The Welsh Viking
The Vikings and White Supremacy
updated
Autumn in Wales is a lovely thing to see. OK, we may not have the colours of New England's famous fall, but Cymru (that's Welsh for Wales) has some of the most beautiful landscapes in Great Britain, and the roads through it are winding, narrow (by English and North American standards) and filled with sights to see like ancient buildings, forests, lakes, and rivers. The result is perfect for a little ambient driving video for you guys, which you seemed to enjoy last time, and it's pretty simple to film, so making more vids in this style gets my vote!
Now, you do have to drive through England to get to it, if you live where I do, so join me on a slow TV style road trip through England to my homeland. We'll have motorways, bridges, trees, hills, mountains, and valleys to keep us company as we go from York to Bala and beyond (I won't film the end of the journey, as that's a bit hush-hush for security reasons). I'll pop a couple of on-screen notes of interest as we go along as well.
Bant a ni! Off we go!
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Today we're going to a museum all about the North of England over a thousand years ago. It's a working farm, a museum, a back to work initiative, and it's next to a medieval monastery and one of Europe's largest car import dockyards. Oh! And it used to be a gasworks. I know. It's amazing!
Let's go to Jarrow Hall and the Bede Museum, because they've got a brand new replica Anglo-Saxon sword and it looks *amazing*. I like swords. You like swords. We all *love* our under funded local museums and cultural centres: so let's roll!
Save Llancaiach Fawr! change.org/p/save-llancaiach-fawr-manor-from-closure
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But the history of the pub goes back literally thousands of years, all the way to the Roman Empire and Britannia's occupation.
Through the Anglo-Saxons to the Medieval Age, to the Evils of Gin, the Victorians and the Industrial Revolution, all the way up to the gastropubs and free house pubs of the modern day, grab a regulation pint (that's 568ml for those of you who are metric!), pull up a stool at the bar, turn down the tv, and join me on a whirlwind history of the boozer!
Iechyd da! Cheers!
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It can be frustrating trying to live a modern life in a city designed for horses and carts, and a much slower pace of life. But it's also lovely to be able to live a modern, electronically supported life with WiFi, electric vehicles, and bubble tea whilst also buying bread from a 500 year old building, walking along 800 year old wall walks to get to work, and listening to a cathedral choir in a space that's been hosting that sound for 600 years. Big numbers! And the Romans were here too!
So join me in a little bit of balance, as we see some of the better things about living in a beautiful ancient and historic town that most people would give their right arm to live in!
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I live in York. A picturesque city of Roman bath ruins, Medieval walls, Vikimg Age housing remains, Georgian splendour, and sometimes I absolutely hate it!
It can be frustrating trying to live a modern life in a city designed for horses and carts, and a much slower pace of life. It isn’t built for wifi, bluetooth, 4G and smartphones. To say nothing of the overtourism, alcohol misuse, and horrible traffic and congestion.
So join me in a little rant about some of the things that really annoy me about living in a beautiful ancient and historic town that most people would give their right arm to live in!
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You may think you know how to make the perfect cup of tea, but let me tell you: the way you see it done in this video is categorically the only correct and legally acceptable procedure.
A YouTube, nay, a global first; this video will walk you through to dos, don'ts, and whatisgoingons of making a panad da: a nice cup of tea.
Or something like that anyway. It's been a long week.
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I’m not a leather worker. I'm not an expert in historical footwear. I don't have years of experience making medieval shoes for myself and others, and I certainly don't know how to fix Viking Age turn shoes on my own. You know who does? Nicole, from @NicoleRudolph.
So it would have been clever of me to contact Nicole and ask her advice before starting to repair my Viking turn shoes using leatherworking tools I barely understood, with almost no skills in leather sewing, and with leather barely suitable for the job.
But that's not good content. So I obviously jumped in with both (bare) feet and made a complete mess of things. Hooray!
Join me and Nicole as she generously tells me what I should have done, and then go and subscribe to her amazing channel that is absolutely packed with wonderful historical facts about footwear, fashion, and more!
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My old Welsh teeth aren't perfect. They aren't gleaming white gnashers like you see in Hollywood movies. I have gaps and chips and attrition and some age related discolouration and thinning enamel. I get frequent comments asking why?
Why don't I bleach my teeth?
Why don't I have dental veneers?
Are my teeth unhealthy?
Do I even brush my teeth (yes, and floss, and interdental brushing!)?
But although the idea that we should have whiter, straighter, perfecter teeth is a very old one, the technology to allow us to whiten and straighten our teeth effectively is very, very new and is surprisingly easy to link to film stars and celebrity culture. Dental veneers and bleach whitening strips were only invented in the 20th century, and many modern people have way better teeth than many people in the past, despite the popular myth that Medieval European or Roman or Egyptian people had "perfect" teeth because they ate less sugar in their diet. Archaeology says different!
So join me on a journey to explain why my teeth are so yellow, but, more importantly, why I don't care! Why Brits actually have better teeth on average than Americans. And why I won't be changing mine any time soon!
Kinda makes you want to floss, doesn't it? ;)
Bit of reading to get your teeth into:
bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h6543#:~:text=Results%20The%20mean%20number%20of,impacts%20were%20higher%20in%20England.
beautifullybony.wordpress.com/2014/07/04/a-look-at-the-accuracy-of-dental-age-estimation-charts
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But what actually is revisionist history? Where does the idea come from? How can we apply its principles respectfully, properly to do good work in studying the past as archaeologists or historians? Why do so many people think it's just a Bad Thing? And why do some people claim to be Revisionist Historians when they're actually conspiracy theorists and denialists?
This one might require a cup of tea and some biscuits. It's a wordy one!
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This is the second part of my ongoing series about making 17th century clothing for a new reenactment impression. This time we're making a pair of linen lined wool knee length breeches of the kind that would have been worn all over Europe and the European colonies abroad in the Thirty Years War, or the Colonial Period, or the later part of the Renaissance, around the 1630s and 1640s.
Historical costume can be a challenge, and these "britches" were certainly interesting to make! I hope this is a useful and interesting little video that helps to break down a little of the tailoring, sewing, cutting, pattern making, piecing, and ironing into slightly more manageable chunks. After all, if I can sew a pair of breeches, anyone can!
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Seeing as this has now appeared on my radar, I feel it my duty as your Friendly Neighbourhood Welshman to have a look at this, maybe do a bit of a debunk, and show you why good scholarship always allows for constructive criticism, uses critical source analysis to sift the wheat from the chaff from the Nile papyrus seed, doesn't simply make things up when the hypothesis doesn't fit the evidence, and certainly doesn't ignore three centuries of scholarship on Ancient Egyptian language and culture to try to prove that Geese are Wise and lions are abundant!
Confused? 'Rargoledig, you blooming well will be, hogia bach! Strap in and get yourselves a panad. And remember, keep the comments respectful: real people and real ideologies are involved here!
Big thanks to Lauren for all of the help on this video. You rock!
A couple of interesting Egyptology related bits and pieces:
britishmuseum.org/exhibitions/hieroglyphs-unlocking-ancient-egypt/egyptian-hieroglyphs-decipherment-timeline
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transliteration_of_Ancient_Egyptian#Table_of_transliteration_schemes
libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/towardsdolly/2013/01/10/avian-hieroglyphs-in-ancient-egypt
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I started a PhD, and did not finish it. It's taken a little while and a lot of work for me to feel up to explaining just briefly why that happened, how it happened, and what it means to no longer be a doctoral research student.
If anyone watching is feeling doubts or struggling with their PhD studies, remember to reach out to your academic support staff, your supervisory team, friends, colleagues, family, and whatever support network you have available. It's a terrible thing to feel alone in such a huge moment, so please remember you aren't.
And if you have a PhD and have any constructive advice for prospective academics or those yet to graduate: please keep comments constructive!
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🏴Welsh! Cymraeg! Gallese! My language is notoriously difficult to pronounce and many people believe it's one of the toughest languages to learn in the world. But I don't think it deserves that reputation, after all it has more vowels than English and we've been speaking it for nearly 2000 years, since the Romans left!
So to prove it's not nearly as hard as it looks I invited some of my favourite YouTube friends in the history and historical clothing scene to come and try to pronounce some of the Welsh language's toughest place names! There may be some Polish payback as well to keep me humble, and I'm pretty sure I can never visit Kentucky, but how do you think these A-List History YouTube personalities handled my weird old Celtic tongue? How did you do with the words? Will the people of Poland forgive me? Find out in this video that was an absolute blast to record! 🏴
Thanks to all of my lovely sporting guests:
Karolina Żebrowska: youtube.com/c/Karolina%C5%BBebrowskax
Abby Cox: @AbbyCox
Bernadette Banner: @bernadettebanner
Max from Tasting History with Max Miller: @TastingHistory
Nikki and Melchior from Lee-Am: @Leeam
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Join me as we have a look at the long history of this iconic piece of Scottish fashion history, in Met gala week no less, and unwrap the pleats of its secrets and the history of it that you may not know…
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When I say Medieval medicine, you probably think of trepanning, blood letting, leeches, amputation without anaesthetic. And all that is entirely accurate. But you may not think of monastic manuscript transmission, glosses and editing, translating thousand year old Classical Greek and Roman books, pioneering Islamic medicine and research, refugees fleeing Rome, or herbal guides full of fascinating and semi magical advice!
So we'll talk about all that as well in our little chat about Viking Age, Medieval, and early Islamic medicine. And there might be the occasional Roman or Greek in there and some esoteric stuff too, just for funsies!
Check out @TheEsotericaChannel for in-depth magical and spiritual videos, well researched and well worth a watch!
Some reading:
blogs.bl.uk/digitisedmanuscripts/2017/04/an-illustrated-old-english-herbal.html
archive.org/details/medicinadequadru00delcuoft/page/22/mode/2up
exarc.net/issue-2016-2/int/broken-leg-year-1350-treatment-and-prognosis
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Step one is doing a bit of research and figuring out what I actually want to make, so come with me and see a little bit of the process behind the firsts stage of creating a new reenactment impression and costume!
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The excellent 1642 Tailor’s site: thegoodwyfe.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-1642-tailor.html?m=1
And what exactly is a serf?
And why are some of them un-free?
And is someone who is un-free a slave?
Medieval peasants weren't slaves, but there were certainly some similarities between slavery and serfdom, so let's have a look at the life and times and legal rights and freedoms of medieval peasants, check out some interesting Welsh history and Welsh words you may not know, and figure out what their lives might have been like compared to yours!
As long as your demesne or feudal lord allows you to use the internet connection on your bonded villein land. This doesn't apply to freemen, obviously.
Recommended reading:
Matthew Frank Stevens, "The Economy of Medieval Wales 1067-1536"
Michael Hicks, "Bastard Feudalism"
asinusdocet.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/medieval-towns-gardens-yards
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Gender is a hugely important subject, and discussions of gender identity, non-binary and trans acceptance in societies worldwide, and the historical presence and othering of people who diverge from the "traditional western gender binary" are all over the place. And historical re-enactment and living history haven't escaped the discussion.
Whether you reenact the Romans, the Vikings, the American or British Civil War, or a completely other era, you will probably have encountered issues around gender in the hobby. Heck, it's even appeared in the SCA! So let's have a little chat about the subject, talk about some of the issues at play, the complications of reenacting the past as modern people, and why I can't necessarily help as much as I'd really like to.
And remember the golden rule: be excellent to each other. There's also a PILE of reading below. Have fun!
@OpusElenae and the brilliant vids mentioned: youtu.be/QPv1qj4W_jg?si=Sd49JExn1mD5Jm4J
youtu.be/jUvNeb7E-qA?si=eQFH1noZcqrMjGc-
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LOTS of reading:
english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/lgbtq-history/the-galli
bluefeather.org/resources.htm
https://www.norgeshistorie.no/vikingtid/0819-vikingtidens-kvinner-og-menn.html
https://www.forskning.no/arkeologi/vikingtideni-nesten-150-ar-trodde-eksperter-at-det-var-en-mann-som-la-i-krigergraven-i-birka-det-var-feil/1297283
https://www.forskning.no/arkeologi-historie-kjonn-og-samfunn/ogsa-vikingmenn-hadde-kjokkenutstyr-med-seg-i-graven/1338668
https://www.stk.uio.no/english/research/pride/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-viking-age.html
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/the-people/women/
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/the-people/appearance/#:~:text=Masculine%20women%20and%20feminine%20men,today%2C%20with%20prominent%20brow%20ridges.
taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9780429445668-14/put-men-field-accurate-juliane-tomann
nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2021/paper/60045
public-history-weekly.degruyter.com/11-2023-6/gender-reenactment
https://www.eur.nl/en/eshcc/research/centre-historical-culture/research-programs-and-projects/performativity-and-reenactment#:~:text=As%20a%20pastime%20dominated%20by,women%20in%20the%20armed%20forces.
degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501513886-005/html?lang=en
Let's find out and have a look at some of the good, the bad, and the ugly of Lego's surprisingly extensive Viking and Medieval range of figures and sets!
Play well, everyone!
Some of the ideas mentioned:
ideas.lego.com/projects/57a97b5a-2236-45ec-80fd-cc49d958b20a
ideas.lego.com/projects/29ee7bd5-6a43-4b0d-91b6-75ee7e5051ec
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But one magnet fisherman in Oxfordshire has dredged up something very interesting to us: a Viking Age sword! It's been authenticated, and is now in a museum in nearby Witney.
But is this really the best way to get artefacts out of our rivers? Could we be doing damage to archaeology and to the remains of our past by using magnet fishing? The Canal and River Trust and the British Museum certainly seem to think so, and to be honest, I'm not sure how I feel about it yet either.
Let's have a look at this impressive find anyway, and see if this, like metal detectors (after all who doesn't love Detectorists!) can become a really cool and useful addition to the archaeologist's arsenal!
Now I wonder if they'd help me find my change down the sofa...
All sword photos courtesy of Trevor Penny unless otherwise stated.
Mini disclaimer: Jimmy genuinely doesn't know how he feels about the whole activity of magnet fishing yet, but is sure everyone involved in this case was doing their best to play fair and was being honest and cool throughout! No judgement here!
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Some interesting reading:
http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/historic-england-supports-institute-of-detectorists
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-47801408
bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44512575
canalrivertrust.org.uk/support-us/our-campaigns/safety-on-our-waterways/water-safety-and-magnet-fishing
Did you know there are Welsh place names, enwau llefydd, outside of Wales?
Cymraeg is a lot more common than you might think on the island of Great Britain! The history of Wales is awash with wonderful words and names that seem exotic to non-Welsh speakers, but all over Great Britain there are towns, villages, hills, rivers, even cities and regions with Old Welsh names! To say nothing of the Gaelic (Gaidhlig), Irish (Gaeilge), Cornish (Kernowek), Manx (Gaelg), Scots, Northumbrian, and Cumbric names, you'd be amazed how many non-English place names exist here.
There are Welsh places in America as well, of course, most famously Bangor, Maine, but the ones in this video have Welsh names because they were named before English was even a language!
Let's have a look at just a few of these wonderful old names in my own old language and old tongue, and find out what they mean!
Some reading:
followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
earlymusicmuse.com/medieval-harp-development
thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/isidore-of-seville
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So I did an experiment with dish soap and lanolin! Washing up liquid is a great degreasing agent, and you know what sheep are? Waterproof and rust proof!
So let's see if I can get my Viking Age armour clean and shiny, using washing up liquid and a lanolin spray I bought on the internet :3
Historical? Absolutely not! But you've got to break a few anachronistic eggs to make an historical omelette. Or something.
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Well, you start by grabbing the essentials, and this video will hopefully give you a brief look at what the essential pieces of Medieval fashion are! From the end of the Roman Empire through the Viking Age, the Norman expansion, right up to the Renaissance, these few items will be very useful if you're new to reenactment and want to be able to fit in at just about any event based on Medieval Europe!
So, get on your tunic, pull up your hose, tighten your belt and braies, and maybe find a coif, which you'll probably want between 1200 and 1400!
And remember: if it's hot, there's literally nothing anywhere that says you can't just wear your linen!
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Look, we all love Heilung and we all dig Wardruna, ok? Let's get that straight right out of the gate.
But although at least Wardruna uses real medieval instruments and is as close as we can probably get to it, they aren't making fully accurate Viking Age music because we don't fully understand the nature of Viking Age music, because they didn't write enough down and there aren't enough remains to allow us that.
Sorry. Not a rant. Just... can we not pretend we know more than we do? I know it's in our nature to strive for knowledge and all that, but we have fragments of musical instruments, virtually no writing from the Viking Age about how vikings and Old Norse people used music, and illuminated manuscripts from the Byzantine Empire, Franks, Anglo-Saxons, Britons, Irish, and others can only tell us so much. If they'd left us some MP3s of their music we'd know more, but they didn't.
I know, how dare they?
What we *do* have are some fun bits of musical instruments, things we think may have been musical instruments, and a bunch of pictures to look at!
And no, there's no evidence for throat singing. Stoppit.
Some reading:
followthevikings.com/discover/culture/music
earlymusicmuse.com/medieval-harp-development
thinkingonmusic.wordpress.com/tag/isidore-of-seville
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But how much washing did the Vikings actually do? How were Viking teeth? Did they really wash and look after their appearance that much?
Let's find out! And don't forget to pack a towel!
Some reading:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Wallingford_(d._1258)
intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue42/6/8.cfm
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0295282#pone-0295282-g005
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Well, it sure as heck isn't whatever their algorithm decides to cobble together with poorly regulated AI tech and some horny helmets. These are apps that take your photo and slap a filter on it, call it "viking", and that's your lot.
Seriously, the stuff that these apps are creating is absolute garbage, and it's a fairly transparent money grab in some instances. In others, it's fairly clearly just another way of getting some of your private data, your image, or other information. There's nothing in them that can be used as a basis for a good reenactment impression, or that should be taken as representative of Old Norse or Scandinavian medieval culture at all. It's pure fantasy. More Baldur's Gate than Baldr.
And did I mention they look rubbish? Because they all look rubbish. To say nothing of the fact they're stealing actual art and photography.
This is one to avoid, friends.
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I'm home in Wales for a short winter break, and I wanted to share just a little of my homeland with you all, so join me on a gentle drive up the Conwy Valley, through Betws y Coed and Llanrwst, up Dyffryn Mymbyr, down Nant Gwynant, and through the legendary and beautiful little village of Beddgelert. Almost all of this is in the ancient kingdom of Gwynedd or in the magnificent Eryri National Park (formerly known as Snowdonia as an official name, the National Park now no longer uses an English official name). We'll drive through a landscape that has hillforts, Roman fortresses, castles, oak forests, mountains, rivers, lakes, and waterfalls galore hidden in it.
It may not be a takedown of an inaccurate Viking Age TV show or an Arthurian film of questionable quality, but it is pretty!
So, I hope that if you're celebrating a holiday you have a good one, and that this little trip through the Welsh Highlands is a pleasant one for you!
PS. This video was set to come out whilst I'm away, so if you've joined the Patreon very recently and don't see your name, you will on the next video! :)
PPS. It's filmed by hand, I do not have a gimbal/tripod for my car, so forgive any shake!
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Deskant, Battle of Aonach Mor; Sam Eber, When All Else Fails and Cottage in Wales; Christoffer Moe Ditlevsen, Forging an Empire and Far Over the Highlands,
They are, however, an integral part of the tattooing and body painting traditions of many living cultures, and have been for centuries, with complex and fascinating meanings behind them that have been passed on for generations.
Many cultures around the world have seen a resurgence in their tattoo culture in recent decades, often following many years of suppression, oppression, and legal moves against their traditions, clothing, and even spiritual practices.
So is there any evidence for Viking body or face paint? Is there any evidence for Old Norse tattoos? Is describing these designs as "viking" insensitive? Should they be left to those who have a legitimate cultural claim to them? Is describing these and other designs as "viking warpaint" inappropriate?
Am I exhausted, jet lagged, and sick of searching "viking war paint" at one in the morning?
Let's have a little look!
Some reading: kuaainaassociates.com/tattoo-guide
thebolditalic.com/please-don-t-commodify-my-culture-the-bold-italic-san-francisco-bdbfa9413e0b
ctvnews.ca/canada/rise-in-indigenous-tattoos-sparks-concern-over-cultural-appropriation-1.3805126?cache=yes
youtube.com/watch?v=rmVtaVP6KLI&t=149s
canadiangeographic.ca/articles/kakiniit-the-art-of-inuit-tattooing
vogue.com/article/in-alaska-indigenous-women-are-reclaiming-traditional-face-tattoos
dirtyeyeballart.com/blog/appreciation-vs-appropriation-in-tattooing
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They made another King Arthur TV series! And this one isn't like the old 1950s King Arthur movie, or that 2004 King Arthur movie, or that other 2017 King Arthur movie either! This one is a gritty remake!
Yay...
This TV series is (loosely) based on the Warlord series of books by the mighty Bernard Cornwell, and the books follow the adventures of Derfel, an Arthurian warrior, as he helps King Arthur secure his throne in a time of religious upheaval, changing gender roles and politics, and Saxon invasions!
The TV show is also here!
And it's definitely not just a cynical cash in on dark historical and fantasy shows like The Last Kingdom, Vikings, and Game of Thrones. It's definitely not that. Even though some of the costumes look identical, all the men are broody and wear black leather, there's lots of fairly gratuitous violence, and it looks almost the same as The Last Kingdom.
It isn't just a reskin. Ok? Ok.
Glad we cleared that up.
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Oh. Well I didn't.
But my mates at Nidhoggr Mead did, and they've even started a petition to protect mead as a heritage product. A bit like champagne, Melton Mowbray pork pies, Welsh leeks, or Breton onions, you'd have to make mead with honey, water, and yeast.
Ok, it's a sponsored video, but there are some jolly interesting things going on in the world of fermented honey! And I for one learnt a thing or two about the sinister practices of Big Honey (didn't know that was a thing either tbh), and why it's not something the bees would want to be happening.
And you get to see me in a beard net. So enjoy that!
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Petition: change.org/p/protect-the-heritage-craft-of-mead?redirect=false
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But is it true? Did my ancestors really give up on money and go back to a barter system? Thankfully we have some clues from history and archaeology that can help us answer this one pretty clearly! Join me as we dive into the economy of Medieval Wales! A thing I never thought I'd be doing YouTube videos on!
Cyfraith Hywel: cyfraith-hywel.org.uk
Coin hoards of Britain: mjaarch.co.uk/patterns-in-coin-hoards-c-973-1544
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Join me in talking about Norse windows, Roman glass, recycling, and probably more chemistry and geology than I have any right to be discussing on YouTube. You’ll be blown away by it! Sorry…
Woo, glass!
The article in question: https://tidsskrift.dk/dja/article/view/131493/184410
Beads made from recycled glass: heritagedaily.com/2022/10/new-study-on-how-viking-beadmakers-recycled-glass-from-roman-mosaics/144866
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What the heck even is this holiday called? And what are you actually supposed to do on it? Is trick or treat really just an American corruption? Are you supposed to make a Jack o' lantern? Where does Mari Lwyd, the zombie horse thing fit into it all? And why is that Irish man walking towards me in a dress and a terrifying mask made of straw?
Who knows, but I know a few fun little snippets of facts that might make for interesting Halloween viewing, and I haven't put a video out in a while, so here we go!
SpooOOoOOooOoooky!
A link to a survey about TrovaTrip, which might be a fun thing! Only if you fancy it though, like I say. No pressure! my.trovatrip.com/public/l/survey/The%20Welsh%20Viking
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End Credit music: The Friendly Ghost by Arthur Benson, via Epidemic Sound
It's actually really interesting, I promise!
historicplacenames.rcahmw.gov.uk/blog/deep-mapping
rcahmw.gov.uk/mapping-the-historic-boundaries-of-wales-commotes-and-cantrefs
researchgate.net/publication/344841234_Welsh_Mutation_and_Strict_Modularity?_tp=eyJjb250ZXh0Ijp7ImZpcnN0UGFnZSI6Il9kaXJlY3QiLCJwYWdlIjoiX2RpcmVjdCJ9fQ
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Song: Sosban Fach (Trad.)
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So join me as we have a little look at how "viking" the clothes of The Banner Saga really are!
Also there are centaurs. And who doesn't love a centaur?
Titles by @Anttimation
Song: Sosban Fach (Trad.)
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From planing, gouging and moulding to wire drawing and dowel making to clench bolt and rivet fabrication, surviving Viking Age tools from the archaeological record show that far from being a primitive time of poorly made tat, the Viking Age boasted highly skilled master craftsmen capable of making anything from bowls to boats and from combs to horse carts, all beautifully and by hand!
Join me as we have a quick look at some of the best hand tools that Viking Age has left us, and chat about why there's more depth to them that you may think!
Always wear eye protection and a respirator when near Jimmy or mentioned channels:@ModernRogue and @daegrad
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Intro song: Sosban Fach (Trad.)
Reading:
Planes planes planes! halldorviking.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/planes.pdf
Dennis's stuff:
daegradtools.com/re-enactment-woodworking-tools-1-c.asp
Combs? Combs: archaeologyandconservationcardiff.com/2020/06/12/viking-combs-revisited
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Join me for some axe talk! There might even be a kitty cat friend!
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/collections/objects/the-langeid-broadaxe.html
Pedersen, Anne (2014) Dead Warriors in Living Memory. A study of weapon and equestrian burials in Viking-age Denmark, AD 800-1000. Publications from the National Museum. Studies in Archaeology & History Vol. 20:1 1
https://www.khm.uio.no/english/research/previous-projects/langeid/project/haft/#haft-length
https://en.natmus.dk/historical-knowledge/denmark/prehistoric-period-until-1050-ad/the-viking-age/weapons/axes/#:~:text=Whilst%20the%20swords%20of%20the,them%20on%20their%20last%20journey.
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Brace yourselves, get a nice soft almanac ready, and let's... er... jump in.
Channels mentioned: @BoatTime
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York Georgian Festival: mansionhouseyork.com/yorkgeorgianfestival
(again, they have not paid me for this, but as I'm technically endorsing them I ticked the "paid promotion box because YT can be iffy)
Reading:
researchgate.net/publication/340964747_Fragments_of_meals_in_eastern_Denmark_from_the_Viking_Age_to_the_Renaissance_New_evidence_from_organic_remains_in_latrines
discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10107795
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.2307/2853898
researchgate.net/publication/287220807_Sewers_cesspits_and_middens_A_survey_of_the_evidence_for_2000_years_of_waste_disposal_in_York_UK
le.ac.uk/lahs/downloads/2010/2010%20%2884%29%20117-149%20Kipling.pdf
theguardian.com/culture/2019/feb/13/helles-toilet-12th-century-three-person-loo-seat-goes-on-display
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We have literally hundreds of viking houses that were revealed in these huge digs, along with thousands of artefacts left by their occupants. And poo. There's poo.
LOTS of reading, graphs, data and so on from the Coppergate excavation:
yorkarchaeology.co.uk/fascicules
aslab.co.uk/app/download/13765738/ASLab+PWR+1997+AY17-11+Textile+Production+for+web.pdf
archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/yat_2011
aslab.co.uk/app/download/14172934/ASLab+Walton+1989+AY17-5+Textiles+Coppergate.pdf
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