Belive me, he glosses over a lot of wars in this video. Sweden has been at war with Denmark alone 37 times, and with Russia 35 times throughout history.

Iceland was a part of Norway until Denmark lost Norway in 1814. Then Iceland was part of Denmark until the 1940's.

The king ”Karl XII” is what we call Charles XII aka Carolus Rex. Karl is the Swedish name, Charles is the English name and Carolus is the Latin name. So he was the one that was really young when he was crowned and really successful in battle. Karl = Charles = Carolus. Carolus Rex. Gustav/Gustaf = Gustavus. Gustav II Adolf being Gustavus Adolphus. Thats another one of our great kings. 30 years war, you know him. 24:14 Yes it was. Charles the 12th, boy king of Sweden and an absolute legend

The big lakes in Sweden are called Vänern and Vättern. I live in Västra Götaland County (The Western Gohita County), right by the shore of Lake Vänern 😊 Thank's for a great Channel!

Forgive me to say, and it's not a personal thing, but in the US you have been brainwashed to think comunism is socialism, it's not the same. And social decromacy is what Sweden is right now. A free market, but with social benefits like free healthcare and other stuff. I like that you try to learn. Keep up the good work to learn.

6:51 You probably think of Denmark first due to the danes having a larger influence in english history. All the scandic tribes shared a common language and culture and sent out viking raiders. Danes conquered large swathes of northern Europe, norwegians discovered vast new places to live in and swedes went to the asian steppes and layed the foundation for the biggest thorn in Europe's side (The Rus mentioned in the video founded/conquered/expanded the city of Novgorod and layed the foundation for the Rus Empire which is the forerunner to Russia) as well as to the Byzantine Empire where they were the personal bodyguards for multiple emperors 9:01 Monday -> latin -> The Moon's day Tuesday -> norse -> Tyr's day Wednesday -> norse -> Odin's day (Odin Woden Wotan) Thursday - > norse -> Thor's day Friday -> norse -> Frigg's day Saturday -> latin -> Saturn's day Sunday -> latin -> The Sun's/Sol's day (or The Son's day (Søndag) if you go by the christian etymology, to reference Christ and hence why it is considered a holy day in the nordics. This is christianity influencing already established traditions to usurp their meaning or using similar sounding elements to form a commonality where there actually isn't any) 12:09 A dioces is a term used for a religious partition of the land. Each dioces has a bishop as it's leader and each priest is directly answerable to the bishop of their dioces. 12:43 The Hansa aka The Hanseatic League was a loose organisation or large trading towns primarily in what is now Northern Germany. These city states combined their economic strength into the Hansa and became an economic and militaristic powerhouse by monopolising trade in the North and Baltic Seas as well as making their rivals have mysterious accidents after sending large mercenary armies at them. 14:10 Iceland was an integral part of Norway at the time, later an integral part of Denmark after Denmark-Norway ceased to be a thing. Iceland only gained autonomy in 1918 and their full independence in 1944 and is thus a fairly young nation on a European scale. 16:08 To summarize: Denmark managed to rule over Sweden for about 125 years before Gustav Vasa came in and said "yo... wtf guys... them Danes don't even like pickled herring!" and proceeded to kick the danes back out. Everything else you can basically just gloss over because it's a large back and forth much like the Hundred Years War was for England and France. 19:00 The one in the 1700's was the Great Northern War. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Wars

The days in Swedish is quite interesting. Monday, the moons day - Måndag Tuesday, Tyr's day - Tisdag Wednesday, Odin's Day - Onsdag Thursday, Thor's day - Torsdag Friday, Frey's day - Fredag Saturday, sort of like the bath day - "Lögurdagen", Lördag

The Swedes worked with the Allies as much as the Germans up until 1943 when the Swedes started firming up against Hitler. Trade with the Allies continued all War long, and the Swedish intelligence services were very important in helping the Allies in general and keeping watch on the German navy in particular. The Swedes also provided a V2 to the Allies when one crashed in Skane. And all the humanitarian functions Sweden played, as well as training and equipping the nascent Norwegian national forces that later played the key role in reoccupying Norway after the German surrender. Why people insist on painting Sweden as German collaborator is interesting. As if they were Swiss. Bitterness no doubt that Sweden didn't come to the aid of Norway in 1940. Though what people won't talk about is how much help Sweden gave to Finland during the Winter War. It so emptied their arsenals, to the tune of 40% of their munitions, that by the time Weserbung occurred two months later Sweden was pretty defenseless. And it is also forgotten that Sweden offered defensive pacts to both Finland and Norway in the late 30s, only for both to decline as part of their general disinterest in rearmament. Yet, when the bogeyman did come, they both assumed Sweden would simply come in and save them. Long story short, pre-War politics were complicated. And blaming Sweden for being neutral is irrational.

Btw., Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland and Finland have never been socialist countries. Over the centuries we've developed what's called the Nordic Model. We're all capitalist countries who happens to have tax-based social welfare systems. That's it. As for communism, it's never worked for any period of time without turning bad since it's based on the entire population supporting it (or be forced to obey the communist system which thus becomes a totalitarian system = fail).

A Swedish joke is that since the Swedish Vikings was called the Rus (Routsi in Finland) then Russia is the land of the Swedes. :)

As a Swede I can only say "Don't sweat it" this history is confusing to me too :)

3:10 Before the potatoe we grew a lot of redbeet, carrots, other beets. And grains. But yes the potatoe had a revolutionary effect all over europe, many people will say "Sweden was built on the potatoe" or something like that. It also came at same time as vaccines and mandatory schooling for all and industrialization (broadly 1800s), so its very associated with the extreme rapid growth of population (resulting in 1/3 of all swedes emigrating to america for example). Potatoe is sill very big in europe. Potatis :)

The two lakes in question are Vänern and Vättern. They are Europe's third and fifth largest lakes if you count Russia, and Europe's first and third largest lakes if you don't count Russia.

A Swede here. I just wanted to say that all the pauses you add as you are asking question are just brilliant. They are so sincere and informed in a way that I have to commend you somehow. BTW, I didn't know myself about most of the things that this clip commented on.

Charles=Karl. Idk why you can't just say Karl in english aswell and make it easier for everyone😅 but Charles XII aka bossman = Karl XII. So yes XII the young king who beat everyone in battle after battle like alexander the great got killed in a trench in Norway.

24:10 Yes, Karl XII was the one shot in trench in Norway. And he was the young one. He got crowned to King at the age of 16. And he died at the age of 36.

All kings Sweden had had the same names as the previous king. They just changed the number in their name by one everytime. The name only changed whenever all the males in the royal family died and when a need king was needed. Thats why there are so many different Gustavs and Karls. The kings also did the same as the previous. They all strived for dominance in north europe.

There was once a swedish king that died of eating too much.

You don't like our herring? We have made the world drive Volvos, furnish their homes with IKEA, wear H&M, listen to Abba and even drink Absolut, Malört and that horrible Rekorderlig cider. We'll soon have you eat our pickled herring too. It's the new viking era. This time we'll make all of you Swedes. MoahahaHAHAHA!

Please don't be in a bad mood with me I am busy through the day but I watch your videos on the night

"Goths " or Götar as they're called is referring to where they lived. Then there were "Svear" also depending on where you lived. In the modern day the southern half of sweden is called götaland and the middle part is Svealand and farthest up in the north is Norrland. They use these words when they do weather for example, " Rain coming from the atlantic and passes over the western part of götaland"

The two lakes are called Vättern and Värnern Btw, you are doing great man! Thank you for taking the time to learn about my countrys history

Iceland was a part of this whole thing (as was Greenland). Iceland was a very independence-minded province of Norway. When Norway (de facto) became a province of Denmark in the 1500s, nothing changed for Iceland. They were not exactly forgotten, but far away. When Denmark lost Norway in the Treaty of Kiel, 1814, Greenland, Iceland and the Faroe Islands remained with Denmark. In April 1940, the British occupied Iceland and the Faroe Islands at the same time as Germany occupied the rest of Denmark. After WWII, Iceland achieved independence, the Faroe Islands autonomy.

Do you know why the swedes drive with the windows closed? They think the smell comes from outside. Anyway. Not all Swedes are stupid. There once was a swedish inventor that invented a solarpanel powered flashlight. Har Har 😛 - 🙋🏻‍♂️🇳🇴

Sweden got quite lucky with where the border between Sweden and Russian Finland got drawn, in that most of land on the Swedish side speaks mostly Swedish, laying the foundation for the transition to a modern nation state. There are some areas in the far North that speak various minorty languages (one of them being a recent offshoot of Finnish), but on the whole it probably let us shake off some of our imperialist tendencies over time, even if we lost half of our kingdom in the process. Though, we first had to opress Norway for 100 years before letting go of imperialism. Finland got a slightly worse deal, since there’s a very large minority of Swedes over there. Don’t make a mistake though, they consider themselves just as Finnish as the Finns, calling themselves ”Finlandssvenskar” or ”Finland Swedes”. Although I’m not so sure about the people autonomous living in the autonomous province of Åland, where the vast majority speaks Swedish. Either way, even they seem content with living under Finland, so long as the current status quo continues. Much like Canada, Finland is a country with two languages, one bigger than the other. I’m Swedish btw, just to clear up any bias you’ve might have spotted on my part.

The Danish and the Norwegian vikings were mostly occupied with ransacking and conquering Western Europe, while the Swedish vikings were mostly occupied with doing the same to Eastern Europe. The invasions of England by the Vikings are one of the most legendary events in human history, so that's why the Danes are more well-known for their vikings than the Swedes.

Charles is just English/French for Karl. Gustavus is Latin for Gustav.

14:16 Island was just a colony of Norway at the time. They still speak the real Norwegian language in a sense :)

Sorry for a rather long post which is mostly about the difference between the western (danish & norwegian) vikings and the eastern (swedish) vikings and why the western vikings are more well known. At the very bottom of the post (if TL;DR) is a link to a 10 minute video about the slavic tribes in what is now Ukraine, southwestern Russia etc., the Swedish viking prince Rurik and how he and his descendants founded the Kievan Rus' federation and the Rurik Dynasty as well as the fall of the dynasty when the mongol's golden horde invaded the entire area. Charles XII/the 12th was indeed the young king (aged 15 at the time of succession) that stretched the Swedish empire with his revolutionary war strategies and tactics... until he bit off more than he could chew and fell at the Battle of Poltava. We have a very complex and messy history with many kings, many wars and many events that we learned in school and most of it was just too much to remember. As for the Swedish vikings vs the Danish/Norwegian vikings, the reaason the Danish & Norwegian vikings are more prominent in western culture is because they turned westward for their conquests and spreading their influence to the British Isles, along the European western coast etc. while the Swedish vikings went east and controlled the trading routes from the Baltic sea all the way to what is today Turkey (and even Persia etc. if I remember correctly). One of the most interesting historical events is when the viking prince Rurik and his brothers from the eastern part of Sweden was invited to rule the slavic tribes (they couldn't get along with eachother) and founded the Kievan Rus' dynasty known as the Rurikid. Russia (Rusland in eastern old norse) basically means "The Land of the Rus", something that annoys many Russian 'historians' to this day while other Russian scholars etc. often refer to their viking-founded roots in a positive light. While the tribes and kingdoms in Scandinavia during the viking age were very similar when it came to language, culture, tradition and religion (asatro, translated into Aesir Faith), their geographical positions basically split them into two groups: the west norse and the east norse (west old norse was spoken in Norway and Denmark while east old norse was spoken in Sweden). Norwegian vikings settled Iceland and thus it was part of the north-western Scandinavian sphere of influence as well as being part of the Kalmar Union when the Scandinavian countries fought each other over and over again. Iceland didn't gain it's independence from Denmark until 1944!!! So basically: the western vikings are the most well known and notorious vikings in western history since they made such a huge impact towards the western and south-western part of Europe while the eastern vikings did just as much in the east and south-eastern parts of Europe and northwestern Asia and the middle east. It's all based on each group of vikings geographical position. The most important reason why western vikings and their influence is well known in the west is because of the book/collection of tales called Prose Edda, a book written by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson full of tales and legends of the viking era which only covers the western viking era. The eastern viking era is covered in eastern slavic texts like the Primary Chronicle; "The Tale of Bygone Years, often known in English as the Rus' Primary Chronicle, the Russian Primary Chronicle, or simply the Primary Chronicle, is an Old East Slavic chronicle of Kievan Rus' from about 850 to 1110, originally compiled in Kiev around 1113. The work’s name originates from the opening sentence of the text, which reads: “These are the narratives of bygone years regarding the origin of the land of Rus’ , the first princes of Kiev, and from what source the land of Rus’ had its beginning.” Here's a good 10 minute youtube video about history of the slavic tribes in what is now Ukraine, western Russia, Belarus etc. and the norsemen called Rus (Swedish vikings) the Kievan Rus', the Rurik Dynasty and the end of that dynasty. Much recommended: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jZlzqcmj0q7UpGg.html

To answer the question about Iceland during the Kalmar Union; it was a holding of Norway, not a sovereign nation. After Sweden forcefully leaving the Union, Norway became pretty much a vassal nation of Denmark and once Norway managed to separate from Denmark in 1814, Denmark retained control of Iceland (and the Faroes and Greenland). From this point, Iceland gradually got more and more autonomy, but it wasn't until 1944 Iceland gained full sovereignty. Wikipedia has a good page on the line of Swedish Kings; it's still a bit complex, but it's a really good reference point: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Swedish_monarchs

Sweden did trade iron to Germany during ww2. But the real profits Sweden made during WW2 whas trading mekanikalparts like sprockets, cogwheels and wheel berings to England and other allied nations. The Social Democrats had a close relation to UK during WW2. They had operations that the other political partys did not know about. Helping Norwegan sodiers to train, rest, resuply and attack German occupation forces in Norway, across the Swedish border. And Sweden provided the Allied with lots of information about the satus and numbers of german troops and equipment that Germany sent across sweden. Krigsmakten (Swedish for the War-Force.and what we called our defence back then) had two "slogans" that they were using a lot back then too. One was "Finlands sak är vår" (The Finnish cause is ours) served to have Swedish citisens to go to Finland and fight the Comunist red Army at Finnish grounds. The other one was "En svensk tiger" (A Sweede keeps silent*) was used in Krigsmakten to remind sodliers not to speak about what they saw and heard or the orders they had. So we had a lot of Swdish sodliers in the Finnish-Swedish regiments in Finland. Some of the potitikal partys wanted to join the Axis, but most did not. The Social Democrats saw Russia and Germany as equally evil and anti democratik at the time. So the neutality was part due to not wanting to suport Russias war on Finland or the German occupation of Norway. But Sweden tried to hurt both sides and still not get drawn in to the war. [*tiger means both "Tiger" and "to remain silent" in Swedish. To "say be quiet" or "say nothing" in Swedich one can use the word "Tig"]

Also -as you will find out in Useful Charts, the relationships in Scandinavia of one king to another are very confusing and when a king dies without issue or becomes unpopular, another dynasty or another countries ruler would be invited in.

14:20 i could very well be wrong but im not sure if iceland even had any native people to begin with. Iceland was discovered by norwegians and alot of people settled there since it was a more peaceful place with less risk of being raided I think iceland was under norwegian rule until they lost a heavy war with Sweden, and then Denmark took Iceland whilst the norwegians were struggling, so ultimately i don't think Iceland was considered a country until they got their independence from Denmark.

Iceland were vikings from Norway, Greenland were taken by Danish vikings, in the UK southern parts were taken by Denmark, Wales by the Swedes and Scotland by Norway.

No never shut up and pleas stay the way you are. This is why i allways come back to you channel

considering all the wars fougt between Denmark Sweden and Norway as a Dane i cant think of anyone i hold more dearly than Sweedes and norwegians they are my brother folk.

Fun Fact: Bernadotte was not a big fan of Carl XII. He felt, correctly, military glory aside, Charles was writing checks Sweden couldn't cash being a poor, low-density population nation. Carl XII left Sweden in very poor shape. Bernadotte felt that one did not have to be a Great Power to be a great nation. And, this is borne out pretty well over the past 200 years. Also, they underplay how badly Bernadotte beat up Sweden. He was able to defeat them in two weeks of fighting. All this while part of his army was marching against the French. The irony is Denmark was given a number of chances to join the Coalition for almost a year in 1813. But, the stupidity of their idiot king brought down upon them Bernadotte's War to End All Danish Wars, fought, even more ironically with 25,000 Russians attached to his Swedish corps.

While there certaintly existed a communist party in Sweden, they were dwarfed by the Social Democrats, who outright opposed communism. Social democracy is a capitalist ideology, lest you confuse it with democratic socialism, which intends to overthrow capitalism using democratic means. Social democracy is basically for those who support labour unions and the welfare state. For most of the 20th century, the Social Democrats were so big that even when they didn’t have an outright majority, they could quite easily lean on either the communists to their left or the liberals to their right. Basically, they didn’t even have to agree to the communists demands, because if they got too rowdy, the Social Democrats could just make some small consessions to the liberal parties instead, meaning they managed to keep the communists in line. The communist party adopted a democratic socialist (not social democratic) ideology after the cold war btw, and are just called ”Vänsterpartiet” (The Left Party) instead of their earlier name ”Vänsterpartiet Kommunisterna” with the wacky direct translation of ”The Left Party, the Communists”, but is probably better translated as ”The Communist Left Party”.

The Kievan Rus (mother state of Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus) was formed by Swedish vikings and had close ties with Sweden, this meant that the local culture, language, and all were highly affected by the norse ways.

The lakes are Värnen and Vättern. As you can see they are the holes left from the rocks that was thrown into the ocean to form the islands Öland and Gotland.

There was many interesting detalis missed in this animation. Bernadotte was actually planning to attack Sweden together with the Danish before he became the king of Sweden. Thats one. The warship Wasa which was resting in Mälaren for 333 years was another missed information. The tragedy over the Mountains 1718-19 the worst mountain tragedy in history is another. Or why not the complete seabattle disaster during Charles the XI. (Not Charles fault since he was a kid).

6:55 Denmark is more known in the Anglo Saxon world. Probably because Proto Danes were the Angles and Jutes (partly even Saxons) that formed England, the land of the Angles, in the 400s, and later invaded again in the 800s, creating the Danelaw. The Swedes (and Geats) were a very similar culture, during Bronze, Iron, Vendel and Viking ages. The major difference being they travelled east and south instead of west, as described in the video.

In Sweden ghots is called götar, it have nothing with todays goth culture to do. And yes götar (goths) is swedish. The two lakes is Vättern and Vänern, Sweden is ofcourse known for having most islands in the world but we also have a few sort of big lakes, you can also see Hjälmaren and Mälaren in the picture you saw then you asked.

my grandmother who was alive during ww2 her dad had to hide a pice of ring sausage just so the can do by and they heard all the troops (rebellian or not) going outside their home. and for all of you negative people, they used everything to cover theyr windows so it would seem like the house was empty

Beeing swedish, i enjoyed this! You change my view of the americans - to the positive!

Yes, the goths are from Sweden! It's where the named for Gothenburg comes from. Keep of the goths.

The biggest lake is called Värnern and the smaller, more slim one is Vättern

Swede here! We actually sold a lot of materials to the Soviet union and Nazi Germany, That`s why we were so rich after the war, we had a pretty strong army and the economy was booming.

Monday - moonday, Tuesday - Tyr's day, Wednesday - Odin's day, Thursday - Thor's day, Friday - Frey/Freya's day, Saturday - here you go latin from Saturnus. We call it Lördag which is Lögardagr - the day you wash yourself. Sunday - Sun's day. The Hanseatic League was a league of german cities who joined in a trade league. Btw I am Scanian and do NOT agnolish the swedish king nor that we are a part of Sweden. We were part of the Danish Empire ones but we were also indepentent under the kin StrutHarald. Without Skåne, Sweden would never have acchieved what they did since we are their cornproducers.

5:00 raiding didnt really limit your options for trading, unless the people you raid had the ability to resist you if they chose to. A farming village of a tribal society that got raided by vikings last year, sees the viking comming again, will definitely prefer trading, even if they would prefer not interacting at all

6:11 The big lake is the "Vänern" and the small lake is the "Vättern" it is said in our myths that giants once threw dirt out to sea forming the now twop islands Öland and Gotland...

Pickled herring is delicious! 😁

Swedes started growing potatoes when a woman told the men farmers they could make high alcohol rate drinks and thats how they started growing potatoes

lakes are Vänern and Vettern and also Mälaren near Stockholm

Oh as a Swedish i think its intresting Swedish people are still very individualist and company hierarchy is often very flat. So the roots goes deep here it seams :P. .

Just wanted to say something that might be helpful: 'Charles' is the English form of 'Karl'...just as they often latinized earlier names of the Kings of Sweden, as for as ex. 'Gustavius' and 'Adolph(i)us' - which in Swedish is 'Gustav' and 'Adolf' respectively. Hope it was helpful, at least somewhat...the history of all Nordic countries is quite messy to be honest (I don't follow it completely myself, and I'm Swedish ;-) ). Sweden and Denmark have fought countless wars with eachother, as they both tried to dominate, both lands in what is today Sweden, but perhaps mainly places and water-ways in the Baltic Sea. Just to take two of the Nordic countries as an ex. (It is a lot messier still!). ;-)

Do not confuse socialism with communism. The difference between the two is as big as between a lion and a house cat.

Almost every day of the week is named after an asagod in sweden

Did you know that Swedens symbol the three crowns is a sybol from the time the Danmark Sweden and Norway hade there own Kingdoms but only one king rule them in.

The only scanian part that still is danish is the Island of Bornholm + some smaller Islands. Dont forget that scania ones were an own country.

The Hanseatic League was a collaboration of primarily german cities along the coast of the Baltic Sea who were excelling in trade business - ans quite succesfull in the middle ages :-)

6:05 The big lakes are Vänern (west) and Vättern (central). Plus Mälaren (east), approximately between Stockholm and Uppsala. But theses lakes were all much bigger a thousand years ago.

The city of Kristianstad in Scania still calles him Kristian the Great and everything is named C4. Very fun because the rest of sweden calls him Kristian the Tyrrant.

I think it was in 1944 Iceland declared independency from denmark while denmark was occupied by Germany.

Regarding the communist question the answer is a resounding no, we where about to go the way of other Socialist nations in the 70s when we where industrially outcompeted by the larger countries that had recovered from the 2nd world war, and we switched gears completely and went more capitalist, We are a regulated market economy now and the remnants of our bloated welfarestate is still an economic and logistical problem. Our railway is about 4decades late on it's maintenance schedule, The rights set down in our Social welfare program have pretty much turned into guidlines (like the right to a home for example could mean the state rents you a cabin at a camping site) The wait times for anything that's not an emergency in our healthcare system is rising yearly even with a guarantee to have an appointment within 90days this is not followed. we scrapped most of our mental health care and we still pay ~30% income tax a 6-20% VAT (included in the price) on everything you buy depending on the type of goods or service it is. (along with other taxes on alot of things) Swedens taxpressure 2021 was roughly 43%

Iceland was a part of both the Kalmar union and they are a part of the Nordic union. They are not a part of Scandinavia which many ppl believe. Iceland was ruled by the Danish during the middle ages. The Icelandic ppl came from Norway.

The biggest lake is Called vänern and second vätern!

If you are interested in the actual place where Carl XII met his end - many years ago I made a video (in cooperation with the Fortress commander) - detailing the fort he tried to take. The video is old and not the best quality, unfortunately - but it goes into great detail of the whys and hows of the fortifications: /watch?v=NcsZtsmMllg

The two big lakes in sweden are Vänern och Vättern. mythological stories tell that a male giant grabbed pices of swedish land(Vänern och Vättern) threw them in the baltic sea to make it easier for his pregnant female giant to walk across, and thus creating the two islands outside sweden called Öland and Gotland

One thing you americans must learn is the true ideological spectra. There is not just socialism and capitalism; but left-wing socialism (where the most extreme is communism), capitalism/liberalism/libertarianism in the center, and the right-wing socialism (where the most extreme is fascism/national socialism). So there is the far-left, center and the far-right. The closer to the center a nation is, the more democracy it has. Left-wing socialism does not have to be communism, but socialdemocracy or social-liberalism etc, where you have mixed capitalism with left-wing socialism; and the other way around where the right-wing does not have to be ultranationalism/fascism/national socialism, but conservative and regular nationalist etc, where you have mixed capitalism with right-wing socialism.

The two big lakes are called Vättern And Vänern. There is a legend a giant grabbed the land and threw it out in the the ocean creating the islands Gotland And Öland on the eastcoast.

In the Hagia Sofia there is a rune inscription saying, i think the name was, " Harald was here" , kind of funny for s person a thousand years ago

There is some scientific debate as to where the goths actually came from/lived. The English equivalent if the Swedish "götar" is geats. The origin of goths has been placed in Poland. There are Roman sources suggesting both perspectives.

17:10 fun fact. We kept like some traditions from the catholism church when we became protestatic. (clothes, processionsetc)

The two big lakes are called Vänern and Vättern. The bigger of the two is Vänern.

What people ate before the arrival of potatoes, guess there is a reason for them being called swedes (not Swedes that is). And Fattigvårdsförordning = Poor relief regulation (according to Wikipedia).

Like others have stated. All names are adapted to Latin and English. Carl>Carolus>Charles. Gustaf(v)>Gustavus etc..

Well you should even look up sabaton too,they have history channel that are linked to their music..and yes they are a swedish metal band and sing about war heroes in the world like Carleous rex the swedish king,or 40:1 1000 men in Poland was against 40000 men and they withstand for 3 days..so much to learn in their music

Rus does not mean "rowing men" its the name of peaople living in Rutenien, called Roslagen in modern times.

6:04 those 2 big lakes are called Vänern and Vättern

Denmark rules, we even took down Paris literally.

Försvarsmakten means "The Defense Power" and is in other words our military...

The Denmark = Vikings comes from the thing that pretty much all Scandic people were called Danes back in the day. People didn't know about the world that much so anyone speaking a Scandic language was called a Dane as Denmark was who they met the most as it's in the mainland Europe

The two big lakes are the long Vätern and the biggest lake in Sweden: The Vänern

21:20 I know, it's confusing. Honestly the last great king you need to know about is Karl XII (Carolus Rex) List of cool monarchs (There are a few king's in between some of these) It starts with Gustav Vasa, the guy who threw the danes out. Also the first notorious/legendary king in Sweden. Then Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) for obvious reasons. He is also the grandson of Gustav Vasa. Then Karl X (Mr. I'm going to raid Poland and take away 1/3 of Denmark's land by just crossing this little bridge of Ice) Related to Gustav Vasa too Then Karl XI (Reminded the Danes that Scania is Swedish in the Battle of Lund) Once again, related to Gustav Vasa and son of Karl X And finally, Karl XII for obvious reasons. Related to Gustav Vasa and son of Karl XI Then it's a steeep downhill for Swedish Monarchs

Well that was a video of the bare bone basics. They pretty much did time skipps of 100-300 years and didn't even go in on a number of larger things like how Gustaf Vasa rented ships from the Hansa League to defeat the Danes and then told the Hansa to F-off instead of paying. He said that Carl XII was one of the greatest military minds but Carl X was vastly superior in that aspect and was the one who founded the army system that Carl XII would rely on to make his armies. So if you felt a bit confused in this video don't frett, it was quite confusing and missed a lot. But then you don't have the "benifit" of spending every history lesson in middle school learning about the kings and what they did up until the Bernadotte's became the monarcs.

Fun fact Swedish meatballs originate from a recepie from Turkey

He forgot to mention, the swedish word for swedish people, is _svenska djävla_ and your right about the danish vikings, sweden was like a budget viking country and yes iceland was colonized from norway, then later became danish after kalmar union dissolved

28:20 It's not showing the whole picture there in that there was also a communist party, still around today, which changed its name as late as 1990 and one of their more recent leaders was against tearing down the berlin wall. As a personal anectode one of my relatives used to date a maoist back in the 70s or 80s who should show pictures of smiling people to her and my parents and say that they were better off under Mao. On the other hand sweden was influential in the whole racial science thing early on, though that was under social democratic rule IIRC.

32:10 Viking were the first to discover north america to btw

Your eyes… They are the eyes of a predator. When you watch you are fully intent. Information is passing from the video, straight into your brain. I applaud you!

Iceland was a part of Norway/Denmark at that point but not hard controlled.

Trading colonies, precede proper imperialism. Usually from off shore islands or easily defendable peninsulas (see Hong Kong) ... what is Denmark?. This is where money comes in ... when all you have is a seasonal faire for farmers/fishermen/herdsmen ... the flea market isn't that complicated. As the faire becomes more frequent and more complicated, hard money improves efficiency ... which grew rapidly with the refining of pure silver coins (drachma) and larger supplies of raw silver (Spanish mines). Gold coin (and earlier electrum) isn't convenient for normal trades, it is too valuable for small purchases.

I just want to add that suibhne missed out on mentioning something to summarize the diversity of the vikings he talked about; in some other video here on the tube (can't remember the title) they referred to some old found texts claiming that the term "viking" for us northern traders back in the day was a verb, as in something you did (gå i viking=go viking, if I'm not mistaken) rather than something you were. When resources were low in the village you simply turned to raiding as an option, rather than trading. So history is kind of taking an easy route with this terminology. Just thought I'd share that here, read up on it if you doubt my referral. Greetings from the north of Sweden!

The Hansiatic league extended to the Gulf of Bothnia. My town was one of them and this would not be but a small fishing village with a long history but no success.. We sold tar and fur, and built large ships, and imported of course anything imaginable, salt, spices and goods. The trade made the town history full of "outsiders" which still has an effect in the culture. Compared to the inland extract&produce economy, trade towns feel a bit different, the wind brings new ideas.. and in a way helped to birth the Nordic system that emphasizes liberalism and equality, as some key figures in that movement lived and studied in the coastal cities that lived from trade. They were prosperous enough to offer higher education, which seems to always lead to more equal and humane societies...

We know goths eas just not one ethnic group but probably several merging germanic and slavic peoples, and also a movement which at least begun in northen Poland (today’s), but in terms of etymology they seem to have been the same people as the gotlanders and geats (göts/götar), depicted on the map. That is the general idea. Yeas Iceland was way before the middle ages populated by Irish christisn monks and by early vikings from at least Norway around 700 or so. During the world wars Sweden continued trade wth Germany and allowed troups to transfer. But in secret trained troups to fight of Germans and Soviets in Norway and Finland and supported their arsenals.

To be clear here, Sweden was never communist or socialistic, thou it dabbled with some socialist ideas in the 70th. Sweden is and was a market capitalism. Though many, especially Americans, confuse the socialised health, education and general welfare system with especially socialism. There is a good video from the Raven channel that explains the Swedish economical system.

when a king is called charles/carolus those are just the english and latin versions of the name, the real one is karl, same with gustav and the latin version gustavus.

Kings and Generals new Post-Caesar video or the History of Medieval Ukraine at least next? :(

How can u think about Denmark when they say viking age? when Sweden hade the most famous vikings leader in history?