Full Timeline of the Viking Age

[@EllaBee90]

And I'm related to every one of them. The Vikings, Franks, Rus, Scots, Germans and English, Charlemagne and Rolo. We carry history in all of us. Your timeline made it make more sense, thank you!

[@letsdothis9063]

Me too. Of course there are millions of people descended from people like Charlemagne and Rollo. It's still cool to know. I was actually a huge fan of the fictional TV show "Vikings" when I realized that I was a descendant of Rollo. So, yeah, it was pretty cool to find out. You are right about all of us carrying history. I think that pride in ones ancestors has a very positive impact on how we carry ourselves today. It definitely lends credence to the old ways of ancestor worship. Pride is a very important thing to have.

[@TeresaE116]

@@letsdothis9063 - It’s so crazy 😜 but, so am I. If you have your ancestors back far enough (including proof of DNA 🧬 that matches other people in the present time) this huge ancestry website can fill in the gaps going further back in time. I suppose that’s why they can say Charlemagne is The Father of Europe (most Europeans)!? I was so excited when I found Rollo 😮! I knew I had Norman roots that came to England with William The Conqueror but, not about Rollo?! However, as @Ella Bee commented above, we are all related it seems to many of the people who opposed one another at times- My DNA 🧬 and ancestry includes Anglo-Saxon, Celts, etc. DNA 🧬 is mainly split between England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 and Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿. Then Ireland 🇮🇪, Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Norway 🇳🇴 and Denmark 🇩🇰 😊

[@koktavej9837]

@@TeresaE116 How did u find your ancestors? It is for that some special DNA test website? or just that clasic, like kinda basic DNA testers for 40€? xd

[@TeresaE116]

@@koktavej9837 - I started out with just Ancestry and took their DNA 🧬 test. That one is the best, I think, for narrowing down the exact countries etc because they have so much more genetic diversity to work with. After I got that and found lots of DNA matches and it helped to find as far back as my 5th Generation Grandparents. I uploaded my DNA 🧬 data to a website that gets its information from a huge database in the USA and other countries. I think it’s called “Family Search”. I just put in the grandparents up to maybe 🤔 the 3rd Generation and it did the rest. It was really awesome to see it. Sorry I’m late getting back to you but, I must have missed the notification that I had a comment posted. Good luck 👍🏻

[@SithFam]

They’re assuming, there’s no way to actually verify dns links to Charlemagne specifically

[@imrlaps7097]

Perspective is everything. History is always told from only one perspective. Great video, brother.

[@FishMcFish420]

What you said about the true enemy being forcing beliefs upon one another really resonated with me. I'm Christian myself, and I have loads of Pagan friends. Sometimes we even ask each other to pray for the other in times of distress. How could I even consider making someone who loves me so much that they'd ask their gods to help me an enemy?

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

The gods of your friends are demons. Any credence you give THEM, disqualifies you as a Christian.

[@jimbusmaximus4624]

Great timeline! I especially liked you shining light on the parallels to what's been going on lately. The things that many people don't mention so as to not get banned.

[@stevendepauw3742]

Its good that the truth is known about how the Frankish kings and emperors were trying to destroy paganism. I just think its sad that they threw away all of their earlier Germanic pagan roots to act like Romans... The same Romans that were killing them and making them slaves, before that...

[@monkeymoment6478]

The Romans were not doing that for a while by the time the Germanics migrated into their borders. Often times the Germanic tribes latinized and converted to Christianity when they moved into their borders. Looking at the situation from a purely pagan lens, it is reprehensible the way they acted towards their Germanic brethren in the east and the pagans, but you have to ask yourself what they stood to gain by remaining pagan, from a purely objective standpoint. The Franks conquered a large swathe of land and with it inherited its Roman population, which was largely Christian. History shows us that kingdoms ruled over by a foreign people who follow a different religion and are the minority tend not to last. Instead of acting as conquerors they partially adopted the Roman legacy as their own.

[@stevendepauw3742]

@@monkeymoment6478 Good reply :)

[@sebe2255]

@@monkeymoment6478 The Franks didn’t Latinize either, well most of them didn’t. They did adopt Christianity to better be able to rule in Gaul of course. And to use the Roman church to increase their legitimacy

[@gringlebandersnatch]

@@monkeymoment6478 they Christianity but the aristocracy remained a germanic warrior caste. The Roman aristocracy by this time had become a largely scholarly class more so than warriors

[@zekeolopwi6642]

Respectfully, this whole begining of the video and what you're saying is a great case of confirmation bias. It outright ignores simple facts that make this "raids were retaliatory" narrative untrue. 1. Germans and Romans had a tribe by tribe relationship and were never wholly against one another. In fact, it was the German mercenaries employed by Rome that allowed for the western half to hold out for as long as it did, a good example being their joint effort against the Hunnic invasions. 2. Everyone enslaved everyone. Sometimes people are just better at it. Germans enslaved Germans, Germans enslaved Romans, Romans enslaved Germans, Romans enslaved Romans, etc. This myth of Germanic freedom fighters is ignorant. They, like everyone else in the world, had slavery. 3. The northmen of Scandinavia had a raiding culture as far back as the Nordic Bronze age and probably even further back during the Mesolithic. It wasn't a retaliation against the Franks, or some anti Christian campaign, or any of this silliness. Those same Scandinavians were very ok with converting to Christianity when it was more profitable for them. Examples like Guthrum, the later Norwegian and Danish Kings, amongst others are perfect examples.

[@JesseP.Watson]

Aye, I appreciate your boldness, young viking, in interpreting these lessons of history as you do - you do not beat around the bush, nor sidestep judgement, this is admirable in this age of the meek who avoid any statement on anything of importance. Aye.

[@markblue9476]

Well done. And yes, there are many parallels to our modern era. And, it is likely things will be taken to far again as most are not willing to learn from the past and will repeat it.

[@katiwisdom6038]

Great work. Always appreciate your hours of study and shared knowledge.

[@Baltimoresquirrel]

The long board. Awesome! 😂. A useful timeline to boot.

[@grimwulf8547]

Thank you for the content that you put out and thank you for leaning on the side of objectivity as there is so much tosh on youtube! . Sometimes you do so many videos that I struggle to keep up with them!

[@Pretani_Chieftain]

Fun fact the first Norse raid in the British isles wasn’t the raid of Lindisfarne in 793. The first Norse viking raid actually occurred in the summer of 789 known as the raid on the Isle of Portland. According to legend men from Norway raided an Anglo Saxon trading port via long ship. It’s said the Norse raided the entire dock and killed a royal Reeve. There we’re also records of Norse raiders in Scotland and northern England before 793 but we don’t really have many written records on them. My theory is the reason why Lindisfarne was recorded as the first raid was for Christian propaganda as raiding docks and towns was common before the Norse raids (many records prove that picts, frisians and scotti raided ports and towns on a regular basis), but raiding churches and holy sites was a completely new thing. The raid of Lindisfarne was also easier to propagandize on as all the Anglos, Jutes and Saxons were unified under Christianity but they were not completely unified tribally at this time.

[@uglukthemedicineman5933]

Excellent Point. You are right.

[@Torstein879]

True

[@iloveponis]

The Roman's even built Hadrians wall to keep the Scotti and picts from raiding. Scotti was Latin for Irish, and the Irish established Gaelic culture in Scotland at this time. Originally scotti was used almost as the word viking is used. So a Scotti is to a Gael what a viking is to a Norseman.

[@EmberC]

Loving this channel!

[@DJJinxC2006]

I have followed you for a year n a half, give or take, I have learned so much, you have my gratitude.

[@Gares.]

Loved the esoteric skating in the beginning. Blessed by Skadi!

[@lyndsey4244]

Amazing video as always!! Love the channel ❤️

[@davidwright9092]

Amazing video. And that skateboard is both utterly ridiculous and totally cool

[@runarhe5913]

The old norse religion survived mostly in Sweden. We had the trollkyrka, people on gotland believing in Oden until the 1800s. We were also the most religious during the Viking age.

[@andreatrenka5689]

Thanks, great as always. Best channel on Nordic stuff ever. 🤩

[@AlbertaleoAlbertalei]

Great video. Love the detailed info. Perhaps some day, in the line of great freedom fighting movies like 300 and Braveheart, and focus on the Frisian and Saxon defense. 30 years is a Diehard devotion.

[@stansdad1]

I love this channel

[@-RONNIE]

Thanks for sharing this really good video with us & keep up the nice work ⚔️

[@sykotikmommy]

Great video! Thanks 😊

[@bigc7t]

I would love to hear you speak about the Saxon invasion of Britannia and what happened to the Roman and Celtic people. Thanks love your channel

[@2W0D3N]

Great video thanks for the information much appreciated

[@gunnargarisson4052]

Gotta love that close up of the guy with the shit-hammered shield!! No LARPy love taps lol This one knows how to play 🤘🏻😎

[@intrinzikritik]

Very educational!

[@Astraylah-Spicy]

excellent video. Thank you!

[@johndoh4064]

Conversion at the business end of a sword....A common theme

[@673AWSF]

Learning about Alfred the Great and his bloodline is one of my favorite past times.

[@Sarahofthewoods]

Thank you for this!

[@kenolson6572]

I tell my Christian friends that I'm still pissed about Charlemagne.

[@cyankirkpatrick5194]

Nice skateboard.

[@raphlvlogs271]

the transition from the classical to the medieval era was a slow gradual process

[@edward2359]

Dude I'm dying . Dying viking state board....I'm dying in tears of prideful laughter... 🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆👆😂🐍🐍🐍🐍🐍

[@historie123]

Super video. 👌

[@dmhq-administration]

ABSOLUTELY FUCKING LOVE THAT LONGBOARD with the cute little viking thingies on the ends! SUPER KAWAII! 😍 BADASS LONGBOARD/SKATEBOARD! 🥰🤗🇨🇦💖

[@Epsillion70]

Brilliant mate :-)

[@KhrisAsaurus]

Great timeline thanks! 😃

[@goofistmcnutty3280]

Vikings get a lot of stigma as blood thirsty, cruel and mindless raiders. But honestly, they're not the worst people to have existed. I'm part Norwegian on my Dad's side, Portuguese on my Mother's. Knowing Portuguese history, they were way worse. English and Spanish too. All in all, almost every kind of people from history has some parts of their history covered of needless blood.

[@manny4239]

I don't think that instant conversion happened either, but it at least opened dialogue between the 2 parties about said religious doctrine as opposed to hating immediately and shutting out any explanations of anything

[@AgeCobra]

Love the skate board.

[@feddepetersen8521]

Northern europeans fighting for religious freedoms? Reminds me of the thiry years war

[@corneliuscapitalinus845]

Thirty years war really wasn't that simple, all in all. And it tended to be Germanic folks leading the catholic forces too, so northern euros fighting either side of that situation

[@vikingbuilt]

good job on the research! should mention more about danelaw its very important to the creation of the US constitution but amazing work glad to have you around!!! love from Danmark!

[@CedarDiesel1]

great video!!!!.... i sometimes wonder if there was any great left handed warriors or what the vikings thought of people who happen to be left handed... like your sword in your left hand and shield in your right hand

[@asgrim1513]

Probably like today - they thought nothing about it.

[@escabrosa1]

This got me thinking about the expansion of Islam around that time, especially up through Spain. How would Europe have fared without Christian resistance? Christianity was the big unifier, even if often forced, which has kept Islam at bay until very recently. I think either way, paganism in Europe would have been essentially eliminated.

[@Victor_aeternus002]

One could argue that if Christianity never spread like it did in our timeline, then Islam would not exist. This is because Islam emerged in the arabian peninsula after it became a melting pot of different religions, something that is also seen in Islam itself even today. The God in Islam is the same as in Judaism and the old testament in christianity, Jesus is an important prophet in Islam by the name Isa, the Kaaba and the pilgrimage to it were from the pre-islamic arabian religion etc.

[@Brandi6666]

Quite impressed dude 🤘 kinda jealous i have no nordic blood. But proud that i carry central italia 100%

[@0KT0BER]

Around 8:00; still to this day in England newly discovered and excavated Anglo Saxon graves reveal that they did not wholesale convert to Christianity, as they are regularly found to be buried wearing both a crucifix and mjolnir. I know what my gut tells me what that signifies.

[@celticperspective5183]

Christian in public and pagan in secret, we all have 2 faces even nowadays. I’m sure that the vast majority of people who go along with the political order of today don’t actually believe in it either.

[@sebe2255]

I mean their conversion, and the conversion of any of the other Pagans whether Germanic or not, wouldn’t have been instantaneous. It involved a lot of harmonization between the pagan faiths and Christianity, and like you said often times people would even still worship both gods. Naturally over time Christianity would win out and worship would solidify. But early Christianity wouldn’t have been as dogmatic and solid as Christianity in the high or late medieval era, when the hold of church over people was much stronger

[@dragonrider9051]

Would love to have a cool timeline map to hang around the man cave.

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

What are your sources? Very interesting take on history.

[@buxeyaaron]

I just so love your channel. I'm from the UK and many of us are still pagan here, if anything our numbers are massively growing

[@jamesvandemark2086]

Crazy wild Norwegian vikings- our family's ancestors.......hehehe.

[@jakobborre7365]

Great timeline 👍but you forgot to tell: In Denmark the "old nors religion" is a officielle religion. A lot of old tradition is still in juse. But make a video about that🙂👍 God Jul 😉

[@mikeblei6870]

Rorik of Dorestad was a true hero as well. He invaded Frisia and the Frisians helped him conquer territory from the Franks. The last pagan group though: The Frisians ;) They eventually moved to the Faroe Islands where they stayed pagan until somewhere in 1350 where they lived on piracy.

[@starwreck]

Cool that you mentioned St Brice's Day Massacre. I just learned I match DNA with 8 of the victims of the massacre of these Danes in England.

[@jamesroper4952]

Again I'm seeing a lot similarities between the Norse and Native Americans. In the late 1800s speaking any Native American language or practicing any traditional native custom was outlawed. Which led to the Massacre at Wounded Knee, the 7th Cavalry wiped out over a hundred unarmed men, women, children and elderly people, with cannon fire. All because the Lakota people were practicing their traditional Sun Dance.

[@asgrim1513]

U see the similarities because it really is the exact same thing, Christians forcing and wanting to wipe out paganism in northern Europe slaughtering if they don't want to. Americans slaughtering the natives and wanting to destroy their religion and way of life. There is absolutely no difference.

[@rupertthebusdriver8997]

Who's that dude on the dragon board! 🤪

[@steveanderson3444]

Which still begs the question in my mind. Considering the waves of empires, and power struggles, and kingdoms and all. What exactly does it mean to be "English"? I mean, sure, way back pre Roman Empire and before, there may have been a predominant race of people, most likely some sort of Celtic tribe, perhaps? But in the ensuing years, is there any definite definition of "English"? I may be a bit off topic, but I've just been trying to sort that out quite a bit lately.

[@verde629]

Would love to see a movie and show that shows the Vikings actually historically accurate. Like Vikings actually wearing helmets when they fight lol

[@DPSCrush]

Day 1 of asking Thor Dalr to make a video about Nordic Bronze age

[@InFamousWolf96]

I need That Longboard looks Fucking Sick! Are you Gonna Sell The Head piece and Tail by them self Too or Everything Together

[@raphlvlogs271]

from will vike to viking to viked

[@phillipr.mctear8962]

👍

[@DarokTheMaul]

Will you please make a video addressing spitefulness in pagan culture. Nobody likes to talk about it but it's very true and very alive within the modern Norse pagan societies. Both physically and online. This form of passive aggressive spitefulness is specifically targeted towards people who want to interpret the religion in their own way, which is a big No-No I'm starting to see within the pagan society. (Don't get me wrong I appreciate and would like the source material and knowledge we know about the old religion to be as accurate as possible. But at the same time it's like a Catholic Christian from Rome scorning an American Christian who grew up like every other normal American citizen, for not knowing or misinterpreting things the way they perceive it.) Secondly to address the spitefulness pagans have for Christianity in general. Every society has done heinous things, every religion too. But it doesn't mean we can't get along and have a better future now. Having a video covering this topic would be greatly much appreciated. I think having something like this to discover would help a lot of pagans and Christians alike to get along better.Sometimes we get so lost in what we want to be correct, we end up losing what it means all together.

[@Explorer273]

You see this from a very American viewpoint. What you don't understand is that there are people who disapprove of Americans appropriating our culture. "Norse pagans" want to be the ones defining the religion and do so online, just take a look at wikipedia. We know that it's more a culture than a religion and they were never pagan because by now we would have found evidence supporting that in the ground and there is almost nothing. I know this isn't really a problem because we have had this for many years by now. A new community starts as asatro and after a while it changes it's name to distance itself from the gods or just dies off. This happens because asatro, and Norse paganism, is based on 19th century misinterpretations and misunderstandings of the eddas. The oldest community in Sweden has been around since the early nineties and no longer even mention the gods on the website. The same is going to happen to Norse paganism because it doesn't work as the religion people want to replace christianity. There isn't a single line about how to worship the gods anywhere. The most simple and obvious explanation would be that they didn't. Worship is a very christian thing and you can't make deals with the gods like Romans pagans tried to do. Much of this culture is still around forty generations later because it was never passed from parents to children but from grandparents to grandchildren which means the Viking age is just twenty generations away and in reality it's more like fifteen. Getting along with "Norse pagans"? I don't think that's possible but all I have to do is let it run it's course. As usual.

[@TomKnudsen]

Harald den gode

[@Valfreyja9]

👍🤘⚔💜

[@N0skGaming]

Even Vikings knew the world wasn't flat. That's a funny fact.

[@revagencesavage1883]

Yo bro keep the good job up can you do a video on the most accurate Viking movies

[@acenname]

Harald Hårfagre was the worst tyrant, and did not make peace anywhere, especially not on the Northern Isles. He sent his son to take over, but Torf-Einarr had him killed. And Normandy was given to Norwegians, who were NORDMENN/NORMAN.

[@acenname]

Torf-Einarr Ragnvaldsson, Earl of Orkney, had three brothers, Hrollaugr, Thorir and Hrólfr (Rollo) Ragnvaldsson. You should go to Giske and see the memorial stone raised there for Hrólfr.

[@chimay3]

Was it all actually Vatican imperialism, and viking resistance against imperialism? The vikings did not plunder civilian communities, they raided primarily monasteries = vatican fortresses (sic.). There was a hidden war going on, and we lost it after long time of civil war and treacherous kings.

[@Macovic]

At 1:54, the map, why do the map mark out today’s Uppsala and Stockholm area as germanic before the Sodermanland, Narke and Vastmanland, In Sweden? That is just crazy. It does not seem coherent with archeology, nor logical. At least Sodermanland should have been germanic populated at the same time or earlier (on the way to Uppsala-Stockholm). Otherwise great vid. What about Eric Victorious of Sweden in the second half of 900?

[@mariapalmer5671]

I see you wear trainers baring the name of the Greek goddess of skateboarding...Nike

[@charleshogshead1350]

It's sad that the Saxons, who were brutally converted by Charlemagne, became another brutal missionaries

[@AlbertaleoAlbertalei]

The christians used the same play book as the romans when it came to conquest. Use the previously conquered to engage the next to be.

[@polishherowitoldpilecki5521]

Was there truly a Christian and pagan viking feud like the one portrayed in Viking: Vahalla?

[@elshebactm6769]

🚬🗿👍🏿

[@AthelstanEngland]

What are you eluding to about this happening again now? WEF?

[@TheAaronRodgersTao]

When were pagans allowed to practice their beliefs freely again after the Viking age?

[@jimbusmaximus4624]

They weren't. A lot of those archaic laws are still written somewhere (even if never used.) It's one of the major reasons many people left to start their own country where they could be free to say what they want and worship whatever they pleased.

[@seramer8752]

@@jimbusmaximus4624 Life, liberty and the pursuit of sodomy.

[@jimbusmaximus4624]

@@seramer8752 going on non-christian channels and trolling people for not being Christian... How very Christian of you! Or is it?

[@imrlaps7097]

Got news for you homie, the old Pagan faiths and ways never died. I'm proof of that.

[@imrlaps7097]

Besides, it lives in our fucking DNA.

[@Macovic]

Obviously midsummer and Christmas is pagan in the north and the latter just renamed to Christmas and combined with some christian traditions

[@jmaaybraak]

I'm curious, so I'll ask. Feel free to tell me to go fuck myself and that it's none of my business lol, but I took a genetic test recently with the company CRI Genetics. I chose them because u actually sign paperwork to either have them destroy ur sample or have them mail it back to u. I actually made marks on the swab so I could tell if they really did it or not, and I actually got mine back. Anyway, my paternal haplogroup is I1, which is supposedly like the "founder" haplogroup of the Norse (their words, not mine), and my maternal haplogroup is U5, also one of the older ones in Europe (both have been there around 35,000-45,000 years). I think over 30% or so of modern Nordic people have the I1 haplogroup, and something like 60% of the Sami have the U5 haplogroup. Just sharing because I'm quite proud. Finally, I'll ask u if u have done one and what ur haplogroups are. I'm aware that they're only a small portion of my DNA, but I'm still very proud of both of them. Thanks in advance if u choose to answer, and go to Hel if u tell me to fuck myself 😆!

[@geeblenhoff1]

I wonder why all the kings turn Christian what was the benefit?

[@jimbusmaximus4624]

Well they get to go to heaven (if they pay the church enough money.)

[@Victor_aeternus002]

Alliances with other christian kingdoms, trade, a new social class with people who could read and write and brought with them literature from all over Europe, a more organized and powerful priesthood who supported the king etc.

[@danjoytv6284]

so Ukraine and Russia are realy are Relatives

[@willleonhardt3827]

Problem was many cristisns n thos3 days didnt know ther scripture. Says how peopl3 will perish of a lack of.n many will thing ther fightn for god n arnr doing evil why lack of knolage n croruped knolage jus5 l8ke today. As a cristian people need to hear the gosple but irs god who chos3s n ot man.

[@v1e1r1g1e1]

Oh... the Catholics raided the Viking lands before the Vikings retaliated did they? Utter BOSH!!

[@RevelationsofEsotericGnosis]

Are you trying to say Europe has been Oppressed lol you must be joking.. Lol the wonderful people of Europe you talking about evil things you people was doing to your own race so can you imagine the parallel between the Africans an other race??

[@celticperspective5183]

Baptism is safe and effective!

[@Tybold63]

Joke? Or perhaps you believing in that toxic nonsense of Abrahamic religions?

[@celticperspective5183]

@@Tybold63 It’s a joke, I’m showing the parallels of modern “religious systems” and how they’re imposed on us and the ancient ones. “Unquestionable truth” isn’t limited to Abrahamic religion…

[@Tybold63]

@@celticperspective5183 thanks for reply and guess we aren't in disagreement at all, cheers :)

[@audhumbla6927]

The map at 1:26 , what does it show exactly, what does the red markings mean? I dont get it. Very very greatful for answer, månge tackk!!

[@bohemianwriter1]

To be fair, Romme did not "fal" in 476 as one would like to believe. Rome was still standing. Most institutions still working. It was merely a change of management The real fall of Rome didn't occur until the 6th century with all the destructive wars and invasions and Justinian's phyrric restoration of the Western Roman empire.