The Beginning of the Viking Age: The Raid at Lindisfarne in 793 

Exactly! Gold and silver have very low melting points, and they couldn’t just leave those religiously significant items to melt. 😂

The Pagan gods aren't like the Christian one. The Pagan Gods know your true heart and intentions. The Pagan Gods also know how hard this world can be and how it relentlessly assaults us with "difficulties" on literally a daily basis. All the Pagan Gods want or need, is acknowledgement that they DO exist and for their progeny (Us) to come back home. Nothing more. We aren't going to go to "Hel" (which to be honest isn't a terrible place like the Christian "Hell" is purported to be), just for not building an altar or saying their name out loud. The Pagan Gods are a lot like us, and this makes sense because if "we" were made in THEIR image, it totally fits because I could see them being our true fathers and mothers.

@@alfredharrison597 Yes, I’ve read into the stories on how Hel isn’t a bad place. Matter of fact, it’s the afterlife most individuals go to. Hel, she isn’t evil either…just a bit of a darker deity who isn’t usually followed, but instead simply respected “at a distance”. I’ve watched a few videos on her, or ones that had her in it. I was Christian before following the faith of my (likely) ancestors, but I’m lucky enough to have a very loosely Christian family. Also, to touch on you saying “going home” that’s my plan. I want to move back to Germany and often visit places like Iceland etc in the meantime. I think it’s good I found this faith, and it only makes we want to return to Bavaria even more!

Veronica, good luck! Norse paganism changed my life! I found fulfillment and happiness through it. Hope you do, too

@@stephanieanne2352 Thank you, so much!

The British pagans believed in reincarnation so you won't be staying anywhere , like a type of heaven. I'm very suspicious of any such implication that we may stay anywhere other than earth. This is your birth right, along with a piece of land you could sustain yourself on, and you don't have to petition any god to do that. If you are naughty you may reincarnate into a lower evolutionary form say something awful like a politician or a Christian. What I like about it is we aren't waiting for one fine day, when a god sorts everything out after we've destroyed everything with an apocalypse . The earth isn't a curse we are cast out into to toil the land. None of our gods want just 2 people in a retarded state of consciousness and without the ability to procreate. None of our gods are weak so cannot be slayed by the hand of man. We are not encouraged to be meek or weak and can defend ourselves. The meek have never inherited anything and this is, about control more than reality. Ultimately we are more responsible for the course of history and to take responsibility is the cornerstone of any spiritual life. Our ideas are not intrinsically antagonistic to others, as in monotheism, as we can contemplate the possibility of other lands and people having other ways and gods, simply because that's the way it actually is. And we are not compelled to re-educate or "save" them. There is no automatic guilt and we are not born in sin. Fear is not given any place to thrive. And we wouldn't create a society that bleats about righteousness but then lets our ancestors and elderly die from neglect and from being unable to heat themselves. So respect your mom and mow her lawn etc is way more true a sacrifice of time, energy and intent than any theatrical expressions of devotion. Be strong, you will live a better life.

It was an incredibly beautiful island!

Yeah if I wasn't so focused on getting to Scotland I would have loved to go to Jorvik, next trip for sure!

Thank you so much!

Sadly I filmed this 3 weeks ago, almost 4. I was there for our pagan gathering in the UK

I think that would be really cool if it is true. However I highly doubt a slaughter in Lower Saxony, inspired raiders (what I would assume were Danes, but we don't actually know) hundreds of miles away to raid a specific place 11 years later

That is some major revisionism dude. Especially considering they raided non-Christian places with just as much fervor.

@@elverkongen2515 I disagree. History must be revised and updated to reflect the state of knowledge, always.

@@janosch1097 Then provide your proof for why you believe the Lindisfarne attackers to be "freedom fighters" and not simply opportunistic raiders. Revisionism is great when actual new knowledge comes to light, but not when it's someone's baseless interpretations of events. The latter is simply NOT history.

@@elverkongen2515 You are presupposing that the Christian accounts are telling the truth. But where is the "proof" that they were just "opportunistic raiders"? There is, in fact, none. I would be more careful and not take the written word at face value, ever. Written history is, for the most part, completely malleable.

@@janosch1097 Going based on what we do have, and attempting to account for bias, is much better than throwing out what we have in favor of some ridiculous "freedom fighter" hypothesis of a clearly biased, modern day interpretation.

The Vegvisir? How so? Only tattoos I see on him "should" be pagan if im not mistaken, but without you providing some kind of argument here you arent really making any sense.

@@alfredharrison597 It's not "Viking" because it's likely from the 15th century. I don't find that a bad thing, personally. There's a whole book of magikal icelandic staves like the vegvisir.

I wouldn't try to be so strict in classifying things. It is futile to even start to try. There are even people who try to strictly classify things into "pure heathen" and "not heathen" etc. If you start doing that, you will soon discover that there has been, and still is, a lot of cross-influence of cultures, religious components, ideas, and that trying to find "pure heathen" things from the past is pointless. I give you a hint: create and be, be heathen, make your own symbols, and don't listen to too much talk, rather listen to the wind in the leaves.

@@janosch1097 I agree.

I have never claimed that the vegvisir on my arm is a viking tattoo. It is however a popular modern pagan symbol, regardless of its historical uses in the 14th-15th century. Still Icelandic, and still has to do with sorcery which was strictly forbidden in Iceland at that time