Old Norse: From Heimskringla to Hollywood

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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

Комментарии • 47

  • @AlfOfAllTrades
    @AlfOfAllTrades 4 месяца назад +48

    Happy to say I was there. Very interesting, and fun to meet Dr. Crawford in person as well. He seemed genuinely happy to meet one of his youtube subscribers, which made it even more fun. Takk for en informativ diskusjon, til både Dr. Jackson Crawford og til Dr. Jóhanna Katrín Fri∂riksdóttir. Kudos til Dr. Ole-Albert Rønning Nordby som gjorde en god jobb som ordstyrer.

  • @steelstanding8005
    @steelstanding8005 4 месяца назад +35

    How awsome that Dr. Crawford is working with the National Archive here, love it.

    • @ErikHolten
      @ErikHolten 4 месяца назад +2

      National *Library, the National Archive is another, separate institution.

  • @jasnarmstrng
    @jasnarmstrng 3 месяца назад

    Brilliant! It's great to have this available to all. Both Dr. Jackson and Dr. Johanna are very well spoken on the subject matter and complimentary in conversation. Could listen to hours more.

  • @lennieo6331
    @lennieo6331 4 месяца назад +5

    New subscriber here but have enjoyed Dr Crawford's videos for a while. Absolutely enthralling discussion, insightful and humorous. Interesting to think that Dr Crawford may end up having a larger subscriber count than the actual number of people who spoke old Norse at the time. Thank you for this talk and upwards and onwards with your channel.

  • @OBXDewey
    @OBXDewey 4 месяца назад +1

    I will never be able to unsee the runes on the front cover of the book. 😊

  • @tagestabell-kul4884
    @tagestabell-kul4884 4 месяца назад +4

    19:43 I attended, and appreciate your efforts to convey meaning rather than just words.

  • @petaljam6168
    @petaljam6168 4 месяца назад

    Charming and insightful. Thank you, all three participants.

  • @user-yd4le6wv9p
    @user-yd4le6wv9p 4 месяца назад +1

    Thanks so much for yet another great conversation. Excellent interview questions, with good, illustrative examples. Really a pleasure to watch. Kudos and gratitude to all three of you on stage!

  • @alexmanning9961
    @alexmanning9961 4 месяца назад

    Damn, Dr. Crawford teaching me sowmthing i didn't know about my home state.

  • @CaptainBoban
    @CaptainBoban 4 месяца назад +5

    While ive been a fan of crawford for 3-4 years now, the last month or so ive been very impressed by his relation to the academic standard and I think he in a very eloquently way expressed this in this conversation.

    • @жопа_полный
      @жопа_полный 4 месяца назад

      He has a phd

    • @CaptainBoban
      @CaptainBoban 4 месяца назад +2

      @@жопа_полный Well I know many people with phds, me included. However there are plenty of people who have phds that i would not give this compliment.

  • @Lcngopher
    @Lcngopher 4 месяца назад +8

    So in a roundabout way, dr crawford has impacted the name of multiple magic the gathering cards. With the assassins creed universes beyond set releasing later this year, they have multiple cards depicting eivor. One is part of a two deck intro product

  • @bigfootisjustreallyshy
    @bigfootisjustreallyshy 4 месяца назад +15

    I appreciate that you dont hammer people over the head with the fact that some hate groups misuse Norse iconography. IMO all it does it turn good people away from something they could really love studying out of fear of being associated with those movements.
    The more popular and mainstream Norse culture becomes, the more we "take back" the iconography. And the misuse of those symbols by those groups will truly be nothing more than an aberration.

  • @BaileyJPope
    @BaileyJPope 4 месяца назад

    Was a fantastic idea to bring both a native speaker of Iceland and a 2nd language speaker, providing multiple perspectives on the same beautiful topic!

  • @bettinaeign5816
    @bettinaeign5816 4 месяца назад

    Cool discussion and cool remark about Mr Wednesday. I watched the show and liked the book even better.

  • @chrisanderson3806
    @chrisanderson3806 4 месяца назад

    Fantastic Video Jackson!

  • @acaciabaker5935
    @acaciabaker5935 4 месяца назад +1

    Wonderful!

  • @joesamrae
    @joesamrae 4 месяца назад +4

    Legend

  • @MrMadman864
    @MrMadman864 4 месяца назад

    With Johanna's translation around the 13 minute mark, she alludes to a jury of 12. Does anyone know if trial by jury (of 12) is a Norman concept, a Saxon concept or a Norse concept? I have found it hard to work out where this legal system originates from.

  • @BibleLovingLutheran
    @BibleLovingLutheran 4 месяца назад

    Around the 24:30 mark. I’m interested because I’m Scandinavian American

  • @IcelandicRoots1
    @IcelandicRoots1 4 месяца назад +2

    Very, very cool discussion!

  • @melissahdawn
    @melissahdawn 4 месяца назад +4

    When such words were spoken and written, no one valued the languages. All of Europe valued those ideas, and it seems just the germaniac portion preserved it. Thank goodness!! We are merely a stepping stone, sorta kinda... at least that is my quick take on it, it seems like each culture passes information down sort of trying it on then passing it down. Maybe movies are a global pulse in the same way Sagas and Operas were in the past. I mean look at Bible stories, and sacred text. Is it the stories themselves that influence generations of devoted followers or what they hear, which is more than they words to convey... I have been thinking alot about the use of humor to remember things.... for example, I will probably remember for a long time that law about biting people because it is humorous.

  • @darlebalfoort8705
    @darlebalfoort8705 4 месяца назад

    I did watch American Gods. I'm a Neil Gaiman fan.

  • @malphini
    @malphini 4 месяца назад

    2:15 “women of the wiking world”

  • @cmcapps1963
    @cmcapps1963 4 месяца назад +4

    Isn't every ethnocentric movement that puts any ethnic group above others harmful? I think Dr Crawford's answer was excellent and the questioner's perspective not very informed.

    • @carmichaelree
      @carmichaelree 4 месяца назад

      Do you not find it a bit odd that you are complaining of ethnocentrism being so "harmful" when we are talking about a society, in the viking age, that loved violence? Don't get me wrong, the spirituality of the vikings is still very overlooked. But to think they didn't thrive as a culture by literally raiding others...

    • @carmichaelree
      @carmichaelree 4 месяца назад

      pathetic

  • @PalleRasmussen
    @PalleRasmussen 4 месяца назад +6

    Eh? What? I picked up and read Shakespeare with no problem.

    • @danitbelle6136
      @danitbelle6136 4 месяца назад +6

      I haven't got very far into the video yet, so I don't know if you're responding to something that's said there, but Shakespeare is writing in Early Modern English (only one step from the kind you're writing in). For older stuff, you want Middle English (Chaucer being the most famous example) or Old English (Beowulf, etc.).

    • @PalleRasmussen
      @PalleRasmussen 4 месяца назад

      @@danitbelle6136 I was responding, which you have probably seen at this time in the video- if not, you will.

    • @az4037
      @az4037 4 месяца назад +14

      I don’t believe you. You sincerely read an entire Shakespeare play without consulting the dictionary or using footnotes? There are a lot of archaic words and constructions that are essentially incomprehensible to modern day english speakers. Unless you already had exposure to 16th century english, I doubt you could breeze through a Shakespeare or Marlowe play the same way you can read Harry Potter or something.

    • @PalleRasmussen
      @PalleRasmussen 4 месяца назад +1

      @@az4037 yet I did, whatever you believe, after gymnasium. I had also read Unfinished Tales right out of public school. I have a good ear for English, less so for French.

    • @ryanpangilinan5803
      @ryanpangilinan5803 4 месяца назад +1

      @@az4037didn’t get to the part in the video yet either. I’d say it probably depends on the play tbh! I didn’t have too much trouble with Julius Caesar ie, but I don’t remember King Lear being an easy read

  • @donkeysaurusrex7881
    @donkeysaurusrex7881 4 месяца назад +1

    First!