The Viking Symbols Are Wrong 

Today, we would call it a cooperative company or limited liability company.

Unless you're just Norsing around...

Norse is the culture, sure, but Vikingr is not an activity. It is a local name for people who live close to the sea. Who live off the sea, or via the sea. Thus merchants, fishermen and raiders. Vik meaning Bay and Ing referring to people live by that thing. Thus, Viking means "The bay people" of the Norse. For example, if you want a group of people who live by the mountain, that would be Fellingr. Fell/Fjall being the norse name for mountain. The reason viking became associated with raiders exclusively is the written accounts by those who were raided. Which isn't that reliable to understand the concept as a whole.

And Japan is nippon. Nobody gives a shit nobody’s gonna call it that nobody cares. The Vikings are whatever the fuck we decide to call them

YES!!! Hate this crap about looters, rapists and slave traders having an interesting and meaningful culture. Will the nazis be hailed in a similar way in 1000 years?

Thank you very much for your kind words and support! Indeed, it is demotivating, at the very least, when not only we aren't paid (or are barely paid) but also when our work cannot be properly conducted towards the truth due to internal (and external) interests, and lack of funding. In my country, culture is dying. We don't have a country anymore, we have a football field; we don't have a President, we have a national team coach; we don't have a parliament, we have a football team; we don't have citizens, we have soccer cheerleaders. When people don't care about history, it becomes a souless society, a society without personality, without character, and easily manipulated masses. I wish you all the best, and good luck with everything in your life! Thank you!

@ thank you for your kind reply! And please, don't talk to me about football and such...my conterranean have voted for neofascist, for the sake of all that's holy!!! History matters, or as was wonderfully put in words by Sir Terry Pratchett, "we have to know where we came from to know where we are. Because if we don't know where we came from, we cannot know where we are, and if we don't know where we are, we don't even know where we are going". I strongly suggest you to read his books, just for a little escapism. He was truly a witty man with a quite clear view on the world, and he both parodied and made people think about society just by subverting the fantasy tropes.

I shall eventually talk about those two scoundrels :p here there are many crows, in some cities more than others, but ravens only in the wilderness, and they are magnificent to look upon. Magpies, on the other hand, they can really be big jerks sometimes ;( I've saved quite a few sparrows from magpies.

Corvids are the bomb. Round here we have intermittent common ravens, two species of crow (American Crow and Fish Crow), and Blue Jays. Where I grew up, lots of crows, but ravens only when one went to the forest (as well as California jays and Canada Jays). I'm happy to have both here.

I help out with both (north Eurasian species) when I go back home. They have the temperament of cats or bossy children once they're familiar with you and you can get to know them but can be affectionate and I'd suggest Ravens have a better understanding of vocabulary than most cats do, once they're matured. The fact that adult Ravens can communicate directions to one another never fails to amaze me 😊

Huginn is related to the word 'hug.' I wish I could hug all the corvids. lol

@we have a nest of magpies somewhere in our back yard and they are complete a$$holes to the other birds and animals in our yard….ugh. I

It appears that the majority of people interested in Hollywood 'Viking" have little to no interest in studying the ancient Norse v Viking periods. It would do them good to learn and maintain cultural and artistic accuracies and timelines.

Thank you my dear friends, it's both an honour and my pleasure. Thank you for your support and well wishes :D we are all here trying to survive. I wonder when will humanity stop "trying to survive" and instead beginning to "live". All the best to you and yours. Cheers! Have a wonderful day!

you forgot dark, its very dark here lately

@@MegaVamp69 indeed!

Also cold here in NZ

Hope this video was useful ^^ thank you for watching!

Ohh powers of thought intentions- good synchronicity

@ Some stuff came in between so I'll have to try to watch again in a bit, but your videos are always useful (and balanced). Can't wait to see more of the White Wand series, by the way, but as others say: just make whatever content you want to do and at your own pace. Thanks again for uploading and greetings from the Netherlands

This is work of google gods

Been planning a video about Yggdrasil for 4 years and never get the chance to do it. I was thinking about combining it with the lore about the tree of life in shamanic traditions, and that idea of shamans being born out of eggs in trees in Yakut (?) mythology (don't quite remember if it's Yakut or Buryat). Indeed, in the West of the Iberian Peninsula (eventually in Portuguese folklore) roosters have always played an important role ("Galo" (plu. "Galos"), from the same etymological root as "Galdr") the animal of dawn, death and resurrection. One of the most powerful and well-known pagan gods of these parts (Endovélico) had the rooster has one of its shapeshifting forms, when it took the role of Underworld god of knowledge, a shining black rooster.

@ in the end of the fairy tale "Frau Holle", in some versions a cockerel is announcing the return of the girls from Frau Holle's world to this world, I wonder if it is implying that they were dead and have been reborn? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frau_Holle - (its not mentioned on the english wikipedia page though)

Thank you very much for your support and for your kindness . I love waking up to comments like this because whatever more-negative stuff happens throughout the day, I'll hold on to such words. Thank you. Have a wonderful day!

Thank you for watching my content :) I wish you a wonderful day!

Obrigado por assistir :D fico feliz por saber que o conteúdo que crio tem ajudado :D abraço e saudações portuguesas hehe ^^

@ Tu pode ter certeza que ajuda, meu amigo! rs Que Odinn o abençoe!

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Thank you very much for your support. Hope you enjoy the rest of the content. Be safe and well!

Bonjour! Je suis d’accord qu’il est excellent, je suis fan❤

I have olive skin what part of the world are you from or born in. I'm east Anglia region Romans settled in my home town with the only Roman Circus out of Italy. I call myself a mongrel. But mainly focus in Norse and Celtic practices

All is well my friend, not a lot of changes since last we spoke. How about you? How's life? I do hope you are well. I think anyone who has dedicated their lives into studying history surely has had to deal with some form of political censorship at some point in their lives. I know professors from different countries in the Americas, and one way or another their hands are tied and cannot speak of a lot of things due to the spectrum of politics of their countries. This is also a problem I'm starting to notice in Europe, slowly crawling its way up. Common sense is, once again, on the verge of extinction.

@ArithHarger I'm well thanks Arith. I am just home after a weekend away at a Regimental Remembrance meeting. They lay a named cross for those that have passed in the year between meetings. I overheard someone say, one year that will be us, that hit home with a big slap. My friend Martyn put it right when we saw some of the young serving soldiers. Remember when that was us and we saw the veterans, and thought, look at the old farts. Well, now we're the old farts. That's the passage of life, one shift books in, and the other books out. I will soon be preparing for my trip to Lisbon, saidcheand then I guess that's it for this year. Tell Mr T that I said cheers.

Hello there! Glad you are there ^^ thank you for watching the content I create, it helps a lot :D Have a wonderful day!

Hello user-[etc.], may I suggest you do some translating work for them? 😉 A simple way would be you just telling the content or you could record the (translated) text narrated by yourself on your phone and let them listen to that with the video. That is a simple solution although still a bit time consuming. If you take a more professional approach, maybe because more people take an interest, do not forget to contact Arith Harger for permission! If it works maybe the two of you could open the Iranian market. Just be carefull and stay safe.

@@robzee5733 Thanks. That's one of my plans actually.

Eu é que agradeço. Muito obrigado pela ajuda! Tudo de bom e um óptimo dia! :D

I've noticed my channel started to grow, considerably, as of this video :0 !!! RU-vid gave me shadowban for 3 months ._. no idea why. But I know the channel was almost lost lol. Let's see what the future holds. Luck is a fickle thing, so I'll hold on to it for as long as I can and try to attract it more, somehow :D hehehe. Thank you friend. Welcome to this channel and I hope you continue to enjoy the content I created. Have a wonderful day! All the best! :D

Hopefully we can begin by ending the use of "pagan". Grouping everything into "it ain't Latin/Christian" diminishes the identity of each culture. Neopaganism is also a backward, modernist movement that will forever warp and rewrite the true history of these old cultures and religions. An example of warped history is Celtic runes and carvings. None existed prior to Roman Christian invasions, or before Anglo-Saxon presence. They inherited the art styles from the Romans, the Anglo-Saxons and even Viking influence. Celtic art was largely created by early Irish Christian monks, which late came into "vogue" in the middle ages. It's almost an early Disneyfication and generalization of a culture (happened throughout history, such as the Romans turning Sparta into basically a tourist trap). It's more of an adopted art style, and has very little to do with pre-Christian stone work and cultural art. We don't inherit the cultures of the past. We inherit the cultures and meanings of today, which reflects the influences and societies we interact with.

You are already here my friend. He made it quit clear that Heathenry is about self learning and self discovery. There are big groups, like the Troth in the US, who do yearly activities together but heathenry is about self spiritually. It naturally rejects hierarchy at certain levels, especially from an animist perspective.

Thank you very much for your interaction and kind words. Have a wonderful weekend! Cheers!

Hello there, thank you. The "end strife" symbol is an Icelandic magic stave, appearing in the late second half of the 1500s, during the Protestant Period, so it is a product of the reformation age in its meaning, and the stave itself ends with a particular prayer: "in the name of the father and son and holy spirit". However, its visual form comes from earlier periods of representations of sun crosses from eastern Europe. The visual representation is one thing, the meaning in context is another and varied through time. The same symbol did not have the same meaning in Iceland as it has in other different contexts and periods in continental Europe. More information in this video I'll leave the link to, if you have the time to watch. Have a great day: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AjG_-udfrDQ.html&t

People do the same with the Japanese and Samurai

Yeah it will take some time. When certain subjects have been around and taught at schools for 100 years, it's hard to accept new evidences to the contrary, especially when it become "common knowledge", distorted by hear-saying. Science is always 100 years ahead, because it takes about 3-4 generations to start breaking cycles. Thank you for being in there my friend, as always. Be well!

@ best of wishes to you Arith , hang out with some trees, they are so precious. this is quite a year here, in the fire zones - it's heartbreaking

Did you find any good book on true Northern paganism?

A lot has been lost in history and considering that the Norse and Germanic are neighbours sharing similar culture and religious practices (after all, Wotan is Odinn), it would be very difficult for anyone to say which element is "pure" and which are added later. It's possible that all of it is true since the religion evolved together with the people who worshipped it, meaning had Norse people settle in the middle of Sahara, it's likely they would assign the domain of deserts to one of the existing Norse gods instead of creating a new one.

@@13gan Germanic people are not only neighbours to the Norse, but more akin to relatives linked by the ancient migrations that occured in the past.