Medieval Archaeologists Find The Sunken Viking Fleet Of Roskilde | The Lost Realm | Chronicle

The discovery of sunken Viking fleet at Roskilde was a groundbreaking excavation unveiling a fleet of real seagoing ships from the Viking age. The find transforms understanding of Viking boat technology, offering insights into different ship types and maritime culture. Symbolizing Viking prowess and fear along European shores, the ships are iconic representations of Viking maritime dominance.
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[@coyotej4895]

This was fantastic. A real treat for the grandkids. We are a Mix Family of Norwegian and Native Alaskan and have always relied on the Sea for a living so our ocean faring history is always taught, both the Native and the Norse. One point, Brave are the sailors who went to sea in those ships Not the people that dug them up later. Don't mitigate the word by attributing it to the mundane. Brilliant and hard working perhaps are better words. Bravery however is earned in Life-or-death struggles at sea, in the air or on land doing what your instincts tell you not to. Walking into danger to help others even as others run out. Bless and be well and again thank you for this wonderful content.

[@johntillotson4254]

Great post and we'll articulated English. Keep up the great work

[@patricialong5767]

This is so exciting! My ancestors, the Danes, were out there, exploring! My father was born in Jutland, so therefore I am half Danish and very proud of it! :))

[@larryzigler6812]

Just what are you proud of ? What did you do ?

[@Wmaddox333]

@@larryzigler6812 He's proud of his heritage.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@Wmaddox333 Better to be proud of ones own accomplishments or immediate family members

[@Wmaddox333]

@@larryzigler6812 That's great too - make your ancestors proud.

[@larryzigler6812]

@@Wmaddox333 They are down below 🔥

[@pkj77]

I´m Danish have been visiting the Museum in Roskilde many times in my life love it

[@mathish1477]

Just before my mother died of cancer (we are Australian), I took her to her grandparents village (Hederslev) and Roskilde. It was amazing.

[@user-uc9wb8eo1r]

It's a fantastic museum and the city of Roskilde is absolutely beautiful.

[@Centurion101B3C]

I am not Irish but I love Eire, its beauty, its people, its history. I have travelled up and down the river Shannon multiple times by boat and each time, I find more new things and old things that deepen my enchantment with the Emerald Isle.

[@greenjeanbrown]

My maternal grandparents were born in Roskilde. Someday, I hope to visit the museum.

[@Grandmastergav86]

Wonderful channel to have stumbled upon, there's so much fantastic historical content on YT - it's the crowning jewel of YT IMO.

[@archiemcewan9500]

Visited there in August 2023 and was Amazed to see vessels of a bygone age survive too the present time after 1000 years under water !

[@JacobafJelling]

Thanks for sharing. Greetings from a Dane travelling around the last Wild West that is Australia

[@nettejakobs2501]

Amazing ships. Thanks for the insight into skills for building and sailing these beauties 😊 Greetings from Denmark

[@lelimthongquinker8918]

Thanks for your authenticate constant updates❤ Big love and support from Nagaland, India 🎉

[@laneoswego6989]

This is absolutely fantastic thank you

[@78thandSynth]

An excellent thunderstorm pairing. 🙌

[@matthewcuratolo3719]

Fantastic!

[@MysticChronicles712]

Thank you so much, this is great.

[@cambo1200]

Wow, that boat is surprisingly fast.

[@fionabryant7923]

Magic

[@70stunes71]

Incredible 👍🏻💯

[@basilbrushbooshieboosh5302]

Love this, and want to build my own

[@kens.4198]

I thought you had found some sunken vessels, not Valhalla. LOL

[@robertthebruce-geniusofban647]

An excellent video!

[@hrafnofthule5962]

Hello from Norra Halland,

[@Paeoniarosa]

Very interesting

[@briannacery9939]

I hope the young-uns realize and behave like we're all in the same boat!

[@davidbamford4721]

Communication, ship - to ship, could have been by flags, as modern navies have done. Each flag would have related to an order, no words were necessary.

[@inoshikachokonoyarobakayar2493]

🤔For communicating between ships during low visibility, I wonder if they also trained their ravens to bring messages from ship to ship? The are super smart birds and i read that Norse sailors used them to spot land and stuff.

[@avysark2034]

In low visibility, how would a raven have seen the target boat? I reckon they used light or acoustic signals

[@coryparni3620]

I'm sure fer fingers looked terrible after a few hours work 🙄

[@mehere8-32]

Excellent thank you.

[@LowerTheBoom]

how do archeologists find out things

[@leifvejby8023]

These were found because the local fishers told about the wrecks, which they had known about for centuries. They believed they were Queen Margrethe's lost ships.

[@katon44]

remains of destroying roskilde by fleet of polish prince of pomerania racibor I (dependent from poland's king) at 1135 and part of successful campaign of pomeranians against danish kingdom (destroying of konungahela etc etc) / there're no "viking" boats same like "pirate" nor "privateer" ships :) in this region might be constructed like scandinavian boats (little faster,less capable,less movable) or slavic boats (little slower,more capable,more movable),then served as kingdom's war fleet | merchant fleet | privateer fleet | used by pirates from different ethnic groups called sometimes by vikings (term came most propably from word "wilki" or "wylki" meaning wolfs)

[@simonbroberg969]

85AD 600-700 boat raid on Hamburg, same year a certain Ragnar did is 125 boat raid on Paris (Not sure which Ragnar though, Ragnar Rykill Son of Finehair . Or Ragnar Rothbrok (Swedish), It was just written by the Frankish monks as Ragnar, so we can't be sure which a bit who was older than Rykill Information "Vikings" Magnus Magnusson - host of the BBC quiz show "Mastermind" Note: The so called "History channnel" had a 130 year old Ragnar still a viking, as they didn't do the research on known dates and named dates of raids,, 2 Paris know raids Rgagnars raid 845, Ironsides raid (no survivors, 4 churches left standing rest flattened and burned, 857, then about 5 years later after the "Franks" snook back in, thern they they rebuilt it and fortified it 885-6 Siege, little fighting, they just sat outside and wouldn't let anyone in or out.Another 700 boat raid that one. No Ragnar or Ironside mentions for that one. Ragnar Rykull died after Rothbrok, The English killed him just as they claimed, Rykill and his brothers (read the Heimskringla and you will get 6 of the 18 wives of Finehair mentioned and the sons you will mostly know from other stories) Ragnar Rykill and his father died off the coast of Ireland from drowning... the Ragnar Rok... Then after that, many Norse left Ireland, a lull in rainding while new leaders needed to me chosen... much turmoil I think... so add Magnus' book, the Heimskringla and other sagas from Snorri (who wrote as many he could remember before he was assissinated) and you would get the picture I got. So add those 3 Paris dates, to the Lidesfarne and they carried on and on although we did tell them. so the "So called History channel" II was also very disappointed with the Assasins creed Valhalla game, 1st king on Norway was Finehair not a blonde "Christian" but king of kings of the Norse (even killed Gandalf a seaking.. yes JRR Tolkein got a lot of insiration from the Heimskring;a) They kicked me out of the game chat as it was run by a lying Catholic priest who had no idea about history.. not allowed to kill priesstss pah!, Viking raids on the Druids (only a few hundred years out and that was the Romans with Gaul support.. Gal women held as hostage and Roman propaganda did the Druids) They got very upset when I asked them to do a Assissins creed Henry the 8th... lol. Not one Catholic left after they finished that). So was brought on on the Sagas as bedtime stories as a child, coat of arms are legit Swedish although I am going to be the last of the line even if there are other Brobergs, none have all my bloodline

[@simonbroberg969]

What wwas the other thing.. oh year the American bit when they said that a priest from Clonfert went there in his coricle.. and them not knowing about the Priest V Battles in Ireland didn't know that Clonfert V Cork battle left with no one left to say the mas. That is also mentioned in Magnussons book, I'd quote if but too many pages on Ireland as the Norse held Ireland for 30-50 years. Anyway that snippet came from a curator of the Irish National Museum who have the origonal documents. Nice church in Clonfert from just after the VIking age, run by the Church of Ireland, NOT Catholic!

[@dereckhasken9055]

“Medieval” archeologists???? they are modern day archeologists ( didn’t have any in the Middle Ages) whose specialty encompasses the Vikings

[@vonnero1250]

Medieval Archeologists study Medieval Archaeology. The term is a perfectly valid use of English.

[@scottfoster3445]

I'm autistic too

[@user-mf6li4sw6n]

My people❤

[@PhilCadey]

I think they mean Archaeologists who specialise in medieval times.

[@helenamcginty4920]

Hmmm. Title writer needs to understand how English works. 'Medieval archaeologists' really? Did they just dig like Victorian antiquarians or maybe they were more methodical. Where are the records of their digs? And under water archaeology in the middle ages? I'm impressed. 😂 Just archaeologists would do.

[@peterjorgensen1086]

If anyone's brutally interested in hardcore Norse warfare I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

[@bine35]

strongly recommend you to stop spamming this on every video with ur fake accounts

[@2times350]

He definitely has the greatest topics by far and so many of them. But for some reason, I just can’t listen to a whole podcast at once??? but he’s the best

[@bawsack69]

Give it up man

[@mantonwalkinshaw676]

Thankyouuuuu just what the Dr ordered

[@larryzigler6812]

no

[@quotemenot7520]

continuity out the window.

[@larryzigler6812]

☮☮💘💘💥💥

[@scotf7313]

Should the Norwegians/Vikings apologise for hundreds of years of pillage and murder.

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

No, only for lutefisk. And Rednex.

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

We are not responsible for the weak minds of our enemies. Every murder is from our perception Victory. Lying is also sign of the weak, and modern history is untill today not strong enough to tell the truth. Maybe an good starting point for your own perception and defeat the illusions.

[@danman64]

I think they should pay reparations lol

[@1972tommyc]

Did Vikings get seasick?🤔🤮

[@kgreen8510]

I grew up sailing, and I have gotten seasick once in a hurricane. So, some of them some of the time, yes. It depends on the waves and how they are hitting the boat.

[@leifvejby8023]

Yes we do. 😀

[@1972tommyc]

@@kgreen8510 I agree kgreen. My question was mostly tongue in cheek but I have some distant Scandinavian heritage (so, somewhat Viking?). I have never been seasick although having served at sea in the U.S. Navy, crewed on a fishing boat in Alaska, and enjoying numerous sport fishing adventures in Alaska and the U.S. Pacific coast. Maybe my time to experience seasickness will come but I hope not! 😆

[@Mother_f_ing_Choo]

I've never been seasick either 1972. As a matter of fact, the first time I went deep sea fishing I was the ONLY person on the boat that didn't get seasick, even though everyone who knew it was my first time out were pointing and laughing. Those same people were face down in chum they were so sick, I was actually eating a sub sandwich loaded with mayo and laughing at them.

[@southerneruk]

If you see nails in their boats, it is not Viking, it is from a period just after the Vikings change with the introduction of Middle East Religion of the Christians and the raids ended, Viking Longboats planks were held together with leather and cord, Nails is the indication of the Merchant Trading that came after the raids had ended

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

Viking vessels are typically clinker fastened, by which we mean iron rivets driven through from the outside and passing through an iron rove on the interior.

[@southerneruk]

@@WorldWokeApeCult That came later, after the Viking raiding era had ended, the planks were pulled together and fasten with cord and Spanish winch to tighten, and the swelling of the wood sealed the planks, this is where filling a new boat up with water so it sank and left sunk for a Luna month, wood frames would be wooden peg, nail did not start to become the normal till 12th century

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

@@southerneruk I’m not sure where you’re getting your information, but it’s incorrect. Look up the construction of the following Viking vessels: Oseberg ship (Norway, first half of 9th century AD), Gokstad (Norway, about AD 890), and the Skuldelev ships discussed in this video (found in Denmark, but built in various places and times - info in the Viking Ship Museum website). By the time the classic age of Viking raiding came around, clinker construction had already been established in Northern Europe for centuries. See, for example, the Nydam ship, also built with lapstrake planking fastened with iron rivets and roves (Denmark, 4th century AD). The Sutton Hoo vessel (England, 7th century AD) is perhaps the most famous example. Where you may be getting confused is the fastening of the framing. Earlier vessels such as Nydam and Gokstad have frames lashed to cleats carved onto the inside of the planking.

[@southerneruk]

@@WorldWokeApeCult We have an 11 century Viking long boat in the UK, no nails, it was the merchant era and the ruling of 1 king over all the Danes did nail start to become used, Iron was hard to produce and was traded for in those days and was not wasted on making nails

[@WorldWokeApeCult]

@@southerneruk Which vessel are you referring to? I’m not saying that tree nails weren’t used in lapstrake construction; they were. What I’m saying is that your claim that Viking ships don’t use iron fastenings is incorrect. The classic Viking tradition employs iron rivets through iron roves.

[@nathanworthington4451]

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[@LeanneFowler-ms5xc]

Why do you say that? Just curious 🧐

[@nathanworthington4451]

Several of the accts are flagged from multiple channels as spam.

[@kurtisengle6256]

2:41 For gods sake. He called it the Buy-ure tapestry. Do you think there will ever come a day when englishmen start to speak english? Or when english schools start to teach english? Should we instead begin to refer to them as the 'arrs'? And why doesn't Canadfa have an R?

[@vonnero1250]

Because Bayeux is such a quintessential English word?

[@nancytimmer9026]

Yep, no more loan words for you. Not from French, not from Dutch, Norman or any other language. Good luck.

[@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd]

The people on the boat need to be extremely drunk on mead and to avoid showering for several months prior in the interests of authenticity. For science.

[@Nylon_riot]

It didn't take as long as people think. They could reach Britain in a week oreven make several trips in a season.

[@tnarbma3007]

They had alcohol tolerance from drinking it from a young age for generations they was drinking roughly 3% abv they'd have to drink a ton of it. Which I'm sure they did but I don't think it was like people think.

[@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd]

@@Nylon_riot I just meant so they would smell like everyone did in those days.

[@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd]

@@tnarbma3007 Stop ruining my mental picture!

[@googlelimp9834]

id like to seeone big enough for the horses and the mass of storage neededon some to

[@timcent7199]

Pity so much of the filming is of people drinking tea on a porch, or just faces and boring nonsense. 11 minutes was enough to bore me.

[@henriknielsen1662]

@timcent7199: your ADHD is of little interest