Nordic Iron Age Grave Field and Hill Fort 🇸🇪

Took a trip to the ancient ridgeway at Vallbyåsen, Uppland, Sweden, on which is an Iron age grave field. Nearby there is the Broborg, a vitrified hill-fort built in the migration era. The site was in use since neolithic times, as the stone cup marks nearby show. The rocks of the fort were cemented together by glass, through a very clever process of applying extreme heat to the rocks...or maybe that was just a side effect from the legend of Grimsa, a Viking queen who was burned alive in the fort. We can't know for certain but it is a spooky and evocative place in any case.

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Music: Wolcensmen - Beneath a wreath of firs

[ettnamn]

Thanks for yet another comfy and informative video, keep them coming, this is one of my favorite YouTube channels.

[reltihfloda]

Please do more videos on Scandinavian hillforts. They are some of my favorite places to visit here in Sweden. Great place for a fika.

[chrisbinckes]

thanks for a mentally stimulating video much better than the conspiracies that flood youtube greetings from tasmania

[johnn]

Learning about these ancient sites makes me feel more melancholy than anything else. Everything in this world fades away so quickly.

[garychynne]

Enjoyed the place. Really enjoyed the story. Thank u Gare

[wolkenjaeger.]

Get some children to show them these magnificent places ;)

[gss]

Thanks for the video. I'd love you to take a visit to Shropshire, we have a wealth of hill forts, burial mounds and such here, especially in the southwest of the county. It's a really mystical place. I'd be glad to buy you a local pint.

[shiftalign]

3:00 Cup Holes. Very interesting, as I've learned more about geology and masonry, I've discovered that these types of 'carvings' are quite difficult to have made in those times if we assume they were engraved by less than advanced technology. Interestingly enough, there existed a technology used in the shaping of many megalithic sites that we don't yet understand and have yet to achieve. Megaliths.org pretty interesting none the less with all the cupping. Perhaps ability to soften rock?

[muskoks]

Damn, that little snow in Uppland in February? Surprising.

[audunedvinmagnussen]

Nice place i have to visit this place!

[septic]

Great videos, greetings from Roslagen.

[BirkaViking]

Great video as always :-)
Greetings from Sweden. Are you still in Sweden?

[obaolori]

you should go to the runsa site in southern uppland (attundaland)

[juandavidrestrepoduran]

Another great video. Guess they should give you swedish nationality to compense the somalis...

[dalldan]

The stuff you called offerings looks like iron objects. Do u know if it was iron? If that's the case it is probably stuff that metal detectorists dug up and left behind as trash.

[sykesalecsykesleamas]

May I ask a somewhat silly question, which might be hard to answer due to the oversimplification of my words.. How Germanic or Anglo Saxon is modern England? (genetically speaking) I have gathered that the are regions with 40-60 percent Germanic markers in the DNA, such as in Yorkshire, East Anglia, Sussex, and so on, yet I never seem to find one complete article or book which gives the whole picture.

[OndskapensHersker]

5:54 haha
I said it athe exact same time.
"Wtf, are they doing with rice in Iron age Sweden?"

[electrondady]

it takes a great deal of energy to fuse rock. the science fiction writer Arthur C Clark tried to duplicate the phenomenon in England and failed. it's a mystery

[Boss]

Do you think that the vikings ate psychadelic mushrooms like Psilocybe semilanceata, or fly agaric, or do you think that this is just a myth created a long time after the Viking Period?
It is interesting to believe that psychadelic experiences for people during pagan times, including the vikings, maybe helped them to create pagan beliefs with trolls, gods, elves etc.

[redtony]

So the moral of the story is that even in Neolithic times we had to deal with greedy, theiving feminists.