Norway's 100 YEARS of Civil War | The Life & Times of Haakon Haakonsson 

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"I already did a trial by fire--in Denmark!" Is the original "I totally have a girlfriend in Canada"

I love the God planning bit. "God, Dmitri the tsar Russia has died again and we need other Dmitri"

“So, we’re cool, right?” “Yeah…sure…” *gently conceals Damascus Sword*

Hakon has a "chosen one" protagonist vibe but like the most anticlimactic ending ever

How many long lost half brothers do you want? 12th century Norway: *yes*

Great vid Jack, my long-lost brother from another mother.

Some Norwegian: Is the King His long lost brothers from across the sea: *Allow us to introduce ourselves*

Nothing is less imaginative than a Haakon naming his son Haakon.

Anyone: "Iam your father's brother's nephew's cousin's former roommate!" Norway: "And what does that make y-?" A: "KING ME KINGMEKINGMEKINGME"

So IIRC Haakon roughly translates to “High Son” in Old Norse. So Haakon’s full name is “Highson, Highson’s Son”

can someone count how many times he has ended his videos with "caught an today perfectly curable disease and died."?

I do recall an episode of Mythbusters where they tested how people could walk across hot coals without getting hurt. They found that if you walked calmly and briskly instead of panicked and jumpy, you could get across safely. Because one doesn't put that much pressure on their feet if they walk normally, so the foot doesn't actually maintain enough connection with the coals to burn. Jump away from the heat, your foot comes slamming back down to the coals, making a real hard connection with the hot coals. One of the Mythbuster segments I remember really well, but it still might be better to find the episode to double check me.

If ever someone is about to do something epic, they will die. So remember kids, never do anything epic or it will kill you.

You missed out a crazy part of the story re Scotland. Alexander III, King of Scots (1249-1286), told Haakon that the Lordship of the Isles could have any land he could navigate a ship around. Obviously meaning islands. So far, so good. If you look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice that the Kintyre peninsula is attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus of land between West Loch Tarbert and Loch Fyne, which flows into the Firth of Clyde. Haakon sailed a ship up West Loch Tarbert, had it dragged across land, and refloated it in Loch Fyne. He then circumnavigated Bute, Arran, and the other islands in the Clyde estuary, before sailing around the Mull of Kintyre, and returning to his starting point. By doing so he had not only claimed the Clyde islands for the Lordship of the Isles, but also the Kintyre peninsula. And as Alexander was a man of honour, he graciously conceded. However, it was three years later that the Battle of Largs, which you refer to, took place, and which eventually saw the Lordship of the Isles become part of Scotland.

Ahh yes, the best possible DNA-Test: Walking over burning coal.

Priests were usually instructed to ensure that the various trials were passable, usually by doing things like ensuring that boiling water isn't actually boiling when someone sticks their hand in. The prospect of being maimed in the trial is usually seen as enough incentive against liars actually taking the test, as one would presumably be desperate to prove their innocence in most ordeals. Of course, sometimes the priest decides an ACTUAL miracle is required, in which case, you usually end up like Peter Bartholomew.

Fun fact, significant part of the Norwegian population have a blood relation to the royal line as one of our kings.. Well.. Several of them but this one especially had a fondness for farmer daughters. He traveled the lands a lot and stayed at farms.. See where this is going?

My three main take aways from this are, anyone who claims to be Norwegian nobility is immune to burning coles, never name your royal faction after food and you probably shouldn’t trust random drifters who claim to be long lost family

Hey Jack I’m your long lost 1/2 brother

>oh man, this king Haakon Haakonsson sound really interesting, lets find more about him on youtube >dozens of videos about Norweigen king who are named Haakon but not Haakon Haakonsson I guest Haakon is Norweigen versin of French Lui

Jeez, and I thought that Polish "politics" in this period were entangled and insane. Also, I've heard that walking over burning coals isn't as dangerous, as it seems. Don't quote me on that though. There is probably a lot of factors that influence the outcome, like the exact temperature or how fast do you walk.

There's a really good Norwegian movie about Haakon Haakonsson's ski trip. It's not the most historically accurate, but it stars Tormund Giantsbane from Game of Thrones. It even has a Hurdy Gurdy

"You dont know Haarkon, they are not Human, they are brutal!" -House Atraites Lord

"Magnus dies in battle, because, after all, he's blind" Wow, who could have seen that coming!

I love these little vignettes of history, just enough to leave me intrigued but not so long that I can't dedicate time to watching them. :)

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The scottish king Alexander the third 's succession story is even more stupid than Norway's. You could do a video on it.

Apparently the fire walking thing isn’t nearly as difficult as it sounds or looks, the feet aren’t in contact with the coals long enough to burn….providing you don’t stop for a chat on your way.

Let’s go Jack. Finally an episode on my homeland and it’s history

As a practising Catholic, that heavenly beauracracy bit was hilarious.

So many stories like this just end in “but he caught a fever and died”. It makes me wonder if God was writing it but it was last minute so he just scribbled in something and turns it in

Haha, I studied this period’s government administration in college, it was a real mess. For those a bit unsure about how these kings just keep popping up, basically Harald Fairhair, the first king of Norway, had instituted a system of local administrator nobles, the hersir, meant to be loyal only to the king rather than the traditional clans, tribes and peasant republics of the region. However, because of the democratic nature of Norse Scandinavia, any new monarch needed to have his position confirmed by a majority vote in three different peoples’ assemblies in different regions of the country. Now, problem was that as new pretenders began arriving, they made allies with the hersir who then used their control of the local militias to strongarm the assemblies into electing a new king. Sometimes it was backwards and a popular candidate was elected and the militias forced their hersir to back a candidate they wouldn’t otherwise have. Regardless, you had a consistent cycle of regionalist resentments that could be fuelled by easily raised armies as kings popped up left and right. Haakon Haakonson tried to remedy this situation by introducing the feudal system and limiting who could vote on new kings to priests and the new high nobility, but his reforms were never finished and the Norwegian aristocracy mostly finished off by the Black Death, eventually allowing the country’s peaceful integration into the Kalmar Union a century and half later.

An interesting side-note: Inge Bardsson (7:13) and his brother Skule were direct male-line descendants of Tostig Godwinson, brother of Harold Godwinson, who was the King of England defeated by William the Conqueror. Tostig infamously allied with Harald Hadrada against his brother and both were defeated and killed by Harold's army at Stamford Bridge a few weeks before Hastings. Tostig's sons survived the battle and returned to Norway with what remained of the army, where they were granted lands by Hadrada's son Olaf III. And, a century and a half later, one of their descendants married the daughter of Sigurd Munn (3:14) and their son became king of Norway.

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"What's your name?" "Haakon" "what's your father's name?" "Haakon" "So your name is" "Haakon, son of Haakon, or Haakon Haakonson"

Håkon Håkonsen was one of my forfathers...

Aw the good old days, when you could just lie about being a king's son and the only way to prove it was trial by fire.

Another great video to watch

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I know this isn't very specific but I'd love to see you do a video on Ireland. We've got a whole bunch of anniversaries coming up so it should be easier to research :)

Anyone else lose track of who was related to who and how around the 3rd generation of Sigurds?

4:50 to be fair, that still is the world sometimes, even with the internet

Fanstatic video and as a norwegian something I've wanted you to make for a long time. Though I hoped you would mention king Sverre 1. and his grudgematch with pope Not-so-Innocent 3. Would have been amazing in your style of video.

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Since it was the Medieval golden age and the Viking era was quite nice, you might never see a current or future King of Norway not given a royal name from this era.

Obscure yet interesting history

"But then their relationship got way worse" so they kept playing Mario Party, then

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Me: *sleeps in* oh no! I wasted the whole morning! Jack: *posts* Me: NEVERMIND!

This story sounds like the plot of a medieval soap opera.

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The double-a in names like Haakon isn't actually pronounced like a long a, rather it is the old way of spelling the vowel "å". This vowel is pronounced like how a Sopranos character pronounces the vowel in "Paul" or how a strong New York accent pronounces the vowel in "dog" or the first vowel in "coffee".

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Oh Boy, how I missed Jack's videos and his anticlimactic ends

Two videos only a week apart? Is this the same Rackam we know and love? You spoil us good sir.

What I think would be swell, was if you made a video about another Norwegian king, also named Haakon, but the 7th.

And I thought the Wars of the Roses were a convoluted mess. Jeez.

Im from norway and finnaly norway is getting in the ligth of history RU-vidrs thank you hope the history of norway is getting more covrage by history RU-vidrs. As we say in norway Tusen takk

I like all the running jokes lol

Everywhere I go there is a civil war

All these trials by fire, does coal burn a tad colder or something, so many people pass it makes me think its a tad ineffective

Walking across hot coals is easy. It is all about taking it slow and keeping your feet flat.

This very interesting

This is the best Skyrim fanfic ever!

There‘s nor way this actually happened! I‘m sorry

I wrote my bachelor thesis on this guy! Also you forgot to mention that according to Haakon, his attorney was GOD!

"Sent him to a monastery." *We know exactly what they did and it wasn't holy.*

I want to thank you for that Age of Empires II reference in the form of a Town Center.

you gotta admit, DNA tests just don't have that special dramatic flare a trial by oral has

Finally, King Sverri from my country is mentioned!

Epic nice

I didn't know Irovetti did a stint as King of Norway before he went to Pitax.

This video in a few words: “Long lost half-brother“

Literally immediately after watching this video I go to see what my essay question is and I kid you not it's on Harald Sigurdsson. Talk about some timing.

Being​ long​ lost​ son​ of​ norwegian king​ seems as​ exclusive​ as​ being​ Zeus​ son.

FEVER CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT

Btw when there's two a in a Norwegian name it's a å. It sounds like the a in awe

You should do a video on Date Masamune

Yes

I love it when you reference Monty Python

South Dakota has a county named after Haakon 7

Still waiting on that Gouveneur Morris vid

I'm hardly surprised that this happened. It seems that the best countries always seem to have a Civil War. Also when are we going to get a video on Spicer-Jackson. That's guys antics would be a hilarious addition to this channel.

Nice