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- Learn the history of Viking runes, the ancient Norse language of symbols that make up an alphabet called the futhark.
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With their navigational skills and advanced longships, the Vikings sustained their seafaring for over 300 years. But for all their might, they left few monuments. Instead, fragments of stone, bark and bone found in the sites of ancient settlements provide the keys to their culture. Many of these objects are inscribed with Old Norse written in runic letters. Jesse Byock explores the ancient language.
Lesson by Jesse Byock, directed by Lisa LaBracio.
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The runes on the Hagia Sophia basicly reads "halfdan was here"
jeez, I thought that joke wasn't a gazillion years old
Omg Halfdan, that's so lame 😒
what does. is mean???......i think kpop is the best
Dont forget about the runes that are twenty feet up written on the roof a a cave that basically translate too: this is very high.
So cool! Never knew about any runes on it and that is suuuper fascinating!
One of the rare channels where every name is correctly pronounced.
Not in all videos. In the Indian legend video they did recently all pronunciations were wrong. Maybe it is truw for western ones...
@@_.Infinity._ yea. That Annapurna one
The names here are not very well pronounced either. For example Rok is actually Rök and is not pronounced with an o
@@_.Infinity._ damn. Guess it was too good to be true.
...Uh Egill is not pronounced EYE-IL
Whoa, so the original of Bluetooth logo came from this!!
This video explains it more: th-cam.com/video/VdmQp9M9jUo/w-d-xo.html
Ruri Daisy yes, and Harald Blåtand (Bluetooth) was the first King of Denmark to get all the Clans to speak together and join tHe union of Denmark. Later He took some of Norway into the union also.
Wow are you a octopus?
Bluetooth named after of deaths of vikings
This was my favourite fact from this video! Love it!
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Me too! After a long day I like to watch this channel to rest and take my mind off things
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The stones in Jelling are also known as the birth certificate of Denmark, as it is the first known record of the use of the name for the region. It's quite a pretty sight!
2:55 I always wondered about the symbol of bluetooth but never searched for it, thank you so much TED for always sharing your knowledge
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Wanna hear a viking joke?
Never mind there's Norway you'll laugh at it.
Ha ha noice
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I am dying of laughter......-_-
Well why not, go on!
That punchline makes me wanna punch myself
Yuvraj Singh hahahahaha hahahahaha nice joke
Sorta make you wish you could decipher such age old languages... That's a superpower I'd want if I get to choose.
The language of the Vikings is still used on Iceland today, so it is easy to decipher
Your wish can be obtained do a quick Google and there is lots of books and aids out there for purdy much free
@@muddybuddys1135 Try finding one that's accurate for Minoan.
@@ottekager no its not. Icelandic is closely related but its not the same, in fact not even all vikings spoke the same language since there was an east and a west norse.
@@Tatwinus Actually Icelandic is basically the same, Icelandic is basically a surviving dialect of Old Norse. Vikings consider their language as one language, since East Norse and West Norse were more of a dialect continuum and didn't vary much. It mostly just comes down to minor vowel shift.
Runes began to be used long before the viking age. In fact, the Futhark (alphabet, kind of) from the viking age was a simplification of two earlier versions. So there is the Older Futhark, replaced by the Younger Futhark, replaced by the Viking Age Futhark. A few other versions also eventually came to be, such as the British runes, the 'Short Stick' runes and (as late as the 1800's, in Dalarna, Sweden) the Dala runes.
where can I learn more about runes?
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YES I REALLY WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT THIS!! UR TIMING IS PERFECT
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I was just watching Vikings before this one and for the first time ever, it is not the TH-cam algorithm because this video just got uploaded and I found it under subscription, this made me happy !
YES, YES, & 'JÁ'! This is the kind of content I'm here for! More on medieval Scandinavian myth and history, pls!
@@dabbingsquidward5748 the darkages came after the viking age here in scandinavia...
sure....when hafdan vandalized the hagia sophia by writing "hafdan was here" on the wall, he is immortalized. but when i did it, they banned me from the country. so unfair.
The runes are shaped that way because straight lines and inclines are easier to carve on wood and stone. Vikings should have just gone with clay tablets. Much easier to work with, and much less restrictive.
Good luck digging in the frigid solid ground of the Norse european countries and finding clay. It wasnt available.
But why thought?
The small number of letters were easy to memorize and easy to use. The alphabet were mostly use for everyday stuff like taxes, debt, messages and as said in the video spells. I've even seen a grocery list carved on a stick.
I have lived in Denmark my whole life and I only know one place were you can easy collect clay. That place is over 30 kilometers away in the middle of nowhere. Nobody want to ride or walk that far.
You can also dig 2 or 3 meters down in the wet, cold or frozen ground. Why not just use your knife and a stick to remember your shopping list...?
Yes, the kings and rich people used stone, as it were the most lasting material they knew, to write their legacy on. It were also a show of wealth as a runestone were extremely expensive and could take years to complete.
Those stones still stand immovable today a thousand years later. It would be a miracle if a clay tablet could survive from then to today.
(Btw sorry for my bad English)
did you just criticize ancient rune rablet writers
@Drabkikker Well, not at first. But it did eventually evolve into the Greek and Roman alphabets. And those have plenty of curves :)
@Kevin Gruen Touche' lol
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You've learned "FUS ROH DAH"
This video came out just a week after my visit to the Jelling Stones! They are lovely 😊
"BOY, READ IT"
Dawit Teferi underrated comment
This game sucks, u unworthy to be talking about the old Norse gods.
God 2K It’s just a game. Can’t you just enjoy creativity. It’s not defecating all over Norse mythology and claiming to be right. You should try out the game, if you haven’t already.
@@emto8657 I have, it's a terrible game, mainly for children and yes they did misrepresent the Norse mythology.
@@supremoburritotorres3156 bruh
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Its fascinating how few know what the “Bluetooth” symbol means and are unaware its a bind-rune of H and B, which refer to King Harald Bluetooth. A reference to how He united tribes of Denmark into a single Kingdom.
Short yet powerfull, would love to learn more about this!
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Last year I bought this silver ring with Viking runes on it. It’s sick
Bluetooth is from Sweden though, actually invented by some students (now middle aged men) from Lund Skåne. We are proud of our old Danish heritage and Harald Blåtand, Ragnar Lodbrok and others are a common occurance on street names here.
The sound at 3:47 was a nice touch.
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*Britain, Ireland and France.
Come on. It's been over 100 years.
The British isles is the name of the islands.
@@jakejowett8116 ask the Irish government if we recognise the term. Spoiler, we don't.
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2:34 Bluetooth
Reg3e Exactly
Ah yes
That's actually the person they took the name from when the Swedish inventors named the technology.
Plot twist of the day for me. Didn’t see that coming.
That excellent pronunciation! Thank you
yay, a new video
You could have mention that there are 2800 run stones in Sweden, 137 in Norway and 273 in Denmark and Sothern Sweden.
This is very interesting! I'm trying to learn about Old Norse and Runes, since I'm from Denmark, and would love to know more about my ancestors!
Hej hvordan har i det? Jeg lærer dansk 😅
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Nice timing. SAS should definitely watch this.
Who’s SAS?
Awesome and informative video
It’s 3 am things in my life are slowly unfolding and.....HARALD BLUETOOTH
So that logo was runic all along!
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I can read and write modern futhark, it is really cool to carve it into my desk
In Sweden in "gamla stan" or directly translated old town, people used a runestone in a building.
Very interesting.
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The German word for letters "Buchstaben" is presumed to come from the old runes, which were often written as prophetic rituals on beech (Buche) sticks (Stäbe)
Hmm but Buch means book in German. I assumed it had something to do with that
It reminds me of 'Vinland Saga'
I’m really Viking this channel ..
🤦🏻♂️ I’ll show myself out
Thanks for teaching us history that school doesn't teach us
Skyrim belongs to the Nords.
My ancestors smiling at me, Imperial... How about you...?!
That's The Golden One, right?
The Thalmor are smiling at you Stormcloak bastards!
So the Dead Kennedy's logo is a rune? Neat!
Harold Blutooth unified his country...
WiFi unified my gadgets.
Bluetooth! The reason I enjoy these videos so much.
I WAS REPRESENTED
Interesting.
Where do southern viking descendants go after death?
Y'allhalla
Lmao
Idk why Ted didn’t pin this comment
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I don’t get it
@@anatine_banana_69/videos A reference from the series.
There was a very strange feature in this case, strange because of its extremely rare occurrence. This man had once been brought to the scaffold in company with several others, and had had the sentence of death by shooting passed upon him for some political crime. Twenty minutes later he had been reprieved and some other punishment substituted; but the interval between the two sentences, twenty minutes, or at least a quarter of an hour, had been passed in the certainty that within a few minutes he must die. I was very anxious to hear him speak of his impressions during that dreadful time, and I several times inquired of him as to what he thought and felt. He remembered everything with the most accurate and extraordinary distinctness, and declared that he would never forget a single iota of the experience. ‘About twenty paces from the scaffold, where he had stood to hear the sentence, were three posts, fixed in the ground, to which to fasten the criminals (of whom there were several). The first three criminals were taken to the posts, dressed in long white tunics, with white caps drawn over their faces, so that they could not see the rifles pointed at them. Then a group of soldiers took their stand opposite to each post. My friend was the eighth on the list, and therefore he would have been among the third lot to go up. A priest went about among them with a cross: and there was about five minutes of time left for him to live. ‘He said that those five minutes seemed to him to be a most interminable period, an enormous wealth of time; he seemed to be living, in these minutes, so many lives that there was no need as yet to think of that last moment, so that he made several arrangements, dividing up the time into portions-one for saying farewell to his companions, two minutes for that; then a couple more for thinking over his own life and career and all about himself; and another minute for a last look around. He remembered having divided his time like this quite well. While saying good- bye to his friends he recollected asking one of them some very usual everyday question, and being much interested in the answer. Then having bade farewell, he embarked upon those two minutes which he had allotted to looking into himself; he knew beforehand what he was going to think about. He wished to put it to himself as quickly and clearly as possible, that here was he, a living, thinking man, and that in three minutes he would be nobody; or if somebody or something, then what and where? He thought he would decide this question once
for all in these last three minutes. A little way off there stood a church, and its gilded spire glittered in the sun. He remembered staring stubbornly at this spire, and at the rays of light sparkling from it. He could not tear his eyes from these rays of light; he got the idea that these rays were his new nature, and that in three minutes he would become one of them, amalgamated somehow with them. ‘The repugnance to what must ensue almost immediately, and the uncertainty, were dreadful, he said; but worst of all was the idea, ‘What should I do if I were not to die now? What if I were to return to life again? What an eternity of days, and all mine! How I should grudge and count up every minute of it, so as to waste not a single instant!’ He said that this thought weighed so upon him and became such a terrible burden upon his brain that he could not bear it, and wished they would shoot him quickly and have done with it.’ ❤
thanks
Make a video on Chandragupt Maurya , and Ashoka Empire !!!!
Chads when they see the thumbnail:
Ah the Vikings made Bluetooth
Just got a set of Bone Runes for Christmas and then this video randomly pops up. That Bluetooth fact is neat.
The bluetooth one is so funny xD Harald was the earliest major viking kingdom, and a major dynasty in the north, therefore we today now his name when we connect our headphones xD
A deep connection with our past will restore our connection with nature and spirit.
2:53-2:56 Wow! I didn't know that.
2:55 this part was really interesting.
2:52 wow!
You should do a video like this on how St Cyril and Methodius invented the Cyrillic alphabet for Eastern Europe
Omg I’ve never been so early before
"A man should not carve runes unless he knows well what he is doing"
Me: *Starts carving runes*
Me when i see the thumbnail: VIKINGS KNEW OF BLUETOOTH?!
So cool 👥
Ancestors of the Dutch and Germans also wrote in Runes!
Legend has it that if you compliment a TED-Ed video he will heart your comment
as you can see from my name i have fully embraced the vikings into my everyday life
this is a very clever
🤯Was anyone else's mind blown when the video said the Bluetooth logo was made up of 2 Viking Runes that represented the name of the Viking King Harold Bluetooth? Great video and very informative!
You should check out Tom Scott’s video about it.
@@PlannedObsolescence Ok cool I might just do that. Thank you
@@PlannedObsolescence Just watched it and learned more about the naming origin of "Bluetooth"! Thank you!
th-cam.com/video/ZDaDRVZeFOE/w-d-xo.html vikings ha ha ha ha
3:52 uhh iceland what you planning on doing?
Runic spells!!! Yes yes~
Kazım Mirsan was able to read Swedish ancient Rock writings. He said that they re the same as in Central Asia. Vikings were Turks who migrated from North of Caspian Sea and Altay. Prof Sven Lagerbring of Sweden wrote in his book that Thor and his family were Turkish Royal Family.
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Ey just in time!!
Where is the video she said to watch to learn more about the building?
Runic MAGIC
Try watching this after watching Httyd...
Great video anyway 😄
So if you damage the glavendrup stone you get epic warlock powers?
I learnt to read and write runes when I was 8.
No one mentioned Ari Aster's Midsommar and how it picked up runic mysticism and symbolism so far?
Took me a day and now I can write anything in viking I mainly learned so I can write in my journal and no one can read it besides me
Random fact: Most of the dust particles in your house are dead skin.
That IS random!
Give us another
SciFactsYT, so clean would be getting rid parts of your self. I will never clean agian
Most of the particles walking the street are dead skins
That’s false, Veritasium disproves that popular internet lie
The accent 😍😍😍
I got the 6% strength rune. as well as the Crit.