Before the Vikings - Evolution of Viking Art, Weapons and Armour
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ก.ย. 2024
- There was a flourishing civilisation in Northern Europe long before the Viking era. This video shows some archaeological artifacts from England and Sweden dating from the Nordic Bronze Age, the Migration era and the Vendel era.
I also have some footage of the living history group Wulfheodenas whose replicas of the Vendel and Valsgärde helmets are without equal. They came to visit the pagan burial mounds at Gamla Uppsala which was a fitting place for a photo shoot. I also had ago at making one of the foils by hammering a pressblech with the help of the Smith David Roper.
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Gvasdnahr - Through the Astral Void
Volklore - Praetorian Germanicus
Those helmets are real works of art. Fantastic.
Definitely some of them are germanic as opposed to nordic or scandinavian, but those cultures were connected very closely, which is kind of the point ;).
My comment was not in disagreement with that, but there is indeed a distinction, that is because words like "nordic', 'germanic' and 'celtic' are largely used to refer to cultures, rather than ethnicities. Many groups were indeed combinations between those three, depending on the particular geographical region of course. Some helmets are definitively anglo-saxon (a mixture of germanic and nordic in both culture and geographical origin), and some originate from germanic tribes (tribe being the important word) as opposed to nordic tribes, for example that of the alammani, marcomanni, langobards, and earlier groups like the cherusci, chatti, suebi, and chauci. You can do your own research of course, but that there is a distinction between them is not up for debate.
You can also simply search "germanic vs nordic" or "nordic vs slavic", which will bring you to some...ahem, "alternative" political sites, or pages about that topic, if you would like to explore the ethnic differences. Also, I don't need to be schooled on those things, just saying. Tyr, tiw, tiwaz, odin, woden, wotan, etc etc etc. I could name plenty of cognates and different names for different languages and cultures. Not exactly relevant to the subject though.
The helmets are replicas from actual archaeological finds in Uppland, Sweden and one of them from England. The English one from Sutton Ho where probably manufactured in Sweden.
Have to agree Max,many people believe this was made on Britain but it has to be an import.Awesome Helmets all of them.
As a person of Northern Indian heritage, I honor my distant north western cousins. I can only hope that they will continue to rediscover the old heart of their culture and overcome the commercial emptiness of today. This channel is a wonderful contribution in that direction.
Northern Indians are Aryans, it's a shame that people sleep on you and dismiss your people as "dirty scammers" or whatever ignorant Americans think
Russia India Brothers forever
@Terrance stfu buddy
@@2AKgym not aryan LOL
@@abdinboni2246the vedic scripts say otherwise.
@@abdinboni2246idiot
Absolutely glorious channel.
Ah, the Vendel period. One of my favorite, if not often overlooked, material cultures.
Totally agree, the Vendel period was fantastc.
Those golden models show they worshipped either boats, or spicy potato wedges.
iamoli They wouldn't get the venerable potato that came from Peru for quite a while in the future. Or maybe they knew it was coming and how much they were going to love the spud.
@@gabrielsandoval4994 Maybe they were corn chips from native americans in Vinland
Definitely the potato wedges...
I gotta agree with Sean on this one....
Id bet vikings were trying to find the potatos but couldn't find them so they took out there anger on all of europe.
Imagine who much of this may be at the bottom of the sea?
Great Video. I loved the reconstructions of the helmets plus gear and cloths. The image of the rider who's riding down another warrior on Valsgärde 7 as well as on the Sutton Hoo helmet can also be found on a Alemanic decorative disc found here in southern Germany (Reiterscheibe von Pliezhausen).
true, there are continental equivalents
Why not show it? :) Things like Bracteate in Pliezhausen, Alemanic spatha in Gutenstein or silver foil in Obrigheim? :) It is not only Scandinavia and the UK. Thank you :))
I don't have any footage of it
Oh, I'm sorry. It's a pity, because motives are exactly the same. :))) Pictures from the Internet you can not use?
Peter Hirsch
This is a TH-cam partner channel. I only use licensed footage and music
Nice production, feels cosy
Great video again :-)
You shall make a video about the fantastic nordic bronze age and the objects found up here. You can see some of them at my nordic bronze age videos. Cheers from Sweden
Yes I love your videos
Survive the Jive: Thanks again :-)
Well your channel are now among the recommended channels at my channel :-)
Cheers from Sweden :-)
I wish more was known of the paleolithic and mesolithic hunter gatherers from the I haplogroups.
White World Media
I don't think the Sami raped the natives for one minute - the native I groups would have kicked the shit out of the Sami, and probably did. The Sami just moved into arctic wastelands the others didn't want.
vielen Dank für dieses Video!!!!
Thank you for naming the music in the description. Glad I found your channel, too!
fantastic channel. just subbed
I need a thousand of those helmets marching with bass drums, bagpipes, and mastiffs letting loose wild boars and molotov cocktails in every no-go zone through western Europe.
As a celt, i'm triggered, heh.
Keeelane The Finnic peoples are actually not an Indo-European people nor is there various languages they originally come from the Russian far East.
Leland Grover like the berigians? Except I thought the Finn-Urgulic tribes also worshipped the Germanic gods?
@@drengr7210 Finns at least had their own religion
Nice to see the pressbläck in action. thx
great work Bro, very informative !!
One of the best channels on youtube! Love your work mate! Thanks from Australia.
I love this channel
Geats, Jutes , Frisians, Angles, Saxons oh my
Is that Uppsala in Sweden? Great video btw, thank you.
Citizen K9 yes it's Old Uppsala
A greedy goldsmith stole and melted down the original Horns
that vendal helmet with the cheek guards reminds me of much earlier greek thracian helmets that would have the beard shaped cheek guards.
It's kind of off topic, but where did you get such a good metal replica of the Sutton Hoo helmet? Since all the metal ones I can find are based off the long out of date reconstruction
Hail from Estonia!
Ok, east beast.
Great video, friend. The music fits really nicely here. Well done!
Glorious splendor and serenity at its best,
The brooches of 4:55 can be found even in Spain. MAN (National Arqueologycal Museum) in Madrid haves similar interesting pieces from the Visigoth period ( Goths are even thought to come from Sweden although the many possibilities of their origins are still very whacky).
Sweden is the most likely - most other theories are wacky tbh
Vendel period is my favorite! This is when great things happened
Interesring vendel era and the weapon evolution of those days
Long live Scandinavian culture rise sons of the north and reclaim your lands from the saracen Invaders you have my undying support much love from Mexico and USA Aztecs met Vikings and worshiped Odin !
--> "saracen Invaders"
When you have to twist words to make your narrative work, your narrative likely isn't sound.
--> "Aztecs met Vikings and worshiped Odin !"
lol
Very interesting.
Valsgärde 7 is the best one for me.
Fantastic documentary. I am a Migration Period reenactor. I do a Jutish impression.
In modern Swedish viking research we now often say that the viking age starts around the fall of the Western Roman Empire, instead of the attack on Lindisfarne. To simplify things, this is about the time that the Viking runes are invented and when the Nordic people starts to use sails on their ships, among other reasons. Meaning that most of what is shown in this video can be called "Viking". Obviously the Nordic people had their "Viking style" warrior culture prior to this, most likely originating already during the stone age, but the fall of the Western Roman Empire is what lead to people in Scandinavia "going Viking", as their fall, among other things, lead to Europe becoming christian, which caused problems with trading, among other things, etc.
The Nordic people used sails way before that you can see sails on petroglyphs up here already in the nordic bronze age. You can see some of them at my nordic bronze age videos.
@@BirkaViking these are not confirmed, nor comfirmable as of now. First proper evidence stems from around 500. Either way, the modern view of the viking age starts at around 500.
You can forgive people for confusing Pagan Anglo Saxon armor as Viking for obvious reasons. Always amusing to see how not inherently dissimilar they were from their Nordic seafaring cousins who came later on in the historical record. I always liken the Viking invasions of England to a poetic vengeance of their earlier Germanic religion. A sort of “you morons lost your way and we’re here to remind you of what you once were” story
Waaaaaiiiiiit a minute! Where are the Black people? Ya' know, the people of multicultural Scandinavia?
MrTrenttness So tolerant
Haha you've succeed at hurting snowflakes feeling down here, congrats !
Seeing the making of hemlets, great video
I cannot find the soundtrack "Volklore - Praetorian Germanicus" :'(
Great video! Do you know if the helmets were made out of individual plates with the foils attatched then riveted together? or were they made from a single piece then the foils added after the shape of the helmet was made?
I think separate plates. Pitch these questions to wulfheodenas for proper answers though
Zedi gan
That would depend on the metal type, thickness and the maker.
But it is quite possible to cold-beat Iron plate up to around 1mm thickness into a bowl shape in a form made of hard wood, and then attach bands with rivets. Iron is relatively soft, steel is harder; added Carbon (Carbon steel) and perhaps other metals (alloyed).
The Iron can be "Carbonated" after shaping, too.
There is a certain way to beat the plate, by "talking" to it with the hammer, with that technique it shapes like it is soft and agreeable, with little effort.
Thank you for sharing! Interesting and enlightening!
loved the background music man.
are you like the Scandinavian version of a weeaboo ? ᕙ(⇀‸↼‶)ᕗ
Yes a Norsaboo.
hehehe oh great knowledgeable brother
perhaps a Thoraboo?
well, except that he's Germanic himself :)
i am too
A super video and a super reenactment group!
“With the help of the smith”
The smiths help: *mid bite* “yeah that happens”
I am so so proud of my heritage.
It's amazing, what beautiful metalwork!
Excellent Video...Very informative!!!!
Man I Love them Helms so Much ,
Horrible cold rain the last time i traveled to the king piles
Long Live Angelcynn!
Thanks we do our best
Sutton Hoo obviously a Swedish boat burial :P
At Lake Ladoga, Russia people used to speak Eastern Old Norse language. I always thought that group of people couldn't form just in the viking age.
Great stuff as always!
The artwork on the helmets look very celtic
Not really.
I’m 1/3 Norwegian because of the Vikings in England.
How did they shape the molds for the foils, though?
Also I feel like those metal langets on the shield would likely have been horizontal, not vertical. They look designed to stop blows that cut through the shield.
This is purely a guess, but I would think they'd carve them from something softer, and then use that to make a bronze casting which can then be tidied-up and any lost detail added-back.
Anglo Saxon: I’m finally cured from my fear from the Vikings
Behind the Anglo Saxon: 1:57
Your videos are awesome!
They look awesome
music is great in this video
at Stockholm history museum they have lots of Gold and bronze from this time
...back to the GERMANIC bronze age. (ie, the boats were A-S of origin. Note also the ship prow in the British Museum, found in Belgium in 1934 and believed to be 'Viking' until. in the 1970's, it was carbon dated to between 400 and 615.
Was the ship prow from Belgium buried though? Most Anglo-Saxons and other Germanic peoples did NOT practice boat burial. A recent find has now determined the practice originated in Norway, was developed in England, and then exported back to Scandinavia where it was continued by the Uppland Svea.
A fascinating period of time.
When Beowulf retired he settled on my property 50 m south of my villa and 200 m across the valley on the side of Hravnsness there is a grey picture of the two 2.5 m Grendels he slained. The chamber inside the tip of the ness below the enormous grey stone has an opening one can see the cliff portal the water was 6 m higher then. This is true and I can prove it! It is more than fantastic. Beowulf was born around 490 and killed by Grendels father around 580 and he was burned and the ash covered under a hip of stones on the top of the worlds oldest mountain the Whale mountaind at the SPA at Hafsten 20 km west of the city o Uddevalla in the crossing of four fjords as he wished. The foundation is 7x20 m and the door opening can be seen.
great video m8!
1:04 gamla Upsala
Sick dungeon synth bro
Nice video as always! Informative, short and to the point. On a side note was that some Legacy of Kain music I was hearing at points or am I just losing my mind?
Have you ever looked into a possible connection between the Picts and the Sami people? I find many similarities, such as: Housing, not the tent type structures but rather the more permanent earthen structures with wooden doors that are similar to the Pictish huts; the carving work that includes similar intricate trims and even the basket weave carving (the best Sami examples are on knife handles); and the fact that the Sami women traditionally wear a plaid shawl and each family has its own plaid. It would be interesting to compare language. Are there any surviving Pictish words that are similar to Sami words? Are there similar names, such as the Pictish Durst and the Sami Dorste? Finally it would be interesting to see if there is an ancient DNA connection if this were possible to do.
lornaduwn saami arrived from asia about 2k years ago. No relationship to picts
I am ranking channels on the net, you get one of my highest.
Great video!
Hey Tom where was the Sutton Hoo helmet replica bought?
Created for Paul Mortimer by David roper
you've got to give me the source of the music starting at 2:23, it's amazing
Gvasdnahr - Through the Astral Void
Survive the Jive you are amazing, thank you
This is the migration period... Where they still called Norsemen during that time by the different factions? Did the Romans know of the Norseman? Did the Scandinavians of that time know about Rome? I firmly believe they did. People moved around a lot. We all know its in the nature of humans to explore. And where theres a will theres a way. What is interesting is why didn't Rome try to conquer the Scandinavian area????
great channle and at least now i can prove my teacher was wrong about the vikings being after romans
*Only that, the RUS had not that eye protection nordic helmets, but sarazene helmets and chain mail armor shirts instead*
Why don't you do a series on Celtic or Gael pagans?
Awesome!!!
Imagine being a Roman occupying Britain and all of a sudden, these guys show up out of nowhere. 1:56
The Daniens from The Illiad and the Denyens from Egypt sea people's and the Tuathe De Dannan of ancient Ireland.
I wish there was a band similar to Wardruna that focused on Anglo-Saxon paganism, and sang in Old English.
Hail Scythia & Sarmatia
they didnt have any boats!
@@Survivethejive Wrong .
There is Ruins of boats in Caucasus .
;) cheers
I Will like to Buy some of this Sheen clothes and rystings.
Amazing how our ancestors were such interesting people that looked as is they came strait from Rohan in lord of the rings.
It's almost as if Rohan was based on them. Almost.
@@Hurlebatte Well I think Tolkien intentionally based the Rohirrim after the late antiquity and early medieval Germanic peoples such as the Anglo Saxons and the Goths.
Wulfheodenas! :D
That was a good video! Could you make one about the area of the north sea? I heard, that there was land before it got flooded by water and that there were a nordic civilisation like the city Runghold for example. cheers.
that is not true
Did they had pre-made figures to mould the liquids in or did they work many years on these helmets, is what I wonder about.
look at those armors, so glorious and juicy.
Very cool video! thank you for sharing. Gave this a like
@Survive the Jive, did the Vendels share an ancestral heritage with the Vandals? Anyone know?
Vendel is a town and Vendel is a period - not a people
Do you live in Uppsala? I recently visited this site also
How could those helmets take a blow from a sword? Looks thin except from the crest.
Have you ever heard of Kvenland? There is a Wikipedia article about it, i just wondered could it relate to this pre-viking age time...
please tell me the background music at starting 1:27
What are those split tunics based on? First time I have seen that in recreations of this period.
MrMonkeybat based on the pressblechs and foils of the vendel era which show men wearing them
Oh how I wish I could return to the land of my ancestors.. don’t get me wrong I will always love Texas but its almost just not worth it anymore
putting that thumb detector to good use
Indo Europeans weren't the only Vikings. It also included Finnic tribes who are Finno Ugric not IE.
keeelane were the proto fins an aryian tribe or one of the earlier pre-existing ones?