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