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Powerful gods wielding advanced
technology.
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Odin sat on a throne with which he could
see everything.
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Strange creatures who craft
extraordinary weapons.
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Dwarves were the ones that create Odin's
spear and Thor's hammer.
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And descriptions of gateways through
time and space.
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Bifrost might be a sort of folkloric way
of explaining the wormhole.
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The ancient Norse legends read like
modern science fiction.
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But could they be accounts of
extraterrestrial beings who continue to
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planet even now?
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Contactees today describe encounters
that precisely match Nordic mythology.
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In northern Europe lies a land of
dramatic fjords and dense forests called
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Scandinavia. By most modern
interpretations, Scandinavia includes
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countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden,
Finland, and Iceland.
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And many centuries ago, this rugged
landscape gave rise to a hardy and
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mysterious people called the North.
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In the early Bronze Age, there were a
number of Germanic peoples that came off
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into this peninsula, the Scandinavian
peninsula, but they were meeting
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completely different people with a
different culture and a very different
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language.
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Eventually, these groups of people come
together and they become the Norse.
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For many years, the Norse were a
peaceful people who scratched out an
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as farmers, fishermen, and hunters.
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But that changed dramatically in the 8th
century A .D. with the rise of the
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Vikings.
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Viking is a term for Scandinavian
pirates and raiders who made their mark
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world history between the late 700s and
the early 1000s.
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One thing we have to understand is the
Vikings technically is a profession. It
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isn't the people that were living there.
The scholars call the people that were
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living there the Norse.
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The Vikings were the ones that went on
raiding and trading expeditions.
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Sailing on their fearsome longships, the
Vikings terrorized Europe. They could
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strike anywhere and seemingly without
warning.
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The Viking longship were excellent ships
for traveling in the open ocean, but
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also of rivers and far inland.
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Nobody was really expecting these guys.
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People were unprotected. Cities were
unprotected.
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Monasteries with vast amounts of gold
were unprotected.
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And so when the raids started happening,
everyone was caught by surprise.
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The Vikings completely upset the balance
of power throughout Europe.
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But despite their reputation as fierce
conquerors, the Vikings were also
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merchants. And they set up trade routes
that reached every corner of the map.
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The Vikings were going both east and
west.
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into France and down into Spain and the
Mediterranean from that direction.
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And then east into what would become
Russia and down into places like
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Constantinople.
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The long -term effects of the Viking Age
are manifold. There are huge linguistic
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influences on languages like English and
French.
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There is a massive political influence
in Eastern Europe where, for example,
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Russia draws its name from the name of a
tribe of Swedish Vikings.
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who invaded that part of Eastern Europe.
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We have the Byzantine emperor guarded by
Viking bodyguards. We have Vikings in
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Baghdad trading with Arab traders.
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We have Vikings in the New World
exploring at least as far as present
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Canada. They reached all over the world.
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The age of the Vikings lasted just 300
years, from the middle of the 8th
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until the 11th century.
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But despite their accomplishments, much
about the Norse remains shrouded in
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mystery.
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Unlike other cultures at the time, they
did not keep detailed written records of
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their history.
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Instead, they wrote brief inscriptions
with runes.
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Runes are an early form of Viking
writing.
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They have been employed largely in
carving and stone, so we see a lot of
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stones.
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But New Orleans were kind of cumbersome
to write with, and so things tended to
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be short.
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It's not like the written literature
that we get later.
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Much about Norse history remained
unknown until roughly 300 years after
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Viking era.
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We would know very, very little if it
weren't for two books from 1200s Iceland
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called Edda.
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The first book was written by an
Icelandic chief named Snorri Stidlason.
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And in the 1220s or so, he wrote the
Prose Edda to protect the heritage and
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old stories.
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Also in the 1200s in Iceland, someone,
we don't know who, wrote a book that we
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call the Poetic Edda.
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And this is just 30 or so of those poems
about the pre -Christian gods and the
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pre -Christian Norse heroes written down
by someone who wants to preserve them
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because many of these seem to have been
orally preserved for centuries.
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Vietas have provided historians with
detailed accounts of Viking conquests,
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lineages of kings, and even religious
practices.
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They also introduced the world to the
Norse people's rich mythological
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traditions, featuring dwarves, giants,
elves, and all
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sorts of fantastical beasts.
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But Norse mythology...
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is dominated by the gods known as the
Aseer, who hold domain over certain
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aspects of existence.
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The leader of this pantheon is a one
-eyed god named Odin.
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Odin is complex.
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He's a god of war and death, but also of
poetry and memory. He inspires both the
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frenzy of battle and the frenzy of
creativity.
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One of the most fun gods is Loki.
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Some people think of him as a trickster
god and oftentimes trying to deceive
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people. And deception is a very
important component of warfare.
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Frey was the Norse god of fertility.
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And his sister Freyja, by the way, was
the love goddess.
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Thor is one of the main deities we see
in Norse mythology.
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He's got thunder, lightning.
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One of his most elemental symbols that
we see again and again is his hammer.
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Thor's hammer seems to have been used as
a protector symbol.
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People would wear it around very often
around their neck on a necklace for
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protection.
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While today, the Norse gods are regarded
as simply characters in ancient
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mythological tales, to the Vikings, they
were very real.
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The Norse gods were not apart from the
world, they were a part of the world.
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They were not simply praised on Sunday
mornings. They were approached in
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reciprocal relationships maintained
through sacrificial rituals.
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You give the gods something for them to
give you something.
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So you sacrifice an animal hoping that
the god that you're sacrificing it to
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will receive your gift and say, ah, I
favor him. I want to give him something.
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It was important for the Vikings to have
contact with the gods because they
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needed that power.
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where they were doing things, going
other places.
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The Viking offered to Thor and asked for
fair weather for his travels.
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You don't sacrifice horses, weapons, and
treasure you've won in battle unless
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you believe there are deities receiving
the sacrifices.
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You don't raise altars to goddesses
across the width of the world you travel
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unless you believe in building a
reciprocal relationship with those
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This is clearly backed by archaeological
finds of sacrificial sites, burial
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sites, and so on.
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The Scandinavians undoubtedly thought
that the gods would have been real. They
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would not have necessarily thought of
them as metaphors.
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While mainstream scholars suggest the
Scandinavians' strong belief in the
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existence of their gods was simply a
matter of faith, ancient astronaut
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theorists ask if these powerful beings
might have truly existed.
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And if so, could they have assisted the
Vikings?
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in becoming one of the world's most
sophisticated explorers and warriors.
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Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining descriptions of the Norse
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incredible technology.
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Most of what is known about Norse
mythology comes from the 13th century
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called the Eddas.
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But they recount a history that begins
many centuries earlier.
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And according to the edit, the first
ruler of the area, now known as Denmark,
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was the son of the god Odin, named
Skjolder.
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For ancient astronaut theorists, this is
particularly intriguing because it
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lines up with numerous other traditions
around the world.
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This is almost identical to what we find
in ancient Egypt.
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You have this golden age in which the
gods walked on the earth, which the gods
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ruled, and then ultimately in Egypt the
pharaoh becomes the representative of
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the gods themselves, just as Emperor
Jimmu became the representative of
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Amaterasu in Japan.
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And also Huang Ti, the legendary first
emperor of China, the yellow emperor,
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is said to sail into the stars and back
to earth. What's fascinating is that
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this idea...
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occurs in ancient cultures around the
world.
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Another similarity that Norse mythology
shares with other traditions across the
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planet is the idea that the gods come
from another world.
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In Norse mythology, the universe is
divided into nine worlds.
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The realm of the gods, the realm of men,
the realm of the giants, the dwarves,
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the elves, and so forth.
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The Norse gods inhabited the realm of
Asgard and came to Earth.
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known as Midgard, traveling across a
rainbow bridge called Bifrost.
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But descriptions of Bifrost do not
portray any kind of structure like a
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traditional bridge.
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Bifrost means shimmering road, and the
edit tells us that it's the rainbow
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raised by the gods to connect the
heavens and the earth.
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Bifrost is a burning bridge. The red
that is the top layer of the rainbow's
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color is supposed to be the fire.
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I'm only aware of stories in which
supernatural beings cross Bifrost, and
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of them can't. The fire somehow burns
them, but doesn't seem to burn the gods.
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Bifrost is also known as the trembling
or quivering wave, suggesting that it is
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constantly moving.
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As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, it's possible that the
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Norse stories were attempting to
describe a wormhole connecting Earth to
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distant planet.
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A wormhole is a shortcut across the
universe.
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And it's actually a structure predicted
by the theory of general relativity, so
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the science behind it.
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The Scandinavians wrote that through
Bifrost, these celestial beings
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from the sky. In the ancient astronaut
opinion, that almost seems like some
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of a portal technology because it was
instantaneous travel to the so -called
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realm of the gods.
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Could it be?
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that the Norse gods were in fact
extraterrestrials that traveled to Earth
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through some kind of space -time portal.
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
further evidence to support this
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notion can be found by examining
elements from the Norse stories that
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descriptions of high technology.
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Norse mythology is filled with a concept
that I refer to as misunderstood
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technology. In Norse mythology, we have
stories of Odin, the highest god, for
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example, with his eight -legged horse
Sleipnir. That was a celestial horse
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flew across the sky, leaving behind a
trail of fire.
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We all know that horses do not have
eight legs.
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And we also know that horses do not fly
across the sky leaving behind a fiery
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trail. So why do we have these stories?
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The pantheon of gods were advanced space
travelers that our ancestors witnessed
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and thought, wow, they have to be gods
because they just descended from the
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Odin, the god of the dead.
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and the god of warfare, interacted often
with humans in the Norse stories.
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It is also written that from his magical
throne, called Flidskalf, he could
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observe all nine realms.
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Flidskalf sits at the top of this great
tree called Yggdrasil, and Odin can
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look down on all of creation and see
what's happening.
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He could see everything.
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He could hear everything as well. It
makes you wonder if this magic
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is an advanced alien technology.
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Another prominent figure in Norse
mythology was Frey, the god of
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Frey possessed the most incredible ship
in all of the nine realms.
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Frey had an interesting device.
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It was his ship.
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And this ship was so big.
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that you could put all of the Norse
deities in it, and all their weapons,
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then you could fold it up, sort of like
origami, and Frank would put it
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in his pocket.
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To us, when we hear a story like this,
it automatically conjures images of
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advanced nanotechnology or perhaps a
material science where they had an
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to create a lightweight material that
could be folded into smaller dimensions
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and then could be unfolded into a much
larger dimension.
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest that
descriptions of the weapons wielded by
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the gods also sound like advanced
technology.
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Odin has Gudner, the spear of heaven,
that is also exemplary of what we would
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think of as modern technology today.
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When he would throw this spear, it would
automatically hit whatever target he
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threw it at.
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And when we think about that today, it
sounds identical to some kind of like
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heat -seeking missile or some guided
precision weapon that has these
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capabilities.
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Thor's hammer, Mjolnir, has a variety of
special power.
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It can be thrown and will always come
back to Thor.
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He can shrink it down to the size of an
ordinary amulet so he can wear it around
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his neck, and it can also break anything
that it hits.
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Curiously, Thor could only use his
hammer while wearing a special metal
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It's really interesting to note that all
these ancient stories around the Norse,
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these magical imbued objects, weapons
and such, they're very similar to things
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that we can reference today.
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To me, it sounds like this is
misunderstood technology.
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Ancient people were viewing things, and
they didn't have a technological lens
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for reference.
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Is it possible that the Norse gods were
not fictional creations?
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but were instead visitors from another
planet.
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Ancient astronaut theorists say yes, and
suggest there may even be evidence that
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these beings had a hand in the success
of the Vikings.
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Orkney, Scotland.
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Here, in an ancient glacial valley,
stands a 5 ,000 -year -old megalithic
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structure known as the Dwarfy Stave.
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According to the locals, the Vikings who
invaded this region claimed the inner
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chamber served as the home of a dwarf.
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For the Norse people, the dwarves were
not fictional creations, but real
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entities who inhabited a hidden realm
beneath the earth.
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According to the Eddas, these diminutive
beings were created by the gods to
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craft weapons and technology.
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The Old Norse term dverkr, translated by
its English cognate dwarf, refers to a
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kind of supernatural being much lower
than the gods that interacts both with
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them and with us.
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Their main function in the Thagas is to
make stuff, whether for the gods or for
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human beings.
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The dwarves are an interesting figure in
Norse mythology. They're not gods, but
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they're not people. And they show up as
being very powerful, very magical.
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And so the gods are constantly
interacting with the dwarves. And a lot
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power of the Norse gods is derived from
the dwarves.
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They're the ones that have an
extraordinary ability to create things.
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Dwarves were described as being the best
smiths.
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When the gods need to have things
created, they go to the dwarves.
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These were the creators of these most
important elements of the Norse Viking
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world.
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Things like Freyr's ship and Odin's
spear and Thor's hammer.
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The dwarves were also credited as being
master sword makers.
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But the swords they forged, were not
just for the gods.
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They were also made for humans, and they
were said to possess extraordinary
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properties. The dwarves imbue their
creations with magic
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and make stuff for human beings.
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For example, there's human heroes who
have magical swords of different
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varieties. The most important story of
the heroes is the story of Sigurdur, the
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dragon slayer.
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Sigurd has a magic sword.
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According to the story, a dwarf forges
Sigurd a sword so sharp it can cut
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through the impenetrable scale of a
dragon.
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Other sagas describe weapons that were
powerful enough to even kill the god.
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There's the magic sword Tirvingr, which
can only be drawn.
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and put back into its scabbard if it
draws blood in the meantime.
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So you can't put it back in its scabbard
unless you've killed someone.
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While tales of the dwarves being skilled
weapons makers are considered by
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historians to be purely mythological,
what can't be disputed is that the
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possessed swords far superior to any
others that were made during their time.
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Suldal, Norway, March 2024.
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While clearing his field of rocks, a
farmer stumbles upon a remarkably well
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-preserved Viking sword half buried in
the soil.
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The weapon is given to archaeologists
who determine it is more than a thousand
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years old and discover that the blade
contains a mysterious inscription.
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X -ray imaging reveals that the sword is
inscribed with the name Ulfberht.
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The Ulfberht swords were made between
about 800 and 1000 AD, so
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right salad in the high Viking period,
when they were trading and raiding.
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The recently unearthed weapon is one of
approximately 170 swords that bear the
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mark Ulfberht.
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But just how these blades were created?
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continues to mystify researchers.
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I've analyzed 40 or 50 alphabet swords,
and many of them still have
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a sharp edge.
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The chemistry is completely different to
any other weapons found in medieval
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Europe. These alphabet swords were made
of a very hard steel and would be vastly
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superior to any other weapon in combat.
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The Ulfberts were special because of the
manufacturing techniques that went into
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them.
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Some of them were made from a crucible
steel, which could have both flexible
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properties and edge hardness in a single
item.
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Perhaps most baffling is that to create
the Ulfbert swords, Norse blacksmiths
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would have had to heat their forges to
over 3 ,000 degrees Fahrenheit.
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But historians and archaeologists
suggest that humans didn't develop the
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to achieve such an extreme heat until
the Industrial Revolution, nearly 800
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years after the Viking Age.
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So just who could have created these
extraordinary weapons?
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Could it be that the Norse stories of
dwarves forging incredible swords were
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merely mythology?
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When you think about this, You have to
at least be open to the possibility that
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the swords of the Norse Vikings were
created by these dwarves who were
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at this advanced technology.
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When you talk with people who live in
Norway and Sweden and Iceland, over 60 %
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of the people in a survey have claimed
that they believe in these beings.
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With the Ulfberg blades, we still don't
know who made them. We don't know.
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exact techniques of how they were made.
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Some were incredibly advanced in their
techniques, quite beautiful, hard to
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produce even today in a modern shop.
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We don't know why the word Ulfbert was
used.
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It was assumed, without any evidence,
that it was a swordsmith's name, but it
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may have been simply the name of
somebody whom the smith met or killed.
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They may have thought it was something
sacred.
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We don't know.
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What does Ulfbert mean?
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It's probably not a person. It was
probably a word of power.
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Wolf means wolf, and Bert is an
adjective, meaning bright.
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So it might be bright wolf?
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Until we find some documented evidence
of manufacture, we may never know the
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exact construction or the exact raw
material that these were made from.
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And that adds to the mystery of these
blades.
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Is it possible that the dwarves of Norse
mythology were real beings and that
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they helped the Vikings to craft their
incredible swords?
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Perhaps further clues can be found by
examining another technology that the
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Vikings were said to have received from
the dwarves.
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A highly sophisticated navigation
device, that was long believed to be
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mythological, until one was discovered
at the bottom of the ocean.
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Tonsberg, Norway, summer 1904.
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Over a period of three months,
Scandinavian archaeologists, Gabriel
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and Hรฅkon Schedele, excavate a
remarkably well -preserved Viking ship.
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Built from oak in the early 9th century
AD, the vessel is an extraordinary piece
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of engineering.
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One of the things that the Vikings had
was a ship that was a technological
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marvel for the time.
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They could go up and down rivers.
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They could go across oceans without
flipping over as much as previous ships
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done. And this meant that they had...
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The ability to get into areas that other
people at the time could not get into.
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The Viking scale was really sort of
unmatched by any other group at this
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terms of the craftsmanship of their
boats.
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These boats were very flexible in the
way that they were made to flex with the
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waves rather than break apart.
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So they often referred to them as the
sea snakes, because they could sort of
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snake through the waves.
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The unique design of Viking longships
made it possible to sail at speeds
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approaching 28 miles per hour.
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No other vessels could travel as fast
until 1852.
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More than a thousand years after, the
first Viking ships took to the high
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But what many researchers find even more
impressive and more difficult to
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explain is the Vikings' incredible
navigation skills.
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When talking about the Vikings, you're
faced with a mystery.
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And the mystery is that how did the
Vikings navigate?
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For all we know, they had no compass.
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The compass was a Chinese invention, and
without a compass, how could they
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navigate?
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Well, the stars, you say.
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But if you've ever been there, to the
northern Atlantic, you realize how
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it is.
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On a cloudy day, there's no sun, there's
no stars.
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And yet, they were able to navigate the
North Seas with tremendous accuracy.
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And the question is, how did they do it?
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Ancient astronaut theorists believe
clues might be found by taking a closer
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at the Viking sagas.
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According to legend, the dwarves
provided humans with a special stone
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enabled them to navigate with great
accuracy.
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In the Norse sagas, we get mention of
something called the solastine, the
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sunstone. And this is a kind of
translucent mineral that's oblong
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has special magical powers.
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And it's something that the captain of a
Viking warship would hold up to the
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cloudy sky.
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And through it, we'll be able to see
where the sun was.
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And that was essential to navigation.
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These crystals were considered to be
magic.
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And it's been long rumored that the
sunstone may have been a major part of
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navigational abilities, giving them an
edge that other people at the time did
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not have.
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Was the Viking sunstone simply a
creation of Norse mythology?
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Or might it have really existed?
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The English Channel, March 2013.
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Underwater archaeologists are exploring
a 16th century sunken English warship
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when they come upon an unusual crystal
carved into a nearly perfect rectangle.
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Researchers are shocked when tests
reveal that the object was carved from a
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chunk of Icelandic calcite.
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And they suspect they have found one of
the fabled...
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Viking sunstone.
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Calcite has a property that if light
comes into it, it splits the light in
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On a cloudy day, if you look at a
calcite crystal, you see not one image,
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two images.
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Each one polarized slightly differently.
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And as you scan the sky, the intensity
of these two changes, depending upon
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where the sun is located.
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But when you walk onto the sun, The two
images are equally bright.
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Bingo. That's where the sun is located.
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And that's how the Vikings could do it
without a compass. They simply pointed
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toward the sun until the two images
matched in intensity.
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For archaeologists, almost as exciting
as the discovery of a Viking sunstone
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the fact that it was found on a 16th
century ship.
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What that shows us is that 500 years
after the disappearance of the Vikings,
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their technology was still being used.
This was still cutting -edge technology.
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Might the sunstone provide physical
evidence that the tales of Norse
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are not entirely fiction, but could be
based on real events?
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And if so, might otherworldly beings,
like the dwarfs and gods described in
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Viking sagas, have shared knowledge with
the ancient people of Scandinavia?
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For ancient astronaut theorists, the
answer is a resounding yes.
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Throughout Norse mythology, they really
have an abundance of these magical
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imbued objects.
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But if the Norse people had the ability
to use a crystal that is some type of
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astronomical beacon to actually know
where the sun was, this is some advanced
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science. And perhaps someone will cost
the Norse people to understand the
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principles of using such a technology.
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From the technological marvel known as
the sunstone to the highly advanced
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Viking swords and mythology that reads
like modern science fiction.
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Ancient astronaut theorists suggest
there is abundant evidence that the
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people had encounters with otherworldly
beings.
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But perhaps the most intriguing evidence
of all can be found by closely
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examining the ritual of the Viking
funeral.
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Dinah Beach, Australia, July 12, 2025.
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At a modern -day yacht club more than 7
,000 miles from Scandinavia, a ceremony
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is held to recreate one of the most
important and iconic Norse rituals, the
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Viking funeral.
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In the days of the Vikings, the body of
the deceased would be floated out to sea
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aboard a ship.
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Then a flaming arrow launched to set it
ablaze.
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There's a whole symbology behind those
rituals.
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And this is interesting because the
whole idea of burning the dead is the
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rises so that their essence could reach
the realm of the gods.
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That is the legend behind it. But you
have to ask yourself the question,
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the origin for that?
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What was the realm of the gods? Was it
just a spiritual place, something
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ethereal?
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The ancient astronaut theory suggests,
hold on a minute, maybe they actually
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meant a physical place.
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The Viking funeral was symbolic of a
journey to Asgard, the realm of the
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But according to the Old Norse stories,
the actual journey happened on the
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battlefield. And it was carried out by
the Valkyries, who are described as
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mortal women with divine powers.
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In Norse mythology, you have Valkyries,
who are warrior princesses who ride
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winged horses.
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And they fly over the battlefield and
they pick up the bravest of the
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particularly as they're just about to
die or if they have died. And they carry
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their spirit up to Valhalla, which is
the palace for fallen warriors and the
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feasting hall.
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The Vikings didn't fear death because
when they died they went to Valhalla and
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there Odin would provide them with a
banquet every night. They could eat and
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drink as much as they want.
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In the Norse tales, Valhalla is
portrayed as a great hall in Asgard
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the ruler of the gods, welcomes fallen
warriors.
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The hall is described as a physical
place made of gleaming metal.
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held up by spear shafts and roofed by
shields.
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And as far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned, it's possible
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Valhalla was not some mythical paradise,
but something far more profound.
455
00:34:34,909 --> 00:34:41,709
According to the ancient astronaut
theory, Valhalla could be another name
456
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for maybe an orbiting space station or
something like that.
457
00:34:45,900 --> 00:34:50,539
The reason why I'm saying this is
because whenever we have a description
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Valhalla, it is an incredible
description of a place that has
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attributes that I refer to as
misunderstood technology.
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00:35:01,580 --> 00:35:05,719
Various descriptions of Valhalla give it
the reference of being some type of a
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00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:07,060
large metallic ship.
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00:35:07,061 --> 00:35:11,319
Add to the fact that Valhalla is
described as a place that they actually
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00:35:11,320 --> 00:35:16,239
journeyed to, maybe this is some type of
a description of them traveling to this
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00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:22,079
in a ship, and since they put their dead
in ships and set them afire, maybe this
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is actually a reference of them
traveling to Valhalla in a ship that has
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00:35:25,920 --> 00:35:29,160
coming out of it, going into space.
467
00:35:31,320 --> 00:35:36,449
Could it be that the Old Norse tales of
Valhalla were describing some kind of
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00:35:36,450 --> 00:35:39,430
craft or space station that was orbiting
the Earth.
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00:35:41,030 --> 00:35:46,569
And might the Viking funeral ceremony
have been designed to mimic the fire and
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00:35:46,570 --> 00:35:51,090
smoke produced by a rocket ship blasting
off into space?
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00:35:53,450 --> 00:35:59,189
Curiously, the Norse were not the only
ancient culture to incorporate ships
472
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:00,330
their funerary rites.
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00:36:01,710 --> 00:36:06,869
In Norse mythology, you have this
concept of taking some kind of transport
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00:36:06,870 --> 00:36:08,250
the other world.
475
00:36:09,030 --> 00:36:15,069
This is something that has been around
for thousands of years and appears
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00:36:15,070 --> 00:36:16,029
the world.
477
00:36:16,030 --> 00:36:17,470
It's in Africa.
478
00:36:18,730 --> 00:36:20,470
It's in South America.
479
00:36:21,650 --> 00:36:23,050
It's in China.
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00:36:24,170 --> 00:36:29,129
With Egyptian funeral rites, oftentimes
there would be a funeral boat was
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00:36:29,130 --> 00:36:30,190
associated with it.
482
00:36:30,960 --> 00:36:36,479
And these boats themselves would be
analogies of the spaceships, in fact,
483
00:36:36,480 --> 00:36:38,360
would take them over the sky.
484
00:36:39,040 --> 00:36:45,179
The fact that around the world you find
the exact same references in ancient
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00:36:45,180 --> 00:36:51,059
myths and legends, to me, is not a
coincidence. But on the contrary, it
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00:36:51,060 --> 00:36:57,540
that true origin was a worldwide
visitation by visiting
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00:36:59,320 --> 00:37:00,460
Is it possible?
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00:37:00,880 --> 00:37:05,359
that modern reenactments of the Viking
funeral unknowingly commemorate
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00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:08,120
otherworldly contact in the distant
past.
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00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:14,399
As far as ancient astronaut theorists
are concerned, the answer is a
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00:37:14,400 --> 00:37:15,450
yes.
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00:37:16,040 --> 00:37:21,879
And they suggest there is evidence that
Scandinavia may be experiencing alien
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00:37:21,880 --> 00:37:24,740
activity even today.
494
00:37:29,580 --> 00:37:33,360
Northern Norway, December 9th, 2009.
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00:37:34,240 --> 00:37:40,180
Just before dawn, an incredible spiral
of light appears in the night sky.
496
00:37:41,300 --> 00:37:47,699
It swirls in place for ten minutes and
is witnessed hundreds of miles away in
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00:37:47,700 --> 00:37:48,750
Sweden.
498
00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:54,619
The Norwegian spiral anomaly captured
the imagination of the world. Theories
499
00:37:54,620 --> 00:37:58,900
included that it was something to do
with the northern light.
500
00:37:59,480 --> 00:38:04,660
that it was the malfunctioning of a
Russian ballistic missile.
501
00:38:05,480 --> 00:38:07,640
Other people had more exotic theories.
502
00:38:08,660 --> 00:38:12,620
It looked just awe -inspiring. It
really, truly did.
503
00:38:13,580 --> 00:38:17,219
So naturally, there was a lot of
questioning, wondering, like, what is
504
00:38:17,220 --> 00:38:19,300
a UFO -related thing, or is it not?
505
00:38:19,980 --> 00:38:23,500
Some people said, this is the opening of
a wormhole.
506
00:38:24,640 --> 00:38:25,960
Something's come through.
507
00:38:27,690 --> 00:38:31,830
The Norwegian spiral anomaly made
headlines around the world.
508
00:38:32,530 --> 00:38:38,469
And it was only the latest in a number
of extraordinary mass UFO sightings that
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00:38:38,470 --> 00:38:40,850
have occurred over the area of
Scandinavia.
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00:38:41,990 --> 00:38:47,449
Since the 1930s, residents of the small
mountain village of Heistel in Norway
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00:38:47,450 --> 00:38:53,809
have been reporting strange lights of
various colors that appear at night, and
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00:38:53,810 --> 00:38:55,950
sometimes even during the day.
513
00:38:57,070 --> 00:39:02,250
People see bright lights moving very
near to the houses.
514
00:39:02,530 --> 00:39:06,970
Balls of lights, even shaped sometimes.
515
00:39:07,410 --> 00:39:12,990
And these lights can last for minutes or
even hours.
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00:39:13,690 --> 00:39:16,650
The reports continued for decades.
517
00:39:17,530 --> 00:39:24,379
And in 1983, Norwegian electrical
engineer... Erling Strand started a
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00:39:24,380 --> 00:39:26,520
project to investigate the phenomenon.
519
00:39:27,100 --> 00:39:31,140
In the early 80s, it was a lot of
sightings.
520
00:39:32,300 --> 00:39:36,740
We had 20 observations in one week.
521
00:39:37,540 --> 00:39:44,299
The Heston lights can be more
traditional UFO sightings, where they
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00:39:44,300 --> 00:39:48,580
a disc -shaped object, cigar -shaped
object.
523
00:39:49,100 --> 00:39:54,279
and so on it's very easy to think that
these come from other words
524
00:39:54,280 --> 00:40:01,139
in addition to the hasteland light in
1946 thousands
525
00:40:01,140 --> 00:40:07,059
of people in sweden norway and denmark
witnessed what were referred to as the
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00:40:07,060 --> 00:40:13,739
ghost rockets which are some of the
earliest ufo sightings on record many
527
00:40:13,740 --> 00:40:20,000
saw bright lights in the sky which many
people today mentioned as the UFO,
528
00:40:20,280 --> 00:40:24,120
more than 2 ,000 reported in
Scandinavia.
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00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:31,500
For ancient astronaut theorists, these
sensational UFO events beg the question,
530
00:40:31,740 --> 00:40:37,699
is it possible that alien entities
witnessed by the Vikings are still
531
00:40:37,700 --> 00:40:38,750
this region today?
532
00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:46,779
Scandinavia is undoubtedly a UFO
hotspot, and we have interesting
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00:40:46,780 --> 00:40:47,830
north.
534
00:40:48,750 --> 00:40:53,629
And, of course, there are many, many
people who say that mythology is just
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00:40:53,630 --> 00:41:00,049
way that our ancestors described real
things that happened to them, but just
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00:41:00,050 --> 00:41:04,969
made them into these stages as a way of
keeping the story alive and telling it
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00:41:04,970 --> 00:41:06,350
to successive generations.
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00:41:07,030 --> 00:41:12,449
You have to wonder if the Norwegian
spiral anomaly has to do with these
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00:41:12,450 --> 00:41:13,500
gods.
540
00:41:14,480 --> 00:41:18,980
and coming and going out of this place
for many thousands of years.
541
00:41:19,320 --> 00:41:25,720
And it could be that these Norse gods as
extraterrestrials are still here.
542
00:41:28,480 --> 00:41:34,019
Could it be that otherworldly visitors
encountered by the Norse people
543
00:41:34,020 --> 00:41:39,700
ago are behind the many strange
sightings reported over Scandinavia
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00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:46,549
And do the ancient tales of these gods
still resonate because they are part of
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00:41:46,550 --> 00:41:48,330
humankind's true history.
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00:41:48,790 --> 00:41:55,329
Perhaps one day soon, characters like
Thor and Odin, long relegated to the
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00:41:55,330 --> 00:42:01,949
of mythology, will introduce themselves
to humanity once again as our alien
548
00:42:01,950 --> 00:42:02,999
ancestors.
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00:42:03,000 --> 00:42:07,550
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