Comments by "SonsOfLorgar" (@SonsOfLorgar) on "Timeline - World History Documentaries" channel.

  1. ​ @dutchboy9273  yes, I grew up on the island in question, and even today, it gets an average of 200-250 days of sunny weather per year. Summer daytime temperatures of 25°<35°C in the shade is common, and summer night time temperatures rarely drops below 20°C. The climate on Gotland is completely different from the rest of Sweden and more comparable to mediterranean sea climate.
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  2. Not at all. As long as it's been stored properly and checked by someone who knows what to look for, it's perfectly safe to fire a weapon of any age. People are still using 200yo rifled muskets for hunting without a hitch.
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  3. But most of that is due to a combination of regional geopolitical instability and technological progress in ship construction and food preservation. When the trading ships got big and fast enough to make the entire trip from St.Petersburg to Germany and Denmark without need to resupply, then Visby lost it's place as a trading and resupply hub, and the wealth of the northern silk road that used to pass through it, just passed it by instead.
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  4. Umm... no. Also, the Gotlandic militia were not serfs, they were free, land owning farmers who chose to die defending that freedom and their property rather than submit to a foreign king. There are plenty of ghost stories in the city, but none about the mass graves or the battle itself. The only one related to the invasion is the old story that claims that the daughter of a local merchant who became the Danish kings mistress and alledgedly betrayed the fact that the bog the local militia counted on as flank protection, had, in fact dried out that summer, and thus enabled the massacre of the first battle at Martebo. For that treason, she was alledgedly walled in alive in one of the waterside towers of the city wall once the Danish king had sailed away and is claimed to haunt that tower still with wailing cries in vain for her king and lover to return and free her...
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  5. Which isn't possible on a summer dry Gotland.
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  6. Probably came with the Danish vikings that occupied a significant part of pre-english Brittain.
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  7. Six weeks of training... For specialists... Damn, my conscript training as a radio specialist in 2003 was 10 months long, 1 month of which were just basic soldier and outdoorsman skills before the actual specialist training started as the privates started their basic training.
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  8. Wrong. New structures on most parts of Gotland requires a geophys radar scan at minimum before building permit is granted.
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  9. Cordite is love, hot, deflagrating love ;)
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  10. Sorry for your loss
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  11. I'm wondering why not use ropes when felling trees to put tension on the tree so that it falls in the direction you want it? Either one long rope between three trees in a V with the tree to be chopped at the bottom, tied to a tree in one end, through a pulley tied to the tree to be chopped as high as possible and through another pulley tied to the third tree, allowing for a counter weight or people pulling on the loose end.
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  12.  @marty9376  yeah, I visited Verdun, Vaux, Fort Douamont and the ossuary less than a month after my 300day conscript training was over. In february 2004, I was part of a well drilled battery control squad for three 12cm mortars firing dozens of 13kg airburst fuse shells a day 7.5km across a training field to targets someone else had measured in and observed. Three weeks later I stood and saw the countless white crosses and the belived impregnable forts, battered to less than the medieval church ruins in my childhood county, together with my father, a retired coastal artillery officer, my uncle, an airline pilot who started his flying career in a jet fighter, and my grandfather, retired printer and entrepreneur who had served as a staff officer's driver while ww2 raged on the other side of our borders. It was a highly emotional experience, one of sorrow, of frustration and existential contemplation.
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  13. ​​ @debbylou5729  umm... snipers get arty barrages irl...
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  14.  @TNAROHfan  wrong. That's not due to conscription, that's due to authoritarianism and ideological nationalist indoctrination. /a Swedish conscript graduated in 2004.
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  15. ​ @orchunter8388  lol! I wouldn't give the US neofascists that much credit just yet
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  16. Yes. Everything we use cars and motorbikes and tractors for were done by horses, oxen or people up until the mid 20th century.
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  17.  @alleycat2759  that would be the Roman men who compiled the bible...
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