The Vikings
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Ryan, just finished this video, my first of yours. Incredible stuff. I had a miserable 16 years of schooling, where I was taught junk history or taught none at all. I'm going to dig my way through all of your collection! I'm 32 and I got some catchin' up to do!
All your videos are very good, thank you A gem for those of us that like to learn more about our history.
Thanks, erikus. Glad you like them. I really only wanted them to be available for anyone who wants to learn a bit more, so glad you found them.
I really wish that you had made more videos concerning the Viking Age and the conversion of Scandinavia. It's my favourite historical era
Reminds me always on a dialogue from Hägar the Horrible:
"What's this?"
"The great european wall!"
"Who'd build it?"
"The people on the other side..."
The intro music always makes want a cup of gourmet coffee....
I have very much enjoyed your series of lectures. I am taking them in order one by one.
As a side note for other people: It is also important to know that all viking males, regardless of class were trained in the use of arms for personal combat. European peasants on the other hand were often banned from training in the use of arms so they could be more easily controlled by their lords. So when trained viking found untrained peasants it was all too easy to defeat them.
Also worth noting that the Vikings primary business was the slave trade. They took the gold from the monasteries when they could get it, but they usually raided villages for slaves to sell to the Arabs. The viking motto was that if were were strong they traded with you. If you were weak they enslaved you.
never knew the arabs and vikings had a slave trade
interesting point.
Ah, the Mount and Blade: Warband picture at 3:00. Gotta love it.
***** Yeah threw that in to see if anyone would notice. :)
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Wow, such a high-value, informative and well-presented overview of The Viking Worldview and its impact on our world. Loved this. Thank you so much.
Both runes and the roman alphabet was orginially used for divination. In practical language they represented sounds and got a form that could be carved into twigs without being lost in the grain. Twigs was the post-it note paper for the vikings, and the knife were their pen...
Just want to say I've been watching a bunch of your videos the past week and they are very well done. thank you.
There were in fact Norse priests, and priestesses of the old ways, they were known as the Gothar and Volvar. There were also temples known as Hofs. However they did not force or impose their practices on the people, they simply followed the practices of their forefathers and ancestors.
I like this even with the inaccuracies
There was norse tempels such as old Upsala and they had some sort of pristes that lived there, and the female Völve was also some sort of pristes.
Absolutely - more on hovs e.g. here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heathen_hof#Gamla_Uppsala
Niflheim (the realm of the dead) sounds a lot like "Nephilim." I wonder if that is more than coincidental...
After watching a few of your videos I knew I needed to subscribe to your channel. Great work!
Supreme presentation. Very well done, easy to understand and follow. Thank you!
Love these videos. Taking me back to my undergraduate days studying ancient Celtic and Viking history, which is also the history of the Roman Empire, etc. Just a point, I'm sure it was just an oversight, but Wagner's Ring Cycle is actually a tetralogy: Das Rheingold, Die Walkure, Siegfried, and Gotterdammerung.
I wouldn't put nearly so much emphasis on the Vikings as the force behind feudalism. First, they were only one of several people groups attacking the territories of the former Roman empire. We all know the names Vandal, Visigoth, Ostrogoth, Lombard and Hun. These too were attacking former Roman lands, not to mention the Arabs in Iberia and North Africa. Second, the Roman empire at its height was already hierarchical into local, regional and empire-wide authorities. One reason the Catholic church developed its parish-diocesan-archdiocesan structure was that it was imitating a hierarchical structure that the Roman population was already very familiar with. When the city of Rome fell, the empire-wide administration ceased, but the local and regional administrations were left to carry on as best they could. They were now free, of course, to hang onto the taxes they were collecting in order to do so. In Britain, the regional authorities even elected leaders like Arthur to raise armies and fight the enemies that were disturbing the peace. Naturally, this was much harder without a globally administered military, but it is this adaptation of an existing local and regional hierarchical authority structure to support an army that must be the basis for feudalism. The Vikings were just one of many reasons why such armies were necessary. Eventually, of course, most of these formerly Roman regions were in fact conquered by the barbarian tribes and these conquerors became the new kings and overlords of the local and regional administrations.
Yeah this is really just another case of me not covering every nuance in a short overview.
I like all the points you add, but I'll clarify my lecture a bit. The breakdown of the other various tribes who assaulted the Roman world are good to know, though in the case of this lecture the Vikings take pride of place for the sake of the land they covered and the length of time they enacted raids. The Viking expansion and raids were far more systemic and long-lasting in terms of the erosion of Roman power in the West. I chose to avoid too much detail and instead focused in the video on pointing out that, for Romans, just about anyone north of their borders were 'barbarians', so the impression on the ground would have been that different raiding groups were all pouring from the same maw.
Also the tag there at the end was not to suggest that Vikings are the ONLY cause of feudalism. You mention several in your post that are vital in the evolution of feudalism. The point I want to make is that the need for martial groups to form in order to repel invading forces (or at least be ready to repel them) was perhaps the strongest catalyst in early tribes and warrior bands beginning to solidify land under their jurisdiction. Dudes with the biggest swords often become the earliest manifestation of feudal leaders.
So maybe we're describing the elephant with me looking from the nose and you from the tail, but I think we're talking about the same animal.
sooooo glad i found your videos! they're great!
Really interesting Ryan. When I compare Greek mythology and Viking mythology I cant help but think the two are one and the same, when I look at them through the eyes of the Holy Bible of Christianity. In Genisis 'Fallen Angels' are described as leaving their first estate and choosing to manipulate our world, in doing so they become gods of our world and seek our prayers and attention which is exactly what our true creator forbids.
With that said, its easy to put all ancient great figures... Zeus/Apollo/Thor/Oden/Isis/Ra and many others into the category "Demi gods". Now im not doubting they existed, Im sure they all did with great wisdom and strength, my question is where did they get that great wisdom and strength? And the only answer that fits is fallen angels
I've enjoyed your Lessons/Lectures very much.
IN the Cottage Tales of Beatrix Potter mystery series (cozy reads - young adult to adult) , one of the mysteries uses the LIndesfarne Gospels as a starting point. My library has all of these fun books.
So I'm a 43 year old Psychologist. Why is this my 3rd video of yours tonight? Why am I watching this.
+BeautifulMsYoung // Haha. Great question. But you're the expert. You tell me! :)
Apparently I must like it and it's very calming.
Listen or read some Joseph Campbell. He will tell you exactly why humanity requires myths. Dreams are private myths and myths are collective dreams.
"Dream is the personalized myth, myth the depersonalized dream; both myth and dream are symbolic in the same general way of the dynamic of the psyche. But in the dream the forms are quirked by the peculiar troubles of the dreamer, whereas in myth the problems and solutions sown are directly valid for all mankind."
Carl Jung could shed light on the psychology of why as well.
Excellent lecture Dr. Reeves, I wish you would have thrown in the Naglfar (Old Norse "nail ship"). In Norse mythology it is said to be a boat made entirely from the fingernails and toenails of the dead. Naglfar is foretold to sail to Vígríðr, ferrying hordes that will do battle with the gods.
Wonderful. Superbly insightful. Loved it. Great, great work!
I understand that the Varangian Rus were directly related to the Vikings of Scandinavia.
Please tell us of Princess Olga wife of Igor of Kiev and her grandson Prince Vladimir son of Sviatoslav of the Kievan Rus who were the founders of the Russian Orthodox Church.
There is a peninsula up north in Norvegr (Norway ;) called Varanger-halvøya, but I think the connection is debated, although Varangians would have been called Varangr up there.
Very accessibly presented and interesting lesson. Thank you!
Outstanding video! Thank-you very much!!!
Well done sir! Excellent presentation yet again
Ragnarok is about the "balance of the force"... the battle between light and dark finishing a cycle....
And evidence is that they had been sailing through the "northern passage" through the Arctic Ocean, before the modern time of a near permanent ice pack, all of the way to eastern/Pacific Russia, China and even to Japan, where they gained a few pieces of technology and strategy to use in their northern European realm.
Boy! Was that interesting or what. Another fine presentation. Thank you for sharing.
So...what about the Hulk and Spiderman? Just Kidding :). I like these videos.
+darkmountain1 // They have to be in there somewhere, right?!
I love all this history. Thank you for all the time you have so generously donated and shared with us.
Interesting, do you also have anything on the Egyptians? Because I couldn't find anything.
Your videos are pretty great Ryan and not to nitpick, but what about the Norse Temple at Uppsala? Norse religion also featured priests/shaman with both male and female represented.
I wonder if the Verdict of Verdun brought about the viking onslaught? Has this been considered?
A couple of sloppy graphics could be corrected.
There is a map titled "Late Medieval - 500-1000", which is obviously early medieval.
And there's another map showing the location of Sutton Hoo in London. It is in Suffolk.
Ragnarok litteraly means "unsettling (rok) of the rulers (ragnar)". Both component words are well know still as "rock" and "reign".
Norse mythology says: At first there was the great void. The void split in half and separated hot from cold. Ymir was created from the condensation between the hot and the cold.....right?
i watched Beowulf 07' movie again .
so good.
10 yrs before Lindensfarne was the massacre of Verden, The franks were constantly attacking the Saxons. Some scholars think it was a offensive move on the Vikings part, sending a message.
Yes that's a good point. This is where historians often get popped for dating the 'start' of something too specifically when it is more of a warming up to the start of something. Great comment. :)
I have seen this idea presented, but is a bit sceptical. Would not the vikings have attacked the franks rather than the anglo saxons if they wanted revenge for Verden? It have been suggested that some of the first raiders came from Norway, and they were under pressure from the danes rather than the christians at this time.
Thank you for your great work. I believe I need to respectfully disagree with an issue you mention. You seem to imply that Norse, Celts, Angles, Saxons and Franks were all basically the same ethinic groups and all living around Central and Northern Europe. To my knowledge this is not correct.
Before the Roman Empire, Celts were mainly Western European peoples, living from Gibraltar to the British Isles. Examples were the Gauls, the Britons, the Picts, the Lusitanians, the Gallaecian, the Celtiberian, etc.. Germanic peoples descended mainly from Norse peoples who migrated South from Scandinavia but, after some millennia they also became kind of ethnically distinct from the Norse, although clearly more related than the Celts. Germanic peoples lived in central Europe above the Rhone river and during Roman occupations were considered barbarians like all tribes not belonging to the empire. Examples were the Lombards, the Visigoths, Suevi, Saxons, Franks, Angles, etc.. The Norse peoples were the ones who remained in Scandinavia, later called Vikings during their raids time in the early middle ages. Then you also has Slavics, Dacian, Thracian and other ethnic groups in Eastern Europe and of course in the Mediterranean you have Romans (probably coming from the Etruscan), Greeks or Hellenes (probably of Mycenaean origin), etc...
During the Roman Empire most Celtic tribes were mixed and integrated in Roman populations and culture. By the end of the empire litle Celtic culture could be found in the Iberian Peninsula or France, or even (although to less extent) in the British Isles. But then all these areas were occupied by Germanic tribes: Anglo-Saxons in Britain, Franks in France, Visigoths and Suevi in modern Portugal and Spain, etc... So then we had centuries of Germanic cultural and genetic influence. Later though, during the middle ages, the Norse occupied a great deal of Northern Europe while the Moors did the same in the South (specially Iberian Peninsula - modern Portugal and Spain).
So in the overall historic context, saying that Celts were Goths for example I think it's incorrect. Goths were Germanics and came ultimately from the Norse. Celts were unrelated peoples, from western Europe, from Britain and France to Iberia.
Enjoyed this video, thanks for posting. My only problem is after 21:20 it starts sounding like you had a bit too much mead. Not sure why the audio becomes distorted in such a way.
Well never discount the presence of mead. :) But this was my 2nd audio in the series with an RE20 mic and inferior compressor. After this I switched to a Neuman U87 condensor mic and great rig, which made the audio far better and 'normal' than before. I may need to retake this video for the audio quality reasons you noticed!
Love the channel!
Also, I'm sure you might be a fan of Douglas Adams' Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul and possibly maybe Neil Gaiman's American Gods.
Buri is not Odin, Vili and Ve's father..thats Borr, but Bury is their Grand father.
good video. very interesting. keep it up.
Lovely lecture, Mr. Reeves. By the way, Wagner's Ring cycle is a tetralogy, not a trilogy.
Thanks! That's a good thing I never would have known without your comment!
Vikings did not just battle aimlessly, in an attempt to go to the great mead hall in the sky Valhalla...Vikings fought taxes from Kings and the church, who took their beliefs and corrupted them.
don't know if it's your doing, mister Reeves, but I find it quite telling how _the Vikings_ are portrayed as wild men, and as soon as _the christians_ are mentioned, we see, obviously _'enlightened, glowing figures in white robes_
wait, people are ashamed that some of our founding fathers were not Christians? That seems silly
MoglinMarine Well the author is a Dr of Theology so there may be a bias.
MoglinMarine Modern day Christians that are trying to re-write the history of the USA are ashamed that some of the founding fathers were not Christian. They are essentially trying to make the USA a "Christian" nation and force their belief system on all of America like their own version of Sharia law.
Yet many are not ashamed of the treasonist history of the confederate flag.
The Norse where more Shamanistic rather than an organized theology.
Umdala the primordial cow
Wow, thank you!
Pretty damn sure Vikings had churches tho, Skiringsal, Lejre and the most important one in Uppsala.
The norce hade Tempels like the one in Old Uppsala
Interesting idea that you think that the Vikings caused the move into the feudal system, but a strange idea that the vikings started their expansion because of hard conditions at home. How come they could be so strong and well fed then? Stronger than any other peoples, right? Does not sound like hunger problems to me. There are other theories about the causes for the Viking attacks, primarily on christian targets in the beginning. Some theorize that forces in Europe tried to isolate the Vikings from their traditional trade routes, and that made the Vikings angry.....
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Loki wasn't Odin's son, he was Odin's blood brother and of giant heritage
The computer game Banner Saga is so similar to Ragnarok. My Odin, thats good game
Nice material.
I am sorry, really enjoy watching your videos & as I remember he also received the understanding of the Runic secrets & magical power. I have somewhere read that the Runes has a numerical system very similar to the Aramaic or Biblical Hebrew language & secrets can be unveiled if you now the way to calculate, the secrets.
+Mats Rosenquist Thanks for posting info about the rune system having some kind of corrilation to ancient geomatria. Very interesting.
The believers of Odin did not take lightly to the sacking and burning of the Holy groves in Germany. The Holy trees that Charlemagne's iron army destroyed was an attack on their way of life. They did have priests, the local big wig was a Hovgode as well as king, some claim the word king derives from Hebrew Cohen, konge in Scandinavian and that the kings name Hakon is from High-Cohen or High-priest. Charlemagne set of the viking raids in Europe, it started as retaliation against the Catholic attacks, kept up because it was possible.
Wasn't a serfdom created by emperor Constantine?
beowulf starts out telling of a mountain in Denmark :P
So where on the map is Freyja's hall Fólkvangr? Seems as if she and her hall should get at least equal billing with Odin and Valhalla since she's scooping up half the slain warriors.
Not to mention, she has first pick...
burl is not the father of odin ve and vill bor is the father of odin burl is the grandfather of odin and bestia is the mother of odin ve and vill
+clement gordon Thanks for clarification. : )
As much as I love history, I kept wondering where women fit into this picture. Women were warriors in the distant past, or so I gather from the Icini rebellion in England. Love your lectures -- very informative -- but I find myself wanting to hear SOMETHING about the place of women in that mighty heritage which evolved into all of Western Europe. Has NO ONE researched this very vital aspect of human life in the past??? Often times I think that men, throughout time, have really been afraid of women because of their attraction for men and their role as life-givers. The Spartans required male homosexuality, but to my knowledge that is the only culture that was so very male-centric in reality. Or maybe I'm wrong, and it is an unacknowledged "given" in the past. Hopefully, this has recently changed.
Hi Sandy. Great comments and thoughts. Since the video here only focused on the Vikings there was nothing I could draw from on the history of women in the Viking raids--both for the fact that evidence is pretty slim on their day-to-day life but also because what we know of their raids shows that, for Vikings, the men were the ones who went a'Viking.
I suspect that is the issue most often when looking for the history of women in fighting is the relative lack of evidence as to specific instances of females fighting during the chivalric era (which is mostly where I've focused in my current lectures). This was somewhat true of the Roman world, where 'manly' was viewed as synonymous with the warrior ethos. The Spartans were certainly not the only 'man-centric' society from the ancient world, if by that you mean focused on male dominance and with certain views about male homosexual activity. Rome embodied all of this, as did other cultures. And if you take out the issue of erotic relationships, there are quite a number of these dominate cultures in the Near East and other parts of the Mediterranean world.
Of course, you are correct. Men not only have dominated military life, but also wrote the histories as well. I certainly imagine, though, that like the American Civil War, there were many women who fought along side their kin during this era.
Probably, I over-reacted since recently I saw several TH-cam programs on "The She Wolves..." in English history. I understand it is a catchy title for a video and that it was in general usage in the past, but I don't understand why women in positions of power and authority in history are STILL not being taken seriously. (Said while banging my head against a wall ...LOL!),
+Sandy Toes Women was given the pleasure to get gang raped and afterwards be burned with the dead.
This guy is great. Apparently, the Northmen were not the first Westerners to make it over to North America. Recent finds in Canada have revealed that the Romans very well may have explored the West much early.
Question for you, do you think that the Viking age and the attacks were caused by Charlemagne and the Franks due to their assault on the Saxons? The Danes let the chieftain Winukind (I think I spelt his name right) take refuge in now Denmark.
I think it depends. Scholars have never been able to find a single cause for their expansions, due in large part that they actually are diverse groups to head in a number of directions for seemingly various reasons. Now those who assault the European mainland, I think, could certainly believe they are retaliating for the expansionism of the Franks. They certainly enjoy sticking it to them at times, which shows an element of revenge. But others went to Russia and others towards the New World, so it would be hard to range them as anti-Frankish Vikings.
Ryan Reeves true, thank you for your response. I often wondered and thought maybe the rest followed suit when they seen or heard of the Danes with the riches from the going viking.
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Oh, how coincidental, I just got The Vikings by Ferguson as a Christmas gift.
What has always bamboozled me is why, none of the Christian Kings of Europe ever put an army together and went to Norway/Denmark and hashed these Vikings on their home turf. A thorough thrashing on their home turf would probably have quieted them down for a generation. Instead, they had sanctuary status on their home turf. Giving them that enabled their depredations on the rest of civilization.
easier said than done. they might have done so had it been convenient or easy, but the logistics were complicated. Assembling and moving the armies would not have been an easy task. Mounting an offense would have been much more difficult than a defense, and they were barely managing the basics of defense at the time.
Too busy fighting amongst themselves as always. Despite the allegedly unifying force of religion, tribal politics remained very firmly in place.
a new theori is that the vikings in the beginning attatcked christians/ the churtch to get revange. The death of their saxon frinds that where beheaded by Charlamange. So you can say that it where the vikings that went over to teatch thies foul christians a lesson. later they found out how easy it was to plunder and kill thies puny christians. And thats why they went on doing it.
R. Blakehole there was nothing there that was worth it
+Torben Johansen The Germanic peoples of Westphalia whom Charlemagne atacked weren't that different from the later vikings themselves. Being norse pagans as well they also had this "cult of raiding". So it wouldn't be far from the truth that these Germanic tribes were taking the initiative when it came to atacking their neighbours. The Franks could afford to deal with them (the Westphalians) because they were a more imidiate threat and they were also in a more accesible location (east of the Rhine) compared to the Scandinavian vikings. Indeed the methods of Charlemagne to deal with them were utterly cruel and unchristian (this type of behaviour of Christian leaders is criticized by Saint Ambrose) but he saw it as revenge.
I very much question the idea that the scandinavian vikings started their raids in order to avenge their co religionists. This smells like a modern romantic idea. The medieval world was not as interconnected as our world is.
Hmmm. maybe they WERE there for business and seeking something from the Monastery. This rather was their main business for a number of years.
lot of statements that are wrong, but Also a lot there is true. I like the perspective though, and the references.
I look at these illuminations and wonder how far we have fallen from what could be. Then I immediately pause the video to write this comment and get back to a bit of work, to put it behind so I can get back to self-cultivation.
ymir is kind of like Kronos from Greek mythology trapped in the deepest pit of frozen hell.
I love these!! Even though I hear some slight anti-catholic leaning in some lectures I believe you do a terrific job. For a Protestant 😜
Michael Rodem I read somewhere that during the 16 century protestants were hunted down and many left bcz of Catholicism is that true
that is true, in regards to Roman Catholics executing Protestants
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Sometimes I consider if the ragnarok has already happened and the gods have died for *us* to live.
are you familiar wth the the rites of ragnaroth
found in anton laveyian satanism? what do you think of the possible connection?
Ok how are you gonna explain that whole picture and not tell me who that squirrel is love your channel by the way
A classic example of Norman design was advertised as being in my perfect condition with my blue blood & aristocracy.
I was born in the March of Pannonia, to the north, FRANKISH MOUNTAIN is bordered by the Danube river, was a frontier march of the Carolingian Empire, named after the former Roman province of Pannonia. Sirmium was an important city in the Roman Empire. It was the ECONOMIC CAPITAL of Roman Pannonia and one of four capital cities of the Empire. Ten Roman Emperors were born in this city or in its surroundings: Herennius Etruscus (227-251), Hostilian (230?-251), Decius Traian (249-251), Claudius II (268-270), Quintillus (270), Aurelian (270-275), Probus (276-282), Maximianus Herculius (285-310), Constantius II (337-361) and Gratian (367-383). In any event, both Non-Frankish-Germanic & Slavic pagans ultimately became the LINGUA FRANCA in the Avar Khaganate.
I am very proud of my ancestry of Norman Crusader, after the collapse of the Charlemagne (Carolingian) Empire caused by the Vikings romped to victory to be called the blend of Viking & Frank by the name of my surname SAVATE and then during the First Crusade.
What about Fenrir?
Danish is like Jewish but from Danite, There was a Danite Sampson sounds norse with the son.
I thought Ben Franklin was a Deist Christian? Like Jefferson...
Ben was an avowed atheist.
According to his autobiography, he was a Deist.
Jefferson was definitely not an Atheist.
Dude was a quintessential deist
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The Norse do have priests, they're called Gothi.
Good point to clarify, thanks. There are gothi who serve as elites within the communities but not a separate group within the community that are, say, ordained and who train one another in the more-or-less organized way of a majority of ancient religions. I had considered making a stronger comment about the gothi and then compare them to Catholic priests but I cut it to keep at roughly 30 minutes.
So the only point I'm making, really, is that their religion is quite different from the Christianity that would later smash into it in later years.
You make a lot of good videos, but many times I feel a little bit like you just don't get it right. Like in this video, you are talking about the "Scandinavian religion", while it is more like the Scandinavian version of Germanic religion. I know it's not easy to draw borders in these pagan religions. But you make it look like it's this unique stand alone religion, which it is definitly not.
When they attacked some places, traded, immigrated, whatever. Many times there would be some people who recognize the gods and customs but also in many places would be able to communicate as their languages where pretty similar germanic languages. This is not criticizing your video, just the general believes about the vikings as they were this kind of aliens who came out of nowhere. They had a lot more in common with many "local people" than people think.
I saw your video about the hundred years' war some times ago and you say something about flanders allying with England. You show a map of what is called Flanders today, which is pretty wrong. The county of Flanders at that time would be a little less than half of modern day Flanders and a part of modern day France (now called French Flanders). The other part of modern day Flanders was mainly the Duchy of Brabant, part of The Holy Roman Empire and ruled by the Burgundians at that time (who had a pretty dubious relationship with the king of France anyway).
I know Feudal Europe is a very complicated matter and you try make a general explanation, but if you show a detail, even if it is just for a joke, at least try to get it right.
Interesting, but your pronunciation is so far off....
That map is wrong, Vikings went even to baghdad
Hel is not a place to be for eternity. It is temporary, and gods and people can come back from there....
Can't believe I'm a descendant
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ummm... a football team, I think. a buncha black guys with long blonde braids wearing purple jackets. am I right?
Oden is a myth, but jesus is real.
Jus Axn That's why they call it Norse mythology
All those people you spoke of are from the seed of Japheth son of Noah, that's a fact.