Here we go then.
It's about 78 year old Jørgen Nielsen, who is the only permanent resident on the small islands, Hirsholmene, off the east coast of northern Jutland.
At the time Frederik and Mikkel Beha came visiting he was the only human on the island, there were no tourists in the houses there. Previously there used to live around 130 and the island even have a church and cemetery. Life was centered around the lighthouse and fishing. Today the lighthouse is automatic and need only occasional maintenance.
Frederik and Co, visited the island for three hours listing to what Jørgen Nielsen had to say - and he is a living proof that all people can be interesting provided you allow them to tell their story.
Jørgen Nielsen says:
I didn't know anything until an hour before their visit.
There is this big rubberdinghy sailing and they moor at the harbor down at the pier in the forenoon. (Many come sailing to visit the islands, so the harbor is surprisingly big.) And I thought, that sure is odd. But perhaps they were to photograph birds.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_guillemot
They look like penguins. With a little stretch of the imagination.
So around four in the afternoon this here large dinghy comes in towards the mooring bridge and I rush out and say hi, and they say hi back.
"Might you be Jørgen Nielsen, the last residents of the Holme?" The two men ask me and I say: "Yeah, I am Jørgen Nielsen alright but I sure don't hope I'm the last who wants to live over here."
He asks the two men what they were doing out there at the pier for so long.
Then the two looked at each other and one of them says: "We'd better tell him. We are from the police, we are bodyguards for the Crown Prince."
"What are you saying" I ask. "The Crown Prince? Is he coming?"
The network, TV2 hadn't told Jørgen Nielsen that Frederik was among those to visit the island that day.
TV2 had forgotten to tell me, but in hindsight I'm glad they didn't tell me. Because if I had known long before, I wouldn't have been able to sleep at night. Then I would have been lying thinking about how the heck I should handle him.
Then you would have been sleepless over that. But I thought: No, Jørgen Nielsen. Now we'll take things in their stride.
So they came in at 16.30 and jumped on the bridge and put his hand forward and said: "Good day (G'day actually, see second translation below) Jørgen Nielsen." And I say: Good day Frederik." And that set the tone.
Jørgen Nielsen gave a guided tour of the island and he did indeed watched the program on TV the other day.
I thought the program was good. Not because I was in it, because that doesn't matter. I do it to promote the island, so that Danes get to know it and come visiting. Because it's such a gem of nature. And that really is something the Danes must experience. Especially children. They can walk be the harbors and catch crabs in nets and go bathing. It's a nice place."
Now for the other article. And again in the words of Jørgen Nielsen. (Jørgen = George BTW)
We were dus (=informal you. du = informal, De = formal) and he had no airs and was quite regular.
There was a lot of laughter.
Heck yes, they are some great guys, both Frederik and Mikkel Beha and yes the sons as well.
Right from the beginning he made fun of the Crown Prince, when Frederik wanted to know how Jørgen Nielsen could stand all the noise from the many gulls on the island.
To that question Jørgen replied: "WHAT ARE YOU SAYING?"
It was an experience with such a visit.
But there was also time for a serious talk, when Crown Prince Frederik and the Beha family together with Jørgen Nielsen went to the cemetery, where Jørgen Nielsen's wife (formal word, as is appropriate when you talk about someone's dead wife) is buried.
Frederik surprised Jørgen by knowing in advance that he has a special New Year tradition at the cemetery.
I always drink champagne on New Years Eve at midnight - then I sit there on the northern end of the island, where she is buried and think a little.
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It must be nice for Frederik to meet ordinary Danes, eye to eye, in the most informal element imaginable and just talk and listen.
It takes a special type to live alone on an (two actually) island for weeks at a time, but I envy him a little. Plenty to do and plenty of time to do nothing. Plenty of time to think and time to empty your head.
Hirsholmene consists of two small islands and a couple of rocks. One island, the largest is inhabited. The other was used for cattle to grass and to collect eggs and seaweed.
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