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A mighty people
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worshipping powerful gods.
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Thor's hammer
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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
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linking mankind to a divine
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realm.
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Was it
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possible that this rainbow
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bridge was some kind of wormhole
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that would take people literally
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to another planet?
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And epic journeys
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to the far ends of the planet.
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Very few
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people would have set sail
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across the Atlantic not knowing
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that there was something on the
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other side.
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How were the.
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Vikings able to develop such an
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advanced civilization?
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Were their achievements
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technology and exploration their
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own?
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Or did they receive otherworldly
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help?
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Our
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ancestors thought they were
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visited by gods, when in reality
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they were visited by none other
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than ancient aliens.
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Physical beings.
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Millions of people
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around the world believe we have
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been visited in the past by
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extraterrestrial beings.
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What if it were true?
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Did ancient aliens really help
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to shape our history?
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If so, might there be evidence
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in the history and mythology of
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the Vikings?
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The Vikings?
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Barbarians.
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Marauders.
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Bloodthirsty bandits...
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whose reputation for brutality
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would follow them through the
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centuries.
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When people
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think of the Norse or the.
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Vikings, they think of crazed
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marauders jumping in boats,
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where they rape, pillage and
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plunder.
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And it's, uh, an unfortunate
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image because it's
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one-dimensional.
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A lot of these expeditions that
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they went on were not purely,
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uh, expeditionary or pirate
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raids.
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A lot of these were efforts to
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open trade routes.
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If we got back to the eighth
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century, ninth century,
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we find that a lot of the Norse
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societies were well-functioning.
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They had well-established
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agricultural economies, and th
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agricultural economies, and th
had a culture of technology.
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Had a culture of technology.
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The Vikings, or.
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Norse people, flourished from
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the late eighth century to the
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11th century in what is today
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Norway, Sweden and Denmark.
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But unlike other ancient
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civilizations, like Greece,
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Rome or Egypt, relatively little
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is known about this mysterious
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people, as few written records
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or hieroglyphs have survived.
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People
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typically don't think of the.
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Norse as particularly
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sophisticated, but they were
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enormously sophisticated in
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terms of technology.
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Ship building, bridge building,
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fortress building.
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And I'm thinking here primarily
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of the circular fortresses in
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Denmark.
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They are absolutely circular.
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They consist of ramparts with an
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external ditch, gateways at each
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external ditch, gateways at each
of the compass points.
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Of the compass points.
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Although their
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civilization was divided among
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numerous kingdoms, the Norse.
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Vikings were united in their
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belief in the power of the
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individual.
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They had a kind of
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early assembly that was very
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advanced for its time before the
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other areas of Europe had any
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kind of democracy.
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So they actually came up with
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the idea that power belonged to
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the people, not the royalty.
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They had
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something of a proto-democracy,
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and people would come from that
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particular region in order to
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argue issues of law or other
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kinds of cultural issues of
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political significance at that
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time.
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But perhaps most
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incredible to historians was
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how far the Vikings traveled
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from their Scandinavian
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homeland.
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Hundreds of years before their
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European counterparts, the.
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Vikings set out from.
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Scandinavia to explore and
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conquer vast territories in
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Europe and even the Middle East.
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They were the ones
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that invented ships, and they
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were the ones that traveled
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about much more extensively than
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the other German tribes further
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south.
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The Norse criss-crossed
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half the world in their
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longships.
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In the east, they sailed down
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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
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the coast of Europe, through the.
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Strait of Gibraltar into the.
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Mediterranean.
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They reached out across the
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then-unknown Atlantic ocean.
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They went almost everywhere
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there was to go.
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According to
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archeologists, artifacts
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discovered in Newfoundland,
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Canada during the 1960s proved
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that the Vikings were the first
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Euros to set foot in North.
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America... 500 years before
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Christopher Columbus.
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Christopher Columbus.
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I remember a
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time when it was very
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contentious about the Norse
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getting to America when I was
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young.
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This was a major, major
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argument.
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Now, we have found their
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settlements there from about
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1,000 A.D., so it's very, very
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clear that they made it to
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clear that they made it to
northern North America.
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Northern North America.
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The main advantage of
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the Norse was their excellence
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in ship-building.
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And, indeed, the ship has become
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the symbol of the Viking age.
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Those who have sailed replicas
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of Viking ships have commented
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on just how incredibly seaworthy
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and fast these ships were.
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It's their ship that
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allowed them to travel over
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these long distances.
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They were the ones, uh, that
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really sort of perfected the
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keel, which meant that the ship
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wouldn't flip over when going
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across the Atlantic.
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The development of the
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longship was an incredible
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innovation.
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These were very sleek, very
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supple craft that could be
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equally effective on rivers and
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in the high seas.
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They were very light and
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extremely strong craft that was
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also slightly flexible, so in a
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high seas or storm or something,
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it could survive.
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They had a
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very solid understanding of
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hydrodynamics.
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In some of the ships, we also
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found advanced signs of
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metallurgy, smelting and
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different types of alloys that
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they were using.
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And this is all out of context
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from other cultures they seemed
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to be interacting with.
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But many
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researchers remain baffled at
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how the Vikings became so
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socially, politically and
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technologically advanced,
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especially while living in the
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cold, harsh environment of the
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north.
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When we look
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at ancient cultures such as the
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Maya and Egyptians, they never
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wandered very far from their
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homeland.
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Even the Greeks stayed close.
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But the Vikings, they were
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everywhere.
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And you wonder, were they just
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extremely curious people?
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What motivated them to go to
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these extraordinary lengths to
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explore the world?
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What was it that they were
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looking for?
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Just how were the.
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Norse Vikings able to manage
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such technological and
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geographical feats?
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Are their fortresses and
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journeys to unknown continents
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evidence that the Vikings had
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access to extraterrestrial
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knowledge?
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Ancient astronaut theorists say
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yes, and believe the proof can
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be found by examining the
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religious beliefs of this
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religious beliefs of this
mysterious people.
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Mysterious people.
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Lindisfarne,
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England.
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793 A.D.
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Several hundred Viking raiders
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make landfall on this small
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tidal island off the coast of.
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Northumbria, to plunder a great
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monastery of its rumored
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treasures.
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An account of the attack on.
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Lindisfarne says the assault
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coincided with extraordinary
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whirlwinds...
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lightning...
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...and fiery dragons
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crisscrossing the skies.
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Could these strange events be
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coincidence?
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Or could it be evidence that
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otherworldly forces may have
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been allied with the Vikings?
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Ancient astronaut theorists
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believe the answer can be found
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by examining the divine beings
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that form the basis of Norse
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that form the basis of Norse
religion and mythology.
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Religion and mythology.
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The Norse
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gods were worshipped over a very
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wide range of time and space
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throughout northern Europe, from
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the continental German lands
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through the British islands, the
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far northern islands, such as
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Iceland and Greenland, and all
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throughout Scandinavia.
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Because little
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information has survived related
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to the origin of the Norse, or.
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Viking, gods, modern scholars
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depend on a pair of Icelandic
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books written several hundred
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years after the Viking Age
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called the Eddas.
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And so we find
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that there's the god Odin, the
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god Frey, the god Thor.
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Those are probably the best
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known.
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But there are a bunch of other
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supporting gods who flesh out
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this mythology.
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The gods live in a world of
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their own, but it's closely
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connected to the world of men.
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The Norse had
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some of the richest descriptions
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and references to the cosmos.
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In fact, they referred to the
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cosmos as "Yggdrasil," meaning
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the tree of life.
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That was the symbol of their
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idea of the cosmos.
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And they were very specific in
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stating that their cosmos
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contained nine different worlds,
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one of which is ours, the Earth.
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We often hear
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about the Nine Worlds of the.
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Nordic mythological realm.
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There's Asgard... and that's the
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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.
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Midgard.
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If we go step a little bit
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further outside of Asgard and.
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Midgard, we confront Jotunheimr,
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or the land of the giants.
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We'll encounter Muspells, which
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is an area of fire.
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We'll encounter Niflheimr, which
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is another world where the frost
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ogres live.
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We'll encounter Alfheimr, which.
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We'll encounter Alfheimr, which
is where the elves live.
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Is where the elves live.
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According to the.
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Eddas, Asgard was home to the
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most powerful of the gods.
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It is described as a beautiful
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and peaceful realm, full of
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glimmering halls and fertile
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fields cut by shimmering rivers.
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Odin is the chief of
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the gods.
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He lives in the highest of the
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heavens, Asgard.
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He had one eye.
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He'd given up an eye to drink of
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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
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bring fury and danger to the
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enemies.
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Odin was the god that
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gave people written language in
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the runes, he was the god that
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gave them the poetic mead, he
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was the god that gave them many
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aspects of what would be
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considered a sort of noble way
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considered a sort of noble way of life.
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Of life.
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But was Odin
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perhaps something other than a
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mythical 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
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believe clues to Odin's true
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identity may lie in the myths
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describing his two ravens...
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Huginn and Muninn.
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Odin's Ravens were
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his scouts.
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They were his research team.
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Huginn and Muninn represent
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thought and memory.
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So Odin had these scouts, these
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spy satellites that would go out
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and see what he needed to learn
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for today's activities.
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According to Norse
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legends, every morning Odin sent
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out his two magical ravens,
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Huginn and Muninn, and at
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night those ravens would return
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and he would listen to them, and
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they would tell him everything
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that they observed throughout
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that they observed throughout
the entire day.
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The entire day.
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Scholars believe.
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Odin's two ravens... translated
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as thought and memory... were
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simply mythological creations.
403
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But is it possible that Huginn
404
00:14:06,454 --> 00:14:08,238
and Muninn were actually
405
00:14:08,238 --> 00:14:10,023
something else?
406
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Something perhaps more
407
00:14:10,980 --> 00:14:14,418
technological?
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00:14:14,418 --> 00:14:15,724
Whenever he
409
00:14:15,724 --> 00:14:17,334
wanted to observe other worlds,
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00:14:17,334 --> 00:14:19,119
find out what they were doing,
411
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he would send these two ravens
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out, and they would be like
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spy drones or something, and
414
00:14:25,908 --> 00:14:27,040
they would go to these other
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countries and then come back to
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Odin and report to him what was
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going on.
418
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And it would seem like what
419
00:14:33,698 --> 00:14:36,745
Odin had was some kind of spy
420
00:14:36,745 --> 00:14:40,009
planes or spy drones that he was
421
00:14:40,009 --> 00:14:43,056
sending out much as we do today.
422
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The question is
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whether the Norse really stated
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that these were ravens, or
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whether they were instead
426
00:14:49,018 --> 00:14:50,237
something else, that they were
427
00:14:50,237 --> 00:14:52,369
somehow flying objects.
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00:14:52,369 --> 00:14:54,589
So we have details here of
429
00:14:54,589 --> 00:14:57,070
something mythical, of rs
430
00:14:57,070 --> 00:14:58,810
being able to speak to the gods,
431
00:14:58,810 --> 00:15:00,421
or the ravens are some kind of
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00:15:00,421 --> 00:15:02,031
spy drone or some other kind of
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00:15:02,031 --> 00:15:03,598
spy satellite technology by
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which Odin is able
435
00:15:05,121 --> 00:15:07,558
which Odin is able to get information.
436
00:15:07,558 --> 00:15:10,213
To get information.
437
00:15:10,213 --> 00:15:11,736
Could it be that
438
00:15:11,736 --> 00:15:13,086
Odin was actually an
439
00:15:13,086 --> 00:15:15,305
extraterrestrial explorer?
440
00:15:15,305 --> 00:15:17,177
One who sent flying machines...
441
00:15:17,177 --> 00:15:18,918
Like modern-day drones... to
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00:15:18,918 --> 00:15:20,093
gather intelligence on the
443
00:15:20,093 --> 00:15:22,965
ancient Scandinavians?
444
00:15:22,965 --> 00:15:25,359
And if so, might there be more
445
00:15:25,359 --> 00:15:27,100
evidence of Odin's otherworldly
446
00:15:27,100 --> 00:15:29,145
technology contained within
447
00:15:29,145 --> 00:15:31,104
other Viking myths?
448
00:15:31,104 --> 00:15:32,192
When Odin sits
449
00:15:32,192 --> 00:15:34,107
in Asgard, it's almost like he's
450
00:15:34,107 --> 00:15:36,370
got total situational awareness.
451
00:15:36,370 --> 00:15:38,198
He's got these ravens who fly
452
00:15:38,198 --> 00:15:39,590
out every day and come back and
453
00:15:39,590 --> 00:15:40,896
tell him the news of the world.
454
00:15:40,896 --> 00:15:42,245
But he can also sit in this high
455
00:15:42,245 --> 00:15:44,291
seat.
456
00:15:44,291 --> 00:15:45,988
Odin's high seat,
457
00:15:45,988 --> 00:15:47,076
which is a name that basically
458
00:15:47,076 --> 00:15:49,992
translates as the "watchtower,"
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00:15:49,992 --> 00:15:51,167
is a place where he can sit
460
00:15:51,167 --> 00:15:52,690
and look out over all the worlds
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00:15:52,690 --> 00:15:54,301
of creation and see everything
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00:15:54,301 --> 00:15:56,172
that's happening in the world.
463
00:15:56,172 --> 00:15:57,565
Is it possible that
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00:15:57,565 --> 00:16:00,046
this high seat, or watchtower,
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00:16:00,046 --> 00:16:01,351
is yet another example of
466
00:16:01,351 --> 00:16:03,353
advanced extraterrestrial
467
00:16:03,353 --> 00:16:05,790
technology, as ancient astronaut
468
00:16:05,790 --> 00:16:07,836
theorists suggest?
469
00:16:07,836 --> 00:16:09,098
Some of these
470
00:16:09,098 --> 00:16:10,143
stories that come out of our
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00:16:10,143 --> 00:16:11,709
past of the god Odin, and having
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00:16:11,709 --> 00:16:13,494
the ability to actually sit
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00:16:13,494 --> 00:16:15,713
above Midgard, or the Earth, and
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00:16:15,713 --> 00:16:16,976
see everything from a vast
475
00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:18,542
distance, we have to wonder if
476
00:16:18,542 --> 00:16:20,283
this isn't actually mythological
477
00:16:20,283 --> 00:16:22,546
but potentially technological.
478
00:16:22,546 --> 00:16:24,287
It sounds to me as if Odin was
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00:16:24,287 --> 00:16:25,288
sitting in some type of a
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00:16:25,288 --> 00:16:26,986
captain's chair in a spaceship
481
00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:28,639
above the Earth, which allowed
482
00:16:28,639 --> 00:16:31,294
him to have this view.
483
00:16:31,294 --> 00:16:32,382
So the moment we
484
00:16:32,382 --> 00:16:35,255
have stories of gods needing all
485
00:16:35,255 --> 00:16:37,300
this type of equipment in order
486
00:16:37,300 --> 00:16:38,998
to find out first what is going
487
00:16:38,998 --> 00:16:41,000
on leads me to think that we are
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00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:43,524
not talking about actual gods,
489
00:16:43,524 --> 00:16:45,004
but we are talking about
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00:16:45,004 --> 00:16:47,223
space travelers who had access
491
00:16:47,223 --> 00:16:49,443
to technology, and our ancestors
492
00:16:49,443 --> 00:16:51,314
witnessed all of this and they
493
00:16:51,314 --> 00:16:52,968
said, well, obviously these guys
494
00:16:52,968 --> 00:16:55,231
said, well, obviously these guys
are gods.
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00:16:55,231 --> 00:16:57,538
Are gods.
496
00:16:57,538 --> 00:16:58,843
Was Odin's high
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00:16:58,843 --> 00:17:00,932
seat actually referring to an
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00:17:00,932 --> 00:17:03,065
orbiting spaceship from which
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00:17:03,065 --> 00:17:04,501
the chief god could look down on.
500
00:17:04,501 --> 00:17:06,590
Earth, as some ancient astronaut
501
00:17:06,590 --> 00:17:08,679
theorists suggest?
502
00:17:08,679 --> 00:17:11,900
And if so, might this also help
503
00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:13,336
explain the incredible
504
00:17:13,336 --> 00:17:15,121
technologies attributed to other
505
00:17:15,121 --> 00:17:18,037
so-called Viking gods?
506
00:17:19,821 --> 00:17:21,388
As the god of thunder and
507
00:17:21,388 --> 00:17:22,389
lightning...
508
00:17:23,607 --> 00:17:25,000
...Thor was able to summon
509
00:17:25,000 --> 00:17:26,828
storms and battle giants with
510
00:17:26,828 --> 00:17:29,700
his magical hammer.
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00:17:29,700 --> 00:17:31,267
Thor is the son
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of Odin.
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00:17:32,573 --> 00:17:33,791
He is a sky god.
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He is in charge of thunder and
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00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:36,664
lightning.
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00:17:36,664 --> 00:17:38,231
He has a great hammer.
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00:17:38,231 --> 00:17:39,449
He is... he's a terrifying
518
00:17:39,449 --> 00:17:41,843
presence, a power god.
519
00:17:41,843 --> 00:17:44,106
Thor was usually seen flying
520
00:17:44,106 --> 00:17:45,803
through the skies in a great
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00:17:45,803 --> 00:17:48,589
cart pulled by goats.
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00:17:48,589 --> 00:17:50,286
If Odin was the chief
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00:17:50,286 --> 00:17:51,679
god, Thor was the god
524
00:17:51,679 --> 00:17:53,507
for all of us.
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00:17:53,507 --> 00:17:55,509
Thor, in a sense, is the
526
00:17:55,509 --> 00:17:57,467
quintessential sky god.
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00:17:57,467 --> 00:17:59,165
Our word thunder comes from
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Thor.
529
00:18:01,254 --> 00:18:02,907
In Swedish, the word for thunder
530
00:18:02,907 --> 00:18:06,259
evokes the idea of driving.
531
00:18:06,259 --> 00:18:07,564
Thor's chariots over the vault
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00:18:07,564 --> 00:18:09,305
of heaven, and you can sort of
533
00:18:09,305 --> 00:18:11,220
see the crashing and the burning
534
00:18:11,220 --> 00:18:13,440
of that chariot going across
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00:18:13,440 --> 00:18:14,658
heaven as being the lightning
536
00:18:14,658 --> 00:18:16,182
and the thunder that we
537
00:18:16,182 --> 00:18:17,444
experience in a storm.
538
00:18:17,444 --> 00:18:18,662
He's a
539
00:18:18,662 --> 00:18:19,968
remarkable character.
540
00:18:19,968 --> 00:18:22,101
He's very strong, uh, and he's
541
00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:23,493
a protector.
542
00:18:23,493 --> 00:18:25,321
He goes out, and he basically
543
00:18:25,321 --> 00:18:27,323
beats up and kills giants.
544
00:18:28,542 --> 00:18:30,805
Not only to protect the gods,
545
00:18:30,805 --> 00:18:32,807
but as an offshoot, kind of
546
00:18:32,807 --> 00:18:34,200
collateral damage, he
547
00:18:34,200 --> 00:18:37,116
protects us humans, as well.
548
00:18:37,116 --> 00:18:38,943
According to Norse
549
00:18:38,943 --> 00:18:41,859
mythology, Thor derived his
550
00:18:41,859 --> 00:18:43,339
power from several seemingly
551
00:18:43,339 --> 00:18:45,254
magical tools.
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00:18:45,254 --> 00:18:49,258
One was Menginjoro... a belt that
553
00:18:49,258 --> 00:18:51,304
is said to have magically
554
00:18:51,304 --> 00:18:52,957
doubled Thor's already awesome
555
00:18:52,957 --> 00:18:54,655
strength.
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00:18:54,655 --> 00:18:56,265
It was called.
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00:18:56,265 --> 00:18:59,138
Thor's power belt.
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00:18:59,138 --> 00:19:00,574
So the moment I hear stories
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00:19:00,574 --> 00:19:03,229
about that you put on a belt,
560
00:19:03,229 --> 00:19:06,319
and it doubled your strength?
561
00:19:06,319 --> 00:19:08,190
Then I have to ask myself, well,
562
00:19:08,190 --> 00:19:09,887
is it possible that what we're
563
00:19:09,887 --> 00:19:11,585
talking about here is some type
564
00:19:11,585 --> 00:19:13,717
of a technological device?
565
00:19:13,717 --> 00:19:14,979
Today, we have
566
00:19:14,979 --> 00:19:16,329
actually come to the point
567
00:19:16,329 --> 00:19:18,244
whereby these prosthetics are
568
00:19:18,244 --> 00:19:19,854
actually able to listen to brain
569
00:19:19,854 --> 00:19:21,421
commands.
570
00:19:21,421 --> 00:19:23,249
So what we've actually done is
571
00:19:23,249 --> 00:19:24,467
recreate some kind of
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00:19:24,467 --> 00:19:27,166
exoskeleton, an exterior, an
573
00:19:27,166 --> 00:19:28,602
artificial nervous system,
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00:19:28,602 --> 00:19:30,952
whereby our brain gives commands
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00:19:30,952 --> 00:19:32,475
to our limbs.
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00:19:32,475 --> 00:19:35,174
All of this through technology.
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00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:36,436
Thor's belt of
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00:19:36,436 --> 00:19:38,351
strength seems to have a very
579
00:19:38,351 --> 00:19:39,830
similar description to modern
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00:19:39,830 --> 00:19:41,658
technology where we would call
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00:19:41,658 --> 00:19:45,271
it a bionic exoskeleton.
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00:19:45,271 --> 00:19:47,664
The ability for a soldier to put
583
00:19:47,664 --> 00:19:49,449
on a device that would increase
584
00:19:49,449 --> 00:19:51,102
their speed and their strength
585
00:19:51,102 --> 00:19:52,321
is possible today.
586
00:19:52,321 --> 00:19:53,453
So when we look at this
587
00:19:53,453 --> 00:19:56,891
in this belt, it's verytrength
588
00:19:56,891 --> 00:19:58,240
possible, this is some type of
589
00:19:58,240 --> 00:20:01,983
an extraterrestrial technology.
590
00:20:01,983 --> 00:20:03,419
When the ancients are
591
00:20:03,419 --> 00:20:05,421
describing technology, it's
592
00:20:05,421 --> 00:20:06,988
clear that they couldn't have
593
00:20:06,988 --> 00:20:08,772
known exactly what this was, and
594
00:20:08,772 --> 00:20:10,296
it opens the question, is it
595
00:20:10,296 --> 00:20:12,123
possible that what we today
596
00:20:12,123 --> 00:20:13,734
would interpret as bionic
597
00:20:13,734 --> 00:20:15,736
exoskeletons was an actual
598
00:20:15,736 --> 00:20:17,564
advanced technology possessed
599
00:20:17,564 --> 00:20:20,567
by the Vikings or their gods.
600
00:20:20,567 --> 00:20:22,090
Is it really
601
00:20:22,090 --> 00:20:23,570
possible that the Viking gods
602
00:20:23,570 --> 00:20:26,007
Odin and Thor were, in fact,
603
00:20:26,007 --> 00:20:28,836
extraterrestrial visitors?
604
00:20:28,836 --> 00:20:30,751
Alien beings who possessed
605
00:20:30,751 --> 00:20:33,754
advanced technology?
606
00:20:33,754 --> 00:20:35,843
If so, where might this advanced
607
00:20:35,843 --> 00:20:38,498
species have come from?
608
00:20:38,498 --> 00:20:40,021
How did they get here?
609
00:20:40,021 --> 00:20:42,415
And what was their agenda?
610
00:20:42,415 --> 00:20:44,808
Ancient astronaut theorists
611
00:20:44,808 --> 00:20:46,462
believe the answers may be found
612
00:20:46,462 --> 00:20:48,464
in the stories of the other,
613
00:20:48,464 --> 00:20:51,424
lesser known, Viking gods.
614
00:20:51,424 --> 00:20:53,861
And in Nordic legends that tell
615
00:20:53,861 --> 00:20:56,646
of cosmic bridges linking planet
616
00:20:56,646 --> 00:21:00,302
of cosmic bridges linking planet
Earth to an otherworldly realm.
617
00:21:00,302 --> 00:21:07,353
Earth to an otherworldly realm.
618
00:21:07,353 --> 00:21:08,832
Gamla Uppsala,
619
00:21:08,832 --> 00:21:10,530
Sweden.
620
00:21:10,530 --> 00:21:13,533
This small town, 40 miles north
621
00:21:13,533 --> 00:21:15,317
of Stockholm, is one of the
622
00:21:15,317 --> 00:21:17,580
oldest, continuously-inhabited
623
00:21:17,580 --> 00:21:20,496
sites in Scandinavia.
624
00:21:20,496 --> 00:21:22,324
Beneath this church,
625
00:21:22,324 --> 00:21:24,108
archaeologists have found what
626
00:21:24,108 --> 00:21:25,719
they believe are the remains of
627
00:21:25,719 --> 00:21:29,810
a famous temple called Ubsola.
628
00:21:29,810 --> 00:21:31,115
According to a fourteenth
629
00:21:31,115 --> 00:21:33,117
century text called The Deeds
630
00:21:33,117 --> 00:21:34,510
of Bishops of the Hamburg.
631
00:21:34,510 --> 00:21:37,557
Church, this ornate temple was
632
00:21:37,557 --> 00:21:39,515
built to honor the most powerful.
633
00:21:39,515 --> 00:21:44,868
Viking gods... Odin, Thor and.
634
00:21:44,868 --> 00:21:46,392
Freyr.
635
00:21:46,392 --> 00:21:47,393
Freyr is the
636
00:21:47,393 --> 00:21:49,177
main fertility God in Norse
637
00:21:49,177 --> 00:21:50,396
mythology.
638
00:21:50,396 --> 00:21:52,267
The rituals that we do have
639
00:21:52,267 --> 00:21:54,008
evidence of connected to Freyr
640
00:21:54,008 --> 00:21:56,271
seem always to be connected to
641
00:21:56,271 --> 00:21:58,926
peace and prosperity.
642
00:21:58,926 --> 00:22:01,363
So, all of these characteristics
643
00:22:01,363 --> 00:22:03,322
show him in a relationship with
644
00:22:03,322 --> 00:22:04,497
humans that's centered around
645
00:22:04,497 --> 00:22:06,194
prosperity and fertility of
646
00:22:06,194 --> 00:22:08,544
various types.
647
00:22:08,544 --> 00:22:10,154
Freyr was believed
648
00:22:10,154 --> 00:22:13,854
to control the weather, and was
649
00:22:13,854 --> 00:22:15,159
renowned for his diplomatic
650
00:22:15,159 --> 00:22:17,988
skills... quieting the feuds
651
00:22:17,988 --> 00:22:19,903
among the numerous Viking gods
652
00:22:19,903 --> 00:22:24,560
and giants.
653
00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:27,824
And in the Viking pantheon, it
654
00:22:27,824 --> 00:22:30,261
was a deity named Loki who
655
00:22:30,261 --> 00:22:31,567
provoked the most conflict among
656
00:22:31,567 --> 00:22:33,830
these gods.
657
00:22:33,830 --> 00:22:35,441
Loki is actually
658
00:22:35,441 --> 00:22:36,485
not a god.
659
00:22:36,485 --> 00:22:38,357
He's a giant who is counted
660
00:22:38,357 --> 00:22:41,490
amongst the gods.
661
00:22:41,490 --> 00:22:43,231
And at the end of time, he
662
00:22:43,231 --> 00:22:45,364
actually leads the dead and the
663
00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:47,670
giants against the gods.
664
00:22:47,670 --> 00:22:48,932
He's that
665
00:22:48,932 --> 00:22:51,282
transgressive character who
666
00:22:51,282 --> 00:22:52,893
makes possible all of these
667
00:22:52,893 --> 00:22:55,286
conflicts that the gods then
668
00:22:55,286 --> 00:22:57,288
have to so.
669
00:22:57,288 --> 00:22:59,290
Without Loki, a lot of the
670
00:22:59,290 --> 00:23:00,553
conflicts disappear, and you
671
00:23:00,553 --> 00:23:02,859
don't have a mythology at all.
672
00:23:02,859 --> 00:23:04,339
According to the
673
00:23:04,339 --> 00:23:05,949
stories compiled within the
674
00:23:05,949 --> 00:23:08,648
books of the Eddas, Loki tries
675
00:23:08,648 --> 00:23:10,345
to atone for one of his many
676
00:23:10,345 --> 00:23:12,782
acts of mischief by giving Freyr
677
00:23:12,782 --> 00:23:15,306
a ship called Skidbladnir.
678
00:23:15,306 --> 00:23:17,744
Freyr's ship,
679
00:23:17,744 --> 00:23:20,747
Skidbladnir, was the most fine
680
00:23:20,747 --> 00:23:22,401
craft that ever was in the
681
00:23:22,401 --> 00:23:23,402
water.
682
00:23:23,402 --> 00:23:25,360
It could go anywhere at great
683
00:23:25,360 --> 00:23:27,057
speed, and then, if you needed
684
00:23:27,057 --> 00:23:28,363
it to be small, you could put in
685
00:23:28,363 --> 00:23:29,538
a small pouch to carry it
686
00:23:29,538 --> 00:23:31,758
around.
687
00:23:31,758 --> 00:23:33,020
Skidbladniris
688
00:23:33,020 --> 00:23:36,371
remarkable, because you can fold
689
00:23:36,371 --> 00:23:37,546
it up and stick it in your
690
00:23:37,546 --> 00:23:38,547
pocket.
691
00:23:38,547 --> 00:23:40,419
But when you unfold it, it's one
692
00:23:40,419 --> 00:23:41,420
of the greatest Viking ships
693
00:23:41,420 --> 00:23:42,682
ever.
694
00:23:42,682 --> 00:23:43,944
It always has a wind.
695
00:23:43,944 --> 00:23:45,380
It always has a fair wind.
696
00:23:45,380 --> 00:23:47,556
So you don't have to tack.
697
00:23:47,556 --> 00:23:49,079
It always gets you where you're
698
00:23:49,079 --> 00:23:50,429
going in a hurry.
699
00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:52,387
And then, once you get it to
700
00:23:52,387 --> 00:23:53,388
shore, you don't have to worry
701
00:23:53,388 --> 00:23:54,476
about where you're going to stow
702
00:23:54,476 --> 00:23:55,521
it.
703
00:23:55,521 --> 00:23:56,913
To be able to fold up your boat
704
00:23:56,913 --> 00:23:58,437
and put it in your pocket really
705
00:23:58,437 --> 00:24:00,264
has to be about the greatest
706
00:24:00,264 --> 00:24:01,483
thing that you can imagine if
707
00:24:01,483 --> 00:24:05,444
you're a Viking shipbuilder.
708
00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,228
But could it be
709
00:24:07,228 --> 00:24:09,448
that Skidbladnirwas not the
710
00:24:09,448 --> 00:24:11,667
product of mythic imagination,
711
00:24:11,667 --> 00:24:14,191
but was, in fact, an actual
712
00:24:14,191 --> 00:24:15,149
spacecraft?
713
00:24:15,149 --> 00:24:17,456
One that was witnessed by early.
714
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,458
Scandinavians?
715
00:24:19,458 --> 00:24:21,547
Ancient astronaut theorists say
716
00:24:21,547 --> 00:24:23,897
yes, and believe the proof lies
717
00:24:23,897 --> 00:24:25,464
in the legends of a race of
718
00:24:25,464 --> 00:24:27,466
beings who are believed to have
719
00:24:27,466 --> 00:24:29,468
built the magical tools used by
720
00:24:29,468 --> 00:24:31,644
the gods.
721
00:24:31,644 --> 00:24:32,906
In Norse
722
00:24:32,906 --> 00:24:36,126
mythology, the Sons of Ivaldi
723
00:24:36,126 --> 00:24:38,215
were these dwarves who made
724
00:24:38,215 --> 00:24:40,653
these special weapons for Thor
725
00:24:40,653 --> 00:24:42,176
and Odin and the other Norse
726
00:24:42,176 --> 00:24:43,482
gods.
727
00:24:43,482 --> 00:24:46,485
And so, here were these dwarves,
728
00:24:46,485 --> 00:24:47,660
these gnomes, these small
729
00:24:47,660 --> 00:24:48,661
people.
730
00:24:48,661 --> 00:24:50,010
They're making these special,
731
00:24:50,010 --> 00:24:51,620
very high-tech weapons.
732
00:24:51,620 --> 00:24:55,319
The Norse gods are using them.
733
00:24:55,319 --> 00:24:57,844
So you have toder just who
734
00:24:57,844 --> 00:25:01,500
these mini people are.
735
00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:02,718
The Sons of Ivaldi
736
00:25:02,718 --> 00:25:03,850
were the master craftsmen of the
737
00:25:03,850 --> 00:25:05,765
gods in the Norse system.
738
00:25:05,765 --> 00:25:07,027
And they made each of these
739
00:25:07,027 --> 00:25:08,550
special things that are going to
740
00:25:08,550 --> 00:25:10,204
be needed by these heroic gods
741
00:25:10,204 --> 00:25:13,729
to do their deeds.
742
00:25:13,729 --> 00:25:14,991
Might the Sons of.
743
00:25:14,991 --> 00:25:17,603
Ivaldi actually be the engineers
744
00:25:17,603 --> 00:25:18,908
behind the building of.
745
00:25:18,908 --> 00:25:20,910
Skidbladnir, the magical ship
746
00:25:20,910 --> 00:25:23,565
used by the Norse god Freyr?
747
00:25:23,565 --> 00:25:27,438
If so, who, or what were they?
748
00:25:27,438 --> 00:25:28,657
Now the question is,
749
00:25:28,657 --> 00:25:30,572
whether the Sons of Ivaldi are
750
00:25:30,572 --> 00:25:32,095
real dwarves, the way we know
751
00:25:32,095 --> 00:25:34,315
dwarves today, or whether they
752
00:25:34,315 --> 00:25:35,577
are somehow more mythical, or
753
00:25:35,577 --> 00:25:37,448
whether the label "dwarf"
754
00:25:37,448 --> 00:25:38,624
actually stuck to them because
755
00:25:38,624 --> 00:25:40,495
they were somehow smaller.
756
00:25:40,495 --> 00:25:42,497
And of course, today, we quite
757
00:25:42,497 --> 00:25:44,281
often describe the Grey alien
758
00:25:44,281 --> 00:25:46,849
archetype as dwarfish, as well,
759
00:25:46,849 --> 00:25:49,417
simply because they are smaller.
760
00:25:49,417 --> 00:25:51,245
Is it possible
761
00:25:51,245 --> 00:25:53,682
that these little people who are
762
00:25:53,682 --> 00:25:55,162
making these high-tech weapons
763
00:25:55,162 --> 00:25:57,686
were really Grey aliens,
764
00:25:57,686 --> 00:26:00,776
because they didn't known how to
765
00:26:00,776 --> 00:26:02,082
describe them, they were...
766
00:26:02,082 --> 00:26:03,387
called them dwarves or little
767
00:26:03,387 --> 00:26:04,650
people?
768
00:26:04,650 --> 00:26:07,217
And these little people are the
769
00:26:07,217 --> 00:26:08,610
ones who are making these
770
00:26:08,610 --> 00:26:09,698
high-tech weapons for these.
771
00:26:09,698 --> 00:26:12,875
Norse gods.
772
00:26:12,875 --> 00:26:14,703
It would seem that these weapons
773
00:26:14,703 --> 00:26:18,359
are extraterrestrial in nature.
774
00:26:18,359 --> 00:26:20,883
Now when you think of
775
00:26:20,883 --> 00:26:23,320
dwarfs, and think of
776
00:26:23,320 --> 00:26:25,714
extraterrestrials, you think of
777
00:26:25,714 --> 00:26:26,715
little Greys, and I think the
778
00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:28,021
dwarfs might have been alien.
779
00:26:28,021 --> 00:26:30,240
Greys.
780
00:26:30,240 --> 00:26:31,241
Might the
781
00:26:31,241 --> 00:26:32,329
dwarflike Sons of Ivaldi
782
00:26:32,329 --> 00:26:33,766
described in the Viking
783
00:26:33,766 --> 00:26:36,203
mythologies really be the
784
00:26:36,203 --> 00:26:37,944
alien visitors we know today as
785
00:26:37,944 --> 00:26:39,859
the Greys?
786
00:26:39,859 --> 00:26:41,643
And is it possible that the.
787
00:26:41,643 --> 00:26:43,471
Viking or Norse gods themselves
788
00:26:43,471 --> 00:26:45,604
were in fact entities from
789
00:26:45,604 --> 00:26:47,431
another planet?
790
00:26:47,431 --> 00:26:50,957
Another planet?
If so, how did they get here?
791
00:26:50,957 --> 00:26:52,741
If so, how did they get here?
792
00:26:52,741 --> 00:26:54,743
According to ancient astronaut
793
00:26:54,743 --> 00:26:57,137
theorists, the answer lies in a.
794
00:26:57,137 --> 00:26:59,530
Viking legend that speaks of a
795
00:26:59,530 --> 00:27:02,708
rainbow bridge called Bifrost,
796
00:27:02,708 --> 00:27:04,753
a portal that links the realm of
797
00:27:04,753 --> 00:27:07,669
the gods with the world of men.
798
00:27:07,669 --> 00:27:09,540
Bifrost is a
799
00:27:09,540 --> 00:27:10,803
bridge that connects Asgard to.
800
00:27:10,803 --> 00:27:12,108
Midgard.
801
00:27:12,108 --> 00:27:13,632
And the Bifrost conceptually is
802
00:27:13,632 --> 00:27:15,111
very interesting.
803
00:27:15,111 --> 00:27:16,635
It allows there to be a very
804
00:27:16,635 --> 00:27:17,636
clear connection between humans
805
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:21,814
and their gods.
806
00:27:21,814 --> 00:27:23,467
The gods would travel
807
00:27:23,467 --> 00:27:24,643
along this rainbow bridge to
808
00:27:24,643 --> 00:27:26,645
their meeting, which was by a
809
00:27:26,645 --> 00:27:28,168
divine well.
810
00:27:28,168 --> 00:27:29,648
The red in the rainbow bridge
811
00:27:29,648 --> 00:27:31,606
was burning hot, so it was quite
812
00:27:31,606 --> 00:27:33,173
a trick to use this effectively
813
00:27:33,173 --> 00:27:35,610
as a place of transportation.
814
00:27:35,610 --> 00:27:39,614
Some scholars have speculated
815
00:27:39,614 --> 00:27:41,660
that possibly this was inspired
816
00:27:41,660 --> 00:27:44,575
that possibly this was inspired
by the Milky Way.
817
00:27:44,575 --> 00:27:47,013
By the Milky Way.
818
00:27:47,013 --> 00:27:48,318
So, here was this
819
00:27:48,318 --> 00:27:50,625
rainbow bridge that-that could
820
00:27:50,625 --> 00:27:53,541
be traveled upon to get to this
821
00:27:53,541 --> 00:27:54,977
home of the gods, land of the
822
00:27:54,977 --> 00:27:55,978
gods.
823
00:27:55,978 --> 00:27:57,501
So, is it possible that this
824
00:27:57,501 --> 00:27:59,721
rainbow bridge, the-the Bifrost,
825
00:27:59,721 --> 00:28:02,376
was some kind of wormhole that
826
00:28:02,376 --> 00:28:03,943
would take people from a
827
00:28:03,943 --> 00:28:07,120
star gate on our planet to the
828
00:28:07,120 --> 00:28:09,688
home of the gods, literally to
829
00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:12,429
another planet?
830
00:28:12,429 --> 00:28:13,648
Say you
831
00:28:13,648 --> 00:28:15,519
wanted to get from here all the
832
00:28:15,519 --> 00:28:16,695
way around to China.
833
00:28:16,695 --> 00:28:17,739
It's actually longer to go
834
00:28:17,739 --> 00:28:19,785
around the earth than to cut
835
00:28:19,785 --> 00:28:20,742
through the earth.
A straight line is always the
836
00:28:21,700 --> 00:28:24,572
shortest path.
837
00:28:24,572 --> 00:28:26,356
So, you can imagine if you could
838
00:28:26,356 --> 00:28:27,706
make a wormhole, a cut through
839
00:28:27,706 --> 00:28:29,142
space that connects the two
840
00:28:29,142 --> 00:28:30,491
points you want to get to, you
841
00:28:30,491 --> 00:28:31,710
could make the distance
842
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:33,712
effectively shorter and get
843
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,975
there in a faster time.
844
00:28:35,975 --> 00:28:37,541
Ancient man would
845
00:28:37,541 --> 00:28:38,760
not understand a technological
846
00:28:38,760 --> 00:28:40,936
description to describe a
847
00:28:40,936 --> 00:28:44,113
wormhole, but this path of light
848
00:28:44,113 --> 00:28:46,289
sounds very similar.
849
00:28:46,289 --> 00:28:47,726
Might the mythical
850
00:28:47,726 --> 00:28:49,336
bridge of Bifrost really have
851
00:28:49,336 --> 00:28:52,861
been an interstellar wormhole?
852
00:28:52,861 --> 00:28:53,819
A cosmic tunnel in space through
853
00:28:53,819 --> 00:28:55,734
which the so-called Viking gods
854
00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,779
could travel to Earth?
855
00:28:57,779 --> 00:28:59,825
Ancient astronaut theorists
856
00:28:59,825 --> 00:29:02,131
believe further evidence can be
857
00:29:02,131 --> 00:29:04,046
found by a closer examination of
858
00:29:04,046 --> 00:29:06,048
the Viking gods' incredible
859
00:29:06,048 --> 00:29:10,618
the Viking gods' incredible weaponry.
860
00:29:10,618 --> 00:29:14,056
Weaponry.
861
00:29:14,056 --> 00:29:15,928
Balingsta, Sweden.
862
00:29:15,928 --> 00:29:17,843
Just outside this small town
863
00:29:17,843 --> 00:29:20,149
located 40 miles northwest of
864
00:29:20,149 --> 00:29:22,369
Stockholm is an ancient carved
865
00:29:22,369 --> 00:29:25,938
granite block.
866
00:29:25,938 --> 00:29:27,678
Known as the Boksta Runestone,
867
00:29:27,678 --> 00:29:29,942
it is one of the few remaining
868
00:29:29,942 --> 00:29:31,944
relics that depict the mighty
869
00:29:31,944 --> 00:29:33,772
god Odin holding his magical
870
00:29:35,556 --> 00:29:36,818
Gungnir.
871
00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:37,950
The Boksta Runestone
872
00:29:37,950 --> 00:29:39,560
is an extraordinary ancient
873
00:29:39,560 --> 00:29:40,953
relic that has runic
874
00:29:40,953 --> 00:29:42,693
inscriptions which were used by
875
00:29:42,693 --> 00:29:44,695
the Vikings.
876
00:29:44,695 --> 00:29:45,784
It shows Odin riding on
877
00:29:45,784 --> 00:29:49,004
horseback with a spear.
878
00:29:49,004 --> 00:29:50,049
So, one of the
879
00:29:50,049 --> 00:29:51,050
things we find with the Norse
880
00:29:51,050 --> 00:29:52,312
gods is they each have
881
00:29:52,312 --> 00:29:53,835
remarkable possessions, and
882
00:29:53,835 --> 00:29:56,011
among those is a spear that Odin
883
00:29:56,011 --> 00:29:57,665
claims for himself called
884
00:29:57,665 --> 00:29:59,275
Gungnir.
885
00:29:59,275 --> 00:30:00,755
And Gungnir is a remarkable
886
00:30:00,755 --> 00:30:02,888
spear in that, whatever you
887
00:30:02,888 --> 00:30:05,064
throw it at, it's going to hit.
888
00:30:05,064 --> 00:30:06,282
According to.
889
00:30:06,282 --> 00:30:07,849
Viking, or Norse, mythology,
890
00:30:07,849 --> 00:30:09,982
Odin's spear was made by the.
891
00:30:09,982 --> 00:30:12,636
Sons of Ivaldi, the very same
892
00:30:12,636 --> 00:30:14,290
creatures who built the ship.
893
00:30:14,290 --> 00:30:15,814
Skidbladnir.
894
00:30:15,814 --> 00:30:18,381
They imbued the spear with
895
00:30:18,381 --> 00:30:20,775
special properties that not only
896
00:30:20,775 --> 00:30:22,777
made it incredibly accurate, but
897
00:30:22,777 --> 00:30:25,475
gave it immense power.
898
00:30:25,475 --> 00:30:27,390
Gungnir was some
899
00:30:27,390 --> 00:30:28,609
kind of high-tech weapon.
900
00:30:28,609 --> 00:30:30,524
No matter who he threw it at, it
901
00:30:30,524 --> 00:30:31,830
would hit it.
902
00:30:31,830 --> 00:30:33,353
Like some laser-guided cruise
903
00:30:33,353 --> 00:30:35,268
missile or something like that,
904
00:30:35,268 --> 00:30:38,749
that just simply could not miss
905
00:30:38,749 --> 00:30:40,316
its mark once it had been set
906
00:30:40,316 --> 00:30:43,842
to its target.
907
00:30:43,842 --> 00:30:45,452
And we know that
908
00:30:45,452 --> 00:30:46,801
when he uses this in war, it
909
00:30:46,801 --> 00:30:50,152
always reaches its target.
910
00:30:50,152 --> 00:30:52,154
This is not something which is
911
00:30:52,154 --> 00:30:53,155
simplistic.
912
00:30:53,155 --> 00:30:54,765
This is something which clearly
913
00:30:54,765 --> 00:30:56,376
is advanced weaponry.
914
00:30:56,376 --> 00:30:58,117
And to find that a deity has
915
00:30:58,117 --> 00:31:00,119
this at his disposal can be read.
916
00:31:00,119 --> 00:31:01,990
One, it is all
917
00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:03,818
made up; Or two, it is actually
918
00:31:03,818 --> 00:31:04,819
factual.
919
00:31:04,819 --> 00:31:05,864
And today, we know that there.
920
00:31:05,864 --> 00:31:07,822
And today, we know that there
are such weapons.
921
00:31:07,822 --> 00:31:10,825
Are such weapons.
922
00:31:10,825 --> 00:31:12,261
Precision
923
00:31:12,261 --> 00:31:13,872
weapons, like laser-guided
924
00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,135
bombs, cruise missiles and
925
00:31:16,135 --> 00:31:17,876
satellite-guided munitions are
926
00:31:17,876 --> 00:31:19,921
staples in the world's most
927
00:31:19,921 --> 00:31:23,229
sophisticated military arsenals.
928
00:31:23,229 --> 00:31:26,275
Is it possible that Odin
929
00:31:26,275 --> 00:31:29,191
possessed similar technology?
930
00:31:29,191 --> 00:31:31,541
Could Gungnir actually have been
931
00:31:31,541 --> 00:31:34,414
a guided missile created by
932
00:31:34,414 --> 00:31:37,025
otherworldly beings?
933
00:31:37,025 --> 00:31:39,245
When the ancients are
934
00:31:39,245 --> 00:31:40,855
describing technology, i-it's
935
00:31:40,855 --> 00:31:42,726
clear that they couldn't have
936
00:31:42,726 --> 00:31:44,206
known exactly what this was.
937
00:31:44,206 --> 00:31:46,034
And it opens the question, is
938
00:31:46,034 --> 00:31:47,862
it possible that the weapon
939
00:31:47,862 --> 00:31:48,950
Gungnir was an actual advanced
940
00:31:48,950 --> 00:31:50,952
technology, maybe even possessed
941
00:31:50,952 --> 00:31:53,999
by the Vikings or their gods?
942
00:31:53,999 --> 00:31:55,826
If Gungnir was in
943
00:31:55,826 --> 00:31:57,524
fact acision guided missile
944
00:31:57,524 --> 00:31:59,395
similar to today's so-called
945
00:31:59,395 --> 00:32:02,964
smart bombs, then what might be
946
00:32:02,964 --> 00:32:04,574
the facts behind Thor's mighty
947
00:32:04,574 --> 00:32:07,577
hammer, Mjolnir?
948
00:32:07,577 --> 00:32:09,579
Thor's hammer had
949
00:32:09,579 --> 00:32:11,016
interesting origins.
950
00:32:11,016 --> 00:32:12,495
It was made by dwarves under
951
00:32:12,495 --> 00:32:15,281
duress.
952
00:32:15,281 --> 00:32:16,673
So, the handle qui... wasn't
953
00:32:16,673 --> 00:32:18,284
quite as long as a hammer might
954
00:32:18,284 --> 00:32:19,415
be.
955
00:32:19,415 --> 00:32:20,634
But it was enormously powerful
956
00:32:20,634 --> 00:32:22,941
and it had great accuracy.
957
00:32:22,941 --> 00:32:24,029
He could throw it and it would
958
00:32:24,029 --> 00:32:25,030
hit anything that he intended it
959
00:32:25,030 --> 00:32:26,945
to hit, and then it would come
960
00:32:26,945 --> 00:32:27,989
back to him, almost in boomerang
961
00:32:27,989 --> 00:32:30,513
style.
962
00:32:30,513 --> 00:32:31,819
What Thor's
963
00:32:31,819 --> 00:32:32,994
hammer, like the weapons of many
964
00:32:32,994 --> 00:32:34,996
of the Norse gods, would seem to
965
00:32:34,996 --> 00:32:38,043
be some high-tech real weapon,
966
00:32:38,043 --> 00:32:40,654
perhaps one given to them by
967
00:32:40,654 --> 00:32:42,482
extraterrestrials.
968
00:32:42,482 --> 00:32:44,353
And when he uses it,
969
00:32:44,353 --> 00:32:45,964
it is actually said that this
970
00:32:45,964 --> 00:32:47,791
weapon is able to crush
971
00:32:47,791 --> 00:32:49,706
weapon is able to crush mountains.
972
00:32:49,706 --> 00:32:51,926
Mountains.
973
00:32:51,926 --> 00:32:53,493
Now, imagine a weapon which is
974
00:32:53,493 --> 00:32:54,624
able to destroy an entire
975
00:32:54,624 --> 00:32:56,148
mountain.
976
00:32:56,148 --> 00:32:58,933
The hammer does not cause
977
00:32:58,933 --> 00:33:00,804
explosions; It is really the
978
00:33:00,804 --> 00:33:03,068
physical force which destroys
979
00:33:03,068 --> 00:33:04,765
the object.
980
00:33:04,765 --> 00:33:05,766
That is something which today we
981
00:33:05,766 --> 00:33:09,117
describe as a kinetic weapon.
982
00:33:10,945 --> 00:33:12,686
At the NASA Ames.
983
00:33:12,686 --> 00:33:14,122
Research Center in Mountain.
984
00:33:14,122 --> 00:33:14,993
View, California...
985
00:33:14,993 --> 00:33:15,994
...locked.
986
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,430
...scientist Peter
987
00:33:17,430 --> 00:33:19,127
Schultz is studying the enormous
988
00:33:19,127 --> 00:33:21,695
power of kinetic energy using a
989
00:33:21,695 --> 00:33:24,045
device called a vertical gun.
990
00:33:25,003 --> 00:33:26,047
This is a
991
00:33:26,047 --> 00:33:27,701
giant cannon, essentially.
992
00:33:27,701 --> 00:33:29,007
Then it goes up on a corkscrew
993
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:30,443
so we can hit things at
994
00:33:30,443 --> 00:33:32,445
different angles.
995
00:33:32,445 --> 00:33:34,142
This gun gets up to very high
996
00:33:34,142 --> 00:33:35,448
speeds, and if you get really up
997
00:33:35,448 --> 00:33:37,102
there, you'll start melting and
998
00:33:37,102 --> 00:33:39,104
vaporizing material.
999
00:33:39,104 --> 00:33:41,236
In a sense, this isa kinetic
1000
00:33:41,236 --> 00:33:42,846
weapon, except we're not
1001
00:33:42,846 --> 00:33:44,587
pointing at anything except the
1002
00:33:44,587 --> 00:33:46,328
target inside the tank.
1003
00:33:46,328 --> 00:33:47,329
To study the
1004
00:33:47,329 --> 00:33:48,722
effects of high-speed kinetic
1005
00:33:48,722 --> 00:33:52,073
impacts, scientists use the
1006
00:33:52,073 --> 00:33:53,509
vertical gun range to fire
1007
00:33:53,509 --> 00:33:55,685
projectiles into objects placed
1008
00:33:55,685 --> 00:33:58,079
in this reinforcedel chamber
1009
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:01,517
at speeds of up to 15,000 miles
1010
00:34:01,517 --> 00:34:05,347
per hour.
1011
00:34:05,347 --> 00:34:06,696
Today, we're gonna
1012
00:34:06,696 --> 00:34:07,871
take this small ball bearing,
1013
00:34:07,871 --> 00:34:09,830
which is about 1/100 of an
1014
00:34:09,830 --> 00:34:11,223
ounce, and we're gonna fire it
1015
00:34:11,223 --> 00:34:12,485
at three miles per second.
1016
00:34:12,485 --> 00:34:14,791
That's almost 11,000 miles per
1017
00:34:14,791 --> 00:34:15,792
hour.
1018
00:34:15,792 --> 00:34:16,793
And we're gonna send it into
1019
00:34:16,793 --> 00:34:17,968
this block.
1020
00:34:17,968 --> 00:34:19,231
Now, when you go that fast, with
1021
00:34:19,231 --> 00:34:20,580
even an object that small,
1022
00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:22,843
that's kinetic energy.
1023
00:34:22,843 --> 00:34:24,323
And kinetic energy is the mass
1024
00:34:24,323 --> 00:34:25,759
times the velocity squared.
1025
00:34:25,759 --> 00:34:26,847
So if you're going fast enough,
1026
00:34:26,847 --> 00:34:28,544
you could do some serious
1027
00:34:28,544 --> 00:34:29,545
damage.
1028
00:34:29,545 --> 00:34:30,981
Let's see what we do.
1029
00:34:30,981 --> 00:34:32,113
Using a battery of
1030
00:34:32,113 --> 00:34:33,549
high-speed cameras, some
1031
00:34:33,549 --> 00:34:35,551
capturing images at 40,000
1032
00:34:35,551 --> 00:34:37,901
frames per second, Schultz
1033
00:34:37,901 --> 00:34:40,730
investigates how speed and mass
1034
00:34:40,730 --> 00:34:42,776
can combine to create
1035
00:34:42,776 --> 00:34:44,778
devastating force.
1036
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:49,304
...5.53 kilometers.
1037
00:34:49,304 --> 00:34:51,219
...5.53 kilometers.
Rolling.
1038
00:34:51,219 --> 00:34:54,135
Rolling.
1039
00:34:54,135 --> 00:34:55,615
Moving 15 times the
1040
00:34:55,615 --> 00:34:57,617
speed of sound, the prtile
1041
00:34:57,617 --> 00:35:00,098
slams into the solid stone
1042
00:35:00,098 --> 00:35:01,099
block.
1043
00:35:01,099 --> 00:35:03,623
Oh, my gosh!
1044
00:35:03,623 --> 00:35:05,233
Look at this thing.
1045
00:35:05,233 --> 00:35:07,583
Look at this thing.
Blasted to smithereens.
1046
00:35:07,583 --> 00:35:11,152
Blasted to smithereens.
1047
00:35:11,152 --> 00:35:13,328
Ancient astronaut
1048
00:35:13,328 --> 00:35:14,851
theorists believe the
1049
00:35:14,851 --> 00:35:16,418
destructive power of this gun
1050
00:35:16,418 --> 00:35:19,117
displays uncanny similarities to.
1051
00:35:19,117 --> 00:35:21,031
Thor's hammer.
1052
00:35:21,031 --> 00:35:22,468
The question we
1053
00:35:22,468 --> 00:35:24,165
have to ask ourselves is whether
1054
00:35:24,165 --> 00:35:27,168
the whole concept of kinetic
1055
00:35:27,168 --> 00:35:30,432
energy weapons is something new
1056
00:35:30,432 --> 00:35:33,957
or if it already existed in the
1057
00:35:33,957 --> 00:35:36,090
ancient past.
1058
00:35:36,090 --> 00:35:38,266
And with Thor, we have such a
1059
00:35:38,266 --> 00:35:40,268
reference.
1060
00:35:40,268 --> 00:35:42,444
What if Thor's hammer was some
1061
00:35:42,444 --> 00:35:45,926
type of a kinetic energy weapon
1062
00:35:45,926 --> 00:35:48,058
and what we have here in modern
1063
00:35:48,058 --> 00:35:50,104
times is nothing else but
1064
00:35:50,104 --> 00:35:55,153
history repeating itself?
1065
00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:57,155
Is it possible that
1066
00:35:57,155 --> 00:35:58,808
what the ancient Vikings
1067
00:35:58,808 --> 00:36:00,201
described in their myths were
1068
00:36:00,201 --> 00:36:03,857
in fact alien technologies?
1069
00:36:03,857 --> 00:36:06,033
And do the various accounts of.
1070
00:36:06,033 --> 00:36:08,166
Odin's spear and Thor's hammer
1071
00:36:08,166 --> 00:36:10,124
really help to prove that.
1072
00:36:10,124 --> 00:36:11,778
Vikings were in contact with
1073
00:36:11,778 --> 00:36:14,781
extraterrestrial beings?
1074
00:36:14,781 --> 00:36:16,783
If so, then where might these
1075
00:36:16,783 --> 00:36:19,133
beings have gone?
1076
00:36:19,133 --> 00:36:22,005
Ancient astronaut theorists
1077
00:36:22,005 --> 00:36:23,659
believe the answers may lie in
1078
00:36:23,659 --> 00:36:25,661
the strange and sometimes
1079
00:36:25,661 --> 00:36:27,576
violent burial rituals of the
1080
00:36:27,576 --> 00:36:30,013
violent burial rituals of the Vikings.
1081
00:36:30,013 --> 00:36:36,498
Vikings.
1082
00:36:36,498 --> 00:36:39,371
Tonsberg, Norway.
1083
00:36:39,371 --> 00:36:41,851
50 miles south of Oslo lie the
1084
00:36:41,851 --> 00:36:45,203
ruins of Oseberghaugen, a Viking
1085
00:36:45,203 --> 00:36:47,248
burial mound.
1086
00:36:47,248 --> 00:36:49,990
During excavations in 1904,
1087
00:36:49,990 --> 00:36:52,210
archaeologists unearthed the
1088
00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:53,863
remains of two people buried
1089
00:36:53,863 --> 00:36:56,214
inside a Viking longship.
1090
00:36:56,214 --> 00:36:59,173
Dated to the early ninth
1091
00:36:59,173 --> 00:37:01,131
century, the discovery revealed
1092
00:37:01,131 --> 00:37:03,308
for the first time some of the.
1093
00:37:03,308 --> 00:37:05,701
Vikings' ancient burial rituals.
1094
00:37:05,701 --> 00:37:07,921
What's very
1095
00:37:07,921 --> 00:37:08,922
interesting about the Oseberg
1096
00:37:08,922 --> 00:37:10,184
ship is the fact that the.
1097
00:37:10,184 --> 00:37:11,490
Vikings actually chose to bury
1098
00:37:11,490 --> 00:37:14,449
their dead in these boats.
1099
00:37:14,449 --> 00:37:16,538
Now, this seems very similar to
1100
00:37:16,538 --> 00:37:18,148
some type of a conveyance,
1101
00:37:18,148 --> 00:37:19,933
possibly going into space.
1102
00:37:19,933 --> 00:37:21,239
You see similar references in
1103
00:37:21,239 --> 00:37:22,240
other cultures, such as the
1104
00:37:22,240 --> 00:37:27,593
Egyptians and even the Chinese.
1105
00:37:27,593 --> 00:37:29,638
Throughout.
1106
00:37:29,638 --> 00:37:32,293
Scandinavia, the British Isles
1107
00:37:32,293 --> 00:37:35,383
and Iceland are similar Viking
1108
00:37:35,383 --> 00:37:38,299
burial sites, many containing
1109
00:37:38,299 --> 00:37:40,040
boats and other ship-like
1110
00:37:40,040 --> 00:37:42,085
markers.
1111
00:37:42,085 --> 00:37:44,262
Is it possible the Vikings,
1112
00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:45,828
like the ancient Egyptians and
1113
00:37:45,828 --> 00:37:48,266
Chinese, buried their dead in
1114
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:50,180
boats in an effort to help their
1115
00:37:50,180 --> 00:37:51,747
deceased on their journey to the
1116
00:37:51,747 --> 00:37:53,183
afterlife?
1117
00:37:53,183 --> 00:37:56,317
And if so, why?
1118
00:37:56,317 --> 00:37:58,014
According to ancient Norse
1119
00:37:58,014 --> 00:37:59,755
mythologies, slain Viking
1120
00:37:59,755 --> 00:38:01,366
warriors joined Odin in his
1121
00:38:01,366 --> 00:38:05,326
fabled hall, Valhalla.
1122
00:38:05,326 --> 00:38:08,503
Odin's hall in.
1123
00:38:08,503 --> 00:38:10,026
Asgard, the realm of the gods,
1124
00:38:10,026 --> 00:38:11,114
is known as Valhalla, which
1125
00:38:11,114 --> 00:38:12,290
literally means "the hall of the
1126
00:38:12,290 --> 00:38:14,292
slain."
1127
00:38:14,292 --> 00:38:16,076
The way that Valhalla itself is
1128
00:38:16,076 --> 00:38:17,556
described is that it's a place
1129
00:38:17,556 --> 00:38:19,166
where the dead warriors that
1130
00:38:19,166 --> 00:38:20,428
Odin has gathered from the
1131
00:38:20,428 --> 00:38:22,778
battlefields spend all day
1132
00:38:22,778 --> 00:38:24,345
fighting each other and killing
1133
00:38:24,345 --> 00:38:25,781
each other and then are brought
1134
00:38:25,781 --> 00:38:27,217
back to life to spend the night
1135
00:38:27,217 --> 00:38:28,654
in feasting on an endless supply
1136
00:38:28,654 --> 00:38:31,047
of meat and pork.
1137
00:38:31,047 --> 00:38:32,266
The courage of the.
1138
00:38:32,266 --> 00:38:34,703
Norse explorers and warriors was
1139
00:38:34,703 --> 00:38:36,357
directly related to the
1140
00:38:36,357 --> 00:38:38,794
structure of their fables.
1141
00:38:38,794 --> 00:38:41,493
Valhalla was this great reward.
1142
00:38:41,493 --> 00:38:44,322
If you served well with great
1143
00:38:44,322 --> 00:38:47,325
bravery, you found eternal life
1144
00:38:47,325 --> 00:38:49,196
in the company of kindred
1145
00:38:49,196 --> 00:38:53,331
spirits in a great banquet hall.
1146
00:38:53,331 --> 00:38:54,941
Stories and legends
1147
00:38:54,941 --> 00:38:56,856
about Odin's enormous palace
1148
00:38:56,856 --> 00:38:58,901
describe it as being almost
1149
00:38:58,901 --> 00:39:01,164
metallic, with shimmering walls
1150
00:39:01,164 --> 00:39:02,862
and a golden roof.
1151
00:39:02,862 --> 00:39:04,167
During the day
1152
00:39:04,167 --> 00:39:05,255
they drink and they eat along
1153
00:39:05,255 --> 00:39:07,127
these long tables and with
1154
00:39:07,127 --> 00:39:08,650
fires down the center of the
1155
00:39:08,650 --> 00:39:09,782
hall.
1156
00:39:09,782 --> 00:39:11,218
And then after they've eaten,
1157
00:39:11,218 --> 00:39:12,306
they clear the tables and they
1158
00:39:12,306 --> 00:39:13,873
all battle.
1159
00:39:13,873 --> 00:39:16,354
So this must be tens of
1160
00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:17,746
thousands, if not hundreds of
1161
00:39:17,746 --> 00:39:19,182
thousands... the imagination
1162
00:39:19,182 --> 00:39:20,532
boggles at how big this hall
1163
00:39:20,532 --> 00:39:24,362
must be.
1164
00:39:24,362 --> 00:39:25,232
But is there
1165
00:39:25,232 --> 00:39:26,538
evidence that Valhalla was more
1166
00:39:26,538 --> 00:39:29,236
than just a mythic place?
1167
00:39:29,236 --> 00:39:30,933
Could it have been an
1168
00:39:30,933 --> 00:39:32,935
extraterrestrial spacecraft, as
1169
00:39:32,935 --> 00:39:34,459
some ancient astronaut theorists
1170
00:39:34,459 --> 00:39:36,548
believe?
1171
00:39:36,548 --> 00:39:38,376
Valhalla was not a
1172
00:39:38,376 --> 00:39:41,204
figment of our ancestors'
1173
00:39:41,204 --> 00:39:44,207
imagination, but it might have
1174
00:39:44,207 --> 00:39:46,384
been some type of an orbiting
1175
00:39:46,384 --> 00:39:48,342
space station.
1176
00:39:48,342 --> 00:39:51,258
The reason why I'm saying this
1177
00:39:51,258 --> 00:39:53,434
is because whenever we have a
1178
00:39:53,434 --> 00:39:55,741
description of Valhalla, it is
1179
00:39:55,741 --> 00:39:57,917
an incredible description of
1180
00:39:57,917 --> 00:40:01,311
place that has weird attributes.
1181
00:40:01,311 --> 00:40:04,271
Various descriptions
1182
00:40:04,271 --> 00:40:06,012
of Valhalla give it the
1183
00:40:06,012 --> 00:40:07,317
reference of being some type of
1184
00:40:07,317 --> 00:40:08,971
a large metallic ship, but they
1185
00:40:08,971 --> 00:40:10,408
actually bury their dead in the
1186
00:40:10,408 --> 00:40:12,279
ships as well.
1187
00:40:12,279 --> 00:40:13,280
So is this some type of
1188
00:40:13,280 --> 00:40:14,368
reference of them actually
1189
00:40:14,368 --> 00:40:15,369
trying to replicate sending
1190
00:40:15,369 --> 00:40:17,415
their dead to the heavens or
1191
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:19,286
just like their gods would be
1192
00:40:19,286 --> 00:40:20,330
returning to the heavens in some
1193
00:40:20,330 --> 00:40:24,422
type of a large metallic ship?
1194
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:26,293
Archaeological
1195
00:40:26,293 --> 00:40:28,338
evidence as well as contemporary
1196
00:40:28,338 --> 00:40:30,645
accounts also indicate, that in
1197
00:40:30,645 --> 00:40:32,386
addition to burying their dead
1198
00:40:32,386 --> 00:40:34,519
in boats, the Norse Vikings
1199
00:40:34,519 --> 00:40:36,303
also sent many of these burial
1200
00:40:36,303 --> 00:40:39,045
boats out to sea and burned
1201
00:40:39,045 --> 00:40:40,916
them.
1202
00:40:40,916 --> 00:40:43,310
But why?
1203
00:40:43,310 --> 00:40:45,138
Was it simply a fiery tribute,
1204
00:40:45,138 --> 00:40:47,357
one meant to honor the deceased?
1205
00:40:47,357 --> 00:40:50,012
Or did the ancient Vikings
1206
00:40:50,012 --> 00:40:52,362
simply replicate something their
1207
00:40:52,362 --> 00:40:54,452
ancestors had once witnessed...
1208
00:40:54,452 --> 00:40:56,062
Perhaps the launch of an alien
1209
00:40:56,062 --> 00:40:58,412
spacecraft?
1210
00:40:58,412 --> 00:41:02,111
So my question is
1211
00:41:02,111 --> 00:41:04,418
whether or not our ancestors
1212
00:41:04,418 --> 00:41:07,639
witnessed rockets or spaceships
1213
00:41:07,639 --> 00:41:10,076
taking off and landing with all
1214
00:41:10,076 --> 00:41:12,818
of this fire and this smoke and
1215
00:41:12,818 --> 00:41:14,689
the earth trembling, that they
1216
00:41:14,689 --> 00:41:17,170
over time thought that by
1217
00:41:17,170 --> 00:41:19,477
burning their dead they would
1218
00:41:19,477 --> 00:41:22,218
imitate what they saw in the
1219
00:41:22,218 --> 00:41:24,569
past.
1220
00:41:24,569 --> 00:41:27,702
Were the Norse.
1221
00:41:27,702 --> 00:41:29,487
Vikings really in contact with
1222
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:32,881
extraterrestrial beings?
1223
00:41:32,881 --> 00:41:34,100
And were these beings thought of
1224
00:41:34,100 --> 00:41:35,667
by the early Vikings not as
1225
00:41:35,667 --> 00:41:39,497
alien visitors but as gods?
1226
00:41:39,497 --> 00:41:42,108
If so, then where might these
1227
00:41:42,108 --> 00:41:44,719
celestial visitors have gone?
1228
00:41:44,719 --> 00:41:46,591
What we know is that
1229
00:41:46,591 --> 00:41:48,984
in the tenth century, the Norse
1230
00:41:48,984 --> 00:41:51,247
begin a really extensive
1231
00:41:51,247 --> 00:41:53,902
exploration of Europe.
1232
00:41:53,902 --> 00:41:55,991
We don't know why they begin to
1233
00:41:55,991 --> 00:41:57,384
explore.
1234
00:41:57,384 --> 00:41:58,559
It is also clear that we don't
1235
00:41:58,559 --> 00:42:00,082
know whether they were helped by
1236
00:42:00,082 --> 00:42:02,041
other beings.
1237
00:42:02,041 --> 00:42:04,739
In fact, there is another theory
1238
00:42:04,739 --> 00:42:06,262
which suggests that they were
1239
00:42:06,262 --> 00:42:07,525
going to go in search of the
1240
00:42:07,525 --> 00:42:08,395
deities.
1241
00:42:08,395 --> 00:42:10,310
It suggests that the Vikings
1242
00:42:10,310 --> 00:42:11,529
were absolutely convinced that
1243
00:42:11,529 --> 00:42:13,531
the residence of the deities was
1244
00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:15,533
physical, somewhere on planet.
1245
00:42:15,533 --> 00:42:17,273
Earth.
1246
00:42:17,273 --> 00:42:20,320
Did the Norse gods
1247
00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:22,148
return to their homeland,
1248
00:42:22,148 --> 00:42:23,671
prompting the Vikings to travel
1249
00:42:23,671 --> 00:42:26,065
the Earth in search of them?
1250
00:42:26,065 --> 00:42:28,546
Or did the so-called gods simply
1251
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:30,635
inspire their earthly hosts to
1252
00:42:30,635 --> 00:42:33,551
explore the planet in an effort
1253
00:42:33,551 --> 00:42:35,335
to spread their extraterrestrial
1254
00:42:35,335 --> 00:42:37,555
influence to other parts of the
1255
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:40,035
globe?
1256
00:42:40,035 --> 00:42:41,776
All this knowledge
1257
00:42:41,776 --> 00:42:44,387
of the universe according to the.
1258
00:42:44,387 --> 00:42:47,390
Norse mythologies was given to
1259
00:42:47,390 --> 00:42:51,569
them by the shining ones.
1260
00:42:51,569 --> 00:42:54,136
And the shining ones were said
1261
00:42:54,136 --> 00:42:56,486
to have descended from nowhere
1262
00:42:56,486 --> 00:43:00,229
else but the sky.
1263
00:43:00,229 --> 00:43:02,101
So is it possible that
1264
00:43:02,101 --> 00:43:04,625
extraterrestrials in fact guided
1265
00:43:04,625 --> 00:43:07,541
events in our human history?
1266
00:43:07,541 --> 00:43:10,326
And the answer of course is yes.
1267
00:43:10,326 --> 00:43:12,807
Because we can find stories like
1268
00:43:12,807 --> 00:43:15,505
this all around the world.
1269
00:43:15,505 --> 00:43:17,420
It was very deliberate in order
1270
00:43:17,420 --> 00:43:22,687
to direct our history.
1271
00:43:22,687 --> 00:43:26,429
Thor's destructive
1272
00:43:26,429 --> 00:43:29,650
hammer, Odin's all-seeing
1273
00:43:29,650 --> 00:43:32,435
throne and a mystical bridge
1274
00:43:32,435 --> 00:43:35,438
linking Earth to the heavens.
1275
00:43:35,438 --> 00:43:37,397
Are the legends of the Viking
1276
00:43:37,397 --> 00:43:39,442
gods really evidence that alien
1277
00:43:39,442 --> 00:43:41,575
beings visited mankind in the
1278
00:43:41,575 --> 00:43:43,882
distant past?
1279
00:43:43,882 --> 00:43:47,537
And if so, might these beings
1280
00:43:47,537 --> 00:43:48,930
have been instrumental in the
1281
00:43:48,930 --> 00:43:50,497
efforts of the Norse to explore
1282
00:43:50,497 --> 00:43:52,673
the globe?
1283
00:43:52,673 --> 00:43:55,328
Perhaps we will find the answer
1284
00:43:55,328 --> 00:43:58,113
deep in a Viking burial mound
1285
00:43:58,113 --> 00:44:00,028
or carved on the surface of an
1286
00:44:00,028 --> 00:44:02,552
ancient stone.
1287
00:44:02,552 --> 00:44:04,380
Or possibly the truth will be
1288
00:44:04,380 --> 00:44:06,556
revealed to all mankind on the
1289
00:44:06,556 --> 00:44:09,995
day when they return.
1290
00:44:09,995 --> 00:44:10,996
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