Salt - more valuable than gold?

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Salt in the past used to be more valuable than gold, they tell us. Is it possible that they are wrong?
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Just because something gets repeated a lot, does not make it true. Sometimes, incredible facts are incredible because they are rubbish. I have lost count of the number of times I have been told that salt was once more valuable than gold. If it was, why didn't they use it to buy gold? Why were the areas with easy access to salt, like coasts, not just festooned in gold?
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@HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад

and in 200 years people will say: "did you know that in the olden days Printer ink used to be more valuable than gold?"

@Hobbyrepubliken 8 лет назад

But that would actually be true.

@HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад

Republiken well there is a difference between more valuable than gold and more expensive than gold

@Hobbyrepubliken 8 лет назад

Some historians claim that the fall of the Ipadian Civilisation came because the elite grew distance from the poor. But no matter how much wealth they had they couldn't eat printer ink and thus where easy pickings for the revolutionaries to siege them out from their villas.

@HunterRodrigez 8 лет назад

Republiken the revolutionaries poured printer ink over the elite thus branding them for live because that stuff takes ages to wash off

@Hobbyrepubliken 8 лет назад

The era was known as the Printer Terror.

@irondawn1596 8 лет назад

That Skall collab ... didn't think you knew each other

@DetectiveIncognito 8 лет назад

I was shocked. I saw him walk on and had to take a step back.

@niickkg 8 лет назад

+illyounotme yeh anyone subbed to one is probs subbed to the other, i know i am

@TheFoodnipple 8 лет назад

Same here.

@CodexOfXol 8 лет назад

+Sherruk I found both of them in the same day while going through video suggestions.

@MrKoiking1 8 лет назад

+Iron Dawn Yeah the ancient history/hema youtube channels all seem to know each other.

@EGRJ 8 лет назад

An Englishman argues with a Swede who lives in Canada without ever meeting him in person. What a time to be alive.

@thehankman100 8 лет назад

I thought skall was German

@bilbobaggins5938 8 лет назад

I thought Skallagrim was a German who went to Norway and then to Canada.

@EGRJ 8 лет назад

***** Well, now I'm just confused.

@fidur2 8 лет назад

Isn't Skall from Norway?

@dattebenforcer 8 лет назад

Isn't he Dutch?

@rjday753 8 лет назад

Skallagrim, wow that was unexpected lol

@Jeffrey314159 7 лет назад

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover "No one escapes the Spanish Inquisition"

@thebandofbastards4934 7 лет назад

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover The pommel inquisition, heretic! Prepare to be ended rightly.

@Malusdarkblades11 7 лет назад

my mind just blow up becourse i saw Skall and than again bec. somebodey used a monty python joke , i am in the right place here :D PS sry for the english i´m sill learning it ^^

@Malusdarkblades11 7 лет назад

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover no why ? :D

@Malusdarkblades11 7 лет назад

The Loveless Bayonetta Lover it's my second language . I'm from Germany :)

@Tiger74147 8 лет назад

The fact that you'd talk about salt in the ancient world, in great detail, is precisely why I like this channel. :D

@peterknutsen3070 8 лет назад

Forests, torches, cloaks, more torches, yeah!

@Tiger74147 8 лет назад

Preach

@yunofun 8 лет назад

Exactly why I like this channel more as well. Sure something on weapons and armor is nice once in a while. But there is more to the ancient world than armies rampaging through the land...

@jobzagudn 8 лет назад

Never forget LindyBeige keeps a ray gun for people who interrupt him.

@oz_jones 6 лет назад

Never forgetti, rest in spaghetti.

@davidhoffman6980 8 лет назад

Next time someone says to me "You know, in the ancient world, salt was more valuable than gold?" I'll say "Yeah, that's why ancient coins were made of salt."

@soat7ch 8 лет назад

I believe the fact that the coins would have dissolved in rain or the generally damp climate in Europe makes a valid counterargument

@davidhoffman6980 8 лет назад

soat7ch If you can afford salt coins, you can afford a waterproof salt coin purse.

@Gilmaris 8 лет назад

So today, paper is the most valuable thing there is.

@yvindblff5628 8 лет назад

There's a difference between fiat money (which represents value held elsewhere, commonly gold) and hard money (made from actual value, commonly gold or silver).

@WiggaMachiavelli 8 лет назад

There were ancient coins made out of salt. There just aren't any left.

@davidsmithsmith5679 8 лет назад

That low fps on skallagrim

@kaliyuga1476 4 года назад

Eso es lo que le da el puntito

@alexeysaranchev6118 4 года назад

Lloyd: PC Skallagrim: console

@ButterGamesRoblox 3 года назад

It was the audio too lol

@funnygrunt_o7 3 года назад

s k y p e c:

@fidur2 8 лет назад

Lloyd and Skall in the same video? My wet dreams have come true.

@corbinfathandme 8 лет назад

So have my hard ones...

@Camburger 8 лет назад

I am astounded at how they produced this video. they appear to be at different frame rates and in different lighting environments. earned my thumbs up as soon as they exchanged the arrow

@valhar2000 8 лет назад

They were in different environments with different lighting!

@Fridrik- 8 лет назад

Your Salty Dreams ?

@AEB1066 8 лет назад

I assumed the pale skin was due to Skall's vegetarian diet, but yes they were in different locations when filmed.

@lughfiregod16 8 лет назад

Well, now we need an in depth ray gun overview.

@jony4real 8 лет назад

A 50's ray gun no less.

@johnossendorf9979 8 лет назад

Whoa .....That's deep!

@samuelbekele3601 7 лет назад

Best anime fights

@TheSecondVersion 4 года назад

"Salt is more valuable than gold because the Mali Empire traded gold for salt" Because gold was *money.* That's like saying Walmart discount DVDs are more valuable then the US Dollar because you pay for them with cash

@MuhammadRafy 4 года назад

Aren't those dvds more expendive than a dollar?

@Otto_Von_Beansmarck 4 года назад

but where all the gold mines were people couldn't really get salt so it was probably more valuable to them

@davidkazira6060 4 года назад

The Mali empire had both salt and gold mines so no. Gold was still more Valuable. And it was currency.

@tafazzi-on-discord 3 года назад

@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck the mali empire had access to the coast.

@Great_Olaf5 2 года назад

@@davidkazira6060 I finally got an explanation for how that worked. The gold mines were in a tropical climate, they were basically impossible to operate without a lot of salt because salt helped the miners retain more water in the heat. Still probably wasn't healthy, but if you're sweating buckets, you need both lots of water and lots of salt. The salt was mostly on the north, the gold was mostly in the south, so the trade developed along those lines and just kept extending.

@jarrod752 8 лет назад

Anything can become more valuable than gold if you don't have it and need it.

@pered5 8 лет назад

Underrated comment

@MrArthoz 7 лет назад

Funny that people said gold is valuable yet they still value gold based on paper money...which is nothing more than paper...which an accepted worth solely by general consensus.

@pered5 7 лет назад

Used to be paper money was valued in gold actually; but I think they changed it because of the infrastructure you'd need to hold all the gold you need to in order to keep your money valuable; what with credit and banks being dicks and whatnot

@MrArthoz 7 лет назад

pered5 Yes and similar like all paper money in history, it's all heading towards an inevitable crash---but that we could discuss on other youtube video that explain the issue. You might like to read about ancient china, japan, egypt and sumeria where they use grain as medium of payment. Maybe it's not true cash but the government during that era use a concept of yearly stipend where they pay an amount of grain (wheat, barley, rice) to government officials. Simpler times than our present monetary system that we are plagued with now.

@TheBasjenator 7 лет назад

Actually, it's da joos hoo dunnit.

@styrodot5578 8 лет назад

I laughed a bit to hard when skalgrim showed up

@Tallmios 8 лет назад

+TheScottishPyro Now I need to clean my monitor from all the saliva I spat out. Thanks, Lindybeige.

@alfredmason-fayle6075 8 лет назад

I couldn't tell if they were actually in the sape room, skallagrim looked slightly jankier and they never touched the same objects, if you pay attention to the arrows they always 'hand them over' out of shot

@nekonomi792 8 лет назад

+alfred mason-fayle cleary skallagrim on a green screen. notice their lighting areqite different? especially appereant when they are waving swords, it reflect at different angle/spot + brigtness is also different

@olivia1954 8 лет назад

+alfred mason-fayle and the audio yer there not in the same room.

@GerBarne 8 лет назад

+Neko Nomi well yes, obviously he was on a green screen. It actually makes it more impressive in my opinion, think of the timing and the scripting! Really well done.

@MidnightSt 8 лет назад

I REFUSE TO BELIEVE SKALLAGRIM IS THIS SHORT... ...or that he's got this low framerate irl.

@propanedaddy5577 8 лет назад

I think Lindybeige is actually like 6'4'' or something

@DoomedLaggy 8 лет назад

Met him a couple of weeks ago, he's much taller than you'd expect.

@sonkew826 8 лет назад

i think there was a discussion on scholagladiatoria quite a while back just about that. thing is: both lloyd and matt are over six foot and skall is not; unlike in the drawing the discussion was about. he's not small, but he is compared to lloyd. sorry

@DoomedLaggy 8 лет назад

I was talking about Lloyd, he's a giant of a man. Met him in Newcastle.

@ivar4677 8 лет назад

Skallagrim is not short, Lindybeige is a giant

@theashennamedjerry3203 7 лет назад

The video was very interesting lindy! Do not listen to skalagrim.

@wolfhunter98 6 лет назад

Well he's dead now. Good old handy ray-gun.

@tolvajkergetok 5 лет назад

In the 16th or 17th century there was a Hungarian nobleman - the exact time and the guy's name escapes me right now - who was told that he can marry a particular lady if he will take her home on a horse-drawn sledge - in summer. He responded with purchasing the entire stock of the salt mines of Máramaros, Transylvania and covered the road with it between the two places. Then he actually took her on a sledge ride. Let's hope she was worth it...

@humbie1000 3 года назад

wasn't about marriage...was about empress Maria-Theresia coming to visit the duke of esterhazy at his palace in hungary and he wished to entertain her with a sledge ride in summer

@tolvajkergetok 3 года назад

@@humbie1000 Thanks. Details are still hazy. It took the entire annual production of the mines of Máramaros, I remember that.

@memr5690 2 года назад

Then he actually... What? What happened?

@memr5690 2 года назад

Ok he edited it, thanks

@vihreelinja4743 2 года назад

Pussy allways been expensive

@jpavlvs 8 лет назад

More useful then gold. Can live without gold. Can't live without salt.

@user-qv9nj3sc5e 8 лет назад

Yeah, I guess it's the difference between "valuable" as in useful and "valuable" as in expensive.

@WiggaMachiavelli 8 лет назад

But if it's "valuable" as in "useful" then the claim was true not only in ancient times but also all down history at least until the advent of digital computing (though less so now than a few decades ago). Or perhaps being used as currency actually made gold more "useful" than salt anyway.

@jackporkins41 8 лет назад

Your computer uses gold in the contacts, think about what you are saying. You can live with out your computer?

@jpavlvs 8 лет назад

I grew up in the 50s and 60s without one, I could do without. I like reading books.

@BryanGorges 8 лет назад

Gold isn't necessary for electrical contacts, it's just much better than many other alternatives.

@6661313 8 лет назад

that was fucking great, nice cameo, but the vids are good no matter what they are about

@buca117 8 лет назад

Yeah. I don't care about half the things he talks about beforehand but I come back because he's both entertaining and educational.

@perochialjoe 8 лет назад

I was waiting for Matt to walk in at the very end

@peterknutsen3070 8 лет назад

Matt who?

@TNTnor 8 лет назад

The maker of the RU-vid-site "scholagladiatoria", very similar to Lindybeige and Skallagrim

@peterknutsen3070 8 лет назад

Okay, thanks. I've actually seen one or two of his videos.

@Stigstigster 8 лет назад

He wasn't really there. That was special effects.

@itsmederek1 8 лет назад

wow, you ser do have a very keen eye. I went back and watched again and only then did i notice the signs of a greenscreen! well done.

@NotTheCIA1961 8 лет назад

What IS more valuable than gold is printer ink.

@Jimpozcan 7 лет назад

There are heaps of things more valuable than gold.

@ottopike737 7 лет назад

+jimpozcaner not by economic standards.

@embolobolo4237 7 лет назад

and crack cocaine..

@TrueHylianKnight 6 лет назад

Useful vs valuable

@senneuh1 6 лет назад

Only in mass, not in volume, and only because gold weighs a shitton and printer ink does not.

@Erduk 8 лет назад

Lindybeige is way more interesting to watch than Skallagrim. Talk about salt all you want.

@BlackSunRX2008 8 лет назад

+Erduk I hope no one gets salty

@iatebambismom 8 лет назад

+Erduk Much less stupid over-groomed facial topiary, too.

@Erduk 8 лет назад

illyounotme Honestly, I just don't like Skallagrim. He's one of those "gender is a social construct" people.

@bardfinn 8 лет назад

+Erduk You don't like anthropologists? Because Anthropology is where the notion that Gender Is A Social Construct originated. You don't like psychologists? Medical doctors? People who dedicate their life to academic studies? Or maybe you just are afraid of anything you weren't taught in third grade.

@samswann3727 8 лет назад

+illyounotme I do love skalls videos and knowledge, however people can't have opinions on everythign, sometimes facts and data can only be argued by equally as good facts and data, gender is determined by either the X or Y chromosome found in human at birth, sex is what you identify as. Arguement over. Those are the definitions. However I do agree with you, every one can have opinions and just becuse a person disagress with me doesn't mean I dislike or disrespect him. I just think that for some people opinions overtake facts.

@gdnm 8 лет назад

You know in the olden days, timber was more valuable than diamond.

@hats1642 8 лет назад

+g00dn4m3 You know in the olden days, rocks were more valuable than microprocessors.

@jonallegrand6525 8 лет назад

+Joseph Bissett Really ?

@wesleycaine7832 8 лет назад

+g00dn4m3 I suspect you could be right in a sense. If you imagine all the diamond trading in the world, and all the lumber trading, which one would be sold more? The wood, because it was used for so much, where as diamonds are pretty rocks...they...um...look nice? The fact is wood was more usefull, there was a larger market for it and therefore the total profit would probably of been higher. On another note, I think the current price of diamond is only so high because of a monopoly on their mining and refining. Not exactly sure of this, but it would seem a tad odd that a formation of one of the most common elements on the planet is so rare. In conclusion, usefullness > pretty rock.

@lednybeeg3474 8 лет назад

+g00dn4m3 but nothen vill evar b as vauble as stuffing teh french

@NavidIsANoob 8 лет назад

The diamond sector is locked in a controlled demand. In reality they're not as valuable and rare as they're made out to be.

@PeterBarnes2 8 лет назад

Wait, does this mean there was actual scripting involved in a Lindybeige video‽ Preposterous!

@lindybeige 8 лет назад

Not at my end.

@anthonycraig4699 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige I wanted to hear about salt some more.

@Zilap9 8 лет назад

+Anthony Craig are you salty now?

@vaclav_fejt 8 лет назад

Did you feel assalted?

@PeterBarnes2 8 лет назад

***** Quiete.

@ryanhouk3560 7 лет назад

take the head off the arrow and throw it at him to end him rightly

@The_Assassin_of_The_Gray 7 лет назад

Would that not be the nock of the arrow you are supposed to twist off, throw and end him rightly with?

@rasputin2750 7 лет назад

anything that you can use to end him rightly

@altansirin5830 7 лет назад

You cant make a pommel out of salt. so yeah gold is better.

@Johannes4233 7 лет назад

Actually if you melt salt it becomes little bit like glass. So you could do it.

@poiuytrewq11422 7 лет назад

Heretic But throwing it would cause it's destruction, therefore you could not recollect the pommel for rescrewing, and further throwing.

@SilentNinjaPtrs 7 лет назад

Scrolled down the second I saw him to look for comments like this

@comradecameron3726 6 лет назад

Altan Şirin gold is as malleable as play dough.

@horstherbert35 5 лет назад

@@poiuytrewq11422 Clearly you've never seen a prince rupert's pommel

@richardw6775 8 лет назад

Lindybeige, that either took multiple shoots or you are incredibly talented. (Or finally started scripting) either way great effects, i love your videos and am quite a fan of Skallagrims as well. Don't give up on these "pointless" rants. Simply because something isn't as popular doesn't mean it isn't interesting.

@TehCthulhu 8 лет назад

Bonus points for making Skal shorter than you. This being said I have no idea how tall he actually is.

@CaraDanaellea 8 лет назад

Skall is shorter than Lloyd, because Lloyd is seriously tall

@TehCthulhu 8 лет назад

I think I remember Lloyd being around 6'3", but Skal appears Scandinavian enough to be something equally monstrous.

@DizzySpark 8 лет назад

but hes a vegetarian so unlikely.

@TehCthulhu 8 лет назад

Fair enough.

@CaraDanaellea 8 лет назад

What has that to do with anything? Skall is 1.76m and Lloyd is over 1.90m, so he's just taller than most.

@negativejam2188 7 лет назад

The message is, a sci-fi devistation Ray will defeat any medieval sword

@BenjaminGoose 4 года назад

Rey*

@negativejam2188 4 года назад

BenjaminGoose I don’t remember what this comment was about. But I think I’m referring to like a raygun. In which case RAY is the correct spelling.

@paullyons5225 4 года назад

@@negativejam2188 I think he is referring to a rumor that there was a series of sci-fi movies with a main character named Rey.

@negativejam2188 4 года назад

paul lyons I don’t get how a reference to Star Wars makes sense here, but cool I suppose

@ThatsMrPencilneck2U 4 года назад

@@paullyons5225 It's only a rumor.

@wesleyfilms 8 лет назад

Is Lindy an English a giant, or Skul a dwarf?

@HimslGames 8 лет назад

lol lindy is better at editing

@yojasmagic 8 лет назад

+GameSquid And he's actually darn tall, too. I remember him saying something about that in one of his other videos.

@CJTheReal 8 лет назад

Yes

@Viewbob_True 8 лет назад

+wesleyfilms Lindy is about 6 foot 3, so I would say the heights are spot on

@J_Squatch 8 лет назад

I believe Lloyd is about 6feet tall (2 meters for the rest of the planet) and Skall is probably 6 to 8 inches shorter than that.

@siestatime4638 8 лет назад

Your evaluation of salt makes the assumption that the World's entire population lives near a body of salt water, or on a trade route used by those who do. Not true. As you pointed out, salt was way more important than just a seasoning; for those living on or near a subsistence level (away from an ocean), salt had real value and gold was just a pretty rock.

@lindybeige 8 лет назад

+Siesta Time Yes, but to move anything takes transport. It is as expensive to move a ton of salt as a ton of gold. Almost everyone in the ancient and medieval world of Europe and Britain lived within a few days' journey of the sea. Getting hold of the salt in the first place is a LOT easier than the gold, and gold has to be moved too, and most people lived a long way from a good source of gold.

@mrpartysack6540 8 лет назад

+Siesta Time It's not like everyone in the medieval world was spread out all across the landscape like we are today. Almost everyone in Europe at the time much preferred to live pretty close to the sea, rather than in the middle of nowhere. People really stuck together then. Gold may only have one purpose (to be valuable) but it does it well, it is valuable and used as currency for a reason, if salt were far more valuable then they would use it as currency rather than gold. Salt is as easy to get as taking a bucket of salt water, leaving it in the sun for a few days, then scooping it up. Mining gold in the medieval world was really hard, gold is already really rare but back then it was even more rare and hard to find because their technology wasn't as good, obviously. Also gold is very dense and heavy, so it really took a lot more effort to move than salt. Remember value isn't determined by usefulness, but by how difficult it is to get.

@AdSd100 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige only if people would think about it for a moment. How wonderful the world would have been.

@doomsdoor 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige pound for pound, salt has a much bigger volume then gold. Fragile when crystalline, blows away with wind if powder, and easily dissolved by water and contaminated

@siestatime4638 8 лет назад

Lindybeige I suspect that moving a ton of salt was even more expensive than a ton of gold (volume/mass), but, after moving that ton of gold, what you had was a pretty rock that you could use to buy necessities, like, say, salt. To those without salt and gold, the salt had more worth. Gold's worth is as a medium of exchange - you need to be able to "accumulate wealth" to require an exchange medium. If you kept your exchange in something with an intrinsic worth, say rice, you would lose about 10% per annum to rats and rot; gold is much more storable. Gold was important only to to those who we now call "the 1%" - those who can afford to accumulate wealth; to the 90%+ living pretty much hand to mouth, the caloric value of gold is nil, but we all need salt.

@sonya9632 8 лет назад

So, you are saying that CS:GO is a goldmine?

@Roach32 7 лет назад

Technically a salt mine

@neithon467 6 лет назад

Pretty thoughtful comment bro

@guvyygvuhh298 6 лет назад

Y4Y salt mine

@servedwidcringe2747 6 лет назад

No its a salt mineeee

@randomalien7746 5 лет назад

r/wooosh

@grindstone4910 8 лет назад

A ray gun? Should've used a pommel and ended him wrongly...

@s.rolphsen174 8 лет назад

That's going to be Skall's counter. A pommel from the grave will still end your opponent rightly.

@livedandletdie 8 лет назад

It's what happened next, Skall waited in his death til Lindy had uploaded the video until he unscrewed his pommel and ended Lindy rightly.

@josiahmann5605 8 лет назад

If lindeybeige pommeled Skally that would have been one of the top 10 most amusing things on youtube. :-) I hope it appears in their next disagreement. :-)

@jodawgsup 8 лет назад

What was their first disagreement?

@marcelogonzalez8547 8 лет назад

The pommel would had been overkill.

@CoconutSundae 5 лет назад

Honestly, the salt part is more interesting to me than weapons talks, I've heard enough about swords. Videos on how to set up a medieval economy are where it's at.

@ender7278 7 лет назад

So salt was perhaps more important, but not more valuable.

@smorrow 6 лет назад

Yep, good ol' Water-Diamond Paradox.

@DoomTrooper90 7 лет назад

It was actually making some sense until about halfway. Then a wild Skallagrim appeared. Now I'm salty. :(

@gatisgavars3608 8 лет назад

Is skall dead?

@lindybeige 8 лет назад

+Gatis Gavars I think so. I was very thorough.

@simasgx 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige You didn't throw a pommel at him, end him rightly. How savage you are.

@jasondoe2596 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige xD

@legso21 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige i actually lold

@TheKiingkiller 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige what brand is that, every time i try to disintegrate someone i end up with dust all over the place.

@Myzelfa 8 лет назад

I'd much rather hear about salt than "half-arrowing". At least one of them exists. Also, it seems Skal is heavily exaggerating his screen persona- for comic effect?

@apugalypse_now 8 лет назад

He's always been a cringelord. This isn't new.

@dariuso2657 8 лет назад

Perhaps the reason is that this was done for comedic purposes?

@darnokthemage170 8 лет назад

+Darius P what! That cant be true! LIES AND PIES!

@dariuso2657 8 лет назад

Konrad Eklund Yeah, I just made it up. It's all probably true, especially the laser part. RIP Skallagrim whatever - 2016

@crusherven 8 лет назад

Yeah, I read it as Skal parodying a subset of the audience as well.

@psychotic17 8 лет назад

Skall's sword might be a bit shorter, but at least it has more girth!

@Moridorable 8 лет назад

I am an olde timey alchemiste. I can produce salt simply by speaking to peasants.

@dirt420 7 лет назад

fuck you dude do you think you're funny talking about peasants? eat shit.

@MrFlarespeed 6 лет назад

Wow, a live demonstration. Neat.

@JohnGeorgeBauerBuis 5 лет назад

Do you have a philosopher's stone?

@GlovesoffHarry 8 лет назад

Lindybeige drinking game: 1. Drink every time he says 'buy and large' 2. Drink every time he asks a rhetorical question or addresses the audience directly 3. Drink when he puts on his condescending stupid person voice and only stop when he does 4. Drink every time he mentions a place he has been 5. Drink every time he says something quintessentially British Love your videos man :) this one was the best one all month :)

@27dcx 8 лет назад

+Harry Upton I got alcohol poisioning

@elenap15227 8 лет назад

Almost 8 minutes of nonstop drinking. No time to breathe.

@JimGiant 8 лет назад

+Harry Upton I would but alcohol costs more than platinum.

@headrockbeats 8 лет назад

This game sounds incredibly deadly.

@pacman10182 8 лет назад

are you trying to kill people?

@zoneco9013 7 лет назад

Do we get a video on mint now?

@fizyk1101 7 лет назад

I second that thought - I'd love to hear how Alexander the Great paid for his invasion in mint leaves :)

@davidwise2489 5 лет назад

And why it's so valuable.

@davidwise2489 5 лет назад

Tyler , did you NOT watch the whole video? 7:40-7:50. I am aware mint is a weedy plant, but that does not stop farmers from growing 100s of acres of it.

@SeattleScotty 5 лет назад

@Tyler V I had the same thought - mint is one of the hardiest and more invasive plants, how could it be rare enough to have that much value? For what it's worth, I did a search and couldn't find any mention of him paying for the Invasion of India with mint leaves. This sounds even less believable than the salt factoid.

@firstraid2314 5 лет назад

@Thicc Alien I rly suspect it was bait for seeing how many were dumb enought to google it.. as I did :D ahaushduashdu

@ccswelding1599 8 лет назад

you should have pulled out a KATANA !! they can cut through the sun,you know

@OrchidAlloy 8 лет назад

And, according to Homestuck, through a meteor.

@psyko2666 8 лет назад

+derfloh93 lol

@lilmichaeltaylor546 8 лет назад

How would he be able to end him rightly? Didn't think of that did you?

@rmsgrey 8 лет назад

Or a Buster Sword to reduce his "bigger is better" argument to absurdity.

@gonzaloayalaibarre 8 лет назад

The sun? More like through a neutron star amirite?

@Armadurapersonal 8 лет назад

So salt was valuable in the same sense petroleum is valuable now. It might be the "black gold" but diesel is cheaper than bottled water.

@Jimpozcan 7 лет назад

Drink tap water (don't drink diesel).

@ottopike737 7 лет назад

yeah, but you can't injest water. So the salt analogy clearly doesn't work.

@ludditeneaderthal 7 лет назад

not in florida... diesel costs 2.5 x water per gallon, and the water is supplied with a container. "loose" filtered water from a machine is about 1/10 the price of diesel (bring your own jug). in "bottled water", you pay mostly for that convenient packaging, not the commodity itself. compare that same water to liter jugs of "synthetic blend" motor oil... bargain goes to water, lol. compare it to 3 oz cans of lighter fuel, only skews it more towards water as "regalo". 2.50 gallon for diesel, roughly a buck for generic water by the gallon, in either gallon jugs or half liter flats of 24 bottles (which go for about 3 bucks for no name). motor oil is, cheapest variety, roughly 3 bucks a liter (2.50 if you buy 5 liter jugs). take out the taxes, the diesel costs about the same as "decent" water in jugs ("offroad diesel" is about 1.50 a gallon)

@sexmchne 7 лет назад

Mmm black gold. I fuken love coke a cola too 😝😂

@joonahelin2091 7 лет назад

Practical value is the word you're looking for

@WarHammer1911A1 8 лет назад

Salt vs Spandau?

@PikaPetey 7 лет назад

I'm so salty

@oddfellow8186 6 лет назад

You certainly get around this website, god damn.

@ismkiv588 5 лет назад

How did you even get here ouo

@siyacer 4 года назад

Weenie

@gabrielandradeferraz386 4 года назад

how precious

@Dante_Eydel 8 лет назад

I'm expecting a video on Skallagrim's Channel with Lindybeige now.

@SSHitMan 5 лет назад

RIP Skallagrim. Damn, I was just getting into that channel.

@squigoo 8 лет назад

the korean word for salt 소금 so-geum literally means "small gold" ^_^

@lindybeige 8 лет назад

+squigoo Nice nugget if information!

@27dcx 8 лет назад

+squigoo Funny how it kind of sounds like "sodium" too

@Damnagoras1 8 лет назад

+squigoo Sounds a lot like sodium... As in sodium chloride o_O

@Greyghostvol1 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige That darn auto-correct, eh?

@baartenkaas 8 лет назад

+Greyghostvol1 I doubt he even has a smartphone, i is next to o.

@MerlijnDingemanse 8 лет назад

what.... the hell is skall doing in this video?

@Jakers457 8 лет назад

The golden trio. Lindybiege, Skallagrim and... scholar gladiatora. I'm fudging the spelling and the names, but you know

@TheSteelEcho666 8 лет назад

+Merliginary Being disintegrated, it would seem.

@MerlijnDingemanse 8 лет назад

well, that is what you get when your greatsword doesnt have an unscrewable pommel

@Rallarberg 8 лет назад

+Merliginary RU-vidrs promoting eachother, common practice. Betting Mr. Lloyd here will pop up in a Skallagrim video soon as well, if he hasn't already. Did it work here, not so sure.

@wyattroncin941 8 лет назад

+Merliginary yep. should have ended him rightly.

@MartinGreywolf 8 лет назад

I suspect I know where this myth came from - a lot of Slavic cultures have fairly old fairy tales about something like this. The general plot synopsis goes something like: a king had three daughters and told them to give him present to find out which one loves him most. Two older give him some bling, the youngest gives him salt, he is of course angry at the salt princess and exiles her. Then by one magic or another (I heard of fairy godmothers, the devil, saint Peter, you name it), all the salt in the kingdom turns to gold. Shenanigans ensue as king tries to bypass the curse, but all ultimately fail (imported salt turning to gold at the borders, etc). A king is ultimately humbled and sees the true value of salt, takes back the youngest princess etc etc. The original point of these fairy tales is, I'd think, that while gold is nice, you can do without it, but you can't do without salt, therefore value the things you can't do without in life more than luxury. And then someone doesn't use that brain thingy and takes it as a historical fact and people quote him, because giggling at how quaint people were back then is so in style this season...

@grmmmmhpph 8 лет назад

Fairytales tend to fall over when you apply logic. *All* the salt turns to gold? Including the salt inside the human body? Tricky...

@lemons1559 Год назад

@@grmmmmhpph Fairy tales aren't about realism but about telling a message.

@icy_weiner 8 лет назад

This guy has the dopest sweaters.

@icy_weiner 8 лет назад

Also, Skallagrim should do more ASMR...

@misterkefir 8 лет назад

the video was actually really interesting up to the point were the other dude showed up.. -.-

@vitoc8454 8 лет назад

"The other dude" is Skallagrim, another great historical weapons and martial arts RU-vidr. Check him out, his vids are interesting and funny at times.

@misterkefir 8 лет назад

Yeah, i know, so? ;)

@Alsadius 8 лет назад

I don't care who he was, he made the middle third of the video boring and stupid.

@psykopanda11 6 лет назад

Damn skallagrim to hell i hope the divines deal him Swift justice!

@memmett9946 8 лет назад

If salt was more valuable than gold we'd all be harvesting League of Legends players.

@winstonchurchill624 6 лет назад

memmett9 or RU-vid commenters. The comment section is basically a salt mine.

@LeavingGoose046 8 лет назад

Talk about whatever you want Lindy, screw that guy.

@caelodevorago608 8 лет назад

Hey! Skal is awesome just like him :3 It's clear they were joking

@dattebenforcer 8 лет назад

Yeah it was a jab at those of us who complain about his non-weapon vids. lol

@caelodevorago608 8 лет назад

***** I love his historical videos, he is my second favorite person teaching me history :3 (First was my actual history teacher. Shorts, sandles, and t-shirts, with long blonde hair and a scruffy beard... And yet not the kind of person you're thinking of :3)

@fuckoffwiththehandles 8 лет назад

"those of us who complain about his non-weapon vids" There are people like that? The majority of lindy's content, and most of his best content, has notthing to do with any specific weapon.

@LeavingGoose046 8 лет назад

Apache The way I found him was through a non-weapon vid

@iwillfightyousir6479 5 лет назад

I was quite enjoying Lloyd talking about salt actually 😂

@tyree9055 3 года назад

I got mesmerized by his ray gun. It seems to have secondary properties! 😅

@Ca11m3Raven 8 лет назад

A wild Skalagrim appeared.

@Subjekt3 8 лет назад

Didn't the Romans salt on fields to make them infertile? Wouldn't do that with gold would you? I found this inSALTing.

@BaddeJimme 8 лет назад

They only did that symbolically though. Salt was still far too expensive to render large tracts of land unfarmable.

@peterknutsen3070 8 лет назад

+BaddeJimme How much salt would actually be required per hectare? And for how many decades or centuries would the effect last?

@Subjekt3 8 лет назад

Peter K. Not long I guess... Just that for a couple of years would be enough to starve the owners or more likely drive them away. But I wouldn't now how much salt that would take but as BaddeJimme pointed out it was likely just an symbolical display of might and wealth to their enemys.

@KuK137 8 лет назад

Also, large tracts of land were expensive commodity, too. It made little sense to destroy both.

@peterknutsen3070 8 лет назад

If those large tracts of land were far from Rome, and the population was too obstinate to submit to empire, the Romans might well have decided on an indirect genocide.

@Polite_Cat 8 лет назад

it looks like whats his name is at a lower framerate then lloyd

@elenap15227 8 лет назад

But a better resolution

@headrockbeats 8 лет назад

+Elena PINEDA Do you suppose there is such a thing as "low resolution inferiority complex"? :D

@elenap15227 8 лет назад

+Headrock Oooooooooooooooh! Burn!

@double_anarchy 8 лет назад

Host privilege lol.

@bootsontheground4913 8 лет назад

Skallagrim

@EvilTwinn 8 лет назад

Just to say, I do like the "medieval life" videos that you make. Other people can cover weapons, not many cover the "more boring" stuff, even though I think it's perfectly fascinating as well.

@ThatIrishLass 8 лет назад

Lindy...do...did you just straight up murder Skallagrim?

@hassiaschbi 8 лет назад

+The Learned Soldier I hope so, he was just a pain in the butt.

@headrockbeats 8 лет назад

+The Learned Soldier I'm fairly sure he didn't _murder_ him - he _cooked_ him.

@OrchidAlloy 8 лет назад

+Headrock Needs more salt

@CasparAbelmann 8 лет назад

+Headrock Looked more like roasted, cooking meat only takes 3 seconds with the cooky-wave-o-matic.

@xSpiegelschattenx 8 лет назад

It was just a dark spirit. Lindy banished him from his world using a steam-powered atomic ray.

@thepastaman1 8 лет назад

R.I.P. Skall. He was a big guy.

@Dragon.7722 8 лет назад

+George Wittelsbach-Lorraine-Mclarion-Hoopy For you!

@GenJotsu 7 лет назад

Hey I give a crap about salt.

@alexeysaranchev6118 4 года назад

And farmers give a crap about crap as well.

@samotten9874 8 лет назад

No need to use a ray gun, you could have simply thrown your pommel at him.

@SYMBIOTEDINOSAUR 8 лет назад

I actually like the non weapon videos. I find them more interesting. I don´t hate the weapon videos though.

@daruween1398 3 года назад

my therapist : "low fps skall is not real, he can't hurt you" low fps skall : 02:48

@MatthewsPersonal 7 лет назад

all coastlines are very long, lindybeige. almost infinitely long

@BigSauce_ 8 лет назад

am I the only one curious of what Lloyd does for a living?

@beelzibubbles 8 лет назад

Believe it or not, dance teacher.

@zpacula 8 лет назад

I'm waiting for Lindybeige / Tex Murphy crossover

@sirlagged 8 лет назад

I believe Mr. Lloyd is a very respected accountant.

@mw2mw3rhett 8 лет назад

So basically we have no idea what he does then...

@jony4real 8 лет назад

Uh... gentleman?

@keithlarsen7557 8 лет назад

Also, American here where energy weapons are legally considered power tools, do you need an FAC for a ray gun, or is it like a TV permit?

@mcpartridgeboy 8 лет назад

lindy would you ever do a video on historic diets, I heard that peasents could afford whale meat but that's about it for meat, I heard they had to boil meat because it was the only way they could afford and that only the very rich could affor roasted meat because of the fuel costs, but wood wasn't that expensive was it ? I don't know !

@fivefives8043 8 лет назад

Think hard about what you just suggested. If they didn't have fuel to roast with, how did they bring water to a boil? I've never heard this idea before but it sounds silly. The only reason I could see peasants favoring a boil over a roast is food safety. If the peasants are getting older meat a boil would sterilize it a bit better than a roast (just a bit). But even that seems unlikely because I'd wager peasants were the ones producing an awful lot of the meat in the first place.

@ankou000 8 лет назад

Could it have really been that more fuel-efficient to boil something than to roast it? Whether you're boiling or roasting you're going to need fuel (it actually seems to me you'd use more fuel to boil a pot of water to cook food rather than just spit-roast it). If peasantry did boil food rather than roast it, I would think there'd be some other reason than fuel.

@famguy2101 8 лет назад

no, boiling water takes a huge amount of energy, it would make far more sense to cook the meat directly

@DammalleNamenweg 8 лет назад

It depends on the timeperiod. In early medieval europe meat was very common (10th century)

@gavinjenkins899 8 лет назад

Roasting probably wastes more heat because it just flows around and into the chimney more than a pot of water which tends to soak up most of the heat hitting it? Another factor though is somebody has to sit there and turn the stupid roast spit constantly. Which is probably more relevant. People got things to do, yo. You can't be spinning yarn or cleaning or caring for animals while turning a spit forever. You can while water boils in the other room. This is all assuming the roast meat was inf act more expensive which I'm just taking on faith. But it does seem plausible.

@Zopoko 6 лет назад

I still can't believe Skallagrim is dead

@nathantonning 8 лет назад

Great video, I loved the interchange with Skallgrim!

@MJFAN666 8 лет назад

i really like this detailed medieval life stuff.

@darkblood626 8 лет назад

Lindy should have pulled out a katana.

@sircalculus1448 8 лет назад

Heh they both would just look at it and throw it away then continue to argument.

@Tectonix26 8 лет назад

Oh man I'd have paid to see that...

@DogsaladSalad 8 лет назад

RACIST!

@mavenYGO 8 лет назад

He's not a weeb

@PaulA-fp3vs 8 лет назад

Thats just unfair. An overkill.

@mericaman6388 4 года назад

Skallagrim was so unexpected not even his shadows came.

@adamkimmV 8 лет назад

Is skallagrim really that short?

@TheKyleMark 8 лет назад

Lindy is roughly nine feet tall.

@adamkimmV 8 лет назад

+TheKyleMark makes sense.

@MrPoofop 8 лет назад

thats what i was wondering.

@nialltomy15 8 лет назад

+adam kimmⓋ No, Lloyd is obscenely tall. I'm not kidding.

@aero2486 8 лет назад

lundy is very very tall

@piatpotatopeon8305 8 лет назад

Noooo, Skallagrim! I want to hear more about salt! Salt is really cool! I love learning the historic context of this wonderful mineral!

@Thetermsofservice1 8 лет назад

Here I was thinking Lindy was short

@Bigassboya 8 лет назад

Lindy is tall man. Have you seen him in his vids where he is next to other people?

@rafaelalandrade 8 лет назад

Or maybe he's like Tom Cruise and only allows himself to be filmed next to people who are shorter than him... :P

@dynamicworlds1 8 лет назад

Yah, on camera he looks kinda short somehow, so it's easy to forget that he's pretty darn tall.

@OnePieceOBleach 7 лет назад

That was the best and most hilarious RU-vid cameo I've seen in a while.

@caelodevorago608 8 лет назад

Can we go back to the old times when peasants ate lobster and crab because it was like the cheapest meat out there?

@socialist-strong 8 лет назад

When was this?

@AzurasCry 8 лет назад

+A Volney definitely not if you lived in the desert!

@socialist-strong 8 лет назад

AzurasCry If you lived in a dessert you would be eating a lot of cakes...

@caelodevorago608 8 лет назад

A Volney Crab and lobster used to be (No accurate timeframe) viewed only as insects, so they were really cheap, and they are really plentiful actually. But at some point, people discovered how tasty they were and began fishing them to immense amounts and now you have to go through damn near literal hell to catch them

@socialist-strong 8 лет назад

***** This sounds really false. Where and when man?

@clausroquefort9545 8 лет назад

An arrow is not a weapon. It lacks the pommel.

@RomanianReaver 8 лет назад

You two just had to do it... wonder when the yaoi fanfics will start showing up....

@vitoc8454 8 лет назад

Also Matt Easton (scholagladiatoria) had a cameo in Lindy's Kickstarter campaign

@TheCaboose568 8 лет назад

I'm on it. Expect sword puns and two hander jokes.

@poiuytrewq11422 7 лет назад

Viking the Mad I'm disappointed in the lack of pommel reference. You may be needing a Rightly End...

@TheLordArion 6 лет назад

poiuytrewq11422 or pommelnuts

@gregsmith2407 8 лет назад

Your next video could be on bringing a sword to a gunfight

@MrThompiTheCat 8 лет назад

Very well made video! :D Cheers to Skallagrim!

@Gruegirl 8 лет назад

obviously green-screened Skall is obviously green-screened

@Gruegirl 8 лет назад

Still awesome cameo

@ambalon 8 лет назад

+Ari Schwartz No shit, Sherlock.

@Gruegirl 8 лет назад

I love that +whybother and +Krascara didn't read my reply to my own comment.

@asfm2 8 лет назад

*A WILD SKALL HAS APPEARED*

@amiscellaneoushuman3516 5 лет назад

If ever I find myself trapped in the past I'm becoming a salt merchant.

@MrGatonegroish 8 лет назад

Why did nobody call Matt Easton for this?

@beep5514 8 лет назад

Because he doesn't have weird haters which only want weaponary related videos like Skall has, since Matt only makes weaponry related videos. :)

@noddwyd 8 лет назад

Ummm...do you mean a specific type of mint? It grows like a weed in my backyard. I guess it just hadn't spread back then, so they had to get it from far away. Or is this a joke?

@Squeejee09 8 лет назад

I'm gonna be honest. I googled mint just to be sure it was a joke.

@lindybeige 8 лет назад

LOL!

@andrewreed7364 8 лет назад

+Lindybeige I love you.

@chrisdrakekaka 8 лет назад

I still dont get it.

@PatheticApathetic 8 лет назад

+Christopher Urbalejo what other kinds of "mints" are there?

@aisir3725 5 лет назад

(romans salting land of Carthage) -Small price to pay for salvation

@alexbowman7582 5 лет назад

I seen a programme where they were saying that the myth of Eldorado came from a tribe in central South America who had a salt mine and sold it for gold and amassed a large amount of gold.

@FirstLast-fr4hb 8 лет назад

Salt was worth 283 times as much as gold in egypt in 200 anno dommini you say? Fascinating. I'll buy my salt in Venice. Probably cheaper. Also, this was very amusing, whos idea was the guest star? : ) Cheers!

@eldrago19 2 года назад

Skallagrim ( ru-vid.com )

@joegaringan7534 7 лет назад

5:07 while Lloyd says bigger doesn't mean better I think small was about to make a thingy joke.

@alexeysaranchev6118 4 года назад

CURVED. SWORDS.

@connorshaw1624 8 лет назад

hahah skallagrim invaded the video

@stein1919 8 лет назад

that was awesome.

@psychromaniac3525 4 года назад

Salt probably had much more practical applications than gold, though. There's not a whole lot you can use gold for outside of merchantry. It's handy for electronics, though that's a bit too far for medieval/renaissance merchants to care about.