Ancient Viking Lyre demo, part 1 of 3

[rg56765y]

Doesn't mean that the Vikings didn't use these too- the two cultures are very similar, which isn't surprising, as they originated from the same area of Germania and in England at least, the co-existed for a very long time. Plus, bridges and tuning pegs have been found in York, England, from the Viking times.

[Dementrius]

he's right, sutton hoo burial ship was definately anglo saxon, not viking :S

[wolvenblacktalon1]

@Dementrius originally the saxons were viking but just of another area like gemania the germanics we considered viking the viking territories at the times where iceland vinland norway finland sweden denmark germania the netherlands ireland england scotland they pretty much had all all EU not all at the same time but pretty close to it the anglo saxons where just like the vikings they had prety much all the things viking would have used at the time period but acheaology will never tell.

[hasturhastur]

if that lyre is based on the Sutton hoo find then maybe the title should say ancient Anglo-Saxon lyre demo?

[michaeljking]

The lyre in the video appears to look more like one found in a 7th century soldiers grave in Germany than the Sutton Hoo model, I have made copies of these lyres which follow the museum plans quite closely (see my videos)

[wolvenblacktalon1]

@hasturhastur its not ancient its its a reprodution or replica it would be considerd modernized

[hasturhastur]

@wolvenblacktalon1 You are correct, but my comment was not based on the claim of the lyre being ancient as I understood that the lyre in the video is a reproduction. My comment was based on the claim that this lyre was based on a Scandinavian example when it is actually based on a lyre from one of the most well known Anglo-Saxon finds. but seeing as it is a video from an sca group I'm not surprised at that mistake.

[wolvenblacktalon1]

@hasturhastur oh my bad carry on hehe