 Så vi har hittat en bra spot i varm huvudet med lite goda svenska koffer. Vi har mycket att tala om. Först och foremost, Tom, du har läst en bok. En väldigt fin del. Jag har skärit den på min Instagram. Den ser ut som den här. Och i den har jag sett en karaktär som är ganska familjig till mig. Och den är den gräna natt. Och den första gången jag hörde om den gräna natt var från Warhammer. Så Warhammer fantasy. Så det är en faktion kallat Bretonnia, som är baserad på medieval frans och arturien legend. Och en av de här karaktärer är den gräna natt. Och jag har huggit emellan. Jag var bara 14 i tiden och jag trodde att det var en väldigt episk del. Men jag trodde att du kunde avdraga lite på min deras subskrivare, som den gräna natt är. Och också först. Jag svarar. Jag fick inte riktigt ge en introduktion till att survive och däva. Så om någon inte är bäst av Tom, jag lär dig i sin kanal. Och jag har definitivt sett att du subskriver, ser alla videorna. Jag ser alla videorna. Och jag har gainat en bra bit av en litenhet av knowledge från dem. Och jag skulle säga att det är min väldigt favorit kanal. Och jag säger inte att det är min vän, men det är en bra kanal. Så checka dem ut. Ja, det är mest... Pagan religion, Germanic history, DNA och science, som om population genetics och sånt, traditionellism och spiritualitet. Det är det jag kan göra. Ja, så om du... Om du vill... René Gunon, Julius Evola, om du vill... Om du vill... Hyster i generellt, spirituality. Definitellt checka ut alla av sin videor. Det ska vara en bra sak du kan ha över Christmas och ylvan. Detta är om en kristansk guy från Vittorien, som går till Pagan-tiderna. Så det är de gränserna från tid till tid. Öre kristans idéer. Men det som jag intresserade är att han är i en specifik Arthurian historia om Christmas. Så han var en ganska öre kristansfigur som du kan säga. Han är väldigt populär i det här sättet. Han är en väldigt mystisk figure. Den karakteren som vi gjorde, eller kristan eller artister, är baserad på något som heter The Green Man. Det är en annan sak. Det är som en masonrik motiv i England. I de medievaltiderna har de tagit en figure som fanns av livet och sånt. Nån vet verkligen inte varför de hade det i de här kristansk gärna. Men många vill säga att det har en Pagan origin. Men det är ingen rekord av pagan-tiderna som fanns av livet. Men det kanske fanns det. Men det stämmer inte på nåt som finns i Bible. Så det är ganska mysteriös. Men vi har tagit på att samla med The Green Man och The Green Night. Det är simulant på samma gång. Det är en mystisk figure. Men The Green Night... Det är en historia som heter Sagaouen och The Green Night. Och det är i mitten i engelska. I mitten i engelska är det Vagrena knift. Om du inte... Du kanske kan tänka sig att du kan tala i mitten i engelska. Men om du inte har någon praktik med det så är det svårt. Du kan ta sig tillbaka. Och det är lite bra läget online. Och det finns även en kartoon som du kan se online. Jag tror att BBC har gjort det länge tidigare. Och det är riktigt coolt att se, även om det är i mitten i engelska. Om du får en bild från karton. Så jag försöker samla en historia. King Arthur och The Green Night. Det är kristans. De satt runt omkringen. Och Camelot fester. Och gillar dem själv. Dränkning och så vidare. Och då... Boom! Doors är öppna. Och en massiv Green Night. Med grön armor. Grön fäst. Allt grön. Riding en grön hos. Just rides right into the court. Which is not what you do. You don't ride horses into court. And challenges everyone there. Telling them that they're not real Christians. That they don't follow... That they're not doing Christmas right. And they're all bad. And insults them basically. And challenges them. Insulting their honour in the process. Saying who will accept my challenge. And only... Of all the nights. Only Sagaouen. The virtuous but young and somewhat naive night. He rises to the challenge. And says he will take the Green Night challenge. And that is that... The Green Night has an axe. And he says you will strike my head with the axe. And then I will strike off yours. And then Sagaouen does that. Chopped off the Green Night's head. But the Green Night picks up his own head. He's still alive. And then he says okay now next year. This day on Christmas. I'm gonna do the same to you. And then basically the whole story then. Is about what Sagaouen is doing. To try and avoid the inevitable fate. The next Christmas. And to summarise it. And ruin it a bit for you. This story is a Christian morality tale. And it's about like... Sagaouen learning like virtue of sacrifice. And stuff like that. And the short story is he passes the test. And the Green Night is really on the side of the court. And he's working for King Arthur. And it's all a game to show. But the Green Night is an interesting figure. Because Green is just as kind of as now. Was associated with paganism. And evil. Not now we don't think green is an evil colour. But green because it's associated with paganism. In Christian Europe did have an evil and magical aspect. And that is why even though the Green Night didn't exist in pagan Europe. We often like to see him as kind of like a pagan figure. And representing somehow paganism. Although he's actually testing them according to Christian values. I always associated him more with a force of nature. And obviously I always associated pagan things more with nature. And more human things more with Christianity. But obviously the intermarriage between Christianity and paganism always. In Europe it looks a bit different than it does in the Bible. I suppose the myth, the character of the Green Night is not something you would find in the Bible. No, no, it's very European. It's very British. Very Indo-European maybe. Yeah, yeah. It's very British, French, whatever, Welsh. I mean it's hard to say because obviously the Welsh want to claim Arthur as their own. But many of these myths don't appear in, not all of them appear in Welsh literature. So going in the Green Night is written in Middle English. I mean there's some, Wolfram's passable book is German. So I mean Arthurian myth and legend. It may have originated the trend in Celtic speaking parts of Britain. But it spread to France, to Germany. It was really, it was like the Star Wars of its day. I mean not everyone likes Star Wars now because of all the horrible recent. Yeah, you're not missing too much. But anyway, actually even the original Star Wars was based partially on Arthurian literature. So Arthurian themes are in the original Star Wars. You have, I don't want to go too much into Star Wars. Obi-Wan Kenobi is kind of like Merlin. You know, it's like the young Luke Skywalker is kind of like a passable or Gawain or something. So yeah, what was good of the original Star Wars is only the aspects are good about it. And the things that come from eternal, you know, myths. And that's the same with Arthurian literature, where it typifies the Christian High Middle Ages. As Julius Everla has written in his book The Mystery of the Grail, you can see that a lot of themes were from older pagan sources. But not saying that they're pagan stories, but they have parallels in earlier pagan stories. Yeah, so I suppose, at least for me, I've always been quite interested in the Arthurian legend. I think it's very mystic and epic and heroic tale. And since you talk a lot about, I know you've made some videos and yet again you can check them out. But to just answer the question right here, some people have seen also in the film King Arthur from like 10 years ago. They claimed that King Arthur came from these formations, if I'm not mistaken. Okay, yeah. Have you seen the film? No, but I know about this. The theory. The theory is very old, very, very old and that's why it's popular. But it's not true. There actually were, I've done a talk recently in America and I uploaded it to my Soundcloud about origin narratives and identity. And it explains that actually around the Middle Ages it was very popular all across Europe. People wanted to ascribe mythical origins to their people, to their races. So the French started to say that they were descended from the Trojans. The Welsh also said they were descended from the Trojans and the Welsh also said they were simultaneously descended from Trojans and Jews somehow. And some of the Celts in British art decided they were descended from the Scythians. Now what do the Trojans, the Jews, the Scythians having common at that time in the Middle Ages? People know about them. That's the basic thing is when they switched to European Celts in German, switched to a literate culture, they lost a lot of their history of where people came from. But they had access to very old records of ancient civilizations. Greek, Trojans war, ancient Hebrews, which they learned about through the Bible. And the Scythians are mentioned by Romans and Hebrews. So they're in the Bible. So the Scythians are good and suitable source to say where you come from. So that is why you find in these medieval texts people saying that. Why did Snorri Sturluson say that the gods came from Troy? Why did the French say that they came from Troy? Why did the Celts start saying they were Scythian? Not because they were, because we can see from DNA that they weren't. But because that was a prestigious, it's good for them to say that. And you should talk if you want to hear more about that. Yeah. And also speaking of this during the 1600s, I suppose it was, I might have the dates wrong here, but I know that the Swedish Empire of Kingdom then, they promoted quite heavily their Gothic past. And I know that other European nations also did that. So Spain, for example, parking back to the Visigothic path, because that was a kind of prestige thing. We come from these brave people who restructured Europe. So it is something that you've seen in different times as well, this claiming a past. But the difference with that is that the Visigoths were in Spain. Yeah, it's true. And also the Goths do come from Scandinavia originally. So the Swedes do have a connection to the Goths. So that's slightly different. But Stor of Gothicism, that trend in the 1600s in Sweden where they celebrated the Goths a lot, what was untrue about it is that they started to say that the Goths did certain things that the Goths never did. They kind of made up the idea that Uppsala was the center of the world's civilization. Yeah, hi, I didn't actually know about that. Oh, they made up all kinds of crazy stuff. I mean, yeah, the Goths weren't the inventors. The Goths were the inventors of all the world's civilizations. We were inventors. Yeah, we were Goths basically. But they were Goths, but the Goths weren't everything else. Yeah, but the important thing here is that you can definitely see the importance of history for identity and people. Like they need to have a strong sense of who they are. And this is obviously something I've talked about before that in order to, if we're talking about the solarlessness of the modern world in the western world, a lot of that can probably stem from the fact that the tree has been cut, the roots have been cut. We have no idea who we are. We have no idea who our ancestors were, where we come from, anything. So in my view, if you want to revive Europe, rekindle the spirit of who we are. Yeah, I think that's what history is. It's a large part of the history, and it gets people interested in history to knowing where you are, where you come from, behind the stuff where you're researching your ancestors, you're researching ancient kings. It has a similar motive behind it. It reinforces your sense of self, it reminds you in the process of time, because life is just the experience of time, of being within time. So history is a major part of that, and it should help you to focus your sense of self and being. Yeah, and this is also something I've said before, that if you view Sweden, for example, in a historic context, going back to the Gothic age, and the Viking age, and the Caribbean age, if you view a certain nation or a civilization in that context, you're more prone to actually care about what happens after you're dead. Various, if you don't care, you don't know that we were gods or whatever. Yeah, why would you care what happens in 20 years? So getting a good view and understanding the history of myths and legends, everything, very important stuff, and that's also yet again why I appreciate your channel, because you delve into these myths so much, and especially like we talked a bit about the Wild Hunt, just the previous video, getting that sense of epicness and heroicness into a self-improvement game. Very useful, and yeah. Yeah, I think incorporating these myths and the history into our own rituals, whether you're going to the gym or whatever you're doing, is important, because history shouldn't be an us and them sensation. There's a constant chain leading us right back through time to our ancestors, and forwards to our descendants, and that's where our role is, is to pass on that flame to the next generation. Yeah, and in our case maybe rekindling, because a lot of dormant... Going out of it. Yeah, it does. It needs a bit more fuel, I think. It does indeed. So anyway, we wish you a god jul and Merry Christmas from a snowy Sweden. God jul!