Pagan holy sites in Sweden 🇸🇪 History documentary
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- We can learn a lot about the pagan religion of Vikings and their ancestors, not only in old books and manuscripts, but in the landscape itself. Sweden in particular is covered in ancient ritual sites which were used by the Norse peoples. Some of them date to the medieval Viking era, while others are much older, yet were still in use during Viking times.
In this film, I travel around Sweden to show you some of the most fascinating and mysterious archaeological religious sites and, through them, help you to understand a bit more about the ancient religion of the Norse peoples and where you can go in Sweden to see it for yourself. We cover everything from barrows and grave-fields, ship burials, stone ship settings, sacrificial trees and god poles, ritual areas such as the treudd and more.
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Viking warriors by Christian Sloan Hall
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Treudd by Ryan Murray
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Animated god pole and ship by Christopher Steininger
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Music in order:
theme song: Wolcensmen - Sunne
Borg - The May Queen enters the circle
Bark Sound Productions - Eld
Myling - Töcken
Xurious - Steppe expansion
Borg - the choosing ceremony
Elegiac - Odin
Halindir - Hedelandet II
Ormgård - Sjálfsforn
Bark Sound Productions - EGD
Bark Sound Productions - in return
Sources:
www.academia.edu/1366943/The_...
www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/c...
www.isvroma.it/public/pecus/gr...
cogito.ucdc.ro/2012/vol4n2/en/...
core.ac.uk/download/pdf/14782...
www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/c...
www.researchgate.net/figure/U...
00:00 Intro
01:22 Viking burial and belief
06:44 what is a barrow?
09:20 Yggdrasill and the cosmic centre
13:29 Stone ships
16:20 Treudd
18:02 Släbro
26:36 Rösaring
28:51 Vada mounds
31:10 Conclusion
I have put all the holy sites at which I filmed in this Google map which you can make use of if you are planning a road trip of your own! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cok49fwZ6sMlnMyt4gIzL0vBOG0btvDk&usp=sharing
Relative to the Asa graveyards, I've been trying to pinpoint the Treudd you're on with satellite view on GoogleMaps. Is it this mound: 59.389811, 17.189385 ?
@@guillermotheivth4378 it can be seen at 59°23'04.6"N 17°11'27.3"E
@@Survivethejive No Not at all
Im talking about västra Götaland. If you look up ``ekornavallen`` Yyou ill find one of them. It is not a Treudd ut they have been buried people there from 3 diffrent time eras. In Västra Götaland there are many things to see. As you now " Danes" were from Denmark and Skåne and Västra götaland. We were Goths. or as we say Gauter. We have a Hird called Vither Gauter and are member in the large Hird Grimfrost You should check us out.
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My husband is the old man lookout. Have a nice one.
That would be a dream come true to visit all of these sites. One day, I must make it happen.
I live by a bronze age settlement. Nothing better than having a picnic their. Feels so homely up their. Amazing video again.
It makes sense that dogs were believed to be mediators between the living and the dead. My dog often gets up and barks at things I cannot see
And are they not the first animal to be domesticated? It would be good if a DNA analysis could be done.
We had a spaniel growing up who’d frequently bark at the fire place in the front room. We later found out that the man who occupied the house previously had died in that room and that his dog had actually eaten his body. The dogs body was found curled up in the fire place when the police eventually came..:
I had the same thought, also they would have been the precursor to horses/cattle towing small sleds or wagons "land ships"
@MichelleI am not particularly a dog lover myself but there is clearly a deep connection between them and us.
I think other or maybe all animals can see and sense things too? There's the story of that cat in an old age home, when he sleeps on someone's bed the person dies in the next few hours...
My mother is a hospice nurse. She says the dying often talk about a train, plane, or other sort of transport coming for them (depending on their background; for example the man who spoke of a plane was a pilot), or about needing their shoes or to pack their bags. Makes me think the dying Norse would be asking to have their horse or ship made ready, or for their shoes (helskór)--hence the burial custom.
I better not die and get a shitty uber.
@@ProfessorShnacktime haha!
The Greeks also believed in the ferryman who takes them to the afterlife
@@Prometheus7272River Styx and Milky Way/Winding Waterway mythology is fascinatingly pervasive
@@rogbot It might be a indo-european/steppe thing unless you've heard it elsewhere.
I believe the symbols on the rocks, based on my analysis of it, might mean "Subscribe to Survive The Jive"
Give this man a Nobel prize.
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Really enjoyed this one. I can’t wait to visit Sweden.
A beautiful country indeed!
Sweden is worse then Uk in criminality the last few years don’t visit some places you might get checked
@@Colt-eq1vm living in Sweden I cant agree. For serious visits, I am happy to offer service with residents and as a driver.
@@OttoRingdahl every day its a new murder in Sweden and not even in the country just in Stockholm ive lived here my life whole life it has changed so much the last 2-3 last years in UK the most you would get are robbed on your phone and maybe stabbed in the worst scenario
@@Colt-eq1vm You live here yet you don't leave your boyroom.
Proud to be a Swede from Öland. 🇸🇪❤🙂
Vikings did look like you, they had wider jaws and were much more attractive
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I have a barrow about a hundred yards from my house in Scotland.
Check my video on dreams for an idea of why you might sleep on it
@Michelle facts, findings, photos links
I have crackheads about 100 yards from my house in NYC
@@VeritasIncrebresco I had a crack shop next door to me.
@@VeritasIncrebresco same
No mounds in Australia, but I intend on having one when I pass.
Maybe you can convince Shad to have a cemetery in his castle estate.
Your videos are the best Thomas. Why don't you make a documentary about Russia? More specifically Novgorod. It had a lot of Scandinavian influence
I would like to
Finno-Ugric aswell
@@Survivethejive About the very Indo European Arkaim would be interesting as well. I'll be looking forward to your next documentary anyway
It would good to include all the Rus people, with Ukraine and Belarus too.
@Red Eagle they were part of the Kievan Rus whether they like it or not!
I grew up on Frösön. It has a runestone as well and I learned about the ancient sacrificial tree as an adult. The connection to my ancestors is, to me, strong there.
Thank you for making this, it is very informative and really quite beautiful. The Gods are alive!
I think this is the best work you've done so far: Instead of chronicling, and bemoaning the loss of our culture, get busy preserving and promoting it. More like this. PLEASE!
Very well made and interesting documentary film.
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@@DDickinson458 EUROPEAN
By destroying an important monument, Boniface was able to sever the ties between the local people and their traditional culture. Makes one reflect on today's iconoclasts as they tear down the statues of the mighty men of yore.
Viking heritage was so important that barrows continued to be made for the local nobles and priests, including rune stones in the building of cathedrals......something about Paganism which probably was a tie to the Earth and the Cosmos? Something similar in Mesoamerica, the spanish friars would make statues of christian saints, but the makers being pagan would include a likeness of Tláloc, the God of Water and of many others inside the statue, so that it would appear the people were worshipping the saint but in truth they were worshipping the ol' gods of Meso America.Thank for a most interesting upload Survive the Jive and greetings from Mexico! :)
Barrows where made along time before the "viking age", before they were pagans
As a Swede who has explored more and more about paganism/Asatro the last couple of years, this brings me such joy. Great video!
har du besøkt yggdrasil ennå? portalen dit finnes her blant annet i skandinavia. den er liten, ca 4 cm ;)
@@magnusgranskau7487 😅🤣No I havnt visited any sacred guardian tree, if it's what you mean... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This was beautiful. It makes me sad to think of the state of our culture and nation today. I hope that the winds will turn soon and I hope that our people wake up in time. I feel proud of my nordic neighbours!
@Schwarzer Haufen black pilled? I feel you. But it will never come to that. The people will never accept it once they can't avoid any longer
@Schwarzer Haufen no
@Schwarzer Haufen the people never asked for this, there was no choice given. The politicians did what they wanted and told everyone "no, there is no mass migration" for 10-12 years. Lies. Everyone noticed that sonething was going on but the public service media told everyone that it wasn't a problem and that they had it under control. I was just a kid back when it really started so I didn't know any better.
If you speak up, you get punished. And the swedish middle class are still asleep, they shut their eyes and ears to watch state owned tv.
Swedes are overly trusting to everyone around them including the media and politicians. Everyone just want to be left alone and don't care until they get cornered.
And for me and many others, we don't know what to do. I just got involved in my tiny village's local politics. Most of the people on my side are old and the young do not care about anything. Atleast Swedes are protesting in stockholm (f@cking far away), I would join them but I have a kid and a job to take care of here as well.
What would you guys do?
@Schwarzer Haufen if you have any good advice it would be loveley. And don't give any "give ups" or power fantasy shit like "yea, I would just throw the politicians out myself". Give me something to work with.
@Michelle thank you for a constructive and inspiring answer. Idk much about how to start these activities but I might actually look into what options I have in my community. Me and a friend are going into politics soon but it is a hard thing to do since it's a small town/village and we are not from around here.
Seriously thank you so much for making these videos!!! It’s very well put together and your narrating adds a badass element to this epic documentary. Thanks mate :)
Excellent Documentary
Thank you so much for making this! It brought a tear to my eye the way you showed our ancient history and traditions..im truly greatful!
This was fascinating. Thank you for making this piece.
Great work as always, Tom. Cheers!
This was worth the wait, excellent work! Thank you.
You should do more on Västergötland. To me, a completely underexposed region considering how much history it has. That a guy literally ran into a Bronze Age treasure last year while running in the woods says everything really... I have a feeling the next Birka/Uppåkra will be discovered somewhere here.
Svearikets vagga
Fantastic work, Thomas! Very well produced with very interesting content.
Love to see two of the great creators of our people once again collaborating if only briefly! Brilliant work, Tom!
Super dope video, well done! Can't wait for the next video :)
If you ever want to explore more of Sweden, i would suggest to look in to the megalith/viking areas around Falköping/Hornborga and look in to Varnhem and Kata gård where Sweden was "born". Thank you for a nice video! I enjoyed it a lot.
Svea Rikes vagga - Husaby is also something that i think you would enjoy exploring.
Really informative and well produced. You've excelled yourself Tom Rowsell. Need to visit the Bronze Age sites you've discussed. Also good to see Marcus Follin here.
My wife was born in Denmark in a small fishing village. I miss her R.I.P
I'm very sorry :(
Thank you Tom for making my poor and tarnished country a bit more sacred.
Schwarzer Haufen 😂 oh it depends
I am in Sweden right now. And I see 10x more white people than any other ethnicity. So no, it's not a problem. Just when you try looking for problems, or people of a different colour, you will find them.
@@Alex-ey7ns in the country or the forests its not so bad. But in the cities and certainly some parts like ghettos are turning into shitholes.
@@phoebeel the cities are pretty bad
@@phoebeel I'm guessing you're not living in Malmö lol. What YOU see is irrelevant in this context; what the statistics show is relevant, however.
Thank you for another great video Thomas
Thank you a Thousand Times for Posting this Amazing Production! I was impressed to see the sites and the impressions in the ground. I was always curious about Viking burial and religion. Thank you once again for going all the way to Sweden. There are few producers like you, dynamic, interesting and getting great details. Health & Happiness to You from Austin Texas.
That was really interesting. Good work man, thanks for getting the information out there in this style.
Great stuff. Your videos just keep getting better and better in terms of production and the pacing/flow. 32 minutes flew right by. Also love when there's a surprise Golden One appearance.
Top notch work as always Tom.
Thank you Thomas for your splendid work. Always interesting to see a video about my ancestors and my peoples history as a Gotlander. Its an honor.
Saturated with information. Thank you StJ 😊 Your documtaries are top notch 👌
Great video with rich storytelling! Thank you for contributing with this material!
Good information as always.
Superb music selection, it works so well
How about that, I was expecting a travel guide, but accidently learnt alot more of my ancestors history and rites than most other viking documentaries has done. Well done.
Excellent video, as usual
Fascinating video about a rich culture. Thanks Tom.
Great video!! Awesome job well done!!
Thanks for suggesting this; it was well worth another watch.
a map with all the location would be a great addition to this guide :)
this is what I've been wishing for! this is just magnificant! thank you so much for this, truely fills my heart with joy!!!
good video mate
Love these videos. Been following for quite some time. Nice to here how important dogs are as these animals are greatly overlooked in other films.
Keep up the great work👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻🇧🇻
I love your channel, it's really helping me find my self and discover my ancestoral faith
Amazing, thanks, I am sharing this video with my family :)
wonderful video as ever
I imagine each of the carvings at Slabro being designed by a different individual during a ritual or maybe even a initiation rite and then carved into the rock by one individual who could of been a priest.
I second that motion.
Well done Sir. We are all so blessed by your passion.
As usual very interesting and well researched! Rösaring is an extremely special place which oddly enough has been a bit forgotten (in our contemporary times) in the shadow of places like Gamla Uppsala and Anundshög.
Exactly what I looked for, planning for the journey I had to give up on in 2020. Thanks a lot!
A fantastic video, really well made
Fascinating video, a few years back I lived in Sweden for a while in the Stockholms Skärgård region. I used to visit the "Säby Gravfält" sight fairly often as it was a great place to just wonder around and unwind in, I think it held 150 graves and the largest being 20m in diameter. One time I visited Gotland and was amazed to see so many different sites, virtually every village on the island had some form of ancient Viking monument. Sweden's definitely enriched with these sites to say the least and it's great to see people visiting them.
Yes, they are all over the place. When they built the residential area in the 70s where i live, they found lot of stoneage axes. About 10 years ago a man who lives some hundred meters away from here found a bronze age sword when digging in his garden. We have bronze age petroglyph in the area, and about 2000 bronze age graves
Really, really nice job on the video I enjoyed it a lot, and very cool that you visited and filmed so many different places in Sweden. You even filmed close to where I live! Some of your pronounciations were a bit off (like you said trä-udd and ay-nundshög) but most of them you nailed perfectly!
Very well made my friend... i look forward to seeing these ancient sites from the lands my ancestors come from... thank you for you're dedication and persistence to educate... with love from America as we survive the jive 👍...
Thank you for these informations❤️
Fantastic video. Thank you!
The curious thing here in Sweden is that although my grandparents were very much Christians, they still held on to several pagan traditions that just seem to be Swedish tradition to me at the time. They told me of old stories not to be tampered with and at the same time tell me about Näcken that scared me but was a character in sagas, wich make me wish that I at this age could ask them were all this older stuff came from.
To be that religious and still talk about not upsetting the "beings" in the forest or the mountains for example, I took their talking for granted as a child but if I could ever meet them again, I would ask them about so much more.
I think for my family they were the last to hold on to the old beliefs and they died in the mid 1990s.
I mostly felt they were unnecessary stories that have been heard for generations, I now feel ashamed for not keeping it for the future generations. It was also done orally there were no real text to my knowledge.
Remember any?
Maybe you write down whatever you remember... ask brothers sisters cousins?
You're a troll
Suggested video on youtube, 10/10 will sub. Really well done
This is a very good documentary on Vikings, good pronounce on the viking words aswell :)
Splendid work!
Wonderful video Tom! The rune stones and the rock carvings in Släbro are very special to me and I have a close connection to them as I grew up within a 10 minute walk from them! Besides Släbro, the specific area in Nyköping where they're located is called "Harg" ( = place of sacrifice, altar of sacrifice or just barrow/mound in old norse for anyone who doesn't know) and in my younger years we spent countless hours of fishing in the river, riding bikes, going on adventures and looking for beavers, walking across the bridge to school and even having outdoors track running at PE all accompanied by these rune stones and the carvings. The local football team is also called Hargs BK and our home pitch and HQ is right on the other end of the forest by the barrows. We were taught from an early age (both from our parents and at school) to respect these places and to not climb and play on the barrows and the carvings and to always be respectful of them so these places have always been surrounded by mystery and admiration to me and especially the carvings at Släbro. I have a personal theory as to why some of the carvings look the way the do and I reckon that the person/persons did the carvings in a sort of meditative state listening to the water and waves running by that area in the bronze age, because the area was almost surrounded by water back then, and many of the carvings look like wave patterns and something you would imagine in a flowing state of mind just listening to the sound of a river or waves rolling in. I'm really not well read on this subject to this is an amateur guessing at best, but I have a strong suspicion that in the absence of ships the river still played a big part in the lives of the people in Släbro and Harg. Thanks for the video and for letting me reminiss of my youth growing up in Släbro and Harg, next time you visit, let me know and I'll invite you in for a pint at my old folks house as they still live there, haha!
Absolutely excellent. I will rewatch many times
This is your best video so far (from what I’ve seen so far). Great map. I live nust north of Stockhokm and have barrows in the fields behind my house and there are lots of rune stones around.
How special to have them right near your home
Great stuff
Thank you for this video. It must have been hard work visiting all those places. I live very close to Birka!
i like how you bring light to the swedish vikings who are not as popular as norwegian, danish or icelandic ones
I might be a little biased as I am Swedish but it’s mostly due to the Swedes being yes more religious and also going east where mostly tribal people lived and didn’t have a chance to write down anything about them. Some Swedes were super badass such as Ingvar Vittfarne.
31:01 TGO: "Come on Tom, lemme show you my hidden outdoor gym behind the mound."
STJ: "They better serve tea, i swear to god."
Bra video!
I live outside Nyköping, interesting to almost see my home here. Great video.
Beautifully produced. Having recently established my Y haplogroup to be from Sweden (although just 6% Swedish ancestry) it is interesting to see the history unfold from the steppe pastoralists bringing their culture and beliefs to the establishment of the viking era and gradual change to Christianity and modern Scandinavian society.
When I visited relatives in Sweden, they took me to a site along the road with dolmens and other standing stones. Someone had sheep grazing in the field, but we were able to walk among the stones - a first for this American. Then, when I was out for a little walk near their house, I came upon small stones set along a path in the woods. My cousin told me, that yes, they were ancient stones, and didn't think anything of it. To them, it was so commonplace that they hardly noticed it.
good show. thank yew.
Great documentary - and it's coming from a Swedish archaeologist
Thank you Frida
So... your future are in ruins 😁
Guy at the very beginning...
that "come at me bro" then the "I am right here" head tilt.
I felt that.
Nei
I'm curious: Could the carvings of Släbro be a form of communication via pictographs? The dots and dashes almost suggest a kind of shorthand to me. BTW. Thanks, Tom, for the amazing content once again! I became a Patreon supporter this week, and this quality of content is why.
Thanks for your support! I think they could be coded representative images of some kind. Obviously a form of communication with meaning
Many of the old churches in Sweden are situated at old holy sites, commonly offerlundar. Trees and posts like you mention had a very important role in old norse tradition, the first humans Ask and Embla was as the names suggest fashioned from timber by the gods, perhaps not unlike how the people later depicted the gods on the posts? Furthermore it is quite interesting how the trees of the offerlundar often were left at the chruches and remained holy. The cult of this kind of whorship of trees did not dissapear in Sweden but took new forms like for example in the form of vårdträd, which was a symbol of you and your bloodline or entire villages fortune. If the tree remained strong and thriving so would you and your family or village, but if it died or fell ill so would your family, and there are stories of how vårdträd died and the person attached to it soon followed. This to some extent still lives on to this day.
Thank you
Nice cameo at the end with muscle man.
This was such a fascinating topic. Thank you for your hard work & passion! It is much appreciated. 🖤
Pretty cool seeing the city Uppsala where I was born in the video
You are by far the best ancient European history teacher on TH-cam and probably all internet.
I have a necopolis not far from where I live (Central Italy) used for 1000 years from the Vestini (Italic pre-Roman people) to the late Romans and it's interesting to see the evolution of the tombs in the various times. The most ancient ones are barrows with menhirs. The archeological site it's called Necropoli di Fossa, I don't know if infos in English exist on internet.
Heyy Rösaring, like 3km from here.. cool
Marcus looking huge also
Good video. Have you done any videos specifically explaining what Kennings are? Or why and how they are used?
Very interesting, another great video! Not far from where I live is a Bronze Age barrow which has a number of Saxon burials near by. Probably no more than 100m away from there is the local church, presumably built there as it was already a site of religious significance.
Awesome video as always. I wonder if the stone engravings were each representative of a family (each dot a member or something of that sort) or perhaps each member of the group had their own symbol.. Just thinking out loud.. Haha.
Keep up the great videos! Respect from 🇨🇦
Another fascinating video STJ! These sites are marvelous. However, are these Archaeological sites open to the public? I hope not. It would be sad for these sites to get vandalized.
Thanks!! 🍻
Cool. Bulgaria has loooads of Thracian burial mounds. I slept beside one, then saw your video about sleeping on burial mounds, high five!
I’m from Uppsala and as a kid was running up end down one this hills in gamla Uppsala!
I have such a beautiful quite large runehill only 200 yards from my house. I feel very blessed. It is called the Holmfast runestone, check it out it is beautiful. With a wolf or dog pictured on it possibly fenrir?
Great vids. Keep up the good work.
The Viking blood in me is still running strong and ready for battle anywhere, any time....be prepared..see you in Valhalla.
13:50 ah, my home town! Anundshög, Västerås.
You should visit Uppåkra in Scania