I have put all the holy sites at which I filmed in this Google map which you can make use of if you are planning a road trip of your own! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cok49fwZ6sMlnMyt4gIzL0vBOG0btvDk&usp=sharing
Relative to the Asa graveyards, I've been trying to pinpoint the Treudd you're on with satellite view on GoogleMaps. Is it this mound: 59.389811, 17.189385 ?
@@Survivethejive No Not at all Im talking about västra Götaland. If you look up ``ekornavallen`` Yyou ill find one of them. It is not a Treudd ut they have been buried people there from 3 diffrent time eras. In Västra Götaland there are many things to see. As you now " Danes" were from Denmark and Skåne and Västra götaland. We were Goths. or as we say Gauter. We have a Hird called Vither Gauter and are member in the large Hird Grimfrost You should check us out. ua-cam.com/video/_yqbowUiH-s/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Grimfrost My husband is the old man lookout. Have a nice one.
We had a spaniel growing up who’d frequently bark at the fire place in the front room. We later found out that the man who occupied the house previously had died in that room and that his dog had actually eaten his body. The dogs body was found curled up in the fire place when the police eventually came..:
I think other or maybe all animals can see and sense things too? There's the story of that cat in an old age home, when he sleeps on someone's bed the person dies in the next few hours...
@@worldtraveler930 it's an odal/othala rune. It basically represents inheritance or something (specifically land) passed on through a family in early Germanic culture.
My mother is a hospice nurse. She says the dying often talk about a train, plane, or other sort of transport coming for them (depending on their background; for example the man who spoke of a plane was a pilot), or about needing their shoes or to pack their bags. Makes me think the dying Norse would be asking to have their horse or ship made ready, or for their shoes (helskór)--hence the burial custom.
@@OttoRingdahl every day its a new murder in Sweden and not even in the country just in Stockholm ive lived here my life whole life it has changed so much the last 2-3 last years in UK the most you would get are robbed on your phone and maybe stabbed in the worst scenario
By destroying an important monument, Boniface was able to sever the ties between the local people and their traditional culture. Makes one reflect on today's iconoclasts as they tear down the statues of the mighty men of yore.
Viking heritage was so important that barrows continued to be made for the local nobles and priests, including rune stones in the building of cathedrals......something about Paganism which probably was a tie to the Earth and the Cosmos? Something similar in Mesoamerica, the spanish friars would make statues of christian saints, but the makers being pagan would include a likeness of Tláloc, the God of Water and of many others inside the statue, so that it would appear the people were worshipping the saint but in truth they were worshipping the ol' gods of Meso America.Thank for a most interesting upload Survive the Jive and greetings from Mexico! :)
Seriously thank you so much for making these videos!!! It’s very well put together and your narrating adds a badass element to this epic documentary. Thanks mate :)
You should do more on Västergötland. To me, a completely underexposed region considering how much history it has. That a guy literally ran into a Bronze Age treasure last year while running in the woods says everything really... I have a feeling the next Birka/Uppåkra will be discovered somewhere here.
I imagine each of the carvings at Slabro being designed by a different individual during a ritual or maybe even a initiation rite and then carved into the rock by one individual who could of been a priest.
This was beautiful. It makes me sad to think of the state of our culture and nation today. I hope that the winds will turn soon and I hope that our people wake up in time. I feel proud of my nordic neighbours!
@Schwarzer Haufen the people never asked for this, there was no choice given. The politicians did what they wanted and told everyone "no, there is no mass migration" for 10-12 years. Lies. Everyone noticed that sonething was going on but the public service media told everyone that it wasn't a problem and that they had it under control. I was just a kid back when it really started so I didn't know any better. If you speak up, you get punished. And the swedish middle class are still asleep, they shut their eyes and ears to watch state owned tv. Swedes are overly trusting to everyone around them including the media and politicians. Everyone just want to be left alone and don't care until they get cornered. And for me and many others, we don't know what to do. I just got involved in my tiny village's local politics. Most of the people on my side are old and the young do not care about anything. Atleast Swedes are protesting in stockholm (f@cking far away), I would join them but I have a kid and a job to take care of here as well. What would you guys do?
@Schwarzer Haufen if you have any good advice it would be loveley. And don't give any "give ups" or power fantasy shit like "yea, I would just throw the politicians out myself". Give me something to work with.
@Michelle thank you for a constructive and inspiring answer. Idk much about how to start these activities but I might actually look into what options I have in my community. Me and a friend are going into politics soon but it is a hard thing to do since it's a small town/village and we are not from around here.
I think this is the best work you've done so far: Instead of chronicling, and bemoaning the loss of our culture, get busy preserving and promoting it. More like this. PLEASE!
I grew up on Frösön. It has a runestone as well and I learned about the ancient sacrificial tree as an adult. The connection to my ancestors is, to me, strong there. Thank you for making this, it is very informative and really quite beautiful. The Gods are alive!
I am in Sweden right now. And I see 10x more white people than any other ethnicity. So no, it's not a problem. Just when you try looking for problems, or people of a different colour, you will find them.
If you ever want to explore more of Sweden, i would suggest to look in to the megalith/viking areas around Falköping/Hornborga and look in to Varnhem and Kata gård where Sweden was "born". Thank you for a nice video! I enjoyed it a lot.
I have such a beautiful quite large runehill only 200 yards from my house. I feel very blessed. It is called the Holmfast runestone, check it out it is beautiful. With a wolf or dog pictured on it possibly fenrir?
Really informative and well produced. You've excelled yourself Tom Rowsell. Need to visit the Bronze Age sites you've discussed. Also good to see Marcus Follin here.
When I visited relatives in Sweden, they took me to a site along the road with dolmens and other standing stones. Someone had sheep grazing in the field, but we were able to walk among the stones - a first for this American. Then, when I was out for a little walk near their house, I came upon small stones set along a path in the woods. My cousin told me, that yes, they were ancient stones, and didn't think anything of it. To them, it was so commonplace that they hardly noticed it.
Thank you a Thousand Times for Posting this Amazing Production! I was impressed to see the sites and the impressions in the ground. I was always curious about Viking burial and religion. Thank you once again for going all the way to Sweden. There are few producers like you, dynamic, interesting and getting great details. Health & Happiness to You from Austin Texas.
The curious thing here in Sweden is that although my grandparents were very much Christians, they still held on to several pagan traditions that just seem to be Swedish tradition to me at the time. They told me of old stories not to be tampered with and at the same time tell me about Näcken that scared me but was a character in sagas, wich make me wish that I at this age could ask them were all this older stuff came from. To be that religious and still talk about not upsetting the "beings" in the forest or the mountains for example, I took their talking for granted as a child but if I could ever meet them again, I would ask them about so much more. I think for my family they were the last to hold on to the old beliefs and they died in the mid 1990s. I mostly felt they were unnecessary stories that have been heard for generations, I now feel ashamed for not keeping it for the future generations. It was also done orally there were no real text to my knowledge.
Literal ancestors. It's highly likely, for example, that many English people descend from those kings interred within the great bronze age barrows in Scandinavia, in fact, probably all of them. Stupid thing to laugh at @@overlord5068
Many of the old churches in Sweden are situated at old holy sites, commonly offerlundar. Trees and posts like you mention had a very important role in old norse tradition, the first humans Ask and Embla was as the names suggest fashioned from timber by the gods, perhaps not unlike how the people later depicted the gods on the posts? Furthermore it is quite interesting how the trees of the offerlundar often were left at the chruches and remained holy. The cult of this kind of whorship of trees did not dissapear in Sweden but took new forms like for example in the form of vårdträd, which was a symbol of you and your bloodline or entire villages fortune. If the tree remained strong and thriving so would you and your family or village, but if it died or fell ill so would your family, and there are stories of how vårdträd died and the person attached to it soon followed. This to some extent still lives on to this day.
Its always so stupid how everyone pretends the Wikingr where the invaders. Viking started in old frissia (modern germany.) around the 8 century. These were no man who wanted to raid. It was the french who invaded the frissian's and saxons and tried to force Christianity uppon them. Pretending Wikingr where the invaders is like hitting a body builder and trying to inforce your will on him. And then playing the victim when he hits you back and breaks your jaw.
Nobody in Sweden seems to be aware that petroglyphs, identical to those at Nyköping or several other sites in Sweden, can be found in the gold-bearing region of the North Georgia Mountains in the United States. Georgia's petroglyphs include portrayals of Bronze Age boats, including the Hjartspringer from Scandinavia. Virtually all of the Track Rock (Georgia) petroglyphic symbols may be also found at Nyköping. Those at Nyköping have dated to around 2000 BC. Apparently, Nordic Bronze Age ships explored much farther from home than usually seen. The State of Georgia has the purest gold in the world, plus many types of precious stone, so there was a reason for Bronze Age seamen to go there.
Wish I had seen this while I live there 6 years ago. The property I lived on had been occupied for thousands of years and had 20+ barrows, mostly from the bronze age.... I think. About 5km from Lake Malaren. Too bad I didnt understand their importance at the time. Skal.
I might be a little biased as I am Swedish but it’s mostly due to the Swedes being yes more religious and also going east where mostly tribal people lived and didn’t have a chance to write down anything about them. Some Swedes were super badass such as Ingvar Vittfarne.
As usual very interesting and well researched! Rösaring is an extremely special place which oddly enough has been a bit forgotten (in our contemporary times) in the shadow of places like Gamla Uppsala and Anundshög.
Can you please do a debunking of Dr. Kennedy on the Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He had her on there for Black Athena and on the BBC controversy where they depicted Roman and Celt warriors as black and takes the one account of an Ethiopian soldier and Septimius Severus in Britain. I'd really like to get him to have you guys debate because shes a damn critical theorist and unlike you who likes to know the truth has that gender studies agenda
How about that, I was expecting a travel guide, but accidently learnt alot more of my ancestors history and rites than most other viking documentaries has done. Well done.
In India, as mentioned in Mahabharat (Bhagwat Gita), it is mentioned that once the Mahabharata war was over, a dog accompanied and guided few people into Himalayas into the heaven. This dog was like a avatar of Lord Yama. . I like how similar it sounds to the dogs carrying the boat as u described...
Fascinating video, a few years back I lived in Sweden for a while in the Stockholms Skärgård region. I used to visit the "Säby Gravfält" sight fairly often as it was a great place to just wonder around and unwind in, I think it held 150 graves and the largest being 20m in diameter. One time I visited Gotland and was amazed to see so many different sites, virtually every village on the island had some form of ancient Viking monument. Sweden's definitely enriched with these sites to say the least and it's great to see people visiting them.
Yes, they are all over the place. When they built the residential area in the 70s where i live, they found lot of stoneage axes. About 10 years ago a man who lives some hundred meters away from here found a bronze age sword when digging in his garden. We have bronze age petroglyph in the area, and about 2000 bronze age graves
Interesting to see the barrow much revered in the east among those noble folk. I can scarcely find a man in Wessex who even knows what a cairn or burial mound is.
I'm from Wessex and I know what they are, as do all my family, their neighbours and the other people in the village. It's hard to live around Cranborne Chase and the Plain without being aware of them. They're everywhere.
@@joshuag4624 It's not only an urban problem, though probably worse there. Unfortunately, much of the housing in large areas of rural Wessex has been bought by people who have no connection to the area, its history and culture. Locals have been priced out of the market, and their place taken by stockbrokers and IT consultants from London. Some of these are keen to buy into the culture of the area, but most only value the quiet countryside or boating opportunities of the South Coast. I despair at the gradual disappearance of the local accents in the young and middle aged folk.
Where do you stand on the debate of whether or not the Rus were indeed from Sweden or just Slavic? Judging by their funerary remains, it’s hard for me to imagine they didn’t come from Scandinavia
Wonderful video Tom! The rune stones and the rock carvings in Släbro are very special to me and I have a close connection to them as I grew up within a 10 minute walk from them! Besides Släbro, the specific area in Nyköping where they're located is called "Harg" ( = place of sacrifice, altar of sacrifice or just barrow/mound in old norse for anyone who doesn't know) and in my younger years we spent countless hours of fishing in the river, riding bikes, going on adventures and looking for beavers, walking across the bridge to school and even having outdoors track running at PE all accompanied by these rune stones and the carvings. The local football team is also called Hargs BK and our home pitch and HQ is right on the other end of the forest by the barrows. We were taught from an early age (both from our parents and at school) to respect these places and to not climb and play on the barrows and the carvings and to always be respectful of them so these places have always been surrounded by mystery and admiration to me and especially the carvings at Släbro. I have a personal theory as to why some of the carvings look the way the do and I reckon that the person/persons did the carvings in a sort of meditative state listening to the water and waves running by that area in the bronze age, because the area was almost surrounded by water back then, and many of the carvings look like wave patterns and something you would imagine in a flowing state of mind just listening to the sound of a river or waves rolling in. I'm really not well read on this subject to this is an amateur guessing at best, but I have a strong suspicion that in the absence of ships the river still played a big part in the lives of the people in Släbro and Harg. Thanks for the video and for letting me reminiss of my youth growing up in Släbro and Harg, next time you visit, let me know and I'll invite you in for a pint at my old folks house as they still live there, haha!
9:55 I just want to highlight the point, that what Bonifatius did would be considered a crime of ware in today's day in age. He was not legally a soldier of the invading force but certainly associated with them and under their protection. Destroying religious or historic sites of your enemies that have no military significance is a war crime!
Lots of people did that tbf. Christians were hardly the first or, sadly, the last. The new order often seeks the erasure of the old to cement its power.
This is unbelievably interesting. Do you have materials on Neolithic and WHG populations/cultures of Europe as well? I was looking at Albanian mythology history and it's interesting how their pre-Christian gods are very similar to Nordic Gods (in regard to male figures) and Neolithic (in regard to feminine figures). I went to a tour to northern Albania before the Covid and was introduced to some snake shrines in very rural mountain villages.
Great video, StJ. You're a natural. The Släbro rock carvings? A Pitted Ware culture remnant hooligan expressing his anger against the Indo-Europeans through graffiti
Great video though I would like a lesser use of the word Viking as it describes a certain culture in Scandinavia at that time and not all Norsemen where Vikings this is especially true for Norway and Sweden where the Viking culture was not as common as Denmark and would mostly be seen by coastal areas
You know that even the monotheist religions also came from ancient cananite ploytheism. Im a agnostic naturalist i dont believe or disbelief in any god i want understand and explore everything that is around us the vast cosmos and everything that we know of how the ancient people thought about world around them is clearly reflected in texts like the bible or the Quranic corpus and many others like the vedas or the daoist texts.
I have put all the holy sites at which I filmed in this Google map which you can make use of if you are planning a road trip of your own! www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1cok49fwZ6sMlnMyt4gIzL0vBOG0btvDk&usp=sharing
Relative to the Asa graveyards, I've been trying to pinpoint the Treudd you're on with satellite view on GoogleMaps. Is it this mound: 59.389811, 17.189385 ?
@@guillermotheivth4378 it can be seen at 59°23'04.6"N 17°11'27.3"E
@@Survivethejive No Not at all
Im talking about västra Götaland. If you look up ``ekornavallen`` Yyou ill find one of them. It is not a Treudd ut they have been buried people there from 3 diffrent time eras. In Västra Götaland there are many things to see. As you now " Danes" were from Denmark and Skåne and Västra götaland. We were Goths. or as we say Gauter. We have a Hird called Vither Gauter and are member in the large Hird Grimfrost You should check us out.
ua-cam.com/video/_yqbowUiH-s/v-deo.html&ab_channel=Grimfrost
My husband is the old man lookout. Have a nice one.
That would be a dream come true to visit all of these sites. One day, I must make it happen.
I live by a bronze age settlement. Nothing better than having a picnic their. Feels so homely up their. Amazing video again.
It makes sense that dogs were believed to be mediators between the living and the dead. My dog often gets up and barks at things I cannot see
And are they not the first animal to be domesticated? It would be good if a DNA analysis could be done.
We had a spaniel growing up who’d frequently bark at the fire place in the front room. We later found out that the man who occupied the house previously had died in that room and that his dog had actually eaten his body. The dogs body was found curled up in the fire place when the police eventually came..:
I had the same thought, also they would have been the precursor to horses/cattle towing small sleds or wagons "land ships"
@MichelleI am not particularly a dog lover myself but there is clearly a deep connection between them and us.
I think other or maybe all animals can see and sense things too? There's the story of that cat in an old age home, when he sleeps on someone's bed the person dies in the next few hours...
Saturated with information. Thank you StJ 😊 Your documtaries are top notch 👌
Top notch work as always Tom.
please tell us where to find "Steppe Expansion" by Xurious
1:51 very nordic man
@STORM LORD finland is a Nordic nation 🙂
The rock art might be bronze age coat of arms. We have some symbols like that in Norway as well. It is like a stamp that proved who own the area.
Huh this was surprisingly good.
Thank you
I can't find the music of "Bark Sound Productions" anywhere. Can anyone help?
www.barksoundproductions.com/
4:11 Noooo I know Varg has some weird ideas but did you really have to kill him?!?!?
Lmao
I am used the symbol that is in your avatar for Years!!! I always though it looked Cool, what can you tell me about it???
@@worldtraveler930 it's an odal/othala rune. It basically represents inheritance or something (specifically land) passed on through a family in early Germanic culture.
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Thank You for your response!
It is Good to know about something that has fascinated me over the years.
I believe the symbols on the rocks, based on my analysis of it, might mean "Subscribe to Survive The Jive"
Give this man a Nobel prize.
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My mother is a hospice nurse. She says the dying often talk about a train, plane, or other sort of transport coming for them (depending on their background; for example the man who spoke of a plane was a pilot), or about needing their shoes or to pack their bags. Makes me think the dying Norse would be asking to have their horse or ship made ready, or for their shoes (helskór)--hence the burial custom.
I better not die and get a shitty uber.
@@ProfessorShnacktime haha!
The Greeks also believed in the ferryman who takes them to the afterlife
@@Prometheus7272River Styx and Milky Way/Winding Waterway mythology is fascinatingly pervasive
@@rogbot It might be a indo-european/steppe thing unless you've heard it elsewhere.
Really enjoyed this one. I can’t wait to visit Sweden.
A beautiful country indeed!
Sweden is worse then Uk in criminality the last few years don’t visit some places you might get checked
@@Colt-eq1vm living in Sweden I cant agree. For serious visits, I am happy to offer service with residents and as a driver.
@@OttoRingdahl every day its a new murder in Sweden and not even in the country just in Stockholm ive lived here my life whole life it has changed so much the last 2-3 last years in UK the most you would get are robbed on your phone and maybe stabbed in the worst scenario
@@Colt-eq1vm You live here yet you don't leave your boyroom.
Your videos are the best Thomas. Why don't you make a documentary about Russia? More specifically Novgorod. It had a lot of Scandinavian influence
I would like to
Finno-Ugric aswell
@@Survivethejive About the very Indo European Arkaim would be interesting as well. I'll be looking forward to your next documentary anyway
It would good to include all the Rus people, with Ukraine and Belarus too.
@Red Eagle they were part of the Kievan Rus whether they like it or not!
No mounds in Australia, but I intend on having one when I pass.
Maybe you can convince Shad to have a cemetery in his castle estate.
I have a barrow about a hundred yards from my house in Scotland.
Check my video on dreams for an idea of why you might sleep on it
@Michelle facts, findings, photos links
I have crackheads about 100 yards from my house in NYC
@@VeritasIncrebresco I had a crack shop next door to me.
@@VeritasIncrebresco same
By destroying an important monument, Boniface was able to sever the ties between the local people and their traditional culture. Makes one reflect on today's iconoclasts as they tear down the statues of the mighty men of yore.
Very well made and interesting documentary film.
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Proud to be a Swede from Öland. 🇸🇪❤🙂
Vikings did look like you, they had wider jaws and were much more attractive
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Viking heritage was so important that barrows continued to be made for the local nobles and priests, including rune stones in the building of cathedrals......something about Paganism which probably was a tie to the Earth and the Cosmos? Something similar in Mesoamerica, the spanish friars would make statues of christian saints, but the makers being pagan would include a likeness of Tláloc, the God of Water and of many others inside the statue, so that it would appear the people were worshipping the saint but in truth they were worshipping the ol' gods of Meso America.Thank for a most interesting upload Survive the Jive and greetings from Mexico! :)
Barrows where made along time before the "viking age", before they were pagans
Seriously thank you so much for making these videos!!! It’s very well put together and your narrating adds a badass element to this epic documentary. Thanks mate :)
You should do more on Västergötland. To me, a completely underexposed region considering how much history it has. That a guy literally ran into a Bronze Age treasure last year while running in the woods says everything really... I have a feeling the next Birka/Uppåkra will be discovered somewhere here.
Svearikets vagga
I imagine each of the carvings at Slabro being designed by a different individual during a ritual or maybe even a initiation rite and then carved into the rock by one individual who could of been a priest.
I second that motion.
Excellent Documentary
Long live the germanic peoples, the best in the world.
My wife was born in Denmark in a small fishing village. I miss her R.I.P
I'm very sorry :(
This was beautiful. It makes me sad to think of the state of our culture and nation today. I hope that the winds will turn soon and I hope that our people wake up in time. I feel proud of my nordic neighbours!
@Schwarzer Haufen black pilled? I feel you. But it will never come to that. The people will never accept it once they can't avoid any longer
@Schwarzer Haufen no
@Schwarzer Haufen the people never asked for this, there was no choice given. The politicians did what they wanted and told everyone "no, there is no mass migration" for 10-12 years. Lies. Everyone noticed that sonething was going on but the public service media told everyone that it wasn't a problem and that they had it under control. I was just a kid back when it really started so I didn't know any better.
If you speak up, you get punished. And the swedish middle class are still asleep, they shut their eyes and ears to watch state owned tv.
Swedes are overly trusting to everyone around them including the media and politicians. Everyone just want to be left alone and don't care until they get cornered.
And for me and many others, we don't know what to do. I just got involved in my tiny village's local politics. Most of the people on my side are old and the young do not care about anything. Atleast Swedes are protesting in stockholm (f@cking far away), I would join them but I have a kid and a job to take care of here as well.
What would you guys do?
@Schwarzer Haufen if you have any good advice it would be loveley. And don't give any "give ups" or power fantasy shit like "yea, I would just throw the politicians out myself". Give me something to work with.
@Michelle thank you for a constructive and inspiring answer. Idk much about how to start these activities but I might actually look into what options I have in my community. Me and a friend are going into politics soon but it is a hard thing to do since it's a small town/village and we are not from around here.
This video is, of course, Very, VERY Indo-Eurpean
This was fascinating. Thank you for making this piece.
I think this is the best work you've done so far: Instead of chronicling, and bemoaning the loss of our culture, get busy preserving and promoting it. More like this. PLEASE!
Great documentary - and it's coming from a Swedish archaeologist
Thank you Frida
So... your future are in ruins 😁
I grew up on Frösön. It has a runestone as well and I learned about the ancient sacrificial tree as an adult. The connection to my ancestors is, to me, strong there.
Thank you for making this, it is very informative and really quite beautiful. The Gods are alive!
Thank you Tom for making my poor and tarnished country a bit more sacred.
Schwarzer Haufen 😂 oh it depends
I am in Sweden right now. And I see 10x more white people than any other ethnicity. So no, it's not a problem. Just when you try looking for problems, or people of a different colour, you will find them.
@@Alex-ey7ns in the country or the forests its not so bad. But in the cities and certainly some parts like ghettos are turning into shitholes.
@@phoebeel the cities are pretty bad
@@phoebeel I'm guessing you're not living in Malmö lol. What YOU see is irrelevant in this context; what the statistics show is relevant, however.
If you ever want to explore more of Sweden, i would suggest to look in to the megalith/viking areas around Falköping/Hornborga and look in to Varnhem and Kata gård where Sweden was "born". Thank you for a nice video! I enjoyed it a lot.
Svea Rikes vagga - Husaby is also something that i think you would enjoy exploring.
I have such a beautiful quite large runehill only 200 yards from my house. I feel very blessed. It is called the Holmfast runestone, check it out it is beautiful. With a wolf or dog pictured on it possibly fenrir?
I’ve been searching for my Norwegian ancestors, that show up in my DNA test, I never dreamed it may be from my Swedish grandparents! Wow
Really informative and well produced. You've excelled yourself Tom Rowsell. Need to visit the Bronze Age sites you've discussed. Also good to see Marcus Follin here.
Fantastic work, Thomas! Very well produced with very interesting content.
When I visited relatives in Sweden, they took me to a site along the road with dolmens and other standing stones. Someone had sheep grazing in the field, but we were able to walk among the stones - a first for this American. Then, when I was out for a little walk near their house, I came upon small stones set along a path in the woods. My cousin told me, that yes, they were ancient stones, and didn't think anything of it. To them, it was so commonplace that they hardly noticed it.
Why did the Tarim mummies have burial boats? Does that imply there were great lakes and rivers in the Taklamakan?
Thank you a Thousand Times for Posting this Amazing Production! I was impressed to see the sites and the impressions in the ground. I was always curious about Viking burial and religion. Thank you once again for going all the way to Sweden. There are few producers like you, dynamic, interesting and getting great details. Health & Happiness to You from Austin Texas.
The curious thing here in Sweden is that although my grandparents were very much Christians, they still held on to several pagan traditions that just seem to be Swedish tradition to me at the time. They told me of old stories not to be tampered with and at the same time tell me about Näcken that scared me but was a character in sagas, wich make me wish that I at this age could ask them were all this older stuff came from.
To be that religious and still talk about not upsetting the "beings" in the forest or the mountains for example, I took their talking for granted as a child but if I could ever meet them again, I would ask them about so much more.
I think for my family they were the last to hold on to the old beliefs and they died in the mid 1990s.
I mostly felt they were unnecessary stories that have been heard for generations, I now feel ashamed for not keeping it for the future generations. It was also done orally there were no real text to my knowledge.
Remember any?
Maybe you write down whatever you remember... ask brothers sisters cousins?
You're a troll
Just found out that I share dna with many ancient Swedes. I knew you’d have info on what I wanted to know
The bones of the Vikings are turning in their graves when they see how newcomers from Arab countries treat their country
Of coarse the burial mounds were and are important to the locals. After all, it's our ancestors resting there.
Lmao "ancestors"
Literal ancestors. It's highly likely, for example, that many English people descend from those kings interred within the great bronze age barrows in Scandinavia, in fact, probably all of them. Stupid thing to laugh at @@overlord5068
@overlord5068 Oh yes you're a pagan hating Christian, it makes sense now
Marcus looking huge also
Where can i find these eddic poems? If there a book or a collection of these poems?
The Elder Edda is published in many translations and includes most of the poems
@@huckleberrinabear8328 Sepehr is a conspiracy theorist along the lines of Hancock (more so arguably) and isn't worth listening to
Thank you so much for making this! It brought a tear to my eye the way you showed our ancient history and traditions..im truly greatful!
Many of the old churches in Sweden are situated at old holy sites, commonly offerlundar. Trees and posts like you mention had a very important role in old norse tradition, the first humans Ask and Embla was as the names suggest fashioned from timber by the gods, perhaps not unlike how the people later depicted the gods on the posts? Furthermore it is quite interesting how the trees of the offerlundar often were left at the chruches and remained holy. The cult of this kind of whorship of trees did not dissapear in Sweden but took new forms like for example in the form of vårdträd, which was a symbol of you and your bloodline or entire villages fortune. If the tree remained strong and thriving so would you and your family or village, but if it died or fell ill so would your family, and there are stories of how vårdträd died and the person attached to it soon followed. This to some extent still lives on to this day.
31:01 TGO: "Come on Tom, lemme show you my hidden outdoor gym behind the mound."
STJ: "They better serve tea, i swear to god."
a map with all the location would be a great addition to this guide :)
Its always so stupid how everyone pretends the Wikingr where the invaders. Viking started in old frissia (modern germany.) around the 8 century. These were no man who wanted to raid. It was the french who invaded the frissian's and saxons and tried to force Christianity uppon them. Pretending Wikingr where the invaders is like hitting a body builder and trying to inforce your will on him. And then playing the victim when he hits you back and breaks your jaw.
Superb music selection, it works so well
Nobody in Sweden seems to be aware that petroglyphs, identical to those at Nyköping or several other sites in Sweden, can be found in the gold-bearing region of the North Georgia Mountains in the United States. Georgia's petroglyphs include portrayals of Bronze Age boats, including the Hjartspringer from Scandinavia. Virtually all of the Track Rock (Georgia) petroglyphic symbols may be also found at Nyköping. Those at Nyköping have dated to around 2000 BC. Apparently, Nordic Bronze Age ships explored much farther from home than usually seen. The State of Georgia has the purest gold in the world, plus many types of precious stone, so there was a reason for Bronze Age seamen to go there.
Som svensk tycker jag att det är coolt att andra är intresserade av vår kultur
This was worth the wait, excellent work! Thank you.
Wish I had seen this while I live there 6 years ago.
The property I lived on had been occupied for thousands of years and had 20+ barrows, mostly from the bronze age.... I think. About 5km from Lake Malaren. Too bad I didnt understand their importance at the time.
Skal.
The Swedish at the time had Kings
We still do ;)
Still has a King, Kung Karl Gustav
@k9ä5å#5h Oh my, how dare you?? :D But yes, I agree.
@A hc Yeah, Greta is a great comedian, even if she, herself, is not aware of it :)
Sweden's king is "high protector" of freemasonry and Stockholm is full of them. No wonder the country is going down..
Thank you Thomas for your splendid work. Always interesting to see a video about my ancestors and my peoples history as a Gotlander. Its an honor.
Gloriously Indo-European!
Cool. Bulgaria has loooads of Thracian burial mounds. I slept beside one, then saw your video about sleeping on burial mounds, high five!
Fascinating video about a rich culture. Thanks Tom.
i like how you bring light to the swedish vikings who are not as popular as norwegian, danish or icelandic ones
I might be a little biased as I am Swedish but it’s mostly due to the Swedes being yes more religious and also going east where mostly tribal people lived and didn’t have a chance to write down anything about them. Some Swedes were super badass such as Ingvar Vittfarne.
As usual very interesting and well researched! Rösaring is an extremely special place which oddly enough has been a bit forgotten (in our contemporary times) in the shadow of places like Gamla Uppsala and Anundshög.
Thank you for another great video Thomas
I love the Swedish Democrats (SD). SD forever.
good video mate
Can you please do a debunking of Dr. Kennedy on the Study of Antiquity and the Middle Ages. He had her on there for Black Athena and on the BBC controversy where they depicted Roman and Celt warriors as black and takes the one account of an Ethiopian soldier and Septimius Severus in Britain. I'd really like to get him to have you guys debate because shes a damn critical theorist and unlike you who likes to know the truth has that gender studies agenda
How about that, I was expecting a travel guide, but accidently learnt alot more of my ancestors history and rites than most other viking documentaries has done. Well done.
13:50 ah, my home town! Anundshög, Västerås.
one of the symbols looked like a ladybird.
As a Swede who has explored more and more about paganism/Asatro the last couple of years, this brings me such joy. Great video!
har du besøkt yggdrasil ennå? portalen dit finnes her blant annet i skandinavia. den er liten, ca 4 cm ;)
@@magnusgranskau7487 😅🤣No I havnt visited any sacred guardian tree, if it's what you mean... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
In India, as mentioned in Mahabharat (Bhagwat Gita), it is mentioned that once the Mahabharata war was over, a dog accompanied and guided few people into Himalayas into the heaven.
This dog was like a avatar of Lord Yama.
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I like how similar it sounds to the dogs carrying the boat as u described...
How the mighty have fallen
I hope we find the strength to rise again
@@nilsolofleif8886 so do I
Fallen?
@@MotherGapshin12 yup
@@jmddetecting5503 I don't understand
Pretty cool seeing the city Uppsala where I was born in the video
Fascinating video, a few years back I lived in Sweden for a while in the Stockholms Skärgård region. I used to visit the "Säby Gravfält" sight fairly often as it was a great place to just wonder around and unwind in, I think it held 150 graves and the largest being 20m in diameter. One time I visited Gotland and was amazed to see so many different sites, virtually every village on the island had some form of ancient Viking monument. Sweden's definitely enriched with these sites to say the least and it's great to see people visiting them.
Yes, they are all over the place. When they built the residential area in the 70s where i live, they found lot of stoneage axes. About 10 years ago a man who lives some hundred meters away from here found a bronze age sword when digging in his garden. We have bronze age petroglyph in the area, and about 2000 bronze age graves
Interesting to see the barrow much revered in the east among those noble folk. I can scarcely find a man in Wessex who even knows what a cairn or burial mound is.
I'm from Wessex and I know what they are, as do all my family, their neighbours and the other people in the village. It's hard to live around Cranborne Chase and the Plain without being aware of them. They're everywhere.
@@adventussaxonum448 here be our saxon hero, the scourge of the turncoat Wessex urbanite
@@joshuag4624
It's not only an urban problem, though probably worse there. Unfortunately, much of the housing in large areas of rural Wessex has been bought by people who have no connection to the area, its history and culture.
Locals have been priced out of the market, and their place taken by stockbrokers and IT consultants from London. Some of these are keen to buy into the culture of the area, but most only value the quiet countryside or boating opportunities of the South Coast. I despair at the gradual disappearance of the local accents in the young and middle aged folk.
Great work as always, Tom. Cheers!
Good information as always.
Super dope video, well done! Can't wait for the next video :)
Heyy Rösaring, like 3km from here.. cool
Where do you stand on the debate of whether or not the Rus were indeed from Sweden or just Slavic? Judging by their funerary remains, it’s hard for me to imagine they didn’t come from Scandinavia
Seem nordic to me based on the account
They were most likely a mix. Nordics and local Slavs.
I'm not basing this on anything, but I had the fun thought that they could be music.
Wonderful video Tom! The rune stones and the rock carvings in Släbro are very special to me and I have a close connection to them as I grew up within a 10 minute walk from them! Besides Släbro, the specific area in Nyköping where they're located is called "Harg" ( = place of sacrifice, altar of sacrifice or just barrow/mound in old norse for anyone who doesn't know) and in my younger years we spent countless hours of fishing in the river, riding bikes, going on adventures and looking for beavers, walking across the bridge to school and even having outdoors track running at PE all accompanied by these rune stones and the carvings. The local football team is also called Hargs BK and our home pitch and HQ is right on the other end of the forest by the barrows. We were taught from an early age (both from our parents and at school) to respect these places and to not climb and play on the barrows and the carvings and to always be respectful of them so these places have always been surrounded by mystery and admiration to me and especially the carvings at Släbro. I have a personal theory as to why some of the carvings look the way the do and I reckon that the person/persons did the carvings in a sort of meditative state listening to the water and waves running by that area in the bronze age, because the area was almost surrounded by water back then, and many of the carvings look like wave patterns and something you would imagine in a flowing state of mind just listening to the sound of a river or waves rolling in. I'm really not well read on this subject to this is an amateur guessing at best, but I have a strong suspicion that in the absence of ships the river still played a big part in the lives of the people in Släbro and Harg. Thanks for the video and for letting me reminiss of my youth growing up in Släbro and Harg, next time you visit, let me know and I'll invite you in for a pint at my old folks house as they still live there, haha!
Survive the jive, have you been to the kings grave in eastern scania, I highly recomend it if you visit sweden again.
9:55 I just want to highlight the point, that what Bonifatius did would be considered a crime of ware in today's day in age. He was not legally a soldier of the invading force but certainly associated with them and under their protection. Destroying religious or historic sites of your enemies that have no military significance is a war crime!
Lots of people did that tbf. Christians were hardly the first or, sadly, the last. The new order often seeks the erasure of the old to cement its power.
This is unbelievably interesting. Do you have materials on Neolithic and WHG populations/cultures of Europe as well? I was looking at Albanian mythology history and it's interesting how their pre-Christian gods are very similar to Nordic Gods (in regard to male figures) and Neolithic (in regard to feminine figures). I went to a tour to northern Albania before the Covid and was introduced to some snake shrines in very rural mountain villages.
You have to remember that most of Scandinavia was under a large amount of ice until about 10 000 years ago.
Aha I see the glorious one👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Great video, StJ. You're a natural.
The Släbro rock carvings? A Pitted Ware culture remnant hooligan expressing his anger against the Indo-Europeans through graffiti
Too recent for that. Thanks!
good show. thank yew.
Id like to see the tools they used to carve theses carvings especially the tool which carved some of those perfect circles.
What the fuck dude i live just there in gamla uppsala where u visited if i knew i could have guided you
I lived there for three years
Survive the Jive are u still here?
Hey tom, have you ever thought about any videos about Egyptian paganism(s) and how they relate to the indo European ones?
Exactly what I looked for, planning for the journey I had to give up on in 2020. Thanks a lot!
I’m from Uppsala and as a kid was running up end down one this hills in gamla Uppsala!
Thank you
Great video though I would like a lesser use of the word Viking as it describes a certain culture in Scandinavia at that time and not all Norsemen where Vikings this is especially true for Norway and Sweden where the Viking culture was not as common as Denmark and would mostly be seen by coastal areas
Everyone knows all of this.
Using the term Viking easily identifies an era of history
You know that even the monotheist religions also came from ancient cananite ploytheism. Im a agnostic naturalist i dont believe or disbelief in any god i want understand and explore everything that is around us the vast cosmos and everything that we know of how the ancient people thought about world around them is clearly reflected in texts like the bible or the Quranic corpus and many others like the vedas or the daoist texts.
I live outside Nyköping, interesting to almost see my home here. Great video.