Norwegian film-maker and volunteer helping Ukraine
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2024
- Norwegian film-maker and volunteer Harald Omland explains why he is so committed to helping Ukrainians in their current hour of need and making a film about the historical connections between Kyivan Rus and today's Scandanavian country's 1000 years ago.
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Thank you for the commitment to the Ukrainian cause! 👏👏✌️✌️✌️💙💛
Thank you very much for this interesting interview.
❤ Thank you so much ❤
Slava Ukraini 💙 💛
So interesting! Would love to see your movie!
Слава Україні! fra Norge. 🇺🇦🫶🇳🇴
I so look forward to your documentary and hope it will be promoted in the states as well. The average American is woefully uneducated in Ukraine's rich history! Yale's Tim Snyder offered the only course taught in the states on Ukrainian history, incredible as that may sound. When the invasion began he put his course online free of charge and millions signed on. Your documentary is much needed!
Very interesting interview, thank you, look forward to its release! 👍🏻🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧
Of course, I have read the story about our early King and dynasty founder Harald III Sigurdsson Hardråde, one of the four or five most important Norwegian kings in history. Therefore it will be very interesting to see a documentary film like this. Looking forward to watch it, when it is released. Good luck with the production, and greetings from Norway!
What a thrilling and exciting interview. I knew nothing of this. Wonderful. Good luck
Sveriges Television kan nog vara intresserade. Jag som Svensk hade gärna velat se detta bli av, om inte annat så för att visa Putin att han har fel.
Thank you for this interview! I would love to see a documentary about this subject. Best of luck in making it happen!
Curiosity; Haralds half brother Olav also traveled to Kiev before the battle at Stiklestad where he married another of Jaroslavs daughters (She of course had a very short marriage since Olav died at Stiklestad). Both Harald and Olav were familiar with the Kyivian nobelties, they visited and lived in Kyiv for short periods several times in their lives.
Best of luck with your documentary... I can't wait to see it!
Soviet historians downplayed the Vikings as this interfered with the idea of Russians as being the "originals".
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Pam {Tom's wife}
I sounds like the perfect Netflix project! It sounds fantastic. I'm an American very interested in history and know all about the Kievan Rus and Yaroslavl the Wise! I would love to see this made into a series. We really need to push back on the crazy Putinization of the history because nothing about his version is true! While the Kievy Rus were running a great society or as your guest said, an Empire, Moscow was a backwater Duchy beholden to the Golden Horde.
Well, originally Muscovy was a (very) minor territory ruled by a minor noble (Possibly a Lordship, but definitely nothing as grand as a Duchy, although its ruler self-promoted himself to that over time), that paid tribute to the Kyivan Rus, as they held together an empire stretching from the Black Sea to the Arctic Ocean, each section of which was governed locally by a Lord, Baron, Earl or Duke and was required to come to the aid of the others whenever the Horde from the east attacked - right up until this minor noble of Muscovy switched sides to that of the Horde, driving a wedge into that vast empire of Kyivan Rus and separating the southern part from the northern, and blocking the trading route from Southern and Central Europe and the Byzantine Empire to the Nordic states. By a process of demanding increasing duties and tariffs to be paid on all trade on this route, and with a lot of assistance from the Horde, the Muscovites enriched themselves considerably, allowing the career progression up through Barons, Earls, Dukes, Princes and Kings to, eventually Tsars (all entirely by self-promotion). To gain respectability among the European nobility and eventually, royalty, the tsars re-styled themselves as Russians, a name stolen from the Kyivan Rus, during the reign of Peter the otherwise inconsequential.
So even their name is stolen, as is pretty much everything else they claim as their own. They forgot to steal civilisation somewhere along the way, so not much has changed.
🇺🇦Slava Ukraini!🇺🇦🇬🇧
Good reporting. Thank you. Great information. Strong Ukraine.
Putin now has to change his underwear several times a day.
Thank you for sharing the connection between Ukraine and Norway. This added more information on the Viking heritage than Timothy Snyder's lectures at Yale. Shared this interview with my friends on Facebook! Love from Oslo 💙💛
Slava Ukraini!
Great Video, if some of the few good things that come out of this awful war, I hope Harald's film project is one of them, thanks for sharing
Thanks to KP for this excellent interview. The heritage between ancient Kyivian Rus and the Rurikides are much biggér than many thinks. Of course at that time whether Ukraine nor Norway exists as a modern state.
Earlier than you think:
Norway has been unified as a Kingdom since the Viking Age (late 800s), and so was the first Nordic kingdom to be unified as a country. The sagas tells us that it was King Harald Fairhair (865-933) who unified Norway as a single kingdom. The Norwegian national unification started on Vestlandet (the west coast region of Norway), then expanded to include Trøndelag and Nordland (middle and north regions of Norway), and finally also Østlandet (eastern region of Norway). The unification started in the later part of the 9th century (ca 865-872), and ended during before the end of 11th century. The oldest known Norwegian flag, golden lion on red background, was used on ships and fortresses from 1318, and the first Norwegian coin known, One Penning, accredited to King Olav Tryggvason, who coined them ca year 1000. If we look back, perhaps it is no longer considered a "modern state" - to us, anno 2024 - but it was modern, just as its technology, as an advanced maritime culture of its time. Our country name inherited, stilll today: Norvegr (N.Norwegian: Noreg, B.Norwegian: Norge, English: Norway, eytmology: "The Way (sail route) North").
Yes, we have indeed been unified AND prevailed as a kingdom since the Viking Age, and Norvegr has modernized and evolved - but kept our heritage core - even through Black Death and Nordic unions.
The Royal Court of Norway presents the full royal line through 1100+ years, from King Harald I Fairhair of the Viking Age to King Harald V of today:
www.kongehuset.no/artikkel.html?tid=27626
@@norsenomad Thank you for you answer. I did not know about such details.
@@wernertognetti5956 You're welcome. I can relate - having almost 200 countries on our planet, it would require a lot of study to learn every detail about them all. Cheers from Norway! 🇸🇯
@@norsenomadThanks for your replica. My big interest for Ukraine began on late 2013, when Majdan began. Of course I've read about the connections with the Vikings. But I didn't knew that Vikings played so a big role in European history. As a Western-/Central-European our historicel ties are more connected with France, Italy, Austria and of course with Germany.
I have to learn more about nordic history. It is never too late.
Greetings from the Alps... czcams.com/video/12N65OaGyBo/video.htmlsi=LdHmtcKHjnCevs92
@norsenomad: Thanks for your replica. My big interest for Ukraine began in late 2013 with EuroMajdan. Since then I know about the historical relations between the Kyivian Rus and the Rurikides/Vikings.
Your resume about your Norwegian history gives me the incentive to read more about it. Greetings from the Alps...
czcams.com/video/dYZcv2amq4Y/video.htmlsi=fUeTuBmXp-yS_aYW
The ru historical myths are shedding slowly but surely. We will get there eventually and everyone will reevaluate the actual facts. Thank you gentlemen 🙏
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Yes, please!
The Varangians were Swedish.
There were no such thing as Swedish at this time
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It was mainly Swedish Vikings/ Varangians from a Swedish part called Roslagen/ Ruslagen/ Rus. They mainly traded while Danish and Norwegian raided out West and South. A Swedish princess ( Anna, Ingegerd Olofsdotter ) married Yaroslav the Wise but there is so much more of Sweden that ties Ukraine and Sweden.