and in 200 years people will say: "did you know that in the olden days Printer ink used to be more valuable than gold?"

@Hobbyrepubliken

8 жыл бұрын

But that would actually be true.

@HunterRodrigez

8 жыл бұрын

Republiken well there is a difference between more valuable than gold and more expensive than gold

@Hobbyrepubliken

8 жыл бұрын

Some historians claim that the fall of the Ipadian Civilisation came because the elite grew distance from the poor. But no matter how much wealth they had they couldn't eat printer ink and thus where easy pickings for the revolutionaries to siege them out from their villas.

@HunterRodrigez

8 жыл бұрын

Republiken the revolutionaries poured printer ink over the elite thus branding them for live because that stuff takes ages to wash off

@Hobbyrepubliken

8 жыл бұрын

The era was known as the Printer Terror.

That Skall collab ... didn't think you knew each other

@DetectiveIncognito

8 жыл бұрын

I was shocked. I saw him walk on and had to take a step back.

@niickkg

8 жыл бұрын

+illyounotme yeh anyone subbed to one is probs subbed to the other, i know i am

@TheFoodnipple

8 жыл бұрын

Same here.

@CodexOfXol

8 жыл бұрын

+Sherruk I found both of them in the same day while going through video suggestions.

@MrKoiking1

8 жыл бұрын

+Iron Dawn Yeah the ancient history/hema youtube channels all seem to know each other.

That low fps on skallagrim

@kaliyuga1476

4 жыл бұрын

Eso es lo que le da el puntito

@alexeysaranchev6118

4 жыл бұрын

Lloyd: PC Skallagrim: console

@ButterGamesRoblox

3 жыл бұрын

It was the audio too lol

@funnygrunt_o7

2 жыл бұрын

s k y p e c:

Anything can become more valuable than gold if you don't have it and need it.

@pered5

7 жыл бұрын

Underrated comment

@MrArthoz

7 жыл бұрын

Funny that people said gold is valuable yet they still value gold based on paper money...which is nothing more than paper...which an accepted worth solely by general consensus.

@pered5

7 жыл бұрын

Used to be paper money was valued in gold actually; but I think they changed it because of the infrastructure you'd need to hold all the gold you need to in order to keep your money valuable; what with credit and banks being dicks and whatnot

@MrArthoz

7 жыл бұрын

pered5 Yes and similar like all paper money in history, it's all heading towards an inevitable crash---but that we could discuss on other youtube video that explain the issue. You might like to read about ancient china, japan, egypt and sumeria where they use grain as medium of payment. Maybe it's not true cash but the government during that era use a concept of yearly stipend where they pay an amount of grain (wheat, barley, rice) to government officials. Simpler times than our present monetary system that we are plagued with now.

@TheBasjenator

7 жыл бұрын

Actually, it's da joos hoo dunnit.

An Englishman argues with a Swede who lives in Canada without ever meeting him in person. What a time to be alive.

@thehankman100

8 жыл бұрын

I thought skall was German

@bilbobaggins5938

8 жыл бұрын

I thought Skallagrim was a German who went to Norway and then to Canada.

@EGRJ

8 жыл бұрын

***** Well, now I'm just confused.

@fidur2

8 жыл бұрын

Isn't Skall from Norway?

@dattebenforcer

8 жыл бұрын

Isn't he Dutch?

Next time someone says to me "You know, in the ancient world, salt was more valuable than gold?" I'll say "Yeah, that's why ancient coins were made of salt."

@soat7ch

8 жыл бұрын

I believe the fact that the coins would have dissolved in rain or the generally damp climate in Europe makes a valid counterargument

@davidhoffman6980

8 жыл бұрын

soat7ch If you can afford salt coins, you can afford a waterproof salt coin purse.

@Gilmaris

8 жыл бұрын

So today, paper is the most valuable thing there is.

@yvindblff5628

8 жыл бұрын

There's a difference between fiat money (which represents value held elsewhere, commonly gold) and hard money (made from actual value, commonly gold or silver).

@WiggaMachiavelli

8 жыл бұрын

There were ancient coins made out of salt. There just aren't any left.

Skallagrim, wow that was unexpected lol

@Jeffrey314159

7 жыл бұрын

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover "No one escapes the Spanish Inquisition"

@thebandofbastards4934

7 жыл бұрын

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover The pommel inquisition, heretic! Prepare to be ended rightly.

@Malusdarkblades11

7 жыл бұрын

my mind just blow up becourse i saw Skall and than again bec. somebodey used a monty python joke , i am in the right place here :D PS sry for the english i´m sill learning it ^^

@Malusdarkblades11

7 жыл бұрын

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover no why ? :D

@Malusdarkblades11

7 жыл бұрын

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover it's my second language . I'm from Germany :)

"Salt is more valuable than gold because the Mali Empire traded gold for salt" Because gold was *money.* That's like saying Walmart discount DVDs are more valuable then the US Dollar because you pay for them with cash

@MuhammadRafy

4 жыл бұрын

Aren't those dvds more expendive than a dollar?

@Otto_Von_Beansmarck

4 жыл бұрын

but where all the gold mines were people couldn't really get salt so it was probably more valuable to them

@davidkazira6060

4 жыл бұрын

The Mali empire had both salt and gold mines so no. Gold was still more Valuable. And it was currency.

@Great_Olaf5

2 жыл бұрын

@@davidkazira6060 I finally got an explanation for how that worked. The gold mines were in a tropical climate, they were basically impossible to operate without a lot of salt because salt helped the miners retain more water in the heat. Still probably wasn't healthy, but if you're sweating buckets, you need both lots of water and lots of salt. The salt was mostly on the north, the gold was mostly in the south, so the trade developed along those lines and just kept extending.

@thesecondsilvereich7828

3 ай бұрын

Mansa musa made gold worthless.

Lloyd and Skall in the same video? My wet dreams have come true.

@corbinfathandme

8 жыл бұрын

So have my hard ones...

@Camburger

8 жыл бұрын

I am astounded at how they produced this video. they appear to be at different frame rates and in different lighting environments. earned my thumbs up as soon as they exchanged the arrow

@valhar2000

8 жыл бұрын

They were in different environments with different lighting!

@Fridrik-

8 жыл бұрын

Your Salty Dreams ?

@AEB1066

8 жыл бұрын

I assumed the pale skin was due to Skall's vegetarian diet, but yes they were in different locations when filmed.

Never forget LindyBeige keeps a ray gun for people who interrupt him.

@oz_jones

6 жыл бұрын

Never forgetti, rest in spaghetti.

What IS more valuable than gold is printer ink.

@Jimpozcan

7 жыл бұрын

There are heaps of things more valuable than gold.

@ottopike737

7 жыл бұрын

+jimpozcaner not by economic standards.

@embolobolo4237

7 жыл бұрын

and crack cocaine..

@TrueHylianKnight

6 жыл бұрын

Useful vs valuable

@senneuh1

5 жыл бұрын

Only in mass, not in volume, and only because gold weighs a shitton and printer ink does not.

In the 16th or 17th century there was a Hungarian nobleman - the exact time and the guy's name escapes me right now - who was told that he can marry a particular lady if he will take her home on a horse-drawn sledge - in summer. He responded with purchasing the entire stock of the salt mines of Máramaros, Transylvania and covered the road with it between the two places. Then he actually took her on a sledge ride. Let's hope she was worth it...

@humbie1000

3 жыл бұрын

wasn't about marriage...was about empress Maria-Theresia coming to visit the duke of esterhazy at his palace in hungary and he wished to entertain her with a sledge ride in summer

@tolvajkergetok

3 жыл бұрын

@@humbie1000 Thanks. Details are still hazy. It took the entire annual production of the mines of Máramaros, I remember that.

@memr5690

2 жыл бұрын

Then he actually... What? What happened?

@memr5690

2 жыл бұрын

Ok he edited it, thanks

@vihreelinja4743

2 жыл бұрын

Pussy allways been expensive

The fact that you'd talk about salt in the ancient world, in great detail, is precisely why I like this channel. :D

@peterknutsen3070

8 жыл бұрын

Forests, torches, cloaks, more torches, yeah!

@Tiger74147

8 жыл бұрын

Preach

@yunofun

8 жыл бұрын

Exactly why I like this channel more as well. Sure something on weapons and armor is nice once in a while. But there is more to the ancient world than armies rampaging through the land...

Well, now we need an in depth ray gun overview.

@jony4real

8 жыл бұрын

A 50's ray gun no less.

@johnossendorf9979

7 жыл бұрын

Whoa .....That's deep!

@samuelbekele3601

6 жыл бұрын

Best anime fights

Honestly, the salt part is more interesting to me than weapons talks, I've heard enough about swords. Videos on how to set up a medieval economy are where it's at.

You cant make a pommel out of salt. so yeah gold is better.

@Johannes4233

7 жыл бұрын

Actually if you melt salt it becomes little bit like glass. So you could do it.

@poiuytrewq11422

7 жыл бұрын

Heretic But throwing it would cause it's destruction, therefore you could not recollect the pommel for rescrewing, and further throwing.

@SilentNinjaPtrs

7 жыл бұрын

Scrolled down the second I saw him to look for comments like this

@comradecameron3726

5 жыл бұрын

Altan Şirin gold is as malleable as play dough.

@horstherbert35

5 жыл бұрын

@@poiuytrewq11422 Clearly you've never seen a prince rupert's pommel

I laughed a bit to hard when skalgrim showed up

@Tallmios

8 жыл бұрын

+TheScottishPyro Now I need to clean my monitor from all the saliva I spat out. Thanks, Lindybeige.

@alfredmason-fayle6075

8 жыл бұрын

I couldn't tell if they were actually in the sape room, skallagrim looked slightly jankier and they never touched the same objects, if you pay attention to the arrows they always 'hand them over' out of shot

@nekonomi792

8 жыл бұрын

+alfred mason-fayle cleary skallagrim on a green screen. notice their lighting areqite different? especially appereant when they are waving swords, it reflect at different angle/spot + brigtness is also different

@olivia1954

8 жыл бұрын

+alfred mason-fayle and the audio yer there not in the same room.

@GerBarne

8 жыл бұрын

+Neko Nomi well yes, obviously he was on a green screen. It actually makes it more impressive in my opinion, think of the timing and the scripting! Really well done.

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE SKALLAGRIM IS THIS SHORT... ...or that he's got this low framerate irl.

@propanedaddy5577

8 жыл бұрын

I think Lindybeige is actually like 6'4'' or something

@DoomedLaggy

8 жыл бұрын

Met him a couple of weeks ago, he's much taller than you'd expect.

@sonkew826

8 жыл бұрын

i think there was a discussion on scholagladiatoria quite a while back just about that. thing is: both lloyd and matt are over six foot and skall is not; unlike in the drawing the discussion was about. he's not small, but he is compared to lloyd. sorry

@DoomedLaggy

8 жыл бұрын

I was talking about Lloyd, he's a giant of a man. Met him in Newcastle.

@ivar4677

8 жыл бұрын

Skallagrim is not short, Lindybeige is a giant

take the head off the arrow and throw it at him to end him rightly

@The_Assassin_of_The_Gray

7 жыл бұрын

Would that not be the nock of the arrow you are supposed to twist off, throw and end him rightly with?

@rasputin2750

7 жыл бұрын

anything that you can use to end him rightly

The video was very interesting lindy! Do not listen to skalagrim.

@wolfhunter98

5 жыл бұрын

Well he's dead now. Good old handy ray-gun.

Lindybeige is way more interesting to watch than Skallagrim. Talk about salt all you want.

@BlackSunRX2008

8 жыл бұрын

+Erduk I hope no one gets salty

@iatebambismom

8 жыл бұрын

+Erduk Much less stupid over-groomed facial topiary, too.

@Erduk

8 жыл бұрын

illyounotme Honestly, I just don't like Skallagrim. He's one of those "gender is a social construct" people.

@bardfinn

8 жыл бұрын

+Erduk You don't like anthropologists? Because Anthropology is where the notion that Gender Is A Social Construct originated. You don't like psychologists? Medical doctors? People who dedicate their life to academic studies? Or maybe you just are afraid of anything you weren't taught in third grade.

@samswann3727

8 жыл бұрын

+illyounotme I do love skalls videos and knowledge, however people can't have opinions on everythign, sometimes facts and data can only be argued by equally as good facts and data, gender is determined by either the X or Y chromosome found in human at birth, sex is what you identify as. Arguement over. Those are the definitions. However I do agree with you, every one can have opinions and just becuse a person disagress with me doesn't mean I dislike or disrespect him. I just think that for some people opinions overtake facts.

I was waiting for Matt to walk in at the very end

@peterknutsen3070

8 жыл бұрын

Matt who?

@TNTnor

8 жыл бұрын

The maker of the KZread-site "scholagladiatoria", very similar to Lindybeige and Skallagrim

@peterknutsen3070

8 жыл бұрын

Okay, thanks. I've actually seen one or two of his videos.

@Stigstigster

8 жыл бұрын

He wasn't really there. That was special effects.

@itsmederek1

8 жыл бұрын

wow, you ser do have a very keen eye. I went back and watched again and only then did i notice the signs of a greenscreen! well done.

Do we get a video on mint now?

@fizyk1101

7 жыл бұрын

I second that thought - I'd love to hear how Alexander the Great paid for his invasion in mint leaves :)

@davidwise2489

5 жыл бұрын

And why it's so valuable.

@davidwise2489

5 жыл бұрын

Tyler , did you NOT watch the whole video? 7:40-7:50. I am aware mint is a weedy plant, but that does not stop farmers from growing 100s of acres of it.

@SeattleScotty

5 жыл бұрын

@Tyler V I had the same thought - mint is one of the hardiest and more invasive plants, how could it be rare enough to have that much value? For what it's worth, I did a search and couldn't find any mention of him paying for the Invasion of India with mint leaves. This sounds even less believable than the salt factoid.

@firstraid2314

4 жыл бұрын

@Thicc Alien I rly suspect it was bait for seeing how many were dumb enought to google it.. as I did :D ahaushduashdu

So salt was perhaps more important, but not more valuable.

@smorrow

6 жыл бұрын

Yep, good ol' Water-Diamond Paradox.

More useful then gold. Can live without gold. Can't live without salt.

@user-qv9nj3sc5e

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I guess it's the difference between "valuable" as in useful and "valuable" as in expensive.

@WiggaMachiavelli

8 жыл бұрын

But if it's "valuable" as in "useful" then the claim was true not only in ancient times but also all down history at least until the advent of digital computing (though less so now than a few decades ago). Or perhaps being used as currency actually made gold more "useful" than salt anyway.

@jackporkins41

8 жыл бұрын

Your computer uses gold in the contacts, think about what you are saying. You can live with out your computer?

@jpavlvs

8 жыл бұрын

I grew up in the 50s and 60s without one, I could do without. I like reading books.

@BryanGorges

8 жыл бұрын

Gold isn't necessary for electrical contacts, it's just much better than many other alternatives.

Lindybeige drinking game: 1. Drink every time he says 'buy and large' 2. Drink every time he asks a rhetorical question or addresses the audience directly 3. Drink when he puts on his condescending stupid person voice and only stop when he does 4. Drink every time he mentions a place he has been 5. Drink every time he says something quintessentially British Love your videos man :) this one was the best one all month :)

@27dcx

8 жыл бұрын

+Harry Upton I got alcohol poisioning

@elenap15227

8 жыл бұрын

Almost 8 minutes of nonstop drinking. No time to breathe.

@JimGiant

8 жыл бұрын

+Harry Upton I would but alcohol costs more than platinum.

@headrockbeats

8 жыл бұрын

This game sounds incredibly deadly.

@pacman10182

8 жыл бұрын

are you trying to kill people?

The message is, a sci-fi devistation Ray will defeat any medieval sword

@BenjaminGoose

3 жыл бұрын

Rey*

@negativejam2188

3 жыл бұрын

BenjaminGoose I don’t remember what this comment was about. But I think I’m referring to like a raygun. In which case RAY is the correct spelling.

@paullyons5225

3 жыл бұрын

@@negativejam2188 I think he is referring to a rumor that there was a series of sci-fi movies with a main character named Rey.

@negativejam2188

3 жыл бұрын

paul lyons I don’t get how a reference to Star Wars makes sense here, but cool I suppose

@ThatsMrPencilneck2U

3 жыл бұрын

@@paullyons5225 It's only a rumor.

I am an olde timey alchemiste. I can produce salt simply by speaking to peasants.

@dirt420

6 жыл бұрын

fuck you dude do you think you're funny talking about peasants? eat shit.

@MrFlarespeed

5 жыл бұрын

Wow, a live demonstration. Neat.

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis

5 жыл бұрын

Do you have a philosopher's stone?

Bonus points for making Skal shorter than you. This being said I have no idea how tall he actually is.

@CaraDanaellea

8 жыл бұрын

Skall is shorter than Lloyd, because Lloyd is seriously tall

@TehCthulhu

8 жыл бұрын

I think I remember Lloyd being around 6'3", but Skal appears Scandinavian enough to be something equally monstrous.

@DizzySpark

8 жыл бұрын

but hes a vegetarian so unlikely.

@TehCthulhu

8 жыл бұрын

Fair enough.

@CaraDanaellea

8 жыл бұрын

What has that to do with anything? Skall is 1.76m and Lloyd is over 1.90m, so he's just taller than most.

Wait, does this mean there was actual scripting involved in a Lindybeige video‽ Preposterous!

@lindybeige

8 жыл бұрын

Not at my end.

@anthonycraig4699

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige I wanted to hear about salt some more.

@Zilap9

8 жыл бұрын

+Anthony Craig are you salty now?

@vaclav_fejt

8 жыл бұрын

Did you feel assalted?

@PeterBarnes2

8 жыл бұрын

***** Quiete.

So, you are saying that CS:GO is a goldmine?

@Roach32

7 жыл бұрын

Technically a salt mine

@neithon467

6 жыл бұрын

Pretty thoughtful comment bro

@guvyygvuhh298

5 жыл бұрын

Y4Y salt mine

@servedwidcringe2747

5 жыл бұрын

No its a salt mineeee

@randomalien7746

5 жыл бұрын

r/wooosh

It was actually making some sense until about halfway. Then a wild Skallagrim appeared. Now I'm salty. :(

You know in the olden days, timber was more valuable than diamond.

@hats1642

8 жыл бұрын

+g00dn4m3 You know in the olden days, rocks were more valuable than microprocessors.

@jonallegrand6525

8 жыл бұрын

+Joseph Bissett Really ?

@wesleycaine7832

8 жыл бұрын

+g00dn4m3 I suspect you could be right in a sense. If you imagine all the diamond trading in the world, and all the lumber trading, which one would be sold more? The wood, because it was used for so much, where as diamonds are pretty rocks...they...um...look nice? The fact is wood was more usefull, there was a larger market for it and therefore the total profit would probably of been higher. On another note, I think the current price of diamond is only so high because of a monopoly on their mining and refining. Not exactly sure of this, but it would seem a tad odd that a formation of one of the most common elements on the planet is so rare. In conclusion, usefullness > pretty rock.

@lednybeeg3474

8 жыл бұрын

+g00dn4m3 but nothen vill evar b as vauble as stuffing teh french

@NavidIsANoob

8 жыл бұрын

The diamond sector is locked in a controlled demand. In reality they're not as valuable and rare as they're made out to be.

you should have pulled out a KATANA !! they can cut through the sun,you know

@OrchidAlloy

8 жыл бұрын

And, according to Homestuck, through a meteor.

@psyko2666

8 жыл бұрын

+derfloh93 lol

@lilmichaeltaylor546

8 жыл бұрын

How would he be able to end him rightly? Didn't think of that did you?

@rmsgrey

8 жыл бұрын

Or a Buster Sword to reduce his "bigger is better" argument to absurdity.

@gonzaloayalaibarre

8 жыл бұрын

The sun? More like through a neutron star amirite?

So salt was valuable in the same sense petroleum is valuable now. It might be the "black gold" but diesel is cheaper than bottled water.

@Jimpozcan

7 жыл бұрын

Drink tap water (don't drink diesel).

@ottopike737

7 жыл бұрын

yeah, but you can't injest water. So the salt analogy clearly doesn't work.

@ludditeneaderthal

7 жыл бұрын

not in florida... diesel costs 2.5 x water per gallon, and the water is supplied with a container. "loose" filtered water from a machine is about 1/10 the price of diesel (bring your own jug). in "bottled water", you pay mostly for that convenient packaging, not the commodity itself. compare that same water to liter jugs of "synthetic blend" motor oil... bargain goes to water, lol. compare it to 3 oz cans of lighter fuel, only skews it more towards water as "regalo". 2.50 gallon for diesel, roughly a buck for generic water by the gallon, in either gallon jugs or half liter flats of 24 bottles (which go for about 3 bucks for no name). motor oil is, cheapest variety, roughly 3 bucks a liter (2.50 if you buy 5 liter jugs). take out the taxes, the diesel costs about the same as "decent" water in jugs ("offroad diesel" is about 1.50 a gallon)

@sexmchne

7 жыл бұрын

Mmm black gold. I fuken love coke a cola too 😝😂

@joonahelin2091

6 жыл бұрын

Practical value is the word you're looking for

I'm so salty

@oddfellow8186

6 жыл бұрын

You certainly get around this website, god damn.

@ismkiv588

4 жыл бұрын

How did you even get here ouo

@siyacer

3 жыл бұрын

Weenie

@gabrielandradeferraz386

3 жыл бұрын

how precious

that was fucking great, nice cameo, but the vids are good no matter what they are about

@buca117

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah. I don't care about half the things he talks about beforehand but I come back because he's both entertaining and educational.

A ray gun? Should've used a pommel and ended him wrongly...

@s.rolphsen174

8 жыл бұрын

That's going to be Skall's counter. A pommel from the grave will still end your opponent rightly.

@livedandletdie

8 жыл бұрын

It's what happened next, Skall waited in his death til Lindy had uploaded the video until he unscrewed his pommel and ended Lindy rightly.

@josiahmann5605

8 жыл бұрын

If lindeybeige pommeled Skally that would have been one of the top 10 most amusing things on youtube. :-) I hope it appears in their next disagreement. :-)

@jodawgsup

8 жыл бұрын

What was their first disagreement?

@marcelogonzalez8547

8 жыл бұрын

The pommel would had been overkill.

This guy has the dopest sweaters.

@icy_weiner

7 жыл бұрын

Also, Skallagrim should do more ASMR...

Hey I give a crap about salt.

@alexeysaranchev6118

4 жыл бұрын

And farmers give a crap about crap as well.

I'd much rather hear about salt than "half-arrowing". At least one of them exists. Also, it seems Skal is heavily exaggerating his screen persona- for comic effect?

@apugalypse_now

8 жыл бұрын

He's always been a cringelord. This isn't new.

@dariuso2657

8 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the reason is that this was done for comedic purposes?

@darnokthemage170

8 жыл бұрын

+Darius P what! That cant be true! LIES AND PIES!

@dariuso2657

8 жыл бұрын

Konrad Eklund Yeah, I just made it up. It's all probably true, especially the laser part. RIP Skallagrim whatever - 2016

@crusherven

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I read it as Skal parodying a subset of the audience as well.

If salt was more valuable than gold we'd all be harvesting League of Legends players.

@winstonchurchill624

6 жыл бұрын

memmett9 or KZread commenters. The comment section is basically a salt mine.

RIP Skallagrim. Damn, I was just getting into that channel.

i love your videos and skall's. This unexpected collaboration is a wonderful gift. Thanks to both of you. Great synchronisation on the acting part by the way (i guess this is thanks to skall, i dont think you would do the whole presentation and then risk to miss the timing)

Wow he's so small.

@FartMaster69

8 жыл бұрын

and bright and low-frame-ratey

@WightKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+FartMaster69 Nah, Lloyd is 6 foot 3 XD

@JustGrowingUp84

8 жыл бұрын

+FartMaster69 I bet that's how Skall actually is in real life, but we don't see that on his videos because he edits it out... ; D

@ieuanhunt552

8 жыл бұрын

+FartMaster69 No Loyd is just tall

@WakarimasenKa

8 жыл бұрын

+FartMaster69 and just a bit transparent

Is Lindy an English a giant, or Skul a dwarf?

@HimslGames

8 жыл бұрын

lol lindy is better at editing

@yojasmagic

8 жыл бұрын

+GameSquid And he's actually darn tall, too. I remember him saying something about that in one of his other videos.

@CJTheReal

8 жыл бұрын

Yes

@WightKnight

8 жыл бұрын

+wesleyfilms Lindy is about 6 foot 3, so I would say the heights are spot on

@J_Squatch

8 жыл бұрын

I believe Lloyd is about 6feet tall (2 meters for the rest of the planet) and Skall is probably 6 to 8 inches shorter than that.

Loved that video. Keep them coming. All your videos are very very interesting. Thanks for them all.

I always find your videos so fascinating Lloyd, thank you for making them!

A wild Skalagrim appeared.

Talk about whatever you want Lindy, screw that guy.

@caelodevorago608

8 жыл бұрын

Hey! Skal is awesome just like him :3 It's clear they were joking

@dattebenforcer

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah it was a jab at those of us who complain about his non-weapon vids. lol

@caelodevorago608

8 жыл бұрын

***** I love his historical videos, he is my second favorite person teaching me history :3 (First was my actual history teacher. Shorts, sandles, and t-shirts, with long blonde hair and a scruffy beard... And yet not the kind of person you're thinking of :3)

@fuckoffwiththehandles

8 жыл бұрын

"those of us who complain about his non-weapon vids" There are people like that? The majority of lindy's content, and most of his best content, has notthing to do with any specific weapon.

@LeavingGoose046

8 жыл бұрын

Apache The way I found him was through a non-weapon vid

Great stuff guys thanks for the surprise comedy interlude. Nice to see you guys are actually buddies

!Skallagrim! I love your videos in general, but this is a treat to discover.

Your evaluation of salt makes the assumption that the World's entire population lives near a body of salt water, or on a trade route used by those who do. Not true. As you pointed out, salt was way more important than just a seasoning; for those living on or near a subsistence level (away from an ocean), salt had real value and gold was just a pretty rock.

@lindybeige

8 жыл бұрын

+Siesta Time Yes, but to move anything takes transport. It is as expensive to move a ton of salt as a ton of gold. Almost everyone in the ancient and medieval world of Europe and Britain lived within a few days' journey of the sea. Getting hold of the salt in the first place is a LOT easier than the gold, and gold has to be moved too, and most people lived a long way from a good source of gold.

@mrpartysack6540

8 жыл бұрын

+Siesta Time It's not like everyone in the medieval world was spread out all across the landscape like we are today. Almost everyone in Europe at the time much preferred to live pretty close to the sea, rather than in the middle of nowhere. People really stuck together then. Gold may only have one purpose (to be valuable) but it does it well, it is valuable and used as currency for a reason, if salt were far more valuable then they would use it as currency rather than gold. Salt is as easy to get as taking a bucket of salt water, leaving it in the sun for a few days, then scooping it up. Mining gold in the medieval world was really hard, gold is already really rare but back then it was even more rare and hard to find because their technology wasn't as good, obviously. Also gold is very dense and heavy, so it really took a lot more effort to move than salt. Remember value isn't determined by usefulness, but by how difficult it is to get.

@AdSd100

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige only if people would think about it for a moment. How wonderful the world would have been.

@doomsdoor

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige pound for pound, salt has a much bigger volume then gold. Fragile when crystalline, blows away with wind if powder, and easily dissolved by water and contaminated

@siestatime4638

8 жыл бұрын

Lindybeige I suspect that moving a ton of salt was even more expensive than a ton of gold (volume/mass), but, after moving that ton of gold, what you had was a pretty rock that you could use to buy necessities, like, say, salt. To those without salt and gold, the salt had more worth. Gold's worth is as a medium of exchange - you need to be able to "accumulate wealth" to require an exchange medium. If you kept your exchange in something with an intrinsic worth, say rice, you would lose about 10% per annum to rats and rot; gold is much more storable. Gold was important only to to those who we now call "the 1%" - those who can afford to accumulate wealth; to the 90%+ living pretty much hand to mouth, the caloric value of gold is nil, but we all need salt.

Lindybeige, that either took multiple shoots or you are incredibly talented. (Or finally started scripting) either way great effects, i love your videos and am quite a fan of Skallagrims as well. Don't give up on these "pointless" rants. Simply because something isn't as popular doesn't mean it isn't interesting.

I loved the post production addition of Skallagrim, very convincing! You've earned a new subscriber here!

I was quite enjoying Lloyd talking about salt actually 😂

@tyree9055

3 жыл бұрын

I got mesmerized by his ray gun. It seems to have secondary properties! 😅

Is skall dead?

@lindybeige

8 жыл бұрын

+Gatis Gavars I think so. I was very thorough.

@simasgx

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige You didn't throw a pommel at him, end him rightly. How savage you are.

@jasondoe2596

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige xD

@legso21

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige i actually lold

@TheKiingkiller

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige what brand is that, every time i try to disintegrate someone i end up with dust all over the place.

Skall's sword might be a bit shorter, but at least it has more girth!

I've been watching you for years and I've never got him across this video of yours until just now. Not much gets me to laugh in the morning and this definitely did. You two made my day

I like how short Skall looks. I just noticed that this video is from 2 years ago XD

what.... the hell is skall doing in this video?

@Jakers457

8 жыл бұрын

The golden trio. Lindybiege, Skallagrim and... scholar gladiatora. I'm fudging the spelling and the names, but you know

@TheSteelEcho666

8 жыл бұрын

+Merliginary Being disintegrated, it would seem.

@MerlijnDingemanse

8 жыл бұрын

well, that is what you get when your greatsword doesnt have an unscrewable pommel

@Rallarberg

8 жыл бұрын

+Merliginary KZreadrs promoting eachother, common practice. Betting Mr. Lloyd here will pop up in a Skallagrim video soon as well, if he hasn't already. Did it work here, not so sure.

@wyattroncin941

8 жыл бұрын

+Merliginary yep. should have ended him rightly.

the korean word for salt 소금 so-geum literally means "small gold" ^_^

@lindybeige

8 жыл бұрын

+squigoo Nice nugget if information!

@27dcx

8 жыл бұрын

+squigoo Funny how it kind of sounds like "sodium" too

@Damnagoras1

8 жыл бұрын

+squigoo Sounds a lot like sodium... As in sodium chloride o_O

@Greyghostvol1

8 жыл бұрын

+Lindybeige That darn auto-correct, eh?

@baartenkaas

8 жыл бұрын

+Greyghostvol1 I doubt he even has a smartphone, i is next to o.

I love both your channels! Quite entertaining!

Love it! Skallagrim? Did not know you two had connections. Nice!

Great video, I loved the interchange with Skallgrim!

Salt vs Spandau?

I actually like it when you cover obscure historical issues like this. It was also fun to see you cap Skal with a phaser.

ha ha! Excellent video guys! I was totally caught off guard by the appearance but if skallagrim!

Great crossover guys,never expected that kind twist in a LB video!!

Oh, wow. I wasn't expecting to see Skall here. Pleasant surprise!

Kudos for your freshly minted facts on the (ancient) value of mint. Very refreshing!

I really liked all the information about salt, thanks Lindybeige! :)

I suspect I know where this myth came from - a lot of Slavic cultures have fairly old fairy tales about something like this. The general plot synopsis goes something like: a king had three daughters and told them to give him present to find out which one loves him most. Two older give him some bling, the youngest gives him salt, he is of course angry at the salt princess and exiles her. Then by one magic or another (I heard of fairy godmothers, the devil, saint Peter, you name it), all the salt in the kingdom turns to gold. Shenanigans ensue as king tries to bypass the curse, but all ultimately fail (imported salt turning to gold at the borders, etc). A king is ultimately humbled and sees the true value of salt, takes back the youngest princess etc etc. The original point of these fairy tales is, I'd think, that while gold is nice, you can do without it, but you can't do without salt, therefore value the things you can't do without in life more than luxury. And then someone doesn't use that brain thingy and takes it as a historical fact and people quote him, because giggling at how quaint people were back then is so in style this season...

@grmmmmhpph

8 жыл бұрын

Fairytales tend to fall over when you apply logic. *All* the salt turns to gold? Including the salt inside the human body? Tricky...

@lemons1559

Жыл бұрын

@@grmmmmhpph Fairy tales aren't about realism but about telling a message.

the video was actually really interesting up to the point were the other dude showed up.. -.-

@vitoc8454

8 жыл бұрын

"The other dude" is Skallagrim, another great historical weapons and martial arts KZreadr. Check him out, his vids are interesting and funny at times.

@misterkefir

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, i know, so? ;)

@Alsadius

8 жыл бұрын

I don't care who he was, he made the middle third of the video boring and stupid.

@psykopanda11

6 жыл бұрын

Damn skallagrim to hell i hope the divines deal him Swift justice!

I liked this video, I was worried you would not finish talking about salt for a second, but i was happy to see it to the end.

That was the best and most hilarious KZread cameo I've seen in a while.

I'm expecting a video on Skallagrim's Channel with Lindybeige now.

it looks like whats his name is at a lower framerate then lloyd

@elenap15227

8 жыл бұрын

But a better resolution

@headrockbeats

8 жыл бұрын

+Elena PINEDA Do you suppose there is such a thing as "low resolution inferiority complex"? :D

@elenap15227

8 жыл бұрын

+Headrock Oooooooooooooooh! Burn!

@double_anarchy

8 жыл бұрын

Host privilege lol.

@bootsontheground4913

8 жыл бұрын

Skallagrim

Loved the skallagrim team up, u kive history youtube channels and their community!

I don't know how I found your videos but I'm glad I did. you have a touch of house m.d. a smidgen of crazy professor and a dash of lunitic. and of course brains. keep up the awesome content.

R.I.P. Skall. He was a big guy.

@Dragon.7722

8 жыл бұрын

+George Wittelsbach-Lorraine-Mclarion-Hoopy For you!

Lindy should have pulled out a katana.

@sircalculus1448

8 жыл бұрын

Heh they both would just look at it and throw it away then continue to argument.

@Tectonix26

8 жыл бұрын

Oh man I'd have paid to see that...

@DogsaladSalad

8 жыл бұрын

RACIST!

@mavenYGO

8 жыл бұрын

He's not a weeb

@PaulA-fp3vs

8 жыл бұрын

Thats just unfair. An overkill.

I know this is an old video, but thanks for doing a vid on the economics etc of salt. I've enjoyed immensly.

@Animations-tb5nj

4 жыл бұрын

Hi I'm here too and agree.

that's the best collaboration video i have seen in a while

Just to say, I do like the "medieval life" videos that you make. Other people can cover weapons, not many cover the "more boring" stuff, even though I think it's perfectly fascinating as well.

Very well made video! :D Cheers to Skallagrim!

I bloody love this channel!

Hahah!!! Wasn’t expecting the skallagrim plug!! Nice!!!

Noooo, Skallagrim! I want to hear more about salt! Salt is really cool! I love learning the historic context of this wonderful mineral!

am I the only one curious of what Lloyd does for a living?

@beelzibubbles

8 жыл бұрын

Believe it or not, dance teacher.

@zpacula

8 жыл бұрын

I'm waiting for Lindybeige / Tex Murphy crossover

@sirlagged

8 жыл бұрын

I believe Mr. Lloyd is a very respected accountant.

@mw2mw3rhett

8 жыл бұрын

So basically we have no idea what he does then...

@jony4real

8 жыл бұрын

Uh... gentleman?

Actually, I found this video very engaging because I was literally having a discussion about this with my girlfriend a few days ago. Keep up the good videos, you earned a subscriber :)

@Lucky_16

6 жыл бұрын

Also the thing with Skallagrim was awesome

when Skallagrim appeared! That was some sick editing. It looks like he is there and you have a debate. GREAT video!

No need to use a ray gun, you could have simply thrown your pommel at him.

Didn't the Romans salt on fields to make them infertile? Wouldn't do that with gold would you? I found this inSALTing.

@BaddeJimme

8 жыл бұрын

They only did that symbolically though. Salt was still far too expensive to render large tracts of land unfarmable.

@peterknutsen3070

8 жыл бұрын

+BaddeJimme How much salt would actually be required per hectare? And for how many decades or centuries would the effect last?

@Subjekt3

8 жыл бұрын

Peter K. Not long I guess... Just that for a couple of years would be enough to starve the owners or more likely drive them away. But I wouldn't now how much salt that would take but as BaddeJimme pointed out it was likely just an symbolical display of might and wealth to their enemys.

@KuK137

8 жыл бұрын

Also, large tracts of land were expensive commodity, too. It made little sense to destroy both.

@peterknutsen3070

8 жыл бұрын

If those large tracts of land were far from Rome, and the population was too obstinate to submit to empire, the Romans might well have decided on an indirect genocide.

Brilliant video; I had no idea there was in the middle of this .. *gobsmacked*. But the salt discussion was as spiffy as ever!

That bit with the arrow passing between you made me take a double take and rewind to see where you actually pulled off the effect 😂

i really like this detailed medieval life stuff.

*A WILD SKALL HAS APPEARED*

I guess I can cross that off the bucket list, seeing you two together. :)

That was a pretty interesting interruption but well handled by lindy