The Children of Ash: Cosmology and the Viking Universe
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- Professor Neil Price delivers the first of three lectures, September 25, 2012, focusing on the fundamental role that narrative, storytelling and dramatisation played in the mindset of the Viking Age (8th-11th centuries), occupying a crucial place not only in the cycles of life but particularly in the ritual responses to dying and the dead.
It's a damn shame we only have 3 lectures by this wonderful speaker. I could listen for months. Great great job working that camera so we can also see each image. You guys don't get enough recognition.
Just happened by here. Very interesting. I live on the West coast of Norway in a tiny town called Bygstad, in Sunnfjord county in "Dalsfjord", just north of the largest fjord " Sognefjord".There are 2 viking graves right by my house where I live on a little 17 acre farm. The story goes that they have been opened and pillaged by robbers a long time ago. I've been thinking of investing in a metal detector to search around the farm for relics. Just a few miles down the road there still exists a farm from the time around the year 1000, a large "hovd" or meeting place for the area where there still exists a huge farm today. It's called "Osen gard". They have an outside theater each summer where they portray the characters of the vikings that lived in the area at that time.
Buy that detector man who knows what you might find, i live in Sweden and the island i live on actually have an runestone site.
Did you get that metal detector and look?
Leave it to the archaeologists please!
@@Boom-Shield there's no harm in doing a little exploring, especially if it's his land.
@@Boom-Shield woah ho ho watch out everyone this man leaves it up to the EXPERTS to have all the fun!
One of the most impressive lectures in years. The facts presented really give new insights in the mental and spiritual landscape of the 'norse' traditions. I was thrilled to hear of some new details on the 'Sorceress of Fyrkat' and the possible ritual 'eating of the dead'. The lectures open up a new field of clues to a better understanding our distant ancestors. Wonderful!
Wonderful lecture! As a casual fan of Norse culture, it very hard to find accessible information about the Vikings that's not run-of-the-mill, watered down History channel summaries of the same basic intro information. I wish more scholars would take the time to interface with the casual audience and deepen the pop culture discussion with real information instead of relegating themselves to academia.
Thanks to Cornell for posting and for Professor Price for presenting the information in such an engaging way. Awesome!!
Its all BS.. United Methodist Christian view of history , which is all BS.
#learning #health #eatRealFood
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Thank you both for your presence of mind to record this lecture and your generosity both in making it available via CZcams. Much appreciated.
It's good that you keep this alive, few people here in Sweden is interested nowadays. Thank you.
Yes, some of us are interested in keeping this alive, it’s our cultural heritage.
@Antifederalist Good, who control the present, control the past, and who control the past, control the future.
That's a real shame. I'm from America where many have lost an identity with their past. You would be ashamed to see that outcome.
@Antifederalist I believe that all dynasties in all times have always tried to tell people that the past was dark and then came *whatever the ruling elite calls their order* and utopia began. Its always the same more or less.
We definitely are interested in it over here in Seattle, we have a large and proud Scandinavian history. My Grandmother came here from Nordland in 1929, she was of Sami descent. Gramps was a Norseman too, not indigenous (Sami) though. Stone cold viking! Lol my family walks in the Syttende Mai parade every year here in Ballard (except last year, damn covid!)
1:07:22 When I heard this question about whether there were any moral matters tied in with the cosmology, I didn't first think about the afterlife, and how our morality determines the future, but rather whether the ancient Scandinavians' belief of a human being's duty in life, or the moral code they would follow, if they had one (which I think they did as all human communities have moral codes), was seen as originating in the way humans were created. This is the way it is in Christianity, and seeing as the parallel was being made in the question, I thought of it this way. A really great lecture!
I read that Ask and Embla translate as Ash and Alder trees. Vy and Veyr gave them movement and speech to show off their majick. The younger brother, not wanting to be outdone, gave them consciousness. His brothers were spooked by this line crossing. Every diverse people on earth, every culture, every nationality, every human, is ultimately descended from Ask and Embla. We are all family, no matter how different.
Only humans with consciousness are descendants of Ask and Embla. That leaves a lot of people out.
Fascinating lecture. I just thought they were pirates and the odd settler. They got to Thailand apparently and even China.
The Viking Cave on Phi Phi has etchings of any boats passing, the distinctive Viking Longboat amongst Galleons, sampans and junks. They deserve respect for that.
I was amazed to learn The Knights Templar made it to South County of Rhode Island in USA and continued on to other states .
@@valentinapatnaude4219 What? When? Source?
One night, i was listening too CZcams and i was outside, alone. I made a comment about the Oxford Professor giving the lecture and the whole class at the lecture online started laughing and the Prof. even laughed at my comments. It was awesome.
They travelled up the St-Laurence to the great lakes here to trade linens and other goods to Algonquins who supplied copper from north Michigan for bronze tools. Lots of boats involved.
Fascinating that deer with the Ygdrassil antlers and a bird on top. 29:47
The deer, by many of the ancients, was a sign for the Sun.
Antlers of the deer marked the 1st of Aries (hinge of the universe).
The bird on top could be a heron, a raven, a phoenix, etc.
And it was speaking of the time in which we are living.
We are waiting for the Great Bird to descend on the 1st of Aries.
To get there, he was expected to fly down from Polaris via Pegasus.
An excellent lecture presenting a multi discipline approach to the religion and mind of viking age scandinavians. Professor Price's outstanding ability to take this info and present it to the layman in an understandable way makes these lectures a joy to watch. Thank you Prof Price.
Feb 8, 2021 yet as RELEVANT & LOVELY today as the day delivered! A Lovely Scolar, Lovely Topic and FREE to watch again & again! THANK YOU 🙏 🌹💙💙🙏🌹👍😊🌹💙♾
Very good speech! I appreciate how he doesnt let our current view of the Norse influence the facts.... Jackson Crawford is another spectacular Old Norse specialist. He's worth looking into.
Jackson Crawford is an amazing man. He is sooo knowledgeable when it comes to the Norse
Can we just appreciate the good example of an academically inclined hype-man that was in the introductory segment.
Those words of good advice are from the Hávamál ("Words of the High One"), a collection of wise advice given by Odinn. Unlike "commandments," they suggest courses of action and give insights into Odinn's magic, and do not have to be obeyed. Ignoring good advice comes with its own consequences. Not all of the document has survived, but over 130 verses are still recorded.
Old gods never demand we come on bended knee shivering , beggers. That's what happened to our people after they christianized. Vikings became beggers. Food for thought
@@austinnewby9666 -- our mentors (ÆSIR and Vanir) consider it undignified and smarmy to grovel in the dirt when addressing them.
@@lordphullautosear Skol!
@@TerfBashingMFer8021 -- Heilsa, good fellow! Hail the ÆSIR and Vanir!
@@lordphullautosear Hail the Aesir and the Vanir, both have treated me well this first year of being a pagan:) Hello friend:)
The gods are certainly great beings and i love how they dont bow down and dont expect us to either.
16:50 Lecture 1: The Children of Ash
The first 17 minutes are just a synopsis of the man's accomplishments. :)
More like the children of the serpent because they are completely lawless.
So glad people record lectures
Thanks so much for this Neil Price and Cornell University! This is truly invaluable information to make available for interested lay persons like me.
latecomer here, but I have to say EPIC lecture and a thousand thanks to whomever recorded it and put it online! LOVE
#Truth
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The lecturer is the top scholar on vikings, and he is full of shit. So much "we believe" , with so little evidence. You know that that ship that they found is a complete fabrication to.
@@oltch. Well it's a good thing we have you to so eloquently set the record straight with true scholarly logic and those reliable sources you cited. "You know" is so much better than experts saying "we believe" based on evidence.
@@spelcheak you should read one book this guys written. Check out how much evidence he uses to push his agenda. Youd be amazed how much he gets away with. There is soo little actual evidence that has been left behind , yet so much is "known " about them by this guy... he knows hes a liar too deep inside.
My family comes from Denmark, Norway and scotland and this is such an amazing and informative information! Grimfrost also asked for his assistance as well if i remember correctly. I could be wrong.
I've not had time to listen but I hope he mentions that Denmark was named by the tribe of Dan ,who eventually settled there after naming the river they sailed up the danube, all named by the Hebrews after they fled Jerusalem when Rome burnt it to the ground, in roman numerals v1 is for the 6 Hebrew kings v1kings. They settled in Dan mark, that's the little bit of info on that I've learnt
The Danaii or Dan were named after The Goddess Dianna. Dianna is the equivalent to Venus or Frigga, that being the sexual and fecund aspect of The Great Goddess. Hope that helps.
Scandinavia though is named after El Skanda. The God of War, no less! Alexader The Great is named after the same God. El Skanda Maha is Murugan, son of Shiva. Better known as Baal.
@@64SKELL the tribe of DaN were the hyksos it was the house of bondage in Egypt. The tribe of DaN is the house of bondage of the world today. The Vikings (DaN) are the cause of the suffering in the world now! The Serpent sheds to skin every 7 days.
We have to keep the knowledge and traditions of our distant ancestors (anywhere in the world) alive. You never know when it will be needed.
Shame ragnarok already started ;p
Generally a good lecture, and a very good point that we tend to forget; that the spiritual world and the "real" world were not seperate entities- they were intermingled and reality.
He is wrong in asserting that there were no unified Kingdoms at the beginning of the Viking Age though. Denmark under Godfred seems to have covered much of the same area as it did in the later middle ages, plus Vestfold. And there are indications that it was unified as far back as the 6th century (Näsman, Hedeager wants to put the unification even earlier, but there is only scant evidence for that- though the process did start very early as documented in her PhD thesis). With its location across a main trade route, easy access to everywhere from water (the highway of the past), fertile lands with no rough country and early connections with The Roman Empire; it seems logical that it would unify early and up until the development of Sweden in the 15th- 16th centuries, be the strongest og the Scandinavian Kingdoms.
there certainly are French sources mentioning King of the Danes going back to around year 548 or so, however at that time Danes were a tribe in Southern Sweden maybe on the Danish isles too, however in Jutland you had Jutes and Angles who genetically were the same as Danes but other tribes, as far as we know it's under Gorm the old and Bluetooth they unite all of Denmark
@@veronicajensen7690 that is a dated view. Denmark as we know it in the middle ages was united under Godfred. Representatives from all parts of the realm attend a peace conference with the Franks in 808.
So much evidence of the giants today so this guys perception is way ahead of the masses of today and yesterday.
I kept finding myself in the middle of an indigenous peoples book. Finally I found your book about my history. So proud to be of Viking heritage. My people were converted to Mormonism by 1860. We crossed the Atlantic from Denmark, found ourselves on the Atlantic coast, made our way to the Mississippi River where we were given a handcart, and told to join the group we are seeking by crossing the Great Plains and the Rocky Mountains. Then we were sent to Central Utah To-Face hostile Indians. Here I still am to tell the story. You can't kill a Viking
I hope you found your way out of Mormonism.
karin larsen. ... or 'a' native American.
Wow, what a speaker. Was engrossed listening to this,i cross referenced much of what he said and everything was within the narrative and in fact he was naming the norse words in the correct etimology.
Interesting fact in New Zealand we have viking ships in dargaville Harbour found that predate not only the European settlement but the Maori Polynesian settlements. Captain Cook has a ships log of capturing a very tall blond man .tied him to the ships mast. But he escaped and dived overboard and swam back to shore. These people were known as the waitaha people. A mixed race of people's that were living here for more than a thousand years earlier. We have burial mounds . One near marital Beach. Facing out to sea. It has been preserved luckily found when developing a new sports ground. It can be seen easily if interested in sighting it today. Dargaville museum are one of the few museums that have not hidden the real history of New Zealand. But have kept precious finds under wraps so the government dies not destroy the little proof still exists of these people that were our true founders of our beautiful island nation. One day I hope their existence is honored as it should be. One or two books published but not taught in our very annihilated version of our nation's beginnings. Due to a negative stigma of cannibalism and waring past of the Polynesian races that came, probably during a time of great volcanic upheaval in the pacific region. Things happened that are not desired pasts to teach . So squashed into an oblivion of denial today. But human nature should not judge but learn from these hardships.
Great lecture..plus a badass mullet to boot. It has everything..
I am originally from a small village in Västerbotten County, Sweden. The old people who lived there when I grew up believed in trolls, gnomes, the vittras and other "invisible people".
I absolutely loved this presentation...I am a German and scandanavian American, my soul NEEDED this presented in this way...
You are happy about vikings binding the whole world to their lawless legal system? The Vikings are the cause of all of the suffering in the world today. They stole the land in Europe, replaced the monarchies of Europe, instituted lawless common law and sacked the Christian church for paganism.
@@outtabubblegum3161 Pagans in general.
@@outtabubblegum3161 Vikings were only 1 of different warriors and conquers in time, they have nothing to do with a "lawless common law " some countries have today and they have been Christians the past 1000 years, if you know the history about Christianity you would know they were persecuted from Roman times so Vikings were no different , also you forget how the Catholic Church persecuted people, dominated and even killed people, the truth is history is violent, it was violent in Ancient Egypt, the Etiopian Empire, Mali Empire, Persian Empire, Roman Empire, , Babylonian Empire, Mongolian Empire, Ottoman Empire and all the rest were all violent and pagans, and they had load of slaves
Very interesting. I particularly like how Price tries to describe the world view of the Vikings from their own perspective; how he explains that the stories of Oding and the gods and all the invisible forces and creatures (dwarves, elves, land-spirits) where not perceived as myths or something you believed in. The gods and their helpers and all the forces along with all the different worlds (Asgard, Hel, Niflheim) were real, a part of nature, forming the world in which people lived their lives.
Well this is true for all civilizations really, when it concerns their Gods. My people, my ancestors, believed in the Elohim- several gods sitting in judgement over humanity, with one main God overseeing and presiding over the heavenly host whose name was Yahuwah Elohim. The creator of the species and the Lord of their Hosts. Yahuwah Elohim presiding over an assembly of Elohim. But only this Elohim reserved the right to be worshiped and the others echo that same sentiment, as they were all created by Yahuwah. This is the world my ancestors lived in, their culture and their whole lives, cultic practices revolved around this idea. It is very fascinating and so was this lecture. I learnt a lot.
All Nature was divine and intertwined with people before Abrahamic religions. They tear people from Nature and make them lonely.
I used to have a friend who told me once a story,so capturing & it went like this;"Did you know that our ancestors long time ago had a completely different idea of what was"fine",what "crude" and the states of density inbetween?"."What we call fine now was crude to them and that begs the question whar they knew,even back then 10.0000 years or more.We often hear of examples,only 2 centuries ago of progress.A perculiar word,progress.Progress might come,though with a heavy price .Might i suggest that that price above a point makes the term progress a lie to be blunt.
@@wolfgang4043 that's not the Abrahamic religion , what makes people lonely is the state has taken the role of God and family, before family had to help each other, another thing is media especially social media, people were not that lonely 50 years ago , also don't paint paganism as a rosy humanistic thing, they actually sacrificed both humans and animals
What wonderful scholarship and presented in an entertaining and relaxed style! Fantastic.
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To avoid the pre-amble, FF to 04.45mins.
Thank you!
But what's the name and title of the guy that does the intro? It's the " Foolish Fish" yt channel guy! He is nothing what I thought he would look like.
Thank you muchly...
Who wants to skip the Giant who introduces the speaker for a talk involving giants? Nope. I enjoyed it.
You did gods work here sir.
What a delightful opportunity to sit in on such a prestigious lecturer, afforded by an institution I couldn't have dreamed of attending when I was of the appropriate age.
Too bad we're now being told don't go outside without a mask, don't sing in church.. and don't disagree with the publicized 'approved' programming in progress.. but I digress.
Thank you for sharing this opportunity, ptb of Cornell. I hope we manage to work out our differences without the need for such absurdities or oligarchy soon.
Resist. Do not comply
Sam Hopkins
Lol! Ooooh, friend. No worries there.. but it doesn't mean I'm not listening to the folks who are presenting their opinions, perspectives and interpretations either. Simply adding to the database. Never know when something might prove helpful.
Let’s make this world better. We each have a role to play so let’s help one another. Embody vulnerability and strength all at once.
The Vikings were a completely lawless people they are actually the ones who created the legal system that Cornell consists of today.
Brilliant presentation!! Few are as easy to follow and as articulate. Every long answer was a bonus!!! Great job!❤😃👍
So, I'm here again!! Crazy to come across my own comments from 1yr ago!! At the top of list, no less...lol!! Blessings to all!!❤😎
I’m so happy I found these lectures🔥🔥
A hug from me to you all.
Very good speaker and endlessly fascinating topic, thank you!
Captivating lecture, enjoyed every minute of it! Thanks for sharing.
Jackson Crawford makes a good point that Freya’s slain warriors probably went to Valhol. Freyja seems to have a connection to the Valkyries.
Brilliant. Thanks to all involved
The world tree is mentioned in other religions/cultures, so we know what it means. It's the tree of life or creation, similar to how scientists map out the branches of life today. In the Bible it's used to warn the adamic people not to mix themselves with other life forms (such as the cro magnon - giants and neanderthal - dwarves they would have come into contact with). They are told not to 'eat' from it. When the tribes of adamic people split up and some migrated north and into europe, they would have retained memories of some of the old stories they were told. The same images/icons pop up in other places they moved to. So neither the drawings of the 'trees' are accurate, as it's more like the network of living creatuers in the world. The descriptions of dwarves, giants, elves, etc have been creatively expanded as they've been passed down the generations, but I would assume these were just remaining pockets of different looking people they met on their travels since we read similar tales in other cultures about such people.
This was an amazing lecture. Thanks for the upload.
Great! He apologizes for being "long and rambling" but I hung on every word, a great speaker. Very interesting.
Just fantastic! Well spoken!
Learned more in 90min than I have in 40years of more- than -casual Viking interest.
Very good lecture for someone re entering Asatru.
My friend. I just wrapped up a ten year study of Asatru. It's jokingly called among the different groups " the religion with homework". So if you're serious you must read. Always read backwards in time. The sources edda,sagas , especially tacitus Germania. We can only recreate a true religion today by going backwards into our sources. Thus you must read. But it's never boring trust me.
was watchin astrology stuff , and ended up here .
Same, I was watching the rabbi talking about Scorpio....muahahahah!
Me too... Mr Astrotheology, Santos Bonacci.
Cracking series of lectures.
Wonderful lecture!
To be fair, people in Denmark still make offerings to the Elves in Winter (specifically Christmas). Well at least a sort of cultural offspring of elves called "Nisser"
.....would like to know more about the viking presence in the Western Isles.
This lectures were very very interesting.
Probably started as raids swooping in and out. Unless you were under Danelaw
Much appreciated, this!
I found this incredibly interesting and well explained. Thank you. Skol!
I think that nowadays (December 31, 2020), "Viking" has been *redefined* as referring strictly to the elite group of Scandinavian men who explored for plunder, at times for trade, discovery and migration opportunities. Their ranks were pulled from various parts of Scandinavia. So, the settlers remaining at home would not be considered Vikings anymore than civilians are considered soldiers.
He actually addressed this at the beginning of his lecture. Vikings were an entire culture, not just their warriors. Simply because you and some others only equate Vikings with their raiders, does not mean the entire definition was changed. That’s kinda like someone 1000 years from now referring only to military folks as Americans, simply because a soldier in uniform is what they imagine when they hear the term “American.”
Cultural marxism
@@ripme6616 What does what the original comment have to do with Cultural Marxism? Is that a term people just throw around like confetti these days?
three minutes and fiftyfive seconds the guy made him stand there before he let him speak.
This is normal in academics. Although I find it hard to bear at times, for reasons of mind-numbing boredom, I understand that it is done so that everyone knows who the speaker is, what the topic's going to be etc.
It seems to be obvious, but professors often have so many dates, names, papers, results, deadlines etc. etc. on their minds, that refreshing their memories right at the start really helps.
At least that's the explanation for the "high-throughput" kinds of researchers, and all the slackers just follow their example for no good reason....
@ 3:55 is actually on the short side.
uhmmm...guess you haven't been to college, or otherwise
It's actually a 4-lecture presentation, the introduction is the first lecture :)
@@Sheepdog1314 shit - I didn't even make it to highschool.
Hi, coming from a mother and father together about 70% Scandinavian from Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. Mostly Norway Sweden. My mothers and my Haplo also comes from Italy Spain and Portugal. Dad has a bit of Scots Irish England. Funny when I was a little girl, I seen little people in the backyard with big trees in Puyallup Washington. Sounds crazy but it’s true. Most people that made me think I’m Italian because I have the darker skin lighter hair. I didn’t know that the Vikings went down through Sicily, which is another one in Sardinia probably which is also on my mother side. I so enjoy learning more about the Heritage. Thank you. I do know it seems in my perception that Italian and Scandinavians are very strong about their feelings. I’m not talking about governments but the people. And we love food. Terribly. Ha ha.
That was brilliant. I took notes and everything. I enjoyed the further knowledge about the invisible beings, some finer details I was unaware of. And the reminder that this is a living belief. Yggdrasil, a tree that tessellates reality, riding between worlds, okes were trippin'.
The Q and A session was incredible.
Cool. Looking forward to the series.
That ponytail really grinds my gears
Eight years and the introduction continues.
Seriously. Mr Man Pony and his man crush.
The questions were the *best* part.
very interesting and well presented,thank you.
Im more interested in studying that hair. Holy shit what a mullet. I am a fan sir.
Hello from Sweden !
A very interesting lecture. Thank you. I will check the other 2 tomorrow.
Btw. I lived for 13 years at a place called Yggrdasil :)
It's interesting that The Vikings only won battles against unnamed civilians, or with pyrrhic victories over armies they outnumbered by at least 10-1, then got completely destroyed in every way by Christianity.
49:00 Very interesting point. To us, their stories are mythology, but to them, it was reality. Really brings home the role of ideology in everyday life. You can hear Slavoj Zizek butting in: ideology is the frame by which we make sense of the world. Capitalist ideology, Norse-slave economic ideology, etc...
VIkings = 6 Giant Kings. Which travelled from inner Earth to our lands and started an entire race. Crossing to our world is only possible thru a brief opening the happens once a year.
1 of the 3 sons mentioned Odin is who we get the name God from (also called King Gud). The image of God and the origins of Christianity are also rooted in Gotland Sweden.
Carved into the Stora Hammars Stone.
Hyperborea?
The world tree that you are referring is called "KalpaVriksha"
Ginnungagap between Niflheim and Muspellheimr makes a certain sense. If both matter and heat come from Muspellheimr, and air and water come from Niflheim, then you've got the four elements. Ginnungagap being the yawning void makes it like vaccuum, which therefore sucks heat and matter out of Muspellheimr and air and water in the form of vapours and clouds, and allows them to mix. That allows for the rest of the story to take place, because the primeval void thus has breathable air, moisture, a livable temperature range, and matter cooling into solids from which Ymir can coalesce, and upon which the subsequent gods can walk as they build out the cosmos using Ymir's corpse. The light and the dark do not need to be parted to create day and night, because they are already seperated into Muspellheimr and Niflheimr. Nor likewise do land and sea have to be seperated for the same reason. The breathable air in Ginnungagap allows for travellers to survive while traversing Bifrost to get between the worlds.
I wonder if there is a sense in which viking and joining a monastery were driven by a similar desire for change and a broadening of perspective. In a fuedal or tribal society with very rigid hierarchies, raiding provided a means of social mobility as well as geographical mobility. In Catholic Europe, becoming an initiate at a monastery provided an escape from serfdom and the circumscribed lot of a villager, even if the workload wasn't that much lighter. You got to leave home, journey outside your liege lord's land to take part in something inspirational, and be educated, and maybe become a cleric which was a relatively meritocratic profession. Going viking meant leaving home, joining something inspirational and aspirational, and with the meritocracy of combat. Your yarl might perish, and you might be able to become a yarl through victorious deeds.
bravo 👏 honestly a very sensible clarification!
You could piece it together more easily if you posited a "when" rather than a "where".
Treat time as a form of geography.
Don't hide Hitler, we know you achieved inmortality and you love Beyonce and the Lakers.
@@JTomas96 he wishes. He died a physical death in 1957. Car crash.
Correct or incorrect, I always read it as( as it was explained in the text) Askr and Embla, being given as Ash and Elm. I've read this time and again in texts in my youth. Whether that is correct, and Embla( sometimes written as Elmbla), or it is incorrect inference is another matter. But it was my understanding of it, as given by the various mythological accounts.
what's with all the downvotes? I'm 50min. in and read nothing but positive comments. Did I miss something?
Amazing speaker. Buying his book rn.
dont,he.s only half correct..
@@phantomwalker8251 Yeah, because you’re a scholar of the Vikings just like he is. 🙄
Embla = small flame that is left before it is extinguished or starting a fire
Stækar Grönskog ah an ember!
Elm
The guy with the braid at the beginning has some alpha ass energy with that hair.
Looks like an effed up hippy mullet
id say he,s an a s s ..
He’s a VI - King! Guy is like 7 ft tall!!!
dude who does the intro looks like a Viking himself!
Dude has an epic rat tail that any teen from 1991 would be very proud of.
@@Pugetwitch thanks for reminding me of my childhood. 🤦🏻♂️
Although he’s very tall, out of the corner of my eye, Native American came to mind!
@@gentleasa5728 jai maa, he already said he’s Slavic
@@reclusivedissolution4693 Thank you, I don’t hear to well
I was thinking after he said that the east was this unknown place, and thought that this could fit into their creation story very well. The East is Niflheim, a place of cold and snow that is barely habitable to the Vikings. And to the West, where the warm air of the Atlantic Jetstream blows over Europe making it habitable, is Muspell. In between the two where the ice melts to the heat and forms creation is Scandinavia, or Midgard.
Thanks from Pennsylvania!!!
outstanding!
This is far more human, beautiful, earthly, natural , awe-inspiring & wonderful than christianity - a restricted & restrictive culture that came and wrecked so many amazing ancient cultures.
Thanks very interesting. Small correction though! Ingvar the far-travelled's expedition was in 1041, not 1014. So it was very very late in viking terms.
Very interesting nd extremely enjoyed.
Thank you for sharing.
Knd regards
Robert.
Neil Price is a Legend!
Very informative. Thank you.
As good as this is, there's a mistake in the lecture. The place name Jotunheimen in Norway is not an old name. It was coined by Aasmund Olavsson Vinje in 1862, and he compared the mountains to the mythical Jotunheim. He didn't even actually mean to name them, but the name stuck.
1:18:49 Valhalla as a memory of the Colosseum, a very interesting theory to hear.
the colosseum is greek,roman.. long after the vikings traveled the world.
@@phantomwalker8251 The Colosseum was completed in 80AD, 600-700 years BEFORE the vikings.
Listen to the timestamp on my original comment: 1:18:49
Wonderful, thanks.
There are some other stories that syhc with this tale.
Giants were a race called Titans in an age best described as a yuga in the tales of Hindu gods.
The god these giants worshipped was Khaa, the great Mother, there queen mother is the undieing incarnation of Khaa. They are all female, but often appear male. Other gods names of his story and her story are other family lineages and their integration.
They also weren't the only giants, nor the origine of humans on Earth, all adjusted dna to suite Earth's environment.
In the description of the Holy science, shri Yuktesear describes the nature of the ages through a disconnecting and reconnecting from our source of self. Some, like the Titans and Viking have ages and yugas they move through, play the antagonist in the maturing evolution of Life's Will, and express an entitlement approach, the Titans having a long story of domination, which have it's own maturing evolutionary story, so is Earth's, which has been influenced, obviously, on Earth.
We once were, had a galactic community of older and younger species from many sizes of skeletons found around Earth, and then hinden by the authorities of his story and her story.
The age of Viking were the remnants of an advanced age into the darkest phase of the yugas in which the Vikings lived.
I am the remnant of the indigenous Inuit. There are many tales of our connection and communication with animals, insects, all life, in the early ages. Life was a friend relation of fighting with Bees to run off the first armies, in the age of wars, the dark age, which lasts 2200 years, and is a gradual forgetting and remembering, declension and ascension, of Consciouness maturing its nature into a perfect harmony of expression experienced.
Your fate is not fixed, its recognized, remembered, like you knew all along.
They call me kona the blarbarian bard of"Darshan"
Descension and Ascension!
The race Earth humans come from, were a race that gathered the wonder of Life all over, and went around creating living libraries for Consciousness to mature or evolve in.
This race is has 12 primary DNA and thousands of secondary. As we move closer to the center of our galaxy, our source of Self, recognizes, remembers riding the bike, this is recognized fate of who you are, they didn't call it a youniverse for nothing.
This race on Earth was attacked long ago, star wars, a Hindu epic, by the giant Titans and their slave army's.
They lost the Earth experiment version of the living libraries and retreated to the youniversities of Libraries, but not the youniversal court, which is in Titan domination since before Earth's birth, but which their Goddess Khaa did, we called her Gaia.
Meeting a Titan, or the Queen, is very different than you can imagine. Many would die from heart failure if one would come into your pressence in this finishing dark age of Kali yuga.
Titans have several agendas for Earth having driven off the gods of Earths Living Library, along with others and your governments, they have hidden the truth of his story and hers.
It's not pretty, but it is beautiful, as truth is farther than you think, and closer than you feel.
Thank you.
It's a mistake to claim that Niflhel is "below Hel". It was obviously the same place as Niflheim in the Prose Edda. Hel was originally thought to be under one of the roots of the world tree Yggdrasill, but was later placed *within" Niflheim. The disgraced dead would be thrown out of Hel, into the surrounding cold world of Niflheim, for their misdeeds. Hel was thus a world within a world. Niflhel is to Niflheim as Múspell is to Muspelheim. Different words for the same place.
Hel was looking at your avatar name
@@icanfartloud You deserved it.
Fascinating. Really striking about the isotopes in teeth
It bothers me that everyone pronounce Odin wrong. The word Odin is a popular culture creating, by Americans and Britts (The closest would be Othin in case you should end the name with "in").
Here in Sweden we say OODen, Wöden, Wotan.
In school we learn this in 4th grade... its a central part. However... right now its political question, it wasnt when i grew up in the 90s. For many its sad to see.. but this lecture makes me happy to watch :)
It really bothers you? Geez get a life.
@@mrdarren1045 Yes it bothers me since its my heritage and culture. I dont want the history to be told wrong... we see that too much already.
Really good, glad I watched this.
Embla and Askr sounds a lot like Eva and Adam ...
When he started with all the countries the Vikings had traveled to I thought he was going to compare Viking cosmic ideas to ideas in some of those of countries.
@Doctor Feelgood Yes, but then there are coincidences that are beyond the realm of chance and yet there is no known contact between groups. I have never seen anyone tackle this for the Norse. Or even, coincidences where there is known contact.
@@watermelonlalala the Tower built to baal
@@watermelonlalala - It’s all connected.
Watch on CZcams/read Michael Heiser.
Thank you kindly........
The stories of Giants are significant. ...the metaphor of Ash....lines up with the Eden story & the Book of Giants.
Seeing the " tree - of- life" as simply .....The tree which can move.
There is a linguistict connection with ancient words for Man.......and ...Tree.....as a Tree is most common available object for metaphor. Usage.,ect.....
The symbol of man, yggdrasil and vegvisir have a probability of all stemming from a direct CME hit where northern lights caused seemingly "solid" patterns to appear all the way down to mediterranean instead of the loose lines of light usually seen far north.
The title 'Children of Ash' brought me here...
Person...who dreamt up the name has no idea He/She is making the most fundamental declaration of the Origin status of Mankind...!
Indeed...we are the 'Children of Ash'
We are Carbons...We will return to Ash
Unlike the 'Children of Dust'
Who were the Silicons' and turned to Dust...Long ago...!
Nevertheless...I've enjoyed the lecture...
Thanks
Ash as in the ash tree.
Didn’t Andy from The Office attend Cornell?