Vikings vs Neo-Nazis: Battling the Far Right in Sweden | Witness

Across Sweden, young Viking enthusiasts have been angered by the actions of some far-right organisations who have adopted Viking iconography to represent white supremacist propaganda. One, in particular, is the Nordic Resistance Movement, known as the NRM.
Viking enthusiast Robin Lundin is the co-founder of an association called Vikingar Mot Rasism (Vikings Against Racism, or VAR). The group was formed on Facebook to combat the conflation of Viking enthusiasm with neo-nazism, and it has more than 1,500 members.
The NRM hold a rally in Robin's hometown of Kungalv. He uses the rally as a chance to challenge one of the NRM's leaders face-to-face about their misappropriation of Viking symbols. NRM's rallies frequently become violent, but Robin remains undeterred in his bid to expose the NRM’s ignorance and reclaim his Viking identity, without being branded a neo-Nazi.
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[@rabbitazteca23]

Another point I want to make that the guy in the video pointed out perfectly. The different media such as Skyrim, the tv show vikings, etc... romanticized and changed what Vikings look like to the point modern people believe those vikings in cinema or in games are actually true to life. As he said, Vikings did not have horns until in the 1800s when the media portrayed them as such. I also heard from historians that Vikings were particularly hygienic and wore long hairs. Very cool video!

[@travishylton6976]

they were slave traders like africans why worship them

[@asakusander3007]

Finally someone who gets it! Thanks! Yeah hygiene was crucial in these times when a freakin fever could mean the end for you.

[@almarzacci8857]

99% of Scandinavia was not vikings. Small village groups. Then eventually in Russia, Germany, uk, Ireland and france. Like saying all 4 billion Asians are kung fu masters.

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Yes, the vikings were always embracing other cultures. They were so curious about other cultures, they were constantly AXing questions to the natives before they received donations for their trips.

[@mrRunist]

@@simoneidson21 It's impossible not to have a culture. Even having no culture is having the culture of no culture. And, also, you're spewing bullshit. There was certainly a viking culture and their culture was extremely violent. Go read about Ásatrú, Valhalla, hólmgonga, eingangi and then you'll see the reason for their raids.

[@mrRunist]

​@@simoneidson21 Obviously you do not follow Viking religion saying that vikings had no culture. If vikings had no culture they also would not have any religion. Of course, you do not believe that. You're just being disingenuous.

[@simoneidson21]

@@mrRunist Vikings weren't nationalists. That's what I mean. I am actually a Norse pagan.

[@mrRunist]

@@simoneidson21 So no culture means not being a nationalist? And of course they were nationalists. Just because they didn't call themselves nationalists doesn't mean that they were. If you, for example, look at the history of Iceland and the Faroe Islands from 900-1000 AD you'll see that they were very dissatisfied with being ruled by another country.

[@simoneidson21]

@@mrRunist If they were nationalist, do you think they would’ve traded with foreign people? Not wanting to be ruled by another country doesn’t make you a nationalist, it makes you patriotic.

[@sovpasaken6383]

So the teacher supposedly "destroyed" a kid in a debate, got him in trouble with the police and then hung a picture as a trophy on his classroom wall. And 30 years later he still still brags about it. I'd wager that this isn't exactly how he wanted his life to turn out but idk. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@XatxiFly]

I think the point of that clip was more that he isn't proud of it and he didn't find it an effective way to reach out to kids in that situation, something he's seemingly now dedicated to doing in a compassionate way. I'd bet he hung up a picture as a reminder of how not to change minds.

[@tvrtvr6984]

He didnt even win the debate, he just shouted and said these feel good lines. He never provided any statistics or backup evidence. As time has gone on 25 years later we can all see he was wrong. What a sad man he is celebrating winning against a young lad for 30 years.

[@sob5607]

@George Lincoln Rockwell lmao you got picture of hitler and you’re questioning about statistics?!! The whole video is evidence even if you take out the debate. You claim to know you’re facts I bet you’ve never even heard of the Sami people.

[@sob5607]

You say that like it’s a bad thing who doesn’t want to shut down a person who wants to do harm to outsiders who might not even thought of harming someone.

[@douglas_fir]

Lmao yes lets fight National Socialism, by acting like National Socialists and jailing people which inadvertently proves them right and only fuel their movement!!!! What a joke.

[@northmanjourneys]

Wake up Swedish men take your pride back

[@Gunman12]

Nation without a roots, is like a tree 🌳 without a roots

[@laitchdasi]

I have question for you .. I see and understand that you are feeling that your culture is undermined .. I have 2 questions 1 - could it be the lack of community and human connection between neighbours and people thats causing the issues? 2 - if your culture is superior should it at least have a normal peaceful way to deal with others? am honestly trying to understand you ..

[@laitchdasi]

@Heather Larson I wish average people understood the objective reasons why they are viewing it negatively .. No one wants to leave his land .. even if it's dessert .. however when countries come and give you Democracy "which clearly doesn't work" and take your oil .. throw mines in your farmland .. you kind of don't have a choice ..

[@koosbos1114]

You have Ghengis Khan looks,,,,,,not Nordic

[@laitchdasi]

@@koosbos1114 how can you tell from that distance? North Caucasus / Nakh people / today known as Chechens Never claimed to be Nordic am proud of my origins .. Chechens one of few Nations who defeated Mongols .. twice .. All their army killed .. 7 captured hands chopped and sent back to tell their leader what they saw that day .. You look like a bot ..

[@koosbos1114]

Ok,,,,, go back home then .

[@geniechoe6487]

Incredibly nice and considerate approach to a scary situation. I'm glad his adorable son and students have such an inspiring, compassionate role model!

[@fipeke]

It makes a lot of people who are interested in the viking culture discouraged to associate themselves with their unique cultural heritage. We must find a way for the rest of society to understand that we aren't racists or nazis or anything of the sort just because this culture interests us. Låt för fan inte nazisterna ta detta ifrån oss. Detta har INGENTING med nazism eller rasism att göra!

[@kellkenyon406]

The real Vikings defended their lands and kind that was very common behavior throughout Europe that also included the Celts, and the Romans who where known to commit genocide against other peoples like the Celts and it was the Germanic peoples called the Saxon who followed the old Viking gods who invaded and conquered and forcedly relocated the Celtic populations to a different part of Britain to prevent intermarriage and mixing of the two peoples much like what the later Christians did to the native Americans and this was what some would call a merciful act that allowed the Celt to remain free and to continue to exist as a people who where already Christianized at the time of their conquest by the roman empire.

[@kellkenyon406]

@Chris Kyle Genetics effects behaviors , culture , choices , adaption and long term genetic outcomes and the reason Mexicans will always produce Mexican cultures and trying to alter history is a attempt to erase truth that has to do with race and politics.

[@JoseRamirez-ii8uk]

@@kellkenyon406 I see. So that affects success and failures between different groups and their respective societies.

[@Frenchfrys17]

@@kellkenyon406 where did you come up with this nonsensical garbage? Most of what you said is so absurd and wrong that it qualifies as original content.

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@kellkenyon406 the Celts got what was coming to them. Rome>celts and germanics

[@AC-xe7gm]

Nationalism didn't originate in the 19th century. Have you have heard of Sparta? Or the oath of the Horatii? Nationalism have been an implicit part of every single political practice. In the end every political practice is defined by the friend-enemy distinction.

[@Sirenensang]

Sparta wasn't even a nation...

[@Sirenensang]

@John Burton For enslaving neighbouring city states and failing to take over greece. Also for being murdered by macedons. i guess it was also for protecting the interest of the wealthy noble generals in keeping slaves. Why are you asking?

[@Sirenensang]

@John Burton The city state of Sparta. The nation would've been greece, and the nation of greece didn't exist until the 19th century, with the nationalist movement. Learn some history *before* claiming it as the great origin of your silly beliefs.

[@Sirenensang]

@John Burton A state is not a nation. The first states were cities, which were not concerned with ethnicity. The first big states were empires, which didn't care what language you spoke (Rome didn't care when they conquered the gauls). Nationalism is a 19th century invention. Your ten-thousand year claim is fantastic, but doesn't have any evidence behind it. If all people have a right to racial autonomy, I declare myself of the Sirenensang race and demand *immediate* independence from my state.

[@ViriatoII]

@@Sirenensang The ancient Greeks had a notion of nationalism. Even though they were not politically united, they considered themselves Hellenes and distinguished that from the foreigners, who they also distinguished in ethno-national groups like the Berberes, Persians or the Ethiopians, for example. Romans were obsessed with their ethnic origin, with their link to Troy and they traced their families to "the original romans of old" or to mythological forefathers. At the point they became Christian that was already dissolved and they were multi-ethnic but for some reason there are no Romans anymore as an identity. Being Roman stopped meaning anything.

[@Mycroft93]

The Northern spirit is to have a since of curiosity, ingenuity, and love for the home and un-home. There are no nazis in Valhalla.

[@thewarlock2780]

On the contrary, many of the SS soldiers are now in Valhalla

[@carrinahanson9821]

@@thewarlock2780 No they are not, Nazis go to Náströnd. They belong no place else. Most certainly not among warriors.

[@thewarlock2780]

@@carrinahanson9821 says who?!!!

[@HughMungus11]

The Norse weren’t a people with anti-racist ideas, they were people just like any other. I mean racism is even reflected in Norse sagas, the Æsir gods are portrayed as extreme racists, with in particular Thor and Odin and their virulent hatred of the Jötnar race

[@JohnSinatra88]

Exactly only national socialists belong in the kingdom of heaven ⚡⚡

[@yngvisson3780]

he hides his Mjolnir... seriously...

[@SirSparrowHawk]

Yeah. Because Nazis ruin every thing they touch.

[@axdde6428]

@@SirSparrowHawk te swatstica was on mjölnir

[@dimuthbhanuka1027]

@@SirSparrowHawk no because he is weak

[@Fatelovesirony960]

@Scorched Earth Trust a Roman historian for unbiased information.

[@galenbjorn443]

@@SirSparrowHawk Ye cus Viking would be open and loving people of all different races. Gtfo, my ancestors are turning in their graves seeing what is happening to us daily, all the rapes, murders, robbers, and so on. People like you are discisting

[@incursus1401]

While this video has massive problems its still better than most, it actually shows a dialgoue even if it only 5 minutes of a 25 minute interview. He says himself that no one challenges the NRM with logic and that hes trying to do that, so if that is try why is the dialgoue only 5 minutes of 25 minutes? why is there 20 minutes of contextualization and self glorification? Seems like it misses the goal, why make the conversation so short, if you make such logical arguments you could have shown yourself winning the argument :3, convenient that that wasnt shown LOL!

[@tiwaztunez2587]

Yes, that is always the case, because they can't have our arguments stand on their own merit, they have to be muddled with strawmen.

[@XatxiFly]

I think one point this piece hints at is that winning the person can be more important than winning the argument at times.

[@incursus1401]

@@XatxiFly ok by interacting this little they didnt do either lol

[@leeloxleigh1471]

Great video 📹, life is not black and white. You did the right thing by confronting, listening and telling the world. Well done. I have now subscribed to your channel.

[@lordinquisitor6651]

Reminds me of when me and a few friends wanted to buy clothing with runes from Amazon, and the top result was for Sons of Odin hoodies (the fact that the first google results were from the ‘daily stormer’ should be enough to tell you what they are about) . The word angry would be an understatement to describe our mood. Suffice to say, we didn’t buy anything with runes that day…

[@TheAccidentalViking]

thank you so much for this.

[@ollicron7397]

I am Latino and also involved with Norse Paganism, I don't pray to the Gods, or perform rituals, but I follow the mythology to learn about finding courage, cunning, and the meaning of sacrifice to achieve the things you want.

[@person_behind_white_race]

That's what I do

[@Dial8Transmition]

My ancestors are smiling at me, Swede! Can you say the same?

[@siddharthdiwedi2219]

well well you all saxons were butchered by Norse Warriors

[@Dial8Transmition]

@@siddharthdiwedi2219 In honourable battle!

[@siddharthdiwedi2219]

@@Dial8Transmition did you watch vinland saga Anime?

[@Thor.Jorgensen]

@@siddharthdiwedi2219 Anglo-Saxons won against the Norse, just saying. They drove the Norse out. And in turn, the Normans invaded the Anglo-Saxons and Britons.

[@godsaveme]

@@Thor.Jorgensen however those anglo saxons were already subjected and ruled by the danelaw and the norse people back then, over time though both cultures assimilated with eachother and became anglo saxon and norse, Normans are also of viking blood who assimilated with the franks. However all these different terms are just different names of tribes who literally before some converted to christianity worshipped the same gods and both share the same culture way back and both fought back the romans together with the Huns. Norse and Anglo Saxon is the same thing as Norse and Dane, Norse and Swede, Norse and Jute, Norse and Goth. They were tribes who united together and conquered the roman empire, then later some of them turned christian and became subject to the roman church and were crowned kings and emperors under the christian faith. There is no point in arguing a difference between a people who are literally the same since we all mixed and lived together in the end. William of Normandy won the crown in the end though thats why England and france has been at war over and over with eachother during the middle ages. Now the old gods and myths are also the same as the greek pantheon, roman pantheon, mesopotamian and sumerian pantheon, Marduk, Zeus, Jupiter, Thor. Same god different cultures. Though some of the different tribes had their own pantheon of gods for that region aswell. Like in Sweden our Vendelkings claim descent from Frey and Freya, the Ynglings. These are Vanir not Aesir gods. However both the Aesir and the Vanir was a unified pantheon of two different godly casts. Aesir are skygods while Vanir are animistic fertility gods, Sky and earth.

[@cavaugnsharkey2699]

WE WUZ VIKANGZ N SHIEEET!!!

[@lorisusanne5742]

what exactly is the title of this film and is it n dvd?

[@henrylarson6970]

Interesting video and very well made, congrats

[@drumline75]

“They aren’t being challenged with facts” I’m certain this guy never read pew research.

[@simonmatuschek3609]

Hey man, you wanna hear the real conspiracy you didn´t even see yet? let me be frank here. I am not a great fan of Saudi-Arabia or Israel, but this goes to far, because it´s historically inaccurate. Hitler was about protecting those who had money, those who owned the factories got him ellected. Fascism and national socialism exists only to protect the wealthy against the workers and socialism and socialism was some workers trying to rule over other workers to hinder anarchism. I think what we should learn from the Vikings and their culture is how they did things. They didn´t have a Führer, they had radical and horizontal democratic institutions. They didn´t have racism because racism was invented by the capitalists to divide workers and get cheap labour in a time of global inflation. Anyone who wanted to live like vikings could do so and join in. Other peoples have such old wisdom too and all those should have equal worth, as each viking had in their Ting meeting. You want to change the economy? Painters with moustaches only try to stabalize the injustice you want to blame on the jews. I am Austrian by the way and on my fathers side the family was full of Nazis and I am deeply sorry that in this community there are still people thinking that way instead of thinking for themselves. We all could fight for equal rights, for a more just world. Instead I see people still believing in races (which have been scientifically debunked as those genes related to skin colour don´t mean as much as you think) and in antisemitism. You think the jews run everything? The rich run litteraly everything and they invented racism, fascism and antisemitism to be able to continue to do so.

[@yasashii89]

@@simonmatuschek3609 So much of what you wrote is just factually incorrect.

[@TheWarsuron]

@@simonmatuschek3609 he was related to a Rothchild so that does make sense. he was defiantly controlled opposition

[@matiasdelgado7011]

@@simonmatuschek3609 Nazis are in the entire world. Sounds stupid but is true. In Japan, here in Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Colombia, because much the times is a politician party than a racial ideology. Even some jews are racists.

[@spacemaker8760]

@@yasashii89 hear i thoug of you "thiking for yourself" again.

[@Miratesus]

These guys have good intention but putting in your own speculations about why artist put horns on the viking helmets in the past is borderline historical revisionism.

[@auwor2206]

Im from Kungälv, and Frederick vejdeland lives not far from my home. On my walk to the bus station there is always stickers from nmr on trash cans etc

[@princessdaya5781]

wheres the rest of the debate tho

[@TheDudeWithDaCowbell]

Take back Norse Paganism from the Racists

[@konahrikb1578]

I'm a fifth-generation American, but I want to learn more about my Danish ancestry and Norse culture. It makes me sad to think about how many people twist it to fuel their racist campaigns, but then the Scandinavians aren't the only ones who have had this problem. Nationalism and religious zealotry both lead fearful and desperate people down dark paths, unless we reach out to them and let them know they aren't alone. We need to fight hate with knowledge and break down the brick wall between us.

[@arete7884]

and the opposite leads to rape and murder ,as the stats shows these leftists socials are complete morons destroying their country

[@carrinahanson9821]

I am 3rd generation Swedish, and a Norse pagan who is anti-racist. I agree with you, we need to fight with education.

[@Jon-dh3ki]

​@carrinahanson9821 3rd generation Swedish, what does that mean?

[@joistein]

Vikings has nothing to do with Neo-Nazism, it was Nordic culture for long time ago and we merged with the rest of Europe.

[@Protato666]

Captain Sweden would be so proud of him xD

[@derekchauvin2756]

this guy is captain sweden obviously

[@harunocaleon5786]

@@derekchauvin2756 He got scared by the right wing guys, even though they treated him well and even said that they respected him despite their differences... And he still treated them like maniacs...

[@bigsloggo]

It is nice, that there seems to be a civil conversation at the end of the video but after reading a lot of comments, I think I'll have to clarify something. Vík is old norse for something like a creek and the word víkingr derived from that. A víkingr was someone who went on expeditions. It did not imply any particular ethnicity and it was a neutral term. The exact activity of víking is also not specified. If you want to attach ethnics or something similar to it, call it Norse culture, Norse ethnicity or what else not. Viking is not linked to a specific ethnics. In the old norse tongue you would have been called a viking, even if you'd be an orange spotted phygmy from the mayan jungle, as long as you would go on an expedition like mentioned above. Sorry, had to get that one off my chest. Loki bless you all.

[@bigsloggo]

@Shaxx Crazy leftists.. interesting. Noone accused me of that so far. Best read my comment again. Thoroughly. Especially the part with "old norse tongue". AFter that read your own and maybe you realise where you threw in your own assumpions. Read a bit more, my friend. Show the willingness to learn where you are obviously lacking, then we will discuss this some more....Maybe.

[@bigsloggo]

@Shaxx Ok..I'll try one more time. "Viking" is a word. Just as teacher, bread, monkey and so on. It originated in the old norse tongue. Norse or Norsemen would be closer to the etnicity you're talking about. A person speaking old norse at that time would have called anyone, who went exploring a viking....because that was the word for it. Just as bród would mean bread and not the "etnicity" of all bakery products. It does not matter where that person originated from. Anything else would be like saying "fisk" while pointing at an "kyckling". Do you understand what I'm saying?

[@lukebruce5234]

@@bigsloggo It's kind of like the word gypsy right? The word is associated with the Eastern European gypsies who have their roots in India but there are also white Irish people who call themselves gypsies if they have such life style.

[@godsaveme]

Also most nordic people have I1 or I2 Y-dna and most english or western european are of R1 and western european R2 whom are a subgroup of the I1 and I2 hablogroup. We are brothers and sisters with almost whole of europe, central asia, the levant and all the way to india and even japan.

[@s66s46]

@@bigsloggo But would you consider a white person a zulu warrior? The word viking doesnt at first mean a white scandinavian but we scandinavians were the first vikings, when you say vikings you often refer to the white scandinavian people...

[@NoGodsNoMasters1885]

Would have been nice to read that the sort of moral stance taken against Nazism on display here was the natural policy of the Swedish government eighty years ago.

[@OmmerSyssel]

Why? Today racism against Swedish people are immense and often very dangerous! Would you comment on that fact, or is it better silenced?

[@dr.livesey7595]

but white people are the greatest though

[@thecomradegeneral6375]

Beautiful message ❤

[@SammyxSweetheart.02]

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[@mohammadshahalam1455]

After watching the Viking tv series I have done a great deal of research and became fascinated by the history and myth related to their life and contribution to the human civilisations. I would love to be a part of this modern day Viking practices...

[@moriorinvictus5569]

Cringe. When you great grandchildren are made to be pariahs in their own lands because you were too cowardly to stop it, I hope you find comfort in “not being racist”.

[@mustafasaid7942]

Morior Invictus u make me sick omg

[@moriorinvictus5569]

Mustafa Said Good, thats your bullshit detoxifying from your body.

[@caiokrause2348]

Finally someone who understands. If this bs continues, europeans will be persucuted in Europe and converted to islam, where they will be the minority.

[@XatxiFly]

Pariahs? What makes you say that? Are ethnic Anglo Saxons pariahs in the US?

[@moriorinvictus5569]

XatxiFly I mean Anglo saxons and germans for example are genetically basically identical, so I don’t know what your point it there. Whites will be pariahs in the US as well, just look at how the media, academia etc talks about us!

[@loveandfaithfulness4479]

Our Lord Jesus Christ was asked what it really mean to love your neighbor? So He told a story about a weary traveler who was robbed; beaten and left alone alongside of the road (Luke 10:25-37). An ordinary man saw him and kept walking. Another very religious person ignored him, too. But the person who actually stopped and did something was someone a bit unexpected. That person was the Good Samaritan. We all know the story - a kind person stops to help another person. But it means a bit more. In the story, the traveler and the Samaritan could not be more different. They came from different cities. They had very different views. Some might even say that these two people would have hated one another. Yet despite their differences, the Samaritan chose to love his neighbor. Even though the neighbor wasn’t really his neighbor at all. Our neighbor isn’t just the person next door. Our neighbor is the person God has placed right in front us. And no matter how different, how inconvenient or how unexpected, we’re asked to love our neighbor well. 1 corinthians 13:4-8 tells us Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

[@amania9254]

Beautiful clothes brother, really liked them. Thanks for being Caring and daring enough to face those who are misunderstood or trying not to understand, so to point other circumstances and make them think, Great job brother. You have a smart and lovely son, wish him the brightest future! So much love and respect! I am living in my own country in middle east, despite the Huge Amount of War Crimes being committed by US and European Governments, we believe there are great people in the west, and you are one of them.

[@TreyaTheKobold]

Nazis are traitors to everything they hold dear, by default, because they die

[@augustoalmeida8022]

@@TreyaTheKobold lol, ye. Imagine portraying yourself as superior but loosing the only war you fought on

[@OmmerSyssel]

Please stay where you are, and enjoy your gorgeous culture! Thanks in advance!

[@steve8450]

these runts would be the ones that would stay home from battle while the real vikings went off to loot and plunder

[@alsdifhkasdjfhbkaldsjfhaksdfh]

Well, I never associated Thor's Hammer with racism. Or any other Viking Tattoo for that matter. Wonder what real Vikings would say about this...

[@kellkenyon406]

The real Vikings defended their lands and kind that was very common behavior throughout Europe.

[@sakkra93]

Well, if they could see the state of Scandinavia, especially Sweden, today, they would be firmly on the NRM's side!

[@testrabbit]

thank you

[@abdulazizclare9545]

Norse people Viking is not the real word for them. They have been put in a bad light by other European kindoms of those times. Farmers, seamen, traders and warriors tribes are these Norse. The Normans come from them a lot of the Royal families of Europe are linked to these Germanic people.

[@MazHem]

You can't challenge hatred with logic, because hatred in itself is illogical. Feelings don't care about facts, it's proven over and over again. You can just check the comments around here to see people reacting with anger and threats rather than coherent fact based rebuttals to what historians have shown about real Viking culture.

[@siccat6124]

Very true

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

13:33 Wait so he had a debate and the other guy got prosecuted for hate speech? Talk about goading someone to commit a crime.. a talking crime. Shouldn't the other guy be an accessory to hate speech then? Goading someone to commit a crime makes him an accessory by law.

[@tyronesmithdiscord1393]

How does a debate provoke someone? I understand what you're saying, however the man is talking about his views which happens to be against certain peoples religions or skin colour making it hate speech. It's not like the man he was debating against called the Police, in fact I believe that he didn't want to get him prosecuted.

[@stanleybrhm]

Debating with a racist and opposing his racist views makes him an accessory to hate speech? By that logic, no racist should ever be called out or opposed.

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

A dumb statement like that? Well the avatar and name checks out

[@user-pw1rr2vm8b]

@@ManiacMayhem7256 ? Is this English that you wrote?

[@ManiacMayhem7256]

@@user-pw1rr2vm8b thanks for bringing it to my attention. Auto correct is a son of a gun.

[@azazel166]

Does that fur hat he wears at the start have a name?

[@elyzzabeth]

This is powerful and needed to be said.

[@Pizzabob-ud9ps]

The title sounds like the most badass movie ever

[@claeslind9532]

Why not show the full interview with the leader?

[@aaliyah1876]

They caught my attention when I seen sword fighting

[@divinelove4604]

I remember the Vikings quit well. It is nice when you can preserve your culture. It is only a problem when violence, discrimination, violating human and civil rights of others is practiced. I'm so sorry to hear about what happened to the precious young angel who was killed because he was anti racist. They must pay for what they did to him.

[@peabase]

Wow, you must be very, very old.

[@DS-zg6ym]

That is always a good when the spirits of men battle these dark force's that are the threats to humanity.

[@beastmasterakathabarbaric1509]

I gotta move here

[@JamesLee-rq4sy]

Just as I was thinking why would anyone want to live there or be a Viking? It's way too cold there, and when they dress up as vikings they look ridiculous.

[@splattered.cadavers]

@@JamesLee-rq4sy cold? It's not cold here at all. It's just snow.

[@silverspider2142]

@@splattered.cadavers isn't snow cold?

[@splattered.cadavers]

@@silverspider2142 Not if you're swedish.

[@MandaMalice]

@@splattered.cadavers brilliant answer!!

[@vandarkholme8548]

He reported that far-right guy for hatespeech... after calling him to a debate. This is basically entrapment.

[@admiralackbar1879]

Yeah and he also said it so vaguely: "It also lead to him being prosecuted" in a way that seems like he didn't do the reporting

[@calanmacleod3948]

Why are Asians only going to Christian countries none go to Islamic countries. Saudi Arabia has taken one..

[@anonymousunknown4925]

@Calan MacLeod Actually, countries such as the small and relatively poor country of Jordan has received more refugees from Iraq and Syria than Europe and the US combined. (this despite the fact that primarily the United States is responsible for the refugee flows through its illegal aggression wars in the Middle East). Saudi Arabia, with their perverted interpretation of Islam and their close alliance with the United States (and their "unofficial" alliance with the Israelis), is despised and hated throughout the Middle East and the rest of the Islamic world. By the way, a large part of the Saudis are very racist and intolerant of everyone else except their Western masters, they represent the "Islamic" version of fascism / extreme right ...

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@anonymousunknown4925 How about stop excuses and find solutions? Scandinavia isn't Arab territory! Christian societies aren't Islamic! Africa is huge, stay there and let normal people live as they prefer! Thanks in advance ☠️

[@cyrusthegreat7030]

Iran has taken in millions of refugees despite being under 44 years of sanctions.

[@againstmdfl]

This guy seems... sane.....

[@_pavel_9921]

U forgot the 'in'

[@ironduke9921]

There's no such thing as Vikings anymore, these people are just larping.

[@ellso1922]

They did say that in the documentary- so like calm down

[@diazcastro7331]

they are confused

[@theantianimeassociation7574]

Its not larping. They are inspired by viking culture and symbolism. I dont think they actually think they are Vikings lmao

[@carrinahanson9821]

The point went over your head.

[@Doctor_Fate5]

​@@carrinahanson9821you are also a pagan larper LoL.

[@hellbound0086]

Viking means to raid my mom is from Iceland my dad is from Norway and I’d never call myself a Viking.

[@person_behind_white_race]

Because you're LGBTQ supporter you'll never love masculinity

[@cyrusthegreat7030]

​@@person_behind_white_racebruh

[@jihededdinejendoubi1651]

i think usully every one is racist

[@KootFloris]

A good test about Viking inclusivity would be their behavior in Sicily, or in Byzantium. A while they robbed many places, because of the poverty and hunger at home (let's not forget that), they also traded, mixed with many cultures.

[@sabbirahmed3685]

I think Norse were very badass

[@tompor561]

Being a Nationalist doesn't mean necessarily mean you won't trade with other people and Nations, you know

[@KootFloris]

@Tribhuvan Shekhawat exactly.

[@KootFloris]

@Mobilis In Mobili I didn't say that. I wondered how did they behave over there? Yes they traded, they mixed, and they behaved as robber barons. But more should historians know. I'm not one. :)

[@OmmerSyssel]

Of course they integrated where needed. How about your obsession related to migrant issues in OUR time and OUR part of the world? Instead of desperately shoehorning your political correctness bullshit into longs past days? How about the fact that Vikings integrated where they saw fit or sailed on? How about the fact that hardly anyone would walk(!) they long way to harsh and cold Scandinavia? Why should they? To eat some fish and sleep luckily in an outworn cow shed? Which Viking do you think would accept a useless landlubber occupying valuable place on his open sailboat, instead of an experienced sailor highly important for handling their vessel and goods safely? A gorgeous women would be taken back home, nothing else, while looted goods were more important than anything else, especially your obsession with multikulti blabla..

[@anthonyparish3034]

This is so informative ... Appreciate your input and realistic picture of history. That destroys myths

[@TerfBashingMFer8021]

@Anthony Parish: This was well done. Lol I had a debate with my right wing parents and they are certain that Vikings wore horned helmets or why else are they worn in art and pictures? ………………….Yea.

[@californyaeh]

1:58 .. Yes, vikings were actually sweet, Soft and Lovely people.. They weren't about rappings, even their own women, not about getting to learn the world and technologies by stealing and appropriations of other' peoples knowledge and wealth..! They were Clean and Very hygienic and not about bathing in blood, painting and "ornementing" their Drakkars with blood and skulls of enemies... And certainly not warring each other when they weren't exterminating other nations.. They were just about Peace...!!!! ...Yepp....!!!!!!

[@aw2584]

Yes, vikings were very clean. As a matter of fact you can find historical sources of anglo saxons complaining about viking men in England getting all the women not because of rape but because of how much they took care of themselves, would groom their hair everyday and apparently most viking houses had a bath in it so they would take one once a week at least.

[@galenbjorn443]

the Vikings did not rape their own females, there is no evidence. Same with the raping at all, only ''evidence'' are the monks and they had a bias ofc. But yes the Vikings were not nice people to people not of their tribe and race.

[@moisuomi]

@@galenbjorn443 Exactly, they still raped 1000s of others

[@matiasdelgado7011]

@@galenbjorn443 Their satanization started with some ancient roman schoolars.

[@Doctor_Fate5]

​@@galenbjorn443LoL bias really.

[@carrinahanson9821]

Thank you for this. Norse Pagans in America are facing a similar problem with white supremacists as well. People here are beginning to associate us with white supremacy and neonazism. I'm finding myself having to hide that I follow my own ancestral gods and culture because of them. I am loudly anti-racist and there's many others who are Norse Pagan like me trying to speak out against these hateful people. It's been hard because they're winning, political figures have been speaking about white supremacists and associating them with Norse Pagans because they are using our sacred symbols. Americans are increasingly beginning to believe that all Norse Pagans are white supremacists, and now we are becoming targets for harassment. It's terrifying.

[@s66s46]

Of COURSE you are american

[@carrinahanson9821]

@@s66s46 So?

[@s66s46]

@@carrinahanson9821 always people who arent from here who tries to teach us our history

[@tompor561]

White people respecting the cultures and religions they made. Are you really surprised most of em are right wing, Yank?

[@sakkra93]

You should stand by the defence of our folk, friend.

[@charlesgareza70]

I have friends from that area in Europe and I always tease them - "Hey the vikings are here!". Then my other friends would tell me that I'm racist in making such comments. Like I'm profiling them. That maybe the case if you're looking at it at that angle. However to me, I explained to my Euro friends that I actually admire them. I'm Filipino and TBH what exactly am I? I can call them Vikings and they can call me what? A nurse? I can be proud to be called a viking, a ninja, a cowboy or even a track suite goon... but a nurse? Really? Be proud to be a viking. Be proud to be a ninja or a cowboy. You guys are cool!

[@gustafsvensson5840]

Kommentarsfältet är full med högerextremister.. 🤯

[@francisharris7790]

Yes it’s tiresome 😡

[@mattiasbinotto5358]

Sure, rabbi.

[@icyivy2424]

20:50 wtf am I listening the song "she is crazy like a fool" daddy cool 🎶🎶🎶😄😄😄 what a moment

[@duckb8061]

good music in the background

[@raphlvlogs271]

the past and traditional heritages are often ambiguous to todays people

[@vivalapalestine7235]

Isn’t a Viking An action To raid from the sea (Sea People / Foriegners

[@user-nf9xc7ww7m]

Well, fear and reprisals did lead to thousands of second, third, etc generation immigrants from leaving Zimbabwe and south africa... Perhaps this could be shown to their govts.

[@marcusaurelius2787]

I see you aljazeera 🧐

[@retropirate1]

i thought al jazeera was based very cringe

[@kitsune2367]

What?

[@kellyharrison5184]

A good man, and brave!

[@spacemaker8760]

Yes there are manny swedes that dont like racism. But we get unnoticed because of the racists are everywhere on the internet.

[@Algizen]

@@spacemaker8760det är inte rasism att vilja bevara sin kultur och land. Det är ni som är hjärntvättade av media.

[@vegieveganic7963]

Where there is racism that means the system is corrupted. I’m a refugee and live in Sweden. What I see here the real racists are in the system who scrim at people “RACIST” but selling weapons and arms to dictators and terrorists.

[@GirlsRuleTheWorld2023]

Stopping an invasion is not racist.

[@vegieveganic7963]

Guys I don’t believe in racism or what ever you call it. I just named it bc of your believe. Or let say so: Every body who talk their language, following their own culture or just believe in that religion they were born to it are racists too. How that sounds to you know?

[@vegieveganic7963]

T S You call it invasion and I’m agree with you 100%, but you can’t stop it so far the system does business with dictators and terrorists. You want stop invasion, first you have stop weapon and army industries.

[@markokostelac7282]

​@@vegieveganic7963what you just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I've ever heard.

[@arthurheidt6373]

the nordic movement is actually the viking movement, al jazeera is completely full of idiot, anti racist could also be against the migrant racism.

[@dutchvanderstok9911]

That is so wholesome

[@jipagola]

Their country have been taken over, what do you expect??? It would be nice to see Swedes fight for their land. Unfortunately, it's too late for Sweden.

[@carsonc29]

IMO, if Swedes want to fix their worry about losing their country, then try having more babies!!! the birth rate is terrible...

[@to-br7zm]

In ancient times i heard vikings teamed up with tyr giants to fight a strong enemy. What are the details?, nords, goths etc similar to nazis

[@leonoraillum1334]

No

[@wenzelplot]

I had a stroke just trying to get through that sentence.

[@kirilll7806]

what

[@celticbarbarian6680]

Greenland Skraelings, Norse distinct from Finnish

[@orri3024]

Cringe

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

That's not LARP. That's just bad historical reenactment. "Bad" as in low historical accuracy and academic quality.

[@TheHollandHS]

He doesnt cancel nazis, he talks to them.

[@josuadohler950]

inspiering

[@californyaeh]

23:35 If a people founded their "society" upon the stealing, murdering and conquering of other nations, based on the idea of "only the strongest survive", can it be surprising that centuries later, this people would be living in constant fear that someone would do the same to them..?! Isn't conceivable that this ideology of "supremacy" would still be reflected in their contemporary society, that the "great replacement" (just as they would have done to others in the past) would haunt their worst nightmares..?! Strangely enough, all those whose ascendants were "conquerors" are suffering from the very same fears; Invasion by an unstoppable force, great replacement and loss of "cultural heritage" and loss of genetic patrimoine ?! (Yet not being able to see that the.. Visible....minorities living in their countries more often than not are in small numbers, that only an even Smaller percentage of these minorities are doing bad things which are not on the level of bad things the locals are doing..?!

[@fragmentsofthemind]

that’s dumbest sounding thing I’ve ever heard and probably something only someone with a racist mindset would make up

[@joanofarcxxi]

@Tribhuvan Shekhawat Portuguese ended Americans?

[@OmmerSyssel]

Yeah right, you political correct clown. How about the fact that we have growing issues with ghetto's and criminal parallel societies? Guess who is busy creating these issues? Nazis? Fat old hausfrauen? Even German police has finally set up a special task force to deal with that immense problem! Are they RACIST? or are this embracing society forced to deal with violence and crime rooted in one single Dysfunktional minority? How about the fact that Denmark are YEARLY spending 84 BILLION kr on "non western migrants" (guess who that political correct definition includes) Now what? How about the fact that we are forced to rubble failure free blocks, worth billions, just to force these antisocial sharia lovers to settle elsewhere than in our huge welfare paid suburbs? How about the fact that absolutely no other minority creates equally serious issues all over Liberal Europe? Fact is this reactionary religious minority has been living among us since 1950'es! So who is the troublemakers? Scream about racism, it still doesn't integrate one single stubborn mudslim!

[@markokostelac7282]

Xenophobe alert.

[@marcusaurelius2787]

It's like an episode of Norseman. 😂 Vikings weren't nationalists. 😂

[@wregori9891]

But they were tribal.

[@aurockscastillo5460]

@@firstnamett4656 they certainly weren't civilised.

[@hugoakerlund5114]

@@aurockscastillo5460 actually they were.

[@Luka1180]

@@hugoakerlund5114 Viking is a term for a pirate or sea raider. Old Norse weren't automatically viking.

[@hugoakerlund5114]

@@Luka1180 You didn't even read the comment I responded to did you?

[@karo_walker_fan84]

"YOUNG VIKING" hahahah kid soon we will come out of our graves and get you

[@luso569]

We need to normalise wearing traditional clothes, i get weird looks only for wearing a baret

[@dunndudebemelol]

Even the original vikings themselves were fairly open to new cultures

[@dunndudebemelol]

@@HerewardtheWake23 Aint that the vikings themselves?

[@dunndudebemelol]

@@HerewardtheWake23 like some barbarian horde as my ancestors would say...

[@jeanclaudejunior]

@@HerewardtheWake23 not only those. They also explore new lands such as Iceland, Greenland and did you know that they're the first Europeans to discover America before Columbus did?

[@OmmerSyssel]

@@jeanclaudejunior exactly what has hard core exploring sailors with your obsession with multiculti nonsense in common? Do you bring women or men back home, when you're finished exploring fancy places? Guess what those days men did, but perhaps they were all hard core Womenz and Transsexuals, to include latest leftist bullshit agenda? Guess what slave trade depends on..

[@Hottis11]

This could be a textbook example of a undiferentiated hit-piece. By the way itś not that many decades ago you would be considered THE village idiot for running around playing that you where a viking in Sweden.

[@XatxiFly]

How is it a hit piece?

[@rabbitazteca23]

I love the viking outfits!

[@sytiwari6894]

I have to say, I am an American woman of South Asian descent, who has been studying Viking culture for a while. I even have Norse tattoos. I've been to most of the Nordics and briefly stayed in Sweden. I had a great time there and people (even in the North) were very genuine and nice to me. This was pretty fascinating to watch and will most likely study the two groups a bit more.

[@nameperson9441]

Thank you for being unique!

[@kellkenyon406]

The real Vikings defended their lands and kind that was very common behavior throughout Europe that also included the Celts, and the Romans who where known to commit genocide against other peoples like the Celts and it was the Germanic peoples called the Saxon who followed the old Viking gods who invaded and conquered and forcedly relocated the Celtic populations to a different part of Britain to prevent intermarriage and mixing of the two peoples much like what the later Christians did to the native Americans and this was what some would call a merciful act that allowed the Celt to remain free and to continue to exist as a people who where already Christianized at the time of their conquest by the roman empire who forced the conquered to convert and it was well within the power of the Saxons to of enslaved or exterminated the Celts who where culled and kept weak by the roman empire until it fell who made the mistake of hiring the Saxon as mercenaries to defend their lands from pirates and invaders and then breaking their agreement.

[@sytiwari6894]

@@Project_Algiz no worries. all curiousity is welcomed! I do have tattoos from my own culture, however for some reason I've been drawn to Norse culture. Like this weird connection to a place that's far from familiarity. I did take a geneology test last year and I have a bit of Finnish. lol Finland is absolutely beautiful :)

[@frankie5373]

I mean... Who do you think the Vikings would support? Lol get real.

[@odin1910]

Yes my warriors our legacy has no political basis!

[@harunocaleon5786]

Your legacy will die again, and this time no one will remember it.

[@odin1910]

@@harunocaleon5786 Tradition, spirituality, and naturalism will always have its roots in modern culture. Those who win the wars write the history, my legacy won't die as yours to those who know of you will not die. Shamanism, and anthropology will forever be rooted in human history and culture.

[@aetherion7]

Except for irrelevant questions/answers i also see y al jazeera cut/edit the way they did :D. This guy says that he shall come with an "ARGUMENT" to the nationalists of NRM. Except the first question and answer about the TYR symbol, not even ONE of his questions/arguments (and for that matter even some answers from the NRM-leader does not make any sense either) made sense and i will comment one by one. 1. This guy is Swedish (if i am not missing anything) and/or Scandinavian and he says that "he and his parents have lived in Sweden all their life" (and his point is?) and then asks if he would "be part of the people" (if he is Swedish/or Scandinavian what does it got to do where he OR his parents have grown up?), and the other guy just answers in short - yes. I am not Swedish or Scandinavian (i do speak Swedish though since i grown up in Sweden) but both questions and answers seem irrelevant and illogical. Continuing: What does the vikings traveling (or any race traveling) around the world got to do with the political discussion? Next: "Third or fourth generation immigrants", :D ? Immigrants r just immigrants, however if the children of immigrants r born and grown up in another country then they r just foreigners. Migration is a choice and u cannot really call the child of any immigrant IMMIGRANT in that matter. Now to the best question of them all, and this is just provocative and leftist pseudo tactics :D : WHY THE F--- would not anyone's HOMELAND except them back u idiot! It is a fact that leftist or the actual non-European foreigners who talk like this, and that is no surprise :D . Does not matter if the children have grown up in Sweden or whatever else say in Europe. If the NRM wants them out and back at their homeland - then thats it. Of course if there is a mixed person then that is another deeper discussion which i will not bring up here. The funny thing is that the NRM guy then says something about "they should discuss with their government and if not send them to a SIMILAR country XD". A discussion between governments r obvious, especially when there r consequences of previous political agendas but what kind of answer is that XD. If we exclude the viking theme of this vid, then he fails to explain the real leftist agenda in the whole sense. I do not know, and do not care, what NRM's policys r for other European races, over and out.

[@D91991]

You have lost. Sweds.

[@mrpepe1408]

Oke bomer

[@D91991]

@@mrpepe1408 Cringe.

[@mrpepe1408]

@@D91991 oke bot 🤖🖕

[@D91991]

@@mrpepe1408 Why so rude.

[@KatariaGujjar]

Something in common: both bleed red

[@esotericulmanist8331]

and?

[@dimuthbhanuka1027]

your point ?

[@KatariaGujjar]

@@esotericulmanist8331 And?

[@tonyjefferson9134]

What a goon! Picking on a student like that just because the kid was thinking for himself! I guess some people are natural-born bootlickers.

[@spacemaker8760]

how can being a member of a party that has an ideology and a party program being thinking for yourself. He gets his ideas from the party. If someone gets their idea formed by others it not thinking for yourself.

[@sillstrom-jk9eo]

Pleas Grow up and stop pretend you're dragonborn

[@kaalisurfer600]

i am croatian but i choose to be viking,skol

[@ashtarsheran749]

Croatian in proto-slavic mean "armed", you should choose to be Croat, your ancestors took by force beauty lands near adriatic sea - vikings not.

[@wokeamerican1949]

Sorry guy your not a spokesperson for viking culture they would be appal5you would put other people before your own

[@charlesmaximus9161]

Lol next he will be telling those school children that the Vikings had 72 different genders. 🤣

[@krispalermo8133]

Loki, " I started off as a hearth fire spirit and later could turn into a fish, a mare that gave birth to an eight leg horse. Follow by becoming a human woman that birth a few children. Went from a fire .. god .. of home and story telling to the god of mischief, some even said I could turn into a snake. Later I became a god of mischief & lies/ evil to just being a god of stories, well back to the god of stories, oh also I was called a frost giant and you became my step father ! .. So what you got .. ?" Odin, " Well ... I .. "

[@monfe5532]

Well loki is genderfluid

[@charlesmaximus9161]

@@monfe5532 "gender fluid" is not a real word or an organic concept. It was designed by smug, bourgeois coastal leftist academics less than fifteen years ago and adopted by mass media entertainment industry as a way to manipulatively shift public opinion. If we aren't permitted basic words and fundamental concepts for real, actual social groups, such as white people being regarded as an actual, legitimate group identity, with real concerns and with common interests as a real social and political bloc, then do not expect me to acknowledge their faux identities which have far less legitimacy and even less sense. Accept and acknowledge that, and then we'll talk. Until then, I have absolutely nothing positive or nice to say to those people. Fair is fair and compromise, not dominance, is the name of the game. Give to get. We exist, we are real people, and we are more than a bleeding shallow "social construct".

[@monfe5532]

@@charlesmaximus9161 Your understanding of race and gender is outright ahistorical. Both are concepts that have changed drastically. Plenty of cultures throughout history have had 3 or more genders, many of which can be described as non-binary and genderfluid. How many races there are and what defines those races also changes depending when and where you look.

[@PierceSexingtonIV]

Oh no, not gay vikings, watch out frens

[@haroldgarling1063]

You can not separate your race from your nation. Your race IS your nation.