What was a Viking DRAUGR? | UiO Student Conference November 2023 + Q&A

Eliot Arlo Little of the University of Iceland and the University of Oslo presents "Sacrifice and Syncronicity: The Development of the Corporeal Revenant in the Medieval North" at the Pre-Christian Religions of the North Conference, hosted in Oslo on the 10th of November 2023.
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In this lecture, Eliot looks at Norse conceptions of "Draugar" as well as a host of other beings that in some ways have returned from the dead. In particular how these ideas are presented in the Icelandic sagas of the thirteenth century and beyond, a time when the authors were Christian, though many of the stories were set in a time when pre-Christian or pagan beliefs were followed. So are these ideas of draugar genuine "pagan" ideas or are they Christian, or somewhere in between?
See other videos from this year's Student Conference on Pre-Christian Religion here:
A Homosexual Viking Grave? - Lejre Revisited - Mags Knepper:
• A Homosexual Viking Gr...
How Did Norse Pagans See The World? - Tom Kaye:
• How Did Norse Pagans S...
See videos from the previous Student Conference on Pre-Christian Religion here:
The frenzied warbands of Odin - Tom Kaye:
• The Cult of Odin: Ecst...
An Introduction to Pre-Christian Frisian Religion - Hilbert Vinkenoog:
• Pre-Christian Paganism...
An Analysis of the Viking's Paganism - Jonathan Fischler:
• Pagan Themes in The Vi...
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[@rahjah6958]

100% of my knowledge on draugr is from skyrim

[@bavelnaard]

Valheim

[@spitefulwar]

While this is a rather interesting theme the presentation, audio quality and angle of recording makes it quite hard to bear.

[@PipiErareika]

Hi Hilbert

[@historywithhilbert146]

Hi!

[@Jobe-13]

Btw the audio isn’t working that well

[@timothyhayes9724]

It's practically unlistenable

[@YedolfWesler]

From my understanding, the Christians would tell the pagans, "your worshipping God, you just didn't know it." Then the pagans holidays were integrated into Christianity.

[@Jobe-13]

A lot of old missionaries and even missionaries today did and still do.

[@teogonzalez7957]

Also, many converts wanted to keep celebrating their pagan holidays, not because they were still pagan but because they just likes the celebration. So they made it a Christian celebration while keeping the same practices.

[@UKFDRILLCORE265BPMRAWLIQUIDDK]

last time i went to churh was the 90s, i read the psalms especially psalm 45 since my mothers parents lived on a housenumber 45, i have voices sometimes that are mixed universal but thats where it ends, body is superarrid, i spit fire and feel the ground when i fly, i also cant swim... and i have a historical knowledge since i was a kid of history which leads to denmark, lastly i use astrology and temperatures in specific places for arid iq and timing.

[@samson136]

Its crazy that ive followed Hilbert for years and then just now realised he goes to the same university and same faculty as me

[@historywithhilbert146]

What a coincidence! Make sure to come along on the 5th of April when we'll be hosting another student conference in Sophus Bugge's hus!

[@samson136]

@@historywithhilbert146 will do!

[@derrickstorm6976]

Love the camera borrowed from C-SPAN

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Hilbert. Very interesting. When this was on your live stream I had just seen a Catherine Warr video on RAF ghosts. The totally unconnected story told of an ethereal ghost changing suddenly to solid very heavy presence. The only connection I could imagine was a potential for folklore in Danelaw to have kept this idea and it being retold as a modern tale, unless of course there was something in this old belief.

[@TorvusVae]

This subject sounds so interesting, but the audio is really hard on the ears

[@Jobe-13]

The Norse gods and Norse mythology are very strange and funny in my opinion. Full of partying and drinking, fighting and sex, and magic.

[@HS-su3cf]

Draugr: Forfaren til dodraugen.

[@mikeedson]

First

[@2wheels1guy25]

Too bad the audio is crappy. If you can please redo it, I can’t listen to this.

[@BoerChris]

Couldn't watch all of it because of the terrible audio.

[@user-zi8ht1fi6c]

я подумал это видео Санчоуса, лол

[@rudiruttger]

Not a fan of their dungeon crypts, seen one you've seen them all.

[@YedolfWesler]

James Cameron produced a dig in Jerusalem. "The tomb of jesus." Extremely likely they found jesus' bones. That time period had a specific burial ritual. It seems like there are people who refuse to acknowledge the likelihood its the same jesus, with the same family names. The discovery even makes it seem jesus had a wife.

[@noahbrock349]

There is absolutely no evidence of that. The names were found on the tombs were common Jewish names. Furthermore, the family of Jesus would not have been able to afford a tomb of such nature.

[@turtleofpride4572]

​@@noahbrock349wasn't his tomb gifted to him?

[@Andy-wc5xw]

Had to leave dislike as the audio is simply horrendous. Id love to listen but it's unbearable

[@666Maeglin]

Nice presentation, but difficult to follow due to crappy sound quality.. Helaas pindakaas. Spitigernôch nútsjesmoar

[@DelijeSerbia]

You need to put a microphone on speakers...