I am Vietnamese and I absolutely love the Scandinavian culture, especially old Norse lifestyle. Thank you for making such quality content. Looking forward to learning about the daily foods for old Norsemen.
@@KossolaxtheForesworn Cloths, weapons, tools… Not like germanic people, balts and slavs used all the same stuff. But no. Lets label those things with Nordic bandits that were in minority.
This was incredibly well done. The showing of old time prepping of food for travel, the music, and the story behind the video is very heartwarming. The scenery is also very breathtaking.
I love my country and it's history and heritage. To me, it's the most beautiful and mystical place in the world. To hell with politics and all that hollow bullshit. It's the fjords and mountains and forests i love. The people. How we tamed this wilderness and learned to live in and with it. It makes me hear music in my soul.
Yes, personally i don't care about anyones skin colour. If i ever were to judge someone, it would be on the content of their character, and i can only hope to be judged in the same manner myself. Unfortunately, certain groups in todays bullshit overly politically correct sjw culture, will belittle or condemn your culture and label you a demon if you simply happen to be born caucasian.
Very interesting, but I would like to clarify, this is NORDIC and not Viking. While Vikings, being Nordic, would almost certainly do same thing, it is always bad idea to combine these two words as being the same. Viking is a profession, i.e. raiding, while Nordic are people of Norther Europe. Some Nordic people were Vikings, but many were not. They were farmers, tradesman, fisherman, etc..etc..etc..
Nearly right. I come from the westcoast of Norvegr, and I can tell you this: Vik, means Inlet. The peoples from the inlets was called Vik-ings. But when they travelled to raid, or traid or for war, They were travelling "in Viking" so this has something to do with the older language. Check it out, and keep up your interest for real history. Skål !
Marek Dohojda I believe history is taught in a skewed manner. The vikings weren't a raiding maniacal people they are portrayed as. Were they not settlers, farmers, and traders more than anything? Most all peoples have fought for things, but I hate how history is taught in public schools and such. Not saying that's where you got your info and I am on a quest now for the true, more rich history of the viking peoples!
I think the word 'viking' is taking on a new meaning. Obviously nobody calling themselves a 'viking' can actually raid and pillage or the like. I think today, being a viking is more of a mindset. I think people use it when referring to MANY things these days. Customs, traditions, a way of thinking and life. my thoughts on it.
It is common practice to retroactively prescribe names to historical events, cultures, etc. that were not used during the time in question or were used in a different way. Historians often refer to this period as 'The Viking Age' since the raiding during that time had a significant impact on Northern and Western Europe. Then, describing people of these early medieval norse cultures as 'vikings' for shorthand is completely acceptable. It certainly is a few less syllables. Think of it as synecdoche (fittingly, a commonly used poetic device of these so-called vikings).
Flatbreads, made with various kinds of grains and using various techniques, were first kind of bread and were known practically everywhere where human lived. It's one of the foodstuffs that connects every culture and humanity as a whole.
Would’ve been an interesting plot twist if all this was prepared and he went outside and hopped on a mountain bike that was fitted to look like a horse.
I loved watching this (ex Viking Age reenactor here, domestic history). Also, in my native Scottish Highlands and Islands, barley (called Bere) was commonly used in very similar ways. Even today the Orkney Islands still make and consume Bere Bannocks, a large griddle or oven baked barley cake, and still grind and sell barley flour for making breads. Interesting too that the Viking travellers and settlers imported many foods to Scotland, including some kinds of livestock. Great video, thanks for uploading and sharing. Brought back some lovely memories.
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The fat people were from the royalty, and they were mainly people above 40 years old, normal people were in constant movement, so they were thin/muscular.
Fantastic! My ancestors are Norwegian! My favorite is herring in cream. My daughter's family camps on the Norwegian Hardangervedda. My granddaughter loves dried cod! So great!
Fantastic. I've tried to gather images and descriptions of how Vikings would travel distances- this is perfect. How would he have slept? Beside the fire wrapped in cloak I presume.
It could be wool, but the thing is that wool is very heavy. And belive me, you want to minimize the total weight of what you carry. We have one in wool that is soaked in horse fat. We also have one in linnen, soaked i linnen oil.
While we're on the subject, did the fat-soaked wool tarp go rancid? Does it make everything that touches it greasy, or is it more of a longer-chain lipid, like the kidney fat that candles used to be made out of?
Great vid! Really loved. Just one concern, I feel really worried about the stone grinder. The concept is great, but the reason we don't use them today Is because often small bits of rock would break off and go into the flower. So when they ate the bread, if they were unlucky, could risk biting on a small rock and breaking a tooth.
Stone-ground bread is fun and games until you break a tooth on a piece of rock. It's because of things like this and the fact that most people didn't live past 40 (most kids didn't even reach their 18th birthday and women died all too often in childbirth) that the astrophysicists need to discover time travel to the past already. I'd love nothing more than to use it to update the past and give them modern technology. Ideally, I'd go to Newfoundland during the early 11th century and give both the Norse and Beothuk 21st-century technology, medicine, weapons, science, etc. From there, I'd unite the Norse, Algonquian, and Iroquoian-speaking peoples of eastern North America under the banner of technocracy and communism. They shall know the virtues of Marxism-Leninism-Maoism and rule by scientists at the same time. They'd get modern mills so they don't break their teeth while eating bread. They'd get vaccinated so the Indians don't die from all those bad old diseases. I'd give these "Vinlanders", "Marklanders", etc. the tools create and maintain a modern nation, one that cleanses the world of the Four Olds and cultivates the Four News.
In Estonia we still eat the butter milk with the grain thingy. We call it kama, but we mix it with alot more buttermilk and less grain so it is more liquid than porridge. Nowadays also put sugar in it to make it a bit sweeter, but otherwise it's very good and healthy. With it usally is that people hate it or love it.
Probably the same reason why I'm a practitioner and scholar of HEMA, it's an aspect of humanity that is similar yet so very alien to what we know from our own cultures from the east.
It's amazing how self sufficient our ancestors were. You just don't realize how lucky most of the world is with our technology and grocery stores. In a SHTF situation, most modern humans would simply die because they don't know where pizza grows to be harvested. :) Love the music too.
They weren't "self sufficient". Video does not show the rest of village and extended family/clan that they got the materials and food from. The idea that people were and could live "off the land" by themselves is a modern sociopathic myth\fantasy. The peoples in pre-industrial societies were far more interconnected and dependent than today.
Loved the video. When times are hard because of calamity or winter, the food gets scarcer and rougher. Whey you're starving, almost anything with calories tastes pretty good. Mouldy bread and cheese, rancid butter and fat were lifesavers.
feel very calm in mind while watching this. in modern life people can get everything very easily. eating, drinking and wanting too much than we really need.
always wanting to know more on daily life of the era, these vids are quite welcome. There was not always fighting going on. May I suggest a topic ? What and how did they carry with them? And to which role. Peasant/worker/craftsmen ... rucksack/pouches/etc ....
Well, the suggestion was already done. But lets make it a bit more elaborate. suggestion: How would travel on land be performed. What would be carried, and how ? We have all seen small pouches (also, what is in there) But what if a group was traveling. Rucksacks, baskets, carts? Food/Blankets/tents/tools/cooking-gear ? And what about the specialist workman or traders ? Reason for asking, is to see re-enactors glimpse over a wider range of possibilities, and enlarging the scope of their character to be more true to the period. Or would we have to stick to only have beach-parties re-enactment ;)
It’s funny how American shows make things in again !! Vikings were fkn badass and some of the best builders and finally they get there respect for the tactics and building and farming
Can I come live with you all? This feels so very good to watch, it's making me cry as it stirs my heart. I'd love to eat that food on the open air after walking long. I can smell that open natural place.
waw we have similar traditional food here in North africa 😲 we still eat these things but mostly in winter when the days are cold the meat is called khli3 here and the bread is kesra or aghrum the meal he cooked is lubiya grini lol that's so weird
