Comments by "Magnús Örn" (@magnusorn7313) on "Overly Sarcastic Productions" channel.

  1. it was a shock finding out mayans still existed, i was reading about EZLN and just fucking blown away thinking about how mayans are still just existing, they never left or anything
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  2. normies get Saturn day scandi boys get pool day!!!
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  3. i see you have consumed anti communist propaganda, i think we should ban anti communist propaganda
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  4. hating on one is not supporting the other, this is like saying if you hate on biden for being a racist then you must support trump, like wtf, shut your ass up
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  5. religions and languages can predate civilization, even cities to a big degree
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  6. well yes, everyone wanted irish slaves, even the christians in england where raiding and selling irish slaves to the frisians
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  7. no
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  8. "It means shoring if anything" maybe it meant that originally, we dont know how much older the word itself is from the viking age, it could have been 500 or 1000 years old and words change, by the viking age it certainly did not mean what it meant originally even in the heroic age only a few centuries before it seems the word was already used differently
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  9. they totally could have double the length of the video or at least made a part 2
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  10. viva MAS viva Bolivia
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  11. they where just under threat from Christians and trade sanctioned by them and saw them slaughtering thousands of their pagan neighbors in england other than that no specific grudge against christians
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  12. no, the bible does not do so https://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/2001/PSCF9-01Schneider.html
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  13. its not loki, its actually the from the word for pool im not sure which scandinavian language you speak so i dont know which specific literation for saturday you use but it icelandic its "laugardagur" and in icelandic laug is still what we call a pool, in danish its "lørdag" and whilst lør is not used in danish now to mean pool it comes from the same source as laug
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  14. what information did he destroy?
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  15. no those whee also a thing christians in england even raided in ireland and sold irish slaves to the frisians
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  16. uh no since one of the oldest examples i know of the word comes from a swedish story from the heroic age where baltic vikings where hired to take back land and these vikings where full time sea pirates why would people who live in the baltic full time be connected to norway
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  17. except thats wrong, and thats from another icelander vik maybe have been where the word viking comes from, yes, but it is a very old word, at lest older than the heroic age so it had a lot of time to change, even from the heroic age to the viking age we see some small changes in how its used
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  18. ulfbert swords disagree
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  19. if you want an example of how christains liked to make themselves look good look only at this one example so northumbrians sold some irish slaves to frisians how do we know this? a christian monk wrote it why would a christian log they where a slave selling people? oh because he was complaining, about what? that they where selling slaves? was he opposed to it? no, he was complaining about those darn frisians for buying slaves, how despicable of them imagine being a human trafficker and being mad about it only at the stage pagans became involved, so much they where willing to chronicle their wrong doing thats how much of a bias was towards pagans
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  20. you could say all of the medieval age was late European iron age
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  21. is that an order?
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  22. 12 minute video
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  23. from what i recall (dont know the source and i dont want to go find it) multiple times danish (and maybe other norse) rulers apologized to continental powers for raids meaning they didnt have complete control over chieftains (or other people capable of) forming raids
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  24. yes, it is most certainly related in some way, we just dont know exactly how, because by the viking age we dont know how old the word is so it could have started as something completely different and changed to become what it was by the viking age but maybe it always meant raider without knowing more it hard to break down the word
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  25. in the heroic age only a few centuries before the viking age it seems the word did refer to a profession and the people who did it moral of the story: words change based on time and the people using it
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  26. so much wrong here with what you said
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  27. sharper than?
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  28. someone who does a viking is a vikingr the english translation of that word is viking i know, confusing since its spelled the same
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  29. "Vikings are actaully like a tribe" no, vikings where not A tribe they lived in a decentralized tribal society
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  30. kievan RUS?
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  31. "one of the core businesses of the Vikings was human trafficking" core? what source says that? also they werent the only one doing that at the time, even the monks themselves in england who scoffed at the vikings for slavery sold irish slaves to the frisians "the Vikings seldom were engaged in battles with enemy fleets" a ship can be good for navigation and traversing but not be a war vessel "were glorified troop transports rather than ships" what is your definition of a ship? this makes me think that whenever someone says robot you assume they mean battle bots " the Vikings never attempted to circumnavigate the globe in longships" should they have? they where business savvy not british adventures from the 18 hundreds they would have to first sail past the strait of Gibraltar and then they would have no clue what to do, which map would they follow? they dont even know about south america or china or even how far south africa continues what would they gain? nothing? "Native-American were able to kick the Vikings out of North America in short order" hard to not be overpowered when its 1000/1 especially considering how long the supply line was, and they werent kicked out that fast, carbon dating shows that lanse aux meadows was active for at least around 100 years and then there was greenland, still part of north america " anyone know why did the Vikings abandon their language, religion and culture in their military zones of occupation?" military zones? you mean places they conquered? ill tell you why, because it was the smart thing to do, consider this, you have to be Buddhist but you get to rule japan, you think someone is dumb for making their rule stable? "FYI the Norman dynasty in England lasted less than 100 years" how long did caesars family rule rome? "have had been major players in history for a long time now." rome has not been a major player for a long time, what is your point?
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  32. capitalism actaully does not incentivise innovation
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  33. same goes for Egypt, wheels dont work in sand
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  34. abolishing the state abolished capitalism as well, capitalism requires a state to prop it up
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  35. fish, eating fish gives you vitamins that they needed in that climate cod oil was essential because of the lack of sun
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  36. that sounds wrong
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  37. in old norse viking is a raid/voyage and the term for a person who goes on a viking is a vikingr the english translation for the word vikingr is viking
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  38. no, people would have been danes, jutes, swedes and goths
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  39. yes, and the english translation of the word vikingr is viking
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  40. vikingr was the associated noun but interestingly if you look only a few centuries back to the heroic era it appears viking was a noun because then it refereed to outlaw pirates in the baltic so yeah, language changes and also the english word for vikingr is viking, which means people can use the word viking as a noun
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  41. except not really, that assumes the word viking was created in the viking age, it wasnt
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  42. except in many cases the word was used for raiders and the action of raiding
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  43. the old norse word "viking" is a noun meaning raid, to go viking in old norse would be to go raiding, someone who raids would be referred to in old norse as a "vikingr" and the translation of vikingr in english is viking which causes confusion because its spelled the same way as the old norse word "viking"
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  44. which stone? havent heard of it so im doubting its authenticity
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  45. dovahkiin
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  46. they did it well everyone back then did it look at what war crimes popes and christian rulers where doing
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  47. apologist?
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  48. " is that it is a verb (to go a-viking)" yes but thats considering the old norse word "viking" the english word "viking" has a meaning closer to the old norse word "vikingr" "they probably did not call themselves Vikings, since it's a verb" but they did call each other "vikingr" and typically not in a good way, it insinuated they where a brute of sorts so in the written sagas its more of an insult, that also strictly contrasts the "free-man" hypothesis "they were very advanced in many fields, but people ignore it." which specific sources are you referring to? in history communities or people who i meet in denmark who are interested use the term to refer to all medieval scandinavians yet dont seem to have the impression they where all raiders, the more adept people i see use terms like norse, "old norse peoples" "north germanics" or just scandinavians in the viking age to describe them more accurately, but never have i met anyone who thought all of them raided maybe this is a thing found abroad and in specific subcultures im not part of i do sometimes find people who think vikings sucked but its less of a lack of focus on the impressive parts of north germanic society but that they just had a bias agianst vikings "they were the same people" well depending on the meaning of the word, consider that in the heroic age in one story of swedish royalty there a in hiding swedish royal hires vikings to help get his kingdom back it would be strange to differentiate that if they where just free men, but as described these vikings seemed more like pirates who where so full time this use is different from the use of the word in the viking age there are also claims that it was not only scandinavians who where vikings and i dont doubt that vikings would hire men to raid with them because thats just a smart business move to get more manpower but i dont put validity that baltic raiders could be labeled vikings, everyone had raiders but only norse ones where vikings or at least to my understanding of the word "they were the same people" again, not all scandinavians where raiders, this claim of yours only works if the meaning of the word was "free-men" which is doubtful at best
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