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Strange Viking Wedding Traditions and Rituals

Strange Viking Wedding Traditions and Rituals

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Marriage was the heart of family structure in Viking culture, hence the intricate nature of Viking wedding rituals. According to many of the myths and folklore to which historians attribute their knowledge of Viking weddings, each tradition and ritual was deemed necessary to earn the blessings of the gods, an important step on the path to becoming a parent and continuing the Viking bloodline. Marriage offered stability, serving as a way to control sexual activity and reproduction in the community. Contrary to their negative historical reputation for their treatment of women, Vikings actually worked quite hard to ensure relative gender equality and fair treatment of and respect for women. KFCuser: If you're going to teach us viking history, make sure you don't keep showing us images of folks wearing horned helmets, cause most real historians will tell you that vikings never did that. It certainly looks cool and I'm aware that many people firmly believe that they wore threatening headgear to battle, but it never actually was the case.
Date: 2023-02-10

Comments and reviews: 12


This is. well only the super rich norsemen could have these kinda marriages. It's basically shows how the aristocrats did it. I think ordinary free men got together with women and had way simpler marriages. And holy cow the images and clips are BADLY chosen. I know there're really few images showing actual norse marriages, so don't show that much.
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I love how the visual for a bride taking a cleansing bath is a woman with a glass of wine in a luxurious bath and the visual of the groom bathing is a guy who is taking a shower, without a shower head even, in a stall that kind of looks like a gym shower. Not sure why, but that cracked me up.
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Every single religion and ridiculous practice out there:
We have no idea what we're doing we're just basing it all off the top of our head in what we think these fictional beings in the sky want us to do even though we have no way of knowing what's going on.

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It's almost pathetic in your knowledge of paganism do the fact that they had their own letter system and did write stuff down before Christianity and what's your reading and comparing that's Christianity with a slight allowance of paganism in the old rituals.
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Could we get a video about the US during the midevil period or before? I feel like theres so much history abt Europe, middle east, asia etc during that time but not much is mentioned abt the native Americans during that period.
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HO HO HO HEE HEE HEE. modern marriages are about marrying fore love. Clearly doesn't check modern day marriage and how it ends the majority of the time, yet people married for that love.
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Oh no, I would never do a Viking wedding as it s pagan. But I don t mind the part where they run to the reception and whomever loses serves drinks to everyone.
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Love this! As a former pro wedding photographer, Id love to see more videos from Weird History about wedding ceremonies from across time & cultures please?
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I would love to learn the history of the honeymoon. just innocent were the ladies. or where they ladies in the streets and freak in the sheets. lmao
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Imagine you are newly married and your entire family is watching you and your wife or husband go at it in bed.
That would make things awkward.
XD

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Tall white blue eyed blond or red headed athletic men and women of vikings blood line are being ruined due to their rebellious nature as we speak.
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Why did monogamy become the standard? A partial answer is suggested here: it is a way for elites to maintain their power.
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