Archaeologists Unearth What Viking Britain Was Really Like | Digging For Britain | Unearthed History

From buried chess pieces that tell tales of Viking warriors, to ancient burial grounds that shed light on the St. Brice's Day massacre, join Dr Alice Roberts as she tries to uncover the truth about Viking Britain.
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[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Alice Roberts' melodious tone of voice and gentle smiles are as efficient as Viking hatchets and swords. Once we are won over by her communication weapons, we simply can't stop watching documentaries presented by her. Her success is deadly, it kills boredom and ignorance and makes anyone like science.

[@GeoffsSousChef]

ok coomer

[@JoJo-11of11]

Alice has the most relaxing voice I have heard in some time, her presentation is simply the best. She should run for prime minister and she’d easily win and do a darn good job too !

[@niallwildwoode7373]

Yes. Unhurried unlike previous archeo presenters, and meticulous in her wording. How she shows clear yet controlled emotion when handling evidence of brutality and trauma, shows exceptional authenticity. Definitely doesn't play to the camera, which is so rare nowadays.

[@GavTatu]

"a young man, being hacked to death".... yup, soft and gentle, i've never felt so relaxed.

[@skyhigh1154]

Shes just really hot!

[@mrfester42]

These British archeology documentaries and TV shows are so damn interesting and engrossing that I would much rather watch them than any movie. Fiction be damned. There's nothing more interesting than real life.

[@martingannon132]

The people who have carved those chess pieces obviously have some excellent carving skills to be admired for all of history to enjoy.

[@EmbraceTheJourney]

when it comes to archaeology videos, its hard to beat Dr. Roberts as the presenter. Thank you for the great information you have provided.

[@5riversdeep628]

This is why I quit cable TV and thrive on KZbin. The game pieces blew me away, @ 12:04, the bishop piece is so detailed, he has his blessing fingers extended on his right hand. That 1000 year old + attention to detail is amazing.

[@x2lls]

I have a repro set that I made over 55 years ago. The pawns took ages to complete. I also made extra queens so's to have two when a pawn reaches the other side.

[@kimberlypatton205]

I’m glad I’m not the only one who doesn’t watch TV anymore… I find so many great doc and history channel here on YT … and many others!

[@matthewhenley783]

A beautiful and intelligent woman fires the imagination . . . especially when she reveals mysteries and stories from the past.

[@blzbob7936]

Love Alices' info and the way she delivers it. We are transported back to a lifestyle long forgotten, without bias as to who was more worthy to occupy these lands. The only comment I would make when they were studying the injuries to the fallen, would be that the small square holes in the bones were impacts from arrows, not spears. Arrows probably brought the victim down, then they were attacked with swords etc. I believe spears would have made a larger, and wider hole in their bones, not small square holes. Just an observation.

[@danielranderson9115]

She’s a 10 on scale of 10. Professional. Delightful & seriously interested in her work. Simply a wise & credit to this episode. D.R, Capt ;(ret)

[@lnbjr7]

Dr Alice is an incredible presenter.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

*Professor.

[@YvonneWatson-ff5ex]

As an American I find this fascinating mainly because I’ve discovered that my genetics are Scottish and English along with a little Irish, Welsh, and Norwegian. I feel like you’re talking about my ancestors.

[@theodoroseidler7072]

Love this show and love Alice Roberts presenting it. Cheers!

[@phyllisneal8687]

Hello ❤ Boston here. Truly a wonderful show, and so very informative! Thank you.

[@normandong4479]

History & archaeology fascinate us. We seem to peel back the history by layers. Alice Roberts adds a gentle and very informed narration to all of this. She has a lovely and sweet demeanor, and that helps a lot. Well done ❤❤😊

[@MrTorleon]

Prof. Alice Roberts wears her multiple hats well. Academic, osteoarcheologist,, historian, writer and presenter. With a careful, thoughtfully aware approach to each subject presented in this series, she invites us in to explore each fascinating artifact, which are also beautifully filmed in exquisite detail. A superior episode, and a pleasure to watch :)

[@cerdic6586]

She is not a historian

[@gregedmand9939]

Be still my beating heart! Dr Roberts has caught my attention since the first time she appeared on Time Team. 😍

[@MrTorleon]

@@cerdic6586 So sorry, but I am afraid you are incorrect. Whilst her specialist subjects have been anatomy and biological anthropology, over her extensive and long career she has made many presentations as an historian, all under the umbrella of being a ' Professor for Public Engagement with Science ' As an Emeritus Professor of Early Medieval History myself, I am more than comfortable to consider Alice as part of the team - as it were :)

[@cerdic6586]

@@MrTorleon *She is not a serious historian. She analyses history through the narrow lens of material culture, has not really contributed to historiographical debate, and focuses on popular history. I do not doubt her general erudition though.

[@MrTorleon]

@@cerdic6586 Mmm, perhaps, but in my own long academic career, I could name any number of historians who have viewed history ' through the narrow lens of material culture ' so consider this criticism lacks a certain validity.What is certain though is, that many aspects of ' history ' have been undergoing some radical reappraisal over the last few decades, with some splendid research being undertaken by a number of quite brilliant social historians, so that history is being rewritten as we speak. So, SERIOUS historian or not, I value your point of view, even if I cannot agree with your analysis or your overall opinion - but that is fine, nothing wrong in a healthy debate, or expressing differing opinions :)

[@timtaylor8406]

Prof Alice makes this interesting history even more interesting...

[@littleSallyJo]

I'm pretty sure that the Lewis Chess Pieces were made from Walrus Ivory from Greenland--I believe I read about this from the account of the ultimately unsuccessful Norse effort to colonize Greenland, which was based on the abundance of walrus ivory as an export material used to create Ecclesiastic artwork during that period. Please correct me if I've gotten this linkage wrong--but it just sparked up this connection in my mind.

[@SecretSquirrelFun]

I have always loved the Lewis chess set, especially the Berserker biting their shield. The amazing, tiny little details. The teeny tiny teeth 😬 Just amazing. I love it. 🙂🐿🌈❤️

[@brianhunt9614]

Brilliantly presented by a very talented orator. Kudos ❤

[@brettcurtis5710]

Think Dr Alice Roberts is going to be added to my favourite Brit female academics - along with Mary Beard, Lucy Worsley, Eleanor Janega, and the fantastic Bettany Hughes!

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

*Professor Alice Roberts.

[@Colourmad314]

The lady was a medical Doctor intending to be a surgeon before a change that lead to today. Thank you Time Team for getting her to write up your anthropological results ❤

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@@Colourmad314 She did also get her hands dirty, as one of the on site 'dig team' at the beginning of her Time Team career. I suppose that there's no room for anyone on an archeology programme who wouldn't actively work on the digs. Time Team was a fantastic format - an eclectic mix of academics and specialists, a rigid timeframe, the beautiful (usually) British countryside, a massively popular presenter at the helm, and most importantly, no dumbing down of the subject matter. I don't know the ratings over the years, but I'm sure that a lot of people were surprised by it's popularity and longevity

[@Colourmad314]

As an avid, if not completely total fan from episode 1 & the Fugue in Cornwall, introducing any children in the family to every one down to the big yellow trowel, just wanted it to be understood that her original pathway had no intention in heading into mucky holes looking at old bones. It is all to our benefit. How many has she inspired just like the rest of the Time Team.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@@Colourmad314 I'd imagine that Professor Roberts has inspired a lot of young people to consider a career in medicine/forensics/osteoarcheology, particularly girls. She's far from alone though - Dr Caroline Wilkinson and Dame Sue Black - both World renowned experts with significant television profiles. We've been extremely fortunate to have plenty of quality documentary programmes produced in the UK over the last couple of decades.

[@junestanich7888]

Great series, good to see a Time steamer again.

[@timothydockery534]

The shows are so awesome

[@user-ox6ip8ie7d]

I can feel the spear points jabbing into my hip. Thanks for the imagery. And those were misses. They were probably trying to disembowel him.

[@antonpressing]

AU-AH !

[@lindaross783]

Every time I see an ad for Viking Cruise Lines I can feel my Scottish relatives smirking.

[@derekstocker6661]

Fascinating as always, what these wonderful archaeologist's tell us about everyday life a thousand years ago is amazing and the artefacts are so wonderful to see. Thanks so very much for this!

[@mkhanman12345]

No problem. You know what it is.

[@carolebrooks8929]

Brilliant. Well done.

[@brettbrown9261]

And to think, her first TV gig was on TIME TEAM, well done Dr. Alice Roberts a fan then and still today, I know Sir Tony is impressed with her career also, he said as much on the new Time Team recently.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

*Professor.

[@giovanni6636]

@@ianmacfarlane1241stop being so pedantic

[@stevemellin5806]

Nice finds . great show .only thing I find in Los Angeles is old big gulp cups . And Burger King bags .ha ha ha

[@KatrinaRoseT]

The Vikings mass produced bone hair combs. 🤯 Does that mean Henry Ford may not be the first person to invent the assembly line? 🤣

[@TheGeezzer]

Dr Alice Roberts is such an eloquent presenter, I enjoy her immensely!

[@maryvanryn2504]

Excellent show.

[@chuckh8199]

i enjoy your evident enjoyment in telling these stories - well done - looking forward to more - now the important part ... where did you get your necklace ?

[@granthurlburt4062]

Thanks for posting. I preferred Time Team but she does an excellent job. A knowledgeable physical anthropologist with a lovely voice and manner, and a sense of humour she occasionally demonstration, she's the best substitute available. She deals with archaeologists who've been working for weeks or months, day in and day out, and of course don't ahve the "first days" enthusiasm of the Time Team crew, and of course aren't working because of their personalities.

[@TheHappyhorus]

I’m proud to be a Brit when we have great representation, well done Alice you are a fantastic rep for the UK.

[@waynevaughan9325]

Fantastic researched vid . Wish it was shown in schools but alas the truth is despised by some who lack self esteem.

[@estherlwhittle7568]

American schools really edit history, especially the history of European countries.

[@taxiuniversum]

What I am surprised by is that with all these human remains, there is no mention of DNA. Shouldn’t it be possible to extract DNA from these bones and teeth? And wouldn’t this DNA shed light on the origins and ancestry of these individuals? Also, it would be interesting to learn about the share of „Viking“ DNA in today’s inhabitants of England and Scotland!

[@daver8521]

Not crazy about that game, but enjoyed watching you win! Congrats!

[@JamesSmith-ze6zo]

Stornoway area (Melbost) is where my Grandfathers family lived for who knows how long!

[@sirensynapse5603]

I dig this video.

[@spiritwardiaries]

30:45❤ 👑🏆"Will you search through the loamy earth for me? Climb through the briar and bramble I'll be your treasure I felt the touch of the kings and the breath of the wind I knew the call of all the song birds They sang all the wrong words I'm waiting for you I'm waiting for you" When I hear the word "detectorists"😊

[@margaretspurling8162]

Is there any connection made to the child song, " The noble duke of York, he had 10,000 men he marched them up a hill and marched them down again."

[@xcrockery8080]

No, none whatsoever.

[@derekmclean5603]

Are you meaning The Grand Old Duke of York? More a reference to an event, or events during the Wars of the Roses I think. Nothing to do with the Norsemen or ancient Brits.

[@xcrockery8080]

@@derekmclean5603 Yeah, the Duke of York was trying to promote the idea of a trained, professional army. Hence all the marching.

[@mysterreed]

With a 2011 production date this doc belongs to history already...

[@dianareed4160]

I remember her on time team

[@martinshephard6317]

Chess piece biting his shield? Surely proof that Vikings suffered from constipation! 😬

[@deweyplaster5036]

Dr. Jackson Crawford may have some insights into the runic inscriptions.

[@KatrinaRoseT]

The spear wounds could have been made after the slaughter as the victors went around to ensure each body is truly dead. Or arrow wounds.

[@margomoore4527]

I don’t know why the curator seemed to think of spear wounds to the exclusion of wounds caused by knives or dirks. Some dirks were made in that square pattern-like 4 sharp blades rather than a flat knife-weren’t they? It would have been easier to use a dirk rather than a spear at close quarters….

[@johnnyfarout]

yep, she's a star

[@davidwood4118]

A superb, balanced take on Viking Britain! After twelve hundred years, archeology finally overrides monkish propaganda riddled with demonizing misconceptions of the Norse. Until now, the sort of English history often deified by Brexiteers lauds Alfred and the Anglo-Saxon narrative as an origin story for ‘God and Country’ on the road to empire, whereas this episode of ‘Digging for Britain’ demythologizes any Anglo-Saxon moral superiority. Thanks to science, the St. Brice’s day massacre of English Vikings unearths a genocidal, proprietorial template soon to be repeated against the Welsh, Scots and Irish, and that would later manifest through land grabs across continents. Quite brilliantly, this new archeology shows how Christianized Anglo-Saxon kings of the Viking age were no less thuggish and ambitious than their Nordic counterparts, but without the Viking capacity to absorb peoples into racially diverse communities wherein women, in particular, often enjoyed levels of power and freedom centuries ahead of what Christendom ever offered.

[@kwhulcher8421]

Runes were used as abbreviations like text messaging in the 8th century. This best explains the Heavener Runestone in Oklahoma.

[@lianefehrle9921]

This took my mind away to the Viking times.

[@willeel3750]

Really enjoying Dr. Alice Roberts documentaries. She has an interesting accent. I'm not familiar with the different accents of the British Isles. Is she Welsh, Scottish?

[@ianrobertson2282]

She has a Bristol accent.

[@willeel3750]

Thank you @@ianrobertson2282

[@giovanni6636]

@@willeel3750which means she’s English

[@geraldstiling3735]

Watching Time Team🕳️ in the late 90s ..I always wondered what the future might hold for girl with the bright red hair👧🏼 digging in the trench next to Phil Harding 🤠😂❤

[@DarenDubh]

Something they seemed to have misinterpreted were the scorch marks on the bones. The fact that the burns were mostly on the face, hands and pelvis would seem to suggest members of a force attacking a fortification. Often oil was poured over walls and set ablaze. These injuries would suggest the bones came from attackers and not people being hunted down. The multiple wounds would actually suggest that someone put a suffering person out of their misery.

[@georgedorn1022]

Is there evidence for burning oil being used as a weapon in Early Medieval fortifications?

[@DarenDubh]

As it is recorded that Jewish peasants used it against Vespasian's troops in 47 A.D. and it was also used at the siege of Orléans (1428-29), the Great Siege of Malta (1565) and the siege of Sommières in the French Wars of Religion (1573) in the later middle ages; it was most likely used on occasion during the early middle ages. While not used often because of the expense, it cannot be assumed it wasn't used in dire circumstances. @@georgedorn1022

[@davedavidson4762]

Roberts enjoys watercolour painting, surfing, wild swimming, cycling, gardening and pub quizzes.

[@benwilson6145]

And Goddess

[@OhSnap-kb9vr]

We just saw the Viking Festival in Scotland, where the burial 'ship' burning was the grand finale of the event, which makes me think any burials found on land were sacrifices. Too simplistic maybe?

[@johnvanstone5336]

Alice Roberts is simply gorgeous!

[@pcka12]

The St Brice's day massacre was perhaps unsurprising given the continuing raids & Danegeld paid. The Anglo Saxons had difficulty discriminating between 'Danes' who had settled & others who continued to raid finally in 1066 there was a vast battle between the forces of Harold Hardrada & the Saxons at Stamford Bridge in which 'the Danes' were massacred.

[@TallulahB58]

I have Scandinavian ancestry from the Isle of Man before the year 1300.

[@richardjohnston3359]

I think everyone in britain and ireland probably have

[@ahar7624]

Whilst alice seems like a very decent and erudite presenter i would much rather watch a documentary with michael woods...he actually brings history alive and has passion for it

[@andrewwelsh6638]

Not sure how you can cover the vikings without reference to slavery. Getting rid of the heathen vikings was also getting rid of slavery. BBC like Alice because she is such a good narrator. Occasionally she goes off script where it’s obvious the narrative is wrong. I feel she should have done so here to destroy the myth that the vikings were nice people. Twenty to thirty men between the ages of 17 and 25 are probably a Viking raiding party looking for slaves and were caught red-handed and suffered retribution. There are similar burial mounds around the country. The manufacture of combs on a remote island is a good place to keep slaves and put them to work as it’s difficult to escape. Again, the dirham coin from Afghanistan, could have been picked up from the Muslim slave market at Constantinople.

[@biddiemutter3481]

It doesn't appear from the statement by the king that they were focused on raiders in the massacre rather people already living among 'his ' people.

[@xcrockery8080]

@@biddiemutter3481 ...but all were young men. No children, no women. That's not "people living among us", that's a raiding party.

[@biddiemutter3481]

@@xcrockery8080 that's a possible explanation another would be that the women were taken alive to be enslaved or 'married '

[@xcrockery8080]

@@biddiemutter3481 Which women? The women kidnapped by the raiders and kept as slaves? Vikings didn't sail out with their women - they relied on killing men and kidnapping women to take home with them.

[@Awitsaduck]

When they say "very late Iron Age" what does that mean in the context of the western isles of Scotland (and thus the romans not being in play)?

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

In Scotland, the iron age was 800 BC to AD 400. In Denmark, the late iron age was the Early Germanic Iron Age (Migration Period), AD 400 to 550 AD, and the Late Germanic Iron Age, AD 550 to 800. {:o:O:}

[@BottleBri]

Alice Roberts is so adorable. ☺️

[@KD400_]

Oh nice ur here too lol

[@mikef.1000]

An interesting subject presented in an engaging way by Alice Roberts. But I think her sweeping conclusions aren't much backed up by what she's presented. So towards the end she claims that the Vikings "shaped our landscape". It's a melodious phrase, but what does it mean, exactly? Fine English prose, but that's about it.

[@ronbyers9912]

I don't know about the vikings but I lose combs so regularly my wife just bought me a collection of 50.

[@baroquejen]

We will show close ups of finds, but we will blur 2/3 of the item so you can't get the full scope. Yay.

[@AndyJarman]

Why is it whenever I go to Scotland its pouring with rain, but these documentaries don't hint at it!

[@toddjohnson5692]

I was in Scotland in June some years ago. We only had 2 days of rain in 2 weeks. I got sunburned. And the sun just barely set below the horizon and you could see it move sideways and then come back up. Birds sang all 'night' long. So sometimes you get lucky.

[@forbesmeek6304]

Every time I'm in England it has bucketed doon. Funny that.

[@AndyJarman]

@@forbesmeek6304 I'm writing outback Western Australia.

[@kevrussell5972]

She is gorgeous and educational so win win for me

[@shirleyrice7093]

Wherever this young woman is from in England, you can hear the accents of Australia and New Zealand in her speech. In the Southern American accent, you can hear the English accents from another area. It is so interesting.

[@christopherlawley1842]

Bristol area, I believe

[@Mercmad]

watch her in some of the old time team episodes. that Northern accent was really strong in those days...LOL!.

[@garygalt4146]

@@MercmadBristol is the south west of Britain. Follow the bottom of wales into the Bristol Channel. Like Liverpool a sea going port that traded with America the Cara bean and also Australia. And of course the famous pirate accent [ar me hearty ].

[@Adaman368]

Yeah the English and later British brutally invaded colonised a quarter of the world

[@giovanni6636]

@@Adaman368we sure did, it was brilliant 😂

[@AnthonyTobyEllenor-pi4jq]

At 3.20 the nice round mound in the background looks manmade.

[@jefffranklin2779]

❤Dr.Alice is also Beautiful❤

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

She's also a Professor.

[@jefffranklin2779]

It would be an honor to attend her class❤️

[@giovanni6636]

@@ianmacfarlane1241I think I’ll start to refer to her as Dr just to annoy you

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

@@giovanni6636 What makes you think that would annoy me? I was simply passing on the information - you can choose to ignore that information if you want.

[@KD400_]

Shes married lol

[@anthonytroisi6682]

What would archaeologiists do if our ancestors were not so careless about droppping pottery,losing tools, and leaving jewelry stashed behind?

[@dennisboesel6405]

What about the Vikings long.houses

[@aaronw.markel9319]

How do buildings that used to be on the ground surface, end up UNDER the ground if it wasn’t buried. ?

[@georgedorn1022]

It depends on the site, but usually a combination of factors such as the movement of sediment by wind, water and/or agricultural activity, accumulation and breakdown of organic material as a disused site becomes overgrown and reclaimed by nature etc. Some sites are intentionally buried to facilitate reuse of the land.

[@davekeating.]

Foundations are always underground!

[@rick43pen]

I wish uploaders would include the season and episode in their description. Judging by her hair this must have been made several years ago before her pink hair stage.

[@Canalcoholic]

This is series 2, episode 2, first aired September 2011.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

After the pink hair.

[@docinparadise]

I’ve always had a problem with men who gain power and riches by telling peasants they were given authority over everyone by some invisible man in the sky. Whether king or priest, I always thought it was wrong to claim power for a lie. And with that power, they took money and goods from people with either a promise of protection they couldn’t keep or the threat of eternal damnation for rebellion. So I’m ok with the Vikings looting the ill gotten gains of the priests. It seems like poetic justice to me.

[@garywells9231]

Dr Alice is an extremely gifted intelligent young lady. Pretty also.

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

Young is a relative term, but Professor Roberts is now 50 believe it or not.

[@mikeregan7974]

Superb documentary, thanks!!! Question: Why in the world would archeologists need to wear yellow vests ???

[@TheLPSDinosaur]

a lot of the time it's required when we work on contruction sites

[@Mercmad]

So they don't join the skeletons they are digging up.

[@biddiemutter3481]

Particularly if they are digging in deep holes or sharing the site with diggers.

[@Roseturpin]

Could hardly hear 😶

[@dennisboesel6405]

They are something from their past

[@Nana-Opa]

I just wonder about all of the people throughout the years that found items. What did they do with them? Did they know that they also found something special? 🇺🇸

[@philipr1567]

There were many 'antiquarians' particularly from the professional classes (doctors, lawyers, vicars and so on) in the nineteenth century who collected old objects brought to them often by farm workers who found them while digging the fields. Unfortunately, fragments of bone and pot were not seen as special and the dates and locations of the finds were not always recorded.

[@chrismac2234]

Once it's dug up, that's where archaeologists Input should stop.

[@jamesmcshane5248]

If anyone has been to South uist thay no about the celtic settlement if you no any documents out about it can you send me a link

[@biddiemutter3481]

No, I don't know 😂

[@jamesmcshane5248]

@@biddiemutter3481 ????????

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

There's a book on the Chess men were carves by a woman based on the author's research.

[@Mercmad]

An African woman apparently. She had blue hair too.

[@kathrynsamuelson1983]

@@Mercmad Interesting. Where did you learn that? The book I read, as I recall, said she was Norwegian.

[@jacquespictet5363]

It is worth noting that such Islamic coins were found by the tens of thousand in the Eastern Scandinavians areas, foremost on the Island of Gotland, now in Sweden.

[@jacquespictet5363]

By the way, is it the hoard of the horde? (see label).

[@jfc213]

so few subscribers and so few likes ????

[@colleenwilliams1452]

I have Viking DNA in me. The surname Harris is also in my tree.

[@gbwhatswotb2068]

They were as history as painted a savage and very violent marauders . Notwithstanding their ‘ culture’ and beauty of their artefacts. It just that people do not .Ike to think of people being as bad as recorded .

[@archangel807]

yes...their industry was selling slaves....loved torture

[@ansfridaeyowulfsdottir8095]

Good Grief! I just cannot STAND you saying the exact same thing at the start of every episode! {:o:O:}

[@docinparadise]

As she walks down the street littered with paper, to go cups and other detritus, I can’t help wonder why they didn’t take a moment to sweep up before the shot. Hollywood is certainly different than the BBC😂

[@estherlwhittle7568]

And she is still wearing the same blouse, cargo pants & jewelery. Uniform for this series?

[@turtlegrams6582]

Don't want to see people talking/walking/driving ! , want to see site's and finds ! you ca🎉n talk off camera while showing site's and Archaeology find's !

[@jmac4779]

Make your own documentary if you don't like theirs!! I thought it was great so keep your snarky remarks to yourself!

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

There are plenty of episodes of Time Team on KZbin if you don't enjoy this presentation style.

[@cward1890]

Dr Alice my bae

[@betsyross2.065]

None of this would be possible without fossil fuel.

[@mitcha1065]

good looking woman

[@cowboykiller1969]

The Grass Are Green Ferteized By Human Blood

[@markedis5902]

I’ve had a thing for her for nearly 30 years

[@darthpaul490]

Me too ever since I saw her on time team as a digger

[@paulpowell4871]

the day vikings became Christian was the day they no longer won battles or were Vikings

[@daneaxe6465]

That may true for the Norwegian branch but not for my rowdy family on Bornholm. They didn't miss a beat raiding and killing. They did change the reason to converting pagans to Catholicism but most of the raids or small wars they started I couldn't find a reason. They had habit of starting fights with Swedes, a lot.!! The Danes teamed up with elements of Prussian/North Coast Germans for raids on the small Baltic states. Yeh, I was very surprised how war/violence seemed nonstop after "converting".

[@bryceanderson4864]

That very day, eh? Or did they convert because out of political necessity because they weren't winning like they used to?

[@marshabaker6153]

The person who filmed this is REALLY BAD at quickly bringing stuff into focus. By time they get the item focused you're on to another item. Very SLOW. Hurts your eyes. Man the more I watch the worse this person GETS with the Focusing! Almost makes you sea sick. I would get someone else to do your filming! I could hardly get FULL/CLEAR views of the hordes items, Very Much Enjoyed the information though! TY

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

(20:00) He's digging for arsefacts.

[@robroy5352]

as always why they left......not a fkn tree in sight

[@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st]

Those little chess players did not look very Norwegian - although I did not see all of them

[@ianmacfarlane1241]

What should 12 - 13th century Norwegian chess pieces look like?

[@TotalFreedomTTT-pk9st]

@@ianmacfarlane1241 I just felt they were not very Greta Thunbergesk they looked more like another people to me -But then Greta is Swedish not Norwgian so...