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Strange Viking Wedding Traditions and Rituals
Marriage was the heart of family structure in Viking culture, hence the intricate nature of Viking wedding rituals. According to many of the myths and folklore to which historians attribute their knowledge of Viking weddings, each tradition and ritual was deemed necessary to earn the blessings…
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Haha😂. I love the rubber duckies reference. King Henry the eighth wrote a scandaless letter to his mistress in waiting. It reminds me of oversimplifieds " man his loind are on fire"
Who here from Twilight of the gods
Personally I don't think passed history is so weird. I think the more we have gone on the weirder we get.
Wooden duckies definitely
I did have a viking wedding 😂. Well I mixed viking and celtic and it turned out wonderful!
The best channel if I don't want to watch something boring I come to weird history. Comedy and history just like Josh Gates
Can you please make about ancient egypt marriage also assyrian
Well, im glad it was water that came out of my nose. Nicely placed zeppelin reference lol
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I unintentionally planned a Viking wedding for us 😂. We rented a large airbnb to host about 10 of our closest friends and family. I have a simple but beautiful dress and the headpiece should be delivered soon. We’re exchanging axes (axe throwing was our first date) along with our rings on a mountain. We are doing a hand fasting ritual and we’ll have a BBQ feast for the reception with special Celtic cups for hubby and me. I cannot wait for April to come and I get to marry my best friend
We do, actually. But you forgot the handfasting ceremony. Somewhere around june next year we will get married in medieval Norse style, in our own backyard.
A+ video!
LOVE IT! So fascinating!
2:41 Awesome "Immigrant Song" reference!
Even the vikings have got furter than some relegious groups today where a man and woman cant shake hands and the woman have far less rights than a man🧕🏻😂
Honestly their weddings sound very similar to ours legal stuff bachlor and bachelorette parties the ceremony then reception/dinner and then sex and the honeymoon just with a lot more grave robbing swords and invoking the gods blessings repeatedly like animal scrafices hammers on the bride and such.
If a woman married a man, but had a son from a previous marriage, the son would be forced to witness the consumation of the marriage. I wonder if the step fathers got off on it.
Best wedding traditions are Russian and Armenian.
9:28 Christian tradition has nothing to do with pagan tradition. They have their own spiritual reason for doing things according to Scriptures
According to some recently surfaces scriptures, they indeed, did use rubber duckies
Y'all should have a podcast
It would be more accurate to call them Norse pagans rather than Viking because Viking was actually an occupation instead a race
This is nearly verbatim an article on ranker
I mean whats a Viking Party without Booze,Sacrifice,and a long drawn out process to get there..
If modern society adapted Viking union traditions, divorce lawyers will be extinct.
How about Viking weapons?
Would love one on life on a WW-II Submarine.
as you are a history channel… i just wanted to point out a few things
-horned helmets were never worn (nor would they have been effective) but were created for theatrical effect for an opera by richard wagner (from which you might know the song “ride of the valkyries”. which i can say almost everyone knows they just don’t know the name or origin)
-vikings were only the “pirates” of the tribe or village, and the “viking age” was from the 8th-11th century approximately however these traditions pre-date the viking age in many cases and post-date it in others.
-the term “viking culture” doesn’t really mean anything, while “viking-age norse culture” (or medieval norse culture” would make more sense. you can call it petty to point this out, but we don’t call medieval british culture “knight culture”
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I won’t get into the religious inaccuracies or mispronunciations since those are to be somewhat expected from a modern american who hasn’t researched this deeply. I write this comment not to be an asshole, only to educate.
Viking weddings were serious😊!
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It is also just as possible that documents detailing such wedding ceremonies were destroyed by Christians too… that was fairly common. That and killing sages and priests of the old ways to claim authority over those they wanted to force conversion upon. It wasn't always a gradual or friendly progression toward the rise of Christianity.
It seems like the "Weird Historians" thought people wouldn't be interested unless the program had cutsey remarks. And the pictures were often not relevant to the information they accompanied.
Since I'm only 1 percent Scandinavian, I'll choose 1 percent of the ritual. That bridal ale sounds pretty good.
2:41 I enjoyed that reference to Immigrant Song by Led Zeppelin
That last one must have made things really awkward for Baldr. With how loved he was, he was probably a witness at a lot of weddings. They must have appreciated how much dirt he had but never used on any of them.
I love that at 2:42 there's a Led Zep reference!!!!
Hi there
My late husband and I were in a viking reenactment group and we were married into the pagon faith by getting married, we had the cake and ail ceremony and it was something very special to us both
My husband has passed on but I'm still of the pagon faith.
PLEASE stop portraying vikings with horned and winged helmets… We NEVER had such. The fairytale of horned helmets comes from Wagners Opera "Valkyrie" and has NOTHING to do with real Vikings. And by the way… this video is about hight status viking traditions… common people did far from all of theese things.
Horn helmet? Man, I thought everyone had already learned that vikings didn't have horns on their helmets, and I mean it's fine if some people haven't got the memo yet but I don't think those particular people have an excuse when they've put themselves in the position of educating people.
Who recognized the Led Zeppelin reference?
This will help my story as I'm making one about a modern-day girl that lost everything and finds her self in the times of the Vikings and gets married to one after she saved a family member of his.
No thanks
@11:03 Swastika
No. Private consummation.
Nice use of lyrics, there.😉
Can u please explain..paths to modernisation class 11 _chapter 11
Hello, performance anxiety. I couldn't imagine an audience watching me. Although there those exhibitionist who enjoy an audience.
What would happen if they found out that the bride to be wasn't a virgin?
Do an episode on Mardi Gras! ☺️