The Brutal Origin Story Of The First Vikings

[@johnblaze5252]

How soft your fields so green can whisper tales of gore of how we calmed the tides of war.

[@TheJoeAnderson666]

We are your overlords.

[@theCosmicQueen]

Immigrants .... let us be forewarned. ( i knew the singer of that song, who was 6 ft 5, tall like his mom, no doubt a viking's progeny)

[@changedmyname26]

Thats beautiful.

[@gib59er56]

Vallhalla I am coming!!

[@peterroberts7684]

"Whispered tales of Thor" buddy.

[@ducrebatiste7967]

Viking is a noun. It loosely translates to mean "yearly disappointing football team"!!!

[@ellencook1658]

😂

[@patrickmccorcle9079]

Hahahah

[@thorcrom1366]

😂😂😂Could be worse, you could be a Bears fan!

[@Americansareretarded]

That is freaking hilarious!!!😂

[@joshbertolasi33]

-_-

[@Dishfire101]

The Pictish culture is alive and well the Vikings fought the Picts for sure, but they never destroyed the Picts, the Picts merged with the Scotii from Scotia (today's Ireland). Charlemagne in the 9th century was impressed by the Picts fighting both the Romans, Saxons, Angles, and later the Vikings That is why Scotland and France have the oldest Alliance in world history.

[@purpleskald8130]

From what I remember, some pictish tribes joined the vikings in raiding

[@ruicastro4980]

I thought the Anglo Portugal alliance was the oldest one that's still going ?

[@bkelsey6692]

I always find it interesting when the tone and adjectives used like “plundering” and “stealing”, it usually refers to an invading force that is not Christian. However, when the Holy Roman Empire conquered the entirety of the Mediterranean, they just occupied and “conquered”. Not stolen or plundered 🤔🤔

[@El-up1ri]

Romans were a sophisticated civilization building works of art like the city of Bath. Vikings at the time lived in caves living on raids .

[@shannonterry1071]

😂 I’m throwing a flag on that play. Roman Catholic Church is far Bloodier then they reveal, why do you think they keep all them dirty secrets 😂

[@carlkristiansson6687]

Well, the Vikings often raided more then they conquerd/landgrab.

[@joaodefreitas8617]

Maybe because the purpose of the romans was conquering and the vikings was raiding. Vikings is basically a fancy name for pirates. Also romans were not Catholic but pagans for a long of that" conquering the Mediterranean" part lol so I'm not sure we're you are trying to do here.

[@bkelsey6692]

@ I was trying to bring awareness to the hypocrisy and double standards that exist when analyzing cultures and religions other than Christianity. The charged language that is used in videos like this give a false perception of pagan cultures and religions, to perpetuate the “Christians are good” narrative that has progressed through the millennia. Not to say that Christianity is BAD, but it’s no angel either and the same charged language should be used when analyzing Christian nations if one wants to avoid simping for one culture over another. If anything, not using any charged language in any historical analysis would show a creator is trying to remain objective about historical accounts and is actually scholarly in their analysis.

[@eugenieroyce3312]

This video has been a great fun time of learning. The comments were rich and spicey additions to the informative story line. I've had a marvelous time.

[@USAbreakFromUK-lr4dt]

@@eugenieroyce3312 My DNA is mostly Norwegian and Finnish.

[@mik823]

@@eugenieroyce3312 it's been a great fun time of listening to fairy tales.

[@mik823]

@@USAbreakFromUK-lr4dt who cares.

[@Lita-bj5ir]

@@mik823 For you it is fairy tales for me my history and my ancestors . But you don't understand that don't you ? I'm Latvian, and Curonian . In my veins there is Viking blood.

[@Lita-bj5ir]

@@mik823 Ignorant people like you they don't , yes it is true....

[@SirCbreeze]

It should be noted that Rurik, most likely came from Sweden with two brothers, that were not his, Askold and Dir. Together they split the rule of the land, with Rurik in Novgorod and the brothers in Kiev, eventually Rurik dies and there is a bit of a "civil war" in the north, a Prince named Oleg, (of relation to Rurik) seizes power, devises a plan through the usage of Rurik's son Igor, to have Askold and Dir killed. I should also note that, it's debated whether or not Askold and Dir were even two people, or just one instead, as they seem to be in the same place all of the time.

[@lacobunis971]

watch Hollywood make Askold and Dir the first gay vikings

[@SirCbreeze]

@@lacobunis971 lmao I could see it, personally I think they were one person, oddly, CK3 has them as one person and a estranged son of Halfdan. I haven't found any legit sources for that, but it's more plausible that his father was actually King Bjorn of Sweden, as that is where Rurik and "the brothers" start their journey. Rurik appears to be Half-Norse and Half-Slavic from sources, which could've helped contribute to the founding of the Kievan Rus. So by the time Rurik passes and the brothers were killed, the Old Norse ways faded in that region, this brought on the Varangian Guard for the Byzantine Emperor and paved the way for the conversion to Eastern Orthodox among the Kievan Rus

[@brandonmichel-kv1xl]

King berig From gotland

[@RhondaPuckett-ln1mu]

Split personality. Correct either way you want to see it huh?

[@deborahfedge3823]

@@brandonmichel-kv1xl

[@Ronin____5000]

Thumbnail art is gorgeous.

[@grazielaalmeida8438]

It looks Sigurd.

[@echuparosa]

I clicked this because he looks just like my husband. Our last name from his side is Danish, so I guess it makes perfect sense. 😊

[@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast]

Norsemen or Northmen. Viking is a job description. "VIKINGR". My ancestors from norway werent vikings, they were Northmen

[@Tripserpentine]

If you are American you've got nothing to do with scandinavia, my ancestors lol. You speak Norwegian? or Swedish? you like to be socially awkward an introverted? No, XD besides it is not a job description it is a verb to go on a viking or to go viking.

[@-Kreger-]

@@Tripserpentinedo African Americans have anything to do with Africa?

[@Tripserpentine]

​@@-Kreger- Nope. They'r just Americans, This African Americans is only a thing in the US. Technically a black person in Brazil or Suriname is an African American too but they'l never call them selves that. lol Besides if you ask someone from Africa what he is or where he is from he will not say Africa, he would say his country but mostly their Tribe. (and they will laugh about ''African-America'" the same i just did with your north-germanic ancestory,). in fact this fetish that you lot have with ancestry, race and skin colour is weird. lol

[@Tripserpentine]

last time we where that obsessed with race and skin tones and flying flags here we put the Jews on trains.

[@bosch_doc]

@@Tripserpentine damn what a sad individual you are.

[@RickardH.-gu6ws]

We have lots of stones around where i live around Mälaren Stockholm about +3000, many of them runes tells for example "he went with ingvar" it means it was risen to he's memory, and he died wile he was out on raid. I have one on the land that was a part of the land my family owns before it was split in different parts. Many of the stones in my neighbourhood tells that for example "he went to England and he was a fighter", and another went to Midgård and so on. The guys who went with Ingvar to Constantinopel in todays istanbul are called the Ingvars stones. The history of the lake Mälaren that connect to the Baltic sea is quite extraordinary in that sentence that everything in life was related to the boats, so we traded with different villages around the lake on our boats, so we who live on the southside of the lake are still today called the southmen on the southmenland and on the west its the westmenland northern side they are called uppland its like up don know why but, everything is named with the lake in the center, and in the center was the city of Birka. And for sure im proud to be a southman and my village got its name after a ship.

[@Scotland_the_Brave1984_McCabe]

One thing the shows on tv got right is they did braid their hair as in a Anglo Saxon cronicle it tells the story of a Scout sneaking up on their camp and expecting revelry but they were all sitting braiding each other's hair,also most Northmen ( il call them correctly) but most were burried with a comb too. Prob cleaned just as much as Angles did..

[@alunevans380]

Blue eyes were very common among Northern Vikings, while brown eyes were more common in the Viking settlements of England, Ireland, and mainland Europe. However, according to a new study on the DNA of over 400 Viking remains, most Vikings had dark hair, white skin and brown eyes. In modern times, most people who claim to be of Viking descent have blonde hair and blue eyes, but that doesn’t mean that all Vikings shared this appearance.

[@theCosmicQueen]

the burials coul d have been thier 1st generation children they had with brown eyed women of the locals. because that would produce brown eyed children.

[@alunevans380]

@@theCosmicQueen True a lot of Celts had dark hair and brown eyes, someone who looked like Catherine Zeta Jones or Kelly Brook, lucky Vikings.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Tahitians, Italian influence Picts

[@gw6389]

Genetic testing has also determined that I’m lactose intolerant, metabolize alcohol slowly, have male pattern baldness, and taste cilantro as bitter. All of which are not accurate for me. I’m not sure that they have genetics as worked out as people think.

[@alunevans380]

@@gw6389 All vikings where not blonde haired blue eyed, many were still pale white skin but dark hair and brown eyes maybe it was that Celtic mix with the scandinavian/germanic who knows.

[@RemusKingOfRome]

Warband Viking Conquest, a good game on the Saxon / Viking period.

[@K8E666]

I’m sure that the attack on Lindisfarne was a response to something that happened to the Norsemen in Scandinavia. It’s always struck me as really brutal, even by the standards of the time, to literally cut down unarmed men just as a quest for gold. It’s makes more sense if you see Lindisfarne as a response to attacks made on the Scandinavians by the Christian Kingdom of Charlemagne. They were attacked as a pagan people so they attacked a Christian outpost - the monastery at Lindisfarne… The violence makes sense in this setting. It’s an eye for an eye. Charlemagne’s armies were too great to tackle by small groups, but brutalising a Monastery meant word would get back to Charlemagne’s Court in short order, as a ‘black eye’ in response to attacks on the Norsemen of Scandinavia… The gold was a bonus they didn’t expect to find and possibly fuelled the following attacks around the coast of Britain and Ireland. As time went on more Norsemen followed the Vikings to settle rather than attack. We don’t know why they came to settle but it was probably a mixture of economic and social upheaval in Scandinavia at the time. Perhaps alongside changes in weather patterns that made it impossible to grow crops and feed family groups, so moving to England seemed like a better option if you didn’t want to starve..

[@VikingRhythms]

i came here by after watching the season to know history about Viking and this video is so smooth .....

[@kekort2]

I'm in the middle of playing AC: Valhalla. This is good background information.

[@cosmokramer4585]

Talk about grinding in a game…I had to stop, I just couldn’t do it anymore!! Was a hell of a game though.

[@InfamousTog]

​@cosmokramer4585 lol I actually was on a 100% completion run a while ago. I got very close, like 80%, but had to put it down. I was getting close to 110 hours in one playthrough. Haven't played in some months now

[@The11thSon.]

Hey ME TOO!!!

[@Grandtemplar305]

Ayeee may the father of understanding guide us

[@Grandtemplar305]

@@The11thSon.lol I’m doing my second playthrough

[@notthecia4504]

So how long do you have to wait before it is not grave robbing?

[@melissak6238]

😂 Right?!

[@melissak6238]

Legit question 😅

[@markhall9007]

They desecrated some of our ancestors graves

[@liamburns8554]

I’d say 3 generations

[@LordOfThePancakes]

4 years

[@AlphaOddity]

Hell yeah, perfect background for valheim. Thanks for the information!

[@shannsimms9072]

Wait did that lady say that there were dragons in the sky?

[@michaelburke5907]

The "Firedrake" or dragon in the sky could have been a comet, a portent or ill omen in the common belief system at the time.

[@mntlhlthaddtnstilltrying]

Because some dragon lords from valeria were scouting new land

[@michellepollard3591]

That what they called comets.

[@CeBme]

Literally a huge lizard was flying around

[@Man_fay_the_Bru]

She meant she was on her period at the time…it’s woman speak

[@Onora619]

Viking loosely translates to "pirate" or "raider" and they did not refer to themselves, as a whole, as "Vikings" The majority of the Ancient Norse/Scandinavians/Danish were not Vikings. We should get into the habit of calling them Ancient Norse and reserve "Viking" for the actual Vikings. Not that it's this huge deal or anything, but it does imply that all the Norse practiced it.

[@cathalodiubhain5739]

In Ireland they were called Dubgaill (dark foreigners) who were the Danes and Finngaill (fair foreigners) who were Norwegian

[@TheNostorian]

Vík bay/inlet or fjord. Inger. To be part of something. Víkingr. (Men) of the bay. They were raiders. It did not mean raider. But it was associated with it. Like highwayman is a robber. But does not translate to robber. But is associated with it. Hope that makes sense.

[@theCosmicQueen]

@@TheNostorian THE POINT IS THAT MANY WERE SETTLERS NOT RAIDERS . they needed better places to grow food for thier growing population.

[@jacktravers5049]

​@@cathalodiubhain5739Norwegians were the dark ones.

[@jacktravers5049]

​@theCosmicQueen or they were invited as mercenaries, married into our families and assimilated. As in Ireland for the most part.

[@damnyiffers]

Netflix gonna make a documentary about the first Viking. She was a black woman

[@OtiNtani]

yeah, it sucks...I was so disappointed in that series. Imagine the outcry if Shaka Zulu would be portrayed as a non binary blonde woman?

[@slowloudbangin5155]

Blonde they/them 😂

[@billhobin07]

The Picts had been fighting invaders for hundreds of years before the viking era.

[@SaxonSpooner]

true the Brythonic-Celts, The Romans, the Goidelic-Irish, the Angles, The Saxons, the Norwegians and then the Danes turned up. Beat almost all of them but the Goidelic-Irish managed to take over peacefully and force them to speak Gaelic, destroying most of the Pictish culture in the process.

[@gib59er56]

Thaose crazy bastards were vicious but were fragmented.

[@Jon79w]

Now you picts have to go to battle with the Muslims 😂😂 you guys better start acting like Vikings

[@eiriksinclair5986]

Vikingar (Cretan Guard) discovered America from the 1450BC voyages. They created the Indians who turned into the Irish. I put the history of the world on a map called Echoes of Atlantis. The Vikings returned to Europe in 793AD in response to the loss at the Battle of Uppsala Sound in 791AD. Censorship in America is at an all-time high. Reply to this message, I can send you the map showing The Religion of Thor along the Mississippi River to Vineland and back to Europe. Looking for help to get this information to people.

[@nasigeorgopoulos4075]

​@@eiriksinclair5986 ?

[@savagestrike8459]

One of my 23andme historical relative matches was one of the warriors from the boat in Salme, Estonia. Warrior VK485

[@garnerjoyce606]

Relationships were parents/ grandparents etc

[@garnerjoyce606]

Goth/Visigoths

[@garnerjoyce606]

Vizors,Visiers (?)

[@savagestrike8459]

Vendel period, before vikings went west

[@RhonwenBear]

Sweet. My genetic genealogy matches me to VK166 from the Oxford St Brice's Day massacre. This kind of stuff is super neat!

[@22vx]

thanks Thanks THANKS for overdubbing non-English dialogs 👍👍👍

[@kennywedlake2981]

The old Saxon Gods were also the Gods of the Danes and of the Norsemen and their worship has made more sense to me than bowing down to a God who is from a country so far away that I have not met anyone who has ever been there.... Thor and Odin walked our Hills, Slept in our valleys, loved our women and drank from our streams and that makes them seem more like neighbours...Hail Allfather Odin and the Gods of our Ancestors.skål!⚔️🛡️⛵💪🏻🍺😏

[@singlecam1892]

Danes. Norse. German. Swedes. Finns. And ma y more. It's was a massive religion. And boom, jews from the middle east copied storys from summerian tablets, gave it their own little touch, fooled the right people, who pushed a new religion by torchering, killing and r*pe**g, plain out massacreing whole peoples and forced the biggest religion in the world as we know it today down everyone's throat everywhere they went. If that isn't bad enough, when they got it translated into English from ancient Greek by buffoons who who barely knew how to and you know where I'm going with it. I'll stop.

[@bingingbinging8597]

Yeah okay heathen y’all lost

[@warmbeergamingdude]

Lol you prefer fallen angels over The God of Abraham issac and Jacob

[@qcole8946]

@@warmbeergamingdudewho cares bro we are all one anyway regardless of what your faith is.

[@johnbooth5297]

​​​@@warmbeergamingdude Sorry I'm not Jewish nor do I have anyone named Abraham, Issac or Jakob in my family...

[@TheUncleRuckus]

Vikings were not a Race of ppl, it's a Job Description like Pirate. Viking basically means to go out raiding.

[@tonyjohnson8752]

Viking is a verb not a noun. There are no people who called themselves Vikings. Viking was what Scandinavian and Norse peoples did after their crops had been planted in spring. They went viking in the summer.

[@timothydroke1702]

Isn’t Vikings a proper noun? When using as a verb it’s viking (not capitalized ) or am I misunderstanding your point?

[@tonyjohnson8752]

@@timothydroke1702 I just didn't feel like arguing with spell check,but you are correct. I'll edit it.

[@tonyjohnson8752]

@@timothydroke1702 ok. I fixed it. Nice to meet someone using more than 2 brain cells. Thanks

[@untrueman]

@@tonyjohnson8752 he has 3 you have 2

[@Scrat335]

I didn't know this until a short time ago. In summer when chores of the farm were done they would "go a viking" and find trouble across the ocean.

[@RyMac87]

Fantastic documentary.

[@LouOhare]

The angles and Saxons and jutes were the same group of people as the northmen , Saxons came from Denmark like many of the northmen

[@brandonmichel-kv1xl]

Gotland is where they came over from into the Baltics. King berig was the leader of the expedition. Gottand at the time was a huge trading hub like Dublin Ireland was a huge salve port.

[@TheEmanep]

That ‘Russian’ church with the blue domes and is in fact a Greek Orthodox Church in Hammersmith, London, UK. It’s clearly stock footage will have been tagged with this information, so please get your facts right.

[@warwarneverchanges4937]

The first part is a quite short trip from Birka the trip shuld take only a few h

[@aprillanders8018]

Charlemagne is in my lineage!!

[@garnerjoyce606]

Nevermind,ready some day and listen again

[@jeffersenpierrelouis7053]

Thank you 🙏😊

[@Brooks-wz5gs]

I Received my DNA results a while back and have been trying to learn of my ancestors. All my results point to heavy “Viking” heritage i wish there had been more documentation. A family tree would be wonderful to have. Maybe someday deeper testing will be available. It would be nice to be linked to a name or two. My grandparents and parents have passed a long time ago. Had i known what i know now , i would have started this “journey” a long time ago. I have so many questions i will probably never have answers to. 😔

[@BiNumLi]

Magnificent documentary. Well done.

[@TrueSkoolMusic]

King Bjorn! son of Ragnar -the story lives on, legacy lives on

[@BulletDiscipline]

Being mostly british (wales) and part swedish we could have a connection here

[@tric5122]

Wait, so the theory is that the Franks attacked their lands first, and as retribution they attacked, England, avoiding attacking the Franks? I see a fundamental flaw in the theory. Counter theory, losing land/societal influence and therefore power/money they were forced to go out and raid to acquire new land and influence/money. They looked to skirt the more powerful Franks and hence attacked the weaker less organized English.

[@OscarLimaMike]

My family history is from the Norman conquest in England they settled in East Anglia now Bedfordshire near a place called Woadhill and then to Ireland in the 1600's, then to Canada in the early 19th century. My paternal family from old Rus eventually ended up in Pomerania in Prussia then to Canada also in the 19th century. Exact genetic matches have been found in Old Rus, Norway, Iceland and Greenland grave finds. so this is pretty relevant for me.

[@garnerjoyce606]

I listened to Donovan occasionally

[@Fenrir-cf5rt]

At 5:47, is that a skull? That is NOT a normal shaped skull. What are we really... looking at?

[@yoeyyoey8937]

Ask Brian Foerster

[@jasrajsandhu1658]

A broken fracture of a skull, it's obvious.

[@RenaissanceMan29]

Dumbarton was part of Strathclyde, not Pictland.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

"Vikings" did not "appear out of nowhere". Scandinavians, Britons and other peoples had traded and travelled together for centuries. Scandinavians are not "Vikings" - to go viking or wiccing (to give it its original British spelling) just means raiding. Any community that ran out of food and could not trade would go wiking. This was probably true all over Europe and the evidence that associates the word specifically with Scandinavians is extremely lacking, in fact the first raid attributed in documents to "wikings" was in Dorset - they could have come from anywhere. When "northmen" raided Lindisfarne, the word used simply meant that they were sailing southward. Again, they could have originated anywhere. Britons knew the Scandinavians so if they were accusing them they could have written "Scandinavians" but they didn't. Thus the "Vikings" are nothing more than a modern fable. The idea was later confused with episodes from Danish history, but Danes (like Canute) were not barbarians - they were a highly sophisticated European society with a well connected dynasty. They came to Britain as a result of intermarriages between Europes ruling houses. That's all. The "Normans" were not "Vikings" either. DNA research shows them to have been pretty much indistinguishable from modern British and northern French people. Sorry about that, but I find the truth a lot more interesting than the fiction.

[@hildahilpert5018]

As far as I know DNA doesn't lie.I,m Hungarian and German.Never did 23 and Me.Momma,s side ran around with Atilla the Hun, and my dad,s with Alaric or whatever leader the Bavarii tribe had,though there could also be kinship with the Visogoths and Lombards.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

@@hildahilpert5018 You do know that after just 2 or 3 generations you'r ancestors are only as related to you as random strangers you pass in the street?

[@gw6389]

“Scandinavians are not Vikings”…but you must concede that there is a preponderance of Norse populations and territories that made up the majority of those going Viking during that period. The raiders in Dorset could be from anywhere but with some simple deduction using an observed and known pattern we can probably narrow that down. The Britons may have known about a landmass north of them and some specific communities they had distant contact with, but they DID refer to those raiding them as Danes and Norsemen. We can consider as well that after becoming Christianized Anglo Saxon England was oriented politically and socially to the continent. The occurrences of heathen people in Norway and Denmark were, after that point, of no significance to them. Therefore the term Viking is accurate and convenient to describe particularly Norse piratical/military/mercantile expeditions in the early medieval period. The Danes were involved in Britain and the Danelaw prior to any intermarriage with European ruling houses. So many little misrepresentations in your post. On a side note the Normans were not Viking true but the ruling class of Normandy were traveling to Denmark to get married in Norse pagan ceremonies only as far back as two generations before 1066, the Norman dialect is Norse influenced, so it’s fair to say they had a strong Norse connection for much of their early history. Their distinction in France was as much their foreign origin as anything else. But yes the mass populace of Normandy were Franco Gaulish with some smaller amount of Norse admixture.

[@kubhlaikhan2015]

​@@gw6389Hard evidence for a period of significant raiding is almost non-existent - both in the ground and the written records. Examples usually cited are unreliable - for example, it has been argued that the "viking" raid on Lindisfarne was the outcome of a bitter dispute between the monks and one of their suppliers - not a murderous attack by strangers. We continued to build undefended Roman villas for centuries, strongly implying there was no raiding problem at all. It's a myth, and therefore "Vikings" are a myth. There is no evidence that people thought of themselves in tribal terms after 4 centuries of the Pax Romana and Roman civilisation extended far beyond the official borders of the empire. We do know that western Europe was in tumult when those trade routes began to disintegrate, but that is something else entirely. A few villages may have raided their neighbours in times of hardship but it has no tribal dimension. The people involved were not strangers to each other, they had traded and mingled for centuries if not millenia. Britain did not need to "discover" Scandinavia nor vice versa. A recent DNA study of "Viking burials" concluded that "Vikings" were multiracial in origin - not a distinct population at all. Those privileged to travel the most intermarried the most - both during the Roman period and thereafter - so the governing families of the period throughout Britain and Europe would have been cosmopolitan. Land and lordships would have been inherited internationally, foreign fashions imported, new languages stimulated. For all its problems, this is still an interconnected world. This of course is how Britain aquired a Danish dynasty, later a Norman one and in modern times a German one. Edward the Confessor spoke French and lived most of his life in France and Rome. William was therefore not even regarded as a foreigner let alone "a Viking" - especially considering that the most popular language in southern Britain by the 11th century was already a dialect of French. I understand many people want to hang on to the Hollywood version of history, but the fable of "Vikings" and "Anglosaxon invaders" etc just do not ring true. The world these barbarians inhabit is as fictional as Narnia. The past was much more like the present, and more interesting for it.

[@keithclayton1271]

Also, contrary to popular belief, David Bowie was not a viking, despite what the cover thumbnail suggests.

[@Kalmyk-r08]

The first Vikings were Scandinavian traders who visited Europe many times and realized that they can raid these lands without any problem.

[@Lita-bj5ir]

The Curonians were a Baltic tribe known for their fighting prowess and raiding and plundering of neighboring shores. They were so feared that even the Vikings were afraid of them. The Curonians eventually merged with other Baltic tribes and contributed to the ethnogenesis of present-day Latvians and Lithuanians. One famous Curonian warrior was Andrejs Peniķis, who was awarded the title of Curonian King in 1504 for his loyal service during the Livonian wars with Muscovite Russia. Peniķis was the commander of the Curonian light cavalry. Were there Latvian Vikings? Baltic Finns were Vikings too, but the world ignores it ... To put it simply, coastal warriors, who lived in modern Estonia, Finland and Latvia were also Vikings, and both archaeological as well as written sources prove it. Approximately two thirds of Latvians have light hair and grey, bluish or greenish eyes, the rest being of darker complexion, generally with brownish hair and eyes. (Few Latvians actually have black hair.) The Curonians were a group of fierce warriors known for their battle prowess, raiding, and plundering. The Vikings even feared them.

[@zacharythomas8617]

Please make a DVD store..

[@casedismissed8581]

and why would this "origin" be considered brutal ?

[@josephmuller276]

nice documentary. Nice video. Well narrated. Clear facts.

[@Hollylivengood]

Not necessarily clear facts, but many facts.

[@simonbroberg969]

Scotland, they did quite well in that invasion, they used their Irish warriors to do that led by a certain Ivar the Boneless (Probably one of the sons of Finehair but as this mother one of the 12 wives that were listed as nothing more the 12 that were mentioned as "dismissed" leaving us with the 6 wives we have names for in the Heimskringla If you want to do some real research, a good place to start would be "Vikings" by Magnus Magnusson who used to host the BBC quiz show "Mastermind" as well getting a copy of the Heimskringla from ebooks)

[@simonbroberg969]

Magnussons book will probably cost you about £100 if you can find a copy second hand online, I think I paid £10 when it was new and that was a lot of money back then. Oh and most of us with Norse blood probably have a little of Finehairs bloodline, not just with the known Royal bloodline (Cnute married a Swedish princess to get that crown to add to the Norwegian and English ones he already had. All van be traced to Finehair)

[@paulakintigh3298]

I'd love to hear something about Viking life that wasn't bloody killing. Make them more human.

[@StragglerTx]

I believe th3 viking bred with the Comanche long before recorded, some of my uncles are almost 7tf tall and somenof us have golden hair ,my great great grandad was said to have grey eyes 🪶

[@garnerjoyce606]

Geronimo with blue eyes, yes

[@jonhawkins7510]

@StragglerTx, it's believed that native tribes actually battled giants, you should look into these stories handed down in all native tribes.

[@StragglerTx]

@@jonhawkins7510 natives battle giantes but the lost small people tribe that stole the babies was the real threat

[@StragglerTx]

@@Toxicpoolofreekingmascul-lj4yd we haven't changed much actually 🪶

[@rytterl]

​@@jonhawkins7510but the Norsemen were pretty short. They were 5"6/5"7 on average. So the Norsemen were not giants by any means.

[@ryancagerbaker]

Who did the thumbnail art?

[@DBUP-l8h]

your mom

[@changedmyname26]

Ive always believed whites are older than asians and ethnics. Thats why fair skin and blue eyes pop up in their dna and descendants. I loved this documentary.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Hiyah! Shawnee

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

Got to wonder if Norsemen were trading with Romans on a regular basis. They understood the waterways. Long before the "age of the Vikings".

[@pastyman001]

It's rare that Hollywood improves anything, but if the Vikings had seen the horned helmets, they surely would have used them

[@OtiNtani]

i doubt it...horned helmets are incredibly impractical

[@Pyjamarama11]

We lost relatives at Repton ABBA's music is still unwelcome at family gatherings

[@MrPokerblot]

21:00. He says “ an isolated British settlement “. That doesn’t sound right. Was British a thing in the 800s. ?

[@ironandzinc]

2:31 Juri Peets speaks PERFECT English. (he's my friends uncle..)

[@CocodreamBLM]

The picts sound like tough people

[@tonyjohnson8752]

How ironic Charlemagne was eventually replaced by the Normans (Norsemen)

[@Chaz31358]

....thoroughly deracinated and given over to Christian religion, norms and customs but yeah big win if you squint.

[@tonyjohnson8752]

This has to be the biggest shitstorm I ever started

[@theCosmicQueen]

ridiculous. Normans did not rule all of Charlemagne's realm. Not even close.

[@perretti]

I’ve watch nearly 10,000 hours of German history and they refuse to admit where Vikings originate as if they had been in Denmark for 10,000 years instead of coming from The Black and Caspian Sea via Central Asia.

[@scottbuckley6578]

This isn't a new documentary at least some of this

[@theCosmicQueen]

do you really think youtube has that many " new documentary videos"? this type , well-produced, is usually from some tv or cable channel, a few years back at least.

[@nagersemaj9839]

I'm pressing charges on chef Thomas and chef mark Smith on behalf of LUHR for 29 years of harassment

[@JamieOdefey]

I am a dna match to one of the individuals found buried in the ships.

[@MattyDeRosie]

Today and tomorrow and Nov.1st is all saints day aka Halloween now, im celebrating old way for 3 days, saint Matthew, saint joesph, Saint Davids is who i am celebrating, im making soul cakes as well Soul cakes were the ancient treats they ate back in the day We lost our traditional ways and need to bring them back

[@garnerjoyce606]

Not to scare anyone, those questions and truthful answer await. Created beings numerous 'Adams'....

[@toreschanke4086]

My father was also a Norwegian sailor who brought home money and trinkets from his travels around the world.

[@ShaeLaughter]

I share DNA with 3 of these Vendel seafarer warriors (what they were called since there are from the pre-Viking era) on the second ship. 23 and Me was able to match myself and my Mom to them. Individuals VK 508, VK 551, & VK 522. It’s amazing to see the personal items, weapons and skeletal remains of my ancestors.

[@robinpesek3657]

Wow!

[@j.pershing2197]

U gave ur dna to china

[@warmbeergamingdude]

You’re from a line of pagans, congrats

[@Luis-xb7ms]

@@warmbeergamingdude Everyone's a pagan to someone, especially if you go back in time.

[@theCosmicQueen]

@@Luis-xb7ms some of us have advanced from paganism. others have regressed back to it.

[@johnking6252]

Until the Vikings came along we just called it looting and pillaging ? or a form of war ? Just contemplating ✌️

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

As said in the beginning of the video. The 30 year of converting the Saxons to Christianity in the northern Frisia nowdays The Netherlands mostly province Groningen were I live myself is finished. After this time most Viking raids and plunder started. What is always in every history version is the message. Plundering by Vikings is bad. But forcing Non religious native culture and tradition to Christianity with the death penalty for not doing it is never seen as bad.

[@theCosmicQueen]

that wasn't the main method of conversion. after all Christianity requires spirituality not external force. and to say they were nonreligious as PAGANS is absolutely hilarious.

[@PyrotechnicsNL]

​@@theCosmicQueen Reality doesn't bend to your opinion. This has already happened many times in many places without the ignorance of knowledge you can also reach levels of truth . Lies are sign of weakness, besides that love and respect

[@BrotherBrade]

The greatest of the Norwegian kings is KING VALKYRIE!!!

[@jonhawkins7510]

As far as Canada not America as we know it today

[@shanedavison7473]

It's funny how he speaks about vikings being 100 years older than thought as if that is a significant amount of time. I will be 100 in a few more decades...

[@chriselliott4621]

Consider 100 years ago World War 1 era; and everything that has happened since. It's significant amount of time for things to develop and unravel.

[@paulroberts117]

What actually started the Viking Age.?One word..Charlemagne.

[@j.pershing2197]

The dragons wernt flesh and blood. They are plasma phenomenon taking place in near space. Hence "squatterman" "dragon" "serpent" "long haired comet"

[@maryoconnor2596]

I always had the brightest blonde hair up to about 17 it darkened then with blue eyes, I'd like to think I have some viking blood. I think they had alot of heart like the Irish,.😊

[@garnerjoyce606]

Don't think Norway/Ireland always agree on anything, lolol

[@SocoAmarettoLime87]

Dunnottar Castle is not and never has been 'just over the border of Northumbria'

[@PictishPrince]

funny how they assume the pictish people were dispossessed by 'vikings' and they assume that the dwellings were used by the vikings, but they then say they have no proof, lots of assuming in this so called ' documentary '.

[@norwegianzound]

The Irish went viking in Wales, North Western England and Scotland. But they are not called Vikings.

[@joshforeman5465]

They didn't speak a Germanic language.

[@Dishfire101]

The country we know today as Ireland did not exist in the 1st to 10th century it was called Scotia ie Land of the Scots and the people were called the Scotii ie Scots they conquered todays Ireland in the 2nd to 5th century, the Picts also invaded Scotia and took slaves back to todays Scotland.

[@Dishfire101]

Romans and Greeks called today's Ireland as Scotia, later Hibernia, and later still Ireland.

[@wor53lg50]

@@joshforeman5465 so what does language have to do with anything may i ask?.. Im not following or understanding your comment..

[@PaulStewart-jr3gm]

The Scandinavians were NOT the last pagans of Europe… check out the Baltic Crusades, which happened after Columbus “discovered” America.

[@AmyBrown-p1l]

Abbott Walks

[@TheRoidemortetfleur]

In the name of Science. In the name of Freedom. In the name of Humanity. Central powers want to expand and have more.

[@Pl0x1111]

❤❤❤❤

[@garnerjoyce606]

America Estonian from long time

[@HarrodAmos-j6n]

Schowalter Throughway

[@deborahbaker4770]

MY GRANDFATHER’S NAME WAS IVER HE WAS FROM SWEDEN……IVER MAGNUSSON, MAGNUSSON IS ALSO SPELLED MAGNUSON DEPEND’S ON HOW THE FAMILY CHOSE TO SPELL IT 😊

[@melissapinol7279]

I have a friend named Monson, another variant of Magnusson. She is Norwegian.

[@BenFriesen-b7z]

Joannie Divide

[@TaylorGiles-y3c]

Seth Shores

[@Fight1012]

Can someone start a fight with me too? I’m Norwegian/ Swedish. But my Mormor & Fafar moved to Chinada. Does that deplete my lineage? Some of you are keyboard “Vikings” seem to think so. 🥺🙄

[@rytterl]

Not keyboard vikings. We just don't consider you Norwegian. It's the same as Americans who call themselves Irish and talk about being proudly Irish. They're not Irish. They're Americans, and sound like utter idiots.

[@garnerjoyce606]

Greek, Turkey, Morocco etc

[@isabelleb.1270]

8:03 « They were men and women who left their land to explore... ». They left, or they were rejected ? Historians do not agree on that point, but THIS makes a huge difference ! Expulsion means previous struggles ... which could explain (not justify) the futur determination and violence in their actions.

[@sergemann5951]

This was mutiny among a raiding party on its way to Russia. Too many hungry mouths and not enough supply.

[@theCosmicQueen]

maybe they just had to spread around thier dna, they've got some good stuff there., height , and blonde, and blue, and red...

[@garnerjoyce606]

Queens are speaking and Austrian, and Viennese aren't giving up the Ghost yet

[@garnerjoyce606]

Help straighten these details

[@investigatelife8281]

I have a share 135 SNPs with one of these warriors I think :)

[@Templarswordxx7]

At least one huge mistake. The vikings never conquered Constantinople? Though they did try.. but it was makmet the conqueror in the 15 century who pulled his ships over land to cross the great chain.

[@jessewru6425]

20:04 LUMPFIIIIIIISH lookit that ziggy B go.

[@deborahbaker4770]

SO THE ONE LADY SAID VIKING’S ARE A MIXTURE OF PEOPLE AND THERE IS NO CLEAR CUT DESCRIPTION SO PEOPLE WHO EXPLAINED THEIR MEANING OF ,VIKING’S OR VIKING ARE ALL CORRECT BECAUSE NO DESCRIPTION CAN REALLY DESCRIBE THE WORD……VIKING ‼️‼️

[@ThomasTracy-y2m]

Alex Stravenue

[@shashankmongrel]

i would have liked to be under vikings rule than church rule