You're probably right in that Leif was in the whole "Ye, Jesus is cool and all, but we should probably not piss off the local elves" phase of nordic history.
I that if Leif was here for real, he's be pissed off about this pussified version of him lol "Wtf! I came off that boat ready to crack skulls and write down the names of those who are next!!"
@@HavanaSyndrome69 Ah yes, he came there to crack skulls, away from all the places that were full with people he could have fought, into a place they might have thought was fully uninhabited.
Regarding Vinland name: The Old Norse pretty much called any berry a "wine grape" or "Vín" (from the Latin word Vino). Those grapes? Wine grapes. That elderberry? Thats a wine grape. Them strange new world berries? We fermented them, so they were wine grapes.
Elderberries, for the history nerds , is also the basis for the greatest historical taunt of all time when the French taunted king Arthur Source: documentary Monty Python and the Holy Grail
@@aggese yes but you need to remember that northern North America and northern Europe have very different climates. Because of the Atlantic currents, warm water from the Caribbean flows up to Europe, giving Britain and Scandinavia much warmer water than in New York or the Maritimes.
I like that ending message on raising a glass to not only a bold explorer but a good man. I wish we talked more about Leif Erikson than Columbus, the guy was as awful as he was Italian.
@@jamestown8398 He talks casually about selling 9 and 10 year old girls into sexual slavery in his own damn letters (archive.org/stream/christophercolu02thacgoog#page/n451/mode/2up). That's without going into the numerous accounts from multiple sources of him lopping body parts off of slaves who don't meet their gold mining quotas. The question isn't whether you've read the correct primary sources, it's whether or not you've read *any* primary sources.
@@alexanderflack566 I tried politely saying "lets agree to disagree" because I didn't want to debate it here, but since you feel like being rude I'll say that I think you're reading a translated text out of context. The internet has been giving Christopher Columbus the Thomas Edison treatment lately and I think that's wrong. I'm tired of people who uncritically believe whatever trite Adam Conover or Armchair Historian or Knowing Better have to say about him. Don't respond to this because I'm not interested in debating it here and I'm really not interested in talking to you specifically.
Did anyone think of Leif Eirikson in such terms as a Viking raider? Even at a young age, I pictured him as an explorer, sailor and trader. There was definitely some kind of dichotomy to my imagining of vikings: between sea bandits and exploring tradesmen.
@@draco_1876 one the first point he made, extra credits has a Viking series. In the later episodes, they talk about the formation of Rus. They eventually attempted to take Constantinople repeatedly, all failing, as you can imagine. But with every failure, the more trade that they received.
@Dorkmax: Many people in the English-speaking world think of all Norsemen of the period as "Vikings", so the idea that Leif Erikson was some kind of Viking is probably a common misconception.
Nice work, pal. I love that you can watch the clock and see that this whole video took you about 45 minutes to shoot, including costume changes! You practically live-streamed a history lesson.
A good argument for vin meaning grapes is it would have allowed them to make wine, vital for a Christian society. All the communion wine for Denmark, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland had to be imported from Germany at increasingly greater cost the further west it came, making wine alone could have made vinland colonies economically viable.
Newfoundlander here, L'Anse Aux Meadows is a really fascinating visit. In the summer, you can see the archeological site, and a great reconstruction of a viking outpost just north that's inhabited by viking reenactors. Highly recommended if you're into history.
thank you for the shout out to Bjarni Herjólfsson , who got lost, and when he returned the other Vikings made fun of him because he didn't explore those lands he found
Dave the Canadian here. Another entertaining and informative video. Always liked the fact that the first European (that we know of) to set foot in N. America wasn't Columbus but an "uncivilized" Viking and he landed in Canada.
Pagans who were converted to christianity often remained partially pagan for a long time. It usually wasn't an abrupt change but a more gradual one. I believe Leif Erikson was likely such a half-pagan half-christian.
Yeah. Especially since in the polythiestic world, converting meant worshiping new gods, but not nessecarly rejecting your old ones. A lot of Norse worshiped the Norse gods *and* Jesus/the saints until the missionaries/church made it clear they meant you could only worship Jesus and then kind of worship the saints.
@JoeRingo118 Amusingly enough, Judaism wasn't originally monotheistic in the first place. They put together stories about multiple different deities who essentially got combined into a single one. That's why God is portrayed so differently in different parts of the OT, and why the way certain things were phrased or described (e.g. "have no other gods before me" rather than "the only true god"; the pharaoh's priests being capable of performing miracles, though those miracles were less impressive than what Moses did; etc.) doesn't really fit with a purely monotheistic religion.
Who knows what cultures and nations would have arisen around St. Lawrence Bay is the Vikings maintained their sea-faring routes, and came to an understand with at least one native group?
Sadly I don't think any alternative scenario of European colonization would have turned out well for Native Americans at all, but if the Norse had settled permanently in Canada, then there would almost certainly have been intermarriage and cross-cultural pollination, because that's just generally how the Vikings did things. The modern population of eastern Canada/the northeast US would probably be more like the OTL population of Mexico in terms of genetics and culture.
@@AtunSheiFilms i know this is a very old comment, but do you think it could lead to the indigenous peoples of the Americas having a greater defence in the future, as they would likely trade for armour and swords? Genuinely curious, hope this isn't an imposition.
Another excellent video. Your work is great. It is refreshing to hear someone who uses the best available sources to try to fill in the blank spaces in our historical gaps. I can only assume that Phil McCrackin has the same intentions. Thank you for adding a degree of levity in your work. It really sets your videos apart.
Mead is great - my favorite alcoholic beverage. It comes in a ton of varieties, but essentially it's a strong, sweet wine. It's pretty easy to find in wine and spirit shops with good selections, and even some grocery stores.
My mother's with the SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism) and had a friend who made mead, she gave me a bottle of it for my 20th birthday. I drank it all that night, I was so drunk.
Meade can be pretty varied. It can be sweet, it can be fairly dry, it can be flavoured with various things other than honey (berries, spices, etc.) So it should be fairly easy to find something to suit your tastes. My family made some one time (we had a ton of honey because my grandad was a bee keeper) and it came out really well. I think the only bad mead I've ever tried was kind of yeasty but that's just bad alcoholic drink, not a criticism of mead. Skol!
Mead usually tastes like - well - a slightly alcoholic honey water. Usually tastes very sweet, but because of all the different types of honey and all the stuff that mead brewers come up with to throw into the barrel, there is a lot of diversity out there. Chaucer's is the commercial mead most people encounter first. You should be able to find some kind of mead at your local (large) liquor store.
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I know being aesthetically pleasing is not the primary purpose of your recreation of Eriksons clothes, but it does look damn good on you. Like seriously, maybe dont wear the cape in public day to day, but that shirt is very nice to you
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Thanks, as a german speaker i tend to pronuonce it like the english "life". (Which i think is marginally closer then "leaf" :-D) I wonder why he changed his pronounciation beween the Person and the place named after the person.
Funny thing about Norse heroes - Skarphéđinn Njállsson (hope I spelled it right) is described as having an "ugly mouth" almost having tusk-like teeth from what I remember, deathly pale skin, and (possibly) wore blue a lot.
Þetta er virkilega gott og fróðlegt myndband og þakka þér fyrir. Eina athugasemdin mín er að íslenskan þín er skemmtileg að hlusta á, en hljómar frekar eins og þú sért að tala Klingon.
In Danish, we call him ‘Leif den Lykkelige’, which means ‘Leif the Happy’. I don’t speak Old Norse, and Danish and Old Norse is 1000 years apart, so I can’t say, if it a more accurate translation than ‘Lucky’.
On the one hand, its unlikely that the Norse had a good idea of what grapes were, and probably the words for berries and grapes were interchangeable, but at the same time there are grape species native to North America that can live much farther north than European wine grapes and actually do well in colder and wetter climates, so it's still not entirely unlikely that some of those berries early Viking visitors came across were grapes.
My thoughts during the latter portion of this video: "Yes! Viking Blod Mead! Very tasty. I heartily approve!" "....Holy s*** buddy! Haven't you read the alcohol percentage on that bottle?!? You're going to be on your a** before you're finished recording at this rate!" rofl
Yeah... it’s 19%, for those wondering. 4-1% more than traditional homemade meads, because it’s fortified with neutral spirits (the alcohol kind, not the ghost-y kind), to kill the yeast and stop the fermentation process. That way you’re not buying a potential cork gun or bomb.
You said that the Magnus Magnusson translation was the only one you had on hand, but I can definitely see a copy of "Sagas of the Icelanders" on the bookshelf behind you.
Icelandic History writers when they write the most amazing historical accounts because they wanted to. god bless them, they gave us a great origin story so i respect them.
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3:35 I always have an issue with this reasoning. There probably wasn't any regulations back then, and wood and turf seem to be easier to work with than stone, why wouldn't someone just make it out of wood and turf?
Great video! I intend to go all out celebrating Leif Erikson Day this year. Even though the pandemic has cancelled public events, I thought about going out in my mail hauberk, complete with my Viking sword and axe, while drinking Carlsberg lager or mead from my new drinking horn that I’ve purchased. Though, I’d recommend going for the Nasal helmet/Norman helmet, for a more authentic look. Spectacled helmets were certainly used initially, but they quickly went out of fashion because of blows coming down on the head would hit the eye. Also, I have to ask, how did you get the aventail onto the helmet?
I'm Leif Eriksson and I approve of this video.
Wasn't Lief Erikson Norwegian(danish) though ?
@@martinkrog5943 Who is this "Lief" you are talking about?
@Daniel Maybe I am your friends dad?
(But yes, it's a common name in Sweden.)
@@LeifLaffeEriksson
Helvede!
I done fucked up xD
Odin look upon me with shame
"I'm Spartacus; I'M SPARTACUS... I'M SPARTACUS AND SO IS MY WIFE!!"
😏😹 I'm half Norwegian Señor.. A "halfling", crazy huh? 😝
You're probably right in that Leif was in the whole "Ye, Jesus is cool and all, but we should probably not piss off the local elves" phase of nordic history.
Iceland newer left it 🤣
I'm not even from those areas and not only do i believe in them I'd give them healthy respect.
Even the Irish understand that, the Fae, the elves, and all other pagan characters will beat the shit out of you if you take your monotheism too far.
@@PhoebusApollo360 honestly it is too bad that they don't do exactly that......
@@PhoebusApollo360 hell yeah we still have that in Norrland
Ok, historical Leif’s intro sounded like his dating profile.
I would swipe right
@@loganvanderwier8866 hell yeah
@@leifericson354 My profile picture is a child
I that if Leif was here for real, he's be pissed off about this pussified version of him lol "Wtf! I came off that boat ready to crack skulls and write down the names of those who are next!!"
@@HavanaSyndrome69 Ah yes, he came there to crack skulls, away from all the places that were full with people he could have fought, into a place they might have thought was fully uninhabited.
Thorfinn the Skullsplitter was actually a pretty chill dude once you got to know him. Really easy to open up to him too.
As long as you keep an open mind
You get a thumbs up for both an awesome angry Viking pillager and a strangely adorable Leif Erikson.
This comment coming from a cartoon?
Happy Leif Erikson day! Hinga dinga durgin!!
hinga dinga durgin to you belated
you beat me to it wtf
Happy Leif Erikson day! Yaeger hinger dinger!
Huh, there's a note:
WENT ouT foR moAr GiAnt PApER
uhhhhh..
- Patrick
P.s. Happy Leif Erikson Day!
Yerger HiNGar Dinga
Indeed
that was actually a quite acceptable rendition of old norse at the start- well done :-)
Except of "amarica" it was called Vinland
@@svantezeidlitz4910 when you say vinland, do you mean berries or grapes?
@@svantezeidlitz4910 ommerike actually
I tried speaking Icelandic when I visited there in 2018. It was hard.
@@stevenhale2935 im pretty sure vinland ment land of the meadows
Regarding Vinland name: The Old Norse pretty much called any berry a "wine grape" or "Vín" (from the Latin word Vino). Those grapes? Wine grapes. That elderberry? Thats a wine grape. Them strange new world berries? We fermented them, so they were wine grapes.
Elderberries, for the history nerds , is also the basis for the greatest historical taunt of all time when the French taunted king Arthur
Source: documentary Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Anything you can ferment, eh?
Potato Grape.
@Ding Dong idk how you got any of that from what I said. And your refutation is just what I said...in reverse.
Seeing as all can be turned into wine, it kinda rings true
The currant berry us still named wine berry in atleast Swedish and possibly other Scandinavian languages
Way better than Columbus...but oh my gawd is that butted chainmail?!?! I’m sOrRy but that impression is just fArB!
Brandon F.
better than colombus is a low bar
Of course it's butted chainmail! Impostor armor for impostor Leif! XD
@@lynp9996 and rightfully so
Better? How?
Erikson had slaves, attacked natives, and allowed his men to rape and pillage.
I'm pretty sure "Vinland" is either New Brunswick or Prince Edward Island. I've been to both and there are blueberry bushes EVERYWHERE near the sea.
Newfoundland is full of berries, and berries commonly found in Scandanavia such as cloudberries and lingonberries. And blueberries.
@@wendelloreilly6476 during the Viking era they whare growing grapes as far north as Stockholm
@@aggese yes but you need to remember that northern North America and northern Europe have very different climates. Because of the Atlantic currents, warm water from the Caribbean flows up to Europe, giving Britain and Scandinavia much warmer water than in New York or the Maritimes.
@aggese True, but then you need to also explain how the literal old world grapes got to the New World
Probably the berries
"To boldly go where no one has gone before!" - Leif Erikson... probably
I like that ending message on raising a glass to not only a bold explorer but a good man. I wish we talked more about Leif Erikson than Columbus, the guy was as awful as he was Italian.
Columbus isn't nearly as bad as modern pop-culture historians make him out to be.
@@jamestown8398 According to the contemporary sources I've seen, he was worse.
@@alexanderflack566 We must have read different contemporary sources then.
@@jamestown8398 He talks casually about selling 9 and 10 year old girls into sexual slavery in his own damn letters (archive.org/stream/christophercolu02thacgoog#page/n451/mode/2up). That's without going into the numerous accounts from multiple sources of him lopping body parts off of slaves who don't meet their gold mining quotas. The question isn't whether you've read the correct primary sources, it's whether or not you've read *any* primary sources.
@@alexanderflack566 I tried politely saying "lets agree to disagree" because I didn't want to debate it here, but since you feel like being rude I'll say that I think you're reading a translated text out of context. The internet has been giving Christopher Columbus the Thomas Edison treatment lately and I think that's wrong. I'm tired of people who uncritically believe whatever trite Adam Conover or Armchair Historian or Knowing Better have to say about him.
Don't respond to this because I'm not interested in debating it here and I'm really not interested in talking to you specifically.
Did anyone think of Leif Eirikson in such terms as a Viking raider? Even at a young age, I pictured him as an explorer, sailor and trader. There was definitely some kind of dichotomy to my imagining of vikings: between sea bandits and exploring tradesmen.
BS
@Jasta 2 proof?
@@draco_1876 one the first point he made, extra credits has a Viking series. In the later episodes, they talk about the formation of Rus. They eventually attempted to take Constantinople repeatedly, all failing, as you can imagine. But with every failure, the more trade that they received.
@Dorkmax: Many people in the English-speaking world think of all Norsemen of the period as "Vikings", so the idea that Leif Erikson was some kind of Viking is probably a common misconception.
The word viking could also mean "voyager" so the term could apply to him even if he was never a pirate or raider.
I love the dichotomy between the real Leif Erikson and the imposter!
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Nice work, pal. I love that you can watch the clock and see that this whole video took you about 45 minutes to shoot, including costume changes! You practically live-streamed a history lesson.
Absolutely true.
Wow, observant!
We all know Leif Erikson was a die hard Amon Amarth fan.
Damn right. 😂
I believe you meant hinga dinga durgen instead of skol, but it’s alright we all make mistakes
Ah, a man of culture
Atun-Shei is probably the only person I can think of who can be dressed as a Norseman and wonder why he increasingly becomes covered in booze. XD
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A good argument for vin meaning grapes is it would have allowed them to make wine, vital for a Christian society. All the communion wine for Denmark, Scandinavia, Iceland, and Greenland had to be imported from Germany at increasingly greater cost the further west it came, making wine alone could have made vinland colonies economically viable.
Newfoundlander here, L'Anse Aux Meadows is a really fascinating visit.
In the summer, you can see the archeological site, and a great reconstruction of a viking outpost just north that's inhabited by viking reenactors.
Highly recommended if you're into history.
Newfoundland History Teacher here, thoroughly enjoyed this!
thank you for the shout out to Bjarni Herjólfsson , who got lost, and when he returned the other Vikings made fun of him because he didn't explore those lands he found
Dave the Canadian here. Another entertaining and informative video. Always liked the fact that the first European (that we know of) to set foot in N. America wasn't Columbus but an "uncivilized" Viking and he landed in Canada.
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Pagans who were converted to christianity often remained partially pagan for a long time. It usually wasn't an abrupt change but a more gradual one. I believe Leif Erikson was likely such a half-pagan half-christian.
@JoeRingo118 I'd recommend not talking about things you aren't well-versed in.
@JoeRingo118 traditions were influenced by paganism, theology was not. Early Christian thought was much more serious than you think.
Yeah. Especially since in the polythiestic world, converting meant worshiping new gods, but not nessecarly rejecting your old ones. A lot of Norse worshiped the Norse gods *and* Jesus/the saints until the missionaries/church made it clear they meant you could only worship Jesus and then kind of worship the saints.
@@draskobozic4976 checkmate Nazarerite!
@JoeRingo118 Amusingly enough, Judaism wasn't originally monotheistic in the first place. They put together stories about multiple different deities who essentially got combined into a single one. That's why God is portrayed so differently in different parts of the OT, and why the way certain things were phrased or described (e.g. "have no other gods before me" rather than "the only true god"; the pharaoh's priests being capable of performing miracles, though those miracles were less impressive than what Moses did; etc.) doesn't really fit with a purely monotheistic religion.
10 Maps That Made Canada is an excellent book that comes to the same conclusion, but with a great deal more detail. Also a really interesting read
Who knows what cultures and nations would have arisen around St. Lawrence Bay is the Vikings maintained their sea-faring routes, and came to an understand with at least one native group?
Sadly I don't think any alternative scenario of European colonization would have turned out well for Native Americans at all, but if the Norse had settled permanently in Canada, then there would almost certainly have been intermarriage and cross-cultural pollination, because that's just generally how the Vikings did things. The modern population of eastern Canada/the northeast US would probably be more like the OTL population of Mexico in terms of genetics and culture.
@@AtunSheiFilms maybe we'd have nordic-american ball game
@@AtunSheiFilms i know this is a very old comment, but do you think it could lead to the indigenous peoples of the Americas having a greater defence in the future, as they would likely trade for armour and swords? Genuinely curious, hope this isn't an imposition.
What if the norse would had spread the killer diseases at ~1000, that ought to change a quite bit chunk of history.
The UA-cam channel Alternate History has a video about that
I like how you can watch the mead take effect as his gestures become more and more expansive.
Another excellent video. Your work is great. It is refreshing to hear someone who uses the best available sources to try to fill in the blank spaces in our historical gaps. I can only assume that Phil McCrackin has the same intentions. Thank you for adding a degree of levity in your work. It really sets your videos apart.
Pursuit of the Vikings at the end 🤘 Nice video.
I cite the "Greenlander Saga" as accurate for one important reason. It is funnier. Guy misses his destination, discovers a new continent.
It’s giving me anxiety whenever he spills his mead because I’ve bought that same bottle before and it’s VERY expensive
I always wonder if Andy can actually speak these languages or if it's just improvised. Either way, I really like the immersion aspect it has
cant get enough of the fun and informative videos you make. thanks for another great one!
Skål! Cheers from Hammerfest, The northern most city in the world . Northern Norway.
Bästa namn på en by
Amon Amarth! This is honestly one of my favorite history channels now. Hands down!
It's nonsense
your content and delivery is so fresh and well needed in the historical commentry community.
Skol !! Happy Leif Erickson day ! always wanted to try mead , what's it taste like anyway? Great video as ALWAYS.
Mead is great - my favorite alcoholic beverage. It comes in a ton of varieties, but essentially it's a strong, sweet wine. It's pretty easy to find in wine and spirit shops with good selections, and even some grocery stores.
My mother's with the SCA (Society of Creative Anachronism) and had a friend who made mead, she gave me a bottle of it for my 20th birthday. I drank it all that night, I was so drunk.
If you like champagne and beer, you’ll like meade.
Meade can be pretty varied. It can be sweet, it can be fairly dry, it can be flavoured with various things other than honey (berries, spices, etc.) So it should be fairly easy to find something to suit your tastes. My family made some one time (we had a ton of honey because my grandad was a bee keeper) and it came out really well. I think the only bad mead I've ever tried was kind of yeasty but that's just bad alcoholic drink, not a criticism of mead. Skol!
Mead usually tastes like - well - a slightly alcoholic honey water. Usually tastes very sweet, but because of all the different types of honey and all the stuff that mead brewers come up with to throw into the barrel, there is a lot of diversity out there. Chaucer's is the commercial mead most people encounter first. You should be able to find some kind of mead at your local (large) liquor store.
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Nice touch, with the medival acoustic version of In the Pursuit of Vikings, by Amon Amarth outro
Where can I find it
You're the only youtuber who put a clock in shots that are stitched together, and I sort of love it
Love the language segments, so well done.
Nailed it as usual! Good stuff :)
You have a real talent for accents my man, I find myself impressed yet again.
You maybe have not heard him pronounce Phoenicians.
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You make super great content, that intro Genius
probably best film on this channel so far. bravo!!!!
I know being aesthetically pleasing is not the primary purpose of your recreation of Eriksons clothes, but it does look damn good on you. Like seriously, maybe dont wear the cape in public day to day, but that shirt is very nice to you
I'm sure "looking good" was an important function of clothes all through history (at least for people who could afford decent clothes).
Great video thank you for sharing!!
The acoustic Pusuit of Vikings at the beginning was a nice touch
I once played Leif when we had to pick an explorer to present on in history class. I still have my outfit.
COOL COSTUME! Hope you wear it out on the town tonight
Great stuff. Informative
Really do love your videos they're informative and funny. I especially love the lost cause works as a Southern Boy who is admittedly a former Lost Cause believer they very well put together and will researched. It had only been from my late twenties to now that I admit how wrong I was and can honestly join much of the UA-cam history community I'm shouting Wiiiiiilsooooooon! Removing him from my greatest president's list to wondering what the country would have been like under another term of Theodore Roosevelt and the strides to a better world he may have made and how different thev world would be because of his involvement after World War I questioning if there would even have been a World War II. Keep up the fun and interesting work and much hope to your future film projects.
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@@matimus100 who wouldn't Leif Erikson is a sexy beast!
Leif Erickson adores his mother? That's more metal than all the sagas combined.
New favorite channel.
I don’t understand this channel has less subscribers and views. This is great work
Nice Crawford nod....as if I couldn't already love this enough!!!!
Fab video! However, his name is not pronounced "leaf", but like "layf" (the same vocal sound as in "way").
God that annoyed me. Thanks!
And it ends in a r leifr/leifur
Thanks, as a german speaker i tend to pronuonce it like the english "life". (Which i think is marginally closer then "leaf" :-D)
I wonder why he changed his pronounciation beween the Person and the place named after the person.
Dude that acoustic Amon Amarth bit at the end was cool.
Funny thing about Norse heroes - Skarphéđinn Njállsson (hope I spelled it right) is described as having an "ugly mouth" almost having tusk-like teeth from what I remember, deathly pale skin, and (possibly) wore blue a lot.
I'm so glad to hear the Leif Eriksson was probably a pretty decent guy
Þetta er virkilega gott og fróðlegt myndband og þakka þér fyrir. Eina athugasemdin mín er að íslenskan þín er skemmtileg að hlusta á, en hljómar frekar eins og þú sért að tala Klingon.
So his portrayal in Vinland Saga is actually pretty accurate.
You do look rather fetching in that Norseman garb...Very good video, too!
Great channel
Very excellent! Please make more videos about the Viking Age!
In Danish, we call him ‘Leif den Lykkelige’, which means ‘Leif the Happy’. I don’t speak Old Norse, and Danish and Old Norse is 1000 years apart, so I can’t say, if it a more accurate translation than ‘Lucky’.
Informational and I dig getting loose 🤪 with some wine ..not to dull
I have that same mead! ...Now I'm sad that it's out of production.
nice content. Vikings are always interesting
On the one hand, its unlikely that the Norse had a good idea of what grapes were, and probably the words for berries and grapes were interchangeable, but at the same time there are grape species native to North America that can live much farther north than European wine grapes and actually do well in colder and wetter climates, so it's still not entirely unlikely that some of those berries early Viking visitors came across were grapes.
Pursuit of Vikings by Amon Amarth at the beginning. Nice touch.
Ha! I love the acoustic Amon Amarth cover at the end.
My thoughts during the latter portion of this video:
"Yes! Viking Blod Mead! Very tasty. I heartily approve!"
"....Holy s*** buddy! Haven't you read the alcohol percentage on that bottle?!? You're going to be on your a** before you're finished recording at this rate!"
rofl
Yeah... it’s 19%, for those wondering. 4-1% more than traditional homemade meads, because it’s fortified with neutral spirits (the alcohol kind, not the ghost-y kind), to kill the yeast and stop the fermentation process. That way you’re not buying a potential cork gun or bomb.
Is nobody going to talk about the fact that he had Amon Amarth playing in the beginning
Or at the end
Love the acoustic Amon Amarth at the end lmao
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Fantastic impressions. Ahaaaahaaa!
Danks mjod, the best Mead out there. Good choice
You said that the Magnus Magnusson translation was the only one you had on hand, but I can definitely see a copy of "Sagas of the Icelanders" on the bookshelf behind you.
Yeah, I was wondering that, too.
Same guy I know as the host of a quiz show for 25 years.
Mind blown.
Hey! Jackson Crawford callout! Educational UA-cam is dope
How did I miss this until now? I binged the Civil War stuff... but I’m actually descended of Leif and my son has his name as a consequence.
How can I appreciate the history lesson or your amazing costume when you keep SPILLING THE DAMNED MEAD?! Steady your hand, I say!
You know, it's good to know that it is indeed historically plausible for the vikings to spill comically large amounts of mead casually.
So beautiful.
Beautiful language he used in this!
I like to think every time the video cuts he's just refilling his mead
Shout out from Newfoundland!
Right, now the MOST important question:
whats the font used in the captions in the video? Seen that many times and never found it.
This video makes me happier to be a part of Erik the reds bloodline, hearing that Leif was a good guy for his times.
how could you possibly know that?
@@meginna8354 dna test
Now I’m definitely watching Vinland Saga
Icelandic History writers when they write the most amazing historical accounts because they wanted to.
god bless them, they gave us a great origin story so i respect them.
Is Thor your God
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8:55 Egil Skallagrimson would like a word
3:35 I always have an issue with this reasoning. There probably wasn't any regulations back then, and wood and turf seem to be easier to work with than stone, why wouldn't someone just make it out of wood and turf?
Amon Amarth outro music is well appreciated.
I freaking love this dude ❤️
Of course you do 🐑
Great video! I intend to go all out celebrating Leif Erikson Day this year. Even though the pandemic has cancelled public events, I thought about going out in my mail hauberk, complete with my Viking sword and axe, while drinking Carlsberg lager or mead from my new drinking horn that I’ve purchased. Though, I’d recommend going for the Nasal helmet/Norman helmet, for a more authentic look. Spectacled helmets were certainly used initially, but they quickly went out of fashion because of blows coming down on the head would hit the eye. Also, I have to ask, how did you get the aventail onto the helmet?
I like the acoustic version of the end of pursuit of the vikings by amon amarth you added.