What I would not give to be here.

I bought a board at the Wisby museum in Gotland a couple of days ago. This one doesn't have the 4 castle squares so the king just need to reach the end of the map to win, which one would think would be easier but we played it maybe 20 times on the boat home and it was still pretty even, I think in the end the king still lost more then he won. I check around and there are a bunch of different rules, it might be that the towers are best when you have a larger board since it gets too easy for the king to get to the sides then but it might also be that the rules changed depending on the time or area it was played in. It is a fun game, faster then chess (usually) and easier to learn the rules but you have the same "easy to learn, hard to master" factor in it. The board I bought is 9x9 squares but I think I will experiment and see if I can't copy a historical board or 2 that is larger and use different rulesets. Thanks for the vid. :)

Hi! I have a question: from the first eight moves, on my turn, can I place two attackers on each side of the corner to prevent the king access to them..?

I uploaded my dna through my true ancestry and found, that some of my ancestor’s were among the victims.

Thanks for the video 👍🏻👍🏻

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Thank you

battle board.... ?

I'm not suprised. The Furious and Wise Wizard has been known among Germanic speaking peoples since the days of old Rome before Christ.

I love watching youtube captions try to transcribe hnefatafl

great explanation of the game!

It’s not a church burning, it’s a Norwegian bonfire.

Very interesting video. Kamban would translate as Cam Bàn. Cam means curved, or bent, and bàn would usually mean fair or white haired. The reason Irish/Scottish Gaels landed on the Faeroes was because of the tradition of voluntary isolation for religious purposes. The settlers were priests, hence the number of Paparsvik, etc, on the Faeroes. Iceland is the same. The first Norse settlers there found Gaelic priests already there. The Vestmannaeyr were named after Gaelic monks; the Vestmann being a Gael or Irishman. Even more fascinating, perhaps, is the Eyrbyggja Saga which mentions, amongst other things, the experience of Norse trader, Gudleif Gudlaugsson who was blown off course while sailing from Ireland to Iceland, and was believed to have landed in what is now Canada/US. He and his crew were apprehended by a people who he described as being Gaelic speakers. When allowed to leave, they travelled east to Iceland.

By far the most neutral take I've seen on this topic so far. Nine times out of ten you'll get an emotive response from one side or the other but you kept a level head and evaluated the evidence and came to a balanced conclusion without blaming anyone, it's a nice change of pace from other videos on the topic.

My ancestors on my Mothers side comes from a tiny Town with the name "Trætten". The name Trætten means thirteen after the number of survivors after the black death.

That building will he demolished within 20 years or less. The excavations will continue 🧙‍♂️✨️⛵️🏖

My father worked on Wood Quay and he said they found a skeleton while digging a foundation, he claims the skeleton was over 7ft long but that they were told to say nothing because it would stop work and the skeleton was left in the foundation which was filled in with concrete.

I wish the younger generations would do more HOMEWORK about history

Yes, they did.

vikings perpetrated how many massacres? how many villages were burned to the ground during viking raids? how many treaties were broken by vikings, not just with their neighbors but with rome? it's difficult to find any sympathy for these people, like the aztecs they liked to kill and/or enslave everyone around them.

This game is super unbalanced depending on the set of rules its either a guaranteed win for black or a guaranteed win for white. I tested it with a computer. I was unable to find a variant which gives approximately equal chances for both players. I understand that in chess white pieces have an advantage of about 1/3 of a pawn, but still a chess game of played perfectly is either a draw or a win for white. Hnefatafl if played perfectly (computer) leaves no chance to one of the players.

Like because I love Hnefatafl, nice content and great beard ;)

Yeah hopping in pretty late - Did they ever establish any substantial "colonies" here in NA? Even Iceland wasnt really a colony until the high medieval era?

I have hosted in 3 of the stave churches Uvdal, Eidsborg and Heddal

I just got a set recently

👍 Thank you for sharing.

I find it almost impossible to win as the attacker. The game is way too easy for the defense. To make things more fair and even I think the king should only be allowed to move one space at a time.

Where did c you get your game peices?

Interesting topic! Thanks for sharing.

Disgrace hail oðinn

I play allowing the king just to move one square per turn, but he is allow to kill. However if the king moves than one square, he won’t be allowed to kill.

Yeah u cant Tattoo that deeb at bones!😁

When night falls She cloaks the world In impenetrable darkness A chill rises From the soil And contaminates the air Suddenly Life has new meaning...

Cool video!

Sooooooo.... I'm going to start off with i love your character and i've followed you for a while eventhough my dumbass never realized i didn't subscribe so i just did.... SECONDLY ....In season 2 how the hell are you in 2 different places at the same time? You were with Queen Emma in London giving a dental exam and an impromptu eye exam but you were ALSO in Kattegat with King Forkbeard on your way to fight with CanutE. Its all in the first episode of the second season sooooooooooo...... i need an explanation as to why i'm the only one who noticed this, and is Agnarr a time traveling viking dentist/eye sugeon teleporter?

Some men grow beards out of their faces. This man grew face out of beard. That is serious man hair.

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Don't know exactly why it's going to be built, for religion motives, or simply for research purpose or any other motive. But this build seems to be triggering a lot of idiots. ... Well.. build 10 of them.. Hek build one stave church in each Norwegian town.

Great to hear the bits of verse/poems/sagas; well delivered too. Really helpful seeing the history tied to the locations. Thank you.

It is likely Dun Aengus was built atop a hill before the cliff was there at all. The seaward side of the island was slowly eroded over thousands of years eating halfway through the ringfort.

I understood that the vikings would burn their dead on the ocean to return their bodies to the norse god? I apologize for butchering any spelling, I am from the US.

When I grow up I want to live here!!!😊💜

Frisians were also experienced explorers who populated the faroe Islands.. there are some folk stories about them on the islands..

My only question is us there any evidence not opinions but evidence that he was or was not a Christian convert when he sailed here ? I have heard he was converted befor then would love to know if there is any real proff one way or the other

Plenty of viking age places to visit in denmark ship museums , burial mounds. Bronxe age standing stones.u name it ..fuck harold the traitor and his ring fort .go to denmark to see ( viking stuff ) not a site of king who's forced conversion destroyed the beliefs and culture of his own ppl...

If that belonged to harold the traitor..its not a ( viking ) hall its the hall of a scandinavian Catholic convert that started the end of a culture my ppls culture hail to the old ways ...skol.

The destruction of the Wood Quay Viking Settlement site was a wonton and criminal act of disgusting proportions by Dublin Corporation - who, as the Dublin Civic Authority, should have been there to PROTECT this city`s heritage, NOT DESTROY it. I was a 20-year old protestor at that rally in 1978. I was there, and my young peers were very emotional and upset at the later betrayal the people of Dublin suffered. I will never forgive either Dublin Corporation or the Irish State for this barbaric act.

A good place to talk with the Gods..!

Congratulations for this iniciative..hail!!

Well they already took away our real religion and replaced it one that originally came from isnotreal 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣