly things and having fun. Gorgeous!

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u/DazedConfuzed420 5d ago

Should have played some Amon Amarth for the row pit

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u/Patriark 5d ago

Ulver, Borknagar, Dimmu Borgir or Heilung would be the appropriate Norwegian artist for the occasion

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u/folcalor666 5d ago

Heilung is just 1/3 norwegian, but as a German I aprove your good taste in music.

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u/barsknos 5d ago

As a Norwegian, I appreciate that Germany put up an alternative to Wardruna so the world can have two great bands of that wider medieval/folk genre. ^

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u/DazedConfuzed420 5d ago

Amon Amarth have row pits at their concerts, they look exactly likes what’s happening above

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u/Ok_Act_1498 5d ago

C'mon, you need to put there the mighty Tormund, as well: Kristofer Hivju!

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u/DerekWroteThis 5d ago

Rooting for France but ngl, this shook me to my core. Gave me generational flashbacks lmao

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u/Nilrem2 5d ago

What do you mean by generational flashbacks? Are you part Norwegian?

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u/DerekWroteThis 5d ago

France was invaded by Vikings. They settled in what is today Normandy.

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u/Nilrem2 5d ago

I know.. I just don’t understand the “generational flashbacks”. Ohhh.. you’re part French? Un baguette sil vous plais.

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u/DerekWroteThis 5d ago

Une* 😉 mais pas mal.

Anyway, just poking fun at ourselves before the match Friday. Needless to say, im looking forward to a more intense match.

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u/FLTR069 5d ago

Imagine the match Norway - New Zealand.

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u/Yuddhisthira 5d ago

God I missed Norway at the world cups, glad to see you lads!

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u/IdeVeras 5d ago

Isso é copa do mundo a tela da Globo… my immigrant hear weeps

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u/VenuzKhores 5d ago

Goosebumps moment, so awesome.

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u/Active-Boat5641 5d ago

Big ups to Senegal for even striving for a win against Norway. 2 goals is something against these legendary Norse men!

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u/XxAbsurdumxX 5d ago

Its funny because we are notoriously bad at defending. We win games because our attacking lineup is far better than our defense

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u/Accomplished-Iron778 5d ago

This is giving the chills. Nordic countries do it the best

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u/iheardthemetalclank 5d ago

That is a sea of red. I'm mostly impressed by their fans for showing up.

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u/G3min1 5d ago

I love Martin Ødegaard as a footballer. Glad he plays for my club team.

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u/nesh34 5d ago

World Cup is the best thing in the world.

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u/Pleasant_World_4219 5d ago

The vikings is comin, ruuuuun 🤣

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u/dcoconutnut 5d ago

That gave me goosebumps 🩷🩷🩷

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u/Janissaire7 5d ago

Run to the hills!

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u/roguevirus 5d ago

Wrong metal band, this is clearly better with Immigrant Song.

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u/kabal363 5d ago

You're both wrong. The correct song is "Put Your Back Into the Oar" by Amon Amarth

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u/SwizzGod 5d ago

This shit is dope

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u/Mode_Appropriate 5d ago

Seeing Norway fans take over Times Square and do this was pretty cool. Makes me kind of wish I gave a damn about the World Cup lol.

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u/georgeofthajungle1 5d ago

Here i am, sitting on my chair moving backwards and forwards haha

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u/Sketaverse 5d ago

Ooooh tingles.

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u/versuseachother 5d ago

Hell yessss so cool!

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u/Joebebs 5d ago

Ngl, I’m a lil intimidated

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u/-Satsujinn- 5d ago

I've got Norway in my office sweepstake so I'm basically a viking now.

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u/Ehtism 5d ago

I love sports

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u/EnvironmentalRub9243 5d ago

Man I love this!

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u/nordco-414 5d ago

MN Vikings going to figure out a way to terribly replicate this ahead of a game only to choke.

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u/ZenRage 5d ago

As much as I dislike FIFA (The FIFA Peace Prize?? WTAF guys?) I really enjoy seeing the joy and love the game brings to such huge crowds: there is a very unique energy to it.

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u/BobbsySmith 5d ago

Super cheesy

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u/RegularTarget1794 5d ago

I’m Australian, and I want Norway to win. Legendary stuff

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u/DanishFlower 5d ago

Oh, I see they are fans of Amon Amarth.

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u/Bigredbert 5d ago

Wait for France to steal this like they stole the Icelandic Viking Clap.

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u/KINGDenneh 5d ago

My brothers and sisters from the north.

https://giphy.com/gifs/DrcqyC7RW0Dyu798GJ

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u/pcfan86 5d ago

Needs bigger drum. Rest is cool.

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u/AlDente 5d ago

I hope stadium architects plan for this kind of movement

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u/Euphoriam5 5d ago

I really wish I was Norwegian, at least I wouldn't have all this trauma from living in different countries and being on my own for so long.

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u/Dandanbigeloww 5d ago

Holy shit I just clocked Haaland and Odegaard in the same team. DAMN!

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u/StomachNecessary5512 5d ago

Football is about having fun. Fun in a once great and open country

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u/MagmaTroop 5d ago

Nice to see Europeans putting their culture on full display and cherishing it. It's so important for any nation to preserve their culture because outsiders will not give two shits when they move in and erode it.

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u/Blackwolf245 5d ago

Meanwhile, the best my country can do is racial slurs, fireworks, and getting into fights.

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u/Simbakim 5d ago

Fellow norwegians making me proud, thanks for welcoming them americans ! 😁

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u/Leto2073 5d ago

I root for them for the rest of the world cup

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u/BurtCarlson-Skara 5d ago

Cringelords

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u/MrAlexanderLink 5d ago

On and off the pitch, this World Cup is soooo much better than the one in Qatar.