Melting ice reveals hidden Viking artefacts - BBC News

As ice patches and glaciers melt in Norway’s mountains, hastened by climate change, ancient artefacts that were once lost on the snow and ice are now emerging, having been frozen for millennia.
Thousands of artefacts have been discovered at an ice patch, which was the site of a forgotten Viking pass.
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[@jimtokheim1422]

I just visited Iceland, Norway and Denmark and was just amazed by the history and archeological finds and preservation that is available to view. I'm fortunate to be able to trace my lineage, on both my mother's and father's side of the family back to actual places in Norway and Denmark that still hold our namesakes. The Lindholm Hoje museum in Denmark was simply amazing. It's astounding that they found a 1,000 year old tunic!

[@terribleted9529]

1700 year old

[@cannabistalk4164]

Amazing what happens without slavery

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

There was plenty of slavery back then. The Vikings took slaves whenever they came, either for trading or to keep themselves.

[@scottbuckley6578]

I was surprised to find out that i have Swedish Norway and Denmark gens in mine when all the family names innmy family come from Britain and Scotland

[@stevencigar9897]

@@scottbuckley6578 Denmark did huge raids and invasion of england and therefore theres some viking dna there today

[@Peter421]

We need full documentaries like this

[@brunow6101]

It clearly demonstrates the cyclical nature of our climate and temperature patterns. History is a great teacher.

[@701chevy9]

Yes. Critical thinking. We could use more of that, instead of these emotional climate babies

[@differous01]

The ice has "been here for 7000 years" [5:10], so all these finds were made by people living under the ice.

[@701chevy9]

@@differous01 Yes because anything was constant or consistent for 7000 years. We can barely tell our history from the last 500 years let alone 7000.

[@jackiemack8653]

The UN is full of bs. Look at beginning of video saying climate change is caused mainly by burning of fossil fuels. What was the case thousands of years ago?

[@wrm3016]

@@differous01 Why yes. You've heard of cave dwellers, now we have ice dwellers! hehe

[@whyjnot420]

The landscape shown in this video is the definition of stark beauty.

[@clarkmessec7580]

Oh nah, Tribal Members,Oh nah!

[@Chris.in.taiwan]

Its crazy how different climates preserve things differently. Even one hundred year old stuff is difficult to find here in the jungles of Taiwan. Things just disintegrate in the humidity and heat.

[@MrScovanx]

Nudity is terrible for artifacts!

[@Chris.in.taiwan]

@@MrScovanx lol, humidity

[@molybdomancer195]

Actually waterlogged conditions can preserve organic material. Different climates and soils preserve different things

[@invisibilianone6288]

@@Chris.in.taiwan excessive humidity causes nudity.😂

[@nirmalendudhar4198]

Just fantastic. It's like a dream, so many artifacts lay buried so so many years ago. Unimaginable of our past culture.

[@swegatron2859]

Yay climate change 🎉

[@timonsolus]

@@swegatron2859 : Climate change is terrible for almost everyone - but a fantastic opportunity for archaeologists!

[@pissiole5654]

down with artifacts in general. humans shouldn't go snooping around the past

[@stubstoo6331]

​@@swegatron2859nothing to worry about the earth has changed its climate for billions of years. You need a hug?😎😎

[@You-tw4zs]

@@pissiole5654 Why not? The lessons of the past can be just as useful today as they were hundreds of years ago. I'm sure these people would be happy to know that a part of their culture lives on hundreds and sometimes thousands of years into the future. For years people have left things like time capsules, messages in bottles, books, tapestries, art so why wouldn't they want to be remembered?

[@davezawislak]

If these were under the snow, that means in the past there must have been less snow than has melted recently.

[@jrea424]

I keep saying this too! We've even found modern items that were lost such as aeroplanes which makes the current narrative even more ridiculous.

[@kaws93]

These were under the snow but above the ice cap, you see. There’s a big difference.

[@hollyjollydog]

Oh no past global warming!!!!!

[@jameswilson6717]

This earth has survived even more catastrophic conditions than we have now look at the Big Bang that wiped out the entire planet but after a very long time the planet evolved and will do again in many thousand/million years

[@msdemeanor6057]

For people who don't know anything about snow and freezing temperatures and ice. If you drop something in the snow, and it gets covered up by more, and more snow it will be preserved as the snow compacts over time and turns to ice. While there is surface melt on glaciers, that melt water seeps down to ground below the glacier and hastens the melting at the glacier's base as melt water flows downhill. Most objects encased in the snow will become visible when the ice is is mostly melted away to the ground. It's like slow motion sinking.

[@echtesnorwegen]

In theory. But actually, it was warmer during periods in the past.

[@SurferJoe46]

That also explains the mastadons with fresh buttercups in their teeth - the ice "wasteland" once was a temperate jungle.. @@echtesnorwegen

[@rogerphelps9939]

Not true. Learn some science.@@echtesnorwegen

[@fungussa]

​​​@@echtesnorwegenThat's fiction, as the video shows artefacts that were preserved, by snow and ice, that's older than the Medieval Warming Period. And the ice hadn't hasn't melted since before the MWP.

[@echtesnorwegen]

@@fungussa You are totally right, cold and warm periods alternate.

[@KiffietheDreamer]

So... does this mean that during viking times the ice was also that far receded?

[@curiositycloset2359]

Yes, and man made global warming is a myth.

[@TheBuntajames]

Yes.. we are coming off an extended cooler period of the planetary cycle. The problem some have is the speed of the warming.

[@outnode366]

@@TheBuntajames Or the narrative.

[@Utuber459]

It snows and then it becomes buried deeper and deeper 🤷🏻‍♂️ same way as things get buried deeper into the soil, it’s not because there was less soil historically I.e. it’s wrong to suggest there was less ice then and therefor warmer than it is today. Really not that hard to work it out.

[@Davao420]

@@outnode366 what narrative?

[@normmaclean375]

The finds are fascinating and the museum presents them in a beautiful, artistic and dramatic setting!

[@australien6611]

I agree, those displays look incredible 👍

[@smileyzed3843]

This is the kind of news we need more of ❤

[@DBRStance634]

Yes, of course

[@margritpiepes8242]

This is so awesome.please keep looking for artifacts of our Ancestors .its amazing that they are well preserved.thanks for the good work

[@groovyxhriss8047]

Just imagine time travel was possible, I’d be so freaking amazing seeing how these people lived or how ancient structures were built

[@N3ur0m4nc3r]

People inevitably mucked up the past. That's why we built this simulation. Remember?

[@MrSimonw58]

Imagine no local anesthetic or antibiotics or sterile dentistry and no cannabis :-( ... must have been s*

[@RealtalkManc]

You would be dead in minutes

[@thelostcosmonaut5555]

F*ck these people being pessimistic in the reply section. I agree, it would be interesting to visit. I'd love to see Athens in its prime or maybe Assyria.

[@Prof.Pwnalot]

Read a book and use your imagination? Time travel does exist, we have a creative brain.

[@agoogleaccount2861]

What well trained horses the Vikings had to be able to use snow shoes ! That is pretty impressive by itself.

[@virgilius7036]

There was no snow or ice at this time at this altitude because the climate was in the midst of Viking Age warming.

[@stephenhowell5611]

@@virgilius7036 So how did these artefacts of 1000-2000 years age survive ? The tunic found would have rotted away at least, this was long before the viking age.

[@donaldduck830]

@@stephenhowell5611 Oh please, tell us you got no clue about history in so many words. The Viking age was precisely 1kya. Look it up.

[@kudr66]

@@stephenhowell5611 Medieval Warm Period was warmer than now and exactly at the time Vikings were also farming in Greenland (because it was green as its name says). Then in 13-th century everything frozen with onset of Little Ice Age which we are now recovering from.

[@paulmaxwell8851]

Obviously there WAS snow on these passes because the Viking horses DID wear snowshoes. Snowshoes were often used here in the gold rush days of central British Columbia, by the way. And horses wore studded horseshoes on frozen lakes. No, I'm not kidding. Our local museum has examples of both. @@virgilius7036

[@joshuabrigden4820]

If the glacier is ~7000 years old, how does it make sense that as it recedes, older artefacts are being discovered? Wouldn't that indicate the glacier was at the same level it is today when these items were deposited in the past?

[@stevegabbert9626]

I'm guessing that crevices in the past, might allow the newer artifacts to drop down to the older artifacts.

[@streuthmonkey1]

It makes sense because claimate alarmists are liars and, despite their claims to the contrary, current temperatures and rates of change are not unprecedented and are entirely natural rather than the result of human activity.

[@SelectKiko]

If a glacier is 7000 years old it's cold enough to snow. If it's cold enough to snow the artifacts get buried in the snowpack over time. A glacier is not a single block of ice, but rather a massive slow moving sheet that's changing shape. If you leave an object on it the object sinks slowly.

[@stevegabbert9626]

You know it can be both right? Not just one or the other.@@streuthmonkey1

[@fungussa]

​@@streuthmonkey1That's fiction. Every single prediction of mankind increasing the CO2 greenhouse effect has been shown to be true. Everything from satellite data working that the upper atmosphere is cooling whilst the lower atmosphere is warming, to the rapid increase in atmospheric water vapor etc, has been shown to be true. Your denial of basic physics and chemistry is not an excuse.

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

Wow do it warmer 2000 years ago than today. Thanks BBC.

[@JamesWilson-ts5xk]

Wow how amazing and intriguing. Great work…this must be the peak of archeology - finding so many ancient artifacts. Love it! Thanks for the work you’re all doing! 👏

[@marianlincoln9008]

Amazing. So glad I stumbled onto your site today. Archeology and History were always my favorite subjects.. this was truly fascinating. I know ill never get the chance to visit your new exhibit in Oslo.. would still love to see what youve discovered and hear what ever history youve gleaned from it.

[@CobraTheSpacePirate]

So, was there ice there on the pass 1000 years ago? Did the mountain pass used to melt each year? But between then and then and now, it got covered up by snow but then now 1000 years later the snow is receding again?

[@Ss-mh5wi]

I am thinking the same. 😊

[@davepaisley7675]

In a perfect carbon balanced world Norway is to be permanently covered in ice... for the good of the planet you bigots

[@nigel900]

Just like the past 4 Ice Ages that came and went… climate changes occur without impact by mankind.

[@doncarlodivargas5497]

No, they walked on top of the snow/ice, that's why they find skies etc, also raindeers was up in the ice, probably to escape from insects I guess, and they where hunted, for some reason they get scared by sticks etc, so the hunters put them up to guide the animals

[@iancoachwerksllc]

Human induced climate change is bs.

[@jedlimen123]

Wow, just fascinating finds.. Great work guys, thanks for sharing!

[@donpowlen]

That is so amazing and cool! To find such a depth of artifacts from the age of the Vikings really starts your mind thinking of what once was.

[@lauralishes1]

I wonder what they'd think of what has happened to Europe.

[@omstygomsty]

And what will likely be again.

[@whiteindianone]

man made global warming? from 4000 years ago?

[@streuthmonkey1]

It was once much warmer despite them not burning any fossil fuels. The one thing which should be ttaken from this is that climate change is entirely natural and that current temperatures are by no means unprecendented, as claimed by the climate alarmists.

[@mpwaterhouse]

Awesome and to think in just another 1000 years and it will be back under 20M of ice

[@pamelabonaparte9383]

Wow . That was such a cool segment. Just amazing to visualize history coming to life !

[@Miamcoline]

Incredible. Love their work and their twitter account. Thank you for preserving this for posterity and your foresight and proactiveness!!! Its incredible how interconnected the objects they've found from every age where to the wider world!

[@a.r.k7863]

What is their twitter account!!?

[@pavlaarn]

@@a.r.k7863 I found YT Channel www.youtube.com/@secretsoftheice2798 :)

[@larryg9137]

This is absolutely amazing! Thank you BBC for this treasure, which is awesome!

[@zedbear1]

Have you watched Neanderthal Twilight? If not, look for it. I think you'll enjoy it.

[@danielwarwick8086]

My viking ancestors would be proud that their craftsmanship has stood the test of time. Skol!

[@dronespace]

🍺

[@streuthmonkey1]

They would be ashamed that the same has happened with their descendants.

[@PUBHEAD1]

Its amazing how the artifacts they find look like they were just set there yesterday

[@Essin62]

It's a BIG freezer!

[@daniyalbbd5281]

Because they have been planted, when you hear it's Norway - should be clear that it's not authenticated news or reports. They routinely lie for clout and it seems this is just another one of their propaganda videos. Norway does this often to claim some sort of global importance

[@sb9582]

Absolutely amazing! Well done, and I can only imagine the excitement of finding these items ✨️

[@fionaledger1939]

Incredible finds. Loved the way the artefacts were displayed.

[@janstageman2412]

Wow, a fascinating and thought-provoking video, full of wonder !

[@MonsterTweak]

Wow, thank you for this and what this team does. Amazing.

[@stuartrollings602]

Simply amazing and having the opportunity to find these items for all the world to see…so sad about the glaciers melting but maybe they will be back to protect their secrets for future exploration. Thankful for your effort and dedication

[@donaldduck830]

We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer during the height of the Viking times than today. Then came the terrible middle ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structure collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.

[@streuthmonkey1]

Why are naturally occuring variations in temperature, and thus ice levels, sad?

[@fungussa]

​@@streuthmonkey1Well, you're clearly trying to deny basic physics and chemistry of the CO2 greenhouse effect. You can list the reasons that motivate you to deny the science?

[@streuthmonkey1]

@@fungussa You just highlighted the problem with you alarmists. It isn't just basic physics and chemistry. You oversimplify an open system based on experiments with a closed system. You ignore the diminishing returns that CO2 has as a greenhouse gas as concentrations rise. You ignore the fact that atmospheric CO2 concentration have not driven temperature for almost the entirety of Earth's existence including all the time there has been life on Earth, just as it does not drive it now. Atmospheric CO2 concentrations have followed global average temperature with a lag of hundreds to thousands of years, during which CO2 continued to rise while temperatures dropped and vice versa. This is what is happening now. Atmopspheric CO2 concentrations are rising in response to the warming period which has coincided with the industrial era. Our current warming period began 30 years before industrialisation and it was this warming as we left the Little Ice Age which created the conditions for industrialisation to occur. Innevitable CO2 concentrations have risen in response, the vast majority of the rise being entirely natural. You ignore the fact that by far the most abundant, effective and variable greenhouse gas is water vapour. In fact just the daily variability of its effect eclipses the total effect of atmospheric CO2. You ignore the various ways that changes in solar activity effect the climate. You ignore the important role of Galactic Cosmic Rays on variability of water vapour/ liquid water in the atmosphere and thus on cloud formation and you underestimate the cooling role of clouds by at least 70%. You ignore the fact that the current rate and scale of change is not unprecendented. There have been far more rapid and greater increases in the past. For example at the end of the Pleistocene the temperature in Greenland rose 7 degrees C in 50-100 years, a far faster and greater rise than that we are currently observing. You ignore the fact that we are currently in the coolest interglacial period of our current ice age. Incomplete failed models and 50 years of failed predictions are the reason I deny the ridiculous claims the climate alarmists continue to make. Claims that get more extreme as time goes on despite less extreme ones not having come to pass. They seem to have only learnt one thing in 50 years. To make longer term predictions so they aren't alive, or at least not active in the field, when they innevitably fail.

[@jeffj2495]

THANK you for this very nice video. I hope more vids like this are posted.

[@jimmiller1686]

perhaps the ice was gone or low when the Vikings passed through. The stone formations would have been difficult to build if everything was buried under ice.

[@curiositycloset2359]

Obviously, the glaciers weren't there then. Which kind of pokes holes in man made climate change. But we won't mention that.

[@mwallace2922]

👍👍

[@NoWindNoSunNoPower]

I didn’t know that Vikings lived under glaciers.

[@TruthFiction]

No, but they walked on top of them all the time. Do you live in Florida or something that you have never experienced dropping something in snow?

[@emiljunvik3546]

@@TruthFictionWooden skies doesn’t sink through a glacier. They would lie on top of the ice when it melts.

[@TruthFiction]

@@emiljunvik3546 Which is why they are finding them ON TOP of the ice or on the ground where there is no ice. How are you people not understanding this?

[@wasylbakowsky5199]

Walking on those stony slopes is absolutely brutal...

[@user-hz8uc9iu8c]

how amazing and thank you for being so dedicated

[@LegendaryInfortainment]

So engrossing, that just sucked out all of the vigorously active neurons I'd had available at the moment. With luck, some decide to show up for work again. Thanks! That was a really excellent delivery of still-living history, and so worthwhile.

[@BongoMcFury]

Roman and other artefacts also found under retreating ice in Europe and Scandinavia. Obviously a lot warmer in those days.

[@mwallace2922]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@oldman2800]

Caused by all the Roman motor cars no doubt

[@mwallace2922]

@@oldman2800 👍👍🤣

[@richardjohnson2965]

There was a warm period previous to the “ little ice age”. During that warm period, Vikings settled and farmed Greenland and Iceland. They sailed to the “ new world” of the Americas because the oceans in the northern hemisphere were warm enough to sail long distances…and they apparently moved around North America. Some think they explored the upper Great Lakes area, coming as far inland as central Minnesota. By about 1400, those settlements were abandoned because the climate was getting colder, crops weren’t growing, and an ice age was coming, and it did. Climate has been changing for eons, and I expect we are warming out of the “ the little ice age” ( 1250 - 1800 ce), so climate change doesn’t alarm me, I expect it. There is no “ climate crisis” as some claim, there is climate change as there should be….but because the world population is at historic levels, a changing climate affects more people. Adaptation will be required as the world warms…and then it will cool again as it has in the past. These changes take place over hundreds of years….it is a slow process.

[@donaldduck830]

Nice to see that there is at least one person here (including all of BBC where there are none) who knows and understands history. It is telling that this smart comment got so few upvotes when it should be the number one post under the vid.

[@SurferJoe46]

That's because they've all been brain-drycleaned into believing in evolution. @@donaldduck830

[@robharris8844U]

​@@donaldduck830it will have got so few votes because it is too long to read fir most people these days.

[@danimayb]

But because of the massive human population and all the gasses we have released into the atmosphere, that green house warming has been boosted.. it's so huge that we have managed to force climate changes more deeply and rapidly than what nature's timeline would unveil. But is that a bad thing if it's all a natural occurrence anyway? Well, yes! We are diluting the atmosphere and changing the natural landscape that balances those processes... We could be looking at creating climates that in the future will cause ourselves trouble, And maybe a premature de-habit of the earth (Ok that's serious timeline thinking but just putting it out there) I'm no self absorbed hippy tree hugger following Greta 🤣I'm just making observations.

[@baneverything5580]

Look up The Year Without A Summer, 536 A.D., and the Burckle Impact Megatsunami. We`re on borrowed time right now. The biggest impact of catastrophes like this, and they`re very common, is on agriculture. If Campi Flegrei erupts the way it has in the past, and it`s just one out of dozens of equally dangerous volcanoes ticking away towards their next big booms....say goodbye to billions and and all the rest of this temporary stuff. Europe will be covered in ash and the sun will be dimmed beyond belief for a very long time.

[@user-vx9ur4tm2d]

What a fascinating story. Thank you for sharing. I understand the sense of sadness but also enthusiasm for this rare discovery. Little is life is either/or. cheers

[@lau_dhondt]

Wow, lovely little docu. ❤

[@bettewoodland1157]

Does this mean that there was less ice in this location at an earlier point in time? Hasn't the ice advanced and receded many times over the past millenium?

[@bubbabigmin]

Correct

[@bubbabigmin]

@@vincentchauvet6654 You have no evidence for that. Ice melt can be extremely rapid, as can the advance of glaciers. Humans are not part of the equation.

[@Meevious]

No, this stuff would have been destroyed if it hadn't been left in a place that was permanently frozen. Now that it's melted, the clock is ticking - it will soon rot if it's not found and preserved by a museum.

[@jimlofts5433]

ssshhh you may get cancelled for not blindly following the narrative

[@lauralishes1]

No. They walked over the snow and ice, which is why they found snow shoes for horses.

[@CharlotteIssyvoo]

Heart breaking and fascinating all at once.

[@DerrickPerrin]

What an awesome time to be out there enjoying the ice melting and finding history. Keep up the good work team.

[@fungussa]

As they said, they don't 'enjoy the ice melting'

[@derrick_builds]

@@fungussa they are in super cool videos finding historical artifacts. I'm surprised they are not out there with propane hair dryers. I heard what they said but I saw what they were doing.

[@fungussa]

@@derrick_builds They understand, unlike you, that the rapidly retreating ice is more than just about uncovering ancient artifacts, it's also a sign of the rapidly warming world.

[@derrick_builds]

@@fungussa they could stay at home and watch ice melt. They are there to hunt artifacts.

[@monikawiedmann8594]

They are not 'hunting' artefacts, they are saving them@@derrick_builds , small difference.

[@dicksargent3582]

I'd like to know how snow/ice covered was this trail when these artifacts were originaly lost?

[@adriennexploresemail]

They travelled by skis and with snow shoes for horses….

[@olgahein4384]

Probably even less than there is now. Skis and snow shoes are used on snow, which does fall in every winter in that part of the world.

[@scottowens1535]

It would be so awesome if someone pointed out the fact that these terrains must have been passible when the artifacts were enplaced. Probably should hit the fringes of as much boundary we can, there's undoubtedly many things surfacing. So many comments wondering what I meant. The ice sheets and passes that we used to cross were and have been changing ebbing and waning. Very noticeable in the European due to static adjustment from the unloading of ice making the land rise and fall. Personally I live around the scablands of the northern US and just under what would have been three miles of ice.. so after a 40 years of study I think it's OK to point out that that was a thourfare and as I said look the fringes everywhere..thing's to find and the question remains...I don't know the answer just making observations built on 50 years of looking.

[@johnp139]

What? What’s your point?

[@traileats]

I get his point perfectly, and I'm glad he said it, because I was thinking the same thing.

[@leenewsom7517]

They do say it was a regular path, like the "Vikings' highway."

[@mwallace2922]

👍👍👍

[@scottowens1535]

@@mwallace2922 Aces

[@alcenofolchini6971]

Thanks for those people we are alive today

[@lukesutton8918]

It’s incredible these items have been frozen for hundreds to thousands of years, it’s remarkable and fantastic they are being discovered, interesting that the narrative is about the ice being melted so now these items are being found. Wouldn’t that mean that ice wasn’t there when they became frozen over in the first place? Ie it was just rocks and ground where these items were left that then froze over to preserve these items?

[@jordrand7776]

If the snow and ice were not there when items were lost they would have been exposed to the elements and deteriorated badly right after being lost. Textiles and leather items would have rotted away within a few years, shafts of arrows would have dried up or rotted quickly and not still be attached to the arrow heads. Also, there would not have been a need for horses to have snowshoes.

[@HenrikBergpianorganist]

There would've been ice, and every year new layers of snow would've slowly been compressed to dense glacier ice. But now that the ice melts objects will obviously sink down to the ground.

[@boristabacsplatt6609]

How amazing to find all those artifacts under the melting glacier. Same is happening in other places in Europe as global temperatures rise. Perhaps there is their a quasi-cyclic climate pattern? ~1BC Roman Warm Period, ~1000AD Medieval Warm Period, 2 ,000AD Modern Warm Period.

[@rolandjung9337]

Yes, exactly! But they are not going to tell us because that would crush their climate change agenda! There is lots of evidence that the climate on earth changes periodicly and the warm periods have always been heydays for mankind.

[@hibye671]

Way too short! Amazing finds

[@Jeder_Tag_ist_Yoga_Tag]

The same situation, here in austria - we are studying glaciers at the „institut für archäologien“ in Innsbruck ! Your finds are stunning!

[@ronnie7075]

Great video. I love this sort of thing. Cheers from Australia.

[@ADobbin1]

Which would indicate the glaciers weren't there when the vikings were and it was once warmer than it is today.

[@TruthFiction]

No, that's not what it indicates at all. Visit somewhere with snow and you will understand.

[@jimthain8777]

The guy at the end is right, it's very bittersweet. You lose the ice, and gain artifacts.

[@rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel]

Why is it bittersweet?

[@terribletablevods862]

@@rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel well i would explain it to you, but with a name "rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel" i don't think you'd understand or accept it

[@donaldduck830]

Nothing bitter about it. The glaciers are mostly dead and we are allegedly descendants of monkeys from the savannahs of Africa. Either way, culture thrived during the Viking age (medieval warm times) and then population collapsed during the mini ice age. So certainly warm climate is good for us.

[@baneverything5580]

LOL! Insanity...

[@thebritishbookworm2649]

This proves it was warmer 2000 years ago.

[@sandrakisch3600]

What an exciting expedition to save these artifacts. ❤

[@jordanyeager9220]

This would be such an amazing job to have. We are definitely gonna find more things like this soon.

[@FredrikSkievan]

No one is saying there weren't any ice there during the viking age. 3:59 shows what it would've looked like back then.

[@Oinnelstan]

The "viking age" is considered to be the period between AD 793 and AD 1066, during what is known as the Medieval Warm Period, which followed on from the Roman Warn Period, which followed on from the Minoan Warm Period. It's almost like life and civilisation benefit from warm weather. 🤔

[@FredrikSkievan]

@@Oinnelstan It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt. If you’re implying that the glacier suddenly vanished and somehow appeared again in the span of 1000 years then you are trippin. The glacier is what made the route an option in the first place.

[@Oinnelstan]

@@FredrikSkievanSea levels were higher during the Medieval Warm Period. Why? Less polar ice coverage. This is consistent with paleological data from Greenland, Iceland (flora and fauna types, distribution) etc. Yes, some glaciers do seem to retreat at a leisurely pace, but as your use of the word "can" indicates, some glaciers retreat very swiftly indeed! The wheels are starting to fall off the anthropomorphically caused CO2 driven global warming nonsense. It's a cult, nothing more. For those that believe the CO2 nonsense (and wish to make a positive contribution), turn off your computers, phones etc. and disconnect from the internet, as the infrastructure required to power it all is now one of the single largest consumers of electricity in the world! Yes, all this data is but naught more than electrons. But, hey, the likelihood of my words changing your mind is just as astronomically small as yours changing mine, so we continue to polarise and tribalise until the inevitable happens. The weather is starting to warm up here in Tasmania, the grass is growing tall, the bees are abuzzing. Earth awakens from her cold slumber once more. Be well.

[@mattharvey515]

@@FredrikSkievan You said, "It can take tens of thousands of years for a glacier to melt." That is totally untrue, a glacier can melt in less than 100 years. Many have receded dramatically since the late 1800's. See my c*annel.

[@bnewellz]

So that glacier was formed after or during the Viking era. Does that mean it was warmer before that era? That would explain how the Romans could have vineyards in Britain in the first millennia AD.

[@rolandjung9337]

Carnuntum was a large Roman trading city in todays northern Austria, due to analysis of flower pollen and cave stalactites they could figure out that the climate was 3 to 4 degrees warmer until the 2nd century AD. But they are refusing to make a propper conclusion and avoid to question the climate change agenda!

[@Duckaneer2260]

Thank you for your hard work.

[@boyishsportsman]

appreciate your hard work. 💯

[@DesolateSolace]

As a viking reenactor Im excited to learn more about what they found!

[@markoconnor1691]

So, do you break into houses, kill the strongest and take the rest for slaves?

[@WishInvrborn]

I was getting sick of the news... This is nice...

[@universaltruth9988]

Think of those 'who are the news' RIP

[@WishInvrborn]

@@universaltruth9988 i do... That is why im sick... Sad...

[@barbaramadden259]

Amazing to watch. Thank you

[@honestj820]

Hello 👋 how are you doing today..?

[@AirPut1]

Good job BBC on reporting this. As a yank I truly enjoy your reporting and the news your share it broadens my world.

[@randomuniquehandle]

The amount of comments thinking they can disprove climate change because the items were found at the 'bottom" of the melting ice has me 💀

[@Yowzoe]

yes, it's getting worse. Today I open Twitter or "X" for the first time in a year, and the amount of confident stupidity in every single post was depressing and crazy-making.

[@nicobrits5111]

@@Yowzoe No, we just know our history about Vikings farming on Greenland and vineyards in England and a little ice age. Asking ourselves what is the normal temperature of the Earth and how do you know that? Then we activate that Betz cells in the cerebral cortex and ask, does this climate change story add up or no? If it gets hotter it is 'climate change" if it gets colder it is also 'climate change'. Then we ask ourselves why are ocean front properties so expensive? If they will be flooded in a few years. You think one will be able to pick them up for next to nothing, weird isn't it? We also ask ourselves why is mainstream media beating this climate change drum so incessantly. It is in almost everything they put forth.

[@Yowzoe]

@@nicobrits5111 I think you should get off X and listen to the scientists. You may first have to learn about the scientific method.

[@Yowzoe]

@@ammocan2796 You'd fit in very well in pre-Enlightenment times.

[@Yowzoe]

@@ammocan2796 I think you aren't even aware of what "the Enlightenment" is -- am I wrong? But you're in good company with all the smug morons in history, and definitely the current cult of the orange Jesus: anti-science, anti-truth, anti-human.

[@longblacktrain411]

Hopefully you have saved the GPS location of each item for a macro analysis. Very good work.

[@cliffwit]

A very interesting and important history video Thank you.

[@judyklein3221]

Fascinating artifacts melting out of the ice!💕

[@blizzard5657]

I am pretty sure that they weren't worried about global warming during the beginning of the minimum ice age, I am surprised that anything lasted under the weight of the moving glacier as it crushed everything else, where I live in WA, around Perth, it's all sand, but up north there are dinosaur foot prints in rock formations next to the coast, it makes you wonder to what extremes that the global temperatures have changed so rapidly in the past,

[@kokobedima]

it was after ice age, they said oldest finds are 1800+ years old

[@vice.nor.virtue]

This isn't a glacier. It's a stationary patch of ice

[@johnp139]

Idiot

[@yodieyuh6077]

​@@kokobedima We're in an interglacial period of an ice age. Once we move to a greenhouse state with no permanent ice year round the ice age will be over.

[@olgahein4384]

@@kokobedima They are talking about the little ice age or mini ice age that Europe experienced about 700 years ago. While there were a few significant temperature drops before that, it did overall become way colder in the 14th century and stayed till the 19th century. Then it gradually started to warm up and kinda went into high speed heating shortly after.

[@brookswilson1072]

What they don't mention is that when those artifacts were first "left" there, no ice was present either. Climate is always changing; it runs in cycles, but there have been warmer periods than the present.

[@molybdomancer195]

The snow shoes for the horses would say you’re wrong

[@olgahein4384]

@@molybdomancer195 There is difference between snow and ice. They did have winters there too. It snowed. Glaciers are a different thing. Have people never heard of the 'little ice age' of the middle ages? Temperatures dropped significantly around the time those things were dropped. Christianity was so successful in the early medieval times partly because of this. Not saying there were no Glaciers at all, but they were probably even smaller than they are nowadays.

[@kingranches]

The problem with you're climate denying theory is that you PURPOSELY leave out the UNDENIABLE FACT that they found SNOWHOES the horses were wearing at the time. meaning SNOW then, NO snow now, meaning COLDER then, warmer NOW. its as simple as that and THAT, CANT be argued.

[@brookswilson1072]

I am not denying climate change. I was pointing out that during different periods of the past where the climate has been warmer than it is now. Climate has its' ups and downs temperature wise and the human factor is miniscule. When the horse snow shoes were initially "dropped" in that location there may have been snow on the ground, but not to the depth it was later as it was buried by subsequent snows and freezing. They have recently come to light again after possibly numerous thawings. I suggest that we don't know how many climate cycles the snowshoes have been through. This climate change thing is a very convenient way for governments to weaponize same for purposes of control of their populaces.

[@streuthmonkey1]

@@kingranches There is snow there now moron.

[@Akmundra1]

OMG, I want to be there and help! Have Archeological digging experience, and need to go to Norway for my "tour of ancestors"! Such beautiful artifacts! I'm geeked!

[@markg1490]

This is very cool. Thank you for sharing

[@a.w.thompson4001]

It's terrifying, but the retreat of the glaciers is uncovering a wealth of fascinating history.

[@johnsmith-if6yc]

glaciers move back and forth... it is not really surprising. the myth of man made climate change is exposed as a fraud once again

[@timpowers6127]

Not so long ago the ice was not in the places we have become used to seeing it.

[@aubreymorris9183]

What is terrifying is how many people have fallen for the global warming scam.

[@channel1_channel]

The tree line used to be closer to the north pole. Terrifying.

[@rushlimbaughrevolutionchannel]

Why is this terrifying?

[@conifergreen2]

We are still coming out of the last ice age. The Greenland ice sheet and the poles and glaciers will continue to melt until the cycle completes and the ice age returns. We should expect to find more great artifacts.

[@Krytern]

Unfortunately human activity is speeding up this cycle.

[@mikespurg8006]

​@@Kryternno one knows how much, bogus nonsense, maybe 5% or less. Models lack robust data input.

[@lewis0705]

@@mikespurg8006except we do know. yet the giant corporations and morons like you say "nO oNe KnOwS" to make themselves feel better

[@rolithesecond]

@@mikespurg8006 unlikely, and even 5 % would potentially be more than enough. The "modern world" that economies live on is set in the now, people's livelihoods and food situation is not comforted by the possibility of this having occurred before many thousands of years ago. We have to find ways to mitigate, slow down, adapt, deal with it.

[@joey1291]

I guess you are a climate change denier.....if you are ... we should be friend.

[@jeanellesmith7783]

I love this! Some I get scared went I watch the countdown I and realize how much I need to do before the holiday. My daughter and I love it still. A good reminder to be good.

[@ticklefritz5406]

Awesome finds, great video. When the Wikings were using this pass the snow/ice pack must have been similar to today?

[@catherinepalun972]

Very sad, but on the other hand very informative finds.🙏👏🇦🇺

[@Spritsailor]

What's sad?

[@lachlanwhittle]

​@@Spritsailorthe implication is that these items haven't been found before because the ice has never melted this much before.

[@Spritsailor]

@@lachlanwhittle They haven't been found prior to now because it was iced over since the artifacts were left there in times past, proving that in the past there was no ice! There was a forest in Alaska where the Mendenhall glacier is now 2000 years ago. There was no glacier in the Swiss Alps where the Rhone glacier is now 2000 years ago.

[@lachlanwhittle]

@@Spritsailor Fascinating! Is that because the glacier has migrated or because the entire glacier has built up in that 2000 years. I am more than happy to admit I know very little about glaciers.

[@Spritsailor]

@@lachlanwhittle The glaciers have formed since then.

[@tukbol1]

Can you imagine what lies beneath Antartica?

[@danielfence189]

Oil

[@TruthFiction]

Fossils. And temples to the old ones. Don't even think about excavating there.

[@maeve4686]

I'm looking at the rock formations & those with continuous fold lines. Amazing !

[@ronaldatkinson2051]

Awesome finds. People today act as if ancient people were not very smart. They will likely ignore finds like these. Life was hard but their perseverance and ingenuity paid off.

[@Sjb-on5xt]

So there was a path the Vikings used only now being revealed from the melting ice. Doesn't that prove it was warmer in the past?

[@sH-ed5yf]

In this area. A bit yes. But dont confuse local warm periods and global temperatures

[@Sjb-on5xt]

@@sH-ed5yf 75% of global weather stations are inside urban heat islands.

[@sH-ed5yf]

@@Sjb-on5xt that argument is utter trash and completly taken by climate change deniers. Cause you didnt checken that yourself right, but I heard thst excact number by oil industrie funded papers 😉. In fact this is wrong. Also even if it would be irrelevant. We mesure global temperatures nowdays far more accurate by satalite and wether ballons. Scientist know what they are doing and they are aware of urban heat Islands. Stop thinking you know better than actuall experts

[@user-hn7my8ow4s]

LOL Yes but the past record of temperature comparisons comes from those heat islands. So what if the climate warms? It has been warmer than it is today many, many times. Educate yourself Leftist. @@sH-ed5yf

[@AnnaSchoneveld]

@@sH-ed5yf No the same has been found at many locations all over the world. This is not a unique occurrence at all.

[@dbz9393]

Surely if the glaciers are melting and revealing viking artefacts from long ago that SURELY means that the earth heating up and cooling down is a completely normal thing? How else would they have got there if the glaciers didn't exist before hand?

[@jellekastelein7316]

Of course the climate does have natural variability. But the climate change that people are worried about is demonstrably man made, extremely rapid, and it will likely be far more extensive than anything humans have seen over the entire historical record. Moreover it is compounding multiple other ecological crises that we are also causing at the same time. We're setting ourselves up for a massive slow motion catastrophe.

[@dbz9393]

@@jellekastelein7316 how do we know the climate change wasn't rapid 1000 years ago?

[@jellekastelein7316]

@@dbz9393 The field of paleoclimatology has been researching that topic for a couple of decades now. For example, see "Proxy-based reconstructions of hemispheric and global surface temperature variations over the past two millennia" published in PNAS (there are many such studies, this is just an example that is open access; the IPCC has a summary of this kind of work in their big climate change reports).

[@lara_xy]

So interesting! If I ever travel to Norway I want to see that museum

[@Joe-B1]

What an amazing job and I would love to take part in this.

[@zummo61]

Interesting that many of the artifacts were there before the ice, so that is indicative of some significant climate shifts in the past.

[@lamarw7757]

Try to get that across to the climate nut bags.

[@aninewforest]

@zummo61 What do you think they were left before the ice? It's the snow and ice at the time that preserved them, but they finally emerge now the ice is receeding.

[@Gigi-qm2oy]

Wow! It’s very sad to see the ice sheets melting. But I’m intrigued and amazed at the finds. Is there a way you can volunteer to work on such amazing projects as this??

[@burnsmatkin9606]

You fail to realize that the ice sheets were not there when the viking artifacts were laid down. This means the entire global warming nonsense is indeed a scam. Are you cognizant enough to realize this?

[@donaldduck830]

"Sad" only because a few bad people told you to be sad. We should be glad to see the glaciers melting. It was warmer than today during the height of the Viking times. Then came the terrible mini ice age and the cold, combined with the plague, wiped out two thirds of the inhabitants of Norway so that the political structures collapsed. Maybe a little global warming is good for a bunch of creatures that came out of the African savannah.

[@ahaveland]

Sad because people cannot just pack up and move from the coasts like they could do thousands of years ago.. Sad for millions more reasons - the creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate, including us. The displacement of hundreds of millions of people, and decline in agricultural productivity will be very ugly, and it is happening already.

[@donaldduck830]

@@ahaveland "creatures that have evolved to depend on a stable climate" Nope. All creatures have evolved to adapt to their surroundings. The climate has changed for all of time. In the past climate changed far quicker than it does today. Your statement is so wrong, it is not even close to being a foul ball. It is not even close to the stadium. It is like you play ball in the basement of your momma's house.

[@ahaveland]

@@donaldduck830 Stupid denier. Because of our emissions, climate is changing 50x faster now than it did in the P-T extinction event 251 million years ago. That took around 50,000 years. We're doing the same in 200 years. Evolution can adapt over thousands of years, but not in a geological blink of an eye.

[@brentwalker8596]

That tunic is incredible.

[@charleneblake1146]

It is really amazing what artifacts can be found nearly anywhere in the world🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@pattiwhite9575]

I am shocked that horses walked there. Such big rocks to have to travest. Even with snow they could punch through it do to weight and get a leg stuck. Ouch! I am so excited for the finds now. Also, in Greenland ice has melted and they are finding great old stuff.

[@julianshepherd2038]

They'd be small horses by modern standards.

[@kikidevine694]

Small, sturdy beasts, and experienced riders. Slow and steady

[@FredrikSkievan]

Under the snow there was ice so it would've been very easy to traverse.

[@jamesmorrison3484]

The horses had skis too.

[@nnnnccc]

If you watch the video it does show a horse snow-shoe that was found. Maybe they were also to prevent the horses hooves going down into rock crevices. Maybe they were rock-shoes rather than snow-shoes.

[@DrownedLamp]

That's fascinating, amazing...but also depressing. Great job preserving the history. Most of us won't save the world, but that doesn't mean u can't make a difference helping it.

[@brettmalcolm2786]

So interesting that temperatures were warmer so long ago then covered with ice. Fascinating.

[@bigusdickus3068]

"this fence has been laying here for one thousand five hundred years" then he says "this ice has been here for seven thousand years"

[@saltsea9499]

Let me get this straight, there was an interglacial period less than a thousand years ago that was warmer then now, and allowed the vikings to cross this area on foot. I am flabbergasted.

[@jasonotto9126]

Yes. The earth's temperature has fluctuated wildly for billions of years but this time its our fault now pay the government more money to stop it 😂

[@user-hn7my8ow4s]

LOL@@jasonotto9126

[@johnp139]

Did they say that? Idiot

[@mwallace2922]

👍👍

[@markberryhill2715]

Most excellent. I get the same feeling as the last guy when I find Native American artifacts on our farm. 🚜 It's been hundreds,maybe thousands of years since anyone has seen them.

[@anyascelticcreations]

I agree, beautiful. And sad.

[@mk1jack]

This is so bittersweet

[@TJackSurvival]

The snow has been there for 7,000 years which is impressive. But what made them think it would never melt, ever?

[@Yowzoe]

of course it will melt. The problem is the *acceleration* of the speed of the melt because of human-caused climate change. The speed of the transition is like nothing ever before, and the earth's flora and fauna are not able to keep up, with disastrous results in about 1000 different ways for not only humans but for all living things…which our descendants will have to deal with thanks to *some* people now sticking their heads in the sand.

[@HubertofLiege]

Every 12,000 years for millenia

[@vuchaser99]

​@willf5442 and what rate is that? There were two glacial melting surges that increased sea levels by 200 meters around 16000 to 10000 years ago. The rate now is a a few mm to cm a year depending mostly on local rise/rebound or ground sinking.

[@donaldduck830]

Actually it has not, possibly. maybe most of it has only been there for less than a thousand years. They recently dated the Tibetan glaciers with a new method and found that they are way younger than originally thought.

[@streuthmonkey1]

@@willf5442 Slower than in the past. What is there to worry about?

[@Cats_and_Chaos]

1700 years+. And the stuff from Primark doesn't even last until the next season.😶

[@michaelpelletier4515]

Fascinating work !

[@wheelie63]

what a spectacular place ...............i wish i could be there with them ..............