Been watching The last kingdom. I was super impressed until season 3. After a couple of episodes in season 3, I wish I could just mute Uhtred's monologues. Super boring esp the accent. Can't take it any more 😭😭😭😭. Myself indian, having lived in Scotland for a couple of years, the accent looks like a mockery. Why god why !!! 😭😭😭

😳😵‍💫🤔👍 Ah yes, I nearly forgot about this one... I will now carve a special totem just for this lovely purpose and send it to my brother as a kind of "peace offering ". 😝🙈🙈🙈

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That was so much fun. Hopefully it's not too late to get a reunion of these 3 at some point

Great craft for the folk Cheers from Mercia

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Love Skyrim

It's always a pleasure to listen Paul speak about "his grave" (sorry, reconstructors humor) and it's also a surprising way to discover you podcast!

What episode is this?

Viking is something you do, not really something you are 🤗 hello from sweden🇸🇪

Are you from Scandinavia? If not very weird making a podcast about vikinger

Zeus is often shown on Greek, Seleucid and indogreek coins. Same with Lord Jesus on eastern Roman coins.

I’m a couple years late but great drama productions are timeless... as are men/women with excellent character and high human qualities. And a crazy awesome sense of humor.

Well, Dr James Dilley is absolutely adorable. That's who he is. I could listen to him talk about any topic he wanted, all day or night. 😍

The Neolithic is where humanities slide into extinction began, after that our existence was no longer sustainable as we took out more than was put in.

we still have "short brown people" left here in the north (their percentages are like 25% siberian, 15% western hunter gatherer, 10% mesolithic farmer, 50% bronze age yamna). that´s probably as good as it gets anywhere in europe (from the minority point of view). also we have horrible stories in the lore of how those transitions happened in real life (mostly the older groups moved to the north until there was nowhere left to go). for example the sami people used to live much more south (that´s why everywhere in finland there´s place names that have the lapp word). the more north you go the less you see the finnish flag in houses.. it´s the enemy you see :)

Svantovid literary means Wholeseeing or Saint sight, and it clearly has to do with "fortune telling" and him looking at 4 sides of the world with his 4 faces, that little thing made me question everything else you have to say, that was a big slip.

I've been told I have Ork knees Cheers from Mercia

i know that many pre-christian sweet slavs in the northwest were borrowed from finns and Scandinavians. it would be very interesting to hear the expert's opinion on this. thanks for the quality content ❤

Very interesting. I am Sloven. Slavs seems as european nordamerican indians.

We still practice infanticide, we just call it abortion. Functionally it is the same thing...

Im a bit slow i guess but like instead of "cat" it would just have its own symbol? So "my cat is black" would be symbols put together?

Interesting point about being into Nordic stuff before it became trendy. I was very keen on Vikings and witches as a child in the 1960s & 1970s. Once I got to university in Sydney I found vikings & witches in studying Medieval History. And then I discovered Old Norse in 1981. Eventually I wrote a PhD on women as witches in Old Norse family sagas, graduated 1996. All through that time, I was always met with incredulity both in Australia & England, why on earth would I study Old Norse? We ON scholars worldwide were a small clique who understood each other. And then at some point in the 1990s, probably due to the internet, vikings and Icelandic mythology etc became hugely popular. In many ways, I miss those days when we were the exclusive weirdos!

The whole thing about Veles and Perun opposing each other is a fabrication. The only recorded opposition we know of is that of Chernobog and the "other god" (probably Svantevit). And BOTH were worshipped and given sacrifices to. Triglav is not a god of ONLY underworld - he controls all 3 worlds. This whole idea of him being solely chtonic comes from speculations on Zbruch pillar

Zbruch idol cannot be Svantevit. On a correct illustration (or photo) you can see that two upper sides are also male and female (two sides have breasts which are not shown on the illustration you found). And if that is not enough for a doubt - all four sides have their own hands and feet, while Svantevit has only One body (from descriptions). This guy not that great. Starts up with "I'm gonna talk about Western Slavs", and starts up with Ukrainian idol, the only connection to Poland having the fact it is in Polish museum. What about two headed idol FROM POLAND (found at Fischerinsel)? Speaking of four sided pillar from Zbruch, smaller version of it was found in Wolyn, and also called Svantevit, however it is more plausible. As for written resource....oh gods...seriously? No Nordic resources? What about Knytlinga Saga? No recorded accounts about Western Slavic rituals and mythology? What about ones from Otton Von Bamburgs chronicles? Imagine someone performing rituals and praying without even giving their 100 percent to know what they are doing...

My grandmother was a Cain/Caine and her ancestors came from the Isle of Man in the 1700’s, I traced her line back to the 1500’s on the isle in Kirk Michael near Peel, I heard about the Cain/Caine/Keene DNA project going back to about 1000 AD give or take. Could I really be a descendant of Godred?!?

time stamps please...

Hmmm, I’ve watched and read allot on this warrior, he wasn’t buried in a conventional coffin, rock sides and top, if you want to call it a coffin, so be it. Ya sorta, and in the sagas Ivar was the height of his father and his men at 12-13 years of age, if that was 5ft 10. Or so at full height after he reached full adulthood he would have been tall, the repton warrior was 8foot 6” I believe, and was where Ivar was supposed to have wanted to be buried when the time came.

A cob lol

Not that I'm against the fluidity of gender, but it's also possible that the more feminine objects simply were keeps sakes from a mom, daughter or other woman that they cares about. While it's probably exaggerated by pop culture I love the idea of a shield maiden.

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it´s a great story about how christianity was actually spread, with diseases. they must hate modern medicine so much! rarely do you see their kind here.. once i met a priest who was lost on the road, asking for directions.. you´re asking another man for direction, please leave my country immediately!

So before the Anglo Saxon period it wasn't the Roman Period in England maybe early early medieval?!

The erected pole of many cultures. Svantevit sounds like Swedish name Svante and White. Also remind of Ukko. Odhinn and so one

Is the description mistaken? I don't believe this clip is from that episode. I'm having trouble finding this full episode, and his book.

Hmmm with all due respect as an artist. Your arts on paper. People can just take it. We as artist can't do anything. Tbh artist should learn to merch there designs. Or better. Copyright it... I mean if you love your design so much. Copyright it. It's the only way you have the right to claim it.. as an artist of I don't copy right it's my fault someone steals it. Mine not them. Other artist have to copyright. Just because you tattoo don't mean you deserve extra protections on art with no effort

Slava Rodu, slava precima!

Pagans for Trump!

I don't tattoo but i like all art so this fascinates me Think about it like this i really love the work you do but you are in another country so far away and i have saved for a tattoo, not a holiday to come see you to get it done that would be way too expensive.... is it wrong to get another artist to do it ?

Much needed! I have (luckily) much Slavic, Germanic and Scandinavian roots, and the Slavic story is not talked about as much. 🖤🖤🖤

very interesting listeng to this

The Cherokee ancestry claims are so rampant because a lot of asssumtions were made based on the names on the "Dawes Rolls" without actual knowledge of ancestry and i guess that also attracts a lot of "pretendians"

just from the finnic perspective i would say that they absolutely did not value human life, which has to do with the tough living conditions and regarding death as a natural phenomenon. what they did value is kinship and tribe, which makes it quite problematic to sacrifice any of your own kin (as i understand it a natural death was a prerequisite to a re-incarnation, violent / accidental deaths being buried in a different way here). the closest i've read in our lore is sacrificing yourself, as in old people asking to be left behind (which is well documented, yes, just like in that commercial). and also the infant thing was done, they were only considered part of the tribe after they had developed a consciousness (that´s when one of the souls had arrived).

I find the whole issue of what makes a person ‘human’ very interesting as a term of reference. It is so easy to see it as a human v animal dichotomy because of Darwinian thinking. But if what made you a ‘human’ was social status then this kind of makes sense. I need to go back and listen to the podcast on what the Norse view of a ‘human’ was… Not straight forward at all to get your mind around.

I thought she was going to say something woke but her point makes sense, methinks.

I read the title and thought it would be about the current invasion of Ireland. The same invasion happening to virtually all of the Western world. Guess I was wrong.

She's right. What's wrong with saying that during the 8th century England, Anglo Saxon culture did this - or that. Seems fine to me.

conveniently the 500´s were missing :) it´s when they killed / turned the pagan leaders.. you should read the russian chronicles, they´re a little more based in reality. also the whole argument of "bloodless" disturbs me, but was it fearless? no, it was fear BASED (can any true spirituality even exist in those circumstances) also important to remember that there were always people outside of that slave / master dynamic.. just like today, some of it you can see from the shirt colour :)

Respectfully speaking, I have to say that this is just too much The Anglo-Saxons were a "thing" in history. We use words to talk about things. That's how language works. Anglo-Saxon is not just a completely appropriate term, it's really the best term to refer to that period in time, an era in a place that was defined by a people. I really believe this linguistic purism is a new kind of Puritanism, and I don't think it's gonna do us any favors when we're looking at history.