Creative Weapons of the Medieval Era 

Salmonella 2016: See you in 3 months… Just joking Salmonella 2020: Disappears for half a year

Olga is such a creative weapon of the Medieval Era

Note: Olgas husband was killed by the folks who wanted her to marry their prince so she had a good reason tot be pissed

We need a movie based on Olga's life. Not a drama, but pure evil, action filled and a gory one.

Is no one going to talk about the fact that he considered olga as a weapon

his powerpoint presentations must’ve been very good back when he was in highschool

2:21 I love how Sam's just eatin' chips while recording. You can hear the bag crinkle.

2:27 I was reading my Russian History textbook, and came across this excerpt: "Igor's sudden death at the hands of the Drevliane brought a remarkable ruler to the Kievan throne: his widow Olga [...] The 'Primary Chronicle' describes Olga's clever and brutal revenge against the Drevliane..." And I'm sitting there, hearing the Sam O'Nella intro music begin playing. Thank you Sam.

sam: a giant ape lauching boulders like baseballs the dude who writes attack on titan: WRITE THAT DOWN WRITE THAT DOWN

*I ' m s o r r y, d i d I f u c k i n g s t u t t e r ?*

0:37 *I can’t unsee them*

"imagine a giant fucking ape launching boulders like they're baseballs" literally zeke from AoT

“So imagine a giant ape throwing boulders like baseballs” Attack on Titan: Hold on, he’s onto something

You forget to mention that the Drevlians killed her husband, so it’s arguable she wasn’t acting out of pure sadism, but rather some kind of over-twisted bitterness.

Keep in mind in the case of Olga, she did all the things she did after they murdered her husband. Murdering one's spouse does tend to piss someone off. She also really helped spread Christianity which was why she was actually canonized.

That Rick Riordan comment about Greek Fire picked me up, threw me up against a wall, put me through the stages of a beef cow, brought back to life, and punched me in the gut. I mean, even though speed-reading through his books when I was like 8 was (and will always feel like) a punch in the gut no matter how old I'll get, that just slapped me across the face *hard* and called it a day.

Dang, tbh tho that pigeon scheme was genius af.

Fun fact: Olga of Kiev is actually a canonized saint in both the Roman Catholic AND Eastern Orthodox Churches.

“I’ll se you in three months.” Ah, what a luxury we used to have

Im like an illiterate masochist looking at an old library every time i go a few months not watching these videos and forget the main idea

I like how these weapons were so crazy that we did not even care about Saint Jerry at the end

Persians: Byzantines: b o a t *d i c k*

"Imagine a giant f**king ape launching boulders like their baseballs" Hajime Isayama: write that down!!!

Olga is a literal Creative Mastermind, attaching Sulfur those Birds just to set an ENTIRE TOWN on fire.

1:45 I don't blame him, imagine you started a construction of a giant death machine of destruction, and it turns out you are not even gonna use it. Honestly what would you do in his situation?

Olga was like: "Meet the Pyro" **TF2 music plays**

My favorite genre of weapon is taking an agricultural tool and going “I can swing this pretty hard, it’ll do,” and it turns out to work really well. Notable examples: the Billhook and the threshing flail.

If you want wacky weapons, you need look no further than the Huolongjing, or the Fire Dragon Manual of medieval China. Just a few examples of the goodies one can find in such a volume (and remember, these names are actually what they called them): “Flying cloud thunderclap eruptor”- A cannon firing little iron shells filled with substances that would violently react when the shell shattered and they mixed together (which is also how greek fire worked btw). “Divine bone-dissolving fire oil bomb”- A frag grenade filled to the brim with little iron pellets. “Divine moving phalanx-breaking fierce-fire sword-shield”- A shield which fired many fire lances (spears with explosives attached to the ends) into enemy formations.

Actually the reason she attacked the town wasn't because they didn't pay taxes but because they ripped her husband in half on birch trees when he was collecting taxes.

I'm sorry did I fucking stutter?

“Imagine a giant ape throwing boulders” So basically just the beast titan

"when you put the words makeshift and flamethrower next to eachother you're gonna run into problems sooner then later" 10/10

Me, seeing the text onscreen: oh Olga of Kiev, I wonder who that is! Sam: Olga of K E E V

“50% Greek, 50% Fire.” Pretty much sums up my nationality.

Sam.... if you come back, we'll all get on Skillshare.....

2:49 he wasn’t supposed to know about the cossack mustache!

His art style is like diary of a wimpy kid without noses

Olga was more badass than presented here. She didn't just bury them alive, she buried them in their boat because they wanted her to marry her husband's murder. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olga_of_Kiev

0:36 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD

I like how he pronounce “Kiev” the Ukrainian way years before the rest of us knew any better (Russian two-syllable pronunciation is all I knew being born and raised in the USA).

“Imagine a giant ape, launching boulders like baseballs.” Zeke Jaeger:

I want a whole episode just on Olga

Are we just brushing over how smart Olga was? She was like hmm how do I set fire to an entire city at once? Get a bird from every house sitting on a pile of tinder and give the bird a flaming piece of sulfur and send it home to set the tinder alight and burn each house individually!! She could’ve totally just burned every house down herself but she was so damn creative with her evil.

"Twenty Drevlian negotiators boated to Kiev to pass along their king’s message and to ensure Olga’s compliance. They arrived in her court and told the queen why they were in Kiev: “to report that they had slain her husband...and that Olga should come and marry their Prince Mal." So they first kill her husband, then are like, we'll replace him. lol. Not sure that's how I'd ask a girl out.

In fact, Olga only avenged her husband, whom the Drevlyans killed because he, at the whim of his soldiers, returned to them after collecting the tax for the supplement. Also, the pigeons did not have sulfur, but smoldering pieces of scarves.

Don't mind me, just watching this for the 25th time while waiting for the next upload.

“To my most loyal subscribers, see you in three months.” That didn’t age quite so well

so basically King Edward was theLegend27

3:16 Nobody questions where she pulled that torch from?

I frickin love the torch over the king's head.

Come on guys we can't forget about SAINT JERRY

To be fair to Olga, those men she killed were members of the group that had just killed her husband. Likewise, she understood that were she to marry the new husband would become the ruler, and this would almost certainly result in the disinheritance and death of her son who was only three. She pretty much went on a revenge rampage akin to a John Wick film against the Drevlians and outmaneuvered them time after time, eventually destroying them so thoroughly that they ceased to be a threat to her reign. Also, the pigeon story is almost certainly apocryphal. She's certainly no "saint" as we think of them, then, but also not an unhinged monster... no "saintly" actions would have allowed for both her and her son to emerge from that situation alive. She did what she had to do, and it worked.

I come back to these videos every year and wonder if they ever stop being interesting and the answer is no

That bathhouse thing read straight out of rimworld

Olga of “ *KEEEV* “

4:50 love it when he just bursts out laughing

Sam O' Nella: So imagine a giant ape throwing boulders at something AoT: WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN!

"the worst she can say is no"

As someone who loves to Percy Jackson series I laughed so hard when you corrected Rick Riordan

Olga feels like "Cool motive, still murder" incarnate

I was starting to think this video was a fever dream. I'm glad I found it again

My actual favorite youtuber

*when you’re from Stirling and Stirling castle gets mentioned* And yes, some of the rocks that where launched into the castle are still there, and are used as decorations

When I was in middle school, our teacher wanted us to make a presentation on any topic we found interesting on the Middle Ages. Castles, clothing, music... I excitedly presented to my class about the different medical torture methods that were used including the brass bull and the pear. In hindsight I understand why my teacher looked so uncomfortable.

Good Afternoon, great video man!

Every time I see a Sam o video in my recommended that I hadn’t seen before or can’t remember I get psyched, and then reality hits me hard as a brick.

This channel is fucking genius. Why had I not found ye earlier.

Ok so some of you may ask why did olga kill the drevlyans. Well they killed her husband. A husband that she was pretty fond of. They probably shouldnt have done that.

Olga omg, what a badass Indeed

Fun fact: Sam was 16 when he uploaded this

Trebuchets can fling 90kg stones over 300m.

Olga killed the Drevlyans for the fact that they killed her husband Igor, who came to them for a tribute, but the Drevlyans knew that Igor would ask for a lot of tribute and therefore they killed him

The King Kong description helped a lot and I don’t know how that makes me feel

0:37 GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD GET OUT OF MY HEAD DON'T THINK IT DONT SAY IT DON'T THINK IT DON'T SAY IT

Its like the informative version of GradeA

3:29 *d e m o n e t i z e d*

ok I think I’m going insane bc of how long sam’s disappearance was, but i feel like certain parts like the names of the videos or like parts of some of sams vids have been changed slightly ☠️ think ive been rewatching his videos so much that ive lost it

I want to travel back in time and take lessons in true evil from Olga

3:52 ngl that is SO FREAKING smart.

I didn't like my name in the beginning, now I appreciate it.. A badass Olga

Thanks for the ideas for my D&D campaign

His chalk board depicting middle age genius is that dogs say _"Bork Bork"_

1:50 I'm Greek and we call it "liquid fire" LOL

Ulga should be in disney for an action disney movie

Someone's building a giant weapon outside my house to try and kill me with. I think I'll just let them finish

Even after a year from his last video, I’m still subscribing

Hey, how would you describe Attack on Titan Season 3? 1:29

"A giant ape hurling boulders like they're baseballs." Wow I love attack on Titan season 3 😍

All this talk about trebuchets and fire ships made me wanna go play some good ol’ AoE II again.

It went from see you in 3 months to see you in three years

"keeeev"... lel

It’s a great epsidode when he starts off with “hey kids”

The bird bit is extremely clever! Olga was a bright mind!

When I went to and staffed at this cub scout camp when I was young which I now staffed at last year during October. There was a trebuchet to throw pumpkins kids painted into the woods, it was quite fun.

**sigh** Now I have to go play Civ 5 as the Byzantine empire...

Thanks for this video salmonella.

1:31 Beast Titan prediction 5 years ago

… I will never forget this dude

Olga was taking revenge for her husband, whose limbs they cut off.

My favorite part of this is Saint Tiffany because Tiffany really is a medieval name. It's short for Theophania, but you'd never find it in a fantasy or historical fiction novel since (even though it is completely accurate) it feels inaccurate for the setting due to our contemporary views...