Viking Firecraft: Lighting Up the Dark Ages (How to Light up a Viking House) Ep. 20
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- čas přidán 11. 03. 2024
- The Oseberg Iron lamp was made for me as a gift by:@BerserkerGang2019
The small soapstone lamp was made for me by the talented: @thedustymoose7258
Both Mathias from Berzerkergang and The Dusty Moose are greatly skilled craftmen and you should check out their youtube channels and consider subscribing.
If you want to make your own un-authentic raw hide lantern see this: • VIKING Lantern Rawhide...
In this video I will demonstrate the use and preparation of Vikinge Age fat lamps and other lightsources and explore the role of fire and light in the dark ages.
As mentioned in the video use of oil lamps are speculative. With this statement i mean highly ornamented ceramic lamps from ex. Spain within the same time period. Simple lamps made from soapstone found among other places on Shetland indicates that they might have been used with oil for fuel. - Jak na to + styl
You're videos are always so stunning, well thought out and informative. I love the music and the footage of the animals in the forest, the water drops and the rain. Speaks to my heart. Thank you for all you do. I loved this.
thank you so much for this positive comment:) Im delighted to hear you enojyed the video:)
Just another marsterpice. Well done mate.
Thank you Tony:) i tried to do better with the eye thing:)
What a fascinating video! I think that a lot of us in the first world take lighting and heat for granted. We just flick a switch and we have bright light for as long as we want it. Many of have the same capacity with heating our homes. So, there’s a large part of us that doesn’t quite grasp the importance of fire in our ancestors lives. There’s something primal and atavistic about sitting around a fire in the dark with friends and family that is so bonding an experience, that I feel a part of our modern selves can really understand and connect with our ancestors these days. I really appreciated learning about the different ways of lighting and heating our ancestors had access to in the Viking Age. Thanks for sharing your hard work ❤
Thank you so much:) you are totally right. Thanks for sharing these important and interesting perspectives. I really like the way you engage in the video and im happy you took the time to share this comment. All the best:)
Thanks for showing my lamp it looks awesome
It is awesome. It works so well and love the size and the design:) cant believe it took so long to get it fueled up. Cant wait to bring it along for this years market season. Hope you are well my friend:)
Another wonderful video! 😀
Thank you for sharing, it's always great to see what you've been up to. And what gorgeous shots of the wolves too!
You've got a great collection of lamps there, the Oseberg iron lamp is particularly impressive! I've made replicas of the Birka clay lamps with my kids from clay we dug up from the garden - a fun project indeed!
Oh, and congratulations on winning Tom's giveaway over on Cimber bushcraft! 😄
Great video and interesting story as always. I missed this one. Beautiful film shots also a pleasure to watch. Thanks for all the time that you put in youre work and share it with us.
Thank you Rein. I appreciate your kind Words and im thankful that you take the time to watch my videos. Stay safe my friend:)
@@RAMUNI-Viking I just watch youre video about the wax tablets what a surprise 2 video's, yesterday and this evening 😃
What a beautiful video! I loved the narration against the wonderful shots of wolves and hearth fire 😄
Thank you so much:) i love your videos so its great for me to hear this from you. All the best af best of luck with All your projects.
@@RAMUNI-Viking Thanks, looking forward to seeing more of your videos too ☺
Excellent. I particularly appreciate you pointing out what is known and what is speculation! We’ve been burning leftover bacon grease in our soapstone lamps. I like the knotted cord wick, will try that! we’ve used bits of sheep’s leg bone to prop up the wicks and found that the bone will start to work as a wick after a few hours burning.
Thank you:) im glad to hear you appreciate the part about fact and speculation. i think it is very important part of reenactment:) I havent studied much about wicks so i just decieded to use the cord. It works. but it a little difficult to ignite. Im sure there is better ways. very interesting with the sheep leg bone. its a good idea. all the best:)
Another educational and wonderful video . I use frenchfries fat in my oseberg lamps because its very cheap and burns clean, not historically correct but practical.
Great video.. I was looking forward to this one for some time now!
thank you my friend. French fry fat is a good idea too. Im sorry it took so long for me to make this video and finally show off my epic Oseberg lamp. It really is a masterpiece of work and im very happy for it. thank you so much again. Hope things are good with you:) all the best.
Ramuni, this was absolutely amazing content!!!
Hello there:) im very happy to hear that you feel this way. Thank you so much.
@@RAMUNI-Viking you're very welcome!
Great video I'm becoming a big fan.love it.
Im delighted to hear that Paul:) thank you
Anytime I use bees wax candles. I just tell the kids that some kind monk let me help myself to them. But my hardest thing to get is birch bark none near me.But I use clay and soapstone lamps. And I thought I knew everything about lamps etc. Then you made the wick Genius.I am going to pinch that idea.
hello my friend. I like that approach about the candles. its a good way of sharing the viking age through reenactment. The wick just came to my mind and i didnt research much about materials for wicks. So i made that up as I went along. It works. but it takes a while for the flame to really catch when the candle is first lit after a time of having cooled down and dried up. Im sure there are more effective ways. Stay safe:)
Really nice videoI i love the feeling and the images. keep it up man :)
Hello:) thanks for this comment. i really appreciate that. all the best
Another great production thank you. I have made one of those Viking wood lanterns & Collected bacon fat to make a lamp. Have to still source some soap stone to create a container. Hilsen fra Norge
thank you. that project of yours sounds awesome:) best of luck with the soap stone. there should be some quarries in Norway where maybe you could get a nice little lump that would otherwise be scrap for them. all the best:)
Good video! It is amazing how they lived! How small things were considered luxury! The simple lamp! Animal fat or bees wax would be hard items to come by! I have bees and their wax is hard to come by! I get about a fist size ball every year! Not much considered! Makes about 7 candles! Thanks for the video!
Thank you Ian and sorry for taking so long to get back to you. I used to have bees, but since we move into town i didnt have. I miss it and Hope some day i can take it back up when the Kids Are bigger and there is more free time at hand. Hope you are well
Nice vid. its almost meditative😉
Hello. Thank you. I take that as a huge compliment:)
Another great video.
I prefer to use beeswax as fuel for our clay lamps from Hedeby. It's easier to find (for me) and smells better to me personally. I make wicks from the remains of thick linen fabric, into which I sew a small stone so that the wick is weighted and does not float to the surface when the wax melts.
Regarding wooden lamps - I dare to disagree with you in part. Yes there is no physical evidence. However, in the book Life of King Alfred (John Asser, 893) there is a passage where a similar lamp is described in great detail:
"So the king thought by what means he might prevent the wind from entering, and, on the basis of a skilful and cunning idea, he ordered a lantern to be artfully made of wood and ox-horn, for finely-cut ox-horns are as transparent as a glass vessel. Into this lantern, wonderfully made of wood and horn, as I have already said, a candle was afterwards put in at night, which shone as brightly without as within, and which was not disturbed by the wind, for the king also ordered a horn door to be made to open the lantern.'
I made my lamp based on this description, only I replaced the horn with rawhide (my character is not rich enough to afford very thin and polished horn).
Hello:) thank you for this feedback. great idea with the weighed wick. I have had the issue of floating wicks so i definately have to try this out. I was not aware of this vivid description of a lantern. If im not mistaken the desription of this lamp has roots in the anglosaxon culture more than the scandiavian. But eventhough it is very interesting and with the crossing of cultures in the british kingdoms the source is within the reasonable field for me:)
Always inspiring. Thank you, RAMUNI
Thank you Wyo. hope you are well:)
Cool
thank you Charles:)
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Hejsa :). Igen en fantastisk video. Jeg ville dog have ønsket at, du havde nævnt fyrsvampen, som gnistfang når man slår gnister med ildstål og flint, og til væge i fedlamper. Fyrsvamp er super nem at, finde i naturen, og er super væge, hvis man husker at lave vægen med lamellerne (svampens lameller) lodrete.
hej Jens. Tak for ordene. Jeg nævner fyrsvampen i underteksten da jeg slår gnist. Men jeg kunne godt have sagt lidt mere om den. Jeg tror jeg laver en video mere specifikt om ildstål og ildkunst engang senere på året. Jeg var ikke klar over at den er god som væge også, men det skal helt sikkert have prøvet. det der reb virker, men er lidt træg. Jeg skal også have bygget en rebec på et tidspunkt, men så kommer jeg til dig:)
@@RAMUNI-Viking . Fyr svamp som væge er også lidt træg at, tænde...men hvis man søger for at lade vægen (gælder også reb væge) ligge i det varme flydene fedt og lader vægerne suge fedt i sig...vil de tænde nemmere. Du er mere end velkommen til at, kontakte mig når du skal i gang med rebec 🙂