The Ancient Sagas of Iceland | The Viking Sagas | Timeline

When we think of the roots of European civilization it's to Greece and Rome that our thoughts turn. But there is a culture whose effect may be even more profound. Hundreds of years ago in faraway Iceland the Vikings began to write down dozens of stories - called sagas. These sagas are priceless historical documents which bring to life the Viking world.
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[@shirleyniedzwiecki1104]

Being a people from the land where winter lasts 8-9 months out of 12 each year, storytelling flourished as a means to endure those long, cold winters. Fascinating

[@amylee3531]

Thats why Inuits also have such great stories too! All passed down through the generations.

[@shirleyniedzwiecki1104]

Amy Stone Would you agree that storytelling is found in all of the "tribes" of humanity? At least until the television came with so many stories inside the dang box. Do colder climates produce better storytellers than warmer climates? Somehow I doubt it.

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Also story telling was a way of passing along history. Before written language they used tapestry. Hand woven minute details of exploitation at sea.

[@alexcrowder1673]

@@shirleyniedzwiecki1104 Yes, they make better stories. They have more time for it. Sounds perfectly logical to me. Also, 1 in 10 people are authors in iceland. That says a lot...

[@redwolf7929]

I've read a few sagas ,and what gets me is how the same issues among people happen today.Almost like the sagas could be set in any time period

[@johnhamilton4677]

It's the same when you read the ancient Roman classics. Read Cicero or Suetonious and you'd think they're addressing the corruption of today's sleazy politicians.

[@benlund5162]

As a Norwegian-American, these tales have a special place in my heart.

[@joegalea3700]

P

[@ParanormalKs]

Same for me

[@andreasolsen3962]

Never loose your roots

[@gib59er56]

As a American/Dane, I am very proud of my ancestors from Denmark to Ireland, we are people always pushing the envelope to the limit, daring and bold.

[@lynnmanning2795]

I am icelantic! My grandmother at 17 left iceland during a drought and settled in western Massachusetts.How proud i am of my Viking heritage!

[@Xavier-ty4jw]

Nope, you're just another joe with ancestors in Europe

[@tunguskalumberjack9987]

I was genuinely thrilled to see Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson here- if you know, you know.

[@thedocochoco]

I love the Timeline series! I was stationed in Iceland two separate times in the mid to late 80’s. I really enjoyed the Iceland history. The Icelanders are so unique and they really embrace their Viking heritage.

[@joejankoski8471]

The concept in the introduction is somewhat dishonest. Iceland was lushly forested when settlers arrived. Iceland currently has a program to reforest the country as they know what was lost.

[@trukeesey8715]

Thank you Joe I knew not that. 15:58 Moreover to style the culture as "a multicultural meltin pot" because the wives were British is more dishonesty. "Bicultural" might be closer to truth, but were the cultures not very similar to begin with? . 18:02 That Mediterranean-type narratrix was very jealous of the English woman whom she interviewed, though she bore a dishonest smile upon her face. And to say that "the" Vikins created the Icelandic republic, rather than "some" Vikins is fuzzy and foggy thinkin at best.

[@trukeesey8715]

Also the writers kept callin the Anglo Saxons "British".

[@marthabrunner4067]

I believe there was a warming trend at 1000 AD. The last ship to sail to Greenland from Europe was about 1418. It was much colder then and the crops were failing.

[@trukeesey8715]

@@marthabrunner4067 Thankieu so heartily!

[@thedocochoco]

I did not know that, Joe. When I was getting ready to go on my first deployment to Iceland I was only 19. The Liaison Officer told us young sailors that, “There is a woman behind every tree.” What they neglected to tell us is that there were few trees! LOL I know that geothermal heat is the most common method for heating in Iceland.

[@kaykeahey9932]

My son says you have to remember women are considered our only equal in our nordic culture so of course women played one of the most important roles they are the mothers of our peoples future

[@jgriss353]

Lol wtf

[@italok6577]

@@jgriss353 what say you

[@shannongirard4014]

That's a scary thaught,I know 2 many bad mothers out there

[@susanmenegus5543]

🇸🇪

[@lowkey_gaming5956]

They were most definitely not considered equal in Norse culture but women had a lot more freedoms than other cultures in that time period but def not equals lol ...

[@OanhSchlesinger]

Who knew that a living could be carved out of such a harsh environment? Icelanders are amazing people!

[@CourtneySchwartz]

It wasn’t so harsh at the time. Deforestation and climate change.

[@patrickmcelligott5646]

Love the sagas! I have always wondered why there aren’t many movies that i have found based on the sagas. Njal’s, Grim’s, Helgi’s, Vinland, Orkneys, Faroes, Grettir the Strong, Egil, so many more.

[@pochopayaso5949]

I'm Asian and I'm so fascinated on Vikings, Saxons, knights, medieval period.

[@carsonridge8978]

Enjoy your exploration into the rich history of that time. Some of it will put today's world order into prospective.

[@jman29x]

Me too! I also think ancient Asian history is one of the most amazing and interesting history there is.

[@carsonridge8978]

@@jman29x It is, a rich history of exploration.

[@jman29x]

@Fred Kardin😎😍

[@karencawthorn3173]

Could be something from another Life.

[@VIKINGSAGAS]

I always enjoy revisiting this documentary. Íslendingasögur are the greatest stories ever told!

[@thornyback]

I find it so amazing to read about my ancestors and then have a dna ancestry analysis and Íslendingabók confirm everything Landnáma and Laxdæla said happened.

[@jc2delaga]

Very compelling story and gives a better understanding of the word SAGA! Will visit one day Iceland!

[@caveman4535]

I liked this film. It was very interesting. The Vikings gave us a intriguing literary legacy.

[@thelordgold]

The vikings didn't write. Aside from runes, anyway.

[@edixasanchezpacheco3692]

One thing that has called my attention is when a “person” appears out of no where to change the “the new land” ... stories like this are intriguing

[@coreyleavell6921]

And usually not true.

[@perfettomusic1]

Beautifully done. Wonderful production.

[@MendTheWorld]

16:12 This evidence shows us that from the very beginning, Iceland was a multicultural “melting pot”. Why, you’ve got your British women, your Nordic men, your British women, your Nordic men... . The list goes on and on!

[@nicolelasher]

I hope you understand that glomming all Europeans together into a generalized "white" is in itself creating a "multikult". Your pale hopenchange lost. You can stop being a tool now. It's okay.

[@andrewphillips8341]

Hey don't you dare question the woke narrative!

[@nicolelasher]

@@andrewphillips8341 ... or the "red pill" (which essentially means the same thing as "woke") for that matter. Awake or asleep, a sheep is a sheep. Wake them up and they just bleat louder in the same futility.

[@-RXB-]

@@nicolelasher Nobody is talking about glomming all europeans together in some generalized "white". Multicultural means several different cultures living side by side. This wasn't the case. The women that came mostly assimilated into the icelandic/nordic culture. Even though there were influences sure, it's also basically a neighboring, very similar culture. Using this as an argument for why it's a great idea for cultures/groups from different sides of the planet to live side by side in a massive scale is just a desperate attempt to paint two very different things as being comparable. They're not similar or comparable at all.

[@nicolelasher]

@@-RXB- take it up with the people who decided to invade or colonize previously inhabited areas and traffic humans. Whether you like it or not, they're creating multicultural societies on purpose and profiting from it. Doesn't matter who assimilated. Assimilation is never one way. In other words, even if you're the colonizer's child, if your wet nurse was a slave, she is still your wet nurse and still from wherever she's from, and you're still dependent on her to survive. Deal with it.

[@donnajackson2907]

Wow!! I enjoyed this SO much!! I want to get my hands vhf on the books, and read these sagas myself. I've always been so, very, interested in the Vikings anyway, and this part of their heritage is something that I would love to enrich my mind with.❤

[@johnhamilton4677]

Penguin books has a pretty good selection.

[@margaretlumley1648]

Thank you so much for giving us this magical video! 💜

[@sketchdoge7327]

I’ve been getting super into norse history especially iceland, crusader kings got me fascinated, and now I really want to read these epics

[@Agerskiold]

Sketch Doge You are in for a treat 👍🏼 Cheers from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@davidoftheforest3822]

check out Dr Jackson Crawford on KZbin, you can get his translations of the Saga of the Volsungs and the Poetic Edda on audible if you want to hear the REAL Norse texts

[@davidoftheforest3822]

also check out Arith Härger for information on the runes and many other interesting Norse things! :)

[@shannongirard4014]

Me 2

[@leechgully]

60% of the women were Scottish. Yeah that's because they would have been captives brought back with raiding parties. It wasn't some kind of medieval multi-cultural exchange program

[@thorified7904]

You can't educated these miseducated Globalist. They can only think in their terms. Conditioned really.

[@Wilhelm4131]

These liberal progessive types from the universities can only see the world thru their narrow mindset. They claim anyone different is a biggot if they have any pride in who they are especially if they are white. I am so tired of this revisionist BS.

[@potatoradio]

Yep just typed that. Rolls eyes, sure some went voluntarily. To their credit they cover it later.

[@andrewphillips8341]

No no you are wrong they were all respected strong independent POWERFUL wamahn!!!

[@BrazucaON]

@@potatoradio define voluntarily???

[@palomaisabelwapinski-webb6648]

Aesthetically, it is so lovely to watch , the manner in which the images and video are matched with the narration :)

[@mariansmith7694]

Wonderful program. Thank you.

[@danielalozovska2050]

The language sends shivers down my spine...

[@Laura-tn1sb]

Me Too. Grips my heart. And the Music...

[@monalong8900]

I am sure that living next to a geothermal vent in the earth's core made it a habitable land in the harshest winter and it would create an interest in science. A relatively stable volcano has it's uses despite the odd hiccup.

[@andrewphillips8341]

Remember when British documentaries were well researched works, respected around the world? Those were good days.

[@bateman2112]

Thirteenth century Icelandic civil war was like nine guys standing in a circle punching each other.

[@floepiejane]

😆😆😆

[@irobott3713]

That was funny ... you made my day - love your sene of humor

[@jeffolsen4983]

FUN-EE!

[@thomaswilke9126]

Read in the sagas how drinking blood was a common thing, like the saga of burnt Knall.

[@johna9503]

I supposed, 9 tall giants

[@2serveand2protect]

THAT'S a "Lancaster" cockpit?? I thought they were MUCH bigger! Although - gotta say it - the visibilty is OUTSTANDING from there!

[@robertrickman3531]

15:09....correction, a SCOTTISH Woman...not British, SCOTTISH

[@jonjonsson9694]

Neither she was from Norway

[@kasperkjrsgaard1447]

Did Scotland excist in year 800? I know that the British Isles did.

[@hurri7720]

There is something worth adding to this saga, the English have a habit of claiming their Parliament is the worlds oldest. that is not true as the Icelandic parliament is a lot older. The English way to hide the lie is to add "sitting" into the sentence. The Nordic countries represent the most democratic and decent countries in the world and I have no doubt that was true more than one thousand years ago. As for sagas I doubt there is even one people in this world that hasn't told them then and now.

[@Agerskiold]

Hurri Yet Ancient Greece had a democratic system more than 1500 yrs before.

[@DKsupreme69420]

Wasn’t Iceland largely forested 1000 years ago?

[@paul6925]

I don’t know for sure but yes I think so. I only read about deforestation in a Jared Diamond book

[@than217]

Yep, a dwarf Birch tree species covered most of the island originally. It was almost all cut down to extinction within 100 years of the settling of Iceland. Then the Althing (Iceland's government) put bans on cutting trees and bans were put on just collecting driftwood too because wood was so scarce by that point.

[@johnDukemaster]

Not only that, the weather/climate was much warmer in those days. Bad historian, imo.

[@bateman2112]

Christianity "The Bible is the greatest story ever told!" Vikings "Hold my mead..."

[@tenzin2378]

Odin but I've two eyes.

[@bateman2112]

@@tenzin2378 this can be fixed. Your depth perception will.....change though.

[@roadwarrior2348]

Hmm.. thinking of the bloodshed done in the name of Christianity...."hold the wine"...humans, they're pathetic!..but they absolutely need true the cross

[@kahytiyawolf9632]

Skol!

[@troydhansen4990]

No, Christ defeated Odin too.

[@stephena.4269]

Love this. Note to the producers and editors on this, your use of selective blurring sucks. You're missing the point of the effect it has on the image. Buzz. Wrong.

[@Patsy925]

Thanks!

[@sinndin]

Iceland must have been very, very harsh during the dark ages. Telling stories would have been one way of passing the cold and very, very long winters.

[@guttormurthorfinnsson8758]

inn winter time the sun can ben sen for 4 hours for the shotest time in winter. talkin a bout long winters.

[@ChrisHolman]

The climate was warmer 1,000 years ago than it is now. The climate was warmer 2,000 years ago than it is now as well. In between was periods where the climate was colder. It is likely that when Iceland was settled it was more hospitable than it is today, not dramatically so I should add. Life would have still been harsh. Life was harsh in most places around the world at that time for various reasons compared to today.

[@Luna.3.3.3]

Ah! I love this presenter, I didn't know her name until now - Janina Ramirez . Another fav. to my UK historians 💗

[@ilanamillion8942]

She is one of my favourites, too!

[@jodilewis9624]

She's terrific! (Have to admit, I thought she was the actress who played Esme on Peaky Blinders, lol)

[@carriemorley356]

I’m made of GREAT STUFF! My people are Magnificent! Words hold more power than you know!

[@jeffolsen4983]

Excellent.

[@NikkiGoddess333]

Thank you to Iceland for having preserved these voices, particularly of women so often silenced. To me these tales ring true, what I hear is that whether one or some from Scotland having no reason to stay joined us and flourished here, became part of us. Ireland did not want to leave and was removed forcibly by others by the time we met them we acknowledge their ancestry and connection to us which is not lacking some or one of their children with us did go back to Ireland to claim their birthright.

[@Dawnsdelightsart]

Said Scottish not British, a thousand years ago it was an actual Scottish person fleeing the ward wars the Plantagents were doing to Scott's.

[@rankoorovic7904]

Iceland was bicultural not multicultural. Scandinavian with a Celtic element,that is all.

[@thorified7904]

Ah, but that doesn't play into the Globalist agenda...

[@thorified7904]

@Jesse Marcel Like everywhere else. It is the same show no matter where you go. Har har yourself

[@peterpike]

It's not even the most egregious problem. The Narrative: The men were primarily Scandinavian, but more than half the women were British. This shows that British women really flourished in Iceland. The Reality: This shows that British women were frequently kidnapped during the Viking raids in which their husbands, brothers, and sons were slaughtered and they were then forced to marry their captors. You know, like all the histories say.

[@rankoorovic7904]

@@peterpike There is also the narrative that you can't be a slave girl unless you are black.

[@floepiejane]

@@peterpike I'm sure that was often true, but are you denying that women could have chosen their own fates? What of the examples offered in the documentary?

[@kirarasmom4274]

28:55 If you believe in something, then you give it power . That's magic. Also use of imagination is powerful.

[@SegaPlease]

More Viking stuff please

[@SenshiFX]

He says Unn, The Deep Minded came from Scotland to Iceland in AD 892 and she then states that Unn is a Scottish woman. In the next segment looking at the remains, she refers to Unn and the women as British. When you are a Scottish woman sailing from Scotland, one does not suddenly become a British woman.

[@skellagyook]

Scotland is part of Britain. The Scots are British.

[@SenshiFX]

@@skellagyook Not in AD 892...

[@skellagyook]

@@SenshiFX Britain was not a single political entity/nation then. But Britain is also an island/landmass, and in that sense they were British.

[@SenshiFX]

@@skellagyook Being on the landmass renamed Britain by your invaders does not make you British. The United States landmass is now called America. The indigenous peoples of this land are of their own distinct nations. Lakota, Mohawk etc......and do not self describe using the term given the land mass by their colonial invaders.

[@skellagyook]

@@SenshiFX It doesn't matter what you call it. The landmass exists. And Scottish and English people are both descended from both indigenous/earlier peoples of the island (Brythonic-speaking Celts like the Picts and Britons) and from later invaders and migrants (like the Anglo-Saxons from Germany/Denmark who invaded England and South Scotland and the Gaelic-speaking Irish Celts who invaded the Scottish Highlands from Ireland - they were not native either). The Welsh and Cornish are mainly of native British/Brythonic Celtic descent and preserved their Brythonic Celtic languages descended from Briton dialects. (And genetically, despite language changes, native Brythonic Celtic ancestry tends to predominate in the English in most regions and many Scots as well.)

[@mamabear9646]

The poor Irish. No one talks about the continuous bs they endured over hundreds of years

[@frederiquejones1526]

Naomi Sedgwick The Irish ‘myths’ are on a par with the Iliad in my opinion. Not only that, the tales of the invasions has been proved to have solid historical roots. Btw not a lot of people know that William Morris was very fond of Iceland and not only learnt the language but travelled there. Read his books - particularly ‘The well at the world’s end’, my favourite.

[@tomtaylor5623]

and almost no documentary on iceland will mention the fact that irish monks were living there before the vikings came.

[@sinisterminister6478]

@Tom Taylor according to chronicles written by Irsh monks it's quite possible they may have made it all the way to North America before the Vikings did.

[@ChrisHolman]

Not just hundreds, well over a thousand years. The Irish are far more than their past. God Bless Ireland!!

[@amylee3531]

Wasn't only the Irish..

[@jakubsedlak2173]

It's absolutely amazing that there's no way to learn the presenter's name.

[@Griexxt]

I just happen to know that it's Janina Ramirez.

[@jakubsedlak2173]

@@Griexxt Thanks...

[@jfelt6643]

unless you watch the first five minutes, where she introduces herself and her name appears on the screen...

[@egemenpolat7366]

ı hope ıcelandic people will preserve and maintain their culture❤👍

[@deepseadoughnut44]

fascinating, I knew there was a ink between Scandinavia and Britain but not to the extent this documentary shows

[@pattismithurs9023]

Get yourself hooked on "Time Team" like so many of us, UK history is fascinating!

[@sensur1]

There are stories about many british women willingly joining the vikings as they were regarded as being more hygienic and with wel groomed hair and beards unlike the anglo saxon men.

[@richardlahan7068]

Anglo Saxons and Vikings could understand each other because Anglo Saxons migrated to Britain from northwestern Europe, the same area Vikings were from. They also shared similar religious beliefs.

[@annamosier1950]

very good

[@cathe8282]

Einar talks of the Irish coming with their own stories, written in their own languages and mentions the book of Kells. As far as I know the Book of Kells is a Christian Bible written in Latin,not original Irish stories written in any Irish language. It has lovely drawings probably taken from Celtic influences but even that illumination wasn't an original Irish idea.

[@dc9168]

I like the term for magic to make the grass to grow fast. It must have been magic Milorganite ( animal waste) 😁

[@enzorocha2977]

Good lord. Ten minutes for an intro before getting to the topic is quite the torture, don't you think?

[@wendybusby9415]

This was good. I will say that if there was a god I would believe in, it would be Odin.

[@coldmexican288]

We cannot comprehend the concept of god. We humans simply don't posses the tissue to understand such thing. That being said, yeah, the narrative of Nordic gods is pretty cool.

[@YouhavetoBelieve3347]

*Watch my playlists if u want know who the One True God is☝🏽✨☦️*

[@coldmexican288]

@@YouhavetoBelieve3347 there is no true God. Only true uncertainty.

[@YouhavetoBelieve3347]

Erick Gonzalez - *Lol wrong brother. There is One True God and his name is YAHWEH. He revealed his Name to Moses on Mt Sinai and his Name is the Symbol of your DNA because u were made in His Image. Look up “symbol of Human DNA” and you will see YAH* *Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Psychics has now proved using String Theory there are 10 Different Dimensions and all of these are a result of vibratory Strings which give off a frequency which shapes all Matter.* *This is what the Bible has said all along. John (1:1) In the Beginning was the Word. YHWH spoke all things into existence using his Word which is vibratory frequency.* *If ur an illogical atheist who assumes that nothing (no matter, time, or space) before the Big Bang somehow created something as complex and intricate as the Universe which is logically and literally impossible admitted by Stephen Hawking himself.* *Watch my playlists “The Proof of God” or “Language of Creation” if u want to know the Real Truth*

[@YouhavetoBelieve3347]

*All pagan gods are Lucifer and the angels that fell with him when they rebelled against God in Heaven because they wanted worship for themselves. The Fallen Angels mated with human women and gave birth to all the Demi gods hybrids of Old*

[@richardjohnson9703]

I learned quite a bit about Iceland.

[@stephaniespain9849]

I really enjoy these videos but there is always way to many ads!

[@bluthammer1442]

someone should probably tell her that iceland used to have a lot of trees. It was stripped bare. By said Scandinavians.

[@trevorphillips4595]

The same was done on the Easter Island(Rapa Nui), but we shouldn't judge people who lived one millennia ago, with today's standards. Sure, they f-ed up, killed all the trees, but those were different times, and life was very harsh. There is no excuse, however, for a modern deforestation, all around, but especially in the Amazon - the lungs of our planet.

[@jason3891]

Was not expecting that to come out of Trevor Phillips

[@trevorphillips4595]

​@@jason3891 What can I say... I'm retired now, with $40M in gold and TP Inc. prospering, I'm practicing my daily yoga, meditation and masturbation - I mellowed down. Although only a whiff, or two, of gasoline, you know, to clean my sinuses from time to time - no more crank, incest and cannibalism, for now - but who knows what future will bring ;-]

[@wickedbunny3868]

I heard they called it Iceland to confuse the enemy and Greenland to have the enemy go there. I could be wrong, I wasn’t there 😂

[@scottleft3672]

@@trevorphillips4595 The Venetians did the sane to Dalmatia, they employed locals and had such vast amounts of lumber that much of it rotted away until some robber princes sold it on the sly, but the REAL reason the islands and coastlines get denuded is because goat and swine herders nievly cause young shoots and roots to be eaten and dug up, this is also why Pacific islands are washing away, the tides are no higher, as proven in Sydney Harbour, there is simply nothing holding them there as was before early explorers ships dropped a pair of pigs on various islands as a fresh meat supply...little did they know...lol... also the huge tsunami that hit New Zealand at 20 feet and Sydney at 10 feet in 1868, was likely why the population on Easter Island vanished...along with all the trees.

[@LukeLovesRose]

And of course now, they were diverse.....

[@murphsreviews4590]

Lol right? Its ignorant and wrong and frustrating

[@heiroot]

@@murphsreviews4590 💯

[@justinerickson5486]

What are you guys on about? Are you trying to insinuate the Vikings weren't a diverse people?

[@LukeLovesRose]

@@justinerickson5486 Yes. I'm insinuating that there were NO black people or other types of brown people among the Vikings. They may have had different eye color, different hair color. BUT they were all white Europeans. The true Israelites of old.

[@justinerickson5486]

A recently published DNA study may disagree with you on that. But good luck with your racism... I guess.... Actually. No. I take that back. Because you I don't care if there were black or brown or yellow or red Vikings. Because color doesn't matter. It's the attitude.

[@jameshalldorsson9695]

A lot of inconsistencies, what bothered me the most was the idea that "Christianity brought peace to the Icelandic people", not it didn't that is so untrue, considering under Christianization of Iceland thousands of our people were slaughtered for holding onto their pagan roots and in the 1400's all of the Scandinavian world was embroiled in civil wars over the Christians wanting to destroy our culture, there is more inconsistencies but this was the one that had me scratching my head knowing the history of the ancestors

[@Elora445]

Hear, hear! It didn't arrive quietly anywhere here in the Nordics (heck, the saint my town is named for was killed - by pagans - halfway to our neighboring town), and on Iceland it took quite a while for people to let go of their pagan roots. Christianity bringing peace? Let me snort in disdain.

[@thomaswilke9771]

Some years ago I went to Alaska with a combat arms unit and realized it was like coming home my family came from the island melmoe Sweden at the same latitude for war it was anchorage

[@thomaswilke9771]

Also the Vikings called themselves the Rus as in the enemy russia

[@amylee3531]

Must admit then it from the tale of the wife starting a battle to an MMA fight, i first thought it was a commercial. :)

[@johnharmala1766]

I approve of your presenter, Ms Ramirez (?). She is VERY good.

[@ChineseGordon1956]

Typical BBC to get the Multiculture angle in in this documentory.

[@lisajonesmatthews6108]

hope see revisited Ireland love it

[@logarithmic7]

Sad to learn Sigurdur Atlason the sorcery expert - museum of Icelandic Sorcery and Witchcraft has traveled to the next life.

[@viciouslady1340]

the necro pants were what intrigued me most

[@igor-yp1xv]

RIP

[@adkviking69shofner98]

Best saga doc yet. VERY NICELY DONE!

[@GiftofChaosStudio]

So she called the Saga her favourite work of fiction then goes on to show how it was historical and the people existed. Pfft..

[@Herpetile]

ill also add, classical period works like the iliad are fiction but have potential to portray true events and characters that were real people. so i mean makes total sense tome

[@mondomacabromajor5731]

If Iceland had an indigenous Inuit population like Greenland did, what would be the consequences? I would imagine that there would be a possibility of Inuit/Irish/Norse mixing over the centuries, that's generally the trend in most neighbouring ethnic regional groups...

[@retke922]

The girls face looks like faces painted on Ancient Rome frescos wich we can see on walls of remain houses of ruins of Pompeii ...

[@kenhaines5318]

Large eyes and exceptionally... well fed? (Where's Suzannah Lipscomb or Lucy Worsley when you really need them?!)

[@lennartsjostrom3167]

Kettil Flatnose is one of my ancestors. And Aud the Deepminded.

[@waldo865sti]

You guys kill this channel with nonstop ads

[@TheLazyGeneTV]

Very long winters and still such a small population?

[@lesliefranklin1870]

Great video, but wondering why they left out Björk? :-)

[@Malikin]

30:18 history channels at 12 am

[@ingith123]

Aður Djúpúðga was not Scottish,she was Icelandic as her name suggest Auður.

[@karencawthorn3173]

Proud to say part of my ancestry is from Vikings.

[@scottleft3672]

You hope.

[@melanphilia]

#okayKaren

[@scottleft3672]

@@melanphilia WOOOOOoosssh.

[@shellc6743]

I bet you are an American Karen.

[@CarlEastvold]

I'm descended from Auðr Ketilsdóttir (Unn) the Deep Minded. Commentator should have done some research. While Auðr was married to the King of Dublin - who was Norsk - and followed her son to Scotland - calling Auðr British - when she was born in Norway - shows a very minimal grasp of the history involved. Also a little strange not to mention she was (quite an oversite given the era) a Christian in an almost completely pagan society. And no mention of Krossholar.

[@snopure]

Thank you for your contribution. By reading the comments, it seems the commentator should have done a lot more research.

[@mintpastill]

I was smiling a lil and thought about storytelling, a few years ago a man from warmer climate said we didnt have any written words dated in pages since later then them here in norden nordic countries, i answered who needs linnen or papper to write on when u can carve in stone n wood n before in caves walls and second we have a mouth that passes generations lol he just stared at me with big eyes 😂i do live in sweden n some things of older generations we just do by generation back then we didnt forget coz that we only had at winter or thunder days to pass evenings n anchester before that before tv was invited so unfortunately some storys like storys from villages does not past further like before..but even more back then i guess..

[@mintpastill]

Ps im glad we today have camed across paper n pen n for all to learn by school and to type on machines n u tube, better n for worse aye x)

[@mintpastill]

When i mean kart, its apple thats not fully grown apples not ready to eat..

[@Bman-qo9sg]

I Like the old relich more its just logic you take revenge you cant just let evrything pass by the vikings where way ahead of there time in understanding the power of vengeance.

[@FXR_818]

Very adaptive creative tough people they are. Like another comment said don’t forget all the BS the Irish had to endure for years.~🇮🇪 💯

[@paul6925]

I wonder how much the storytelling had to do with the harsh weather mixed with extremely long nights in the winter. Must have been a lot less to do at night 1000 years ago

[@desidaru1118]

@34:57 That's not an upside down crucifix or Thor's hammer. That's a BABY! The king always gets to hold the baby!

[@r.t.aegean3236]

Timeline does it again! Fascinating documentary! Now, this may seem like a trite statement, but Dr. Ramirez has such expressive eyes, especially in her fur hat.

[@AdamTait-hy2qh]

They just steal documentaries and monetise them bro

[@dc9168]

Northern France has Normandy. The Norman's were Viking right? They did travel and trade. Its exciting to see that more evidence is being unearthed to solve the puzzles.

[@TrojansOwl1]

nope. pretty sure they were mexicans.

[@lukef1586]

The men depicted in the thumbnail are kelts from continential Europe (Switzerland/France), not vikings.

[@juergenernst1320]

Greece and Rome, lets see: Plato, Aristotle, Socrates. Democracy, Homer. Bath houses, Empire wide road systems, aqueducts, pax romana, Colosseum. Icelandic vikings: raids, longboats, and sagas. Hm ya when we think of civilization we definitely can't forget the bloody vikings.

[@jacquelinevanderkooij4301]

When arrived in Ijsland there were trees!. Wrong information here.

[@mat3714]

I hate these " great mysteries" .... stop saying that!! we actually know a great deal about them so just be a documentary !! Leave the frickin drama

[@ridethecurve55]

Most ppl would out-vote you on that! Give us our Freedom to be Mystery!

[@mat3714]

@@ridethecurve55 welcome to post truth era , we got the info but nah i prefer magical stupidity

[@bg13bg]

I gave up after 15 min. Why not call for historians and/or a literary critic, rather than a sloppy writer and an actor? The first 15 minutes are full of nonsense. Like “I wonder what the first settlers here in Iceland saw when they arrived. The least likely a promised land. Certainly the strangest place that I´ve been to. . . . . There is nothing growing here. There are no trees or crops. And on to the ground. There is no iron ore or gold. And yet, these hardy pioneers didn´t just turn tails and sail off in their longboats, they stayed and tried to create something out of this extraordinary landscape. And what they created was truly magical. Words.” This is like standing today in front of Buchingham palace and state "No wonder that the Vikings came here to raid" The 8th century was warmer than is today and 25-30% of Iceland was covered with birch/willow bush/forests. “Who was the first settler in this area? That was Auður the deep minded, Auður djúpúðga as we call it on Iceland she came sailing up the bay” . . . . “She came from Scotland - what happened is that her husband went into battle there and died and she had to go away with her crew” . . . and the she sailed away from Scotland she was - what you say - she was running away from there but that was magnificient that a woman could do so in these days.” . . . “So the first settler in this area is a woman (yeah..) and she is Scottish (yeah…) and she is able to control a boatload of men” The parents of Auður were from (what is now called) Norway. Her husband was Ólafr hvíti, a descendant of kings of an area in (what is now called) Sweden. Ólafr hvíti ruled in Dyflinni (now called Dublin) but was killed by the Irish. Auður, now a widow took off with her family - and her son Þorsteinn rauðr (red) - to the Hebrides. Þorsteinn rauðr and Sigurður (jarl/earl) conquered Caithness and Sutherland "and more than half of Scotland" - but the Scots killed Þorsteinn rauðr (and Sigurðr jarl died of blood poisoning (he had the head of a Scottish chieftain dangling from his saddle - a tooth of the Scottish head made a cut in Sigurðs´calf and that was the end of him). This is personal: my ancestral mother Auður (or Unnr) came from Norway, had been living in Ireland with her husband, in Hebrides with her son, then in Scotland and after his death she sailed to Herbrides, then to Faroe islands - and Iceland. She can by no means be called "Scottish".

[@lars1296]

My peeps

[@hannahmeaker4595]

not a british woman. she was a viking.they attempted to settle,failed and she went to iceland.

[@littledevilmiddleton7427]

Im wondering how many people got Viking St. Brice Day Massacre on their MyTrueAncestry results?

[@trukeesey8715]

"A fals for your thoughts?"

[@brendanchapman3]

They didn't "create something out of a primeval landscape" They found a forested island and turned it into a desert by poor resource management

[@JETWTF]

Yeah Iceland had a robust northern forest, Wish I could have seen it. The British isles were all covered in forest as well the rest of Europe. Absolutely amazing how people see no tree's for as far as the eye can see and think it must have always been that way.

[@gunnarelisigurjonsson2587]

We are trying to recover the forest.... Give us few more decades

[@frederiquejones1526]

Fred Versteeg Interesting. Deforestation in Tudor times is to do with the felling of trees to build ships. Most people don’t know that we’re still coming OUT of the Little Ice age, this process started in about 1850.

[@edixasanchezpacheco3692]

JETWTF so I wonder why they didn’t plant tree back? .,,the earth is still the earth, so why not try to revive it?

[@patrickporco6972]

Nature...including human nature...has not changed with time...brutal...merciless...repetitive

[@tomtaylor5623]

'a multicultural melting pot' lmao. the saxon women were taken as slaves and they were of basically the same genetic family.

[@frederiquejones1526]

Two cultures (Scottish and Norwegian) do not make ‘a multi cultural society’. Moreover, the dark ages were long over by that time, the narrative is some 3- to 4 centuries out. Apart from that, they weren’t actually all that dark and evidence of this can be found in the academic literature, specifically Oxford University. The most basic research would have revealed thies simple facts. This is a very sloppy production and the ‘pick and mix’ method of creating a video is nothing short of disastrous. What would have been interesting is the background of the earliest settlers and the population pressure that drove them from their homelands. After 36 minutes I’d had enough.

[@jenat82]

I am Scandinavian, both me and my dad had dna tests done. There's nothing from the middle east, Asia or Africa in us. He has some France/Spain region in him. I have British Isles from my mum (that noone knew about) and the rest Scandinavian. If things were that mixed you would see it in the current population on a broad spectrum.

[@Mei987]

"A multicultural melting pot." Hah, fun word to use here. Those women were 99% likely claimed as Thralls (Slaves.) It was pretty common back then.

[@samchapple6363]

Yeah having to live among the brits. 😂. Conquer

[@tomtaylor5623]

@@fvefve12 that's not a melting pot. there are two cultures within every nation and people group. nobody calls indonesia multicultural because they have muslims and hindus. because they are the same people group regardless of belief. if it was actual indians living there in big numbers, then it might be called multicultural.

[@Cosmic_Code]

Makes me sick this modern corruption of our ancestors. We did the deeds and the Icelanders wrote them down.

[@bluthammer1442]

times change and evolution does not wait. the past is the past, its gone and over and done with.

[@Wilhelm4131]

@@bluthammer1442 If you buy the theory of evolution I suppose that is true. Who says times change in the direction the globalist progressives want them to? They don't own the future just because they have money and own the media.

[@bluthammer1442]

@@Wilhelm4131 ...social evolution.. jesus christ. Lol

[@mysticmama_3692]

@@bluthammer1442 I get what Tim is saying...although it does seem as if our society is DE-volving instead of evolving...what's good is bad, and what's bad is good. The whole dang world has gone Topsy turvy, and even in history documentaries such as this, there have been noticeable bits of selective editing to the historical facts to make it fit today's god awful narrative. Its sad really....

[@tonymango48]

At 11 minutes I instantly thought, aha, James A Mitchiner. Historical novels

[@erichtomanek4739]

And what a great writer he was! I have most of his books, and when possible search through second hand book stores for more. Though now with wuhan virus that is not possible.

[@susanschaffner4422]

So far off the mark in the opening minutes. Iceland had huge swaths of forest.

[@999Giustina]

There were indigenous people in Iceland when the settlers arrived. No mention though in the video.

[@mysticmama_3692]

🙄...It could be because this documentary is about the VIKING SAGAS, not the indigenous peoples of Iceland.

[@VidarSaeberg]

that is not true, but there were some irish munks here before Scandinavian, called Papar

[@bullvinetheband7260]

It says in the saga that the animals of Iceland had no fear of humans.