Episode 3/6 Amongst the most appealing objects in the British Museum is a 12th century chess set.
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@littbitterst23283 жыл бұрын
...."I believe, in the darkness, after hours they have conversations w eachother ".....me too!!!!
@Liquid_Alchemy Жыл бұрын
My biggest regret during my first visit to the National Museum of Scotland was spending all of my time in fascination over the miniature coffins exhibit and trying to unfold their origin and mystery. When I return to Edinburgh in a few months my first plan of action will be to grab a gin & tonic at Devil's Advocate, then heading immediately to the National Museum of Scotland to spend the remainder of my day glaring in wonder at the Lewis Chessmen display.
@thehairywoodcarver2 жыл бұрын
I am in the process of hand carving this set in Cherry Wood and Sycamore and every piece will be different! Loving the challenge, the original craftsmen were genius and to think this was 800 years ago!!
@theshadow30017 ай бұрын
Good luck
@BeastReview4 ай бұрын
If I supply you with Ivory from Mammoth Tusk could you do it? I’ll need you to send me $100k through an ACH transaction first ;)
@michaellilly40510 жыл бұрын
Excellent video with detailed images of the chessmen and information about their origin.
@martyheresniak5203 Жыл бұрын
Oh, is that what this is? Thanks. I wouldn't have known unless you mentioned it.
@stopreadingmyusernamebroth90903 жыл бұрын
Thank you for this video. I'm a college student and I am writing a paper on this and this documentary offers some very important insight that you do not come across google.
@shyamparsad-ug7vh4 ай бұрын
Which university and which degree?? And is your paper finished and published where can we read it (if not than ignore second part)
@Bagula59610 жыл бұрын
This is such an amazing and captivating upload! LIKED. Thank you very much for sharing!
@juratek98986 жыл бұрын
well done. 78 pieces found in Scotland and only 11 are left in Scottish Nat. Museum. The rest are in London. WHY?! why not opposite?!
@SuperSnugglemonster5 жыл бұрын
Because at one time they were for sale and British Museum had the money and inclination to buy them.
@scorpioninpink5 жыл бұрын
@@cmmartti The Sarcophagus is being asked by the Egyptian to be returned btw.
@Peter-lm3ic4 жыл бұрын
Who’s going to see them up in remote Scotland?
@hectorbrown6564 жыл бұрын
Peter 99 i would
@morten1975dk3 жыл бұрын
Found in Scotland yes. But not made in Scotland. And they were not stolen from Scotland.
@mortalclown3812 Жыл бұрын
Love that he imagines conversations between the chess pieces at night. Sounds like he ended up in the right job.
@craigkelly4278 Жыл бұрын
Either that or he has watched Night at the Museum too much. Lol 😆 🤣
@antisocialatheist19782 жыл бұрын
I imagine how much time and skill it must have taken to create those pieces. It is hard to create such things in the 21st century with the tools and equipment we have now. But imagine creating them by hard carving alone.
@godzilloid9 жыл бұрын
You can still see file marks on some of them.
@Hypatia42429 жыл бұрын
This may sound silly, but if you were playing a game, how would you know whose piece it was? The colors are identical. The pawns in particular seem indistinguishable. Were they painted?
@TheGorgorothSpire8 жыл бұрын
Yes. Half were painted red supposedly. They have excellent sets which are crafted and recreated after them. Beautiful!
@SuperSnugglemonster5 жыл бұрын
When they were discovered, some were painted red. That red has since disappeared and no longer exists even in the cracks in the ivory.
@jewellui4 жыл бұрын
Also they are believed to come from five chess sets rather than one.
@Lurvehandles3 жыл бұрын
Stained dark red rather than painted but all trace of colouring have now faded and gone.
@Monkeybomb9509 жыл бұрын
I have a set of the Lewis Chessmen.
@spuddy777 жыл бұрын
8'm getting some delivered this weekend or the next, I'm extremely excited
@maaan84944 жыл бұрын
Why liein
@dougg1075 Жыл бұрын
I wonder if the person who made them , buried them for safe keeping.
@golgumbazguide...4113 Жыл бұрын
Explore Golgumbaz, Bijapur,
@kiratheusagiisworkshop52666 жыл бұрын
Dang, we Scandinavians seems to have been importing a lots of things over to Britain in the "Old ages." xD
@edgoodwin43892 жыл бұрын
It’s still a theory. There are new studies that conclude an Icelandic woman was commissioned to carve these as a gift to the Norwegian, Danish, and British royalties.
@magik8566 Жыл бұрын
chessboard is set up wrong, bottom right square should be white.... at 2:06 :(
@BlairMaynard7 жыл бұрын
How did they use walrus tusk when it has that nerve cavity down the middle?
@thomasr38054 жыл бұрын
Blair Maynard you can see the cavity a little before halfway. There is a massive hole running through the center
@hectorbrown6564 жыл бұрын
I just cant believe that Scotland could not buy this special chess set , and for those of you who have written that at least we can see it in the British museum , I disagree how many people from Lewis have ever seen it , or indeed anyone from Norway or the rest of Scotland ?
@artemisjuno2 жыл бұрын
It is in the British Museum which is the National Museum for England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales. There it can be admired by millions of visitors from every corner of the globe. I have never seen it like many others but glad to know it is in our capital city.
@hsmd4533 Жыл бұрын
What about the walrus descendants? Don’t they deserve reparations? We should have a floating shack in the arctic circle to be fair to the walruses. That’s the only right thing to do.
@2ndavenuesw4816 жыл бұрын
The Hebrides were more populous in those days. I'm sure whoever owned those chess pieces would laugh at these people if he could watch this.
@LOCKEYJ3 жыл бұрын
They’re dead mate
@1981Marcus8 ай бұрын
@@LOCKEYJHence "if".
@KougajiCalling6 жыл бұрын
One of them looks like he has a toothache. Plus they stare into your soul.
@KougajiCalling5 жыл бұрын
You're no fun at all, are you?
@jadeclothier85874 жыл бұрын
Those eyes are so piercing
@beaulieuonnp5933 жыл бұрын
@@KougajiCalling some people don't have any sense of humour these days. SIgn of the times.
@rapidrabbit71754 жыл бұрын
Music way too loud covering speech.
@Mr.Ut212 жыл бұрын
I have never understood why academics think that creating something lovely takes a master craftsman a year and a day.... Three days for one peice? Negative, jack.
@SirGrizzzlY3 жыл бұрын
Jmd von kaddi da? 😅
@elcid4514 жыл бұрын
Speculation as to the origin of chess.
@GSthe3rd Жыл бұрын
India 🇮🇳
@peterlewis3540 Жыл бұрын
They were found buried in a secret location on a beach, on the Isle of Lewis, in the Outer Hebrides. Placed there, by their owner, intent on returning to collect them in the future, but he never returned. The Chessmen do not belong to the British Museum, they should be returned to Scotland, where they belong
@hsmd4533 Жыл бұрын
They belong to the descendants of the walruses and should be thrown into the sea near the arctic circle.
@pokemonho89824 ай бұрын
those arent chess pieces those are real sculptures probably depicting real people they were buried becsuse thats probably their grave
@TheFiown6 жыл бұрын
I still do not understand that these incredible historic pieces FOUND in Scotland and not in a Scottish Museum, why in England ? do they not have enough ?
@SuperSnugglemonster5 жыл бұрын
At the time that they were for sale, Scotland could have bought them but The British Museum did.
@KougajiCalling5 жыл бұрын
Not all of them are in the British Museum. Some of them are in Edinburgh...
@scorpioninpink5 жыл бұрын
Of course it does. If the artifacts from Greece, Egypt, Nigeria, China, Aztec and India are in the British Museum, then of course they are going to rob this also from Scotland.
@jewellui4 жыл бұрын
Both the British Museum and the Scottish Museum have them on display. The British museum bought a larger part of the collection.
@MrRooibos1234 жыл бұрын
@@scorpioninpink it's not robbery if you trade goods for it. You can't just go back on a deal a few hundred years later because you've used all the valuable materials we gave you.
@Kokudou_Risa8 ай бұрын
What if we steal it and put it in an Egyptian Museum??? Oh the British can't have them back because we stole it already, so no
@vibrusi2 жыл бұрын
Not a, but a monument to pillaging and looting.
@craigkelly4278 Жыл бұрын
It's shows humans are not animals. That they can create wonderful things. This set elevates humanity to a whole other level.
@hsmd4533 Жыл бұрын
You are a monument to victimhood, self pity and whining.
@vibrusi Жыл бұрын
@@hsmd4533 😇
@atmakali95993 жыл бұрын
Making a lot out of not that much. Or is it just the narration hyperbole 🤔
@HeavensGremlin5 жыл бұрын
How sad that the British Museum - of all institutions - can''t even spell 'Mediaeval'....
@Infinitegrowth-zt1mh Жыл бұрын
Fake
@scorpioninpink5 жыл бұрын
It makes sense that it was made in Norway. The English doesn't really produce anything.
@maaan84944 жыл бұрын
*produces something*
@MrRooibos1234 жыл бұрын
Hmm let me think. At that time period, England was one of the largest producers of fine cloth. That's a fact.
@YorkyOne2 жыл бұрын
'Do not' or 'don't'.
@sircurtisseretse13318 жыл бұрын
The snobbery is unbelievable. If they are not Scandinavian, they must be English. The possibility that they are Irish or Scottish doesn't get a mention.
@spuddy777 жыл бұрын
Seriously? You can get offended by something as little as that?
@Palifiox6 жыл бұрын
Your prejudices are obvious, "Seretse". You snarl at the English even though they have admitted years ago, before you heard of these chess pieces that they were made in Norway. I understood that the Matswana had better manners. Or perhaps you know nothing of the Matswana either.
@rongpirson52506 жыл бұрын
it does at 6:00
@sarahcantet83066 жыл бұрын
Sir Curtis Seretse i
@MorrisonScotch5 жыл бұрын
Fact is they are unique from the lands of my blood line. Both Scottish and Viking.