Bulwark: Floating Forts of the Ancient Baltic
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At the very end of the Scandinavian Viking age, a huge wooden castle was built on a lake in the island of Gotland. A large number of houses and other buildings were erected on a vast platform floating in the middle of the water. Around the construction, timber piles were driven vertically into the lake bed forming a pole blockage, a means of defense against encroaching ships.
It is known as "Bålverket" in Swedish, a word which has survived into English as "Bulwark". The Bulwark seem to have been constructed rather quickly, perhaps in just one season. However, the work required a labour force of approximately 38 000 man days, and the amount of necessary wood would be about 25 000 trees. Strangely enough, the Works saw little use, and was seemingly abandoned shortly after construction. But the question remains, as to why, the castle was built.
Sources:
Bålverket - Johan Rönnby
Ship and Society - Gunilla Larsson
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@balticempire7244 11 ай бұрын
Subtitles are now available!
@MickeyMouse-el5bk 9 ай бұрын
There is a German word: " Bollwerk" meaning a strong big construction to fight of attackers.
@rblom1632 Ай бұрын
In Dutch it's called bolwerk and in Frisian (a small part of Holland = friesland) its called bolwurk. The word has multiple meanings but is actually a (round) defense wall around a (viking) town. Bol refes to round, a place a canon can reach 270 degrees. Wurk or werk or wark means work. It's like a "roundwork", a defence platforn. nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bolwerk_(bouwwerk) Also Amsterdam is built on wooden poles at about the same time. And Venice is also built on wooden poles???? Maybe it was built for the same reasons as venice was built? Terrible rulers and high taxes at land? So you build a tax free trading zone.
@theicepickthatkilledtrotsk658 Жыл бұрын
Ancient floating forts really are fascinating. Interestingly enough they were not only built by civilization on the baltic. On the balkans an ancient kingdom obscure to most people, Paeonia build them as well. That was a civlisation of Thracian origins I believe. Herodotus gives a nice Idyllic glimpse of the life of the lakedwellers.
@balticempire7244 Жыл бұрын
I might look into that for the video on floating forts in the rest of Europe
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
Venice of the North. Been there, done that.
@INSANESUICIDE 11 ай бұрын
I am seeing you everywhere man xD
@dmitritelvanni4068 11 ай бұрын
Thank you for your service.
@maciejniedzielski7496 11 ай бұрын
@@balticempire7244mythical port of Truso (near nowadays Elbląg in Poland, German name Elbing) on the southern coast of the Baltic sea could have been one of these floating forts as well.
@alexrexaros9837 11 ай бұрын
Man. I thought Laketown was unrealistic, but I guess not. I'm sometimes wondering like how far were people willing to go to build such wonders without the machines we have today.
@marwanmusa9368 11 ай бұрын
Here in South East Asia, the indigenous people (islanders) make similar structures.
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
@@marwanmusa9368 yeah especially when typhoon floods village up to roof every so often....
@Margoth195 11 ай бұрын
i was going to reference Laketown but you beat me to it!
@MacScarfield Жыл бұрын
I can’t help but wonder if JRR Tolkien got some inspiration for Lake-town/Esgaroth from Bulverket (or some of the other similar Baltic or European structures you mention), especially since The Professor was known to have an interest in both the Goths ("The Saga of Hervör and Heudrek" being one inspiration for the Rohirrim along with the Anglo Saxons) and the Geats ("Beowulf"), often tied at least in name to Gotland! Would also be interested in hearing more about the Gotland Sun Cult: Would be interesting to see possible links to the Nordic Bronze Age Sun Cults!
@balticempire7244 Жыл бұрын
I've got a lot of videos planned on Gotland, it has a very unique and fascinating history
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
Tolien borrowed generously from the Slavic mythology and lore.
@MacScarfield 11 ай бұрын
@@zipperpillow The clearest is that the name of the wizard Radagast the Brown is based on the deity Radogast, otherwise it is mostly indirectly through the Mythologies of the same Indo-European origin as the Slavic (such as the Germanic and Celtic) and cultural overlap with Finnish myths (the Finnish National Epic Poem “Kalevala” was a major inspiration for Tolkien, both for the story and the Elvish language).
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
@@MacScarfield Nice try at smoothing things over. Tolkien was a bootlegger. He wasn't even trying to create a common mythology, he was just exploiting and appropriating the folklore he could dig up and throw into his goulash recipe and hope for the best, which....in the 1970's when everyone was reading it, seemed really new, though the references were really old, and the University-level scholarship critics were really incompetent at critiquing. Tolkein would be roasted alive in the comments section today. Rightfully so. Because his work doesn't matter. It was Fiction. Like "German" History. Homo-erotic Fantasy, that little kids grow up believing is real.
@gusess5743 11 ай бұрын
@@zipperpillow found the Church burner 😂
@cameronvallejo4157 Жыл бұрын
A video on the Slavonic ships would be awesome ! Great video as always !
@__-qe3nd Жыл бұрын
Also do one on Curonians and Finnic pirates. I saw memes of Finnic pirates fighting with logs.
@orkako 11 ай бұрын
Since time immemorial in the Baltic, ships have been similar. People think that each nation had its own type of ships, but this is not true. In Europe, ships have always been divided into northern ships whose inspiration came from the Baltic, and southern ships, for which inspiration always came from the eastern Mediterranean. Sometimes Liberians created ships that combined features of northern and southern ships. Each nation had its own style of shipbuilding, but the general shape and technological applications were common to either the north or the south. For example, Scandinavian boats and Slavic boats were very similar to each other, but had several differences. In Scandinavian ships, the decorative smog heads were removable. In Slavs, they were permanently affixed and often depicted not only mythical beasts, but also ordinary animals. Scandinavian boats had a small draft, which allowed them to sail up rivers. Slavic boats had a large draft, but allowed horses to be transported, making it possible to conduct raids inland. As a curiosity, I would like to add that among the Germans, French and English, the myth of the Scandinavian - the wikinig who robs - has become firmly established. In the Slavs it does not function, because the Scandinavians mainly traded with the Western Slavs, and if someone plundered someone, it was usually the Slavs of the Scandinavians. However, much more often they plundered together. Viking is the name of an occupation, not a nation. They were simply pirates. Slavic Vikings were called Chansnycks.
@Ziddings Жыл бұрын
A video on Slavonic pirates would be cool.
@gregfortenberry-hx2th 11 ай бұрын
There’s a video on the wends.
@geckoman1011 11 ай бұрын
I'm glad I stumbled onto this. Pre industrial engineering is so fascinating
@mariusrbech573 11 ай бұрын
Here in Bergen, at the UNESCO World Heritage site Bryggen, the buildings stands on bolverk, and it was built after the big fire in 1702. When they dug out after a fire in 1955, they found a total of 9 city fires, and all of those generations have used bolverk closest to the sea when expanding the harbor after every fire. When we restore the foundations, we also use bolverk.
@overtonhallford54 Жыл бұрын
Yes. I would love to learn more about crannogs.
@dylanesworthy9532 Жыл бұрын
Please do a video about Slavonian pirates. The Vikings need their reputational monopoly broken
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
Vikings=Boring. Slavs=Interesting.
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
@@jamesa1841 Vikings were gay.
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
@@jamesa1841 Lost what? They are the majority of Europe. How is that losing?
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
@@zipperpillow meat and fish = interesting grain and beer = not interesting
@zipperpillow 11 ай бұрын
@@szymonbaranowski8184 To each, their own.
@kai_plays_khomus 9 ай бұрын
Even a high percentage of germans aren't aware about it which is an absolute shame, but the wends as a people with a distinct western slavic identity, culture and language actually survived to this day and are germany's only autochtone minority and officially recognized as such. To be precise it's even about two peoples called _Sorbs and Wends_ who are related but still distinct enough for each having its own western slavic language, settling in the region around the state border of Saxony and Brandenburg. There you will find bilingual public signage, official documents etc. and there are schools with sorbic or wendic as first, second or third language, and you can have your school exams in of those languages, besides other things. It's actually pretty amazing that they managed to maintain their culture and identity as a small minority since german people settled and conquerd what's the east of modern Germany today roughly 800 years ago.. To this day in all of east Germany way beyond what's wendic and sorbic area of settlement today many towns, villages and geographical features have names derived from the western slavic languages spoken here before, as the abundance of town and village name ending on "-tz" or "-ow such as _Rudow, Storkow, Straupitz or Lankwitz._
@rrn7769 9 ай бұрын
That's right.
@mossig 11 ай бұрын
A lot of exaggerations here, I have been to the Gotland site and passed over the site with a small boat. First it's a small fresh water lake and you can't reach it from the sea even in a small boat. The lake is now 44 meters above the Baltic sea and was around 20 meters above in the year 1200 according to Swedish government. But I think the rate of land rise is far less because you can find older viking graves in only 10 meters above the Baltic sea. Probably something changed. This Bålverket like many other fortresses was erected by local farmers as a refuge from raiders. I doubt that more then a hundred people was involved in building it and ever stayed there. Most likely it burned down pretty fast. More interesting is that there are fish on this island that came all the way from China a thousand years ago.
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
China? how was it even possible? 🤯
@mossig 11 ай бұрын
@@szymonbaranowski8184 It has to do with that this species Carassius Auratus(gold fish) and the European relative Carassius Carassius has a small amount of alcohol in the blood during winter hibernation. If you pack the fish with ice in wet straw they will survive almost indefinitely. They were transported by camel caravans over wast areas to use for breeding in monasteries around Asia and Europe. On the island of Gotland there is now a interesting thing going on. All Auratus are females and they breed with male Carassius but all offsprings are clones of the mother. So over the years their DNA is different then both parent species. Kind of an hybrid but still not. I held the Swedish fishing record years back with one weighing over 2.9 kgs. I always claimed it was not a true Carassius Carassius but no one believed me. Now 20 years later it's an established fact. I had many Auratus in my swimming pool and it sprung a leak at winter and all the water disappeared. When spring came I removed by hand the ice and only the big ones where dead by crushing, but the small one's survived sheltered by the bodies of the big, even without any water at all.
@justanotherguy965 8 ай бұрын
Cheers for the fascinating video. I was going to ask you to please make a video about the Wends... but I see that you already have - nice one :)
@1992zorro 9 ай бұрын
I hope this channel becomes big, this guy found a very interesting niche of history to talk about
@peterhoulihan9766 Жыл бұрын
I'd be very interested in a video about crannógs. I visited a recreated one when I was a kid and I was fascinated by them ever since.
@mageillus Жыл бұрын
Slavonic pirates let’s GO!
@_p3t3r_34 Жыл бұрын
A video about slavic raids would be nice, yes. You could mention how Racibor of Pomerania with his army burned and sacked norweigan city Konungahela in 1135. Also I've been to Biskupin, pleasant place, but someone who's into ancient slavs would appreciate it more than I could.
@INSANESUICIDE 11 ай бұрын
Victual brothers did the same in Bergen I believe
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
they were cool but they weren't very Slavic people living close to sea there have much less Slavic genes R1b vikings can hardly be called Slavic "Vikings" more like exViking blood waking up to own natural blood ways.. so more like RatsiBiorn if with R1b sea wasn't ever our thing as we are forest and mountain people
@tomaskormark1747 9 ай бұрын
Kungälv 10 min north of Gothenburg
@MaximusOfTheMeadow Жыл бұрын
If you could make a video about the Irish floting citys Mr Baltic Empere, That would be Awsome Just like this video, it almost blew my mind It kind of makes me think were Tolkien had the idea from for Laketown😏
@johnwige2905 9 ай бұрын
Absolutely riveting, what good coverage on the ingenuity of early man. Anything more as far as content in this vain would be splendid.
@fjdkfdfjdf33 9 ай бұрын
Thanks for floating this topic!
@user-hq8pj3zl5u 11 ай бұрын
Morrowind music came in so well, floating fortress idea for some wouldn’t be more usual then living in a naturally occurring mushroom😅
@user-qk4gk1sw9n 2 ай бұрын
спасибо что показали постройки это так необычно до вас никто не показывал
@alaricsjourney5375 11 ай бұрын
Awesome video man:) Önskar en trevlig dag!
@oldmanwillyboy2786 11 ай бұрын
As Teenagers in the 70's we would swim out would out to the Crannogs in the Scottish Loch's and camp for the weekends, sometimes longer..............we floated supplies over on small inflatable dinhgy's...........Firewood/food/alcohol etc.........they were great places to escape the clouds of giant Midges..........
@Cherb123456 11 ай бұрын
Enjoyed! Thank you for your work!
@merafirewing6591 Жыл бұрын
Man, floating forts are cool.
@rebralhunter6069 Жыл бұрын
Yes id love an entire video on the topic
@changeshifter4852 Жыл бұрын
Yes please to the extra video. Thanks!
@leoscheibelhut940 9 ай бұрын
Great presentation! I'd be very interested in seeing a presentation on the Wends.
@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302 8 ай бұрын
Yes, a vid about the Crannog's would be great, thanks.
@silentone11111111 11 ай бұрын
Great vid. Keep up the content. Happy to subscribe ❤
@TheQuallsing 3 ай бұрын
This was pretty interesting. I like your content!
@grizzmax 4 ай бұрын
Fascinating. Well done.
@TheDocLamkin Жыл бұрын
I would love to see some thing on floating scottish and irish homes as its my heritage. Thanks for the great content
@maciejniedzielski7496 11 ай бұрын
@Baltic Empire thx algorithms for recommended me your video. Sub! I come from Gdańsk Danzig (at the Baltic sea of course). I read that in the ancient times first Gddanytz (premier port and city of Gdańsk) was built on huge wooden trunks directly stuck by ingenious constructeurs in the swamps typical of landscape of Pomerania seaside).
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
before Dutch came with melioration technology
@WalterWhite_2077 9 ай бұрын
I once visited such a structure at lake Ohrid, North Macedonia. Originally it was a fishing village, not a fortress, but it still looked the same as the ones you showed in your video.
@mMAmericanSpiritMm Жыл бұрын
First time I've ever used patreon, hope you got it and continue making these great vids on rare topics. Thanks mate.
@balticempire7244 Жыл бұрын
thank you so much!! I publish videos once a month on this channel, I'm glad you enjoy them
@cabowerks3973 11 ай бұрын
Great video ❤ please do one on the Scottish bog villages🙏
@PaulRoberts61877 9 ай бұрын
More of this please
@zwaggyzergling5272 9 ай бұрын
A video about Crannogs would be very interesting
@sheep1ewe 11 ай бұрын
This was super interesting! I hawe seen the fist sites location, but it has always been a mystery to me despite all the previous explanations about it from older sources. Yes, of course we want to hear more about the Vendel ships!
@sheep1ewe 11 ай бұрын
A thing i remember from whan i was a kid was that one could create smjall iislands by gatering a lot of reeds in a big lump, and it would soon form a small island one could stand on. If one continue to build ut the reeds on top every year i think it would last for many years, but probably not leave many traces for the future. There are also smalll natural islands of floating moss i tried to cut loose pices of those chunks whan i was a mkkid in order to buld an actual floating island, much more labour intense, but i think it would last much longer.
@Sk0lzky 9 ай бұрын
My hometown was built using these techniques, the current version of the oldtown (including some buildings from middle ages) sitting between 0,5 to a few meters over the original ones, which essentially sank down as the soil gradually stabilised further. There's a funny spot in one church which shows the uncovered original entrance arch about adult man's height below ground level - it's inside the current church and slightly offset to the side from current entrance ^^
@nicholaswoollhead6830 11 ай бұрын
Insanely interesting video! I would love a video on the Vendic pirates. I grew up near Corselitze on Falster in Denmark, where the Corselitze woods cover the entire north-eastern corner of the island. I was recently told, by a man who tends the woods out there, that the wood was originally planted to discourage a landing by the Vends, as a wooded coast would look inoccupied from afar. Similarly, many towns and villages in southern Denmark are placed a few kilometers inland, with a smaller town by the coast by the same name, but with the suffix of "harbour". A good example is Rødby and Rødby Havn on Lolland. Id love to learn more about those people.
@balticempire7244 11 ай бұрын
The Wends-video is out: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bbdhe7R53Z7YfXU.html
@ddc2957 11 ай бұрын
Never heard of this. Thank you.
@Vault_Girl69 11 ай бұрын
They left the bullwark because a wizard, a hobbit, and a band of dwarves accidently awoke an ancient dragon whilst visiting the area one day.
@etee08 11 ай бұрын
Great Video!
@colinbarnard6512 11 ай бұрын
Today, I learned about a New Thing. Something I've never known before. And now I do. A good day.
@1d1ane Жыл бұрын
Brilliant TY shared.
@andrewrackliff8223 8 ай бұрын
This is wild. I wonder if we could even do this today.
@chillywonka25 11 ай бұрын
This is so fire.
@hughgrection7246 11 ай бұрын
Have my algorithm food dude. Great content .
@eardwulf785 11 ай бұрын
Bulwark to boardwalk. I love the origins and journey of language
@beau4129 11 ай бұрын
Good job your channels r great sir ty
@timandrews2023 10 ай бұрын
Very interesting thanks
@sirreginaldfishingtonxvii6149 11 ай бұрын
Very interesting! Never heard of this before.
@MagnumGreenPanther 11 ай бұрын
Yes please do a video on the subject of cavalry ships
@MrChillerNo1 11 ай бұрын
yes make a video about the floating houses/crainoks (?) in Ireland and Scotland!
@ac_pejk3113 11 ай бұрын
You sir got my subscription! Thank you for this wonderful content 🙏
@danielmalinen6337 9 ай бұрын
I find it interesting that many researchers don't even know about these. I first heard about the floating cities in the radio podcast. But when I wanted to know more about these castles, the historians I asked about them explained that they had never heard of such and suspected that they must be myths and legends like Atlantis because they don't sound believable. I was disappointed because the expert on the podgast was sure of the existence of these floating castles and this video just confirms that they really were real and not local myths and legends. So thank you for this video and for removing the uncertainty about whether these castles existed or not.
@AhriOfAstora 11 ай бұрын
Oh my god, this was so interesting!
@Leitis_Fella 11 ай бұрын
Ah yes, Morrowindish, my favorite Norse music genre
@JasperKlijndijk 11 ай бұрын
This is awesome
@handthing9709 9 ай бұрын
Love the Morrowind music, so peaceful
@BigOilApologist69 11 ай бұрын
Good vid
@gitmoholliday5764 11 ай бұрын
in Dutch we also have "Bolwerk"
@markhughes7927 9 ай бұрын
Great interest!❤ I think the defensive advantage against casual marauding of lake building must make such structures ubiquitous over time and space. King Hiram of Tyre built a whole city off-shore and supplied it with water using leather pipes from a sub-marine freshwater source and it lasted centuries. I think the idea is good for a come back and would love to see young people buck the current system which robs and degrades them by taking to lakes, estuaries and even the sea. (There is a structure called a ‘syncopated cubeoctahedron’ - its module comprises 18 elements which can be modeled using bar mats (5-8-5) and it extends in 3D into a matrix - khatmatrix - and which locks up water for bulk and stability. Many variations too - and even deep ocean possibilities in my humble estimation.)
@nakenmil 11 ай бұрын
I'm not sure if the use here of the term "floating" is correct. They're earthworks connected to the bottom, or otherwise resting on poles. Nothing, besides the boats, is really "floating" as far as I know.
@timkbirchico8542 Жыл бұрын
good vid
@unearthlyenemy 11 ай бұрын
W history lesson, W imagery, W Morrowind music
@user-xx4qg4bv8i 11 ай бұрын
River crannogs and Celtic pirates would be some great videos
@TheZebinatorofficial 10 ай бұрын
Nice choice of music, love the Morrowind OST
@nozrep 9 ай бұрын
ohhhh this also reminds me of a Venezualan guy explaining to me why Venezuela is called Venezuela. Because….Venice! Haha the Spanish conquistadors saw the natives in dwellings on stilts in the water when first arrived, apparently. And it reminded the Spanish sailors of Venice, Italy’s structures so they called it “little Venice” or “mini Venice” or some such in the Spanish…. Venezuela!
@culturedape279 11 ай бұрын
A presentation of the constructions on lake Constance would be nice.
@gozer87 9 ай бұрын
I was going to mention those. We visited on the open air museum on vacation.
@user-zp7jp1vk2i 9 ай бұрын
as a Canadian Boy Scout I spent some major time on lakes , and in the summer to clouds of mosquitos that would come up at dusk you couldn't BREATHE without inhaling them. A fresjh water lake with llittle water movement??? black flies, no-see-uhms, horse flies, mosquitos...the torture would be all day every day.
@UnclePutte 11 ай бұрын
The slavonic pirates are fascinating, and I would gladly hear of them. Almost as mysterious as the victual brothers.
@aaronpeterdodds-chater4795 23 күн бұрын
Do one on the wends brother,I'm interested as are many others,please
@maynardfrench5418 8 ай бұрын
Thank you, I had no idea. When you say "floating", were they actually floating like a raft or houseboat or were they built on piles?
@user-sm4mi8ug9q 8 ай бұрын
Maybe it depends from place to place?
@mrsmo3d 11 ай бұрын
Great!
@inquisitorwalmarius6650 11 ай бұрын
love that use of the morrowind soundtrack for this theme
@whiskeywookie2758 11 ай бұрын
Would love to hear your take on the Celtic crannochs
@nozrep 9 ай бұрын
that is cool I have never even heard of this part of history and that is why I love history! Bulwark? An place it was?! then becoming an English word? I’d have never guessed! Well… haha I did guess it was like, a German word turned into an English word. But it wasn’t that either! haha anyways that is some super interesting history right there.
@TheMcspreader 9 ай бұрын
Very interested in crannogs but my understanding is that they didn't float as such but were erected on piles fixed into the loch bed.
@arth-ritisoutdooradventure7467 11 ай бұрын
I am not the first person to make the Laketown connection here, and I certainly won't be the last. Just make sure if any dwarves turn up that they actually kill the dragon they're looking for instead of setting it loose.
@rrn7769 9 ай бұрын
Many Germans are Slavs, just germanised.
@thomasolsen8316 9 ай бұрын
Didnt the Jomsvikings have a Bulwark? Could you make something about it?
@Club420 9 ай бұрын
Finally, I know where this word comes from
@newandoldtech5634 11 ай бұрын
A video about Tingstäde is a full episode in itself. Seems to have been a large fortress on Gotland, and was destroyed by fire. Built around 1100 is a guess.
@harryh4rp4n31 11 ай бұрын
Was going to mention that, Pretty cool location in a swamp/lake on the biggest island in Sweden!
@mnp3713 9 ай бұрын
funny thing in Denmark we still use the word Bolværk for the structure under a pier
@kettleions 11 ай бұрын
Ta! Cheers 👋
@ropeburnsrussell 11 ай бұрын
Did they really float or were they built on piles? Fascinating subject, thanks.
@sidekickbob7227 9 ай бұрын
Non of them float. Different building methods.
@YesNo-ev3ot 11 ай бұрын
Just wondering why you would build whole towns floating out of wood for protection when a fire ship or fire in general
@whyukraine 11 ай бұрын
I think we all know why it was abandoned: too much Smaug in the city.
@zacharysimone5817 11 ай бұрын
i wonder if these had to do with basically creating a favorable port and docking harbor that would have been less favorable to construct on local coastlines??? even if they are on lakes....
@yaraartsgroup9801 7 ай бұрын
do more on slavic ships etc
@jeremiahr7585 11 ай бұрын
Please do a video on crannogs
@serbobertross5948 11 ай бұрын
Neat
@izumihanagata1148 9 ай бұрын
So, Bulwark is like a floating village which resembles like those floating villages that we currently found in some parts of Asia, Africa and South America?
@balticempire7244 9 ай бұрын
no, bulwarks were deliberate construction projects by an organized power for the interest of said power, whereas the villages you speak of seem to be improvised grassroot projects organically risen out of necessity, such as fishermen flocking to common fishing grounds, setting up their homes nearby, followed by salesmen and services for the fishermen, and so it snowballs
@izumihanagata1148 9 ай бұрын
Oh I see. Thanks for the info
@pawekobylinski4634 11 ай бұрын
In Poznań Poland you can visit a museum where you can see the reminiscents of structures built with this technique.
@ak5659 11 ай бұрын
I'll have to remember that the next time I go visit my cousins in Poznań.
@szymonbaranowski8184 11 ай бұрын
and make polish less polish
@pawekobylinski4634 11 ай бұрын
@@szymonbaranowski8184 It's typical slavic technique of building fortifications. Kind of chest build with two oak logs layed on another two oak logs filled with Erth and stones. Poznań had walls 10m high.
@vickilindberg6336 11 ай бұрын
Yes, pirates with cavalry? Please!
@PatrickKniesler 11 ай бұрын
Makes me think of two things: fire and ice. Fire, because the pitch and creosote used to preserve the wooden structure would be extremely flammable. Ice, because i wonder if these are the origins of tales of ice castles.
@Sandhoeflyerhome 11 ай бұрын
Point of order, they were not floating as such they stood off the bottom by poles or stakes ....