Hell Hath No Fury: The Saint Who Went All John Wick on Her Husband's Killers

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

(after killing Olga's husband) Drevlyans : Why do I hear boss music?

[@HendriS_1707]

"You just triggered a secret boss scene."

[@thisisahumanlol8255]

@@HendriS_1707 Achievement Unlocked! F

[@artkondratyev4307]

You feel like you are going to have a bad time. XD

[@pfzht]

:: Megalovania plays ::

[@Arterexius]

Bet they felt like unlocking a secret boss scene in Dark Souls on hard mode at level 1

[@arnoldrivas4590]

"Do you mind telling me why you fled?" "They killed Olga's husband." "Oh..."

[@Salih_Eygören]

He's not just a husband he's Olga's husband

[@LifeInPink999]

@Duck9000 Indeed.

[@annescholey6546]

Grant me revenge Krom!

[@marloyorkrodriguez9975]

A fucking quill who the fuck does that?

[@walterdayrit675]

Something familiar about this dialog. I can quite figure it out. Was is in some sort of movie or something? 😂

[@Doc51499]

“My name is Olga, you killed my husband. Prepare to die.”

[@iamalpharius9483]

That is HILARIOUS

[@_zet_zet_]

My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father. Prepare to die!

[@Kenneth_Agapito]

Killer: *OH* 😰

[@TheManofthecross]

your husband got to greedy and was killed for it some say that was jusifited on there part to kill him for it. you should had kept your husband's greed in check.

[@chrisg3258]

@@TheManofthecross Woah?! Buzz kill. This is an insider joke. If you don't get it you don't belong here. To the OP, any joke referencing The Princess Bride gets an automatic like from me.

[@vivelaresistance3239]

She needed to teach her husband’s enemies a lesson in order to protect her son. Don’t mess with mama bears.

[@angelwhispers2060]

Yep she had to make sure they would fear her until her son could grow up and lead. Basic medieval tactics.

[@olymolly3637]

Speaking about sons & avenging them... #JusticeForCannon please spread this.

[@carrowxhex6891]

I’ve been with my husband since we were 12. At 19 we were at a pool hall when a group of men kept hitting on me and my friend, they were drunk and getting rude. My husband stepped in and asked them to leave us alone, one guy started fighting my husband. My husband was winning and the other guys friends started jumping on my husband. I was an all state softball pitcher and picked up pool ball after pool ball clocking them guys upside their heads. My husband took down two, I took out three. We’ve been married for twenty years, together for 27, and damn right I would burn a village down for him.

[@alastor8091]

The kind of wife everyone should strive to be.

[@FlyToBeach]

Carrow Xhex You mam are awesome!

[@VvissiaA]

So, you married him in the same year the fight happened? Lol

[@Starkimonde]

That's love.

[@jjjbgg5893]

Aawwww . Love

[@skunkrat01]

I never get tired of this story. I love when old timey women get their revenge because people underestimate them so severely.

[@joshportie]

You like murder.

[@skunkrat01]

Who doesn't? 🙃

[@robertorojas4952]

Wife material for me

[@PositiviteaTheFirst]

@@robertorojas4952 Who wouldn't want a wife that goes on a revenge murder spree in your name? That's devotion.

[@TheMostTruth]

Yeah it's really hard being cocky when you have an army....

[@TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

“What do you need?” “Crucifixes. Lots of crucifixes”

[@kateshungi8945]

Vengeance is mine saith the lord

[@buca117]

@@kateshungi8945 And I am your hands and feet, saith the saint

[@mechasentai]

Lol

[@endoetz]

nailed it..?

[@kathrynck]

"Hello? Olga? We uh... have your husband's horse, and we'd like to return it. It got scratched but we're patching it up good as new, better even!" 'They killed my husband Drevlian' "Oh, uh, well, husbands am I right? We can get you a new husband? maybe??" (puts down the carrier pigeon) "we're so screwed"

[@jasonoverman9679]

This whole thing sounded more Game of Thrones than John Wick

[@kathrynck]

I dunno... eastern european gangsters conversation: Thug 1 "we stole Olga's horse" gang leader "You WHAT??" Thug 2 "yeah and we killed her husband, haha" gang leader (smacks thugs 1/2) "Do you have any idea what you've done? If you weren't my nephew, I'd use my pommel to end you rightly myself!"

[@ivak1040]

Jason Overman exactly

[@cv4809]

@@kathrynck it was just a fucking horse

[@MDMetal]

Olga pulled a Cersei. Or is it the other way around? Yeah, Cersei pulled an Olga.

[@jasonoverman9679]

@@MDMetal I was thinking of a couple different parts. One was why the rains of castamere was so feared in regards to the fact that the people that killed her husband thought they had brought his line to an end and that they held all the power without realizing that they were in fact dealing with a lioness that steal had her claws and the knowledge to use them, another was the red wedding and what happened to young wolf's army

[@Wavemaninawe]

"Return now to your boat, and remain there with an aspect of arrogance."

[@tbullock79]

I would have been like "what the fuck does that mean?" Then rowed the fuck up outta there in the morrow.

[@TheBaconWizard]

You know, I think I will do that. I've had an aspect of modesty all day and I'm bored. Thanks!

[@TomorrowWeLive]

Must be a poor translation

[@annescholey6546]

Into the boat!

[@Wavemaninawe]

@@TheBaconWizard Modesty?!? Your boat is forfeit, you loathsome cur!

[@washkabe9179]

Why can't we have a movie about HER?!

[@EvilerOMEGA]

China, probably

[@NeoShameMan]

@@EvilerOMEGA nonsense they have mulan, they are accustomed to similar story.

[@hemidas]

Who would play her?

[@mryoyo1234]

Not condesending enough to men

[@LegendStormcrow]

I'd love it.

[@nacunacato]

Jesus: I love everyone equally....but that woman..... *looks at Saint Olga* Jesus: She Scares Me.

[@danialyousaf6456]

Jesus: "but she's pretty cool nonetheless so I respect her". 🤣

[@MrTarmonbarry]

ukrainian women are much the same now , just a bit more subtle

[@chillylizerd]

@@MrTarmonbarry Thanks for the heads-up!

[@connorross4571]

Lmao

[@bereal4498]

The amount if likes tho hahahah

[@kaydegonzague3121]

I'd watch that movie.

[@momcat2223]

Cast Charlize Theron and I'll be first in line.

[@Adam-cq2yo]

If it ain't already a movie, I'm rioting.

[@ToxicWaffle183]

There needs to be more girl power movies based of real women. Cause there is a LOT of material

[@garyg7145]

@@ToxicWaffle183 I'd watch real history of awesome women over fictional pandering any day.

[@therhythmictale5574]

Gary Garrison there’s a show on Russian with an English translation about Catherine the great, also there are a lot of films and shows about night witches. I’d recommend looking into them if you want to see some real badass women in Russian history.

[@Gun_Talk]

I knew it's going to be Olga. I was born in the city she burned down. She burned Korosten down in 946 and I was born 1045 years later in 1991 🤣🤣

[@geekdivaherself]

Congrats!

[@chrisg3258]

Also, sorry. No hard feelings I hope.

[@Ebizzill]

@@chrisg3258 lol

[@ricebeansrockroll882]

I read that wrong as you being born in 1045 and admitting to being a vampire 😆

[@ArgentavisMagnificens]

@@ricebeansrockroll882 was about to say that lol

[@chadfalardeau9162]

And I thought Boudicca was pissed.

[@chadfalardeau9162]

She let her emotions override her common sense.

[@sophiejones7727]

her enemy was a lot stronger and smarter, and she wasn't the general her late husband was. Credit where it's due though, she did amass a ridiculous body count and set back the Roman effort to conquer Britain for quite a while.

[@gammon1183]

Boudica would have drunk from Olga's skull to be fair but I like them both a lot either way.

[@Original_Syn]

Researcher: "Sir I've got good news and bad news. The good news is that the Bat-Bombs work. The bad news is that we may have kinda sorta completely burned down the base"

[@beverlyanne5699]

" Missed it by th-aaaatttt much" - Maxwell Smart

[@johnw2026]

Yeah that was hilarious. Burned down their own base with their own experiment, lol! With BATS, nonetheless!

[@Bluecho4]

"Oh, sounds like they'll work swimmingly."

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

“the good news is that they work. The bad news is...that they work”

[@Anubis_Moon]

Your comment made my day. Thank you

[@arguspanoptes9510]

The Derevlians. Sounds like a Doctor Who enemy

[@Heres_To_Music]

It means Wood-people or Woodlanders or forest-dwellers. lol, must be some angry tree people.

[@Evilprimarch]

Tree-hugger. So, elves, basically. I AM ANGRY. ANGRY ANOUT ELVES.

[@salenebrom6476]

Argus Panoptes 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@Nesymafdet]

Yea

[@connorross4571]

200th like.

[@keatomic]

My wife is Russian. I believe everything the Chronicles are claiming.

[@TheEDFLegacy]

My condolences. (Joking aside, honestly happy for you both! 😁)

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

NEVER,EVER piss off a Russian...or you will be Olga'd...:-D

[@_FireHeart]

Joseph C. , Olga of Kyiv has nothing to do with russia.

[@sriblock6987]

Jealous

[@robertbobbypelletreaujr2173]

@@_FireHeart Kyiv is in Ukraina.

[@evannugroho511]

"I once saw her burned an entire village with six birds...six fkin birds"

[@DTavona]

After the burning of Iskorosten, the Drevlian capital city, she continued and leveled other towns, and then issued legal edicts that affected the Drevlians. The long term result was that Olga wiped them out as a distinct and separate Slavic people. Olga herself died in 969. Here, from Wikipedia's entry on the end of the Drevlian people -- "The last contemporary mention of the Drevlians occurred in a chronicle of 1136, when Grand Prince Yaropolk Vladimirovich of Kiev gave their lands to the Church of the Tithes." That was Olga's revenge. The Drevlians, who killed her husband, in less than a hundred years had suffered so much by her wrath that they vanished as a people. Gone. I suspect she loved her husband a great deal.

[@maxcrazy7]

I like her; I can't even imagine what she would have done if they have killed her son.

[@LifeInPink999]

Hell on Earth.

[@olymolly3637]

Please take a moment to get to know about #JusticeForCannon then. & spread the hashtag at least. Help Cannon's family to seek justice.

[@nickleo7586]

Bat bombs sound like something in Batman's utility belt lol

[@hydrolito]

They were planning on bats hidden inside bombs which when dropped would open up and they would carry napalm to set buildings on fire.

[@yacobgugsa2524]

@@hydrolito I read about the WWII bat bomb plan in "Uncle John's Slightly Irregular Bathroom Reader"

[@UncleWermus]

"But Alfred, what's burning down Japanese villages got to do with the Joker" "Nothing sir.... just a SUGGESTION..." "The war's over Alfred" "If you say so, sir"

[@nickleo7586]

@@UncleWermus lol why is your Alfred a psychopath? He comes off as the robot butler from Transformers the Lask Knight lol

[@_Abjuranax_]

I doubt very seriously that the Bat Bombs would have brought a close to WWII as the Atomic Bombs did. I can't imagine Truman warning the Japanese with "A rain of destruction" with Bat Bombs. And if Hitler had not already surrendered by then, it would have meant that Berlin would have been "Guano'd" first. Or Truman telling Stalin that the US had the Bat (which Stalin already knew because he would have already have had those spies shot, lol.) It only gets deeper from there.

[@poodlescone9700]

Imagine what would happen if these people killed her dog.

[@Qardo]

She would have burnt the whole of the country. Slaughtered all of the savages. Even killed their cats.

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

@@Qardo Watch whow you are calling savages,you animal.In case you didn't know ,we Slav's had far developed culture than you filthy Anglos ever could imagine.

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

@AMPITUP ITTY Meaning?

[@skymarshallmarz5573]

Or took her truck!! Oh wait, that wasnt invented yet

[@londonworkman7617]

The babayaga would be born

[@keraatkins7833]

This is a woman who raised hell in her youth and settled down when she got older. reminds me of my mother.

[@Timurlane100]

You left out how Igor was killed: torn apart by two bent saplings.

[@alexandersmith4731]

Ooh, no wonder she's pissed

[@marissabones]

No matter how many times I've the story of Olga, my reaction is always DAMN.........

[@mish375]

Well there's a reason why "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned" is a phrase.

[@marissabones]

@@mish375 100% Agree

[@largol33t1]

@@mish375 Upon hearing about her, that old saying immediately came to mind!

[@janfromhr8396]

This is why I studied Slavic history. Crazy stuff like this happened all the time! When I learned about her in undergrad she was referred to as Olga of Constantinople -- she brought Christianity to Kievan Rus by way of Byzantine, not Rome. The Russian Orthodox Church is closer to the Greek Orthodox Church and not the Roman Catholic Church.

[@myroslavhryhorchuk2735]

If you had really studied it, you would know that at a time of Olga there was not such things as Orthodox Church or Catholic Church, they came only in 1051

[@danshakuimo]

@@myroslavhryhorchuk2735 that is true, but at this there were already significant differences in traditions and culture and such between the East and West right (since this was not long before the schism)? And the traditions followed would be different depending on where she brought the Christianity from even though at that time there was only one church right?

[@rayzas4885]

She wasn't slavic

[@Doc_OLDGUY_Savage]

Saint Olga (Beware the Nice Ones: TV Tropes), patron saint of The Bride (Kill Bill 1 & 2).

[@elhombredeoro955]

And new converts.

[@mish375]

Plot Twist: the Bride is Olga's descendant.

[@glenngriffon8032]

The thumbnail made me think there really was a saint named "john wick"

[@critstixdarkspear5375]

Glenn Griffon in my mind there is. He is the patron saint of puppies.

[@a1960g]

@@mumbles005 I was thinking the same although he did use a f*****g pencil as they say in the movie.She did not. Lol

[@glenngriffon8032]

@Timothy McCaskey actually I never saw the film

[@AvoidTheCadaver]

@@mumbles005 Saint Olga. The patron saint of John Wick, protector of puppies

[@agentjackstone3543]

@Timothy McCaskey St John wrote the gospel of John, three epistles, as well as the book of Revelation. I think you mean that he is not to be confused with St John the Baptist. 🙂

[@Renfa_Arviette]

"The bats wouldve been ready sooner" Thats the most history nerd complaint about history one can utter good one tho, love it.

[@EvilerOMEGA]

One has to wonder how this would have changed the world's view of nuclear weapons. If Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not the first, what would have been?

[@cryhavoc9748]

"Hell hath no fury, like that of a woman scorned."

[@cryhavoc9748]

@Minerva A *Oxford advanced learner's dictionary, " Extreme anger shown, usually by a woman, when she feels that someone has wronged her." I would argue that killing everyone who was involved in killing her husband qualifies.

[@umi404]

@Vien Avenido it's actually a play. The Mourning Bride by William Congreve

[@aaronbasham6554]

I know who it was the moment I saw the pic. Long live Saint Olga!

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

You just don't want to draw Olga's attention to yourself.

[@lagitanavderoscio]

Patron protector of husbands.

[@lagitanavderoscio]

Patroness

[@Evilgood1]

So, Keanu Reeves could still become a saint, even though he’s already an angel.

[@Thaumaturge2251]

I cringed but god damn truer words have never been spoken. xD

[@daoofpotato7238]

What's next he becomes an archangel? Or seriphim?

[@AxmedSuper]

He's already saint

[@bradyanselmi]

Well, the main angels mentioned in the Bible are already considered Saints. St. Michael, St. Gabriel, etc... so yeah, if Keanu wants to take the demotion he can be considered a saint or an angel, I guess...

[@BennyLlama39]

I'm *really* starting to like Olga's tactics! 😀

[@johnw2026]

@johnmburt1960 Quakers use the internet?

[@melindoranightsilver9298]

I'm supposedly related to her. Kind of like that thought

[@johnw2026]

@johnmburt1960 oh, ok. I always kinda thought Quakers were something similar to the Amish...

[@interferon4800]

@@johnw2026 No, they just eat lots of oatmeal.

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

@johnmburt1960 You quake?

[@LittleMissLeared]

"Hey, Olga, you working again?" "Nah. Just working some things out." "Okay. Goodnight, Olga." "Goodnight, Jimmy."

[@aliciaflood2908]

Tbh the Drevlyans were pretty dumb to think she'd be chill with her husband's murder and want to marry the guy they chose for her

[@nellymiller2513]

Those were the times when a woman was just an asset, a tool. Nothing more, nothing less. She was one of the women who weren’t broken because her shield (husband) died. Also, as a Slavic woman myself I can totally assure You, we are the power to be afraid of at any time. Because of our strict upbringing we are a raging fire when we’ve been put into a corner. The christianity needs more saints like Olga... not some martyrdom bitches......

[@thefirstprimariscatosicari6870]

As said in this video marriages between nobles were often only done for political convenience, and as such most often no actual love existed between the consorts. The Drevlyans must have thought she would accept as the good tool for political alliances she was supposed to be and ignore her husbands death. Unfortunately for them this was one of those rare cases were the two spouses did indeed love eachother.

[@aliciaflood2908]

For sure there were historical contexts, I was just joking about how easily they trusted her when they were king-murderers. I do think the idea that arranged/political marriages were always loveless can be a bit exaggerated sometimes (it's a bit of a hasty generalization, especially considering the expanse of that tradition over many centuries in many different regions), but I'm not here to start a fight lol, and there's definitely truth to that, and I don't know enough about that locality or historical time to really speak about it.

[@ed-te1fp]

​@@aliciaflood2908 That's just a modern American/Western view, except that the country with one of the highest rates of failed marriages in the world has no credibility in this area. Anyway, the results speak for themselves. Mutually arranged marriages involving the families are often more compatible/stable, encourage loyalty (which leads to love), and generally work out better in the longer term. And it looks like she did stay loyal to her husband's family and protected their son. So yeah, the Drevlyans were "dumb"...

[@comradepolarbear6920]

@@ed-te1fp countries with the lowest divorce rates tend to be extremely sexist. Anyways arranged marriages are wack

[@EweChewBrrr01]

Was it hard to mourn your husband? It was super easy, barely an inconvenience.

[@robcox7447]

That's tight.

[@contessa.adella]

Oh really...well that’s ok then!

[@CaesarPerkele]

Please stop saying these catchphrases. Oh please stop.

[@parthsavyasachi9348]

mourning your husband is tight.

[@Omar_ayach]

That must be how the first guy felt when he mourned his husband

[@УрошКалиниченко]

Ukrainian Catholic here. And I can't believe that we essentially canonised her. That's fucking awesome.

[@martabachynsky8545]

Me too! I remember that story from "ridna shkola". I was both horrified and impressed. 😀 Yeah, I'm fiesty too and have a strong justice/vengence streak that I'm working on trying to control.

[@УрошКалиниченко]

@Trigger Troll - sure is.

[@edmundtrummer3182]

roman catholic here: that story was badass!!! and they say the catholic religion can't be tough. (iv'e actualy heard some one say that its a 'spineless religion')

[@HTWW]

@@edmundtrummer3182 the Crusaders would like to disagree.))))

[@HTWW]

@@edmundtrummer3182 although I have to agree that RCC has lost its vicious streak as of late, regrettably.

[@tfp0052]

Now I know where the saying, 'Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned' came from!

[@Cinicraft00]

Don’t mess with our Slavic ladies, they can get quite feisty.

[@martinjansson1970]

Not Slavic, Rus, a Scandinavian tribe (hint: "vikings"). Most of the Rus in what would become Russia (the country was named after their tribe), descended from Roslagen (literally "the land ruled by Rus law"), an area in current day Sweden. At the time of this story, their first language was likely still Old Norse, and they could still speak fluently with other Scandinavians tribes (Rus, Norsemen, Danes and Geats), using their native tounge. Although Old Norse, within just a few generations, would be replaced as their first language by Russian, the dominant language of the tribes and land areas they conquered, the Russian nobility would continue to be bilingual in Old Norse and keep contact with their Scandinavian relatives through marriages, trade and military cooperations, for yet a couple of decades.

[@sarina76667]

Martin Jansson ooo! Very interesting! You remind me of my History of the English Language teacher in college! He had this huge atlas size book that showed the “family tree” of every known language on Earth. I asked him about Hungarian and he got all excited. “I don’t know! Let’s look it up!” I completely nerded out over this book! I felt like a kid again! In my parent’s basement as a 6 year old with every volume of Encyclopedia Brittanica spread out on the floor just so I could understand one article from the latest National Geographic magazine!! Turned out Hungarian was only paired with one other language in the book and it wasn’t Russian, but Latvian. Totally unexpected for both of us! I wish I still had access to that book! That was so much fun!

[@razor1uk610]

@@sarina76667 Hungarian, ...that'd Finno-Urgic (or Finno-Uralic), the venerable ancestor to what would become Finnish & Estonian, Livionian was a sister language to them back then albeit with more ancient Polish and other Southern Baltic tribal languages mixed within it, that would also later become the father of Latvian and Lithuanian dialects - before the Slavic tribes and the Soviets tried to eradicate them.

[@sarina76667]

Razor 1uk Very interesting! This was a very old book that my teacher had. I’m sure, just like my Dad’s old Encyclopedia Brittanica’s, the world has found more pieces to the historical puzzle and many of those books have outdated information. That said, I still miss those days of spreading out volumes over the floor. It made the hunt for information more tangible

[@razor1uk610]

@@sarina76667 true indeed, their are nugets of older knowledge remaining in seldom used archives, or traces of some aspects of many mytholgies and histories conquered in ages past that left scattered caches and oral (spoken) folklore.

[@mariakobets7557]

Thank you for doing this story. I learned about Olga while living in Ukraine. I was, not really, surprised that no one heard of her out of the area.

[@twistedtrickster5258]

You forgot to mention that she once killed 3 drevlians in a bar. With a pencil.

[@travelinghermit]

Bonus comment: Just imagine if the doomsday clock counted down the apocalypse via release of millions of flaming bats. Dr. Strangelove would have been even funnier

[@jascrandom9855]

She was more of a real life Daenerys.

[@evilsharkey8954]

More like a reverse Daenarys. She did the fiery revenge first and became a saint later.

[@swordfireguy5869]

Jasc Random more like Cersei.

[@_Abjuranax_]

I was thinking of Vlad the Impaler with grace and charm. Both equally effective and deadly.

[@rhodesianwojak2095]

r e a d a n o t h e r b o o k

[@rsync9490]

She is more like lady stoneheart. Isabella the she wolf is more of a cersei.

[@yeeturmcbeetur8197]

Jesus: yea, go ahead, here, have sainthood. Just don’t hurt me. Please.

[@walterengler5709]

That's taking the whole "I'm BATMAN" meme to a new level.

[@kinglerxstbtpc]

And her son thought that Christianity was "too soft" a religion!

[@dlevi67]

Well, she did all that before she converted...

[@Jose-xh5qb]

The legend goes is that when they were deciding which would be the new religion for the Kievan Rus, they had considered Islam, but when they found out that Islam forbade alcohol and pork they opted for Christianity.

[@juliathelittle7007]

If her son had looked at the Martyrology of the Catholic church he would have seen that it is not a soft religion. Many saints have been beheaded, boiled in oil, ripped apart, or burnt alive for Christ. True christianity is not soft.

[@wandery2k]

Christianity too “soft”….um… You DO know what God did to his only kid, right??

[@golgor321]

Well her gransond brought whole country into church.

[@FullMoonOctober]

This woman is one of my favorite historical figures! I always love to see more people talk about her.

[@ElPayasoMalo]

So, instead of Fat Man and Little Boy, we almost had Batman and Robin?

[@mitthrawnuruodo1730]

“With a fooking crucifix! Who the hell does that?”

[@madizen6312]

I love the telling of this on the myths and legends podcast. I kinda look up to this badass woman. Very strategic woman.

[@chinaexpat1827]

SO THE REAL 'RED WEDDING' WASN'T A WEDDING

[@Monada79]

It was worse. It was a kids birthday. It was called the black dinner.

[@Perririri]

*BILLY IDOL HAS LEFT THE CHAT*

[@DraconianDreamer]

I would watch the hell outa that movie.

[@patrickwhatsittoyou8059]

You could say it "bat-fired" on our army :)

[@gravewalker1632]

..... good one !!

[@johnw2026]

Lol

[@znowicotton5176]

You have the best theatric and narrating emotional vocal combinations within your single voice.

[@TheDgdimick]

Just imagine being the Base Commander as your base is burning down around you, "Well that worked a bit too good"...

[@alternator7893]

What a loving wife :-D

[@dragonwings36]

Yup! Find you a lady that will cause major chaos in the event of your untimely death. :D

[@cv4809]

@@dragonwings36 these days it's impossible

[@dragonwings36]

I’m sure there’s at least a few around.

[@bowwing333]

Probably just a redhead

[@diablo.the.cheater]

pure yandere material

[@TrueFork]

Olga: "hontes buzdari iksos daor" ::releases birds into city:: Olga: "dracarys" ::birds burn down city::

[@angelwhispers2060]

* Applause*

[@Whitby_Abbeys_Ghost]

I love Saint Olga! I'm not Catholic, but she is by far one of my favorite historical figure!

[@emperorkane317]

"Olga bent down and inquired whether the found the honor to their taste" I love it when historical people over a thousand years ago are just as cheeky and sarcastic as we are today.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

She was subtle enough to outsmart them

[@thunderbird1921]

So much for "Girls are more peaceful", LOL.

[@CitizenSnips69]

Was wondering where today’s video was! And just as I’m about to go to bed, perfect timing

[@zeusthescribe2602]

8:52 "...are you telling me a 5 ounce bat could carry a 1 pound (flaming) coconut?" (Besides coconuts are TROPICAL, this is a temperate zone!)🤴🛡🏹🥥🦇

[@madshad3351]

African or European?

[@michaellouton3870]

Great video Simon, like always and to what I have come to expect from you and your talented staff/crew/coworkers. Thanks and keep the greatness coming.

[@--Paws--]

Olga after ordering her soldiers: * Flight of the Valkyries starts playing during the night *

[@LadyPapaMayodora]

Men: “shes a horribly vengeful woman” Me: “she lived her best life”

[@HurricaneSA]

Well, she was a strong cis woman, not some gender confused feminist. She didn't cry in her pillow because her enemies called her a woman, she murdered her enemies because they killed her cis gender, misogynistic, male husband and king. She would have spat in your eye for trying to connect her to your feminist agenda because she would have hated everything it stands for. She was a real woman who fought for real issues, so the likes of you would have been met with a swift end, I'm sure.

[@adamaus8770]

@@HurricaneSA your a thunderfoot fan, so by default that makes you a woman hater, if you are a woman than you must really hate yourself. Don't try to get on a high horse when its clear that you obviously lean in a misogynistic direction. Anita is a hero and you know it ;)

[@Merloc909]

Adam Aus87 - ha ha ha don’t be stupid. “ Akanaro O.O clearly said he or she thinks highly of Saint Olga and considers her a strong woman. You would have to be a really special idiot to call that misogynistic!!!

[@Merloc909]

Theodora Roosevelt - Nah us Men would not call her horrible. We would call her bad ass.

[@hemidas]

Cruel times create cruel people.

[@joanamariedavid5166]

2:54, in deutronomy 32:35 there is a passage that says vengeance is mine and recompense

[@amievaughan2863]

That is one of the most chilling stories I've ever heard.

[@meltingice5697]

Not really. Waint until you heard about Elizabeth Bathory, Queen Ranavalona and Queen Mary I. Atleast Princess Olga avenged for her husband unlike those three. But Bathory and Mary were complete psychos.

[@thunderbird1921]

@@meltingice5697 Queen Louise, wife of Prussian king Frederick William III, was also kind of crazy. She hated Napoleon so much that she built and lead a "War Party" at the Prussian royal court to convince her husband to join the coalitions. She got a little too angry though, and made a big mistake soon after: she publicly insulted Napoleon, calling him a monster. The French emperor is said to have remembered this insult and it partially motivated him to demand half of Prussia's lands after he won the Fourth Coalition War (though the Prussians got their territory back by 1815). Louise's excessive hatred nearly got her husband's kingdom destroyed.

[@leilaluna7]

When i was 7 or 9 ish, some guys were harrassing my mom when we were leaving a store. I still remember the anger brewing inside me and I yelled at them and followed them down the parking lot. They got quiet and looked like they wanted me to leave. I know it was probably a funny sight. I am Russian too, lol.

[@user-ts8fj5kj2z]

Me, a writer: ah yes, a reference for a character

[@ionly6805]

I can watch John Wick all-day everyday🤣🤣 those killing scenes are LEGENDARY

[@IETCHX69]

they are boring and childish.

[@rashad6367]

@@IETCHX69 it's okay to be wrong

[@nerfninja661]

@@IETCHX69 maybe id you watched it whilst forgetting to lift your eyelids

[@HTYM]

@@IETCHX69 I respectfully disagree with you on your opinion of the _John Wick_ franchise.

[@ionly6805]

@@HTYM the first 2 are watchable.. the last 1 I'd terrible

[@johncarlofernandez2698]

Later... "Oh you have a new husband! Does he have a name?" Olga: no.

[@yadigjamesgang-xs7jj]

I guess I will have to think again whenever I say, "Well, I aint no Saint, but...."

[@andiparker8286]

I love watching all of your channels. I don’t know how you & your crew do it. They’re all entertaining & informative. Thanks

[@wesleyhunt7599]

No wonder she lent her name to a Reform School for Wayward Princesses!

[@Maggoz777]

Also run by a ruthless lady. Noice

[@SpringerA1984]

What is that all about? I'm unfamiliar with it.

[@wesleyhunt7599]

@@SpringerA1984 Star Vs the Forces of Evil.

[@PaulRudd1941]

That's hilarious and clever!

[@funposting8912]

This is what happens when you kill a tsundere’s husband.

[@EvilerOMEGA]

Are you sure you're not talking about a yandere?

[@jintaro97]

@@EvilerOMEGA yandere will kill you , not your enemies. Tsundere will kill if their loved ones get hurt.

[@funposting8912]

EvilerOMEGA in this case I meant tsundere, but yandere would equally apply I guess. Maybe it’s reverse tsundere. Rather than pretending she hates you when she really likes you, she was pretending she liked guys when she actually hated them and eventually killed them. I mean, it kinda makes sense that a tsundere would do that.

[@cestalia]

@@jintaro97 Some Yandere actually manipulative. Remember that yandere focus is to live together with senpai. If that senpai is fine with it (and the yandere doesn't really need to do dirty work), she probably put him on high pedestal since she does not need to kill potential lover.

[@eleanorgreywolfe5142]

@@jintaro97 Pretty sure Yanderes don't kill the person they're infatuated with, rather they kill anyone who they see as competition.

[@MonkeyJedi99]

I smashed my like button, now half the screen is all stripey and broken.

[@1973Washu]

(starts playing the rains of Castamere)

[@LukeVilent]

Those who read real history books laugh at Game of Thrones.

[@mish375]

@@LukeVilent I've never read or seen GOT; but it always surprises me when people act like GOT invented this stuff. History is more brutal than anything an author can create.

[@LukeVilent]

@@mish375 I managed to abstain from GoT for first 3 seasons or so. But then my girlwife decided she's falling behind, not getting the memes. Thus, I've been watching along. She is also an archaeology student btw, and told me things like "the rains castomere aren't even close to what the 'civilized' Ptolemaians were doing, not even mentioning the Seleucids".

[@mish375]

@@LukeVilent Well GOT is something I have no interest in. Apparently any character that is remotely likeable dies and the show is an exercise in gratuitous violence and sex for shock value. I get bored fast with shows like that. Besides, history is more brutal either way. I mean just looking at how tribes wiped each other off the map in ancient times to destroy their cultures is bad enough.

[@natashiagushue3889]

This is mine and my friend's favourite saint! We are always fascinated by her, and I am so glad you did a video explaining her!

[@djevil9]

Really really been enjoying all your channels. A nice break from the chaos. Thank you.

[@asherdie]

That's not vengeance, that is the leader of a country distributing justice against her nations enemies.

[@talimbeingaverythriftyghor5967]

*_"Is she Princess Hilde of Wolfkrone's ancestor?"_*

[@jimbrewer498]

The Russians or Kievan Rus were actually Vikings who migrated east, "Rus", in the language of Vikings translates loosely as "we row". Just a bit of not so trivial trivia. Not that any of the viewers really care.

[@salenebrom6476]

Jim Brewer 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

[@BoojumFed]

Actually the "Rus" was Kievian for 'red'; due to the fact that so many Viking traders had redhaired children with the local Slavic population. Raiding and pillaging is great when you have an entire ocean to sail on and cannot be cornered; but when you're confined to the local riverbanks for hundreds of miles before you reach home, you tend to send the friendly folks to do your trading.

[@Dukeofvampires1]

eh.. no!

[@AyeGee721]

BoojumFed is spot on. Although not all Rus' were 'descended from vikings' either. Most came from Slavic tribes themselves and integrated.. Now we know why Finns and Estonians feel so negative about Scandinavians and Russians...

[@MsMilagrita]

By the time they came to Kiev they were well mixed with the north slavic tribes who actually invited them as a unifyng factor. So the Rus was not viking but had some of that origin in their midst.

[@thatguywiththeface2444]

Just imagine how much faster exorcisms would go if the priest was just like "You either gtfo of this person now or I'm calling Olga."

[@isaachibben6768]

Not gonna lie, I misread the title to say "Saint John Wick"

[@Star-sw2zw]

lmao me too!

[@joeybulford5266]

This ain’t John Wick. This is Arya Stark 💯

[@diannevita4574]

Damn straight.

[@esppupsnkits4560]

Arya is basically john wick but cuter and a girl

[@moumous87]

Where do I find an Olga for myself?

[@elhombredeoro955]

Russia

[@Taistelukalkkuna]

*Cue Meet Beautiful Russian Women ad*

[@elhombredeoro955]

@@Taistelukalkkuna contemporary sources say that Olga was was born on the Baltic coast and her birth name was Helga.

[@ahobimo732]

Yeah. I think she sounds fantastic. I would do the same to the people who killed the woman I love, if - like Olga - I had the freedom to do so without being hunted and caged like an animal.

[@_FireHeart]

El Hombre de oro , Olga of Kyiv has nothing to do with russia.

[@thedeadcannotdie]

Everybody gangsta till the sparrows and pegions start setting the city on fire...

[@sophiejones7727]

how they didn't see that coming idk. It was a classic Mongol trick.

[@sirtaelellevalerie1056]

@@sophiejones7727 it was 3 centuries before mongols started.

[@sophiejones7727]

Sirtael Ellevalerie this was close to their home territory though. They hadn’t unified, but they were around. Would have honestly expected anyone in the area to know their tricks.

[@sirtaelellevalerie1056]

@@sophiejones7727 close? Kievis is several thousand miles from Mongolia.

[@sophiejones7727]

@@sirtaelellevalerie1056 I mean, relatively speaking. As in, the people near Kiev were dealing with the Mongols long before anyone else. However, point taken.

[@NiallCosgrach]

"She did not take his death very well." I'm not sure why this made me laugh as much as it did.

[@RRodriguez1904]

I’ve always been a fan of Olga and her remarkable story .

[@eirinym]

And here we thought the Mongols were good at devastation.

[@ДушанРадин-ы3ю]

They we're,Olga was doing it a lot sooner.

[@sophiejones7727]

They were, they were just in a different place at this time. The sparrow trick was one of theirs.

[@JohnDrummondPhoto]

Today I Found Out that when it came to getting revenge, Keyser Sozë had nothing on Olga of Kiev and Russe.

[@rdooski]

This amazing woman's story needs a movie at once! On a side note Anna could possibly be a descendant of hers.

[@EvilerOMEGA]

Forget a movie. She needs a Miniseries at minimum.

[@Jazzitiswhatitis]

Sometimes when I listen to these stories I begin to feel like I’m sitting across a bar from the narrator listening to his tales of glory and woe. It’s fascinating and *cough* horrific to just learn of such things.

[@markrowland1366]

The Mexican Freetail bat was chosen for this work. Unexpectedly, it fly's faster than any Bird. .

[@Dementiumfan1990]

And that is why you’ve got to love religious stories

[@mechasentai]

"hell" yeah! Lol

[@elhombredeoro955]

@EmperorJuliusCaesar yeah like Stalin and Mao.

[@elhombredeoro955]

@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord Nazism is antithetical to Christianity. Jews, Ethiopians and North Africans where Christianised before Christianizaton of Germans. Nazis suppressed Christianity especially Catholicism and we have a martyr Saint killed by Nazis too.

[@elhombredeoro955]

@Lord Inquisitor Shadowlord btw all form of socialism are unchristian including Nazism.

[@ThetennisDr]

Why?

[@alexlandherr]

The fun thing is that Batman had his debut before this weapon was proposed.

[@isabelall4127]

Me: * reads title * omg is this about Olga

[@TheRealNormanBates]

7:28 “Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb!”

[@SCMTranslation]

Commissioner Gordon: "What weighs six ounces, sits in a tree, and is very dangerous?" Robin: "A sparrow with a machine gun."

[@eddiejc1]

Simon Whistler: "Not exactly living up to Leviticus 19:18.." I think Priness Olga was thinking more along the lines Ezekiel 25:17.