The reputation and honor of Vikings, and a telling of Egils Saga
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 มิ.ย. 2024
- A thousand years ago your name was everything, your reputation was everything, you did deeds to help strengthen that. And here we look at a saga of Egil, and how he displayed honour when he could have easily walked away from something no worse off. The Vikings were for honor.
Chapters
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0:00 Introduction to honour
1:33 The difference between stealing and seizing
3:44 Egil's a viking
5:54 Egil gets captured
7:22 Egil escapes
8:57 Egil realises his actions were dishonourable
10:05 Egil takes an honourable stance
10:54 Summerising
It's back! If you know what to look for... a change in video by looking at how the Norse looked at life, I hope you like it
I saw it 👍🏻
לעכי ואלכס ין סילהנחה וית היס ההאד ההלד לעו.
You have quite the talent for storytelling.
Thank you for your kind words
Good storytelling...The focus was fine for me...Egil was a man of his time...for that I am glad!!
He was a true man of his time, and absolutely nothing wrong with that. I enjoy his stories and I'm sure I will tell more in time
@@Crecganford Thank you for replying...I certainly will be back for more
Jackson Crawford has some very good video on how the Vikings viewed honour and reputation; how to be a good Drengr.
Oh, and for the record; Kurland is Estonia and Egil did not use an axe; he used one of his two swords; Dragvandel and Nadr, though he might not have been gifted Dragvandel at this point yet.
The interpretation of honour is right though.
The idea seems to be that if you stole without committing some notable deed (even a horrendous one) you were no better than a coward. And cowardice seems to have been the ultimate sin among the Norse.
Great video! The more videos i watch the more i need to know what the tattoo i always see poking out is 🤣
Thanks for the tale of honour! Hmmm... How can I wake, stand at the shores of my hamlet, and induce the feeling everyday? Maybe without the killing... 🐦
If you find out let us all know, I feel the value of life and what is was would have been so much more appreciated back then
Very interesting! I like to know more about the mindset of Norse people in prehistoric time up to viking age. BTW I have a question about funeral practicies. The question came to my mind while checking iron age of north part of Scandinavia. There are obvious artefacts, like burial mounds, but these only tell the story about the wealthy people. The common people did not leave any traces, no buildings left because of the material used, and no graves. This leaves enormous gaps in our knowledge about how this part was inhabited. What do we know how common people lived their lives and buried their dead?
The society was almost certainly class led, or that's the most probable from our understanding, kings, priests, warriors, commoners... and if you look at the eastern European tribes 5,00-1,000 years before, then I would say there was a significant amount of that culture that would influence the Norse. They, and the Britons, were always some hundreds of years behind the rest of Europe due to their remoteness. But any stories we can build up from archaeological finds are always filled with a lot of supposition.
One amazing thing is that they have found a pouch in a grave in northern Sweden, with leather from a lizzard that lives in India…
Yes, and it is honest if these suppositions are presented as such. Nevertheless, they are necesarry to create a framework for theories. Scandinavia was late in development, and Sweden was later than both Denmark and Norway, and even more so the small kingdoms up north of Sweden. Middle ages occured very late in Sweden in comparison to rest of Europe. Still I find Scandinavian iron age and early middle ages fascinating.
Isn't Kurland modern day western Latvia with Kurland/Curonia being the land of the baltic Curonians/Kuršiai?
Yes it is
The theory of honor/dishonor, fate and reputation answers a lot questions about the mindset of conquerors all over the globe (not just these fellas who would go "aviking") but also those who raid under the guise of "god is on our side" type of motivation for doing the things they did to the conquered. This type of Perspective and outlook on life results in validating so many different forms of cruelty it's ridiculous.
Do you think nowadays not much has changed as far as this type of attitude towards what goes on in the world? I mean we hear stories of 'back then' and think we can say how 'rude or vile' their actions were, 'how dare they',(maybe it's just me) but I'm not convinced moral ground for many has changed much.
Or do u think it was ok for these things to happen in order for the world and various cultures to exist as they are now? I mean it's not like any of it can be changed now, but...
Very well done. I agree, you get that sense reading the sagas. Watch these two links, the first one is the connection of the Sicilian Mafia,, Vikings and the honour you spoke of. The second is a great reading of Egil's Sagas. King Harald reminds me of the Godfather.
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Finland is not off the coast off england it it boards to the coast off Norway , Sweden,. and Russia