Who are the "Forgotten Vikings?" - Interview with Author Alex Harvey

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@SpiritTemple 3 ай бұрын

Looking forward to reading this, sounds fascinating and fun!

@SmellYaLatter 3 ай бұрын

What about Curonians?

@zuzannaklikowicz1500 3 ай бұрын

INCREDIBLE

@brendandmcmunniii269 3 ай бұрын

His prog rock band are pretty good as well

@hobhood7118 3 ай бұрын

Sounds great and I'm buying the Viking book...Alex's new book sounds quite a lot like 'Lost Realms' by Thomas Wiliams...

@ninthheretic2498 3 ай бұрын

A link to the names used in the Edda... When looking at the history of the Morini, a people that lived at the 'gallic' coast of the North Sea, from Bologne sur Mèr all the way into zeeland, i followed a suggestion by the surch-engine to the geni site. The page on the genaeology site mentioned (still does, i've just checked) the names of early rulers, from back in the time they stopped Julius Caesar on his way to Britain. They were eventually defeated by his successor, Augustus. The first generations of this morinie 'family' carry names like Audumbla, Ymir, Bore, Heindall and even Odin. The names of their descendants then point to te rulers of the Menapi. The Morini were a sea-färing folk, with connections to Ireland and maybe (possibly) even Iceland? Where did Snorri pick all that up, i wonder? Or is this geneaology more likely a hoax? Any suggestions?

@narvuntien 3 ай бұрын

I am currently playing my way through AC Valhalla and while that game is extremely fictional. What I don't think I realised until I played that game was that there would just be huge roman ruins all over viking age England that people were repurposing. I also went down a wikipedia rabbit hole on Rutland, I hope his next book will explain who Rote's People were?

@phillipcarter8045 3 ай бұрын

I always wondered how Dutch people can speak good English .

@ingwiafraujaz3126 3 ай бұрын

Dutch and English are closely related, The Netherlands is a relatively small and internationally focused country, and we are taught English in school starting in late primary school. Plus we watch mostly American and some British media with subtitles.

@kimashitawa8113 3 ай бұрын

TV was subbed not dubbed in Dutch

@Boric78 3 ай бұрын

So tall they can clearly see the board.

@frenzalrhomb6919 3 ай бұрын

Try the time zone difference between Australia and Britain!

@phillipcarter8045 3 ай бұрын

And get last night’s lottery results .

@Boric78 3 ай бұрын

Go to sleep.

@alansmithee8831 3 ай бұрын

Hello Hilbert. Like the lost tribe of Yorkshire folk. We're the Elarwi.

@tommy-er6hh 3 ай бұрын

I don't quite follow the thought - First there was the year without a summer, and a couple years later the Justinian plague - and somehow centuries (100s of years) later that led to raiding culture of Lindisfarne fame?

@Tal-q3r 3 ай бұрын

yah.....🤨

@Boric78 3 ай бұрын

I will put it in simple terms. Basically Indonesia blew up, so some Germans invented Odin & Thor, then designed a ship, got new tatoos and then burned a church on an island down. One of the priest's was enslaved, then released and became the father of the king of England. And there was this hot Viking chick. Hence the Dark Ages. You follow ? I don't think they had Dragons, but a dwarf might have been involved. No elves though.

@FlameQwert 3 ай бұрын

given the sheer scale of the famine and plague described by the sources- basically yes, the hypothesis is that this had a major impact on the cultural and political evolution of scandinavia (in conjunction with many other factors of course- the climate that far north in general, the political factors in the south over time, population growth, etc.) , which would lead to, among other things, not just a raiding culture but the other structural pressures that kept the raids going

@tommy-er6hh 3 ай бұрын

@@FlameQwert So the Irish potato famine of 2 centuries back explains the Irish bank crisis of 2010s? You do not see the stretch?

@FlameQwert 3 ай бұрын

@@tommy-er6hh depends on the size of the older event. And not all events directly lead to others of course. The fall of Rome directly leads to the rise of the Frankish kingdoms, as an example, but some guy farting in 1800 did not lead to 9/11. A massive climate catastrophe in an already resource-scarce land, however? Yeah I don't think it's a stretch to say the knock-on effects can lead to unexpected results such as structural social changes that might lead to a propensity to "go overseas and take other people's stuff" In your case of Ireland I would say that is possible. Ireland's population has literally not recovered to pre-famine levels even now, that means ireland's demography is *still* affected by the famine. the famine also was in the context of british imperial control (and being the centre of the growing global financial and economic system), a state of affairs that left ireland in a weaker political, economic and financial situation after independence and into the 20th century. One can say that this demographic impact and weaker position regarding international capital has an indirect role to play in the actions taken by Irish banking institutions to try to encourage growth, that over-exposed them to risk. So when 2008 came, they too were wiped out. I wouldn't say the famine is 'directly' caused it, but I guess I would say it had an outsized impact in causing other causes that then caused so on and so on. Like, you don't come out of a famine that dropped the population from 8 to 6.5 million and which declined further to 5 million today (well, 6.9 including NI) without some consequences coming from that.

@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin 3 ай бұрын

There's not that much to the viking period that lingers today apart from some words of the english language and days of the week; though it could be easily as heavily romanticized as the old west in north america, or the golden age of piracy. I think that's the best way for it to enter the public conscious.

@PohjanKarhu 3 ай бұрын

Not that much? Clearly you need a few more classes with experts. There's way more left than you think. It's everywhere. The Danelaw had its effect. Just take place names for an example. All over England. And the DNA. And material culture. Coins, treasures, bodies. And the traditions and culture that have survived. All over the UK and Ireland the effect survives. People in Scotland, Ireland talk about having traditions that aren't of the UK or Ireland, but eerily resemble the ones in Scandinavia... And the Normans were vikings. Alfred the Great, despite being a Christian, it was important to say he was an ancestor of Odin/Woden. The vikings rejuvinated the pagan soul of the British. And a lot of that survives to this day. So you need to educate yourself a bit more on these things.

@PohjanKarhu 3 ай бұрын

Vikings literally went from having a kingdom in England to unifying it all. Normans were vikings.

@PohjanKarhu 3 ай бұрын

Words, days of the week, place names, plenty of human names, traditions, material culture... I mean, if you want to diminish a culture you can do so by cherry picking what leftovers are "of importance" and what's not. But they are there nontheless.