Gothic Kings of the North

Hey everybody, welcome back for another video. Today we're going to be talking about the gothic king of the north and it should be interesting so let's get into it. Now I want to start by talking about these gothic cathedrals a little bit and just for a little bit of background they are religious buildings constructed in the gothic architectural style primarily in Europe between the middle of the 12th and 16th centuries. So very impressive structures but what I never really considered is how did they even get termed as gothic? Where did that connection come from? When I looked into it turns out that the term gothic was actually coined by Italian writers of the renaissance who attributed the invention of this medieval architecture to the barbarian gothic tribes that destroyed the roman empire and its classical culture in the 5th century. So I found that very intriguing. They're linking these cathedrals and their barbaric architectural style to these gothic tribes that destroyed Rome. That's something I just never really looked into so I wanted to dig into that a bit more and just for the record I believe what we call the roman empire was destroyed by an apocalyptic event. So my view is that the entire history that we have largely for the first millennium and earlier is a reimagining of whatever really happened. So I question a lot of these narratives but getting back to these goths and some of these gothic cathedrals I also wanted to mention some of these gothic cathedrals actually sit on top of roman temples or basilicas such as the gothic cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. It was also built on the of a roman temple and a romanesque basilica so I just wanted to point that out. But getting back to the goths, these tribes that we're told that took out at least in part what we call the western roman empire, they're considered a germanic people and I should mention the origin of the goths is still debated but some definitions say that the goths are a germanic people likely originated in southern scandinavia specifically around gotland and that is intriguing to me as well and this is just a map of scandinavia just in case you were wondering. So it comprises several countries but the goths are considered to have come from somewhere in southern scandinavia and when you look at some of the maps that were provided showing the movement of some of these tribes of goths you have the goths coming from southern scandinavia and then again all according to the mainstream but they form two separate tribes. You have the Visigoths and the Ostrogoths. I wanted to look into the goths a bit more and I wanted to look up things like their language and coins and when you look into the gothic language it's considered an extinct language. Apparently there's a gothic bible so that gives me a little cause for concern the fact that this language is an extinct language and some of these tribes of goths they minted their own coins so I wanted to look into that and they made these coins that were imitation of roman coins so you have an extinct language and imitations of roman coins so it doesn't make me feel really good about this narrative that these goths as it's presented to us existed in the way they're saying they did. You know just this nomadic group that's coming from southern scandinavia and just wreaking havoc but their language is extinct and the coins they produced are imitations of roman coins so I just wanted to look into that a little bit and the whole narrative behind the goths being this nomadic group that is like a wrecking machine throughout europe it reminds me of the mongolian empire a little bit which again they're considered this nomadic group that goes around destroying everything so just a similarity I wanted to point out. Getting back to the goths and their links to southern scandinavia I wanted to touch on that because when you look into the swedish kingdom that turns into the swedish empire it becomes a very powerful force in european history especially in the 1600s and early 1700s so I wanted to start looking at some of the coins from this period and one of the things you'll find on a lot of coins and metals from this period of the swedish kingdom and empire is that several of the rulers during this period start using or highlighting god's name in hebrew or latin on coins and metals and even for personal mottos like king charles the ninth I believe his personal motto was jehovah is my solace or comfort and I know there's a lot of questions about what the name of god is whether it's jehovah or yahweh or something else entirely but the name of god was being featured prominently by the rulers during this swedish kingdom and empire so I just wanted to point that out and here's the name of god in hebrew these four letters which is referred to as the tetragrammaton so that's one thing that's happening but another thing that's happening and I'm going to point out three examples is they had several titles associated with themselves a lot of these kings and I'm going to point some of them out because one of them is very interesting so this is eric the 14th and he ruled during the mid 1500s but some of his titles are king of sweden king of the wends and king of the goths so that's just something that grabbed my attention because again the goths are considered to have come from southern scandinavia so we have these kings from scandinavia who are claiming to be king of the goths and using god's name on a lot of these coins or at least what we're told is god's name so interesting and here's another king king charles the ninth or sometimes i've seen it written carl the ninth but this carl the ninth again the title is king of sweden king of the goths and the wends so just a lot of these kings were carrying this title and just one more gustav the second adolf and early 1600s but also king of the swedes the goths and the wends so something about that stood out to me and we're told officially that the reason why they had these titles is because they reflected historical claims to these territories okay fair enough but i just find it really interesting i think there may be more to the story because this gothic term just the term gothic it is being treated as barbaric this term gothic is sort of a knock on those gothic tribes these cathedrals and even when you think about the very first genre of horror books it's widely considered to be gothic horror which began with this first novel in 1764 so there's a whole branch of horror novels a genre called gothic horror and they often are featured in settings like haunted castles so the name gothic has been demonized seemingly by the renaissance writers and by others throughout the you know 15 16 1700s so it's just something that is intriguing to me this connection with these kings and this name of god and this king of the goths and we're told these tribes that destroyed the roman empire if that is a cover story which i believe it is then they're demonizing whoever took out what we call the roman empire so i thought that was very interesting and one more thing i wanted to mention is two of the three kings that i mentioned their coins turns out that this charles or carl the ninth and one of his predecessors eric the 14th they took their regnal numbers and these are the numbers the regnal numbers in roman numeral format but they took their regnal numbers according to a fictitious history of sweden so charles the ninth he was actually the third swedish king called charles and eric the 14th i believe he was either eric the eighth or eric the ninth so there's just this element of a fictitious history associated with some of these kings who are claiming to be these kings of the goths and they're using this name of god on the coin so a lot going on with these kings and their genealogies and and some of their titles i just found it very interesting and once again i believe you had what we call the roman empire apocalyptic event then at some point rise of these fortified cities and star forts some of these star cities and then you have another apocalypse i believe and then you have the rise of a lot of these old world buildings people are calling tartarian but it's a revival of these roman and greek concepts and styles so that's just my view and thought it was all very interesting i just wanted to share some of this with you guys and i do want to give a big shout out to my channel members thank you for all your help and support it's greatly appreciated as well as my patrons thank you as well for all of your help and support it is also greatly appreciated so with that being said until next time take care bye