Never expected you to talk about Peter Wessel, the fucking legend himself. 300 years later he’s still held in high regard here in Norway, undoubtedly on account of his enormous cannon balls.
As others have also pointed out by now, but I feel needs emphasis... Peder 'Thundershield' Wessel was *not* a noble by birth. He was the son of a tailor from Trondheim, and one of sixteen children. A famous danish song about him has a brilliant line about how, having considered following his father's footsteps, he found the needle too small a weapon, and settled on the cannon instead. "Those will do", said Thundershield. He was ultimately ennobled for his deeds, though, and given a noble crest, crowned by a thundercloud - providing a second meaning for his name, since 'skjold' can both refer to a physical shield, and a family crest. But, yeah, that's just one more bit of his badassery - ascending from commoner to noble was NOT easy back then!
Peter Wessel's father wasn't a nobleman, but he also wasn't a tailor. He was a city council member and a wealthy merchant who owned two trading ships. The song you're referencing (which was written almost 140 years after his death) implies that Peter was a tailor's apprentice before he ran off to Copenhagen, but that's not supported by any historical evidence.
@@BlakeTheDrake I know, it's an appalling lack of standards and honesty! Also, I'm starting to think that maybe Humpty Dumpty COULD have been put back together again.
He is actually got an entire verse (out of four in the entire anthem) dedicated to him, in the unofficial Danish national anthem (unofficial, because apparently it is not proper, to have a national anthem about kicking the shit out of the Swedish) The biggest brand of matches in Denmark is named after him and feature his portrait on all boxes. The reason is that the matches are made from Swedish wood, so every time you strike a match, Thundershield is striking the Swedish. So yeah, the Danish like him too.
Should probably add that the king involved was the Danish, as Norway was danish vasal at the time. The king even made Peter a noble as part of the Thundershield title. Due to this, Thundershield is also considered a hero in Denmark.
@@D3NL1LL3P No, Denmark and Norway were formally two separate kingdoms throughout the period of the union. They were two separate crowns. He was King of Denmark and separately also King of Norway. As a matter of fact, up until 1660, they had two different laws of succession. The Norwegian crown was hereditary, passing automatically to the king’s eldest son, while the Danish crown was elective; the king was elected by the nobility.
@@LordDim1 Some of the confusion stems from the fact that Both claims are correct. In Denmark they had (a bit cheekily) legally declared Norway a Danish region, already during the reformation in 1536, and further during the reform (coup) to absolutism in 1660, meaning that from a Danish perspective at the time, Norway was legally a region of the Danish state. However, consistency wasn't their key strength and the king would still carry the titles as king of both Denmark and Norway, and there would still be two seperate law codes for the two countries. At the time you could refer to 'Denmark' with the understanding that this included Norway. Later on we generally prefer to refer to it as 'Denmark-Norway' to refer to the specific state construction of that period. Both are technically correct.
Probably the most famous tale of Tordenskjold is him defending a city with a tiny force, by making the soldiers repeatedly march across the city, making the opposing general believe he had a much larger army
Just to further accentuate how much of a badass this guy was, he is mentioned, by name, in both the Norwegian and Danish national anthems. This is because that at the time Denmark and Norway were in a union under a common king, and as such Thundershield was an admiral in not just the Norwegian navy, but also the Danish navy
He died because at a card game a colonel claimed he had a 7 headed snake and Tordenskjold called hes bs, then a fight broke out and he beat the colonel who then demanded a duel. He's name is well known in Denmark because we have everything from matchboxes to streets named after him but not enough know about the badassery he performed
I hope this is going to be a continued thing. I always love learning about the insane people like this who just did what they wanted. For example I would love to see their video on Cassius Clay.
Lmao 😂 right before he brought up Sea of Thieves I was thinking "Wait, this dude was basically playing IRL SoT" then I heard the "Sent an envoy for more cannonballs because he ran out and wanted to keep going for fun" this dude is definitely running a Reaper flag 😂
I had no idea about the 'head on manouver'. Thank you for teaching me something new about Tordenskjold. Always appreciated to be a little bit more educated.
Humans are the galaxy's space orks is another great reddit writing prompt, One of my favorites is the story of an Alien trying to figure out how humans built societies in inhospitable areas of their planet, and the human goes, "well we sent people there, and hoped they would come back, when they didn't, we sent more people there to find out what went wrong and plan accordingly." To the absolute horror of the alien whose people just ignored the dangerous areas of their planet. Alien soldier: This is a death planet! We're doomed! Earth Soldier from Sydney: Dangerous venomous creatures? Unbearable humidity? Giant creatures that can eat and or trample ya? Sounds like home Alien soldier: Are you insane human!? Earth Soldier: nah... just nostalgic
I dont remember why but his face is on most matchboxes in Denmark. Also "thundershields soldiers" is a saying here, referreing to the same people appearing. It comes from a story where he had his crew and soldiers march in a ring around his enemy, making it seem like he had an enormous army
His face is on matchboxes from the Tordenskjold match company. They named the company after him because he was famous for beating the Swedes, and they wanted to become a big Danish exporter of matches, in a market that was dominated by Swedish companies. Ironically, the Tordenskjold company was eventually bought by Swedish Match Industries in the 1970s, and the production was moved to Sweden.
Seriously, why has no one done a movie biopic on this guy! I’d also like to nominate the Polish ship Perun (thunderbolt) and it’s crew for a zero fucks episode.
Lazerpig has done a great video on Piorun. I also recommend his video on Black Agnes, a Scottish noblewoman who defended a castle against great odds and became a legend. Warning, he is foulmouthed and his content is amongst the funniest stuff have EVER seen, he is a rabbit hole you will fall into for hours, helpless, but happy.
Denmark and Norway was in a union at the time. Kind of like Scotland and England. So the King was danish, and he served in the danish navy. He was born in Trondheim in Norway, not to an aristocratic family, but to a middle class trade-class family. He is to this day mentioned in both the national anthems of Norway and Denmark.
Geneva Convention, Geneva Suggestion, they're just words. All I know is that these rounds are going to get skipped off the ground towards something 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Theres actually a tactics called thundershield's soldiers. Where he made a handful of soldiers look like a bigger force by dressing them multiple uniform in rotation and making the walk around instead of standing in posts.
Considering Our Flag Means Death is already showing us some more famous pirates, i really hope one of the remaining episodes of season 2 involve Ed abd co. coming face to face with Peter Thundersheild in his full cracked up glory
In the Age of Sail most ships were were rated by weight of shot, and only really larger ships had bow chasers. The Royal Navy used a lot of deceptive tactics to win, it's why they ruled the waves. I will point out, anchor turns are incredibly dangerous...
Humans learned how to fight as a way of Survival, we've never left that battlefield since.... Sure we talk a big game about honor and rules of engagement, but Humans at our core are wild animals who will do anything for victory...
aliens "why would we put rules in warfare? its war, we all fight as we see fit" humans "so we have a gloves off scenario, then" humanity introduces the galaxy to the Geneva checklist
5:05 There’s a proper term for this tactic. You can hear Cptn. Barbosa say it. In the clip right here, he shouts “They’re clubhauling!” Clubhauling is the ship equivalent of drifting, as Carl says, using an anchor
lol mentioning war crimes just reminded me that a favorite character on heros of the storm was blaze who used flamethrowers and could throw out oil and light it on fire i always called him war crimes lol
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I realized a few minutes in i had already seen this (although i thought it was someone else entirely) but lucas saying 'its a very offensive maneuver' the first time i saw this i thought he meant he found it unsporting cuz he plays whatever naval game he plays... It *still* took a second for it to dawn on me he means it is literally an offensive manuever.... Hard face palm.
Norwegian chiming in here: In his youth, Peter "Tordenskjold" Wessel was a bit of a rude punk, one might say. I happened to go to school with a Wessel in my childhood, and I can say it might run in the blood, as he was rather unkind to me. Met him again at a reunion some time ago though, and he'd grown into a solid guy. Seems military service does that to Wessels.
Peter Thundershield: Truly, he was a Nuclear Wessel.
The "Doesn't give a crap" series has always been my favorite. Just learning the shenanigans of history as well as fictitious characters
The sheer little boy glee of Karl as he unboxes and refuses to acknowledge what the wigglet looks like.
Soul healing that is.
Never expected you to talk about Peter Wessel, the fucking legend himself. 300 years later he’s still held in high regard here in Norway, undoubtedly on account of his enormous cannon balls.
Same here in Denmark. The city I live in has a statue of him near the city center
I wonder if he had a family so that His descendants can be proud of him.
He is also beloved in Denmark the standard match boxes have him on the cover and are named after him. Praise to anyone who can fick with the Swedes.
And then there is the swedish west coast... where he commited piracy during the great northern war and terrorised sailing ships here
So, Peter apparently lied when he said he was out of balls big enough to fire from his ship's cannons; he had at least a pair left.
As others have also pointed out by now, but I feel needs emphasis... Peder 'Thundershield' Wessel was *not* a noble by birth. He was the son of a tailor from Trondheim, and one of sixteen children. A famous danish song about him has a brilliant line about how, having considered following his father's footsteps, he found the needle too small a weapon, and settled on the cannon instead. "Those will do", said Thundershield.
He was ultimately ennobled for his deeds, though, and given a noble crest, crowned by a thundercloud - providing a second meaning for his name, since 'skjold' can both refer to a physical shield, and a family crest. But, yeah, that's just one more bit of his badassery - ascending from commoner to noble was NOT easy back then!
Peter Wessel's father wasn't a nobleman, but he also wasn't a tailor. He was a city council member and a wealthy merchant who owned two trading ships.
The song you're referencing (which was written almost 140 years after his death) implies that Peter was a tailor's apprentice before he ran off to Copenhagen, but that's not supported by any historical evidence.
@@Jacob_Junge Well, damn... if you can't trust children's songs, what CAN you trust these days? :(
@@BlakeTheDrake I know, it's an appalling lack of standards and honesty!
Also, I'm starting to think that maybe Humpty Dumpty COULD have been put back together again.
He is actually got an entire verse (out of four in the entire anthem) dedicated to him, in the unofficial Danish national anthem (unofficial, because apparently it is not proper, to have a national anthem about kicking the shit out of the Swedish)
The biggest brand of matches in Denmark is named after him and feature his portrait on all boxes.
The reason is that the matches are made from Swedish wood, so every time you strike a match, Thundershield is striking the Swedish.
So yeah, the Danish like him too.
Interesting!
Ohhhh that's why he's on the matchboxes. I didn't know that. (And I'm even Danish)
Really enjoying the new background decor and lighting in the back, as much as Karl is still bathed in floodlight, the yellow lighting is cosier
I'm still missing that 10 inch wiglett thought.
EDIT: Willett origin story.
Should probably add that the king involved was the Danish, as Norway was danish vasal at the time. The king even made Peter a noble as part of the Thundershield title.
Due to this, Thundershield is also considered a hero in Denmark.
Well, the king of Denmark was simultaneously king of Norway at the time, so both are correct
@@LordDim1if i may be truly pedantic, he wasn't actually the king of Denmark or the king of norway but the danish-norwigian king
@@D3NL1LL3P No, Denmark and Norway were formally two separate kingdoms throughout the period of the union. They were two separate crowns. He was King of Denmark and separately also King of Norway. As a matter of fact, up until 1660, they had two different laws of succession. The Norwegian crown was hereditary, passing automatically to the king’s eldest son, while the Danish crown was elective; the king was elected by the nobility.
@@LordDim1 all the sources i could find in danish just said the danish-norwigian kingdom but looks like you know your shit so I'll take your word
@@LordDim1 Some of the confusion stems from the fact that Both claims are correct. In Denmark they had (a bit cheekily) legally declared Norway a Danish region, already during the reformation in 1536, and further during the reform (coup) to absolutism in 1660, meaning that from a Danish perspective at the time, Norway was legally a region of the Danish state. However, consistency wasn't their key strength and the king would still carry the titles as king of both Denmark and Norway, and there would still be two seperate law codes for the two countries.
At the time you could refer to 'Denmark' with the understanding that this included Norway. Later on we generally prefer to refer to it as 'Denmark-Norway' to refer to the specific state construction of that period. Both are technically correct.
Probably the most famous tale of Tordenskjold is him defending a city with a tiny force, by making the soldiers repeatedly march across the city, making the opposing general believe he had a much larger army
Tordenskjolds soldater.😊
Or the soldiers of Thundershield. (Damn the nickname is weird to hear in English. 😅)
"Det forekommer mig at jeg har set den soldat før!"
"Han er jo også en af Tordenskjolds soldater!"
@@TheDanishGuyReviews kun legender ved den sætning
The captain character from She-ra is also a fan of unconventional tactics, he's burned down his own ship in battle more than once.
Sea Hawk is the best supporting character in that show.
Just to further accentuate how much of a badass this guy was, he is mentioned, by name, in both the Norwegian and Danish national anthems. This is because that at the time Denmark and Norway were in a union under a common king, and as such Thundershield was an admiral in not just the Norwegian navy, but also the Danish navy
The Piorun: I tip my hat to you, one legend to another
This guy is pretty much the elden ring's tree sentinel in real life
he just doesn't care who runs through his area, he will attack
Tbf he did plan to giv the cannonballs back
😂
Genius
I can only imagine what the outcome would’ve been if Thundershield brought an actual sword with him to that fateful duel!
Some of the tales have it that he had beaten up the dragoon the night before, and arrived for the duel with a monumental hangover.
He died because at a card game a colonel claimed he had a 7 headed snake and Tordenskjold called hes bs, then a fight broke out and he beat the colonel who then demanded a duel.
He's name is well known in Denmark because we have everything from matchboxes to streets named after him but not enough know about the badassery he performed
I hope this is going to be a continued thing. I always love learning about the insane people like this who just did what they wanted. For example I would love to see their video on Cassius Clay.
Lmao 😂 right before he brought up Sea of Thieves I was thinking "Wait, this dude was basically playing IRL SoT" then I heard the "Sent an envoy for more cannonballs because he ran out and wanted to keep going for fun" this dude is definitely running a Reaper flag 😂
I'm so glad you included Barbosa saying "they're klob haulin!"
I had no idea about the 'head on manouver'. Thank you for teaching me something new about Tordenskjold. Always appreciated to be a little bit more educated.
One of Karl's best purchases
With a last name like that I don't blame him lol
Methinks that if they could've ever met, Peter "Thundershield" Wessel and John Paul Jones would've been best friends.
Humans are the galaxy's space orks is another great reddit writing prompt,
One of my favorites is the story of an Alien trying to figure out how humans built societies in inhospitable areas of their planet, and the human goes, "well we sent people there, and hoped they would come back, when they didn't, we sent more people there to find out what went wrong and plan accordingly." To the absolute horror of the alien whose people just ignored the dangerous areas of their planet.
Alien soldier: This is a death planet! We're doomed!
Earth Soldier from Sydney: Dangerous venomous creatures? Unbearable humidity? Giant creatures that can eat and or trample ya? Sounds like home
Alien soldier: Are you insane human!?
Earth Soldier: nah... just nostalgic
"Nisha, discuss!" He commanded maliciously 😂
'Who's that Pokemon?' CHILDREN COVER YOUR EYES!
What's in the boxxx!!! What's in the box!
Dude is IRL Lord Flasheart from Blackadder II.
Crazy what the algorithm has done to you. I'm subscribed and this is the first time I've seen anything from you guys in about 3 years.
Dude had cannonballs down there
Karl banging on his desk keeps making me thing someone is knocking at my door. Very good video though, keep it up!
Send 1 to Simon whistler. With a note that only says "Thinking of you", no explanation with it
I dont remember why but his face is on most matchboxes in Denmark.
Also "thundershields soldiers" is a saying here, referreing to the same people appearing.
It comes from a story where he had his crew and soldiers march in a ring around his enemy, making it seem like he had an enormous army
His face is on matchboxes from the Tordenskjold match company. They named the company after him because he was famous for beating the Swedes, and they wanted to become a big Danish exporter of matches, in a market that was dominated by Swedish companies.
Ironically, the Tordenskjold company was eventually bought by Swedish Match Industries in the 1970s, and the production was moved to Sweden.
Wait a minute...I don't think until now karl has used a bottle opener to open a bottle (in video)...maybe I'm wrong
Seriously, why has no one done a movie biopic on this guy!
I’d also like to nominate the Polish ship Perun (thunderbolt) and it’s crew for a zero fucks episode.
Lazerpig has done a great video on Piorun. I also recommend his video on Black Agnes, a Scottish noblewoman who defended a castle against great odds and became a legend.
Warning, he is foulmouthed and his content is amongst the funniest stuff have EVER seen, he is a rabbit hole you will fall into for hours, helpless, but happy.
I’ve watched Karl enthusiastically talk about many things, but this episode was epic.
That Wiglett plush is the best piece of merch I’ve ever seen in my life XD
Denmark and Norway was in a union at the time. Kind of like Scotland and England. So the King was danish, and he served in the danish navy. He was born in Trondheim in Norway, not to an aristocratic family, but to a middle class trade-class family. He is to this day mentioned in both the national anthems of Norway and Denmark.
Geneva Convention, Geneva Suggestion, they're just words. All I know is that these rounds are going to get skipped off the ground towards something 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
When the title of a Fact Fiend involves someone not giving a crap, you know it's gonna be GOOD.
Theres actually a tactics called thundershield's soldiers. Where he made a handful of soldiers look like a bigger force by dressing them multiple uniform in rotation and making the walk around instead of standing in posts.
Considering Our Flag Means Death is already showing us some more famous pirates, i really hope one of the remaining episodes of season 2 involve Ed abd co. coming face to face with Peter Thundersheild in his full cracked up glory
In the Age of Sail most ships were were rated by weight of shot, and only really larger ships had bow chasers. The Royal Navy used a lot of deceptive tactics to win, it's why they ruled the waves. I will point out, anchor turns are incredibly dangerous...
r/HFY: Geneva Convention? Nah, Geneva Checklist.
One of the best videos you’ve put out 10/10
"What's in the box?!?"😅
"Rubbing their Wiglets together." X'D
Tordenskjöld predates Englands rise by nearly a century so him not giving special deference to English ships was certainly not out of the ordinary.
Karl needs to do an episode talking about crazy pokemon dex entries.
Just hearing the phrase and title "Rear Admiral Thunder Shield" all that comes to mind is a question of but is that his state alchemist title 😅
Oh my goodness Peter Weasel was the coolest guy known to man.
Ah, so Peter Thundershield was Clone Wars Anakin
They said false flag attack and it just made me think of the false surrender in clone wars season 7
Humans learned how to fight as a way of Survival, we've never left that battlefield since.... Sure we talk a big game about honor and rules of engagement, but Humans at our core are wild animals who will do anything for victory...
aliens "why would we put rules in warfare? its war, we all fight as we see fit"
humans "so we have a gloves off scenario, then"
humanity introduces the galaxy to the Geneva checklist
Ok, this guy had such a quad
I feel like Garp in one piece is the anime version of this guy. I feel like Thundershield wouldve thrown cannon balls if he was strong enough.
5:05 There’s a proper term for this tactic. You can hear Cptn. Barbosa say it. In the clip right here, he shouts
“They’re clubhauling!”
Clubhauling is the ship equivalent of drifting, as Carl says, using an anchor
Diogenitis might be easier on the tongue.
9:05 you mean "Geneva sugestion"?
Ok Canada
Geneva Checklist
You dropped the ball by not getting a third wiggler lol
Karl: What? Does anyone see a problem with this? ::proceeds to manhandle Wiglett suggestively:: 😂
lol mentioning war crimes just reminded me that a favorite character on heros of the storm was blaze who used flamethrowers and could throw out oil and light it on fire i always called him war crimes lol
As the Krogen might say that man has a quad
They should make a movie about Peter. Thatd make a ton of buzz.
You go, Karl. Don't let people with Wigglet envy bring you down :D
Yes, there's a problem 🤣🤣🤣
The king of Norway? Well Norway was Danish at the time. So that works be the DANISH king!
Peter Thundershield is my fucking hero
This guy is like garp from one piece lol
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He also once fooled a swedish soldier by seing ehllo in the most stereotypcal swedish way possible, and then killed him.
I realized a few minutes in i had already seen this (although i thought it was someone else entirely) but lucas saying 'its a very offensive maneuver' the first time i saw this i thought he meant he found it unsporting cuz he plays whatever naval game he plays... It *still* took a second for it to dawn on me he means it is literally an offensive manuever.... Hard face palm.
Actualy think the man himself would have loved this talk about him lol
On the subject of naval badasses, you should do an episode on the extraordinary Spaniard "Half Man" Blas de Lezo
Big Wigglers incorporated
Norwegian chiming in here: In his youth, Peter "Tordenskjold" Wessel was a bit of a rude punk, one might say. I happened to go to school with a Wessel in my childhood, and I can say it might run in the blood, as he was rather unkind to me. Met him again at a reunion some time ago though, and he'd grown into a solid guy. Seems military service does that to Wessels.
I'm not surprised to see his lineage survive to present day. He had 17 siblings, after all.
Seems like Karl enjoys the big Wiglett and Mugtrio
I'd guess the thing looks like a sock wrapped around something nearly straight. .....
I always attacked like that in empire total war, lol 😂
The small wood cinematic universe is broken, you used the wiglett in a previous video before it was revealed.
Or maybe it was a teaser for this video.
What a bloody LEGEND Thundershield was! He's now top of my list of ppl dead or alive I'd like to meet! U guys r pretty cool too 😉
Worthy of mjolnir
Where is that firefighter that tells you "DON'T"????
Wiglett feels like a bad knock-off of the Wigglers in Monster Hunter Worlds
So you're telling me that Peter Thundershield inspired Anakin Skywalker from the Star War animated series with all of his warcrimes? xD
I think I need a plushy LOL
I have that same shirt.
I see no issues
I appreciate wiglets flared base
For very immature reasons I have a new favorite Pokemon
He sounds like Inosuke
HFY theme in this vid so hard.
Looks like a geoduck.
What does that evolve into?!
I see no problems here.
Inflammation of the Diogenes?
Rear Admiral Thundershield is a World of Warcraft NPC ass name though
Woho! I requested this video!
This is why I'm a patron, not to fund the channel, specifically to fund the wiglett plushes
So, back then, Norway was Denmark, but it's a minor detail
But it's true that he's born in Norway and the amount of legends that follow Peter in Denmark and Norway is staggering.