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Beau says:
Beau reveals a treasure trove of Viking coins challenging historical narratives and traditions, urging reflection on the value of history over precious metals.
History enthusiasts
The full transcript provides a deeper dive into the significance of historical artifacts and their impact on our understanding of the past.
Well, howdy there, internet people, it's Bo again.
So tonight we're gonna talk about silver and gold
and kings and vikings and tradition and history.
In 2015, two guys with their metal detectors
and hermiture stumbled across a viking stash
of coins and jewelry.
Vikings, like people for thousands of years,
stored their wealth in precious metals.
The coins these guys found were 1100 years old
and they're standing there looking down in this hole
at 300 coins worth roughly 3.8 million dollars US.
Now if you make a fine that significant
you're supposed to alert the authorities.
Destiny is all.
They're looking down in this hole with this money and they decided to keep it, tried to
sell it on the open market.
They just got convicted.
From an archaeological standpoint, this is travesty.
Out of these 300 coins, 31 have been recovered.
Some of those are rewriting history.
Some of them are what is called two emperor coins, marking an alliance between Alfred
the Great of Wessex and Caelwulf II of the King of Mercia.
And that's very surprising because traditionally the King of Mercia is kind of viewed as an
unimportant figure, only reigned for a couple of years and is often cast as a puppet of
the Vikings. These coins tell a very different story. These coins suggest that he was in
an active alliance with Alfred the Great, fighting them. Now, the histories at the time
well they're a little murky. About 879, the sky just disappears and Alfred has
his land. Alfred has control of Mercia. It's almost as if Alfred had him deleted,
had him wrote out of history. It's kind of like maybe these coins are suggesting
that it is very possible that Alfred the Great did something not so great in obtaining this
kingdom.
You know, something like that.
That seems like something you would want to record in your history.
How you wound up with this.
It's not really there.
It's not there.
It's leading to a lot of speculation.
It is upending history and tradition.
understand for Americans that may not know and if you don't and want to catch
an easy view of it, there's a series called The Last Kingdom on Netflix.
But this would be like finding out that Benedict Arnold was actually working for
us the whole time. This is this is the formation, this is the beginning of the
United Kingdom as we know it, and England. And there's a huge gap, there's
something that is not right, so that tradition has to be changed. Silver and
gold, even today, survivalists will tell you to keep some around because its always valuable.
Has intrinsic value they say, but does it, its just metal.
Or is it more like the history and traditions of a nation?
value because we've believed in it for so long anyway it's just a thought y'all have a good night
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