The Trade-Raid Empire |The Animated History of Sweden 

"So many Karls in Swedish history" - said King Louis the 18th of France "Quite right" - agreed King Edward the 8th of England

You have no idea how much youtubers like us look up to you. Thanks for bringing back the incredible content, we love it!

Just wanted to pop in and say that I think that this video showcases a highly qualitative understanding of Swedish and Scandinavian history that I really wasn't expecting to see come out of a non-Swedish source outside of academia. Very nicely done man.

When you break it down, trading and raiding are mostly the same thing. Just the currency changes. In the former, you get gold, silver, precious metals, gemstones and other goods. In the latter you get an axe to the skull, sword to the gullet, mace to the brain and other physically distressing items. The Vikings were essentially very motivated buyers.

I remember how in Finland, we were taught of the Swedish crusades in 4th grade and i was like "What nice guys coming to save us from going to hell" and approxicately 6 years later when we discussed it more in detail i went "Wait a minute"

11:00 Serfdom never took off? It never took off because it was made illegal by Magnus Ladulås about a centruy before this. The nobles tried passing their serfs of as slaves to circumvent the law so Magnus' son rolled his eyes and made slavery illegal too.

Fantastic video! I noticed something around 14.00. Karl IX wasn't a grandchild to Gustav Vasa, he was his son (the third of Vasa's sons to take the throne). Sigismund is the grandchild (from Johan III:s line). // Swedish history teacher

Fun fact. The Hanseatic league had such a big inpact on the city Bergen (here wrongly called Bryggen, Bryggen is Just a tiny area of the city) that the local beer in Bergen is to this day called Hansa and there is a historical hotell placed at Bryggen called the Hanseatic hotell. (The building is from the 1500s).

Lots of love to our Swedish brothers and sisters! You are awesome! - A stinky Dane

As a Dane I find this very interesting, after all as Sun Tzu said "know thy enemy" Nah, just kidding, great video and best of wishes to my Swedish neighbors.

As a Swed I just wanted to thank you for making this video. It’s not very often one if my favorite RU-vidrs makes a video about my home country so thank you 🙏

as a swede i am glad that you call the danish smelly

I learned so much Latin from this video

As a Swede, I appreciate the Swedish recognition!💙💛🇸🇪🇸🇪

Great job 👏! As a Swedish history nerd I loved it. Still waiting for Hollywood to make a movie from some of the fantastic stories we have. We have our own William Wallach in Nils Dacke, Stockholms bloodbath the rise of Gustaf Vasa or Swedens Game of thrones with Håtunaleken and Nyköpings gästabud as main plot. There are so many too choose from.

Thanks for a balanced run through of my country's history. It's nice to have an outside perspective on such things, and it's also nice to see that it doesn't differ a lot from what I've been taught in school.

My fellow Sabaton fans gonna have a field day with this one

Love our viking brothers that rulled us during Kyivenrus, grets from Ukraine :)

"Hey, Jean, we're gonna make you our new crown prince in line to be king!" "Dope!" "By the way, mind if we call you Karl?" "M...my name's Jean." "Karl XIV Johan it is." "What?!"

As a Swede in very greatful for the time and effort you put into this video that is dedicated to us. Thank you very much, as always this was a great video with great quality.

14:03 Just a correction: Karl IX was Gustav Vasa's son, not his grandson. Sigismund, however, was Gustav Vasa's grandson

You're a nice RU-vidr, your content is informative, easy to understand and fun. Even if I can't afford to buy your stuff I just wanted to thank you for your effort in sharing knowledge, have a blessed life!

I'm surprised you left out the thirty years war so much since it was such an important war for the swedish empire, but I guess the video would've been a bit too long then. Also it felt weird that you made it look like Karl XII was the one attacking his neighbours when in fact it was them who attacked him and his empire to gain controll over the Baltic Sea, but maybe that was just me misunderstanding you. Anyways, awesome work. A great video!

14:03 Karl IX was Gustav Vasa's son, not grandson. And Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) was the grandson of Gustav Vasa. Just a slight correction

Pickled herring is wonderful. This should not be confused with fermented herring. A very different kettle of fish, as it were. It takes an heroic effort to even get close enough to fermented herring to taste it. Doesn't taste much and is clearly not worth the cost of its smell.

”The hats war”. It was called that because the leading party in the Riksdag at that time was called “the hat party” or “the hats”.

Viborg was the center of the danish reformation. The lose of land was terrible, because skåne+sjælland is what is consideret to be the danish hearthland.

Thank you for making this. The video was really good! The quality is something else.

I would really like to see you do a video on Ethiopia. This country has such an interesting history of resisting colonialism, fighting the Italians, and the famous Queen of Sheba

I liked this a lot,as a Swede. Specially that quick little details,on the chalkboard telling the class when it`s time för mellanmål. Well done. :)

I must say you missed one thing. The hats was sort of the first right parti and their left contrast was called the caps. So swedens first partis was called the hats and the caps.

During the age of liberty did the swedish parlamentet had a couple of lose partys. The two most prominent was called caps and hats. The hats konsisted most of nobilitys and wanted to regain the empires through conquest. Then they got pover they attacked russia. Therefor the hat war. Also one of the main reason for Gustav vasa to join the reformation was that he need money to repay the german cities that had helped him. Also duke karl was also just power hungry. The whole protestant vs catholic thing did play a part in it. But he mostly did it to become king. But as you said he was a devoted protestant probably the most fanatic of the vasa dynasty

Loved this video! And as someone who has studied the following things closely: A deep dive into Kalmarunionen, Almarestäket, Stockholm Bloodbath and Vasa's journey (before and after the bloodbath) would make for such an awesome video of yours. In Peace

I just love how much interesting and crazy history we have with our Danish brothers haha

Very entertaining! Small correction (14:05) Duke Karl was Gustav Vasa's son, not grandson. Sigismund, however, was son to king Johan III, and thus grandson to Gustav Vasa.

I just want to say how beautiful these videos are, they are an incredibly enjoyable watch

I have only recently found your channel, and I have been binge watching your videos ever since, I love them, I can tell lots of work goes into them.

Loved the small references hidden in the video! Really shows how much detail goes into these videos.

It looks like you are doing less on your channel. I hope you are able to do more! Your animation is simple and very effective! I love your storytelling as well. 💜

I live in Bogesund (now called Ulricehamn) and I've heard about the war on the lake, but I didn't know how much of a role it played. Great video! Fun fact: there's a pretty famous swimming area where Sten Sture got shot xD

To explain the whole "Self coup" thing: Gustav III launched the coup against the Riksdagen which had taken all of the power that the crown used to hold, so after the coup, Gustav deposed the Riksdag and took power as a lone monarch with help of a few noblemen and militia

Could you make a video about Norway?

An amazing video. It's sad that it took so long to make, the algorithm apparantly didn't like that. I, someone who has watched most of these videos multiple times, got it recommended 6 days after it was released. Makes me kinda sad

Dang 8 months between videos… I appreciate your hard work man. This is a great video. :)

Absolutely awesome video as usual :) One correction though, the most famous and best swedish military king would be Gustaf II "father of modern warfare" although Karl XII might have been more successful and daring in his time

Don't mess with the soft looking Scandinavians they are seasoned fighters

I feel like denmark can have malmö back, Good video!

This is honestly very well made my guy keep it up

Correction. I may be mistaken in understanding your date, but if at the moment 5:22 850, there was no "Kievan Rus" or simply "Rus" even close at that moment. The Rurikoviches will conquer the principality of Kiev only at the beginning of 862, but here on the map in 850 year Kyiv already has one of the variants of their family coat of arms. At that time, these were more than fragmented principalities. and even if it was just Rus, as here on the map within the borders of the principalities, it is strange that you did not paint them all in the same color separating Kievan Rus from the rest of the principalities. Despite the fact that Rus as such did not have a common border with all the principalities before the Kingdom of Moscow (city of "Vladimir principality" in the east), for even being de jure united, de facto they despised each other and went on raids, including those bordering Kyiv, as an example, pereyaslavl. Therefore, this map of the Eastern Slavs looks rather strange.

You need to make a remake of the Animated History of France !

The attested history of Olof Skötkonungs ancestry is very spotty, so Olofs connection to the House of Munsö name for the dynasty, tracing it back to Björn Ironside, is very speculative and at least to some extent legendary, so the name isnt universally accepted for Olofs dynasty. Just a minor detail, obviously to minor of a distinction to dissect in a video summarising all of Swedens history, with little bearing on what unfolds. Par for the course really in new dynasties and kingdoms that begin to keep written track of these things. Also, what name is Gävle-ägarna from? Means "the owners of Gävle" in modern swedish but first time i come across that name for the locale. Lubeck and the Hansa were also a huge help for Sweden breaking free of the Kalmar union, supplying mercenaries, cannons etc. Aside from the bloodbath overreach and subsequent fears of losing established rights, a big divisive factor for the union was the opposing foreign interests of Denmark and Sweden. Sweden had designs on the baltics, Denmark was invested in its german holdings and a sore sticking point was Denmarks rivalry with the Hansa. The swedish import of hanseatic salt from Luneburg was very important to the Swedes and they had nothing to win by denmark antagonising the Hansa.

Was kind of cool to see Bogesund being mentioned since that's where i'm from (although it's called Ulricehamn now)

love the art style and the animations there are just great keep it up fam

Pickled herring is one of the most delicious things on the planet! There are countless varieties of flavors, all the home made ones are different, maybe you had a not so well-made one?

I am swedish and this video made me learn so much, thanks suibhne

A note on the Age of Liberty. The king still had power and was not “just a figure head”. The “self-coup” was in fact the king stepping in to get rid of the most corrupt Riksdag in our history. Members were basically bought by Russians, the French and others. So Gustav III took the opportunity to reclaim power from the dysfunctional Riksdag.

Finally this was the first history RU-vidr I watched I’ve been waiting forever 😂

I have the Carolus Rex album ready to play on loop

we have geography now for geography. Now Suibhne for history. I hope you keep doing this for every other countries.

That was a really high quality video on Swedish history. I was impressed by the depth and breath of it. Very enjoyable for a history nerd like me. Thanks a lot. Greetings to our Swedish neighbors from a stinky Dane.

Amazing video, you should be proud of the quality of what you create. Thank you for sharing your time and energy to give us this.

This was a really nice and well made video. Love the animation. Keep up the good job!

Your editing skills are commendable! I've been applying similar techniques in my latest projects.

I was surprised that you uploaded today but i'm glad that you're back with a new video

Another fascinating video!

Notice that the numbering scheme of swedish kings in based on a thing called Erikskronikan in which the origin of swedish kings in derived from Noah in Genesis. It is believed to be somewhat fantastic.

As A Swede Thank You For The Time In Making The Animated History Of Sweden 👏🏻

I'm a simple Swede and your thumbnail was irresistible. Now I've binge watched 1/2 of the entire channel (and subscribed). Great stuff! One question though - just me or is it something odd with how the intro-music ends? "Out of pace" somehow =)

Thank you by the way for the frank, yet respectful mentions of some of the more embarrassing moments of Swedish history. Also I was not aware of the Polish thing. Sorry, Polish people! We're very careful to keep our king leashed now.

19:58 good fotboll jersey choice there. You picked the best team.

Great video as always have seen nearly all of your videos! But I have quick suggestion/ request, would you be able to make video about Baltic countries?! Thanks

Awesome Vid. I am happy you are back

He alive. Which is good, because he is good.

This platform and method is such a cool way to short-story some meaningful history perspective.

Can you make one on Norwegian history since you have made one about all the other nordic countrys

I really, really liked this. A special shoutout to you!

Sewden is based 🇸🇪😍 denmark is also based 🇩🇰 😍 i love both of these countries man

Fun fact: Gustav Vasas daughter princess Cecilia turned pirate. Fun fact 2: Stocholm blood bath inspired a certan wedding in Game of thrones.

Wonderfull to see that your still making great content😊

Glad to see you’re back suibhne. Was beginning to wonder when you were coming back. Glad you are

love the episodes! ive seen the majority. My wife is from Colombia, if you could do one on it. That would be amazing! Keep up the good work!!

Shoutout to all of my Scandinavian brothers from Portugal 🇵🇹🤝🇧🇻 🇵🇹🤝🇸🇪 🇵🇹🤝🇩🇰

How about doing the animated history of Greece 🇬🇷

The one thing id like to add is that today swedens wellfarestate is collapsing for the first time in about 80 years.

"The play was about," the King told me, "that evil was present in these people at the court to such an extent that they resembled monkeys or devils; they rejoiced in the misfortunes of others and mourned their successes, this would be what the time of the Druids was called Cannibalism, Anthropophagie. That's why we were among the Cannibals. ” - By Olov Enquist,

No video about Sweden would be complete without at least an IKEA reference. Hehehe.

The Sami were not herders early on. They were hunters and gatherers, who mostly relied on hunting reindeer. The herding tradition we see among them today is quite young, and they adopted it form germanic swedes.

Really well done

sewden is really one of the most interesting one in the scandinavian countries well denmark is also as interesting as sewden imo but still both countries history, culture etc are amazing and fun to learn about because there is just so much you can learn about and there folk lore is my bread and butter i do really love these story and love learning about that we can't forget about the famous meme that living conditions there are great and i love when youtuber cover that fact like kraut and many other i do live that

Great job 👏! As a Swedish history nerd I loved it. Still waiting for Hollywood to make a movie from some of the fantastic stories we have. We have our own William Wallach in Nils Dacke, Stockholms bloodbath the rise of Gustaf Vasa or Swedens Game of thrones with Håtunaleken and Nyköpings gästabud as main plot. There are so many too choose from.

That’s a lot of work for 8 months. Give yourself a pat on the back. Good job.

Love! I learned so much from this video. Eight months to make the video? I appreciate your effort and the final product. Thank you.

The question you posed about fascism - how it became difficult to detect and "easy to ignore" - is really simple: first, calling "fascist" anything on the right for decades didn't help in understanding what "fascist" means, nor what "fascism" is (and the main differences with national-socialism, although they both are horrendous). After a long time of mis-use of the term, people started getting confused about it, and many started ignoring altogether, since they started thinking of it as a buzzword (especially because it was used as one many times). So it's like the story about the kid crying wolf. Keeping on using the term "fascist" for everyone you disagreed with allowed real fascists to sneak right back into politics in many Countries, often even denying that they are fascists at all until it's too late. Secondly, even when you manage to identify them, it's still difficult to call them with the correct term, because, like with most groups and formations, one is fascist only if that person calls him/herself as such. If those people decide to call themselves with a different name, most people will inevitably end up using that one to identify them, despite the striking similarities with other precedent groups.

Bro, where the heck have you been. Do you have any idea how much we waited😅😅 we're so glad you're back. *Decides to binge all vids tonight*

Great way to show how the goths came to be tbh, never thought of it from that perspective

12:53 I actually live here, there have been many findings from this battle in the lake åsunden. The city named bogesund is called "Ulricehamn" today.

You are back! Wooo! I've got a video on the Ancient History of Spain coming out soon :)

Thanks for the video! I am glad that I just discovered your chanel.

I thought this channel is dead, but suddenly he come just like great heathens army

The richest viking in the East was not a pagan, but very Chistian king of Norway and Denmark. The last viking king - Harold The hard ruler.