My favorit. The teatre king.

Frosty? That is the opposite of the truth, that was the peak of skandinavism! Where have you gotten such nonsense?

@titanuranus3095 Peak is not what I would call it. Don't know exactly when Scandinavism started but according to Wikipedia in the 1840's. Andersen went to Sweden in 1837. He was very devoted to Scandinavism. Perhaps the main influence who inspired others.

basically yes

Rome existed for a long time... There was definitely things going on in Sweden at the time but we have basically no written sources what so ever. Why we do have is archaeology, and plenty of it. Iron-age Sweden is sometimes called the "Vendel era" due to archaeological finds in near the parish of Vendel in moder-day Uppland north of Stockholm. Very rich grave goods including treasures, weapons and other riches, shows the signs of powerful rulers with a large international trade network. Some of the richest gold hoards in Europe from time have been found in Sweden. (This does not mean the Swedish kings were the richest in Europe, it's just that these hoards avoided discovery until modern time.) It does however show that the rulers were powerful and influential enough to be able to amass wealth that even Roman aristocrats would envy.) There is plenty of Roman coins and other artifacts in these burials, showing that the rulers in Sweden was well aware of the Roman Empire, even if the romans weren't aware of the Vendel kings. There are lots of hill forts and ring forts dating back to the iron age all over the Baltic region. This shows that local rulers had enough resources to organize and finance the construction of extensive defensive fortifications for themselves and their subjects. What remains are the foundations of walls and pallisades, made of loose rocks and boulders that were carried there and piled up to create an earth-work barrier or wall, a few meters high. The earthworks were probably topped with a long pallisades that has since rotted away or burned down. The forts tells us that piracy and sea-born raids were a common enough occurance even before the "viking age". We have signs of a seafaring culture in modern day Sweden, all the way back to the bronze age, both in the form of imported artifacts and from the thousands of rock-carvings depicting ships and warriors. Nobody is saying that the bronze age culture in Scandinavia was on par with the great bronze age civilization s of the Mediterranean and near East, but the more we learn from archaeology, the more we understand that the Scandinavians were on the periphery of the bronze age western world, and not at all secluded from it. Sweden is a land of forest and granite. People have built structures of wood rather than stone, because before the discovery of dynamite, the bedrock has been extremely difficult to quarry. This means we don't have that many remains of very old buildings and structures. In the Mediterranean world, there was a shortage of trees, so instead they built structures of limestone, sandstone and marble -wich are relatively easy to quarry ,and mud brick wich is easy to manufacture and lasts a long time in a hot and dry climate. Wooden structures don't last nearly as long as stone or mud bricks, so we hardly have any remains of old wooden structures. (There are some, like a massive bulwark in the middle of Tingstäde lake on Gotland. It is some kind of refuge or fortification built on stilts in the middle of the shallow lake. Everything above water has rotted away long ago, but the wooden posts are still there to be seen, sticking out of the bottom silt.

About 1.5 million went over to America, but about half a million came back.

I think Latin became fancy at the time 😀

The Frankish Empire and the British Kingdoms issued a trade ban on all heathens. The first attack on Lindisfarne came only a few months after that. And whenever the Vikings conquered an area; they established a new trading town. The whole viking age on the west was basically, trade with us willingly, or we will force you.

But eventually the Danes learned not to attack Sweden. And lo and behold, no more wars between us...

@@Merecir :-) Well, why would we fight? We are all humans, we are all the same. We should focus on making this planet into an Utopia, instead we're heading towards a Dystopia just because people fight wars and are greedy... Humans are so digusting fr fr

And yet, we in the Nordic countries are together and the the most successful, happy and brotherly people in the world.... Slava Ukraine, democracy, freedom and equality from Sweden 🇸🇪🖖🇺🇦✊

​@@mariabengtssonvikingYou can have freedom or democracy and equality, not both.

@@mariabengtssonviking Its almost like they learned from their past instead of repeating the same mistakes over and over

Please, not that hubris again...

Are you saying that there are some European countries in Asia that are bigger than Sweden?

@@MrGunnar69 Total area of Turkey is 783,562 km2 and Kazakhstan is 2 724 900 km² but most part of the country in Asia.

I love my Husqvarna chain saws!

@@kenolson6572 Husqvarna is a great brand. Their museum located in Husqvarna Sweden is amazing, they have manufacturing everything you can imagine and more in their heydays.

We don't really know if Rurik was from Sweden, it depends on which country the historian who mentions Rurik comes from. I still think the name suggests he was Germanic, but ask Putin what he thinks. The most important Swedes throughout history are Eva Ekeblad and Chrille P.

Bo Jonsson owned Finland and large parts of Sweden. He has been accused of being greedy. According to himself this enormous wealth was for political reasons. To protect the land.