@3.00: Regarding what a Birkebeiner is, they were cross-country skiers who went all over Norway with the mail and other things. They often worked for a King, and they used skis made of birch. Today the "Birkebeiner race" is held every year from Rema to Lillehammer, a distance of 54 km.
Cool, I didn't expect to hear the word Birkebeiner today. They supposedly camped out here in my hometown (Lillehammer), and it's a big part of the makeup of our city. We have running, skiing and biking races dedicated to Birkebeinerne. We even had a movie a few years ago, which was also filmed here, which was... fine, I suppose
@@catansfr3532 Nils Gaup indeed. I always wonder how Norwegian dialogue sounds to a non-Norwegian. For me, it's always so stiff and painfully theatrical. But that's an issue I have with most Norwegian movies
I too had a good time at the first class of Original Stories of Norse Mythology and am looking forward to the next. I'm glad we are taking our time going through it carefully, there's a lot of nuance to the text. It's also cool that we used several stanzas from Voluspa in the Old Norse for Beginners class. It's good to see those stanzas again in this class in ON, then seeing it in the manuscript, *then* getting some scholarly background behind the translation. It's pretty much a history lesson as well as a mythology and poetry discussion.
Sverresborg in my home town of Trondheim is part of a very rich viking and post viking era history in this whole area. The skeleton has been mentioned many times, but it is very interesting that they are still finding out more about it.
Yeah ! Some of his history takes place in my city of Bergen and its absolutely fascinating to read about stuff happening around here in ancient times !
And here I was expecting to hear about the 50 skeletons "just" found in Odense from the 9-10'th century. Turned out to be another, and also cool story. TY ^^
I was just looking online for a translation of Sverrissaga and found that leatherbound 1899 translation you mentioned on sale for £250, but AmazonUK also has a very recent translation in two paperback volumes for around £35.
When is your next visit with Herr Professor/Director Moss Mattbrucker, Dinosaurologist, for another instructional, educational video? BTW, what was Alley Oop's pet brontosauraus' name?
Thanks for straightening out that the find of the bones was not that recent. The impression I got from a couple of stories was that the skeletin had only just been found in the well.
My own preference would have been for the skulls and skeletons on display in museums or languishing in their store-rooms to be afforded a decent burial, but we have developed scientific methods undreamt of in the 1930s, so it's just as well that this skeleton was still available to have its DNA extracted and studied. I suppose we will have better techniques in years to come.
