How did the Vikings Discover North America?

[@okami9634]

I live in Newfoundland (Vinland). There's a place on the west coast called L'Anse aux meadows, which is a preserved Viking settlement and museum. In the summer, it's full of actors dressed in armor, hammering away at the forge, cooking stew, and knitting clothes

[@shainshartershwate7421]

And farting

[@GregAlloins]

Maybe we might even discover vikings on mars

[@elisthortraustason7645]

I love that someone is finally making videos about vikings in North America. It truly is an underrepresented subject and I wish more people knew of it. You have been doing tremendously good and educational work on this channel! Greetings from Iceland

[@marneus]

They should do videos about the Big Foot, keeping with the myth theme.

[@williamflamholtz5762]

@@marneus there's nothing mythical about the Norse landing on North America

[@marneus]

@@williamflamholtz5762 It's 100 % mythical and based on lies and Germanism. The rune stone was a 70's fake, they have never found human remains in the supposed norse settlements which were actually Basque fisheries. Norse landing is a Nazi lie.

[@HistoryHouseProductions]

Norway in EU4 is just lost colonial potential.

[@FC_DINDEYA]

History House Productions I tried a colonial game as them a couple of weeks ago but England just kept stealing all my shit

[@nachteldantes4990]

Morocco is the hidden Gem in colonizing

[@unacittabizzarraechiassosa4143]

Japan is where it's at.

[@unchartedsteppes7138]

Nathan you are supposed to conquer Scotland and get an alliance with France (preferably from support independence) to box around england.

[@gorge2786]

Una città bizzarra e chiassosa Northumbria my man

[@أحمدأشقر-ن8ق]

Fun fact: the first settlers in Iceland were Irish monks.

[@zoetropo1]

Testimonium Ignis: Source, please?

[@أحمدأشقر-ن8ق]

Zoe Porphyrogenita "At that time, Iceland had woods growing between the mountains and the shore. Christians were here then, whom Scandinavians [Norðmenn] call Papar, but then they left, because they did not want to be here alongside heathen people. They left Irish books, bells and croziers, from which one can tell that they were Irishmen" en.wikisource.org/wiki/Translation:Íslendingabók theconversation.com/viking-beaters-scots-and-irish-may-have-settled-iceland-a-century-before-norsemen-42280 Here you go

[@historywithhilbert]

Testimonium Ignis If you’re interested: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4uYimxtg9N5h9E

[@magnusorn7313]

@@أحمدأشقر-ن8ق or maybe they where second after some other group we dont even know where there yet?

[@urieluriel715]

Magnús Örn, Nope, first. There's no trace of any group before them.

[@taesu8]

One thing that perplex me is that shouldn't Native Americans infected by Norse?

[@12345678900987659101]

taesu8 It's possible due to northern European climate at the time and a less concentrated population contributed to lack of disease, or that there was little contact between the two groups.

[@historywithhilbert]

That’s a very good point actually because these Europeans had already been living with cattle for thousands of years so would have had immunities the Native Americans did not.

[@PastPresented]

We wouldn't necessarily know if they were infected, because their relations with the Norse explorers were so antagonistic. In the case of post-Columbian explorers, there was much more social interaction with Native Americans, so they actually got to hear stories of terrible diseases (inflicted, as they saw it, by God, to punish wrongdoing) in communities they had recently visited.

[@perfectallycromulent]

The Dorset pre-Inuit culture that inhabited the northeastern arctic regions of North America died out between 1000-1500. They were replaced by the Thule culture, who appear to have no relationship to the Dorset. It is possible that the Dorset culture was affected by diseases introduced by the Norse. It's also possible that they couldn't adapt to changing weather patterns - this is what is believed to have happened to the Norse, who were also replaced by the Thule culture after they disappeared from Greenland. Or it could be a combination of disease and poor adaptability, not a whole lot is known. But there is a candidate for a native culture that disappeared due to Norse-introduced disease.

[@Moepowerplant]

If I remember right the later explorers had actual diseased men with them (not sure which group it is), while Eriksson's party didn't appear to be sick.

[@Phrenotopia]

Well done! Great to see this penciled out in more detail than so many other videos.... Including my own. :-/

[@historywithhilbert]

Your videos were a big inspiration for this one man!

[@Phrenotopia]

(´･ω･`)

[@tonyv2373]

Appreciate your honesty. Earned yourself a viewer.

[@braedengriffiths4249]

Thanks a billion for this video man! I remember chatting with you in the comments ages ago. Newfoundland proud and strong! If you need any info on this subject, I’d be happy to divulge. Keep up the amazing work as usual!

[@historywithhilbert]

Braeden Griffiths Thank you so much for your continued support man!

[@braedengriffiths4249]

History With Hilbert Ya shed light onto hidden, but important events in history! It’d be impossible not to support ya! By the way, look up what we call “bakeapples” they’re a type of berry that grows in harsh arctic/tundra climates and they’re widely believed to be the berries the Vikings used to brew their alcohol when they landed here. Possibly the reason why it’s called Vinland. As well, you’ve stumbled onto a plethora of potential history. The region was very important in the seven years war, both world wars and more (Trying to stay modest about my homeland without getting too excited hahaha.) Cheers me buddy! Here’s to many more videos of yours to come. Braeden.

[@briangarrow448]

I remember being at a travel industry convention 30 years ago in Miami, Florida and our tour bus got hijacked by a couple of drunken tourism bureau representatives from Newfoundland. That was quite the night of bar hopping in Miami Beach with a 100 well lubricated tourism and cruise line employees and those 2 guys from your province leading us in debauchery and singing some of their favorite drinking songs. A night that the conventioneers and Miami Beach Police will wryly remember and go do in history. Maybe Hilbert can do a segment on that escapade.

[@ronaldderooij1774]

The Vikings lived in Newfoundland for a few years. The exact location is now known since shortly (10 years?) according to archeologists.

[@meginna8354]

Ronald de Rooij where?

[@magnusorn7313]

some new study suggests L'Anse aux Meadows had activity in it for about 2 centuries but this would likely only have been occasional seasonal loggers

[@EdinburghFive]

The Norse site at L'Anse Aux Meadows has been known since 1960.

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

They lived in newfoundland until the little ice age when they were forced to migrate into the hudson and south to Maine and the maritime provinces.

[@vanjimbo]

No they did not! Don't invent history that never happened! Vikings only ever were in northeast Canada!

[@williamcooke5627]

Very goood, as usual, Hilbert! And that was the most listenable commercial I've ever heard on KZbin.

[@historywithhilbert]

Thank you so much Will, glad you enjoyed it!

[@huntersterling8623]

Yah thanks a lot, bill.

[@aarn4v]

I can't believe I can find such good quality educational content on KZbin that is so underrated!

[@Skittletoff]

Great video Hilbert, you're #1

[@basedcaulfield4547]

TL;DR: they sailed across the ocean.

[@crowsbaneful]

Thanks for the timing of this video, it's in perfect time with my sulking for not being able to have seen the Draken which is doing a tour currently.

[@historywithhilbert]

That's a shame man, glad I could post this for you though ;)

[@tombaugh5286]

I LOVE this channel. Always well researched and well made. Thanks!

[@leornendeealdenglisc]

Glorious as always, mate! :D

[@historywithhilbert]

Thanks man!

[@dragongod6972]

I searched this because I wanted to know if Vinland Saga was real

[@KnowHistory]

Great video! I am working on a video about the history of Norway I'll get this video tagged in the description! Keep up the good work!

[@historywithhilbert]

Thank you - can you send me a link when it's done, I'd like to give it a watch!

[@KnowHistory]

Sure! I followed you on twitter, I'll send it when It is posted!

[@theblackprince1346]

Hooray more history with Hilbert!

[@historywithhilbert]

Finally back on form

[@freshmarex3538]

Love the music You use in your videos.

[@historywithhilbert]

Thanks pal - always in the description if you're interested ;)

[@robinsinpost]

Have you made a video of the viking impact on Holland(I say Holland and not the Netherlands but I mean the whole country)? Even if it may be was called Friesland then. I don't know. If not can you make one.

[@historywithhilbert]

Robinsinpost Maybe a series on how the Vikings affected each country they came to?

[@kathryngeeslin9509]

History With Hilbert. That would be great.

[@lordofbees9067]

make a video about vikings in antartida, you dont have hisotry your ancestors were just beastfull trolls like nowadays, so you invent all your hisotry. the rela hstory that is scientific and is in ancioent books doesnt matter.

[@CIA-M]

Can you make a video about the vikings in the Netherlands? Not just about dorestad but also the plundering of Tiel and the siege of Nijmegen and castle doornenburg? Would be quite an interesting video I think :)

[@Bjowolf2]

The Fikings, you mean? 😂

[@Keamota]

@@Bjowolf2 he meant Gikings

[@AO968]

This is interesting, and quite detailed, but where did you get that flag of Greenland at 6:23 from? It doesn't resemble the one they're using today, and I can't find any point in time where such a flag was used.

[@historywithhilbert]

Thank you, the flag is a creation of the modern Greenlandic flag but then in a Nordic Cross rather than the rising sun form it's in today

[@AO968]

History With Hilbert That's an interesting concept. Maybe you should propose this design to the Greenlanders, to make it consistent with all the other Scandinavian countries' flags.

[@1stEB_steffen_of_frisia]

Nice video. Always interesting to hear about the history of the norse!

[@historywithhilbert]

Cheers man, glad you liked it!

[@HistoryTime]

North America was actually colonised by Mercians first, back during the Eighth Century. Though they soon came to miss the dreary weather of the English Midlands so gave up and went home. Though the place-name evidence still remains today. -->America --> Murica --> Mercia -

[@huntersterling8623]

By Odin's beard i can't believe you commented that

[@zoetropo1]

Mercia? No. America is named after ;) Armorica, the Iron Age coastlands of Gaul, because the Armoricans founded Boston. (The last two parts are true.)

[@12345678900987659101]

History Time America got its name by a cartographer who gave the Americas their name, naming them after an Italian explorer named Amerigo.

[@huntersterling8623]

flyingkoopa45 WRONG AMERICA IS NAMED AFTER THE NORSE WORD MIRKLAND WHICH WAS SHORTENED TO MURICA

[@HistoryTime]

Gott Mit Uns 😉

[@leifforrest]

Thank you for pronouncing Leif correctly! It's commonly mispronounced in the US, and it drives me crazy. Good Job!

[@nachteldantes4990]

Nice video Hilly boy, I really enjoyed it!

[@historywithhilbert]

Thank you - glad you liked it!

[@christopherellis2663]

Very interesting stuff, the Grœnlandinga and Vinland Sagas I read, years ago, the archeological evidence is firm.

[@gripen-swe]

Very good and informative video. Keep it up! I love that you pronounce the names correct! :)

[@mikeeverhart831]

How do you discover something when people are already there?

[@takigan]

If a whole society is unaware of the existence of an entire landmass, would that not be "discovering" it, at least in the frame of reference for those who weren't aware of it? You're criticizing the frame of reference that most schools in North America assume....that America was sitting here and "humanity" discovered it, without consideration for the fact that it wasn't as much a discovering by the whole of humanity (afterall, quite a huge chunk of humanity was already living there) but rather two vast cultures of people who formerly weren't aware of each other that eventually made contact. But that isn't the title of the video. He's not talking about greater humanity discovering an unknown landmass as a means of establishing some delusional origin story. He's talking about one small group of people (Vikings) discovering a chunk of land they weren't aware of before. It's no different than a Polynesian culture discovering a new island they weren't aware of while exploring massive chunks of the Pacific...whether those islands were already inhabited or not.

[@cennethadameveson3715]

Any thoughts on videos of the eastward exploration of the Norsemen/vikings?

[@historywithhilbert]

Definitely need to sit down and make those!

[@Carenthir3831]

I would love to see a video on the Norse warriors part of Byzantium Varangiun Guard.

[@fairhair5423]

Cenneth Adameveson you mean the Rus Vikings ?

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

RUSsia, finland and constantinople

[@froyingur945]

Been waiting for this

[@historywithhilbert]

Hope the wait was worth it man ;)

[@bepsi6204]

Can you make a video about Vikings in Ireland + 20th century Greenland and Iceland

[@historywithhilbert]

I think a couple of people have been asking for videos on the effect of Vikings on certain countries

[@lordofbees9067]

VIKINGS BEVER HAD BEEN IN AMERICAS, IT WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR THEMMM. VIKINGS CANT DO NYTHING JUST ASSAULT AND STEAL OTHERS. THE NAVIGATION WAS JUST NEAR THE COAST, AND SOMETIMES A LITTLE FURTHER TO ENGALND, THEY COULD SEE SIGNALS OF THAT ISLAND ON CLER DAYS. HAVE A LIFE STUDY REAL HISOTRY. PORTUGUESES AND THEIR PHOENICIANS ANCESTORS WERE THE NAVIGATORS.

[@0ld_Scratch]

will you do something on Hanno the Navigator? also very good video, I have a soft spot for the history of exploration and seafaring!

[@historywithhilbert]

I should look into it actually. If you find it interesting I would honestly recommend the History's Greatest Voyages of Exploration on the Great Courses Plus (I'm sure you can finish it in a month which is the free trial period as well ;) )

[@calamusgladiofortior2814]

Great video, Hilbert. Just a small nitpicky note from a Canadian: Newfoundland is pronounced NEWF-en-land, not NEW-found-land. Newfoundlanders are affectionately known as Newfies. I look forward to seeing more on this topic. Cheers.

[@historywithhilbert]

Thanks for the tip and your support :)

[@Bjowolf2]

Is there any reason for this difference? Was it pronounced as the word "found" at some stage? 🤔

[@slake9727]

​@Bjowolf2 it's just the local pronunciation.

[@trygvematthiessen1673]

12:07 I`m quite certain that the name or noun Vinland derives from the old Norse noun «vin» which means «meadow « or «plain field»…..

[@hydrogenone6866]

It would be interesting if a permanent settlement on Vineland had happened.

[@silentwitness7132]

Ik hoopte al dat je ooit hier over een video zou maken. Hartelijk bedankt!

[@historywithhilbert]

Graag gedaan makker ;)

[@galaxyearth60]

You can't "Discover" a land where people are already living!

[@bosertheropode5443]

Yes you can, at least from our european perspective

[@lt.kettch4652]

..bursts into some random persons house, I’ve discovered what god has given me. …but I already live here ….it’s ok, I’m European ?

[@bosertheropode5443]

@@lt.kettch4652 The europeans didnt knew america, they discovered it from their perspective, even tho the natives lived there for more then 20.000 years.

[@spammergenerico5679]

@@bosertheropode5443 10.000 years. Humans where on America allready 20.000 years ago, yes. But those where not the same humans that came 10.000 years later

[@shainshartershwate7421]

You absolutely can.

[@Ivo--]

Fun fact: Bluetooth technology was named after Harald Bluetooth and the logo are his initials.

[@historywithhilbert]

The reason they chose him as well is because of his councils so it was like a way to connect with his nobility just as Bluetooth technology connects devices.

[@savioblanc]

I think it's so weird to think of Catholic Vikings residing in Greenland in the 1100s, along with a Bishop residing over these communities

[@Condobius]

Another great video! Would love to see a video on Brian Borùma and Clontarf, or a new video on the Gauls. Your Gaulish Cultural analysis was excellent and a new video on that topic would be pretty cool.

[@historywithhilbert]

I recently wrote a dissertation of a kind on Brian Borù and the Battle of Clontarf so I should really make a video about it at some point

[@Condobius]

History With Hilbert Interesting, was it for an academic purpose or just for fun? I’m sure it’d be an interesting read. Irish history is a niche interest of mine, particularly from the Dark Ages until the Norman Conquest

[@capehawk7048]

Very nice vid

[@historywithhilbert]

Thanks pal!

[@civishamburgum1234]

After you Werke talking about men goong West, all I heared, was the Song: "Go West"

[@meginna8354]

Some things to note for you, as i feel like you've left a lot out: The three Norse sources that document the expeditions to America are Eiriks-Saga rauða, Grænlendinga-Saga and Eyrbyggja-Saga(Eyrbyggja speaks very little of it). I can link you with good translations. you forgot to mention Leifr's brother Þorvaldr, who has the first ever encounter with Native Americans, he stumbled upon 8 Natives and killed 7 of them, 1 of them escaped. Þorvaldr is later killed by an arrow from Natives. The name for the entire American continent was Skrælingjaland. Leifr only went to America with around 20 people, Þorfinnr Karlsefni(my 25X G-granddad) lead the voyage to America from Iceland with around 65-140 people. Þorfinnur is also the father of the first Norse child born in America, Snorri Þorfinnsson(circa 1004). Þornfinnr captures two Native American boys and took them to Iceland and taught them to speak Old Norse, once the boys learned Old Norse they told some interesting things about N-America. The boys' tribe apparently lived in holes, they called their mother Vethildi and their father Óvægi. They sayd that two kings ruled the natives, and their names were Avaldamon and Avaldidida. there were no houses, there men only laid in caves or holes. They said that there was a land across their land, where men lived/built who were in white clothing and carried poles, with white cloth attachments and yelled loudly (bit weird written, i translated directly from Old Norse). Also, Eyrbyggja-saga says that an ex Jomsviking by the name of Björn Ásbrandsson became the leader of a Native American tribe, there have been speculations by Icelandic scholars if it was in Mexico based on where the location and culture is described, but likely nothing will be proven. I can't even mention all the things right now but that's a couple.

[@historywithhilbert]

megin na I’m going to be talking about the other Erickson siblings in a later video but thank you for the information 😉

[@meginna8354]

History With Hilbert If you want me to link you English translations of these sagas and name the chapters with interesting point, just ask, i'd be happy to help.

[@nyyrikinmaa]

I would love the links :)

[@lordofbees9067]

VIKINGS WERE NEVER IN AMERICA, THERE ISNT A SINGLE PROVE.and will never be, they never been there. you knopw how vikings rechead england and ireland? portuguese ancestors (phoenicians) from lisbon, told them, they were making commerce with them.

[@lordofbees9067]

"but likely nothing will be proven. " ---of course not, your trying to built an hisotry on lies. Vikings were in ireland and engalnd, maybe those tales are about it ... but if you dont know your history thas your problem.

[@mikepowell2776]

Small point: Iceland is in the Atlantic Ocean, not the North Sea.

[@EdinburghFive]

True. To be more specific: Iceland is bounded by the Greenland Sea on the north, the Norwegian Sea on the east, the Atlantic Ocean on the south and southwest, and the Denmark Strait to the north northwest.

[@johnkilmartin5101]

If the Norse had landed on what is now Newfoundland it seems very odd that the plethora of cod is not mentioned as Cabot and those who followed after him were amazed by it. They talk about the schools being so thick they impeded the ship's progress. I would think that would be much more impressive than finding wild blueberries.

[@historywithhilbert]

That's a point although they do make special mention of the salmon as big as men's arms in "Vinland," although if you plot salmon spawning grounds and places where berries grow they don't have any intersections on Newfoundland so it couldn't be the Vinland described by the saga and is likely more to the south.

[@GoodmansGhost]

Or things just changed in 500 years =P

[@johnkilmartin5101]

GoodmansGhost If you compare the cod to the other two super abundant species pushed to extinction by their over harvest by Europeans, the plains bison and passenger pigeon both are eruption species and were destroyed in less than a century. The cod stocks on the other hand were exploited for around four hundred years before anyone noticed a decline and another sixty before the government put a moratorium on the commercial harvest. That being said the Beothuk alone of indigenous peoples of Canada never formed a relationship with Europeans. This suggests at least in my mind that their first contact was very negative. They are one of only three people groups to be pushed to extinction after contact in what is now Canada. The other two are from south western BC just in from the coast and the remaining group were the Iroquoian speaking tribes aligned with neither the Iroquois confederacy or the Huron and were destroyed by the warfare between the two.

[@meginna8354]

Vinland likely is located near the Miramichi river, based on how the saga describes the location.

[@CK-mi8uz]

they obviously did land on Newfoundland has we have settlements here from them. I highly doubt cod was ever that thick, people brag and inflate the truth to make their exploration sound more impressive.

[@aramhalamech4204]

nice, a new video.

[@historywithhilbert]

Cheers man, hope you enjoy it!

[@aramhalamech4204]

History With Hilbert i did👍🏻

[@historywithhilbert]

Good stuff

[@thyscott6603]

There are berries in Fennoscandia that are called Vinbär, literally Wine berry. They are very sour, there are white red and black ones, black being the least sour of them. We used to put them in all kinds of food mostly porridge in the morning. IKEA even sells Vinbärssylt, which is the marmelade of the "wine berry". It might be that the Americas had such too at the time, so Vinland is fitting well. Also can be made into juice like Marli Vital. It might be confusing but don't mixup Vindruvor with Vinbär, the first one being Grapes.

[@aqidon]

Hilbert why do you write eirik the correct way then proced to write leif erikson when it should be eirikson? As my name is Eirik i always get a bit anoyed when people write or say erik instead. Even in norway this is a problem as we have both Erik and Eirik.

[@flllopakk]

Fun Fact: Tyrker at that age was meaning turkish- and particularly referred to the hungarian as well that era and the other eastern nomadic tribes whom they were in contact with.

[@meginna8354]

The saga says about Tyrkir "Hann talaði þá fyrst lengi á þýzku" which means "he then spoke to them for long in German" , so he was in all likelihood a German slave.

[@ringtail2925]

I'm confuses what year in particular did they sail to North American Canada?

[@EdinburghFive]

The Newfoundland settlement appears to have been established about 1021, according the the latest research. It only lasted a few years. The Norse settlements in Greenland started in the 980s.

[@nicjansen230]

the shield of entwined spinners at 3:25 :P

[@Rizztana]

9:49 except baffin island isnt part of mainland north America... it's an island...

[@lordbrakeson]

Being a Newfoundlander I’m a firm believer that we are Vinland. Lmao.

[@dg-hughes]

Do you guys use the magic grapes to make Screech? (I'm from PEI)

[@devashish_]

Being a weeb and Having watched Vinland Saga, Im a firm believer that Vinland exists too. Same belief, different reasons. Lmao.

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

@@dg-hughes also from PEI. Small world

[@slake9727]

Vinland is at Lanse aux Meadows on the most northern tip on the Northern Peninsula in Newfoundland. That's just a proven fact

[@martinan22]

You could make a video about the several population collapses on Iceland. They lost like a third of their population several times.

[@sonyad4765]

Great video! There's a place in New Hampshire USA that is called Mystery Hill. It is rumored to have been occupied by the Vikings.

[@EdinburghFive]

The Mystery Hill site is one of those places that every nutball assigns it as a location for whatever ancient cultural group interests them. Of course there is zero evidence to support the wild claims. A fun place to visit, just don't take it as a serious ancient pre-Columbian Old World peoples' occupation site.

[@robertg305]

Highly Glorious!

[@Killzoneguy117]

What amazes me is that the Vikings only stopped at Newfoundland. I get that they were in unfamiliar territory, but it seems so strange to me that they never made it into the Gulf of St. Lawrence or Nova Scotia given their territorial proximity to Vinland. Part of me likes to believe that Viking explorers perhaps made it at least to Nova Scotia, though of course I have no evidence whatsoever to back that claim.

[@madhatter9569]

They didnt stop at Newfoundland lol. If you believe that you're closed minded. They explored a good majority of what is modern day Canada and USA.

[@EdinburghFive]

@@madhatter9569 It is likely the Norse explored the Gulf of St Lawrence and thus parts of what in Canada today are the Provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, and parts of Quebec. They did not explore "a good majority of what is modern day Canada and USA."

[@madhatter9569]

@@EdinburghFive There's been viking artifacts found all over the USA. A Norse penny found in maine. A viking helmet found in Pennsylvania. The Vikings made it to the mainland.

[@EdinburghFive]

@@madhatter9569 The fact remains there have not been "viking artifacts found all over the USA." . The Norwegian silver coin found in Maine, although an actual Viking period coin, it is questionable as to whether it is a legitimate artifact from the archaeological site. Also, the presence of a single artifact does not prove the Vikings were trading as far south into what is now the USA. At best the coin may be an item that was taken in trade with a more northern group of indigenous people. It then was traded on through a trade network by various Indigenous groups until it arrived in Maine. I think there is no question the Vikings "made it to the mainland" but this was much farther north in the Gulf of St. Lawrence region. As for a Viking helmet found in Pennsylvania, it doesn't exist.

[@ThatIcelandicDude]

On New foundland site we found butternutts which is proof the settlers there went at least as far south as New Brunswick.

[@avenaoat]

It may be the Phounicians-Puns from Cartagho reached South America and Gaul-Phonician refugees through the Amasonas river reached the Andes mountain in Peru. They wanted to avoid the Roman legion. Many blond people native tribe is in Peru.

[@stephfahey1101]

didn't the Celts also explore west prior to the Vikings or around the same time? I live in Canada and I remember watching a documentary a few years back about how Archeologists found Celtic Artifacts on the east side of Newfoundland.

[@snowdog03]

Just a few Monks.

[@GoodmansGhost]

Pretty sure mark in Markland means ground, not forest.

[@paulingvar]

Originally the word meant "border area", later " bordering forest". My Viking grammer says it meant forest in this case, "land of forest". Which makes sense if you want to describe the look. On the other hand I have a personal belief that Vinland does not refer to wine , but to a word meaning "grass". I Think the story about grapes is made up later by confusing the the word. The three names thus meaning (land of ..); flat stones, forests and grass is logical to me

[@pisaks6782]

"Landland"

[@tropickid4547]

Damn this is how eviors skeleton made it to North America

[@Rommheim1]

The coast of Labrador is not incredibly wooded, quite the opposite.

[@satyr1349]

Possibly cut down a lot of the forest since back then.

[@lordofbees9067]

VIKINGS NEVER BEEN IN AMERICA, ITS ALL LIES. THEY WANT TO BUILD THEIR OWN HISTORY.BASED ON LIES.

[@magnusorn7313]

@@lordofbees9067 how did they get to iceland then? why is there a building on greenland that is mentioned in the sagas? what about the actual physical remains we have from their trade from greenland? what about the incredibly accurate geographic descriptions of north america down to the behavior of tides at st georges bay and the lake leading to barachois pond and the detailing of the fish you could can catch there?

[@ofallmyintention9496]

Do you (or, does the narrator, if a different person) work with or have any affiliation with any other channel? Your voice sounds very familiar...is that Jabzy?

[@JosiePadgett]

I love learning about ships

[@USAACbrat]

Are there any stories of how Hudson Bay was explored? Can't imagine a Viking passing by what looks like a big bay and good anchorage.

[@fastertove]

Lack of evidence.

[@EdinburghFive]

Who knows. They may have ventured there very briefly but suspect they would have avoided it in the longer run. The bay has dangerous sailing conditions and there was the risk of being trapped in the Bay if they missed getting out through the Hudson Strait before the return of ice. No real reason to go there after maybe one look around. No resources there that they didn't already have access to in abundance around the shores of the Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay.

[@garthwatene9428]

how do you discover a country when there is already someone there or does discovery only apply to europeans?

[@paulingvar]

If you find something unknown to you or your society "discover" is not wrong, but maybe rediscover would be better?

[@savioblanc]

It depends on who is narrating. Since it was primarily Europeans going around the world and discovering new lands to them, it would be discovering. They then told other peoples about these new lands. So for example, the Chinese were told about North n South America by the European missionaries and merchants. No one in the Old World, whether they be African, Arab, Turk, Indian or Asiatic was aware of the region of North and South America until the Europeans rediscovered these lands and then were told of these lands.

[@TheManofLawlessness]

When you’re told Christopher Columbus discovered America lmaoooo

[@user-dr1bj1bq2e]

Is it possible they went up the river saguenay ....their is this small island who would been perfect for a camp

[@canadianmmaguy7511]

Yes. They were the white bearded people to the west who had iron. Sagueney was an important trading post

[@itsaguinness]

this reminded me that Playmobile has viking sets. I made a lil bald Ragnar with big beard and a cross

[@louayGamer]

skip to 8:50

[@thessalonikiosmusv]

May I know font you used in this video?

[@zoetropo1]

Why is Greenland Danish now?

[@12345678900987659101]

Don't trust what I say, but I heard it was because after the Scandinavian kingdoms became Protestant, they remembered their conversion efforts back on Greenland and Iceland (When they were Catholic) and quickly organized expeditions back to those islands to see if people were still there and to convert them.

Because without money and help from the mainland Denmark their life would not be so nice,

[@tomplayss8388]

Zoe Porphyrogenita the Norse died out then later on some Danes started exploring and inhabiting it again

[@mattihp]

THANK YOU for saying Leif and not Leaf which seems to be popular among anglos...

[@quidam_surprise]

It seems like folks are irredeemable by nature 😔

[@CRindler15]

What flag is that shown at 12:27?

[@xanv8051]

Maybe it's the American faction that created this fantasy

[@gamingwithkai9626]

I just needed help with school but thanks

[@illuminatea6868]

8:53 the ad ends

[@stefanatliorvaldsson3563]

great video

[@lordofbees9067]

You love lies?

[@akinahavana]

In vikings final season they used this story!

[@karenarmstrong8141]

these days you cant get a video without it being sponsored by great courses plus or skill share

[@edwinofnorthumbria2511]

... Why do you suddenly sound so different from your previous video?

[@historywithhilbert]

Just getting over a nasty cold I picked up on the way back from India and possibly the new pop filter. Love the username and profile pic btw!

[@edwinofnorthumbria2511]

Thats a shame, I'd say I hope you get better soon, but I actualy quite like it, you sound very mellow (though I do wish you well of course), I had a cold once that I could swear changed my voice for a long time afterward, from the sounds of it you might be about to go from something similar. Thank you, I wanted to go with a local king, I was going to go with Ceretic, since he was closer, but I doubt anyone would have actualy known about him, so I went with Edwin instead, I suppose he had a palace in the village I went to highschool at, at least. I originally went with Oswalds colour scheme of purple and gold for the colours, but then I decided to o with Richard 3s standard of blue and white, didn't like it, so I left it halfway.

[@edwinofnorthumbria2511]

Oh, and uh... happy... 101st anniversary of Passchendaele.

[@zoetropo1]

Edwin Of Northumbria: Catterick?

[@historywithhilbert]

Edwin Of Northumbria Well thank you haha I’ll take freezing showers and limit my sleep to get my immune system lowered so I can keep the voice 😉 The last king of Elmet, right? At least Edwin’s a Deiran at the end of the day though. Interesting story behind the colours, still a big fan though!

[@maryanndeweerd2570]

Thankyou ❤

[@fenggula7890]

My azz out here, learning history, because of Vinland Saga

[@OfficialDJTasawennateken]

Fun fact he said the Vikings found America in 11th century and that's not true they found it in the 10th century they started settling it and they had a pretty good settlement in the 11th century that they can call home then a war broke out between them and the local native tribes of natives but what people don't get told is that it didn't end there with that battle some Vikings left and went home but a lot of them stayed and felt cities of their own and towns and stuff and they stayed in America to the 15th century and then they left and all went back to Greenland and anywhere else they could go. They were literally here for like 600 years they were here from the 10th century all the way up to the 15th century each century has a hundred years so 10 11 12 13 14 15 and that adds up to 600 years they were actually here longer than people are taught.

[@EdinburghFive]

The first Norse settlements were established in the late tenth-century (980s), last written documentation was very early in the fifteenth-century. It is thought the Norse habitation came to an end a few decades later. Thus the settlement ranges from about 980 to perhaps about 1420. That is a time span of about 440 years.

[@breakeroutlaw9959]

So the Vikings did travel to Canada 🇨🇦 and America 🇺🇸 I could use this if I’m taking a test in college if the question on test ask me “Where did the Vikings travel?”

[@vanjimbo]

Vikings only came to Canada!

[@nayamap4402]

@@vanjimbo actually there are also mentiond that vikings made it until the very florida in the saga mentioning that the water turned into a never seen color

[@Skelstoolbox]

Many feel they went much further south.. They describe a river location that some historians believe to be New Brunswick. Some think they made it as far as the Hudson river in New York and others as far south as Florida or even the Gulf of Mexico.. I think at least the Carolinas, looking for areas free of scraelings..

[@vanjimbo]

"Feel" isn't History! Vikings only ever were in northeast Canada!

[@kyleianestabrook1708]

Is maine vineland

Hey, that flag! I made such a flag somewhere, it wasn't real, was it?

[@nathanaelsallhageriksson1719]

About time...... :-)

[@rockelino]

Who's here after watching Vikings: Valhalla?

[@kevindanner2090]

Scandinavians Beated Columbus to the Americas

[@charlesledankuz]

The reason how the vikings discovered america is they use a boat. But pretty cool video! Am complaining with a guy that the viking discovery of america didnt affect the world. then i talk back by saying "its becuz of the time. its 11th century when the vikings discovered america so there not much country when its on 11th century" But cool video!

[@CraisenGaming]

Please do a follow up

[@toysintheattic2664]

What I don’t understand is why on earth anyone would convert from the old religion to Christianity. Paganism seems like a far more appealing religion to me

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Why? It is a dumb ethnic religion, which most likely means it's not true.

[@toysintheattic2664]

G-Rex Saurus and Christianity is great right?

[@g-rexsaurus794]

Well it connected and united Europe, so it's better from a secular perspective.

[@magnusorn7313]

@@g-rexsaurus794 "connected and united Europe" through the slaughtering of the innocent.. yes

[@g-rexsaurus794]

@@magnusorn7313 Because Europe was totally peaceful before? Give me a break idiot

[@Eliesarsdottir]

A bit sad that you didn’t mention anything about the Faroe Islands

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

They used the Migrants dead bodies to build the boat.

[@historywithhilbert]

Sounds Grimm...

[@nosferatuoddz7974]

History With Hilbert, Too far?

[@historywithhilbert]

Grimm's an Old Norse given name ;)

@@historywithhilbert And if you where not too ugly, they would call you Hallgrim

[@urieluriel715]

LOrd of bEES, Civilisation was built by settlers of a region actually. Jericho, the oldest city in the world didn't just have a bunch of immigrants turn up and build it for a local group. The region had been settled in for hundreds of years before any type of civilisation was created.

[@rerun374]

Videos with adverts get thumbs down.

[@magnusorn7313]

people who do jobs and have employers that pay them for that work get thumbs down.

[@mzda610]

Eric the Viking boss discovered green land

[@-gemberkoekje-5547]

New foundland belongs to the Norse

[@spiderguy75]

Discover? North America was there with people living there...

[@BoDAssassin]

@Silvio Balcazar Discover doesn't mean being the first.