Not to not pick, but interestingly, the Indigenous Australians were trading with Indonesians for a significant period - in fact when the British first encountered Aboriginals in the north of the country, they already possessed rifles!

This why i like your channel so much over the others ASOIAF channels. They focus too much on the Targaryen family and Valyria, while GRRM created such an amazing mythology for his world. And you David and Tim make the best Ironborn content. I missed the livestream and stupid KZfaq take it down, so thank you David for putting the content for us anyway. What is dead may never died... 🦑

It's a good day when David uploads

The layers of different cultures arriving over time puts me in mind of the Irish Book Of Invasions, with the Fomorians, Fir Bolg, Tuatha de Danann and Milesians overlaying each other.

really loving all the ironborn stuff. i never truly appreciated ironborn mythology and symbolism before. always learning something new on this channel and that's what makes it so educational but also refreshing. thanks for all your hard work and dedication. it does not go unnoticed and we really do appreciate it. keep up the great work!

What clever parallels you have found concerning Yi Ti and Leng! I absolutely love how Martin manages to weave in terrifying depths of the Cthulhu Mythos, but manages to do it in such a way that you think it is safely parcelled away in the obvious references amongst islanders who worship The Drowned God... but it then emerges in other places where you thought you were safe (or just had to deal with skinchangers, dragons, and white walkers!) disguised as something which appears as a cognate for tree-worshipping, nature-loving paganism, green-fingered farmer-kings, tree-castles that move, and dryads! I think I also hate him a little bit for the same reason - because it makes me start to suspect that there is actually no hope for the poor people of Planetos! :-)

glad you were able to take this unfortunate incident as an opportunity to create an awesome series. i have a feeling this series will be legendary

I like rewatching the long streams. I find paying attention to David in the first and then the Chat second time round makes David's streams even more beneficial on a historical/lore/knowledge basis... helping to further breakdown hidden histories, mysteries, motives and clues!

Ironborn week, praise the Squisher kings!

Jamie referred to Ned's eyes as "cold, and grey, and full of judgment"

The history and mythology of the Ironborn are another of example of how GRRM understands human civilization and even some Earth history. He understands that if there are volcanoes around, there may be metals deposits nearby, like the gold and silver in Valyria. Since the Iron Islands only have Iron, and not other metals, it proves Moon Meteors also hit the Iron Islands.

Great stream, now Ironborn week!

I really like tim's points about the "jar" and "har" naming scheme as well as the parallels between the gemstone emperors and their less vibrant color coded yitish counterparts. One thing that I want to add that I said during stream is that iron replacing bronze was less a product of iron being that much better for weapons/tools, but rather that it was easier to come by. In the real world, bronze required access to trade routes into what is now afghanistan, and im sure that GRRM has an analogous trade route in his own worlds history.

I was 20 mins into the stream when it was taken down yesterday, such a bummer cause I was *hooked* . I'm so excited for this upload! And almost one hour of finest Ironborn content! This is def one of my favourite series you ever did, LET'S GO!

Great channel, great content! I’m very happy that you put in the work to ensure we get the content despite the KZfaq restrictions. Hoping for more lovecraftian related content!!

Love your stuff! So glad you didn’t let KZfaq just take the monetization! Great solution!

Every week Dave you get better and better which is truly astonishing!!

Thanks for doing this David! Couldn’t catch the live and was bummed it was taken down.

Loved the live stream! Keep up the great work... Cause I'm addicted 😅

There was so much good stuff in this stream man, I loved it. I’m honestly super excited to rewatch all of this and fully absorb it.

So happy I got to watch it live! But still gonna watch all 4 vids anyway! It was such a great stream! ❤😊❤😊

Missed this live but now I'll enjoy it all week at work

Love this duo, thanks guys!

The Lengi being incredibly tall and strong mariners who live on an island and are pretty terrible (the Lengi used to sacrifice all of the foreigners at the word of the Old Ones) gives me really strong Numenorian vibes (the Numenorians became brutal colonizers and by the end they sacrificed people on Sauron's word) Also if the "Pearl Palanquin=Pearl Throne=Pearl Thrown=Moon Meteor" detail was an intentional addition by George, that is an absolutely insane attention to symbolic detail I don't want to keep making additions to my comment but Good Garth, the idea that Garth the Green is related to the Grey King or the Jade Emperors of the GEotD, this whole video is such a "mind-blown" moment. Absolutely loving your content lately, especially since I'm currently taking Ancient World, Intro to Anthropology, and Intro to Archaeology classes in college right now and learning this kind of esoteric/ancient knowledge makes me feel the same as learning about Göbekli Tepe, Çatalhoyuk, and Jericho

I appreciate the condensed versions ofnthe streams, its hard to always have the time to watch but i can keep comin back to them this way

I was there for this live a few days ago and now I'm listening to it again. So much fun, as I always say two great minds doing a great deep dive. Looking forward to the next one.

So mad I missed the Livestream- that's what I get for hitting play next in queue instead of just PLAY!!! Totally pumped for Ironborn Week

Yes! I was beginning to suffer from Ironborn history withdrawal

Something I find very interesting is that almost all ancient cultures have stories of these levels of civilization. People have always known the world was immensely old

Thrilled to the gills for iron born week ❤🎉❤

You weren't being shown in my feed all the sudden you are again. The KZfaq overlords must approve of you breaking into chunks. I like both. Keep up the great work!

The fact that the first Emperor after the Long Winter is named Pearl, which is the gemstone most associated with the moon, underlines the new, greater importance of the now lonely moon. We’re in a new era and the most visible sign of that is the lonely Pearl in the night time sky - it’s the most epic and appropriate name for your dynasty trying to stamp authority over the remains of the GEOTD. It also works as a threat against potential rivals: I control the remaining moon and disobey me and I’ll wreak havoc and destruction and bring forth a new Long Winter.

Thanks for condensing it, 4+ hours is a lot to watch in one go

The suffix part was so slick! Well done!!!

Just engagin’ with the content here, Barnes.

IRONBORN WEEEKKKKK!!! i was in and out during the live steam, excited to catch what i missed

Happy ironborn week everybody 🎉

This was a great live stream! ❤ I was rewatching when it was taken down. There are so many rabbit holes in this one.

Can’t believe the one time!! I don’t immediately watch the livestream, it gets taken down 😂😂 Loved this though🎉

Now I get to watch the stream again, except this time I get the all artistic eye candy. Cool.

I was just thinking about the Grey King earlier so this is amazingly timed

Thanks for the extra efforts in the video! Glad for another great discussion with you and GWT!

Great work! Thanks for all the content LML!

Great as always, thanks for your content!

Thank you David and Tim. Amazing work.

Love the haircut! I’m thinking of growing mine out as well.

thank you for reposting this! i’m enjoying it just as much and i feel like i am picking up more than i did while watching it live! thank you for all content dave!!

Cheers! For having this wonderful channel 🎉🎉🎉🎉

Aye I wasnt expecting a vid today !!! Thanks man

Thankyou for your pre-video introduction explaining what happened to your livestream - I had to work and was so excited to watch it on my day off (today) and thought I'd gone crazy being unable to find it!

I really enjoyed the marathon LIVESTREAM with David & Tim, but it’s nice to have quickie too! Thanks

Thanks for that video ! It was awesome

I love your work, David, but when you work together with Tim, you two take it to another level! Thank you.

Yay! This was an awesome stream. I caught the end live. I’m glad you were able to edit and repost, you deserve every penny of the monetization. Can’t wait to see the next parts when they’re ready.

Nice one Dave & Tim. To be honest, I kinda prefer this format of shorter, bite-sized videos than multi-hour marathons. I can usuallly fit an hour-long video in soon after it goes up, but three or four hours livestreams may have to wait weeks for a slot, and I can't watch them live (in the UK & no TV licence).

Only saw a small piece of the livestream, but really appreciate this thorough exploration of ironborn culture, fascinating!

George is just amazing

honestly, i‘m not even upset. the content of the stream was so interesting, i‘m happy to watch it a second time. and the extra editing is soo awesome! thank you ♥️

Regret missing the livestream, but this was really interesting.

What an opening, got me excited. I'm stopping this 15 seconds in to catch up on yesterday. I'll be back in 4 hours or so 😛

I love the Ironborn focus. Keep at it and hope you're well!

Excellent job thank you

Beautiful!

Great video as per usual.

I'm just reposting here because the last video was removed. I came across an interesting phenomenon called a "water hammer". It's common in closed pipe systems. It can cause explosions and loud cracking noises. It's confirmed in the Arianne chapter, that Dorne has tunnels used by the children. I'm wondering if the underground tunnels were used to cause the "Hammer of the Waters". The name itself is similar enough. Idk, I'm still new to all the lore and this might be super far-fetched. Could also explain the drowned "watery halls". Love your videos!

Can’t wait for the rest of the series. Iron born time!!

I listen to your videos every morning when I’m working and as always I am stunned to see just how much thought and work GRRM has put into his ASOIAF series. You’re doing an amazing job, thank you!

Gimme the good stuff!

Dope video as always but fwiw i like your essay style videos over convos like these, even outlined/structured ones. They're just more interesting to follow, but then I did grow up in the pre-podcast era

Waaaah!!! Soooo good 🤯👏👏👏 it always amazes me how much stuff u guys r able to uncover! It shows how good u r and how good George's writing is... so many layers upon layers to unpack 🤯

Super awesome!

Amazing Deep dive 👏love the section with gem stone emperors

Yay!! New video.

The stream was epic but I'm here for ironborn week

It was truly a sick stream it was awesome - and long - and omg I just said that out loud in my mind and it sounds funny 😁 but still posting this

Excellent video!! All the work put into it really does show!! The Mad King one was a masterpiece as well!!

I’m glad this is back, I was about 3/4 of the way through the replay and it died. I was hoping it would come back. What I saw was awesome! I’m looking forward to this.

Love you and Grey Waste Tim.

a comment got into a video, life goals completed.

Sucks youtube is insane with the demonetization these days. This was one of your best streams maybe ever.

You guys' commitment to show and teach us is truly commendable. Great work, amazing content, and unparallel talent from both. Gracias×1000!

Long live King David

Dave and Tim are the Carlson and Hancock of ASOIAF - nice one fellas.

Thanks David. I’ve been catching up on your Meteorite Theory videos lately. I recently learned that ‘Meteors’ are made from remnants of Super Nova explosions and they are born and travel through the Icy depths of Space. They are actually born of Ice and Fire. Fascinating.

Round 1 of 4 LmL & grey waste tim smashing it out of th park cannot wait for 2,3&4 ❤️💚💚❤️

It's become plain to me as an avid reader of Martin's work, that he's well aware of all the peripheral theories of our own human evolution, catastrophes during the last ice age and the younger dryas period, etc. I think he has woven many parallel stories into one all encompassing history (much like our own reality) and, like a gardener, truly doesn't adhere to one "true" version of history but leaves much open for interpretation - and therefore also leaving much of the story malleable for future story building.

Towards the end you mention the Stone and Salt marriage culture being a throwback to Leng, it is also parallel in the main story were the more advanced neo-Mariners, the Targaryen foreigners, bring their incestual marriage practices to Westeros where it clashes with Andal/First Men practices, but eventually it rubs off slightly.

This!!! Love the post editing to match the conversation! Idk how long this took you or your editor but every livestream should be repackaged this way! I’ll volunteer editing time if need be!

Har in the Ironborn could be related to Chinese Hai which means sea. Like Shanghai, Bei hai, etc. which means by the sea or north sea etc. In Chinese, the northern dialect adds an R sound to the end on many words like Hai becomes Har. Kai becomes Kar, like Wong Kar Wai the director of many Chinese movies. BTW, George may have read some Chinese philosophy because. One of the most famous Chinese philosophers is Lao Zi which means 'Old Master ', who is said to predate all others. This is obviously paralleled to the old ones in ASOIAF.

I think when Tim whispered tape might have got y’all flagged. Still ridiculous but glad you are bringing it back like this. Y’all had so much be energy and information through this the 4 hour cast felt like flew by.

I envy the hair. I'll enjoy this here when I get home and can turn the volume up.

I saw all this in the live stream re-watch, but here I am. To boost the views and watch time. Because that's what heroes do. 😎

Love it, mate. Awesome video, as always. I think 'Har' would be a prefix rather than a suffix, though

Cogs are ocean going craft but they are sail driven exclusively and so are dead in the water without either a strong current to carry them along or a wind to fill their sails. These could be armed and manned as fighting ships but are arguably better suited for merchantmen. A longship however is a more maneuverable vessel that can be powered by sails or oars and its sleeker design in many cases likely would have resulted in better handling capabilities and speed making them better suited to war and raiding while also being capable trading vessels

Wiiiiii happy it’s up

It was wild ......shame I missed parts

Lol, DL and GWT are probably the only ones that could convince me that maybe Robert shouldn't have finished the job... Maybe... Appreciate your work! Thank you!

Damn a 4 hour long stream? I think breaking it up is a very good idea 😅

Another banger

That was such a great stream!!! I hope it wasn't because of the chat. 🙊 Jumping on these all week! Absolutely loving all of this Ironborn content!!! 💛