The start of the VIKING AGE
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- The beginning of the Viking Age is not what you think, if what you've been learning about Vikings in school is all you know!
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Update: Anyone who wishes to buy Prof. Torgrim Titlestad's book "Outbreak of the Viking Age" (or Viking Legacy) can use this email: bt@sagabok.no. Thanks for all the good comments ❤
I had the same theory about the start of the viking raids. I just compared the timelines of Charlemanges war against the saxons and the viking raids. It's pretty obvious that Scandinavia was flooded with pagan refugees from the north of Germany wich made a reaction inevitable.
I purchased them from Adlibris, easier to pay in euros and ship to Finland.
@@Vihtori13 Smart!
Är outbreak och Legacy samma bok?
@@maggan82 To forskjellige: sagabok.no/no/nettbutikk/index.html
I think I saw a post from The Northern Myths Podcast about Charlemagne cutting down the Irminsul "World Tree", then afterwards would put to death 4500 pagan Saxons. Pretty shocking and something new I learned!
Robert Sass has a video about this on youtube. He is a historical reconstructionist Saxon Heathen. His blog is aldsidu.com. His youtube is "Robert Sass."
Glad you mentioned Justinian’s plague! A lot of folks are really unaware how disease and climate change has constantly affected humanity.
I’ve heard this without the wonderful detail ,from a Danish youtuber, Skaldjen . It totally makes sense. The Scandinavians trading for centuries all over the place , then seeing 4500 of their neighbours being beheaded . They gave the Christians what they needed , a kick in the pants . Great lecture . Mange Tak.
I always wondered how much Charlemagne's destruction on The Irminsul had to do with the following events.
Please read Robert Sass' (Saxon Heathenry) blog about the Irminsul. Aldsidu.com. He also has a youtube channel under "Robert Sass." He is a Germanic historical reconstructionist Heathen who seems to know more about our ancestors than anyone else, and he backs his research with numerous citations and references, which no other practicing Heathen seems to do in 2021.
So this, I believe, out of these several excellent educational videos, is the most important one, thus far.
The reason being, this defines who the Vikings were. Not the savages illustrated in popular history books, but rather warriors and traders from the north. So interesting how the Roman and Franc centralised societies differed from the northern ones. I love these longer lines of history. Understanding the parallell connections.
As a Norwegian, I hope our history books will be revised, otherwise it’s sad. The information campain you are doing, Sturla, is important, in lack of a better word. Keep at it!
They still teach Columbus was the first European to discover the Americas. So don't hold your breath. I cannot believe science uncovered that the Norse were the first Europeans in America in the 1960s. I was born in 1975. I was taught in school in the 1980s that Columbus discovered America. 30 years later, this continues. And Columbus Day is still a big deal for most Americans. Sad.
Please keep these viking age lectures coming! I learn SO MUCH in a short amount of time! Takk mange, Sturla!
I would love to know more about their Bronze Age trade networks specifically with the bell beaker British.. brilliant video
I believe Survive the Jive has some content like that.
I agree with with that assessment as it makes sense and falls right in line with other accounts from that time period. Also I just have to say thank you so much for not giving up after they tried to censor you . between Bjorn Bull-Hanson and you , its nice to get unbiased information based on the best evidence without it being twisted around to fit a popular narrative. Skål!
Agreed!
It is hard to explain how excited I am that a real historian thinks that the Vikings were defending their families and their culture, and not robbing and torture innocents, as some books (films, people, etc.) teach us. It never made much sense to me.
we've been fed war propaganda by the temporary victors for hundreds of yrs
Rome is really good at demonizing any cultures that do not immediately bow down to their fake supremacy. Look what happened to the indigenous peoples of Central and South America. The Roman portrayal of them is the main narrative.
The Saxons responded to Charlemagne's Christianization efforts by destroying encroaching churches and injuring or killing missionary priests and monks, and the law marks Charlemagne's effort "to impose Christianity on the Saxons by the same force that Charlemagne applied in imposing Carolingian political authority." -Wikipedia
There it was, in the midst of the rain and mud, that you will find the heart of the human being.
When corpses lie like rotten lilies, among the dead and dying you will find those with fire in their blood, whose will to survive will surprise even Gods.
This song is for you. So come, pull yourself away from Hel's cold embrace, and stand once more. Never you mind that you swore that the last time was the last time.
With fleeting strength, separate yourself from your fallen brethren and join us once more. Fill your lungs with air and scream your defiance if you must. For that is your spirit, as a warrior.
Come, Valhalla beckons to only the worthy. Prove yourself and come to the All-Fathers side
This actually makes a lot of sense. Bullies will quite often accuse anyone daring to stand up to them to be the aggressive ones. We can see a variant of this even today in the usa, some people here really hate firearms so anyone that uses a firearm, no matter how dire the situation that may have been forced on them, is a gunman. Side note... Why is that i wonder, we don’t call someone who stabs someone else a knifeman, or a person that strangles someone with a rope a ropeman, or someone who beats someone else to death with a bat a batm..... errrr never mind that one. But you get the idea, decent folks defending themselves are quite often portrayed as the bad guys, even today.
Lol shout out Batman
Only in US are people obsessed with their guns, in Europe we let the police do their job. Quite often innocent people get shot, one example: two teenagers want to visit their friend from school that were ill, they weren't sure which house he lived in so they knocked on the wrong door. The house owner shot the kids because he thought they would rob him. There are many other stories where trigger happy people shoot others because they stepped on private property.
Also I'm not a bully, I just don't want to get killed by an armed person that is afraid of their own shadow.
Never clicked so fast on a new video! Wonderful content!
So basically, Vikings were playing the long game. You attack us, we'll spread democracy through Europe, destroying monarchies. They didn't just raid, they ended the whole concept of kings. That's vengeance!
Cool looking merch btw.
Well a single Viking managed to gain control of a big piece of mainland Europe. Rollo ended up fathering dozens of children and creating a lasting culture.
Thank you for this video, Sturla. I have recently read about this from my Danish friend's posting, it certainly seems plausible to me. By the time of Lindesfarne, the vikings already knew what they were doing.
Who needs linear TV anyway when you have viking stories? Stories like these used to be the reason to watch Discovery channel and National Geographic. That was in the days before the short-tempered bikers, narcissistic animal rights activists and scripted reality mining.
THANK YOU! :)
This is (for me) the most important Viking information video i ever have seen from a historian.
I have tried to say this for a long time, but since i am not a historian, i have always had to say that it is my personal theory, and most people do not understand what it means, or believe it at all.
Also you explain it much better with detail and sources then i have been able to do.
I am not 100% sure about this, but i also seems to remember reading somewhere that the pope around the same time made it forbidden to trade with people who was not Christians, and if that is true, i think that also probably is among the important things for why the Viking age started.
And with that in mind, i also see a parallel to the Mongols attack on China, when China build a wall and refused to do trade with the Mongols.
And yes, if i am lucky and get the book and the shirt, i will have a big smile for a long time. :) :)
Keep up the good work, you are amazing! :)
Congratulations on winning the Viking Stories t-shirt, Petter. Could you send me an email on how to send it to you? :)
@@VikingStories Holy macaroni! :) :) :) Thank you again. :) I really look forward to read this book, and i love the T-shirt also. :)
I shall find the email and send you the information.
(edited, i am a bit embarrassed, in the email i ask what it say on the T-shirt, even if that is the first you say in this video. but for my defence i was so exited about the content about the Vikings in this video that i forgot that part..) :)
And i hope you have a great day when you read this. :)
At work they call me the viking because of my name. My mother named me after Egil Skallagrimson. Thank you Sturla for an exellent video.
I was looking forward to this video. Its always baffled me how many people believe (and still do) that Scandinavians weren't aware of what was going on in the rest of Europe, and that they just, one day got greedy and decided to go raid churches. Word travels around even without the use of spies, and Scandinavians were very aware of the holy war that was coming right towards them. Too many people also see Viking age society's as being backwards and uncivilized, when in truth, though they were fragmented, they had flushing civilizations going back at least as far as the Nordic Bronze age, and as stated in the video, had trade routes that went as far south as the Mediterranean sea. Its unfortunate that the way biased Christians looked at Scandinavians at the time, is still what's being presented as the truth today.
Unrelated, but I swear some likes got removed from this video, I thought I saw it on around 70+, refreshed, and then it was only around 50+? odd.
You're probably right about the likes/dislikes. YT removes comments and likes from European historic content that doesn't capitulate to the Roman Catholic narrative.
When I was little, I thought all Vikings were Thor! Now that I'm grown, I've learned that the real Vikings are so much cooler.
Not sure if they were "cooler" than Thor. They were cool, indeed. Thor might've been one of our ancestors, just like Odinn. Were they gods? Possibly. Could they have been Germanic Tribal members who attained "legendary" status. Also possible. Either way, it's great to be a 2021 descendant of the Germanic Tribes...and a practicing Heathen!
@@HroduuulfSonOfHrodger Tor is the germanic version of a much older indo-european striker/thunderer deity: reconstructed as "Perkwunos":
=== Perkwunos ====
Perkunas - Baltic
Perun - Slavic
Pirwa - Hittite
Perkos/Perkon - Thracian
Pärun - Kafiristan-Nuristan
Parjanya (one incarnation of Indra)
the characteristics among ALL Indo-European peoples for this Thunder God:
- Heaven and thunder
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travels in a cart pulled off 2 white horses/white elephants/goats
- killer of giant snakes
- Patron of warriors
- Thursday week day
- worshipped in oak-groves
- One of the main gods in his "family"
(Asar might have the same origin as Ahuras (the 3 highest gods and translated as "lord spirit" in persian Avestan religion.
- Wield a lightning bolt signature-weapon named:
Old Norse: mjǫllnir (mjölner)
Baltic: *mildnā
Slavic: *mъlni
Welsh: mellt
Breton: mell
possibly connected to Latin: malleus (hammer), Sanskrit: mr̥ṇā́ti (to crush).
@@maggan82 You are 💯% right.
Another Brilliant Viking Video👍👍👍
Thank You so much Sturla👌 for sharing the good stuff👍👍👍
it makes far more sense that this started from the yggdrasil and word of cultural desecration. to postulate the crazed maurader perspective is to shelter christendom from complicity. As it is still the predominant religeon, it has been given the moral high ground. i agree to a calculated preemptive strike in order to deprive your enemies the resources to further launch attacks on your people. excellent post as usual.
you never cease to amaze and captivate. i never thought i be a fan boy but by loki did your lectures sway me to be one. thank you again for expanding our minds.
my mate who is starting to look up his ancestry is from just down the road from repton and he just went on a walk in the area from tywford to repton. his family tree has never left derbyshire as far back as he can remember.
im so excited to read that paper you mentioned. i think it will lead to alot of information that will shine some light on our ancestors.
much love.
Hailsa Sturla! Thank you for passing along the knowledge.
Remember - The Victor writes the history.
Rome has been writing our history for thousands of years.
Not just European and Scandinavian history but world history.
Ever notice how the places with the most demonized ancient cultures, Aztec, Viking, etc, are places that Rome had particular trouble in conquering?
Thanks for spreading the word with these great videos.
It's so crazy that most people think that Scandinavians only suddenly encountered the rest of Europe in 793 and that they suddenly became raiders at that time!
Something to remember is that Charlemagne not only threatened to invade Scandinavia and violently exterminate its religion and culture, but he also did exactly this to the Saxons and also the Frisians, who were previously the Danes' best raiding buddies and at that time, probably both were considered just as "Scandinavian" as the Danes themselves. The Franks had been annexing parts of Frisia for a long time already, but Charlemagne finished the job and annihilated their religious and cultural freedom, which had been respected until Boniface and endured until Charlemagne. He then did the same to the Saxons. This caused a seemingly irreparable rift between the Franks and Scandinavians. The Danes reinforced their wall at this time and attempted in earnest to reconquer Saxony and Frisia.
Also, just for fun, I attempted to translate the mysterious hoodie: "Feel I grrr a food sin - be really food orgasm", so with the word order changed "Grrr! I feel it is a food sin - to orgasm in food, really!"
Yes, it should be no surprise that English and Old Norse are practically mutually intelligible! It's nice to know that I could have a conversation with a fearsome viking and not get into any trouble at all. If only those "Latins" could have been so lucky! I think the vikings were ahead of their time in speaking the Lingua Franka of the future, somehow. ;)
Progress feels good.Humanity should be thankful,The truth understanding and knowledge should Guide our children far into the future
Monks? They was very well known record keepers and even more as record changers .
fantastic video! congrats on the merch! you're really up and coming now! always enjoy your videos
We can only get a rough outline of what the Vikings and Viking Age Scandinavians were like when we reference Christian records. Even the Poetic Edda that is available to us today was penned by a Christian. Much of their culture is seen through a Christian lens, and some of it may, in fact, be fabricated from whole cloth as propaganda. Sources that are not from Christian references are very rare things indeed, so we've little choice but to take those references in history and do so with a tablespoon of salt.
Note that I am not Christian Bashing. This is just fact. Christian Monks were very good record keepers, true, but they were ALSO record fabricators and did record tampering on the regular in order to promote their culture and religion as the superior one. Every culture does this.
Love your videos!! Our true history deserves to be known. Thank UUUU!
I love this theory, it just makes sense- Also
when I learned that the Norse had started the first proto democratic society I was amazed and was very happy to hear you talk about it- it’s not what people want to believe!
I look forward to new findings coming soon, thank you Sturla, please teach us more, it’s very exciting 🥰❗️
As so often in (white) history, the important things are often kept hidden and lied about. All the more important that the truth comes out and such videos are so important. It`s cool to see how the Northmens have played an important role in European history way back when. Takk for en god video.
Remember that we may be "white" but we are European.
If "Black" people can force people to call them African American or so on, I demand to be called Celtic American.
Excellent lecture, Christianity and their monks have a lot to answer for. They destroyed ancient history..
Rome destroyed hundreds of unique pagan ethnicities in Europe. Burning down temples and altars in order to replace them with Churches as a sign of supremacy.
I've never believed the pathetic story of Lindesfarn.
Always interesting, always informative.
Thank you. Very educational, cleared up alot of question I have had.
The Viking Expansion out of Scandinavia has always fascinated me, and the attack on Lindisfarne, I feel, has never been fully explained. I really like what you’ve presented. Thank you for giving me more to think about.
Woohoo a giveaway! 💃🏻 Great summary of a complex series of events. These historical details paint a more humanistic viewpoint of Viking “raids”. Your lecture poignantly illustrates the quote “ History is written by the victors...the truth is written by the fearless”.☀️
I have always loved your content! Heil from Australia!
3 år vinter låter underbart :) skojar men jag gillar vintern..Hälsningar från Sverige
Allways a joy to hear you give good insight about how history actially was formed, seen from a pagan viewpoint. Keep up the good work man🤘😎
Keep it up man! Another great one! 👍
amazing video as always Sturla! 💪 could you do a video on The Berserkr (their history, upbringing, lifestyle) takk 😊
More stuff I didn't know about my ancestors. Thank you.
Tack så mycket för historielektionen
This was extremely informative! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! I was wondering if you have any recommendations for English books on the history of the vikings? I feel like there is a lot of misinformation out there and I trust your opinion.
I love learning about Vikings, runes, the sagas etc. Thank you for doing this. Love the t shirt too 🙌🏼
Awesome information, thank you for sharing.
Thank you for this very informative video!
Keep these history lessons coming!
There's a channel here on y.t. called "Asha Logos" with some very interesting videos on Indo-European history. I think the series is called, "Our Subverted History." The one about the Scythians is very interesting and thought provoking. Highly Recommended!
The Ancient Tribal Settlement of the family of Wulf were one n blood with the Danes of Zealand with slight dialectic differences great video and lecture thank you for sharing spot on.
I believe it was an offensive attack on Christianity and Charlemagne. Charlemagne was knocking Denmarks door after the massacre of Verden of the Saxons.... New sub here, I really enjoyed some of your videos. Thanks for sharing..
Thanx for this Sturla!! This is what I have learned :) This is so important.
A big Slovak- Slavic thx for another great lesson. I like your interpretation its inspireing.
Interestingly yesterday we use to study two old Czech chronicles it contains several poems from the early Slavic pagans till early christianity. The historians say its falsified while the chemistry specialist say its authentic. Why its not for the historians? Becouse the pagan Slavs are described as very democratic. Simmular as you mentioned here the Frankish writing the pagan Slavs didnt made big differences between king, soldier or a farmer all their voices had the same weight.
Very informative, thanks a lot.
Great stuff Sturla....very interested in the books and shirts!
Ha. I knew it. It makes total sense. I am not historian but a cultural anthropologist and last year I started writing a novel. For this I did some research and it all came to me that it had to be a war against that Empire and Christianity. I was almost certain about it but couldn't understand why there is no papers saying that. Nobody dares to write it. Is it politycaly incorrect or something? Well if it is, then it should be said loud. I just don't like stagnation in thinking, especially when it comes to science. Well done. I want to hear more like this.please, please, please be my tutor. I want to know more. (so I could write good, not shitty books :)).
Another great video.
Reinforcing your point about the North, never having been subjects of the Roman Empire resisting centralized government, the areas that were part of Rome would have, I believe, been more willing accept centralized power remembering their lost 'glory days' of Imperial hegemony.
Good video. There is little doubt that Charles Magnus launched a crusade against Germanic heathendom, in an effort to extend the eastern boarder of his empire. No doubt the Danes (and those who spoke the Danish tongue) were concerned about their own future with such a powerful and militant neighbour to the south. So the idea that 793 and the attack on Lindisfarne was a defensive action in a cultural war does to my mind hold water. But as a significant monastery in the powerful kingdom of Northumbria, Lindisfarne occupied an ideological fulcrum, so it could be seen as a part of a fight back against the encroachment on Germanic freedoms by a post-Roman Christian Frankish enemy. Strangely enough I feel that we find ourselves in the midst of a similar cultural war now, defending free speech, free enquiry and the right to assemble in pubs and drink good beer against centralising elites.
veldig god video! skal dele denne med alle jeg kan!
Da jeg var ung, spekulerede jeg meget over, at vikingerne brugte Karl den Stores kapel som hestestald. Jeg tænkte, at det måtte være udtryk for en slags religiøs modstand. Men jeg havde slet ikke den faglige baggrund til at tænke tanken til ende. Det har jeg nu, Tusind tak, Sturla.
Hi.
Excellent presentation as always.
I find it interesting that "they" are now coming for Viking/Germanic culture. An assault on the last great bastion of Western European core identity.
Let us never apologise for, nor be shameful of our proud and ancient heritage!
I am taking every opportunity to educate my children about our Germanic culture/heritage, gods know they never learn about it here via the Australian education (indoctrination) system!
This is great; very plausible to me and well-presented. Greetings from (Viking-imprinted) Yorkshire 👋
I appreciate your hard research,,, your time and effort has proved a thesis’. Debate between hypotheses must now be sound and concrete.California-Ameruka-Did the feathered serpent reach the Vikings?
Great vid as always sturla. Wouldn't mind a t-shirt either ;)
These are really good. thank you
Very interesting!
Vi snakker sammen om dette ned her. Du viser oss en perfekt tidsbestemt oppdegelse.
Jeg bare ville å sei det jobben du gjøre er fantastiske og gir meg så mye på tanke. Tusen tusen takk, Sturla. Og.. Beklager om min Norsk. lol!
Not Viking Era but I was wondering what you thought of Lotte Hedeager's idea of Hunnic Influence in Scandinavia Iron Age.
She's a well-respected scholar, so this has been taken seriously. I think it's an interesting idea 👍🏻
just saw the video, great content as always. hope I am not too late for the giveaway!
Very interesting and refreshing look on the beginning of the Viking Age. In my opinion this theory makes a lot of sense. I wouldn't be a Slav if I didn't add one more parallel from history :) namely Polabian Slavic tribes vs. The Kingdom of Germany (later Holy Roman Empire). It was quite similar situation: decentralised proto-democratic societies with strong attachment to their traditional way of life and heathen beliefs versus foreign, Christian absolute monarchy.
Can't wait to watch!
It sucks it happened to your ancestors. Those same people did the same to my ancestors (Aztec and Cherokee) and it's disappointing the lies that are still taught in schools.
Wow, I literally just left a comment about the Aztec people being demonized by Rome.
It also happened to my ancestors the Picts. Pretty much any non monotheistic pagan culture has been demonized.
is it not more correct to f rune for v's. example fiking or uiking?
the first one sounds more correct, unless you know about the usage in runestones
makes perfect sense to me. who wants to put up with 4500 executions because a few farmers want to sprinkle a little water on a tree and wish for good weather. a war on mother nature. let the men loose. we'll teach them how to (pray)prey. a little monkey business for the monks. harharhar. thank yew have fun
School really does not teach us anything in regards to history
This is not a theory this is called fact.
Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't the Saxon chieftain Widukind have been the uncle (through marriage) of Ragnar Sigurdsson aka Ragnar Loþbrok, who went on to lead the 845CE Viking raid on Paris? Doesn't seem like that much of a coincidence considering that does it?
What happened when Thor went into a bar and was denied a drink? He took it for himself but, it was kept Loki.
Sadly this book is not available at Amazon
What do you think of the show The Last Kingdom?
It looks like you need a folk artist to liven up your merch a bit.
Maybe if I find some time I will get out my paper knives and paints, and make you a fitting Norse paper cutting. I do my own take on traditional German folk Scherenschnitt but mine is more of a Germanic , Norse pagan in content not christian.
I have heard something similar before God to get it confirmed
smiler fra øre til øre🍺
How did vinikngs look like?
Honestly this kind of sucks, so… I was adopted by a very very friendly and nice people, but I am half Scottish and half Vikings, so like go figure, I am not like a nice person as such… It's been a battle
Your shirt is wrong, it should be ᚢᛁᚴᛁᚴ(ᛦ)
The birth of what is known as ancient Greece and Rome coincide with a similar date.. perhaps a cataclysm(s) around this century? To be clear, my quick comment will not be very comprehensive.. I just implore you to look into Immanuel Velikovsky's work. There are documentaries as well: archive.org/details/@imvlk
Who else stopped to translate the runes on his shirt?
Please read Robert Sass' (Saxon Heathenry) blog about the Irminsul. Aldsidu.com. He also has a youtube channel under "Robert Sass." He is a Germanic historical reconstructionist Heathen who seems to know more about our ancestors than anyone else, and he backs his research with numerous citations and references, which no other practicing Heathen seems to do in 2021.
Robert does not know what he is talking about and has not regarded information that I sent him that corrects him at all. He is self centered and feels entitled to form his own cult. He does not know what went on in Westphalia in the past, does not regard cult continuity (I talked to him) and told me that, when I talked to him about fairy tales and Märchen and how they transport messages thousands of years old, that those come "from before Paganism"! He is really not on the right track. But I guess that is what happens when you don't live among the actual locations and sites, but McDonalds and Walmart.
He does not know WHAT the Irminsul depicts or WHY costums are done they way they do. It is shallow and he does not understand anything but citing christian sources.
He is just piling up more dirt on top of the truth by wanting to be "clinically correct", not knowing where to look for sources/not knowing about German sources and research of the past. In the end, you can only feel sorry for him.
dont tell bjorn that i've been checking out your videos before his lol, i really love these videos you have been making. they are very interesting and i like the way you tell the story, keep up the good work.
I would've died for my beliefs. I would've fought against Charlamagne until the end. I served in the US military from 1993-2017, willing to die for freedom each and every day. I am a Heathen now and am connected to my Germanic pre-Christian ancestors. I drink ale and mead with Odinn (Wodan), Thor (Thunar), and Tyr (Tiw) every day. My heart is with those Germanic tribal ancestors. I live today to represent your past.
Keep the great content coming. I'm writing from Newfoundland, that's Vinland to the Norse. Was just at the Norstead site this past fall, it's wonderful to see in person.
It among other things demonstrates the distance the vikings had covered across the world.
Quite amazing really. Most people have no concept of just how far Iceland, Greenland, Faroe Islands and mainland Canada etc, are from Sweden and Norway. That was a feat of engineering and seafaring genius.
Your theory sounds more possible than other theories. Nice video m8.
You make me feel like an idiot Sturla, and I love it. Off course Vikingsage must be interpreted in the context of geopolitics in its time 👏
Loved it Sturla! The beginning of an era, it's truly interesting to think about just how it all came to fruition. I was looking into when the use of Old Norse (Western/Eastern dialects) split which has been a rather interesting topic to research.
- nice bling. - sounds plausible, have heard this theory recently. Visited Dannevirke in Slesvig Holstein in 2000, and was fascinated by the effort.
They were crazy and violent only because of outside forces, bringing pressure to their gates during the christening of saxons in the 7th century!
Very interesting! I came to the same conclusion (or heard about it) about 10yrs ago while reading round British history- and started to realise the uk history don’t connect wider. But they should, which is really frustrating. I’m no historian just some guy. Thanks- your channel is excellent.
I think your theory is sound. Especially with the way that Charlemagne went after Wittekind and went to demolish the Germanic culture for Christ. I am sure those stories of the horrors of Charlemagne percolated northward, providing lots of motivation for those in Scandinavia to go out and "defend" their culture and way of life.
Om du inte har läst Östen Kellmans bok Den Forna seden så rekommenderar jag den. Den boken är full av fakta