Archaeologist Debunks Harald Bluetooth's Tomb Discovery

You may have seen on... certain news and media sites that someone claims they found Harald Bluetooth's tomb!
Aside from a Christian king being buried in this way being super unlikely at all, where is the evidence that this is really the legendary man's tomb? Do we have bones? Do we have reliable, available, verifiable proof?
Well, let's take a look at what we really do have, and what archaeology, history, and good old basic research skills can tell us about this unbelievable and dramatic story!
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[@inregionecaecorum]

After following a series of clues embedded in the Bayeux tapestry and the writings of Bernard Cornwell, I have concluded that Harold Godwinson is definately buried on my allotment. I will be inviting archaeologists down to start a dig after the harvest. It will save me the effort anyway.

[@Neenerella333]

Can we come dig if we AREN'T archaeologists, but just wanna glean some potatoes or whatever is growing at your allotment?

[@asterismos5451]

If you need someone to use technology to look underground, I know how to use a shovel

[@Greye13]

That would be so very cool! I wish you the best of luck. Please do keep us updated. maybe Jimmy will turn up for you.... 🙂

[@Isilsartari76]

I know my back yard and front yard, also under my house was part of a military camp site where Oliver Cromwell set up just outside of Edinburgh and attacked the St Catherines Monestary and Balm well. I do want to have a play with a metal detector as there may be something interesting other than builders rubble from when the houses were built.

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

WHY do you think this? Just out of curiosity from the other side of the world….. what leads you to believe that? I’m super curious because even if I isn’t Harold, maybe it is still relevant.

[@northerlyartemis]

Good on you Jimmy for phoning the police! Far too many KZbinrs seem to accept harassment and threats as a part of the job and it’s not, it shouldn’t be, and it’s also illegal!

[@doc3255]

"ooh they discovered a mound!" I'd say anyone living in that village had been aware that there was, in fact, a mound, given that it's not exactly discreet... Also, A+ for the sarcastic magic flute moment Also also, I hope you're getting better!

[@ragnkja]

I have to assume that whoever built the retaining wall around the mound knew it was there 😆

[@doc3255]

@@ragnkja "I discovered a mound! Right between the retaining walls built to keep the mound in place! Very convenient!"

[@ragnkja]

@@doc3255 How convenient indeed!

[@Aswaguespack]

“a step above it came to me in a dream” 😂😂😂😂😂 That’s the best line of the day! On a side note, I think I found the bones of the famous explorer Arne Saknussemm in a Louisiana Swamp. It’s just as true as finding Bluetooth’s grave which was discovered when the dude’s cellphone went wacko with a strange Bluetooth Signal playing Welsh Folk Songs. 😉😉😉

[@weaverofbrokenthreads]

Lol, this guy just straight up making stuff up and only citing himself is making me feel a whole lot better about my own academic achivements!

[@doc3255]

Best part is him accusing someone else of lying!

[@michellecornum5856]

This is as good as the time I was researching a book that cited another book as a source. I went to the second book, and found, amazingly, that they cited the first book as their source. That was some true scholarly collaboration.

[@ragnkja]

@@michellecornum5856 That could indeed be the result of scholarly collaboration, and the authors having allowed each other to read parts of their book while it’s still in progress.

[@crystallinecrow3365]

you are such an entire blessing, Jimmie

[@eazy8579]

Jesus Jimmy, be careful out there man. We love ya, so don’t worry about delays because we can wait for your health, and just try not to get covid for a third time man

[@TheWelshViking]

Oh, I don't intend to! It was bloody awful. Not 100%, but am better than I was and getting there rapidly

[@eazy8579]

@@TheWelshViking Glad you are getting better, I wish you speedy final recovery

[@cheerful_something_something]

Agreed! Look after your health!

[@permiebird937]

Happy to hear you are on the mend.

[@Aswaguespack]

Get well soon. Grab a pint of some tasty mead which has medicinal properties of course and recuperate in Welsh Viking Style Jimmy

[@spinsterwitch1]

As a historian, watching you describe the process of checking and debunking was actually 🔥

[@Celebrinthal]

When this "dropped" it quickly got shared on many Polish archaeology/history/whatever-related pages, fortunately at least some of them quickly realized their mistake and admitted they'd fallen into the trap; which is not to be said about National Geographic Poland, I just checked and the article is still there, including the mandatory section about the Bluetooth technology :D (all the articles I saw were basically copy-paste...) Apparently, Kryda is known by those especially interested in Viking history for his make-believe about their presence and role in Poland, he even wrote a book about it (he's neither a historian, nor an archaeologist AFAIK), so I just laughed at his delusions, but... an abusive email?! Now this is a twist. Wow, the guy's really crafting a reputation for himself.

[@Wotansfogal]

Everything is about clicks, aka ad revenue now. Credibility is long gone

[@Celebrinthal]

@@Wotansfogal sad but true...

[@snazzypazzy]

I think this dude is using the media publicity as free advertising. There's probably a bunch of people still believing it and yelling about cover ups etc.

[@georgiarn3915]

I'm not deeply versed in Vikings in Poland, but they do have a Viking Festival every year. Maybe they just really want to Cosplay as Vikings? The Poles apparently cosplay as Redneck Americans in Ohio!

[@revylokesh1783]

Having been an archeology student myself, I know that *every* serious and self-respecting archeologist will use words like "maybe/possibly/perhaps/unsure" until all reasonable doubt has been cleared. And even then.... Scepticism is the hallmark of a good researcher.

[@DneilB007]

The best you can hope for is ‘definitely the hall of an important local individual from the time of King Alfred who was really crap at cooking pancakes and apparently read a lot’.

[@DneilB007]

Or am I thinking of Sir Tony?

[@theangriestcatintheworld]

It seems that critical thinking is becoming somewhat of a lost art at this point >

[@faithlessone423]

Love the audacity of them saying that two of their 'primary sources' (in the loosest sense of the term) are small, unidentified children. Always so reliable!! Sorry about the harassment you face - both in that stupid email and in general. We love you and think you're awesome! ♥ Also, hope you're feeling better!

[@Sabsemade]

This reminds me of last year´s chain mail in the peat bog that was supposed to be authentic ... but thanks for making this story unbelievingly entertaining for us. Also, please take care of yourself.

[@lenabreijer1311]

Churches on mounds. My cousins in the north of the Netherlands explained that the church was always on a mound because a) the church was built on top of other old buildings or b) because that was where everyone ran to when floods happened, which was frequent there, or both. This was when they took 18 year old me to see the restored 10th century church with its barely visible paintings and a poetry reading in " Groningens " a completely incomprehensible dialect.

[@beth12svist]

Or, maybe not in Netherlands, it was where everyone ran when enemies came - there's a whole class of "fortified church" from the Middle Ages...

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@beth12svist according to my mother they ran for the nearest swamp and watched them drown or poked a dike and watched them drown from the church.

[@JootjeJ]

Yes, especially in Friesland and Groningen the original settlements used to be on top of mounts (terpen) to protect the people from the water. In later centuries many churches were built on these mounts for the same reason. Do you remember where that church was?

[@lenabreijer1311]

@@JootjeJ it was in Groningen. That is all I know. That was in 1967, and it wasn't in the village my cousins lived. They had motorcycles and I kept my eyes closed and prayed we wouldn't end up in a canal.

[@JootjeJ]

@@lenabreijer1311 Sounds like the most sensible thing to do

[@ruby-robin]

he really tried to pull a Geoffrey of Monmouth like 'oh? a source? yeah I have a source, it's a very ancient book. no you can't see it'

[@CassiBlack]

Anytime someone claims to have “definitely found” a previously unknown historical location always raises red flags for me. I’m no expert, but it seems like legit finds are described as “we think” this is here or “we’re pretty sure.” Hope you are feeling better soon and stay that way! And an early congratulations for nearly being at 50k subscribers!

[@juliapechcin]

If it was indeed such a revolutionary discovery, it would be much more hyped up in Poland than it is now. I haven't heard about it in any news, so people assume correctly it's just a fancy theory

[@historiansrevolt4333]

My pusedoarchaeology antenna went up the minute you said "definitely found". Thanks for the thorough trip through the actual evidence.

[@canucknancy4257]

They know that it was the real tomb of Bluetooth because they could sync it to their phones and play music. Thanks for another great one, Jimmy.

[@ThisOldHat]

Really interesting video/story. Disappointing that they haven't actually proved the location of Harald Bluetooth's grave, but when I clicked on the thumbnail I was expecting an in-depth discussion on the use of runes as the basis for modern corporate logos, so i feel like i still came out ahead in the end. The story reminds me a lot of the origins of Mormonism, so maybe we're seeing the beginning of a European "Church of Jesus Christ of Viking Age Saints", that claims Jesus became a Viking after the resurrection and gave Harald Bluetooth a secret gospel explaining how the Norse, Poles, and Finns (but not the Russians for some reason) are descended from lost tribes of Israel. Sounds far-fetched, but even stupider things have happened before.

[@MrsBifflechips]

I get the impression that this touched a nerve (rightly, I think. This kind of thing occurs in science reporting too, it seems) Thank you so much for the video. Hope you keep feeling better and that everything goes well (including that investigation. Booo to harassers, lazy or otherwise). (oh, and Baggy Viking Pants are the comfiest things!)

[@midgey50]

I'm gonna become an archaeological seer and publish my dream finds (definitely not just a dream journal). It will all be true and accurate. I'm going to find Norse graves with preserved tattooed skin, shaved sides of the head, and all kinds of other great very real and correct things!

[@nataliestanchevski4628]

If I wanted to pull off a hoax like this I wouldn't use "found by a child" twice in the same story. That's just lazy writing.

[@roxiepoe9586]

My college friend who told his story of Alien abduction at least had a huge bruise to show for it. That bruise was his only evidence, but hey. Leaving aside the fact that I saw him fall off the hood of his pickup truck and land in a manner which would have left a very similar bruise, it wasn't great evidence. Evidence. We really want some evidence to support any outlandish claim.

[@ragnkja]

Surely the alien abduction made his bruise worse!

[@roxiepoe9586]

@@ragnkja He had my total sympathy. I gave him a bit of the 'hair of the dog' to help with his hangover, too.

[@liberatedlady4689]

Good on you Jimmy, loved how you had gotten the police involved on you being harassed. So, sad people are doing this to make themselves be the bigger man, but we know. 😉 Glad to see that your back and sorry to hear about the COVID, again. Hopefully you will be feeling much better soon. Thanks for an informative video and stay well.

[@Kieran_the_Smol]

I bet the inhabitants of that village are immensely grateful someone's found their church mound for them. Would have been completely lost otherwise

[@LaurieLeeAnnie]

Fantastic find for any tourism!

[@kinuuni]

Danish historian here and this is the first I hear of it. Also even the early bronze age burial mounts here are taller than the mount that church sits on.

[@smeastwest]

You know you're doing good work if you're pissing off literal Nazis. Love you, Jimmy!!!

[@CIA-M]

I read some articles about it. They were all the same trash. Very poorly written constantly repeating the couple of lines explaining who Harald was, explaining what modern Bluetooth is and indeed saying that, for sure, this is his grave. Quite fun how everyone in the community accepted this wasn't real, since it didn't blow up on media, except for memes xD

[@phoenixkingtheo]

I've actually been to the cathedral in Roskilde. A very pretty building!

[@hianedae]

i love your videos, i really DIG them and thanks for throwing DIRT to the nazis...i guess not all of them are BURIED.

[@TheSaneHatter]

It seems that, as a child, I had more cause to believe that Leif Ericsson had landed in my native town of Vineland, New Jersey (as I innocently thought at first), than the wider media does to declare this site to be the tomb of Harald Bluetooth!

[@chrispe82]

Once again fantastic work, sounds like you really went the extras miles on this one. Thank you for wading through the sh!te for us all. I send wishes for a full recovery & that housing things work out.

[@SSRT_JubyDuby8742]

Glad that you came through to the other side of covid again 🙏 A great analysis, you can always be relied upon, legend 🙌 Like deployed 👍

[@AnnAnonyme]

I love the way you consider all the evidence and the problems with each piece of evidence, even when the whole thing seems a little far-fetched. On the issue of evidence, and verbal communication being not very trustworthy, how do archeologists consider evidence of communities that use oral histories? I live on the territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation on Turtle Island (North America), and as I learn about the First Nations oral histories, I'm not sure how to reconcile them with my western perspective of what constitutes evidence. Naturally, in cultures that use oral stories as a method of preserving laws and histories, knowledge-keeping is much more rigorous than "some guy told me once..."

[@Oxtocoatl13]

It's not really in the field of archaeology, as that field deals explicitly with the material remains from the past. Historians have sometimes used oral histories, though typically ones collected and either recorded or written down at some point. The problem with oral history is that it's difficult to keep track of possible alterations in the story. If someone tolld you a story today about something that happened 100 years ago, it is impossible to know whether the story has been altered in retellings. Thus the story functions best as a source in how the people telling it today remember their past, rather than informing us of the events themselves. For comparison, there is an entire field of medieval studies devoted to tracking down different hand-made copies of medieval manuscripts, and trying to establish a chain of who copied which copy by keeping track of shared spelling errors and such. This kind of chronology is impossible to build from an oral narrative.

[@ladyliberty417]

What a story all around❣️ Thank you for explaining details of the questionable veracity of this “find’, and please feel better Jimmy-that’s the most important thing🥰 Glad you called authorities also!!

[@Tiger89Lilly]

I'm so glad you're feeling better Jimmy. Hope the PhD is going alright sorry to hear about house and weather issues (me too on the house and weather front) such an interesting breakdown of some seriously shaky shit. Looking forward to what's coming up x

[@keephurn1159]

I come to learn things and get expert snarky reviews (and see your face!), I am rewarded with delightful outros. Glad you're well, look forward to more things from you.

[@briefisbest]

Good to know that none of the claims are real, verified, or more than like self-insert fanfic into historical research.

[@ragnkja]

Yeah, the “new document” and the “report” sound like they’d fit better on AO3 than on academia edu. I’ve read some great fictional “academic papers” on AO3, but they at least bother to make up citations as well.

[@sarahtaylor4264]

Ugh. I had COVID once and wouldn't want it again. You are an awesome content creator and educator. Your health and other adulting requirements come before sticking to a posting schedule.

[@lynn858]

Thanks for concluding with the type of documentation of process and evidence you would expect to be available if this were credible. Your efforts are appreciated as always.

[@cuttwice3905]

My BS detector is on full alert. 3:01 Papageno and Papagena's duet from Act II of Die Zauberflöte by some dude named Mozart. Papageno/a aspire to be neither intellectuals nor rulers. [Opera nerd speaking]

[@davidcheater4239]

I hope for a complete recovery from Covid. This reminds me a lot of the "Golden Plates found by Joseph Smith".

[@Graham_Rule]

Thanks for that. I'd seen the headlines and wondered if there was anything to them. Someone once told me about some lumps of earth on Leith Links which just had to be Viking Burial Mounds. The fact that they are Scheduled Monuments dating from 1560 didn't convince them otherwise. Hope you continue to get better.

[@cadileigh9948]

pob lwc efo covid recovery Jimmy. Glad to see you back and staying cool under the eaves. I used to dowse for archaeological friends before geo phys was a thing. Good dowsers can be very accurate so long as they have no vested interest in the results. As we can work back in time and from maps we could possibly get an answer on any previous finds having existed on site. However my bullshit sirens went off as soon as your video began so am sure it would be a waste of everyones time. Interesting report and thanks for reading the Fail on our behalf, you have a strong stomach.

[@KenZchameleon]

This was very cool. I love how you use snark so deadpan. You're one of my favorite historian-types on YT. And I'm stoked for new merch! +100 points for the Time Team reference

[@etainne2001]

ok1. stop hanging out in the covid place because it obviously finds you irresistible. 2. where is the major funding for the 'dig'? 3. where is the documentation, i mean really if i found something i have a perfect documentation device in my pocket and you bet I'd be running to the closest peer reviewed academic facility for verification. Even laymen enthusiasts would ask someone with credentials. Pfft

[@maikej.d.s.1004]

Hi Jimmy, awesome video as always! Can you make a video about the recent huge bracteat find near Jelling in Denmark? 🥰 because that one IS real and currently on display🥰 best wishes from Denmark!

[@johnree6106]

The quickest way to find his tomb is walking around with your phone and see if you can scan for Bluetooth devices named Harold 😀. Subscribed

[@ragnkja]

The mound in the wooded area near the church, is it an already-plundered burial mound? It certainly looks like it could be, with that rectangular depression.

[@snazzypazzy]

Would be so funny if this dude accidentally helped to discover some actual archeology.

[@cynthiadugan858]

Sounds about like the spaceship discovered in South Africa earlier this year🤣.

[@kevinmoore.7426]

An alien jumped ot of a bush and drilled Simon Parkes

[@YsabellMoebius]

Oh gosh, all Polish viewers apologize for Marek Kryda... I even read about this case and I have no idea why I did not think that I would finally come across it here as well. This guy just knows he's a Viking descendant and will stop at nothing to "prove" it, poor chap. I just love you even more for notyfing the police about the email.

[@annafirnen4815]

Some really strange archeology shenanigans are happening in my country and I first time hear ot from you lmao I'm glad you made this video, it's important to bust myths.

[@cheerful_something_something]

I'm sure peoples ability to parse how reliable a news source is is falling. And people who choose to send messages to insult or threaten others... They just make limited sense to me. They can all go and boil their heads.

[@Thomas.deNorth]

This story goes in the same bin as oak island and ancient aliens.

[@ragnkja]

Oak island?

[@angelmaden1559]

@@ragnkja History Channel dreck in USA. An island off north eastern North America. It’s a rabbit hole of treasure hunting for bad TV fame. Enjoy, it will destroy many hours of your life for nothing. 🤣

[@angelmaden1559]

It’s got Knights Templars, Roman legions, Vikings, death curses, and pirates. The whole handbag of legends and treasure maps. 🤣

[@ragnkja]

@@angelmaden1559 While the other stuff _could_ be combined into a believable work of fiction, the death curses pushed it too far for me.

[@angelmaden1559]

@@ragnkja yep, the treasure will not be found until X number of people have died looking for it. Of course, X-1 deaths are known so who on the search team will be next? Da da da dum…. My Dad’s channel flipping guilty pleasure. Seen a few episodes when I visit. Like a soap opera, can miss a year and catch up in one hour and reruns are always on at some point. 🙄

[@charlotteillustration5778]

I was a little bemused when you showed the photo of St Denys church, I know it well as my brother lives opposite it… I thought I was going even more post covid gaga until you changed the picture!

[@hi-si1rd]

can you talk about the use of Norse mythology in pop culture like in marvel and God of War etc, your opinion on it you know?

[@michellecornum5856]

In which Jimmy goes on an academic search and ends up talking to the cops. Get well, stay safe.

[@RKO2284]

Glad you're on the mend! Now, let me just put down my picnic blanket and enjoy the archeological shade you're about to throw! ❤️

[@lelaniadam]

Hope you recover 💯% soon and everything else that makes life unnecessarily challenging just goes away! 🍀 One would think media outlets would know better than to direct attention away from their mistake with slander, glad you reported it.

[@ragnkja]

A new major primary source, and he won’t even show a single image of it? Rather susp, in my opinion.

[@cheerful_something_something]

100%

[@wendynordstrom3487]

"It's a step above, it came to me in a dream." Made me guffaw out loud!! 🤣🤣

[@joejoelesh1197]

@14:23 I'd say the majority churches on mounds are also on burial grounds. That is just the nature of what people did with churches. The question is were they burial grounds before they were Christian churches. Being pedantic, but boosting your engagement. Thanks for the well researched video. :-)

[@cheerful_something_something]

It's important to ask these questions when working out what things are :) Adding a second sentence to make my comment look like it might be smarter.

[@ragnkja]

Given that churches tended to be built in places that were already considered “holy”, I’d say it’s plausible. There are a few burial mounds really close to the medieval church where I live in northern Norway, and several more in the general area.

[@joejoelesh1197]

@@ragnkja I was referring to that churches often are the resting place for the wealthy and royal.

[@ragnkja]

@@joejoelesh1197 Yes, that too. Even the old church here was the burial place for some locally prominent people, and of course there are literally thousands (the low-end estimate, based primarily on surviving records from the past few centuries, is 8-10 000) buried in the cemetery right outside it. And, as mentioned, some people in pre-Christian times were clearly prominent enough to be buried in mounds in the same general area.

[@Loweene_Ancalimon]

Older burial grounds under churches are definitely a thing ! My hometown (French Alps) has a church built on a gallo-roman necropolis. The highest layers of the necropolis date from the 16th century iirc, so it was a burial site for a millennium and half

[@JustSaralius]

I'm sorry you've had a rough time! I hope you feel better now and that things are looking up! Take it easy though

[@AStitchTooFar]

Jimmy! I've missed your beautiful, snarky, science loving face. Well done on the video, hope to see more but i understand life sometimes has other plans.

[@azteclady]

I am so glad to know you are getting better, but here's hoping this is absolutely the very LAST time you catch COVID. I hope you can take the time to convalesce fully. And remember: most of your audience here is happy to wait until then for another video.

[@annafirnen4815]

Oh wow I got to the part about the e-mail and police, I feel very ashamed for whoever did it 🤦‍♀️ I swear not all Polish people are like that.

[@TheWelshViking]

Oh goodness, I know that! :) Pretty sure this guy is English and just using a Polish email

[@nannasbraindump6343]

I found a flint tip in my front yard. I must have found a living place from danish antiquity.. Does ppl not learn about bring critical about things online?🤦‍♀️

[@moxiebombshell]

holy cow, this whole story is WILD! I'm legitimately shocked... journalists dropped the ball but hard -- the good story here is all THIS, not 'ooh, they really found this tomb!' 🤦

[@LadyKnightGodwin7092]

My thoughts during watching this.... That's not geophys.... Someone call John..... Someone call Time Team... "We've all seen Time Team" 😅

[@kimkohrt377]

Since you brought up Time Team, there's a whole episode focused on 2 shady metal detectorists who looted an archeological site and lied about it.

[@margotmolander5083]

Was that the special about the sliver hoard in Eastern Europe that some guy was murdered over? I was really impressed with how angry Tony was about it (which meant that the archeologists had to be irate and explained why they were irate).

[@kimkohrt377]

@@margotmolander5083 I thought the site was in the UK and not Eastern Europe but it's been a while since I've seen that particular episode. I do remember how hot Tony was over the theft and lying.

[@moxiebombshell]

So glad to see you back, so bummed to hear you got covid AGAIN 😭 I didn't realize how much I missed your smiling face (not to mention your joyful well-researched snark) 🖤💖🖤

[@kabosustan2484]

Like 30 minutes ago I watched a Tom Scot video on Harold Bluetooth lol

[@TurnierRustung]

"hello yes is bullshit" shortened your video for you

[@TheWelshViking]

Ooh, look at me! I'm Alex! I can say things and not get haters! :P

[@TurnierRustung]

@@TheWelshViking hello yes is bullshit

[@vickielittleton6373]

Well, they dig Richard III up. And we just keep finding Atlantis and Noah's Ark over and over and over. . . .

[@hoppytoad79]

I can't remember who said this, but absolutely no one and nothing credible cites themselves/itself as evidence to support a point they're making. The only time an author citing themselves isn't a red flag is when it's done in a "'x' was happening; I wrote about that in 'ABC if you want to know more'" kind of way (unless it's a regular thing). I was rolling my eyes and shaking my head through the whole video at what a bunch of smoke and mirrors this guy's 'Bluetooth is Buried Here!' campaign is. "I have proof but I can't show it to you!" Right. You're not a Jedi or a competent bullshit artist, sir; either produce the proof or admit you're full of it and go home. ETA: You might like miniminuteman, who's also on KZbin. He's a n00b archaeologist who debunks conspiracy theories with snark, sass, and a whole lot of facts.

[@elisabethmontegna5412]

Petition to have “You’ve just shot yourself in the credibility,” merch. Or maybe “Stop shooting yourself in the credibility.” Some variation on that.

[@selkie76]

"Yeah, I discovered the tomb of a famous king... um, you wouldn't know him - he goes to a different school..." ^.^

[@mccorama]

If we're talking about weird gold shit....talk about mormons

[@Kick0a0cat]

This is super irrelevant, but I want you to know you have a Doppelgänger in Germany 😅 Edit: lmao, it's actually relevant, cause the dude's name is Sven :D Haven't been that far into the video yet

[@margotmolander5083]

Great video! The only less credible way of publishing someone's "groundbreaking research" I've seen was some dude who paid for a full page ad in the Science section of the New York Times to print his "paper". It was all the right academic format, but it was also such utter nonsense. And, you know, an ad. Well, I guess there was that TikTok lady who tried to say Rome wasn't real, but at least she wasn't claiming to be an academic.

[@Solosourceless]

Thank you for your unmasking of fake news and pseuoacademic drivel. I really appreciate that. Thank you for showing us accurate academic reasoning and scientific method and argumentation with this example.

[@MartinAhlman]

"I've found a lot of viking swords, proper old and all! But I don't have the room for them now that my granny's taken ill... You can have them for cheap, I need the money for medicine, you know. So, what do you say?"

[@oliviawilliams6204]

Sounds like Ronald Eldon Wyatt level of archeology. You know the gy who claim he found the Ark of the Covenant but can't show it...

[@beatej9510]

Thank you for linking to the review, I had a blast reading it. Somebody was not impressed!

[@chillzedd8179]

Source: trust me bro

[@jennifermccrary1570]

I may have actually been to that Viking Festival. On one of the weekends during a field school with the Slavia Foundation they arranged for us to take a bus there. We didn't know what town we were going to though- just that it was the "largest Viking festival in Europe ". I didn't suck.

[@Angel_1394]

I have been saving up a lot of your videos and glad I'm finally getting the time to watch them. This is absolutely amazing. As always enjoy the sarcasm and facts. Glad you're doing well. Sorry you got civid again! Best quotes(in my opinion)- "Shooting yourself in the credibility." "Mediocre wallaby"

[@KitAlda]

Wow, that's such BS. Like, why would he be there? Adam of Bremen says he should have been moved to DK. If we disregard Adam of Bremen, then we don't really have any reason to believe he would have been buried in Poland at all. I've been to Jelling several times. He'd either be there or in Roskilde. Why would the "coin" be in latin letters? He's the commissioner of the probably most famous runestone in the world. The grave goods don't make any sense at all. He would either have no grave goods because of the new christian customs or have a lot more than a bit of scrap and a couple of swords. Personally I believe he was buried in Roskilde, inside the original church there. Whether he was moved as Adam of Bremen says or not, the fact that he was quite big on the whole christening thing (enough that he boasts about it on the stone that he had made for his parents) makes me quite sure he would have wanted (and probably got) a christian burial. And the right way to bury a christian king would be in the best spot in the most important church in the country.

[@haileeraestout5567]

XD Now We're Talking About WIFI????????

[@meamela9820]

This is so absurd it is laughable Thank you for this day's entertainment (I am dissapointed at all this fake-finds-and-people-don't-seem-to-know-what-they-are-doing, but I chose to look at the absurdity itself, because then at least I get something out of it)

[@DanielledeVreede]

This kinda gave me Book of Mormon vibes (the musical, not sure how that relates to the actual religion). Where someone finds a holy book but is not allowed to show the actual thing to people, just to copy it's writing. "Even if people ask you to show the plates to them. Don't! Just copy them onto normal paper. Even though this might make them question if the plates are real or not. This is sort of what God is going for"

[@mccorama]

Would a viking burial mound be this clean, given it was excavated 200 years ago...by children

[@Zharkov1969A]

If something is on Mail Online we pretty much know it’s a lie. It’s just a barrel of hatred.

[@wendygore2709]

Sorry to hear you got sick, again. But glad to see you back & feeling better. Good luck & God bless😇❤️ Diolch for the Video 🙏

[@veronicajensen7690]

according to a Danish written source from year 1070, Harald Gormsen (son of Gorm)is buried in Roskilde Denmark , he did die in Jomsborg and it may have been in Poland, but nobody know if its a place in Poland, but he is supposed to have been carried home according to the Danish source he was buried in a church made of tree and the Cathedral was build on top of where he is said to be buried, the Cathedral is 800 years old so the floor have not been destroyed to try and find his remains, there are more than 100 royal graves in the church, anyway it has not been proven he is in Roskilde, however if there was a serious theory about another place, it would 100% be in all Danish media and there would be a team sent to look at it, Harald is seen as the father of Denmark because he united the country and -christened the Danes

[@DorianStretton]

I'm a direct descendent of Harald "Bluetooth" Gormson, so, from a personal perspective, it would have been cool if this was true. However, it really doesn't look like it.

[@timeastwoodbagpiper]

16:43 Going straight to the History Channel, perhaps. Anyway, nice burn on the Antiques Roadshow earlier.

[@A_Redheads_Ramblings]

When you said show us I imagined you doing the "show me the money" scene from Jerry Miguire but yelling "Show me the evidence!" 🤣

[@georgiarn3915]

So glad to see you debunking poorly written fan fiction that tries to masquerade as archeology. Reminds me of South Park's episode about The Mormon religion and the magical Golden Plates that no one has ever verified as real.

[@BartechTV]

Why would he have a tomb, I thought dead vikings' bodies were put on ships, set adrift on the sea and then then people shot burning arrows at them?

[@TheWelshViking]

No, usually a mound or an 'ole