Youtube comments of Norse Magic and Beliefs (@norsemagicandbeliefs8134).

  1. This poor girl looks like she is sitting here freezing to death and Bjorn is just chillin!
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  2. If we had resorted to tribalism a long time ago we wouldnt have all of these problems now! Tusen takk Bjørn!
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  3. You have come to the right channel. At least for your germanic part that is :)
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  4. Yes and they fought nonstop more than anyone else. Really the only thing uniting them all was language and religion.
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  5. Awesome! Thank you. I did not even know this. I'm pinning this so everyone can see.
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  6. Yes Sweden for sure played a huge role in the East. Just not so many written records unfortunately. But lots of little clues everywhere!
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  7. Yes and Hindu Gurus seem to be so much better at not telling people what to believe. they will just ask questions and explain things in a way that people come to the right answer themselves.
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  8. Yes I know about the modern Galdr. That meaning has changes alot in 1000 years. Its all general magic now but long ago it was specifically a chant or a song. I did not know you still use seidr though! Thank you.
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  9. Link to the group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/2060517444095822 I know alot of you don't like facebook and trust me I don't either. It is just the platform that most people already have accounts. Stay tuned for more news though and we hope to be creating one on another social media platform soon!
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  10. Its true. Not making fun of fat people(i used to be one). Just making fun of the delusional and cringe people. With a healthier society, there wouldn't be any of those people either.
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  11. Yes amazing. We hear stories like this every day. Encourage your child to speak about this more and maybe write some things down for later in life. I wish my parents would have done the same.
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  12. Yes thats great way to put it. Fenrir is much more complicated and there are a few theories. I will make a video soon
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  13. Very true. We owe our thanks to Denmark for alot longer than the viking age. I just wish we would have helped more
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  14. I use my own crappy music to avoid copyright problems
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  15. Its a good point. We do have plenty of foreign sources. English, Frankish and Saxon who also write almost exclusively about the invading Danes. But you are right, they probably would not known the difference between the 3 of us
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  16. Yes thats right. They are spirits. But.....they are for sure the ones who are closest to our realm. In alot of folktales/sagas they are often visible and able to have conversations with humans. A couple of stories of people even being married to them! Crazy stuff
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  17. Beautifully said! Only (very slight) differences around the world is the specific nature and peoples perceptions of it.
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  18. Thank you. Yes all tribal people are not very different from each other and can all live in peace. the real enemy are the ones trying to force their civilization on all of us.
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  19. We don't know a whole lot. but yes there is some info to make a video on.
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  20. I dag liker jeg Dannmark best faktisk! :)
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  21. Yes for sure. Seidr and volva were very respected in society but a bit taboo at the same time. It was extremely shameful for a man to do bout only a little bit shameful for a woman. Vatnsdaela Saga and Erik the reds saga paint the picture like this. I kind of see it similar to something like nude models today. They are respected and admired, but its a bit taboo and probably not something you would want your daughter doing. My guess is seidr was probably the same type of thing.
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  22. Yes nothing changes. Thank you! I got a better camera recentkly and wondered why the quality is not better. I will give that a try!
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  23. Ja, har ikke hørt om den før. Men det høres logisk ut. Tusen takk!
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  24. Yes I think you are for sure on to something. Wind is also a kenning for death. When the eagle and other things are shielded from the wind, it has something do do with immortality. Maybe the same kind of thing as Nirvana/Brahman. I would love to read your book when you are finished writing it!
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  25. Only the Dinka tribe. And they eat quite well actually. Lots of fasting and really big balanced meal once a day. And alot of dairy
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  26. Haha yes i think thats right. And maybe so many men are worthless today because they feel they deserve the best and don't have to prove themselves as a good man. A little approval from everyone around us would make men better in general too :)
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  27. Sorry about the sound issues everyone. If you watch it on a laptop or anything other than a phone, there should be no audio problems
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  28. The Catholic Church at the time destroyed it all unfortunately. They burned or destroyed any trace of the native religion wherever they went. Art, books, temples, sacred trees and killed anyone that was passing down the pagan myths through oral tradition. They did the same everywhere in the world they went to pretty much. But.......in Ireland youve still go alot of stone circles and cairns from pagan times! Lucky that so many of these are preserved.
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  29. For sure! That is going to be a long video though. Thinking of a way to split it up into a couple
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  30. WE HAVE A WINNER! A couple of you got it but Marcus was first. Veldig bra og kjapt svar! Hva har du lyst til å se neste videoen om?
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  31. Yes Iv'e got that book and love it. Forgot that part actually. Yes and lots of folktales later on in time mention ancestral spirits living in the rocks/mountains. Thats something to look more into for sure.
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  32. I will check that out! Thank you.
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  33. Yes Ive read that one. And if i remember right she includes footnotes/explanations. So definitely like that
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  34. Very good point. Yes even the old poetry is written by christians. It was probably not such a shameful thing in pagan times
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  35. Links to my favorite translations in the video description!
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  36. Lots different sources about him. Will make a video for sure
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  37. Absolutely. There are some people who have great theories about these things, but at the end of the day its up to each individual to interpret the myths. The problem is that many so called experts end up coming up with their own theories that completely go against the evidence we do have. As long as we have good knowledge of the sources, your interpretations are just as valuable as anyone else.
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  38. Det er skuffende å se at de fleste i norge gidder ikke å stå opp for sine rettigheter akkurat nå. Jeg har bodd i USA i noen år nå og dette hadde aldri skjedd her. Ønsker flere i Norge var som deg Bjørn. Bull-Hansen for statsminister 2021! Hilsen fra California
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  39. Yes sir!
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  40. Its unfortunate. Have to deprogram thousands of years of religious belief in people sometimes. But have to start somewhere :)
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  41.  @marcushammerolsen3026  Ok Veldig bra! Ja det var plannen å lage mange forskjellige videoer om sånne ting. Men jeg kan ta litt av alt på en gang i en intro-video. Det kommer neste uke en gang. Tusen takk!
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  42. You are not wrong! Books can always be misinterpreted and used for bad. I think trustworthy religious leaders are more important.
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  43. Kind of. Its not necessarily that the myths originate in India/Hinduism, but we evolved from the same origin and went 2 separate ways. And yes absolutely, that and animism, everything being personified and thought to have some sort of consciousness/energy.
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  44. I guess that is true. Working on a video with more info on this now and that gives me an idea for the thumbnail. Thank you!
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  45. @Luna Wolfheart I agree.........but did you just say its NOT ok to culturally appropriate Native american culture? But its ok to appropriate Scandinavian culture? Sounds pretty racist to me.
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  46. Hopefully in the fall it will be done. Thank you my friend!
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  47. Haha I believe those were just in pagan times right? probably every culture bathed regularly until a certain religion came in and said that was a sin.
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  48. Yes there is a big difference between reconstructionist and just making up things like 90% of the modern people do. We have to reconstruct things of course since our ancient soures only tell us so much. But most people are doing the exact opposite of what the ancient sources say. I always start with what we know and then go from there.
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  49. Hmmmm. Looks like we have some research to do. And hopefully some ritual drink tasting one day!
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  50. Very interesting. thats what I would have expected too. That will change alot if thats the case
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  51. Yes i like that. That strong men good times thing is one of my main philosophies in life. Like the evolution or de-evolution of humans that constantly happens like a cycle
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  52. For sure coming soon!
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  53. I like that!
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  54. Hah yea im gonna piss alot of people off when i start making more of these
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  55. Yea why not! I always tell everyone to do some research into their own ancestral history also, just because these myth may feel more at home with us. But we all had beautiful pagan religions at one point and they were not that different. And we can all work together to fill in the blanks of what we dont know. I look at hellenic and native american paganism all the time to fill in some blanks about the norse.
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  56. Yes exactly. Its just a theory but that makes more sense to me honestly than any other explination.
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  57. Ah yes. I try to always list the names of the sources in the video or description. But I can make a note to include the spelling of the kings/people too. Thank you
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  58.  @berkeleyharbin1787  Absolutely! Seidr was about the only type of magic that was considered shameful for men. There were many other types of magic that we have records of the most manly men practicing. Did a video about that too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAY6ai4pzvk
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  59. Yes for sure! Also today people feel more of a freedom to piss of their family because they can always leave and support themselves in modern times. In older times we needed our family and friends so all parts would be forced to be kinder to each other and get along better. Who knows whats the better way
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  60. Heheh. Very Black Metal! Most of these very old churches were built over pagan sacred sites. Instead of burning I would probably rather take it back and make it pagan!
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  61. Its true. It will be for the few who are actually strong enough and diplomatic enough to live with others this way
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  62. We have hammingja/fylgya. A bit different but kind of the same
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  63. Haha half hour into reading. So true
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  64. Haha its entertainment. So I like it and its making people more interested in our history. My problem is just the millions of people who think everything on the shows are historically accurate
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  65. Norway is the least free of any Western country in the world. Taxes, Regulations, laws, free market, everything. But..........its also the safest most secure life in the world. Norway is great for people who value security and a stable life. I value freedom more than stability which is why I will never go back.
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  66. Always! Thank you for asking. For the very little that we do know(bonfires, blots, burial mound activities) we find record of in old county documents, history books and law codes in remote parts of Norway. Most of them starting in the 1200s and onward. Paganism was officially outlawed by then but many pagan traditions continued. But those will be very hard to find and no English translations. I would recommend "Våre tradisjoner" by Vegard Solheim. That is a great book that compiles alot of these old sources together. Also some of these things are covered in the sagas, Landnamabok, and Snorri Sturlussons works. But alot of this is just theory. And I always try to be clear on the things we have record of and the things that people just theorize. Thats the big question. Did the Norse/Germanic tribes have a similar Samhain tradition to the celts because they learned it from them? Or did they have their own version from before? My guess would be yes if we go back far enough, but no way to be sure. :)
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  67. Yesss thats right. but they are 100% wrong. It's not grave robbery on most of these. There are a couple great articles on this(only in Norwegian unfortunately). But Im working on that video right now and will explain more. it may be ready this week.
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  68. Will be soon!
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  69. Thats a really good point actually. Ships, rings, and especially swords definitely has some sort of spirit and energy attached to them. Also animals very often cremated/buried with the humans. Your idea could very well be true. Like all of these items were meant to reincarnate at the same time as the individual.
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  70. Yep! Did a video on that. Just search rocks/stones on the channel :)
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  71. Hmm very interesting. It may be worth looking more into. Lots more place names with Tor in it
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  72. Sure! Or at least the belief that they do.
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  73. Yes so many similarities that Im sure I dont know about. Would love to hear from you about similarities you see when you watch some of my other videos :)
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  74. Perfect! I have done the same thing myself. Ideally we would have a temple, community and feast like old times. But what you are doing is as good as it can possibly get in this day and age. Great stuff!
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  75. He is amazing. I think I sent him alot of business recommending his book. :) Tell him I said hi. I want to see him next time im in Sweden.
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  76.  @TheDoats  Yes and the problem is that most people have a bad understanding and misinterpret their own religion. I think If all people in the world abandoned their own ideas about religion and searched for the truth with an open mind, we would find out that our beliefs are not very different at all.
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  77. He is a big subject. Will be a few videos coming on him :)
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  78. The similarities are endless. Always happy to hear from you about these
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  79. I have done it a few times but definitely people with more experience than me so I'm for sure no master. But I find quite a big difference with where and how I practice it. Basic forest vs traditional crossroads vs burial mound like the oldest method. I will make a long video about that. You have any experience with it? Would love to hear too. Wondering if it was done in the UK also in Anglo-Saxon pagan times to some extent?
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  80. It's a good question. I hear stupid arguments from both sides alot. My opinion is somewhere in the middle. Everywhere in the world has a history of beautiful rich pagan religions that are really not that different from each other. Ideally, people would practice the same pagan religion that their ancestors practiced just because those myths and traditions are so much closer to home and will awaken memories of past lives. That's just my opinion. However, I think that Norse paganism has a responsibility to welcome people from all over because we can share alot of our knowledge. The norse religion is so fortunate to have so much of the literature preserved where other pagan religions had all their literature completely destroyed. So i think we should all work together to fill in the missing parts of our own ancestors lost religions.
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  81. Yes I would be excited to hear how your next one goes now that you have a few more ideas!
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  82. Hmm there might be some connection there
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  83. Yes it does seem that way from some of the studies done. Souls reincarnating on the other side of the world sometimes.
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  84. There are some. Check out "Lokasenna" or "Thrymskvida"
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  85. Its a good question. In scandinavia we have quite a few practitioners that can act as guides but not in the us.(allthough there was about 1-200 years ago). I would maybe speak to a native american guide about these things or maybe even some hoodoo practitioners. I have heard that they are not so different to the scandinavian trolldom
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  86. You know this man! Almost every christian sounding holiday was renamed trying to convert an original heathen holiday. This one was called Heyønn/Bufarhelg in Norway. I think the celts had a name for this too
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  87. Yes I'm sure. Don't know a whole lot about Baltic pagan beliefs but I know there is a big tradition. Would love to learn about that more.
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  88. Yes I think you are right. The christianization dates I mention are the "official" dates that scholars put on it. But I mention in most of my videos that those dates are bullshit and the people remained pagan alot longer than what is recorded in the history books. Just because a kings was christianized in the area or a bishop was put in power means nothing to what the regular people would have been. Thank you for the info. I didnt know alot of that.
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  89. Light Heavyweight. Hahah oh yea I would be happy to whoop him
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  90. I am a jack of all trades master of none unfortunately lol
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  91. Hah yes its difficult to find accurate maps. Have to take whatever i can find most of the time. You are one of the few to notice.
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  92. I though the same but dont know alot about it. Thor too is known to be a very distant parallel of Indra. Are prana and Indra related in any way?
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  93. Its the people who like the information but get offended by my foul language xD
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  94. Yes absolutely. More warlike areas were more into Aesir and more peaceful farming tribes were more with Vanir.
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  95. Hah one day i will be able to hire an animator instead of using stock images. But I'll never stop being vulgar. lol. Yes there is alot of things people don't understand about their own religion unfortunately. I'll check out that video!
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  96. Awesome! I am happy to help in any way I can. Seidr is a huge subject and lots that we dont know and ill probably be making a hundred videos on just that. Happy to answer any questions if you have any!
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  97. I read something similar. In Varg Vikernes books. I haven't read about it anywhere else but it makes alot of sense. Is that where you heard it?
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  98. Yesss exactly right! Those are a bit more difficult. A few different theories on those. Yes i will speak about all of these soon.
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  99. I do have an Odysee. I might do that!
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  100. Sure! It could be your Fylgja(protective spirit). In the standard religious belief, there are 2 parts to us:body and soul.........In the norse belief, we have 8. Your fylgja/protective spirit is one of them. I've done a couple videos about it and more to come. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmoKZns_7lo&t=39s
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  101. Then you know as well as I do that many sources say different things. Ragnars Grandfather was danish even in those same sources, in another source his father was norwegian and mother danish, another source he was 100% danish. Only thing we know for sure is that they were accompanied by danish armies mostly and their sons were regarded as Danes. Same thing for Rollo/Hrolf really. I would love to claim them both as Norwegian, but there's just a little bit more evidence that they were Danes
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  102. You will find none of the American trailer park pagans here. I have already pissed all of them off with my other videos. Welcome friend
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  103. Thats right! 9 herbs charm is the earliest example of that. But there are dozens more charms from later on grimoires in scandinavia that mention all types of cods in the same galdr/charm.
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  104. I knew it! Knew Denmark didn't give in that easily! At least in some of the smaller villages
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  105. Unfortunately alot of their traditions are lost too. Although this happened much later than the rest of scandinavia
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  106. We have a very few # of sources that give specific information on bird omens. We know they were used, just not enough information to go off of unfortunately.
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  107. I think we are getting stupider as time goes on. We used to be able to understand very different languages all over the north of europe. Even 1 generation ago norwegians, swedes, and danes, understood each other well. But the kids growing up now don't and just switch to using english instead.
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  108. Absolutely. The Europeans did some horrible things to tribal peoples around the world. But people forget the exact same thing was done to europeans just a few hundred years before. The enemy is not each other. The enemy is civilization using monotheism to force people to fight who would have otherwise been able to coexist peacefully. Funny enough im working on a video about this right now
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  109. Lucky man. Here in damn California I have been waiting almost 2 years for a fight now. Going to have to travel for fights if we don't open up the state soon here. Good luck! Be safe.
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  110. Yes. i would give it back to them if I could. Yes the germainic peoples lived quite peacefully with the sami. It was only after Christianity came in that Scandinavia started doing some horrible things to them.
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  111. Hahah of course. But the overlords wont let us speak about that on YT
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  112. Thats difficult. But yes even me I take info and wisdom from lots of different spiritualites around the world. And pick the one you feel gives you the most answers? But its hard like you said. Even a lifetime of studying the norse, I still feel i have lots to learn.
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  113. Love it! Really good thought. Like one way of deterring mischievous spirits away is by simply doing our best to act normal.
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  114. Yes for the bogs thats true. But we have some records of human sacrifice. Also criminals most likely. this is the only one in this video where it was an innocent person. Allthough we are not sure how true all these records are. Will do a video about human sacrifice soon
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  115. Very interesting. I will have to look for that video.
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  116. Im sorry to hear that. Its horrible. I was expecting this not to happen in Europe because too many people would fight back. But I have been so disappointed seeing how many Europeans have just put blind trust in the government about all this, even my close friends and family. Im happy to see that you are one of the few who see the truth. In USA is not much better but I can guarantee there will be none of these passports, and lockdowns are almost finished everywhere and will not return. Too many people are fighting back here which makes me happy. I don't know what you do for work or how easily you are able to move places? I would maybe move somewhere temporarily in the EU that has more freedom, but also cheap to live. Maybe somewhere in the east? My friends there are doing well for the most part. Denmark or Sweden would be good too(but expensive). Just somewhere temporary until things get back to normal slowly. Pandemics previously in history all last around 18 months before things get back to normal. So hopefully just a little bit more time and patience and we can be proud that we didn't take some poison that may damage us for life. And all of the others that did take it will feel pretty stupid that they couldn't wait a few more months to go on their vacations. Let me know how things go. I wish you and your family well. And would be happy to hear from you soon to see how things go.
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  117. Thats right! I follow the beliefs myself even though some of it I leave out. Thank you.
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  118. Yes that part is the biggest hole in the theory. The norse calendar was lunar. so about 29.5 days. But they also had kind of a leap week(or sometimes 2) to catch up with the solstices. So it comes close but still a little bit short. Not sure. And very good to hear! May it be a strong healthy child!
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  119. Helios is the actual sun. Same as Sol in the norse. Baldr and Apollo are not the sun itself but the light/warmth/summer and energy thats associated with all those.
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  120. Nice! I appreciate anytime you can add some celtic knowledge! Norse and celtice wer not all that different and love to learn more Thank you.
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  121. Yep. Many other historians have said that same thing
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  122. Thank you. I was wondering
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  123. Yes thats right! Except it wasnt Baldr. They were with thjalfi
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  124. Yes that all makes sense. in addition to things like that being terrifying. I'll make some more videos about what the norse sources say about this and would love to hear more about any meditation methods you know of elsewhere in the world.
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  125. Of course! Living like you do is not only good for the children and their spirituality, but every aspect of life. Health, strength, metal well being, and everything else. I'm saving up for a homestead myself and think Montana is maybe the best place for it! I would teachyour kids the norse ways and of course any other cool other beliefs from around the world that you pick up on the way. And yes Ive done alot of videos on the sacrifices. They are all on my "Blot" playlist on the channel
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  126. Thats right! The Sami and the Finns were always in the Sagas the ones more know for magic and taught it to the Norse. And funny enough, most of the stories about a norse king marying a sami, it was not the most romantic. Some of them just married and left and Harald had 20 something other wives if I remember right. SO I think you are for sure right that marrying a volva brought some sore of power and that was the main motivation for the marriage.
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  127. Beautiful! Good to see!
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  128. Absolutely. This has been confirmed in the last 20 years. And the opposite is true of these bog burials which a body takes thousands of years to decompose. This was a way of burying the most evil people so they are not reincarnated. One of the ways to banish a person to Niflheim like in the myths.
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  129.  @gywii  Yes thank you everyone! You are all correct. Valhall is very difficult. I did a video about it but it is still very unclear as to what it actually is. There are a few good theories. I'm not even sure what I believe about it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJPjtAP_rE&list=PLLEMEFW2WPASN2GhXrQhGoSRzkE3J2LMg&index=18&t=328s
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  130. Yes thats true. Theres quite a bit more from other sources from other places and Ill do a video about that too. These were just sources from the Sagas. I like your channel too by the way. Been following for a little while!
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  131. Bjorn is right. Offerings/relations are great. Especially to birds/predatory animals where it was believed that some of these other spirits take the shape of. Also meditation and dreaming is very important, as thats the way you can connect on a deeper level with these. Ill do videos about these soon.
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  132. Yes thats difficult. Only thing types of rituals that come up from the pagan sagas is blessing the newborn with Thors Hammer. Also sprinkling with water. Something similar to the baptism actuallty. Without the Christian element. ill do some more digging and make a video on that.
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  133. Ja jobber med den nå faktisk! Om et par uker er den ferdig :)
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  134. Definitely coming soon!
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  135. Yes you are right. Especially at that time, the people were very hostile towards each other and each tribe was a bit different. But still the same language and religious family. That is what I mean by same people.
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  136. Beautiful place! And most people forget that there was no Netherlands very far back in time. Only the great Frisian Kingdom.(much larger than what modern day Friesland is)
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  137. Very true
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  138. Hmm. thank you. did not know that. Will have to look into that some more
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  139. Hahah. its hillarious. Not super historically accurate either. But I say for sure more accurate than vikings actually lol
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  140. Yes. Just before the viking age. I think that is regarded as mid-Iron-Age. Will be lots of videos about that
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  141. Sure! It sounds like you are mostly Germanic ancestry but continental German/Dutch for the most part? I would look more into Saxon paganism in your case then. Myths, religion and gods were the same as the Norse pretty much, just slightly different names(see the chart at 04:56 in this video). You can do everything the same as the Norse but maybe using the Saxon versions of their names will resonate more with you.
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  142. Yes freya will be coming soon
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  143.  @bjornekdahl721  Yes I like him. Only seen a few of his videos but I like them alot!
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  144. Light elves are ancestral spirits. Dark elves are really the dwarves. Although I have no idea why they called it like this.
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  145. I did a video about that. Look for the part 2 to this video :)
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  146. Of course! The original source from the 800s is Burchard of Worms. Im sure there is lots of translations of that. I read it first in a book called "Barbarian Rites" by Hans Hasenfratz. I think that one is probably the easiest to find.
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  147. I said nothing wrong in this video. Sounds like you are mad at the first map shown?  Sure Scotland, Ireland, rest of UK, had some Germanic migration(mostly Norwegian Vikings). But in small numbers that integrated in 2-3 generations. We call these Norse-Gaels. Very different from England which had 3 MASSIVE migrations of Germanic people over the span of 1000 years. The first and main one being Angles/Saxons/Jutes in the migration period which pushed out pretty much all the native Celtic people. England was near 100% Germanic religion, DNA and language. Then another mass Germanic(mostly Danish) migration in the Viking age. We could even count the Norman migration after that if we want to get specific. I hope you can see the difference between England and the rest of the UK by that. And not American. Im Norwegian with a father from Essex and UK citizenship. Sounds like you should have done some research before leaving a rude comment.
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  148. Very true! As long as the original meaning is kept along with the idols :)
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  149. Divine energy. Thats a perfect word to describe it. Exactly what they are. Thank you for the idea.
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  150. Very good question. It depends on which gods you are speaking about. First, primitive humans have definitely worshipped parts of nature (sun, moon, trees, mountains, etc.) Some of the gods clearly represent basic things like this and that has been agreed upon by the scholars. But then..........other gods represent certain very complex spiritual energies that we don't quite understand(only about 6 of them we think). Then of course there are stories about real ancestral kings with the same names as the gods that could have been worshipped. I dont have all the answers but these videos and my playlist will clear things up. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZNEPIVFkw&t=509s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H30TxC9KtLA&t=304s https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMEFW2WPASN2GhXrQhGoSRzkE3J2LMg
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  151. Thank you! Just created the channel and lots more to come. Let me know about any questions and I can make some videos about it!
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  152. I cant remember. Was it about the magic? Galdrabok i think?
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  153. Agreed! For the good hearted ones who really want help
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  154. Absolutely. Vargs book is one of my favorite. Cant say I agree with everything in there, but for sure 90% or it I agree.
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  155. There were for sure natural ways they had. Will do a video on that :)
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  156. Thank you for the info! Love to see the similarities
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  157. Yes. That is the idea. And they are al related. Will do a long video about vidar
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  158. Absolutely. Thats my belief too. Whether a belief is transferred to us through dna or consciousness or memories from past lives is all possible. I think alot of the things we believe in and feel are there because our ancestors experienced the same things.
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  159. It just means welcome everyone in Norwegian
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  160. Yes t is not that old. I always wonder how old the myths in there are since they were recorded from oral tradition. What do you think? My guess is that some are very old. Finland remained pagan much longer than the rest of Scandinavia.
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  161. Great! Thank you! Comparing pagan traditions is the most valuable thing we can do to learn i think!
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  162. No edits. I dont know what the sounds are like. But, it looked like a crow and also the fact that ravens are very rare here(and rare in any urban environment). You may be right though!
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  163. Bjorn is right. Also, pagan(paganus) is an even older Latin word from when even Rome wasn't Christianized yet. I like "heathen" too. Even in Scandinavia we say "hedensk" alot of the time. I guess I use pagan more often for the exact reason you mentioned. Pagan can be any polytheistic religion in the world. Alot more people are using the term pagan than heathen and look to the east for their spiritual answers. My goal is to get those people to realize that they can find those answers in their own European history.
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  164. You found the right channel!
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  165. Beautiful! Best of luck! Would love to hear how that goes later on!
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  166. And which "Numerous" sources are you talking about exactly?
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  167.  @malhobekabdulov1802  Yes its annoying. The author apparently had several old manuscripts that he used to write it in the 1950s original. But nowhere to be found. Some of the staves are known from manuscripts like Huld, Kreddur and Galdrabok. But others we don't know.
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  168. Yea good question. They were on a different calendar based off of the moons. So their thursdays would not be the same as ours. We dont know a whole lot about that though.
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  169. I can think of a couple sagas. All kind of spread out though. If they were born handicapped, they would usually be left out to die unfortunately. But if they became handicapped later on in life somehow, they were taken care of very well. Just did a video on Hrorek that goes over that a bit
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  170. Haha that a long subject.
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  171. Very interesting! Thank you for that!
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  172. Those are super interesting. Will for sure speak about those
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  173. As a brother who had to watch my sister go against my advice and date a bunch of weasels, I agree with you 100% lol
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  174. Im not too knowledgeble of irish history. But I know most of the sources also say that the Normans Christianized pretty quickly after they moved from scandinavia to France/Normandy. So probably christian for the most part by the time they moved to Ireland. However, the norwegian vikings came in very large numbers to Ireland and settled. They settled in Dublin and alot for other areas and have records that they were pagan for 1-200 years after they settled. So for sure if you are Irish, you've got a few ancestors at least that worshiped the Norse gods!
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  175. Already did about 2 weeks ago. Check my channel :)
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  176. We have no idea. If I was to guess.........I say they probably had a more kind of hunter-gatherer diet as opposed to the unheathier agricultural diet in the rest of scandinavia. We see this many times in history that even the same people genetically, the ones with the more natural diet/lifestyle end up stronger. Just my idea though
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  177. Yes good question. If we go much further back in time it was all focus on the smaller tribes like those as you mentioned. As it gets closer to the viking age there was more unified kingdoms.
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  178. Yes happy to help. Any questions you have I am happy to do some research on if I don't already have the answer. No I am not familiar with modern witchcraft too much. I only know about the old Norse sources. Exactly. This video is based on Steven Flowers Galdrabok. He draws most of his sources from Icelandic grimoires from the 1300s onwards. So yes we are not quite sure if the Norse used this method also in pagan times. I would say probably not, since most of the norse texts about writing and carving sigils/runes seem to be very spontaneous and done quickly. But I definitely believe that many of the practices, sigils, witchcraft we find in Christian scandinavia developed from pagan practices. Lots of evidence for this that I will do alot more videos on. But for now, you may find this video interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAJPSNcKGc&t=3s
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  179. Very true. Funny you say that today on the anniversary of the raid at Lindesfarne in 793 starting all of it. Lindesfarne was the place where all the gospels were printed and where christian oppressors revived their orders from. The raids were retaliation.
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  180. The greeks new about these things almost 2000 years before. Not as well as we know today but they had some understanding of it
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  181. Yes for sure. I don't know about the North African magical practice. But I have read quite a bit of the West African Hoodo. Incredibly similar to the Norse folk magic tradition actually. Even how it is still practiced today.
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  182. Exactly. Brahman in Hinduism. The question is if there is a norse equivalent to this. There are a few theories.
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  183. Good question. it depends on the person. I speak about it all in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzg3T5CxXB8
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  184. It looks like it is heading that way. We will see what the future holds!
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  185. Yes. It would be the indo-european gods if we go back far enough. Although we don't know what most of them would be called.
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  186. Ive not heard that. Probably some roman source? Would be interested in reading more
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  187. Good point. Hadnt thought of it that way. Its probably also partly that. Thats when the sacrifices happened too at this time of year.
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  188.  @NocturnalTales-fromJon  He practiced shapeshifting. That is its own type of magic but we don't know what it really means. Some people think it was just killing and using the skins of an animal, some people think it wasn't magic at all but symbolic for something else. Others think it is a ritual or some type of soul traveling journey that loki did. We are just not 100% sure unfortunately
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  189. Yes in the poem Lokasenna he mocks freya and odin for performing seidr. Yes thats right loki was a sorcerer but only practiced shapeshifting and galdr a couple of times. No mentions of him practicing seidr.
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  190. I think about that every day. We will see which way the world goes before we die and can then decide if we want to be born again into it ;)
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  191. Yes that one is for sure coming soon!
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  192. Sure! Spán has been translated as chips and also spoons actually. But it likely also has something to do with the old norse word "spá" meaning prediction/prophecy. We can also look at records in Tacitus Germania about the northern tribes 600 years before the viking age and he seems to describe this same thing. And yea i think that "sacrifice/offering" is something modern people made up. I cant remember any records of it in the old sources. Divination was usually done by more active methods. Seidr/Utisseta/Firegazinng/Dream interpretation. There were much more used ways than the sacrifice chips I mentioned here. Have done other videos on that
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  193. Very cool. Thank you. Would love to hear more. Feel free to message me on Instagram if you have. @thormmadj
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  194. If you type earthing/grounding benefits online you will find many. But of course for your book, it should be from academic sources ideally. Here is a good one! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3265077/
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  195. Yes of course all just options and we can do the things the way we like as long as we are at least trying to get it according to real tradition. I would be careful going clockwise though. In Scandinavian folk tradition, counter clockwise movements are always used for raising good spirits. You know this from Grettirs saga which you quoted earlier. Clockwise is considered destructive in the later folk tradition at least. Allthough other parts of the world consider counterclockwise an unlucky direction. (probably depends on the hemisphere). So who knows
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  196. Jackson Crawford is a linguist
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  197. Hah yes seems a good fit. The series is already uploaded. You will find the whole playlist on my channel. I have only made 11 parts of 18. And sorry for the bad audio! Just got a new microphone and the 7 left that are still to come will be better!
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  198. Thats a really good point. hadn't though of that. Like more homage/recognition for the spirits makes them stronger
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  199. You are probably right. I had to get those gothic translations from wikipedia so probably not super reliable
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  200. Norway. Living in US :)
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  201. That is what others have thought as well. I think it might be a bit earlier than that though if I remember right.
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  202. You got it :) That is along the lines of what the scholars have theorized. I did a full video about sifs hair here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCq2-ug1NjE&t=34s I don't know the history of rumpelstiltskin so well. But we can assume of course it is much older then we think. It may be worth looking into. Thank you for pointing that out.
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  203. All good points! You should see the full video on Sif's Hair I did. That will answer some things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCq2-ug1NjE&t=35s
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  204. Sythians and hemp tents? I will have to go read about that. Thank you.
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  205. Yes damn near 100% scandinavian. With a little bit of scottish actually. Interesting. Maybe some norman there too
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  206. Det høres sånn ut!
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  207. They had just won a big battle at york the day before and they were just meeting the nobles at stamford bridge to discuss who would be put in charge of the city. It was just a peace talk. It was The other King Harold Godwinson who came up north much quicker than expected and surprised them. Did a video on that
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  208. Always! Hodr and Ullr are definitely not the same. I don't think I said that in this video? I could be mistaken. But they both come at the same time. See my video on Hodr here. I will do a video on Ullr soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLdbXhSxJHM&list=PLLEMEFW2WPASN2GhXrQhGoSRzkE3J2LMg&index=8&t=288s For the sources that go over these in detail, Victor Rydber-Teutonic Mythology, Vegard Solheim-Vaare tradisjoner, Varg Vikernes-Sorcery and Religion in Ancient Scandinavia.
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  209. Nice! Thanks so much for that info! I know the Celts/Druids were very similar to the Norse but didn't know all that. I love to learn more!
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  210. Yes. Most things
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  211. Thank you. I love to learn about the similarities between our religion!
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  212. There are few sources but definitely some very important ones. Good idea for a video
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  213. Thank you. I was wondering.
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  214. Yes exactly. I love tat she puts the original texts next to all the translations. Helps us learn a bit of old norse too
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  215. See my video about odin that I released last week :)
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  216. Haha yea im using my friends music to avoid any copyright problems down the road. Im trying to get him to make something a little more background-music-ish
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  217. It could be. Placents symbolising the earth and sifs hair being the umbilical chord. Its worth some more thought at least
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  218. Yes, absolutely. Its my favorite!
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  219. You are not wrong. Its debated whether there was a blot at this time or not. I do the disablot in the spring, and Alfablot at the start of winter. More evidence for alfablot being at that time, but both are possibilites for sure.
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  220. Yep. Same story slightly different version. See the Helgi lays/Sigurd Cycle poems in the poetic edda
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  221. They are amazing. I have some thoughts listening to them but I would love to interview them one day to know for sure whats behind it all.
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  222. Very interesting. I did not know some of that. Do you know where I can read more about these "Death Dolls"?
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  223. Hah. thank you. Maybe someday. No idea what subject I would write it on since there are so many
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  224. No tattoos recorded in history. But I would look at some of the runestones or rock art for some ideas!
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  225. Hah yea I would say that is true, but most of those graves are very large with plenty of space. Sometimes even entire ships. For the standard and open air cremation. There is probably some spiritual reason for it. But nothing in the norse sources about why. A hindu might have a better answer about that.
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  226. Yes I have that book. its good. Alot of those staves we don't know where they come from. but some of them we can trace back to much older magic books in Iceland. Not all the way back to the viking age but the 1500s some of them are from
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  227. Ah yes the Hercules gene! That is the X-factor. I wonder about that though. Everyone I have seen with that gene eats like crazy and that is not possible previously in history. I wonder how big they would have been on an average viking age diet
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  228. Could be. Interesting thought
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  229. Samme tradisjon i Norge :)
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  230. Yea that could be true!
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  231. Dont quite understand.....lol the gods are not people. What these energies are is a perfect example of how different cultures perceived things differently. Evolution/culture/habitat is how people came to call these gods/energies different names and slightly different myths. They knew about this 2000 years ago at least. Look up "interpretatio romana or graeca" Baldr/Apollo is a perfect example. The light/summer/sun in the North of europe was seen as life and death. We can literally see the sun disappear for weeks in the northern parts and if this happens and Baldr dies, it is ice and death for everything in nature. The light(Apollo) is still important in more southerly areas like Greece, but it was always present year round and people would not have viewed it as crucial as Scandinavians would. Thats why apollo is associated with other things that the light/sun can bring(energy, health, even war?) I cant speak on that, dont know enough about the greek beliefs. Good question, i enjoyed answering.
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  232. There are a few theories. Baby hanging in from the unbilical chord, conciousness and thought being discovered by humans, even some suggest a real samanic ritual that we can do. Not sure what I believe but I will make a video on all of it.
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  233. Never tried it, but want to. I think those definitely help alot but are not necessary all the time
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  234. Haha yes I try a bit every day. Hope to keep that up as long as I can :)
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  235. As far as the language and literature goes.......he is great! I think he speaks old norse and norwegian
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  236. Yes. Working on getting shipping to Europe. Hopefully soon!
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  237. Yes I get great effects with sleep/dreaming from it. But i also take zinc and magnesium which helps. Unfortunately I haven't experimented a whole lot with harvesting. Haven't been living close enough to nature for a while.
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  238. Where did you read that? Garlic for sure was used to ward off bad spirits and for good health all over the North. Thor was always the preferred one to invoke for good health or against plague so it make sense if the two were connected. Just wondering how you got that connection?
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  239. Thats a great story and wish more people were like that. Sorry to hear about your father though.
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  240. Thank you. I took a look at some of your videos too. Good points you bring up!
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  241. Very cool. No not any records of jormungandr shedding in norse myths. But I am sure there is in other indo-european myths. Im not as knowledgable in those but I am sure there is. The old vedic myths may be a good place to look for those. Its related to the norse anyway
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  242. Yes a few hundred years at least. Probably more unofficially. But probably a few thousand years celtic though.
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  243. Norwegians that migrated most of them. With a bit of Celtic DNA there it turns out
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  244. Yes working on a spotify now. Not quite enough music finished yet to go full on
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  245. Yes suebi one of my favorites. There was no big contact between scandinavia and rome in that period, but we think that there were some danes working as mercenaries in the roman legions. Archeological finds and stuff like that
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  246. Its very difficult. Only people who actually can directly trace family that far back is royal lines.
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  247.  @ziggiboy  Håper til høsten hvis reise restriksjonene blir bedre
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  248. Hele familien min er i Halsen/Rekkevik. Jeg kan komme og hilse neste gang jeg er i Norge :)
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  249. Yes great culture! Can for sure make a video about that
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  250. The finns have always been great warriors and one of the best in the whole world at defending their homeland. No matter what age :)
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  251. Thanks! I took a little break making videos about magical staves since they weren't getting too many views. But since you like it ill get back to making a few!
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  252. Thank you! That one could be counted in this video too since they also were germanic tribes.
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  253. Yes of course. Very old people and we have no records of their language or even written records about them at all I believe. Just archeological evidence. Very interesting and I plan doing a video on it.
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  254. Ja det stemmer. Sverige var den siste av alle skandinaviske land som ble "offisielt" krisntet i 1060. Men hedensk religion/tradisjoner varte i mange hundre aar etter det. :)
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  255. Yes I will make sure it is!
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  256. Thats what I did my BA thesis on actually. Could make a long video about that. About 1000 years ago, the could understand each other quite well. 1500 years ago, very well, 2000 years ago almost an identical language most likely. I guess it depends where in England. Some places very mixed and remote villages/islands probably not mixed at all.
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  257.  @riddickriddick9520  thak you. I wil check that out!
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  258. Awesome. Do you know where i can read about that? Is it old latin sources?
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  259. Haha yes. I stopped a while back. I meant to continue but I have learned a few more things i would add to the finished ones. I might just start all over
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  260. I will think about it. I have a friend starting up a foundation to build a temple. Might be something there
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  261. Sure! Thats an easy one. I can make a video on that soon.
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  262. That would be a great idea. Will take quite a bit of research though.
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  263. Nice. Just got back too. Can meet up again sometime soon
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  264. Ha yes thats all very true. It I don't know enough about other pagan religions around the world to speak about those. I guess they choose a more diplomatic approach today than they did 1000 years ago but are still doing the same thing in many places.
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  265. Yea havamal is easy. Most poetic edda books will have that included. Also there are lots of havamal texts online to see it for free
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  266. We have some evidence that eurpean polytheist religions belived in a "one" creator god too. Like Brahman. but we dont know much more
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  267. Rhodos :) It shaved some years off my life for sure
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  268. Yes I think you might be right. I took a look at that and even looks like a cross legged sitting person on one part of it.
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  269. I shouldn't say here. Because I don't have experience with it and don't know what dosage is safe. But there are a few others in the world who know that might help you :)
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  270. I like that alot. Thank you for that detailed explanation
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  271. Sounds like you have a gift of being able to speak with the spirits! Either that or a very good Fylgja.
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  272. Exactly. The word Hel/Kel is a very old world going back thousands of years before christianity. I think the christian original latin word for hell is "inferno"? or something like that. they simply took our germanic word and associated it with their belief in their christian hell.
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  273. You might find them on etsy. If not ill be carrying them in my shop in the next couple months
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  274. Very cool. Did not know all that is still pretty recent
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  275. Do you read German? Below is an article and the wikipedia page mentions it. Also if you look below in the comments theres a dutch guy whos grandmother had a recipe and I know a couple other Germans who are the same. You are not going to find this in any registered brewery. Only remote villages with family recipes. https://botanikus.de/informatives/giftpflanzen/alle-giftpflanzen/bilsenkraut/ https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwarzes_Bilsenkraut
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  276. Got it at a small viking shop in Stavanger. Long time ago and not sure if its still there
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  277. It was definitely a belif in the late viking age. But we think not an original part of Germanic tribal belief for a few reasons. This video goes into more detail. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fJPjtAP_rE&t=333s
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  278. Absolutely. I am releasing a quick video tonight speaking about exactly that. And yes I would love help! Especially anytime we have parallels in the Vedic beliefs. You know alot more about that than I do.
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  279. Hah delayed again. but getting close
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  280. Yesss that one is coming for sure
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  281. Yes for sure they were respected and even feared. Also even if a woman got violent, the men usually would still not retaliate
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  282.  @Xanomodu  Yes only one attstation by that name. I speak about it a bit in this video but will do another one soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFZNEPIVFkw&t=509s
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  283. We have snakes in norway and most places in the north. Poisonous but relatively harmless
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  284. Yessir.
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  285. Yes I like survive the Jive. Haven't heard of Tom Rousell though. Ill have to take a look. Thank you.
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  286. Yes. This is something that happens with any monotheistic culture around the world. For smaller tribal communities, humans rarely see their myths as literal events. They are divine energies/things in nature. As civilization comes in and towns/cities get bigger, people lose their connection to their spiritual leaders and people to explain those myths. That is when they start to make figurines and statues of these gods and start portraying the myths as literal events. The result is then of course that people start to question their ancestors tribal religion and the people then always within a couple hundred years turn to Christianity/monotheism/atheism. This has happened everywhere. Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, Asia, Africa. All the same but different times. So yes probably for 1-200 years the myths were believed as literal events and that leads to the downfall of the spirituality. But the tribal, nature based religion lasted thousands of years. That is what we try to get back to. :)
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  287.  @noctiloucous  Yes definitely not recommended for everyone. Most don't have the interest or gift enough for this stage :)
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  288. Hah yes I was going to say that too. Stage 4 is becoming Gandalf! A real live volva. Full shamanistic mastering and contacting the spirits consciously. I don't know anyone who has gotten to that stage though.
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  289. Very cool! I hope all goes well with a bit more time. Viel Glück! Ich habe 2 Jahre in Berlin gelebt. Auf English Universitet. So mein Deutsch ist leider schlecht :)
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  290. Ja det stemmer. Blot og nesten alle andre hedenske tradisjoner ble ulovlig etter vikingtiden. Men folk sluttet ikke med det. Folk bare gjorde blot og andre ting privat. Vi har en lov fra 1600-tallet som forbyr blot. Folk stuttet aldri med det. De bare gjorde blot mer enkelt(legge mat i traer/hauger for eksempel)
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  291. Thank you. I would be curious to hear about what other parallels you see with subjects in some of my other videos. That is always the most interesting to learn for me.
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  292.  @bjornekdahl721  Yes thats a difficult question. It depends on your target group. Maybe for your first book its best to target as many people as possible and keep it basic/introduction? And then later books you can go deeper once you already have some loyal readers. Or do it the opposite way and get the more hardcore readers to start and then general readers after. I guess it depends on what you prefer
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  293. I think so. its a shame parents just brush these things off when it happens to their kids. When they should really be taking every detailed note
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  294. I can have shipping to Switzerland set up. Check back later in the week :)
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  295. Yes fenrir too. but that one is much more difficult. will do a full video on that
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  296. Yes a cool show. More accurate and also better made than Vikings I think
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  297. Yes. Shields were smaller, round and made of wood. So probably would just have to be packed in a little tighter together.
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  298. Very interesting. Where did you read that?
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  299. I would say Trolldom. Its the easiest read with the best info :)
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  300.  @TheJohnnyDemers  Best is old nore. Icelandic is good too as they are very close. Im norwegian and cant really understand old norse. Its too different. But if you learn old norse or icelandic, you will be able to understand all the old texts. Im learning that now. Hope that helps and good lick with your studies!
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  301.  @TheJohnnyDemers  Sure! Seidr is a very difficult one. Just because we don't know very much about it. We have some mentions of seidr in the eddas-Ynglinga Saga and Lokasenna. Also in alot of the sagas there are mentions of it in detail- Erik the Reds saga and Vatnsdoela saga have the best description. But in none of these actually tell us how to do seidr. There are some modern books of people writing about it like Runic John or Katie Gerard. They have good books but alot of it is reconsrtucted and for sure not 100% accurate. But its worth a read. I would probably recomend galdr instead of seidr. Just because we know alot more about galdr. I filmed a video about seidr already. Im just editing it and i willpost it next week i think
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  302. Yes it is true. In alot of stories, he is the enemy actually. Most people forget that
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  303. Yea hes great!
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  304. Yes for sure those videos will be coming :)
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  305. Awesome. Thank you. Love learning about some of those other mythologies
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  306. I will. My Norse is not good enough to do a translation yet though. Maybe in a few years
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  307. Thank you. I don't know so much about the greek world.
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  308. Yes actually. Have a knee injury :)
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  309.  @thorgeist  Hah yea something tells me we would not get along.
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  310.  @carnation6827  Awesome. Thank you. Comparitive mythology is the most interesting thing I think!
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  311. Wow yea that sounds like it could be. I'm not really familiar with greek mythology and didnt even know those. Thank you for sharing!
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  312. Exactly. Tons of ancient cultures worshipped very specific parts of nature. I don't know why its hard for so many people to believe that the norse did this as well
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  313.  @TheWitchInTheWoods  Yes its a bit easier Norway in the summertime when I have typically done it. The night only lasts a couple hours :)
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  314. Yea i cant think of bridges in the norse sources like that but springs, waterfalls and some rivers were said to be sacred
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  315. Its the same time in Scandinavia at Easter(Paaskeris). But we have not done that for more than 100 years i think. Tank you for the info! Happy to see this tradition is still done :)
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  316. I think less spiritual today. Probably because they have never been taught any religion other than Christianity. Hopefully we can change that
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  317. Thats a good one. A few of the Grimms books are for sure on my top 10 list. They were just written too long after pagan times unfortuanately. I'll always put literature written closer to pagan times higher on the list.
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  318. Yes the druids even more so im sure :)
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  319. Thank you. There are others. But none of them like youtube very much. Hopefully we can get more people someday!
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  320. Sure. Hunting, fishing and helping on the farm. Never yet for a blot though
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  321. Ah yes good question. Female spirits(disir) was a different thing to dead female ancestors. However, we do actually have a couple records that women could become disir after they die. Almost like an afterlife spent protecting loved ones and descendants. Ill do a video on that
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  322. Beautifully said!
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  323. Yes of course very many paralells and the greek and the norse were essentially the same religion, just the names and understanding of the gods differed of course. It is usually belived that Odin in the greek myths is Hermes though. I don't know if I agree but thats what the historians say at least
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  324. I like the sorcery and religion(first link in description). The others are newer and more current. The sorcery and religion one has the most diverse info in it so a great start.
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  325. Yes another one will be coming soon
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  326. Haha i used to be into it in my younger days but have not followed it the past 10 years. What are some of the most well known bands and I will take a look.
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  327. I have thought about that myself. And how with certain different types/levels of meditation, dreaming, etc. we can get a look into these other dimensions that way. Different eastern beliefs have something similar.
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  328. Yes average height in scandinavia at the time from skeletons we have found is 1.75m. Alot of the sagas say that kings were a head taller than that. Then there is the english king like i mentioned in the video saying he needs more than 6ft of soil to burry kind harald. So he would have probably been somewhere between 190-200cm
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  329. Sure! Im gonna make a video about tyr and thats a really long subject. But short version, because of linguistic evidence, place names, similar function in parallel mythologies, and some archeological finds, alot of the experts think that Tyr/Tiwaz was the main god/sky god that was the highest worshipped in very old times. Long before the viking age. Probably the bronze age or maybe even the stone age. I dont know if I believe that theory but its at least the main one that is the most accepted by the experts
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  330. Thank you. I love to learn about celitc things like that
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  331. Hes great! However, he is a linguist. For questions about the religion and history, people put way too much faith in him. There are hundreds of authors alot more knowledgeable on those things. For language, poetry, sources, and literature though he is the best in the world I think.
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  332. Yes. Very important subject. I will do a video on that
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  333. Yes we don't have those same ideologies in our beliefs. We have better and more logical ideologies. At least in the opinion of me and others who follow this. All people have ever done is gravitate towards the religions that provide the best answers for them.
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  334. 1st book is on the way and hope to have it done early next year :)
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  335. Yes you are right! Those are 2 very different things believing what you want and doing what you want. I mean that everyone should form their own beliefs based on the actual historical things we know. But for doing our own things and spiritual practices, absolutely you are right. There are too many people doing things based on some 1960 originated wicca type practice. Most of the time that stuff is exactly the opposite of what the ancient sources say.
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  336. Yesss of course. I think in the top 5 books I was speaking about people who are just making things up or doing exactly the opposite of what the sources say. If iI remember right? In this video I say "come up with your own beliefs" based on the facts we know. Most people don't even get into the real research unfortunately and just do what they want.
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  337. Nope. There are much more mentions of reincarnation in our beliefs from the old texts. This video here goes over all of them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aym_kG29J2g&t=10s
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  338. Not yet. But will soon for sure
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  339. I don't know alot about dream interpretations unfortunately. But definitely sounds like some ancestral memories in there
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  340. You know alot already! Yea we don't know exactly what the pefect beauty standard was but enough sources to say they were the best looking cleanest ones in europe :)
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  341. Yes. Lots to say about that and will be many videos. In the mean time you can search "Hammingja" The norse version of luck/karma
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  342. Yes studying the Rig Veda is very important. We are sister religions. I will have to look through that again.
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  343.  @humanatur2786  Yea hes pretty good. Ill check that video out
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  344. Yep thats right. Just a spot in the ocean. Not ever a town like it was in Vikings
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  345. Instagram i post more about that. @thormmadj Been waiting almost 2 years now for a damn fight but hope at the end of this year.
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  346. Hehe ikke nok. Blir aldri nok :)
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  347. Lots of great legends from there too
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  348. I will soon. But there are some other good people who have made videos about that.
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  349. Ja det stemmer. Innlandet og norden.
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  350. In my opinion. A healthier more hunter-gatherer diet instead of the more agricultural one in the rest of scandinavia back then. More meat/fish/foraged foods
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  351. Greater forces going out and dominating weaker ones? Doesn't sound very tough to me. Can say that about almost any conquering army in history. All that proves is they are assholes and scared of a fair fight
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  352. Yup. Gonna be Wardruna or Heilung most likely
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  353. Yes they settled the northern isles and also the west of scotland. I think not too much around your area probably because of the hard ass warriors there :)
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  354. Its your home I was referring to most at the end there. Hope you are well my friend and hope they keep the fight going down there
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  355. Looks beautiful there! Yes I'm sure either day is fine. If you are doing it in the daytime, probably the 27th is best. I'm doing mine on the 26th in the evening. For 3 days celebrated? We don't know from any of the sources. My guess is probably yes. It is listed alongside vetrneaetr and Jul(which were both multiple day celebrations). Sigrblot was just as important originally so yea I'd say its pretty safe to assume it was also a multiple day high festival.
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  356. I think they did in very ancient times. But the sources in this video are coming from books in the 1600s and later. So not that old.
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  357. Yesss. It is on the way and might be done by the end of the year.
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  358. Yes thats a myth made up by the show. Nothing in the sources about anything similar to that :)
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  359. It says "Glima"(Wrestling). Its my apparel brand :)
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  360. Only when it was even. Romans were very brave when they outnumbered their enemies 10x. Not so tough when it was a fair fight.
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  361. Very true. All the germanic tribes were very segregated and fought each other more than they cooperated with each other. Very different. The only thing that unites them is language, religion and genetics(to a certain degree)
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  362. You are for sure right. Religious leaders would know the truth and taught who they could but the general population would probably not
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  363. Yes actually. but they come in the folk tradition.
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  364. Acid techno is the best! Not so much into hardstyle though
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  365. Theres a good theory on that. Very interesting. Can talk about it soon.
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  366. Sure! Thats an easy one. Can make a video about him soon.
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  367. Ja! Veldig hyggelig. Bare si ifra om du har noen spørsmål eller emner du vil lære mer om. Så kan jeg prøve å lage en video om det! :)
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  368. Absolutely. I learn more everyday when I look at those comparisons. I just wish I had more time to really get into those old texts. Its even more broad and complicated than the Norse sources
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  369. No. absolutely not. Sometimes very evil people were sent to Niflheim. A place to never be reincarnated. But that was for very evil people only
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  370. Thats my norse poppet :)
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  371. Its great! Better in every way in my opinion
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  372. Very interesting. Reading about that now :)
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  373. I do. Never used it though. People keep telling me I should. I think my videos would be too long for that though :)
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  374. Absolutely. Its essentially the same religion. Just different practices and deity names. And they learned alot from each other.
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  375.  @snoway397  Ah. Yes. That seems very true. But we are not sure what the name would have been. Some say Buri, Heimdallr, Ginnungagap. Have not heard Oss before though. I thought it might be related to the rune Ansuz
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  376. Haha. Yes they do. Thats what we are here to try and change.
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  377. Yes. More alot before the viking age though. In the migration period.
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  378. Agreed. Christ was a great man and if people actually followed his teachings there would have never been a problem. Unfortunately that is not what happened with most rulers 1000 years ago.
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  379.  @EmilKadabell  Yes I was just speaking about that with someone the other day. We narrowed it down to Ginnungagap, Heimdallr, Borr or Buri. Who knows for sure......
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  380. You are right. I only put them as equivalent because many cultures skipped right over monotheism and went straight from polytheism to atheist. Ancient greece was one. Also modern india is going that way
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  381. I think the actual original beliefs were not super different. Sadly they developed into something else
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  382. Haha agreed. Didnt go over that in the video
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  383. Yes @thormmadj :)
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  384. Yes. I spoke about that in my "Koryos" video
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  385. There is some information. Did a video on the Shield wall already and there will be lots more to come!
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  386. Yes I do like "his" theory. But there is some holes to it. I think he drew mostly upon parralells among the Kóryos practices. Really interesting.
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  387. Yes. Happening now.........Or going to happen soon. Ice ages always come in periods of 12,000 years. We are due for one now. Lets see!
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  388. What a bum. If you personally disagree with String Theory, then why don't you go argue with some of the many physicists who believe it. Arguing about science on a spirituality channel is not going to get you a girlfriend. Putting down the mine craft and finding something else to keep you busy might though.
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  389. You are not wrong. There are those with that theory and it makes good sense. Not sure what i believe but will do a video soon
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  390. Absolutely. That understanding of magic is universal among smaller tribal areas of the world. But somehow most of the modern practitioners in the west have lost that understanding, due to harry potter or whatever.
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  391. Haha i took a break from those. I think I left off at 11 of 18. I will finish the others soon and add some more info to the ones already done. I have found some new historical sources
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  392. Agreed!. Or even better possibility is that people named their children after gods. People act like the abrahamic religions are the only ones that do that.
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  393. Hah ill find someway to share it with people. Not here
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  394. Det er mange jeg kunne anbefale. Men best er Seed of Yggdrasil av Maria Kvilhaug. Den har mest informasjon.
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  395. Hmm. Good point. I'm sure they could. Interesting thought.
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  396. Its my music. All uneleased so far. But uploading the songs to my other channel here. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Oc6pMTLmhU&t=64s
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  397. Tusen takk. Jeg har tenkt på Patreon og er bare ikke så glad i det. Informasjon vil jeg alltid gi ut gratis. Men jeg holder på å skrive ei bok faktisk. Den blir ferdig tidlig nese år tror jeg
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  398.  @jurikurthambarskjelfir3533  No way to be sure. There are a few possibilities. I will release a video on it this weekend.
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  399.  @bjornekdahl721  Yes of course. Thats where they think Hermodrs name comes from. And the hunting ritual around Halloween. We know that one from our friend. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krM_ixwCHfI&t=26s
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  400. It's hard to say. Definitely not enough evidence to know for sure. Some think valhalla is just like the Bhuddist/Hindu Nirvana(where you stop being reincarnated and achieve this "heaven". Others think valhalla is simply the mothers womb when reincarnated. And there are those who think Valhalla is just something made up by the Vhristian authors of our sources and not an original part of pagan beliefs. All have lots of good points. i'm not sure what I believe
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  401. Have not seen that one but been meaning to!
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  402. Hah it was a show where lets just say I don't share the same values as
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  403. What exact words did I say to make me a bigot or science denier? I hope you have a good explanation for whatever you read into there
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  404. I read every author with books on paganism/history even if I dont agree with them. And also dont think its right to cancel historical facts if they are written by someone you dont like. A certain religion did that with their book burning a while back
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  405. Thats right :)
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  406. You are right. none of it was ever ok. Haakon was just the last straw for me and i decided to say something and risk pissing people off lol
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  407. No. There are almost no calories in it. Same thing with the tea. I believe as long as a meal/supplement stays under 50 calories, the fast is not broken
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  408. Hah no idea. Just the closest image to that I could find on google
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  409. There are some. ANd there are also some that show how gentlemenly and well groomed the vikings were to charm english noblewomen. Will go over all those spurces too :)
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  410. Only the very bad witches. The ones cursing and killing. The good witches were valued in pagan times of course :)
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  411. Almost all scandinavian with a little bit of English/scottish :)
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  412. Yes. A few videos. See the ones on "stone burials" or "burial mound break in"
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  413. Hah I do like some of them! Most are garbage though
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  414. Yeees very true. Good for bringing that up. Njordr we find in quite a few sources all being a male but very early on in Tacitus, Germania Nerthuz was listed as a female. It has puzzled the historians for some time. I did a video on that and will speak about it in more depth later on.
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  415.  @colinp2238  Yes. In the Shetlands/Orkneys its probably damn near 100% Scandinavian DNA, and less as we go further south. Would be interesting to see some good DNA studies.
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  416. I don't know if the African tribes have read Vargs books ;)
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  417. How old are those sources? I wonder when the switch was made from clockwise to counterclockwise
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  418. You have found the right channel my friend. I don't know why new age people think its ok just to invent their own religion and call it history with no research. All of us I think have memories of past lives at childhood, but you are very lucky to still have memory of it in adulthood. I would be very interested to hear your experiences too and see how that matches up with some of the historical sources.
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  419. Thats a nice school that takes you there!
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  420. I was thinking maybe some very ancient weapon. Made from stone or volcanic tools. Gullfaxi was said to be hrungnirs horse.
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  421. Of course. Many of these charms we know to be very old. Even the ones that are christian we know that they were pagan originals and just switched out odins name with jesus for example. Dont know a whole lot about that book but there are many scandinavian ones like it
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  422. Yes the gods as real people we definitely have records of. But those are different from the gods in myths. Done a few videos about that. Also check out something called "Interpretatio Romana". I thought thor as hercules was mistaken too until I read the sources on that
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  423. Beautiful place! Hehe but i think the germanic people down in Australia/New Zeland have us beat for futhest roaming :)
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  424. Det er ikke så lenge siden jeg fant det ut selv! Bare trist at jeg ikke oppdaget det tidligere.
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  425. My first one is on the way. Should be by the end of the year :)
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  426.  @BrigantinosDoRoudos  Hah yea he does try to relate most myths to the "genitals". Some of them are for sure right I think, but most of them are not.
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  427. I don't think Varg has ever written about Skidbladnir. Trust me I have read all of his books. He definitely writes about the womb alot but relates it to Valholl and some other things. I love many of his other theories but have not read anything about this one
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  428. Yea or the opposite. Gungnir never misses its target, just like the umbilical cord never misses attaching to the belly button no matter the skill of the mothers body. There are a few theories about that and sivs hair by other authors. those videos coming soon
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  429. Thats a good point!
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  430. Fishing year round. Easy. Planting and harvesting we definitely have some myths with hidden meanings about it. See my video about Gullinbursti. More to come
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  431.  @Blackbeard0791  Beautifully put again! Those people who don't want to get out of stage 1 are the ones who have been raised to believe a bunch of crap that doesn't make sense and are looking for a new bunch of crap to believe in. Not what paganism is about as you know.
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  432. Lets see if it works!
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  433.  @Torsteinhauger  Dont worry man. I would of course love to hear your theories/beliefs and they are as valid as anyone elses. All I try to to is connect the dots between all the sources and give ideas. Wish you well on your learnings!
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  434. You are very correct. That is what most of the scholars theorize as well. Somehow it seems as lightning ant "katalist" were believed to be connected. Video on Loki coming soon.
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  435. fumes from the henbane seeds
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  436. Thank you! I think the greeks drank something similar too. Do they have any evidence/theories of what was in these drinks? We dont have too many native hallucinogenic plants in Scandinavia as they do further south. Henbane and also Mandrake and Deadly Nightshade have long been used so possible a combination of these.
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  437. Ja det er mange. Jeg liker best den fra Ivar Mortensson-Egnund. Men på dansk er det sikkert mange flere.
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  438. Yes I definitely am not super knowledgeable in the eastern beliefs. But I do love Sadhguru. Ill check that out
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  439. There is a discord coming. My friend is starting it who is just as knowledgeable as I am. Will update on that soon :)
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  440. Yes. Its the same. And it leaves after you. There is even an old tradition that you were not supposed to close the door right away after you went through it because your fylgja would get stuck behind.
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  441. Not seen it actually. I will check it out and maybe make a video
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  442. Absolutely true. We have records of a few(not many) of the gods being ancestors of real kings in Scandinavia, England, France. There are a few reasons for this. I go over it in these videos if you are interested. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H30TxC9KtLA&t=313s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrlBuJoCFlY&t=141s
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  443. Yes fenrir is much more difficult. Lots of theories about that one and none I have seen give a full expliantion. Doing a video on that soon.
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  444. I like it! Better than "Vikings"
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  445. Yes. I have thought about that connection alot. Ill make a video soon
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  446. Have not seen much of her. Not my style really but she seems knowledgeable.
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  447. I hadn't heard about the Carynx before today. Ill have to do some reading!
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  448. Yes. From what I have read, he was incredibly similar to Odin. Im going to do a bit more research into that and make a video soon i hope!
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  449. Really good question. We are pretty sure that Odin is the same as the Roman Mercury and the Celtic Lugh. But its debated which greek god is Odins parallel. I had a look at those articles and it could be very possible that odin is the same as adonis. I wish I knew more about greek myths so I could give a better opinion. But it seems likely!
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  450. Yes very close words. Vetr in old Norse means "winter". "Vätte" comes from the old norse word "Vettir" which just means "spirits"
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  451. Yes. Its a bit too much for me. Great to start off while you are learning to know what it feels like. But eventually best to be able to do all that without it.
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  452. Nei. Historie nerd bare :)
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  453. Yea who knows. Maybe romans/greeks at the time had no knowledge that Egyptian is not really part of the indo-european family. But it for sure seems close enough to make one believe that. or at least that it has influence
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  454. Have not read his stuff but definitely have been meaning to
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  455. Absolutely! See if you can read a paper called the "Maiden with the Mead" by Maria Kvilhaug. I think its free online
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  456. Hah Ja jeg liker velig godt techno. Men vet at det er ikke alle som er glad i. Bruker det i videoene ikke velig ofte :) Tusen takk og hilsen fra California/Norge!
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  457. Yes. Thats right. I should have included elder futhark in the video too
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  458. Thankyou. Can always learn great things from parallel European myths!
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  459. Didn't know that one. Thank you.
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  460. Theres quite a few translation of yggdrasil. Very complex and will be a long video
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  461. Yes its a possibility that not one but all of them are a bit true.
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  462. Of course!
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  463. Yes they did. Allthough we dont know exactly why. The roman sources that write about this are not the most reliable
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  464. Have not read that one but I really like Mathias Nordvig. I would reccomend it too :)
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  465. You will see. Once you get to the next chapters
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  466. Nice! Yea not at all. Do your own thing. I use one alter for all the purposes. Depending on which blot of the year. Alter inside is cool. But for offerings, definitely outdoors so nature has some way of taking it. These two videos speak about the historical sources. Good luck :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KHKZXNT7kY&t=266s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zr9-chRd9c&t=28s
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  467.  @YamiPoyo  Absolutely. I have a perfect video answering that. This is the scandinavian magic tradition. I am not sure if the Finnish is the same. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wVG79haAeQ&t=129s
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  468. Very interesting. Thank you. Yes I think the Norse had much more similarities to the Uralic beliefs than anything else really
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  469. It just means welcome everybody and see you next time :)
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  470. I think the 2 are the same thing in my opinion. Energies/forces residing in another dimension with influence on ours.
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  471. Yes good question. Absolutely tribes in Germany and also Netherlands and parts of Poland were exactly the same as Scandinavia. All one people. The question is when they started to branch out into slightly different languages, religion and cultures? We are not sure but I say they remained the same until sometime around 1-200bc and then they slowly to grow apart and become a bit different. For the gods, no evidence for worship of any of those at least. But I agree with you I think Heimdallr was not only worshiped but as the #1 god. Just his name translated means "Great world" translated. And his function in the myths seems like some sort of universal collective consciousness. He really does seem like some sort of creator or monotheistic type god. But who knows
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  472. Lots. Ill do other videos on those
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  473. On the way! Thats some fun family history!
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  474. Hmmm. I didn't know about that. A roman thing I believe? I will have to read about that. Thank you!
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  475. Yes. Will be doing that one soon :)
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  476. Sorry about that! Its a normal girls name in Norway
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  477. Yes should be able to find it on amazon. Its split up into a couple books. "The Poetic Edda: Six Old Norse Cosmology Poems" and the "Trickster and the Thundergod". Those two together have most of the poems in the edda. She has one huge version that goes over lots more but that is hundreds of dollars. The other two are just about $10. Happy to see you are interested!
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  478. Its possible. Most of the records we have of blots from ancient times were definitely in public. But there are a few that were done privately and we don't know much about it. Alfablot is the one that was done privately sometimes.
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  479.  @thebrownhound1343  I think you will be surprised we have a bit more sources on blots and prayers than most people think. Would love to hear your thoughs after you see those videos. One on prayer will be coming soon.
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  480.  @thebrownhound1343  Thats what I like to see! Some nice explanations for why we do the practices we do!
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  481. and Robert Sass is great! One of the few people on the internet who actually uses the sources.
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  482. No written sources for it unfortunately. Only about stone altars. Although we do have records of indoor wooden altars used by witches a few hundred years after viking age. Could have been an evolution after haugr were made illegal with christianization
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  483. Ja det finnes mange flere hörgr og ve stedsnavn i Sverige enn Norge. Jeg har alltid lurt på hvorfor det er. Veldig interesant!
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  484. It will be a discord. Coming soon!
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  485. Haha i will. It was probably nutritious. But Scandinavians have horrible taste buts in my opinion and I doubt it was different in the viking age. I like some spice in my life :)
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  486. More wealth for sure in the viking age. Also the climate was warm and made it better for growing food at the time
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  487. Haha oh for sure. I can confidently say that I behave well with alcohol........But other scandinavians are the total opposite. I could see it being their doom
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  488. Ja veldig enig faktisk. Det var alltid vold og plydring i skandinavia, mye før vikingalderen. Men det ble veldig mye mer som begynnte ved Charlamagne tiden. Og angrep var nesten bare på fremmede kirker eller andre kristne steder. Jeg mener også at 90% av vold/plydringen i vikingtiden var motstand til kristendom. (Selv om historiebøkene forteller selfølgelig ikke det)
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  489. Ja selfolgelig! Beste kildene er Heimskringla, Islandske Sagaene, Gesta Hammaburgensis, Franske/Engelske Chronicler, Eldre og Yngre Eddaen. Men Gesta Danorum er den beste angående Dansk Historie. Håper det hjelper!
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  490. Alle kildene kommer fra norden pa middelalderen(Island/Danmark/Tyskland).  Heimskringla, Kongesagaene, Gesta Danorum, Islandske Sagaene, Gesta Hammaburgensis, Franske/Engelske Chronicler. (Som jeg nevnte i videoen)
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  491. Thats all right. Celto-Roman British isles would be the right word. I say England referring to the land area that is modern day England so people understand better. The angles/saxons/jutes didn't really make it into Wales/Ireland/Scotland modern area but took over almost all of modern England area. Also the DNA is quite different even today
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  492. Ja svenskene gjorde absolutt mye bra.(som jeg nevnte i videoen). Vi kan prate mange timer om hva svenskene gjorde på vikingalderen. Men........ vi kan prate i mange DAGER om historiene vi har om Norske/Danske. Det er bate at vi har mange flere kilder som lever fortsatt.
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  493. Techno, Folk, and metal(in that order) :)
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  494. Yes. Especially in the east this energy was more of a calming thing than elsewhere in the world.
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  495. We dont have any records of the requirement. but poetry was a prerequisite for anyone at the time who wanted status or honor. So my guess would be yes :)
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  496. Yea that makes sense. Good point. Maybe utiseta was more done in scandinavia and rooftop more in Germany
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  497. Hah! They show up sometimes yea
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  498. Glad to hear it!
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  499. Fikk den fra bestefar. Tror den er veldig gammel
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  500. All my music is on the other channel. :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  501. Haha they not going to be very nice to you posting comments like that on this channel
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  502. So true.
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  503. Yes and they are much older than the viking age. Look up the "Koryos". Im doing a video on it soon too
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  504. Begging for a fight at this point. Hopefully before the end of the year.
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  505. Yes I think so. But we have quite a bit more records of this from folk tradition a bit later on too. 1300s and on
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  506. No unfortunately. There are some people however doing some experimenting though
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  507. Yes no problem. Lots of people reaching out. Instagram is easiest if you have it? @thormmadj
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  508. I have only seen them in Scandinavia at very small antique shops. Even then they are hard to find
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  509. Now thats paridise!
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  510. Yes very interesting funeral. Very different but everything done for a purpose. Ill do a video on that soon
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  511. Yes i think Hinduism has 14 and Buddhsm has 6. I am sure there are many other beliefs in different religions. Hopefully in our lifetime science will determine which was right!
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  512. Hehehe thats hillarious. He seems like a nice guy though at least. i will leave him alone for now
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  513. Done Borr and bestla. Not yet villi and ve. You can check the channel :)
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  514. Only Odin. And a couple others. I did a video on why this is
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  515. California at the moment
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  516. Tor in modern scandinavian. TH(Þor) in old norse. Even just 200 years ago in Norway they still had the th sound
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  517. Haha good point. i though of including that one
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  518. For sure those are some good ones
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  519. Was just visiting. Seriously considering moving there one day though
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  520. I dont hate any groups. I just hate bad people. 1000 years ago, most Christians were bad. But today most of them are good. I really like most of the Christians I meet today.
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  521. I wish. Was just there on vacation. My new favorite place in the US!
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  522. Have all his books. Dont agree with alot of it. But much of it is great stuff!
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  523. Hah. check out my instagram and you will see. Don't really want to speak about it here
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  524. Ja jeg har laget noen videoer om det. Se "Seidr/Galrd" playlisten på min kannal.
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  525. Sure. Lots of sources for haircuts. Short hair was almost never mentioned. So they all had at least some hair at least. Probably medium length. And beard also we almost never read about clean shaven people then
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  526. Yes just couple more days vacation and I also am returning to the heat.
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  527. No idea. Im not aware of any sources that answer that.
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  528. Haha thats nynorsk. Yea there could be some old connection there
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  529. Yes. Not only ancestors but animals and even gods that could come in and posess your Hugr. People all over the world believe this. I did some video about that but forget which one
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  530. Hehe funny enough the video im working on next has something to do with that
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  531. Hmm. very interesting. I like that
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  532. Maybe one day!
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  533. Sounds like a good business! You know more that I do about this Im sure
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  534. Thank you cringe pagan. We really appreciate people coming here with bible verses telling us we are not practicing paganism correctly.
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  535. Yea thats very difficult. Done a couple videos on it. Hel is just a waiting space until you are reincarnated. A few records of that. Valhall seems like it would be the way to break the cycle. Like "Nirvana" as you know. But we also have 1 record of someone going to valhalla and then also being reincarnated. I speak about it a bit in this video. Your knowledge of hinduism you probably can come with a better idea than I. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD99QwqwMlk&t=95s
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  536. Haha thats true. there are too many sucky ones
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  537. Sure! Did a video about that jut last week you can see. Theres lots of scandinavian/germanic ancestry in the brittish isles. Especially if your family was from the northeast of scotland. No way to tell for sure but you can look into the family names on both sides :)
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  538. Yes the word for slave was Thrall. Very different from slaves in other parts of the world though. They were treated much better and had more freedoms
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  539. Yes of course. it was very bad.
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  540. Haha. Ja den har jeg sett
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  541. Yes! Its a great mythology and history book too. Hope you enjoy.
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  542. Norsk Nomad :) Jeg jar bodd litt overalt i verden men hele familien er fra Larvik
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  543. Yes. haha Getting through it slowly
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  544. Of course! We may have not had these things in our culture for 1000 years. but before that it was a central part of who we are for many thousands of years before that. Alot longer memories still in the DNA :)
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  545. Those two are debated for sure. Different sources on the matter. The wikipedia page on both of them is actually pretty good. They list the primary sources
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  546. Nope. instagram only. Will probably make a facebook eventually
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  547. Great stuff. Seems like he has been running low on ideas though. Great videos a couple years ago but not lately
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  548. Thats what the stories say. Especially war magic and changing the weather
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  549. Yes. Any remote mountain area would have been pagan the longest :) We just dont have alot of records of it of course
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  550. Yes i probably said it wrong in the video. Not great with pronunciations
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  551. No the berserkers are much older than the viking age. Look up "Koryos". Ill do a video on it soon :)
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  552. The Frisians were great!
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  553. Yes if I remember right Harald was only a young boy at that time. Great battle for the Finns!
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  554. No conversion needed. you already are! Just start to learn more as you go!
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  555. A Norwegian nomad lol. Lived a bit of everywhere
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  556. Just amateur. Probably going to be Sparstar hopefully and pro next year if all goes well
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  557. Hehe den har ikke jeg sett. Morsomt!
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  558. Brain is already gone lol
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  559. Yes we are not 100% sure but they think poland. Jomsborg
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  560. Great people! Will make a video about that and Redbad for sure!
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  561. Im not a big fan of that one. It sends too many beginners the long way. As long as people know that it is fictionalized in alot of parts
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  562. Jeg var der fra 2011-14 :)
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  563. I grew up a few different places. Just living in the US now
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  564. Ja selfølgelig! Skal lage video om han etterhvert
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  565. @thormmadj
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  566. Hehe i dont watch the cringe ones so I couldnt say
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  567. Amazing! Thank you. I will have to read about that and see if I can get some ideas.
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  568. I did forget that. Håkon was supposed to be my name too!
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  569. Done a few videos on berserkers you might like!
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  570. If you use the elder futhark you should use the language proto-germanic for your tatoo. Pretty easy to find a dictionary if you want to use the right word
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  571. Hah I should. Got my DJ name. Thats something
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  572. Where is your heritage from? Maybe an old Anglo/Saxon/Frisian name suits your family better? Those are just as great! Doing a video on those soon
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  573. Of course! It was great but limited. Going to do some videos on those
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  574.  @alexlarsen6413  Ah du er dansk! Ja jeg vet det har alltid vaert mye bedre in Dannmark enn Norge når det gjelder sånne ting
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  575. The band is Thy art is Murder. I like metal, techno and folk music :)
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  576. Yes never heard of that one. Let me know if you remember where its from :)
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  577. Its a band
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  578. Yes there was trade between England and Scandinavia before then. We know that for sure. Not sure if theres evidence for lindesfarne exactly though
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  579. Very true. I speak about that all the time in my other videos that the "official" Christianization dates are garbage. Pagan beliefs, traditions lasted hundreds of years longer in Scandinavia. I didn't know about that lasting so long in the Netherlands though. Do you have any recommended sources where I can read about that?
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  580. I did another video on that actually. They didn't give it up that easily. It took hundreds of years. It was just a bit more peaceful than in scandinavia
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  581. The 2 most beautiful places in the world! Have been there a couple times.
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  582. They are. Greetings! Beautiful place!
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  583. Its quite true. Actually a few stories/chronicles we have of the germanic peoples being invited intentionally to help with defense and they just didnt go home. Britons using the angles/saxons to help defend against the picts is a perfect example
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  584.  @johnny1334  Lots. How about the simple fact that the romans either fled or lost any battle in the Germanic areas that they were outnumbered. Only battle I am aware of that they fought and won when they were outnumbered is the Battle of Aquae Sextia. If you know of any more let me know.
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  585. Father decided the marriage but the woman was asked her opinion in every source. Lots of records of sacrifices in Iceland (Landnamabok, Egils Saga, Vatnsdaela saga, Hrafnkell Freysgodi saga), There was even a law that the Goði of the Allthing had to wear an armring reddened with blood of a sacrificed ox at the ALLTHING sacrifice(source-Hauksbók) And the correct spelling is Þórr, which I rarely use because most people don't know what "Þ" is. Thanks anyway though
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  586. There's a difference between reconstruction/evolution of a religion and doing things completely wrong/opposite of what the original religion was. My agenda? I don't have one besides spreading the real historical sources. That way people don't have to invent completely wrong practices. They can reconstruct their own based on the sources
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  587. Thats good news.
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  588. Still deciding that one!
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  589. Sounds good! Canlet you know when its getting closer to finished! Thank you
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  590. You are probably right. there was sometimes love involved!
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  591. Early next year its looking like :)
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  592. Just relaeased a video on that today actually where I show Ivars translated name and many others :)
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  593. Not yet but will soon!
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  594. No idea. IWe have some sources that speak about the separate countries/kingdoms being distinguished as early as the migration period. But those sources are from much later. And as mrtruefifth mentioned there are the Jelling stones. I don't think theres a clear date where we went from tribes to countries/kingdoms. but a slow progression(probably starting in the migration/vendel period)
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  595. No. It is just an area of the ocean. It was never a real city
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  596. Of course. Lots of those!
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  597. I listed every singe one of my sources in the video for what I say. How about you do the same???
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  598. For sure. I like the tribal era most. Just not alot of evidence from there but will do videos for sure
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  599.  @bjornekdahl721  Thank you! I have been watching him all morning. Great stuff!
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  600. Arminius was in the 1st century and very real person. Sigurd we are not sure. But his story comes from the time of Atilla the Hun(5th century)
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  601. So you just make up your own history then? And ignore the only evidence we have cause you don't like what it says?
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  602. Its my music. You can see my music channel. I have not uploaded that one yet but will soon :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  603. Ja! Jeg vet ikke så mye om det. Men jeg vet de har mye til felles. Kan lage en video om det snart!
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  604. @thormmadj :)
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  605. Oss? Not sure what you mean?
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  606. What books would you recommend? I have a couple but I really want to go straight to the primary sources/archaeological studies.
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  607. I think next week :)
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  608. Ive got a whole playlist about this. Going to take a long time to make all of them though. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMEFW2WPASN2GhXrQhGoSRzkE3J2LMg
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  609. Alfablot it was called. Not many records of how to do it but I will make a video about it close to Halloween time when it was usually practiced
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  610. Working on it. May be done later this year!
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  611. Sure! We don't really have record of it. But at least through trade, we have alot of eastern artifacts found in archaeology in Scandinavia.
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  612. Yes its true! Greece/Rome was just about there at that time
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  613. Thats the big question. The most free place with the cheapest land. Not sure where that will be yet
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  614. Have not decided yet. Having a few villages close to each other is probably the best!
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  615. Ha yes you are right I say "evolve" in the video but really it is devolution in my opinion. I think its evolution to a certain point and if a culture goes past that point, it ends up making life worse
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  616. Did not know that. Thank you!
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  617. I love that game. But have not played it in about 15 years since Kingdom Hearts 2. I don't know anything about the newer ones
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  618. Yes I agree! It probably did happen even though evidence of it is not easy to find
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  619.  @ReasonsWhy12  Yes proto norse is a great language to awaken these memories too. We have sources for a few practices and ideas/theories for a few more. I have done some of them but iIn ancient times, these rituals were done as children(when memories of past lives are still fresh). Some of the science on it confirms too. But i think its very difficult for adults to do this and get the same effects. Maybe too late for us but not for our children.
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  620.  @oli2300  I can agree with all those too :)
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  621. Sure! It depends what you are looking to learn about. Mythology? Beliefs? Practice? General history?
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  622. Yes Robert Sass is great. I haven't read any stuff from him about the calendar though. ill have to check those out.
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  623. Both! haha
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  624. Check out my women in the viking age series! i did 4 videos on a bit of that
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  625. Yesss. I tried to find more info on it. But couldn't find much. Really interesting though. Im sure there is more evidence from other places in Europe that I don't know of
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  626. Yes you are right. i forgot about that one.
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  627. Yea I'm sure you are right. Especially since Utiseta was done all night usually on a burial mound/pile of rocks. That would really not be comfortable.
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  628. Always forefoot. I do more running barefoot than with shoes
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  629. Long story. Lived many different places. But citizen of US and Norway
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  630. Only fighting. Not so much running
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  631. Havent heard of that. I will check it out! Thank you
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  632. Yes those are difficult and take a long time to go over. But videos coming soon!
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  633. Its mine. You can check out my music channel too if you like. Not much on there yet though. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  634. In the mythology? No. But definitely in the Sagas. You can read all about it in Erik the Reds Saga or even Olav Tryggvassons Saga
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  635. Instagram is best if you have that. Getting too many comments on Youtube now Im not able to see most of them. Happy to answer any and help :)
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  636. Yes they never had helmets like that. Just an opera construction for some aesthetic
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  637. I like it! Thank you.
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  638. Yea norns are a long long story. That video will be coming but about an hour long probably
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  639. Did a long video about him already :)
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  640. You can say mike for my name :)
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  641. Yes he was the longest serving since Farihair. But long after the viking age though. I think 1200s
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  642. Did a long video on him already :)
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  643. Hah. Nope. Not ever on this channel
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  644. Groves, burial sites, enclosures, springs are a few. If you watch my video I did on norse temples that will give a better idea :)
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  645. I grew up in alot of different countries. US a large part of it :)
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  646. Dette er ikke vitenskap. Det er historie/religion. Forfatterene i lenkene har høyere utdanning i det faget.
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  647. Very interesting. I did not know alot of that. Uralic belifs are very closely related to ours. Thank you.
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  648. Yes. First stories of odin can be dated to about the 800s but the stories are much older than that of course. And yes Mercury is the parralel in the roman mythology and (probably) Hermes in the greek
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  649. I would love to. I just don't know enough about the celtic ones to speak. I will maybe do a video in the future with someone else who is more knowledgeable.
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  650. I Think Götiska Förbundet was just a group of poets and painters wasn't it? The first I have ever hears Asatru being used to describe religion or beliefs was Iceland in the 1970s. But I would love to read more about it if you have any articles or links you can send me to!
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  651. Oh yea. Someone who has read and lists every single historical source to back up his claims really needs to go back and take a history class
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  652. It will probably be the US or Canada. Definitely the northern states
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  653. I think the gods(especially Odin) likes fighters for alot of reasons :)
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  654. Probably the US. I would love norway but the laws and regulations would make it impossible
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  655. Maybe its worth it to start one in South africa! Beautiful place and probably others that have done the same thing
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  656. Probably the US by the looks of it
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  657. There are a few. See my video about temples/sacred places and "Where to Blot" and I go over some of them
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  658. Bronze in this week. The silver next month :)
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  659. Nope. Har aldri vaert i nord norge dessverre
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  660. They will be very close friends who I trust with my life. Theres time to build that though fortunately!
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  661. Good idea! I could do tht
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  662. Yea thats what people kept tellin g me there. I didnt get to make it to the south island last time but will take another trip for sure
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  663. Yes you are right. I think I mistakenly reffered to that in Olav Tryggvassons Saga. But it is Haakon the good. Thank you for noting that!
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  664. We have no records of that i nthe norse at least. Maybe greek or roman?
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  665. Of course! Worrying
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  666. Its just my crappy music I made. I just started another channel for my music if you want to see more. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  667. Already done! And trying to do every other holiday too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=woT-_112p7o&t=767s
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  668.  @noctiloucous  Yes for sure. It can depend on the person though i think
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  669. Video comin in the next hour actually! Stay tuned
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  670. Hehe. not at this rate!
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  671. I didn't know that. Thank you. I wonder if that force is strong enough to still move the body while it is buried under very heavy soil
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  672. In the Norse sources yes. Only mentions of human to human reincarnation. But other related religions believed we could reincarnated as animals and animals to humans.
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  673. Hmm thats a good question. I cant say I know of any movies with that kind of thing. Best thing I would say is to look at some of the archeological finds/ship burials to get some ideas and then go crazy and be creative with it
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  674. "Glima" old norse word for wrestling :)
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  675. Not seen that one. I will check it out!
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  676. Hah yes i did a video on the koryos. That is berserkers basically all over europe. That says it all right there.
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  677. Heheh that is a good one
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  678.  @sphaireus  Global warming is for sure happening(like like hundreds of times before in history) and the world has been fine. Humans are just the ones that are going to suffer for it this time around, and frankly we deserve it for treating nature this badly. My only problem is climate taxes and a huge financial burden on the people of countries like my home of Norway who are too small to have any effect whatsoever. And at the same time we just let the biggest polluters run free and do whatever they want. That's my only opinion on that and don't really care about the rest of the politics.
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  679. Love him! Im not sure if they put him in the show though
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  680. Det har vaert fint vaer i vestfold me naa kom det snø idag :)
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  681. Yes :)
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  682. Just visiting family for the most part. Will do a bigger trip next time :)
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  683. Yea that one is great!
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  684. Veldig kult at du holder tradisjonen levende!
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  685. Absolutely true. Just read a book all about that
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  686. Yea nothing that clearly mentions that. But there may be some deep symbolic thing like that. Like the 2 eggs representing this. I will have to take a look at that closer
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  687. No idea. They sound more like the scandinavian nisse or tomte maybe?
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  688. Ja. Den jeg nevnte i videoen er best :) link in description
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  689. The first playlist on my channel has all of them. Havent done one on Tyr yet though
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  690. I like that!
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  691. Of course. Its just we only have records that 5-6 were worshipped. There was probably some more. The myths about all the gods are needed as a way to explain how the nature/universe works. Just like all other polytheistic religions. But my guess is that people worship only the gods who they feel they could benifit from. Like you mentioned there
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  692. Yes. I hope to take a trip there to film too. Have a friend nearby
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  693. Tyr is my favorite! Coming soon for sure!
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  694. We have nothing in the sources from pagan times about mushrooms. There are a few in the more modern folktales.
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  695. I agree and I am somewhere in the middle on that belief. But I think ancient peoples knew much more than we think. Look at all the ancient greeks and what they knew almost 2,000 years before the viking age. Unfortunately lots of those ancient "pagan/science" books were destroyed when christianity came in. So we have no way to be sure of exactly how much people knew before that
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  696. Got a whole playlist about that. Sources from old times and how i do mine. Check out the main channel page and its all there :)
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  697. Det er Þórr(Thorr) på det norønne språket. Vi brukte "th" lyden i Norge helt opp til 1800-tallet. "Tor" er en veldig ny stavelse
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  698. Yes will for sure get into that.
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  699. Some of it is good. Have not been following it lately though
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  700. Yes I agree with him on alot of things. Not that aspect of the Aesir Vanir war though. There are some other good theories about that there
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  701. Yes I have thought about that and definitely not the first one to do so. It could very well be true. The kundilini energy is definitely something to look a bit closer at. Thank you!
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  702. Nope. I dont know a whole lot about it. but will make a little video eventually
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  703. I know and there are so many to choose from!
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  704. Good question. Vikings 40%. last kingdon 60% lol slightly better
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  705. I heard that. Was looking forward to it but apparently they have cancelled it.
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  706. Its just called the Fylgja or Vardoger in scandinavia. I am not sure if it is right to call it spirit animal like they do in other places. Im not sure it has the same functions in other beliefs around the world
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  707. Starting one soon! Stay tuned
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  708. Not up yet. Working on it. Soon!
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  709. Haha not sure actually. Or if those supplements will even work the same in girls. Either way its probably healthy since almost everyone is deficient in those minerals.
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  710. Yes
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  711. Hehe just types horse sex statue on google and that was the first to come up
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  712. Cool show. I like it alot. Not super accurate though
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  713. Yes. They were real. Just different to what we see in the movies
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  714. Yea I remember when I was 5 years old too. Just learned how to read and thought the poetic edda were real events that happened
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  715. Haha they were for sure not as courteous to foreign women. Unless they had settled there
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  716. Hah they were probably not as nice to places they raided. But it had to do with social class. If it was a noblewoman in a raided town she would be pretty safe. A slave or lower class, not so much.
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  717. Any written sources from the time I use. ANd som are of course more reliable than others
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  718. Any sources for any of that?
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  719. Yes it just means son. Like the english johnson was originally son of john for example. Yours would be Ove's son. "sen" is used in norway and denmark usually and "son" used in sweden and iceland
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  720. Good question. Not really. Women were more free from punishment in that situation. Ill do a video on that.
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  721. There were shield maidens :) Just different than what we have been taught. Video coming soon
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  722. I cant say. I don't know enough about greek mythology. The parallels for Odin in Greek mythology is usually said to be Hermes. But Zeus could be true too.
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  723. It's an estimate. Tracing back the lineage and estimating how far back he was from real kings he is said to be an ancestor of. I did the whole thing in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5smo3YaKVs&t=251s
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  724. Of course! Feel free! Thank you!
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  725. Yes we dont have alot of examples from archeology about these. But it seems like runes were carved in many different directions/ways. I'll do a bit of research and find some photos and make a video about that soon :)
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  726. Thats right. Was always colored with blood or Orchid
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  727. Sounds like Saxon to me! It depends where your family comes from. If its England, it will be Saxon, Angle or Jute tribes
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  728. Yes absolutely. There are some good sources for that. Any chronicles about Redbad or the other kingdoms nearby are great ones for you to learn more.
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  729. No. Unfortunately I dont know anything. But I think they still have some great pagan temples if I remember correctly
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  730. No. No sources about that in any of the germanic practices at least
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  731. Yes. Slightly different language/names/practices of course but essentially the same religion. We just have very few records of it.
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  732. Yes I think so. just a bad translation in the book I read it from
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  733. Love it. Never played though even though friends try to get me to
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  734. Awesome! thank you. Going to do some reading about parikrama right now.
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  735. Yes. I think much much older than the bronze age though.
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  736. Exact same thing done in Sweden too. Didn't know Wales also
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  737. For sure! Pretty normal for a family or even village to use the same burial place for hundreds or even thousands of years. Lots more examples of those in the UK really
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  738. Yes I had to make mention of that at the end! Will look more into that in depth in another video
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  739. I like it :) And yes already done bergelmir
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  740. Yea hah very true. It is probably inevitable this happening no matter what the time period.
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  741. I don't know a whole lot about them. But they were definitely in contact alot with the scandionavians at the time :)
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  742. You got it! It was essentially the same religion. Some difference in the deity names and practices of course but almost identical to the norse. We just dont have alot of records of it.
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  743. Yes was a late one last night :)
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  744.  @nerowatson9331  Awesome. Read some about this but looking forward to get in a bit deeper. Thank you
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  745. Yep! Det blir en webside som Bjorn styrer. Og jeg hjelper med markedsføringen :). Tror den blir klar veldig snart.
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  746. Hindu maybe. Native American? Were those not totem/ancestral/artwork? Or were they actually gods? I mean like long before what we have records of. I dont know too much about that history.
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  747. Beautiful place! (Some parts lol)
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  748. Yes. Definitely have records of the gods as real people. There are a few explanations for this. Done a few videos on that and more coming soon
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  749. Yes. And also real rituals and events that we can do :)
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  750. Thats cause Iron age comes after bronze age.......
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  751. That sounds amazing. I will try to catch one of those next time im in Ireland! Thanks for all the great comments! Happy to get a subscriber and answer any questions you might want to see a video on!
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  752. Ja. Håper å besøke en dag og lage en video da!
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  753. Yep. Just check out the video I did on Yule last year. That goes over every source.
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  754. Beautifully put! Thank you!
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  755. Yes and definitely there are historical records of gods being ancestord to Kings in Northern Europe(Or at least real humans with the same names as the gods that possibly came before). There are many theories as to why this is, but what is clear is that of course the gods in the myths are very differnt to the "gods" we have recorded in various chronicles as real people. Not quite sure what i believe, but I spoke about it in this video and would love to hear any ideas from you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H30TxC9KtLA&t=304s
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  756.  @fvrorpoeticvs  Yesss thats all right. Sounds like you have been reading Varg or Vegard's books. I didn't know about those other gods too though
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  757. Yes much more likely to fight on henbane. These 2 videos go over it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cu_UvwtX4TY&t=116s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9ryjRS2jQE
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  758. Yes. most of those painitng are from long before the time of swords around there.
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  759. Margaret Roberts Alkaloids: biochemistry, ecology, and medicinal applications. If i remember she was going off ancient greek sources
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  760. We have no idea. Of course all of those songs are lost. We have poems preserved but of course nothing instrumental. But my guess is that music in viking times would not have been so different than old Scandinavian folk music.
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  761. Ja godt poeng. Men bulmeurt ble ulovlig over hele nord europa. Før middelalderen brukte vi mange planter/urter i øl/mjød. Nesten alle ble ulovlig midt i middelalderen og oppskriftene forsvant da og. Sikkert derfor vi har ikke noe overlevende oppskrifter. Ta og google "Reinheitsgebot"
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  762. I thought the same thing myself. Even though most of them are vertical and not quite how a sword hangs from the sheath. But the main problem is that these rock carvings are from the very early bronze age at the latest. Only weapons that they had then were spears, bows and axes. I am not aware of any archeological finds of any seaxes, swords, or even large daggers from that time period. I am probably not right with my theory either and realize that. But seaxes are even more unlikely as to what they are.
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  763. Most of them in Sweden. All the way from the neolithic age to the bronze age. The later ones are for sure different.
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  764. Jeg var der idag :) Bodde ikke du i naerheten?
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  765. Yes i like that. Thank you. Odin represents alot but the main thing he represents is where his name comes from-"Óðr"-(Extasy/frenzy/spirit). Hes the deepest layer of the soul. Very possible that that and the 3rd eye are connected or even the same.
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  766. Just when they pop into your head. Start with local ones first :)
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  767. We don't know. No sources to confirm it.............But I think they for sure did :)
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  768. Yes it can be a female human like spirit. There are quite a few who belive this is what valkyries and the sigurd cycle poems are about
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  769. Det ser ut som det er mange som vil høre om det og. Skal se om jeg kan orde noe :)
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  770. Nydelig by! :) Jeg hadde kjaereste fra Ryfylke noen aar siden
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  771. Id be curious to see what a person good at dream interpretations would have to say :) Im not too good at it unfortunately
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  772. Not an individual. But energy. You can see my "Norse Gods Fully Explained" video and that will clear it up :)
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  773. Already did! Did a breakdown of their whole album. It has not gotten so many views though.
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  774. I think he is very closely related. "Logi" in old norse is fire. There is one myth about Loki and Logi in an eating contest
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  775. Yes there are many others. But she is one of my favorites for sure. Her book "Seed of Yggdrasil" is amazing. I don't agree with all of her theories of course but she is great!
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  776. Yes thats right. Bokmål :)
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  777. Ja det kan du mest sansynligvis finne på Amazon. Men et bibliotek i din by har det kanskje og :)
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  778. hah yes he spelled it his own way. Great guy! I met him once
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  779. Haha soon. Got a couple in mind
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  780. Of course. Ill get through all of them eventually. Just going to take a long time
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  781. Yea of course we have no idea about the melodies as those were not written down. But we do know lots of the lyric and style. If you search any skaldic poem you will see. For indtruments, you can esearch Wardruna or Heilung and that will be about our best guess :)
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  782. Yes it would. I would try something else for protection other than a dragons head. There are some options depending on what you want to do
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  783. Did a video about "Utiseta Sources". They are scattered but you can learn some things from that
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  784. Did a whole video on that and what the sources say. I give beef and bread at this time of year.
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  785. No contacts lol. Its just a lamp for lighting in the videos
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  786. Did a video on that. It would just be reversed dates. Se my "Norse paganism Southern Hemisphere" video :) Next holiday coming for you is Sigrblot
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  787. Yes. We have records of this being done in the folk tradition. I have never done it though so cant say
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  788. Great people. But I think the picts had emerged into other kingdoms by the time the vikings got there. Picts were quite a bit before I believe
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  789. Amon Amarth :)
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  790. Not yet. thats a huge subject though and will probably be many videos
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  791. Yea me too. Would love to learn more about that
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  792. Its just welcome everyone in norwegian :)
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  793. Of course! Especially in the North East. Lots of records in many norse sagas but the best one is Orkneyinga saga
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  794. Yea Vendels. They are something different than the vandals. Haha close I know. Search Vendels or Vendland
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  795. No pretty certain it was done by Haakon. Olav Tryggvasson was a christian by that time and didn't raid much. Ad yes Turgesius has some very interesting history and we don't know if all of it is true. His real name was probably Thorgeir
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  796. I have read that one too. Its possible. But what makes you think a Saxon Chronicle(written by the victors) is more reliable than Heimskringla(written by a neutral party)? Doesn't make much sense to me.
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  797. Of course. This has been proven. A very old concept among all european people. Lots of books on that. ill do a video.
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  798. Yea really good question and I have thought about it myself. The gods and myths are a reflection of the host culture. And the myths are going to resonate more with the culture that tells them. Baldr and Apollo is a perfect example. Someone from the sunny Greece is not going to have the same understanding and fear of the winter as someone in scandinavia. So the native people will always understand their own myths a bit better. I always tell people to look into their own history for that reason and then we can all work together to fill in the blanks where sources are missing
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  799. Its mine. Music on my other channel :)
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  800. Favorite story of a volva is in Erik the Reds saga. The best description we have. I did a video in my Seidr playlist :)
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  801. Yes. BA in Language with old norse studies. MA in International business actually. Nlol not very related
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  802. Start at least with prose and poetic edda. Did a video about the top 5 books for beginners
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  803. Yes working on a book. Should be ready late this year :)
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  804. I have no idea. I don't know much about other mythologies. But very happy whenever I can learn :)
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  805. Its awesome. Yea maybe a good idea for a video
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  806. Not yet. But will for sure!
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  807. Animism. There are lots of places online. My favorite author is Graham Harvey though :)
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  808. Yesss. in the links in the description are my favorites
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  809. I like that. Very possible that they were left out as offerings. The leaving out of children resembles blot rituals in the little evidence we have. Although the liberal sex life thing is not true though. A common misconception. Even pagan scandinavians didnt have sex out of marriage. Freya in the myths is the only record we have of promiscuous behavior. All other sagas/records/chronicles show a very conservative view of sex unfortunately
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  810. Cant remember if I said that in this video........but it probably changed with time depending on the class of people. Like the Adam of bremmen source I went over, Odin was sacrificed to for war and thor for famine/plague and Freyr for harvest(in the late viking age). The upper class was the war class in the viking age but before in time it was the regular class of people and the high class were the religious leaders. We see the same thing in Greece and Rome
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  811. I assumed it might have been a wicca thing. Makes sense
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  812. I like that idea. That fits well with my thoughts on buri/audhumbla too
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  813. Never thought of it that way. But absolutely makes sense too!
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  814. Ja det kommer sikkert fra "Fire Gazing." En ritual der vi kunne stirre i ilden for å se fremtiden. Jar ikke laget en video om det ennå me skal snart :)
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  815. Hehe I have a playlist on my channel called "Cringe Pagans" specifically making fun of them. Not our kind of people lol
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  816. Yes there are a few! My favorite ones are books by Maria Kvilhaug, Varg Vikernes, Vegard Solheim. Slightly different but all on the same track
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  817. Its a reconstruction. I speak about it more in this video. A couple of them are most likely wrong and definitely open for more ideas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYue2Vspmds&t=81s
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  818. Yes. The Koryos! That could very well be true. I like that. Thank you.
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  819. A couple vague sources of a creator god. I believe yes but we have almost no sources to show it
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  820. Not sure who that is. Im not really part of this social media community
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  821. Yes it must be. I didn't know that actually. I'll have to do some research on those hedges before I make the archaeology video.
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  822. Yes. In the poem Voluspa. There may be more mentions but that is the main one.
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  823. Not quite but very close. Freyr and freyja represent the masculine and feminine forces of nature. Thor and odin have to do with the spirit and identity of all living things. But of course both of these are broad topics
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  824. Yes. sure. Do you remember what saga that was in? I remember something like that but not in detail
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  825.  @g.l.holdren162  Thats a good question. Alot of the more non spiritual people like to simplify the deities by saying they represent a specific part of the body or nature, but I believe its a bit more complex. Take Freyja for example. Some think she represents female nature. Some think she represents some universal feminine energy. And there are those who think she simply represents the egg/uterus. I find it a little unlikely that the egg was worshiped so widely. I think its like you said and the deities represent a general category of specific things. Something a bit more universal and inclusive like that makes it alot more likely to be worshiped
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  826. Got that one in new zealand at some shop. i think you can find them anywhhere though if its not real sheepskin
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  827. Yes. Working on having some guests on for that
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  828. On the way!
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  829. Internasjonal frakt kommer snart. Men smykkene kommer fra Norge. Det blir mye billigere for deg aa bare kjoepe der. Se paa tgdesign.no :)
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  830. Yes big selection of books coming in the next week or two
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  831. Setting up shipping to europe in the next month! :)
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  832. On the way!
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  833. Got it. On the way!
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  834. This week :) Check back thursday
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  835. Think i got it. Were you in seal beach? Crap already on the way but would have been cool do deliver it
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  836. Thank you. Always happy to learn about parallels in other mythologies. I don't know too much about Greek
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  837. Wow thank you! Did not know that. Wish I knew and I would have included it in this video :)
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  838. Haha den videoen blir tatt ned hvis jeg lager det. Kan kanskje publisere den et annet sted
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  839. Yep!
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  840. Its already started my friend!
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  841. Tror det stemmer :)
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  842. Yes we find those from even before the viking age. Much before St Olav was around
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  843. 😂😂😂😂 I remember. Veldig godt å møte deg. Kos deg masse i norge. Håper vi sees igjen neste sommer!
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  844. Ghost is right on the blood eagle. For ragnar and his sons. We dont know if Ragnar existed. There are so many varying stories. We think he was probably more than 1 person named ragnar. His sons are very real though. If you think about that, his sons probably did accomplish more than their father.(whichever one he was)
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  845. I don't know alot about wicca. I know they took some beliefs and practices from everywhere and created some of their own. If I do a video about wicca its probably better to have someone else come on the channel who knows alot more than me
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  846. Thats a long question. Quick answer...........be strong and firm in your beliefs and life. But also diplomatic with others to try to come to a solution to live peacefully. I could speak alot longer but if you read the Sagas, you will see what i mean.
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  847. Sure! Thats probably one worth doing!
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  848. Yes sure! The grammar will throw you off a bit bt you can translate the words at least
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  849. hah yes that will be a difficult one to find. I have only seen it called by that name in some record books in really remote villages in norway. I read about them in university when I had access to the database but will be hard to find now. I do remember it being in some folktale books too, but also in norwegian and maybe hard to find. But I think the easiest source for you to read about it is in a book called "Våre tradisjoner" by Vegard Solheim. He just released an English version. I think he has a youtube video about exactly this too. But again as I mentioned in the video, that winter hunt berserker practice/ritual is definitely not 100% proven. It just a theory that some people have. Not even sure if i believe it 100%
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  850. I didnt know. Thank you! What is their ceremony for? Do they make a sacrifice also? Or is it something else?
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  851.  @thebrownhound1343  Its started that way but this is the most interesting comment i have seen today so I'll reply. Sacred spaces are important but, friðgarðr is only mentioned as a place for a law/thing area in the sources and no Norse sources name it as a place for a blot. But I will admit there are a few archaeological finds that suggest this and probably did perform some blots there. There is also 1 source that names a chain around the temple but the actual offering was at a spring nearby(Source Adam of Bremen Gesta Hammabugensis). Most of the sources though mention that blots were done at a simple Hörgr(stone pile/altar), which I also have in my video.  I do like how you used a source to face your alter North. But I face mine East since that is the direction that the gods are said to reside(Source Lokasenna, Prose Edda).  No idea where on earth you got the need-fire or the cosmology setup or symbolism of Heimdall/fire. That is nowhere in any of the old norse sources. If thats not from a 70s Wicca book then it is some neo-Asatru book based on wicca. Thats just if you even have a source at all for any of that? I also do like you basing your method of prayer on the sources........But there too, we have absolutely 0 records of any prayer/"Hollowed formula" being used at any blot. There probably was but nothing to prove it. I know this very well because I am writing a book compilation of every Norse prayer we have records of. The truth is we have almost no sources on how to perform a blot. But I have included all of them in the videos in the links below. Even did a video on the few sources we have speaking only about Disablot. You can watch those to get the original historical sources if you want. But you are free to practice your blot anyway you feel fit. Just don't criticize someone staying as close to the historical sources as possible when 90% of what you do is some neo-pagan ritual someone invented in the last few decades. https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMEFW2WPARJaH8jbw3EseNDBBytqJAA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k98s0s9ZqWY&list=PLLEMEFW2WPARJaH8jbw3EseNDBBytqJAA&
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  852. Where did you learn that? A wicca book written in the 70s? I listed all my sources and explained every part of why I do certain things. How about you do the same?
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  853. I have not seen a free online one. But I think it is very cheap to buy. The author Stephen Flowers is great.
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  854. Yes very good! There was for sure a temple there with wooden statues like that. Just as Adam of bremmen wrote. But the sacrifice took place not in the temple but at the grove near the temple. It doesn't say but thats probably where the horgr was. Working on a video about that and temples. Might have it done this week
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  855. Its my music. I post all of it on my other channel. Not very good yet though. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  856. Tell him to eat healthy and get plenty of sleep! Also fasting regularly boosts growth hormone. Wish i would have known all this at that age
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  857. Fantastisk sted! Jeg bodde i Stavanger en stund :)
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  858. Yes very true. Horrible diets and lifestyle made people shorter than than ever
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  859. Its norwegian. Just means welcome everyone :)
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  860. California for now
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  861. Hah. He was no ordinary man thats for sure. Just not a king or royal lineage
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  862. Haha yes I though the same here
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  863. Thank you. Yes there are so many people talking about Norse paganism/history and no way of knowing who is telling the truth and who is just making things up. That's why I do all of this and try to give people all the sources so they can read and decide for themselves. I'm Norwegian but living in Los Angeles now not far from TAC HQ. Met a few of them. Good people!
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  864. You are both right. We have so mony different sources telling about him from different areas that many historians agree that he didnt even exist. I believe he did though
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  865. Settled by Norwegians. With quite a bit of Irish DNA actually
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  866. Sure! Especially in Northern Poland it was a headquarters for many viking war bands/mercenaries.
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  867. They both speak a germanic language yes! But the people are probably very mixed, germanic, roman, celtic, etc. I guess it depends on the family or region you come from.
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  868. Theres about 10 sources saying different things about where he is from
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  869. 100% true
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  870. Yes for the most part
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  871. Not at all. Very small difference in dialects. They could even understand Old English and Old Saxon at the time. Its what i did my thesis on.
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  872. Of course! Olaf den Hellige was pretty cool. Olav T was a horrible bastard
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  873. Its true. Finns were the real feared ones because of their magic. They werent fully christianized until many hundreds of years after the others
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  874. They didn't call them vikings but they raided for sure!
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  875. Thats right. Angles too were Danes. Its in modern day germany now but back then it was considered a part of the danish common area. Slightly different language and culture than the saxons at the time.
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  876. Yes some amazing history in Frisia. I havent read too much about it but I think the most famous source is the Oera Linda Book. Im sure there are many more
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  877. Good idea! Nature probably effected the peoples behavior alot
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  878. Hmm. I didn't know about the history of that name. Would be cool to learn what it meant originally. It might be in some very old gothic texts then
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  879. Nice! Will be cool to see that one and hear if you notice any effects.
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  880. Det finnes mange kilder som sier forskjellige ting. Mer bevis på at han var dansk men vi kan ikke vaere 100% sikkre
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  881. Allright. thanks man. Ill check out some of your videos too!
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  882. Yes. Especially Aesir and Vanir. Definitely have some reliable sources for this.
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  883. 1st podcast is up! Lost more coming i hope
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  884. Sure! Did a video about just that https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUqauKHnfVs
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  885.  @carnival8789  Yes I know about that one. Very good question. The full lotus definitely seems like an eastern thing and can't think of any evidence about it being used in the west. However, the Rallinge Statuette of Freyr also looks like he is sitting in this position. So you may be on to something very interesting there and it might have been used by the norse. I'll do some more research on that and see what I can find.
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  886. Hah that shows hillarious. I literally almost used that photo for the thumbnail :)
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  887. Yea was wanting to do that. have not gotten a chance to play it though
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  888. Correct they were celts. Different language and religious family to the germanic. But if we go back far enough we were all one people too
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  889. Not mine. But a good friend runs it that I will be on. Called "The Hamingja Podcast"
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  890. Quite a few sources from all over germanic europe that Jul was in our modern January. Then King Haakon the Good moved it back into december. Check that video link in my description for a more detailed explination
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  891.  @ryedergrenier3561  Yep. Not so much but learning and working on more all the time
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  892. The world would be a very different place. It would take all of europe though. If one place was still pagan the would have been slaughtered and converted anyway. It happened as late as the 1700s to the Sami in europe and other peoples all over the world at the same time
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  893. Its not my book. Not finished yet. Its just Heimskringla. Link in the description of this video :)
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  894. I think I know the one. its on the way to you now. Thankyou and hope you enjoy.
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  895. For sure! Might even try to have some gests on to speak about the celtic. I dont know enough about it
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  896. Yep @thormmadj
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  897. Many. Not one by itself but speak about it in almost all videos a little bit
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  898. They had lots of functions. Sometimes warriors, sometimes kings guard, sometimes menaces to the village. It depended on the person. More videos about that on the berserker playlist on my channel
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  899. There are some who do. Was much more practiced in older times though
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  900. Yes. Harbardsljod. Very symbolic with alot of meaning. Not a reflection of ethics though lol. Ill do a video on that one
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  901. Done a few videos on that. Check out the playlist in the description :)
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  902. Hehe he was a rascal as a kid. but he grew up into a very good man later in life
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  903. In a way yes. I have read that too. Seidr in the viking age was for sure just a very specific ritual. Lots of records of that. But looking at much older meanings of the word, it is possible that long before the viking age, it meant someting like tradition/custom like you said.
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  904. Music is all on my other channel :)
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  905. Sure. We have many records in the norse sagas of left handed/malicious magic/spiritual practices. But they were always disposed of by the village. And such things brings the witch/sorcerer very bad hammingja(karma). Not just in this life but through the whole family lineage. There are absolutely consequences to these things
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  906. Haha yes it does seem weird. maybe they know something. A few of the burial mounds have been opened in the last 200 years. But there are thousands that havent. Some of the mounds, the sagas actually tell us who is buried there. But most are a mytery
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  907. No idea. I think the freemasons have some beliefs on that though
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  908. Sorry. Forgot those. I just posted them in the description now
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  909. There are hundreds. I speak about the best ones here. Happy to hear! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUSaT3z9Eo&t=89s
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  910. It would be pretty difficult to drag a warship for 200 men on to land and bury it. Thats why we only find smaller ships buried but there are many records of ships that fit 2-300 men. Ormen Langi like the person above mentioned is one of them.
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  911. Its hilarious. i like it!
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  912. Yup! Glad so see you know him!
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  913.  @RockerNate81  I have never and will never blame bad things people did on religion. The true enemy is civilization and societies getting larger than they need to. Monotheistic religions just coincidentally pop up around then too.
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  914. Yea. They made a big mix of the dates on things
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  915. Coming soon!
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  916. Yes. Hope you like it. Its one of my favorites!
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  917. Yes! Great tribe. Will do a video
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  918. Yes. Pretty cool movie!
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  919. Haha yes. he was around them sometimes. That doesnt make him one of them.
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  920. Yes i can name 10 haha. My chriteria is winning battles being way outnumbered, defending the pagan religion, and funny stories that show a sense of humor. Probably Haakon the Jarl is my #1
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  921. I think so. And then the world would have been a very different place. The normans may have still came in and beat the norwegians though
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  922. Hah. I had a similar thing even on my brand new little channel. Someone from Turkey asking to send money if I made some videos about how some vikings worshipped allah. Even though every single Hollywood production sells out and spreads complete lies about Scandinavian history for their agenda, I'm happy that some people still cannot be bought.
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  923. I would say leave it out in nature somewhere it can be found. Or maybe donate it to a second hand shop or something like that :)
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  924. You might like Kalevala. But depends what you are looking for
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  925. Its a very good question. I cant explain the answer why myself. Just that it was historically practiced
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  926. Nope. Watch my video on how tall the vikings were. I includes sources and examples
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  927.  @chivalrousjack  My favorite ever is Hilda ellis davidson. Eldar Heide and Maria Kvilhaug are also great.
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  928. Haha bøker. Mange mange bøker. Og litt fra universitetet
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  929. Good question and you are right. Ideally we would have some knowledgeable ones out there who we could trust and grow the community. Unfortunately there is 100 bad ones online talking for every 1 knowledgeable person. So unfortunately we have to all do our own studying from the original sources and do our own homework until some trustworthy people start to emerge. Thats what I would say I suppose
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  930. Lots. In the Sagas. Not the Eddas. Even in folktales later on give some insight on it. I would recommend any saga compilations or Scandinavian Folktales books. Even the Grimm folktales have some good stuff
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  931. There are lots! Depends what you are most interested in. If you click the "Community Tab" on my page i have alot of book reviews
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  932. Near Big Timber. Small place.
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  933. All my music i post on my other channel :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  934. Its different. Magic can be very many. But for healing, at least from the sources and actual practice it was the elves that were often called upon. But there are lots more
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  935. I think Persian empire was much before Gothic really started to expand. I don't know a whole lot about middle eastern history though
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  936. Nope. The only sources about birth marks are the ones I went over in this video. Im not aware of any more unfortunately.
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  937. Just means "welcome everybody"
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  938. I think so. A nd really advanced people have more control awareness of it
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  939. Yes. My video on shapeahifters speaks about that
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  940. Its just welcome and see you next time in norwegian
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  941. Early next year I hope :)
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  942. Very cool. Is there a link to that video you can send? I can't find it by searching those names
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  943. Hmmm that is strange. They are all in this playlist https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLEMEFW2WPASN2GhXrQhGoSRzkE3J2LMg
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  944. Sadhguru??? lol
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  945. Haha only reason i even put anything on is for the videos. too hot here
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  946. Thank you. Im gonna check that one out
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  947. I have heard something similar and it makes sense. i like it! How would you say thor fits into all that? His various scuffles and eventual fight to the death with jormundandr?
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  948. Thank you! I didn't know alot of that
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  949. I post it on Instagram a bit more @thormmadj
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  950. Instagram i post it a bit more @thormmadj. But definitely lots good news coming later this year i hope
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  951. *no problem with christianity today though
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  952. Paganism wasn't torturing people and forcing them to convert. Only one of them was doing that at the time. I have no problem with christi
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  953. They probably would not be a fan. But some definitely would. We have records of a king sacrificing his sons to live to be almost 200. You Should watch my video on "Horse Meat and Abortion" and also "when did odin live" and that might give some answers
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  954. Yes definitely video coming. Lots of cool topics
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  955. hehe morsomt! Sees interessant ut! Skal lese den senere idag :)
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  956. Just niebelungenleid. not much more than that
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  957. It probably did. Never have and will never censor comments. Unfortunately sometimes they get automatically deleted. Im sure I would have loved the comment my friend :)
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  958.  @jessehines4044  Look up someone called Tyr Nielsen. Hes the best one today I think
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  959. Its a fair thought. thank you for bringing that up. Here are 4 reasons why I think the Scandinavian justice system is horrible(justice system is not always about imprisonment remember) 1. Drivers license taken away for speeding just 1 time(or taken away for drug crime even though they were not driving when they used it) 2. Fines given simply for free speech 3. 20 years in prison for possession of a harmless natural substance. 4. (Equal) 20 years in prison for a mass murderer. Any Scandinavian who pays attention knows this is all true
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  960. Better that than pay to have him taken care of and fed in a prison. Thats what our tax dollars are at the end of the day
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  961. Ättestupa har jeg laget en video om. Skjekk ut kanallen :)
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  962. Thats a very good point. Had not thought of that. That is worth some scientific studies for sure
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  963. Its mine. All my music I upload to my other channel :)
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  964. Yes. But I think we found a couple from the viking age too. But those were something different.
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  965. Very true. The native gauls/celts in modern day france area were converted long before this. But the Franks and Burgundians in this area were just germanic tribes too with a bit of roman/celtic mixture.
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  966. Du har rett om keltene. Hele kartet er ikke helt riktig. Det bare viser de forskjellige språk/religiøs familiene
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  967. Its one that i made. not really a song though lol
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  968. Correct. Absolutely 100% pagan. They came to England and did not become chriatian until a few hundred years later.
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  969. Any sources at all for that?
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  970. Yes 100%. But quite a few prayers were actually recorded in other sources. I'm actually writing a book on it wright now. Funny you should mention.
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  971. Yessir. Franks and Burgundians made what was later on France
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  972. Its a mystery. We dont know about the origin of that word but it was a new term around 100ce. Dont know what they were called before that. You could be right
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  973. Yes its thats all true. Thank you. Thats what I wrote my thesis on actually. You would like this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAC2fV2xTO4&t=334s
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  974. Kind of. We know the natives of Scandinavia were early Urgic peoples and what eventually became the Germanic people migrated there in large numbers. Although we are not quite sure exactly when
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  975. Yes the Finns are very interesting. Their DNA is very European but also mixed with Urgic. Yes they were also very involved in the viking era. They just had a very different language and religion than we did.
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  976. Done a video on ullr. Check it out :)
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  977. I think so. will see what publishers can do :)
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  978. Yes thats an important one. Coming soon
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  979. Vestfold :)
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  980. Yes we speak about the norse aloty but thats just because most of the sources come from there. You would like this video too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAC2fV2xTO4&t=334s
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  981. Barbarians. Tv show
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  982. Yes absolutely. Otto II and the holy roman empire tried to do this by force. Also pressure from English Kings. See my video on the Christianization of Denmark. But yes you are right. Most of the blame is on our own Kings and nobles.
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  983. Done one on that but didnt go into a whole lot of detail. You can search my channel for the basics for now at least :)
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  984. Love it! Been a long time since i have read it though and would have to go over it again before I speak
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  985. I agree. If I was allowed to go into depth about those subjects I would.
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  986. No that was much later in time.
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  987. Not really. My problem with the "experts" is they will look at one subject only. -Archeology, or literature, or religion, or language, or magic, or comparative studies. All of these people are experts in 1 subject only most of the time and are much better than me. Where I am different is that I have fairly good knowledge about all of these along with other religions around the world for comparison.
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  988. Oh yea. This one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgUSaT3z9Eo&t=301s
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  989. Have not seen that one. I will have a look when I get a chance!
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  990.  @MikefromTexas1  Thats not an example. Any dates? Events? Go look up Interpretatio Romana or proselytism and you will see that forced conversions are against both belief systems.
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  991. No shit thats the point. I have not read 1 example of that happening in half a lifetime of research. If you know of one please let us know
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  992. Thats true. It still leads people the wrong way, but at least we have writing and better communication to clear things up.
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  993. I think you will find that alot of the things that people like about Catholisism, paganism has as well. Welcome!
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  994. Thats amazing. I spoke about exactly that in my hugr video. Same kinds of things all over the world
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  995. Hmmm not yet! I will see if i can check it out!
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  996. Link is always in the description of videos. Check back later in the week though. Just got in alot more new items and haven't put them up for sale yet
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  997. Yes. haha but too expensive in this city
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  998. Its mine. Im not very good yet though. My producing needs alot more work. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCShTnd9HOrgdlJ0Xx0YqWqA
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  999.  @hiteckification  https://www.instagram.com/thormmadj/
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  1000. Hmmm. They are roman right? I will check it out. thank you.
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  1001. I have herd that but never tried myself. I will one day!
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  1002. Yeah sure! Not my favorite one but you can go ahead :)
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  1003. Ja. Kan lage en video om det etterhvert. Men du finner det også på nettet :) https://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/onp/onp13.htm
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  1004. Did a long video about his life already :)
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  1005. They were very similar. But come from a different religion family. Different gods and history
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  1006. Haha yea sure. I can't think of any conection to Odin and dogs. Theres his wolves Geri and Freki that seem to be kept like dog pets. But nothing else really linking him to dogs.
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  1007. Hah no. Not this side of the country. You do see some people doing utiseta sometimes though
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  1008. 97kg. In mma now im light heavy :)
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  1009. I find myself asking that sometimes too. Some things old religions were right on. But some things not. Its ok because all they has was the technology at the time and what they experienced.
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  1010. Its fairly close. There are plenty of books to learn old norse from if you are interested though
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  1011. Probably. I don't know about greek so much but Im sure you are right
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  1012.  @johannesroundhouse5996  Ah du mente reinkarnasjon. Da kan jeg anbefale bøker fra Dr. Ian Stevenson eller Dr Erlendur Haraldsson
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  1013. Yup. All sources in this video here. There are a couple more too that I forgot to include at the time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aym_kG29J2g&list=PLLEMEFW2WPAQ3ZxXnAjJsOithRt7Z6wTN&index=19&t=92s
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  1014. Haha yes you have come to the right place. I have laready pissed off those "FB pagans" and they stay away from here. Yes thats right. Norwegian but lived in the US and other countries for quite some time now.
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  1015. Hmm. So if karma is great, one goes to Heavenly Planes? And then karma is used up there until it is out and then time to be reborn again? Very interesting
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  1016.  @bjornekdahl721  Just instagram and Facebook which I do not use so option. Insta-thormmadj FB-Michael Bjørn Pascoe Or maybe even e-mail if that is easier
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  1017. Yes it is also probably a late invention(like Valhall). But some other very interesting information there. It all makes sense. I had also thought about, as opposed to some warriors going to valhall and odin, there is quite a bit of evidence of some women dying and becoming fylgya, valkyries, other protective spirits watching over their descendants. I was thinking that may have some connection to folkvangr. Going to have to do some more research on that and make a video eventually
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  1018. Yes that sounds the most logical! What are your thoughts on Folkvangr then? Do you know of any eastern parallels to Freyjas hall?
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  1019. Yes the books are modern scientific studies. Nothing to do with ancient beliefs. Just look up any books by Ian Stevenson, Erlendur Haraldsson. Or any authors doing studies on children remembering past lives. There are thousands.
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  1020. Would love to speak more about your experiences some day!
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  1021. Los Angeles at the moment!:)
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  1022. Keep following for the future!
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  1023. You might be more pagan than you think!
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  1024. Ill post whenever I compete :) been waiting a long time now though
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  1025. Good idea!
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  1026. There should be! I did a quick video on it though that you can search on the channel
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  1027. Most likely
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  1028. Haha good question. I guess the dates on the opposite time of year and maybe walk the opposite direction?
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  1029. I heard something like that to
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  1030. Ja. Men det heter St. Hans Aften desverre :(
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  1031. Saw it!
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  1032. Oh there are definitley gods belived to live in plants(mostly trees). I did a video on Ullr but there are more that will be coming soon
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  1033. Tusen takk. Håper å eksperimentere litt en dag
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  1034. Cheers!
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  1035. No ive just seen his Youtube channel. Hes great! ill check those out.
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  1036. Sure. See my video on blood for norse ritual. I go over it there :)
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  1037. So you make up your own religion?
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  1038. Yes thats always a good question. We see similarities in religions and beliefs all over the world. The question is whether these different cultures learned from each other, or whether they discovered similar universal truths and called then by different names. I'm more likely to believe the 2nd option in most cases.
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  1039. Thats right. Bog mummies were something different though. They have discovered that in the last 15-20 years. But the accompanying a person to the afterlife is for sure a sacrifice I would say. Also a couple other mentions of sacrifice that I didn't mention in this video. Im gonna do a whole new video about that soon
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  1040. It was allright. Could have done it way better but I liked it
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  1041. Larvik :)
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  1042. Yes. But there are different sources that say different things there so we are not sure what is true. You can see my video on "When odin lived" and "Odin as a living human" for those different sources
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  1043. Dna test is good but nothing can replace looking into good records of family history!
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  1044. Got it! On the way :)
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  1045. There are hundreds. The author has a channel here on youtube where he speak about some.
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  1046. Oil! Not to my knowledge lol
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  1047. Oak trees is where the spirit of thor was belived to call home. Those are the trees where thunder strikes most often. Also Jupiter(thors equivalent in Roman mythology) was said to live in oak trees. Did a video on norse chakras too :)
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  1048. Yes. not too knowledgeable but have read a bit
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  1049.  @halfpinthero912  Healthy lifetyle for 2 months........then get wasted for 2 days......then back to healthy pretty much
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  1050. I like it!
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  1051. That one is coming for sure!
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  1052. Very interesting. had not thought of that
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  1053. Thors mom is Earth as a whole. Thors wife is earth like land/soil. Did a video on that
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  1054. Never experienced anything like that. But it could be different if I lived in the south maybe lol
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  1055. I did a video on chakras :) check it out
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  1056. Not me my friend. Must be doing it automatically
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  1057. "Wokeings"! Thats a good one. I'm gonna use that
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  1058. Hehe its not out yet. I think early next year its released
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  1059. Hehe. my trademark was stealing girls shorts when i was drunk living in greece
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  1060. Yep
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  1061. Of course!
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  1062. Its awesome. Alot more accurate than Vikings. But still some things a bit off. Will make some videos when the new season starts to be announced
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  1063. Yes that one is for sure coming.
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  1064. Great warrior tribe! Long before the viking age though
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  1065. Which source?
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  1066. Yes those two things you asked about i don't belive were in the original text. ill have to read through it again. Most of the rest of the movie was pretty accurate. Look up Ibn Fadlan. Thats the texts its based on
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  1067. I have changed my mind about it a little bit. Waiting till all the research comes out to make a video on it. Some of the finds are absolute garbage but some might actually prove something
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  1068. Do you remember the name of that source? I know an english source that said that but would be cool to see a french one too.
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  1069. Exactly. The Burgundians and the Huns are spoken about in those sagas even. Much more widespread that originally believed
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  1070. Of course! I think all those peoples were pagan for alot longer than the history books say. the kings/leaders may have been baptized but plenty of evidence that the people had pagan tradition/beliefs for alot longer
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  1071. I think they have even more gothic ancestry. Not seen the DNA studies though
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  1072. I am not aware of any records of it. but in my opinion I think there was a type of dance to get to this state. Search the Torslunda plates when you get a chance
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  1073. Yes very cool. You should see my video on the chakras. I was thinking Nidhoggr is more likely. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RLtZVeivkv0&t=82s
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  1074. Yep. @thormmadj
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  1075. Just means welcome everyone. In norwegian
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  1076. No sources for this in the norse. There are some good explanations about the vedic traditions below in the comments though you can check out.
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  1077. Hmm. good point. We do have records of repeating verses for the same practices too
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  1078. Yea good point. No records of using human bones for this but animal bones we know for sure. But they probably could have used human
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  1079. Happy to help!. Very cool ancestry
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  1080. That was just a cow dedicated to nerthus. Also a cart and a whole island if I remember correctly? Ill have to double check.
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  1081. Dont know much about it. Ill have to do some reading!
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  1082. Salg :(. Men holder på å starte opp noen bedrifter/investeringer. Prøver å få nok passiv inntekt slik at jeg kan konkurrere i mma fulltid. Vi får se hva som skjer. :)
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  1083. Of course. We see this all over. Hinduism especially today is very different than the original religion we have texts from 5000 years ago
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  1084. You got it!
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  1085. I think that makes the most sense to me too!
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  1086. Very cool. Did not know some of that. Will give those a read. It depends on the time too right? And from what I have read, it seems like the greek philosophers at the time were quite split? Like half leaning pagan and the rest moving to pure atheism? After the greek dark age at least? But im not super familiar with that history.
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  1087. Good question. Not my ideas. For a long time now we have know that many of the myths are metaphors. I would recommend these 2 videos and that will answer some questions for now. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=581y7gdC6Mk&t=270s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzg3T5CxXB8
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  1088. Yes for sure. Search something called "Landvettir" (Land spirits) :)
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  1089. Godt sagt! Tusen takk :)
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  1090. Yes of course. For some myths, thats exactly what I think happened
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  1091. You are not alone my friend! I think you will find more answers in paganism than expected :)
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  1092. I would go to the primary sources. Prose/poetic eddas. And different sagas. A good place to start at least :)
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  1093. Maybe you should research before leaving a stupid comment. Deuteronomy is the fifth book of the Torah, more commonly called Devarim. Deuteronomy is also the fifth book of the Christian OLD TESTAMENT(not the new testament). Exactly.......like I said in the video. How about you listen closer next time?
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  1094. Yes I expected that from our sister culture and religion but did not know. What time period do you think this happened in rome? I don't know much about it
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  1095. Yes actually. My video on the "Koryos" talks about it
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  1096. du kan sende melding på Face/Insta hvis du har lyst. Jeg bor rett i naerheten Facebook: Thor Elptirdalr Insta: @thormmadj
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  1097.  @ziggiboy  Har du lyst til å bli med på videoen? Har filma den ferdig men kan legge til et kort intervju med deg? Bare hvis du har lyst!
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  1098. On the way!
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  1099. Yes Im sure there were. I dont know enough about their mythology to say though
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  1100. You mean Drammen? Yes just about an hour away from my town!
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  1101. Very good. I forgot about a couple of those. Fylgja comes up in the actual persons dreams alot more in the later folk tales. And some of the heroic sagas as well
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  1102. Oh god. Haha. Yes a video comiing. You can also search fylgja or fetch online and find quite alot of stuff
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  1103. You will know. it will seem more like real than regular dreams :)
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  1104. Try both! Hah i like astrology. Just not the endless supply of girls here in LA that obsess over it
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  1105. Sounds like you have missed some things in the reading. There are many sources that they believed in reincarnation. And probably many more that were destroyed over the years. All of them in this video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aym_kG29J2g&t=32s
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  1106. I dont know alot unfortunately. Its very difficult to find reliable info on that. Let me know if you find any!
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  1107. I like that idea :)
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  1108. Yess. link is on my home page. Just started one. Bienvenidos!
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  1109. Yes. Watch my video "Paganism Fully Explained" or "Animism, Polytheism, Monotheism"
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  1110. Haha fenrir is a bit more difficult. Will do a video on that
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  1111. Not played that one. Ill check it out!
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  1112. I would argure that the scandinavians had a stronger sense of bravery and fighting when outnumbered. More than anywhere else at the time
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  1113. A small viking market in norway. I think grimfrost has some good stuff online though
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  1114. Yes did a long video about the differences you can see. Total population was not that much. just a couple hundred thousand in all Scandinavia. But growing rapidly and thats why they had to settle other places
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  1115. A little bit more necessary than this comment
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  1116. Theres one coming
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  1117. Got it at a small viking market in norway.
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  1118. Yes that is the most unreliable source we have. But there is alot of good info in it. For the mythology, my guess is its mostly just rewritten to fit a historical narrative.
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  1119. Yes i have thought about hat myself actually. The whole continuing to drip every 9 nights thing is the biggest hole to this theory. Maybe they had some belief that every 9 months after our birth humans received more parts to our soul. Or maybe it really does mean 9 days and every 9 days is a new development of some sort of the fetus in the womb. Its even possible that it was originally just a single cycle of 9 days/months. The only source that mentions a continuing cycle is the Prose Edda. Written long after pagan times and not 100% reliable. Lots of possibilities. I too am open to other theories about this.
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  1120. Yess quite a few now. They are all in my "Traditions" playlist
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  1121. Its my music. You can find it on my other channel :)
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  1122. I had heard of that but never paid attention to the similarity of the name. I will have to do some more looking into that!
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  1123. Map of germanic peoples/language highlighted
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  1124. No spring. just winter and summer. It started April-May time
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  1125. Awesome! Super cool of you to take in an exchange student
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  1126. Got a whole playlits about that on my channel. What the historical sources say and how I adapt to do mine
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  1127. Yes. I like that tim much better than the viking age. Its about 500 years before the vikings
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  1128. Pre-christian scandinavian is the correct term. But people get confused and butthurt by that word so I use viking usually
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  1129. Glad it was helpful!
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  1130. Yes thats what they say. Odin could also have a parallel with the Greek Lyssa(their names mean the same)
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  1131. Its not good enough yet. Still trying to learn the producing well enough
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  1132. Will for sure do that video!
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  1133. Ja :)
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  1134. Not yet. but will be coming soon
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  1135. Very interesting. Didn't know all that. That makes even more sense now. Thank you
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  1136. Nope. My friend will be creating one and I will speak on it. Will keep you updated :)
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  1137. Tusen takk. Det visste jeg ikke. Gleder meg til å høre/lære mer fra deg!
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  1138. Yea exactly my thought. Why are these place names in only Norwy sweden and not Denmark or germany for example.
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  1139. I thought about that myself. Thats just the modern word. Old norse had a few different names for wolves and none of them were too similar
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  1140. Not sure what the rubber tree is. ill have to look that up!
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  1141. I like that!
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  1142. Its great. never tried but will some day. Definitely need to have an experienced guide though
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  1143. Nope. never been to Washington. Will sometime soon though
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  1144. I see it as both of those. Have done lots of videos about that
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  1145. Hope so!
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  1146. Yes. The edda book and trickster ones I was speaking about
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  1147. Haha I have been noticing.
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  1148.  @MadRobexe  Did you even watch the video? Its called animism. Not atheism. And I have said that dozens of times now. Animism actually makes sense and has some scientific validity. Unlike reading myths as real events.
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  1149. Because they defy almost every law of physics and nature. I think our ancestors could figure that out too.
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  1150. Not heard of that. Im sure they did a few hundred years ago but today would be very difficult for sure
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  1151. Ja det stemmer. Det finnes ingenting i kildene at barnet ble drept. De var bare lagt ut i naturen i norden ihvertfall.
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  1152. Sometimes. Cattle or pigs were the most sacrificed by far. But definitely have a source or two that horses were used.
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  1153.  @lane9320  Oh yea. haha right about that one for sure
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  1154. No. I have not hear of it. I will see if I can take a look when I get a chance.
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  1155. Have not read stuff by him. i will check it out! :)
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  1156. Yes. that makes sense. I like that. Especially about powerful head veil and odin :)
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  1157. Thank you! I look forward to reading more!
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  1158. Yessss. Ive been there
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  1159. Yes we don't know for sure. but there are definitely theories. I will do a video for sure!
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  1160. Abslolutely. Thats always a fair argument and I think about it all the time. We could really throw away the entire prose edda, and it would be completely fair to do so for logical/research based motives. Poetic edda is the only real reliable source for the most part, but the prose edda does come in handy
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  1161.  @bjornekdahl721  Absolutely. One of my favorites!
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  1162.  @WolflordFenrisVargr  Yes amazing book. I definetly dont agree with her interpretation of thrymskvida. But the meaning of mjolnir still comes back to this idea of powering force/electricity. You will see.
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  1163. Possessing people yes. For small periods of time. Walking around among humans in disguise. There are a few mentions of that in heroic sagas. Not sure if people actually believed that though.
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  1164. Sure! If you have instagram its @thormmadj. But you can send me e-mail if you want. I remember you! thorelptirdalr@gmail.com
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  1165. Yes. Did a video on that too
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  1166. Not yet. Fenrir is alot more difficult with many theories I have read. Will be coming eventually
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  1167. So whats your solution Professor? I used every single source from the time that we have preserved records of. You want to ignore all of that and invent your own sources?
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  1168. Herzliche Willkommen! Ich habe 2 jahre in Berlin gewohnt :)
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  1169.  @bjornekdahl721  Yea thats her. I was just asking because my family is the same. "Eftedal" there are hundreds of us but we are all in the same fylke and I know all of them pretty much
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  1170. Yes english is fine so others can understand. I was thinking, probably lots of people with you last name, but I knew someone named Miranda Ekdahl. From near Malmo I think. Related maybe?
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  1171. I didn't know that. Thank you. Do you know of any famous temples/archaeology of these? I will do some research on those.
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  1172. Yes im going to do alot of videos on that. There are many of the myths and stories that have to do with travel to the realm of the dead/other realms
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  1173.  @heathenhammerfeld148  awesome. Thank you. Going to look up that one again
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  1174. Link in the description of this video. :)
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  1175. Yes that video will be coming soon!
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  1176. Ja norsk er morsmålet men jeg har vokst opp litt overalt i verden. Jeg snakker litt merkelig ja. Har min egen fremmednorsk dialekt!
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  1177. Love it. Lots of these other ones around the world have very similar things
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  1178. Hehe ja du kan skrive på dansk hvis du vil
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  1179. Haha well thats starting to happen now too
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  1180. Nei :(
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  1181. I would go for the sagas next. Either that or Seed of Yggdrasil. I write book reviews on the "Community" tab on my channel and you can decide what interests you most!
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  1182. Yes. A more detailed video with sources is here. Although i was a bit mistaken in thins video. The next one clears it up :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYue2Vspmds
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  1183. I thunk the opposite actually. Unless i can take a good warmup and get to a flow state
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  1184. A little bit. Usually house and techno only though
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  1185. No way to tell yet. I would wait a bit and see what else happens. Maybe keep a dream log
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  1186. They are great!
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  1187. Yes. More freedom and better opportunities for starting business/investments. Government in norway has their nose in all aspects of your life and taxes the hell out of you every chance they get. Not sure if america is the best place yet, but i am here for now
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  1188. Ja de fleste av disse har mange utgivelser med Norske oversettelser. I tillegg har vi mange bøker på norsk som finnes ikke på andre språk. Det kommer helt an på temaene du er mest interessert i?
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  1189. Done 2 on that! Search my channel for Draipnir :)
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  1190. Yep
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  1191. Thats a good point.
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  1192. Great! Sounds like you have a beautiful home there with lots of life. Except maybe some annoying neighbors :)
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  1193. If I remember right I think France/German border. I was looking for that too actually. Lots of images of it on google but none of them say exactly where it is.
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  1194. Good question. Yes I leave mine undisturbed. Unless i find some trash or manmade things there
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  1195. I haven't read any sources about it. just my theory. it could be totally wrong. Just an idea
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  1196. Drink it straight from the cow and maybe!
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  1197. https://theconversation.com/do-vegan-diets-make-kids-shorter-and-weaker-162420#:~:text=Children%20on%20vegan%20diets%20had%20about%205%25%20lower%20bone%20mineral,higher%20the%20bone%20mineral%20density.
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  1198. Only the dinka tribe though. Rest of the country is short funny enough
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  1199. Yes I have heard. But only the ones living up in the mountains right? The city people are alot smaller?
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  1200. I put metric system in all my videos too. Majority of my viewers are from US or UK though so have to make sure they understand
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  1201. Hmm. very interesting. Did not know that. Maybe cause they were left alone up in the mountains there since the migrations to scandinavia very long ago
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  1202. They were the toughest norwegians who didn't put up with the kings bullshit. The best norwegians of the time. But still Norwegian. :)
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  1203. Haha yes could never forget Iceland. But Icelanders were at least 90% Norwegian anyway.
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  1204. This video is my best one speaking about that. I could do another soon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J047-atDFM4
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  1205. Those are the numbers I was expecting. Lots of stupid comments from others here about that but yours I am sure is the most accurate. Can you send some links of any studies that are online about that? I am having trouble finding good ones.
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  1206. Yes there were many. Leif Erikson was the most famous. They left because of trouble with the natives. I will make a video on that sometime soon.
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  1207. Yes did a couple videos about him and his story. Check out any of the bluetooth videos on my channel :)
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  1208. Lol you are not wrong.
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  1209. Ja velidig sant. Vi har mistet mye
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  1210. There were many big tradehubs. I think in the beginning of the viking age raiding was needed for resources but not so much in the later viking age. So you are right. The raids in the late viking age was more for revolt against the Holy Roman Empire
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  1211. Yesss
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  1212. I would pick Netherlands any day of the week. Beautiful free place!
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  1213. It was holy by that time. They became full christian in the 300s
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  1214. Norwegian living many years in US. (And a few other countries)
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  1215. There are lots. Germanic History......Tacitus, Germania is my favorite. If you check the "Community" tap on my page i have lots of book reviews and suggestions
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  1216. They are great and some of the best stories come from there. But they were almost all Norwegian, with a little bit of mixture from Irish women they brought with them.
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  1217. Icelandic vikings were the best! But they were all norwegian pretty much that brought a good number of irish women to Iceland. So a little bit mixed
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  1218. Only trade/archeological finds. Google "Viking Bhudda"
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  1219. It is going to be nice having you in the comments section. Someone knowledgeable and funny. Du er hjertelig velkommen!
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  1220. See my other video on that. Many sources say different things
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  1221. Already gone about 4 on that. Check out the channel :)
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  1222. The Battle of Svolder. My 2nd favorite ever :)
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  1223. I go over all of them in these videos. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2KZDmrbwT0&list=PLLEMEFW2WPATs-9ygm0MYUbcAkGn0yTbK&index=1&t=269s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3zIP4sWYjk&list=PLLEMEFW2WPATs-9ygm0MYUbcAkGn0yTbK&index=3&t=17s
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  1224. Haha yes you know! that is the big debate. Alot of the historians say he was full on christian and the pagan religion had been extinct for 200 years which is absolute garbage. On the other hand, some people even say Snorri was a "secret" pagan and used these texts to preserve the beliefs. I don't know if I believe that but I say for sure Snorris parents/grandparents may have been pagan and he definitely knew some others at the time that were. The old belifs had absolutely not dies out by his time.
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  1225. "Vera"... it is conjugated different ways though. Im not great with grammar
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  1226. Instagram is the best way to reach me for longer questions if you have that. We also have a discord called Hamingja Foundation if you want to reach out there
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  1227.  @CarlosESanchez10  Yea for sure. I think technology would have advanced even faster actually. But still kept ties to nature
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  1228. Just means see you next time :)
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  1229. Just living in California at the moment
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  1230. Living in Los Angeles at the moment
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  1231. Hehe nei. Trener kniv kombat ganske ofte. Men håper jeg aldri trenger det.
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  1232. Right now in Los Angeles yes
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  1233. Just one from the sources, but also can appear as a woman. They will show up in your dreams.
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  1234. Yes there were good ones. Earlier on in the viking age and later on it changed.
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  1235. Depends how much weaker lol
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  1236. Los angeles at the moment. Not able to travel back home for some time now
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  1237. Probably yes. The sword at the wedding is a Celtic thing right?
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  1238. Hmm. I did not know that. But sounds similar to some other mythologies. Do you have a link you can send where I can read more?
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  1239. Not really. There were many different kinds, all specialized in their own area. The ones in charge of this particular ceremony would have been the priest/Godi. Or something similar to a druid in much older times
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  1240. Amazing. Love learning about celtic things. i will take a look at that link. Thank you.
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  1241. Yes i have though about that. i think you are on to something there
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  1242. Yesssir. But I like to learn and get ideas from all pagan religions. Not just the norse
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  1243.  @mf8279  No shit archaeology contradicts the written sources. A ship like Ormen Langi(which carried 300 men) would be pretty difficult to drag on to land and bury. There's a million things like this that archaeologists can't seem to wrap their head around why they haven't found any. I read plenty of archaeology and speak about the finds all the time. I wish archaeologists had the same respect for written sources, but instead they dismiss any clear written records they don't agree with. This is not a good channel for you if you are one of those.
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  1244. Someone hasnt done any reading just like I said at the end. Just read a single saga(Olav Tryggvassons saga) and you will see there is evidence for all this.
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  1245. They had very little trees and still do. Good point though. It could have been oak specifically that they were bringing in
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  1246. Yes great place. No written records of it but I hope to go visit the site soon and check out the archaeological stuff
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  1247. Small tribes and kingdoms fighting each other for territory/resources very different from neighbors and family torturing each other because they had a different belief. Harlad fairhair(þjóðkonungr, not king of the whole Norway, only coastal regions) imposing high taxes on people is very different to later kings(Olav Tyrggvasson/Olav the Saint) traveling to every tiny village and slaughtering those who wanted free beliefs and governance. Very big differences and thats the changes I was talking about
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  1248. Sorry! I put them up now :)
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  1249. Tusen takk. Skal ta en titt!
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  1250. Yes living in the US for now
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  1251. Not a bear skin at least. Not yet, but I for sure will
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  1252. Hmmm. Possible. Dont know much about the celtic beliefs. Will have to read up on that.
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  1253. Yes. Like everywhere else :)
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  1254. No. Ive been thinking alot and odin is definitely related to it. But another diety is brahman. Could be odins father or grandfather. Not sure what I believe
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  1255. Done lots about that already. check the channel :)
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  1256. And the sad part is that we could end their tyranny and make them bankrupt in about 3 seconds if everyone just went on their phone and deleted their social media apps. Do it people! There are other free platforms out there.
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