I am a blacksmith and its beyond humbling to see these peices. One of the helmets you viewed (the one with the head in the middle of the nose that I thought maybe odin) is a reproduction project I am planning on tackling in 2019. Its one of the more famous ones from this period and I believe its from a ship burial. These Smiths did not have the steel we do today but those techniques and technology that smiths of the past used are beyond me. Lost to time. Great video.
Thank you Tom. You did a great job with this video. You are very talented for this kind of documentary work and story telling. You deserve to be supported. We desperately need good people like you.
Now I realise as to how the Germanic people became the most industrious people the artwork on the artifacts is a good indicator of the craftsmanship of the Germanic volk. The Ulfbert sword was a technological marvel of the medieval times. An efficient battle sword.
I keep asking myself how they made such unbelievably amazing art work. This video, if for nothing else but the footage of these artefacts, goes on the top of my list. Thank you for taking the time to make this available.
Thank you for this video Mr. Thomas, it was very interesting this whole thing with chat. I find it very interesting the various Bronze Age art depictions of horned figures and helmets with horns throughout Europe. In those terms there are many similarities between Bronze Age Scandinavia, Northern Portugal and Italy - especially the sardinian horned bronze figurines.
@@rohacha9iin40 There are many people in Europe who originally did not speak an indo-european language, but they became indo-europeanized, linguistically, probably through a migrating indo-european speaking aristocracy that submitted them, or through marriage between indo-european speakers and the local populations. The term "indo-european" is an academic construction in order to give a name to a proto-language without known name, but one should not forget that it is a linguistic construction, nothing else. It has nothing to do with genetics or material culture. Unfortunately, the term is used in many completely irrelevant contexts, in a very exaggerated way.
Great video! I have visited allot of museums in my own country and the style looks so similar. For example 7:07 looks allot like the Goudschat van Wieuwerd. The brooch of Dorestad, Mantel Speld wijnaldum, fibula of Achlum are very much like the anglosaxon styles and so much more they found. You should check the Frisian museums in Leewarden and the museum van oudheden in Leiden, Holland. I think you would find it very interesting. Huis van Hilde also very nice. Archaeological museum Xanten also very very interesting.
I love this art, especially the viking age works surpass modern art by miles Germanics weren't brutes you know, they were smart people and they made some very nice stuff
I don't think they need to be exclusive, you can be a brute and also make really nice stuff, they could be in general a rougher people yet still refined in the way of craftmanship.
"The problem with Scotland, is its full of Scots." Who were those people? Ulster Scots, the kingdom of Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Tara. The thorn in England's side for centuries, whose same children have given their blood in England's defense ever since. The Gaelic who booted Edward II out the door without so much as a meat pie for his travel home.
@yowza European paganism was one religion that branched out from one culture. The branches are more similar than they are different. Europeans are not a multiple of cultures that mixed together and all adopted one pagan belief. You are more accurately describing the Abraham religions. The religions have a fixed starting point and spread across many races, and values the belief system over the culture and individual. That's why the ultimate virtue is spreading the religion(i.e. creating a cross cultural religion or "multiculturalism"). Just look at africa, missionaries have a blast brainwashing the natives into their cult.
Just this week I had a chat with a Parsi guy living in the states. His parents immigrated from Iran shortly after the revolution. He practices Zoroastrianism in a town where he and his parents are the only Zoroastrians. All his community is online, where Zorastrianism is alive and kicking. While Zoroastrianism isn't exactly paganism, it is a true Indo-European religion that simply developed a more dogmatic form of worship and a kind of dualistic monolatrism rather than polytheism. I spoke to so many Iranians and they all pretty much hate Islam and see it as a foreign Semitic takeover of their culture and heritage, the loss of their empire, their greatness and their dignity. The Persians still remember collectively the slaughter and destruction brought by the caliphate, led by desert nomads who had no respect or awe for other cultures and only cared about their selfish agenda of installing strict and brutal monotheism, killing all gods and traditions in the process.
@@lunaflamed Christianity serves the jews better than any other people. Look at christians reverence for "gods chosen folk". I'd know, my father is a christian. They hold them in far too high esteem that they are blind to any negative things they may do.
@Luke Nukem YES,!! WHAT YOU SAID!! My mother is a Christian ( Baptist, raised Catholic). Not any huge fawning over the Jews, but sure do know a LOT of Christians that REALLY do. I say all this as an atheist, and see the need for religion for some people. There also is nothing to say that the spiritual aspects of religions such as the Europeans had in ancient times is negative, even for atheist, as it still adds a wonderful timeless and complex template to overlay on to every day life that helps enrich and guild our lives and understanding. The Gods and Goddesses such as Thor and Oden and Freya and Hera, have personalities, traits and stories that real humans can seek to emulate and encourage in others.
Modern art and architecture is truly disgusting, I’m lucky I live in a place with lots of old buildings but you can see modern-degeneration creeping in.
There is still so much to be learned from artifacts like these, With every new discovery that comes to light , we have to go back and assess, the standards
So many finds in Sweden, yet we never get any credit for being "vikings". Which is funny, considering the holy cities and most important trade cities as well as by far the most finds is in Sweden.
A bit off subject but I would love to learn more about what the Saxon’s were doing before they came to England. Could you suggest a book or resource I could visit because I can find about two paragraphs written on this subject.
is it not that scaninavia,northern gemany normandy irland,britain and maybe baltic countrys had a far more conections and culture together even before vikingage.from vendeltimew etc.much far more than we know now
I have a picture of myself in front of that boatstone. Museums are wonderful and exist in the real world. It's awesome internet people. There is a third dimension.
What are your thoughts on the use of psilocybin mushrooms in indoeuropean culture? Much of the art (most of all norse/celtic art) and paganism seems very much inspired by the psychedelic experience of being one with nature, a deep sense of magic all around you and also the visual patterns (looks almost like an exact representation with the dotting and sweeping, abstract formations of faces, animals etc). Perhaps in the same way the aztek and maya art and culture were heavily inspired by its use? (With them we know of their ritual use of what they called ”flesh of the gods”).
Y’ALL wuz jus living in caves making incredible intricate metal work, developing ferrous metallurgy, constructing boats whose hull efficiency was not to be exceeded till the 20th century, surviving and thriving in the frozen north when we wuz kangs n sheiit!
I'm fascinated personally by the interlink between Wendel and AngloSaxon culture.If you could answer Thomas what exactly did the swastika signify specifically to the AngloSaxons?
It depends what you mean. The original Celtic La Tene style is not at all like Germanic styles. But medieval "celtic" knotwork looks like viking art because it copies it deliberately.
There isn't really much to say. We know the Rus men tattooed their arms as they are described in Ibn Fadlan's account as being covered in drawings from 'neck to fingernails', this passage is often used to justify the idea that tattoos were common among the people of Scandinavia. However there are several problems with this. Firstly, by the time Ibn Fadlan visited the Rus lands they were a rather distinct culture from their Scandinavian brethren, they had taken on many Slavic elements so things they do cannot be generalised back to Scandinavia. Secondly, people living in Scandinavia would have associated tattoos with the Sami people, who were known to have them, the Scandinavian people thought of the Sami as barbaric and savage and so would not have wanted to be associated with them by virtue of tattoos.
Are the south Germans Germano-Celtic hybrids? They southern Germanic people seem have some external genetic influences on them, and they live in the previous heartland of the Hallstatt culture, where the P-Celtic languages, and traditional Celtic art style originate. Would you say that’s also why high German diverged so much from low german and north Germanic?
The problem is assuming "celt" ever referred to a specific race to by hybridised with. The original Celts would have been genetically like Austrians not Irish yet the term celt now refers to pre Roman British heritage also.
@@Survivethejive well yeah, I've thought about the idea of what the celtic "race" is, and I actually think it corresponds roughly with Bell-Beaker ancestry, and thereby, both the Alpine, and Irish celtic types would be variant groups of a super-celtic race. I was wondering if the Hallstatt types had a significant impact on the southern Germanic peoples (such as Alemannian, and Suebian types).
Celt of Canaan Esurix well it doesn’t because the bell beaker culture is a major component of germanic people too and also the pre celtic british isles
Celt of Canaan Esurix I'd say that southern Germans as well as Austrians (which were - and are - basically Bavarians) and Swiss Germans had a fare share of Celtic and Roman influence, also genetically. In the Eastern parts of that territory they incorporated Slavic people, too.
What did the swastika actually mean back then. I know the storm troopers from pre ww2 worshiped the wind god, but what about from way back in ancient times.
I don't understand, do you mean there was no Germanic art in Africa? The reason why seems a bit obvious. There is swimming pools worth of fascinating and intricate sculptures and jewellery from West, East, North Africa. Huge surviving buildings and ancient rock art from every part of Africa.
Sorry tom what I meant to ask was if the Sutton Hoo or Vendel style of armour on the whole was exclusive to the period rather than the actual helmets that were found. I was speculating that Vendel era artefacts would not be distinguishable from those of the rest of the Germanic Iron Age; the Gallehus horns are proof that people had access to precious metals, and they do have similar images to the pressblechs on the vendel helmets e.g. the horned man. Furthermore, the helmets themselves are based off of designs used by the Romans as you said, and the Sutton Hoo helmet is thought to have been about a hundred years old when it was buried (made around 525 AD). What are your thoughts on this? :)
There is a yt video of a negro woman who had an ancestry test done by tree different companies and she got three different results. I don't trust them! Waste of money.
@Gittl G. It’s because most companies base their estimation on borders not blood, so they guess where all your dna could have come together. For example it’s impossible to be 100% English because English is a mixture between Britons Saxons Angles Danes Frisians and Jutes, while most of the Germanic elements are similar the Celtic is the only thing that differentiates Englishmen from Dutchmen and Rhinelanders. Because of this they often fudge the results to guess for a country instead of just telling you what you are. The biggest reason for this is to not burst peoples bubble, otherwise you would say to a Frenchman from Paris you are two thirds Gallic and one third German and to a Frenchman from Toulouse you are two thirds Spanish and one third Gallic. A lot of people consider this insulting to their national identity, mainly because Englishmen don’t want to be told they are about as German as an Austrian and the Swiss don’t want to be told there is no such thing as Swiss and that they are as is apparent German French and Italian. Due to this fudging a lot of stupid things happen, for example I am 5% Swedish, mathematically that is the most probable inheritance, on one test the Germanic elements were similar enough to lump into English and I was told I was 1% Finnish; however there are sites that don’t flub results to match modern borders on another test I got 4.95% Swedish, however these sites present another problem, which is that very closely related groups cannot be differentiated so I came out 10% more Danish and 10% less English I however have no Danish ancestors past the year 1200. I was however happy to get a comparison to clustering in other countries to tell what population I am most closely related to instead of what country they think we were from.
Given how expensive these accessories and weapons would have been, do you think they all must have belonged to nobles? Would a commoner have worn something similar, or a simpler alternative?
Survive the Jive well yes, obviously, but decorations could be made out of iron or bronze, could they not? Were all those Thor’s hammers gold? A commoner wouldn’t have even had those?
It sucks I can't get ancient art like that here in America. I get stuff from the Mississipian culture, but it feels so alien compared to the stuff in the video.
The craftsmanship was highly advanced at that time. Stunning.
I am a blacksmith and its beyond humbling to see these peices. One of the helmets you viewed (the one with the head in the middle of the nose that I thought maybe odin) is a reproduction project I am planning on tackling in 2019. Its one of the more famous ones from this period and I believe its from a ship burial. These Smiths did not have the steel we do today but those techniques and technology that smiths of the past used are beyond me. Lost to time. Great video.
Some of the most beautiful art I’ve ever seen.
Man the detail is incredible and very clear, can’t imagine what a Germanic warrior would have looked like in full gold and ceremonial jewelry
Thank you Tom. You did a great job with this video. You are very talented for this kind of documentary work and story telling. You deserve to be supported. We desperately need good people like you.
I had goosebumps the entire video lol . The amount of detail on some of those bracteate's is insane .
Indo-European status: Very.
Now I realise as to how the Germanic people became the most industrious people the artwork on the artifacts is a good indicator of the craftsmanship of the Germanic volk. The Ulfbert sword was a technological marvel of the medieval times. An efficient battle sword.
Seeing some of these artifacts here created an emotional surge of joy and sorrow. Joy that they exist, but sorrow that their aeon has been lost.
man that was great thomas. such beautiful objects. thank yew gare
The craftsmanship is stunning, not what a lot of people would expect from such a long time ago.
I keep asking myself how they made such unbelievably amazing art work. This video, if for nothing else but the footage of these artefacts, goes on the top of my list. Thank you for taking the time to make this available.
Brilliant work as always.
I'll be here, eagerly waiting!
i must say ive always been proud and impressed with my Germanic and celtic heritage witch im pretty much half of.. great vid!
Some outstanding craftsmanship, the Staffordshire hoard exhibitions in Birmingham and Stoke on Trent are well worth a visit.
Absolutely phenomenal video as always. Some fantastic examples of some beautiful European art.
So beautiful, they had so much skill to make these works of art.
Such impressive and beautiful works of art, really proud of our ancestors doings, thank you for presenting it the way you did. wonderful!
The arts are very beautiful, can't believe they were preserved so well
Thank you for this video Mr. Thomas, it was very interesting this whole thing with chat. I find it very interesting the various Bronze Age art depictions of horned figures and helmets with horns throughout Europe. In those terms there are many similarities between Bronze Age Scandinavia, Northern Portugal and Italy - especially the sardinian horned bronze figurines.
Hello Mr. Harger. Love your works as well!
@@jmaaybraak Hey there! hehe, thank you ^^
Luckily I read this comment and so I discovered a new channel to subscribe
@@rohacha9iin40 No, but somone think that they can had a Indoeuropean elite or influence.
@@rohacha9iin40 There are many people in Europe who originally did not speak an indo-european language, but they became indo-europeanized, linguistically, probably through a migrating indo-european speaking aristocracy that submitted them, or through marriage between indo-european speakers and the local populations. The term "indo-european" is an academic construction in order to give a name to a proto-language without known name, but one should not forget that it is a linguistic construction, nothing else. It has nothing to do with genetics or material culture. Unfortunately, the term is used in many completely irrelevant contexts, in a very exaggerated way.
Those artifacts are gorgeous.
Great video! I have visited allot of museums in my own country and the style looks so similar. For example 7:07 looks allot like the Goudschat van Wieuwerd. The brooch of Dorestad, Mantel Speld wijnaldum, fibula of Achlum are very much like the anglosaxon styles and so much more they found. You should check the Frisian museums in Leewarden and the museum van oudheden in Leiden, Holland. I think you would find it very interesting. Huis van Hilde also very nice. Archaeological museum Xanten also very very interesting.
Thank you for taking us on that journey
I love this art, especially the viking age works surpass modern art by miles
Germanics weren't brutes you know, they were smart people and they made some very nice stuff
I don't think they need to be exclusive, you can be a brute and also make really nice stuff, they could be in general a rougher people yet still refined in the way of craftmanship.
Id love to see you spotlight the Gaels. I don't think you have yet.
Seconded.
Gauls?
Zetsubou irish? I think StJ really only likes to do videos on white peoples so he probably wont
"The problem with Scotland, is its full of Scots." Who were those people? Ulster Scots, the kingdom of Niall of the Nine Hostages, King of Tara. The thorn in England's side for centuries, whose same children have given their blood in England's defense ever since. The Gaelic who booted Edward II out the door without so much as a meat pie for his travel home.
We must reconnect with our roots. Christianity has diluted our true heritage.
For sure! but in order to do that we must first and foremost get rid of any "guilt", the original sin, ww2 sins....tgsnt.tv
@yowza European paganism was one religion that branched out from one culture. The branches are more similar than they are different. Europeans are not a multiple of cultures that mixed together and all adopted one pagan belief. You are more accurately describing the Abraham religions. The religions have a fixed starting point and spread across many races, and values the belief system over the culture and individual. That's why the ultimate virtue is spreading the religion(i.e. creating a cross cultural religion or "multiculturalism"). Just look at africa, missionaries have a blast brainwashing the natives into their cult.
Just this week I had a chat with a Parsi guy living in the states. His parents immigrated from Iran shortly after the revolution. He practices Zoroastrianism in a town where he and his parents are the only Zoroastrians. All his community is online, where Zorastrianism is alive and kicking. While Zoroastrianism isn't exactly paganism, it is a true Indo-European religion that simply developed a more dogmatic form of worship and a kind of dualistic monolatrism rather than polytheism.
I spoke to so many Iranians and they all pretty much hate Islam and see it as a foreign Semitic takeover of their culture and heritage, the loss of their empire, their greatness and their dignity. The Persians still remember collectively the slaughter and destruction brought by the caliphate, led by desert nomads who had no respect or awe for other cultures and only cared about their selfish agenda of installing strict and brutal monotheism, killing all gods and traditions in the process.
@@lunaflamed Christianity serves the jews better than any other people. Look at christians reverence for "gods chosen folk". I'd know, my father is a christian. They hold them in far too high esteem that they are blind to any negative things they may do.
@Luke Nukem YES,!! WHAT YOU SAID!!
My mother is a Christian ( Baptist, raised Catholic). Not any huge fawning over the Jews, but sure do know a LOT of Christians that REALLY do.
I say all this as an atheist, and see the need for religion for some people. There also is nothing to say that the spiritual aspects of religions such as the Europeans had in ancient times is negative, even for atheist, as it still adds a wonderful timeless and complex template to overlay on to every day life that helps enrich and guild our lives and understanding. The Gods and Goddesses such as Thor and Oden and Freya and Hera, have personalities, traits and stories that real humans can seek to emulate and encourage in others.
Beautiful art of my germanic ancestors good job guy i love your videos support from France ! 👍
Modern art and architecture is truly disgusting, I’m lucky I live in a place with lots of old buildings but you can see modern-degeneration creeping in.
Very, very wonderful!!!!Excellent!!!!👏👏👏👏
Thank you for the glimpse into the beautiful works of my/our forebears. It truly makes one proud to be Germanic!
This is absolutely amazing
Get off work just to see thomas posting another top shelf video. Thank you as always.
Fascinating.
Great video.
There is still so much to be learned from artifacts like these,
With every new discovery that comes to light , we have to go back and assess, the standards
Fantastic video, I really enjoyed it and it is very nice to see more content on the Nordic Bronze age.
Feels like one of the good old Michael Wood documentaries.
So many finds in Sweden, yet we never get any credit for being "vikings". Which is funny, considering the holy cities and most important trade cities as well as by far the most finds is in Sweden.
Their Metallurgical skills is amazing
Missed your quality work. Great as always !
Your videos are instant thumbs up.. Always good.. And I'm only a minute in...
I really enjoyed the video! I'll probably watch agian.
Appreciate these videos 🤙🏻
That beagnoth seax though!!
The "strange face" at 8;28 looks like spurdo sparde.
Begum bagban XDxd
A bit off subject but I would love to learn more about what the Saxon’s were doing before they came to England. Could you suggest a book or resource I could visit because I can find about two paragraphs written on this subject.
The artifacts are amazing! 👍
Fantastic video as always.
Apparently the early Vikings were sometimes reusing roman helmets that were left there years before.
No that is not true
@@Survivethejive what do you mean?
Very helpful
Some dates along the way would be appreciated ..
its all chronological.
is it not that scaninavia,northern gemany normandy irland,britain and maybe baltic countrys had a far more conections and culture together even before vikingage.from vendeltimew etc.much far more than we know now
👍🏻 I can hardly wait❣️
Awe inspiring. Truely transcendent to view the beauty our forefathers brought into the world.
Phenomenal video, thank you
I have a picture of myself in front of that boatstone. Museums are wonderful and exist in the real world. It's awesome internet people. There is a third dimension.
What are your thoughts on the use of psilocybin mushrooms in indoeuropean culture? Much of the art (most of all norse/celtic art) and paganism seems very much inspired by the psychedelic experience of being one with nature, a deep sense of magic all around you and also the visual patterns (looks almost like an exact representation with the dotting and sweeping, abstract formations of faces, animals etc).
Perhaps in the same way the aztek and maya art and culture were heavily inspired by its use? (With them we know of their ritual use of what they called ”flesh of the gods”).
Those picture stones have a very axe-like shape.
I appreciated that brief appearance of the triskelion, any Brythonic evidence is good to see.
Tyburn tryskelions are not exclusively brythtonic
@@Survivethejive Aware they're in the main pan-Celtic, I'll have to rewatch - thought this particular example was from the Isles.
Tyburn no swedish
Even some of their helmets had mustaches. What Chads
Y’ALL wuz jus living in caves making incredible intricate metal work, developing ferrous metallurgy, constructing boats whose hull efficiency was not to be exceeded till the 20th century, surviving and thriving in the frozen north when we wuz kangs n sheiit!
The domes on the belt buckle i believe to represent three cups.
I'm fascinated personally by the interlink between Wendel and AngloSaxon culture.If you could answer Thomas what exactly did the swastika signify specifically to the AngloSaxons?
We can't say for sure. Some say it was a symbol of Thor's hammer, others say it was a solar symbol.
@@Survivethejive cheers.
@@Survivethejive The Lightning and The Sun, it would seem
Anglo Saxon kingdoms exhibition British library I see, excellent collection
Did you record all of the footage yourself? How long was this video in the works?
Yes everything on STJ is filmed by me
Where can I find the full version of the intro song? Great vid, Thomas.
GoobaSippay look up wolcensmen
Germanic and Celtic both share very similar styles.
It depends what you mean. The original Celtic La Tene style is not at all like Germanic styles. But medieval "celtic" knotwork looks like viking art because it copies it deliberately.
6:00 An Achilles heel?
Beautiful history
They're all placentas!
Ok varg
@3:54 looks so much like the Evil eye motif I've seen all over North Africa, I have to wonder.
If it is possible could you make a video on Germanic & Slavic body modification like tattoos and such?
There isn't really much to say. We know the Rus men tattooed their arms as they are described in Ibn Fadlan's account as being covered in drawings from 'neck to fingernails', this passage is often used to justify the idea that tattoos were common among the people of Scandinavia. However there are several problems with this. Firstly, by the time Ibn Fadlan visited the Rus lands they were a rather distinct culture from their Scandinavian brethren, they had taken on many Slavic elements so things they do cannot be generalised back to Scandinavia. Secondly, people living in Scandinavia would have associated tattoos with the Sami people, who were known to have them, the Scandinavian people thought of the Sami as barbaric and savage and so would not have wanted to be associated with them by virtue of tattoos.
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Are the south Germans Germano-Celtic hybrids? They southern Germanic people seem have some external genetic influences on them, and they live in the previous heartland of the Hallstatt culture, where the P-Celtic languages, and traditional Celtic art style originate. Would you say that’s also why high German diverged so much from low german and north Germanic?
The problem is assuming "celt" ever referred to a specific race to by hybridised with. The original Celts would have been genetically like Austrians not Irish yet the term celt now refers to pre Roman British heritage also.
@@Survivethejive well yeah, I've thought about the idea of what the celtic "race" is, and I actually think it corresponds roughly with Bell-Beaker ancestry, and thereby, both the Alpine, and Irish celtic types would be variant groups of a super-celtic race. I was wondering if the Hallstatt types had a significant impact on the southern Germanic peoples (such as Alemannian, and Suebian types).
Celt of Canaan Esurix well it doesn’t because the bell beaker culture is a major component of germanic people too and also the pre celtic british isles
Celt of Canaan Esurix I'd say that southern Germans as well as Austrians (which were - and are - basically Bavarians) and Swiss Germans had a fare share of Celtic and Roman influence, also genetically. In the Eastern parts of that territory they incorporated Slavic people, too.
What did the swastika actually mean back then. I know the storm troopers from pre ww2 worshiped the wind god, but what about from way back in ancient times.
Great video
I love being Germanic and Germanic pagan
You should do more research on the Celts. They are a very interesting people and I can trace half of my linage to them, (I am Half Irish).
Exquisite pieces
Does anyone know a site that sells a replica of the helmet from the thumbnail. It would fit wonderfully in a shrine.
that replica is worth several thousand dollars!
Tom, how about you plan then crowdsource funding for another full documentary?
T Riddle good idea
Nothing like these ancient artifacts are found in Africa.
I don't understand, do you mean there was no Germanic art in Africa? The reason why seems a bit obvious.
There is swimming pools worth of fascinating and intricate sculptures and jewellery from West, East, North Africa. Huge surviving buildings and ancient rock art from every part of Africa.
Do you know Egipt?
@@chrislong3224 I guess I'll have to check it out. All I've ever seen is very basic crap
@@faramund9865 oops. I often forget that Egypt is part of Africa
@@ritasjourney the closest genetic relatives to the Egyptian royalty are English, Irish and Spaniards.
Do you do collabs on videos? I'm thinking of doing some videos on Alternate history scenarios, and you're a very knowledgeable man.
I dont do alternative history
@@Survivethejive Oh ok. Well keep up the good work then.
When do you make a video about Estonian vikings of Saaremaa
8:23
FUG :DDD
Tom were the helmets exclusive to the Vendel period or were they worn throughout the whole Germanic Iron Age?
these ones were only worn in the Vendel period in England and Sweden as far as we know
Sorry tom what I meant to ask was if the Sutton Hoo or Vendel style of armour on the whole was exclusive to the period rather than the actual helmets that were found. I was speculating that Vendel era artefacts would not be distinguishable from those of the rest of the Germanic Iron Age; the Gallehus horns are proof that people had access to precious metals, and they do have similar images to the pressblechs on the vendel helmets e.g. the horned man. Furthermore, the helmets themselves are based off of designs used by the Romans as you said, and the Sutton Hoo helmet is thought to have been about a hundred years old when it was buried (made around 525 AD). What are your thoughts on this? :)
@@louismarlow53 they are easily distinguishable from viking era ones which are more simple
Hey, have you ever taken a genetic ancestry test? If so, will you ever do a video about it?
There is a yt video of a negro woman who had an ancestry test done by tree different companies and she got three different results. I don't trust them! Waste of money.
Gittl G. Well honestly I’d be more interested in his paternal and maternal haplogroups.
@Gittl G. It’s because most companies base their estimation on borders not blood, so they guess where all your dna could have come together. For example it’s impossible to be 100% English because English is a mixture between Britons Saxons Angles Danes Frisians and Jutes, while most of the Germanic elements are similar the Celtic is the only thing that differentiates Englishmen from Dutchmen and Rhinelanders. Because of this they often fudge the results to guess for a country instead of just telling you what you are. The biggest reason for this is to not burst peoples bubble, otherwise you would say to a Frenchman from Paris you are two thirds Gallic and one third German and to a Frenchman from Toulouse you are two thirds Spanish and one third Gallic. A lot of people consider this insulting to their national identity, mainly because Englishmen don’t want to be told they are about as German as an Austrian and the Swiss don’t want to be told there is no such thing as Swiss and that they are as is apparent German French and Italian. Due to this fudging a lot of stupid things happen, for example I am 5% Swedish, mathematically that is the most probable inheritance, on one test the Germanic elements were similar enough to lump into English and I was told I was 1% Finnish; however there are sites that don’t flub results to match modern borders on another test I got 4.95% Swedish, however these sites present another problem, which is that very closely related groups cannot be differentiated so I came out 10% more Danish and 10% less English I however have no Danish ancestors past the year 1200. I was however happy to get a comparison to clustering in other countries to tell what population I am most closely related to instead of what country they think we were from.
Norman Rowsell we remember you
Very nice but you have skipped the Pre-Roman iron age and Roman iron age..
My forfathers did somthing right! 🇸🇪
Amazing!
Cloisonne is Enamelwork
This is really a great channel ! Btw..... the Sutton Hoo treasure including helmet is welsh. It belongs to the Khumry. Not Anglo Saxon!
No it is Anglian - hence the swedish designs and the fact it was in an Anglian burial pagan mound in Anglia and not in a christian burial in Wales
Given how expensive these accessories and weapons would have been, do you think they all must have belonged to nobles? Would a commoner have worn something similar, or a simpler alternative?
Swag Mcfresh commoners did not wear gold and jewels
Survive the Jive well yes, obviously, but decorations could be made out of iron or bronze, could they not? Were all those Thor’s hammers gold? A commoner wouldn’t have even had those?
@@SwagMcFresh There were many iron and bronze arts found in europe. Peasent most likely wore iron hammers
Brilliant
It sucks I can't get ancient art like that here in America. I get stuff from the Mississipian culture, but it feels so alien compared to the stuff in the video.
How do you feel about the Swedish government destroying archealogical finds and sites and ban runes?
You better have some kids Thomas.
Perhaps one cup for each of the Lords feasts!
5:30 lol gas the mammoths, amiright?
I live Anglo Saxon art