Swedish Pagans - Vikings & The Russ - Sabaton History 099 [Official]

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  • It was a sword-age, a spear-age - an age when fearsome Northmen, savage Vikings, and mysterious pagans from across the sea haunted the shores of northern Europe. The Swedish pagans, believing in the fate of the old Norse gods, traveled south across the Baltic Sea and deep into modern-day Russia. With their sleek longships, they sailed along the big rivers, ever southwards to reach Miklagard. Miklagard - the Great City - that was Constantinople, where the Swedish Pagans sold slaves and goods from the north for silver and coin. Those who made the long hazardous journey and survived the treacherous country were to be rich men.
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  • @SabatonHistory
    @SabatonHistory  ปีที่แล้ว +7

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    • @paulsmith5752
      @paulsmith5752 ปีที่แล้ว

      Seeing Tommy present something. Nothing wrong with Pär or Jocke but nice to see one of the others get a go.

    • @jonmarq1886
      @jonmarq1886 ปีที่แล้ว

      13:10-13:59. That is all.

  • @Big_E_Soul_Fragment
    @Big_E_Soul_Fragment 3 ปีที่แล้ว +983

    "No one's gonna like this song"
    The fans: *And that's where you're wrong, kiddo*

    • @GrievousReborn
      @GrievousReborn 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Sometimes the bonus tracks can be some of the best of a bands song

    • @durandol
      @durandol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      I don't know about that. All I could hear was wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, wolf, and wolf.

    • @Lefrog420Blazin
      @Lefrog420Blazin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Indeed

    • @dregonthedestroyer1893
      @dregonthedestroyer1893 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@SamlSchulze1104 wo oh Oh oOh

    • @Memeposting
      @Memeposting 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      nice Exeter Pfp

  • @Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist
    @Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1004

    I mean:
    1. It's catchy
    2. it's Sabaton
    3. It's about Vikings

  • @MDMetal
    @MDMetal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +579

    Fun Fact: The Vikings most likely invented "Flyting" which was a ritual poetic insult contest using rhythm and rhyme. So basically, they invented modern day rap battles.

    • @shanedoesyoutube8001
      @shanedoesyoutube8001 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      scuse me bitch??? what???

    • @justanunluckyirishmaninabl5178
      @justanunluckyirishmaninabl5178 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      This is the best thing I’ve heard all day.

    • @RHR199X
      @RHR199X 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      I mean yeah it’s rhyming battle poetry but it never found it’s way into contemporary culture as we know it, ie, actual rap.

    • @armorsmith43
      @armorsmith43 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I think the Arabs also did this. I’d assume many people did this throughout history.

    • @arvidbratt5156
      @arvidbratt5156 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Try not to get it confused with "flytning". It means something completely different in the Swedish language.

  • @starsword-c2534
    @starsword-c2534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1096

    The last Sabaton show I went to before lockdown, Atlanta in 2019, about three songs in, somebody in the audience just randomly started going "ohh-OHH-ohh" and in seconds the whole venue was doing it (myself included). Joakim just freezes up on the stage and his head whips around and he's got this deer-in-the-headlights look. He goes, "Ohh, I see, you all think this is a democracy, like you get to vote on the songs. WELL YOU DON'T!"
    They did play it later though.

    • @WPSent
      @WPSent 3 ปีที่แล้ว +174

      It's always hilarious watching Joakim's reaction to Swedish Pagans.

    • @RandomMagus
      @RandomMagus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +101

      I saw their show in Vancouver in 2019 and the same thing happened. We all joined in for the ohhOHHohh a couple times, the last one was right before the end and Joakim said something like "damn I thought they forgot we said we'd play it" hahaha

    • @lukedeakin7124
      @lukedeakin7124 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      I was there too, first metal show, awesome especially when they played it and everyone started sitting down to row a boat

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      It's the only song that you can never not reconize the start of.

    • @fullmetalgamers1276
      @fullmetalgamers1276 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      I was there, that was awesome. Likely elbowed you in the pit.

  • @gamepenny720
    @gamepenny720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +223

    That one dislike is from Joakim when he saw "Swedish Pagans" in the title.

  • @alexkuzela9266
    @alexkuzela9266 3 ปีที่แล้ว +704

    Interesting having Tommy on rather than Pär or Joakim.

    • @Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist
      @Ryan_Thompson_Guitarist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +144

      Well, he is one of the BEST guitarists in Sabaton

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      Yes also i thought he would be on this episode because yeah...
      When can we get Chris and Hannes now?

    • @sarpbakrsoy8125
      @sarpbakrsoy8125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

      Couldn't get Joakim for this song lmao. He's not the biggest fan of Swedish Pagans.

    • @hemmingwayfan
      @hemmingwayfan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Funny ain't it?

    • @danievandenheever8295
      @danievandenheever8295 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@sarpbakrsoy8125 I wonder why he is not the biggest fan of swedish pagans

  • @acrispywaffleiron4014
    @acrispywaffleiron4014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +255

    Sabaton History: releases Swedish Pagans
    Me: ODIN IS WITH US!!!

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That was my reaction when I saw this lol.

    • @mind-h4i
      @mind-h4i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Sabatob

    • @acrispywaffleiron4014
      @acrispywaffleiron4014 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@mind-h4i sabatob

    • @TheWazil
      @TheWazil 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Odin is an Idol.

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@TheWazil That depends on who you ask.

  • @sarpbakrsoy8125
    @sarpbakrsoy8125 3 ปีที่แล้ว +250

    Indy: "...and this era was simply accepted as "The Dark Ages". As an era before..."
    Me: "Electricity?"
    Indy: "...general literacy."
    Me: "Yeah, that too."

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Technically if all of history before electricity is classified as "The dark Ages," then literally less than two or three centuries would NOT be "The Dark Ages." Btw if this was a joke sorry for ruining it.

    • @TheIfifi
      @TheIfifi 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@josephpeck8723 Preeety sure it was a joke..

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@TheIfifi It probably was.

    • @argantyr5154
      @argantyr5154 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@josephpeck8723 Well Electricity have "always" existed, I mean lightning, we just weren't been able to use it.

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@argantyr5154 That is true, but I mean, it is a technicality. You knew what I meant.

  • @kerlongsjorlejov1945
    @kerlongsjorlejov1945 3 ปีที่แล้ว +287

    Yes. We got Tommy in the chair. It makes sense when you think about it.
    Also, happy you guys are doing this song.

    • @Hendricus56
      @Hendricus56 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      Joakim would have to be forced at gun or "Noch ein Bier" point to do that honestly. Tommy jumps on the chair faster then his shadow

  • @DC-ru5xz
    @DC-ru5xz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +367

    Brag time: I Skyped Tommy for a guitar lesson during quarantine and he’s such a cool and nice person, even answering all my dumbass hyper fan questions about the band, he even remembered the time he responded to me on their IG live concert in Germany when I said I could play Swedish pagans. Merry Christmas Joakim, Pär, Tommy, Chris, Hannes and Indy!

    • @sejn195
      @sejn195 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Thats awesome!

    • @Roanmonster
      @Roanmonster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      But.. how? Did you just type his email address in Skype and gave him a call?

    • @MDMetal
      @MDMetal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Lucky! That's Metal, brother! 🤘

    • @UneEtincelleNocturne
      @UneEtincelleNocturne 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Wow, my heart... 🥺👉👈❤ So wholesome

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @DC4 Wow, that is amazing. Good for you man!

  • @kevinramsey417
    @kevinramsey417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +200

    Figures, no way Jocke was going anywhere near this, but Tommy's a big viking teddy bear so it's all good.

    • @lunathedreamer4751
      @lunathedreamer4751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      This is the best decription of Tommy that I have ever read it my life

  • @AxeBearingVoyager
    @AxeBearingVoyager 3 ปีที่แล้ว +113

    The reason people like Swedish pagans is mainly because of the chant at the start, how it creates a sense of family and unity in the listeners; it makes you feel like a viking

    • @iamthrawn
      @iamthrawn 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      maybe its also just a good song?

  • @vmae21
    @vmae21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +88

    This prob happened when making this ep
    Indy: yo jocke wanna be on this ep?
    Jocke: what ep?
    Indy: umm.... Swedish pegans..
    Jocke: NOPE im done nope nope nope....
    * tommy appears out of no wear *
    Tommy: COUNT ME IN

    • @prajwalpingali
      @prajwalpingali 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      Accurate! Joakim hates it so much that he didn't even appear in the end to tell us to subscribe! 😂

  • @brockgundich
    @brockgundich 3 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Probably one of my best moments as a uncle I was sitting with my neice listening to music and asked her what she wanted to hear and she goes" I wanna here the song that goes oooooooha ohhhhhh" and I know only two songs with that,swedish pagans and frayed ends of sanity, so I turn on frayed ends and she goes" no not this one! The other one!" And I turn on swedish pagans and she's like" that's it!" And starts chanting along

    • @Claymann71
      @Claymann71 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Get that lass a shield she can sled on. And then break some hearts with later.

    • @lunathedreamer4751
      @lunathedreamer4751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Take your niece to their next concert after corona! She is a Woman of Culture!

    • @elaineb7065
      @elaineb7065 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      She's a true shieldmaiden

  • @mattador55
    @mattador55 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    Well now we have to hear the full flute version of Swedish Pagans.

  • @PogChampionPrime
    @PogChampionPrime 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Bad day: Happens to me
    Moment I see Sabaton History new episode: Hippity Hoppity happiness is now on my property

  • @joshuamiller1111
    @joshuamiller1111 3 ปีที่แล้ว +448

    One dislike?
    Joakim!

  • @magnusthered4973
    @magnusthered4973 3 ปีที่แล้ว +63

    Someone says Swedish pagans:
    Joakim: loads shotgun with murderous intent

    • @cytorakdemon
      @cytorakdemon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Tommy: "Oh-ooh-oh..."
      Joakim: "I'm bringing out the shotgun!"

    • @evelyngravatt3198
      @evelyngravatt3198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Crowd: "OOH-OHH-OOH"
      Joakim: "THATS IT IM GETTING THE MALLET!"

    • @the_certified_moron
      @the_certified_moron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      "you dare oppose me mortal"

  • @scottishbananaclan
    @scottishbananaclan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +86

    "You cant go 20 pages in any book about vikings without hearing about how there were no horned helmets"
    -Ben Thompson, *Guts and Glory: The Vikings*

    • @NMahon
      @NMahon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      I bet the vikings wished they'd come up with that one though, horned helmets are awesome!

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@NMahon They might look cool, but they are not practical.

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@josephpeck8723
      Thats also something you cant go 20 pages in a viking book without hearing.

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@gilgamesh7055 I mean, in most Viking books I've read, they debunk that myth, so........

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@josephpeck8723
      Might be, idk. Pretty much most of my research on old-norse era comes from reading a bunch of old runes around my house (i live in Uppland, Sweden, the region with the highest concentration and amount of runes in the world), and from reading a bunch of books in school (since we kinda have to learn stuff about that era as Scandinavians)

  • @georgeweavers3100
    @georgeweavers3100 3 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    That moment when Joakim starts singing 'i kissed a girl' by katy perry at a concert to the tune of swedish pagans xD

  • @TheMmus
    @TheMmus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +153

    "It's a great song." Enough said, Tommy, enough said. What a great Christmas present from you guys. Thank you! ❤️ Have a merry Christmas, the whole Sabaton History team!

    • @talknight2
      @talknight2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      I enjoy how through sheer dedication you've taught the TH-cam algorithm to sort your comments toward the top of the list, regardless of how many likes they get.

  • @maotseovich1347
    @maotseovich1347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    I remember in Manchester when the amps weren't loud enough for Joakim to talk over the crowd's rendition of Swedish Pagans

  • @travishighbaugh5245
    @travishighbaugh5245 3 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    Poor Tommy. "One of the best guitarists in Sabaton"

    • @jaffarebellion292
      @jaffarebellion292 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      To be fair, there have been a lot.

    • @yuuyjaaj6721
      @yuuyjaaj6721 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oskar, Rikard, Chris and Thobbe to be specific

  • @riverdelavidawilliams9624
    @riverdelavidawilliams9624 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    I’ll never forget the time Tommy learned/relearned to play the Swedish Pagans melody by ear in a concert at Worcester so he could jam along with us all chanting in the crowd while Joakim ripped all the last hairs out of his Mohawk

  • @springerjkreb
    @springerjkreb 3 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    The thing is every culture had raiders, it wasn't unique to Scandinavia. The Vikings were just the best at it.

    • @NMahon
      @NMahon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      True. However what made them so shocking for the time however was because they were so "foreign" to Christian Europeans they seemed particularly hellish. The fact that these pagans were so effective and didn't give a damn about Christian law or tradition caused such an uproar. It wasnt common in England to burn down monasteries but the Vikings did it, they would break oaths and treaties and take bribes and loot you anyway. The Christians had no way of dealing with this, it was like an existential crisis for them.

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      @@NMahon To be fair, Christians tended to break oaths made with pagans as well if they could get away with it. But otherwise, yeah, you are right.

    • @slavex7
      @slavex7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Vikings just have a good pr

  • @gabrielvillanueva8773
    @gabrielvillanueva8773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Winged Hussars? No. Not yet... I arrived to early

  • @MrFrikkenfrakken
    @MrFrikkenfrakken 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    The band has been fortunate: Oskar and Rikard were a good tandem, Thobbe and Chris were a good tandem and now Tommy and Chris are a good tandem. Well done Indy and thanks Tommy.

  • @milanradojicic8212
    @milanradojicic8212 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I remember one of the first shows Tommy played, and it was in Belgrade, when Joakim introduced him to crowd there was a problem with mic and we thought he said Toby, so we continued to shout Toby trough whole concert :D

  • @thecollector9797
    @thecollector9797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    My mother told me
    Someday I would buy
    Galleys with good oars
    Sails to distant shores
    Stand up high in the prow
    Noble barque i steer
    Steady course for the haven
    Hew many foe-men
    Hew many foe-men

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Interesting piece. Who wrote this?

    • @IAOIceland1984
      @IAOIceland1984 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@josephpeck8723 Egill Skallagrímsson, it was one of his first poems. this is the original version:
      Þat mælti mín móðir,
      at mér skyldi kaupa
      fley ok fagrar árar
      fara á brott með víkingum,
      standa upp í stafni,
      stýra dýrum knerri,
      halda svá til hafnar,
      höggva mann ok annan
      this form of poetry is called ljóðaháttur

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@IAOIceland1984 Very interesting. I must look into this further, thanks for enlightening me.

    • @carinalundstrom7566
      @carinalundstrom7566 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Listen to VoicePlay doing this song, it's really good

  • @Oxtocoatl13
    @Oxtocoatl13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    "One of the best guitarists in Sabaton" has echoes of Lennon remarking that Ringo isn't even the best drummer in the Beatles.

  • @theghostofthepast1040
    @theghostofthepast1040 3 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Guess joakim really has some issues with this particular song...
    Also a great Christmas present

    • @chupasaurus
      @chupasaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You mean Yule present?

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chupasaurus
      Yul or Jul, no one here in Scandinavia calls it Yule. The Norwegians call it Yul and we Swedes call it Jul.

    • @chupasaurus
      @chupasaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      ​@@gilgamesh7055 If only we both haven't written our comments in English where the correct spelling is Yule...

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chupasaurus
      If you dont mind changing the correct way to say things just so Its more 'comfortable' to say in your language, then thats on you. But when you start correcting people based on that logic, then i feel the need to say that Karl equals Charles in english the same way George equals Jörgen in Swedish, in other words not at all.
      (Hope i dont have to explain that example aswell)

    • @chupasaurus
      @chupasaurus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gilgamesh7055 By your logic we should use proto-Indo-European for conversation oh wait it doesn't have a writing system.

  • @BlondMysz
    @BlondMysz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    TOMMY!!! YASS!!! There was no better person to be in this episode than him :D

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes because ye know why.

    • @BlondMysz
      @BlondMysz 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@davidty2006 yup yup

  • @Masada1911
    @Masada1911 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Joakims favorite song!

  • @seriussamIam
    @seriussamIam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    The first Sabaton song I learned to play in guitar. I have never seen a crowd come together like they do when this song plays live. I danced with strangers, sung with friends made that night, and enjoyed some good power metal. God, I miss seeing them live.

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I have yet to figure out how to even play guitars yet. Instead im reading the Art of War.

  • @ce77dk
    @ce77dk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    In their latest show in Copenhagen it was renamed to Danish Pagans - and the crowd went nuts in the right way :-) What a show, can't wait to hear them live again.

  • @wildwoodspiderling3068
    @wildwoodspiderling3068 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So my Swedish Pagans story comes from their show with Nightwish in Vancouver in 2015. I had done a two year intensive course at university and the show fell on the night of the last day of the last showcase for the last semester, the day everything was Done, Finally. I had been relatively sleepless and without days off for two years, and then extra sleepless with final projects and showcase preparations, and then stood about in a cold dusty showcase room with a cold brewing talking a lot to people about my work.
    My mom drove me home after the showcase (she'd been in town to see it) and i had just enough time to get changed and get to the venue. I was in full-on "it's over, it's done" .frodo and sam.lotr.gif mode. A little crazy around the edges.
    Being THAT excited to see two of my favourite bands on the day I finished a course that intense, and very excited to see it with my best friend, we were having a bit of a "guess the song from the stage banter" game. Joakim started talking about Canada vs Sweden and hockey and how the swedish are better/vancouver's team has often relied on swedish players, and things like this. So I had a suspicion.
    And then the first ooh-OH-ooh happened.
    You know when you get excited about something and you sort of pat your friend on the arm like -tap tap tap- Oh! Oh!! This thing!
    Welllll I got too excited and full-on punched him in the arm and he will never let me forget as long as I live.
    For the record he also does not get the excitement about this song, which makes it extra entertaining to me :p
    I also sung along to every sabaton and nightwish song at the top of my voice that night, and went out with friends after, ended up getting home at one in the afternoon the next day, and lost my voice so bad I couldn't speak for a couple weeks after. Worth it.

    • @thormichaelpleym4975
      @thormichaelpleym4975 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ha, ha. What a nice story. Greetings from Sweden. /Micke P

  • @cath2035
    @cath2035 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My son is 2, everytime he hears the first notes of this song, he starts humming. Once we played it 12 Times in a row, on a roadtrip. Love the song, but sometimes i kind of get how Joakim feels... lol

  • @Sozial3sA
    @Sozial3sA 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My clearest and most personal memory regarding this song took place after the "Noch ein Bier" Festival at Gelsenkirchen five years ago.
    It actually happened after the show on my way home with public transport. Me and two other guys started humming the melody and within seconds the whole crowd turned the bus into a driving concert venue. As far as I can tell, every woman, man and child was singing along. It was awsome.

  • @Bexora_bc
    @Bexora_bc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Fun episode! Nice to see the other band members getting involved ❤

  • @milankolarski8876
    @milankolarski8876 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    08.02.2016. in Belgrade, Serbia this band was on a Heroes album World Tour. Concert started with Ghost Division, as usual, and Sabaton played a lot more after this song. While Sabaton played this other songs, the crowd cheered intro from this song (that Ooooooooough, oooooough, ooooguh chorus). Joakim stop the band, tore up bands playlist and they started to play this song right after that. Fun fact: That was the first time they put their TANK as a platform for drums. Thank you Sabaton for very nice memories.

  • @mikkiter7277
    @mikkiter7277 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Lol, for first I saw Asterix and Obelisk on picture.

  • @v.n.covarrubias6741
    @v.n.covarrubias6741 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Im so glad Tommy was in this one

    • @davidty2006
      @davidty2006 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was predicted a week ago he would be in the Swedish Pagans one.

  • @nemogar8708
    @nemogar8708 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This really needs to be a multi part episode with every member of the band... Joakim being bound to the chair in the last episode while the song is discussed

    • @ladyzapzap9514
      @ladyzapzap9514 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s the only way you’d get him
      In the studio xD

  • @the_certified_moron
    @the_certified_moron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Tommy is so freaking tall and a godly guitarist

    • @SabatonHistory
      @SabatonHistory  3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      He is!

    • @the_certified_moron
      @the_certified_moron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Swedish pagans: *starts playing*
      Joakim brodén: you dare oppose me mortal

  • @christopherseivard8925
    @christopherseivard8925 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Thanks Indy. As a lifelong Viking, my last name is “Seivard” they tell me it meant
    “Seafarer “. I embrace your story as, I sit here recovering from a Grand Mal Stroke ,and literally a year in the hospital,I am inspired.

  • @RoKKr023i
    @RoKKr023i 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Nothing like being hammed on a private lake in the rain rowing a rowboat bellowing this song.

  • @thebigbadwolf3172
    @thebigbadwolf3172 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    Happy Yule to Tommy, Joakim, Pär, Chris, Hannes, and of course Indy. Skål my Heathen brothers. This is by far one of my favorite Sabaton songs!! Can't wait for you to come back to the States!

  • @stephenroberts4895
    @stephenroberts4895 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Swedish Vikings and Tommy? On Christmas Eve? All in one episode?! Hell yeah!!

  • @Meirstein
    @Meirstein 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    "If it's okay with you, we're going to take your daughter into the other room"
    OOF
    "There's like 50 of us, so..."
    BIG OOF

  • @armandomoraes3429
    @armandomoraes3429 3 ปีที่แล้ว +42

    It's Christmas's Eve... and we have a special episode about pagans... ahahah

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      *Ironic*

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      In Scandinavia, we celebrate Youle not Christmas.

    • @barethor5869
      @barethor5869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @ Do you celebrate Yule or do you celebrate Christmas and call it yule?

    • @brandonhey7797
      @brandonhey7797 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@barethor5869 I'd say both, but I can't speak for Scandinavians, since I'm not one. (not counting Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and Finland)

    •  3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@barethor5869 Except for a Christmas star on the top of the Christmas tree, I would say nothing Christian at all. We eat pig, drink julmust and watch Donald Duck on TV. And receive presents from Tomten who is a pagan belief mentioned in the Icelandic sagas.

  • @stephenbritton9297
    @stephenbritton9297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    1) Tommy looks like a young Meatloaf... and thats not a bad thing!
    2) So the Nordic/arabic connection in the movie "13th warrior" is actually plausible...

  • @MemeFlavoredJam
    @MemeFlavoredJam 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh, this is a nice thing to see when I wake up on Christmas Eve. Thanks for the early Christmas present!

  • @stewm1267
    @stewm1267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Merry Christmas Sabaton and Indy and thank you for all of the great videos!

    • @Asumokagos
      @Asumokagos 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I knew watching anything related to Swedish pagans before going to sleep was a bad idea... guess I'm staying up tonight.

    • @stewm1267
      @stewm1267 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Asumokagos this is a better use of your time than sleeping.

  • @evelyngravatt3198
    @evelyngravatt3198 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Im so early to this video Joakim still likes this song.

  • @lunathedreamer4751
    @lunathedreamer4751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I would have loved it if we got some footage of Joakim being pressured to sing it as well. Or if they invited both of them. But great change with Tommy! Can we get more episodes with the other band members as well? That would be so awesome!

  • @karlstone297
    @karlstone297 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Tommy is great, 10/10 interview.

  • @logankelly4794
    @logankelly4794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I was hoping it would be Tommy this episode. I remember back in 2017 in Minneapolis Joakim asked the crowd to choose a song. The crowd then did as Tommy described. Joakim pulled the set list off the stage and explained politely that Swedish Pagans was not on the set list. Tommy asked to see the list, balled it up in his hands, and through it in the crowd. Joakim flipped him off and played Swedish Pagans

  • @Nuka0420
    @Nuka0420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The chant is the reason it stuck with me, imagining, my clan mates and me. Slowly rowing through the misty seas of yore. A slow deep chant, calling the valkyries to watch over us as we strive for riches and glory!

    • @josephpeck8723
      @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Personally, if there were any epic charges into epic battles to be made, they would go well with this song.

  • @ZerkerNight
    @ZerkerNight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I love this song, its my number 1 song to listen to when I was going to the gym it helped me beat my record in running when I was on the treadmill.

  • @MrTheBaron
    @MrTheBaron 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Alright, now THIS saved Christmas for me!

  • @jffry890
    @jffry890 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bruh how did they get one of the best Sabaton guitarists on?! Indy's fame is definitely starting to pay off.

  • @Flokarl1
    @Flokarl1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    So Indy brought a real Viking to the show. Tommy look like a Viking indeed!

  • @Nightmare36697
    @Nightmare36697 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hello från Skåne Sabaton !!
    Hade varit riktigt häftigt att träffa er men är väldigt introvert av mig så blir tyvärr inga konserter för mig (För mycket folk) men stöttar er från andra sidan skärmen. Rock on !!!

  • @seanclark1261
    @seanclark1261 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Merry Christmas Sabaton fans

  • @spencergorman366
    @spencergorman366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The last show I went to (Chicago in 2019), it was Tommy's Birthday and he started the chant for Swedish Pagans

  • @NicoDsSBCs
    @NicoDsSBCs 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    They are all such nice guys at Sabaton. I don't expect them to rape, plunder and kill :)

  • @lylissmorrinz8361
    @lylissmorrinz8361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Brilliant way to celebrate the holiday season and the last ep before the 100!

    • @Rougecoat13
      @Rougecoat13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Nevermind rocking that Fowlen's Army shirt.

    • @lylissmorrinz8361
      @lylissmorrinz8361 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@Rougecoat13 MOO for the win! \o/

  • @Tadicuslegion78
    @Tadicuslegion78 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Person: *finds out they’re some percent Scandinavian* Valhalla I am coming!

    • @thebronywiking
      @thebronywiking 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @EmperorEwok I'm swedish with danish and norwegian forefathers and my last name is actually Wiking.

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Ive uhh, lived in Sweden for as long as i can remember. Does that count, even though im not ehtnically Swede? Actually, i think it counts. In the end, culture is the only relevant thing, DNA doesent mean jackshit.

  • @ashking8759
    @ashking8759 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Noone will like this song"
    Turns out to be the best bonus track of all time and one of the best most fun Sabaton songs to see live 🤘

  • @erikdahlgren6656
    @erikdahlgren6656 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The thing that draws in the listener to this song is probably that tribal feeling that tells the story of a time that created the future we now live in.

  • @_adonisk
    @_adonisk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    For those that don't know... Tommy has an amazing voice.

  • @thelion2751
    @thelion2751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love tommy form of explication to the song is like a old warrior talking about a ancient tale

  • @mikewhicker9771
    @mikewhicker9771 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Merry Christmas gents.
    Thanks for helping take my mind off this bizarre year!

  • @coralmar5329
    @coralmar5329 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Indy fought a glorious battle with chield and axe, dressed in eastern silks and a gjermundbu helmet - that's why his hand is like that

  • @W0DAN88
    @W0DAN88 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    LOVE THE BROODY HELMET LAMP

  • @thenewshaymetal666
    @thenewshaymetal666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I don't think that they will be that surprised.Wagner wrote masterpieces inspired by Norse mythology

    • @gilgamesh7055
      @gilgamesh7055 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wasnt he the guy that Hitler praised all the time? You know, the whole "One cannot understand naional-socialism, without understanding Wagner."

    • @thenewshaymetal666
      @thenewshaymetal666 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gilgamesh7055 Hitler wasn't the guy who said it as far as I know.But yes,Hitler and many others at the Nazi party praised Wagner's work and for a good reason.Wagner was a good musician & composer.We hear parts of his to his day in many movies and most iconic in "Apocalypse Now".

  • @StevenLamkin-z6e
    @StevenLamkin-z6e ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You guys are awesome. Keep it up oh and indi is very funny 😂

    • @SabatonHistory
      @SabatonHistory  ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks for that Steven, we're so happy your enjoy our material 🤘

    • @StevenLamkin-z6e
      @StevenLamkin-z6e ปีที่แล้ว

      @SabatonHistory your welcome me and my brother will eventually come to Sweden whenever we get there if we have enough for it

  • @kantemirovskaya1lightninga30
    @kantemirovskaya1lightninga30 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Merry Christmas guys-keep up the great work Sabaton and Indy ! We have home schooled our kids for years and now have added this to "fun" learning the true stories behind the sometimes not so true history!

  • @delezo9038
    @delezo9038 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Vikings: row along unknown rivers pillaging enemy towns
    Tommy: covid presents a bit of a hazard

  • @landenmelvin1964
    @landenmelvin1964 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I can't imagine how amazing it must feel to sing this song in a group of thousands. The power behind a group that big and that passionate. Hope I get to go to a Sabaton show someday.

    • @kaitlyncashman577
      @kaitlyncashman577 ปีที่แล้ว

      You need to go to one. I went to 2 this year. Amazzziiinnnggggg

  • @stefanweigl6438
    @stefanweigl6438 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    THE GREATEST.... EPISODE IN.... SABATON HISTORY'S......well.....History

  • @mrviking1835
    @mrviking1835 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    A random person: wants to do drugs
    Me: #Tommysaidno

    • @JojokimVT
      @JojokimVT 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Well, if Tommy said no to drugs then I won't do drugs.
      #Tommysaidno

  • @leethear2174
    @leethear2174 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Really cool having tommy on... would like to see the rest of the band make an appearance eventually 👍💪

  • @MaskinJunior
    @MaskinJunior 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    There is a region along the baltic coast called Roslagen. Many of the Vikings traveling east came from there.

  • @Empressofnight
    @Empressofnight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Of the bonus tracks Swedish Pagans is IMO tied for first with Camophlage

  • @elwiraliljeberg8776
    @elwiraliljeberg8776 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Kan inte ni göra fler Svenska låtar om tex vikingarna så som ni gjorde om carolus rex, jag, min bror och även hans kompis älskar de svenska låtarna så och vi vill ha fler. Sen kan ni göra en video om de andra svenska låtarna utöver En livstid i krig, för de har ju ett annat perspektiv än de engelska. Älskar verkligen eran kanal och sabaton, ni gör historia intressantare och roligare att lära sig!!

  • @xavieravila3037
    @xavieravila3037 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    wanted a episode for this song for so long. best Christmas present ever.

  • @bokkenwielderful
    @bokkenwielderful 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    As long as you have Tommy in studio, do his album on the titanic. Technically not Sabaton but close enough.

    • @dorvim1056
      @dorvim1056 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Or make a song about the rms lusitania she was sunked by a German u boat during ww1

  • @isaacibbotson4632
    @isaacibbotson4632 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love this channel

  • @Quixotic-rr8qu
    @Quixotic-rr8qu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    "No one is gonna like it"
    hmmmm
    Big hmmmmmmmmmmm
    Bigger Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
    *Humming intensifies

  • @SonnyKnutson
    @SonnyKnutson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @Sabaton History
    I bet they could make an album about the Vikings and their history. The Characters that was big like Ragnar etc :D

  • @Quixotic-rr8qu
    @Quixotic-rr8qu 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is what i was waiting for past few months. It's here FINALLY

  • @True_Bits
    @True_Bits 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15:49 has a spolier about whether Tommy will ask you in the end of the video to support the band.

  • @greenrepublic8875
    @greenrepublic8875 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    They finally did it SWEDISH PAGANS!!!!

  • @brammer1973
    @brammer1973 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Got to hear this tune at a US stop of The Great Tour. Audience started doing a “rowing pit.” Awesome!

  • @TheSingleTrucker
    @TheSingleTrucker 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Finally! and Merry Christmas! Happy YULE!

  • @HiveFleetUlfang1
    @HiveFleetUlfang1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Fans trolled them for years requesting the song. Band covers it last on their history channel. Well played, Sabaton.

  • @josephpeck8723
    @josephpeck8723 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me when I see that Sabaton History has uploaded: "Hell yeah!"
    Me after watching the video: "Hel yeah!"
    In seriousness, excellent video! I loved it! I've been waiting for this for a while. And an awesome Christmas gift too! And Tommy, nice to see you. Great video, and have a safe and Happy Christmas* and/or Yule*!!!!!!
    (*This applies to any and everyone who reads this. Peace!)

  • @jurij92baran20
    @jurij92baran20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Back in 2016 in kosice, there was a sabaton concert... i remember thobbe playing swedish pagans, then joakim turned at him and said : you know, they have a name for people like you in slovakia, they call them KOKOTI (d1cks) whole crowd of 3000 people went laughing and then, singing along the song.... it was great