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It is aparently quite easy to walk barefoot over burning coals if you know how to. The right gait, the right speed, and the right impact o the coals, and you can actually walk out without serious, or even visible, injuries. Still apparently is quite uncomfortable, though. Firewalking was never about comfort, though, and like all things, there is a science to getting through it intact and unharmed. Maybe this Harald guy was lucky. Maybe the coals were not hot enough. Maybe he just had that magic strut. Who Knows!
@@IansMentalOmega I've heard that you can run across them fast enough to avoid being burned, didn't know there was a technique for walking! Maybe it was the reverse of a normal trial by ordeal, where you had to be brave enough to do it but you'd only get a guilty verdict with divine intervention 😆
@@JackRackam Yeah, you do NOT want to run across hot coals. From what I know, running increases the pressure on the coals, causing them to heat up and crack, which causes them to stick to your feet, which in turn leads to burning. The safer path is to walk, not exactly slowly, not fast, just at a relatively brisk yet casual stride, in a very certain way. Firewalking is an Art for a reason, my dude. You don't try and run, you take it with a certain speed, a certain stride, and you pray that nothing goes wrong and that you don't accidentally step too hard, too fast, or on a particularly nasty coal that just wants to be a dick.
I'm legit curious how often people did the "she goes to a different school" bit. I never heard it myself but then again I lived in the middle of nowhere.
Cousin from another cousin, albeit distant. Technically we're all , what is it? 30th at minimum, cousin. I don't buy this though as so much of the time human civilization; humans were born, lived and died in a small geographic area, punctuated by by influxes of non consensual DNA. Siblings and niblings are defined by direct parentage I'd imagine. What is a species mate called?
"Dmitri, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be Tsar in twenty years! Back to Earth you go!" "But who will believe me?" "I'm God, dammit! I've got a plan!"
Welcome to actual history. Maybe like one in ten people get to die as dramatically as you think they should. And that's usually because they were murdered by someone. It's all 'he was desperately pulled from the battlefield as disaster befell around him and then died three months later in someone shed after gangrene set into his legs'.
@@JR-zi9vj I guess historical figures like Charles I, Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette and Anne Boleyn do have tragic, interesting deaths but then you have Edward the Black Prince, hero to the English and understandable villain of the French, dying of dysentery at around 40.
In the same general period in Sweden we had a long series of kings from one clan alternating back and forth between the names Magnus Eriksson and Erik Magnusson, fighting kings of another clan alternating back and forth between Karl Sverkersson and Sverker Karlsson. It gets pretty confusing.
Hakon Hakonsson was born posthumously; assuming King Hakon Sverrirsson was even his father, he never got the chance to name his son. Hakon Hakonsson was presumably either named by his mother or the Birkebeiners in order to emphasize his 'royal' lineage & claim to the inheritance.
You missed out a crazy part of the story re Scotland. Alexander III, King of Scots (1249-1286), told Haakon that the Lordship of the Isles could have any land he could navigate a ship around. Obviously meaning islands. So far, so good. If you look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice that the Kintyre peninsula is attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus of land between West Loch Tarbert and Loch Fyne, which flows into the Firth of Clyde. Haakon sailed a ship up West Loch Tarbert, had it dragged across land, and refloated it in Loch Fyne. He then circumnavigated Bute, Arran, and the other islands in the Clyde estuary, before sailing around the Mull of Kintyre, and returning to his starting point. By doing so he had not only claimed the Clyde islands for the Lordship of the Isles, but also the Kintyre peninsula. And as Alexander was a man of honour, he graciously conceded. However, it was three years later that the Battle of Largs, which you refer to, took place, and which eventually saw the Lordship of the Isles become part of Scotland.
I do recall an episode of Mythbusters where they tested how people could walk across hot coals without getting hurt. They found that if you walked calmly and briskly instead of panicked and jumpy, you could get across safely. Because one doesn't put that much pressure on their feet if they walk normally, so the foot doesn't actually maintain enough connection with the coals to burn. Jump away from the heat, your foot comes slamming back down to the coals, making a real hard connection with the hot coals. One of the Mythbuster segments I remember really well, but it still might be better to find the episode to double check me.
I’ve also heard that trial by ordeal was often a way for the priest administering it to put their hand on the scale. If he thought you were innocent he might give you a bucket of “boiling” water that’s just lukewarm to stick your hand in, if that’s the trial. If he doesn’t like your face he’ll make sure it’s basically steam. I’m sure something similar held for burning coals.
I did some more googling into this... many coals can burn at 3000 degrees fahrenheit, but some types burn colder than that. So an important part is walking across the coals quickly, but it's also important to have a colder fire or let the coals cool first.
Coals burn very slowly, giving of just a little bit of heat for a very long time. Normal calluses on your feet are enough to shield you from that heat (But if you hesitate when walking your foot sink deeper into the coal, which will probably make you panic and kick around the coals some more, releasing even more heat next to your feet)
So basically, if you BELIEVE you are in the right, then you'll probably walk more calmly, so it's possible that this really could serve as a crude, half-reliable lie detector of sorts.
Counterpoint: Don't announce that you're going to do something epic, just do it and brag after the fact. The dangerous part is PLANNING to do something epic.
Priests were usually instructed to ensure that the various trials were passable, usually by doing things like ensuring that boiling water isn't actually boiling when someone sticks their hand in. The prospect of being maimed in the trial is usually seen as enough incentive against liars actually taking the test, as one would presumably be desperate to prove their innocence in most ordeals. Of course, sometimes the priest decides an ACTUAL miracle is required, in which case, you usually end up like Peter Bartholomew.
Sounds like Latin Christendom to me! I've always found priestly shenanigans like this to be both strangely endearing but also kinda corrupt, so *shrugs*
Good point. Medieval Christians were pious and believed that lying on trial was punishable by hellfire and of course failing a trial by fire meant guilt so the church may as well have made the trials passable since the threat of eternal damnation was enough to discourage most from purjery.
My three main take aways from this are, anyone who claims to be Norwegian nobility is immune to burning coles, never name your royal faction after food and you probably shouldn’t trust random drifters who claim to be long lost family
There's a really good Norwegian movie about Haakon Haakonsson's ski trip. It's not the most historically accurate, but it stars Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones. It even has a Hurdy Gurdy
Which one? The half brother from New Jersey, or the one from Wisconsin? And don't say you're from Kansas City, unless it's on the Kansas side, unlike the last two guys.
Jeez, and I thought that Polish "politics" in this period were entangled and insane. Also, I've heard that walking over burning coals isn't as dangerous, as it seems. Don't quote me on that though. There is probably a lot of factors that influence the outcome, like the exact temperature or how fast do you walk.
walking over burning coals aint that bad, assuming you keep up the pace and you're not competing for kingship and thus might fall risk to some "accident". its like walking on warm sand on the beach, except milder somehow.
@@rontubman6953 More-or-less, yes. Most of the blood claims were... not very good, to say the least. But I include more than *just* the Italian wars b/c the succession was screwed up from basically the moment Emperor Frederick II died.
>oh man, this king Haakon Haakonsson sound really interesting, lets find more about him on youtube >dozens of videos about Norweigen king who are named Haakon but not Haakon Haakonsson I guest Haakon is Norweigen versin of French Lui
And when Norway's current Crown Prince becomes King, he'll be Haakon VIII, it'll make it the most common name for Norwegian monarchs. There were seven kings of Norway named Magnus, too.
@@arawn1061 Question 1: Did you think it was good? Question 2: How? I thought it was only coming out on the 22nd of this Month in theatres... (Just got my first vaccine in prep for that day)
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Answer 1: had a hard time caring about the characters, great worldbuilding, felt kinda pointless after a while but thats okay, didnt recognize Stellan Skarsgård, Fantastic fucking visuals. Final score: 5 grams of spice/to a glorious Sandworm Answer 2: Sweden is a place that exists
@@arawn1061 Ah thats kinda sad. I was hoping the characters would be the strongest part of this movie. This is how LOTR and Harry Potter got big. You can have the most badass worldbuilding imaginable, but it wont matter if you dont have characters people can be invested in.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Dune the movie is just breathtaking. Simply majestic visuals, Extraordinary Music and atmosphere so I'd still say its worth seeing just for that. And to be honest the main guys prophetic stuff is very interesting, making him standout despite his personality. Also Sandworms. Did i mention Sandworms? Because Sandworms.
Apparently the fire walking thing isn’t nearly as difficult as it sounds or looks, the feet aren’t in contact with the coals long enough to burn….providing you don’t stop for a chat on your way.
I think this is your best work yet. The humor is snappy and you manage to make the events pretty easy to follow despite how convoluted they are. Well done.
An interesting side-note: Inge Bardsson (7:13) and his brother Skule were direct male-line descendants of Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, who was the King of England defeated by William the Conqueror. Tostig infamously allied with Harald Hadrada against his brother and both were defeated and killed by Harold's army at Stamford Bridge a few weeks before Hastings. Tostig's sons survived the battle and returned to Norway with what remained of the army, where they were granted lands by Hadrada's son Olaf III. And, a century and a half later, one of their descendants married the daughter of Sigurd Munn (3:14) and their son became king of Norway.
Haha, I studied this period’s government administration in college, it was a real mess. For those a bit unsure about how these kings just keep popping up, basically Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, had instituted a system of local administrator nobles, the hersir, meant to be loyal only to the king rather than the traditional clans, tribes and peasant republics of the region. However, because of the democratic nature of Norse Scandinavia, any new monarch needed to have his position confirmed by a majority vote in three different peoples’ assemblies in different regions of the country. Now, problem was that as new pretenders began arriving, they made allies with the hersir who then used their control of the local militias to strongarm the assemblies into electing a new king. Sometimes it was backwards and a popular candidate was elected and the militias forced their hersir to back a candidate they wouldn’t otherwise have. Regardless, you had a consistent cycle of regionalist resentments that could be fuelled by easily raised armies as kings popped up left and right. Haakon Haakonson tried to remedy this situation by introducing the feudal system and limiting who could vote on new kings to priests and the new high nobility, but his reforms were never finished and the Norwegian aristocracy mostly finished off by the Black Death, eventually allowing the country’s peaceful integration into the Kalmar Union a century and half later.
Ikr! So basically Alexander's son dies before him, marries his daughter Margaret to King Eric ii of Norway, and then his granddaughter Margaret becomes queen of Scotland at age 3!
@@jameskilgusii6967 And then Margaret dies on the way over from Norway, & then the rightful heir by primogeniture (John Balliol) is inaugurated after an interregnum followed by the 'great cause' (where 13 'competitors' put forward their claim to the crown of Scotland). John Balliol is then promptly derived of his claim by the man who awarded the kingdom to him in the 1st place, Edward Longshanks, due to Balliol's refusal to act as Longshanks' puppet. Balliol abdicates due to public pressure, & Edward swoops in as Scotland's disputed feudal overlord, taking possession of it himself, sparking the 1st Scottish War of Independence. Said war ends in the favour of one Robert Bruce (grandson of the proximity-of-blood claimant Robert *de Brus* from the 'great cause,' chief rival of John Balliol) after a fighting a brutal guerilla war against two English kings. (I know you probably knew that already, I just wanted to see how quickly I could summarize the 'rest' of the story lol)
@@jeandehuit5385 Edward was Roberts Brother. The plan, openly, was that Edward would become High King of Ireland to support his brother's war against the English, which is why the English fought against him, making it, effectively, a weird side plot of the Scottish War of Independence.
Fanstatic video and as a norwegian something I've wanted you to make for a long time. Though I hoped you would mention king Sverre 1. and his grudgematch with pope Not-so-Innocent 3. Would have been amazing in your style of video.
So many stories like this just end in “but he caught a fever and died”. It makes me wonder if God was writing it but it was last minute so he just scribbled in something and turns it in
god just noticed he was making some character way too op so he decided that the best way was to go the whole DnD "rock fall everyone die" to fix the issue
I know this isn't very specific but I'd love to see you do a video on Ireland. We've got a whole bunch of anniversaries coming up so it should be easier to research :)
Since it was the Medieval golden age and the Viking era was quite nice, you might never see a current or future King of Norway not given a royal name from this era.
The double-a in names like Haakon isn't actually pronounced like a long a, rather it is the old way of spelling the vowel "å". This vowel is pronounced like how a Sopranos character pronounces the vowel in "Paul" or how a strong New York accent pronounces the vowel in "dog" or the first vowel in "coffee".
Fun fact, significant part of the Norwegian population have a blood relation to the royal line as one of our kings.. Well.. Several of them but this one especially had a fondness for farmer daughters. He traveled the lands a lot and stayed at farms.. See where this is going?
@@breakerdawn8429 This was at a much later date, but considering the norse love of travel to foreign lands it is far from unlikely there would be distantly related potential heirs in distant lands. Russia Ukraine and the other principalities, Normandy, and British Isles all would be large pools of potential distant relatives tbh.
Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be admired . You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on TH-cam.
Im from norway and finnaly norway is getting in the ligth of history TH-camrs thank you hope the history of norway is getting more covrage by history TH-camrs. As we say in norway Tusen takk
Where were you when I was studying Mani, the tiny former Spartan peninsula of Greece that resisted invasion by the Ottomans and the Venetians and pirated both? Seems right up your alley.
I always feel like history is written by some dude in the background that’s just like “yeah yeah yeah that makes perfect logical sense…. But actually you know what would be dope?..” and that’s how we get miracle stories.
Literally immediately after watching this video I go to see what my essay question is and I kid you not it's on Harald Sigurdsson. Talk about some timing.
There is enough conflict and intrigue in the one century long civil war for someone to write a Game Of Thrones style epic with appropriate additions of fantasy. Or a Legends Of Galactic Heroes style epic if they translate the setting into a sci-fi space opera. Anyone up for it?
2:50 God told people how to survive the Black Plague. The Old Testament laws were so good, that the Jews suffered very little in that period; except then everyone who DID suffer grew jealous and suspicious, and attacked them.
It was more that Jews lived separately from Christians and so were less exposed to the infected. The idea that the hygiene laws of Leviticus saved them is mostly a historical myth.
@@luxborealis ? Living separately would be no help, if their own people were getting infected at the same rate. But they weren't, due to good hygiene standards. They were infected far less, and more effectively stopped the spread; making them targets of persecution for that reason. So, I'm not sure where you heard that argument given, showing that basic hygiene standards of proper waste management, quarantining, face-masks and etc. had no health impact... but, obviously it would and did.
The ordeal by fire sounds like fire walking which is very possible to walk over without burning your feet. the trick would be walk semi quickly with confidence great for an ordeal really if you actually thought liars would be burnt.
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No lmao
It is aparently quite easy to walk barefoot over burning coals if you know how to. The right gait, the right speed, and the right impact o the coals, and you can actually walk out without serious, or even visible, injuries.
Still apparently is quite uncomfortable, though. Firewalking was never about comfort, though, and like all things, there is a science to getting through it intact and unharmed.
Maybe this Harald guy was lucky. Maybe the coals were not hot enough. Maybe he just had that magic strut. Who Knows!
@@IansMentalOmega I've heard that you can run across them fast enough to avoid being burned, didn't know there was a technique for walking! Maybe it was the reverse of a normal trial by ordeal, where you had to be brave enough to do it but you'd only get a guilty verdict with divine intervention 😆
@@JackRackam Yeah, you do NOT want to run across hot coals. From what I know, running increases the pressure on the coals, causing them to heat up and crack, which causes them to stick to your feet, which in turn leads to burning. The safer path is to walk, not exactly slowly, not fast, just at a relatively brisk yet casual stride, in a very certain way.
Firewalking is an Art for a reason, my dude. You don't try and run, you take it with a certain speed, a certain stride, and you pray that nothing goes wrong and that you don't accidentally step too hard, too fast, or on a particularly nasty coal that just wants to be a dick.
@@JackRackam Since it's THE DAY...
HAPPY LEIF ERIKSON DAY!
HINGA DINGA DURGEN!
"I already did a trial by fire--in Denmark!" Is the original "I totally have a girlfriend in Canada"
"yeah my trial was held in a different country. You wouldnt know it."
Lmao I do tho. But I digress.
I'm legit curious how often people did the "she goes to a different school" bit. I never heard it myself but then again I lived in the middle of nowhere.
@@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517 I encountered it twice. Both times she turned out to be real, so…sometimes reality is surprising.
@@neighborhoodmusicsnob5517it was more common in the 90s early 2000s
Great vid Jack, my long-lost brother from another mother.
*Half brother from Ireland
@@shootgunman1460 *Oireland
You gonna walk across hot coals to back that up?
Ancient chibs
Cousin from another cousin, albeit distant. Technically we're all , what is it? 30th at minimum, cousin. I don't buy this though as so much of the time human civilization; humans were born, lived and died in a small geographic area, punctuated by by influxes of non consensual DNA. Siblings and niblings are defined by direct parentage I'd imagine. What is a species mate called?
I love the God planning bit.
"God, Dmitri the tsar Russia has died again and we need other Dmitri"
"Dmitri, what are you doing here? You're supposed to be Tsar in twenty years! Back to Earth you go!"
"But who will believe me?"
"I'm God, dammit! I've got a plan!"
I'm here.
@@JackRackam Keep calm one of your favourite TH-camrs just commented on your video think of a smart reply. Wait am I typing my thoughts.
@@JackRackam best joke sequel!
Hilarious
Hakon has a "chosen one" protagonist vibe but like the most anticlimactic ending ever
Just your standard irl history fair. Genghis Khan died by falling off his horse and Alexander the Great died of malaria.
Welcome to actual history. Maybe like one in ten people get to die as dramatically as you think they should. And that's usually because they were murdered by someone.
It's all 'he was desperately pulled from the battlefield as disaster befell around him and then died three months later in someone shed after gangrene set into his legs'.
Real protagonist endings in history are usually most interesting and winding than any written story
@@JR-zi9vj I guess historical figures like Charles I, Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette and Anne Boleyn do have tragic, interesting deaths but then you have Edward the Black Prince, hero to the English and understandable villain of the French, dying of dysentery at around 40.
Ck2 players: "first time?"
“So, we’re cool, right?”
“Yeah…sure…”
*gently conceals Damascus Sword*
(Trivium begins playing in the background)
reference?
Nothing is less imaginative than a Haakon naming his son Haakon.
*sweats in Louis of France*
Look up George Foreman
In the same general period in Sweden we had a long series of kings from one clan alternating back and forth between the names Magnus Eriksson and Erik Magnusson, fighting kings of another clan alternating back and forth between Karl Sverkersson and Sverker Karlsson. It gets pretty confusing.
Hakon Hakonsson was born posthumously; assuming King Hakon Sverrirsson was even his father, he never got the chance to name his son. Hakon Hakonsson was presumably either named by his mother or the Birkebeiners in order to emphasize his 'royal' lineage & claim to the inheritance.
You should check the name of our current king 😅 (Norway)
So IIRC Haakon roughly translates to “High Son” in Old Norse. So Haakon’s full name is “Highson, Highson’s Son”
That's almost a tongue twisters.
Well he’s named highson, highson he must be king. I mean… It’s in the name…
Would make sense why Prince Carl took the name when he became Haakon VII, considering he was 1,9 meters high
@Anonymous D?NGO Right here pope the dad heretic.
Imagine if he took the Irish up on their high-king offer...
How many long lost half brothers do you want?
12th century Norway: *yes*
Forget Norway!
Kenya, only Kenya
Where the giraffes are
And the zebra
Anyone: "Iam your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!"
Norway: "And what does that make y-?"
A: "KING ME KINGMEKINGMEKINGME"
Some Norwegian: Is the King
His long lost brothers from across the sea: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*
'brothers'
Fun fact. Norwegian monarchs only have one son so that the civil war never happens again.
Apparently being King in Norway is like being a Lottory winner
You missed out a crazy part of the story re Scotland.
Alexander III, King of Scots (1249-1286), told Haakon that the Lordship of the Isles could have any land he could navigate a ship around. Obviously meaning islands. So far, so good.
If you look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice that the Kintyre peninsula is attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus of land between West Loch Tarbert and Loch Fyne, which flows into the Firth of Clyde.
Haakon sailed a ship up West Loch Tarbert, had it dragged across land, and refloated it in Loch Fyne. He then circumnavigated Bute, Arran, and the other islands in the Clyde estuary, before sailing around the Mull of Kintyre, and returning to his starting point.
By doing so he had not only claimed the Clyde islands for the Lordship of the Isles, but also the Kintyre peninsula. And as Alexander was a man of honour, he graciously conceded.
However, it was three years later that the Battle of Largs, which you refer to, took place, and which eventually saw the Lordship of the Isles become part of Scotland.
Haakon: Im going to do whats called a Old gamer move. *laughs in longship*
Why the hell would you challenge a Norwegian to sail around something?
I think that's actually a story about Magnus Barelegs, the father of the Sigurd who started this whole mess
I’m surprised he didn’t sail around Britain so he could claim all of Scottland
I do recall an episode of Mythbusters where they tested how people could walk across hot coals without getting hurt. They found that if you walked calmly and briskly instead of panicked and jumpy, you could get across safely.
Because one doesn't put that much pressure on their feet if they walk normally, so the foot doesn't actually maintain enough connection with the coals to burn. Jump away from the heat, your foot comes slamming back down to the coals, making a real hard connection with the hot coals.
One of the Mythbuster segments I remember really well, but it still might be better to find the episode to double check me.
I’ve also heard that trial by ordeal was often a way for the priest administering it to put their hand on the scale. If he thought you were innocent he might give you a bucket of “boiling” water that’s just lukewarm to stick your hand in, if that’s the trial. If he doesn’t like your face he’ll make sure it’s basically steam. I’m sure something similar held for burning coals.
I did some more googling into this... many coals can burn at 3000 degrees fahrenheit, but some types burn colder than that. So an important part is walking across the coals quickly, but it's also important to have a colder fire or let the coals cool first.
Coals burn very slowly, giving of just a little bit of heat for a very long time. Normal calluses on your feet are enough to shield you from that heat
(But if you hesitate when walking your foot sink deeper into the coal, which will probably make you panic and kick around the coals some more, releasing even more heat next to your feet)
So basically, if you BELIEVE you are in the right, then you'll probably walk more calmly, so it's possible that this really could serve as a crude, half-reliable lie detector of sorts.
If ever someone is about to do something epic, they will die. So remember kids, never do anything epic or it will kill you.
Elon Musk: *sweats nervously*
Counterpoint: Don't announce that you're going to do something epic, just do it and brag after the fact.
The dangerous part is PLANNING to do something epic.
can someone count how many times he has ended his videos with "caught an today perfectly curable disease and died."?
To be honest that was extremely common back in the day.
Priests were usually instructed to ensure that the various trials were passable, usually by doing things like ensuring that boiling water isn't actually boiling when someone sticks their hand in.
The prospect of being maimed in the trial is usually seen as enough incentive against liars actually taking the test, as one would presumably be desperate to prove their innocence in most ordeals.
Of course, sometimes the priest decides an ACTUAL miracle is required, in which case, you usually end up like Peter Bartholomew.
Sounds like Latin Christendom to me! I've always found priestly shenanigans like this to be both strangely endearing but also kinda corrupt, so *shrugs*
Good point. Medieval Christians were pious and believed that lying on trial was punishable by hellfire and of course failing a trial by fire meant guilt so the church may as well have made the trials passable since the threat of eternal damnation was enough to discourage most from purjery.
Ahh yes, the best possible DNA-Test: Walking over burning coal.
Jeremy Kyle's show was cancelled because he planned to do this next.
leeches sounds pretty stupid if u don't understand the science. maybe you should pray harder, then u'll better understand the Gospel of Fire.
At least it shows you you have a strong king.
My three main take aways from this are, anyone who claims to be Norwegian nobility is immune to burning coles, never name your royal faction after food and you probably shouldn’t trust random drifters who claim to be long lost family
I love these little vignettes of history, just enough to leave me intrigued but not so long that I can't dedicate time to watching them. :)
There's a really good Norwegian movie about Haakon Haakonsson's ski trip. It's not the most historically accurate, but it stars Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones. It even has a Hurdy Gurdy
I know that movie it was called the last king
@@Whitetiger770 That title would make no sense since he wasn't the last king. It was called "The birchlegs" if that translation is correct.
@@Sirvalian Well that’s the title in America I didn’t name it
@@Whitetiger770 I guess movie titles get bad translations both ways then.
Hey Jack I’m your long lost 1/2 brother
Which one? The half brother from New Jersey, or the one from Wisconsin? And don't say you're from Kansas City, unless it's on the Kansas side, unlike the last two guys.
Jeez, and I thought that Polish "politics" in this period were entangled and insane.
Also, I've heard that walking over burning coals isn't as dangerous, as it seems. Don't quote me on that though. There is probably a lot of factors that influence the outcome, like the exact temperature or how fast do you walk.
walking over burning coals aint that bad, assuming you keep up the pace and you're not competing for kingship and thus might fall risk to some "accident". its like walking on warm sand on the beach, except milder somehow.
If you think this is bad, just look at Sicily from 1250 to the end of the Italian wars. Makes other wars of succession look like a cakewalk.
@@jeandehuit5385 basically half the Italian wars were in some form or another about the Sicilian succession no?
@@rontubman6953 More-or-less, yes. Most of the blood claims were... not very good, to say the least. But I include more than *just* the Italian wars b/c the succession was screwed up from basically the moment Emperor Frederick II died.
@@boarfaceswinejaw4516 No way it is better than walking on sand.
Do you mean I should be king for all the burning sands I have jogged over?
>oh man, this king Haakon Haakonsson sound really interesting, lets find more about him on youtube
>dozens of videos about Norweigen king who are named Haakon but not Haakon Haakonsson
I guest Haakon is Norweigen versin of French Lui
And when Norway's current Crown Prince becomes King, he'll be Haakon VIII, it'll make it the most common name for Norwegian monarchs. There were seven kings of Norway named Magnus, too.
@@matthewchristiansen9978 the Crown prince's actual name is Håkon Magnus
@@birdstone8688 Scandinavian monarchs only use their first name for regency numbers. Karl II was followed by Karl III Johan
"You dont know Haarkon, they are not Human, they are brutal!"
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Funny thing just watched Dune
@@arawn1061 Question 1: Did you think it was good?
Question 2: How? I thought it was only coming out on the 22nd of this Month in theatres...
(Just got my first vaccine in prep for that day)
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Answer 1: had a hard time caring about the characters, great worldbuilding, felt kinda pointless after a while but thats okay, didnt recognize Stellan Skarsgård, Fantastic fucking visuals. Final score: 5 grams of spice/to a glorious Sandworm
Answer 2: Sweden is a place that exists
@@arawn1061 Ah thats kinda sad. I was hoping the characters would be the strongest part of this movie. This is how LOTR and Harry Potter got big. You can have the most badass worldbuilding imaginable, but it wont matter if you dont have characters people can be invested in.
@@jakespacepiratee3740 Dune the movie is just breathtaking. Simply majestic visuals, Extraordinary Music and atmosphere so I'd still say its worth seeing just for that. And to be honest the main guys prophetic stuff is very interesting, making him standout despite his personality. Also Sandworms. Did i mention Sandworms? Because Sandworms.
"Magnus dies in battle, because, after all, he's blind"
Wow, who could have seen that coming!
Magnus certainly didn't see it coming!
Let’s go Jack. Finally an episode on my homeland and it’s history
Apparently the fire walking thing isn’t nearly as difficult as it sounds or looks, the feet aren’t in contact with the coals long enough to burn….providing you don’t stop for a chat on your way.
I think this is your best work yet. The humor is snappy and you manage to make the events pretty easy to follow despite how convoluted they are. Well done.
Grand job uploading videos this often I truly appreciate that I can enjoy these this often.
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An interesting side-note: Inge Bardsson (7:13) and his brother Skule were direct male-line descendants of Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, who was the King of England defeated by William the Conqueror. Tostig infamously allied with Harald Hadrada against his brother and both were defeated and killed by Harold's army at Stamford Bridge a few weeks before Hastings. Tostig's sons survived the battle and returned to Norway with what remained of the army, where they were granted lands by Hadrada's son Olaf III. And, a century and a half later, one of their descendants married the daughter of Sigurd Munn (3:14) and their son became king of Norway.
PLEASE DO A VIDEO ON Jan Janszoon PLEASE JUST LOOK HIM UP AND SEE WHAT THE GREATEST PIRATE LOOKS LIKE
Intriguing... most intriguing...
@@JackRackam are you saying that Jack Sparrow isn't the greatest pirate to (not) live?
Wasn’t he the guy who Barbary pirates raided Iceland?
@@gamebawesome shhh no spoilers
My name is Jan Janszoon. I live in Wisconsin; I work in the lumberyard there!
Haha, I studied this period’s government administration in college, it was a real mess. For those a bit unsure about how these kings just keep popping up, basically Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, had instituted a system of local administrator nobles, the hersir, meant to be loyal only to the king rather than the traditional clans, tribes and peasant republics of the region. However, because of the democratic nature of Norse Scandinavia, any new monarch needed to have his position confirmed by a majority vote in three different peoples’ assemblies in different regions of the country. Now, problem was that as new pretenders began arriving, they made allies with the hersir who then used their control of the local militias to strongarm the assemblies into electing a new king. Sometimes it was backwards and a popular candidate was elected and the militias forced their hersir to back a candidate they wouldn’t otherwise have. Regardless, you had a consistent cycle of regionalist resentments that could be fuelled by easily raised armies as kings popped up left and right. Haakon Haakonson tried to remedy this situation by introducing the feudal system and limiting who could vote on new kings to priests and the new high nobility, but his reforms were never finished and the Norwegian aristocracy mostly finished off by the Black Death, eventually allowing the country’s peaceful integration into the Kalmar Union a century and half later.
The scottish king Alexander the third 's succession story is even more stupid than Norway's. You could do a video on it.
Ikr! So basically Alexander's son dies before him, marries his daughter Margaret to King Eric ii of Norway, and then his granddaughter Margaret becomes queen of Scotland at age 3!
@@jameskilgusii6967 And then Margaret dies on the way over from Norway, & then the rightful heir by primogeniture (John Balliol) is inaugurated after an interregnum followed by the 'great cause' (where 13 'competitors' put forward their claim to the crown of Scotland).
John Balliol is then promptly derived of his claim by the man who awarded the kingdom to him in the 1st place, Edward Longshanks, due to Balliol's refusal to act as Longshanks' puppet. Balliol abdicates due to public pressure, & Edward swoops in as Scotland's disputed feudal overlord, taking possession of it himself, sparking the 1st Scottish War of Independence.
Said war ends in the favour of one Robert Bruce (grandson of the proximity-of-blood claimant Robert *de Brus* from the 'great cause,' chief rival of John Balliol) after a fighting a brutal guerilla war against two English kings.
(I know you probably knew that already, I just wanted to see how quickly I could summarize the 'rest' of the story lol)
@@jeandehuit5385 Also there's a weird sidequest where his brother tries to make Robert Bruce king of Ireland so he can become king of scotland.
@@kategrant2728 I thought it was Edward Bruce that failed to be the high king of the Irish?
@@jeandehuit5385 Edward was Roberts Brother. The plan, openly, was that Edward would become High King of Ireland to support his brother's war against the English, which is why the English fought against him, making it, effectively, a weird side plot of the Scottish War of Independence.
Fanstatic video and as a norwegian something I've wanted you to make for a long time. Though I hoped you would mention king Sverre 1. and his grudgematch with pope Not-so-Innocent 3. Would have been amazing in your style of video.
As a practising Catholic, that heavenly beauracracy bit was hilarious.
So many stories like this just end in “but he caught a fever and died”. It makes me wonder if God was writing it but it was last minute so he just scribbled in something and turns it in
god just noticed he was making some character way too op so he decided that the best way was to go the whole DnD "rock fall everyone die" to fix the issue
Damn it’s rare to see a channel like this that’s still active
I know this isn't very specific but I'd love to see you do a video on Ireland. We've got a whole bunch of anniversaries coming up so it should be easier to research :)
4:50 to be fair, that still is the world sometimes, even with the internet
I've very much enjoying the increased upload schedule, good job man!
Criminally underrated channel.
Since it was the Medieval golden age and the Viking era was quite nice, you might never see a current or future King of Norway not given a royal name from this era.
Thank You For Covering This !
Magellan is awesome. So glad you're sponsored by them and put that recommendation out there
"What's your name?"
"Haakon"
"what's your father's name?"
"Haakon"
"So your name is"
"Haakon, son of Haakon, or Haakon Haakonson"
The art for the outfits in this is dope AF 😎
“So it’s game of thrones”
“Yes jimmy it’s the game of throne”
-Althisthub
Thanks for uploading the Leif Erikson Day Present, Jack! :)
Aw the good old days, when you could just lie about being a king's son and the only way to prove it was trial by fire.
unlike today where you have to prove your not a robot
What I think would be swell, was if you made a video about another Norwegian king, also named Haakon, but the 7th.
Two videos only a week apart? Is this the same Rackam we know and love? You spoil us good sir.
Congrats on 200k well Earned
Thanks!
The double-a in names like Haakon isn't actually pronounced like a long a, rather it is the old way of spelling the vowel "å". This vowel is pronounced like how a Sopranos character pronounces the vowel in "Paul" or how a strong New York accent pronounces the vowel in "dog" or the first vowel in "coffee".
Fun fact, significant part of the Norwegian population have a blood relation to the royal line as one of our kings.. Well.. Several of them but this one especially had a fondness for farmer daughters. He traveled the lands a lot and stayed at farms.. See where this is going?
So chances are some of those half brothers are actually half brothers? For all we know anyone in Norway can be King.
@@breakerdawn8429 This was at a much later date, but considering the norse love of travel to foreign lands it is far from unlikely there would be distantly related potential heirs in distant lands. Russia Ukraine and the other principalities, Normandy, and British Isles all would be large pools of potential distant relatives tbh.
@@INSANESUICIDE Normandy is actually the best example considering most European royals are descended from the Norseman Rollo the Ganger.
Anyone else lose track of who was related to who and how around the 3rd generation of Sigurds?
Drawn of History has that sweet voice acting voice.
Hi love these videos!
Me: *sleeps in* oh no! I wasted the whole morning!
Jack: *posts*
Me: NEVERMIND!
Oh Boy, how I missed Jack's videos and his anticlimactic ends
Yesssss! I knew you cared!
Wow I like your content. Editing and narrating make your channel my favorite. Your work should be admired . You are deserve more subscriber I hope you must gain 1 Million subscriber by the end of this year. Please keep continue this type of amazing work. Your admirable hard work and deep research make you the best channel on TH-cam.
Ok... In installing Magellan TV
This story sounds like the plot of a medieval soap opera.
I wrote my bachelor thesis on this guy!
Also you forgot to mention that according to Haakon, his attorney was GOD!
I sometimes never understand this stuff but it makes me happy
Obscure yet interesting history
Håkon Håkonsen was one of my forfathers...
Nice, a new Upload, my day is saved :)
"But then their relationship got way worse" so they kept playing Mario Party, then
Im from norway and finnaly norway is getting in the ligth of history TH-camrs thank you hope the history of norway is getting more covrage by history TH-camrs. As we say in norway Tusen takk
I loved this. Ty
Where were you when I was studying Mani, the tiny former Spartan peninsula of Greece that resisted invasion by the Ottomans and the Venetians and pirated both? Seems right up your alley.
Another great video to watch
South Dakota has a county named after Haakon 7
Great content.
Dude, your history lessons are the best! 😂
This is the best Skyrim fanfic ever!
Walking across hot coals is easy. It is all about taking it slow and keeping your feet flat.
3:10 */HOLY MUSIC STOPS*
Everywhere I go there is a civil war
Look up the Salvadoran Civil War!
I always feel like history is written by some dude in the background that’s just like “yeah yeah yeah that makes perfect logical sense…. But actually you know what would be dope?..” and that’s how we get miracle stories.
I didn't know Irovetti did a stint as King of Norway before he went to Pitax.
I like all the running jokes lol
Literally immediately after watching this video I go to see what my essay question is and I kid you not it's on Harald Sigurdsson. Talk about some timing.
And I thought the Wars of the Roses were a convoluted mess. Jeez.
Just look at Sicily/Naples from 1250 to the end of the Italian wars. That disputed succession would make even the Yorkists blush
Btw when there's two a in a Norwegian name it's a å. It sounds like the a in awe
All these trials by fire, does coal burn a tad colder or something, so many people pass it makes me think its a tad ineffective
you gotta admit, DNA tests just don't have that special dramatic flare a trial by oral has
An Scandinavian video? On Leif Erikson day?! Hinga dinga durgen! Happy Leif Erikson day, everybody!
There is enough conflict and intrigue in the one century long civil war for someone to write a Game Of Thrones style epic with appropriate additions of fantasy. Or a Legends Of Galactic Heroes style epic if they translate the setting into a sci-fi space opera. Anyone up for it?
I love your humor
Being long lost son of norwegian king seems as exclusive as being Zeus son.
Interestingly, this guy is my ancestor.
That means all you have to do is a trial by fire and youre eligible for the crown of Norway
Whatcha waiting for? Gather an army!
The first video on the Norwegian civil war by a none Norwegian, great.
This is like a soap opera where they introduce long lost half brothers out of nowhere just to get the series to go on for another season.
2:50 God told people how to survive the Black Plague. The Old Testament laws were so good, that the Jews suffered very little in that period; except then everyone who DID suffer grew jealous and suspicious, and attacked them.
It was more that Jews lived separately from Christians and so were less exposed to the infected. The idea that the hygiene laws of Leviticus saved them is mostly a historical myth.
@@luxborealis ? Living separately would be no help, if their own people were getting infected at the same rate. But they weren't, due to good hygiene standards. They were infected far less, and more effectively stopped the spread; making them targets of persecution for that reason.
So, I'm not sure where you heard that argument given, showing that basic hygiene standards of proper waste management, quarantining, face-masks and etc. had no health impact... but, obviously it would and did.
I want to thank you for that Age of Empires II reference in the form of a Town Center.
Finally, King Sverri from my country is mentioned!
It's great that hawk on was the only one who decided he wasn't going to kill his own family members for the throne. Instead he just prayed.
The ordeal by fire sounds like fire walking which is very possible to walk over without burning your feet. the trick would be walk semi quickly with confidence great for an ordeal really if you actually thought liars would be burnt.