1361: The Medieval Massacre Of Sweden | Medieval Dead | Chronicle
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- The Battle of Visby of 1361 is remembered as one of the most darkest moments of the medieval era. 1,800 local farmers on the Swedish island of Gotland were suddenly confronted by a very well-trained Danish army, and a bloodbath ensued. The battle left a unique archaeological legacy; masses of slaughtered soldiers and citizens lay scattered across the former battlefield, revealing the sheer bravery of the fallen farmers.
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Video totally ruined by ads, every minute. Unacceptable.
Will not watch this channel again.
If these warriors fought in a shield wall, it's possible the injuries to their lower limbs were sustained in that way, yes?
*See wut SKUUM these Aryan PeoPLes ReaLLy Are!!!!?*
*from ViKings to Voters of Trump!!!!*
There is not viking germanic
Look the dna
Visby is also the place where most of Pippi Long-stocking were recorded 😁
Bengt Thordeman was my great grandfather and this just happened to pop up in my feed. It's very cool that people are still reading his work. I have multiple copies of his book on the battle of wisby So I recognize a lot of the images and diagrams featured in this video. Anyway, i felt like I had to comment.
Dude that is awesome thank you to your grandfather hello from Atlanta Georgia
@@nikagantz1465 yeah, he was a cool dude. I remember him laughing and giving me a ride on his walker when I was very young. Now I just have a bunch of his stuff.
I'm related to the Col John Brinkerhoff,he was best friends with George Washington despite there age difference between them. It's in museums and his house 🏡 still stands!
Wow that is so incredible!!
@@nikagantz1465 hello to you from Atlanta as well.
I'm 35 now but when I was 10 I discovered a wonderful picturebook at the library specifically about ancient and medieval battlefields and it had a large segment about Visby and it of course captivated my young mind in many different ways. This is the first documentary I have seen about Visby and I am so delighted! Love your channel....thank you so much.
We want a copy!
You had me at 1361.
Just imagining what these people must have suffered in this battle gives me a knot in my stomach... I'm glad that these archeologists acknowledge the humanity of these victims and want to bring their story to light, even though they have been gone for the better part of a millennium.
1361 wasn’t a millennium ago lol
@@KristinkaAranova Who would've thought
Visby has both fascinated and saddened me since I learned of it 5-6 years ago while doing family genealogy research. Long story but the basics are ancestors who worked for the Hanseatic League, a whole bunch who lived/worked/fought from Bornholm and the Hammershus Fortress. Plus a tangled involvement with Danish royalty in several centuries at minimum. Looking at the horrific battering and hacking on bodies to kill others makes me sad,, especially to think my ancestors were involved. Frankly they were involved in many other violent "adventures" but that's another large book.
All the details of equipment, the tactic of going for the legs, and the wounds suffered are interesting to someone who worked in crime scene investigation. The power of a sharp battle sword is incredible!! Its hard to imagine the mobs of men trying to hatch and bludgeon each other to death. The sheer amount of blood spraying the air and soaking the ground is beyond belief.
The big mystery is the Gotland peasants could have run away and let King Valemar sack Visby, which is why he was there. The king had no beef with the Gotland peasants until they blocked the way.
The Gotlanders already had gotten thrashed badly in the first fight south of Visby, so they knew what they were up against. However, they chose to stand and get slaughtered while the people of Visby watched from the walls. After the slaughter, then the Visby gates were opened and Valedmar's troops sacked the city, which Valdemar wanted to do in the first place.
It has to be one of the oddest battles in medieval history.
It's crazy what man would do for land and resources.
Those poor brave people hacked to death because someone wanted what they had. Truly sad.
@@theresawilliams4296 The peasants didn't have anything. They could have run away safely and let Valdemar raid Visby. The mostly German population inside Visby hated or disdained the Swedish peasants and did not let them in to roam around. As I understand it there schedules and locations they could visit to trade/buy but the Gotland peasants were kept outside normally. That's what makes their fruitless battle so mysterious...why, what for?
@C H I'm not aware of any other ancient battle where the skeletons have so many hits from so many weapons. This was a serious hackfest, like a frenzied attack where you keep getting sword or axe hits after you've lost both your feet to one sword swipe.
Lack of good armor obviously would increase the number of wounds. But regardless that was a very nasty place. I know how much blood a wounded person can spurt out. Can't imagine a couple thousand. :(
@Dane Axe I agree. There is so much more I would like to know. What happened to the Gotlanders or people of Visby behind the Fortress? So many questions!
@@AmandaLarsson100 I have no information on the Gotlanders after the battle. With such a large loss of able-bodied men, the farming based economy had to be near collapse. The residents of Visby were not roughed up. After seeing what happens to you when you resist Valdemar's army I doubt Visby's folks wanted a fight.
They did lose everything of value. Like the video mentioned, Visby never really recovered from the raid. In my opinion that's because it was on the fringe of the Hanseatic League's "territory".
They just did not have the commerce going through their city, unlike other Hanseatic cities on German and Dutch coasts which were closer together and MUCH busier.
It's a benefit to us later people that Visby was not destroyed. It is very interesting to see the original Medieval walls and buildings inside. I hope to visit it as soon as I can with covid changing plans so much.
But first I have to visit and spend time at "our" family fortress, Hammershus. :)
If you can, go to Gotland. The Visby museum is good, many 12th-15th century churches, fossil deposits on the beaches , wild horses, and very bike friendly.
I actually lived in Visby within those walls for a while. Absolutely wonderful little town. Anyone who is into medieval history must go there during summer.
Gotland is my favourite place in Sweden. The medieval period gets all the attention, but the beaches, sugar train and the wild horses are cool too.
I realize it has been a couple of years since you wrote this, but do you have any insights into the reason Visby wouldn't open its gates to the militia?
Thank you for share It!
The Danes didn't loot the bodies of armor because, as I understand it, much of it dated as far back as the late 12th century and was obsolete and basically worthless in the marketplace. Family heirlooms, perhaps, worn by generations of the same family, but of a construction that had long since been replaced in the rest of Europe by better, more protective plate designs. While the weather probably played into the decision to not even harvest the maille armors, hauberks were long out of use everywhere else.
These were farmers who went to war with the weapons and armor they had to hand. As has been noted in publications about this battle, many of the wounds found on the bodies were made by bypassing the armors, with many wounds noted on the unprotected legs of the slain. Their attackers were better equipped with plate armors that protected arms and legs, as well as the head and torso, so the fight was never one between equals.
thank you for this info, it certainly makes one wonder what went through the minds of those who witnessed such a massacre, and of those responsible for tending to the dead and dying alike.
There could be many reasons why some of the bodies were not looted, but mail armour was definitely still being used throughout the 14th century, often being supplemented by plates and gambeson at the same time.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Plus I figure, they have the real loot inside the city, the good stuff. Why weigh down your ships with scrap metal? That kind of stuff is a real consideration when fielding an invading army attacking an island, especially in those seas.
This was very interesting and extremely well done. Thank you for your efforts.
Glad you enjoyed it!
To think, I never heard of this historical event before. Thank you for shedding so much light on this under-told story!
The Hanseatic League doesn't get much attention from history but it was really important. Gdansk was an important medieval trading port too.
@@shinnam Agreed. The Baltic trade in fish and grain did much to fuel the medieval economy.
Teeth make a real impression on me as they are often in roughly the same condition as when the owner was alive. Sometimes I am even envious about how good their chompers look! In the 1800s many skulls were stripped of their teeth. Waterloo teeth are the prime example.
Was that for souvenirs, denture production, what?
@@atomic_wait excellent question. I was wondering the same thing when I read this post. Please elaborate.
@@markb8468 One culprit is processed sugar. The people in the 1700's, 1800's, and early 1900's didn't know that sugar causes tooth decay. The most common treatment back then for cavities was to simply pull the tooth. By somebody's late 30's, they often had few teeth left. Prior to these periods, average people did not have much (if any) sugar in their diet.
Another is malnutrition. In soldiers on campaign, scurvy was a very real issue. A side effect of scurvy (and most other malnutrition related ailments) is tooth loss.
@@nonyabeeznuss304 so they used them as prosthetics? How did they affix them into their own mouths I wonder?
was that pun intentional?
Or is that a dentist dad joke?
Love your work
You are appreciated, thank you
You are very welcome
Nice to see an appearance of the Albion "Squire" at 40:20, designed by the great Swedish swordsmith Peter Johnsson!😁 It's an absolutely gorgeous piece!
A very powerful presentation.
Why are we so brutal to each other?
Legal slaughter is what keep people closer to their all powerful government. Religion or country, its just another excuse.
control of desired resources and sources of free labour.! (no matter on what scale, from family to clan to tribe to larger group alliances)
Money is the main reason !
Please, can you do something about keeping ads from appearing at the beggining of your videos. i don’t want to see an ad the moment i click on a video, middle of a video is fine but NEVER at the beggining when we first click on it…
Volume way too low entire video.!!!!!
Consider adding to the description the date the documentary was produced. We only see when it was put up on TH-cam.
Awesome!!!
the thumbnail is the medieval form of
"i can't believe you done this
I've been to Visby a couple of times. Never once heard about this incident.
Must have been really heavy and sharp swords to cut one or even two legs in a blow. And ofc heavy force behind it.
@@HavocHerseim hold up how would you know it can cut two legs in a blow .... ?
Amazing
This is some great and terrible history.
If the rich people weren't even willing to open the gates, they obviously didn't value the "peasants'" lives, much less their armor. Just one more example of how they didn't care about them...
it was mainly german and danish merchants was a hansa lauge city they built the wall cause they and the peasents wasent on great terms already also...
as said peasant army not really much of armor to save aswell they been lying in heat dead wouold you wanna wear it?
I’m fascinated in the story of the guy that brought a large bag of coins to battle. What was his plan?
Probably plunder he had collected along the way, this was often how the mercenaries were paid. He had to keep it with him, he couldn't of sent it home in any way. Must of been fighting on the Danish side as it did state there were both Danish and local Swedish coins.
That thumbnail guy, with that ax halfway up his skull, seems to be saying something like: Sorry boss, can't work today. Have a splitting headache.
Seeing these injured bones is horrifying.
Nice historical video about decisiveness, fiercely battle occurred between swedish military and warriors of Marchants of shores town ( visby). How archeologists worked hard donate clearly explaining of this ultra brutally attacked enjoyment video
Lol the guy in the thumbnail
“Welp, guess I’ll just die now.”
I've been to Visby, Gotland. It's a very nice town. Dallas. TX
Is there any evidance of gunpowder weapons at Visby in 1361?
You guys really need to work on getting the sound levels right I'm constantly having to turn my volume up all the way and they basically getting my speakers blown out for the next person. This one became unwatchable at 17:24. Good content poor sound quality.
It's fine for me on both phone and laptop.
Yeah. It's pretty bad.
yeah, the sound is really inconsistent. the narrators levels are decent but all the interviews need badly to be brought up.
Totally agree
This documentary been Official..Was surprised how healthy the soldier's of Visby Teeth looked. Very nice☝🏼♥️💎🌉🗺🕊
Not available in the UK?
The lesson here is to always prepare for war if you desire peace. Those that beat their swords in to plowshares will plow for those that don’t.
I've read a lot of medieval history & my impression was that the battle dead were buried in their armour was because it was considered as obsolete by the Danes & German mercenaries.
Usually all arms and armor are collected. In this case the number was overwhelming and they must of left the bottom ones be buried in battle gear as they fell.
So, what happened to the families of the farmers?
The audio quality is horrible y'all should work on that
They should use 3d scanner and AI to put all the skellet part togheter.
The up & down sound level is Most frustrating & not expertly managed at all
I just procured 15 sm. relics from Towton Battlefield. Via a York dealer. Along with Roman, Saxon , Viking pieces from the York area too. Metal detector finds 80s-90s. Legal procurement! W/COA , providence.
It's a very interesting time in history for the ancient piece/coin market.
I could see going after the legs if the person is shielded and using a spear. guessing the farmers weren't wearing full armor and likely the legs were lightly or not at all. Makes for an easy target to a well trained soldier. Simply feign going high to raise the farmers shield and swing low; one opponent out of action quickly.
Gotta get the time team in jere
Voice is hard to hear clearly, very monotone, Allen
26:40 - I can't see how burying the bodies so close to the city walls would be hiding them, It makes more sense to me that there were too few survivors left to actually manage the task, particularly if like mentioned at first the bodies were buried neatly and later just tossed.
It could be there were too few survivors from the Danish army left that it was not safe to stick around for long enough, thus they just hurried to bury everything hoping the rotting bodies would be enough of a deterrent for anyone to dig the corpses up again.
I mean even a monument was raised right at the spot, so I doubt the population of Visby had any doubts of where to find these armors if they had to.
well the danes did have few dead and woundet ,most of the dead was the farmers ,
@@kentnielsen8034 not according to the documentary... you think farmers had plate link armor and chainmail?
Don't forget, they only got the peasants from Gotland, they didn't get the citizens of Visby... The walls were there, gates closed, the Danes would have been sitting ducks outside there...
they were definitely not safe in their position.
2:59 are you telling me the island of Gotland was actually a *city* in the middle ages? That would make it one of the largest cities to ever exist, at about the same size as modern day Miami or Buenos Aires
seem the richest...it is amazing they do not have any wars for 200 years
That fact is about Sweden in the present day, last war was the Swedish-Norwegian war of 1814, where Norway was forced into a union with Sweden. Since then Sweden has only participated in conflicts internationally, such as the UN mission to Kongo in the 50’s and to Afghanistan recently
Visby was the city. Around it was farmland and rural settlement. Watch the other doco on Masterby, another battle on Gotland on the way to Visby. Same archaeologist and geophys. These docos are also on "Timeline".
Bruh... The Medieval times was hella wicked nobody & I mean Nobody today could stand a chance. Using only Medieval weapons! Faxxx
Face to face combat. Back then there was no talk of ptsd. It was just you protect whats yours. And the man next to you in combat. Woth sword and shield.
Speak for yourself.
@@Carlton_Wilson how about you don't speak at all Goofy. This comment not for you dummy
This is so interesting. I wish I lived in Europe so I could be an archeologist, the investment in my country for anything history is extremely small and there's barely if any research done, ever. Nothing like that could ever be discovered here.
Where are you from?
Beliefs in afterlife
My ancestors are from Gotland, I wonder if anyone related to my family are there?
Most probably you are from the group that killed the people and took their land
Otherwise you wouldnt be here
Read my comment. My family also.
@@veronicalogotheti5416 No, the island was not colonised by the danes. The just took the wealth and let the farmers families go on tending their fields and animals.
The massacred militiamen were mostly relatives and forefathers of the gotlanders of today.
The people from gotland were killed from the northen people
@@veronicalogotheti5416 The militia fighters, yes. Not their wives, small sons, daughters and men who weren't able to join.
A lot of those head injuries appear inconsistent with wearing a helmet. Since the burials lack helmets, one might surmise they were dead or badly injured after the battle, when the victors removed the wounded's helmets and killed them with a killing blow to the head. In other words, they could have been injured and later executed with a blow to an unarmored head.
peasant army..not much armour...
@@billdehappy1 helmets were the first thing you got
@@ChristianAuditore14 yeah u was there outta know
@@ChristianAuditore14 Aye, if you couldn't grab your old Dad or Grandfather's armor, you'd put a pot on your head, leather aprons on if you had any, as many layers as you could of stout cloth, padded, over shoulders and arms, wrapped your middle and legs and grabbed pitchforks! common sense to use what you might have handy, they were no strangers to being pressed into service!
The great betrayal of the peasants of Gotland when the rulers of Visby refused to let the survivors into the city in fear of angering the winning Danish king.. (Not to mention the fact that the king of Sweden didn't send any troops to help) Not one of our proudest moments that.
Certainly not one of *our* proudest moments either.
Valdemar brutalized the danish peasantry with taxes, so he could pay for his mercenaries to slaughter the brave, but doomed Gotland militia.
I piss on his memory.
I'm compelled to eat cookies.
I feel like I'm aiming pretty low
dude on the thumbnail looks like he saying: Really? An axe to the head? lol
42:00 Is it not possible that this was caused by a battle axe instead of a sword?
30:42 What’s this nice IKEA unit called plz..
+Respect. Betrayed by their countrymen.
This 6 or 7 cuts into the shin bone and loss of feet .. THIS makes me think of trip wire bombs
Shrapnel bombs - sharp shards of metal
Find some behind the scene slaughterhouse videos, people who ate meat should not be this delusional. I would recommend cowspiracy documentary.
different stages of development, or just different makers of different skill making armor of different complexity for different prices. If you can get away with making a piece of armor with larger pieces that wasn't too complicated, maybe it was worth it to do so and sell it for cheaper rather than going through the effort of making a brigandine with numerous small steel pieces.
Those commoners died with honor, they preferred to die free than become slaves.
Cool, i am a fan of the aristocracies of Medieval times
To bad the audio is so bad
LOL! The guy on the thumbnail be like "Well, I guess I have a war axe planted into my skull."
If only ABBA was around at the time, but they never showed up until Waterloo, just saying.
What dna that these people have
thinking of the cuts. did they still fight in a formation like shield wall? would make sense to cut low in a crowded wall where opponent cant back away
horror. don't forget when a man falls on his back he will kick up to defend himself and chopping off a foot is a obvious, then the head, much like forearm chops. terrible really.
I'm not saying it's alien's but it was definitely alien's.
Did farmers and peasants ever win a battle against a larger army in Medieval 🏰 times?
The German tribesmen defeated 3 great Roman legions in the Battle of Tuetoburg Forest in 9 CE (AD)
Battle of Henmingstedt, an army of 1000 peasants defeated the army of another Danish king, in the 1500s.
@@JohnShepherdMusic That's not medieval times.
Please wear gloves when handling artefacts...
People wanted to live in peace and didn't want to die for there country but died with a sword in there hands A TRUE VIKING
Sooooo the narrator of this video is Henry from Kingdom Come Deliverance, right?
The merchants collected their pound of flesh.
There is a lot of political intrigue behind all this yet to be discovered.
Are danes allowed today to step on gotland?
the sound sucks
Karen's enthusiasm about the armor is catching.
Why did the Gotlanders stand and fight for the city that locked them out? Why didn’t they just stay home and let the Danes take it?
The non-English archeologists have perfect English.
I would say about avarage for being swedish. I know a lot of people who speak better English.. and as many that speaks worse. So about avarage..
@@Skuggan84 Perfect English compared to most English people I've met.
@@homerfj1100 ahh. Yes. I have heard that before ;)
Americans wonder what state I'm from. (I'm swedish) ;)
@@Skuggan84
As a Canadian, I watch a lot of hockey & find that when Swedes are interviewed, their command of English is pretty remarkable. Way better than some of the old Italians where I'm from. They've been living here for 50, 60 years & still can't speak a lick of English 😂
@@Tam0de probably has ro do with swedes starting to learn English from 1st grade in school (7 years old) and that no TV programs are dubbed, only swedish text. I know kids that are 3 or 4 years that has already learned a few words in English. That makes a lot of swedes almost as fluent in English as in Swedish.
Most then start to learn either German or French from 4th grade. Some learn Spanish or a 4th language too.
Obsolete? No. This real estate was the most prized in the North. I assure you it was guarded by the best guards and armor money could buy at the time.
No, there was too much plunder to haul across rough water. Not only Visby but the entire island was raped of its treasure. There simply was too much loot to screw with the incidentals, especially those items whose combined weight would put on an already perilous mission at risk of ending up like Davey Jones.
9:57 almost looks like opium poppies
😊
Why are they not wearing gloves when handling the bones?
It's not always necessary to wear gloves to handle old stuff, especially bone-- unless it's a bog body with preserved flesh, you can't really harm bone by handling it.
Let their own people die outside the gates and got sacked anyway. I wonder what they were thinking 🤔... their best chance was probably to contest them at the landing site beach
They took their place
If you look at their skulls they had massive jaws and very robust chins, modern ennacments aren't accurate at in regards to what they looked like at all lol
Now governments and cities are still taxing outsiders while not providing anything in return.
Not a hint of chivalry.
That's why they cut off their feet they cut off their feet so that they could suffer as they killed them
I think there’s something to that. When they said at least 1/3 had that injury to the lower legs with lots of evidence of them getting both feet chopped in one swipe, that just seems like too many “lucky” swings. It’s hard to get a power swing leverage that low without leaving yourself exposed. And if hacking at legs was such a proven and effective battle tactic, you’d see it more elsewhere and you’d see opponents learn to guard against that.
Not to mention, the psychological effect of brutalizing the wounded as a warning to the city of visby to open the gates now, or suffer defeat like this later. Little surprise that visby complied.
Who knew the Danes were belligerent Huns back in the 14th century?
Swedes know.
@@robertohlen4980 Of course. I was mocking Donald Trump.
How bout they respected the shit out of them for fighting to the death and fighting well. They decided to bury them with honor.
Maybe so. But more likely it was inferior armor and weapons that they didn’t need and didn’t want anybody else using against them.
Possible but not very plausible. King Valdemar and his army were there to sack Visby, not fight with the peasants. After the peasants were killed the Visby people opened the gates and let Valdemar & troops inside to sack anything of value. Seems this tooks several days plus their ships had to sail up to Visby harbor and get loaded. Burying the peasant dead was the last thing on their minds......leave them for the Visby people to bury.
Since Visby was paralyzed by the sacking, the dead bodies were bloating in the hot summer sun for several days. That's the reason the armor was left on as it was "stuck" on the bloated bodies which will burst open after several days in hot weather. I've noticed that few helmets and weapons were tossed in the burial pits. Unknown if Valdemar's army took those to use or to sell or if the remaining locals got them.
Crazy situation that started with Valdemar getting mad because Hanseatic League ships/merchants were not paying toll. That's why Visby was selected....to get what Valdemar thought he was due. Plus Visby was rather isolated so outside help was not available. Most Hans cities were closer together and could provide mutual support to each other.
Kitil farm
Maybe they buried them alive
No matter the outcome we fight for our country 🇸🇪. Blood and honor! BTW Beautiful Documentary! My opinion is they weren’t stripped of Armor because they fought honorable for there land. I believe maybe the enemy gave them the honor of buried with there armor on. lol just my opinion and i thought i’d share and maybe someone else will agree.
Nope. They didn't give af
Brodie, I assume you are Swedish. Were you born there? It must be an excellent country to live in. The climate, natural vegetation, the building style, really beautiful people, somewhat of a good quality of life too sound, to me, like a dream.
How's the work environment there? And the people's behavior twords others?
@@wilsonbarbosa8210 I am from Sweden and live there. Yes it is so beautiful here and we all live by lagom. Lagom is the way of life to make sure everyone feels comfortable and not left out. You don’t see lots of people with fancy cars or high priced clothing and it’s kind of a turn off for people if that makes sense. We all stay equal with one another and that’s a huge reason why i believe we’re so happy here. We use recycled trash and things to make our fuel for our cars and buses and lol we do buy Norway’s garbage 🤦🏼♂️. We use it for our energy needs and fuel needs. You should definitely try to make it out here sometime and see the beauty that Sweden holds. Some say we come off rude but we’re just very reserved to strangers if that makes sense. We all hope that Greta Thunberg would maybe go to Norway instead lol. The winters here last a long time but iv been through a whole winter in Iowa state I believe that’s what it’s called and it was similar in the way it lasted from October to March sometimes April.
The working life here is absolutely amazing! It’s Lagom so life is usually always perfect. We don’t work overtime because overtime is viewed as a waste of time because you won’t get paid for it in some jobs and everyone works the same hours so you don’t want to be that one person who try’s to only work and make money. Jobs here encourage the workers to go home and enjoy the rest of the day. Also here in Sweden we don’t worry about losing our job or if i don’t stay late i’ll lose my job. It takes a lot to get let go from your job. I don’t know how to explain this one in english but it’s difficult to do so. America is scary because you never know when you will get fired or let go and that’s insane! I would be scared everyday lol. Compared to the rest of the world I honestly and not being bias but i would say Sweden is the best. America is amazing and it will always be amazing. Sweden all the way! I hope this helped answer some of questions and sorry if i didn’t make sense.
@@BrodieB762 from your description it sure looks amazing. I've searched this term "Lagom", there isn't an exactly translation to my language, but I think I understood it. If what you are saying is true then people there sure know how to live and respect one another. I'm mean, every place has bad things, don't get me wrong, but to read this things from you makes me think of how lucky you are to be born on a place like Sweden, where it seems people can be civilized towards others. And about Greta, it's really good to see a actual compatriot of hers like you speaking about her, because the media here in my country doesn't show how awful she is, quite the contrary actually.
Regarding the natural beauty, I saw some pictures on Google, they're all magnificent. When I looked at them they looked like they came out of a dream or painting. I personally HATE with a passion hot climates, I'm not from the USA sadly, and never saw snow, it must be incredible. Where I live it's hot and dry pretty much every single day of the year so I can only imagine how cool Sweden must be.
About the jobs it's really cool to know you guys don't kill yourselves working by placing too much value on money and it's power, and the ideia of living like human being with dignity. I believe, and please correct me if I'm mistaken, but these values of your people must be taught from generations to generations, right? Parents teaching their kids their moral values, for they themselves educated like that.
Congratulations for you and your people!
@@BrodieB762 you should stick to Sweden as you know nothing about the USA. The same. Who wants to be the same? In the USA if you're willing to work for it you can have it. There's nothing wrong with being competitive. The world has benefited from us competitiveness. The platform we are using right now is a product of the USA. You like your computer? That didn't come from being the same. Cell phone? That came from the USA. The first cell phones were in the 1940s. I'm not interested in the same. That's dull. My house is way too big for our family. That shows that I worked for it. I have about 10 cars. I worked for them. Someday when I'm gone I know that my family will be comfortable. That's important to me.
Its the same old story time and again... allow people into positions of power and most abuse it. The administrators of the town were happy to let their countrymen be slaughtered due to their greed.
holy crap, im so frustrated. they are wondering how they are cutting their lower legs so much as swords are not the best, also that both legs can be cut with 1 blow with a sword, NO IT CANT AND NEVER WAS, the main battlefield weapon was the polearm, spears LARGE AXES, HALBERDS, GLAVES. how are these people so incompetent, they make such dumb statements throughout the whole film, they are not historians at all.
I would not doubt if the merchants that had originally called for The Siege begin on the landowners I wouldn't doubt a bit if they had ended up tossing all of their riches over the wall only to be rated again next year and the year after that and the year after that and the year after that
You need to do some serious research reading on this. All your assumptions are wrong.
See! migration is natural for humans!