Norsemen - A Conversation About Technological Advancement

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  • @marischkakarina
    @marischkakarina Před 3 lety +910

    We've come so far technologically that we no longer know how anything works 😂😂😂😂 best line

    • @sitrakamatthieu
      @sitrakamatthieu Před 2 lety +3

      that's Max Weber xD

    • @ikik1648
      @ikik1648 Před 2 lety +32

      It’s true, it’s true 😂

    • @magnuskallas
      @magnuskallas Před 2 lety +9

      Just a daydream and a thought... As you get older, regrets of what one could have achieved if travelled back a decade in time pile up. Whether it be an idea of sorts or investment possibilities or whatever. Now, most of us, if sent back a few hundred of years, probably wouldn't be able to "push" much. Heck, we might be lynched for bad religious education. Without proper tools and materials, I can imagine I would only be able to introduce some new dishes or entertaining ideas. I wonder if even a gunsmith from the future would be able to advance military much (without superb knowledge in chemistry, metallurgies etc.). The idea of acquiring the materials is still a problem. Language is a barrier too, since one can go back that much before facing a dialect not heard anymore. Medicine is the only area I can see advancing greatly if one is not called a witch doctor.

    • @caesar6484
      @caesar6484 Před 2 lety +3

      @@magnuskallas Thank you man. I usually have those thoughts when I daydream about time travel.

    • @chrisdelzell8467
      @chrisdelzell8467 Před 2 lety +1

      @@magnuskallas 99% of people probably wouldn't have nearly as outsized an effect as they imagine. Even reasonably educated and handy people would find a lot more of the advancement coming from the true geniuses of the time studying them than from their own full recollections.
      That said, quite a few of us would be able to do quite a bit. Provided you aren't part of any particularly kooky political movements or cults in the present, or are able to either put them behind you or maintain some modicum of tact, you would likely find people very receptive.
      Most modern engineers could at the very least demonstrate primitive generators and radio from scratch. You're 90% guaranteed to be, if not a better surgeon than most royal physicians, at least a really really good assistant. Virtually everyone is gonna instinctively penetrate the language barrier within a few weeks. Until that period elapses sufficiently for you to demonstrate your skills or coherently explain your usefulness, you'll have to get by on being a big (5' 10" makes you look like a nobleman right of the bat) exotic (You are 100% the least inbred person for 100 miles, especially if you're American) and extremely healthy (so long as you STAY AWAY FROM UNTREATED WATER) foreigner who showed up with sharp eyes, a cautiously friendly expression, and some very interesting knick-knacks covered in rare materials and fine metalwork. Worst case scenario is you drop in Roman times and end up a slave to some chief or noble, and that just means a few semi-wasted years working your way up the tutor->teacher->advisor totem pole.
      Particularly on politics, coming from a post-Magna Carta post-Constitution world, people would generally love to hear the 'utopian prattlings' that received such mixed results retold (with a likely much calmer and more moderate tone) from someone with a 'well of course we do it this way now.' perspective. Not to mention the really wacky stuff that regular people hated often turned out to be really wacky, so your opinions would find it mostly absent.
      Really the biggest threat is definitely from the political quarter. The Church (or Temples, if we're going back to Roman era) might actually love you for your modern ideas of human rights and limited government and and the importance of education. Kings would **not** appreciate your visible lack of deference, or your ideas about the rights of common tradesmen and workers, but luckily there are plenty of kings to choose from, and there is going to be plenty of competition to have those golden future nuggets drop from your mouth into the 'right' royal court and to keep yet another scholar from running off to stay with the religious academies.
      If you aren't in the top 5% of handy and smart people, or you're only one or the other, just be sure to work hard and not rock the boat too much. Be ambitious, seek to round out your education (Learn a trade!), be open to marrying and being faithful to a successful member of the opposite sex (Be romantic about it! You ARE more experienced at romance than anyone in your category, and you're GOING to be experiencing a lot of personal growth!) and within a decade at most you can have the practical experience to start really harnessing your futuremagic (TM) to make a nice positive splash.

  • @gammarey7070
    @gammarey7070 Před 2 lety +326

    Jarl Varg's acting is really great, He has both comedy and drama mixed in perfectly.

    • @aniquinstark4347
      @aniquinstark4347 Před 2 lety +6

      He reminds me of Dean Pelton from Community if he was a Viking Jarl

    • @gr1mrea9er82
      @gr1mrea9er82 Před 2 lety +9

      Jon Øigarden who plays Jarl Varg, is in my opinion the best of Norway's male actors. Although not as famous as Harr or Hennie, he is better in terms of range and ability.

    • @GrimAhren
      @GrimAhren Před 2 lety +11

      He is definitely my favorite in the show. His evilness is portrayed so snake-like, in his verbal delivery and gestures in general that the man just looks like a sith from Star wars.

    • @ferrari6975
      @ferrari6975 Před rokem +2

      @@gr1mrea9er82 I agree. He's very good at improv too

    • @skudlugs
      @skudlugs Před 4 měsíci +1

      deserves an award for it, the guy stole the show

  • @jordanpainchaud2798
    @jordanpainchaud2798 Před rokem +51

    Bummer how Norsemen got dropped. Best show on netflix.

  • @BreathlessExistence
    @BreathlessExistence Před 2 lety +74

    do dragons exist?
    Jarl Varg: YES! I’ve seen some drrrrrawing of them.

    • @nutsap
      @nutsap Před 2 lety +6

      "but you haven't actually seen it?"

  • @adrianaslund8605
    @adrianaslund8605 Před 2 lety +478

    When the romans showed up with their fortifications and torsion engines some barbarian tribes straight up surrendered.
    Because they had no idea how the hell a torsion engine or a ballista even work. That must have felt cutting edge to people back then.

    • @jakeoncrack
      @jakeoncrack Před 2 lety +97

      @MortalGamerDC1 85 Flanked easily...meanwhile Julius Caesar builds a literal wall around the walls of a city so he can't be flanked.

    • @stephenkenney8290
      @stephenkenney8290 Před 2 lety +65

      @@jakeoncrack Dude didn't just build a wall around Alesia, he built a wall around his wall.

    • @DrCruel
      @DrCruel Před 2 lety +24

      @@jakeoncrack Julius Caesar knew what he was doing. Publius Quinctilius Varus not so much.

    • @westrim
      @westrim Před 2 lety +53

      ​@@DrCruel Varus didn't really have a chance. A trusted subordinate lied to him, scouting didn't reveal the lie, and the only known doubter was a recently turned leader of a rival tribe to the trusted subordinate. Stringing out on a road is just what an army does, roads being, you know, linear. Varus' career to that point had shown he was a very good commander, and most definitely knew he was doing. Even Julius Caesar would have taken heavy losses before he could rally, if he could rally. Whether he would have escaped 200 kilometers to safe territory is doubtful. Blaming the man for the trap is just hindsight.

    • @koookeee
      @koookeee Před 2 lety +13

      Imagine yourself being a barbarian, coming as a hostage to live in Rome - they must truly have felt like landing on another planet.

  • @tempestmkiv
    @tempestmkiv Před 2 lety +69

    Probably the funniest series I've ever watched and even funnier the second time around!

    • @tempestmkiv
      @tempestmkiv Před 2 lety +3

      @Nastro Adhesivo Hey Nastro....Mr Killjoy.... I bet your fun at a party, why don't you go spread your nastiness somewhere else?

  • @robertalaverdov8147
    @robertalaverdov8147 Před 2 lety +279

    So fun fact, we now know how birds navigate. They can see and sense the Earth's magnetic pole. Their beaks have magnetite in them; sort of like a transponder. And their eyes have a special protein called Cry4 that allows them to see magnetic fields. They basically have built in GPS. Humans have a little bit of magnetite in our nasal cartilage as well.

    • @sanguiniue
      @sanguiniue Před 2 lety +119

      Explains how I got home last week after 10 shots of vodka

    • @StekliCujo
      @StekliCujo Před 2 lety +39

      Please stop with that philosophy. STOP!

    • @Arcaryon
      @Arcaryon Před 2 lety +9

      I can not tell if that’s true or not but I am willing to give it the benefit of the doubt.

    • @larsdols3157
      @larsdols3157 Před 2 lety +9

      We think we know. We guess that's how it works. But we have no idea what the birds actually experience.

    • @indrekas
      @indrekas Před 2 lety +4

      A protein in the eye that happens to be called "Cry4". Yeah right.

  • @randyc750
    @randyc750 Před rokem +18

    "Nobody knows how to make the things we take for granted"... //pans to a man making a beam for a house. :D

  • @johnkim5125
    @johnkim5125 Před 2 lety +51

    Me and my partner on the condo balcony saving same conversation thousands of years later

  • @nirmalpaul13
    @nirmalpaul13 Před 2 lety +17

    Torstien and Varg. Better love story than twilight.

  • @cookiedust8066
    @cookiedust8066 Před 2 lety +24

    it's trrüe.. it's trrüe..

  • @Bienvibel84
    @Bienvibel84 Před 9 měsíci +14

    i love Torstein, such a funny charcter

    • @appsbyrian
      @appsbyrian Před 4 měsíci

      Orm: “So, the r@per became the r@pee”.
      Torstein’s face.
      😂

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 Před 2 lety +38

    over my head the ravens shed shit upon my realm. harharhar. as it fell i said well done

    • @SeppukuDoll
      @SeppukuDoll Před 2 lety +1

      Did you just make that up, or is it from somewhere? I've never watched this series, so I wouldn't know if you're quoting, but whatever this comment is, it's amazing.

    • @garychynne1377
      @garychynne1377 Před 2 lety +2

      @@SeppukuDoll harharhar. it's original, from the original one. harharhar. thank yew vulnicura. well done

    • @rodrikofharlaw6848
      @rodrikofharlaw6848 Před 9 měsíci

      Never expect to see the bowman himself on something like this lol

  • @forgottenalex
    @forgottenalex Před 3 měsíci +2

    Norwegian humor is highly under rated

  • @wingandaprayer883
    @wingandaprayer883 Před 6 měsíci +2

    Great easter egg.. it is a reference to one of the greatest minds of our time. James Burke and his insights on advancement in "Connections". If you are not familiar with his excellent work then I recommend you watch it.

  • @Malikin
    @Malikin Před 3 lety +28

    bloody hysterical

  • @orionion
    @orionion Před 2 lety +41

    Basically his mindblowing philosophical insight is that if mankind lost all its technological knowledge, birds wouldn’t be able to fly anymore

    • @nakenmil
      @nakenmil Před 2 lety +1

      Exactly.

    • @utavtakt9361
      @utavtakt9361 Před rokem +1

      Stop!

    • @kennedyl7744
      @kennedyl7744 Před 8 měsíci +4

      Do you know how to get a bird to deliver a message to a specific place far away?

  • @ShyamlalPV
    @ShyamlalPV Před 9 měsíci +1

    My favorite scene from the whole series

  • @dougg4633
    @dougg4633 Před rokem

    I love the acting in this series

  • @therustedshank9995
    @therustedshank9995 Před 3 lety +27

    Just like Game of Thrones lol

  • @sizwekoomtheMc
    @sizwekoomtheMc Před 4 měsíci

    It's regrettable that this show is canceled. Lamentable, the comedy here was gold

  • @junreaksaa
    @junreaksaa Před 2 lety +12

    Bacause of this now I know why most evil villains turns bad...they are balding.

  • @mybluebelly
    @mybluebelly Před 10 měsíci +1

    A thousand years of evolution and we`re watching viking shows. No use denying it, we`re all still living in the stoneage.

    • @janmesar6804
      @janmesar6804 Před 6 měsíci

      Care to elaborate? Sounds strange. We shouldn't iyo?

  • @leventhumps3861
    @leventhumps3861 Před 7 měsíci +1

    If there was a catastrophic event, and mankind had to start all over again we’d never be able to get back to this level of technology. Not because we’re so advanced. But because we’ve mined up almost all of the surface level resources. There basically are no more mines lying around full of valuable resources.

    • @LandersWorkshop
      @LandersWorkshop Před 7 měsíci

      There's plenty of stuff to recycle though that could be harvested.

    • @leventhumps3861
      @leventhumps3861 Před 6 měsíci

      @@LandersWorkshop I doubt we’d be able to harvest a substantial amount without the tech to do so. Like I know how to harvest gold from broken electronics, but I couldn’t do it without the tech to do so.

    • @LandersWorkshop
      @LandersWorkshop Před 6 měsíci

      I feel you bro, but I'm talking low-level recycling like concrete, rebar etc.@@leventhumps3861

    • @rustknuckleirongut8107
      @rustknuckleirongut8107 Před 5 měsíci +1

      One correction that changes your narrative a bit. We have not mined up almost all of the surface level resources, what we have done is mined up almost all of the surface level resources that are economically viable to mine with the current pricing. This means that once scarcity is high enough or the critical need becomes dire enough there are lots of places to mine and exploit even if the yield will be lower than say in Roman times when you could just start shoveling on a mountain until it becomes a large hole. Like the Riotinto area of Spain has been mined for at least around 2400 years since the Romans started industrial mining. There is not so much a lack of resources as there is a lack of willingness to pay the price of extraction yet.

    • @IHateYoutubeHandles615
      @IHateYoutubeHandles615 Před 5 měsíci

      Yeah it would be like Command and Conquer with no Tiberium :D

  • @GrimgoreIronhide
    @GrimgoreIronhide Před 2 lety +9

    hey! Your getting Nith on you!

  • @WhoThisMonkey
    @WhoThisMonkey Před 2 lety +3

    How many modern objects can you see in the video? I've spotted several.

    • @hang_kentang6709
      @hang_kentang6709 Před 2 lety

      i spot a wheel, that counts right?

    • @wiretamer5710
      @wiretamer5710 Před 2 lety +2

      @@hang_kentang6709 I spotted modern English

    • @hang_kentang6709
      @hang_kentang6709 Před 2 lety +1

      @@wiretamer5710 i like how we can just replace "ravens" with anything we have now and it'll probably be accurate. things like cellphones, computers, the internet...

  • @aenarose3759
    @aenarose3759 Před rokem

    Which episode

  • @ramseykeilani9569
    @ramseykeilani9569 Před 2 lety +19

    Ravens were never used to carry letters or messages. Pigeons were the only birds ever used for that purpose

    • @charlottemunday7311
      @charlottemunday7311 Před 2 lety +55

      Mate in season 3 a dragon turns up this isnt meant to be historically accurate

    • @aleks2194
      @aleks2194 Před 2 lety +2

      never seen game of thrones have you??

    • @agnidas5816
      @agnidas5816 Před 2 lety +2

      sparrows were frequently used.. and any other bird on hand ;)

    • @charlottemunday7311
      @charlottemunday7311 Před 2 lety +13

      @@agnidas5816 Chickens were considered 2nd class post 😂

    • @AndyCutright
      @AndyCutright Před 2 lety +12

      Swallows carried coconuts. That's well documented.

  • @dankubus1633
    @dankubus1633 Před 11 měsíci +1

    I can't quite make out what Varg says at 0:46-0:47, the sentence before sharply whispering, "STOP!" What is he saying right before that?

  • @rtnjo6936
    @rtnjo6936 Před 2 lety +1

    ASMR 'So True"

  • @phyarth8082
    @phyarth8082 Před 2 lety +3

    Be honest we still don't know how mail pigeons works, magnetic field compass in their beaks?, very a lot of speculations but no rigor proof.

    • @gandalferiksen1541
      @gandalferiksen1541 Před 2 lety +2

      well... the If you cover the Right eye of a robin (the bird, not batmans buddy) it can`t navigate even tho it can still see with its left eye. but if you cover the left eye it can navigate and see aswell, that atleast suggests that birds can "see" magnetic fields just as we see the frequencies of electromagnetic radiation but wee see just a portion of it. You dont see infra red, ultra violet, gamma rays, radar and so on even if all other things you do see are from the same light spectrum because you cant "read" all of it. So you can see the range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation but you have trouble believing that birds can see magnetic fields. just saying that you are probably a bit stupid and should read more

    • @thosoz3431
      @thosoz3431 Před 2 lety +1

      @@gandalferiksen1541 Ouch. That's a bit rough.
      Just because one is not well read doesn't mean one is stupid.

    • @gandalferiksen1541
      @gandalferiksen1541 Před 2 lety +2

      @@thosoz3431 True. I was in a bad place when i made that comment. I`m sorry, i apologize. @Phyarth

    • @thosoz3431
      @thosoz3431 Před 2 lety +2

      @@gandalferiksen1541 wow. You sir, are a gentleman.
      We all forget ourselves at times.

  • @Rottensparrow
    @Rottensparrow Před 3 lety +13

    Jarl Varg acts just like Voldemort

  • @JorgeLuisMeraz-gb4qi
    @JorgeLuisMeraz-gb4qi Před 8 měsíci

    😂😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤❤

  • @THINKincessantly
    @THINKincessantly Před 2 lety

    Poor old hound😆

  • @Hwoman1123
    @Hwoman1123 Před rokem

    Hell funny

  • @1ma4ighter
    @1ma4ighter Před měsícem

    The idiots in this series are the best

  • @Goremejy
    @Goremejy Před 8 měsíci

    The bald dude is like some weird alien in a human suit trying to act normal lmao

  • @GoodbyeCruelWorld
    @GoodbyeCruelWorld Před rokem

    Why are their heads shaved in the back?

  • @Greyden666
    @Greyden666 Před 3 lety +8

    23sec can u see whats wrong.?

    • @Greyden666
      @Greyden666 Před 3 lety +5

      The roof.

    • @Greyden666
      @Greyden666 Před 3 lety

      Well. That a modern rof ..and not from the viking era.

    • @chrisbabbz8049
      @chrisbabbz8049 Před 3 lety +5

      Ah yes ofcourse the well designed and painted roof is from the present and not a possible creation from that era. Because wood and dye where of a later advancement.

    • @scoto3990
      @scoto3990 Před 2 lety

      All the lumber to make that overlook was bought at Home Depot

  • @lsporter88
    @lsporter88 Před 2 lety

    😂😂.

  • @Identitools
    @Identitools Před 2 lety +17

    The Industrial Revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

  • @stevenakey7145
    @stevenakey7145 Před 4 měsíci

    After the gaming, you might seek out The Vikings Secret Yoga, with 1,000-year-old new discoveries. Odin and the Gods are a secret Eastern Play. Learn the Truth.

  • @HisameArtwork
    @HisameArtwork Před 2 lety +7

    oh look at them using fancy greek words like technology! you're in norslandia, speak norse! XD

    • @exentr
      @exentr Před 2 lety +2

      Old norse is derrived from from greek via german. 30-40 years ago modern Norwegian had most foreign words from greek. Because, well I guess you already know, the ancient greece is the manger of the western civilisation.

    • @squeerrel-j
      @squeerrel-j Před 2 lety +1

      @@exentr what the fuck are you talking about XD

    • @exentr
      @exentr Před 2 lety +1

      @@squeerrel-j Come on! Everybody knows.

    • @diogeneslantern18
      @diogeneslantern18 Před rokem

      Like chemistry

  • @andrej1659
    @andrej1659 Před 2 lety +1

    "For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;
    Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus"
    Romans 3:23-24

  • @wolffiow9620
    @wolffiow9620 Před 11 měsíci +1

    the funny thing is this parody is a more accurate representation than anything Hollywood has done on Nordic culture did you hear that you little hipster Fanboys the Vikings show you love so much is an absolute pile of s***