Explore the Viking age, Norse culture and Germanic languages with a history buff and curious spirit.
My real name is Irina Manea, I'm a professional historian with a PhD in history (Viking Studies), as well as a history teacher currently based in Germany. I also hold lectures, write academic content and am always eager to learn and share about the fascinating Norse world, with no agenda.
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Write your questions here please! :D There was a question about the Thames seax, you can find the full object description here www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1857-0623-1
❤...Irina, this video is of maximum interest to me... as most of Your videos it needs to be listened and re-listened, as it contains highly valuable news for all who seek the TRUTH in this turmoil of offers of knowledge about the subject of the runes... personally I'm sticking to You... and ...Save Ancient Studies Alliance...as for me I'm concentration on "Elder Fuðark"... hope it's written right... and... Your English is most clear! Fantastic!
You never disappoint. NEVER. Thank you. The word incredible just doesn't do justice to you or your work. Truly amazing.
Thanks a lot, it means the world to me. This video has been underperforming, sadly. No idea why, changed the title and thumbnail like three times already :))
@@irinaskuld dont worry about things like that I dont have a huge audience either, but the ones watching are your loyal admirers, wanting to learn from you
I seriously thought I was going to love Hákarl, but in that sixth chew, the lye completely blindsided me, so I took the shot of Brennivín that I thought I would also love to clear my palate, and man, was that just as bad if not worse! I left thinking it was a partially a mean trick setup to be played on tourists. I'll eat their rye bread, puffin, and skyr all day tho'.
Nope, sticking to the pylsur. Last year I ate one every day, gonna do the same this year :)))) My 10% of non-vegetarianism.
my daily dosage of irina
keep up with the treatment :P
I love our Märchenkönig much more than our Biersaufkönig Maggus
in der Tat schwer zu sagen, wer nicht alle Tassen im Schrank hat :))
much more in the full video!
Nice joke you threw in.
which one? 😂
Its funny how it’s a total coincidence that iceland even exists, the island is just barely together, in a million years (not even) it will be split.
it's one of the youngest places on Earth yes
I advise watching with subs due to the high amount of names of gods and references 😊
Does not the gundestrup image look like a budda with the animals around him?
it does on the superficial level but the cultural context is definitely Celtic, the artistic patterns are widespread in the region
@irinaskuld yes, and do we know celts had no "buddas"/ whise men? A very interesting subject, I think. Perhaps the elephant in the room is the rather unknown old indoeuropean religion.
The Ai images give the impression of non-credibility.
Totally understood, however let's focus on the content :) I think the topic can allow some rubbish fantastic pics as filling, had no complaints from fellow participants in the conference.
Meh, you've got an imagination
I love your content I can learn a lot here
hope so :))
The proper term would be Norse not Viking as you would know, Vikingr basically meant raider or pirate in Old Norse. The Vikings wasn’t a set group of people or an ethnic group.
As already explained multiple times on this channel I use the term chronologically and geographically as it is still used in scholarship, besides the narrow sense of a profession.
And it is still catchier and works better with the yt algorhytm so rest assured, as a historian I know this basic stuff.
It’s always so interesting to me that icelandic is so close to old norse. Its like if sicilly still spoke latin or something, its certainly useful for etymologists as we dont need to reconstruct old norse. Lovely video as always!
The pronunciation differs mostly.
Never thought i’d say this but the nazi interpretation of the rune sounds the least farfetched lol
A big pile of rubbish is what they did, they f'cked up a great history topic we now have to pull out from under all the ideological layers.
@@irinaskuld thats for sure. They did that to everything, the St. Peter’s cross became a hate symbol, the manji is a hate symbol, and most of the runes are hate symbols because of them. Thwy were all fine before those dumbasses
Great content!
thanks you so much! 😍enjoy!
*A horrible chill goes down your spine*
Eh, it's not that bad but the plant is very invasive.
Check out the full video!❤
The first, mainly Danish, invasions of England were ultimately stopped by Alfred the Great and his castles. The Danes of 10th century would have been aware of this? Also, the castling culture in France was starting about this time, no? Also, they always seemed a bit odd to me, too large. Continental castles were purpusefully small. But these seem to maybe be part of the strategy of a mobilized ledung / army. Or maybe they were a royal bid to tap into trade? Maybe they were an attempt at prepared trading places and that is the reason for the 4 gates, their large size and flat surfaces. Another thing about Denmark, I foggily got the impression that the current Danish dynasty started with Tyra and Gorm. However, this dynasty was at the tail end of the chaos and the sea kings of the viking age. But I got the impression that there was a Danish dynasty and a unified Denmark of sorts before the Viking age as well. And that this "Denmark" was also a coastal trading power, also bragging of burning Dorestadt and of plundering the center location of the Swedes, a Vendel era Denmark as it were. But I am very hazy on this history.
Wouldn't really use the term castle for all of this before about 1000 since they were not administrative centres but only served defensive purposes. From the activity and recovered objects the Danish fortresses most likely served temporarily to fend off fellow Norse and they were also a big part of Harald's attempt to solidify power. The trading happened elsewhere. Alfred used hillforts, castle-building in central Europe is connected to the mess after the splitting of the Carolingian empire but they're not similar at all. It was Harald's little project as new king by its looks, and more than the petty leaders before him. Furthermore we don't know how much he actually controlled, in contrast to his bold statement of the runestone. As for the Danish monarchy...not sure, I'm guessing a distant relative but the genealogy is too much of a mess.
@@irinaskuld Thank you. OT part was more asking about the Danish state before Viking age.
Well there was none :))) The term Danes comes up a lot but that could mean other people as well.
@@irinaskuld There will have been political centres in Jutland, the Isles and Scania before the Viking age. That later aristocracies and storytelling count their heritage from and retell stories about. If it was not named Denmark and if it was not exactly the same geography as Denmark of the Middle Ages is not so important imho. It will still be a Danish state. From a Swedish perspective, the current political centre can be counted back to at least what came out of the disaster of 536, which probably created the political centre of old Uppsala. But for there to be a political centre based on the economic produce of Uppsalaslätten and Mälarbygden would go back to the Bronze Age. And the people that established Old Uppsala would be speaking a language derieved from those that lived there before, would have stories from that time, would derieve their identity of the states that came before. Inventing reasons not to call it Sweden is, well, why? If we compare with Iran and China, they are very different in many respects from the states that came before. But also similar, and also share identity, no matter that Persepolis was burned down by Alexander a long time ago.
We should not mistake the very modern concept of state with petty kingdoms and chieftaincies spread throughout the Nordic lands in and before the Viking age.
Great video. Thanks
there's a full version of it :D
@@irinaskuld awesome thank you. That was art work from Egils saga wasnt it? Well at least the saga I had used that as it'd cover pic. Thanks foe your vids they are always amazing
❤...Irina, this "short" is very good as an introduction... I would then pick up two or three single funds and show them from different points of view and comment them from the "iconographic" - English ? - and artistic point of view... make a " regular" video out of this!!!
I might do a full video on this after some further research :D thanks for the tip!
I don't know why youtube recommended this video, but as someone who likes the topic of ghosts and undead in general, I am glad
I also have a longer lecture if interested :) cheers!
Viking warriors are associated with horned helmets in popular culture, but there is no evidence that Viking helmets had horns. The depiction of these horned helmets as historical is a fallacy that began in the 1870s.
it's just for fun (pic made with Canva) since the topic was on smth paranormal, chill :))) I'm a historian myself not some amateur ;)
@@irinaskuld all the rest was really good stuff most of it was new to me
thanks
Reminds me of indra in tvasta's hall. He often drank somarasa with visnu(his friend). He went to boar hunting with him as well. Yamaraja vaisvanara(first man) is often mentioned as having a great hall as well. In many verses indra is seen drinking somarasa in tvasta's hall sometimes with maruts(his companions) and sometimes he doesnt allow somarasa particularly to the ashvins(the horse twins). Many times it is said that indra fights wars for his devotees(divodasa,kutsa, sudas,etc). But at the same time indra in rigveda 6.47.18,8.98.2,2.12.9 is seen as supreme god so i dont know
there are common elements for sure
@@irinaskuld From what I read there are a lot. Even the names are somewhat the same. Like Yama and Ymir(twins), þriði and Trita(third one), tuisto and tvasta(maybe the second one),etc. Also the similarity b/w manu svayambhu and Mannus is very intriguing. I mean all these gods have very similar roles. So it cannot be just "some common elements" when in fact there are a lot and this even after the centum satem split
My apologies, dear followers, if it's a bit too technical, it was an academic paper :(
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here we go
gonna end up writing a book :))
I've eaten it. It's yummy. But I also like Surstromming, so maybe I'm not the best judge.
:)))))) Brave man.
❤...thank You so much, Irina! In my opinion Your videos are BEAUTIFUL as well as hystorically and archaelogically grounded, and to me, that makes them AMAZING! Thank You for Your part in spreading the knowledge of Norse culture...
Ver much appreciated! Just wish I had more time to do what I really like :(
@@irinaskuld ❤...the thing I like at most is to lay on the bed watching the ceiling... this is great for leisure, to me, but it's unhealthy if done for too a long time:)
Waahh I love how musical Swedish sounds ^^
Me too. Though I like Danish as well and that is by far musical :)))
Imi place cum este explicat.
Ma bucur mult. 😍
@@irinaskuld Este foarte detaliat si clar.