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[@HistoryTime]

- Watch my latest history documentary here:- kzbin.info/www/bejne/mWSrommLlquEp80 Here's a surprise 28 minute tour around Viking Britain because my subscribers are awesome. Thanks for being great, guys! Pretty overwhelmed by how this crazy little project has grown over the past year! This episode is also available in podcast format over at the brilliant History of Vikings podcast. Be sure to check it out and subscribe for all things Vikings if you're a podcast person. Don't forget to like, subscribe and share if you like what you see here, and let me know if you'd like to see more tours of different epochs of history.

[@chrisbovington9607]

Absolutely! This was awesome!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! Happy you liked it!

[@frazerward4827]

Love it

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you like it mate!

[@superhero7464]

You never fail to captivate me, History Time! :) Keep 'em coming!

[@muffin6369]

The scene in The Last Kingdom with Ubba, Guthrum and King Edmund was an absolute riot. So funny. That show was so well written, the actors awesome and The Last Kingdom saved the Game of Thrones fans who were completely blown up by GOT D & D. Pete your Vking videos are so informative...again Thank you.

[@josephedixon6868]

I love history youtubers. they don't get paid well or at all, but they still do amazing content. becuase they love it.

[@HistoryTime]

We are a strange sort :)

[@dickon728]

Agreed.

[@JeroenJA]

I love his historic art of vikings that contain no horn or other weird misconceptions from 19th-20th century thinking about vikings :D

[@LS-hu1lm]

It is good to see people building humanity up on youtube rather than tearing it down

[@hahn-solo]

He did nothing but cut from a documentary and upload. Taking credit from others work is shameful

[@monicacall7532]

This explains a great deal of my English family history. My mom’s English ancestors come from Yorkshire and East Anglia. My Dad’s ancestors who aren’t Danish are from also from the north of England. We now know from looking at the last names on both sides of my family and tracing them back that they are Norse names. History like this is fascinating. Thanks for this wonderful video!

[@mrdarren1045]

If they are norse then they likely hail from the Lancashire area. I live in Lancashire and this was a norse area at that time.

[@alexanderchenf1]

My name is Utred, son of Utred, born a Saxon and adopted by a Dane.

[@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954]

Best show on netflix. Cant wait for the season 3!

[@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954]

The Last Kingdom

[@martpuk5608]

I was triggered by Bebbanburg haha

[@snodrod420]

The show is amazing but the book series is something else!

[@user-vi6wf4gh9x]

@@erichaugustusvonmellenthin6954 Read the books instead.

[@DanishCamp]

This almost made me cry for some reason. Even as a Dane. I admire the peoples and places of the past and sometimes you want to go back to do great deeds and hear the story of forgotten people's like the picts.

[@vanefreja86]

Fortune Finder exactly, wish we knew more about the picts!

[@darthbricksempire3606]

Fortune Finder Enig

[@susanbedingfield4661]

Why would you romanticize the past? It was nasty, bloody, and human rights were non existantant. Not a fun place to live.

[@ianwoodall4523]

Yeah yeah yeah. Keep crying ya big Norse ape. We took it back. By 960 we Saxons had taken York back. We had everyone drinking tea and complaining about the weather again in no time.

[@thedanishgirl7683]

Tom Paine Common Sense Time 😂😂😂

[@gavinlaird85]

We watch videos like this (which is excellent btw) and we can only wonder what life must have been like a thousand years ago. In a thousand years in the future, people won't need these types of videos as our whole lives are being recorded. People are gonna be able to watch a video that's a thousand years old that might be about a relative of theirs. Imagine how cool it would be watching a video from the middle ages that showed you the daily life of your ancient ancestors, maybe even with an interview with them. Incredible.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! I love your way of thinking. This channel actually began as a side project from my main gig which is writing sci-fi.

[@gavinlaird85]

History Time Well, this "side project" is absolutely fantastic. I have learned more about History from your videos than I have in school and many years of documentary binges combined. Keep up the good work.

[@paull2815]

There's always cave painting.

[@ayesha36]

Consider that the permanence of technology is a myth. What seems permanent to us may very well be outdated even in a few centuries or several decades. A small example would be floppy drives... sure, they didn't store tons of information due to their size constraints, but they stored information nonetheless that is inaccessible for most of us because we don't use that type of drive anymore. In that same way, as technology and methods of storing information improve on themselves, we will be more and more out of touch with older records and documents.

[@alexbrennan9517]

All they'll see are people doing baby shark videos.

[@andrewhorton6120]

This is one of the best history videos i have ever seen. Thank you for making this thorough and interesting video of a very confusing period.

[@fionnmoules7620]

Id just love it everything was actually recorded back then so many things we dont have a clue about

[@HistoryTime]

Agreed. Imagine what a smart phone could record back then..

[@grae1987]

Then theres all the history and events that were recorded throughout time but were lost or destroyed out of spite by foriegn enemies...

[@t16205]

There are 27 Epic Viking sagas for us to enjoy. No series or movies can compare, not even close. I dont understand why they dont make movies of them, they are practically movie scripts

[@bogdanbogdanoff5164]

@@t16205 Because they don't want white history on the TV. Vikings the show was mauled by revisionism badly enough

[@t16205]

@@bogdanbogdanoff5164 Hollywood certainly wont right now.. Vikings the tv/show got nothing to do with the real sagas except for some viking names

[@theblackprince1346]

Yes a 28 minute History Time video life is good. Ideas for future epoch tours: Viking Norway or Denmark, Roman Empire, Ancient Greece etc.

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you're liking it! Nice ideas man- How about a half hour tour of the Viking World at the turn of the millennium .. Baghdad to Newfoundland...

[@theblackprince1346]

History Time Yeah that sounds really good.

[@HistoryTime]

The Black Prince Thanks for being here from the very start dude. Appreciate your support so much.

[@theblackprince1346]

History Time Woah wasn't expecting that lol. It's been an absolute pleasure.

[@Eric-ng2ed]

The Black Prince greece and rome have been done to death...

[@Artur_M.]

I like how you put some information about the period from which the illustrations you use are from. People can often not realize the inherit anachronisms when seeing a historical depiction of a historical event or figure, that are actually centuries apart from each other. Of course amazing video overall.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! It's something I'm going to try and do as much as possible from now on. I always find it interesting in itself to see how people in the past viewed their own history.

[@danielschaeffer1294]

The TV show, "Vikings," is notorious for this. There's a KZbinr named "Metatron" who did a wonderful job trashing the show. Apparently there's a bit where the Knights Templar show up four centuries before they actually existed!

[@davehallett3128]

@@danielschaeffer1294 television and movie producers have never shied away from twisting history any which way they believe will produce more revenue

[@eh1702]

Not quite. While Ireland and Brian Borun are being discussed, Scottish control of most of Cumbria and Northumbria isn’t shown. England didn’t have sovereignty up to the tweed until the agreements of the 12th century.

[@23erisx]

Thanks!

[@Dave_Sisson]

Simply outstanding. A great summary of the whole of Britain during a fascinating era. Liked and subscribed. 😎

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you liked it :)

[@m.susandenton1077]

I certainly do agree.

[@lynnelliot7256]

This is so interesting, thank you. I have DNA showing 51% Scandinavian, 29% Irish and some British, Iberian etc. We are in New Zealand, me being the 2nd generation to be born here, at the other side of the world, and dont get enough of this history from the homeland of our ancestors.

[@Jesusandbible]

Wow! KZbin is becoming better than TV to watch with people like you doing so many mega interesting videos! KZbin is becoming a gold mine of great videos worth watching!

[@elbat5946]

Jesusandbible - indeed!

[@davehallett3128]

As long as you realize that the facts may be wrong through ignorance omission or twisting. Only believe what you see or read from many DIFFERENT sources. Not just youtube. There seems to be little editing of bullshit. Present company excepted

[@iOnline72]

Has been for years already. History Channel and Discovery have become a joke.

[@Bjowolf2]

Yes, why on earth watch Discovery, History Channel or National Geographic these days with their endless, contentless reality TV shows about grumpy crab fishermen, grumpy tuna fishermen, grumpy gold diggers, really annoying gold diggers under the water, idiotic people buying old junk cars and persuading other naive people into buying them after a few superficial repairs, weird pawn shop owners buying old junk while cheating people constantly, hostile storage room auctions with grumpy idiots, naked people surviving in the wild while hating each others, famous people "barely" surviving in the wild, UFOs and pyramids with mysterious powers , ...., when you can have these great and educational videos with really interesting and deep content instead 😂

[@tahabashir3779]

"How the little piggies will grunt, when they hear how the old boar suffered."

[@martinmanky9015]

No very. They all died and were driving back to their stoney shores. They & they culture doomed to extinction. A very heathen way to go.

[@Kainis80]

@@martinmanky9015 and yet every 20 years or so there is a resurgence in interest in their culture, especially among their descendants.

[@hjaltecairo9763]

gutrum he talks about there is hvitserk in the series

[@tahabashir3779]

@@hjaltecairo9763 hvitserk is guthrum

[@hjaltecairo9763]

@@tahabashir3779 yes

[@Coupal1]

My ancestors came from many places in Great Britain and Ireland; Irish, Cornish and Scottish on my mother's side and Anglo Saxon on my father's side. Gaelic was my great-grandmother's mother tongue. No doubt some of my ancestors experienced many of the upheavals portrayed in this video. It is all fascinating.

[@TheLadyDiazepam]

I had my DNA done, and apparently 92% of me comes from Great Britain. This was far more than I had expected based on my family tree.

[@sandrojones8068]

Nice! I'm half Welsh-English and half Italian. So I am a Romano Briton!? :)

[@sandrojones8068]

@Blood Eagle 88 Not true. Irish are Goidelic Celts. Welsh are the last 'True' Britons, they are Brythonic Celts.

[@oran9519]

Sorry to burst your bubble but 'Gaelic' isn't a language. Do you mean irish?

[@pjmoseley243]

@@oran9519 so whats Garlic then? you got to know your onions when your talking british history

[@decoryder]

Absolutely outstanding documentary. I'm particularly impressed by the coverage of the ancient kingdom of Dal Riata, which is not often mentioned in similar documentaries.

[@wodenravens]

The Germanic tribes are always focused on for the post-Roman invasion of Britain but no one ever mentions the Irish invading Pictland, Wales and Cornwall! Also, the Picts invading south into the former Roman province. The Irish and Pict incursions contributed greatly to the migration of Britons to Brittany. It was a time of flux and I think the fact we view history too much through the prism of nation-states (which didn't exist) means we have a very distorted view.

[@jptonner80]

Interesting overview. The Pictish stones at 25:37 depicts the Pictish victory over the Angles of Northumbria in 685, well before the Viking invasions.

[@vaughnblaylock6069]

Possibly one of the very very best documentaries on Viking Age Britain I have ever watched. What would be really cool is if you took each section and boiled it down into a new documentary. I really enjoyed this very much. Many of the historical figures you mention are in my family tree, and it's nice to hear about them and their lives.

[@ThatGeordieGAMER]

Top quality overview of the era. watch a lot of history on youtube this is one of the best channels.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much! Glad you liked it. It was a pleasure to make it.

[@ThatGeordieGAMER]

Keep it up son i'm proud hahaha!

[@fancysfolly554]

Thanks for sharing. It’s very interesting

[@drmahlek9321]

Only just discovered this channel, I’m in love. Keep this up, I’ll be binging on your videos this week. A proud Mercian here.

[@HistoryTime]

Good to have another fellow Mercian on board! Glad you like the channel my friend!

[@arntchristianteigen2400]

Wonderful and surprisingly balanced work. I would like to bring to attention that the Norwegian Håkon, called the Good King, was fostered by Æthelstand the First King of all English. At least his other cognomen 'Aðalsteinsfóstri' strongly indicates it. His cognomen the Good King suggests the fact he was the first Roman Catholic king of Norway, a second son to the first feudal king of Norway, Harald King Fairhair, and brother of Eirik King Bloodaxe. Another detail, mentioning Ivar Earl Boneless, he is one of seven sons of Ragnar King Lodbrok of Hringriki, a mostly forgotten notion. His grandfather, Ivar King Widefathom, got his cognomen because of the vast amount of kings and rulers far eastwards and westwards who payed him tribute, in times when tribes and clans were far less settled than after the emergence of feudalist and capitalist statehood. Their lands were spawning old great Sweden from the Black Sea to the North Sea, encompassing the North Isles, the isles of Bretland (Britain), Bretland itself, Ireland and even Valland (Vallonia, modern France) perhaps. At least in the mindset of these loosing pre-feudalist vikings, we may talk of all of Enea, an alternative name for Europe among vikings (according to Snorre Sturlason. They are in their own eyes, I believe, the sons, grandsons of the ultimate hero of all legends, Sigurd the Dragonslayer (confer The Ring-cycle of Wagner). Apparantly these guys, this dynasty, has lost much of their power to Harald King Wartooth of Gardariki in the east, and later on Harald King Fairhair in Norway. I believe we should attempt to read the history of the Vikings as chronicle to the Gothic Wars. These vikings remain strong in the Northern Isles, and spurs the Icelandic golden age, it seems they mingle with the Scottish and Irish kingdoms and clanhoods, and are most probably the anchestors of Earl Rollo and William the Conquerer. Although now, at this time, the anti-feudalist sentiment that spurred these multi-ethnic vikings has long gone. Too often the Vikings are seen in a way that brings in the ideological underpinnings of the noble savage, in stead of analyzing the stratas, the historical developments of statehood, degrees of alienation of the semi-sedentary and articulate demonization of the nomadic. In the legend of the Northern Lands, taken care of by the Icelandic and Orkneyingar, the origin of the Norse are Finnic, Kvæn and Joð (Samí) merging wih the Danish Scylding. The Ynglings, of which the Hairfair dynasty have sprung, are here looked upon with great contempt. This internal divide and strife between peoples of the northern lands are much neglected in general, I think. I have hopes that History Time dares to scrutinize the great resources the Sagas present; although the translations of them are not necessarily better off in representing the subtleties than is translations of the Hebrew and Greek corpus, the biblical material. Sagas in particular, and legends in general may be decodified by solving specific enigmas within their immanent structures. There are keys in the poetry, by kennings we may learn to scale up to unseen contexts, realising the power of metonyms in puns; the skaldic art is quite advanced. By uncovering the horizon of each skald, or storyteller-tradtion in general, we will find without reduction, in lesser and greater degrees, temporal maps. By comparing, without erasing or devaluing the vague for the clear (i.e. "our" dating, calendar era, versus the hidden temporal matrixes of sagas and legends, deriving as plots, here, liturgical rather than merely dramaturgical), instead we may be investigating how sagas and legends appears in the merger-zone between history and myth. Myth, in my hermeneutic, is distinguished by being astronomical, with calendric, cyclic features. I believe the stars from as early as stargazing has been the prime mnemonic device for storytellers. It seems obvious to me that we didn't fix one constellation to one figure, as we tend to do in our times of electric lightenment. For instant a sage may use what is commonly referred to as Orion and Eridanus as a mnemonic of Thor carrying Aurwendil (Orion) over the great river of stars, Elívagr. This doesn't obstruct the sage from using the Orion constellation in combination with the Taurus and the Pleiades as mnemonic for a scene where Frigg is at her spinning wheel. The Pleiades are here called Frigg's hens. Both these myths are in turn foundational as a well of legends mapping historic awareness in relation to the ũberbau of what is contemporary real for the sage. My point is not at all a matter of advocating belief in any form of metaphysical reality, except acknowledging that different ways of timekeeping is a most great gateway to understand the metaphysical underpinnings of the particular matrix favoured by whatever calendar-/priests/ideologist. Prophethood was not merely superstition. Thus we can unveil the mythic matrix to find traces of particular historic events. It requires that one are able to detect what exactly is the mythic element in the legend; thus extract history. If this method is applied on the whole spectrum of legends and sagas, which we then can compare and map, we will be able to make alchemical gold. It is important to regard the ornamental and obscure as of primary interest; I believe that what we're looking for is to unravel these mysteries. It is easy to forget that when the sages looked into the night sky, he looked directly at time. For the most part of history, I believe of all peoples, the Moon has been the Watch. When you saw whatever constellation along the ecliptic, which you knew as well as the clock of the present, you knew at what time of the year the Moon is full in that place. You know by looking at the Virgin, that this is Spring. Probably you would learn, as most astrological peoples have been doing, that when the Moon is full in proximity to Spica, the Sun is in proximity with the stars called the first signals, the Ram's horns, although this is not obvious, visible; as is a solar calendar matrix alienating the temporal from the spatial.

[@eddiebear34]

Thanks for adding in the Scottish history with vikings. It's not often documentaries do it. The battle of largs is worth a documentary of its own

[@sweynskarilsen9105]

I believe there was a documentary about the Vikings and Orkney island. It tries to prove the theory of how red hair spread from Norway to Scotland and into Ireland, at least that's what I remember anyway. Either way it talked a lot about the history between the two.

[@blzbob7936]

Stunning amount of research! I thank you from my heart for sharing your knowledge. X

[@tomwilliams3941]

Wreocansaete

[@callumbiasnow4825]

This is one of my favourite vids on KZbin of all time (and I’ve watched a lot of KZbin) Really well done.

[@wol9881]

Really appreciate at least a little bit of attention being given to Wales:) big up u my g

[@veronicaroach3667]

The ORIGINAL remaining Brittons along with Cornwall - be proud ! I'm a Londoner but I adore Wales - just because it's beautiful & is a wonderful place, so I naturally gravitate to anything that 'ups' the knowledge on that subject too !

[@inquisitorilyaal3959]

What a great vid, just awoke after a night-shift and drinking coffee and listening to this. What a treat, well done chap.

[@drroussakis]

A very long, brutal and complex era. I pity the average peasant that had to survive through all this bloodbath driven by greed and vanity.

[@donaldgrant9067]

No it was fear of their wives back in Norway that drove them into strange lands.

[@LD-qj2te]

Ioannis Roussakis sounds like modern times.... makes u wonder

[@jamieevans3666]

don't worry that peasant was completely drunk

[@nicosmind3]

Dont forget survival and bitterness. I think it was Ceaser who said those men who fight for their very survival fight with the force of many men. Im sure there were people going to foreign lands to seek their fortunes, but probably plemty fleeing terror themselves. Thinking land can only support so many people. So they kill others so that they might live. And others will be killing out of revenge. A vicious circle of death

[@bimosatriyo1743]

Better than living in communist state though

[@simonabbott4430]

Well told and very interesting. Really appreciate you taking the time to do this thank you

[@amandaponder1251]

I'm trying to learn more about my European heritage. These videos are great! Thanks for your work! ❤️

[@thudjrful]

I wish more people would take more of an interest in history as people like you put a lot of hard work and effort into their videos

[@deanbuss1678]

Superb ! Love the old world art. Narration is excellent !

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you liked it :)

[@TheMrmilo123]

loving the shots of the inside of Jorvik when describing Eoferwich(York)

[@crouchingwombathiddenquoll5641]

What a history ! No wonder the British empire was good at invasion and occupation, it was flogged into them for more than a thousand years.

[@Buildbeautiful]

But the british empire was one of the shortist empires in history

[@HubertofLiege]

At least they’ll go down in history.....as an empire😀🎤

[@jaybadayatherockmerchant9832]

@@Buildbeautiful but one of the greatest

[@wolger]

It was a pay back time by the heaven to let them conquer the world. Poor Britons got invaded so many times, gaelics, romans, anglo-saxon-jutes-frisians, vikings norsemen danes, normans, english - nearly got wiped out. Facisnating part of history..

[@G0DKING]

Anthony Redmond It lasted nearly for 400 years (early 1600s-1997) which is bigger than some other big empires such as the mongol empire.

[@alanwareham7391]

A very well made documentary ,explaining the history of Briton ,without the nastiness or cleaver remarks that you usually get on these documentaries.Briton is a mixture of people's and races going back to Stone Henge and before .What people seem to forget in what they think as the 4 Nations of our Country never existed in antiquity ,and the ancient tribes covered much greater areas than we realise ,the prime example being Edinburgh .And even Scotland was two main tribes and only became a separate nation when old Hadrian did a bit of building .The same as Wales with Offas Dyke . As I've said a very well made documentary thank you.

[@georgealderson4424]

A nice, polite and interesting comment sir.

[@kevwhufc8640]

Watling street goes through the city I live in , StAlbans was called verulamium in Roman & early Saxon times. Watling street was the dividing line between Saxon and Viking territory. Originally a Celtic trackway which the Romans turned into a proper Roman built main road, via watling street. StAlbans is one of the oldest continually habited city's in Britain, it is also the place where the first pagan convert to christianity died a martyrs death because he wouldn't renounce his new faith or tell them where the priest was thst he hid from the soldiers. Albans shrine was covered in gold and silver as well as jewels of every kind. Built on the hillside where he was executed, nobody knows exactly when the chapel was built, but there was one in king offa's time mid 8th century. Yet the Vikings living literally a few metres across the other side of watling street, yet they never robbed or even attempted to rob the shrine of Albani . Britain's oldest Christian martyr. Strange very strange,

[@thomasf1531]

I live there too - great place for history!

[@kevwhufc8640]

@@thomasf1531 your right about StAlbans being rich in its history. 👍 As you know Its been continuous from the Celts onwards .

[@awfelia]

An awesome video! I was born in South Africa and have British roots. Now I live in Sweden..since 1986..and have Swedish/English grandkids!

[@muffin6369]

Hey Pete I realize you made this awhile ago but I watch your videos ALL YEAR!! Thanks again for the most awesome content on history and my other love archaeology.

[@ThorrorkAirsoft]

This video is so good, I bookedmarked it as I didn't have time to watch it in one swoop, but just had to make sure I could find it again and continue watching later. Never done that with a video before, that's how good it is.

[@nahhfam7678]

Me watching this to plan my conquest of England in the new Assassins creed game.

[@bowers84]

You need to find a girl mate

[@ismailr9496]

This is by far the most understandable documentary I've heard

[@hasukay7511]

Who's here after playing Assassin's Creed Valhalla and falling in love with Viking history!!

[@SkeetersGuitar]

Yessss

[@martinmanky9015]

'Made up Viking History' - They had no written history until their descendants on Iceland started to try and record things by carving. Would it blow you mind if I told you they were NEVER even called 'Vikings?'

[@SkeetersGuitar]

@@martinmanky9015 wow I bet your great at parties

[@martinmanky9015]

@@SkeetersGuitar I always bring the toot

[@bowers84]

Nope. But hope the pot noodle and wank after was good.

[@proudsaiyanprince2651]

I clicked on this video to learn more about the norse that came to these lands. I was not expecting you to go into detail about my homeland and ancestor Rhodri the Great. Thank you.

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you liked it. Rhodri should be a much more well known figure.

[@Macca1000001]

A Viking Tour of Britain...and it looks like you've given us a tour of Ireland and France too!

[@thehobbit1654]

This video was brilliant! Thanks so much for inveting your time and effort to make it. I've learned a lot from this video about the cultures I love, so that was definitely worth it!

[@guilhermecontiero96]

the history of europe is a rich one , rome-greece-britain-scandinavia all have great stories , the arthurian legends are some of the greatest ones , i Wonder how much of it is true

[@milliethemog]

Yes Ældorman, greetings from Birmingham, Mercia, and thank u for all of yr video's sir! I have enjoyed them so much and have learnt so much aswell, proper grateful for yr work and effort there man, big respect!

[@kevinstandre]

I love history time! I get off work n get some food chill in my car n say" history time!"

[@CanadaDan]

Awesome video, thank you. If it wasn't for the first Viking series or the Last Kingdom I wouldn't had shown interest in history tbh. It's like a whole new thing for me

[@WarDogMadness]

Nice video would make a video on the viking Rus

[@HistoryTime]

Something in the works very soon. :)

[@ingnavar]

They were Called Varangians I think

[@WarDogMadness]

Frosan Petrov that was the Greek name for them yes

[@t16205]

@@ingnavar The Varangian guard was a elite scandinavian mercenary force

[@arpthirteen6713]

Facts.

[@erinmboehm]

You are amazing- I am so happy to have found your site, please keep up the amazing documentaries!

[@DoDaDaDaDaCaDa]

So they're Anglo Dano Saxons?

[@HistoryTime]

Pretty much!

[@HistoryTime]

Cumbro-Anglo-Saxon-Norse-Danes up in the north...

[@DoDaDaDaDaCaDa]

Haha that's nice. I was wondering off topic though if you could make a video about the Burgundians? I'm from an island in the Baltic, called Bornholm. Where the Burgundian tribe originated before migrating to present day Poland, and joined the mass-sacking off the WRE.

[@HistoryTime]

Swank Status Q yes I'd love to write something on the Burgundians. You guys had kingdoms, you had provinces in France and you had provinces in the Holy Roman Empire. Insane amounts of history. It's a shame you aren't more well known.

[@Aim4sixmeals]

@@HistoryTimeFrisian*

[@Thenaturalflorist]

Thank you so much 🙏🏼 such a fab thing to do and very much appreciated ❤️

[@notmenotme614]

What springs to my mind about this time period, is how there’s no such thing as “one hereditary royal family” The King was whoever invaded his neighbours and killed them in battle. Until he was victim to the same fate. In one evolving power struggle, invasion after invasion.

[@teresa6775]

I love the way you tell a story. Makes me feel like I'm right there watching the entire thing play out. Just wish I knew what they all looked like. Put a face to a story you could say

[@cloud2676]

Just finished watching Vikings and now playing Assassin’s Creed Valhalla. History is so brutal yet so beautiful.

[@jason-gf8dg]

Watch the last kingdom

[@joesteers5807]

Great video - Well done! Thanks for taking the time to make this fantastic content!

[@kiril666]

such a great video , good work my friend

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks friend! Really glad you like it!

[@Nuclearsunburn2]

Been listening to the British History Podcast and it piqued my curiosity to watch this. Very well narrated, music is on point. One suggestion: when showing the map, and talking about a location, pop up the location on the map if it’s not already shown. Great work !

[@senua-hydroponics]

Amazing to think London was once a Viking town! Towns with thwaite, toft, keld, by, Kirk in their names all have Viking links

[@dors.sc1]

i love the way you present this, especially the way you describe those places.

[@lesleyanderson5697]

Fascinating seldom-spoken of, history. thank you.

[@HistoryTime]

Lesley Anderson Glad you liked it :)

[@Global_Havoc18]

this video was super interesting. Thank you so much!! Hope you have a wonderful rest of your day and a safe 2020.

[@ruary3243]

7:27 Cornwall, a proud land full of celtic history to this day.

[@jasonsweet1868]

Are they proud of cutting the throats of ship wreck survivors after they lured them to death on the rocks

[@SonGojit456]

Yes

[@SonGojit456]

Aye Mate

[@ruary3243]

@@jasonsweet1868 name a society that didn't have bad eggs. Go!

[@jasonsweet1868]

@@ruary3243 oh so they are the same as everyone else then what they got to be proud of

[@tuberobotto]

You have such a wonderful channel, your storytelling fashion is quite captivating and not at all boring in fact this particular video piqued my interest whereas others like it on a similar subject would have had my brain spinning in pain. Thank you for sharing and producing videos on diverse historical events. Quite interesting is how you portray the historical figures and people as more human than mere names in history. More power to you sir.

[@donnysandley6977]

I'm very proud of my English heritage English heritage in the USA 🤫💪

[@donnysandley6977]

Oops 😬

[@LarsPallesen]

@@bennym1326 Only after the Normannic invasion in 1066. That's when they became brutal and arrogant. The Britons and the Anglo-Saxons were alright.

[@bennym1326]

Lars Pallesen you are right, it is believed that the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Britons all coexisted in peace after the romans. Pre Norman and danish invasion is a completely different story..

[@eirin099]

anglo saxons lowkey pushed all the other peoples out of their land and to the far ends; not much written about it, but they didn't seem to want to coexist as much as the romans before them

[@bennym1326]

Bacon yeah it is debatable. Some historians claim there was interbreeding and others say they were pushed out.

[@stephenholmes333]

Love this channel. History is important. We all need to remember where we come from 🙏✨❤💚

[@Dentipres]

Britain and Ireland, how hard is basic geography?

[@ciaranmck4469]

is ireland not in the British isles? even before the Roman's came to england ireland was considered british

[@Dentipres]

The term "British Isles" has been vaguely defined since most of the Island of Ireland became independent. As it stands neither the EU,UK or Irish goverments use the term in political discourse. Even in official law in the UK the term British Islands encompasses the territory of the UK and channel islands. The term itself, while it was used before the Romans arrived in Ireland in the form of "Pretani" Islands or a variety thereof, was adopted by English writers and authorities around the early 17th century to cement the act of Union, as such it has post colonial undertones in that it is used to suggest territorial claims by Britain or more specifically England over the Island of Ireland. The term is falling out of use as it continues to blur the distinction between the UK and Britain or Britain and Ireland as is evident by the title of this video.

[@ciaranmck4469]

@@Dentipres officially ireland is apart of the isles(geographically) 🤷🏼‍♂️ I dont make the rules mate and besides Britain isnt Britain without Ireland that's why the flag of saint Patrick is in the union jack the uk has nothing to do with early medieval Britain so what's the point in bringing it up fucking spaz

[@MaryAnnNytowl]

Quite a fascinating time and place in history - thanks for bringing it to us!

[@3olision]

Thanks for another great video. You make some of the best content among similar channels.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks so much! Glad you liked it!

[@kaarlimakela3413]

This really has illuminated an era that I've been trying to picture more fully. Thanks! :)

[@HistoryTime]

Glad you liked it!

[@morningatsea]

The Vikings are known for assimilating into the lands they conquered, not "stamping out" existing cultures and replacing them with their own. They assimilated so well they simply disappeared.

[@sandrojones8068]

I'd like a few modern day 'invaders' to disappear as well.

[@Shelmerdine745]

morningatsea It went both ways, nobody disappeared.

[@morningatsea]

@@Shelmerdine745 By "disappeared" I mean "assimilated" well into countries they invaded until they were no more.

[@morningatsea]

@@Potatoman1578 - The Welch retained their language... looks like there was a choice? In any case "the new Germanic language of Vikings" is spoken where?

[@Potatoman1578]

@@morningatsea my bad, nevermind :D

[@larsygardennordb4588]

Brilliant work! As a Norwegian studying for a masters degree in History this is really fun to watch. Really like the stories of the «vikings» and the Gaels in Ireland and Scotland. They got a long pretty well didnt they 😄

[@dafyddpowell5966]

What are your thoughts on the new game by Creative Assembly, Thrones of Britannia Saga?

[@HistoryTime]

I haven't played it yet. I love that it's getting people interested in this period of history though. I'm a big fan of the older total war games. Medieval 2 in particular.

[@dafyddpowell5966]

History Time This time period is very interesting and it’s definitely made more people interested in this time period. It’s worth picking it up, perhaps you could look into any historical inaccuracies? I’m very grateful that you cover Welsh history for this time period. I find it difficult to find some as there aren’t many reliable sources. I’d be very grateful if you could send a link to some of your sources.

[@Jcrpdx]

Great job. Thanks! It would be helpful if we could apply these history lessons to our current events.

[@pihoihoi]

Thank you! Great history lesson! subscribed ♥

[@ThePocketbass]

Wow. An in-depth presentation done in a way rarely seen on You Tube.

[@davewilson4058]

I too am here thanks to the Viking incursion. According to my DNA, my ancestors migrated from Norway, settled in Orkney and gradually spread into the Hebrides and now many centuries later, here I am living in New Zealand.

[@steven5341]

We may have a similar history. My family is from Scotland/England but I have no info beyond 4 generations ( Wilsons and Turnbulls) - they emigrated to NZ mid 19th Century. How do you know about the DNA? Did you pay to have it done?

[@davewilson4058]

Yes I paid acompany called Britain's DNA

[@simonscott1876]

Dave it is now time for the invasion of Mars .lol.....

[@davewilson4058]

I'm afraid I'm too old and past any possibility of procreating on or terraforming anywhere else. Earth will have to do for me.

[@simonscott1876]

Dave I've not heard of a pub called earth.

[@mattmf01]

One of the best videos I have watched.

[@pashapasovski5860]

This would make for great TV series! Just if someone thought of producing it!🥊

[@hamzadesidragonsarwar]

The last kingdom on Netflix

[@eddmelter1012]

excellent overview of this period of history one of the best I have watched, thanks.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@eoin4909]

“A tour of Viking Britain ( and Ireland ) “

[@joshjackson5867]

Ireland is part of the 'British' Isles

[@joshjackson5867]

@Asmoth Hermelin ...

[@joshjackson5867]

@Bres well that's just not true is it

[@joshjackson5867]

@Bres I fail to see your point

[@adamender9092]

@@joshjackson5867 there is a difference between the British isles and Britain. The term isn't even used anymore

[@eh1702]

The Pictish stine being shown as Pict vs Viking strife is axtually some centuries earlier, and almost certainly commemorates the 685AD battle of Dun Nechtain, Picts vs Saxons.

[@eh1702]

Sorry, Picts vs the Saxon/ Briton polity by then called Northumbria.

[@Ronbo710]

I'm up to 55% Scottish/Irish on ancestry dna now and loving this :)

[@Ronald-ki8ch]

thankyou so much for including links and credits to the music. It's the right thing to do

[@bashkillszombies]

Alfred 'the Great'? Is the quotations necessary?

[@spencerrogers9857]

bashpr0mpt its an Epithet

[@cfosburg]

This was an excellent production, well done!

[@Antaragni2012]

Good Job! Go ahead! Good Luck!

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks very much!

[@88pampa]

KZbin recommended this and I accidentally clicked it... Fascinating!

[@Nozylatten]

Thankful for this video.. Great job.

[@HistoryTime]

Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@Paul.Morgan]

Thanks for a fascinating video! I've watched it three times to absorb all the details.

[@scottyoz2460]

My family came from Wales to Australia my Dna is Nordic.

[@fancysfolly554]

We have similar story tho came to US. Our DNA is Irish and Scandinavian.

[@SARHistories]

Great documentary! I live near Repton which is the old capital of Mercia! Thank you for sharing 👍

[@aronsnell9469]

Very good, not many people know that Cornwall has never actually been subjugated by England, and that the celts in Cornwall fought alongside the Viking’s against the Saxon invaders

[@mrdarren1045]

The term of celtic for all the ancient ppl of Britain and Ireland was dreamed up in the 1800s. Before this time nobody in ancient Britain ever called themselves celtic. Its highly misleading.

[@AndyMcSherry1]

Happy you mentioned Dumbarton mate, brilliant. Come and visit the castle.

[@historyrhymes1701]

Vikings were everywhеre :) grеat vidеo

[@HistoryTime]

They were indeed. Thanks! Glad you liked it

[@historyrhymes1701]

Hi there

[@Coupal1]

What happened to their descendants in Scandinavia now?

[@vanefreja86]

Coupal1 We became European christian kingdoms.

[@Terlin1466]

Vikings was a job so of course they were everywhere Norse is what they were as a people and that's fine because with out the Norse The North lands would never actually become a powerful unified country's that ruled the world for a period of time. A feat that would even make all the old Empires respect and bow to as a great accomplishment. What i find interesting about the Norse is that most of them were Pagan and remain pagan for the most part even thought portions of them turned to Christian mostly the ones unable to fight. I can only imagine if the Old Monotheistic religions struck out the words that distrust of anyone with other gods how the world would of been different. One thing the Christian religions really did was Slow to sometimes completely halting technology from being discovered to rediscovered in many cases. I see the Christian religions as a negative thing to Humanity for the most part but it did keep people together when things were harsh so that's a positive as well. In the bible it has many references to have no other gods before him or even mentioning other gods. Hence creating huge conflicts around the world for century's. IF only such hatred to the other gods was not so enforced upon humanity would we see more peace and more chances on thriving inventions that would saved many people from early deaths. There is Never only one. The very Nerve and arrogance to think there's is only one proves only one thing. Unenlightened mind full of fear. The perfect SLAVE in short. This is the real Christian legacy and is why i will always hate religion threw out the world as it fails to adapt time and time again because of words in a book that have NO proof actually came from their god. Especially a god of peace since no god of peace would encourage war death and famine all because your neighbors worship a different god. This is in short why polytheistic religions ruled the world the longest and the fastest.

[@KhalDrogo76]

This is a quality piece - excellent job, earned a subscriber here!

[@OhDannyboy7]

Some of my blood traces back to these ancient lands. Great video and historical account, learned a lot! --Thanks from a Yank.

[@dorianleakey]

I grew up a mile from Athelney so this stuff always fascinated me.

[@europabelongstoeuropeanson9173]

Hello dad no seen you for 800 years