Definitely up there with the other great civilisations. They truly put their mark on the northern hemisphere.

For years we were told that my siblings and I were German . My brother sent away for one of the DNA test's to know for sure and to our surprise we are more than 30% Scandinavian . Even though there aren't too many places left to explore here in the states I now have great pride in my Heritage . I plan on building a longship model from scratch for my Grandson's so they will understand their heritage .

I'm imagining a whole crew of bearded vikings turning the ship and rowing back to pick up a kitten that fell overboard.

Thank you. I really wanted to be faithful and respectful to the process as I could.

I gather the length of these boats was limited by the length of available straight oak that could be hewn into a single piece keel i.e. the Gokstad ship has a 56 foot long, single piece Oak keel. Various authors have suggested that sufficiently tall, straight Oak trees to make such a keel would have been extremely rare and reserved only for the most important and prestigious ships. The fact that the Gokstad ship was used as a burial for an exceedingly wealthy and important person perhaps supports the assertion that this was an unusually long and impressive ship for the era. Is that your understanding of the limitations of ship sizes in the 9th and 10th centuries? I presume the later long boats of 35-37m length must have been made using a different technique (I.e multi-piece keels).

back then in that era.. gotland was danish like most of sweden today.. :) remember that my friend.. anyways Gotland has a lot of secrets still within the ground to be found i am sure of this a lot of gold and silver treasures are found in Bornholm ..like Arabic coins from the days we was trading with them in peace.. before we became vikings ;) we was and still are sea masters ;)

@@Justin1337Sane haha bro Gotland didn't came under Danish rule untill 1361. The Gotlandic people entered a trade agreement with the Svear in the early 9th century and they accepted to be ruled over by the King of the Svear. Further on the Svear and the Gutes went on a rading expedition to Estonia somewhere between 700-750. An boat burial have been found on the island Saaremaa and the men came from Svealand and Gotland, the boat were from Svealand. The Svear had picked up the Gutes on Gotland and after they went on a rading expedition. This shows the early conections between the Svear and the Gutes. So under the Viking age and before have Gotland never been Danish. Gotland was ruled by Denmark from 1361 to 1645.

@@valverdeout2972 Vikings era is still ongoing .. cant end the vikings, we are still kings here in scandinavian lands of the north :)

Was this entire video ENTIRELY generated by an Artificial Intelligence? I had to leave 3 minutes in. It was insulting my ACTUAL intelligence.

Not really... He said that it can cut through plate armor... They never encountered plate armor...

It's a spatha. Franks made and traded good swords, there isn't really such a thing as a viking sword, there are swords which vikings used. For my part the finest sword I have ever seen has to be from the Sutton Hoo burial. Oh yeah we could just as well call it a Celtic sword because the Spatha was something the Romans adopted from the Gauls.

@@inregionecaecorum it's a sword, a sverd, a spatha, a Jian, depends what language was being spoken at the time and place. Only a spatha in Latin. All the nomenclature added since... Carolingian, migration era, viking, whatever... Is all historians in recent history categorizing it.