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Hi Liam! Thanks for the kind words. I'm glad you enjoyed the Hallfred's Hall talk. If you subscribe on our Substack you'll find other content articles as well, in addition to full podcast episodes. It's free! You can find it at vikingology.substack.com And yes! Saga, segja, sögu.....history AND story all from the same root. We don't subscribe to the view that the sagas are one or the other. They are both, and we believe them to have been both for Viking Age Nordic people as well. Skál!

Många tack! Thank you for watching/listening and your comments and the video. We both need to get to Gotland and Sweden some day. Terri's great grandfather came to the U.S. from Sweden. We also have a friend of the show Ben Raffield who is at the university in Uppsala. You can check out his episode with us regarding what it meant to be a Viking warrior. Cheers!

Try again now? Seems OK on our end. No flags.

Viking territory! 😉

Thanks so much for watching and the kind words!

@ Thank you. I finished watching Neil Price’s lecture from Cornell University years ago on Life and Afterlife: Dealing with the dead in the Viking Age. It was fascinating. He’s brilliant. I have his book the Viking Way in my inbox for purchase. If you have any of your books or published articles available, please let me know how to purchase.

@@stephanielanderos4363 Yes, Price's work is great and he's a very nice man to boot! We have talked with him about chatting on the podcast, but haven't figured out a good time yet. In the mean time, you can check out our full episode with his close colleague Ben Raffield that this clip is from. The link is in the description. There are two other videos that are part of that Cornell series that you should also take a look at, particularly The Shape of the Soul: The Viking Mind and the Individual, if you are interested in a nutshell version of his Viking Way book. His Children of Ash and Elm is also a very good book as an accessible popular history for general audience. Or if you want a shorter, more concise version of that book, check out the book he coauthored with Ben Raffield simply titled The Vikings. C.J. writes historical fiction set in the Viking Age. You can find his books on Amazon. Here's a link to the first in the series, The Lords of the Wind: a.co/d/5GbEVAG Terri has published a few articles on different aspects of the Viking Age. You can read one about the beginnings of the Viking Age here: www.medievalists.net/2022/08/explain-viking-age/ and about the "woman warrior" grave in Sweden here: www.medievalists.net/2018/09/vikings-history-and-ourselves-still-searching/ You can find another about the remnants of the Viking Age in Iceland here: www.medievalists.net/2020/09/medieval-past-present-iceland/

Thanks for watching and taking the time to comment. You are correct (or your professor is) in that Nordic people have some Yamnaya DNA. But that's not what is talked about in this clip. What is referred to is rather the false and misleading ideology of the Nazis regarding a pure Nordic race, which is extremely well documented as not existing. The science we have now was never known to Nazis, and it shows unequivocally that basically all Europeans were and are a mix of various peoples based on multiple migrations over the millennia. There was no "purity" in the way the Nazis framed it. They were simply in the business of fabricating an origin story for the German nation.

@@vikingologypodcast I see. I don’t know the details of Nazi propaganda in terms of “purity” claims, but of course, due to evolution, there is no ethnic group that simply dropped down from heaven. Then again, if someone says they’re “pure” Chinese/Japanese/Native-American/etc., they are not criticized, and we know what is meant. It seems that criticism of purity only applies to Europeans, which is understandable due to political dynamics over the past few centuries. Without being an expert myself, there seems to be significant overlap with Nordic and Yamnaya/Proto-Indo-Euro DNA, and I’ve heard claims that Nordics do in fact have the highest percentage of this DNA. So, even though claims of “pure” anything are inherently false, there is objective validity in pointing out some group as being the genetically closest living relative to to some other (perhaps historically significant) group, I.e. nordics and Yamnaya/Indo-euro for instance. I would argue that claims that they were just a miscellaneous mix of any/everything is more misleading than claims of purity, because though both are untrue, the former is (a lot) further from the truth.

Definitely agree, and this is well attested in the evidence and literature. My claim about Vikings being opportunists in the extreme is not meant as a comment relative to others in their own day or even now, but rather just in a general sense. If they saw advantages, they generally took them with no qualms about playing by certain rules as others may have done. The period before they adopted Christianity stands out in this regard. But you are correct that, comparatively speaking, the Middle Ages was a time when people behaved somewhat similarly in order to simply survive.

Not really because IT doesn't end with two people.

@@bluewizzard8843 correct It leaves everyone blind in both eyes, except for the last person, who is only blind in one eye.

A nice face attached to a very nice guy, we can attest!

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You're very welcome! We are glad that you enjoyed it and found the content useful. We'll let Peter know too! 🙂

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But now you know! Thanks for watching :)

In ancient Egypt nose chopping was favourite activity.

Thanks for listening and your comment. Vikings were good seafarers and were probably a bit fearless due to their fatalistic beliefs (at least before Christianity came to Scandinavia), but if you're talking early in the Viking Age before solid kings existed in the North, I'd say the Romans would be a very tough challenge for Vikings due to the fact that they had waaaaay more men conscripted and also a State that supported them. Scandinavians could not compete on those grounds.

@@vikingologypodcastwhat about how the Germanic tribes sacked Rome and never really got very conquered by Ancient Rome cuz they always put up such a good fight? So that begs the question, how different were the Germanic tribes from the Scandinavian tribes? Maybe Vikings wouldn’t have BEATEN Ancient Rome but could have held their own and at least not have been conquered by them.

Dan’s IQ isn’t in single digits. So I doubt it.

@@andruwxxidk man I think you might be projecting a little bit

Did he say "I am fan of Carl Benjamin?"

@@spencerantoniomarlen-starr3069it was a wee jokey joke

The bias is strong in this one...

Indeed! Dan is one of the smartest "non-historian" historians we know :)

Afaik there were a bunch of people involved in getting it down. "Good" dictators make sure there is no viable alternative to them to stay in power, so if they do fall it will always be a mess. "It wasn't such a mess when we had X dictator" is incomplete without asking whether the causes for the mess aren't because of dictator X in the first place.

​@@FrenkieBakbeest saddam was a monster. His only redeeming quality is that he kept order in Iraq

​@@dwaybrussand yet with him iraq was a much better place than nowadays.

The regime changes and toppled statues in other countries are considered democracy, but many Americans ironically hate democracy in their own country.