This is why my wife hates my funeral plans…

@dasarath5779

Ай бұрын

you dont want a slave tortured and sacrificed in your honour? damn... weirdo....

@mueezadam8438

26 күн бұрын

@@dasarath5779”uhh throw literal dirt over my body and mark it with a rock so that my enemies have a target to piss on”

@dasarath5779

26 күн бұрын

@@mueezadam8438 so trve! idk why my og comment is gone btw

Another Baltic empire vid let's fucking gooooo

The idea of a Scandinavian Vikings khanate is so cool.

The Baltic peoples also traded in amber. There was actually an Amber Road, roughly a series of north-south routes through Europe.

@balticempire7244

25 күн бұрын

I have a video on it

i find topics like this so interesting! keep it up!

@Ghiyath981

8 күн бұрын

Learn some real history and not modern cliché bs.

Thanks for the wonderful content 🙏 but let me point at a little Correction based on Ibn Fadlan resalah manuscript, which I have a copy in my hands that I can read from he says: they were "Blonde (hair) and Reddish (skin)".. Just an opinion: to my understanding and research the Arabs meant by the Rus is what we consider today as Vikings whether those who attacked Andalusia (Al Yaaqobi) in the west or those in the East all were Rus to the Arabs, like all European were Saqāliba even the Franks, the German and the Rus were Saqāliba. the Arabs didn't know the term Slavs they knew other distinctive ethnic groups like Wisu maybe they are the Finno-Baltic Vesps and other further West or to the North from Wisu the people Yura (probably from meaning the people of the Sea in baltic language). Can you please point out to me who said in the Arabic sources that the Rus were Turks?

That was a pretty intense funeral ritual.

@weyjosh5213

29 күн бұрын

super fcked up

@some1350

28 күн бұрын

He was probably lying about some of it.

@metanoian965

16 күн бұрын

@@some1350 he was probably not even he. like that monk, Nestor, maybe had contributors to that mystery history

@aleccope1320

4 күн бұрын

​@@some1350 he wasnt ive read the same passage and it was verbatim

@some1350

4 күн бұрын

@@aleccope1320 I don't mean the guy making the video, I mean the arab man watching the funeral.

Should be noted that the word Fadlan used was not the arabic word for "tattood", but that they were marked/painted.

Another excellent video! I appreciate the Rus warrior illustration that you made for this video.

No Wojaks, literally unwatchable… But actually this was a good video, nice work.

Amazing video as always

In museums in nordics countries there are countless arabic silver coins, there was trade but not raids with the Arabs.

My mother's parents were from Sweden. Morfar told me stories about our ancestors. "Rus" meant "red beards" and "rowers". Swedish Vikings went East through the Baltic into the river systems. "Belarus" and "Russia" became places they settled in. They continued their travels. They got to the Black Sea and the Middle East.

@SacredDreamer

Ай бұрын

🤔 the red haired are Thracian (origin) Sythian,, well known world wide as Mercenaries .. .. From the region (originally) close to Istanbul.

@somefuckstolemynick

Ай бұрын

It just meant "rowers". The Finnish name for us Swedes (Routsi) has the same origin.

@Based_Stuhlinger

Ай бұрын

​@@SacredDreamer Red hair comes from both Northwestern Europe and Asia.

@WILD__THINGS

27 күн бұрын

​@@Based_StuhlingerWhere in Asia?

@Based_Stuhlinger

27 күн бұрын

@@WILD__THINGS Central asia I believe, that's where the gene originated from.

RUSSIAN The name of the Slavs, Greeks and Arabs for the Swedish Vikings who founded Gardarike or Russia. The word ruser comes from rodhr, leidang fleet (especially such a fleet from Roden, i.e. Roslagen), and contains a syndetic s (cf. words such as "councillor", "Council"). The Finns called the Russians ruotsi. It is likely that the Russians established themselves on the Russian Baltic Sea coast already before Rurik's time, probably in the first half of the 8th century. Ruser chieftains besides Rurik were until the year 882 AD. Askvold and Dir in Kiev as well as in the 9th century Rogvolod in Polotsk near Dyna. After them, Gardarike's three provinces were built: Novgorod, Polotsk and Kiev. The name ruser still lived on into the 11th century.

Such a fascinating topic. The mightiest Slav nation and were it's princes Germanic? Were Catherine the Great and Paul III the status quo

So would that be the Wends?

An interesting video once more. Cheers!

It's probably fair to say the Rus were an amalgamation of all the people present in the area. Different cultures blending into eachother over decades and centuries, Skandinavians, Balts, Cumans and Tatars

@bestestindaworld

28 күн бұрын

Swedes

@shaunmathis2474

27 күн бұрын

Scythians

@AlexKomnenos

27 күн бұрын

The Scythians were long gone before the Rus came

@asmirann3636

26 күн бұрын

​@@bestestindaworld There were no Swedes that time.

@bestestindaworld

25 күн бұрын

@@asmirann3636 yes there were you ignorant fool, they were called Geats before being called Swedes.

Started nodding off which I rarely do with these videos until I realized you hypnotized me with Jeremy Soule.

very well done. ive commented similliar stuff on your other videos but as an estonian im fascinated by the evidence for finnic participation in rus' culture and state. do you have any good sources on this topic?

Rus in Eritrean Tigrinya means Rice 🍚

I have always asked for a viking funeral, but please leave the animals and the slave girl out of it unless you want me to haunt you. Besides that, sounds absolutely perfect.😅😊

got interested about the picture at 3:00. Would love to know the source for further looking into

@dasarath5779

Ай бұрын

does reverse image search bring anything up? looks vageuly slavic. im guessing also not a historically attested tapestry

Considering the practices of the vikingfuneral which is only common in scandinavia and asatro, Its pretty safe to say that the rus wasnt turkish. Turks never worshipped Oden.

In a historical video it's incorrect to use paintings of Hyperborea by Vsevolod Ivanov (19:25, 19:44), they are pure fantasy. Still a great video though

@zachofthebattery2864

Ай бұрын

bro its just a way of communicating the ideas hes talking about. It's not a museum display or anything it doesn't have to be a hundred percent accurate, not that that's even a thing that can exist considering how little we actually know.

@JaMeshuggah

Ай бұрын

Ackshually it's completely 1:1 with reality

@msflyth

29 күн бұрын

Looks like someone wasn’t allowed in.

@blyysm

10 күн бұрын

The primacy of 'fantasy' over the so-called reality (no such thing, consult the contemporary science) was the cardinal point of the ancient Viking mystical doctrine.

One thing needs to be stressed, Ibn Khordadbeh's account of the "Slavic origin" of the Rus' isn't that important because of the date of the said account, but because he specifies their affiliation based on ethnic origin, whereas Ibn Fadlan specifies their affiliation based on shared profession (he denotes the Bulgars as "Rus" too because of war profiteering and human trafficking), not to mention that his "description" of the "Varangian's leader's ship burial" is an irrefutable proof that the man/men in question weren't Rus/Rurikids because not a single Rurikid, both pagan and Christian, was laid to rest in a ship burial.

nice documentary

6:56 we've all been there right guys??

👑 👑 👑

So wait, did Scandinavian Odinists kill a slave girl at a Noble's funeral, or was that just the Rus?

@dasarath5779

Ай бұрын

current archeological evidence doesnt neccessarily prove the slave girl sacrifice among the scandinavians. it was def practices by the rus considering the literary evidence

@stehfreejesseah7893

29 күн бұрын

⁠@@dasarath5779Ya but the literary evidence is unreliable. Ibn Battu traveled in the 1300’s that would be way later then the Viking era. Plus authors of the time added much to make a good story. Kinda like Marco Polo.

Waaaait wait wait. I’ve watched this channel and the pirate channel for ages, I’ve just realised… are you the same guy??

They were scandinavians You read the greeks that went there Wrote the same

I'm kinda glad we don't do that anymore... Ships are expensive nowadays

@dustybricks113

Ай бұрын

Small funeral boats would be an awesome business and also great for the environment. 😊 If done correctly, the sunken half burned boats would sink in an area helping form a habitat for fish like the many tribes of the American northwest.

@dannydetonator

29 күн бұрын

Yeah, we could only afford a replica viking miniboat for my friend's funeral. Deperted from Riga and went trough the delta of Daugava to scatter the ashes in Baltic sea as he wanted. At night, so burned only the flames, not the boat. Magic and not too sad.

@funnygaming2672

26 күн бұрын

well back in the day we did not have to pay for wood you just kinda cut down a tree and make your own boat ...

I know that music 😉

So If Ibn Battuta traveled in the 1300’s wouldn’t that be way after the hight of the Viking era. Like 300 years late for that story?

@tylerdordon99

28 күн бұрын

It's Ibn Fadhlan. Ibn Battouta didn't travel to nothern europe.

The Vikings were also known as Sea Kings in the Black Sea, I forgot the spelling from the source, but translates to circa Sea Kings. irc

Vikings actually got to spain via river from rus to med

The russ sound like modern day crust punk train hoppers 😆. My old punk train hopping friends had similar customs when it cames to sex,hygiene and travel.

@ethanbard3067

28 күн бұрын

Yeah big on the “sexual” customs for train kids. A lot of rape

You say Finns at the start. But you have no sources indicating that ethno or finno culture was apart of this at large. Individual anacdotes does not count as Finno made 0 impact ethnically. Explain yourself please.

@balticempire7244

19 күн бұрын

no

They were taking from all over

Is there anywhere the Vikings didn't go?

@herrdrizzt9547

20 күн бұрын

Mars probably

@OptimisticOstrich-sd9nt

17 күн бұрын

Where the fuck they came in India,southeast Asia,Africa lol

Skyrim for the Nords!

If the Rus were proximate to Kiev, from before the Norse had expeditioned that far East, could they have possibly been of Pecheneg origin?

@CA-jz9bm

Ай бұрын

According to mytrueancestory most East Slavs today get 2-3 Viking ancestors. 0 Turkic. Unless they have close Turkic family members.

@oliwwer

25 күн бұрын

Rus is 100% Nordic and Slav only. History tends to repeat itself since Nordics and Slavs sit on the same branch of indo-european.

A Viking we will go is an act not a ethnicity 🍻

Evolution of Scythian and Amazon. Gog and Magog ? Is Turk a tongue or lifestyle. Anyhow I've come to accept the fact my relatives and neighbours became turks . To the Varangian mixed salad of mankind , your legacy lives on and as for me , Kyrie Eleison Me and thank you for everything. Blessings to all and sundry for the year ahead

Why hang on a word, they where childs of the baltic sea no genic

Interesting. A complex multicultural multiethnic culture is more difficult to understand than other ones.

They sold a lot of slaves to the Arabs. Maybe some of my Irish ancestors

@funnygaming2672

26 күн бұрын

why are you living in an arab country ...if not yours where not sell not your direct familly anyway

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf

26 күн бұрын

@@funnygaming2672 I`m not i live in Australia mate. I would never choose to live in a arab country. That`s my point some Irish were slaved there by vikings

@mueezadam8438

26 күн бұрын

@@waynemcauliffe-fv5yfIreland has endured so much, very stalwart peoples

@waynemcauliffe-fv5yf

26 күн бұрын

@@mueezadam8438 True mate. Tough people

!!!!!!!!!!!

The aliance was with the huns of east

through out these last 2000 years we know from all the history books who the "merchants" are.

for you who didn't get it yet, The Rus' is not "russia" (Muscovy )

@CA-jz9bm

Ай бұрын

Russian state is 500 years old but Rus are literally among ancestors of the Russians tho. Rus history is Russian history.

@longhairdontcare122

Ай бұрын

​@@CA-jz9bmrus history is a part of Russian history yes but Russian history is not a part of Rus except there interactions.

@CA-jz9bm

Ай бұрын

@@longhairdontcare122 literally ancestors of Russians are Rus. What are you talking about? We even have tons TONS of genetic evidence of it on mytruenacestry (site that compares modern dna to ancient) for example

@willbass2869

29 күн бұрын

Triggered reaction....no doubt

@bennygohome4576

27 күн бұрын

Strange hohol cope

Baltic Empire The name Rus and Russian come from the name of the deutsche province of Preußen.The Britons “COULD NOT” pronounce the name Preußen and therefore began to call the province Prussia.in order to know the past you don’t need to be a genius, it’s enough to be a decent person.stop falsifying the past

@Diversus100

27 күн бұрын

What the hell, Prussia is baltic not germanic

@tojamatokanava7778

26 күн бұрын

@@Diversus100 Sleep well and don't get a hangover

False

Pot stirring still