Robert Eggers' The Northman is the best Viking film ever made but some of the pagan themes within are too esoteric for everyone to understand. In this review, I explain the origin of the pagan rituals and symbols throughout the film and what they mean. Everything from valkyries, to the raven fylgja, the horned spear dancer, and the Odinic initiation ritual in a Neolithic barrow. I also explain the tension depicted in the film between the cults of the gods Freyr and Odin.

https://youtu.be/9Ro2RAKLFVc

Sturla Ellingvåg of @Viking Stories - economist and historian from Norway - returns to Jive Talk for the third time, now to discuss the origins of the Scandinavian people in the Nordic Bronze age and what genetic science can tell us about this mysterious period in human history. We will also discuss the possible origin of the I1 paternal haplogroup. 

https://youtu.be/AX_Boh6b2Oc

A new documentary about Medieval Celtic and Germanic stone artwork from the British isles. Shot in Scotland, Ireland, England, Denmark and Sweden.

https://youtu.be/lmN4iiVKfa4

A skeleton found in a coffin in North Yorkshire in 1989 and labelled as SK 3379 was identified as an adult male based on shape of the skull and the pelvis. It was dated to the 10th/11th century so this is regarded as a pre-Norman conquest body. He was quite twisted, with deformity of the spine and shoulder alignment, and with two crushed vertebrae as well as evidence of joint disease in the spine. He also had five abscesses in his gap-toothed mouth. An analysis of skull morphology led researchers in 2015 to conclude that he “may have been of African or mixed ancestry and may have migrated to York or descended from those that did”

https://survivethejive.blogspot.com/2021/03/the-black-viking-of-york.html