"So many Karls in Swedish history" - said King Louis the 18th of France "Quite right" - agreed King Edward the 8th of England

11:00 Serfdom never took off? It never took off because it was made illegal by Magnus Ladulås about a centruy before this. The nobles tried passing their serfs of as slaves to circumvent the law so Magnus' son rolled his eyes and made slavery illegal too.

I remember how in Finland, we were taught of the Swedish crusades in 4th grade and i was like "What nice guys coming to save us from going to hell" and approxicately 6 years later when we discussed it more in detail i went "Wait a minute"

You have no idea how much youtubers like us look up to you. Thanks for bringing back the incredible content, we love it!

Just wanted to pop in and say that I think that this video showcases a highly qualitative understanding of Swedish and Scandinavian history that I really wasn't expecting to see come out of a non-Swedish source outside of academia. Very nicely done man.

Lots of love to our Swedish brothers and sisters! You are awesome! - A stinky Dane

Fantastic video! I noticed something around 14.00. Karl IX wasn't a grandchild to Gustav Vasa, he was his son (the third of Vasa's sons to take the throne). Sigismund is the grandchild (from Johan III:s line). // Swedish history teacher

When you break it down, trading and raiding are mostly the same thing. Just the currency changes. In the former, you get gold, silver, precious metals, gemstones and other goods. In the latter you get an axe to the skull, sword to the gullet, mace to the brain and other physically distressing items. The Vikings were essentially very motivated buyers.

As a Dane I find this very interesting, after all as Sun Tzu said "know thy enemy" Nah, just kidding, great video and best of wishes to my Swedish neighbors.

Fun fact. The Hanseatic league had such a big inpact on the city Bergen (here wrongly called Bryggen, Bryggen is Just a tiny area of the city) that the local beer in Bergen is to this day called Hansa and there is a historical hotell placed at Bryggen called the Hanseatic hotell. (The building is from the 1500s).

As a Swed I just wanted to thank you for making this video. It’s not very often one if my favorite KZfaqrs makes a video about my home country so thank you 🙏

I learned so much Latin from this video

Thank you for making this. The video was really good! The quality is something else.

I have only recently found your channel, and I have been binge watching your videos ever since, I love them, I can tell lots of work goes into them.

14:03 Just a correction: Karl IX was Gustav Vasa's son, not his grandson. Sigismund, however, was Gustav Vasa's grandson

Great job 👏! As a Swedish history nerd I loved it. Still waiting for Hollywood to make a movie from some of the fantastic stories we have. We have our own William Wallach in Nils Dacke, Stockholms bloodbath the rise of Gustaf Vasa or Swedens Game of thrones with Håtunaleken and Nyköpings gästabud as main plot. There are so many too choose from.

Thanks for a balanced run through of my country's history. It's nice to have an outside perspective on such things, and it's also nice to see that it doesn't differ a lot from what I've been taught in school.

You're a nice KZfaqr, your content is informative, easy to understand and fun. Even if I can't afford to buy your stuff I just wanted to thank you for your effort in sharing knowledge, have a blessed life!

This was a really nice and well made video. Love the animation. Keep up the good job!

Loved this video! And as someone who has studied the following things closely: A deep dive into Kalmarunionen, Almarestäket, Stockholm Bloodbath and Vasa's journey (before and after the bloodbath) would make for such an awesome video of yours. In Peace

Pickled herring is wonderful. This should not be confused with fermented herring. A very different kettle of fish, as it were. It takes an heroic effort to even get close enough to fermented herring to taste it. Doesn't taste much and is clearly not worth the cost of its smell.

During the age of liberty did the swedish parlamentet had a couple of lose partys. The two most prominent was called caps and hats. The hats konsisted most of nobilitys and wanted to regain the empires through conquest. Then they got pover they attacked russia. Therefor the hat war. Also one of the main reason for Gustav vasa to join the reformation was that he need money to repay the german cities that had helped him. Also duke karl was also just power hungry. The whole protestant vs catholic thing did play a part in it. But he mostly did it to become king. But as you said he was a devoted protestant probably the most fanatic of the vasa dynasty

This is honestly very well made my guy keep it up

Viborg was the center of the danish reformation. The lose of land was terrible, because skåne+sjælland is what is consideret to be the danish hearthland.

As a Swede in very greatful for the time and effort you put into this video that is dedicated to us. Thank you very much, as always this was a great video with great quality.

As a Swede, I appreciate the Swedish recognition!💙💛🇸🇪🇸🇪

Dang 8 months between videos… I appreciate your hard work man. This is a great video. :)

I just want to say how beautiful these videos are, they are an incredibly enjoyable watch

I liked this a lot,as a Swede. Specially that quick little details,on the chalkboard telling the class when it`s time för mellanmål. Well done. :)

I live in Bogesund (now called Ulricehamn) and I've heard about the war on the lake, but I didn't know how much of a role it played. Great video! Fun fact: there's a pretty famous swimming area where Sten Sture got shot xD

Loved the small references hidden in the video! Really shows how much detail goes into these videos.

New to your channel, and I’m genuinely impressed by the quality of content you have here. You’ve earned a new sub.

My fellow Sabaton fans gonna have a field day with this one

I would really like to see you do a video on Ethiopia. This country has such an interesting history of resisting colonialism, fighting the Italians, and the famous Queen of Sheba

Great video, glad you're still making them!

I feel like denmark can have malmö back, Good video!

14:03 Karl IX was Gustav Vasa's son, not grandson. And Gustav II Adolf (Gustavus Adolphus) was the grandson of Gustav Vasa. Just a slight correction

I'm surprised you left out the thirty years war so much since it was such an important war for the swedish empire, but I guess the video would've been a bit too long then. Also it felt weird that you made it look like Karl XII was the one attacking his neighbours when in fact it was them who attacked him and his empire to gain controll over the Baltic Sea, but maybe that was just me misunderstanding you. Anyways, awesome work. A great video!

I was surprised that you uploaded today but i'm glad that you're back with a new video

Glad to see you’re back suibhne. Was beginning to wonder when you were coming back. Glad you are

"Hey, Jean, we're gonna make you our new crown prince in line to be king!" "Dope!" "By the way, mind if we call you Karl?" "M...my name's Jean." "Karl XIV Johan it is." "What?!"

An amazing video. It's sad that it took so long to make, the algorithm apparantly didn't like that. I, someone who has watched most of these videos multiple times, got it recommended 6 days after it was released. Makes me kinda sad

These videos are dope! Keep up the great work dude

Thanks for the video! I am glad that I just discovered your chanel.

Amazing video, you should be proud of the quality of what you create. Thank you for sharing your time and energy to give us this.

Wonderfull to see that your still making great content😊

Very well done video. Keep up the great work!

as a swede i am glad that you call the danish smelly

It looks like you are doing less on your channel. I hope you are able to do more! Your animation is simple and very effective! I love your storytelling as well. 💜

love the art style and the animations there are just great keep it up fam

not even at intro yet and already liked. just KNOW this is gonna be great!

I'm a simple Swede and your thumbnail was irresistible. Now I've binge watched 1/2 of the entire channel (and subscribed). Great stuff! One question though - just me or is it something odd with how the intro-music ends? "Out of pace" somehow =)

Your editing skills are commendable! I've been applying similar techniques in my latest projects.

Very entertaining! Small correction (14:05) Duke Karl was Gustav Vasa's son, not grandson. Sigismund, however, was son to king Johan III, and thus grandson to Gustav Vasa.

Awesome, thanks for all your hard work, really enjoyed my history lesson on speed😃👌

Love! I learned so much from this video. Eight months to make the video? I appreciate your effort and the final product. Thank you.

love the episodes! ive seen the majority. My wife is from Colombia, if you could do one on it. That would be amazing! Keep up the good work!!

Finally this was the first history KZfaqr I watched I’ve been waiting forever 😂

Thx bro! Great vid!

another FANTASTIC VIDEO! keep up the great work!

I just love how much interesting and crazy history we have with our Danish brothers haha

To explain the whole "Self coup" thing: Gustav III launched the coup against the Riksdagen which had taken all of the power that the crown used to hold, so after the coup, Gustav deposed the Riksdag and took power as a lone monarch with help of a few noblemen and militia

Awesome Vid. I am happy you are back

Amazing job as always!

Could you make a video about Norway?

Absolutely awesome video as usual :) One correction though, the most famous and best swedish military king would be Gustaf II "father of modern warfare" although Karl XII might have been more successful and daring in his time

So glad to see you back at last!

Bro, where the heck have you been. Do you have any idea how much we waited😅😅 we're so glad you're back. *Decides to binge all vids tonight*

Love our viking brothers that rulled us during Kyivenrus, grets from Ukraine :)

Great video as always have seen nearly all of your videos! But I have quick suggestion/ request, would you be able to make video about Baltic countries?! Thanks

It's almost perfect. Great work thanks

Thank you for the promo link! - new curiosity and nebula subscriber

The attested history of Olof Skötkonungs ancestry is very spotty, so Olofs connection to the House of Munsö name for the dynasty, tracing it back to Björn Ironside, is very speculative and at least to some extent legendary, so the name isnt universally accepted for Olofs dynasty. Just a minor detail, obviously to minor of a distinction to dissect in a video summarising all of Swedens history, with little bearing on what unfolds. Par for the course really in new dynasties and kingdoms that begin to keep written track of these things. Also, what name is Gävle-ägarna from? Means "the owners of Gävle" in modern swedish but first time i come across that name for the locale. Lubeck and the Hansa were also a huge help for Sweden breaking free of the Kalmar union, supplying mercenaries, cannons etc. Aside from the bloodbath overreach and subsequent fears of losing established rights, a big divisive factor for the union was the opposing foreign interests of Denmark and Sweden. Sweden had designs on the baltics, Denmark was invested in its german holdings and a sore sticking point was Denmarks rivalry with the Hansa. The swedish import of hanseatic salt from Luneburg was very important to the Swedes and they had nothing to win by denmark antagonising the Hansa.

I am swedish and this video made me learn so much, thanks suibhne

Thank you for all of your hard work!

Thank you for the video, was very interesting to learn so much about my countrys history

I must say you missed one thing. The hats was sort of the first right parti and their left contrast was called the caps. So swedens first partis was called the hats and the caps.

Pickled herring is one of the most delicious things on the planet! There are countless varieties of flavors, all the home made ones are different, maybe you had a not so well-made one?

I really, really liked this. A special shoutout to you!

Amazing as always mate

I have the Carolus Rex album ready to play on loop

we have geography now for geography. Now Suibhne for history. I hope you keep doing this for every other countries.

That was a really high quality video on Swedish history. I was impressed by the depth and breath of it. Very enjoyable for a history nerd like me. Thanks a lot. Greetings to our Swedish neighbors from a stinky Dane.

the drawing on 18:08 is amazingly accurate - only issue is that the building to the leftern side is actually on the right considering where you "stand and look" on the left side it shouldn't be as big building as it is here But it is so accurate on how it actually looks that you know exactly where this is - only thing missing is the cannon ball

Correction. I may be mistaken in understanding your date, but if at the moment 5:22 850, there was no "Kievan Rus" or simply "Rus" even close at that moment. The Rurikoviches will conquer the principality of Kiev only at the beginning of 862, but here on the map in 850 year Kyiv already has one of the variants of their family coat of arms. At that time, these were more than fragmented principalities. and even if it was just Rus, as here on the map within the borders of the principalities, it is strange that you did not paint them all in the same color separating Kievan Rus from the rest of the principalities. Despite the fact that Rus as such did not have a common border with all the principalities before the Kingdom of Moscow (city of "Vladimir principality" in the east), for even being de jure united, de facto they despised each other and went on raids, including those bordering Kyiv, as an example, pereyaslavl. Therefore, this map of the Eastern Slavs looks rather strange.

”The hats war”. It was called that because the leading party in the Riksdag at that time was called “the hat party” or “the hats”.

Finally uploaded the video was amazing

Looking forward to your next video❤️

You need to make a remake of the Animated History of France !

Thank you by the way for the frank, yet respectful mentions of some of the more embarrassing moments of Swedish history. Also I was not aware of the Polish thing. Sorry, Polish people! We're very careful to keep our king leashed now.

nice video - glad to see you again

Thank you for the superb video, very informational.

sewden is really one of the most interesting one in the scandinavian countries well denmark is also as interesting as sewden imo but still both countries history, culture etc are amazing and fun to learn about because there is just so much you can learn about and there folk lore is my bread and butter i do really love these story and love learning about that we can't forget about the famous meme that living conditions there are great and i love when youtuber cover that fact like kraut and many other i do live that

As A Swede Thank You For The Time In Making The Animated History Of Sweden 👏🏻

Amazing work, especially with the sami including. Would love to see a video about swedish roma people, ie tattare, resande.

Could you do History of Alaska as one of your videos please. Also great job on making videos, you are definitely one of my favorite history channels.

Can you make one on Norwegian history since you have made one about all the other nordic countrys

I thought this channel is dead, but suddenly he come just like great heathens army

Nice work. Must take a long time to compile all that information

Love the video keep up the good work