Farmers To Raiders: The Mysterious Origins Of The Vikings | Wings Of A Dragon | Timeline

For nearly 500 years the Norse people dominated the oceans, known by their remarkable ships and known for their death, destruction and burning down of anything in their way. They used sophisticated navigation methods and navigated safely over remarkably long distances.
Relive the time when the Viking dragon - an emblem of terror and devastation - flew from the shores of Scandinavia, across seas and rivers, to the rest of Europe and beyond.
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[@samoolred1245]

Those ships are beautiful , happy to see the traditional boat builders on the sea.

[@safe-keeper1042]

I was impressed to see they were almost up to par with modern racing boats.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

It’s a beautiful thing to behold. I was aboard the Draken when she made berth in Green Bay Wisconsin.

[@stefansoder6903]

So good. 20 years old but still one of the best ones on this subject. Most other ones focus on the dramatic raids by vikings only. This docu should be mandatory in schools. Especially in Sweden where most young people know nothing about this part of their heritage, believe it or not...

[@karlosvulture5014]

Yup they should be getting taught the true history of their ancestors and culture but unfortunately the teachers are teaching lies... And it's happening all over the world

[@turtleanton6539]

Ja folk säger typ med stolt röst "visst du att vikingarna inte hade horn" ja det vet jag... Alla vet det.

[@alanaadams7440]

What a shame

[@loveClowns8]

I learned about vikings in school. What are you talking about?

[@stefansoder6903]

@@loveClowns8 You learned a very small part of the picture, I'm afraid. Or your teacher was exceptional!

[@OrIoN1989]

The most underrated aspect about the longship has to be that it combines rowing, sailing, shallow water, symmetrical hull, carriable, draggable, rollable, surviving seas good, makes for a good shelter when tipped, can carry lots of tonnage and men, and fight well sea to sea and sea to land.

[@The1976spirit]

In fact the technolgy was Roman

[@OrIoN1989]

@@The1976spirit Norse/Viking is not Roman. The longships is more of a continuation of the Scandinavian rowed ships from the bronze and stone age with addition of sail. Roman ships look more like the other mediterian ships.

[@The1976spirit]

@@OrIoN1989 Romans connected planks with rivets for their task force river boats. Its a matter of knowledge, not of apparence.

[@OrIoN1989]

@@The1976spirit First, what romans are you talkin about? Its almost synonym of sayin Europe. But the romans did not make or design longships.

[@OrIoN1989]

@@user-fb1nd2cr7p Yes, yes yes. Many many civs had ships. Vikings is not that special in that way, but in Scandinavia blue water vessel was/is almost an requirement for life. To get the kettle to grassing. To go to war. To trade in Europe. The first ships in Scandinavia is found in the stone age and was a requirement for settlement along the shoreline since the inland was frozen.

[@user-xd4po3um6l]

I am a Filipino but the History of the Vikings fascinates me most.

[@carolynbohannon4602]

Lol. It doesn't matter what your nationality is. Anyone can be interested in different era's and parts of the world

[@brianc6379]

The democrats have convinced people that you can’t enjoy other cultures. But they are idiots, celebrate real history not the bs the left pushes.

[@HarryWebb46]

They settled where I live in the UK. VERY Happy that they are my ancestors!

[@markorollo.]

Im not completely convinced of it being fact but they apparently established my hometown, Oldham, called it Aldehulme or something. That's the rumour anyway. But my family came from Gainsborough Lincolnshire through my great great grandad, so don't know if I'd have a link to the Vikings.

[@stevencassidy6982]

My town "Burned fleet" became Benfleet in about 900AD. So we were systematically raided by the Vikings in Essex after a pitched battle along the creek

[@jonathanwhynot6319]

There were battles there yes but that's not what the name means. It was originally Beamfleote - beam meant wooded and fleot meant creek. Keep in mind, they didn't speak the English we do today. In old English, "Burned Fleet" would've looked something like "fýðolle flothere", from which Benfleet would never have been derived.

[@user-du3vo5ld2j]

At 28:00 he said some of the first in Iceland were Slavs.....Eastern Europeans. I had my DNA done. I am 15% central European, 34% England, Whales, Scottland, 12% Ireland and 32% Scandinavia

[@greenwave819]

Your story reminds of one I know. a pitched battle againt COVID-19

[@Cokeastur]

Benfleet doesn't mean "Burned Fleet". Benfleet comes from the Anglo-Saxon name "Beamfleot", meaning "tree stream" in the Anglo-Saxon language 😉

[@Pippis78]

@@user-du3vo5ld2j Apparantly that's what _some_ researchers theorize. But also I wonder if what they're actually suggesting is that some of the first settlers were Rus vikings. And the writers of this documentary misunderstood that? Then again you not having east european dna doesn't mean there could not have been any slavs there. Iceland is quite a fascinating place. Kinda crazy to think the island used to be covered by forests. The harsh nature isn't actually _nature_ but corrosion and destruction by humans.

[@justinerickson5486]

"Why would anyone go further?" Because, they're Viking.

[@SiiriCressey]

Why climb Everest? "Because it's there."

[@rogierrainbow]

why not look further back in history and see the relationship with other cultures having similar deities or traditions going back to Indo- European origin and spread even to south america ascended from ancient Sumeria as the shiny-ones and went further and ended up in Polynesia Newzealand .we are all related vikings are one of the youngest cultures not even understood their own origin.

[@jonathancunningham8739]

The Vikings where the first people to basically say "Because Reasons!,".

[@northernhemisphere4906]

why drink water? cuz ya need it

[@that1niceguy246]

It's because of curiosity - it'slike asking something like "Why did you make curiosity sing happy birthday on Mars?" -Because we're human!?

[@canislunaticus]

I live in norway and there's 2 viking graves in the small city i live in (One just 100 meters away from my mother's house, another 100 meters away from my father's flat)

[@Squire_Chug]

uh cool?

[@patreidcocolditzcastle632]

YOUR PROBABLY A VIKING BTW

[@vonniebristow]

Vikings didn’t bury their dead. They burnt them on floating pyres. How else would they get to Valhalla?

[@magpiestarcatcher]

Vonnette Bristow where did you get your archaeology degree?

[@vonniebristow]

magpiestarcatcher I’ve never heard of a different way. Digs bringing up things related to buriAl by ship or by pyre were being excavated last century. College degree in 1995 gave me tools to study subjects fascinating to me. I guess maybe I’ve not read everything 😊

[@jwh0122]

26:29 Iceland 31:05 Greenland 33:41 native: Inuit 36:09 Vinland -> L'Anse aux Meadows 44:00 native: Skræling 46:02 why the Norse abandoned Greenland

[@lindamaemullins5151]

Thank you much 😊

[@calcaleb7041]

Cause it was too damn cold it was advertised as being green but in reality it was cold just like today Greenland is home to many people but it’s cold af their

[@mr.cheese2278]

Thank you so much.

[@mr.cheese2278]

@@calcaleb7041 Who exactly are you talking to?

[@veronicajensen7690]

Inuits are actually native to Canada not Greenland , the migrated to Greenland about 7-800 years ago, 150-300 years after the Vikings settled there, it took a long time before they meet though , there were another people when the Vikings came known as Eskimos, they came and left, after the Inuits arrived they disappeared, in the Inuit folklore it is said they were afraid of the Inuits

[@janiebaker6591]

I've loved anything to do with Vikings since I was a young kid . I can't get enough history about them

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

There is a vikings episode of Ducktales lol. You should check it out.

[@startrek9637]

Janie baker You are just as evil as the Vikings you seems to be one i would like to see ur nose must have been big and long same way ppl like you uncomfortable kissing

[@tropicalterrarium1742]

@@startrek9637 huh?

[@Tipi_Dan]

@@startrek9637 So you hate your fathers more than you mothers then? Or is it your husband you hate?

[@johnrogan9420]

The Rus...no...the Rus were not Vikings.

[@ianlawrie919]

This series somehow made the whole prelude to the Viking era and the subsequent Norman conquest, into such a perspective that I could see the wonderful overview of time and place. Thank you to the three presenters and the producers 👏👌👍

[@Lolabelle59]

My Paternal Grandmother was Norwegian. I wish I knew more about my ancestors. This video is helping me learn. Thank you.

[@yankee2666]

If the Vikings were a chapter in my ancestry, I'd tear it out.

[@Lolabelle59]

@@yankee2666 Gene Envy

[@michelleripia8146]

My childrens father is Half Norwegian and half Maori from NZ, my children want to know more about their Norweigian ancestors but haven't made much headway with fathers mothers side as most of them have passed on and didn't get meet my children, i feel for them cos they feel a part of them is missing, even with their fathers Maori side, they know the bare minimum of his roots too.

[@pap7794]

Who cares ?

[@Lolabelle59]

@@pap7794 You, obviously. Sad.

[@xeverettx2564]

Another entertaining, and informative piece from Timeline documentaries! Well Done!!

[@safe-keeper1042]

Love this documentary. It doesn't just regurgitate what most other producers tell us, but do a lot of research of their own and dive into the Norse colonisation of North America, which we know so little about.

[@Cokeastur]

You know so little about because they have only been to Newfoundland (canada) for just 3 months and then went back home. There's no north american viking history at all, nowhere, not a single prove. Vikings have never been to USA.

[@ashleyarnold8227]

@@Cokeastur there are runes carved into stone in Oklahoma.

[@jimmythe-gent]

Yeah but what is up with that thumbnail?? Persian swedes? Or Danes? Lol.. ridiculous.

[@tuggins2737]

@@Cokeastur I can tell you dont know your history.

[@jeanthebean6843]

Minnesota Vikings

[@Taleb1160]

Once again thank you Timeline .. wonderful, insightful and informative. Another winner from a great team.

[@zandranika]

I read "Viking" and came here quickly, I'm about to watch I'm into Norse Art very much, how they put art even in their distinguished Dragon ships. I hope I get to see some in this doc of their voyages, thank you Timeline

[@TheManWhoTypes]

Where are you from?

[@BGivka]

The best history documentary channel. Thank you.

[@emilysinha7597]

This is by far my favorite channel. I am 50% Norwegian with Leif Erikson in my bloodline.. I'm also married to a 100% Norwegian with 3% Neanderthal DNA 😆 keepin' those genes going!! Haha

[@piccalillies]

I lived in a big city in the Netherlands where there was a living history Viking museum where they did some filming but mainly continued working in the daily tradition of Vikings as they lived on land. The pushback from those who don't didn't know about Viking burials remind me of myself when I was newly landed in Europe and not yet fully in touch with my ethnicity.

[@voornaam3191]

Ach arme jij... Je zou toch NAAST een Viking museum wonen.... Dan wil je er in! Of je gaat heel abstract praten, natuurlijk. Raak je nou de grond van je ethni-city elke dag even aan, of zo?

[@piccalillies]

@@voornaam3191 ja, met wat ik heb meegemaakt tijdens de pandemie, nu meer dan ooit.

[@maidsua4208]

Delicious Netherlands. We have a lot of history in common. The oak on which Amsterdam stands comes from the area I live in here in Norway. My sister is married to a Frisian and it is interesting how many words we have in common. When I read a Dutch newspaper I understand a lot. The Netherlands is a beautiful country with beautiful people. Merry Christmas from Norway.

[@phireblazor4207]

@@voornaam3191 ek kon die lees.Ek is verskriklik verbaas

[@phireblazor4207]

@@maidsua4208 not as many as Afrikaans🤭

[@kevindunne5753]

The Vikings actually sailed to the continent of North America about 500 years before Christopher Columbus that's very impressive considering the longboats were clinker built and had a shallow keel and it would have taken a gang of Vikings to row it, Ireland is full of history relating to the Vikings,wood quay in Dublin was where the Vikings set up a settlement that would later be called Dublin, in the county of fingal the area would have witnessed many a raiding horde, from Balbriggan skerries loughshinney Rush and even lusk about 5 miles inland from the sea but was made possible by the Vikings sailing up rogerstown estuary and marching into lusk in 2 groups, from the south and east, it's a fascinating insight into the history of Vikings,

[@kendexter]

Greetings from a Northern Norway .... I love Ireland

[@jasonparks8595]

My family always thought we were Irish turns out we are Norse

[@kendexter]

@@jasonparks8595 i got relatives in Ireland.. Dba test my heritage

[@dougraddi908]

That's old news

[@kendexter]

@@dougraddi908 very old news indeed, news from about 600 years before Colombus

[@davidfish591]

Thank you KZbin for playing the same ad over and over and over. Made it a lot easier to skip it.

[@thoryan808]

Aloha from Hawaiʻi. It is intriguing to see how similar the navigation skills used in Scandinavia were to Oceanic navigation skill. We use a star-compass with 16 cardinal directions, and we use a double-hulled catamaran instead of the long boat. We here in Polynesia were using very similar maritime techniques as the Scandinavians at about the same time. But, like mentioned elsewhere in this comment section, we did not have metal as the Afro-Eurasian peoples did.

[@odinncool]

Cool! Very interesting!

[@alanbstard4]

afro- eurasian?

[@DustinHawke]

@@alanbstard4 People of Africa and Eurasia.

[@alanbstard4]

@@DustinHawke yes I know what it means but I don't see the connection with those people here

[@garyhighley9022]

@@alanbstard4 we are all connected a lot closer than most believe...its a small world.

[@djahant]

I really liked this documentary. Thanks for sharing.

[@EllenDahl-sp1sw]

Thank you for this video..im so proud of my ancestors..blessed be!

[@yorkvikings2127]

Thank you for sharing with us this amazing documentary

[@bingeltube]

Very recommendable! Lot's about boat building and navigation

[@moonyasnow36]

Reading and listening about Vikings makes me so proud to be swedish~

[@virvisquevir3320]

moonya Snow - Be proud!

[@eduardogutierrez4698]

In 4:37 the narrator said that the term "viking" isn't related to any ethnicity . In fact, there were Irish Vikings, Slavic Vikings , etc .

[@nara808]

@@eduardogutierrez4698 plenty of Swedish ones too.

[@ctixbwi]

@@eduardogutierrez4698 Why do the Irish still recall the prayer “O God, Save us from the Wrath of The Norsemen” if there were Irish Vikings? Europe was certainly more exiting place to live in during The Viking ages than in EU times!

[@eblita3698]

@@eduardogutierrez4698 Never mind the narrator. The vikings from Scandinavia settled in Ireland very early and founded the biggest cities. Let google be your friend.

[@annchristinegurholt6475]

Wonderful film, thanks for sharing.

[@angelobugini6771]

It's an awesome documentary! I truly did appreciate it so much. Thanks a lot for sharing! Keep it up!

[@SHINESunshinee872]

How amazing, what a great and very informative video. It’s great to hear stories or the brave men and women who first set foot on “virgin lands.” Man has discovered the whole world one step at a time..... these people were extremely intelligent, and proactive....The women im sure raised the children, nurses those who were sick, made clothes, help propare food and goods to sell. Or take to travel, etc etc

[@cognito8325]

Brave were the only few guys who discovered them and took the trouble of setting up places to live. The rest just did what they usually did.

[@greenwave819]

The women frequently joined the men in battle!

[@dpounder101]

its not like there werent natives...

[@aerodynamic6560]

@@greenwave819 Not as frequently as a lot of people think

[@user-es8si3cv8b]

There were womenwarriors too …valkyrians…

[@VhaidraSaga]

Great information. Thank you!

[@MegaBoilermaker]

A brilliant contribution from the lady concerned.

[@deadssixx1241]

I'm surprised this is even allowed to be on KZbin. But I'll enjoy it while it lasts.

[@norsemanbushcrafting1621]

How so?

[@apanapandottir205]

Why wouldn't it be?

[@randomvintagefilm273]

My father had all Anglo-Saxon ancestry and my mother Viking ancestry. No wonder they were always fighting. My Danish grandmother's name was Valborg...sounds like a Viking name

[@waldemardaninsky25]

Valborg is a sacred pre christian celebration still being celebrated today aswell!

[@tommytucker7091]

Anglo-Saxon is viking as well. The Angles and the Saxons. Both seafaring raiders who raided England before the Norse. They came from Denmark and North Germany.

[@davids8127]

And you born in 1060?

[@oscarwalton1188]

So your mom won the argument lol

[@That90sShow]

Anglo saxon pansy

[@wolfgangwunschel]

so many new incredible facts found out - i've seen already a bunch of documentaries, but this one puts it all new with own conclusions & experiences !

[@chris.asi_romeo]

Love watching documentaries like this

[@RuggedSource]

34:30 - Very interesting, makes me want to learn more about the Inuits now.

[@itsjusttoolate]

So learn

[@goylanddefree80]

Respect to Baghdad for teaching them the ways of navigation it's crazy how all these great people's worked together and nowadays no credit is given to anyone other than the modern first world's descendants

[@lizzy66125]

brilliant documentary! thank you

[@arcturusgold8858]

Bless you all at "Timeline" for presenting such a rich history that must have taken some while to collate and present!!! Increases understanding of the evolution of Mankind - yet the extreme hardships, privations and EFFORT put into living then, especially building ships, carts and homes etc., can only be guessed at! As an x-Timber Frame House Builder, pre-electric tool era (!!!) the effort with simple tools must have been phenomenal! just sawing one clinker plank.......

[@koksalceylan3934]

"Vikings had bad press in Euro couse they were burning down the press" ha ha ha.

[@damisa3392]

That is hilarious!!

[@mightisright]

The fate of every pre-literate civilization is to be demonized by the dominant literate civilization until they submit. Then they are condescended to as being noble savages, when they become impotent and irrelevant. The vikings were militarily equal to most of Europe, but the pen is mightier than the sword.

[@glenbowden7334]

Excellent & Thank You 👌👏😏

[@jeffreyrichardson]

These types of documentaries interest me. A lot can be learned by a country's history and culture.

[@thestreamoflife1124]

Amazing documentary

[@MendTheWorld]

This was a really good documentary! Levels above the typical on KZbin.

[@PlantagenetRose]

“We can only imagine what was on the bargaining table.” When it came to his wife having her own little church to pray in. That is hilariously fantastic.

[@Rubytuesday1569]

I really enjoyed this one, well worth watching. Thanks. ☮️

[@devoneden9313]

wow, I just finished watching the Viking series and its incredible how accurate that show is to this documentary.

[@markjordan262]

Jared Diamond has a great insight into the 'Greenland Norse' in his book 'Collapse'

[@donalhartman6235]

Outstanding video...well-researched with excellent presentations.

[@40MileDesertRat]

Excellent. Thank you.

[@danielaveryglassmyer4202]

Super interesting, great doc

[@domdolittle]

Having Dane blood in my DNA I can only but admire their powerful everlasting strain of what makes us such a dominant facet of European history...

[@Kynos1]

The Vikings had an amazing culture.

[@blakan1478]

@Marry Christmas nothing wrong with a little admiration

[@2200bronx]

And We still have😉

[@DarkPsy]

@Marry Christmas Do you realize that vikings influenced and revolutionized european civilization? Without vikings we would have been conquered by Islam thousand years ago. And btw. Mongols is the asian equivalent to vikings, just a little less successful.

[@anders1621]

@@DarkPsy How did we stop europe from beeing conquered by Islam..?

[@DarkPsy]

@@anders1621 Crusades, Northern Crusades At some point Europe united against threats from outside. Germanic people rebuilt the Roman Empire and the viking raids were like fuel for that. The new Romans civilized the north and the east. Without the north and the east we would have been conquered by islamists who raided EUrope constantly and even besieged Vienna at some point. Sure, not only vikings, but germanic people in general were the new Romans, but without the vikings it wouldn't be possible, You should look up the history of Northern Europe between 600 AD and 1000 AD and you will realize what I mean. Then look up the history up to moment where the islamists tried to conquer Vienna and who came for help. Without the viking culture, the sailing, Europe would have been too weak. Also look up the Hanseatic League and its roots. Also look up the islamic conquest attempts from the south. (Iberian Peninsula) For example Ar-Rahman from the Umayyad Caliphate crossed the Pyrenees and invaded the Frankish Kingdom and conquered a part of it until he was defeated in Tours in the year 732 AD by Charles Martel, the grandfather of Charlemagne. (Battle of Tours)

[@pedrokarstguimaraes2817]

Images and models are marvelously done.

[@GerbenDub]

Exellent documentary!

[@bobbrooks80]

God I miss those days.

[@alanaadams7440]

Lol

[@harvey2609]

😂

[@dananorth895]

Be patient warrior. Soon they shall return!

[@canadiankewldude]

Why didn't they mention the Viking Sun Stone? At least one has been found and it works, it's a crystal.

[@bakurawthesupersaiyanhair937]

Timeline never misses.

[@kimberlypatton9634]

A wonderful documentary!

[@voraciousreader3341]

I’m still in awe of the Phoenicians, who could actually carry their ships in parts, using the forerunner of modern alphabets to mark pieces that fit together. In that way, they didn’t have to drag their ships across land….they could be carried anywhere they wanted to go on land, and could be put together again relatively quickly when they met a body of water. Nobody ever duplicated that feat of engineering for 3 thousand years….mind blowing!

[@andykaufman7620]

With regard to the ships, if you look at the Punic people and Phoenicians, who sailed up the European coast, explored and traded had superior boats for their time, and later this insightful set of techniques and knowledge re-emerge later as the Corvette of the so-called 'middle ages' since their vessels were functionally superior for the functions they needed like traveling shallow rivers and raiding. That does not mean it was knowledge completely foreign, it was instead assimilated and innovated to a new unique cultural and for their time modern incarnation.

[@adonayskt]

And the polinesians?

[@vincentprincipato9234]

Nice documentary.

[@myrandomlife5266]

History sucked in school.. but as I get older it becomes more and more fascinating and important to understand. I see history likes to repeat its self just with different players and outliners.. but it literally repeats..

[@selfpaidempirestrykerrecor6744]

Same here

[@markpettigrew542]

My high school sports team was the Parkview Vikings!

[@That90sShow]

Wow!!!!!!!!!

[@bremnersghost948]

One thing Viking Docs never mention, around 1000 years before the Vikings, The Goths had expanded from Scandinavia to occupy much of Europe and parts of Asia as far as Caspian Sea

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

+Gods Skypig1 Or that 'viking style' longships existed as early as 300 AD, and that the saxons were raiding all the way to spain (hispania) with them. The docus treat the viking longships as special. I will concede though that it's likely the norse built more longships than the saxons. Norse only stand out for their conquests, paganism (which a lot of other germanic tribes had too; similar gods and everything), the norman connection, and the sagas that survived. I can only imagine all the pagan and early christian gothic and saxon writings that didn't survive (assuming they were written down). It's possible that the norse were more peaceful than goths or saxons. Their raiding only became extreme after Charlemagne executed 4000 saxons (can't remember where, but it happened just prior to the viking age). As for the Normans - the normans had lost their seafaring tradition and had become christian by the time they did all of their thing in Sicily, North Africa and Britain. Calling the normans 'vikings' would be like calling me a victorian gentleman, because I have some english ancestry - I'm 120 years removed from that identity, and so were the normans of 1066 (quite a bit different from the normans of 946, who were themselves 2 generations removed from Rollo). The normans also likely had mixed ancestry with plenty of the normandy natives who lived there prior to their occupation of that place - right up to the nobility. After all, who made them christian? Likely, they had christian wives who lived in what used to be called 'Neustria'. Reaching america was something no other germanic culture had done though, so good on the norse for that. Except that I believe some Irish monks did it before them.

[@christianandal6303]

...thought that was the Mongols.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

@@christianandal6303 Mongols didn't conquer scandinavia. Goths lived 'as far as caspian sea' until the huns came along.

[@christianandal6303]

ok;) ...part of history i dont know so much of ;) @@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin

[@jayolson8524]

my swedish ancestry goes directly back to the goths. many people with the same genes can be found there in gotland. southern sweden is also populated by communities founded by finns during the finnish migration, just before the turn of the first century. they were rejected initially by the svear and sent south, they briefly had a small kingdom there. they proved themselves in battle, often volunteering to fight for danish royals. so if you visit sweden, don't expect tall fair haired people in the south of the country, you'd probably find more people like me: olive skinned, black haired and green eyed. in the early 70's, the title of "king of the goths" was finally dropped by the king of sweden, leaving just "king of swedes" or the svear.

[@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869]

Bernard Cornwell has a brilliant novel series about part of this time period. The Last Kingdom is a pretty good television recreation on Netflix and BBC.

[@Gray.Karen333]

Very very interesting documentary!!!

[@wolfg6136]

According to the program, if the Vikings sailed from Iceland or Greenland to Canada’s Newfoundland or sailed farther to New York, then the discovery of the New Land would not be Columbus but the early Vikings.

[@Crashed131963]

It never was a secret Columbus was not first.

[@DarkPsy]

You rely too much on the globalist's mass media narrative. And the vikings were not the first Europeans in America either. Just google "blue eyes statues" and click on pictures and research what you have seen there. There is much more real history hidden from you than you could digest right now.

[@PowersOfDarkness]

@@DarkPsy blue eyes mean nothing but that bloggers get to make theories

[@DarkPsy]

@@PowersOfDarkness I have no blue eyes.

[@billmohler9829]

You are right it was lafe Erickson in October about 500 years earlier

[@anthonyperkins5856]

love documentaries like this....

[@jordancazeault9906]

Does anyone else get second hand anxiety watching them handle the bones without the proper gloves

[@johnh1353]

Fascinating! +1

[@oldaxehead655]

The vikings likely abandoned their settled sites for the larger surrounding communities. One or two harsh winters were enough a reason to move elsewhere.

[@carelgoodheir692]

Actually, there were settlers from Scandinavia in Greenland (which is part of North America) for hundreds of years. Archeology suggests that a longterm climate deterioration in the middle Middle Ages made agriculture their untenable. But it may not have been the real reason they gave up. They had come to Greenland as they had come to Iceland to try to get rich, by hunting walrus for their ivory teeth which got a good price all through Europe and south and east of the Med. African elephant ivory became more easily available in the middle Middle Ages and the value of walrus and narwhal ivory dropped. The struggle to survive a climate deterioration can't have seemed worth it any more when there wasn't something valuable to send back to Europe with which to buy all the things Greenland couldn't produce for itself.

[@TheOttomann64]

Catching dead cods in a freshwater lake...vikings were truely awesome ;)

[@economicojonhy2465]

Vikings were just thieves, rappers and , children kidnapers, they did it to ask for money... and blackmail. Thye ddint domiant anyhting, they were just thieves and terrorists, and coward poeple , they attacked and runned away... yes i know you miss the looser and criminal life.your in the north of europe trying to impose your babrian uncivilized idiotic view, good luck your nordic viwe wiht europe union , is destroying all the europe. loosers.Sorry for the truth

[@vd1721]

@@economicojonhy2465 I bet they spit out great rhymes

[@Jamie-fl2im]

Great documentary

[@billdance8815]

Remarkable sea faring people! Like many others the Polynesians come to mind, they covered vast open distances in the pacific!

[@harlzaotearoa7769]

Cool doco i got no viking in me but my ancestors were master navigators of the big bad pacific ocean kia ora from AOTEAROA (NEW ZEALAND)

[@juanrendontorres174]

Why is it that no one is the proud decendant of local sheep farmer whom may or may not be afraid of water.... Everyone wants to be decendant of sea explorers,warriors or great builders.

[@williameaton9058]

Its a hype that was built up in more recent history with an increasing awareness of antiquity. People want to claim credit for things they didnt do so it reflects nicely on themselves. Its all ego thing. These same people downplay the crimes of their ancestors.

[@waraidako]

Well, for norsemen it's one and the same. Every man was a farmer, a fisherman, a carpenter, a hunter, a warrior, a sailor, and if he was really cool, a poet too. You were expected to be able to do most everything at least adequately.

[@Usammityduzntafraidofanythin]

+Gaius Baltar How do you know this expectation existed, or was particularly special in norse culture compared to other cultures? You have no evidence that literally every norse man was a viking. Were all englishmen of the 17th century pirates?

[@Sasquatch_Driver]

I'm the descendant of generations of town drunks, but I hate drinking.

[@sweracoon7931]

It's a bit endemic of the times, but standing armies and professional soldiers weren't really a thing at the time. Maybe a small band of city watch or royal guard, but nothing like you see in the later Medieval age or further on. So an Old Norse man might be a sheep farmer when he's home, but when the call went out to go Viking he'd probably grab a shield and ax (sword and chainmail if he was wealthy) and hop in a longboat. Not unlike English levies, though they'd probably not have as much choice as a Northman in the matter when the local lord came calling.

[@the1ghost764]

Great 👍 documentary.

[@jchow5966]

Thank you! ☮️💟

[@janks4608]

The nors knew everything there was to know about making products from seamammals. They had huntet for hundreds of years along the coast of Finnmark and into Sibiria to get the valuable resource.

[@bonzeblayk]

I have the vibe that whale oil is just everywhere in manufactures, like treating leathers and polishing and lubricating metal implements, besides burning nicely.

[@Imarmio]

The sun compas was placed in a bucket with water to stay horisontal

[@Tastewithnewdrinks]

Great video.

[@StephiSensei26]

5 Star presentation!

[@annemoefaauo7055]

I'm curious to know if there was any contact between Vikings and my polynesian ancestors. Or did they miss the Pacific Ocean altogether? I see so many similarities between our cultures, our values, our Gods, our boat building, our navigator and wayfinding skills. Facinating documentary. Thank you.

[@wanderluster9034]

I doubt it, the vikings are germanic tribes who liked hierarchies. They would annihilate large groups of people who opposed their way of life and territioral expansion of colonization. such was the fate of native americans , and many black khoisan in south africa, and namibia.

[@jeremyadrian233]

Some theories that part of PI's culture followed the Kumera from South America. If native Mexicans/Columbians learnt from Vikings then maybe? But the bulk of PI DNA (not Fiji PNG or Tories strait), came from Melanesia, which is the part of the world that Java man and other pre-humans made it out past the oceans and onto islands in large enough numbers to settle. It seems logical that Waka or rafts were in Melanesia before humans even arrived.

[@annemoefaauo7055]

@@jeremyadrian233 Wondering if crossing the Pacific Ocean was a deterrent. Viking sailing routes seemed to follow coastlines or channels between land masses. No giant land masses in the middle of the Pacific ocean where my ancestors established their homelands. Ocean currents and winds quite different from what they wd have been used to. Perhaps some attempted to cross but failed. We do have stories of ghosts and demons with red hair in our mythology. Perhaps just as well iron age did not meet with stone age, we were spared the plagues, diseases and plundering and pillaging for a few more centuries at least.

[@AlphaMaverick1111]

Massive cultural differences, both followed mythical gods. In reality there cannot be such a thing as "gods" (in the plural sense), there is a god, but not "gods".

[@CookingWithMichaelD]

I don't know about Polynesia itself but they are peoples in Japan on certain islands that share a lot of DNA with the Norwegians. And of course Japanese DNA in Norway. So maybe they were around the Pacific.

[@pedrokarstguimaraes2817]

What about Goths, that came to be Visigoths and Ostrogoths, who came from Gotland to Black Sea? They were the first to be “Vikings”.

[@1joshjosh1]

I like the music at the beginning of this documentary

[@annamosier1950]

wow very good work

[@heinedenmark]

Amazing boats they made 👏

[@jonathanmillner]

The whole analysis of "grapes" could be completely misunderstood. I'm a grape grower in Minnesota. How do I do this? We work with grapes bred with native ones to North America. Why? The species of grapes that are common in the North East US and South East Canada come from 2 species, Vitis Riparia and Vitis Labrusca, both of which can be cold hardy to negative 30 or 40 Celsius. On top of this, they require a far shorter season to ripen. In a world that is warmer than average, it is not at all unreasonable to think wild grapes had been growing in these areas they stumbled upon. They grow their today too! Vitis Riparia also often produces grapes with very high sugars, especially considering the shorter season. I think there is a distinct possibility that they recognized these vines for what they were, merely just a different species. It's looking at this plant from a European eye and a European understanding of grapes. In Minnesota, you cannot go out into the woods and not find these grape vines. If the vikings that perhaps showed up in Minnesota wrote about discovering grape vines, I'd think it almost strange that we discount what they say and insist it were likely something else, most especially since, what is there now, probably was there a thousand years ago. Furthermore, in the North East, both of these cold hardy species wildly interbreed on their own accord, creating excellent grapes for consumption and the natives, although didn't domesticate grape vines, did consume these grapes for at least a few millenia. It'd have been so strange if the Vikings introduced wine making to North America...

[@sleeplessinthecarolinas8118]

Fascinating analysis! Thank you.

[@Bunbeck-pf9iw]

My grandpa came from Sweden but came here to where I live + fell inlove with my grandma ! He left another family there but never went back ! I’m a quarter Viking but would love to meet my other family !

[@irvin5839]

Netflix has the true story of the Norsmen I learned so much about them from this series

[@jrgensenbo2999]

Ha ha..... I think, you would learn more.. . If you would open a book ... 😂

[@johnleber3369]

In ^Heavner Oklahoma is a large stone with runic symbols. Its near Arkansas River and dates to 60ad if I remember.Vikings were seafarers and could have come up Miss. River from Gulf and went up Arkansas River.Settlers didnt make the symbols and neither did the Indians.

[@sethwinn4061]

I've been to that rune stone a couple times. It's a few hours from where I live in Louisiana. So far as I know it is still unclear who made the markings in the stone. And Vikings haven't been ruled out. You would think there would be more interest in determining when Europeans first visited the interior of Continental North America rather than sticking with the post-1492 narrative.

[@reptilian_geneticist]

My Grandma was pure Norwegian and her maiden name was "Vikisland"... our family had a farm on the Vikisland Fjord back to the 1700's at least

[@maidsua4208]

There is nowhere in Norway called Vikisland.

[@SteveW79-2K]

I do believe the vikings made it to Mexico and farther. The Atzecs had a story that said a pale faced man with a red beard visited them. When he left, he said he would return, and the Aztec Empire would be destroyed. This happened well before Cortez arrived, as he was the one that fulfilled the prophecy.

[@racebannon5523]

The narrator sounds... fabulous

[@garethmason9255]

Them Vikings were awesome people.. I live in Yorkshire a few miles from York and there is so much about the Vikings there..

[@jenniferjensen9434]

Im Goole and Norwegian ancestry!

[@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333]

Their professional Norse armies got beat by our Ænglisc volunteers in most battles.

[@garethmason9255]

@@AethelwulfOfNordHymbraLand2333 there’s always someone that will come along and knock you off your Pedestal mate. It’s a fact

[@beckidahl4766]

Plot twist: the archaeologists and the bones they were digging have the same DNA.

[@stoozdee]

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[@aparson2967]

Yah.

[@kebman]

That Northeren boat they're talking about is Nordlandsbåten. Look it up. It's a beautiful vessel.