Norsemen: The Complete History Of The Viking Age | Last Journey Of The Vikings | Chronicle

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - spreading fear and horror in their wake. They gave their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them?
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[@Marcus.Halberstram]

When I was younger, I watched an actual viking dance on ancient KZbin to techno on the streets of what's now call Germany . True story.

[@POlNTANDLAUGH]

Underreated comment 🤣

[@tomsmith8511]

🤣🤣💪👍

[@burnsloads]

Techno viking. I remember him well

[@katjie]

Omg true. He was awesome like an ancient warrior

[@theoneb4mylastafterafirstu546]

all hail the techno viking

[@patrickhowell9460]

A constructive criticism id like to point out. There are few good sources of Norse history to this level of complete detail, which i am happy your program shares. However i struggle with vision and often listen to you tube more so than watch it. It would be awesome to have foreign commentary translated after its spoke natively for english speakers. Just a suggestion. Thank you still for this knowledge.

[@dillondelgado2059]

Had the same thought, ended up looking for other audio to listen to on the subject.

[@fireblade2681]

Yeah I was wanting to hear about the vikings but all I heard was some chick talking french.

[@lisadistefano7727]

Agreed! It’s unfortunate I had to stop watching due to the French and Swedish languages because it was very interesting

[@usmctankerwife4068]

Even when you put on the subtitles, they rolled over so quickly you would of had to be a speed reader.

[@felipearroyo657]

There Is Not only english in thé World.....for those who complain Here learn language by thé Say IT IS subtitled........

[@baloroh87]

I legit thought the scenes were taken from the history channel’s Vikings. Production value on this documentary is impressive

[@nickverbree]

While that's totally true, they seem to have taken their costuming cues from the show as well and are wildly inaccurate

[@muddyhotdog4103]

The fact that back then these Viking raiders were leaving home to far off foreign lands on the sea and always found their ways back home shows how much they mastered the sea during their time.

[@delstrain8590]

Greeks 800AD knew Celts as Keltus and Celtic gold found as far as china,, people done it before the land broke and after.. vikings were late in the game mate.

[@faramund9865]

They just followed the coast and rivers. Along such places there are always towns, very easy to navigate. Pretty sure this is also why they are called 'vikings'. Namely, they went from vík to vík, from town to town.

[@rmp7400]

@Muddy And how much they mastered destroying homes and lives of others... especially Catholics! Yes, it was true, indeed. Not as terrible as Ghengis Khan, however, thanks be to Holy GOD!!!!!!!!!

[@MichelangeloXIV]

@@petertownend7777 why bring up some gay shit outta no where? lmao

[@petertownend7777]

@@MichelangeloXIV what you on about you Bumberclart?🤓

[@EpochEnigmaChannel]

Mastering the sea was truly a remarkable feat for the Viking raiders. Also, your suggestion for translated foreign commentary would make the content even more accessible. Thanks for enriching our understanding of history!

[@deirdrebrandon7115]

The only thing that really bothers me about this video is I can't watch it and do anything else at the same time, because I have to watch the the screen to get the subtitles. I miss the voice overs so that I could listen to the whole thing.

[@KernowekTim]

A superb documentary. Thank you everyone involved in this production.

[@Mrcool12684]

so bad ass!!! please do one on the celts someday!

[@Sigibert]

Ikr

[@Mrcool12684]

@ACB 02 Tv me? Ya I’m good. You?

[@Video-Game-OST-HQ]

I could listen to her narration all day.

[@BlueAlien1313]

Love, love, love viking history.

[@leearellano5303]

I believe it is possible that trading and raiding were not exclusive...it is likely that trade was a type of fruitful reconnaissance for hearing about then finding isolated and vulnerable places to raid

[@bobsteve8957]

These are so fun to watch!

[@matthewstewart5113]

Thank you for the video and great detail into our history. The history told by experts from many sides adds so much more to it. :)

[@eiriksinclair5986]

1. Cretan Guard discovered America c.1200BC adding to the Linear A & B expeditions that started in 1450BC 2. Plato's Hermocrates Dialogue 404BC orates the discovery of America that went beyond the Pillars of Hercules 3. Zeus' Deluge, God Mar inhabits cave in Equador 754BC, did the Gold Writings that the Mormon Church is based upon 4. Religion of Thor started in 133BC with Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus, men over 300 pounds sent to America 5. Carthage was moved to America during the Punic Wars 261BC, Phoenicians inhabited Vineland, the Appalachian Mtns 6. Religion of Thor ended in 791AD with the defeat of the Battle of Uppsala Sound, Vikings from America returned 793AD 7. Freydis Eiriksdottir - South America, Liefr Eirikson - North America, the Ouroboros Dragon leading to Vineland Station

[@AE-Rugby]

Thankyou . Tonight’s insomnia will be interesting at least !!!

[@chrilin5107]

New excavations in the Baltic has found a ship burial with Scandinavians buried in it from approx 650

[@ClassyNova]

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[@Aemond2024]

This is beautiful

[@WilliamWyckoff-of2ku]

Our families ancestors goes back to 800 so this is knowledge for me

[@tommyigoe3952]

Well done, thank you, subscribed for more quality content :)

[@johnlee5423]

Why is the most feared and brutal viking of them all Hagar the Horrible not mentioned.

[@BridgesDontFly]

Must have been censored.

[@johnlee5423]

@@BridgesDontFly true

[@bonnieagliata4780]

Is it possibly a legend?☄🌏

[@briangrogan2553]

Should be called "History of the French Viking Age". No Iceland, Greenland, Vineland or the Kievan Rus.

[@dillkilltv3942]

How is this not more popular!?!

[@lauralewis2430]

This was SO INTERESTING! I sure learned a lot and now I understand why my English ancestry has so much Scandinavian mixed in 😊

[@MimiMillie-es7zp]

Lovvvveeeeeee

[@narfdc2043]

Mhm, im also personally a mix of all the cultures that went into what is now English, got some Celtic/Irish in me, a whole lot of French, some Scandinavian and Norse, basically my blood line is all over Western Europe. I wonder what my ancestors got up to 🤔 I bet a lot of peoples’ ancestries have stories to tell about how they ended up where they are now, it’s so hard to trace things too far back, and a ton of stories are lost now

[@michaelpotts4001]

Skall

[@Angelcynn_2001]

​@@narfdc2043 hmm. Well that's not what created the English people. Totally skipped the Anglo-Saxons, didn't you Mr. Frenchman

[@veronicajensen7690]

Scandinavian and Norse are the same , Norse is an old word for Scandinavians, although Iceland would be included in the Norse people but not in Scandinavia @@narfdc2043

[@brianhildreth9099]

Thought i found the perfect video to listen to. I cant always have eyes on the screen. Wish they audio translated the different languages instead of captions .... Oh well.

[@netgreensolar]

Some good points concerning the transition of the Vikings BUT....missed the point that there were two Danish Viking attacks on Norman England. The first was an invasion in 1069-1070 conducted in alliance with various English rebels which succeeded in taking first York and then Ely before the Danes finally accepted a bribe to leave the country. The second was a large-scale raid in 1075, intended to support the Revolt of the Earls, in which the Lincolnshire coast and York were both ravaged. A third attack was planned in 1085, and a large invasion fleet comprising Danish, Flemish and Norwegian vessels was gathered, but it never sailed. All three attacks were motivated by a claim on the English throne asserted originally by Cnut the Great's nephew Sweyn II, king of Denmark (r.1047-1076), and maintained by later Danish kings until as late as the 13th century. PLUS the Norman involvement in deciding the Popes in Rome, Sicily, south Italy, Eastern Roman Empire, Rus in Ukraine, Crusades, creation of Portugal and Spain.....and more

[@JQS8810]

I need the source for the soundtrack

[@dianeporrier9218]

They never seem to talk about the fact that viking are not just Scandinavians. Norigians, Sweden, and Danish people all participated in all types of raids and migration on the northern Europe before the attacks on England ever took place.

[@tuathadesidhe1530]

... Yeah - "Scandinavia" = *is* Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark, Iceland, and the Faroe Islands.

[@mj_b23]

@@tuathadesidhe1530 That's Nordic. Scandinavia is Norway, Sweden, and Denmark only.

[@KvltKrist]

Pick a time frame and I promise you that Scandinavia varied in size throughout.

[@kennystyles1052]

Talk about splitting hairs...phew

[@KRIS-gr5hn]

Yeah... but where's Norigia?

[@emersonolivares9217]

The Vikings lived a long era and were well established in Greenland, Iceland and fought wars with England!

[@rickybass2443]

I'm just learning about how much they actually got around. I think they got inland in the Americas alot further than one might think.i live in East Texas and I have some interesting rock art and rune stones with there names and dates carved all over them.The year was 1115 and by what is pictured on the rocks,they had a gruesome death by the hands of the local natives..It must have been the event of a lifetime.Heads rolled along wtth all their innards. They must brought plants and tree seedlings as trade because there are hundreds of different kinds not even from this hemisphere.Grapes have been growing wild here for centuries.I wonder if?? Naw!!

[@visjesvanger]

100 years ago many of us where shitting in a hole in the ground!! why is it so hard to think

[@kittyreneepsalm1879]

7:02 1:17:43

[@sunshsophprd.0565]

you are right, Vikings were a hell of successful diplomats, very successful diplomats, don't forget they have a hachet in hand all the time!!

[@Sillyrequirements]

Powerful land owners used the climate crisis to seize more land. Remind me of what is going on today in the Netherlands, using climate change as an excuse to seize 3000 farms categorized as “gross polluters”. 9:51

[@brandonwasemiller8713]

it's the agenda for the whole world and I was thinking the exact same thing.

[@TarquinTheTall]

They took advantage of the circumstances that arose due to climate change, not the same thing.

[@geoffreyrose5255]

Rollo is a very distant great grampa.

[@andyrussell5346]

The title is a bit misleading this is not a complete HISTORY this is just a brief history og early Vikings and then specifically their activity in Normandy and England. No mention of the fact they occupied most of tre Islands around Scotland (Alba), Icelandic migration, expeditions across Europe to the black sea, the fact they reached north America before any other Europeans... This is just a chapter in their history.

[@rheinhardtgrafvonthiesenha8185]

n we just have this in English please

[@drjohnl7524]

How about Novgorod, Kiev-rus, Constantinople? A rather narrow description in this video!

[@TarquinTheTall]

Agreed

[@jamesalston-biggs2338]

agreed

[@veronicajensen7690]

this in only 1 part of the series

[@ionu4535]

Good historical coverage made up for the low budget production. However, an hour + could have been cut for the excessive redundancies of explanations; can’t rate for that.

[@Celticrambler]

The first 13 minutes is definitive evidence that the human cannot change its selfishness. Even after a catastrophe 😔🤦‍♂️

[@MattysModernLife]

Expert - "It was a relatively small raid" Doco - 35 ships (ie over 1000 men) sailing away. Lololol.

[@sanjaysamant1295]

I want to learn norse .. please assist me what i need to learn.. i want to learn old north pegan.. i am from india

[@veronicajensen7690]

Icelandic is very close to old Norse maybe you can start there ?

[@ariannedechateaumichel7777]

Thank you for not assuming all your viewers are ignorant monolinguists. That stereotype really bugs me, especially when channels use it as an excuse to dumb down what the experts they interview say. They start off with the expert speaking before the translator speaks over the expert for the rest of that segment, and the little bit of the original audio that was audible is just enough to tell that the "translation" is a gross oversimplification. If I wanted that, I'd watch the History Channel.

[@juneroberts5305]

Excellent comment. ❤

[@vm6824]

This would've been great if it was all in English. I listen to documentaries not watch them, so I am not going to sit for 3 hrs to mostly read subtitles - may as well read a damned book on the subject.

[@magustacrae]

Vikings were the coolest of all history to me. They took over Angles, took over Saxons , took it to Celtic Britain, then raided Anglo Saxon Britain (England). Then took over northern Francia, Normandy,... Then! Then the Normans ,(Vikings) took over England AGAIN! All while becoming the elite guard of Eastern Roman Constantinople, and stuck around when the Turks took it. ... And all while founding Russia ! The Vikings got some shit done, baby 😉👊

[@knowledgeckr786]

Final conclusion is that might is right as proved by natural selection principle, thy survival of the fittest. We can not get rid of this harsh principle of life. Life is cruel as people kill fellow people for their own greedy survival.

[@jerelsalazar7959]

Well now that explains a lot about the war mongering, the mass shootings, serial killings, etc

[@jaytidwell-dx3gy]

The French woman says Anglo Saxon and the translation said British. Anglo Saxons weren't British. They were germanic tribes. The British were basically French until the Anglo Saxons came.

[@Kaczyfunny]

Hm! This explains the laser raptors!

[@Marcus.Halberstram]

A fellow Kung Fury connoisseur. One of the greatest historical films I've ever seen.

[@Kaczyfunny]

@@Marcus.Halberstram I have just found this title. I had not time to watch it yet. But i going to watch it. Also i didnt want to miss the great opportunity to use the greatest quote ever n film history! To be honest, I expectected more like. Also the one i got i apriciate the most :-)

[@Marcus.Halberstram]

*TANK YOU!* I hope you and all historical film buffs know that Kung Fury 2 has already been made but legal issues have delayed its release for years. Allegedly any day now its supposed to actually be released. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Michael Fassbender co star along with original cast.

[@Kaczyfunny]

@@Marcus.Halberstram Can't wait! Thank you! :-)

[@MrSnakobe]

When I was young, 1100 years ago I rode a dragon across the sea because the climate crisis was way too bad.

[@josemaurosantos1531]

Paternal Lineage Your haplogroup is: I Born between 35 and 25 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European males, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Y-chromosomal Adam 160 to 120 thousand years A: Africa 140 to 90 thousand years BT: Africa 85 to 60 thousand years CT: Africa 80 to 60 thousand years CF: Leaving Africa 75 to 60 thousand years F: Leaving Africa 62 to 57 thousand years IJ: Haplogroup parent of I and J 45 to 30 thousand years I: Eastern Eurasia 35 to 25 thousand years

[@bdoon51]

Mr John WTF are you talking about?

[@TheNortonio]

Ads every 5 min... Watching on an iPad... Greedy

[@TheNortonio]

Gave video thumbs down

[@TommyTheWalker]

Seriously they can't afford to die the foreign experts? It's so annoying, tired of subtitles

[@simonvandueren]

read a book

[@isahmohammedtoha3025]

WE NORSEMEN WE SHALL SALLY AND NEVER TO HANG A LEG XXX SOSOS

[@epicdudmanu]

Not a viking, a Sanatani Hindu from India but I do feel a deep connection with Norsemen maybe who knows in past life I might have prayed to the old gods.. 😉 . I hope Norse People start praying and accept old gods again. 🙏

[@sandraswannell4170]

With all respect Dr Panetta but you do not live in my body

[@heatherloesch1343]

Norsemen got very far from such humble beginnings; to today where their descendants sit on nearly every throne still in existence. To them that far exceeded an afterlife in Valhalla, right down to the blood of their literal immortality in the form of Crowns. They weren't ignorant people.

[@johnknoefler]

Tired of ads. Click off.

[@klaj6595]

They are easy to get rid of! Just pay for a membership

[@Yellowstone_1]

I'm thinking of getting a sleeve tattoo but I want it to show the full viking history beginning till end if anyone has more insight in the history please let me know I would appreciate it.

[@juneroberts5305]

I hope your arm is several miles long, because there is no one single timeline for all vikings, their lands, and their final destinations. 😊

[@vincentrandles8105]

I don't know about you all - but too me swedish sounds like someone speaking German with a cue-ball in their mouth! Just saying!

[@JordanWallace-nb4id]

the catholic church wiped out the vikings as a civilization

[@BoriquaBBW]

I was very disapointed that the whole video needed to be read. I wanted to watch a video and not read a book.

[@Boudicaisback]

Don't be lazy

[@veronicajensen7690]

you do know only 20% of the world speak English ?

[@queenashantee1957]

ONE PRESENTER SPEAKING ONE LANGUAGE WOULD HAVE BEEN ENOUGH... VERY DIFFICULT TO MULTI-TASK THE VISUAL SUBTITLES. I MISSED MOST OF WHAT IS BEING EXPLAINED. SO IT DEFEATS THE OBJECT OF LEARNING SOMETHING IMPORTANT...

[@victory4history]

I enjoyed the documentary. Let's not play with words. Pirates are thieves who use boats. It is impossible to live on a boat with a group of people. For her to use that statement to define a pirate is very strange. Anyone who has studied pirate operations throughout history knows they are not lawless between themselves. There are strict laws they must obey on land and on ships. They may spend time on the water, but a vast majority of pirates' lives are on land. Even in the 16th-18th centuries. You need food, water, and sanity. All things land provides. Do you think Islamic pirates who kept Europe in the dark were lawless savages who didn't know anything? The Islamic world was vastly superior to Europe during this time. Our knowledge and technology weren't far behind, but very noticeable. A Norse individual who is sailing to take plunder and slaves is a viking. The people from Scandinavia in the 7th - 11th century should not be referred to as vikings. The word should never be capitalized unless it's the Minnesota Vikings or the Viking Era. It has to be a name, not a type of pirate.

[@MoonwalkerWorshiper]

Important post you made and it is peculiar how they bring up lawlessness, as if somebody somehow would expect vikings to adhere english laws as foreigners attacking a monastery to pillage. There was no FN at this time regulating laws between countries. Piracy/theft and raid have alot in common though. Seafaring pirates did plan what to attack and pillage just as vikings did however vikings were what you would call professional warriors.

[@victory4history]

@@MoonwalkerWorshiper follow me on twitch , send in questions for me to talk about on stream.

[@veronicajensen7690]

Viking is an old Norse word so yes Scandinavians from the period is referred to as Vikings, Vikings funded nations like Russia, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland, plus Normandy and ruled England, they were explorers settled in Greenland, sailed to Canada, they were master ship builders, created jewelry,weapons, build churches, traded even more than raided, married into European royal families and much more , what did pirates build? what nation did they belong to? , you clearly aren't a Scandinavian so don't tell us who can use the word Viking and for what , people also say Pharaoh to describe an ancient Egyptian King, but it doesn't mean King, it means "the big house" like the Palace the King lived in, there is another word for King, however everyone know what we are talking about when we say Pharaoh, if we use the term Norse it goes way beyond the Viking age, before and after, and a lot of people confuse it with Norweigians, if we say Norman people confuse it with Normandy and again Norweigians, so we say Vikings when we speak about Norse/Scandinavian history in the Viking age whether they went Viking or not

[@johnlee5423]

How much work was done by their slaves

[@YaoMing22]

Rip to those innocent saxon villagers who were slaughtered by the barbaric primitive vikings

[@TarquinTheTall]

Saxons did their share of raiding in their day.

[@klaj6595]

That’s overly simplistic given how many people saxons killed to instil Christianity

[@calcaleb7041]

Rest in glory the 5000 PAGAN Saxons that were killed by Charlemagne

[@francesthieme3943]

WARNING:: COMERICALS EVERY 5 MINUTES.. THIS CHANNEL IS GREEDY FOR ADS REVENUE.

[@ButthurtImmigrant]

I was expecting a bunch of afro-bisexual vikings in the documentary. so far so good

[@dhimankalita1690]

I was expecting some American white supremacy who thinks he's viking because he's white and hates black people because his gf left him for an black man

[@JamesJones-wy9oo]

Seems like there not sure about anything

[@suzannedavis6855]

Krakatoa.

[@johncarroll772]

Not very accurate 😕 why are there no horned helmets

[@Boudicaisback]

In battle no, in ritual yes

[@juneroberts5305]

It is because they forgot to include the most famous viking - Hagar the Horrible.

[@darcymoen1386]

Ah yes, the climate crises. Must have been all those viking cars and burning of fossil fuels causing the climate crises. Of, was it perhaps just weather?

[@zipperpillow]

Uncredentialed opinions between scenes of re-enactor's shouting. Neither "complete", nor "history". More like Scandinavian tourism promo. Sea-born, opportunistic raiding and theft has been a fact of life all around the world since boat-building was invented.

[@bbyjscx]

I wish there was not so much french, i try to listen to sleep and can not understand most of it.

[@Angelcynn_2001]

What?

[@cyndlehick9777]

You’re going to sleep what

[@threeofeight197]

Why y’all gotta make the Viking women look so miserable. 😂😂😂😂

[@davidgriffith7166]

Just us English instead of subtitles! Damn you

[@Dusty_Den]

Reading is hard!

[@jamesalston-biggs2338]

so hard lol @@Dusty_Den

[@carlhess5707]

You expect me to believe you can determine whether a tree grew for 2 specific years from 1500 years ago? Seriously? Ok

[@juneroberts5305]

It's called Dendrochronology, and is in fact a very precise and reliable science. 👍🏻

[@southerncountry1132]

really lie this it brings a human aspect to Vikings

[@ingridswen]

Imagine how depraved they were to think plundering, stealing, and killing were normal. I agree with the comment below, here is the academic sanitization of horrible people. They themselves went through cold, famine, and misfortune, yet brought destruction upon others. No awe from me.

[@hugzpls]

I think it's interesting. In awe? Eh, wouldn't call it that. But I also agree with the comment that humanity has always been in conflict with itself and people in the past were brutal, like today. Doesn't make it any less interesting though. It is the way it is. I mean, as a small example, people love watching crime documentaries because they find it interesting. Don't think that means they justify their actions.

[@ingridswen]

@@hugzpls Absolutely, I agree, it is interesting.

[@monlovchel]

Obviously there was worse groups of people as this group of people were destroyed. Their heritage and way of life was destroyed - and their Gods even are jokes in a comic. One thing to remember the winners write history not the losers. So the winners that destroyed them write how vile they were, but obviously they weren’t as brutal as the winners. The winners were worse….

[@rhmendelson]

I was thinking that too, but then here in America, we raided Iraq after 9/11 and killed thousands in vengeance. Intelligence proclaimed that weapons of mass destruction were being manufactured there, but it turns out that wasn't the case, and the country was needlessly devastated:(

[@calcaleb7041]

@@monlovchelso basically Christians in America 🤷🏻‍♂️🤣

[@annesummers09]

The Vikings WERE brutal monsters.

[@callsignstatic6872]

Every civilization was brutal and slavers.... these guys learned from the Syrians and Persians how to slave . Welcome to Earth... and it still goes on to this day in said countries.

[@AlexQC9]

@@callsignstatic6872 Vikings were long gone when the Ottoman empire was ruling

[@kevinseversonandhisvizslas8287]

Many populations were. They were just the best at it.....for a period of time.

[@johnlee5423]

@@callsignstatic6872 vikings learned from the ottomans 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@callsignstatic6872]

@@AlexQC9 yeah my bad that was a drunk text

[@ladyloneill]

Monsters, yes, and barbarians. We’re known by our actions. If I slaughtered a totally defenseless population and stole its possessions only to promptly leave the country, would my actions also warrant the typical academic sanitization as one fellow is giving here.

[@williamhoward9309]

You might do well and not judge these people who lived 1200 years ago as monsters and barbarians. It was a completely different time yet you use your “civilized” eyes and mindset. Don’t be such a KAREN and lest not forget that today we still have those who rape, pillage, and plunder around the world. Two examples: governments and politicians. 🤔

[@mysteriousjungalist]

Times were different

[@nuada1470]

Britain is built on invasions. The Picts, the Romans, the Saxons, the Normans. Welcome to the real world. Are we supposed to avert our eyes and forget that these people existed?

[@johnlee5423]

It was a warrior culture back then

[@ingridswen]

@@johnlee5423 No, they were thieves and killers, not warriors.

[@robbyakes8736]

STOP MAKING E READ

[@bht96]

Damn it, if only Christianity didn’t win out! So many lives would have been saved and we would be living in a far more peaceful world.

[@JohnFinlay007]

Totally agree.

[@gdayosandu1579]

Tell me the negative effects Christianity had I'm curious

[@calcaleb7041]

@@gdayosandu1579america 😂😂😂

[@veronicajensen7690]

so you think it was peaceful before Christianity ?, the Roman empire, the Mongol Empire, the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great , Hittie Empire, the Egyptian Empire, all the Islamic empires, the Cananites ect. you find that peaceful ? and Vikings peaceful , not tomention a lot of the pagan religions practiced human sacrifice incl, the Vikings

[@gulamchoudhruy8872]

The vikings are gog and magog and when jesus returns they will all die in in night, due to jesus supplication

[@josemaurosantos1531]

please translate all into Portuguese Brazil is very important because we Brazilians are the most missigenated people in the world.. I have 9 European nations. German. Dutch. French. Irish. Scottish. Welsh. Italian .Ukrainian. Portuguese. Nigerian.Kenya.West Africa. mbuti congo. mandé .seneganbia .is Mesoamerican Andean Central and South America

[@savvygood]

Wow! That nose, though.

[@LIHlah88]

🤣🤣

[@Andrea-pm3dy]

😄 are you talking about the French lady? speaking , sitting in the chair? ......😆

[@Mrcool12684]

man thats so cool how cool you are! I think making fun of people cuz you have a horrible existence is so freakn cool man! Lets be insecure and sad at life and make fun of everyone's issues! Hey when you move out of your moms basement, maybe you wont need to be a dick and show off on YT comments!

[@annacostello5181]

She’s French. WTF is your problem? Rude Ignorant fools

[@brian197686]

Yeah. You lost me with the overemphasis on the importance of women. We all knew that they contributed but it was so on the nose it made me roll my eyes. Instead of appreciating what they did, all I kept thinking was without the men to keep them from you know, dying, they wouldn't have any farms to tend or clothes to make.

[@elliecount4876]

I'm latina, it said my great great grand father came from norway, i look very native but i may have a little viking inside me? Lol

[@plowmaster1206]

Hope you like subtitles! Hire an interpreter ffs

[@mikeyoung490]

Learn how to read ffs

[@plowmaster1206]

@@mikeyoung490 thats what books are for. Im here to watch and listen. Its youtube not a library.

[@billyshwartzwald8436]

A little bibliophobic?

[@plowmaster1206]

@@billyshwartzwald8436 again, confusing books for video. Suppose all video should contain text, therefore the only images needed in video would be that of text, as one would be busy reading rather than viewing images. Idiots.

[@mysteriousjungalist]

You must be American

[@riverlady982]

Come on what is with the woman who's speaking so much of this in French or is that an old Dutch German? So much of it that I can't do something else while learning because nobody is outloud interpreting what she has to say into the English language and saying what she has to say out loud in english, the French language has nothing significant to do with Viking History. Unless the French are proud of the fact that many Vikings ended up either owning or employing French citizens who learned the Norse language to interpret for the Vikings, as I understand it the Vikings often did so when they'd already learned French in order to do things like get the French to reveal to much information, catch them trying to double cross them, or trying to lie when working out contracts and or a ransom. Those negotiations often included that Viking or a Viking Leader and his men converting to the Catholic Religion particularly when a marriage contract to a King or some high ranking Noble's Daughter was involved that usually included a large Dowry that included at least a large house with workable land, tenants, and if it's really good it would also have some wooded hectares for hunting and resources. When the Vikings were still one of the world's great trading powers French was probably one of the top 5 languages used in the world but not now. Why would you make a little over 1/3 of this in French with subtitles? What if somebody is blind, has a reading disability like dyslexia, just has failing eyesight because these words are teeny tiny, or would just like to be able to listen and learn some history while driving, working a repetitive job, or as an enjoyable distraction while to sick to focus on subtitles. If that's not difficult enough you had to make 1/16th to 1/8th of it a third language? I'm sorry but in today's world French doesn't even make the top 8 business languages of the world on the majority of lists just ask Google. I just wanted to be able to watch the documentary and it looks so well made but I can't handle reading the tiny print and I have other things to do so I can't stare at the screen constantly for translation. OK my dad says that both of the women not speaking English are speaking and dialect of Dutch German and that's also something nobody knows and way too much reading. Is it too much to ask that if I look up a documentary in English, I expect to be able to listen to it in English? I tried I really did but I'm having like 3 of the problems I mentioned above does anyone know how to make this work for someone who's vision impaired or blind?

[@dhimankalita1690]

Stf* u weirdo go out and make some friends who speak other languages

[@riverlady982]

@@dhimankalita1690 Well I'm not sure why you're so angry but I would love some friends like that. However that's easier said than done in Michigan State US. The closest dialect to one of these is spoken by the Amish Groups here who aren't known for talking to people not born into their religion, let alone teaching them their language. I know a bit of Spanish but it's hard to improve or remember when you don't work with people who use it. I also knew some German from my adopted Dad's but even he's mostly forgotten what little he knew since his Grandmother that taught him died when he was a teenager. Not all of us have the advantage of dual or bilingual friends in America. Not all of us have the means to travel overseas either. I might have been a little cranky when I wrote this because I didn't realize I was getting a migraine and trying to read this with dyslexia wasn't helping. At least I wasn't cussing anyone out.

[@allythorpe74]

@@riverlady982 Aussie /Pom here ,the only 2 languages I know are Auslan and Aus Army speak . Eye sight failing now. unless a voice over is used in English I dont watch ,dont like and dont subscribe . i do the same with advertising . An Ad block helps. Oh 1 more thing Aus on a VPN.

[@andyrussell5346]

Yes it really could do with audio subtitles. One woman is speaking French the other is speaking Swedish just fyi

[@veronicajensen7690]

as a Scandinavian -French historians are more than welcome to tell the story of the Vikings, not only did the Vikings attack the French a lot, they also funded Normandy in France, other than that if a historian from South Africa or India have something to ad they are welcome to, you don't have to be Scandinavian to learn about Viking history

[@tomsmith8511]

If they existed today they would be no different to isis or any other terrorist group. They would be hunted down and destroyed, it's a shame they never met their demise sooner and then many cultural holy places and relics would still be here today.

[@annacostello5181]

Imagine a world without blonds tho

[@tomsmith8511]

@@annacostello5181 I'm a brunette man🤣

[@tomsmith8511]

@@jondo4952 One heavily biased short documentary does not lay the foundation of belief of an entire civilisation. I've read up on vikings for over 25 year's and believe me saying they were looking for new land to farm is like saying the Romans just wanted to make new friends. And they just happened to add on top of that the genocide rape and slavery and seizure of land's.

[@tomsmith8511]

@@jondo4952 I cam assure you sir I have not deleted any comments? There was a lot of killing on all sides yes but the vikings were like a fox in a hen house and killed for enjoyment and stole as well to the same extent. If you look at the destruction of cultural and archaeological building's and items by the Islamic state in the last few year's, they are just another version of what the vikings were. History goes in circle's.

[@davidestrich7055]

They do exist today...Putin

[@NathanDudani]

How is Mr Ponytail even a professor?

[@InsaneActual]

why not?

[@BridgesDontFly]

He dosen't meet the correct diversity requirements to be such. That's why.

[@BridgesDontFly]

@Uriah Lathrop ISIS 👈

[@Piotrek1985]

How F* annoying is that you have to read subtitles of non English speakers!!!

[@cyndlehick9777]

You do realize many people from Europe are multilingual right? Get a life

[@veronicajensen7690]

you must be American -there is a world outside the US and most of the world have been reading subtitles all their life

[@timothydonovan1261]

Subtitle nightmare so incredibly smarmy and repetitious

[@nitotech]

Climate lol no