0:31 This is how I look like, when i'm listening to Turisas 2013, while thinking back of Battle Metal and The Varangian Way. I really dislike everything after the first two albums.
Oh my lovely Turisas, what wonderous joy it would be for thee to return and push us through heavy days. Uh, this probably doesn't come off well when translated to Finnish. "Release something new to save our mental health"
I think the chorus of this song is about how Mathias feels about the band. Real life may be boring at time, but when he's with the band, he's completely in his element.
+Manguch Beg Scandinavian people of the Viking era were no strangers to sabers. They had a rich cultural exchange with many cultures who used sabers (Most notably The Russ & The Arabs) and often acted as intermediaries in trade between Byzantium and the Islamic world. A Viking with a saber is 1000 times more believable than Viking decked out in all leather as you often see in film.
+KalteGeist I believe the typical viking wore a heavy chainmail top, helmet(with no horns), and a wooden shield perhaps reinforced somehow. main weapons were the "seax" which was generally pretty short, but there were long and broad seax's, the famous dane axe which had 1 hand and 2 handed variations, and perhaps a javelin/throwing spear.
Well there's nothing to argue here, (Except that there really is no such thing as "The typical viking") but I wasn't really speaking to the common fighting kit, so much as to simply say that finding a scimitar in a viking grave, would not be surprising, given the wide range of cultural exchanges in the viking world. Just saying the person in the video isn't using a Saex, they're using a scimitar, which is OK, entirely historically accurate for at least part of the viking age, and not really worthy of a "wtf".
KalteGeist You're right, but to correct something. The Kievian Rus didnt use scimitars/sabers until the very end of the Viking age(high med. ages). Its a lot more believable to presume they traded it from the Turkic tribes of the Pontic-Caspian Steppes.
Although the lead singer cleans up quite nicely, if i worked an office job id be more inclined to follow the dude with war paint and blood all over his face. We need some more of that to happen in the workplace.
