my cousin was working over there, since it's kind of an old family legend that we descend from viking raiders, dna confirms I'm 25% Scandinavian 25% eastern European(russian since that's what my grandma speaks) and half native on my dad's side, regardless my cousin and I used to play "vikings and Indians" (a game of our own devising since vikings are cooler than cowboys) he loved metal detecting too so growing up in new England loving vikings we were always hoping to find a viking axe or spear or seax or smthn proving they lived here, we found a spear once, hard to tell who it belonged to, wasn't native since it was iron and had wings, definitely European, regardless he worked over in Scandinavia, France, England/Scotland, and iceland, for years, he eventually quit which was starnge since that was his dream job, I asked why, he said he cldnt tell me, I'm like "u didn't try to take something home w u did u??" He says "no nothing like that, i j cldnt do it anymore, the stuff we found vs the stuff they write and publish was completely contradictory, skeletons 6 ft tall, chainmail, helmets(which if u know there's officially only been "1" mainly intact helmet found), scale armour, many many swords, seaxs, axes, arm and leg armour that is steel strips?(look up viking splinted leg armour as of now it's controversial but according to m cousin they found a fuck ton and never reported any of it, he said he personally found ab 150 swords, ab as many helmets, hundreds of axes and seaxs, splinted armour, evidence of multilayered garment for under chainamil aka gambeson, scale armour, and all of it was shipped off quickly after it was unearthed, he made an off hand remark like "oh what museum do they take all this stuff to id like to see them all when they're cleaned and on display" his boss looked at him and said "they aren't going to a museum and you won't see them again we will not discuss this again or you will be fired" he was baffled(and for good reason) after that he said he cldnt do it, he didn't know if they were being hidden in a museum basement or destroyed he leaned more towards the first tho, im kinda telling his story so forgive my paraphrasing but the stuff in quotes is as he told it to me to the best of my memory, he had some things he brought back after he quit, ive seen them, I won't say what any of it is cause I don't wanna get him in trouble, but I will say the official narrative of just poor farmers who went raiding is complete bs, u mean to tell me English kings could put down peasant revolts but cldnt stop norwegian peasants?? I never understood that, if they were no different than the English or French peasants how did they stomp most of Europe, the mediterranean, the rus, and have them cowering for 500-600 years??? What made these poor farmers different than the poor farmers that were already there, they were superior in battle bc they weren't poor farmers, many were trained from childhood with spear, shield, axe, and sword, they towered over the others around 5'10-the tallest he ever found was 6'7 but these men were HUGE, armed to the teeth, a small group was a formidable fighting force, this is what made Europe cower, not a bunch of poor farming dwarves bc as I previously stated, the kings of the day had to squash rebellions all the time they were used to shitting on armed and angry farmers, but the vikings were different, if u farm for a cpl months and raid, pillage, plunder, murder, and war for the rest of the time, can u be called a farmer??? As I was told by my cousin I'll tell you, disregard anything you hear from ppl like the Smithsonian, the met, "big archeology" regarding the vikings, they make white ppl proud, plus they weren't diverse 99% of em were white the other 1% were traders not raiders and most were Sami, but there's a lot of money and effort going into making the vikings look like poor, angry, little men, almost like they want white ppl to have no pride in their ancestors, or pride in their color, as i said im hslf native(my father is sicangu lakota/ w a little crow in there i believe cld be cheyenne ill have to ask him, regadless) i have a distinctly unique view on this, i can say red power, or native power as loud as i want and ppl dgaf some may even applaud, but if i were to say white power, id be publicly stoned, they say the winners write history and since the catholic church ended up killing the last vikings i suspect theres a lot we dont know and pry wont ever know ab what really happened, but we can take pride in that our ancestors didnt care ab race, religion, country, creed, or anything else, if u had something valuable and with that thing the vikings could feed their family thru the winter, u were a dead man. Theres power in that, and in their blood. Which still flows thru our veins. Which i suspect is why theres a msssive smear campaign against white ppl, i mean think ab it whites didnt invent slavery, all they did was buy some blacks from slave markets that were thousands of years old(some of which ARE STILL OPEN TODAY) and the whites being the first to make it illegal bc its abhorrent get no credit for that, they are in the early stages of oppressing us we need a viking age 2.0

Gorgeous

That cloak with the shoulder cross is badass🤯

Taking a dump had to be rough😂

God be with you Henry

What’s the music

Or fighting fully dressed in north Africa/ Syria.....😦😦😦😦

Bro got the mnb warband idle pose perfected

I guess you don't want to take an arrow to the knee, eh?

Excellent work ! Dark Ages/ Norse kit always stands or falls, on the little details, and you nailed this !

this helmet is so terrible man, after seeing this villagers of lithuina must be shit on yourselves

Need kit

How men really want to dress:

Ainnoway, medieval thigh highs.

Ohh... No one wore chain mail over a simple shirt. Chain mail was always worn over a soft jacket to soften the blows.

Ive been watching this vid since highschool, even today it never dissapoints. Coolest take on fantasy inspired viking era loadout. I also remember what the video USED to be titled. I SAW WHAT YOU DELETED.

The only thing that does not match are gloves(anachronistics for second Half of xivth century…) wonderful job anyway…

I have three things! 1) Beautiful looking pouch/satchel 2) How come you didn't put your wraps around your feet as well as your calves? 3) Is there any evidence for turnshoes with two toggles? I've only come across single toggle shoes myself.

Disappointingly small sword

Y'know, I figured I'd just let you know that a lot of these links are no longer available. I would really like an updated list for this just as much, if not more, as the viking video's list of items.

Y'know, I'd really like to know where you got all this stuff. I can't afford a tailored mail tunic, but everything else I am very much curious of. Can you tell me where I can find all this stuff?

As the used to say in the olde tongueth "fucketh around't thou shalt findeth out most wickedly thine outcome from his holiness above"......"also check out the maid with the giant bazookas over there"

Man some time ago, you put the store where you bought all your armor kit, why you kicked out to the description?

Henry's come to see us!

red knight 👍

this is some real knight shit

now you have to use it

Cheer~~~a loose robe worn over armor.😊

God be with you

Song pls?

Fetiche conseguir

Lo que me sorprende no se haya caído y se rompe toda la puta cara

Can you make a list of where you got all of your equipment, clothing, and armor and weapons?

"Ugh, he must be out cheating again." Him: Valhalla calls for me... **Gears up for battle**

When you do a DNA test and find out you're 1% Scandinavian:

Good for going out in London at night☠

Henry: *Massacres Rattay for the 7th time this week* Henry: "I feel quite hungry." Random NPC: "Jesus Christ be praised!"

That’s a fine set of armor friend

Those seem like very well made trousers. Did you put them together yourself?

13th century rate my fit lol

is that helm made by pavel marek? I bought mine from him and it looks identical

How do you weave it into a hauberk

what i have learned from the medieval era : Just put on chainmail.

This is super helpful! I got a chainmail hauberk a couple of months ago that I still haven't used because it has that wizard sleeve issue and I've been trying to find info on how to tighten up those sleeves. Can't wait to try this!

chainmail links changing sizes in different locations very noticeable

Thine drip goes exceptionally hard, brother.

This was a fantastic and informative video, I learned a lot about armor and how it comes together! Thank you for sharing, this was awesome and just what I was looking for!

Can you point me in the right direction as to where I can acquire the arm and leg armour, that you have in this video? Thanks brother.

This is not a klappvisor. This is a sitten bascinet. The chin is way more exposed. At least from what I interpreted. Still new to armors, but from what I understand, people often mistake helmets for others. This is one of those examples. The other day, I came across images calling a visored barbuta, a bascinet helmet. It is not.

Natürlich waren bekleidete kräftiger und geschulte. Damit konnte einen im 13 Jahrhundert niemand aufhalten. (50 % der Kleidung stimmt nicht. Ein Ritter war beweglich und konnte austreten gehen.) 100 % Schild mit T entschädigt. War nicht aus Pressspahn. 100 % abzug dafür.