Viking Graffiti at Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 6 มิ.ย. 2024
- Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey is one of the most popular sites in this historic city. This wonder of the ancient world has a long history as a place of worship: as a church for 916 years and a mosque for 482. The building you see today is the third one built on this site. The first was constructed in the year 360 AD and the second in 415 AD. Both burned and paved the way for this one, which is now one of the oldest buildings in the world. We were shocked to discover Viking graffiti in the upper gallery! Definitely not something we expected to find.
Hagia Sophia was a museum when we visited, but it has since become a mosque.
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*Reminder that this video was filmed before COVID-19 - we are not travelling at this time* 👉 Where's somewhere you've been that the history blew your mind?
Hi! I've been in an underground tunnel with shackles and hidden doors under an old hotel in Aurora, IL. A friend of mine had bought the building and showed me. He said it tied back to one of Capones places.
Oh wow, that sounds really interesting (and a bit dodgy haha)!
@@EileenAldis eerie to say the least, but cool to witness! 😎
Gina Friend It was still a museum...
Yes ı know because haghia sophia 1 month earlier returned in mosque.
long time ago a viking dude came to istanbul and write i was here, now everybody knows he was here, but nobody knows who was him.
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It was Halvdan!
It wasnt just a viking dude. Emperor Justinian had contract soldiers arround him they fought for money and gold. This is the reason why Turks has captured Hagia Sophia centuries ago. Turks dont fight for money.
@@preciousglimpsesroundhay8060 True, Turks had no mercenaries. No needed because of Devshirme System.
@@georgeplagianos6487 Shut up, you Grek.
I was fortunate to visit Istanbul in 2012. What a magnificent city. Breathtaking. Magical. I also saw the Viking graffiti when I went to the Hagia Sophia. What an incredible feeling to be standing on the same spot where a Viking once stood and etched his name. I wonder if he ever thought that his name would last for hundreds of years? Fascinating.
I studied the Hagia Sophia in high school. What an extraordinary place to visit. Thank you so much for sharing.
Lucky you! What an interesting topic to learn about ❤️
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What an amazing place! Love the Viking graffiti. Matthew was here.
😂 Love it!
Absolutely stunning 👌. Thank you SO Much for sharing with us.☘💚💛🧡.
Thanks for another great video.
WOW!
What an extraordinary….beautiful place!
I loved the detail in your commentary….Such an impressive gift to the world….
Yet another addition to the Bucket List……..I need a BIGGER BUCKET!
Many thanks for this delightfully informative piece!
haha yes, we'd all love a bigger bucket ;) It is indeed an extraordinary place steeped in history.
What an incredible masterpiece. It really does rake your breath away. Thanks for sharing.
It does! So much history there.
Hey Eileen those smiles blow my mind, great energy, and radiance. You both make a very cute pair.
The tour was short but sweet.
Thank you for the lovely comment ❤️
That Hagia Sophia must be incredibly huge; and wow, very exciting for the call out to the Vikings being there too, from way back in the 9th century. A quick but cool video. Hopefully you will have many more for your travels around Istanbul while you were there, whether in the old part only or over into the other sections of Istanbul also, however long you were able to stay while there. Anyway, Loved it as usual; SUPER cool.
I'm glad you enjoyed this short but sweet one, Kevin! Yeah, it's really huge and very tall. The Viking connection is fascinating! Lots more Istanbul videos coming in this series still :)
Great video, thank you!
Thanks! I'm glad you enjoyed it ❤️
Now, I have to wonder about the life of this mystery viking who left that eternal signature. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this nice footage.
Ancient Majestic Place.
Built in Justinian 1 era.
Such Great History
hi Eileen, this building does look amazing. Justinian really meant it when he said ''Solomon, i have surpassed thee''
Blasphemy
@@oghuzkhan5117 the only blasphemy is the turks renaming the Constantinople and destroying hundreds of prized historical sites, it’s a marvel this building still exists.
Nice one, been there years ago but it was under construction, only some parts was open, would like to see again if I visit Turkey 😍
Eileen! your videos have been amazing, those days in Lithunia, Latvia, and of course in Finland, you remember?
So much had happened? since you left Hagia Sophia : the muslims has conquered that originally a Christian church....god bless on your future tours!❤
Loved it but i wished it was a bit longer🥰 gonna have to watch it twice 😄
aww haha thanks, Sabrina! This one is short and sweet ;)
@@EileenAldis no worries i watched it twice for real😆
@@sabrinarobert1965 YAAAY! That's awesome!! ❤️🙌
Marvelous piece of art
Spectacular
Nice video 😊😊😊👍👍👍🖐🙋♂️
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Cool place. Very popular in history books.
Yes, understandably so :)
Thank you so much ❤
Thank YOU! I'm glad you enjoyed it :)
According to "The Sea Wolves" by Lars Brownworth says that Vikings from Russia, where they were called Rus, moved to Constantinople to serve the Emperor as mercenaries. They stayed on and moved in as the weather and food were better. Loved the video would love to visit it.
Hey John! Thanks for sharing that :) Glad you enjoyed seeing inside - definitely recommend a visit.
Swedish dudes from Russia serves a greek emperor lmao
It was mostly Swedish people who went through & also lived around the dnieper river. Over 30 runestones are found in Sweden that talks about Swedes Serving as Varangian guards in Constantinople.
Lovely, Eileen! Thank you 🙌♥️
Glad you enjoyed it, Gina!
beautiful Hagia Sofia
Incredible ✨
what are you nice couple together, really nice to see such tourists in turkey nice😄❣️
Thanks so much! We love Turkey ❤️
Nice video one day i hope can get there the amazing place 👍👍💚💚 from indonesia
Roman architecture really is enduring and amazing to see.
It is!
What a gorgeous structure
And so much history too :)
Waww that's really incredible...we are blessed with this heritage
Absolutely - the history is incredible.
I'm from Istanbul I'd be happy to sharing that interesting fact :) Vikings were certainly in Hagia Sofia :)
They gave gift (Viking Ship⛵) to roman emperor which some parts of that ship are exhibited in hagia sofia museum nowadays :) Also you can see ship ⛵ graffities on the walls, we think Viking guys made these graffities cause they were bored :) In addition it's known Viking soldiers came up to Constantinapol time to time as mercenaries (rented soldiers). They have been in Constantinapol for too many times. They were well-known visitors
So Beautiful Place 😘😘❤❤❤
I was just watching a documentary on the Hagia Sophia yesterday or so, and at the very end of it, the documentary mentioned that in this past July, during July 2020, the Turkish government turned the Hagia Sophia from being a museum back into a Mosque again.
Love from poland poland💗
touching history
But wait.. that video recorded a few months ago.... cos its a mosque right now and thankfully free to all visitors.. so no paying anymore to see that gorgeous heritage:):) thanks for cool vid
Oh it's free now? That's probably the only positive thing about the conversion. From my experience it seems that Catholics are the only religious group who charge money to visit active places of worship.
Wow Love From India
Love back to you! Can't wait to visit India someday.
i got so see this before covid, my mind was blown to think about how old all of it is
Hello Caroline! That’s wonderful you saw it before the pandemic. We feel grateful for that too. The history is overwhelming and awe-inspiring. Truly a special place.
Oh I can see why the breath would be taken! And the Viking graffiti are you serious! Mind. blown!!!
Isn't it incredible?! We weren't expecting that at all and thought it was so cool.
Could have been a member of the Varangian Guard who were mostly Swedes and Rus vikings and later many Anglo-Saxons joined the ranks after the Normans conquered England.
It is Lovely!
Yes!
YAY!!! FIRst comments to here this morning!!
Woooo you're ON IT, Kevin!! 🙌
@@EileenAldis hahahaha, this was actually the first time for me to ever be able to put in a first comment for any channels I've followed and routinely commented within. FInally I've been able to put one in for one of yours while I've been following yours for the past couple of years now. Anyway, the Hagia Sophia is a fascinating building, filled with SO much history. I would have loved seeing it myself in person, examining the walls & everything about it. Istanbul is a great city to be filled with so many incredible places for tourists to see, having existed for over two millennia.
You and Mark should have your own show, honestly netflix should/MUST snap you guys up
Thank you so much!! Needless to say, that would be AMAZING. Hey Netflix, we're available...! 😁
you are very nice people , welcome to turkey
Your videos flow so well. I feel like I’m right there. 👍🏻💕
That makes me VERY happy to hear ❤️
Halfdan was a cheeky one
haha indeed he was.
Türkiye den selamlar. severek izledim.
Teşekkür ederim! Selamlar sana :)
Nice
I visited Hagia Sophia in Dec. 2016.
It was an amazing place and everyone is invited to visit it.
ISTANBUL is really most beautiful city in entire Europe with a historic soul.
Istanbul is not in Europe. 😂
جولة رائعه ، الآن مسجد ، ❤️👌
شكرا جزيلا! نعم كان لا يزال متحفًا عندما زرنا :)
çok iyi tşk
you should take more videos in istanbul
Very short but thanks again for your time 👍
Thanks for watching! This one was short and sweet ;)
:) WONDERFULL
Vikings always served as mercenary or personal guards after "viking era" in Istanbul they were served emperors personal guard unit called Vareg or Varangian guard...
Interesting! I’d love to learn more about that.
@@EileenAldis hehe yea.. after dead of the big leaders or chiefs, from France to Spain, Russia, Sicily etc.. and in Istanbul as I said between 10. to14. century they served and after that slow by slow they're assimilated.. Also some of them like Rollo (in Normandy) became kont or kinda lord for christian kingdoms..
@@EileenAldis I mean %99.5 that words written by them..
Your smile is very nice greetings
Halfdane was here.
The Emperors hired Vikings as personal bodyguards. They proved to be 100% loyal to the throne.
They came from Scandinavia via rivers in Russia and Ukraine.
After the Normans took England, many beaten Saxon warriors went the same way, and found work in the Emperors bodyguard, as well.
Peace greetings From Indonesia.
Greetings to you in Indonesia 😘
beautiful mosque
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Now mashallah it is mosque
The Army Museum in Paris "blew my mind" because I had never taken much interest in French history. It led to a lot of post visit reading and an appreciation for how much French history touched and informed western culture. It is not a visual spectacle like bigger more famous museums, it just caught me completely off guard, to an embarrassing degree. 😅 I think the Musee d'Orsay did the same thing to me because I thought Impressionism was just a bunch if nearsighted painters. Again, embarrassing. 🤣
Hagia Sophia is a Christian Byzantine cathedral, Emperor Justinian named Saint Sophia (meaning in Greek, the Divine Wisdom) to this church after it was rebuilt from previous fires in 537 AD.
After the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople and its occupation by force of arms from its original owners, it was converted into an Islamic city and its name changed to Islam Paul, and it became subordinate to the Ottoman rule under the leadership of the conqueror Muhammad Al-Fateh, who ordered in 1453 to convert the Hagia Sophia Cathedral into an Islamic mosque after a large Christian church continued 919 Years old.
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His name was Halvdan. He was a Varangian guard, on guard duty at the Hagia Sophia. He was bored that day.
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Yes, vikings formed the Varangian Guard, an elite unit of the Byzantine emperors from the 10th to the 14th century. Before that, Anglo-Saxons played the same role.
I never heard that Anglo Saxons were varangian guard????
@@rogerdodger8813 The Byzantine Varangian Guard was primarily composed of Norsemen and Rus for the first 100 years, the Guard began to see increased numbers of Anglo-Saxons after the Norman conquest of England. By the time of the Emperor Alexios Komnenos in the late 11th century, the Varangian Guard was largely recruited from Anglo-Saxons and "others who had suffered at the hands of the Vikings and their cousins the Normans".The Anglo-Saxons and other Germanic peoples shared with the Vikings a tradition of faithful (to death if necessary) oath-bound service, and the Norman invasion of England resulted in many fighting men who had lost their lands and former masters and were looking for positions elsewhere.
Madame, now it is a Mosque again. When was your trip in Istanbul?
Yes, we were there in December 2019 when it was still a museum :)
Fucking erdogan with his backwards religious soon to be dictatorship
Now, it's mosque💞
With an UGGLY green carpet over the floor.
That explains Swedish looking Turks and Greeks. Also, there was a Goth colony since the 4th century in Crimea where Swedish was spoken until the 17th century. They were called Crimean Goths. However, they united with Crimean Tatars against the Russian aggression and became Crimean Tatars.
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You are so cute. My wife and I enjoyed watching your videos from Istanbul. We love Istanbul too.
Thank you.
Hi Nicky! It makes me happy to know you and your wife are enjoying our Istanbul videos! Thank you :) Istanbul is a city to love ❤️
Viking graffiti! Wow Who would have thought you'd find that at the Hagia Sophia. The question is - what was a Viking doing there??? Love to know that story.
Wouldn't we all! Wish I could time travel back and see him doing it.
The Varangian Guard! The emperor's personal body guards. So prestigious was this post that even a viking price joined the guard before leaving to become king of Norway!
Yes we all wondered what did this Viking was doing there. Was he there for business or pleasure? Maybe went to bet on the chariot races in hippodrome LOL..I heard around the 7 th, 8th or 9th century the Byzantines had a Viking guard in the empress courts.. I guess they were usually blonde, I'm like the people who run the Constantinople area were shorter and darker.. and man these Vikings must have been really strikingly impressiv muscular bunch of armored guys. did really make heads turn when you get a few dozen of these rugged-looking for guards..Comming from the North, Kiev the Rus and Scandinavian lands brought in some great diversity around Metro Constantinople region. I think it was a city of almost 2 million
@DMB Y Rus vikings attacked in 860, looted the suburbs of the city (outside the Theodosian Walls) and then turned back. The vikings had no way of getting through the city defenses...they never looted the city itself!
@@Uncrazimatic They served there as body guards and elite forces of the emperor.
The vikings called Istanbul(constantinopel) for Myklagard. Its well known in the saga of Harald Hardrade.
May I ask you something, you bought two, Ayasofya, 72 euro for your ticket, or if I saw it wrong, I wonder🤔
Yes, it was 72 Turkish Lira which is currently about 8 Euros :)
@İsen yea unfortunately for u, good for us TURK MUSLIMS🤣🇹🇷💪
Was this before Edorgan converted it into a mosque?
Hey Brian! This was in Dec 2019 while it was still a museum.
Peace be upon you sister
Thanks for turkish rulers who didnot destroyed and saved this beautiful building to holy place surely i will visit this beautiful mosque and pray
Now is still Museum??
It’s a mosque now but it was still a museum when we visited in Dec 2019.
@@EileenAldis I see
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0:44 Heyy Gli was there !! You are lucky to see her. She is guardian of the Ayasofya :)
3 gün önce öldü :(
Gli died 3 days ago :(
Did you know that the Runic script is 90% the same as the göktürk script ?
@Dimilî ondan mı Göktürk yazıtlarını ilk çözen Wilhelm Thomsen adında bir Danimarkalı?
I have ancestors named Halvdan. I think it be funny, if this Halvdan is a distant family member of mine.
Halfdan is a common Danish and Norwegian name.
It means half-dane
Same in Iceland
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Hagia Sophia became a mosque again. opened for worship. You can now browse for free.
Yes, we were there in December 2019 while it was still a museum.
@Lilya Sh No, he conquered it in 1453
@@emreyontem4834 oh. Israel should turn Al-Aqsa into a Synagogue. What a fakin stupid comment!!
@@Herodotus__ Let the Arab people fight and liberate Israel.
@Abdo Hadad it doesnt matter. Israel conquered Jerusalem. Even though I think it is a miracle muslims praying under Orthodox Christian Icons.
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One year ago this video 🤔
We were there in December 2019.
@@EileenAldis okey, good luck
@@ibrahimozaydn1808 Thanks - you too :)
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Are you still allowed to visit? Last I heard it's not a museum anymore but a mosque, and I've had mixed luck getting into places of worship
The second floor was closed for renovations when I went, it was so beautiful
We felt lucky it was open for us to see! And, yes, absolutely stunning.
@@EileenAldis it’s been converted to a mosque since last year, the first floor looks very different as well
Halfdan, Brother of King Harald
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Hello! ❤️👋
Fun Fact: If you have viking blood you can still feel the Gods presence, lurking in the shadows. Gods like Horus, Horagalles, Thor and Indra are all one and the same, sons of the Father (in Christianity) or Odin. Pagan gods , like Zeus or Je Sus in Christianity was the beginning of an era of monotheism. If you have viking blood or Longobardi blood you are probably drawn to the Christian religion in one way or the other. What you feel is the forces of Thor and Odin. The Sea Serpent or Midgard serpent is the same as you find in some Abrahamic religions, like the serpent in the garden of Eden. And the Sumerian Ningishzida and the horned serpent in native American culture are all the same as the Midgard monster.
The Vikings were there many times doing what they are good at
Fighting Muslims on behalf of the Byzantine Emperors!
Hi eileen but Ayasofya now mosque not museum))
Hey Mehmet! That's right - we filmed this before that happened (and before the pandemic).
@sülüman Their Country their Choice ✅✅
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@sülüman Right on brother.
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Istambul
Did you guys spin your hand all the way round by placing your thumb into the hole on the wall? That was a tradition for everyone
Strong turkish