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The distinction between pre and post 997 Trondheim is that the town used to be situated around the court of the Earl of Lade, east of the river. Tryggvason established a trade center west of the river, which is today's downtown area. The name 'Trondheim' derives from Norse for the entire region, Þróndheimr ('home of the Þróndr (people))'. 'Nidaros' (niðaróss) literally translates as 'the mouth of the river Nid' (Nidelven - the river flowing through the city today). Tryggvason's name for the place was 'kaupangr (í Þróndheimi)', lit.: 'The Town (in Trondheim)'.
(The place name) Hell derives from Norse: 'hellír', meaning 'cave'/'overhanging cliff'. Modern Norwegian 'helle', meaning 'stone slab', shares etymology. Has nothing to do with neither English 'Hell' nor with Norwegian 'hell' ('luck', 'good fortune') :)
That museum has had a bit of a bad wrap, hence why I guess locals fail to mention it. It is usually seen as a place where primary school classes went on a short field trip, not much more. Only in the last decade or so, it has started modernizing (and expanding) their exhibits, actually making it a museum worth visiting.
As a local with an interest for pre-Christian Norwegian history, it saddens me that we've not at all done much to display and take preserve our cultural heritage in and near Trondheim. I grew up in a small town called Melhus, a half hour drive south from Trondheim. The only remnants of Viking Age history here are the municipality coat of arms depicting the local chieftain Einar 'tambarskjelve' Eindrideson, the Jarlshóla cave (where the thrall Tormod Kark murdered his master Earl Håkon, just a few hundred yards from my childhood home), barely marked with a small plaque like the one missing at 29:48, and the fact that the municipality boasts about being "the Saga village" due to all the mentions of the place in Snorre's sagas...
I share your conclusion, that much of the pre-Christian history was burried (both literally and figuretively) by the Church, but in recent times we have started digging. Thanks for a good video on the topic, especially one that shifts the focus a bit away from Oslo and the western region, as Trondheim was in fact the first actual power center of Viking Age Norway.
When you see all the history and things done to honor the Gods despite the erasure of it, it is undeniable that everybody’s ancestors knew what they were doing Spiritually from all over the world in ancient times. Wonderful video! Your hard work is appreciated, Jacob.
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed!
I loved this video. Thank you for letting us reconnect with our norse culture and soul. Greetings from Montevideo, Uruguay!
I have seen many neo-Christian larping crusaders yell at pagans "Your ancestors' religion? YOUR ANCESTORS CONVERTED!" as if that's an argument. They think our ancestors, after a peaceful and thoughtful conversation with Christians, decided "oh yes, this Jesus things seems much better than our belief system. Let's all become Christian and be happy together!" While as you point out, it was an extremely bloody story of genocide to turn Europe Christian. Only the sword and threat of complete destruction made people convert.
I recently found out I was almost half Sami. I researched how I could not know that and it's because of the sword and the threat you mentioned. People were forced to give up language, culture, religion or starve and be killed. You didn't acknowledge that you were Sami because that could end badly, and you were looked down upon. Ironically, I found out doing my DNA and looking at the church records that listed those of my ancestors who were Sami and spoke the language. The church kept records, not in a positive way but to track people and making sure they were norwegianized. But thanks to those same records I can now reclaim my heritage.
@@Ekinnajay Fantastic stuff. 👍🏻 I am a very small part Sami as well, known from my family tree (my dad is getting genealogy a lot in later years), but that's back in the 18th century. We also found out through genetic testing that both of my parents are some 15% Finnish, and both genetic testing and genealogy confirms my dad's male line go back to Finland and Finnic peoples very, very far. The remaining 85% is Swedish/Scandinavian. 🙃 I love this stuff, I've always loved history and this helps me feel more connected to the people who lived before.
@@Aethuviel My DNA doesn't list Sami, it listed Inuit (I was like wtaf???), and finnish and swedish, as well as the norwegian, and a pinch Scottish. It floored me because there is no oral history of any of those besides the norwegian. Then I looked at the area in Sweden and Finland, and they are the Sami areas. Many of my DNA relatives that lived there were dressed in Sami garb. The Inuit is common for Sami on a DNA test. Then with the records, it all came together. My grandmother was full, my grandfather was almost full. My dad had no idea or he was in denial, as it was considered a shameful thing to be when he was growing up. I was a druid before discovering this recently, but my belief system is very similar to what I have read that the sami believe, and it makes me wonder about knowledge carried down in generations. The generational trauma also makes sense when looking at my family and my own experiences in life. I felt such a deep connection and a sense of wonder when I learned of my heritage. Good luck finding out the rest of the genealogy info. I suggest my heritage, as that is the dna service most popular in europe.
The church and christianity as a whole have done the best propaganda job in history, it convinced history that their genocide was a "enlightenment."
So, I don't posses the knowledge to properly refute your claims about the "conversion". However, in a secular/atheistic age in which degeneracy and ignorance eclipses that of all past societies, what is the point of conflict between different forms of religiosity? When the great evil of modernity threatens to destroy any and all forms of religiosity, why would you spend your energy in an attempt to undermine any form, that is if you are not yourself an agent of modernity? I am equally irritated by "christians" and "pagans" attacking each other in this way - christianity itself initially integrated older forms of religiosity, such that one can even assert that the only place in which these traditions have survived to any extent whatsoever is within christianity itself. And, it's not like the differences between any form of religiosity is that great when put in contrast to the lies of present day materealism. When you live in ragnarok, under the reign of the anti-christ, why would you fight anyone but the actual enemy?
I've passed by that skatepark many times before and never realized there's a tomb right by it, thanks for sharing all this information for free
As a side note.
The dancing guys where kicking their hats while holding them.
Norway and parts of western Sweden has a dance called ”Halling” that is rather actobatic. It often ends with kicking a hat held high by another guy. 👍🇸🇪
That's what they were describing to me lol. They were a lot of fun
aw thats cool
As a Norwegian, this information of not knowing and desecrating historic sites was upsetting to me. I don't live there now, but will within the next 2 years and will make it my mission, as a retired person with time on their hands, to make this information known. It's funny, too, because the church in Norway is basically just cultural. No one I know in my family actually goes to church. You get baptized and confirmed, as cultural traditions, and that is it. Even some of the pagan traditions built in to the culture are starting to disappear. Julebokk happened on New Year's Eve. Children would dress up and go door to door and get fruit, nuts, small candies, and pennies. My parents, and others, would dress up and people would have to guess who they were as they would go door to door, have a few drinks and some treats and then move to the next house. Then they would hurry home to be at the end of the fun and be one of the last houses. This is a tradition going back to pre Christianity. Thanks to American influence, that is falling by the wayside as people now celebrate halloween instead. Nothing wrong with Halloween, it just wasn't a tradition there, ever, before the last 25 years or so. Excellent content, am really enjoying these videos.
I wish you all the bestie your effort to keep tradition alive 🙌!
i saw that subtle anger of these sites being forgotten and not well cared for and i totally understand. i felt that too. Really pissed me off of the little mock up of the Uppsalla temple, that they had the audacity to still put a cross inside it , instead of actually putting wooden statues of the gods that used to be there. I wanted to throw the cross right out the door.
Thank you for all your hard work finding these sacred places and giving them the respect they deserve. Lots of love jacob
Great Job, Jacob! For someone raised in Germany for a time, I'll probably never get to visit the Scandinavian homelands of some of my forefathers, so I'm very appreciative of The Wisdom of Odin channel to teach me of the ancient past. My other forefathers were Celts, so you have them covered too. 👍
I live in Hokksund in Norway. Within a 2km radius from my house I have one of Norway's oldest farm where they found the Hoen skatten, Norways largest viking treasure find. This spring the national historical museum had archeological dig based on finds of a couple of hobbyist with metal detectors, one of my regular bike rides passes by. Unfortunately the find turned out to be one corner of a large viking structure, the major part of which sits on the other side of road that passes through the site where they don't have permission to dig. At first the speculation was that the remains were part of a manor house housing the king's representative in in the area. During the digs, items dating back to the stone age were found indication that komune I live in, Øvre Eiker, has a long history of being a senter of power. The old viking senter around Tønsberg, and the viking ships were found an hours drive south of us.
Bravo Jacob! Great work! Sitting over here in Australia but my DNA shows my Ancestry lies in Norway, Iceland, Western Europe, Ireland, UK so, so grateful for your shows.🙏👏
Great Video! I didnt want it to end! keep them coming Jacob, for all our sakes.
Thank you! So glad you enjoyed it!
Nice work and what an adventure brother!!! I hope that Norway will take more measures and action to preserve these sacred and historical sites and information.
There are certainly those who care, but it doesn't appear the government cares very much. Hope it gets better!
@@TheWisdomOfOdin I hope so too!
I know some of the stuff otherwise the government has been doing there hasn't been great either, namely the approval of locations for wind farms that's decimating native bird populations on the coastlines.
Good Video. Well Done.
Greetings from Norway.
Glad you enjoyed it!
ohh i have fun story about rock carvings.
I moved to the town of Fredrikstad to learn traditional boatbuilding. I moved into this very old house, it was on top a small but steep hill with exposed rock and in my garden, I saw someone had carved 1896(the year the house was built). After that i started to look around and found all sorts of different things carved into the hill.
I could not make out what most of it was so i started tracing out lines and found a big ship carved into the rock, it was like a 1850`s medium size trading schooner or something. I later found out that the man who built the house was a captain and that was probably his ship. I went out got some weather resistant paint and marked out the old ship. It was stunning!
Soo.. some people brought the rock carving traditon well into the early 1900`s at least
20:43 In Steinkjer, northern part of Trondheim fjord, there are lots of burial mounds. And in Inderøy there is mounds dated back to stone age.
I am an american norweigan from montana. I wish more people were interested in the past, with an egoless less biased perspective. You will see the scars and reality of the world around us and before us.
The amount of time spent researching for this video has to have been insane, Jacob. Hats off to you, man.
Thank you 🙏 it was a lot, but I think it was worth it to create this video ❤️
@@TheWisdomOfOdin the end result was incredible, buddy. You did an amazing job.
Wonderful video! I love history, genealogy and archaeology. I especially like the viking era and artifacts. As long as we keep speaking and honoring, our ancestors memory will always be kept alive. Thanks for sharing!
Thank you for taking the time to make all the videos, i've seen alot of them.
Love the content. Thank you brother ❤
I clicked like one minute in. Top-notch quality, and with a heart you'd never see on TV!
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoyed the video ♥️
I hope you had a good time in Trondheim! It's cool that you got to see so much of the history here. I have a few facts to clear up: sometimes in the sagas, the name "Trondheim" was associated with the area around the fjord, a bigger area, and it's not always clear whether the city is mentioned or this larger area. Second, Harald Fairhair was definitely mentioned as a believer in the Pre-Christian religion according to the sagas, but the same cannot be said for his son Håkon the Good. He was from the literary sources considered to be the first missionary king, and made big efforts to convert Norway into Christianity. The stories about them being crowned in Trondheim are also possible, but there is no evidence that these events ever took place, as the sagas was written hundreds of years later.
You are right that the area around Trondheim was very important before the city came into being, but it was the central farms, not an earlier city destroyed by Olav Tryggvason, that made it such an important place. Earlier in the Viking Age, the farms in the northern part of Trøndelag were the most important ones, but the farm named Lade (now a part of Trondheim) on the other side of the river from the Nidarnes peninsula, arguably became the most important farm in Norway towards the end of the Viking Age, according to the sagas. It was at this farm that the power of the local area probably was consolidated, by the mighty earls of Lade, a family dynasty. There are also mentions of a religious building, perhaps a temple or something of the sort, on Lade farm in the sagas, which is said to have been destroyed by Tryggvason. He apparently destroyed a lot of them around the country. There was also a farm on the Nidarnes peninsula, where the modern city center is today. It is believed to have been on the plateau close to Nidarosdomen. However, very little is known a out this farm as it is barely mentioned (indirectly) in the sagas. The archaeological evidence of this farm is also very scarce, and the exact location remains unknown. It is believed that this farm was under control of the bigger farm Lade.
It is important to mention that the farm on Lade has not been found in any excavations, but it is believed that it stood around the area where Lade church (mid/late 12th century) stands today. However, a large amount of monumental grave mounds were described in the area in the late 1700's, which indicates that there was indeed a very important Iron Age farm here. This is also supported by several finds in the area, such as a sword and a high-class clay pot (in which the latter probably predates the Viking Age). The earls of Lade may have used the Nidarnes peninsula as a loading place or cargo area, an important part of the long trade routes of Norway, which the origins of the Old Norse name Lade could be an indication of. This may be why a market town evolved here, as it was a natural harbor in the bottom of the fjord, and with the river Nid coming down from the Selbu lake.
There are signs of urban activity that can be traced back to around the 970's, if I'm not mistaken. The previous activity on the peninsula seems to be agricultural, for the most part. After the newer radio carbon and dendro analyses of "St. Clement's Church", it was also revealed that this was not in fact the church mentioned in the sagas, as it was too young to be that church. It was a church with 5 phases, from church A to E, church A being the oldest. Church A, the oldest one, was constructed around 1100, which makes it too young to have been built between 1000-1030. Furthermore, it was definitely a church and not a Pre-Christian building. This area did not have any signs of religious activity prior to the first church, on the contrary, there is evidence of residential houses under the church.
This was amazing! Love all the places & museum you found 👏👏👏
You can feel how much effort went into this one, great job! Very convincing theory!
Thank you!
The rock carvings were very cool! Thanks for showing us!! I feel like they should be covered by a structure to preserve them. Incidentally....1/4 of my family came from Hel Poland, so I was surprised to see that Norway has a Hell too :) The hat dance you did with those guys made me spit my coffee all over my computer keyboard, so thanks for that! What you were saying about temples being in Norway...I think you are absolutely right! I read the account by Saxo as well (you sent me the PDF link if you remember :), and that small chapel is what I saw in my mind's eye. And when you talked about the destruction of the burial mounds...that very same thing has happened in Wisconsin where I am from with our Native American burial mounds and it was for the same reason...to build farms. It's breaks my heart. Sacred spaces should be protected. Trondheim is a place I would like to visit. With my sensitiveness, I bet I would feel a lot there. This video was great Jacob! Thank you!!!
The lads with the hat dance was a wonderful surprise for my super serious research 😂 I really did talk with A LOT of people to get their take on their local history.
@@TheWisdomOfOdin I love that! The past lives through stories! ❤
We have similar rock carvings here in the U.S. that the natives supposedly made, some are said to be prophetic.
Trondheim is absolutely beautiful. Even through the screen I can feel an ancestral connection through the Nordic roots on my father's side. Would love to one day live in Norway and check out these rock carvings
You don't have to live here to experience it ❤️ Little steps everyday are better than large leaps throughout life. You will make it one day, one step at a time!
"Hey, I need to find some rock carvings, can you help me?"
"Go to Hell"
😀
I live in Norway, and near me (much further south, in the fjords) there is also a "Hell", and I had fun when I was looking around on google maps, and it said "Hell - Gods expedition".
It means cargo station, but boy did I get a laugh.
Wait til you find out about places with names like Hardanger.
Hell is the everyday usage usually meaning Luck 🍀
I am excited to see this ! I am fairly new to Norse Paganism and am devouring your videos 😊
Amazing video, I got literal chills when seeing the 2nd set of stone carvings.
Glad it came through! Was such a hard video to put together!
Great and inspiring work, thank you !!
I have always been surprised by the fact that, in this day and age, there is no database online of all the museums, libraries and historic pagan sites throughout Europe for those interested in such sites to visit!
There is in Sweden. The national heritage board provides a service called "fornsök" (ancient search). There you can find a map of the country containing all known historic sites from the stone age to the 20th century. Using it has been a bit of an eye opener for me. I live in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by forests, but when I looked up the place where I live I found out that there are sacred springs, offerkast and a stone where sacrifices to the gods are said to have been made just nearby. I had no idea.
New follower, and so impressed with the quality of this video! Fascinating information too.
Thank you very much!
Welcome to Norway! We live in Asker, near Oslo and there is a burial site a par hundred meters from our house. Legend says that the people here tried to dig up the treauseres beneath. But every time they tried, the church that was 200 meters away seems burning...so they run to put out the fire. But when they arrived, there was no fire. So they tried to dig again. But the same thing happened. Not just once but several times. So the people understood, that those graves are sacred and should be kept as they were. In peace. We love to visit them. And me and my husband "see" people there. Spirits. An energy. It is magical. Just a park for some others. But my family really loves to visit there, and sit under the oak trees and talk to the earth
Hi. I travel to Oslo occasionally. I would be interested to visit the place you mentioned. Could you please give me a bit more detailed address to the site? Thank you very much!
23:12 appears to show some kind of droid, lawnmower? i don't think burial mounds were necessarily destroyed by ignorance or apathy but religious control and more likely, looting. as a lifelong skateboarder and recent discoverer of lots of nordic and specifically Norwegian DNA i find it fascinating that there could be a Viking burial mound skate park. i will mention this to a pro skater i know who has embraced his Viking ancestry. also a last thought, maps shows a walking route from Trondheim to Upsala, 485km along a road perhaps this would make a good Nordic pilgrimage trek similar to the camino de santiago?
I keep seeing more hebrew letters in the art, and when I noticed the rock with the deer, or a lamb on it, in red, kind of makes me wonder if this was some sacrificial rock, and there could have been a giant that lived near by, and that they would cover these carvings in that particular animal's blood in order to distract the giant. Which could be considered like some type of magic trick, if you think about it... when avoiding the giant might mean a life or death scenario. I also wouldn't be surprised if they dipped the blood in hyssop.
My grandmother came from Verdal Norway [north Trondelag] in 1917. Her account of the church in her generation was that it was socially brutal, strict and driven by wealth. In Verdal they remain very committed to Olaf as every year is a pageant at Stiklestad on July 29. I have no doubt the conversion from pagan to Christianity was brutal. Those who remained in Norway during the migration years have really reformed things, however it is still taboo to question the church and guess which political party taxes the vices at a very high price.
I genuinely look forward to your videos mate 👍
I wish that I could have traveled with you. I have 3 sons (exchange students) from Norway. 2 in Trondheim, and 1 in Tonsberg where they are still finding burial mounds and significant Viking sites. Stiklestad Cultural Center in Verdal just north of Trondheim would have been a great place to visit as well.
Nidaros never was a name given by the church, it was the name of the place even before it was a town there, it's just means "mouth of the river Nid"
Thank you so, so much for all your hard work! 💚💚💚
Thank you 🙏
Super cool find!
Amazing video brother!!!!
It always blows my mind to see sites in Europe that are thousands of years old that are not being well preserved. It seems like if anything in the US is like 50 years old, it gets designated as an "historic" site. Great investigative work though! I really appreciate you taking the time to find these sites for your audience. Hopefully Norway will see the value of making them more visible/ well known. They could potentially use tourism money to help with upkeep.
norway never has been good at preserving their history or even teaching kids about their history
maybe because they have so much more? in all fairness...we don't preserve indigenous sites in america either
@@betmo There's actually tons of regulations for preserving indigenous sites in the US. My husband works for the BLM and if they even find a shard of an arrowhead, they have to stop whatever project they are working on and call an archeologist to determine if the site needs further archeological exploration. I think it's a lot different in the US because so much of our land belongs to the federal government that has to be regulated, vs most of Europe is privately owned land, so you can't do as much there.
@matiue7845 I had thought about this, too, when watching this video. But then I remember reading something about how because of the Nazi appropriation of Norse symbolism and the occupation of Norway, the people were made to be ashamed of their own history. Oddly enough, the American production of Vikings has gotten some of them reinterested in their own history, so there's that.
@@heidibock1017 Yeah, its a bit sad
Loved the video, Jacob! Very well put together. That creepy hall and room you ended up in looks like a place some black metal video would be recorded 😆
The last info was correct about the churches. There has been a few fires and distructions up in the time in Trondheim. But they rebuilt every time on top, due the ground was sacred. I have lived her for 20 years, even i have not heard about NTNU Museum :P
That's insane! It really is tucked away in a place you'd never just stumble on
Great video!
Some of those carvings look similar to paleo hebrew letters and native american letters formed into animals, etc.
Sometimes they would write them backwards and upside down, I noticed some like that here.
Missed the Premiere but catching up…. Excellent!
Hope you enjoy!
If you wanna see some great bronze age rock carvings, stone settings and grave mounds - go to Sarpsborg. There follow the "oldstidsveien" (ancient road). There are several amazing sites, not that well known.
Great info-packed video
So glad you liked it!
Another great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
looking forward to your new book! i loved the yule story ;)
Need time to write 😂
Beautiful Ypung Man! My daughter has your same hair and skin color!
It's lovely to see such ancient carvings in Scandinavia, and this is to remind people that the native Scandinavian people that still live here, have been here much, much longer than the Sami.
As a Swede, I am tired hearing people talk of the Sami as "the indigenous people of Norway/Sweden/Finland". No, they are ONE indigenous people of these lands, specifically of Lapland, the far-northern inland region. It's not known for certain but they have probably been here for 2000-5000 years, while us non-Sami Scandis have been here for 10 000 years, ever since the ice receded. And they've only kept reindeer for some 500 years (since after the middle ages).
I really like the Sami as people and culture, and am a very small part Sami myself (known through my family tree), they have managed to preserve some of their pagan roots for a bit longer (while they were forbidden by the church to practice their religion and this is seen as "racial oppression" - us pagans know that ALL people in Scandinavia were forbidden from practicing their native religion by the church, regardless of ethnicity), I just can't stand it when other fellow Scandis speak of "the indigenous Sami people", completely forgetting that WE are the first indigenous people of this land. 🙃
You must, must, must read the recent academic work on this topic. You are mistaken.
Thank you mate!
Wow absolutely beautiful Norway is.. Such a shame most of pagan ways were destroyed in the past through the years. What a fun adventure this look ❤
Thank you!
Good video! :-) You talk about rituals and who had the power. What you have found here could be very interesting if you couple it together with the pope of Rome and the possibility that Norway maybe never has been independant, at least not now. Also look deep into red shoes and children.
The winner of a war always writes the history. The officially correct history may not be at all what really happened. You can't hide the most influencial people, but the historians can deminish some of them and overstate some of them and tell us a story that didn't happen in that way.
Would love to see you walking around midsgardblot!
Thank youindeed for all of your videos. I wish that I could write all my thoughts, but my english writing is so bad. :D But I love your works.
I enjoy seeing you travel in Sweden and Norway. 🎉
Nice video 👍
Trondheim wasn't the name of a city during the Viking Age, it was the name of the general area which today is called Trønderlag.
Hey Jacob! I was wondering, are you planning to cover any slavic paganism in your channel? if you are interested to do it in the future, there is a island in Germany called Rügen that it was a religious center of western slavs (the Rani and even the Wends), they worshipped various pagan deities there that are very interesting, Sventovit the four headed god of fertility and war was the most proeminent, and I think that till this day, they have a feel things here and there from that time that wasn't destroyed by the christianizers when they came from Denmark, I don't know how much it would add to your content and yourself, but it's a suggestion, and since the situation with eastern slavic countries is very delicate nowdays, it would be better to stay in west for now, also this island isn't that far away from where you've been, and it was a very holy and important place for the western slavic paganism, possibly the most important one.
I reference that island in this video actually 🙏 Maybe one day, however intuition has not guided me that way yet.
@@TheWisdomOfOdin What a coincidence, that's crazy XD, I was at work so I didn't watched the whole video, now I saw it, haha, no problem brother, just keep doing your thing, we love it anyway.
10:03 Oh my gods that must be a killer whale. 😵 They are very common in the north of Norway and I've never seen one depicted in ancient art before, besides by the Haida. I am a killer whale nerd so I'm thrilled to see that.
🤬😡😠😭😥😢🥲🥰
My emotions whilst watching.
Thank you so much Jacob. I wish I wasn't struggling and could help you. Safe travels 🧙🏻♂👁
Glad the emotions ended good in the end ❤️
Very interesting. I want to learn about the Ancients.
It is a town and a church in Reeds town, where my ancestors are from
This will be interresting since i'm from Trondheim..
What did you think of it 👀
Its not easy to get a full view of the "viking age" in Trondheim and the area around the Trondheim fjord. A lot of history has been lost due to both ignorance and neglect over the centuries, so much of the history we know is based on "educated" guesses. Trondheim was a power center back in those days, and the centuries that followed, and many people believe that much of our pagan history has been demonitized, hidden and/or burned. I also know that some farmers that live on the coast of Trøndelag has found swords and other objects from the viking age, but they never reported it, and it is kept in private collections. I think you would find it interesting to talk to certain people in this area about what they believe what was really going on back in those days. Vikings have a reputation of being mindless plunderers and savages who killed monks and priests just to steal gold and treassure, but maybe it was actually a religious war going on? ..
The rock art is Saami… the indigenous Scandinavians - read all the academic papers on this- you will find them interesting. There is an enormous debate raging in academia about this as the colonists have designated the rock art as Germanic - but now we know - via comparison to Sapmi art, that they are Saami. Read!!
Very interesting on the Norwegian, culture and structures. Medieval ages family history with Sir Adam Gordon Knight of Normandy
DUDE STEPPED UP HIS GAME WITH THE VIDEO EDITING!!!!
And it about killed me 😆 But so worth it, very happy with how it turned out
It’s so sad the destruction Christianity brought to the world. So much was lost and hidden from humanity all in the name of god. Thank you for sharing our ancestral ways.
cope harder pagan
It's sad that a metal head burned down a "Stavechurch" built in a Nordic/Viking style cause he believed it was placed on a pagan worship place, keep in mind this was built just after the Viking age. I even think the Pagan Norsemen would feel disgust with this metal head who think pagan faith has anything to do with metal. He now lives in France, he is also a murderer. It goes both ways.
Yeah, absolutely a tragedy that Christianity forced the Pagans to end their traditions and practices like human sacrifice and ritual killings ;(. Or maybe we can instead look at the true facts and realize that Christianity was the main factor in civilizing even the most evil of people and basically forming the whole modern idea we have of morality in the world. You should be thankful to Christianity that you don't live in a world where at any moment a group of raiders can come in some longboats and kill half your village. Pre-Christian Scandinavia was not peaceful, actually one of the few historical accounts we have from Scandinavia prior to the mass conversion to Christianity actually cited these Heathen's practices so terrible that he refused to even write them down. For svarte lær din egen historie.
@@user-jf8oz2vh8d witch burnings crucifixion crusades the inquisition. but get down on your knees for you desert rat little dwarf
@laynam.3468 I may not be Christian anymore, but I was raised Christian, and being that dismissive and rude seems unnecessary.
Trondheim were the power center of old Norway up until christianity. We have a saying in Norway: If you remove the Trondheim part from the 'history book of Norway', you will be left with just the book covers..
16.00 That is a Swedish dance, not Norwegian. Little frog dance, tradition on midsummer.
I love your work here in the North 🌀⚡️🌪️ Keep up! Greetings from 🇸🇪
Many more northern videos to come!
I live by an innland fjord called Randsfjorden , close to Oslo.
My neighbour has a farm , going back to viking age. The farmer living there today, told me that a special area, about 1000 mtr away from the farm buildings was used as a the "old goods area" for rituals.
Every big farm had this at that time.
This area in Norway had several viking kings .Some born here. Olav trygvason and Harald Hardråde, brothers , from Stein gård, besides Steinsfjord.
At least one lived here in his old age.His name was Halfdan Svarte. This old viking king, died just few kilometers from my home, as he returned home after a christmas, party across the fjord on the ice. That is Old norse christmas, not christian . The sled and horses with many people died that night, as the ice broke midfjord.
People in this area (hadeland/ringerike) look exacly like you Jacob. Red hair and wide body and most have beard aswell. Other areas in Norway dont have that. Just a few red haired. Here it is most common.
Thank you for sharing, lots of interesting information 🍻
It is so disappointing that even there respect has been lost it is upsetting that they destroyed 😞 Burial mounds thats Designation
Mounds in the Earth represent the womb of Great Mother. She is Mother Earth. Hail to Her!!! Wells and other watery places represent Great Mother. Water is Her epiphany. She is the Cosmic Ocean.
According to Heathenism & their holy scriptures---
1.after death ,does soul can feel any non - physical thing for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how?
2. Does the soul have any memory of this world ( like memory of family, friends etc) for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how?
3.does the soul stays individual for eternal time after libration from birth & death cycle or when it didn't get libration from that cycle or even any how?
Please reply🙏
Amazing history I'm sure there is more too discover all over northern Europe. This is only one piece of the puzzle. Christianity destroyed so much 😢
Our history is still there, it was never erased by the church. We just have to find it again. The truth always wins.
Do a video about the Sami people
Great video, greetings from Wisconsin👍. Have you ever tried Russian bees?
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Don't call me Shirley.
Good to know that there is parking in Hell. Do they validate parking too?
Ngl Hell looks actually nice 😂😂
i live here😀
I really like the idea of going out of the beaten tracks to get a more genuine experience of a country and its past History. As an archaeologist though, I find the last part of the video particularly worrying. I know for a fact that in my country France, a lot of archaeological sites will not be displayed, disclosed or arranged for sightings unless it has been thoroughly dug up. Why? For fear of looters! The very fact that you are displaying a possible burial mound site on this channel could lead to some people going there and dig a few things up. Regardless of the "treasures" that could be found, a mound that has been dug up by modern people is close to useless as all possibility of dating is made extremely difficult or impossible.
I am not well versed in the legislation of Norway regarding archaeological sites but the information displayed in your video could be considered highly detrimental in a lot of places I have been digging.
I dont believe Norway has similar laws at all. Especially considering how many burial mounds have been knowingly removed in the countryside by farmers.
The burial mound I show in the video had a sign. So it was at one point studied, but then forgotten about. There was a sword found in the grave, it was catalogued and that was the end of the story.
Many of the burial mounds seem to get looked at once then moved on from.
In Sweden there are very protective laws over burial mounds, grave sites etc. Only so many can be opened every year to preserve archeological discovery into the future.
Are you Jacob Toddson... or really, Todd Jacobson?!
The doe and stag are Great Mother and Her dying and resurrecting Son Lover. Freya and Frey. They are real by the way. Hail Freya!!! Beautiful Lady of Nature!!!
America may have killed all the natives but to think something like that would happen to rock carvings anywhere is a shame. I lived within a couple miles of a native American cave State Park that had paintings and carvings that were very old, loved that place.
It's like the norse culture is being covered up for some reason
Samis where there before norwegians no?
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Jacob your videos are always fun informative if I could donate I would truly. Family of 4 1 income I do watch all your videos working my way backwards. I tried watching from your early stuff on but always messes up . Love your stuff though I like and subscribe hope you get paid so you can keep us informed. Can you do a Freya , I think she wants to work with me I haven't worked with any one God get was learning about them first I've been studying the Norse Gods about a year now I come from a Christian background now feal hurt and used by Christianity. I now want to move on and enjoy the true gods so thank you I have found your channel puts out fun accurate informative information. Even your recommendations for others is so much better than the garbage put out . I'm also so glad your not part of the racist movement in our religion I know they exist but so does kkk. I think Est course of action is to ignore them if they get mentioned then they get what they want acknowledgment anyhoot thank you keep it up.
I have always believe that you cannot fight hate with hate, for you will simply become what you believe you were fighting.
It is through knowledge, communication, and respect that we will change our world for the better ♥️
We shall rename him Olaf the Wrong.🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️🤦🏼♂️
None of this is hidden or secret... Wow