We can learn a lot about the pagan religion of Vikings and their ancestors, not only in old books and manuscripts, but in the landscape itself. Sweden in particular is covered in ancient ritual sites which were used by the Norse peoples. Some of them date to the medieval Viking era, while others are much older, yet were still in use during Viking times.
In this film, I travel around Sweden to show you some of the most fascinating and mysterious archaeological religious sites and, through them, help you to understand a bit more about the ancient religion of the Norse peoples and where you can go in Sweden to see it for yourself. We cover everything from barrows and grave-fields, ship burials, stone ship settings, sacrificial trees and god poles, ritual areas such as the treudd and more.
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Art:
Viking warriors by Christian Sloan Hall
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Treudd by Ryan Murray
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Animated god pole and ship by Christopher Steininger
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Music in order:
theme song: Wolcensmen - Sunne
Borg - The May Queen enters the circle
Bark Sound Productions - Eld
Myling - Töcken
Xurious - Steppe expansion
Borg - the choosing ceremony
Elegiac - Odin
Halindir - Hedelandet II
Ormgård - Sjálfsforn
Bark Sound Productions - EGD
Bark Sound Productions - in return
Sources:
https://www.academia.edu/1366943/The_Grave_as_a_Doorway_to_the_Other_World_Architectural_Religious_Symbolism_in_Iron_Age_Graves_in_Scandinavia
http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_18_2010/csa_vol_18_2010_s223-250_magnell_iregren.pdf
http://www.isvroma.it/public/pecus/graslund.pdf
http://cogito.ucdc.ro/2012/vol4n2/en/13_the-four-eyed-dog.pdf
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147825787.pdf
http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_18_2010/csa_vol_18_2010_s79-103_bradley_et-al.pdf
https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ulan-IV-kurgan-4-grave-15-3D-wagon-reconstruction-created-using-Autodesk-3-ds-Max_fig7_271587800
00:00 Intro
01:22 Viking burial and belief
06:44 what is a barrow?
09:20 Yggdrasill and the cosmic centre
13:29 Stone ships
16:20 Treudd
18:02 Släbro
26:36 Rösaring
28:51 Vada mounds
31:10 Conclusion