Drinking Horns in Viking Culture and Norse Religion

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    Drinking horns are known from Classical Antiquity, especially the Balkans, and remained in use for ceremonial purposes throughout the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period in some parts of Europe, notably in Germanic Europe, and in the Caucasus.
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    00:00- Intro
    03:00- Archeology
    07:05- Mythological Sources
    13:30- Beer Maidens
    16:40- Historical Sources
    27:30- Spirituality/Ritual
    The Germanic peoples of the Migration period imitated glass drinking horns from Roman models. One fine 5th century Merovingian example found at Bingerbrück, Rhineland-Palatinate made from olive green glass is kept at the British Museum. Drinking horns are attested from Viking Age Scandinavia. In the Prose Edda, Thor drank from a horn that unbeknown to him contained all the seas, and in the process he scared Útgarða-Loki and his kin by managing to drink a conspicuous part of its content. They also feature in Beowulf, and fittings for drinking horns were also found at the Sutton Hoo burial site. Carved horns are mentioned in Guðrúnarkviða II, a poem composed about 1000 AD and preserved in the Poetic Edda:

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  • @christenagervais7303
    @christenagervais7303 Рік тому +15

    I grew up with my Danish grandparents in Canada. We always took pride in serving our guests well, whether it was a full meal, or just a cheese sandwich and coffee, you always treated guests well!

  • @faravid1045
    @faravid1045 Рік тому +24

    Every man should have a drinking horn.
    Its one of the things people dont know they want until they have one. So its a perfect gift. Skål!! ✊️

    • @erikhoff5010
      @erikhoff5010 Рік тому +1

      I made my own pair many years ago, and have another pair of raw horns waiting for their time. Fairly easy to make, a wood rasp and a few sheets of sandpaper, well used. Raw horns can be bought at most slaughter houses, or Tandy Leather has them already rough sanded. All you have to do is finish them and coat the inside with pitch or resin. Skal!

    • @bjornstacy9590
      @bjornstacy9590 Рік тому +1

      I have a few and I have given many as gifts

    • @faravid1045
      @faravid1045 Рік тому +1

      @@erikhoff5010 Thats awsome mate! Id like to start to make some horns to play on allso.

    • @faravid1045
      @faravid1045 Рік тому +1

      @@bjornstacy9590 Me too. Thats how I know that they usually is a welcomed gift.

  • @angelamichelle7319
    @angelamichelle7319 Рік тому +11

    No offense taken here 😄
    I love having the honor of bringing my husband and his friends drinks or food, makes me smile to serve 😊✨

  • @suupkalvers2244
    @suupkalvers2244 Рік тому +19

    I still take pride in being a good hostess to my guests, as I take pride in being a good guest to my honored host(ess). Young people, it seems, should learn a bit about hosting and being hosted, you are right there. Our old ways are not the bad ways 😊

  • @kveldulfskallagrim731
    @kveldulfskallagrim731 Рік тому +26

    Amazing. No matter what subject you cover, you always find a way to include dozens of sources when other "experts" in the subject are lucky to cover just 1. Thank you as always! I'm buying your Thor Utgard Horn

    • @carterghill
      @carterghill Рік тому +3

      It's amazing how the story changes when you source things. The weird thing is the "experts" think they're sourcing just fine, because they're repeating what they heard another expert say. They literally think peer reviewed opinion essays are a primary source, and it's causing history to be skewed like a big game of telephone

    • @Soaring_Raven212
      @Soaring_Raven212 Рік тому +1

      *Cough Cough* Wisdom of Odin

    • @asgrim1513
      @asgrim1513 Рік тому

      @@Soaring_Raven212 oh god don't start with this super cringe guy, he's doing more harm than good with his focus in the eddas, feels like he takes the eddas seriously

    • @Soaring_Raven212
      @Soaring_Raven212 Рік тому +3

      @@asgrim1513 he does. He has a complete christian outlook on them like the Bible

    • @asgrim1513
      @asgrim1513 Рік тому

      @@Soaring_Raven212 i saw few of his videos and i think he was raised christian if i remember correctly, which would make sense atleast, since lot of "pagans" like to take everything from christianity and act like its pagan, kinda like all the wiccans lol
      idk how some1 can watch the garbage he's putting out.

  • @NoctLightCloud
    @NoctLightCloud Рік тому +3

    3:52 I've been to the National Museum of Denmark just last week! The Vikings part was best museum I've been to, topped only by the historical and famous Vienna Natural History Museum.

    • @jonstfrancis
      @jonstfrancis 11 місяців тому +1

      The Trundholm sun chariot, Egtved girl and that Aurochs are also awesome things to see in the museum!

  • @alanhowse9213
    @alanhowse9213 Рік тому +3

    In Scotland horn, beakers have a very long history A disc of horn is cut out and pushed into the base this was done by softening the horn by boiling in oil then the horned disc was pushed in to the softened Horn, which, as it shrinks as the Horn cools. So making the beaker watertight. Then the cup is decorated by burning patterns and pictures into the horn. Spoons are another favourite things made from horn. They are made by boiling the horn in oil, then pushing the horn into a mould. left the cool.

  • @faramund9865
    @faramund9865 Рік тому +4

    As you say, it is pretty much universal that the lady takes care of the household, the kids and the food.
    For some reason that's derogotory in modern perception. But that's literally the biggest responsibilities in the community.
    My mother and grandmothers still take great pride in receiving the guests well. Making food that people enjoy eating, creating an enjoyable athmosphere so all can thrive and enjoy their night.
    Men are really just womens right hand and shield. They protect the family, they do all the tasks that the women ask of them to do and they are examples to the children through bravery and honor.
    That women would lower themselves to attempt to become men is astonishing. And in my view can only come from a household in which men abused their strength to control their family, rather than use it to protect them.

  • @sandra.helianthus
    @sandra.helianthus Рік тому +39

    Thank you for pointing out how honorable it is to be a good host - that is true still today for any female and male. 🥛🥛

    • @dirtyoldbroad7583
      @dirtyoldbroad7583 Рік тому

      I wish my Danish MiL was a good host. She invites you over for dinner and expects you to cook and clean.
      Something she obviously didn’t bring with her when she immigrated to Canada.

    • @sandra.helianthus
      @sandra.helianthus Рік тому

      @@dirtyoldbroad7583 yeah, Cook together and clean together, why not. 😊
      It all depends if you are a stranger and are invited as a guest, than your host will act as a host.
      But if you have a closee relationship it should be normal to share the work so the fun can be shared too. 🌻

  • @ThulrVOdinsson
    @ThulrVOdinsson Рік тому +4

    You have a wonderful way of weaving sources as you lay bear such lucid overviews on these topics about our ancestors! I've been wanting to buy the "Stafangr Hrafn Drinking Horn" from your website, but it's "SOLD OUT"! Will you be restocking this one? I'm waiting and hoping...

  • @LargeMan476
    @LargeMan476 8 місяців тому +1

    Got a beautiful horn at the Birka heritage site in Sweden. Truly a beautiful piece of human culture

  • @John78022m
    @John78022m Рік тому +5

    Thanks for still making your videos! Always look forward to the next one

  • @Valfreyja9
    @Valfreyja9 Рік тому +4

    So cool !Great info! Love your shop💜

  • @fratercontenduntocculta8161

    I've had one for a few months now, can't wait to finally take it to the local history fest we have!

  • @BARBARYAN.
    @BARBARYAN. Рік тому +5

    Your online shop is legitimately fun to browse. I’m glad your content is growing!

  • @MrLaurila
    @MrLaurila 2 місяці тому

    Tusen takk for de virkelig interessante vikingvideoene og din innsikt i historien.

  • @germanicpaganpaths
    @germanicpaganpaths Рік тому +3

    Think I might have to get myself a Thors ocean horn, great video keep them coming they are important.

  • @dylanupdyke2745
    @dylanupdyke2745 Рік тому

    2 things...
    1) what is it your saying at the beginning and end of every video??
    2) you really need to re-up your store. So many things i wanted to buy are all sold out!
    Love your material and overall realistic attitude towards each topic .
    Your real...keep it real!
    Skal!

  • @Valfreyja9
    @Valfreyja9 Рік тому +4

    Treated myself to a Gotland Arm Ring☺Could buy the whole shop!😅

  • @stansdad1
    @stansdad1 Рік тому +2

    I have one and cleaned it according to the instruction and it caused a bad leak. Now I keep my wooden cooking utensils in it. I will be checking yours out

  • @northmanjourneys
    @northmanjourneys Рік тому

    Good video bro lots of research done

  • @user-tc5fv4cg8i
    @user-tc5fv4cg8i Рік тому +1

    am not even a pagan, i just like hearing you talking

  • @Terrierized
    @Terrierized Рік тому

    Thirsty for knowledge!
    Thanks again 🤜🤛

  • @snowandcoal
    @snowandcoal Рік тому

    Today we make drinking horns of pixels. Future archeologist will have fun time digging our Blender and Photoshop files.

  • @mjjohansson1702
    @mjjohansson1702 Рік тому +4

    I bought some mead in the store today. We made it at home when I was a kid. Should pick that up again. Don't have a horn to drink it out of however lol

  • @handsomebear.
    @handsomebear. Рік тому +1

    Afaik hairs and nails only seem to grow or get longer after death because the skin is retracting/shrinking.

  • @mastergamerover9000
    @mastergamerover9000 Рік тому +4

    **Amon amarth raise your horns plays in the distance**

    • @jairoukagiri2488
      @jairoukagiri2488 Рік тому

      I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen an original Jaeger' mention with the blood-mead topic, so I will mention it here. Not my kinda mixer tho' hah

  • @kennethmoore625
    @kennethmoore625 Рік тому +2

    I got a large one from Grimfrost. Lost the iron stand, and belt holster for it during a move to a new home. But I still drink from it, and it sits on my night stand.

  • @Dextamartijn
    @Dextamartijn Рік тому +2

    I ordered a drinking horn looking forward to receiving it another great video

  • @StormyAfterDark
    @StormyAfterDark Рік тому +1

    I love my drinking horn when drinking delicious mead.

  • @alexiskiri9693
    @alexiskiri9693 Рік тому +1

    I went to your store to find a t-shirt but you didn't have it.
    I wanted one that said,
    "YOU CAN'T KEEP A GOOD VIKING DOWN"
    I thought of it after watching you Vikings not from Scandanavia video. 🙂

  • @margomaloney6016
    @margomaloney6016 Рік тому +1

    EXCELLENT discussion! Takk Thor !! 🍺

  • @davidwright9092
    @davidwright9092 Рік тому +1

    Great insights! Thank you

  • @iamarawn
    @iamarawn Рік тому +1

    My cat just walked over my unlocked screen and it started to play this video. This is very interesting. Thanks Freyja for walking over my phone

  • @sarahgilbert8036
    @sarahgilbert8036 Рік тому +2

    I've experienced going to visit someone - who was expecting us - where the "hostess" made & ate a sandwich without offering us anything!
    And also people who seem to think it's acceptable to just go and help themselves to what their host have in their fridge!
    **
    I have a water-buffalo horn mug, and a cow horn I bought cleaned and transformed into a drinking horn myself.

  • @kurtbogle2973
    @kurtbogle2973 10 місяців тому

    Lol I made Mead grenades one time.
    It fermented 90 days. I was sure it was done do I bottled it. A week later they turned into glass handgernad's.

  • @MinnesotaBeekeeper
    @MinnesotaBeekeeper Рік тому

    Horns as antenna? I guess because the Vikings were big on radio frequencies? Lol

  • @roeberdt-bT.1021
    @roeberdt-bT.1021 Рік тому

    ..."she understood the health of the humour."
    ...
    Thank you for the post in any case, "by my father's mother."
    \Skhoal'd/
    ...
    Thank you for saying something about the "sign of the hammer",
    Btw.
    ..."Valhalla guards".

  • @sirfreerunner1733
    @sirfreerunner1733 Рік тому

    Love the content but I feel I have to mention hair and nails don’t continue to grow after death; they “appear” to because the skin as it decays recedes while hair (being dead cells already) does not.

  • @pagangamer3305
    @pagangamer3305 Рік тому

    I don't have the capability of buying things online. but do you got glass horns.

  • @Thug2u
    @Thug2u 8 місяців тому

    What is better Buffalo horn or ox horn for drinking horns

  • @Magickalhealingworks
    @Magickalhealingworks Рік тому

    Adore your content and your nice to look at ❤thank you. I must repost

  • @user-nt1sk9pd2i
    @user-nt1sk9pd2i 5 місяців тому

    More for special occasions ?

  • @vikingodin1986
    @vikingodin1986 10 місяців тому

    Everyone I've ordered always smells horns mugs

  • @kurtbogle2973
    @kurtbogle2973 10 місяців тому

    I love it! Your being a Viking! What did anyone expect? I'm not complaining!
    THIS IS COOL! Now give me a mailing address because I don't put card numbers on line.

  • @faramund9865
    @faramund9865 Рік тому

    As far as I know, not hurgr, but horgr. The ö or ǫ, whichever way it's chosen to be written, I read and heard is reconstructed as [ɔ~ɒ], although I'm not sure what ~ is.
    Either way I've noticed you stick to Norwegian pronunciation of these terms mostly as you pronounce o as [u].

  • @Erik_The_Dane
    @Erik_The_Dane Рік тому +3

    Skål :) Do you ship the horns out of Norway too. The Danish customs are a bit greedy when goods are coming from the US

  • @raphlvlogs271
    @raphlvlogs271 Рік тому +1

    hollow horns can also be made in to devices for smoking when a small hole is cut on the pointy end

  • @user-nt1sk9pd2i
    @user-nt1sk9pd2i 5 місяців тому

    The drinking horn was not an everyday drinking cup ?

  • @-RONNIE
    @-RONNIE Рік тому +1

    Good video 👊🏻⚔️

  • @Jesper1118
    @Jesper1118 Рік тому +1

    Christians banned drinking horns?!, Now I want a horn more then ever

  • @johnmclaughlin5660
    @johnmclaughlin5660 Рік тому

    Excellent thanks , only downside to being a Vegan ? 💜🍷🔥

  • @kieransanderson9431
    @kieransanderson9431 Рік тому +3

    Hi I read a blog about flowers connected to Thor Oden ect in Norse culture and just wanted to ask if these are true or not
    fryja
    daisy's (childbirth, motherhood, new beginnings)
    Roses
    Primrose
    Odin
    Poppies (taken for dreams)
    Valkeryies
    belladonna
    Thor
    Henbane
    Tyr
    Wolfsbane
    wild violet
    Daphne mezereum

  • @phillipr.mctear8962
    @phillipr.mctear8962 Рік тому

    😎👍

  • @jamesafseth326
    @jamesafseth326 Рік тому +1

    What was taught to me as a child, about the "sign of the hammer" is you start at the top, and move your hand down, and then to one side at the bottom, then across the bottom to the other side...I don't know if it was the same for the Norse, but that's how I was taught as a Germanic pagan (my ancestors come primarily from the Luxembourg area, and go by the names Lux, and Ecker, and my Norse side is Afseth and Olson...my Lux and Ecker side traces back a very very long way, but my Afseth and Olson side has been lost to time, because of many factors, but primarily because of how family names and history were kept in Norse culture...i.e. naming sons after the father, such as Ragnarson)

  • @upcycle.outdoorsman9629
    @upcycle.outdoorsman9629 Рік тому +4

    Thirty-five minutes of everything drinking horn. I'm thirsty...where is my maiden?

  • @leeandrew8987
    @leeandrew8987 Рік тому +5

    Love to the pagan community across Europe and worldwide🇬🇧

  • @jakegenocide
    @jakegenocide 5 місяців тому

    My best friend gave me a horn. I washed it by hand, then in the dishwasher. As I drank my mead, a chunk of black, almost like petrified, flesh and fur, made its way into my mouth. I was very deep into an extremely heavy Amanita Muscaria and psilocybe experience at the time. The rest of which was spent puking. I did not speak with nature that day...

  • @85brink
    @85brink Рік тому

    Kan man købe dine horn fra eu?

  • @philliprash8471
    @philliprash8471 Рік тому +1

    Not true about hair and nails continuing to grow after death. It only appears to grow due to the drying up and shrinking of the skin

  • @Cliff82
    @Cliff82 Рік тому

    I saw someone talking smack about the Thor horn a while back because of the blue reson. I figured you had a good reason for that. Now that it's explained I feel like I should have easily guessed that.

  • @Cliff82
    @Cliff82 Рік тому

    We need to start a book club. I'd love to read The maiden with the mead but it's $75 so I don't foresee it being in my library any time soon.

  • @sandra.helianthus
    @sandra.helianthus Рік тому +2

    I wonder if it also was a female domain to "create" the mead? Are there sources talking about that matter?
    For me it would make sense in a way that these women offer their own product, which they have cared for and therefore put their "energies" and "magic" into it until the moment it is served.

  • @manfIesh
    @manfIesh Рік тому +1

    im gonna buy one so fucking fast

  • @cyankirkpatrick5194
    @cyankirkpatrick5194 Рік тому

    I want to thank you for not sugar coating the Christian's I'm just tired of them looking good and made everyone else looking bad . No one is perfect. The auroch was big enough to feed 300 people. They were overkilled due to their size in the 1500's or was it the 1800's ? I think. May I suggest a video about what did the Vikings actually ate. Blood contains plasma and protein.

  • @jughound7923
    @jughound7923 Рік тому +1

    THIS is how I determined that the Norse Myths & Legends are just Stories from Before the Ice Age ! What other Natural Process could drop the Water Table of the Ocean other than Glaciation ?

    • @MacNab23
      @MacNab23 Рік тому +1

      Graham Hancock mentions symbolism in the Norse stories that numerically relates to the procession of the equinoxes, and hence to some knowledge of "ice age" events. Not sure if I'm sold but I like some of his work.

  • @dragonrider9051
    @dragonrider9051 Рік тому +1

    Dusting off my ol horn. ;)

  • @jamesvandemark2086
    @jamesvandemark2086 Рік тому +1

    Hmmm- I've had one for YEARS!

  • @violenceislife1987
    @violenceislife1987 Рік тому

    I hope I get buried with my drinking horns.

  • @Smash17751
    @Smash17751 Рік тому

    I heard or read a story that the toasting drinks by hitting them together was from a Viking king because he heard that someone was trying to poison him with his drink so he hit his drink so it would splash in to the other lbs drinks so if he was poisoned they would be to is that true to anything you have read ?

  • @e.gonnermann4646
    @e.gonnermann4646 Рік тому

    I'm a true Bier-a-holic... when 'we' toast to each others health, we all drink... if by lack of interest, you don't drink, you shall see the fire in my eyes!

  • @jughound7923
    @jughound7923 Рік тому +2

    The Ragnarok Event of Scandinavian Folk Lore is detailed as the Nephilim War in the books of Enoch & Jubilees , and was fought on the Island Continent of the Antarctic. Which was fought on the 100 mile x 100 mile Vigard Battle Plain somewhere at the base of Mount Vincent Massive ( Tallest Peak & Tomb of the Fallen Watchers )

  • @aragorn1780
    @aragorn1780 Рік тому +1

    regarding the "honor to serve" mentality:
    this is something that's culturally relevant even today; if you ever watched some of Reactistan's vlogs in Balochistan (province of Pakistan), you'll see the (Muslim) patriarchs of the house going out of their way to host and serve their guests themselves, there's no calling their wives/daughters/etc to do the work for them, no, it's THEIR honor to serve their guests, they will do the serving, the cooking, etc there's no "women in the kitchen" mentality, there's no "this is servant's work" mentality (now obviously if you're rich and have servants they're presumably being paid well to do the work so if nothing else it's no different from getting served at a restaurant or hotel by paid staff); the whole concept of "servant's work" is a product of modern western class culture, and I'm glad that, however slow the progress is, is something we're slowly undoing
    (I say this as a man who's also all too happy to cook for and serve my guests who come to my house, never mind the "honor" of it, it's an absolute pleasure for me to do so.... also a way to show off my cooking xDDD and I'm glad so many of my fellow male friends feel the same without even thinking of it being a cultural revolution, it's just normal for our more egalitarian minded generation)

  • @erikhoff5010
    @erikhoff5010 Рік тому

    Excelsior! Very good video. My horn is raised to you now, Brother! Heil!

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    @frodesolbakken5533 Рік тому

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    I belive we can and its about interesting......we have 2alternativrsin

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  • @violenceislife1987
    @violenceislife1987 Рік тому

    13:47 lol
    Down with feminism

  • @bekabokuchava4470
    @bekabokuchava4470 Рік тому +1

    ყანწი

  • @janandersson9646
    @janandersson9646 Рік тому

    Du vaknar med en i RÖVEN 😂🇸🇪🇺🇲🇺🇦

  • @frombaerum
    @frombaerum Рік тому +3

    First.
    Skål!

  • @RackerPaS
    @RackerPaS Рік тому

    Why „Viking Culture“? It‘s germanic Culture.

  • @Sviareik
    @Sviareik Рік тому +2

    Men will say no to drinks from eachother but not from women so maybe thats why lol

  • @elshebactm6769
    @elshebactm6769 Рік тому

    🗿👍🏿

  • @williamhale6808
    @williamhale6808 Рік тому +1

    I lift my horn to you skal

  • @jwlavasse
    @jwlavasse Рік тому

    I wonder of this is why in modern times and especially before the prohibition their were laws against women being on bars and serving drinks. Women in that profession were seen as immoral.

  • @AgeCobra
    @AgeCobra Рік тому

    Skull