A Viking Court Case: The Saga of Beer-Hood
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Whilst the Vikings have long been imagined as ruthless pillagers and barbarians, legal proceeding and democracy were incredibly important to their own societies. Fundamental to viking democracy was the Thing. This was a local assembly that gathered at least annually and presided over legal cases. A lot of money could be made from selling beer at the thing. One of the beersellers at the Icelandic Allthing was a man named Thorhall, also known as Beer-Hood...because he wore a hood and sold beer.
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The Vikings idea of "democracy" is ultimately the same story of every "democracy" that ever existed, that being oligarchy.
Very interesting and amusing!
thank you senpai
@balticempire7244 a man of culture I see 🫡
Beer-hood convinced my parents to take my foreskin.
Lololol
You, Sir, win the internet today 🥳 subbed, animation 👌
Can you do a video about Nordic countries before Viking age?
He’s done a couple videos about ancient Scandinavia
Bronze Age? Migration period? Plenty of great videos, rather than ask, maybe have a look first
Did the child born in Canada appear anywhere else in the historical records. His name was Snori
Snorri Sturluson was an Icelandic historian, poet, and politician. He was elected twice as lawspeaker of the Icelandic parliament, the Althing.......Is this the same man?
Have you done any episode on Bock-saga?
haven't but might
@@balticempire7244 One more question . Did the vikings, while trading from the baltic Sea to Constantinopel, by any chance encounter the Huns (but had then changed name to Khazar). As in Attila the Hun. Seems like they plundered their way East, changing name to Khazar, and then to mongol. This is my speculation. The Huns were driven out by the germans, and the Khazars were driven out by the Russians. The name of the main city of the Khazar Empire support my guess. The name was Atil (750-c. 965-969)
I dont know about your theory@@newandoldtech5634. But he seems to survive as Atle, Atli in some sagas. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlakvi%C3%B0a
Baltic Empire: just now i learn that you are Icelandic and not a swede.
I was questioning your knowledge about seamanship just knowing that.
Anyway, this probably also means that you and me are related.
Im from Hordaland.
Russia? that can't be right, did you mistake Russia for Ancient Rus (aka Kyivan Rus)?
Russia real name is Muscovy. It changed its name to Russia in order to pretend to be descendant of Kievyan Rus'. In reality Muscovy was a vasal of Mongols who destroyed Kievyan Rus'. Muscovy served as collector of tributes paid to Mongols by real descendants of Kievyan Rus'.
Thus Muscovy step by step became rich and strong thanks to collaboration with Mongols. Along the way Muscovy weakened real descendants of Kievyan Rus' and eliminated possible future rivals with help of Mongols. After Mongol's power collapsed, Muscovy annexed one by one former lands of Kievyan Rus'. Muscovy pretended to be saviour whose intentions are reunion of Slavic lands of former Kievyan Rus' while in fact Muscovy subdued and annexed territory of former Kievyan Rus'. Thus later in order to confirm Muscovy rights to these lands ,Muscovy faked its own history and changed name initially to Rus' and finally to Russian Tsardom.As usual lies are always exuses for any Russia's invasion.
@@jaset362 exactly!
1:06 of course the vikings had to retort to oral tradition for everything since they couldnt write if they lives depended on it. yes they had the runes but most of the stuff that we know about them is because the monks that arrived there wrote down most of their costumes/traditions .
1:43 now thats comedy GOLD. love the caricature
weird the beer hood didnt start a bank instead lolol
10:45, I keep hearing that the pre-Christian Norse were not homophobic and had concepts of a third gender or more then two genders, and that was like this for all pre-Chirstian Europeans before Christianity came and made the Norse and other non-Christians homophobic and only believe in two genders.
it's nothing I've encountered in the books
Is what you are hearing backed by any evidence? Because without it, I strongly suspect that is a modern interpretation of ancient culture based more on wishful thinking, a desire to legitimise modern morals by any sort of link to the past and an urge to shame Christianity (note they never apply the same condemnation to other faiths that are not that keen on non-traditional relationships).
What you've been hearing is current ideology. It is false.
they had strong laws and traditions on marriage and how a home was to be run. I've never once read anything about same sex couples in any historical text about it. I would say its probably another twisting of history to normalize there agenda and make people turn from there moral and traditional family values...
@@balticempire7244, @remittanceman4685, @nekmewxelagrowing6432 ,
I'm not saying that the pagan Norse/Germanics had the modern sense of tolerating homosexuals/bisexuals or concept of more than 2 genders like I said I keep hearing it from clickbait articles and youtubers like Arith Härger in multiple videos he did and other yt channels not just Norse/Germanics but also the Wends with Arith Härger's Wendish video he said that the Wends had a third gender concept, I don't remember want his sources were. Because it seems that because alot of books on paganism pacifically Norse are written by Wiccans and most of the people into learning about paganism are Wiccan that they would put in the modern attitudes towels non-straight people and some how the Viking Age is really popular and politicize. Some Wiccan I talked months ago said that the Norse were tolerate and that women owned the homes and could kick their husbands out and that the Christians attacked first and the Norse were only responding. Where to start with sources on the religious customs not just Norse/Germanic paganism but other non Grecco-Roman European paganism that's not just the Eddas and cycles but first hand accounts from Christian missionaries/Roman or Greek historians.
Baltic Empire/Gold and Gunpowder you do good work with golden age Private history and Scandinavian history even if your vids not about Vikings are underrated, you changed my understanding of golden age privates I'm waiting on your vids to this channel on the Vendel period and post Viking Age Scandinavia and the Baltic crusades I'm sure that they won't get the views that anything with Viking in the title since no one cares at least in America about before and after the Viking age.
It's stupid to show Vikings with horned helmet. It has nothing to do with truth .
...why did you use an antisemitic characature to portray beer-hood?
antisemitic lol, the original picture is often repurposed to fit different characters, like this one for a man from München: i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/001/378/338/7ae.png
There's a reason this is a standard villain charicature in western culture.
is anything antisemitic if its true?
@@rootuser7206 sure. None of those reasons are good though
@@phatlaluke But you never explained your case. I'm assuming you're around 12 or 13.
Lol you're afraid to offend the LGBT
Calm down we get it you are edgy bro
@@WTFisDrifting that wasn't edgy at all.
I'd call it an observation, but whatever dude