Exploring the Viking Age #2: Talking Runes with Professor Williams 

We also celebrate our 10th birthday today! Check out the video where we've compiled some of our adventures here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qW7WJYVxnOI.htmlsi=b7wT66DiRVO8O1Vw

Such an awesome thing! Never imagined that I would get to see Johan Hegg interview a runologist. Love it!

Since the viking site in "Lance aux meadows" Newfoundland Canada is genuine. It would've been cool to hear if any runes were found at this location or at any other of the more recently found sites in the country. Maybe in part 3 we'll hear about it 🙂🤷‍♂️.

⛏️Runes carved to my memory Excellent discussion folks

Very interesting topic of discussion, it's been a pleasure hearing the Professor and Johan talking about runes, the time, the relevance this had back in the days and the impact that is having today in us. Thanks for sharing knowledge and will to keep learning.

Fabulous! I have worked with Runes for 30 years. It’s a shame that only in my older years I would experience such brilliant people ❤

Johan is perfekt when speak,his voice is so good for listening,and thematic is excelent..not need to say for studio..in totaly Viking style..excelent..totaly excelent..

As someone who grew up in Wyoming but currently resides just 40 minutes from the Heavener Runestone in Oklahoma, I can assure you that Wyoming is about 1,000 away with the Rockies in between. The landscapes are radically different between the two (almost like two different planets), and the Heavener Runestone is located atop a small mountain that was remote up into the 20th century. Anyway, this is an absolutely fantastic podcast and I would ask Professor Williams if it were possible that the elder futhark might be used because maybe a seaworthy ship during the migration era missed their westward mark and survived their journey to the New World? I know that it is speculative at best, but I cannot help but consider it to be in the realm of possibility.

I am incredibly proud to have been taught Old Norse by Henrik Williams at Uppsala University!

Very intresting, now i know more then before 🙂💪🏼

We have Rune inscriptions around the Great Lakes...I learned to read write and speak Runes when I was a young girl. My Great Grandma Irma, was from your area in Sweden 🇸🇪and was brought to my home here to marry my Great Grandpa Erik where they est. our Viking mining ⛏ Clan here in the Upper Peninsula in the late 19th century. We are proud Vikings!

This was so awesome. Wonderful interview. I learned a lot. Johan is a natural.

I listened to this on Spotify earlier today and was thoroughly entertained. Thank you for the content and I am very much looking forward to more episodes

Fascinating conversation!

Sweet, thx for sharing :)

This podcast is always such a wonderful deep dive into knowledge, informative, respectful, clear and imho a step ahead of all the fantasy aspects we love to imagine, when it comes to cultures of the dark ages in europe. I love the fact, that it turns out, i know nothing about a topic i love since childhood... or at least not much. Its so easy to just scratch the surface and to get lost in mythology and "modern" conceptions of the past. Thank you...soooo great...so good.

Really fantastic, so happy The Clan has gone into regular podcasts and great looking RU-vid Viking Hall of Wise Words. Skål. I wish I didn’t have to live on my veterans pension in Australia and medically retired. Yet descendants from a Viking family name and followed the old ways in my chosen job and all the males in my family way back. To be able to travel and walk the grounds and see some stone circles and rune stones. Try bring back Grimfrost honey mead as I wish I could find it here in Australia. Now over 50 it looks harder to travel as lost 14 yr marriage and 2 kids leaving me. Bit how I would love to full that pull I’ve had for so many years. Learning old Norse, my second youngest now is. High school history teacher that specialty is the Norse. The older ones love him to wear his tunic and pants he has got from following me through Grimfrost. I hope to help get him some more kit, but wants me to visit the class in my full kit with sword and Dane axe, some games to show and my so well made Grimfrost cloths jewellery, weapons and house gear.. I do enjoy studying the runes and the eddas and Futhark and understanding its putting the consciousness of the action into the Rune (symbol) as which I’ve found would be the most interesting way runes possibly helped develop into divination and magik ! Only a thought of a Brocken old soldier, that still has strong connection to the old ways. Skål (I hope I’ve not sounded to of track to your great guest) 🫡🪖🇦🇺

thank you , it is so good to learn more every day

Very interesting. Did I get that right? You need the information of time / when runes were written to have a chance of a good interpretation of what they mean, cause a 100 years earlier or later, language would have changed so much, that it could mean something completely different (since runes just represent sounds/vows)? I did not know that before.

I love these interviews hopefully we can get one with Jackson Crawford

Such fantastic podcast! Well done!

In regards to the Runestone found in Oklahoma, the Arkansas River runs through Oklahoma and connects to the Mississippi River, which connects to the Gulf of Mexico. I assume there's no evidence that they did so but it could explain how Rune carvers were able to get that far West into the US

Great to see Dr. Williams speak of Heavener Runestone again. SE corner of Colorado to Heavner Runestone is 675 mile minimum which is 1086Km just as Henrik said. West Coast Sweden at Goteburg to East Coast Stockholm, which I have personally driven Oktober 2023 and have met Dr. Williams in Uppsala, is 290miles / 675Km by comparison. Dr. Williams says the stone, as to why/who it was carved is, a "Total Mystery." An actual scholar who has been to and laid his hand on the Heavener Runestone; unlike a Canadian farse youtube poster. Martians = Aliens = Scandinavians 😎

Great presentation. I would argue there is a lot of evidence that the runes are indeed qualitatively rather than just quantitatively based and that direct connection to major and minor deities are inherent in the runes of the futhark (elder and younger) ... phonetics of sound (numerological siginifcance and relation to specific vibration/frequency) is also associated with them via Galdr. The alphabet was secondary to the qualitaive resononance of the runes. The skaldic poetry was carefully qualitatively constructed i.e. no arbitrary written structure at all on the contrary very much weighed up and crafted. The texts such as The Poetic Edda was very much qualitatively constructed. The runes also extended as the principle driven core martial arts, crafts, esoteric and exoteric studies. All the runes pertain to the Orlog as the 'holistic' underlying infinite governing 'web/matrix' from which the individuated runic qualities are derived. ... finally regards to the 'time' pt 1:11:32 ... the mention of remembering '27' generations back is an example of my previous pt i.e. numerological weighting '27' is a raised '9' vibration and so much of the Edda's verse is numerologically geared (and you only need to look back so far historically such as Testla's 'Vortex' math which relates to ancient numerological weighting such as Pythagoras etc and ineed the runic qualitative weighting). They had great command and cognizance of 'time' just different relative to modern day calendar preference and bias.

Love show

Hey little dove and graywolf here in the us still r our friends guys

I wonder if it is too far-fetched to consider whether the Heavener Runestone was possibly carved by a descendant of the New Sweden colonial settlers? Some descendants moved South from the Delaware Valley and then West into the Louisiana Territory. For example, my 3x great grandfather and other family members were in Arkansas by the 1820's. Swedish traditions survived in some family lines for many generations.

Is three other religions are referred to as Theology and not mythology why isn't our beliefs referred to as theology as well?

What are you drinking Johann?

No calendar? They did have calendar. They followed an lunasolar calendar.

Wonderful and informative video, but I have an issue when people are referred 😅 heathens. I have Native American and Viking blood in me and was raised Christian, but that isn't where my heart lies in spirituality. Even a priest said I am fine in my beliefs. Because people have or had different religious beliefs doesn't make them heathens. Thank you for all of the information on ruins. I have studied them for 30 yrs.

Very interesting conversation, again. Thank you a lot! About Vimose inscriptions comb with the runes "ᚺᚨᚱᛃᚨ" or "Harja". In Finnish word "Harja" means brush. Nice coincidence!