Mythical Figures That May Actually Have Existed

[@GrungeHQ]

What other mythical figures do you think could have joined this list?

[@keithewright]

King Arthur

[@atomicwolfisabot1165]

Grunge amazons Were not imortle they were demi gods

[@griffinhealy5048]

Grunge God?

[@AtotehZ]

King Arthur was definitely real.

[@pierrepero9338]

Atlantis - possibly being either the Greek island of Santornini or the spanish nature reserve of Donana

[@JWonn]

A few things here: 1. I've yet to meet anyone who thinks that Viking Berserkers were mythical. 2. As others have pointed out, Noah's flood story is very similiar to the Epic of Gilgamesh. There is no flood in the Iliad or any story related to Agamemnon. I think you are confused mate. 3. The Amazons of DC comics and wonder woman, are only loosely based on the Amazons of Greek Mythology. The Amazons of Greek mythology have no magical powers, they are simply fierce female warriors of a matriarchal society. 4. It's almost criminal to do a list of mythical figure who may have actually existed and not mention King Arthur, John Henry, or giant squid/Kraken?

[@d_fendr6222]

+prolet kult Really? What parts about him were mythical, and did he beat the machine? Or was that fiction too?

[@0Heeroyuy01]

"3. The Amazons of DC comics and wonder woman, are only loosely based on the Amazons of Greek Mythology. The Amazons of Greek mythology have no magical powers, they are simply fierce female warriors of a matriarchal society. " to be fair in wonder womans old origins he power came from her gantlets,her tiara,her lasso,and i think he chest plate

[@JWonn]

Ahh, okay, that makes a lot of sense actually. I remember when she used to fly around in an invisible jet, until the writers decided to just give her flying powers at some point.

[@JWonn]

While most academics believe John Henry was a real person or based on a real person they disagree on who and where. Some say the famous race with the steam drill happened in West Virginia, others say Virginia, and yet others Alabama or Kentucky. Certainly he couldn't have died in four different places.

[@d_fendr6222]

True. John Henry was my favorite childhood legend. Thanks!

[@tyrssen1]

The Vikings were also farmers, craftsmen, and tradesmen.

[@carlhassler5336]

Viking was a profession or a vocation, not a people. Norsemen were farmers, and traders, and some craftsmen (but mostly farmers and fishers) and some who went of raiding when they got the chance or when they had few better options. Then they were Vikings.

[@tyrssen1]

Quite right, Carl. So many people these days tend to think of all ancient Norse peoples as "Vikings" that it's become sort of a generic term, albeit an incorrect one.

[@sarahgray430]

Properly speaking, they are called Norsemen or Northern Europeans, and they are still here!

[@Neytirihime]

I do believe I read once that the term "Viking" literally means "raider" or "adventurer" I can't remember where, when or which term, I can't confirm the source, but makes sense to me

[@tyrssen1]

Essentially correct, in practice at least (I'm not a linguist, so I can't speculate on that aspect.) I gather that if the people they encountered were well-prepared, they came as traders; if they were slack, and didn't keep watchfires lit, the Vikings came as raiders. And of course, since they kept a lot of gold in monasteries back then, they made terrific targets of opportunity, as well.

[@formidablefoe5339]

Too much historical ignorance.... I... can't... handle!!!

[@hoogerman8]

okay I get your point but Vikings were also shrewd merchants, craftspeople, explorers navigators and seafarers... ... but they did their fair share of pillage and plunder :) they *really* sucked at farming tho~

[@contrafax]

Or was it the climate?

[@G1806]

@@contrafax 👌😂

[@kirstyferguson6645]

Berserkir were "filled" by the spirit of the bear. They were some of the most spiritual people you would find. Their were also Úlfhéđnar who followed the spirit of the wolf and were said to be the soldiers of Ođhinn. They would wear pelts of their respective spirit animal and call upon their strength in battle. And if you encountered one of these who also followed Fenris, I wish you luck because you would need it.

[@rowan3209]

In "The Silmarillion" by J.R.R. Tolkien, the Atlantis myth is retold as the downfall of "Númenor". The Númenoreans were a great and long-lived race of humans, not elves.

[@sarahgray430]

What they didn't mention was that the berserker "myth" was not just restricted to the Viking age, because my father-in-law was a "Cuckoo" in the Talvi Sota and in WWII. He was a small man, but he had berserker-type strength and speed, and could literally shred men much bigger than himself. The Nazis invented methamphetamines in an attempt to give their own soldiers similar powers, but abandoned the project when they found their gakked-out storm troopers too difficult to control!

[@zbiboazizo]

"Decimated" means "to kill one-tenth of".

[@donfelipe7510]

I thought the exact same thing, something being decimated isn't really an earth shattering disaster.

[@capuletrose4819]

What you said about the Viking is wrong. I don't mean the bit about the berserkers. I mean when you said all they did is kill and raid. The vikings where travellers and great traders. Sure they did raid but that's not all they did. Not only that but vikings valued land. They didn't just do all that travelling and sailing to find new places to raid. They wanted to find land to farm and settle in. They lived in hard and harsh lands.

[@sorincalub7830]

I'm sorry did you say the Amazonian were in the Amazon rain forest?

[@juiweiYang2000]

I am just thinking, won't it be cool if ur mum is an Amazonian woman? Unlike most other people's mum, ur mum would be a tough bad ass. That is pretty cool. (but u won't want ur girl friend to be Amazonian woman though, not unless u are super tough urself, ha ha ha :D )

[@sorincalub7830]

I have no idea whatsoever how that has anything to deal with my comment, unless it was a really bad insult?

[@juiweiYang2000]

Come on, u can't denier it would be so cool if ur mum is a tough bad ass.

[@andrews5147]

Deny*

[@juiweiYang2000]

Oh come on, it be so cool if ur mum is like...a female version of Jackie Chan that can kick everybody's ass.

[@raymondreno6025]

i could've sworn they found Sodom and Gomorrah. ...

[@d_fendr6222]

Well we have found possible locations for them. It is not for sure, however.

[@elijahtiner5691]

Kevin Mayberry they have and I've seen it

[@57JustFun]

watch the history channel, they are pretty sure they found Sodom and Gommorah

[@57JustFun]

The high salt content is due to being below sea level and the end of the Jordan river. No place for deposits to go anywhere. Nothing to do with Lot's wife.

[@d_fendr6222]

The ancient Greek historiographer Strabo states that locals living near Moasada (as opposed to Masada) say that "there were once thirteen inhabited cities in that region of which Sodom was the metropolis". Strabo identifies a limestone and salt hill at the south western tip of the Dead Sea, and Kharbet Usdum ruins nearby as the site of biblical Sodom.

[@donfelipe7510]

I watched an interesting documentary not long ago which made a compelling case that what is today the Caspian Sea and the Aral Sea were once part of a large wetland that extended for hundreds of miles with navigable routes though, the presenter visited modern day Turkmenistan and saw ancient fortified towns on what appeared to have once been cliffs that had been eroded by water but is now barren desert. He surmised that stories such as 'Jason and the Argonauts' and their journey to distant lands may have sailed this kind of route and even ended up in what is now Afghanistan all by boat.

[@Fenris77]

Well, berserkers meaning "bearshirt" was one of two warrior societies the other one being the Ulfsharks meaning wolfshirt. Neither was seen as villainous rather the contrary (To norse people anyway)...

[@emilypaxton5601]

Well, Agamemnon was already on my to-read list, but it just got moved up significantly! LOVE your videos. They're so interesting, and I appreciate being able to learn things while completely slacking off!

[@spacepiratecaptainrush1237]

Berserkers were real, but there is a lot of evidence they were not as a whole rage filled or intoxicated. Archaeology would suggest they were more akin to a chosen worrier of a lord or king. An equivalent to a man at arms or champion who would fight in the name of their patron and the symbol of their status was a Bearskin, Berserk actually translates to "Bear Shirt"

[@helloimapotato251]

In Bulgaria we have samodivi. They are immortal women who lived in the forests and in the night they come out and people describe them as shining brighter than the moon itself and they search for a man every night so he can play an instrument and in the end, they eat him alive. If they find a woman, they would make her one of them. It's very interesting. I suggest you to check it out. :)

[@Solitaryman38]

For those who think The flood was either a myth or ripped off from Gilgamesh read Genesis ch. 6, The Apocryphal books of Enoch , Jasher and Jubliees to get the full story and the real picture.

[@57JustFun]

If the flood happened only 4-6 thousand years ago which means the Himalayans were in place. Do you honestly believe that Mt Everest was under water. This amount of water would be 3 times the amount of water in the ocean. Where did all the water come from, let alone where did it go after the flooding ended. An response of God took it away is not a valid answer. Please provide a plausible scientific answer.

[@Desiresinmind]

The Vikings were actually the more or less original citizen soldiers who were more farmer/sailors in search of property they could work. They just had an extreme way of doing it. Also those 'Zerks smoked something that I can't recall the name of before going into battle that had the same symptoms of what "angel dust" has, so a modern guy when dusted can throw half a dozen cops trying to cuff him and BREAK the cuffs and kick a squad car door off its' hinges, well, a trained warrior type would be even more intense, especially wielding a waraxe or mace. I am wondering: these Vikings were inquisitive folk and learned some of the lingo of the peoples they raided, so if a Viking guy were to ask one of those captives that they occasionally took "What do you think of us?" and the reply were to be that they were a bunch of devils, then the next question being "What is a devil?" with the answer being an evil being, the Horned one. Could said Viking have gotten the idea to maybe attach a stags' antler to his headgear to do an impression of being this scary Devil on a subsequent raiding party? Perhaps the guy might learn also, that having projections on a helmet may be a bad idea as striking the helmet at the horn may direct more of the blow onto the head making more of a wallop and the horns might be like a handle to grab and throw the fellow to the ground. Guess that is why the Minnesota Vikings have only painted ones on their helmets.

[@donfelipe7510]

The word 'Berserker' is one of the most often misinterpreted things about ancient Scandinavian culture. Loosely translated it just means "bear skin wearer" and most wealthy lords would have them in their retinue. The reason they wore bear skins was to mark them out as being higher status than the average warrior. A 'Beserker' was simply the lord's champion who would fight his duels or one on one combat for him and other such duties. Thinking practically too, why would you want to go into battle tripping off your tits on magic mushrooms, you would be cut down in an instant if you weren't already a gibbering hallucinating mess. 'Berserkers' were highly skilled and regarded warriors certainly and such men might seem to do the incredible in combat and that's how they became mythical characters.

[@christinarentfro745]

It kills me when people acknowledge something out of one book but not the same story out of another. Prime example: the koron, Bible and Jewish texts are all based on the same stories. The Bible is basically the Jewish texts with extra stories and the koron is basically the Bible with added stories. Islam, Christianity, and Judaism are all based on the same religion. It has merely morphed over time into different sects with slightly different beliefs and values. We learned this in my 7th or 8h grade history class if I recall the grade correctly. I've always found the begrudging between these religions a little humorous when you look at their origins.

[@barredok]

Real badass figure. The unknown berserker whom held Stamford Bridge for an hour against the Saxon soldiers. Before a boat of soldiers impaled him from under the bridge.

[@juliemckenzie5960]

The flood of Noah is not a myth! There is world wide archaeological evidence that supports the historical flood and before someone brings up Gilgamesh, Gilgamesh also called Nimrod was the great-grandson of Noah.

[@landonmiles97]

Julie McKenzie not to mention the fact that the Bible is not a mythological tale.

[@devondesan2693]

actualy just a random thing, berserkers were most likely just normal warrior's that the vikings fed up, got drunk and clothed them in so much leather that they were practicaly invulnerable, for then to send them at the enemy. basicaly sent in to die, but also to take a few down with them

[@Ajai666]

Long before the story o the flood in Greek literature, the people of Mesopotamia, Specifically the city of Ur had a flood myth in the Epic of Gilgamesh (circa 5,000 to 10,000 BCE). That story parallels the story of Noah in the bible almost to the letter (except for names). It wouldn't even take a bright copyright layer to accused the writers of the old testament (Torah) with plagiarism.

[@ricya1982]

Ajai Singh Khlasa truth!

[@spadecpc]

I think you left out one of the important facts about the Vikings. They were big on trade. Very big.

[@dragonfire810]

Evil Fantasy Creatures please 10 . Skeksis 9. Uruk Hai 8.Ogres 7.Orcs 6.Gremlins 5.Goblins 4. Kappas 3.Grindylows 2. Banshees 1. Red Caps

[@sidkemp4672]

I think the Japanese Ninja were much more likely to be real and developed more powers and skills than many on this list. Hiring a bodyguard, I'd choose a ninja over an Amazonian. Speaking of Amazonians, it would be useful to say that the Amazonians were found near Greece, in Eurasia, and nowhere near South America, where the Amazon river flows.

[@Oberonjames]

Ninja aren't mythical. They were definitely real. They were also mostly spies, not bodyguards. Guarding the mobility would have been a Samurai's job.

[@sidkemp4672]

Exactly the point. There are plenty of myths about ninja, but they are not mythical. That places them in the same category as the Berserkers.

[@jonathandee262]

In the Philippines, they had the ''kinalakihan'' warrior women who would fight southeast Asian plunderers and Chinese pirates

[@SMunro]

Minotaur was Mkun Otar Kuar or Crown Prince Otar Mkun. Merlin was Mkuarlkun or McCulkin. Agamemnon was Argarmkumnon. Arg (silver)+arm+kumnon. Silver Armed Kumnon

[@DonnaBrooks]

The earliest written story was _The Epic of Gilgamesh_, not _Agamemnon_. In his quest for immortality, Gilgamesh searches for and finds a couple who survived an apocalyptic flood by the favor of the gods. But, yeah, there are stories from a number of Mesopotamian cultures about a catastrophic flood.

[@LoneEditor]

Don't forget Vikings were explorers who discovered many places before any discovers

[@mannerchannel7540]

Is this Dash star?

[@lordarnold8524]

exactly what i was wondering myself

[@docilecrocodile6362]

ikr

[@chasethenerd2446]

Manner Channel I know right.

[@MrShiki1134]

feel the force..... its strong in this video....

[@benplummer7753]

Yeah, it's Dash. Mitch lends his voice to channels like this and Looper from time to time. A bit out of his element, but it is what it is.

[@capngenie8724]

It is believed that the Beserkers would eat magic mushrooms before battle, which help them in their "rages". that is what he meant by drugs. Shrooms were also used in communication of the gods. I talked to Odin once in a peyote trip, but I think I was just tripping.

[@jainamaden156]

That's not true. The mushroom in question could kill in high dosage and makes you more delusional and sedated.

[@christophercole5219]

Berserkers were named so because of their bear skin cloaks. The Amazon legend was based upon Scythian women who were warriors, as were Celtic women in certain cases

[@georgiaayres5805]

I would like to see Grunge do an episode on Rogue Waves.

[@CraftySouthpaw]

3:25 - "...a female-lead crossover with '300'..." Huh? Wasn't that the sequel?

[@mattisnilsson1118]

-Mr. Dash it is allways funny to here you talk about other things then a gallaxy far far away :D

[@nicholasmorgan7609]

What about the reference to the Great Flood in the Epic of Gilgamesh, when he went to seek immortality from the survivor? You know, the earliest written anything found?

[@MetteLentz]

Oi, Vikings did a lot more than violence. They were traders, Merchants and discovers. According to history, Vikings were the first to arrive to America. They were incredible craftsmen as we can see in the boats. Yes they did the other things to, but they were SO much more.....Also, Viking helmets did NOT have horns.....that's an historical Error.

[@starhunterterra9849]

INTERESTING VIDEO, I AGREE THAT SOME OF THESE MYTHS HAVE A BASE IN REALITY.

[@BagelBunny]

Love the Video ! Full of stories my Grammy used to tell me.....but unable to watch very much of it due to your extremely irritating choice of "music". Your narrator has excellent diction and would have been enough.

[@ThatOldMan2112]

You have the berserkers wrong, or at least what fueled them. You see, in the Norse Mythos, ones life skein is already woven before birth. They believed that when it was their time to die, they would die. Nothing could prevent that, but then nothing could kill them before that time. The result was a psychologically fearless warrior. When fighting, other warriors were used to an opponent having a measure of fear, and thus being at least half defensive in style. The berserker had no fear, thus his fighting style was pure attack. They were not really berserk, but pure attack style must have made them seem that way.

[@brionypeach1350]

"the fact that they were in graves disproves they were immortal " no.. it disproves that they were invincible, immortal means time wont kill them, invincibility means they cannot be harmed

[@cheshirekat3050]

About half of these aren't even characters; they're events (ex: the Great Flood), or places (ex: Atlantis ). As for Sodom and Gomorrah , around 4,000 years ago on the Lisan Peninsula (a geologically active area), the locals' economy relied heavily on the mining of large, local deposits of Bitumen (which is highly flammable). You can probably guess what happened to them. Or it could have been that meteor which hit Mesopotamia around 2,200 BCE.

[@patience4086]

Dragons, mermaids, fairies, PETER PAN

[@MrMikedeel]

Agamemnon was not even close to the earliest story ever found. There were a host of literate cultures in the fertile crescent, and Egypt, and China, before the Greeks.

[@Anglo-Saxon9]

Berserkers were real but they weren't the crazy psychopaths that everyone thinks they were.

[@thedahakha]

I hope within a decade, most historians will finally agree that the flood actually happened. There's lots of evidence as provided by the writting account of a lot of ancient cultures and todays researchers. It wouldn't surprise me that humans were pretty advanced before that, but got kinda wiped out and had to start again. This explains all the extreme monoliths, temples, pyramids, the appearance of the Sumarians, etc...

[@cheshirekat3050]

(rolls eyes) At no point in the history of the human race, was there ever a global flood. Nor is it possible. Geologists have shown this, time and time again.

[@thedahakha]

Cheshire Kat there is a lot of ego involved. If you've spend your entire life learnimg and teaching something, then its hard to change. If you wanna learn more about this I suggest you listen to Randal Carlson (I believe his name is). He makes good arguments

[@d_fendr6222]

Cheshire Kat The Biblical flood wasn't global actually, it was just big enough to kill every human except Noah and his family, there weren't many people, so it would be possible

[@badsaj1]

If the flood was deep enough that only the top of a mountain was sticking up out of the water, how could it not be global? The only way apologists can defend this story is by only accepting evidence which supports their case and ignoring any evidence which disproves it, which is the opposite of science.The only real "proof" you have is millennia old religious texts.

[@d_fendr6222]

badsaj1 Sounds like someone doesn't know when the Bible is being literal or serious...

[@pennyrutter2782]

In the flood myths, I believe that the story of Gilgamesh is the oldest flood story.

[@deanfirnatine7814]

the hyperboreans were not Chinese, only a Chinese nationalist would claim that, hyperborea meant far north, it's almost universally accepted they were the Celts

[@sarahgray430]

They might have been Saami or Suomi too!

[@donfelipe7510]

Pytheas an ancient Greek explored northern Europe and even into the Baltic, they were quite aware of the frozen areas in the far north and presumably the people that lived there, though putting the pieces together on a map we would understand today was a bit beyond their skills. I doubt the Chinese at this time would have favoured coming from the north, if there was any contact between east and west during this period it would be across the steppe and via trade routes.

[@ricya1982]

China didn't exist back then...

[@leighchristopherson6598]

Noah is based on a Sumerian story about a man named Gilgamesh, not about a Mycenean king named Agamemnon.

[@maxheadroom3839]

Yeah Batman Verses Superman still can't be considered historical fiction. One the Amazons in DC are based on Greek myth but there are all kinds of differences.

[@eveningdim7167]

1:36-1:45 As a modern pagan, I can tell you that the two aren't incompatibile.

[@stevenfeduk8627]

Nice way to find stories of mythical floods, without really addressing the mythical Noah.

[@Tharsos2099]

The Hyperboreans were not the Chinese. They were the Celts. the name closely translates to "Those who live beyound the North Wins (The North Wind God Boreas to the Greek) Many of the Irish Celts Worshipped Lugh, the Celtic equivalent of Apollo.

[@WhalKun]

Hahaha! The great flood was not mentioned in “Agamemnon”, but in the Mesopotamian epic of “Gilgamesh”.

[@gubjorggisladottir3525]

There were some men who "went Berserk" in battle. The men were normal humans.

[@matthew455]

Berserkers were blessed and fueled by shrooms.

[@jainamaden156]

No, that's a myth.

[@jasperlangedijk]

Dunno about shrooms but they where doped up

[@peter-radiantpipes2800]

Wow this video bombed judging by the dislikes

[@maeveshaughnessy1198]

I am from Kazakhstan and I got some bad ass ancestors

[@FallenxAngels91]

Vikings didn't just plunder and kill and steal, they raped too, that was basically any culture I would assume from that era, but they aren't mythical figures... They was obviously real, and that's kinda obvious, and berserkers was clearly real too they and it probably wasn't because of drugs or alcohol that they was fierce, it was most likely due to the extensive training and mind-set they had and beliefs that when killed they go to Valhalla. That is what made them fiercely powerful and incredibly dangerous, it's like comparing boyscouts to navy seals. They was the seals of their era, they was the best of the best, trained more and worked harder than any other Viking, they most likely trained in different ways than the other Vikings was otherwise the other Vikings would also be berserkers but smaller and less strong, that's my opinion.

[@Warden_Vtel]

Berserker basically means bear shirt. As in they wore bear pelts. That's pretty much it.

[@Jyromi]

Lololoool" masive amounts of drug and alcohol"

[@Bramme1991]

the Amazon rainforrest and Amazon warriors have fuck all to do with eachother.

[@jeremycole1341]

If the flood like Noah there would be all fossils around the same level off all animals in the same areas that arent found. - Billy Nye

[@CrooSWanteDtm]

amazons and amazon are NOT connected in ANY FUCKING way.... amazons are a greek myth ffs!

[@astraeareminiec669]

you're wrong about the Bersekrs... their rage was inspired by Odin ,but this was admidst war only !

[@michiwonderoutdoors2282]

Try The Epic of Gilgamesh for the earliest flood stories.

[@volbound1700]

They left out King Arthur and the Trojan War. Two famous myths that we believe are now true.

[@dawg065]

also robin hood.

[@kylescheulin6852]

Epic of Gilgamesh has a flood story that's earlier

[@metalmyron]

Sodom and gamora has been found look it up

[@MrGylanThomas]

The movies you say are based on vikings are kinda more based on characters based on vikings...

[@sebablazam9562]

Is that you, Keanu Reeves from the 90’?

[@huntress1013]

You meant Gilgamesh, didn't you? Agamemnon was a king from the Iliad.

[@winkyshy2]

what?!?!?!? no unicorns?!?!?!? figures.

[@r.michaelmclellan6286]

206th! KZbin has been taken over by the children.

[@zarquondam]

I'm guessing that by "Agamemnon" the video actually means "Gilgamesh."

[@andreaslamers9535]

the berserks was only one of few tribes of human/animal mixes the berserks was the tribe of the bears, never be more than 12 on a war band. and the adrenaline makes them strong, or the wolfs quick the highest was the boars, self Hannibal told about them. they have a rare genetic condition that make them furious, categorized in DSM-III or berserker blind rage syndrome

[@jmarylastone]

I would have loved this video if you had left out the music

[@lacritzer3070]

Pretty sure the Epic of Gilgamesh predates Agamemnon

[@Madnisity]

Vikings were first traders and workers, but eventually went put to trade more. Yes they pillaged and killed, but history is making them to be a lot more violent and bad then they actually were. But yes, berserkers were what you explained... and only a small amount of the viking were berserkers ..

[@DragynryderMW]

You need to upgrade your flood mythos. Science is now sure that the end of the last ice age created sudden floods.

[@Uberjoel]

NO! Berserkers did not really exist, thats a myth form the early 1900...

[@cheshirekat3050]

Yeah; it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that alcohol doesn't give you super strength; it gives you super stupidity (and impaired vision, balance, and fine-motor skills). Also, did you notice that he didn't mention ANY specific drugs that might have given them super-strength?

[@shellbythesea12]

PCP,meth. Most likely they took some herb/ancient drug like this. It lights people up so much that even after breaking bones and being shot or stabbed they keep going if they take enough.

[@NesRuA]

Actually, given our understanding of Berserkers, they probably did exist, just not the way they seem to be portrayed nowadays. They were probably just the champions/musclemen of noblemen who wore bear shirts (berserk literally means "bear shirt").

[@Unlitedsoul]

Berserkers did exist. Emperor Constantine VII wrote about them in the 950s after having hired bands of Chrsitanized Vikings as conscripts against the Muslims. Charlemagne wrote about them in describing the Danes which defeated his several campaigns of conquest. Both Harold Godwinson and William the Conqueror had berserkers fighting for them at the Battle of Hastings. In fact, there have been graves found throughout Scandanavia of men buried with the bear pelt cloaks worn only by berserkers, along with the usual forms of weaponry.

[@Unlitedsoul]

Cheshire Kat Someone has never witnessed what happens to a man in a mood to fight who has drunk far too much. It's not as if events such as bar fights and brawls have never taken place throughout the history of mankind or anything. Alcohol has a manner of reducing inhibitions. In the case of a man hyped up on adrenaline and anger, alcohol reduces the inhibition to harm another person. Often it acts as a means of further provocation to violence. This removes someone's urge to "hold back" during a fight. An additional surge of adrenaline can aid a person's impared balance, vision, and motor skills for a brief amount of time. However, it's also been proven that individuals with a history of drunken fighting get a longer and more profound effect. Berserkers spent their lives doing mostly one thing, training for war. As for specific drugs, aminita muscaria is a hallucinogenic mushroom found throughout Europe and thrives in Scandanavia. This mushroom is known for its similarity to PCP when eaten in large amounts.

[@Fenris77]

The Bible's version of the flood is actually stolen from the epic of Gilgamesh several thousand years earlier.

[@Chuckknotts2000]

Some of these are more places than figures. I thought "figure" implied it was a person.

[@zeuziee616]

I’m from Kazakstan but now I live in Denmark :)

[@kalistagreenarch2709]

Have you ever taken a history class?

[@lyndiedayley2779]

Amazonians are not even in the rain forest and are definitely not immortal and never had any involvement with the gods

[@NamikazeKyuuga]

Does anyone know the name of the song?

[@lmbarak]

This video would have been so much better without the hideous background music...

[@dlmullins9054]

So proving myths are true by naming other myths makes it real?

[@veronikajohansson3226]

If you compare France with the vikings they would me noting the France people was so brutal

[@tetonic]

compare berserkers to dc's bane when there is wolverines infamous berserker rage. come on guy

[@Jyromi]

I heard rich people anybody men, women and children will be buried with riches and weapons as sign of status not because they were warriors.

[@jerrykline9269]

1:24 Cato from Hunger Games?!

[@craighatch5262]

The Viking Gods were and are bad asses, that's why the vikings were so bad ass!!!

[@gepardmic6003]

6:00 hmm did they find a pile of salt there to ?? :-P

[@susi1516]

I like these:Amazonia

[@patriotpioneer]

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