Birka the viking town on the island of Björkö.

[Hemulen40]

Happy Yuletide , people ! ( :

[BirkaViking]

@Hemulen40 Thanks man and I wish you the same :)

Cheers

[MegaMikss]

ПРЕКРАСНО / WONDERFUL !!!

[SnyderRon]

Cool model.

[IdelUralState]

Wardruna is remaining me the Turkci past of the Germanic Peoples.

[USAdude30]

Awesome!!! Now bring back that Viking fighting spirit and take your beautiful country back from Islamic scum of the earth.

[EagleTalon1970]

The vikings visited us so long ago,i would love to visit their home land one day soon.  Eagle Talon

[BirkaViking]

@EagleTalon1970 Yes friend you are very welcome :)

You should visit us during a viking festival in the summer :)

Cheers

[TinyArts]

National Antiquites? what musem is it to be exact ? I got a day of next week and i live in Stockholm and would love to see this in real life.

[BirkaViking]

@TinyArts Its the Swedish National Historical Museums and they have this model there in scale: 1:30

Cheers

[hartleyfamilyorguk]

a remarkable insight to Viking civilisation

[Alexanderstuve]

man, birka woud be very scary to sail to, with mist before your eyes and into the unknown northrend filled with fierce blood thirsty warriors.

[ScandiNemo]

Riktigt mäktigt faktiskt.

[BirkaViking]

@ScandiNemo Tackar

[Anguis79]

Koolt! Då jag är uppväxt ute på öarna har jag varit på Björkö ett antal gånger. Schysst video. Detta är vårt nordiska arv som vi borde vara mer stolta över än vad vi är. Gåshudsvarning på denna

[BirkaViking]

@Anguis79 Ja Birka är verkligen trevligt att besöka, hörde att de kanske skulle rekonstruera krigarnas hus efter att de byggt ut hamnen om pengar fans.

[MyViking123]

love the wardruna music to intro birka, brill! :-)

[BirkaViking]

@MyViking123 Yeah its awesome :)

Cheers

[EagleTalon1970]

@BirkaVicking.Thank you my Friend,im allways looking to learn about all Humans.The Links you sent me are Great! Someday,We Will Shake Hands. Eagle Talon. American Indian.

[zub1964]

This is very interesting. Thank you for posting.

[Biofishable]

Interesting vid. Thanks

[sgnewa]

Another great video from you BirkaViking! your videos are educational and fun to watch, I trust they are telling truths about our past much more than I trust the history channel...

[BirkaViking]

@sgnewa Hi there and thanks that you like my videos :)

What do you mean with your statement about history channel?

Cheers

[sgnewa]

@BirkaViking Well... I am not a subscriber to H.S... but I have seen many video clips from them on Youtube..I watched clips from them about Icelands settlement . it looked to me that like those series where made to be theatrical rather than historical..

[BirkaViking]

@sgnewa Yeah I agree with you at that actually, and HS often portrait Barbarian tribes unfair with old steriotyped views for some reason.

[Metalmoshqueen666]

interessant video

[hailODIN1]

Rigtig god film! 5/5 :)

[TheTruckdr]

Excellent

[NordicQueen1234]

NIce video. this is very informative and very very interesting. I wonder what else archeologist will find when they continue un earthing European sites.

[Noahwig]

Haha! brassas det roligaste på länge. lite avundsjuk kanske, + att han ger felaktig fakta, typiskt...

[1guentherblume]

great job, much work i see

[RusNat]

very interesting!

[keglelaila]

Tak for at poste dette! Det er virkelig flot lavet. Kunne tænke mig at se en med Upåkre også

[BirkaViking]

keglelaila: Ja det är synd att det inte fins någon liknande rekonstruktion av Uppåkra.

Tack själv att du gillade videon.

[strifelord]

Birka isn't a "medieval viking village". First of all, it was a viking age TOWN. Secondly, the viking age is a time period of its own, pre-dating the medieval times. The viking age in Scandinavia was approxomately between 800-1050 AD, and the medieval times approxomately between 1050-1500 AD. To say "medieval viking village" is as strange as saying "renaissance stone age village".

[strifelord]

Though I realize now, that you probably mean "medieval times" from a continental european point of view, where the medieval times are starting before up here in Scandinavia. And who is this "Brassas"? He clearly don't know much of what he is talking about. Hey, Brassas, if you truly want to learn more, you have to stop being biased against Sweden and pre-Norway. All you say are things you don't really know, you just *assume* Norway has this and that and Sweden nothing.

[strifelord]

@brassas - it took a long time before I answer, but anyway =) I am an archaeologist, specialized in the vendel era and the viking age. I have also worked as a guide at Birka. So you must excuse me if I don't have to "read more books", since I've surely read ten times more than you, and also interact with other archaeologists on a daily basis. With that said, none of the countries you speak about existed in the viking age, even if we in some cases can see "seeds" of these countries already then-

[strifelord]

@brassas - Furthermore, "significant" for whom? The swedish viking expiditions certainly did have an impact on eastern Europe. The ice was no problem, they didn't sail out just to stay away one single summer, as I am sure you must understand... (you don't exactly reach Baghdad in two months...). They would sail out at spring, stay away for several years, and return on the autumn before the ice covers the coastline. -

[strifelord]

@brassas - So: Why this animosity? Your posts show you lack knowledge, and that you post only to throw sh*t on Sweden. Care to enlighten us as to why? If you would like to talk more about the younger iron age in Scandinavia, feel free to contact me through private messaging instead.

[BirkaViking]

strifelord: Thats true but I think they meant medievel times ín europe. I only wrote what they wrote at the nova site they have those 7 clips I have put togheter with music. I have changed the headline now so it wont be more confusion about this.

Cheers

[brassas]

Many famous Vikings went easwards as well. 1 in many of them was Harald I Hairfair's son Eirik Bloodaxe. He started to join his fellow Vikings and raided, plundered and burned down villages in Sweden, Finland and deep in Russia. After many successful years there he went westward and became King of Northumbria in England,His life and merits can be read in the anglo-saxian chronicles. Go to York in England and you see some coins they used in his Norwegian colony, with the inscription Eiricus rex

[krirre]

North people = Swedes. Norway is just a wannabe trying to copy the Swedes in everything.

[brassas]

You makes me laugh. How can The proud Norwegian people copy a worse people like sweddies. Why copy a people like sweedes with higher unemployment rate, shittier salaries, longer working days, a country with a worthless currency. Copy a poor sweddie land with a GDP pr capita 50% less than Norway....you show that you are totally blasted like mostly sweddies. I hope more people could say like that..then Norwegians don't get mix with the lowclass sweddie people comming over the border for jobs

[krirre]

norggiepeople makes me laugh, its a waste of time discussing with stupid norggiepigs like you. Sweden is a proud country with a proud history. dont try to say anything else little norggieorg.

[brassas]

hehehe, your history does not start before 1523 6th of june your idiot hahaha :)

[krirre]

Our history starts right after the ice age, when the ice melted away, and Norggieland was still under the ice :)

[brassas]

mostly settlements from bronzeage is found in Norway your clown, and they have found clarely connections between Norwegian westcoast and Iberian peninsula ( Portugal and Spain )

[krirre]

But how could that be when norggieland was way under the ice? trying to be funny are you? lol

[brassas]

Most Swedish runestones is found around Vänern area. Try to look for ships there as well. I think I saw an article in swedish abouth that as well, that biggest chance to find Viking culture items was in Bohus and Värmland area (Old Norwegian area). It's seems like that shipbuilding culture has been different eastern parts of Scandinavian peninsula. Maybe the sweds walked over the ice over to Finland and Russia, and not used ships such as Danes and Norwegians. Maybe the swed boats was small?

[BirkaViking]

brassas: Haha you are joking right?

Most of the Swedish runestones are found in Uppland around 1300 runestones then second är Södermanland who have over 400 runestones. So the area with the highest consentration of runestones are the area around lake mälaren. I have just explained that we have many ship graves in Sweden and that the Swedes often used smaller ships so they could carry them at some places through the Russian rivers.

[brassas]

No, Im not joking, I just want to learn about it

[BirkaViking]

brassas: Ok well then you have learnt something new now.

Cheers

[brassas]

Kaupang The old Norwegian Viking market shows that Norwegian Vikings went out in all directions unlike the swedes who went only eastwards. Artifacts shows the fact that Kuapang was part of an international trade network more than 1,100 years ago. Arabian coins found in the settlement suggest that it the townspeople participated in trade through Russia and the Eastern Mediterranean. In addition, pottery found throughout France and Britain. Why is it only found Vikingships in Norway and DK?

[BirkaViking]

brassas: Well infact many vikings from now a days Sweden also went west we have around 30 runestones who tell about the journeys with Danish vikings and took Danegeld from the west. The Swedish viking ships was often smaller so they could cary the shipsat some places through the Russian rivers. And we have fairly many ship graves in Sweden infact you have some also at Birka. Cheers

[brassas]

Ok..so swedish Vikings went to England in Vikingships, that was new to me, but it's nice to learn something new. I will look up this, since it's not mention in any sources. I've not seen any pictures or seen any Vikingships in real life in Sweden like in Norway and Denmark. It's also found a lot of Viking ships in the Norwegian realms in UK and Ireland. This place Birka you mention here, is strange that they not found any ships...since it's a lot of them around the Norwegian and Danish coasts

[BirkaViking]

brassas: The answere to this question is like the arabic sources tell about the rus vikings, when the chieftain died they burned him and the ship and then they made the ship grave. Then I if dont remember wrong I actually think that the archaeologist serach the water area around Birka now a days.

Cheers

[brassas]

I think Swedes has been searching for Vikingships in Sweden the last 100 years...especially after the Osebergship find in Norway, where a Powerful Viking Queen was burried. The biggest chance to find Vikingships in Sweden will be in the old Norwegian areas I think...Like Värmland, Bohus, or maybe a little south of Gothenburg in the old Danish region of Sweden. Vänern was old Norwegian area..Conquested by Harald Hairfair...maybe try to search there

[BirkaViking]

brassas: Well the problem is that the ships are burned here in Sweden. But instead we have infact the only illustrated vikingship with hoist sail at a runestone here.

[zillertaller]

sounds like u only read about vikings going west!

[dannespansk]

Vem står för den underbara musiken, måste ha!!

[BirkaViking]

dannespansk: Det är en del av sången Bjarkan med gruppen Wardruna.

Skål

[dannespansk]

Tack BirkaViking! Skall ta och kolla var man kan handla skivan!

Kuriosa: Var på Björkö förra sommaren och hälsade på min syster och hennes fästman som via sin utbildning på Gotlands universitet var med och byggde de tidsenliga husen som står i Vikingabyn! Stolt bror!

[BirkaViking]

dannespansk: Jaha nice:)

Jag ska ut till Birka nu i sommar, har varit där ganska många gånger men det är alltid lika trevligt att åka dit:)

Skål

[NordicCrossle]

Looks more developed comparing to Africa today...

[pamle1]

Beautiful graphics. It looks so real.

[theshadowbehindme]

nice tahnks for sharing

[theshadowbehindme]

thanks lol

[BirkaViking]

kvicken2000: Runt 1100 talet så var väldigt stora delar av Sverige kristet men självklart så fans asatron kvar väldigt länge på vissa ställen.

Dom tror faktist att det aldrig var någon större del av den vanliga befolkingen som tillhörde hans församling utan att det var trälar som hade mest att vinna på att gå med i den kristna tron.

Men iaf så åkte han ut med buller och bång när folk förstod att dom var tvugna att bara dyrka en gud.

[diablica2803]

Awesome reconstruction!!!!!

*****5 thanks for sharing my friend

[SvitjodsKrigare]

Swedens might all in one town!

[Sina2500]

It was very very interesting video.

Had never seen anything like it before.

Thanks

[gusletarist]

Very good reconstruction!!

Thanks from Russia

5*****

[VikingerWolf]

Veldig!

Takk for deg god video.

[wolverine67uk]

Great video my friend, thanks for sharing..

[Nortrix87]

Great!!

[ankra12]

Great:-)

[kvicken2000]

Actually it is a "viking age" village.

Vikings were not a people.

But nice video anyways!

5/5

[emokiller3]

Vikingarna kallade sig väll visst vikingar? de blev i alla fall kallade det.

"vikings-of-the-north"

[kvicken2000]

En viking är en sjökrigare! Inte en etnisk folkgrupp, de var en DEL av folkgrupper, Norrmän Svenskar och Danskar.

Som att alla små barn och kvinnor skulle vara vikingar? Nej. Många av männen och de äldre sönerna var de som krigade oftast.

[BirkaViking]

kvicken2000: Korset står där för att det var den första kristna församlingen han startade i Sverige.

Skål

[kvicken2000]

Det finns en dokumentär om vikingar då det är en Svensk som utervjuvas, de är på en plats där en gamla stad har befunit sig från 1000 år tillbaka. Då frågar intervjuaren "So this was a viking village?" Då säger den andra "No this was a viking age village"

Det är som att säga att alla Japaner är samuraier.

[emokiller3]

Eller att alla samurajer var japaner, DEN DU!

här är en till! ALLA ARABER ÄR TERRORISTER, :D

[kvicken2000]

aa precis! Men du fattar vad jag mena.!

Jag kan en till Alla mongoler är mongos!

[BirkaViking]

kvicken2000: Hehe det är en tolknings fråga enligt mig när det gäller Birka. För på ön fans en väldigt tungt beväpnad och profesionel vikinga garnision. Och garnisionens byggnaden var konstruerat på sådant sätt enligt arkeologerna att den är identisk med hur valhall är beskrivet i dom islandska sagorna.

Självklart var det krigarna som var vikingar. Befolkningen i Sverige var Svear, Götar och Gutar.

Skål

[kvicken2000]

I see! Jag har hört talas om att det fanns typer av "officerare" i Birka, men har inte hört talas om själva armen.

men å andra sidan så blev Birka kristnat ganska tidigt så det räknas inte :P

Skål!

[BirkaViking]

kvicken2000: Hehe nej där har du faktist fel, Birka blev aldrig kristnat, Ansgar startade en kristen församling där år 829 men misslyckades, år 852 åter kom han igen till Birka men även den här gången så misslyckades han. Så Birka blev aldrig en kristen stad.

Först blev Danmark kristet genom Harald Blåtand omkring år 960 sen Norge och sist Sverige på 1100 talet.

Skål

[kvicken2000]

Misslyckades det andra försöket? Det trodde jag inte, varför skulle de göra en minnes monument med Ansgar korset för ett misslyckande? :O

Sverige har faktiskt inte något korrekt datum när det kristnades, stora delar av småland var hedniskt enda in på 1800 talet.

Kan till viss del hålla med om 1100 talet då blot sven dog. Men en jäkla mycket asatro levde kvar överallt.

[walaxski]

strong village (fäderneslandet), swift culture and the healthy beautiful people. this is the way supose to be.

[acerb45666555]

well done!

[BabyJovi84]

perfect!

I want live in a viking village... :P

Good video...

[STORMHARMONIES]

thats increible, is real? greatttttttttt

[jettbugg]

Excellent video!

[joonte1010]

Nice video! ^^

[GrootHolland1572]

Yes very nice video,

but the water has to much movement

A multicultural nation like Holland is like the Black Death.

[deGothiaSweden]

Wouldn't surprise me if there is a mosque at that location today... :(

[THordasson]

True words, deGothia. True words.

This video was a pleasure to watch, and the difference between the life they lived in Birka and in the rest of the Germanic North a 1000 years ago is VASTLY different from the mud-life we "live" today in the multicultural sewer-societys of the 21th century .

[StellandBlood]

@THordasson

Was it so different in that sense,there was constantly multiculturalism happenings back then,germanic tribes were often a mix of previous tribes,in general they are a mix of indo iranians(once mistakingly called aryans)celto italics,and nordics.

Multiculturalism precedes monoculturalism.

Of course those islamic retards shouldn´t be let in.

[NorthernSupremacy]

Great work brother.

5 stars to me.

[Saphiregun]

awesome work