File:Viking Travel Guide to Sweden - History documentary

We can learn a lot about the pagan religion of Vikings and their ancestors, not only in old books and manuscripts, but in the landscape itself. Sweden in particular is covered in ancient ritual sites which were used by the Norse peoples. Some of them date to the medieval Viking era, while others are much older, yet were still in use during Viking times.

In this film, I travel around Sweden to show you some of the most fascinating and mysterious archaeological religious sites and, through them, help you to understand a bit more about the ancient religion of the Norse peoples and where you can go in Sweden to see it for yourself. We cover everything from barrows and grave-fields, ship burials, stone ship settings, sacrificial trees and god poles, ritual areas such as the treudd and more.

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Art: Viking warriors by Christian Sloan Hall https://www.deathlord.co.uk/ Treudd by Ryan Murray https://www.artofryanmurray.com/ Animated god pole and ship by Christopher Steininger https://shop.smiletitans.com/

Music in order: theme song: Wolcensmen - Sunne Borg - The May Queen enters the circle Bark Sound Productions - Eld Myling - Töcken Xurious - Steppe expansion Borg - the choosing ceremony Elegiac - Odin Halindir - Hedelandet II Ormgård - Sjálfsforn Bark Sound Productions - EGD Grimrik - Der astrale ursprung Bark Sound Productions - in return

Sources: https://www.academia.edu/1366943/The_Grave_as_a_Doorway_to_the_Other_World_Architectural_Religious_Symbolism_in_Iron_Age_Graves_in_Scandinavia http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_18_2010/csa_vol_18_2010_s223-250_magnell_iregren.pdf http://www.isvroma.it/public/pecus/graslund.pdf http://cogito.ucdc.ro/2012/vol4n2/en/13_the-four-eyed-dog.pdf https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/147825787.pdf http://www.arkeologiskasamfundet.se/csa/Dokument/Volumes/csa_vol_18_2010/csa_vol_18_2010_s79-103_bradley_et-al.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Ulan-IV-kurgan-4-grave-15-3D-wagon-reconstruction-created-using-Autodesk-3-ds-Max_fig7_271587800

00:00 Intro 01:22 Viking burial and belief 06:44 what is a barrow? 09:20 Yggdrasill and the cosmic centre 13:29 Stone ships 16:20 Treudd 18:02 Släbro 26:36 Rösaring 28:51Vada mounds 31:10 Conclusion