Exploring the Viking Age #2: Talking Runes with Professor Williams
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- čas přidán 30. 04. 2024
- The Grimfrost Podcast, Exploring the Viking Age, Episode 2, features Henrik Williams. Professor of Runology, world leading expert on runes and runic inscriptions and the man who deciphered the Rök runestone. Topics range from the origin of runes to the debated runestones found in the USA.
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Such an awesome thing! Never imagined that I would get to see Johan Hegg interview a runologist. Love it!
No one better for interviewer and interviewee, I'll say
Since the viking site in "Lance aux meadows" Newfoundland Canada is genuine. It would've been cool to hear if any runes were found at this location or at any other of the more recently found sites in the country. Maybe in part 3 we'll hear about it 🙂🤷♂️.
I listened to this on Spotify earlier today and was thoroughly entertained.
Thank you for the content and I am very much looking forward to more episodes
Such fantastic podcast! Well done!
⛏️Runes carved to my memory
Excellent discussion folks
Johan is perfekt when speak,his voice is so good for listening,and thematic is excelent..not need to say for studio..in totaly Viking style..excelent..totaly excelent..
thank you , it is so good to learn more every day
Sweet, thx for sharing :)
Fascinating conversation!
Very intresting, now i know more then before 🙂💪🏼
As someone who grew up in Wyoming but currently resides just 40 minutes from the Heavener Runestone in Oklahoma, I can assure you that Wyoming is about 1,000 away with the Rockies in between. The landscapes are radically different between the two (almost like two different planets), and the Heavener Runestone is located atop a small mountain that was remote up into the 20th century. Anyway, this is an absolutely fantastic podcast and I would ask Professor Williams if it were possible that the elder futhark might be used because maybe a seaworthy ship during the migration era missed their westward mark and survived their journey to the New World? I know that it is speculative at best, but I cannot help but consider it to be in the realm of possibility.
We have Rune inscriptions around the Great Lakes...I learned to read write and speak Runes when I was a young girl. My Great Grandma Irma, was from your area in Sweden 🇸🇪and was brought to my home here to marry my Great Grandpa Erik where they est. our Viking mining ⛏ Clan here in the Upper Peninsula in the late 19th century. We are proud Vikings!
I forgot to mention...we Vikings Danes lineaged from the ancient Scythians, who were the Galatians aka the Israelite tribe of Dan who were deported from the ancient Assyria and migrated from ancient Middle East and left a trail of Waymarks as we traveled over the Caucasus Mountains to populate Europa..our people left permanent way signs and way marks on cairns and stones everywhere we traveled! It was the destiny of our people!
Jeremiah 31:21
Set up for yourself roadmarks,
Place for yourself guideposts;
Direct your mind to the highway,
The way by which you went.
Return, O virgin of Israel,
Return to these your cities.
Runes are Phonetic because they are from the Phoenician language...which evolved from koine Greek..which evolved into the Germanic launguages of Indo Europe.
Very interesting topic of discussion, it's been a pleasure hearing the Professor and Johan talking about runes, the time, the relevance this had back in the days and the impact that is having today in us. Thanks for sharing knowledge and will to keep learning.
Love show
Very interesting.
Did I get that right? You need the information of time / when runes were written to have a chance of a good interpretation of what they mean, cause a 100 years earlier or later, language would have changed so much, that it could mean something completely different (since runes just represent sounds/vows)?
I did not know that before.
That's correct. Runes change, the way runes are used changes and the language changes. It's quite the puzzle.
What are you drinking Johann?
Very interesting conversation, again. Thank you a lot!
About Vimose inscriptions comb with the runes "ᚺᚨᚱᛃᚨ" or "Harja". In Finnish word "Harja" means brush. Nice coincidence!
I wonder if it is too far-fetched to consider whether the Heavener Runestone was possibly carved by a descendant of the New Sweden colonial settlers? Some descendants moved South from the Delaware Valley and then West into the Louisiana Territory. For example, my 3x great grandfather and other family members were in Arkansas by the 1820's. Swedish traditions survived in some family lines for many generations.
Surely a possibility.
No calendar? They did have calendar. They followed an lunasolar calendar.
They are discussing a runic calendar used by farmers not so long ago, and the origins of it (that clearly aren't Viking Age).
@@Grimfrost Yes, those runic calendar's aren't viking age.
But Johan said that they didn't have a calendar at all. That is incorrect. The germanic pre-christian people (Scandinavians included) used an lunasolar calendar that can be traced back to the stone age. They had an reckoning of time, they had months etc etc.
They knew when the blót's were, they new when an extra leap month accurred etc.
Is three other religions are referred to as Theology and not mythology why isn't our beliefs referred to as theology as well?
It depends on what parts you discuss. The world creation myths in alll religions is a good example of mythology. Another example is that lightning and thunder is created by Thor riding in his wagon. Mythology is compiled of stories that often try to explain things that ancient man didn't understand, whilst Theology is about the actual faith and the connection between man and the higher power(s). The central focus of most world religions of today have developed from Mythology to Theology. When it comes to "extinct" religions, they are stuck in the ancient mythology stage. As an example, there are simply no up to date versions of the ancient Greek, Egyptian or Norse religions. These things are slowly changing, and we may see a situation where the old Norse religion is built on theology. It doesn't, however, happen over night. What is needed is proper theologists studying the nature of the divine, rather than people studying the mythology.
@@Grimfrost thank you Johan it just is like a metal under the skin for me for other religions to be called theology and ours to be called mythology it's been a frustrating undertone for me for a long long time
Wonderful and informative video, but I have an issue when people are referred 😅 heathens. I have Native American and Viking blood in me and was raised Christian, but that isn't where my heart lies in spirituality. Even a priest said I am fine in my beliefs. Because people have or had different religious beliefs doesn't make them heathens. Thank you for all of the information on ruins. I have studied them for 30 yrs.
Heathen isn't a negative term. It basicallt means "pagan" which was used already in the 300s by Christisans describing the Romans, who at the time were the greatest civilisation of that time and age. So basically, the term means "non-Christian".