My Life As A Historian: Sabaton History Talks "Swedish Pagans"

On this Christmas Eve, Sabaton fans get a present in the form of a Sabaton History video about "Swedish Pagans", one of their most popular songs.

I do not understate the popularity of this song. It's a staple of their setlist in concert, and now that Vinland Saga has been animated it's gotten a resurgance in popularity due to its use in fan music videos.

It's also not surprising to see Norse paganism resurge in popularity. Call them LARPers if you like, but they're just trying to find alternatives to Globohomo like the rest of the dissidents. Having spent some time among them, the most sincere are those who focus on the pro-social/eucivic virtues of the Norse, and the worst are just grifters trying to work their hustle among a more naive crowd, and as usual both examples tend to be among the folks most prominent in the scene.

I have nothing against them as a scene. The honest ones will, in time, work their way through what that paradigm means and therefore figure out how the machine (as it were) works; either they make their peace with and accept the ultimate impotence of that paradigm against evil or they do as their forefathers did and change to one that actually solves the problem of evil: Christianity.

Still a great song.