Mead Drunk Viking 10k Q&A!
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- čas přidán 10. 07. 2024
- You wonderful people helped grow my channel so much through 2020 that we hit recently 10,000 subscribers! Thank you so much!
These are all questions you submitted on my Community Tab about channel plans, video ideas, reenactment stories, Viking fashion, Norse religion. So here's a selection, and all the footage of me drinking mead you could ever possibly need.
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I really enjoy your honest communication style. Your students are quite lucky (so are we!).
"We march on London! Their walls are down and the river is undefended."......I'm so in.
Let’s do it
London bridge is coming down again
As an Australian that was “supposed” to be coming to the UK this year, I would totally join this! When I get there... eventually...
Hello, I am an Irish person 😁 you were pretty accurate with your comparison of the Welsh and Irish approach to teaching their native languages. Essentially, Ireland hasn't made it cool yet. Functionally it's much the same as in Wales, we have to learn Irish up to leaving cert level (the end of secondary school/high school), there are Irish language schools (but not as many as in Wales) and we are officially a bilingual country (all our road signs have to be in both English and Irish) but the reaction would be the opposite if someone in Ireland said they couldn't speak Irish. In a lot of situations people would be shocked if you could. Its a pity because it is a beautiful language, I really do hope we can find a way to make it cool ❤
I'm in Ireland and yes you do have to learn Irish from the moment you enter school until leave school, so basically from the age of 5 to 18. There are also totally Irish speaking schools and areas within Ireland called Gaeltacht areas where only Irish is spoken. Ireland also has a dedicated TV channel called TG4 where 90% of programmes are in the Irish language. All government and public information must be in both English and Irish.
Top info, diolch!
In Ulster it's slightly more complicated, depends on the school, also from what I remember there is a different dialect and a different way of teaching it? Apologies if I'm wrong, it's been a long time and I was only taught the very basics in primary school.
@@fenrir2616 in norn iron it's different. Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan do the same as the rest of the Republic
I want to say that I really appreciate your willingness to consistently call out supremism in modern norse circles. I understand why other CZcamsrs or experts on associated topics might not want to be as vocal about it, but it is so refreshing to see someone who unequivocally, again and again, calls it out for the bullshit it is and doesn't dance around the topic to preserve their political ambiguity for likes and shares.
Yes please for Welsh! I would love that. I'm doing a Germanic Philology degree and this channel is great for procrastination ("It's vaguely related. I'm not really wasting time.")
an interesting video idea would be you looking at other Celtic languages such as Cornish, Manx etc and comparing their similarities and differences to welsh
Thank You so much! I get a giggle out of the haters hating and making you money. That said, please keep on being the lovely human you are! Hugs from Minnesota, the home of fake runestones. ;)
I think being beaten to death by fuzzy fuzzy mittens is a fetish. Or at least it should be.
I am gladdened to hear honest discussion of viking beauty standards, without the overblown drama that is constant here in America. I am a straight man (rather typically masculine) , and I like navy blue, oxblood or forest green for my nails. I get some glares, but I take pride in my grooming and my nails...short, clean and beautifully maintained.
these are sexy colors. Black is also good.
30k in 7 months? 50k before the end of the year. Im really glad to have found you after going through so many viking history YTs that snuck racism and bigotry through the back door.
Keep guarding that glorious rainbow bridge you beautiful welsh creature.
Thank you for the shoutout! The Anvil is gonna tent-peg me into the ground, but it's all for a good cause!
It will be glorious folly, like the charge of the Light Brigade!
I'm glad you like "The Ragnar" because I haven't gotten a haircut since the beginning of the pandemic and was thinking of getting that cut!
Sweet scabbard, btw.
I had the same idea for the pandemic and grew mine out for a Geralt halloween kit last October but at this point I might just hold out for the Rollo hair instead of the under cut😂😂😂
Thanks! Next one will be better!
Jimmy is a precious gem comfirmed.
You're a role model for being a good human being.
That's it! The exact perfect descriptor for which I've been searching: a good human being. Truly.
Doing historical reenactments in a pub would be pretty amazing though. Especially if they were open to the public at the time. (You'd probably have to leave your swords at home though.) I'm just imagining what people would think walking into a pub and it's full of Vikings.
I think it would be cool to go to a pub full of viking reenactors and I don't drink. I would go just for the entertainment value.
That T-shirt is blooooody amazing! I'm definitely pro "Jimmy's Welsh phrase of the week", it would be amazing for a language nerd like me :)
And I agree, I went to a English medium school in Finland, and it just meant that I was able to remain a native English speaker even after I no longer lived in an English speaking country. At the same time, it did not hamper my mastery of Finnish a single bit.
Wow, 50min ! Gonna have to crack the cider open for that. It's been amazing seeing you grow exponentially this past year. Here's to another 10k !
Definitely a Welsh phrase at the end of a video! Hooray for NERDS!!! 💗💗
Thanks for answering my question! We all need a Becky in our lives to bully us into doing cool things
(1) Congratulations! And (2) I would be super into a Jimmy's Welsh Phrase of the Week. That would be awesome sauce! :-D
Goodness gracious, I had to look up coracle and it's a little Welsh boat! I was worried you would have to weave a sail, but no. It's too tiny to have a sail, except to wrap yourself from cold. Congratulations on the viewers! PS my suspicion for hearding cattle, sacrificial or regular, is children, usually girls. See relatively recent history 18 & 19th century for rural children being hired out to heard cattle starting at age 7 or 8. My Norwegian great great grandmother was hired out at age 8 to heard cattle, miles away from home, for room, board and a bit of money. Not unusual at all.
Far out, your GGG's first job story is amazing! 😲 The independence and competence expected of kids in previous generations just blows my mind...
I suppose it was a natural product of shorter life expectancies & scarcer resources, but it's still incredible what they were able to achieve and cope with at what is (to us) such an incredibly young age?
Can't tell you how much I'm enjoying your channel, having found my way here from the Costube community. Your inclusivity, and political stances and favorite color are all a balm in this insane world.
You're marching on London? Excellent! Let me know when you're 10 minutes away and I'll put the kettle on...
Congratulations! You are making great content, keep going! And skål!!!
Thanks Matej! :) Very much appreciated!
The Welsh language is a great language
Ooh. You went very Welsh this video. I keep telling people about the channel
Belated congratulations on your 10k and now nearing 30k subscribers!
I was always fascinated by this era of history in Europe but because it is was (and sadly is) satruated with white supermancists (especially in my home town in the Pilis hills, Hungary) I moved away from any society that even mentioed it as a young teenager... but seeing you being a decent, nonracist, nonsexist person talking about a community of likely minded people was a real amazing discovery that it is now accessable as an interst without the padding. I do have way too many time consuming and expensive hobbies tho, so I will be just lurking for the time being.....
anyways... thank you!
I can't express how excited it got when I realised that you were Welsh!! Doubly so when I realised that you did historical stuff about Wales (and history in general, tbh). The education system here is so bad about Welsh history that the only thing that we really learnt about was castles. The majority of what I know about Welsh history is either from A levels (literally just Patagonia and Tryweryn) or my own research, so it's nice to have a more comprehensive place I can learn from rather than rooting through somewhat dubious and contradictory websites.
I don't know if it's just that I'm looking in the wrong place, but you are the only Welsh CZcamsr that I've found that it is still active.
I think it'd be really cool if you added more Welsh into your videos!!
Sorry for the length of this comment, but I really wanted to let you know how great I think this channel is!!
Glad to represent Yorkshire in the march on London
I'm not sure why but I always immediately trust men who wear nail polish, their vibes are impeccably comforting for some reason.
big mood lol. 1) they do their manicure which implies nice things about their person in general 2) fight against the gender norm machine which also implies nice things about their person. instant trust vibes.
Growing hops is suprisingly easy and they're usable at the first bloom (although not always of the best quality). As long as you have enough vertical space and keep an eye on where they're growing you should be good. Planting should be done march or april at the latest, as long as there is not going to be a frost they'll be fine. Not sure where to find plants in the uk, but reaching out to local hop growers is always a good start. It's easiest to have them grow on a rope or something you can cut down when they are ready to be harvested, as you can completely cut down the whole plant around august/september/october when harvesting
I hope you find time to do this, Jimmy ! I want to see it before I attempt myself ! ;)
I’ve just found this channel in the last week and I absolutely love it! The academic rigour and your presentation style are so good, thoroughly looking forward to more.
Also that scabbard looks awesome, as do those swords!
Thank you for the most enjoyable 50 minutes I've had these last few days, Jimmy. Your enthusiasm for the things you do and your humour never fail to lift my mood. On to the 20k subs! May both you and your channel thrive!
...I would totally march on London
Your scabbard and swords are really cool. Are the swords based on finds, too? My fav bit of bought kit is a long bow based on ones from the Battle of Crecy, and fav made kit is a suede bow wrap and quiver for it.
Looking forward to your Welsh phrases. My dad's maternal side is from Wales, his great-grandmother only spoke Welsh and smoked a clay pipe well into old age 😄
(Thanks for answering my questions btw 🙂)
The "This pocket kills fascists"- pocket is awesome. And you deserved to recieve it.
Just bagged a Heimdal loves rainbows shirt for my son, very awesome!
I watched this again just for pleasure. You're now at 4o+ and deserve it.
I’d love a Welsh phrase of the week. Or a Welsh video every once and a while. I started learning Welsh a while back, but had to switch over to French (because my parents took me to Guadeloupe and I had to get some conversational French under my belt) and ASL (because I’m going hard of hearing, and communication is so much nicer that way)
But I miss the Welsh. I’m primarily Irish and Scottish by blood, but I feel like I’m Welsh by soul.
Wow, your ability and drive to acquire new languages is impressive Kit! Very cool that you're starting sign language too, though I'm so sorry to hear re the hearing loss issue 😬 (I find trying to pick up people's conversation in busy restaurants or cafes & similar places is the absolute worst - muzak, kitchen noise, cutlery clattering, other speakers yakking - yikes.) Do hope your learning goes well & helps you adjust!
Congrats! Awesome to see the channel growing. Love the content.
@@OrileyOwnage lol typo ;)
Well you rock! Thanks!
I thoroughly enjoyed listening to you answer questions for an hour! As I’ve said before, I’ve enjoyed watching your channel grow so quickly. It’s truly rare that a You Tuber can no longer keep up with his subscriber’s messages after just a few short months! You go, you! I also appreciate that you try to be so inclusive and kind as you talk about people in the past and in the present. PS The Welsh language is very musical on the ears. I won’t begin to try to learn it, but will enjoy listening to you share it with us!
Congrats on the well earned 10k. I had no idea you started this channel because of the plague lockdown but I am so glad you did. Your channel is fabulous, interesting, funny and so approachable. I would love to see Jimmy's word or phrase of the week. Thank you for making such a wonderfully fun, well informed, inclusive, nerdy safe space with your videos
Second that! 😊 I notice a number of costubers are making efforts to be more inclusive recently (across various spectra) in their vid intros etc, but it feels like Jimmy is one of the few who are able to naturally incorporate such a humane & humanist approach throughout their whole oeuvre of work?
The nail polish look sounds great. Coincidentally I'm currently wearing something quite similar.
ALso yes, deffo more welsh. Always up for a bit of language learning. *looks round in case the Owl is watching*
Duo is always there. Always watching... judging...
@@TheWelshViking yup. Just been nagged to do my daily swedish. *sigh*
Phrase of the week!! Yessssss! Please. Pretty please.
I LOVE all the Black Adders. The very final scene of The Black Adder series gives me the chills just thinking about it.
Great video - Wish I could join you in the mead drinking! By the way - your gloves on the bookshelves behind you look like two little ghosts. The one in front is waving and the other is peaking out from behind. :o)
Maybe they're taking on a life of their own, and will handle the retribution Jimmy mentioned all by themselves!! 😝 Watch this space (slightly warily)....
On Welsh; I'm curious how accurate Duolingo is. I've been working on it for several months but having never been closer to Wales than Regina, Saskatchewan and knowing precisely 0 actual Welsh-speakers, I have no idea how accurate it actually is.
Not bad actually! It’s a bit stiff, but it’ll stand you in very good stead! :D Da iawn chdi!
@@TheWelshViking that's good to know!
@@TheWelshViking good to know! I've been starting to learn welsh with duolingo. If finances allow I'll be coming to Raglan Ffair for an sca event one day hopefully...
A couple of other commenters have covered the current state of the Irish language pretty accurately, so I will just add that for anyone who is interested I would recommend the podcast Motherfocloir, especially the early episodes, for a contemporary breakdown of the language and culture. They also have had guests who specialise in other Celtic languages, and Brythonic as well I think 🤔
Ok but who else got Ridiculously inspired by the We Take London speech? Like it'll take me a couple days to get a ship together but I wanna be there XD
To me, my warband!
Yes please! Welsh ^-^ Don't have anything that I have made (sadly) but love our Wedding sword - it's a Celtic Willowleaf and has a Dragon and a Tiger on the leather scabbard (Chinese zodiac) - we got married in 1987!!
Favourite homemade item: probably my Eura dress, for comfort! Fave storebought kit item would be my turtle brooches.
Nice!
Here's to another 10k subs.
At this rate of growth, a 20,000 subs Q and A will have to be done in about 5 mins time!
The big difference in the teaching of Irish in Ireland and the teaching of Welsh in Wales is that he learn to speak it, while we spend years learning about poetry that we don't understand and learning off a few short stories that we vomit back up onto Irish paper 1&2 in the leaving cert and then forget.
My favorite bought items are my sword, spear, and turtle broaches. Made item isn't even close to being finished but I am making a plant dyed serk (sark?) and smokkr. And for some reason I have decided to do it all in period fashion. All hand dyed, hand sewn, and I have lost my mind but also hand weaving all the trim. I hope to get it finish before I turn 100, I'm not going to bet on it, but that is my goal! LOL
Welsh is welcome in any way, shape or form :)
As much as "vikings" are my jam, GO TEAM ANVIL!
I think you're my new favorite CZcamsr! Drunken Viking ramblings...great fun! Not just Vikings, but anthropology and speaking Welsh (I can't speak more than two words...honestly...and it's bara brith, which I made for the first time about a month ago). I'm working on a Norse-y-Finnish personna and always want to learn more about that culture. (PS - I'm also a CZcamsr doing tablet weaving things). Thank you for your contribution to the GOOD information on Vikings and Norse cultures. :D
youve got some of the most watchable content on this site youre a delight to watch
I'm looking at your woolen mittens resting on that shelf and the more I am, the more I'm imagining some sneaky moths trying to munch on them. The warm time of the year is beginning and all sort of creepy crawlies are starting to wake up. Please store things made from natural fabrics with some moth repellent - if you want to keep it natural and environmentally friendly, I suggest grapefruit, peppermint, eucalyptus, bergamot, orange blossom, lavender, clove, cedarwood, sandalwood, and geranium.
Also, cedar ?!
Whoops, you DID put "cedarwood", my apologies!
I adore everything about you and your channel. I nerd out every time I watch. You are a delight, and your shirt is pretty rad too.
Congrats and thank you for the very fun video!
So glad you'd like to learn blacksmithing. It's awesome fun. My daughter started smithing age 12, and is now a qualified smithy. My other daughter loves welding too. If you ever find yourself Birmingham way I can get you a day's smithing experience with Alan the Blacksmith. We're also viking re-enactors. Thanks for the fantastic videos.
Congratulations and hope you'll hit 20k even faster.
Jimmy: if you survived this long...
me, who had enough time to join the patreon, back up 3 times to catch bits I missed, realize Welsh sounds dope af, and realize other people also get giddy af about history stuff: imma watch at least 5 more times by Friday
i reckon he should go and be a commentator for that fight for the homeless :D
I am sitting here, drinking mead that I made (Aged 1 full year!! Got the recipe from Tasting History with Max Miller) and knitting a baby blanket for a friend of mine, absolutely loving your channel and all the wonderful information. I love your Q&A videos, so much fun! I am bingeing your channel because it's so fun! And I learn a lot as well!
Would you be willing to post information on bubblers and airlocks and hygrometers and grain that you use in brewing? I am super inspired to do more. I have a friend in the SCA who makes her own mead as well, and I'm curious about trying fruit mead.
Yes! More Welsh please ! I so enjoy hearing you speak it, it is fascinating!
How was the mead?
@@TheBaconWizard It was absolutely delicious. I plan on brewing a lot more this winter. Thanks for asking!
@@kelseylogas1580 :o) Glad to hear it!
Yay, Max Miller's Medieval Mead ❤
Love this stuff, when I do it the result is a lot like a white wine with honey flavour instead of the oversweetened thick stuff you mostly get from shops.
I really enjoyed this. I’m looking forward to the next one at 20k! Not far off your almost at 14k! Congratulations again!! Keep up the great work!
Your scabbard is wonderful. You should be very proud of it.
~6:30: Definitely! Both of those (says the Cornish living in Ireland who's loosing bits of Cornish the more Irish I learn). As I understand it, they do have to do Irish in schools (every lesson except English). Sadly for those of us who want to learn it as adults, it seems like the vast majority don't like it and refuse to speak as adults.
~9:00: From an immigrant perspective, it feels as though there's still that difference of the Welsh are very outward in the sharing of the language - I learned a lot of my smattering of Welsh on holidays as a kid - Criccieth (* That Castle!*, Cardigan Bay etc), where with Ireland there's often a bit of a ...suspicion isn't the right word, but it's in that wheelhouse to 'outsiders' wanting to learn it (at least in the back and beyond where we are). You often hear 'well it's too hard really to learn as an adult' etc etc & then people just won't converse with you, so you don't really get to string words together. I can tell you apple, horse, water, milk etc, and I have only the one sentence ('The ladies are drinking'). At least it's a useful one. ;)
A bleth os ta devedhys?
Devedhys ov a Looe.
That's just about exhausted what I remember from Cornish Club at school. Living in the NE for years hasn't given me much scope for practicing my mother tongue.
Thank you so much for all the videos you put out! I haven't been subscribed long, but I absolutely love it.
Pls more Welsh lessons. Like, whole video series. It IS a really beautiful language.
Really interesting to hear about other countries that have language immersion schools. I didn't actually consider this 'a thing' in other presumptively English countries (how silly of me). In New Zealand we have Maori medium schools (kura) and kindergartens (kohanga), my daughter is enrolled in a bilingual class so everything is done in Te Reo Maori as well as in English.
Kia ora! Yeah, it's really fascinating to hear & contrast how other countries handle promotion of heritage languages. Based on some other comments seen, I'd say NZ definitely isn't yet anywhere near on a par with Wales, Ireland etc in this respect...?
We do have nga kura etc & quite a bit of te reo promotion in general kindy & primary schooling, but Maori isn't compulsory through high school (in fact they're only now starting to look at making it a "core" subject at that level, yikes).
Govt signage is all bilingual & there's the public-funded Maori tv channel, but bilingual shop signage is much more likely to contain Chinese/Korean than Maori, and there's no requirement for general TV news broadcasts etc to be broadcast in both te reo & English. Sadly, as far as I'm aware, not even a legal requirement for all public-funded tv to have Maori CC subtitling...?
Hop shoots are an excellent green veg, my grandmother used to cook them!
Ooh good to know! On further investigation, they might be a good option for the backyard!
@@TheWelshViking down here in the south they grow wild in the hedgerows
Congrats Jim!
You deserve it, love your channel. Much success for the future!
Congrats!
Congrats on 10K! Love your t-shirt :)
Congratulations on the 10K subscribers!
Thanks for the answer dude congrats on the 10k 👍🍻
I'm a bit late, but congrats to 10K! That was a very interesting and entertaining Q&A.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge! Your videos are so interesting and engaging, and it’s great to have a good laugh while watching them!
It's so awesome to see your channel grow SO MUCH in such a short time 😄
Most entertaining, and inspiring for everyone, you do look to have a lot of fun with your vids.
Great video. Was great watching this and learning more about you. The shirt is awesome! Glad you have so many followers, you deserve it.
not me doing Norman homework for a level history as you mention Harold Godwinson
Wow, I think that "Thai pub" might have been The White Horse in Forest Hill. I have friends who live near it and we went for lunch there the last time I visited them. Nice place.
Yes!! That's the place! Lovely wee gaff
Unbeliveable how quick this was! Amazing work congratulations on 10k and I hope truly hope you get all the attention you well deserve, greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴
It is so amazing that your channel has grown. You have so many wonderful ideas to share with us while making us smile at the same time. Thank you for being you, and I look forward to following you into the future. Take care.
Love the channel!
You are a delight to follow! I am excited to contemplate videos on how you make that scabbard.
yo dude this is awesome your channel is amazing and please continue to keep up the hard work.
Jimmy's Phrase of the Week. Yes, please.
Thanks so much for answering my question! This is one of the most thoughtful and thorough Q&As I've ever seen. Looking foward to following your advice on finding a new group as soon as leaving the house is a thing again 😊
I NEED that shirt for work! LOL Also, I love the channel and I SO SO glad I found it! So glad the channel is going and I must say I love it when you speak Welsh! It is a beautiful language.
Good video and congrats! at the time of my watching you're already 3k over the threshold that spurred the video.
Thank you for a interesting Q & A video. I love hearing the Bangor accent.
This is an appreciation comment. This channel is awesome and wouldn't I be so shy I would share it with everyone I now. (Only shared it with some.) I adore how you fight down discrimination and are not afraid to take up sensitive topics. I love that I learn history based on evidence on this channel and that you bust a lot of myths. And your humor is awesome. Also appreciation for editing Jimmy, he does an awesome job.
Would love to learn Welsh and a sentence at the end of a video is great, but I would really love a dedicated video or two in some basics :) I took all 4 of my kids to Leeds Armouries and it kept them all engaged, but that was many years ago and I really want to take my grandson now, and catch the jousting this time! Let me know when we are off to take London and I'll bring the beer ;)
YES JIMMY PHRASE OF THE WEEK!!!! 1000000000000000% yes
SO JEALOUS!! Lived in Pembroke (last place my Dad was posted to) and have visited Leeds Armoury twice ,,, sigh