Channel Title: The Welsh Viking Channel Description: Hi! I'm Jimmy. I'm Welsh, I do Viking age historical reenactment, and I'm a research archaeologist. That's pretty much all you need to know!! <video> South Wales’s Secret Castle #pubpubpub #barrycastle #history #hanes #historyofwales #cymru Description: </video> <video> Is Romantasy Ruining Welsh (and Scottish and Irish) Culture? Description: Romantasy (or 'romantic fantasy' - go figure) has been all over the internet this month, especially over on TikTok, where BookTok has been debating whether the genre is ruining fantasy (it's not). But a wider discussion has appeared too, asking if romantasy authors have a responsibility to be sensitive and aware of the real life cultures they're borrowing from, be they Scottish, Irish, Gaelic, Welsh, Gaeilge, Manx, Breton, or otherwise. Well this "Celt" has opinions and thoughts, and he decided to stick some of them in a YouTube video to get them across. Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Archaeology news: New Polish Viking Sword! Description: ⭐️This video is sponsored by the game Viking Raiders! Pop over to https://www.vikingraidersgame.com and use the code WELSH10 for a discount on a super fun card game!⭐️ There's news! There's archaeology news, no less! And this archaeology news comes all the way from Poland, where a new Viking Age sword has been discovered in a river! It's safe and sound and we're going to learn why this particular sword is really rather exciting, whether it turns out to be Viking, Norse, Polish, Baltic or anything else! Join me as we discuss some of the latest Viking related archaeology news in a field in a silly hat (it's very warm)This video is sponsored by the game Viking Raiders! Pop over to www.vikingraidersgame.com and use the code WELSH10 for a discount on a super fun card game! There's news! There's archaeology news, no less! And this archaeology news comes all the way from Poland, where a new Viking Age sword has been discovered in a river! It's safe and sound and we're going to learn why this particular sword is really rather exciting, whether it turns out to be Viking, Norse, Polish, Baltic or anything else! Join me as we discuss some of the latest Viking related archaeology news in a field in a silly hat (it's very warm) Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> How to Make a Perfect Welsh Cup of Tea (Paned o De) Description: Panad o de! A cup of tea! The ultimate drink. A perfect blend of caffeine for a boost, the most delicious flavour known to human kind, and it's a nice colour as well. You may think you know how to make the perfect cup of tea, but let me tell you: the way you see it done in this video is categorically the only correct and legally acceptable procedure. A YouTube, nay, a global first; this video will walk you through to dos, don'ts, and whatisgoingons of making a panad da: a nice cup of tea. Or something like that anyway. It's been a long week. Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro design by @anttimation </video> <video> A Very Short History of Pubs! Description: Pubs! Boozers! Tafarndai! Alehouses! The local! Whatever you call them, they're places you can go for a drink, a chat, and some warm convivial company. Maybe you go to a pub quiz, or an open mic night, or a gig at your own local. But the history of the pub goes back literally thousands of years, all the way to the Roman Empire and Britannia's occupation. Through the Anglo-Saxons to the Medieval Age, to the Evils of Gin, the Victorians and the Industrial Revolution, all the way up to the gastropubs and free house pubs of the modern day, grab a regulation pint (that's 568ml for those of you who are metric!), pull up a stool at the bar, turn down the tv, and join me on a whirlwind history of the boozer! Iechyd da! Cheers! Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro design by @anttimation </video> <video> A Medieval Abbey with a Pub? Oh go on then! #history #medievalhistory Description: </video> <video> The Medieval Museum You've Never Heard Of! Description: 🎉Don’t forget to go to https://www.nordvpn.com/welsh and use the code WELSH at checkout for your exclusive discount and a risk-free 30 day money back guarantee! 🎉 Today we're going to a museum all about the North of England over a thousand years ago. It's a working farm, a museum, a back to work initiative, and it's next to a medieval monastery and one of Europe's largest car import dockyards. Oh! And it used to be a gasworks. I know. It's amazing! Let's go to Jarrow Hall and the Bede Museum, because they've got a brand new replica Anglo-Saxon sword and it looks *amazing*. I like swords. You like swords. We all *love* our under funded local museums and cultural centres: so let's roll! Save Llancaiach Fawr! https://www.change.org/p/save-llancaiach-fawr-manor-from-closure Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro design by @anttimation </video> <video> How To Dress A Viking Warrior OC Authentically Description: This video is sponsored by Saily! Head over to www.saily.com/welsh and use the coupon code WELSH to get an exclusive discount on your Saily eSim! A few people have asked me to help with the clothes and accessories for their Viking Original character or OC, for video game concepts, art projects, D&D campaigns, or even for books and film and audio drama. So I thought I'd do a brief rundown on the historical and less historical options for your Viking OC! Although I'm focussing on traditionally men's clothing here, there are some mentions of women's or female presenting jewellery and accessories, because maybe your Viking warrior OC is a woman - it's your character, who am I to tell you otherwise?! Join me as we go toes to top and look at the shoes, pants, dresses, brooches, belts, cloaks, and even undies your OC might need! Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Immigration in Anglo-Saxon England Description: We often think of immigration, especially of large numbers of migrants, well, migrating, as a very recent idea. But a thousand years ago, Scandinavians we call Vikings were emigrating and moving en masse all over Europe and the Near East! Three hundred years before that the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes, migrated en masse to Great Britain, but at the same time that was happening, we now have some very exciting Oxygen Isotope Analysis which shows that people from Ireland, Scandinavia, the Southern Mediterranean and North Africa were also moving to Great Britain! We already knew that a Catholic abbot, Adrian of Canterbury, was Amazigh (or Berber) from North Africa, and that a 7th century Archbishop of Canterbury, Theodore of Tarsus, was from what is now modern-day Turkiye! Come with me as we examine the exciting archaeological science behind these fascinating discoveries! Some extensive reading: https://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/05/a-note-on-evidence-for-african-migrants.html https://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/10/oxygen-isotope-evidence.html#fn4 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28752654/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23737109/ https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/chart-gallery/gallery/chart-detail/?chartId=55698 https://academic.oup.com/ehr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ehr/ceae213/7941799?fbclid=IwY2xjawHo2dxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHYLX07H5BO5Isx9pdCRXN54EoQk5k-xWcF0_jItzMsE0llbYnwDT7o_T6A_aem_jeOupOFihwCcygyYNt_O1Q&login=false https://www.nature.com/articles/srep34986 https://migrationobservatory.ox.ac.uk/resources/briefings/long-term-international-migration-flows-to-and-from-the-uk/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-71683-7 https://www.britannica.com/topic/human-migration https://www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/dec/02/sweden-oecds-highest-per-capita-asylum-seekers-syria Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Repairing Viking Shoes with Nicole Rudolph Description: ***Don't forget! This video is sponsored by Nord VPN! Head on over to https://www.nordvpn.com/welsh and use the discount code WELSH at checkout to get 4 months free on a 2 year subscription with a 30-day money back guarantee!*** I’m not a leather worker. I'm not an expert in historical footwear. I don't have years of experience making medieval shoes for myself and others, and I certainly don't know how to fix Viking Age turn shoes on my own. You know who does? Nicole, from @NicoleRudolph. So it would have been clever of me to contact Nicole and ask her advice before starting to repair my Viking turn shoes using leatherworking tools I barely understood, with almost no skills in leather sewing, and with leather barely suitable for the job. But that's not good content. So I obviously jumped in with both (bare) feet and made a complete mess of things. Hooray! Join me and Nicole as she generously tells me what I should have done, and then go and subscribe to her amazing channel that is absolutely packed with wonderful historical facts about footwear, fashion, and more! Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro design by @anttimation </video> <video> 5 Things I Hate About Living in a Historic Town Description: *This video is sponsored by Nord VPN! For four months free on a two year subscription of a genuinely good and easy to use VPN with a 30-day money back guarantee, go to https://www.nordvpn.com/welsh and use the code WELSH at checkout!* I live in York. A picturesque city of Roman bath ruins, Medieval walls, Vikimg Age housing remains, Georgian splendour, and sometimes I absolutely hate it! It can be frustrating trying to live a modern life in a city designed for horses and carts, and a much slower pace of life. It isn’t built for wifi, bluetooth, 4G and smartphones. To say nothing of the overtourism, alcohol misuse, and horrible traffic and congestion. So join me in a little rant about some of the things that really annoy me about living in a beautiful ancient and historic town that most people would give their right arm to live in! Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro design by @anttimation </video> <video> 2025 Living History Goals Description: December is here and it's an apt time to look back at 2024, and look ahead to the new year. Living history, or historical reenactment, whatever you like to call it, has been my main hobby for nearly two decades. Thanks to this channel and all my subscribers and patrons, I'm lucky that it's been my job for two years, and I've decided I need pushpa st some of the things that have slowed me down, and up my game a little in 2025! This last year has been a bit crazy, with TV work, different jobs and opportunities coming in, and the channel and my reenactment life (both Civil War and Viking) have both suffered a little as a result. So in 2025, I'll be trying to get back to what I wanted this channel to be about, as you'll discover when you join me for a sit down and a chat in a lovely nature and wildlife reserve on a cold Yorkshire winter morning (hence my wearing my adorable Viking mittens!). Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Debunking Viking Soap: Horse Chestnuts or Horse Apples? (or Boiled Animal Fat) Description: Today we're going to explore the bizarre idea that the Vikings made soap out of horse chestnuts, better known to schoolkids in the UK and Ireland as conkers. This idea has spread all over social media, thanks in part to a certain series of children's history books (it's obviously Horrible Histories). But is there any actual evidence for Viking Age soap? Did they use conkers? Or was it more likely to be the classic tallow and lye combination invented by the Sumerians and beloved by homesteaders and wool manufacturers all over the globe? Let's find out where the heck this weird idea comes from, and take a look at what evidence we actually have for the soap used by Early Medieval Europeans! Some reading: https://naturewalk.yale.edu/trees/sapindaceae/aesculus-hippocastanum/horse-chestnut-9 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Distribution-of-Aesculus-hippocastanum-including-its-main-native-range-green-areas-and_fig1_378345399 https://www.jstor.org/stable/42955270 Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Archaeology News: New Danish Viking Skeletons! Description: 🎉 This video is sponsored by Nord VPN! Head on over to http://www.nordvpn.com/welsh and use the code WELSH at checkout to get four months free on a two year subscription with a 30-day money back guarantee🎉 Roll up, roll up! New Viking age skeletons found in Denmark! It's true! Danish archaeologists from the museum of Odense have found FIFTY new skeletons and five new cremation burials. That's a lot of new bones and a lot of new exciting opportunities for ancient DNA analysis! Let's have a dig (ha!) into this exciting new archaeological discovery, and what it might mean for archaeology, reenactment, and Viking Studies in general. Reading: https://museumodense.dk/vikingegravplads_aasum/ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/archaeological-science/ancient-dna/2348F1B5DF5198F580EDACA64FB1FE4A https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9956214/ Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video> <video> Medieval Criminal Justice: How to Get Away With Medieval Murder (ish) Description: This video is sponsored by June's Journey! Head over to https://cherrypick.gg/TheWelshVikingJJ to download June's Journey for free! Welcome, criminal scum! I jest, but crime and punishment is a long old subject that goes back thousands of years. It wasn't chaos in Anglo-Saxon England, but it was kind of the Wild West! The Normans didn't have court sketch artists, but they certainly had some novel ways of punishing people in the lands they conquered! There was no concept of No Win No Fee, but 1000 years ago the Welsh had a full list of prices for personal injury claims for slaves to kings! Join me as we find out why you might prefer to be tried as a priest - even for murder, and why your eyes are worth a thousand Saxon cows! Find me elsewhere: Business email: jade@scarletragemedia.com Patreon: www.patreon.com/jimmyjohnson Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/thewelshviking My actual website: www.welshviking.com Insta: @littlewelshviking Letters, parcels, packages? The Welsh Viking, PO Box 821, YORK, YO1 0PY, UK Editing software: DaVinci Resolve Camera: Panasonic Lumix GH5 Intro by @Anttimation </video>

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Hi! I'm Jimmy. I'm Welsh, I do Viking age historical reenactment, and I'm a research archaeologist. That's pretty much all you need to know!!

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