I was digging in my garden the other day and found a Chinese takeaway box, from which I deduced that England was built by the Chinese. There's no other possible explanation.
some moron in Australia dug up some Chinese idol from the 17th century and filmed it making the statement that china first found Australia before white man, by the way, this was on the side of a major road that had been there for 70 years lol
@@dantheman5222 thats an actually fact.... the indigenous people of Australia are from south asia. Which incumbers china. As well as polynesians before europeans entered around 1606
@@christianriddler5063 remember it?????? i was right there at their sides, on the back of my battle squirrel "nutjob" but had to retire because of an arrow to the knee.
The ring- Simple. The Vikings traded with a lot of people. They traded as much as they fought. They also found a buddha among Viking gold. Doesn't mean they were buddhists. It was gold. The Vikings collected gold.
@@dreadpiraterobertsii4420 yes, this speaker Bjorn downplays some of their aggresive conquest IMO. But I found two articles recently that talked about a woman viking chieftain and another article that said the vikings liked to steal monks because they were versed in multiple languages and economy.
When I grew up as a child in the 90ies, we were still taught about Vikings in school, we even went out with the entire class to an old Viking camp where we learned different things about arrow making, bee wax candles etc~ x) It was fun and cool to learn about our heritage, our history. And I wish children got to learn that more in school now. It should be a part of every Scandinavian's Culture, we should be proud of it, we should display it for the rest of the world with pride.
This is what the world has come to people trying to destroy the culture of others because they want to make others fit in dont let them pervert and destroy your culture keep on fighting the good fight brothers and sisters
Exactly if i wanna be proud that me country conqured a quater of d planet or be proud that me ancestors raided and pillaged a will people die in war and our history shouldnt be frowned uppon because it doesnt meet modern standards
@@seniorscouse3346 killing people has never been considered a good thing morally though, at any point in history. Literally every philosophical school or faith that would arise in the past would agree that things like murder and unfair ruthlessness and wanton violence were immoral, harmful to any society and to be avoided. If you think those things are genuinely good and need to be celebrated, I would seriously suggest committing yourself to a mental institute or finding some kind of professional help because thoughts like those are how terrorists and mass murderers arise. It's ok to be proud of your history, and it's also ok to recognize what parts of your history weren't that great. To pretend your lineage was infallible and every single behavior of theirs was justified, even when it conflicts with universal understandings of morality, would literally be the definition of delusion and blind allegiance, which are incredibly primitive and unproductive traits.
500 years my Bulgarian ancestors were slaves to the Ottoman empire and in the last 10 years newly made history textbooks tell kids in school that there was no slavery, but there was Ottoman presence in the lands.
Did you see a Swedish airline advert has declared there is no such thing as Swedish culture. They cite a borrowed Constitution, meatballs, and more. The Bolsheviks and Jacobins are here to rewrite history, again.
Im anglo saxon in the sense all my ancestors come from Ireland Scotland and England. Some French. From Canada. Vikings and Norse are the highest honor in our hearts. They are like the crown jewel of Europe. Or maybe its just me. Special place in my heart for northern Europe
Barry Ross check out The Last Kingdom books or series on Netflix. It’s quite an entertaining fiction but set in a historical period, when Anglo Saxons were fighting a losing battle against Vikings. Back then they were your ancestors’ enemies historically.
I found another hilarious one earlier this year, "researchers" were studying a Viking runestone and discovered it's meaning. According to them the runestone said Vikings were afraid of global warming.
@@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen That was so stupid. Yes, they were scared of a "climate catastrophy". They were scared of four years of firm winter, with no summer between, since this means the beginning of Ragnarök and the end of the world. Thats what the runestone of Rök is about. Global warming, where are we at?
@@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen The Vikings are not commonly known to have had slaves but they did have prisoners of war to gain information about plans of the enemy. There is talk lately that the Vikings had slaves just like the Catholics did but they did not want to be like the Catholics of whom they fought. The Vikings of Norway that later were in Scotland as in the Highlands and were Scotts Highlander Clans were commonly owned by the English of England as slaves of the common Scotts but much later the Scotts in government positions bought the Freedom of slaves in Scotland and parts of Africa and Cuba and the Islands and the Philippines and Central and South America and Mexico.
Lice Pissidon I notice you’ve been asked several times what you mean in labeling this man a liar and you fail to respond as yet . Hmmm , who is the liar?
As a Swede I'm a bit sad that Swedes aren't proud of our heritage as Vikings. We are told that pretty much everything we have done in the past millennia is racist :P But I'm still a proud Scandinavian even though I'm Swedish. Länge leve Norden.
i mean depends on what you mean by proud.. just mean people is not self centered , proudness is not an obligatory feeling in order to either survive or thrive, its probably closer to fascism if thats what you are asking for
Anychance Sweden will get its head on straight on stop being so crazy? It pains me seeing how these crazy people have so much say, they humiliate our countries
Man, my PROPER viking heritage was bred out when my bloodline went nearly pure Cherokee, even though my grandmother is Scandinavian, and my father is of VERY northern Germanic descent, and even as an American, I'm still really intrigued by the culture and fairly proud that I know that information. It's a shame that older pagan cultures have just been thrown to the side not better studied by anyone outside those cultures. Everything I learned about my native American heritage, I've had to learn through first and second hand accounts of members and full blood descendants of other tribes, it urks me that more people dont know more about them
I think it's not specific to your culture but the white west as a whole, we are bad because they only focus on the bad parts of our history rather than considering all the peoples of earth's history. Humanity is filled with such beauty and malevolence no matter where you go.
Thank you, I am an American, and I served in the United States Marine Corps, But I am also from a family with strong Scandinavian roots. I have a History degree from the University of Wisconsin, and research genealogy for a hobby. In my own family (on my mother's side) I have researched and found that I am the a 35th great grandson of Harald Fairhaired Halfdansson. Because of this family history, I consider myself descended from Vikings, although to my knowledge, we had no ancestors that actually participated in raids, but because of the culture and the history, I consider myself of Viking ancestry. It gave me great relief to hear that you consider yourself of Viking descent. I some times joke with people when they ask why I chose the Marine Corps, I tell them that half of my ancestry is derived from vikings and another quarter is derived from Saxons, (my father is Swedish and German, from Sachsen or Saxony), so ship-borne, shock troops are kind of a family tradition. Thank you for your videos, they are very informative and I love the accent, reminds me of a family reunion. hahaha.
@Chuck Robinson Learning materials are prolly American based - quite a few other European countries are the same - you can often hear the American twang too when they speak in "English" - this is not a crime Chuck
One wonders if 330 million Americans vs. 66 million British has any influence over the probability of which standard of the English language is followed by the Northmen of today.
Some of these misconceptions are..... well.. maybe it's because I'm Finnish but I don't think one can *facepalm hard enough* to properly react to them. I can't but admire your stoic composure Bjørn. I'm glad people like you exist.
I'm an Englishman and have a great love of Anglo Saxon and Viking history, after all our cultures were very similar until christianity came and sucked the joy from life. It always irritates me when people denigrate our ancestors for being primitive or barbaric as if all other cultures were sweetness and rainbows. Humans are tribal and can be very violent when competing with other groups no matter which group. Keep up the good work my friend.....
Please don't put Christianity in the same box as religion, religion and legalism suck everything dry. Your comment just shows your lack of understanding.
@@Polemicist_Lol ... the fake ''black power'' ideology is crawling up your ass !!!!!!! That bullshit ideology that everybody came from africa is a pure propaganda piece of lie ... Lol !!! HAHAHA !!! Why would african people therefore have inner hands and under foot skin White ... LOL LOL LOL !!!
@@Polemicist_ Lol ... the fake ''black power'' ideology is crawling up your ass !!!!!!! That bullshit ideology that everybody came from africa is a pure propaganda piece of lie ... Lol !!! HAHAHA !!! Why would african people therefore have inner hands and under foot skin White ... LOL LOL LOL !!!
Bjorn the Wise,in Australia I am watching and listening to you having subscribed yesterday. You have wonderful qualities of communication and personality, and it is a joy having your company. Thank You!
Actually. Remember rule 34? If it exist someome made a porn of it? Guess what that rule exist in life. If someone can think it.... It probably happened.
you see that a lot in BBC history documentaries and historical movies these days. Some medieval town with mostly white European people and then for some reason at random you see a black lady walking through the frame in the same traditional clothing as the rest of the town.
I agree with the OP. There are plenty of places where people can LARP in whatever "looks nice". It's fun, and a place where ancient and modern accoutrements can be creatively mixed. But Reenactment means _reenactment_ and that should be historically accurate, inasmuch as is possible given what we can currently do.* (For instance I have a "Mediaeval" kirtle I hand-made from handwoven linen fabric that looks as if it was dyed with woad, even though the dye was actually modern dye, mainly because I wanted to be able to machine wash the dress each weekend. But I'd never wear a dress in a color unavailable at the time, like neons, or the whites that actually have synthetic brighteners embedded in the fabric. Those whites look different in moonlight, than natural whites do.)
When I was young in the 70s I had a history teacher who was Norwegian. He would teach us Vikings gods and history . I remember being confused when other teachers would teach different thing different things. I studied a lot in the library as we did not have google in the old days. I’m glad I had a great teacher in elementary school. Thank you I’m watching all your videos.
Peace be with you, Bjorn! You’re spot on, about everything!! And the Vikings were a very cultured society. Boat builders, navigators, and great warriors. Who had a love for jewelry making, and design. Close knit, society, who had a thirst for knowledge of the World, and were very well versed in trading, with people of different cultures. Great culture!
So glad to see a comment finally of someone who knows the truth about the Vikings because there are many lies and evil stories told about the Vikings that are full of lies.
No but i have heard similar nonsense such as knights using chinese swords because an handguard looked remotely similar to a chinese one, its always interesting as this "facts" always come from marxist fanatics who constantly try to push an agenda
Did you hear about the Norwegian samurai? A black African white supremacist told me about it, so it is definately factually true! If you disagree your a sexist homophobe
Hellenism and Buddhism did clash tho. At the edge of the Alexanders fallen empire, the kingdom of Bactria rose, that was hellenistic in culture. They went on to conquer some parts of India. And the most interesting thing about that is that the greeks merged their beliefs with buddhism. Because there are statues with Hercules protecting Buddha. It's really neat. But Spartans? Come the fuck on...
The Vikings only took from the Romans and then the Catholics they fought in taking valuables particularly from their churches and monasteries as the spoils of war. Most of that the Catholics had gotten through corruption anyway as they are a false corrupt church.
I think I gonna make a commercial video talking about my ancestors, the Chinese from Ming dynasty, even though I'm a white male from Europe. 🤔 I'm curious to know if Chinese people would appreciate a video like that. Or we can take an almost cheese colored white guy from somewhere in the northern parts of Norway telling that he's proud of his Zulu heritage. Wonder if the Africans would accept that? 🙄😏😳
It's a very common thing in pagan/heathen pages on social media in the US. They fail to realize it's against the very moral code and conduct of almost all ancient civilizations. Survival was most important to them, so obviously anything LBGTQ wouldn't get the job done.
@@scotteric8711 exactly I've said almost word for word the same thing to those fruit cakes. Now what are your thoughts on the Tollund man? I think its evidence to support our argument maybe. Tacitus wrote that the Germanic tribesman pushed them into the bog.
It feels like noone, regardless of side or beliefs care to discuss nuance at all. The vikings were way more tolerant of LGBTQ individuals and actions than most comptempory christans thats true, but not comapred to our modern standards of equal opportunity and marrige etc. It doesn't have to be strictly one way or another.
the thing that always comes to mind when thinking of the Vikings as far as I am concerned is they were expert (as in the BEST) craftsmen-blacksmiths, tool makers, glass beads, leatherworks, lathe turning, weaving (harris tweed is nothing new) and of course ship builders- Its amazing how many small villages in northern England to this day have names ending in "BY". Skidby, Ferriby, Grimsby etc. The Viking farmers sailed here and settled along the rivers such as the Humber or Ouse. I bear no grudge
@Christian Morgan in most of history, and in my limited knowledge, Indians had the best and better blacksmithing practices. Many Arab warriors preferred to only buy and wield swords made in India.
I couldn't help but sit and smile a little watching this video, with a mix of my own thoughts as an American with Swedish heritage and enjoying the random comedy of the 'Norsemen' series.
Yes, that is a beautiful tree. I've discovered something interesting. In recent years - and with new technology - more Viking settlements are being discovered along the St.Lawrence Seaway, much deeper into Quebec and Ontario, Canada, than was previously known. In a few months, when we are not covered in ice and snow, I will visit and document these findings - and I will bring my metal-detector. Have a good one!
You look great here, and your humor is wonderful. Thank you for being truthful... I love.. No... they were just people (not any worse than anyone else, I believe is what you meant.)
@@curtis7599 I'm talking about the culture I grew up with and my ancestors that I am aware of. Not some ridiculous affiliation with an imagined Viking dynasty. So I agree with you intirely.
@@curtis7599 You sound like you have all the answers for a perfect world. Those problems have existed since we stood up on our hind legs and made groups. But do you even stop to think of what those groups have given us. The high tech society we have today. If you think for a second we can change nature, and thereby the earth. You are very mistaken. Accept your human nature and get on with your life.
When traveling it was hardly uncommon for the Vikings to "convert" to another faith if doing so got them what they wanted. People can look up the history of Alfred the Great to see exactly how devout these "conversions" were. Pretty sure they thought it was hilarious how people kept falling for that trick over and over again :P
@@katrinepetersen2566 Exactly. It's not that they didn't believe in the Christian God. They're problem was with the priests. But money is money and if he's gotta tuck his hammer necklace inside his shirt and put on a cross after taking a swim, meh, that's fine, :)
The vikings didn't think their god/gods was exclusive, they had landvettar protective spirits bound to the land and they thought that the gods was similar bound to different countries. I remember reading that archeologist found a buddha statue in Birka I think, does that mean that they where buddhists?
@Ulvetann That was my thought, too, LOL! Lutefisk, a Norwegian staple and my grandma's favorite... where do they think that comes from!? Lordy, my grandmother and great aunts & uncles are truly rolling their graves! Next,, we'll hear that lefse was copied from the Mexican's flour tortilla recipe! Oof dah!
13:22 "They had a very beautiful belief system"..three swans pass. In Norse Mythology, the Norns were the three goddesses of fate who lived at the foot of Yggdrssill with swans as their pets.
Globalism is defined as: " the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on a global basis." How the hell does that have anything to do with Vikings not being Vikings?
Fried Lemons globalists are also trying to destroy cultures, especially European ones. I'm Hispanic native mix and I can see this happening, open your eyes, it's the Kalergi Plan happening right now.
@@trueamericandon9985 The thing is, the further we go into the future. The more the need of unification is needed. Especially now with the rise of the new Space Race. We don't want another violent colony uprising in the future and a United Human Union would be preferable if we find life on other solar systems or planets/moons in our own neighborhood.
"Didn't eat fish." ....I just fainted there and then.. A people with such a close connection to the seas didn't eat fish? And ofcourse they had the luxury of saying no to any food type living in harsch winter climates of the north right?..🙄 that's probably a no.
It's the people who don't even look at the geography and historical accounts. u-u but yeah it be common sense at what one would eat based on geography.
I highly respect you for learning the English language and trying to develop even more using words that are more in depth. My father told me a story about my grandfather who gave him a dictionary and challenged him to learn atleast ten words a day. He beleived that a man's intelligence at first glance was based by the individuals speech and usage of words. Secondly I hope you can further give your input in a world that so easily consolidate ideas not for accuracy but for versatility.
Here is another one to add to the list: "Vikings believed in a Flat Earth." No they didn't. Read "The King's Mirror" (Konungs skuggsjá). Vikings believed in a spherical Earth and had a good understanding of the size and scope of the planet.
The pressure from all Around The world against rewriting of History, is actully getting more pressistant. With is good, People all Around The world have started to be more responsable for their Heretige. I mean did you see The latest SAS comertial? Damn it was Nuked from orbit by The Sons, and Daughters of Odin. Oh and also Foren friends from my Discord servers also came to Put their 5 cents.
Yeah, I'm from Croatia and I disliked that shit! It's just not normal to tell one nation and people that they don't have history of their own. That they're just the product of imported cultures. When everybody knows what kind and how strong of culture the nors people have. Just ridiculous and crazy. Who believes that nonsense?
Barry Kelly people did not migrate to the north since the early days of the roman republic due to a mini ice age and untenable land (which is why the Norse people went viking btw). Romans didn’t penetrate farther into Germany due to this fact aswell. That’s why the romans stuck to the coasts where it was warmer and had a better climate for life. In the 1100’s after the Norse people had explored and came into contact with new people’s(through raiding and taking slaves of every people they came into contact with) they started to work more on their lands with new knowledge and workers to make farmland. They did not adopt the cultures of the slaves, the slaves integrated into the cultural fabric of the Norse. This is evident even in old Irish and English settlements erected by Norseman where they would integrate those they conquered or bought into their culture. Much of English culture and law comes from France and the Nordic lands. People didn’t immigrate there, they were brought as slaves and then were brought by missionaries in small numbers gradually increasing as Christianity was adopted. Very few ethnicities are found in Norse peoples even pre-1900’s because of how forbidding the climate was and how it was frowned upon to intermingle with the non-euro slaves which i don’t think they had much of. After the eu was formed and multiple world wars, yes people did migrate to the north lands because these lands were less ravaged than mainland europe. Your ignorance of history is astounding and you have no place here, begone in peace.
I grew up in Northern Minnesota, which was still mostly populated by Scandinavians even when I was a kid. Learning about Vikings was a normal thing and we even talked about the history of Vikings inhabiting the area at one time.
I am worried about the population in S. Africa. I know it is a very bad time there, and the polarized west is just propaganda for the situation there, although completely unrelated in events.
Well I've learned something today, I never heard of any of those crazy things about Norseman. My grandfather told me that Vikings were great craftsmen and could adapt to any area that they settled. I did work with an archaeological dig many years ago in Tennessee where Viking artifacts were found. Perhaps they made it there or more likely they traded with Native people. Good video 👍
What your grandfather told you was true and the Vikings were good honest people and that is how they were so successful at trading because they were honest in business and other relationships.
I’ll bet you’ve seen the latest SAS video where they’re claiming that nothing comes from Scandinavia-one have to ask oneself what drives a company to manufacture a video like that?
Marxism - cultural destruction to brainwash natives into white guilt so that they accept the new agenda to flood their countries with incompatible migrants.
Before I even watch this I know by the title this is gonna get you over 200 thousand subs lol ohhhh boy.. ok here we go ! You went there this should be good . Skal Bjorn !
I somehow stumbled across your channel after belatedly running across, of all things, videos about Scandinavian Airlines saying you all have no culture. I look forward to finishing this video after work and checking out other videos later on.
2:00 But your airline says that people from your region don't have their own culture or identity. So you are telling me that the vikings had their own culture and identity....just like every other group on the planet????
3:40 it's called a "shemaugh" or "keffiya". I started wearing them when I was in the U.S. Army. British soldiers were once issued these if they were posted in the middle east. Great video as always sir!
It's funny you should mention the Booze Traveller, I was just watching it on Grimfrost when the notification for this video came up. Thank you for your work.
@@4lifejeph I actually hadn't heard of them until I happened to see them on the Grimfrost youtube channel, they appear to be Americans travelling and sampling different types of alcohol. They where tasting Grimfrost mead and doing a very basic piece about Viking culture. Bjorn was a contributor.
@@MRDPG59 much more likily christian monks who where being raided along the british coast. They called the vikings devils so its natural they would put horns on their heads. Hollywood then made it mainstream
The vikings had trade with islamic civilizations. They acquired some textiles with arabic script or ornamentation on it. The textiles themselves were the luxury, not the words or symbols on them.
The vikings couldn't have been barbarian savages. They were brilliant sailors and build amazing boats. And if any one still doubts their intelligence they should try to drawing their knot work and making their type of jewellery.
Exactly. Their enemies were ancient pagan Rome and the Roman Catholics that they fought battles with and took the spoils of war from their monasteries that the Catholics had gained by corruption anyway. But they later got too outnumbered by the Catholics and could not escape them. The Vikings were good people who honored our creator of all living things. The Bible says people inherently know about our creator. The Vikings were not a part of the power and greed crowd or they would be in positions of world power today through the so called barbaric violent force they are accused of.
No it's not the Christian faith it's the woke crowd ( chinese communism) trying to turn everybody against each other . How you kill a tree is to cut off its roots
christian brutality terrified the last nordic peoples who were still holding onto their pagan culture because they were harassed by their own christian rulers
I read somewhere the viking age started when Karl der Grosse (also known as Charlemagne) conquered the Saxons, executed 5000 of their leaders, and forced them to be Christian under the most brutal conditions. Many of them fled to Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia, which caused an economic hardship. Moreover, King Gudfred of Denmark claimed part of Northern Germany and Friesland as Danish. To make a long story short they had a particular dislike for Christians and Christian Europe (at least in the beginning) which is one of the reasons they raided monestaries and treated christian monks the way they did. They may have felt they were at war with them.
There are most certainly, as you say, academics with a large effect on today’s mainstream view that ‘Everything good about Northern Europe was imported there’. I see the exact same thing in Ireland. I grew up seeing pictures of early Irish people in Museums making these fantastic structures, still there today, with wonderful astronomical alignment, and alignment with other structures kilometres away with tremendous accuracy. What is strange is that they are always said to be for ‘human sacrifice’, or ‘just graves’. The people building them are depicted as being dressed only in simple leather underwear, like Tarzan. Perhaps I am in an echo chamber, but I think people are waking up to the fact that the past is extremely often not how it is portrayed.
That's not how I have heard academics talk today , activists sure. Human sacrifice did exist but much along the same lines as previous offerings /rites and only really started to happen once population was expanded. Even then the people offered up were not dregs but well kept and fed and water was the place of choice as with other offerings. The entire logistics around ancient life and buildings shows a high degree of organisation and planning over multi generation periods , perhaps in early research these views were more prevelant but not today with more tools availble. A good example is The Red Lady of Paviland a discovery intially impressed with the finders bias , later revised with more telling facts coming to light changing the original narrative entirely.
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Great list, and well compiled. On the matter of swords, though: A sword was a very expensive item 1000 years ago. It takes a lot of craftmanship to make a proper sword. Few could afford it. It’s also very difficult to master. A spear, on the other hand, is easy to make, cheap, *very* effective weapon (especially combined with a shield and a Sjöldr is usually a very big shield). So most commonly used battlefield weapons were spear and axe (great against mail as well as shields due to hooking, etc.) combined with a shield. 👍🏻
The Vikings of Scandinavia were known to have the best weaponry including swords and ships and ship navigators and that is how they won so many battles for 1000 years. They also had the best armour. Their enemies known as the Roman Catholics or Catholics lie a lot.
practical physique, or as my friend calls it "farmer strength", or "tweaker strength". not very skinny or large, but effective. many tend to forget that people are in fact people. whether in history or other countries, everyone forgets that we're all just weird hairy things on (usually) two legs.
Thank you for your videos. Sometimes I wish that I could just somehow sit down and visit with you. I think that there are so many things that I could learn from you. Thanks again for all that you bring to your channel.
Talking about Vikings in North America made me think of something you may find interesting. You should research the Red Bird Petroglyphs in Kentucky. There is a rock that has several old world languages on it including runes. I think it's possible they could have explored even further inland than that though, using the rivers for transport.
There is movie called Enemy Mine. In this movie there is an alien, and this alien race would sing their lines of ancestry. That's was how they identified where they come from who they are. I imagine the Scandinavians had something similar.
Thank you for the chuckle! 'No written language.' 'No fish.' Where do they get these crazy ideas? It was a lovely spot you sat in today. Beautiful tree! I'm from a Scandinavian/German community in Wisconsin. It's amazing how similar the flora looks. Papa still spends every day in his cabin in the woods, building a fire in winter and loving the land. We have a commitment to keep it wild.
People are too ignorant and lazy to actually read or experience the culture and history so they skim through it and make up lies. I learned from one guy that it’s their “Ego mind”. The way he explained it was very clear
Large braids? Sure, you can just unfasten them, comb them through, and redo them. Intricate tight braids? Possibly for special occaisions. Not as standard wear though, because they're fiddly and time consuming.
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell
ignorance is bliss, war is peace, freedom is slavery.
@Alex really? Not constructive
@Alex No. Swedish academia
@@tuleralph6031 you ever beeb to war? Lol its not peace
"He who controls the spice, controls the universe." ~Baron Harkonnen
I was digging in my garden the other day and found a Chinese takeaway box, from which I deduced that England was built by the Chinese. There's no other possible explanation.
England has been part of China since ancient times
some moron in Australia dug up some Chinese idol from the 17th century and filmed it making the statement that china first found Australia before white man, by the way, this was on the side of a major road that had been there for 70 years lol
@@dantheman5222 thats an actually fact.... the indigenous people of Australia are from south asia. Which incumbers china. As well as polynesians before europeans entered around 1606
You made my day!!!😅😅😅
@@bobbymancini9069 I'm trying to figure out if this is sarcastic or not. lol
Some poeple on the interhnet: Vikings were the worst people to ever exist
Aztec: Hold my sacrifice's heart
The early Catholic church: Holy my fire.
The Mongols: Silence, you ignorant children
In enters also the comanche empire
@Shanks I mean, Romans were great for their period, there is a reason why everyone wanted to be them when they fell xD
Well let it be known the Aztec sacrifices were volunteers, they felt like it was a great honor to do it.
"Vikings had no written language."
Harald Bluetooth: "Am I a joke to you? Hold my smartphone."
I still can’t believe I am related to someone who’s commonly referred to as “Bluetooth” 😂
He should've a Nokia 3310 instead.
@@Eclipse-mf6hc Me too. Direct lineage.
Harald Blåtand.. They didnt speak english back then either
Harald Bluetooth is my 30th great grandfather
"Vikings didn't eat fish." Amazingly stupid idea.
RequiemDusk they would have eaten a lot of fish haha
Well....whales arent fish.....badoom chhhh
Victor Nikolai so vikings didn’t eat a lot of fish?
@Sasha Kruse Grim are you my long lost cousin?
@Sasha Kruse Grim still eat them today, i just had some yesterday.
This is like saying Vikings were Mexican because Fjord Fiesta.
LOL, that's funny nugnug, i reward you shiny stone
Really Mexico? The worst Spanish speaking country?
Well they are on Fridays.
@@luisedfreerunner4154 that would be chile. K wea eramanito
That joke belongs in a museum
"The Vikings didn't eat fish" - yes, and the Islamic peoples of the Arabic peninsula rode dolphins into battle
Remember when Richard Lionheart fought Darth Vader in the first Viking Jihad in Mongolia?
@@christianriddler5063 remember it?????? i was right there at their sides, on the back of my battle squirrel "nutjob" but had to retire because of an arrow to the knee.
@@inspectorcal Man that is so sad to hear, you veterans of the Viking Jihad aren't celebrated enough.
@@christianriddler5063 Was that before or after the Aztecs invaded Europe using robotic dinosaurs?
@Jean-Louis Bourgeois never seen a frog fart so fast
The ring- Simple. The Vikings traded with a lot of people. They traded as much as they fought. They also found a buddha among Viking gold. Doesn't mean they were buddhists. It was gold. The Vikings collected gold.
They found statues of Buddha ergo Vikings were vegans obviously :D
Do you have an article on the buddha loot?
They were famous for raiding Christian church’s and convents anything and everything they could loot
@@dreadpiraterobertsii4420 yes, this speaker Bjorn downplays some of their aggresive conquest IMO. But I found two articles recently that talked about a woman viking chieftain and another article that said the vikings liked to steal monks because they were versed in multiple languages and economy.
maybe the ring was stolen even?
When I grew up as a child in the 90ies, we were still taught about Vikings in school, we even went out with the entire class to an old Viking camp where we learned different things about arrow making, bee wax candles etc~ x) It was fun and cool to learn about our heritage, our history. And I wish children got to learn that more in school now. It should be a part of every Scandinavian's Culture, we should be proud of it, we should display it for the rest of the world with pride.
"lives basically on the sea" No OFcOURse THeY didNT eAt FISH
*facepalm*
Good point!
I am not surprised that "research" comes from Sweden.
Sultanate of Swearabia
@mat bauer Thanks for the generalization!
mat bauer Fuck off.
@@NathanMulder No, no he got point.
Just look at the latest SAS commercial they pulled back...
This is what the world has come to people trying to destroy the culture of others because they want to make others fit in dont let them pervert and destroy your culture keep on fighting the good fight brothers and sisters
Exactly if i wanna be proud that me country conqured a quater of d planet or be proud that me ancestors raided and pillaged a will people die in war and our history shouldnt be frowned uppon because it doesnt meet modern standards
@@seniorscouse3346 killing people has never been considered a good thing morally though, at any point in history. Literally every philosophical school or faith that would arise in the past would agree that things like murder and unfair ruthlessness and wanton violence were immoral, harmful to any society and to be avoided. If you think those things are genuinely good and need to be celebrated, I would seriously suggest committing yourself to a mental institute or finding some kind of professional help because thoughts like those are how terrorists and mass murderers arise. It's ok to be proud of your history, and it's also ok to recognize what parts of your history weren't that great. To pretend your lineage was infallible and every single behavior of theirs was justified, even when it conflicts with universal understandings of morality, would literally be the definition of delusion and blind allegiance, which are incredibly primitive and unproductive traits.
*Sighs in hindu*
There only trying to destroy white culture. Every other culture is being used to that end
500 years my Bulgarian ancestors were slaves to the Ottoman empire and in the last 10 years newly made history textbooks tell kids in school that there was no slavery, but there was Ottoman presence in the lands.
Sas commercial shows African immigrant says “our Viking ancestors” really shows globalism at its best
We wuz wikings, wer da wite woman at?
PeterTheGreat 😁
We wuz Viiiikangz
Eyo wytboi dont u be dissin our vaykäng ancestörs n shieet... I'z gon' drink from you skuull!!
@Daughter of Enoch Clearly that one African in the commercial he just mentioned.
Did you see a Swedish airline advert has declared there is no such thing as Swedish culture. They cite a borrowed Constitution, meatballs, and more.
The Bolsheviks and Jacobins are here to rewrite history, again.
Goofin Hiemer it was disgusting and of course they tried to frame it as an “coordinated attack”. What else to expect coming out of Sweden these days.
They attack history, heroes and culture first to control the narrative because that allows them to control people’s identity and self-image
All hail Jahwe
you mean Scandinavian airlines.
Judeo-Bolsheviks.
Im anglo saxon in the sense all my ancestors come from Ireland Scotland and England. Some French. From Canada. Vikings and Norse are the highest honor in our hearts. They are like the crown jewel of Europe. Or maybe its just me. Special place in my heart for northern Europe
Irish and Scott's are celts
@@94interested I think the man means parts of Ireland like Dublin, Wexford and Waterford were invaded by Vikings and became intermarried.
@@94interested well some areas in the colder north where settled by non celts more norse related folks.
Ô you just make me cry , OMG.....i need to be with people Who as a Heart in a good place.....😭
Barry Ross check out The Last Kingdom books or series on Netflix. It’s quite an entertaining fiction but set in a historical period, when Anglo Saxons were fighting a losing battle against Vikings. Back then they were your ancestors’ enemies historically.
"The Vikings didn't eat fish" Seriously? Sometimes I forget how ignorant some people can be.
Exactly Right..lol..
Viking 1st tribe cooking fish and chip.
Internet helps to remind.
Well, I know for damn sure they didn't eat $5 "viking" waffles. Lol
Right? Like, how do you have NATIONS of portsmen and sailors and just assume they never ate any fish?! That's saying they never drank mead or ale
Some of us Norwegians try to keep the viking spirit alive by TRAVELING the world....but not with SAS by the way.
My guy your a polac cut it out
I found another hilarious one earlier this year, "researchers" were studying a Viking runestone and discovered it's meaning. According to them the runestone said Vikings were afraid of global warming.
Now that is funny.
@@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen That was so stupid. Yes, they were scared of a "climate catastrophy". They were scared of four years of firm winter, with no summer between, since this means the beginning of Ragnarök and the end of the world. Thats what the runestone of Rök is about. Global warming, where are we at?
@@BjornAndreasBull-Hansen The Vikings are not commonly known to have had slaves but they did have prisoners of war to gain information about plans of the enemy. There is talk lately that the Vikings had slaves just like the Catholics did but they did not want to be like the Catholics of whom they fought. The Vikings of Norway that later were in Scotland as in the Highlands and were Scotts Highlander Clans were commonly owned by the English of England as slaves of the common Scotts but much later the Scotts in government positions bought the Freedom of slaves in Scotland and parts of Africa and Cuba and the Islands and the Philippines and Central and South America and Mexico.
I’m a black man and I love your videos. I’m not a Viking but I respect your character. You are a virtuous and honest man.
Don’t listen to this guy. It is lies
Lice Pissidon ....?
@@i.t5592 What in the heck?????
Lice Pissidon What is the lie ?
Lice Pissidon I notice you’ve been asked several times what you mean in labeling this man a liar and you fail to respond as yet . Hmmm , who is the liar?
As a Swede I'm a bit sad that Swedes aren't proud of our heritage as Vikings. We are told that pretty much everything we have done in the past millennia is racist :P But I'm still a proud Scandinavian even though I'm Swedish. Länge leve Norden.
i mean depends on what you mean by proud.. just mean people is not self centered , proudness is not an obligatory feeling in order to either survive or thrive, its probably closer to fascism if thats what you are asking for
Anychance Sweden will get its head on straight on stop being so crazy? It pains me seeing how these crazy people have so much say, they humiliate our countries
Man, my PROPER viking heritage was bred out when my bloodline went nearly pure Cherokee, even though my grandmother is Scandinavian, and my father is of VERY northern Germanic descent, and even as an American, I'm still really intrigued by the culture and fairly proud that I know that information. It's a shame that older pagan cultures have just been thrown to the side not better studied by anyone outside those cultures. Everything I learned about my native American heritage, I've had to learn through first and second hand accounts of members and full blood descendants of other tribes, it urks me that more people dont know more about them
I think it's not specific to your culture but the white west as a whole, we are bad because they only focus on the bad parts of our history rather than considering all the peoples of earth's history. Humanity is filled with such beauty and malevolence no matter where you go.
@@krybling Wait...how the fuck did fascism get thrown into the mix? we are talking about being proud of who we are...how can you correlate the two?
Thank you, I am an American, and I served in the United States Marine Corps, But I am also from a family with strong Scandinavian roots. I have a History degree from the University of Wisconsin, and research genealogy for a hobby. In my own family (on my mother's side) I have researched and found that I am the a 35th great grandson of Harald Fairhaired Halfdansson. Because of this family history, I consider myself descended from Vikings, although to my knowledge, we had no ancestors that actually participated in raids, but because of the culture and the history, I consider myself of Viking ancestry. It gave me great relief to hear that you consider yourself of Viking descent. I some times joke with people when they ask why I chose the Marine Corps, I tell them that half of my ancestry is derived from vikings and another quarter is derived from Saxons, (my father is Swedish and German, from Sachsen or Saxony), so ship-borne, shock troops are kind of a family tradition. Thank you for your videos, they are very informative and I love the accent, reminds me of a family reunion. hahaha.
" Total Bollocks! " As an Englishman I have to say that was a well delivered bit of Anglo Saxon Invective Bjorn. 😄
@Chuck Robinson not all speak lol. My wifes family has some that do not. But i never really noticed. We use bollcks and such in the states as well.
@Chuck Robinson I've been to Norway twice and I'm from the UK... Half of Norwegians speak better English than us 😂
@Chuck Robinson Learning materials are prolly American based - quite a few other European countries are the same - you can often hear the American twang too when they speak in "English" - this is not a crime Chuck
One wonders if 330 million Americans vs. 66 million British has any influence over the probability of which standard of the English language is followed by the Northmen of today.
@@jenaogirl As a Brit too - then quality over quantity wins the day ;)
It's wacky. But don't dismiss this agenda as harmless.
The globalist must destroy the culture before It will accept it's own ethnic replacement. This is systematic and deliberate. Nothing wacky about it.
I love how you always start a video with a fire. Best way to start a video. Really enjoy your videos thank you
Some of these misconceptions are..... well.. maybe it's because I'm Finnish but I don't think one can *facepalm hard enough* to properly react to them. I can't but admire your stoic composure Bjørn. I'm glad people like you exist.
@SlamzJonez Todellakin!
Bjorn Andreas: * reads a stupid idea *
also Bjorn Andreas: * laughs in Viking *
I'm an Englishman and have a great love of Anglo Saxon and Viking history, after all our cultures were very similar until christianity came and sucked the joy from life. It always irritates me when people denigrate our ancestors for being primitive or barbaric as if all other cultures were sweetness and rainbows. Humans are tribal and can be very violent when competing with other groups no matter which group. Keep up the good work my friend.....
ANGLOSAXONS IN THE WORLD GOODBYE TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC TAC TIC
@@danielasterling6936 you'll find it's "tic toc tic toc" and we're not out yet, wait until you awaken the sleeping Saxon......
I am of celtic heritage, i agree, christianity destroyed many ancient cultures.
Please don't put Christianity in the same box as religion, religion and legalism suck everything dry. Your comment just shows your lack of understanding.
Swans?
Looks like the Valkyries are giving you their approval.
GitOutta MyWay stole my comment
swans were laughing at the Viking rumors.
Swans don't laugh. Only crows do.
Hahaha, never saw that coming. Truly a _black swan_ ;)
@@Polemicist_ Nice one, i did almost fell from my sofa..black swan, priceless.
@@Polemicist_Lol ... the fake ''black power'' ideology is crawling up your ass !!!!!!! That bullshit ideology that everybody came from africa is a pure propaganda piece of lie ... Lol !!! HAHAHA !!! Why would african people therefore have inner hands and under foot skin White ... LOL LOL LOL !!!
@@Polemicist_ Lol ... the fake ''black power'' ideology is crawling up your ass !!!!!!! That bullshit ideology that everybody came from africa is a pure propaganda piece of lie ... Lol !!! HAHAHA !!! Why would african people therefore have inner hands and under foot skin White ... LOL LOL LOL !!!
Bjorn the Wise,in Australia I am watching and listening to you having subscribed yesterday. You have wonderful qualities of communication and personality, and it is a joy having your company. Thank You!
Wishful thinking is such a huge problem in reenactment. Just because someone thinks it looks nice doesn't mean it existed or was used in that way.
Actually. Remember rule 34? If it exist someome made a porn of it? Guess what that rule exist in life. If someone can think it.... It probably happened.
you see that a lot in BBC history documentaries and historical movies these days. Some medieval town with mostly white European people and then for some reason at random you see a black lady walking through the frame in the same traditional clothing as the rest of the town.
@Barry Kelly Nah you are.
I agree with the OP. There are plenty of places where people can LARP in whatever "looks nice". It's fun, and a place where ancient and modern accoutrements can be creatively mixed.
But Reenactment means _reenactment_ and that should be historically accurate, inasmuch as is possible given what we can currently do.*
(For instance I have a "Mediaeval" kirtle I hand-made from handwoven linen fabric that looks as if it was dyed with woad, even though the dye was actually modern dye, mainly because I wanted to be able to machine wash the dress each weekend. But I'd never wear a dress in a color unavailable at the time, like neons, or the whites that actually have synthetic brighteners embedded in the fabric. Those whites look different in moonlight, than natural whites do.)
It’s from Sweden. Sadly they are a lost cause.
Martin J tides are turning in Sweden.
Tanja I hope so. 😀
I thank Odin daily, that my G-G-Great grandparents had the foresight to get the Hel outta Sweden, long before it turned into what it is today.
I don't always agree with Sanity 4 Sweden, but then I am not in that situation, yet.
i mean there is probably a single american journalist that is also wrong or whatever country you think is the best but whatever, you are a lost cause
"Fish are friends not food" - some Norseman idk
Jeg forstår ikke 😅
😂🐟🍴
@@simpletruth9977 Frostermos they are both. We take care of nature so nature can take of us.
When I was young in the 70s I had a history teacher who was Norwegian. He would teach us Vikings gods and history . I remember being confused when other teachers would teach different thing different things. I studied a lot in the library as we did not have google in the old days. I’m glad I had a great teacher in elementary school. Thank you I’m watching all your videos.
I believe the Vikings survived by 1) drinking Chocolate Coffee 2) Laughing at their enemies
How to live a long life? According to Jack Priestly age 106....."I smoke 10 Cigars a day, drink two glasses of Whiskey and I laugh long and often."
@@timcisneros1351 : now, that is life style i subscribe ! :-)
Peace be with you, Bjorn! You’re spot on, about everything!! And the Vikings were a very cultured society. Boat builders, navigators, and great warriors. Who had a love for jewelry making, and design. Close knit, society, who had a thirst for knowledge of the World, and were very well versed in trading, with people of different cultures. Great culture!
So glad to see a comment finally of someone who knows the truth about the Vikings because there are many lies and evil stories told about the Vikings that are full of lies.
Did anyone hear about the Buddhist Spartans, a communist told me about them so it must be true.
No but i have heard similar nonsense such as knights using chinese swords because an handguard looked remotely similar to a chinese one, its always interesting as this "facts" always come from marxist fanatics who constantly try to push an agenda
What does communism have to do with it?
Did you hear about the Norwegian samurai? A black African white supremacist told me about it, so it is definately factually true! If you disagree your a sexist homophobe
Lol. Bet you'd never hear them talk about what a profound influence the Greco-Bactrians and Indo-Greeks had on Buddhism and Indian culture.
Hellenism and Buddhism did clash tho. At the edge of the Alexanders fallen empire, the kingdom of Bactria rose, that was hellenistic in culture. They went on to conquer some parts of India.
And the most interesting thing about that is that the greeks merged their beliefs with buddhism.
Because there are statues with Hercules protecting Buddha.
It's really neat.
But Spartans? Come the fuck on...
Oh, man! You really nailed it with the anti-European nonsense.
Everyone was raiding other places back then. The Northmen were just really good at it.
BARILOCHE USHUAIA A R G E N T I N A
The Vikings only took from the Romans and then the Catholics they fought in taking valuables particularly from their churches and monasteries as the spoils of war. Most of that the Catholics had gotten through corruption anyway as they are a false corrupt church.
I visited Norway for the first time last year, and will return as soon as possible. I felt at home there. Perhaps I have some Viking blood.
Phil Chandler SAS confirms that you definitely do
3 x Swans flew by when you'd mentioned the old religion. A fine omen if ever there was.
Great video like always your awesome brother peace to you and your family. Peace from phoenix az.
I heard they were Scientologists
What! Are you nuts?
They were totally Mormons.
No they were the first Methodists
WTF? Everyone knows the vikings were pastafarians!
I heard they converted to Judaism
Freemasons
Lmao at that airline commercial. "OUR VIKING ANCESTORS"
I think I gonna make a commercial video talking about my ancestors, the Chinese from Ming dynasty,
even though I'm a white male from Europe. 🤔 I'm curious to know if Chinese people would appreciate a video like that.
Or we can take an almost cheese colored white guy from somewhere in the northern parts of Norway telling that he's proud of his Zulu heritage. Wonder if the Africans would accept that? 🙄😏😳
We wuz all Vikangz!
Next the researchers will tell us Vikings were openly LGBT
It's a very common thing in pagan/heathen pages on social media in the US. They fail to realize it's against the very moral code and conduct of almost all ancient civilizations. Survival was most important to them, so obviously anything LBGTQ wouldn't get the job done.
Yep, i just saw an article claiming as much. But most people believe it was just a female warrior.
Next? People have been claiming that for some time
@@scotteric8711 exactly I've said almost word for word the same thing to those fruit cakes. Now what are your thoughts on the Tollund man? I think its evidence to support our argument maybe. Tacitus wrote that the Germanic tribesman pushed them into the bog.
It feels like noone, regardless of side or beliefs care to discuss nuance at all.
The vikings were way more tolerant of LGBTQ individuals and actions than most comptempory christans thats true, but not comapred to our modern standards of equal opportunity and marrige etc. It doesn't have to be strictly one way or another.
the thing that always comes to mind when thinking of the Vikings as far as I am concerned is they were expert (as in the BEST) craftsmen-blacksmiths, tool makers, glass beads, leatherworks, lathe turning, weaving (harris tweed is nothing new) and of course ship builders- Its amazing how many small villages in northern England to this day have names ending in "BY". Skidby, Ferriby, Grimsby etc. The Viking farmers sailed here and settled along the rivers such as the Humber or Ouse. I bear no grudge
@Christian Morgan in most of history, and in my limited knowledge, Indians had the best and better blacksmithing practices. Many Arab warriors preferred to only buy and wield swords made in India.
“I got upset, a little bit of a rant there”
that’s hilarious considering how calmly you were speaking 🤣 4:25
It’s a Scandinavian thing.
%^++^%$@@!!!
There, I feel better.
He's norwegian.. the Canadians of Scandinavia😂
I couldn't help but sit and smile a little watching this video, with a mix of my own thoughts as an American with Swedish heritage and enjoying the random comedy of the 'Norsemen' series.
Yes, that is a beautiful tree.
I've discovered something interesting.
In recent years - and with new technology - more Viking settlements are being discovered along the St.Lawrence Seaway, much deeper into Quebec and Ontario, Canada, than was previously known.
In a few months, when we are not covered in ice and snow, I will visit and document these findings - and I will bring my metal-detector.
Have a good one!
That is super cool if correct. Please link back the article you this!
found this...
lol the Indians took them out
Your not supposed to talk about it though
A lesser known fact about the vikings is that their favorite music was Amon Amarth.
You look great here, and your humor is wonderful. Thank you for being truthful... I love.. No... they were just people (not any worse than anyone else, I believe is what you meant.)
Perfect timing on the SAS commercial!
People's ignorance about their own culture is amazing, learning and appreciating your ancestors is essential. Without them where would you be?
@@curtis7599 I'm talking about the culture I grew up with and my ancestors that I am aware of. Not some ridiculous affiliation with an imagined Viking dynasty. So I agree with you intirely.
@@curtis7599 Fuck you
@@curtis7599 You sound like you have all the answers for a perfect world. Those problems have existed since we stood up on our hind legs and made groups. But do you even stop to think of what those groups have given us. The high tech society we have today. If you think for a second we can change nature, and thereby the earth. You are very mistaken. Accept your human nature and get on with your life.
I've only recently discovered your channel and I'm loving it, very relaxing on and evening
When traveling it was hardly uncommon for the Vikings to "convert" to another faith if doing so got them what they wanted. People can look up the history of Alfred the Great to see exactly how devout these "conversions" were. Pretty sure they thought it was hilarious how people kept falling for that trick over and over again :P
@@katrinepetersen2566 Exactly. It's not that they didn't believe in the Christian God. They're problem was with the priests. But money is money and if he's gotta tuck his hammer necklace inside his shirt and put on a cross after taking a swim, meh, that's fine, :)
Vikings were pragmatists. Smart move if you're in the trading business.
Take the entirety of Normandy
Vikings like everyone else converted to other religions that they came in contact with both for pragmatic reasons or maybe even genuine reasons.
The vikings didn't think their god/gods was exclusive, they had landvettar protective spirits bound to the land and they thought that the gods was similar bound to different countries. I remember reading that archeologist found a buddha statue in Birka I think, does that mean that they where buddhists?
"The Vikings didn't eat fish"
Damn, here I go having to find my shovel... The dead are turning in their graves again.
@Ulvetann That was my thought, too, LOL! Lutefisk, a Norwegian staple and my grandma's favorite... where do they think that comes from!? Lordy, my grandmother and great aunts & uncles are truly rolling their graves! Next,, we'll hear that lefse was copied from the Mexican's flour tortilla recipe! Oof dah!
is that in the same way as the Japanese don't eat fish
The Commanches didnt eat buffalo and the Vietnamiese dont eat rice
I really enjoy your laughter when dealing about these subjects!!! I can't avoid laughing hard as well, :-)) GREAT VIDEO keep up the great work.
13:22 "They had a very beautiful belief system"..three swans pass.
In Norse Mythology, the Norns were the three goddesses of fate who lived at the foot of Yggdrssill with swans as their pets.
I like your list. I have heard most all of those myself from various people here in the USA. Keep up educating people to the right of things.
I love how chill you are, honestly why i subscribed.
Right now the world needs Vikings to be Vikings. To hell with globalism.
agreed
Globalism is defined as: " the operation or planning of economic and foreign policy on a global basis." How the hell does that have anything to do with Vikings not being Vikings?
Fried Lemons globalists are also trying to destroy cultures, especially European ones. I'm Hispanic native mix and I can see this happening, open your eyes, it's the Kalergi Plan happening right now.
@@trueamericandon9985 The thing is, the further we go into the future. The more the need of unification is needed. Especially now with the rise of the new Space Race.
We don't want another violent colony uprising in the future and a United Human Union would be preferable if we find life on other solar systems or planets/moons in our own neighborhood.
elektron117 Thjs isn't Halo bud
"Didn't eat fish." ....I just fainted there and then.. A people with such a close connection to the seas didn't eat fish?
And ofcourse they had the luxury of saying no to any food type living in harsch winter climates of the north right?..🙄 that's probably a no.
I imagine they ate fish 90% of the time.
🤣
Ice fishing and hunting is critical in winter lol.
It's the people who don't even look at the geography and historical accounts. u-u but yeah it be common sense at what one would eat based on geography.
I highly respect you for learning the English language and trying to develop even more using words that are more in depth. My father told me a story about my grandfather who gave him a dictionary and challenged him to learn atleast ten words a day. He beleived that a man's intelligence at first glance was based by the individuals speech and usage of words. Secondly I hope you can further give your input in a world that so easily consolidate ideas not for accuracy but for versatility.
Here is another one to add to the list: "Vikings believed in a Flat Earth." No they didn't. Read "The King's Mirror" (Konungs skuggsjá). Vikings believed in a spherical Earth and had a good understanding of the size and scope of the planet.
And even their religion suppossed that the world was like that, I mean, how else there would be a giant serpent who could surround the world? xD
Cognitive dissonance for you
The pressure from all Around The world against rewriting of History, is actully getting more pressistant.
With is good, People all Around The world have started to be more responsable for their Heretige.
I mean did you see The latest SAS comertial? Damn it was Nuked from orbit by The Sons, and Daughters of Odin. Oh and also Foren friends from my Discord servers also came to Put their 5 cents.
It's back up with comments disabled
@Kingdoms
Then you lost The bet, swede complined first was sweds.
Yeah, I'm from Croatia and I disliked that shit! It's just not normal to tell one nation and people that they don't have history of their own. That they're just the product of imported cultures.
When everybody knows what kind and how strong of culture the nors people have.
Just ridiculous and crazy. Who believes that nonsense?
Barry Kelly people did not migrate to the north since the early days of the roman republic due to a mini ice age and untenable land (which is why the Norse people went viking btw). Romans didn’t penetrate farther into Germany due to this fact aswell. That’s why the romans stuck to the coasts where it was warmer and had a better climate for life. In the 1100’s after the Norse people had explored and came into contact with new people’s(through raiding and taking slaves of every people they came into contact with) they started to work more on their lands with new knowledge and workers to make farmland. They did not adopt the cultures of the slaves, the slaves integrated into the cultural fabric of the Norse. This is evident even in old Irish and English settlements erected by Norseman where they would integrate those they conquered or bought into their culture. Much of English culture and law comes from France and the Nordic lands.
People didn’t immigrate there, they were brought as slaves and then were brought by missionaries in small numbers gradually increasing as Christianity was adopted. Very few ethnicities are found in Norse peoples even pre-1900’s because of how forbidding the climate was and how it was frowned upon to intermingle with the non-euro slaves which i don’t think they had much of. After the eu was formed and multiple world wars, yes people did migrate to the north lands because these lands were less ravaged than mainland europe.
Your ignorance of history is astounding and you have no place here, begone in peace.
@@AmbiguousEntity Wow!
I grew up in Northern Minnesota, which was still mostly populated by Scandinavians even when I was a kid. Learning about Vikings was a normal thing and we even talked about the history of Vikings inhabiting the area at one time.
Stay true my friend. Much respect from an American living in the UK 🇬🇧 🇺🇸
BJORN..MY KIND FRIEND...YOU REALLY CHEERED ME UP SEEING YOUR SMILE!! I WAS CRANKY TILL I SAW YOUR GREAT VIDEO!!✋✋😄😄
From South Africa with Norwegian heritage thank you. Wish we were there with you, Same spirit😊
I am worried about the population in S. Africa. I know it is a very bad time there, and the polarized west is just propaganda for the situation there, although completely unrelated in events.
Your doing a lot better than me! I make notes and leave the notebook on the table!
Well I've learned something today, I never heard of any of those crazy things about Norseman.
My grandfather told me that Vikings were great craftsmen and could adapt to any area that they settled.
I did work with an archaeological dig many years ago in Tennessee where Viking artifacts were found.
Perhaps they made it there or more likely they traded with Native people.
Good video 👍
What your grandfather told you was true and the Vikings were good honest people and that is how they were so successful at trading because they were honest in business and other relationships.
Sometimes I like to wear ponchos, if I die in it historians in 2200 will think I've adopted the south American identity and culture 😂
I’ll bet you’ve seen the latest SAS video where they’re claiming that nothing comes from Scandinavia-one have to ask oneself what drives a company to manufacture a video like that?
Agenda.
Marxism - cultural destruction to brainwash natives into white guilt so that they accept the new agenda to flood their countries with incompatible migrants.
Before I even watch this I know by the title this is gonna get you over 200 thousand subs lol ohhhh boy.. ok here we go ! You went there this should be good .
Skal Bjorn !
I somehow stumbled across your channel after belatedly running across, of all things, videos about Scandinavian Airlines saying you all have no culture. I look forward to finishing this video after work and checking out other videos later on.
2:00 But your airline says that people from your region don't have their own culture or identity. So you are telling me that the vikings had their own culture and identity....just like every other group on the planet????
@John Google what if you were a black viking? That would make their heads explode.
3:40 it's called a "shemaugh" or "keffiya". I started wearing them when I was in the U.S. Army. British soldiers were once issued these if they were posted in the middle east.
Great video as always sir!
Bruder Wilhelm Saxon
Someone is cultured atleast
Vikings had a small Muslim minority due to having come in contact with Islam through raids and trade, but were mainly pagans.
It's funny you should mention the Booze Traveller, I was just watching it on Grimfrost when the notification for this video came up. Thank you for your work.
What is booze traveler? I though he said Blues Traveler and I couldn't understand what that music band had to do with anything. Lol
@@4lifejeph I actually hadn't heard of them until I happened to see them on the Grimfrost youtube channel, they appear to be Americans travelling and sampling different types of alcohol. They where tasting Grimfrost mead and doing a very basic piece about Viking culture. Bjorn was a contributor.
*historical subversion**
Just came home from an afternoon hike, and lo and behold this appeared on my recommended. What a treat.
/Swede from Norrland
This was a very fun video! I really enjoyed it!
Also every viking walked around with 'horns'
on their helmets :)
As we are the Devil's instrument of destruction....guess we have to...right?
Guess who was responsable for the horned viking myth
@@charlescarabott7692 I think Hollywood ?
@@MRDPG59 much more likily christian monks who where being raided along the british coast. They called the vikings devils so its natural they would put horns on their heads. Hollywood then made it mainstream
@@MRDPG59 that myth predates Hollywood and was constructed under a pro-viking era in Sweden.
You talk so calmly and gentle i respect you sir
The vikings had trade with islamic civilizations. They acquired some textiles with arabic script or ornamentation on it. The textiles themselves were the luxury, not the words or symbols on them.
The vikings couldn't have been barbarian savages. They were brilliant sailors and build amazing boats. And if any one still doubts their intelligence they should try to drawing their knot work and making their type of jewellery.
Exactly. Their enemies were ancient pagan Rome and the Roman Catholics that they fought battles with and took the spoils of war from their monasteries that the Catholics had gained by corruption anyway. But they later got too outnumbered by the Catholics and could not escape them. The Vikings were good people who honored our creator of all living things. The Bible says people inherently know about our creator. The Vikings were not a part of the power and greed crowd or they would be in positions of world power today through the so called barbaric violent force they are accused of.
I agree 100% about the Vikings being brutalized by Christan faith.
Then again, that's a pretty sizable club, so...
@@seand.g423 LOL yeah
No it's not the Christian faith it's the woke crowd ( chinese communism) trying to turn everybody against each other . How you kill a tree is to cut off its roots
@@adriansheldon2296 Agreed, but he's talking about the past and you're talking about the present.
christian brutality terrified the last nordic peoples who were still holding onto their pagan culture because they were harassed by their own christian rulers
I could listen to this man talk all day it’s so relaxing just listening to what you have to say
I read somewhere the viking age started when Karl der Grosse (also known as Charlemagne) conquered the Saxons, executed 5000 of their leaders, and forced them to be Christian under the most brutal conditions. Many of them fled to Denmark and other parts of Scandinavia, which caused an economic hardship. Moreover, King Gudfred of Denmark claimed part of Northern Germany and Friesland as Danish. To make a long story short they had a particular dislike for Christians and Christian Europe (at least in the beginning) which is one of the reasons they raided monestaries and treated christian monks the way they did. They may have felt they were at war with them.
I love the backdrops to your videos, seeing the gorgeous scenery makes me want to visit the land of my ancestors even more!
Good Morning My Friend, Thanks for the upload.
There are most certainly, as you say, academics with a large effect on today’s mainstream view that ‘Everything good about Northern Europe was imported there’. I see the exact same thing in Ireland. I grew up seeing pictures of early Irish people in Museums making these fantastic structures, still there today, with wonderful astronomical alignment, and alignment with other structures kilometres away with tremendous accuracy. What is strange is that they are always said to be for ‘human sacrifice’, or ‘just graves’. The people building them are depicted as being dressed only in simple leather underwear, like Tarzan.
Perhaps I am in an echo chamber, but I think people are waking up to the fact that the past is extremely often not how it is portrayed.
That's not how I have heard academics talk today , activists sure. Human sacrifice did exist but much along the same lines as previous offerings /rites and only really started to happen once population was expanded. Even then the people offered up were not dregs but well kept and fed and water was the place of choice as with other offerings. The entire logistics around ancient life and buildings shows a high degree of organisation and planning over multi generation periods , perhaps in early research these views were more prevelant but not today with more tools availble.
A good example is The Red Lady of Paviland a discovery intially impressed with the finders bias , later revised with more telling facts coming to light changing the original narrative entirely.
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Great list, and well compiled.
On the matter of swords, though:
A sword was a very expensive item 1000 years ago. It takes a lot of craftmanship to make a proper sword.
Few could afford it.
It’s also very difficult to master.
A spear, on the other hand, is easy to make, cheap, *very* effective weapon (especially combined with a shield and a Sjöldr is usually a very big shield).
So most commonly used battlefield weapons were spear and axe (great against mail as well as shields due to hooking, etc.) combined with a shield.
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The Vikings of Scandinavia were known to have the best weaponry including swords and ships and ship navigators and that is how they won so many battles for 1000 years. They also had the best armour. Their enemies known as the Roman Catholics or Catholics lie a lot.
practical physique, or as my friend calls it "farmer strength", or "tweaker strength". not very skinny or large, but effective.
many tend to forget that people are in fact people. whether in history or other countries, everyone forgets that we're all just weird hairy things on (usually) two legs.
Thank you for your videos. Sometimes I wish that I could just somehow sit down and visit with you. I think that there are so many things that I could learn from you. Thanks again for all that you bring to your channel.
Talking about Vikings in North America made me think of something you may find interesting. You should research the Red Bird Petroglyphs in Kentucky. There is a rock that has several old world languages on it including runes. I think it's possible they could have explored even further inland than that though, using the rivers for transport.
There is movie called Enemy Mine. In this movie there is an alien, and this alien race would sing their lines of ancestry. That's was how they identified where they come from who they are. I imagine the Scandinavians had something similar.
Thank you for the chuckle! 'No written language.' 'No fish.' Where do they get these crazy ideas?
It was a lovely spot you sat in today. Beautiful tree! I'm from a Scandinavian/German community in Wisconsin. It's amazing how similar the flora looks. Papa still spends every day in his cabin in the woods, building a fire in winter and loving the land. We have a commitment to keep it wild.
People are too ignorant and lazy to actually read or experience the culture and history so they skim through it and make up lies. I learned from one guy that it’s their “Ego mind”. The way he explained it was very clear
4:47 I still like to think of Vikings as having intimidating braids. I just think it looks so much scarier on a large Norseman.
Large braids? Sure, you can just unfasten them, comb them through, and redo them.
Intricate tight braids? Possibly for special occaisions. Not as standard wear though, because they're fiddly and time consuming.