It's no mystery or conspiracy that the Vikings reached North America before Columbus, it's well established history. It goes beyond a single coin, there are remnants of iron smelting and longhouses in Newfoundland as well, not to mention conflicts with natives recorded by the Vikings themselves throughout the East Coast.
The coin's presence in Maine is easily explained by the existence of Native American trade networks. Such an unusual trinket would have been valuable and thus could be traded multiple times until it was far from its original site in l'Anse Aux Meadows or elsewhere in Canada.
Maybe the Maine coin made its way to that location through trade? Vikings may have never stepped foot further into the North American continent, but that doesn't mean their artifacts and treasures couldn't have made it by hitching a ride with various Native American tribes at the time.
L'anse aux meadows is closer to Maine than it is to Greenland. Saying it's impossible for vikings to have made it that far south is absurd. We just don't know how far they made it. That being said, trade networks did exist. Guess we'll never know.
Pale skinned, red haired, green eyed antediluvian Giants were here WAY before the Siberian Nomads AKA "Native Americans" came around and killed them all off and stole their land. South America was the last refuge for the Giants, they built all those megalithic stone cities high up in the mountains until they slowly disappeared and other people found their abandoned cities and settled into them. The Spanish even recorded fighting Giants in Mexico when they were battling the Aztecs. The Paiutes have stories of killing off the last of the Red haired, white skinned, cannibal Giants (Sitecah) in the Lovelock Cave in Nevada.
It's pretty well known here in Canada that Vikings were here long before Christopher Columbus. There is the ruins of an entire settlement on the east coast with tons of evidence of their presence in North America. Mix that with the trade networks the Aboriginal peoples had established and you get European objects scattered across the continent.
Look, I get them not wanting the Rok Stone to be in the church. But if that stone is represents the beginning of Norse history it belongs in a museum. Not a park shelter.
It's translated but the interpretation is left to speculate about. Also the stone was not in the church, it was in a building where they stored the tithe. English wikipedia is for some reason incorrect about that part.
The lenses were used for maritime navigation , the lenses were part of a tool that let them see the position of the sun thru overcast clouds to shaft their position , I seen a great documentary on the subject a man was able to build a replica and used it just as advertised
Or Or ............The lenses were Monocles to make them look distinguished? Lol, joke, I saw that same documentary, and I believe Josh Gates did an episode as well!
I did a video on a island off Maine’s Coast that had a huge boulder that was under a 200+ year old tree. Once the tree fell Viking carvings are on the stone, crosses, a Viking Ship with oars and many other effigy’s. This stone is unknown by scientists and only known by a few. I did a video on it having been taken there.
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We have UBBERS navigation stone in our village HUMBERSTON (ubbers stone), GRIMSBY,ENGLAND. its a BIG granite boulder with quartz stars embedded, it lays near our church, next to an AWESOME cafe called the GINGERBREAD HOUSE. History books dont say much about this, its said they settled in YORK first, but they need to TWEEK alot of our history dont they.haha.
The little ice age is known in the myths and fairytales as the Fimbul Winter, and the villain in those stories is always Surt the undead wizard. Great stories, the one about Ottar is a good one to start with, if you're interested in folklore.
It appears archaeologists and historians are outrageously arrogant about how primitive our ancestors were, and how advanced they think we are in the present day. They know little of the past, but assume everything about it.
It's not just the appearance. That is the fact. We aren't told what science has to say or archaeology has to say, we are told what scientists and archaeologists have to say and it's usually b*******.
I used to be a stone cutter and setter. I hand cut cabachons on a stone wheel, using water cooling. The stone was mounted on a dowel with a hard melted tar. The precision one can achieve doing this by hand, with practice, is extraordinary. I do not believe a lathe would be necessary to achieve the level of result shown in these pictures. In fact, years later I worked for a small company making ruby styli for cutting record masters. Those were cut on lead disks, using diamond pastes. They had multiple facets, forming the cutting angles. BUT we also re-sold machine turned hemispherical ended ruby rods, used in some process of rounding, or deburring, record grooves (I was not sure exactly how or when they were used, but it was something like this). In any case, these factory made "deburrers" were not exact. Under a microscope, the arc was not consistent, and they had flats, and so on. I explained to my boss that I could do better, given my previous experience cutting stones. Mounting the ruby rods in a pin vise, on a wetted cutting abrasive wheel, I would spin the hemi shape on the end of these rods. The abrasive was made increasingly finer, until I had a high polish. My hand results were far better than the machine results. Under the microscope, they were indistinguishable from perfect, hemispherical form. I made many, and the buyers never complained. They worked perfectly. I doubt any machine more complex than a spinning stone, if that even, and the stone hand-held, was used to make these Visby lenses.
Wow! That's seriously amazing! You sound like a very talented individual. ❤ thank you for sharing that. 🙏🏻 I think modern day society doesn't give our ancestors enough credit. I mean, what else would you do back then but to have time to perfect your craft.
@@johndee2990 Probably, but I don't know if they are exactly the same processes for Obsidian or Jade, as I never cut those stones. But an interesting thing about Obsidian: At least back in the 1600's, polished obsidian mirrors... black mirrors... were made somehow. This is, as you know, a VERY hard stone. Some of these mirrors... speculums... made it to Europe, and were highly prized by "seers", spiritualists, and magicians. The famous doctor to Queen Elizebeth the first had one, and it is in a British Museum.
Those lenses bring to mind both the Silmarils and the Palantiri of Tolkien. So much of what he wrote was grounded in as much truth as you'll ever find in myth. We know the vikings used calcite sunstones to navigate at sea during the night. These may have had a similar use, not necessarily telescopes, but augmenting human sight under difficult conditions of haze or low light. Their presence in the graves may be as a guide in the afterworld.
they were using the stars at night... and the sun in the day... but the sunshine up North is rare... so they were using these crystals to ''spot'' the sun through heavy clouds... It's been proven... don't ever take the ''dark'' series as a source of information... the all series is extremely inaccurate... pretty cool though... lol I like the '' guide to the Afterlife '' explanation you gave...
They didn't "discover" it- it'd already been settled for thousands of years before the Vikings arrived. Saying that the Vikings "discovered" America is like saying Buzz Aldrin "discovered" the Moon. 🙄 🍄
Sumerian artifact in South America; Phoenician artifacts in Amazon and Phoenician genetics in Peruvian natives(they say from about 2000 years ago, but I believe older), and there is even evidence of welsh people making it to North America almost 1000 years ago and getting absorbed into Native American cultures!
Actually you have to be completely ignorant of History to pretend that America was discovered by either Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, or Leif Erikson. Stop promoting your ignorance out loud as if you were the smart one please. You only serve to further embarrass yourself.
"Were the English the fist to discover America?" Whoever wrote that newspaper article surely flunked History. Back when the Vikings were not known to have reached America, it was understood that Columbus discovered America and Ponce de León discovered part of what is now the US (Florida).
I've used some of the same storyblocks clips in my videos, the last burial was very impressive of two stallions added. It gave me thought of cultures through centuries not only laying rest with great honors, but the belief material items necessary in passing...
Come on guys. The coin got here in the pocket of a monkey that floated here from afar on a natural raft. I mean, it is like so totally obvious. Like duh.
I don't know anything, not a historian by any means, but in the Vikings series on the History channel, a Frenchman showed Ragnar a piece of crystal which was used in the sunlight to help them keep a true direction to cross the ocean, and those Visby lenses made me think of that. Maybe these were made by the French or the English, but were plundered by the Vikings. It probably isn't, but that's just the first thing I thought of when I saw them.
To me here in modern times it makes sense the owner of a very valuable telescope would keep the required lens disguised as a sacred amulet. When the two are separated they were considered harmless.
I believe the Vikings landed in North America in more than the one documented site in Canada. There are many accounts of blonde, blue eyed Indians from European colonists from St. Augustine in Florida all the way up the east coast. Some artifacts have also been found in the midwest. This is in addition to accounts of Native Americans tribes telling the so called first settlers that they were not the first people with fair skin and light hair to arrive in the area in large boats. For some reason, most historians ignore all of this evidence, much like they do other ancient legends.
I thought they used the lenses to see the sun on cloudy days so they wouldn't get lost. The clouds don't block the suns uv light and the crystal lets you see the UV the clouds can't block or something like that. They had something that they made for that purpose anyway.
Ever since I was a kid, I have been fascinated by the "Money Pit." A supposedly cursed buried treasure with flooded caverns and boobytraps that many people have lost fortunes to in an attempt to reveal its secrets.
Me too! When I was in 5th grade, we were taught about the Vikings but it was a small part of our learning. I've been hooked onto Viking lore and history since, I am currently 58yy🙂
I've heard tell that the lenses helped em navigate on cloudy days by making the Sun's location more clear, even with it cloudy and overcast. Might also have been used as a firestarter.
One thing that gets me is at the end if the video, they changed the name from "the BIRKA WARRIOR" to "THE BIRKA FEMALE WARRIER" ? Why not call her what she is "THE BIRKA SHIELD MAIDEN" that sounds way more badass in my opinion. Still a dope video tho
I recall that an artifact, maybe it was a coin, linked to the Varangian Guard (Viking mercenaries in service of Byzantine emperors) were found in the Persian Gulf region, implying that Vikings (or Byzantines) circumnavigated the African continent. They really got around!
There is no evidence of the Birka warrior being female....so says the team that originally made the claim now that they have been called on the "judicious interpretation of the archaeological evidence" they used to reach their conclusion....now they won't repeat the claim...do better research
The ancient aliens gave the tools and teachings to early humens! And told them that one day they will be back! Showed them ways to watch the skys! For there return!
I believe that the lenses are likely used to start fires in sunlight and likely sunstones, which allowed the vikings the ability to always know what time of the day it was even on cloudy days which was the standard sky in most places in Europe of the time. If you're out at sea and you see fire to cook etc, you need something to light the torches, they didn't have matches and wet flint wasn't practical.
10.50mins 'the warrior' may have been the beloved wife of a heartbroken warrior who buried his horses and large and very heavy weapons with her as a sign of his grief.
the Dorians came from the North... we don't know exactly where they came from... but we know that Appolon came from the ''Hyperborea''[ far North, or ''way too North''] in Greek, they crossed all of Greece and they end up in Lakaidemon, where they build Sparta... later a branch of them went up north and founded Macedonia ... that's what we know... around Sparta, you'll found blond hair and blue eyes to be the norm... not so much in the rest of Greece... so, yes!... you may be somehow right...
Haha yeah I remember that 2017 "birka warrior" thing popping up right around the same time it was "discovered" through ancient tapestry embroidery that vikings were actually all secretly Muslim. Though it's not nearly as exciting as the possibility of a real life Lagertha, if I remember correctly that 2017 claim was very misleading. Those pictures aren't the actual pictures. The tomb had multiple chambers with multiple burials and her skeleton just happened to be in one of the chambers. It isn't like the illustration portrays where there's a skeleton laid out wreathed in funeral offerings. Most of those were in other chambers, I think she had some sort of viking chess board with her which was what started the whole idea that maybe the other stuff could have belonged to her. Definitely not as it was presented in articles but it made for good girl power clickbait at the time.
yes some historians tried to said that was not the good skeleton they analized, but they did it again and proved definitively that was a woman. Same in iceland, they found the tomb of a princess, with everything for the woman of a high ranking jarl wife..... but analysis of the skeleton showed it was a male. Viking had no concept of woman/man segregation, at adult age all those who wanted passed the test to be a man... the test were both physically and mentally challenging, any one who was passing the test were becoming "man" and part of the warrior, all others, who don't wanted to pass them or failed them, were doing house shore
Woke? no its simply that foreign ideas have tainted the view of history for a long time, there are many prominent women and goddess based cultures in the world before Christianity came along and rewrote everything in its own image.
Viking women could own and inherit property. They could file lawsuits, and were expected to run the farm or the business while their husbands were off plundering or trading. This isn't a woke reinterpretation of history, the Nordics and the vikings have a long history of this kind of practical egalitarianism. Oh, don't get me wrong, they slaved and concubined multitudes, they were monsters, but for practical reasons women had these rights. It's seen in many cultures that lose a lot of men through warfare, the Spartans for instance.
Sure, here is a more likely explanation- Until about 150 years ago, being in charge of anything, including militaries, had nothing to do with one’s abilities. It was based on what family you came from. Assuming someone was in charge and had the best equipment meant that they were the best warrior shows a complete misunderstanding of history.
The birka "warrior" has long ago been explained. The bones had no damage consistent with ancient combat and were surrounded by riches far exceeding a common warrior burial. However it was common for wives and slaves to be sacrificed or willingly self sacrifice to aid warriors in the afterlife. Considering we don't even see the type of stress damage you would find in slave bones and no damage to wrists, it is most likely this was a wife who self sacrificed to follow her husband whose body couldn't be recovered.
Are you trying to tell me snow white wasn't ambiguously brown and expected to be a warrior Queeng?! I just don't believe...oh my god a fairy died!! Awww ESG pay for play history, don't it just make you respect a previously loved channel less and question prior content? Like what else was up for interpretation sell? It's the best!
That doesn't prove the person in question was never in battle. Flesh wounds would not necessarily show on bones, especially after so many centuries in the grave. There is such a thing as being lucky. It is also possible this was the daughter of a king, who had claim to both a rich grave treasure and arms, without having won either in battle. Ancient literary sources are mostly on the pro-female warrior side of the equation, though, and at the end of the day, I trust primary sources, who were, after all, there.
Of course there are women warriors. We are born that way. The Amazon warrior women have proven to be real. And fearsome. I just listened to a martial arts expert who trains women and claims they are actually tougher than many men.
Lathes were in use as far back as 1300 BC, it wasn’t high tech, and Vikings had trade routes all through Europe and the Middle East as far out as Iran by 1100 AD. That’s plenty of time to have picked up a lathe.
aliens flew millions of lightyears from outer space to give them a mchine made out of wood and metal so they could figure out how to cut rudimentary crystals into lenses, instead of just giving them an Ipad and GPS. The more I hear about these aliens, the more I realize how stingy they were with their toys.
@@jeffbudd7678 I think it's either a bot or someone heart hunting. They didn't have time to watch the first entry, much less the whole video on the time available.
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The Vikings were masters of certain things, that's unquestionable. Fighting, screwing, robbing, navigation, trade, women's rights, shipbuilding, the list goes on and on.
Why are they shocked that it’s a woman buried with both of her horses and weapons. A Viking was wealthy if they carried a sword this shield maiden (because that’s what she is) had two! Along with her axe(both weapon and tool in the Viking world)battle knife,spear etc. This shield maiden was of extremely high rank and I bet she had a fearsome reputation on the battlefield. Now she sups and feasts and fucks and fights in the great golden hall of Valhalla…Skäl🔥
I hate when people try to talk like every one was dumb and couldn't make perfect things with the tools they had. They had no TV no phone no anything it was work or die so of course 8/10 ish people was that skilled in their craft they had all day every day to do it.
I'm surprised there's no mention of Uruguay. The world's largest collection of Viking runes is on a mountain in Uruguay. I know it doesn't get much attention because the archeologist who published his findings was not a white-european, and he published in Portuguese, but still...
I have no doubts there were female vikings, (Valkyries, anyone). It's just weird how the people promoting that find the loudest, also insist that there is no physical differences between male and female, but they can tell from bones that it's female. Just seems odd.
The problem with the Vikings is the propaganda just doesn't fit the facts. The idea that they were big super soldiers was pushed repeatedly by historians who simply repeat what they were told. The Danish army with a large contingent of Vikings were totally wiped out by one clan after an unfortunate campaign of theirs in Scotland. One Clan. I think that history is nonsense. ESPECIALLY IN the west
Vikings were in Newfoundland, however a “green land with fruits” isn’t a description of Newfoundland. Soooo would lead one to believe Vikings went further south.
Oh, you discovered?!? And where pray tell did you "discover" these revelations professor?!? Did some fancy book learning did you!!! It's fun to pretend sometimes!!!
@@ericanderson3453 yes a big story, but in FRENCH, I'll have to translate this, I'm talking about facts ; many are known by historians but they NEVER told about all of this
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It's pretty accepted that the viking settlement of Vinland was the one found on Newfoundland. They landed in lands that were already inhabited(as the whole continent was), the homelands of the ancestors of mi'kmaq and inuit people, who have apparently passed down oral traditions that match up with alot of the viking accounts, which were also believed to have been passed down orally by Greenlanders before 2 different instances of being written down much later. What's clear that happened is that they made contact, traded with each other, and then eventually came into conflict with each other and the indigenous people chased them off of the island and back into the sea. This is the known extent of how far inland the vikings made it and claims of making it even further than that are all rooted in later colonial narratives and not any sort of real evidence. What's wild about the Maine penny is that it apparently dates to 500 (if I remember correctly) years after it is believed that vikings were chased off the island. And the location it was found in connects to a trade route that leads back to the island the Vinland settlement was on. So it likely followed a trade route from the same island. But this implies that trade between indigenous people and Greenlanders continued hundreds of years after the vikings were chased off.
I once saw a demonstration of how the Viking lens was used for ocean navigation. It was used in foggy or low visibility conditions and was very accurate. If I recall the user would take two sightings to do it. I total fog. The Vikings were successful seafarers after all.
There are few things more annoying than channels that use images in their for their video intro that never exist in the video. It’s just.. lame. Lame and makes some people really not like any content even if the video had some interesting topics.
I like the sweedes. They can leave the rookstone out in the open for everyone to enjoy without fear of vandalism or some climate change goofballs gluing themselves to it or throwing paint on it.
The lenses are really interesting. But the laws of refraction don’t really need to be understood for someone to look at a blob of glass and see that it is making things appear larger and smaller. A few decades of trial and error and someone could have easily figured out how to perfect them.
Neither the vikings nor Columbus 'discovered' Turtle Island... they got lost in a storm and accidentally bumped into it. It was already occupied however. Already 'discovered' by the citizens of ALL First Nations and First Peoples of Turtle Island, not some Grey skinned invasive species.
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