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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:02,268 --> 00:00:06,672 A mighty people worshiping powerful gods. 2 00:00:08,407 --> 00:00:11,575 Thor's hammer was enormously powerful. 3 00:00:11,610 --> 00:00:12,743 It had great accuracy. 4 00:00:12,811 --> 00:00:14,845 It could smash mountains. 5 00:00:14,880 --> 00:00:20,550 A celestial bridge linking mankind to a divine realm. 6 00:00:20,586 --> 00:00:26,556 Was it possible that this rainbow bridge was some kind of wormhole 7 00:00:26,592 --> 00:00:31,561 that would take people literally to another planet? 8 00:00:31,597 --> 00:00:35,966 And epic journeys to the far ends of the planet. 9 00:00:36,001 --> 00:00:39,369 Very few people would have set sail across the Atlantic not knowing 10 00:00:39,438 --> 00:00:42,272 that there was something on the other side. 11 00:00:42,341 --> 00:00:45,642 How were the Vikings able to develop such an 12 00:00:45,677 --> 00:00:47,711 advanced civilization? 13 00:00:47,746 --> 00:00:52,649 Were their achievements in technology and exploration their own? 14 00:00:52,684 --> 00:00:55,685 Or did they receive otherworldly help? 15 00:00:55,754 --> 00:01:00,657 Our ancestors thought they were visited by gods, when in reality 16 00:01:00,726 --> 00:01:05,529 they were visited by none other than ancient aliens. 17 00:01:05,564 --> 00:01:08,198 Physical beings. 18 00:01:08,267 --> 00:01:11,201 Millions of people around the world believe we have 19 00:01:11,236 --> 00:01:14,838 been visited in the past by extraterrestrial beings. 20 00:01:14,907 --> 00:01:17,808 What if it were true? 21 00:01:17,876 --> 00:01:22,879 Did ancient aliens really help to shape our history? 22 00:01:22,948 --> 00:01:25,348 If so, might there be evidence 23 00:01:25,384 --> 00:01:31,421 in the history and mythology of the Vikings? 24 00:01:31,457 --> 00:01:33,423 ♪ ♪ 25 00:01:46,083 --> 00:01:59,083 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 26 00:02:04,590 --> 00:02:06,857 Barbarians. 27 00:02:06,925 --> 00:02:09,493 Marauders. 28 00:02:09,528 --> 00:02:15,699 Bloodthirsty bandits... whose reputation for brutality 29 00:02:15,734 --> 00:02:18,401 would follow them through the centuries. 30 00:02:18,437 --> 00:02:20,570 When people think of the Norse or the 31 00:02:20,606 --> 00:02:23,139 Vikings, they think of crazed marauders jumping in boats, 32 00:02:23,175 --> 00:02:26,443 where they rape, pillage and plunder. 33 00:02:26,477 --> 00:02:28,945 And it's, uh, an unfortunate image because it's 34 00:02:29,014 --> 00:02:31,014 one-dimensional. 35 00:02:31,048 --> 00:02:33,416 A lot of these expeditions that they went on were not purely, 36 00:02:33,452 --> 00:02:36,319 uh, expeditionary or pirate raids. 37 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:39,756 A lot of these were efforts to open trade routes. 38 00:02:39,791 --> 00:02:41,758 If we got back to the eighth century, ninth century, 39 00:02:41,827 --> 00:02:45,395 we find that a lot of the Norse societies were well-functioning. 40 00:02:45,464 --> 00:02:49,666 They had well-established agricultural economies, and they 41 00:02:49,701 --> 00:02:52,402 had a culture of technology. 42 00:02:55,039 --> 00:02:59,042 The Vikings, or Norse people, flourished from 43 00:02:59,111 --> 00:03:02,846 the late eighth century to the 11th century in what is today 44 00:03:02,881 --> 00:03:07,584 Norway, Sweden and Denmark. 45 00:03:07,653 --> 00:03:11,922 But unlike other ancient civilizations, like Greece, 46 00:03:11,957 --> 00:03:17,460 Rome or Egypt, relatively little is known about this mysterious 47 00:03:17,496 --> 00:03:23,300 people, as few written records or hieroglyphs have survived. 48 00:03:23,334 --> 00:03:26,102 People typically don't think of the 49 00:03:26,138 --> 00:03:31,641 Norse as particularly sophisticated, but they were 50 00:03:31,677 --> 00:03:35,745 enormously sophisticated in terms of technology. 51 00:03:35,780 --> 00:03:39,983 Ship building, bridge building, fortress building. 52 00:03:40,018 --> 00:03:47,457 And I'm thinking here primarily of the circular fortresses in Denmark. 53 00:03:47,526 --> 00:03:50,160 They are absolutely circular. 54 00:03:50,195 --> 00:03:56,199 They consist of ramparts with an external ditch, gateways at each 55 00:03:56,234 --> 00:03:59,336 of the compass points. 56 00:04:01,272 --> 00:04:04,074 Although their civilization was divided among 57 00:04:04,109 --> 00:04:08,078 numerous kingdoms, the Norse Vikings were united in their 58 00:04:08,113 --> 00:04:11,615 belief in the power of the individual. 59 00:04:11,649 --> 00:04:14,184 They had a kind of early assembly that was very 60 00:04:14,252 --> 00:04:18,355 advanced for its time before the other areas of Europe had any 61 00:04:18,423 --> 00:04:20,290 kind of democracy. 62 00:04:20,359 --> 00:04:23,526 So they actually came up with the idea that power belonged to 63 00:04:23,562 --> 00:04:25,362 the people, not the royalty. 64 00:04:25,430 --> 00:04:27,897 They had something of a proto-democracy, 65 00:04:27,933 --> 00:04:32,535 and people would come from that particular region in order to 66 00:04:32,571 --> 00:04:37,607 argue issues of law or other kinds of cultural issues of 67 00:04:37,643 --> 00:04:41,244 political significance at that time. 68 00:04:41,278 --> 00:04:44,547 But perhaps most incredible to historians was 69 00:04:44,583 --> 00:04:49,686 how far the Vikings traveled from their Scandinavian homeland. 70 00:04:49,721 --> 00:04:52,522 Hundreds of years before their European counterparts, the 71 00:04:52,591 --> 00:04:56,359 Vikings set out from Scandinavia to explore and 72 00:04:56,428 --> 00:05:01,531 conquer vast territories in Europe and even the Middle East. 73 00:05:01,600 --> 00:05:04,634 They were the ones that invented ships, and they 74 00:05:04,670 --> 00:05:07,604 were the ones that traveled about much more extensively than 75 00:05:07,639 --> 00:05:11,441 the other German tribes further south. 76 00:05:11,476 --> 00:05:16,413 The Norse criss-crossed half the world in their long-ships. 77 00:05:16,448 --> 00:05:20,250 In the east, they sailed down the rivers of Russia to the 78 00:05:20,285 --> 00:05:22,419 Black and the Caspian Sea. 79 00:05:22,454 --> 00:05:27,424 In the west, they sailed down the coast of Europe, through the 80 00:05:27,492 --> 00:05:30,427 Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. 81 00:05:30,462 --> 00:05:34,164 They reached out across the then-unknown Atlantic ocean. 82 00:05:34,199 --> 00:05:38,301 They went almost everywhere there was to go. 83 00:05:38,336 --> 00:05:41,604 According to archeologists, artifacts 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:45,141 discovered in Newfoundland, Canada during the 1960s proved 85 00:05:45,210 --> 00:05:49,412 that the Vikings were the first Europeans to set foot in North 86 00:05:49,481 --> 00:05:55,251 America... 500 years before Christopher Columbus. 87 00:05:55,320 --> 00:05:57,253 ♪ ♪ 88 00:06:00,691 --> 00:06:03,593 I remember a time when it was very 89 00:06:03,662 --> 00:06:05,328 contentious about the Norse 90 00:06:05,397 --> 00:06:09,132 getting to America when I was young. 91 00:06:09,167 --> 00:06:11,768 This was a major, major argument. 92 00:06:11,837 --> 00:06:14,471 Now, we have found their settlements there from about 93 00:06:14,506 --> 00:06:17,774 1,000 A. D., so it's very, very clear that they made it to 94 00:06:17,843 --> 00:06:20,210 northern North America. 95 00:06:22,913 --> 00:06:26,116 The main advantage of the Norse was their excellence 96 00:06:26,151 --> 00:06:28,118 in ship-building. 97 00:06:28,153 --> 00:06:34,424 And, indeed, the ship has become the symbol of the Viking age. 98 00:06:34,493 --> 00:06:41,297 Those who have sailed replicas of Viking ships have commented 99 00:06:41,333 --> 00:06:47,036 on just how incredibly seaworthy and fast these ships were. 100 00:06:47,105 --> 00:06:49,472 It's their ship that allowed them to travel over 101 00:06:49,508 --> 00:06:51,040 these long distances. 102 00:06:51,109 --> 00:06:55,478 They were the ones, uh, that really sort of perfected the 103 00:06:55,547 --> 00:06:59,682 keel, which meant that the ship wouldn't flip over when going 104 00:06:59,718 --> 00:07:02,185 across the Atlantic. 105 00:07:02,220 --> 00:07:06,089 The development of the long-ship was an incredible innovation. 106 00:07:06,124 --> 00:07:09,359 These were very sleek, very supple craft that could be 107 00:07:09,394 --> 00:07:15,265 equally effective on rivers and in the high seas. 108 00:07:15,300 --> 00:07:19,202 They were very light and extremely strong craft that was 109 00:07:19,237 --> 00:07:22,539 also slightly flexible, so in a high seas or storm or something, 110 00:07:22,574 --> 00:07:24,541 it could survive. 111 00:07:24,576 --> 00:07:28,211 They had a very solid understanding of hydrodynamics. 112 00:07:28,280 --> 00:07:30,947 In some of the ships, we also found advanced signs of 113 00:07:30,982 --> 00:07:35,251 metallurgy, smelting and different types of alloys that they were using. 114 00:07:35,286 --> 00:07:39,556 And this is all out of context from other cultures they seemed 115 00:07:39,591 --> 00:07:41,758 to be interacting with. 116 00:07:41,793 --> 00:07:44,394 But many researchers remain baffled at 117 00:07:44,462 --> 00:07:48,364 how the Vikings became so socially, politically and 118 00:07:48,400 --> 00:07:52,101 technologically advanced, especially while living in the 119 00:07:52,137 --> 00:07:55,738 cold, harsh environment of the north. 120 00:07:55,774 --> 00:07:57,974 When we look at ancient cultures such as the 121 00:07:58,009 --> 00:08:02,545 Maya and Egyptians, they never wandered very far from their homeland. 122 00:08:02,581 --> 00:08:03,746 Even the Greeks stayed close. 123 00:08:03,782 --> 00:08:07,784 But the Vikings, they were everywhere. 124 00:08:07,818 --> 00:08:10,720 And you wonder, were they just extremely curious people? 125 00:08:10,755 --> 00:08:13,723 What motivated them to go to these extraordinary lengths to 126 00:08:13,792 --> 00:08:15,625 explore the world? 127 00:08:15,660 --> 00:08:19,929 What was it that they were looking for? 128 00:08:19,965 --> 00:08:22,966 Just how were the Norse Vikings able to manage 129 00:08:23,001 --> 00:08:26,736 such technological and geographical feats? 130 00:08:26,805 --> 00:08:30,173 Are their fortresses and journeys to unknown continents 131 00:08:30,208 --> 00:08:36,079 evidence that the Vikings had access to extraterrestrial knowledge? 132 00:08:36,147 --> 00:08:41,517 Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and believe the proof can 133 00:08:41,553 --> 00:08:45,255 be found by examining the religious beliefs of this 134 00:08:45,323 --> 00:08:47,824 mysterious people. 135 00:08:52,536 --> 00:08:54,738 Lindisfarne, England. 136 00:08:54,773 --> 00:08:57,807 793 A.D. 137 00:08:58,910 --> 00:09:02,345 Several hundred Viking raiders make landfall on this small 138 00:09:02,381 --> 00:09:06,916 tidal island off the coast of Northumbria, to plunder a great 139 00:09:06,952 --> 00:09:11,187 monastery of its rumored treasures. 140 00:09:11,256 --> 00:09:14,691 An account of the attack on Lindisfarne says the assault 141 00:09:14,726 --> 00:09:20,096 coincided with extraordinary whirlwinds...lightning... 142 00:09:21,233 --> 00:09:25,068 and fiery dragons crisscrossing the skies. 143 00:09:25,103 --> 00:09:28,371 Could these strange events be coincidence? 144 00:09:28,440 --> 00:09:32,008 Or could it be evidence that otherworldly forces may have 145 00:09:32,077 --> 00:09:34,744 been allied with the Vikings? 146 00:09:34,780 --> 00:09:38,381 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answer can be found 147 00:09:38,417 --> 00:09:42,585 by examining the divine beings that form the basis of Norse 148 00:09:42,621 --> 00:09:45,321 religion and mythology. 149 00:09:49,493 --> 00:09:53,096 The Norse gods were worshiped over a very 150 00:09:53,131 --> 00:09:56,366 wide range of time and space throughout northern Europe, 151 00:09:56,401 --> 00:09:59,669 from the continental German lands through the British islands, 152 00:09:59,738 --> 00:10:02,872 the far northern islands, such as Iceland and Greenland, 153 00:10:02,941 --> 00:10:05,010 and all throughout Scandinavia. 154 00:10:06,945 --> 00:10:10,046 Because little information has survived related 155 00:10:10,082 --> 00:10:13,917 to the origin of the Norse, or Viking gods, modern scholars 156 00:10:13,952 --> 00:10:17,587 depend on a pair of Icelandic books written several hundred 157 00:10:17,656 --> 00:10:21,591 years after the Viking Age called the Eddas. 158 00:10:22,660 --> 00:10:25,928 And so we find that there's the god Odin, 159 00:10:25,963 --> 00:10:28,397 the god Frey, the god Thor. 160 00:10:28,432 --> 00:10:29,966 Those are probably the best known. 161 00:10:30,034 --> 00:10:32,502 But there are a bunch of other supporting gods 162 00:10:32,537 --> 00:10:34,304 who flesh out this mythology. 163 00:10:34,539 --> 00:10:37,440 The gods live in a world of their own, but it's closely 164 00:10:37,509 --> 00:10:39,277 connected to the world of men. 165 00:10:41,513 --> 00:10:44,480 The Norse had some of the richest descriptions 166 00:10:44,516 --> 00:10:46,782 and references to the cosmos. 167 00:10:46,851 --> 00:10:50,686 In fact, they referred to the cosmos as "Yggdrasil," 168 00:10:50,722 --> 00:10:52,488 meaning the tree of life. 169 00:10:52,524 --> 00:10:56,325 That was the symbol of their idea of the cosmos. 170 00:10:56,361 --> 00:10:59,662 And they were very specific in stating that their cosmos 171 00:10:59,697 --> 00:11:06,702 contained nine different worlds, one of which is ours, the Earth. 172 00:11:06,737 --> 00:11:09,205 We often hear about the Nine Worlds of the 173 00:11:09,240 --> 00:11:12,308 Nordic mythological realm. 174 00:11:12,377 --> 00:11:17,680 There's Asgard... and that's the home of the gods Thor and Odin. 175 00:11:17,715 --> 00:11:19,682 There's the world of humans. 176 00:11:19,751 --> 00:11:22,318 We call this Middle Earth, or Midgard. 177 00:11:22,387 --> 00:11:27,088 If we go step a little bit further outside of Asgard and Midgard, 178 00:11:27,123 --> 00:11:31,227 we confront Jotunheimr, or the land of the giants. 179 00:11:31,296 --> 00:11:35,498 We'll encounter Muspells, which is an area of fire. 180 00:11:35,567 --> 00:11:38,571 We'll encounter Niflheimr, which is 181 00:11:38,572 --> 00:11:42,106 another world where the frost ogres live. 182 00:11:42,207 --> 00:11:47,176 We'll encounter Alfheimr, which is where the elves live. 183 00:11:50,881 --> 00:11:54,183 According to the Eddas, Asgard was home to the 184 00:11:54,219 --> 00:11:58,354 most powerful of the gods. It is described as a beautiful 185 00:11:58,389 --> 00:12:03,092 and peaceful realm, full of glimmering halls and fertile 186 00:12:03,127 --> 00:12:05,595 fields cut by shimmering rivers. 187 00:12:06,329 --> 00:12:08,431 Odin is the chief of the gods. 188 00:12:08,466 --> 00:12:11,568 He lives in the highest of the heavens, Asgard. 189 00:12:12,904 --> 00:12:14,704 He had one eye. 190 00:12:14,739 --> 00:12:18,908 He'd given up an eye to drink of the water of truth. 191 00:12:18,943 --> 00:12:21,177 So he has this depth of wisdom. 192 00:12:21,246 --> 00:12:26,882 So he's a warrior god able to bring fury and danger to the enemies. 193 00:12:26,918 --> 00:12:30,253 Odin was the god that gave people written language 194 00:12:30,321 --> 00:12:34,056 in the runes, he was the god that gave them the poetic mead, 195 00:12:34,092 --> 00:12:38,427 he was the god that gave them many aspects of what would be 196 00:12:38,496 --> 00:12:41,965 considered a sort of noble way of life. 197 00:12:45,202 --> 00:12:46,402 But was Odin 198 00:12:46,437 --> 00:12:49,538 perhaps something other than a mythic deity? 199 00:12:49,607 --> 00:12:51,407 Could he have actually existed? 200 00:12:51,442 --> 00:12:54,610 And if so, how? 201 00:12:54,646 --> 00:12:58,080 Ancient astronaut theorists believe clues to Odin's true 202 00:12:58,149 --> 00:13:02,718 identity may lie in the myths describing his two ravens... 203 00:13:02,787 --> 00:13:06,422 Huginn and Muninn. 204 00:13:06,457 --> 00:13:09,058 Odin's Ravens were his scouts. 205 00:13:09,127 --> 00:13:10,493 They were his research team. 206 00:13:10,528 --> 00:13:14,430 Huginn and Muninn represent thought and memory. 207 00:13:14,465 --> 00:13:18,601 So Odin had these scouts, these spy satellites that would go out 208 00:13:18,670 --> 00:13:22,772 and see what he needed to learn for today's activities. 209 00:13:22,840 --> 00:13:27,677 According to Norse legends, every morning Odin sent 210 00:13:27,712 --> 00:13:33,416 out his two magical ravens, Huginn and Muninn, and at 211 00:13:33,484 --> 00:13:37,753 night those ravens would return and he would listen to them, and 212 00:13:37,789 --> 00:13:40,923 they would tell him everything that they observed throughout 213 00:13:40,992 --> 00:13:43,392 the entire day. 214 00:13:46,697 --> 00:13:50,166 Scholars believe Odin's two ravens... translated 215 00:13:50,201 --> 00:13:55,104 as thought and memory... were simply mythological creations. 216 00:13:55,139 --> 00:13:59,175 But is it possible that Huginn and Muninn were actually 217 00:13:59,210 --> 00:14:00,810 something else? 218 00:14:00,845 --> 00:14:05,348 Something perhaps more technological? 219 00:14:05,382 --> 00:14:08,284 Whenever he wanted to observe other worlds, 220 00:14:08,319 --> 00:14:11,921 find out what they were doing, he would send these two ravens 221 00:14:11,989 --> 00:14:16,692 out, and they would be like spy drones or something, and 222 00:14:16,728 --> 00:14:19,328 they would go to these other countries and then come back to 223 00:14:19,364 --> 00:14:23,099 Odin and report to him what was going on. 224 00:14:23,167 --> 00:14:27,503 And it would seem like what Odin had was some kind of spy 225 00:14:27,538 --> 00:14:33,776 planes or spy drones that he was sending out much as we do today. 226 00:14:33,811 --> 00:14:36,779 The question is whether the Norse really stated 227 00:14:36,814 --> 00:14:39,949 that these were ravens, or whether they were instead 228 00:14:39,984 --> 00:14:43,219 something else, that they were somehow flying objects. 229 00:14:43,253 --> 00:14:47,790 So we have details here of something mythical, of ravens 230 00:14:47,825 --> 00:14:49,492 being able to speak to the gods, 231 00:14:49,560 --> 00:14:52,962 or the ravens are some kind of spy drone or some other kind of 232 00:14:52,997 --> 00:14:55,965 spy satellite technology by which Odin is able 233 00:14:56,033 --> 00:14:58,467 to get information. 234 00:15:01,171 --> 00:15:06,142 Could it be that Odin was actually an extraterrestrial explorer? 235 00:15:06,177 --> 00:15:09,645 One who sent flying machines... like modern-day drones... 236 00:15:09,680 --> 00:15:13,682 to gather intelligence on the ancient Scandinavians? 237 00:15:13,718 --> 00:15:17,953 And if so, might there be more evidence of Odin's otherworldly 238 00:15:18,022 --> 00:15:21,957 technology contained within other Viking myths? 239 00:15:22,026 --> 00:15:24,827 When Odin sits in Asgard, it's almost like he's 240 00:15:24,862 --> 00:15:27,129 got total situational awareness. 241 00:15:27,198 --> 00:15:30,299 He's got these ravens who fly out every day and come back and 242 00:15:30,368 --> 00:15:31,567 tell him the news of the world. 243 00:15:31,602 --> 00:15:35,137 But he can also sit in this high seat. 244 00:15:35,206 --> 00:15:37,740 Odin's high seat, which is a name that basically 245 00:15:37,775 --> 00:15:40,676 translates as the "watchtower," 246 00:15:40,711 --> 00:15:43,379 is a place where he can sit and look out over all the worlds 247 00:15:43,448 --> 00:15:47,016 of creation and see everything that's happening in the world. 248 00:15:47,051 --> 00:15:50,719 Is it possible that this high seat, or watchtower, 249 00:15:50,755 --> 00:15:54,190 is yet another example of advanced extraterrestrial 250 00:15:54,225 --> 00:15:58,561 technology, as ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 251 00:15:58,595 --> 00:16:00,763 Some of these stories that come out of our 252 00:16:00,798 --> 00:16:04,200 past of the god Odin, and having the ability to actually sit 253 00:16:04,268 --> 00:16:07,570 above Midgard, or the Earth, and see everything from a vast 254 00:16:07,638 --> 00:16:10,840 distance, we have to wonder if this isn't actually mythological 255 00:16:10,908 --> 00:16:13,275 but potentially technological. 256 00:16:13,311 --> 00:16:16,078 It sounds to me as if Odin was sitting in some type of a 257 00:16:16,113 --> 00:16:19,381 captain's chair in a spaceship above the Earth, which allowed 258 00:16:19,417 --> 00:16:21,917 him to have this view. 259 00:16:21,952 --> 00:16:26,021 So the moment we have stories of gods needing all 260 00:16:26,090 --> 00:16:29,625 this type of equipment in order to find out first what is going 261 00:16:29,660 --> 00:16:31,560 on leads me to think that we are 262 00:16:31,629 --> 00:16:35,564 not talking about actual gods, but we are talking about 263 00:16:35,633 --> 00:16:40,202 space travelers who had access to technology, and our ancestors 264 00:16:40,271 --> 00:16:42,071 witnessed all of this and they 265 00:16:42,106 --> 00:16:46,075 said, well, obviously these guys are gods. 266 00:16:48,278 --> 00:16:51,547 Was Odin's high seat actually referring to an 267 00:16:51,616 --> 00:16:55,251 orbiting spaceship from which the chief god could look down on 268 00:16:55,286 --> 00:16:59,288 Earth, as some ancient astronaut theorists suggest? 269 00:16:59,357 --> 00:17:04,093 And if so, might this also help explain the incredible 270 00:17:04,128 --> 00:17:08,597 technologies attributed to other so-called Viking gods? 271 00:17:10,468 --> 00:17:14,270 As the god of thunder and lightning... 272 00:17:14,305 --> 00:17:17,439 Thor was able to summon storms and battle giants with 273 00:17:17,475 --> 00:17:20,342 his magical hammer. 274 00:17:20,378 --> 00:17:23,279 Thor is the son of Odin. 275 00:17:23,314 --> 00:17:24,446 He is a sky god. 276 00:17:24,482 --> 00:17:27,316 He is in charge of thunder and lightning. 277 00:17:27,351 --> 00:17:28,784 He has a great hammer. 278 00:17:28,819 --> 00:17:32,454 He is... he's a terrifying presence, a power god. 279 00:17:32,490 --> 00:17:36,425 Thor was usually seen flying through the skies in a great 280 00:17:36,460 --> 00:17:39,261 cart pulled by goats. 281 00:17:39,330 --> 00:17:42,264 If Odin was the chief god, Thor was the god 282 00:17:42,333 --> 00:17:44,166 for all of us. 283 00:17:44,201 --> 00:17:48,137 Thor, in a sense, is the quintessential sky god. 284 00:17:48,172 --> 00:17:50,973 Our word thunder comes from Thor. 285 00:17:52,009 --> 00:17:56,812 In Swedish, the word for thunder evokes the idea of driving 286 00:17:56,847 --> 00:17:59,848 Thor's chariots over the vault of heaven, and you can sort of 287 00:17:59,884 --> 00:18:04,153 see the crashing and the burning of that chariot going across 288 00:18:04,188 --> 00:18:06,989 heaven as being the lightning and the thunder that we 289 00:18:07,024 --> 00:18:08,157 experience in a storm. 290 00:18:08,192 --> 00:18:10,526 He's a remarkable character. 291 00:18:10,561 --> 00:18:14,163 He's very strong, uh, and he's a protector. 292 00:18:14,198 --> 00:18:18,033 He goes out, and he basically beats up and kills giants. 293 00:18:19,236 --> 00:18:23,405 Not only to protect the gods, but as an offshoot, kind of 294 00:18:23,441 --> 00:18:27,676 collateral damage, he protects us humans, as well. 295 00:18:27,712 --> 00:18:32,414 According to Norse mythology, Thor derived his 296 00:18:32,450 --> 00:18:36,018 power from several seemingly magical tools. 297 00:18:36,053 --> 00:18:41,857 One was Menginjoro, a belt that is said to have magically 298 00:18:41,892 --> 00:18:45,227 doubled Thor's already awesome strength. 299 00:18:45,296 --> 00:18:49,698 It was called Thor's power belt. 300 00:18:49,734 --> 00:18:53,702 So the moment I hear stories about that you put on a belt, 301 00:18:53,771 --> 00:18:57,039 and it doubled your strength? 302 00:18:57,074 --> 00:18:58,674 Then I have to ask myself, well, 303 00:18:58,743 --> 00:19:02,211 is it possible that what we're talking about here is some type 304 00:19:02,246 --> 00:19:04,279 of a technological device? 305 00:19:04,315 --> 00:19:07,049 Today, we have actually come to the point 306 00:19:07,084 --> 00:19:10,419 whereby these prosthetics are actually able to listen to brain 307 00:19:10,454 --> 00:19:11,854 commands. 308 00:19:11,922 --> 00:19:15,057 So what we've actually done is recreate some kind of 309 00:19:15,126 --> 00:19:19,228 exoskeleton, an exterior, an artificial nervous system, 310 00:19:19,263 --> 00:19:23,098 whereby our brain gives commands to our limbs. 311 00:19:23,134 --> 00:19:25,668 All of this through technology. 312 00:19:25,736 --> 00:19:28,771 Thor's belt of strength seems to have a very 313 00:19:28,839 --> 00:19:32,207 similar description to modern technology where we would call 314 00:19:32,276 --> 00:19:35,944 it a bionic exoskeleton. 315 00:19:35,980 --> 00:19:38,213 The ability for a soldier to put 316 00:19:38,282 --> 00:19:41,583 on a device that would increase their speed and their strength 317 00:19:41,619 --> 00:19:42,751 is possible today. 318 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:45,921 So when we look at this description of Thor's strength 319 00:19:45,956 --> 00:19:48,924 in this belt, it's very possible, this is some type of 320 00:19:48,959 --> 00:19:52,494 an extraterrestrial technology. 321 00:19:52,529 --> 00:19:56,098 When the ancients are describing technology, it's 322 00:19:56,133 --> 00:19:59,301 clear that they couldn't have known exactly what this was, and 323 00:19:59,336 --> 00:20:02,571 it opens the question, is it possible that what we today 324 00:20:02,640 --> 00:20:06,275 would interpret as bionic exoskeletons was an actual 325 00:20:06,310 --> 00:20:11,113 advanced technology possessed by the Vikings or their gods. 326 00:20:11,182 --> 00:20:14,116 Is it really possible that the Viking gods 327 00:20:14,185 --> 00:20:19,288 Odin and Thor were, in fact, extraterrestrial visitors? 328 00:20:19,356 --> 00:20:24,293 Alien beings who possessed advanced technology? 329 00:20:24,328 --> 00:20:28,831 If so, where might this advanced species have come from? 330 00:20:28,899 --> 00:20:30,466 How did they get here? 331 00:20:30,501 --> 00:20:33,001 And what was their agenda? 332 00:20:33,037 --> 00:20:37,005 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers may be found 333 00:20:37,074 --> 00:20:41,810 in the stories of the other, lesser known, Viking gods. 334 00:20:41,846 --> 00:20:47,182 And in Nordic legends that tell of cosmic bridges linking planet 335 00:20:47,218 --> 00:20:50,819 Earth to an otherworldly realm. 336 00:20:50,821 --> 00:20:52,421 ♪ 337 00:20:54,698 --> 00:20:58,000 Gamla Uppsala, Sweden. 338 00:20:58,836 --> 00:21:03,639 This small town, 40 miles north of Stockholm, is one of the 339 00:21:03,674 --> 00:21:08,510 oldest, continuously-inhabited sites in Scandinavia. 340 00:21:08,545 --> 00:21:12,180 Beneath this church, archaeologists have found what 341 00:21:12,216 --> 00:21:17,886 they believe are the remains of a famous temple called Ubsola. 342 00:21:17,955 --> 00:21:21,156 According to a fourteenth century text called The Deeds 343 00:21:21,225 --> 00:21:25,694 of Bishops of the Hamburg Church, this ornate temple was 344 00:21:25,729 --> 00:21:34,403 built to honor the most powerful Viking gods, Odin, Thor and Freyr. 345 00:21:34,438 --> 00:21:38,407 Freyr is the main fertility God in Norse mythology. 346 00:21:38,442 --> 00:21:42,077 The rituals that we do have evidence of connected to Freyr 347 00:21:42,112 --> 00:21:47,049 seem always to be connected to peace and prosperity. 348 00:21:47,084 --> 00:21:49,351 So, all of these characteristics 349 00:21:49,420 --> 00:21:52,688 show him in a relationship with humans that's centered around 350 00:21:52,756 --> 00:21:56,591 prosperity and fertility of various types. 351 00:21:56,626 --> 00:22:02,030 Freyr was believed to control the weather, and was 352 00:22:02,066 --> 00:22:06,068 renowned for his diplomatic skills, quieting the feuds 353 00:22:06,103 --> 00:22:12,708 among the numerous Viking gods and giants. 354 00:22:12,776 --> 00:22:18,246 And in the Viking pantheon, it was a deity named Loki who 355 00:22:18,315 --> 00:22:21,917 provoked the most conflict among these gods. 356 00:22:21,952 --> 00:22:24,619 Loki is actually not a god. 357 00:22:24,655 --> 00:22:29,591 He's a giant who is counted amongst the gods. 358 00:22:29,626 --> 00:22:33,362 And at the end of time, he actually leads the dead and the 359 00:22:33,397 --> 00:22:35,764 giants against the gods. 360 00:22:35,798 --> 00:22:39,167 He's that transgressive character who 361 00:22:39,236 --> 00:22:43,171 makes possible all of these conflicts that the gods then 362 00:22:43,240 --> 00:22:45,173 have to solve. 363 00:22:45,242 --> 00:22:48,443 Without Loki, a lot of the conflicts disappear, and you 364 00:22:48,479 --> 00:22:50,279 don't have a mythology at all. 365 00:22:50,914 --> 00:22:53,982 According to the stories compiled within the 366 00:22:54,051 --> 00:22:58,253 books of the Eddas, Loki tries to atone for one of his many 367 00:22:58,288 --> 00:23:00,756 acts of mischief by giving Freyr 368 00:23:00,791 --> 00:23:03,191 a ship called Skidbladnir. 369 00:23:03,227 --> 00:23:08,730 Freyr's ship, Skidbladnir, was the most fine 370 00:23:08,766 --> 00:23:11,533 craft that ever was in the water. 371 00:23:11,568 --> 00:23:15,037 It could go anywhere at great speed, and then, if you needed 372 00:23:15,072 --> 00:23:19,775 it to be small, you could put in a small pouch to carry it around. 373 00:23:19,809 --> 00:23:22,642 Skidbladnir is remarkable, 374 00:23:22,678 --> 00:23:25,981 because you can fold it up and stick it in your pocket. 375 00:23:26,617 --> 00:23:30,719 But when you unfold it, it's one of the greatest Viking ships ever. 376 00:23:30,754 --> 00:23:31,853 It always has a wind. 377 00:23:31,922 --> 00:23:33,188 It always has a fair wind. 378 00:23:33,257 --> 00:23:35,390 So you don't have to tack. 379 00:23:35,426 --> 00:23:38,260 It always gets you where you're going in a hurry. 380 00:23:38,295 --> 00:23:41,196 And then, once you get it to shore, you don't have to worry 381 00:23:41,265 --> 00:23:43,565 about where you're going to stow it. 382 00:23:43,600 --> 00:23:44,900 To be able to fold up your boat 383 00:23:44,935 --> 00:23:48,103 and put it in your pocket really has to be about the greatest 384 00:23:48,138 --> 00:23:53,208 thing that you can imagine if you're a Viking shipbuilder. 385 00:23:53,277 --> 00:23:57,245 But could it be that Skidbladnir was not the 386 00:23:57,281 --> 00:24:02,984 product of mythic imagination, but was, in fact, an actual spacecraft? 387 00:24:03,020 --> 00:24:07,255 One that was witnessed by early Scandinavians? 388 00:24:07,291 --> 00:24:09,558 Ancient astronaut theorists say 389 00:24:09,626 --> 00:24:13,261 yes, and believe the proof lies in the legends of a race of 390 00:24:13,297 --> 00:24:15,263 beings who are believed to have 391 00:24:15,299 --> 00:24:19,634 built the magical tools used by the gods. 392 00:24:19,669 --> 00:24:23,972 In Norse mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi 393 00:24:24,007 --> 00:24:28,443 were these dwarfs who made these special weapons for Thor 394 00:24:28,479 --> 00:24:31,279 and Odin and the other Norse gods. 395 00:24:31,315 --> 00:24:36,618 And so, here were these dwarfs, these gnomes, these small people. 396 00:24:36,653 --> 00:24:39,354 They're making these special, very high-tech weapons. 397 00:24:39,389 --> 00:24:43,091 The Norse gods are using them. 398 00:24:43,160 --> 00:24:49,264 So you have to wonder just who these mini people are. 399 00:24:49,333 --> 00:24:51,800 The Sons of Ivaldi were the master craftsmen of the 400 00:24:51,835 --> 00:24:53,635 gods in the Norse system. 401 00:24:53,704 --> 00:24:56,271 And they made each of these special things that are going to 402 00:24:56,340 --> 00:25:01,610 be needed by these heroic gods to do their deeds. 403 00:25:01,678 --> 00:25:05,480 Might the Sons Ivaldi actually be the engineers 404 00:25:05,516 --> 00:25:08,783 behind the building of Skidbladnir, the magical ship 405 00:25:08,819 --> 00:25:11,286 used by the Norse god Freyr? 406 00:25:11,321 --> 00:25:15,123 If so, who, or what were they? 407 00:25:15,192 --> 00:25:18,293 Now the question is, whether the Sons of Ivaldi are 408 00:25:18,328 --> 00:25:22,097 real dwarfs, the way we know dwarfs today, or whether they 409 00:25:22,132 --> 00:25:25,133 are somehow more mythical, or whether the label "dwarf" 410 00:25:25,169 --> 00:25:28,136 actually stuck to them because they were somehow smaller. 411 00:25:28,205 --> 00:25:32,007 And of course, today, we quite often describe the Grey alien 412 00:25:32,042 --> 00:25:34,676 archetype as dwarfish, as well, 413 00:25:34,711 --> 00:25:37,112 simply because they are smaller. 414 00:25:37,181 --> 00:25:41,316 Is it possible that these little people who are 415 00:25:41,385 --> 00:25:45,353 making these high-tech weapons were really Grey aliens, and 416 00:25:45,389 --> 00:25:49,858 because they didn't known how to describe them, they were... 417 00:25:49,893 --> 00:25:52,294 called them dwarfs or little people? 418 00:25:52,329 --> 00:25:56,298 And these little people are the ones who are making these 419 00:25:56,366 --> 00:26:00,669 high-tech weapons for these Norse gods. 420 00:26:00,737 --> 00:26:06,107 It would seem that these weapons are extraterrestrial in nature. 421 00:26:06,176 --> 00:26:11,012 Now when you think of dwarfs, and think of 422 00:26:11,081 --> 00:26:14,649 extraterrestrials, you think of little Greys, and I think the 423 00:26:14,685 --> 00:26:18,053 dwarfs might have been alien Greys. 424 00:26:18,087 --> 00:26:20,021 Might the dwarf like Sons of Ivaldi 425 00:26:20,090 --> 00:26:23,925 described in the Viking mythologies really be the 426 00:26:23,961 --> 00:26:27,662 alien visitors we know today as the Greys? 427 00:26:27,731 --> 00:26:31,199 And is it possible that the Viking or Norse gods themselves 428 00:26:31,235 --> 00:26:35,103 were in fact entities from another planet? 429 00:26:35,138 --> 00:26:38,840 If so, how did they get here? 430 00:26:40,409 --> 00:26:44,879 According to ancient astronaut theorists, the answer lies in a 431 00:26:44,915 --> 00:26:50,552 Viking legend that speaks of a rainbow bridge called Bifrost, 432 00:26:50,587 --> 00:26:55,557 a portal that links the realm of the gods with the world of men. 433 00:26:55,592 --> 00:26:59,894 Bifrost is a bridge that connects Asgard to Midgard. 434 00:26:59,930 --> 00:27:02,897 And the Bifrost conceptually is very interesting. 435 00:27:02,933 --> 00:27:05,533 It allows there to be a very clear connection between humans 436 00:27:05,569 --> 00:27:09,371 and their gods. 437 00:27:09,439 --> 00:27:12,440 The gods would travel along this rainbow bridge to 438 00:27:12,476 --> 00:27:15,910 their meeting, which was by a divine well. 439 00:27:15,946 --> 00:27:19,247 The red in the rainbow bridge was burning hot, so it was quite 440 00:27:19,283 --> 00:27:23,251 a trick to use this effectively as a place of transportation. 441 00:27:23,287 --> 00:27:29,257 Some scholars have speculated that possibly this was inspired 442 00:27:29,326 --> 00:27:32,260 by the Milky Way. 443 00:27:34,797 --> 00:27:38,266 So, here was this rainbow bridge that-that could 444 00:27:38,302 --> 00:27:43,772 be traveled upon to get to this home of the gods, land of the gods. 445 00:27:43,807 --> 00:27:47,509 So, is it possible that this rainbow bridge, the-the Bifrost, 446 00:27:47,544 --> 00:27:51,713 was some kind of wormhole that would take people from a 447 00:27:51,782 --> 00:27:57,252 star gate on our planet to the home of the gods, literally to 448 00:27:57,321 --> 00:28:00,121 another planet? 449 00:28:00,156 --> 00:28:03,124 Say you wanted to get from here all the 450 00:28:03,160 --> 00:28:04,259 way around to China. 451 00:28:04,328 --> 00:28:07,295 It's actually longer to go around the earth than to cut 452 00:28:07,331 --> 00:28:08,296 through the earth. 453 00:28:08,332 --> 00:28:12,100 A straight line is always the shortest path. 454 00:28:12,135 --> 00:28:13,935 So, you can imagine if you could 455 00:28:13,970 --> 00:28:16,771 make a wormhole, a cut through space that connects the two 456 00:28:16,807 --> 00:28:19,407 points you want to get to, you could make the distance 457 00:28:19,476 --> 00:28:23,645 effectively shorter and get there in a faster time. 458 00:28:23,680 --> 00:28:26,281 Ancient man would not understand a technological 459 00:28:26,316 --> 00:28:31,753 description to describe a wormhole, but this path of light 460 00:28:31,822 --> 00:28:33,955 sounds very similar. 461 00:28:33,989 --> 00:28:36,925 Might the mythical bridge of Bifrost really have 462 00:28:36,993 --> 00:28:40,295 been an interstellar wormhole? 463 00:28:40,364 --> 00:28:41,463 A cosmic tunnel in space through 464 00:28:41,531 --> 00:28:45,467 which the so-called Viking gods could travel to Earth? 465 00:28:45,502 --> 00:28:49,804 Ancient astronaut theorists believe further evidence can be 466 00:28:49,840 --> 00:28:56,041 found by a closer examination of the Viking gods' incredible weaponry. 467 00:29:00,017 --> 00:29:01,784 Balingsta, Sweden. 468 00:29:01,853 --> 00:29:05,955 Just outside this small town located 40 miles northwest of 469 00:29:06,024 --> 00:29:09,760 Stockholm is an ancient carved granite block. 470 00:29:11,696 --> 00:29:15,664 Known as the Boksta Runestone, it is one of the few remaining 471 00:29:15,700 --> 00:29:21,303 relics that depict the mighty god Odin holding his magical spear: 472 00:29:21,372 --> 00:29:22,505 Gungnir. 473 00:29:22,573 --> 00:29:25,307 The Boksta Runestone is an extraordinary ancient 474 00:29:25,376 --> 00:29:30,413 relic that has runic inscriptions which were used by the Vikings. 475 00:29:30,447 --> 00:29:34,850 It shows Odin riding on horseback with a spear. 476 00:29:34,886 --> 00:29:36,852 So, one of the things we find with the Norse 477 00:29:36,921 --> 00:29:39,722 gods is they each have remarkable possessions, and 478 00:29:39,757 --> 00:29:43,359 among those is a spear that Odin claims for himself called 479 00:29:43,394 --> 00:29:45,027 Gungnir. 480 00:29:45,096 --> 00:29:48,564 And Gungnir is a remarkable spear in that, whatever you 481 00:29:48,599 --> 00:29:50,900 throw it at, it's going to hit. 482 00:29:50,935 --> 00:29:53,569 According to Viking, or Norse, mythology, 483 00:29:53,604 --> 00:29:58,374 Odin's spear was made by the Sons of Ivaldi, the very same 484 00:29:58,409 --> 00:30:01,544 creatures who built the ship Skidbladnir. 485 00:30:01,579 --> 00:30:06,715 They imbued the spear with special properties that not only 486 00:30:06,751 --> 00:30:11,187 made it incredibly accurate, but gave it immense power. 487 00:30:11,255 --> 00:30:14,390 Gungnir was some kind of high-tech weapon. 488 00:30:14,425 --> 00:30:17,560 No matter who he threw it at, it would hit it. 489 00:30:17,595 --> 00:30:20,996 Like some laser-guided cruise missile or something like that, 490 00:30:21,065 --> 00:30:26,068 that just simply could not miss its mark once it had been set 491 00:30:26,104 --> 00:30:29,538 to its target. 492 00:30:29,574 --> 00:30:32,675 And we know that when he uses this in war, it 493 00:30:32,710 --> 00:30:35,945 always reaches its target. 494 00:30:35,979 --> 00:30:38,881 This is not something which is simplistic. 495 00:30:38,950 --> 00:30:42,051 This is something which clearly is advanced weaponry. 496 00:30:42,120 --> 00:30:45,888 And to find that a deity has this at his disposal can be read 497 00:30:45,923 --> 00:30:50,426 in two things: one, it is all made up; or two, it is actually factual. 498 00:30:50,461 --> 00:30:53,696 And today, we know that there are such weapons. 499 00:30:56,466 --> 00:30:59,502 Precision weapons, like laser-guided 500 00:30:59,570 --> 00:31:03,706 bombs, cruise missiles and satellite-guided munitions are 501 00:31:03,774 --> 00:31:08,944 staples in the world's most sophisticated military arsenals. 502 00:31:08,980 --> 00:31:14,884 Is it possible that Odin possessed similar technology? 503 00:31:14,952 --> 00:31:20,055 Could Gungnir actually have been a guided missile created by 504 00:31:20,124 --> 00:31:22,791 otherworldly beings? 505 00:31:22,827 --> 00:31:26,595 When the ancients are describing technology, 506 00:31:26,664 --> 00:31:29,932 i-it's clear that they couldn't have known exactly what this was. 507 00:31:29,967 --> 00:31:33,402 And it opens the question, is it possible that the weapon 508 00:31:33,471 --> 00:31:34,770 Gungnir was an actual advanced 509 00:31:34,805 --> 00:31:39,742 technology, maybe even possessed by the Vikings or their gods? 510 00:31:39,777 --> 00:31:43,112 If Gungnir was in fact a precision guided missile 511 00:31:43,147 --> 00:31:48,717 similar to today's so-called smart bombs, then what might be 512 00:31:48,753 --> 00:31:53,189 the facts behind Thor's mighty hammer, Mjolnir? 513 00:31:53,223 --> 00:31:56,725 Thor's hammer had interesting origins. 514 00:31:56,794 --> 00:32:00,963 It was made by dwarfs under duress. 515 00:32:00,997 --> 00:32:05,067 So, the handle wasn't quite as long as a hammer might be. 516 00:32:05,102 --> 00:32:08,437 But it was enormously powerful and it had great accuracy. 517 00:32:08,472 --> 00:32:10,739 He could throw it and it would hit anything that he intended it 518 00:32:10,808 --> 00:32:12,441 to hit, and then it would come 519 00:32:12,476 --> 00:32:16,078 back to him, almost in boomerang style. 520 00:32:16,147 --> 00:32:18,714 What Thor's hammer, like the weapons of many 521 00:32:18,783 --> 00:32:20,716 of the Norse gods, would seem to 522 00:32:20,785 --> 00:32:26,255 be some high-tech real weapon, perhaps one given to them by 523 00:32:26,290 --> 00:32:28,090 extraterrestrials. 524 00:32:28,459 --> 00:32:31,627 And when he uses it, it is actually said that this 525 00:32:31,696 --> 00:32:35,264 weapon is able to crush mountains. 526 00:32:37,467 --> 00:32:41,804 Now, imagine a weapon which is able to destroy an entire mountain. 527 00:32:41,839 --> 00:32:46,275 The hammer does not cause explosions; it is really the 528 00:32:46,344 --> 00:32:50,312 physical force which destroys the object. 529 00:32:50,348 --> 00:32:54,783 That is something which today we describe as a kinetic weapon. 530 00:32:56,687 --> 00:32:59,622 At the NASA Ames Research Center in Mountain 531 00:32:59,657 --> 00:33:01,624 - View, California... - locked. 532 00:33:01,692 --> 00:33:04,627 scientist Peter Schultz is studying the enormous 533 00:33:04,662 --> 00:33:09,698 power of kinetic energy using a device called a vertical gun. 534 00:33:10,767 --> 00:33:13,168 This is a giant cannon, essentially. 535 00:33:13,237 --> 00:33:15,971 Then it goes up on a corkscrew so we can hit things at 536 00:33:16,040 --> 00:33:18,040 different angles. 537 00:33:18,074 --> 00:33:20,976 This gun gets up to very high speeds, and if you get really up 538 00:33:21,045 --> 00:33:24,713 there, you'll start melting and vaporizing material. 539 00:33:24,749 --> 00:33:28,317 In a sense, this is a kinetic weapon, except we're not 540 00:33:28,352 --> 00:33:31,887 pointing at anything except the target inside the tank. 541 00:33:31,922 --> 00:33:34,156 To study the effects of high-speed kinetic 542 00:33:34,225 --> 00:33:39,028 impacts, scientists use the vertical gun range to fire 543 00:33:39,063 --> 00:33:43,666 projectiles into objects placed in this reinforced steel chamber 544 00:33:43,701 --> 00:33:50,839 at speeds of up to 15,000 miles per hour. 545 00:33:50,908 --> 00:33:53,342 Today, we're gonna take this small ball bearing, 546 00:33:53,377 --> 00:33:56,845 which is about 1/100 of an ounce, and we're gonna fire it 547 00:33:56,881 --> 00:33:58,013 at three miles per second. 548 00:33:58,049 --> 00:34:01,183 That's almost 11,000 miles per hour. 549 00:34:01,252 --> 00:34:03,552 And we're gonna send it into this block. 550 00:34:03,587 --> 00:34:06,021 Now, when you go that fast, with even an object that small, 551 00:34:06,090 --> 00:34:08,290 that's kinetic energy. 552 00:34:08,359 --> 00:34:11,160 And kinetic energy is the mass times velocity squared. 553 00:34:11,195 --> 00:34:14,963 So if you're going fast enough, you could do some serious damage. 554 00:34:15,032 --> 00:34:16,532 Let's see what we do. 555 00:34:16,567 --> 00:34:18,967 Using a battery of high-speed cameras, some 556 00:34:19,036 --> 00:34:23,305 capturing images at 40,000 frames per second, Schultz 557 00:34:23,341 --> 00:34:28,143 investigates how speed and mass can combine to create 558 00:34:28,212 --> 00:34:30,145 devastating force. 559 00:34:33,517 --> 00:34:34,850 5.53 kilometers. 560 00:34:34,885 --> 00:34:36,852 Rolling. 561 00:34:39,556 --> 00:34:43,025 Moving 15 times the speed of sound, the projectile 562 00:34:43,060 --> 00:34:46,428 slams into the solid stone block. 563 00:34:46,464 --> 00:34:49,031 Oh, my gosh! 564 00:34:49,066 --> 00:34:50,699 Look at this thing. 565 00:34:50,768 --> 00:34:53,068 Blasted to smithereens. 566 00:34:56,539 --> 00:35:00,209 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the 567 00:35:00,244 --> 00:35:04,680 destructive power of this gun displays uncanny similarities to 568 00:35:04,715 --> 00:35:06,382 Thor's hammer. 569 00:35:06,417 --> 00:35:09,485 The question we have to ask ourselves is whether 570 00:35:09,520 --> 00:35:15,858 the whole concept of kinetic energy weapons is something new 571 00:35:15,926 --> 00:35:21,397 or if it already existed in the ancient past. 572 00:35:21,432 --> 00:35:25,768 And with Thor, we have such a reference. 573 00:35:25,802 --> 00:35:31,206 What if Thor's hammer was some type of a kinetic energy weapon 574 00:35:31,275 --> 00:35:35,411 and what we have here in modern times is nothing else but 575 00:35:35,446 --> 00:35:40,649 history repeating itself? 576 00:35:40,683 --> 00:35:44,119 Is it possible that what the ancient Vikings 577 00:35:44,155 --> 00:35:49,224 described in their myths were in fact alien technologies? 578 00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:53,562 And do the various accounts of Odin's spear and Thor's hammer 579 00:35:53,631 --> 00:35:57,099 really help to prove that Vikings were in contact with 580 00:35:57,134 --> 00:36:00,102 extraterrestrial beings? 581 00:36:00,137 --> 00:36:04,573 If so, then where might these beings have gone? 582 00:36:04,642 --> 00:36:08,944 Ancient astronaut theorists believe the answers may lie in 583 00:36:09,013 --> 00:36:15,284 the strange and sometimes violent burial rituals of the Vikings. 584 00:36:19,501 --> 00:36:22,303 Tonsberg, Norway. 585 00:36:23,438 --> 00:36:25,772 50 miles south of Oslo lie the 586 00:36:25,807 --> 00:36:29,610 ruins of Oseberghaugen, a Viking burial mound. 587 00:36:31,146 --> 00:36:36,049 During excavations in 1904, archaeologists unearthed the 588 00:36:36,117 --> 00:36:40,286 remains of two people buried inside a Viking long-ship. 589 00:36:40,322 --> 00:36:45,124 Dated to the early ninth century, the discovery revealed 590 00:36:45,193 --> 00:36:47,126 for the first time some of the 591 00:36:47,162 --> 00:36:49,662 Vikings' ancient burial rituals. 592 00:36:49,697 --> 00:36:52,765 What's very interesting about the Oseberg 593 00:36:52,834 --> 00:36:55,468 ship is the fact that the Vikings actually chose to bury 594 00:36:55,503 --> 00:36:58,504 their dead in these boats. 595 00:36:58,539 --> 00:37:01,941 Now, this seems very similar to some type of a conveyance, 596 00:37:02,010 --> 00:37:03,776 possibly going into space. 597 00:37:03,845 --> 00:37:06,279 You see similar references in other cultures, such as the 598 00:37:06,314 --> 00:37:11,551 Egyptians and even the Chinese. 599 00:37:11,586 --> 00:37:16,122 Throughout Scandinavia, the British Isles 600 00:37:16,191 --> 00:37:22,128 and Iceland are similar Viking burial sites, many containing 601 00:37:22,197 --> 00:37:25,932 boats and other ship-like markers. 602 00:37:26,000 --> 00:37:29,736 Is it possible the Vikings, like the ancient Egyptians and 603 00:37:29,771 --> 00:37:34,173 Chinese, buried their dead in boats in an effort to help their 604 00:37:34,209 --> 00:37:37,176 deceased on their journey to the afterlife? 605 00:37:37,212 --> 00:37:40,179 And if so, why? 606 00:37:40,215 --> 00:37:43,649 According to ancient Norse mythologies, slain Viking 607 00:37:43,718 --> 00:37:49,355 warriors joined Odin in his fabled hall, Valhalla. 608 00:37:49,391 --> 00:37:53,826 Odin's hall in Asgard, the realm of the gods, 609 00:37:53,895 --> 00:37:58,364 is known as Valhalla, which literally means "the hall of the "slain." 610 00:37:58,399 --> 00:38:01,534 The way that Valhalla itself is described is that it's a place 611 00:38:01,569 --> 00:38:04,370 where the dead warriors that Odin has gathered from the 612 00:38:04,439 --> 00:38:08,374 battlefields spend all day fighting each other and killing 613 00:38:08,410 --> 00:38:11,210 each other and then are brought back to life to spend the night 614 00:38:11,246 --> 00:38:14,847 in feasting on an endless supply of meat and pork. 615 00:38:14,916 --> 00:38:18,551 The courage of the Norse explorers and warriors was 616 00:38:18,620 --> 00:38:22,722 directly related to the structure of their fables. 617 00:38:22,757 --> 00:38:25,391 Valhalla was this great reward. 618 00:38:25,460 --> 00:38:31,030 If you served well with great bravery, you found eternal life 619 00:38:31,065 --> 00:38:37,069 in the company of kindred spirits in a great banquet hall. 620 00:38:37,138 --> 00:38:40,706 Stories and legends about Odin's enormous palace 621 00:38:40,742 --> 00:38:44,944 describe it as being almost metallic, with shimmering walls 622 00:38:44,979 --> 00:38:46,712 and a golden roof. 623 00:38:46,748 --> 00:38:49,215 During the day they drink and they eat along 624 00:38:49,250 --> 00:38:53,586 these long tables and with fires down the center of the hall. 625 00:38:53,621 --> 00:38:57,690 And then after they've eaten, they clear the tables and they all battle. 626 00:38:57,759 --> 00:39:01,527 So this must be tens of thousands, if not hundreds of 627 00:39:01,596 --> 00:39:08,067 thousands... the imagination boggles at how big this hall must be. 628 00:39:08,102 --> 00:39:10,403 But is there evidence that Valhalla was more 629 00:39:10,438 --> 00:39:12,939 than just a mythic place? 630 00:39:12,974 --> 00:39:16,742 Could it have been an extraterrestrial spacecraft, as 631 00:39:16,778 --> 00:39:20,413 some ancient astronaut theorists believe? 632 00:39:20,448 --> 00:39:24,917 Valhalla was not a figment of our ancestors' 633 00:39:24,953 --> 00:39:30,056 imagination, but it might have been some type of an orbiting 634 00:39:30,124 --> 00:39:32,291 space station. 635 00:39:32,326 --> 00:39:37,096 The reason why I'm saying this is because whenever we have a 636 00:39:37,131 --> 00:39:41,734 description of Valhalla, it is an incredible description of a 637 00:39:41,769 --> 00:39:45,204 place that has weird attributes. 638 00:39:45,240 --> 00:39:49,775 Various descriptions of Valhalla give it the 639 00:39:49,811 --> 00:39:52,745 reference of being some type of a large metallic ship, but they 640 00:39:52,780 --> 00:39:55,948 actually bury their dead in the ships as well. 641 00:39:55,984 --> 00:39:57,950 So is this some type of reference of them actually 642 00:39:58,019 --> 00:40:01,287 trying to replicate sending their dead to the heavens or 643 00:40:01,322 --> 00:40:04,123 just like their gods would be returning to the heavens in some 644 00:40:04,192 --> 00:40:08,094 type of a large metallic ship? 645 00:40:08,129 --> 00:40:11,931 Archaeological evidence as well as contemporary 646 00:40:12,000 --> 00:40:16,002 accounts also indicate, that in addition to burying their dead 647 00:40:16,037 --> 00:40:20,106 in boats, the Norse Vikings also sent many of these burial 648 00:40:20,174 --> 00:40:24,644 boats out to sea and burned them. 649 00:40:24,679 --> 00:40:27,113 But why? 650 00:40:27,181 --> 00:40:30,950 Was it simply a fiery tribute, one meant to honor the deceased? 651 00:40:31,019 --> 00:40:35,988 Or did the ancient Vikings simply replicate something their 652 00:40:36,024 --> 00:40:42,194 ancestors had once witnessed, perhaps the launch of an alien spacecraft? 653 00:40:42,230 --> 00:40:48,000 So my question is whether or not our ancestors 654 00:40:48,036 --> 00:40:53,806 witnessed rockets or spaceships taking off and landing with all 655 00:40:53,841 --> 00:40:58,477 of this fire and this smoke and the earth trembling, that they 656 00:40:58,513 --> 00:41:03,082 over time thought that by burning their dead they would 657 00:41:03,117 --> 00:41:08,354 imitate what they saw in the past. 658 00:41:08,389 --> 00:41:13,192 Were the Norse Vikings really in contact with 659 00:41:13,261 --> 00:41:16,562 extraterrestrial beings? 660 00:41:16,631 --> 00:41:19,365 And were these beings thought of by the early Vikings not as 661 00:41:19,434 --> 00:41:23,336 alien visitors but as gods? 662 00:41:23,371 --> 00:41:28,541 If so, then where might these celestial visitors have gone? 663 00:41:28,575 --> 00:41:32,645 What we know is that in the tenth century, the Norse 664 00:41:32,714 --> 00:41:37,650 begin a really extensive exploration of Europe. 665 00:41:37,684 --> 00:41:40,920 We don't know why they begin to explore. 666 00:41:40,989 --> 00:41:42,088 It is also clear that we don't 667 00:41:42,156 --> 00:41:45,725 know whether they were helped by other beings. 668 00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:49,895 In fact, there is another theory which suggests that they were 669 00:41:49,931 --> 00:41:52,231 going to go in search of the deities. 670 00:41:52,266 --> 00:41:55,368 It suggests that the Vikings were absolutely convinced that 671 00:41:55,403 --> 00:42:00,906 the residence of the deities was physical, somewhere on planet Earth. 672 00:42:00,942 --> 00:42:05,811 Did the Norse gods return to their homeland, 673 00:42:05,847 --> 00:42:09,715 prompting the Vikings to travel the Earth in search of them? 674 00:42:09,784 --> 00:42:12,084 Or did the so-called gods simply 675 00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:17,089 inspire their earthly hosts to explore the planet in an effort 676 00:42:17,125 --> 00:42:18,891 to spread their extraterrestrial 677 00:42:18,960 --> 00:42:23,696 influence to other parts of the globe? 678 00:42:23,765 --> 00:42:28,167 All this knowledge of the universe according to the 679 00:42:28,202 --> 00:42:35,341 Norse mythologies was given to them by the shining ones. 680 00:42:35,376 --> 00:42:40,246 And the shining ones were said to have descended from nowhere 681 00:42:40,281 --> 00:42:43,783 else but the sky. 682 00:42:43,851 --> 00:42:48,320 So is it possible that extraterrestrials in fact guided 683 00:42:48,356 --> 00:42:51,257 events in our human history? 684 00:42:51,325 --> 00:42:53,893 And the answer of course is yes. 685 00:42:53,961 --> 00:42:59,031 Because we can find stories like this all around the world. 686 00:42:59,067 --> 00:43:06,405 It was very deliberate in order to direct our history. 687 00:43:06,474 --> 00:43:13,379 Thor's destructive hammer, Odin's all-seeing 688 00:43:13,414 --> 00:43:19,151 throne and a mystical bridge linking Earth to the heavens. 689 00:43:19,187 --> 00:43:22,955 Are the legends of the Viking gods really evidence that alien 690 00:43:23,024 --> 00:43:27,493 beings visited mankind in the distant past? 691 00:43:27,528 --> 00:43:32,565 And if so, might these beings have been instrumental in the 692 00:43:32,600 --> 00:43:36,302 efforts of the Norse to explore the globe? 693 00:43:36,337 --> 00:43:41,674 Perhaps we will find the answer deep in a Viking burial mound 694 00:43:41,709 --> 00:43:44,812 or carved on the surface of an ancient stone. 695 00:43:45,780 --> 00:43:50,016 Or possibly the truth will be revealed to all mankind 696 00:43:50,217 --> 00:43:54,117 on the day when they return. 697 00:43:54,118 --> 00:43:57,818 sync and corrections by bellows www.addic7ed.com 60261

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