The Complicated History Of The Vikings Explained In 4 Hours | The Vikings

[@ImZyaa]

I love that my conscience mind is full circling to the random videos that played while I was asleep Ive watched 56 mins on this video somehow and I’m just now researching this shit

[@Mark-qe6wr]

This is great to fall asleep to.

[@scottmiller6270]

In the Que as I type.

[@chadsimmons6347]

hard to see why they buried such a fancy boat,,took a lot of work to make,,probably a deal made before death

[@ShaggyFred]

.nn.......,n....,.,​@@chadsimmons6347

[@bqrre]

Have to comment again, incredible documentary! Watching this for the second time, so many "aha!" moments that were kind of hard to connect and understand through history books. Thank you!

[@Uhawk2521]

Great to fall asleep to, ty

[@JohnnyRebKy]

Indeed! 👍🏻

[@JannekeBruines]

Very much so 👍👍

[@lindahouston5635]

That's what I'm doing here, but I do like it as well. ❤️

[@JannekeBruines]

@@lindahouston5635 I couldn't fall asleep to something I don't like. 😉

[@ogbobbiejohnson4034]

Exactly why I’m here

[@HighhPlainsDrifter]

I had NO IDEA that the VIKINGS were SO SUCCESSFUL in setting up settlements all over Europe & even Middle East!! And influencing such a WIDE range of cultures & countries!😮😮...WOW!🤔🤗🥸

[@maryroberts2099]

And all before the Italian and Spanish started exploring

[@HighhPlainsDrifter]

@maryroberts2099 I think you mean the Portuguese & Spanish...about the only thing Italians explored was spaghetti.🤔😁😂

[@maryroberts2099]

There was Christopher Columbus-he did a bit of sailing around and exploring

[@ruthblack3676]

Not to mention North America

[@KikoFreitasMusic]

Great video, just trying to help: at 27:27 - Odin is not Thor's brother, he is his father, the all father of the Aesir. Thank you for the beautiful video.

[@jeanetterengel2184]

with my own Northern British Isles ancestry and also Swedish , I am fascinated by this series. My daughters partner family all come from Alvadnes on Karmoy. . On their farm, they found viking artefacts. proud to have so much Viking heritage.!!

[@CoralineJonesPinkPalace]

The gaming pieces! That's fascinating and they're so beautiful. 🎲 Thor and Odin...such an incredible story!

[@maureenhovey4305]

A woderful tour. Your pride of home and it's history is amazing. Thank you for sharing.. Take care.

[@RickL_was_here]

I found it pretty cool (given what I know now, not much of a surprise) that my family used to be Vikings that originated in Holland. It wasn't until a battle with Napoleon that our family name was given. Fascinating stuff.

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

That last bog guy that the announcer spoke of died not just by strangling, but a cut throat and somethin g else I forget but it was 3 methods of the ceremonial sacrifice

[@wendymuller8354]

As a descendant of Erik Bloodaxe and Witkindsdottor it is good to see a history of my Viking heritage. Thank you for this excellent series. 🥰🥰

[@seth1223]

That’s not special at all, almost everyone who is white and of northwestern European ancestry is as well . Every generation doubles your ancestors so you have many many 30x great grandparents. Also ,family trees get progressively less trustworthy the father you go back for many reasons like poor research, cheating, lying, etc . You can be 90% Chinese and 10% English and still be related to Erik the bloodaxe 😂: so long ago

[@anneschantl8929]

Terrific video. I really enjoyed this. Thankyou

[@Iampwnage97]

I’m So Happy To I Have The Love To Come I’m I’m 😅

[@francesworcester3599]

As a History Major I found this so very interesting. A subject that is generally a footnote in world or even European history. So much history is still being discovered.

[@josephsmith6777]

It's a pretty rich subject

[@michaelconnor5378]

⁠@@josephsmith6777as a history major you must know the history never mentioned of Viking History. That would be that the Vikings were repeatedly stomped by the Irish. This narrator talks about how they had large settlements in France and England but he conveniently leaves out how they were repeatedly annihilated by the Irish. I guess it doesn’t fit in in talking about the “fierce Vikings” The Irish taught the Vikings what fierceness really was. The Vikings needed mushrooms to get fierce. The Irish needed no mushrooms.

[@josephsmith6777]

@michaelconnor5378 I never said I was a history major and in Ireland they kind of mixed with the Irish moving In breading together also fighting each other and others kinda like the Dane land on the uk alot if vikings had Irish with them or ppl mixed plus Celt and Norse pagan is similar back than Ireland didn't mean much there was chieftains and small kings

[@michaelconnor5378]

@@josephsmith6777 look at a Viking era map of Ireland. That explains everything. The Vikings had three trading ports that the Irish allowed them to hold. The Vikings never dared to go beyond there well fortified and walled ports. They were terrified of the Irish. The map will show three dots in Ireland where the trading ports of Dublin, Waterford, and Cork existed. Whereas England and France had large swaths of land controlled by the Vikings. The narrators always conveniently leave this history out. That’s all I’m saying. The maps don’t lie but the historians leave out crucial parts.

[@AnnafromHungarylvNW]

​@@michaelconnor5378​ I don't really understand why it would be important. The documentary is about what the Vikings did and where they went, not what and where they didn't. I don't know a lot about Norse or Irish history for that matter, but I do know that Vikings fighting under the influence is a common myth. They might have been using shrooms for ritualistic purposes as many cultures, but using them for fights simply doesn't make sense. I also recognize that you pointing at the map is an indirect rather than a direct evidence for that. I can't know what happened in the past, but I can very much tell that you are biased.

[@maryroberts2099]

I’m Danish/Norwegian All the men on my Dads side of the family have Harold as their middle name

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

The danish side is better 🤣. Skål 🍻🇩🇰

[@InjusticeJosh]

Very good very informative but not very well edited/compiled I’m afraid. It bounced from different topics only to come back to them and have the experts say the exact same thing in a different way or repeat their clip. Still, I appreciate the effort and I appreciate the amount of knowledge gained. I knew absolutely nothing of the Vikings before this.

[@ImpmanPDX]

Haha the second I saw Marit I knew they could handle themselves. Hearing she's a decent skipper didn't phase me, I'd also imagine she's proficient in bow, dagger, probably shortswort & buckler... etc.

[@DeborahT-c2s]

I am adopted with my 2 sisters with me. I will always be thankful that my adoptive parents insisted on not splitting us up. All 3, or not.

[@TheWinterShadow]

One cannot complain that the video is too short.

[@damonmelendez856]

Another 15-20 minutes would’ve been perfect

[@capoislamort100]

Waaaay too short!! Lol

[@jaysonparkhurst7422]

@22:13 i love this art and the weaving of the dragon. It requires detailed foresight of where to break, as to appear below the next layer. Kinda reminds me of the 3 norns/fate weavers, maybe they thought like that for their magic 🤷‍♂️

[@brandyholmes1094]

Who's here for viking dreams while you sleep?

[@Lizablue0608]

Meeee 🤟🏼😊

[@LalinDissanayaka]

Me too

[@honeybunch5765]

Just woke up to it. YT often has this in my queue for some reason. One day, I hope to watch it in full 😊

[@Mr.Schitzengigglez]

I sleep to long documentaries, every night. Tonight, this is the one.

[@adrianscorch]

I’m Ralph

[@Siloquid]

I like to listen to long form content at work 🙏🏼 🎉

[@stefvanoudtshoorn2304]

In the land of the blind, "One Eye is king"

[@scottmiller6270]

Thank You for sharing! I love watching videos of my Ancestor's.

[@Terriyolanda]

I am Black American. I had my DNA tested. I am 30% Scandinavian. I enjoy finding out the history of my DNA.

[@rosscurtis896]

DNA testing is for nefarious purposes. Be careful out there, it's a dangerous world these days.

[@Drakkar101]

It's all nonsense. Take the Y-chromosome haplogroup test or mtdna test. Y-chromosome barely changes and you can trace your direct male ancestor.

[@gulfrasta5844]

My DNA. It's everywhere. Korea 50% England & Northwestern Europe 10% Ireland 10% France 9% Senegal 5% Scotland 4% Benin & Togo 3% Northern Italy 3% Nigeria 2% Cameroon, Congo & Western Bantu Peoples 2% Mali 1% Norway 1%

[@JeantheSecond-ip7qm]

Hey, cuz from way back.

[@AWa-ik2ez]

i found out that I’m about 20% Finnish. Big surprise!

[@theomnisthour6400]

Getting so wrapped up in Q that you forget the R that heralds the return of the all-father seems to be an old pattern

[@jerimiahsmedley3722]

Norse people came to other countries way before the Viking age. That just shows you how much history was destroyed. Even Emperor Charlemagne spoke about the Norse men plaguing his rule and the Empires before him. And Charlemagne ruled during the dark age where history was lost in vast amounts.

[@brycenyarber8837]

The realization that essentially our entire history could be completely wrong as we know it is a fun one. All it takes is a selfish king

[@user-McGiver]

actually, he was responsible for the start of the ''Raiding'' [Viking] Era of the Norse [North] peoples... as a result of his violent push to ''Christianise'' their lands...

[@lemroidsb0i732]

@@brycenyarber8837😊 lol I’ll l mom no

[@stephendudley4377]

Agreed, despite all their surety in themselves, their "education", and their interpretation of all these archeological finds, at the end of the day it's nothing but hypothesis' and theories, which are proven wrong all the time. The problem is they can't stand being wrong so they come up with outlandish theories to connect to their hypothetical situations instead of reinterpreting and adjusting their train of thought upon new evidence, it's a shame really. I'm fact nowadays it seems as if all science goes whichever way the highest bidder wants it to, you don't study, and come up with the answers the controllers want, you don't get funding, nor recognition. Take climate change, yes it's happening, but not from us, and nothing we do will stop it, it happens in cycles, it's literally peer reviewed science, and there are a plethora of climatologists who know it and will say it, they don't get funding or airtime, so if climate change isn't anthropogenic then why are they trying to take all of our rights and freedoms in the name of climate change?

[@user-McGiver]

@@stephendudley4377 you know that everytime you even mention''climate change'' you give them a point... right?... no matter what you say... even talking against them, you give'em more...

[@jaimedavis439]

mutually hostile would be a good band name. in fact, this film is full of good ones.

[@navagatingthroughthebeasts2908]

Sure would

[@janetgrahamtheberge4772]

Have you learned yet what caused the Vikings to travel so much and to kill and pillage the lands they found on their travels? Were they starving? Was there some great societal upheaval that made them seek fortune elsewhere? Or were they just suddenly aware of riches elsewhere and they just wanted it? Or something else?

[@sarahrosen4985]

Something I heard was that Norse inheritance laws divided property equally among sons/offspring. (Not the firstborn gets everything and the rest have a problem.). Even if you start with a HUGE estate and only 3 children per generation, in 3 generations, the farm is now too small to feed your family on. So, lack of land to own was a driving issue, at least initially.

[@AnnafromHungarylvNW]

They said in the video that the lands were not very fertile

[@blitz_zen]

In the book by Jonathan Clement ‘The Vikings’, he mentions they may have been the outcasts of society, similar to the people who traveled to America, people untethered enough to leave their communities, permanently. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@NitcheDekid]

It was a combination of scarcity and infertile lands

[@BougieBlue]

Yes they were looking for good land, hard to grow good crops when it’s so cold so much threw the year.

[@DaGubah501]

Ultimately I cannot help but thoroughly enjoy all the ongoing historical discoveries. However, with that notion of aperture’s, I cannot help having a mindset of, not discouragement, not uninterest, not unenthusiastic, yet an unwavering conclusion there’s an obvious message of cohesive enlightenment of needing a further unexplored perspective of unified hopelessness only because we always conclude in a circular maze of illogical incomprehensibilities …

[@ruthblack3676]

Get some help

[@bizzirker]

Makes sense to me. Yea. 😂

[@createculture]

How do these videos not have more views? People just don't care about history?

[@annamosier1950]

Very good work

[@vonjess9]

Appreciate this, Chanel. I love history since I was young.

[@AlbaTavernMusicArt]

I love history since I was young

[@kharris9359]

I thought Thor was Odin's son, not brother.

[@Lycaon1765]

You're correct.

[@CoralRaeAllDay]

I’ve been searching the comments to see if someone else caught that. I’m only recently learning more about Viking and Scandinavian history, so I wanted to be certain. Thank you for calling this out!

[@kharris9359]

Chart kzbin.info/www/bejne/eonLlodmnpaMiq8si=E6BT9kI4DVdqTcWK

[@tenzin682]

My parents and I recently did our ancestry dna. I found out both of them are part Norwegian, and my dad is part Danish and Swedish. My grandfather's family(my mom's father) is Frisian. I never knew any of this. Never heard of the Frisii in my life, I don't know if they go back that far. But I know that they go back to Redbod in that region. My dad's side has an ancestor Sigurd Eysteinsson, his line for sure. Other lines from Gorm "The Old", Harald "Fairhair", Sigurd "Snake in the Eye" and Bjorn "Ironside". Had no idea!! Very cool for me!! I'm more interested in the real history, not the christian version of Viking history.

[@lopiecart]

dude this oldschool runescape type music lol

[@ralphralpherson9441]

We rode the rivers of the Eastern trail Deep in the land of the Rus Following the wind in our sails And the rhythm of the oars No shelter in this hostile land Constantly on guard Ready to fight and defend Our ship 'til the bitter end. We came under attack I received a deadly wound A spear was forced into my back Still, I fought on... *_When I am dead_* *_Lay me in a mound_* *_Raise a stone for all to see_* *_Runes carved to my memory!_* Here I lie on the river bank A long, long way from home Life is pouring out of me Soon I will be gone I tilt my head to the side And think of those back home I see the river rushing by Like blood runs from my wound *_When I am dead_* *_Lay me in a mound_* *_Raise a stone for all to see_* *_Runes carved to my memory!_*

[@richardj3025]

Buried with great respect,yet their skulls sit in your lab setting....Got it ...

[@caylapelkey3305]

Just found out I'm 40% norwegian, no one in my family has ever mentioned it, I look mostly native american, it was a pleasant suprise

[@honeybunch5765]

That is a high percentage. I should have mine tested too, would be interesting.

[@richardtkachyk6512]

Welcome to being an oppressive colonizer! Lol

[@zbigniewkosior2517]

Hello from Ziggy in Westfield MA. I know a Katei Pelky from Easthampton

[@nilsbrown7996]

All these really soft spoken museum personnel sitting in front of the remains of people viciously hacked to death by their ancestors. There’s a funny kind of dissonance there. I wonder what happened.

[@markmason2970]

Sides is responding to jealous teammates who don't want to play second fiddle to a rookie..they've talked to the coach about it and sides responding with pitting the ball in other players hands to balance out possession

[@leonstevens1382]

Spellcheck will not let me write Constantinopol correctly

[@mattiemathis9549]

How did the Vikings get those tiny little boats across the ocean? Oh my goodness! I thought they were bigger and deeper. How did they get the water out? How did they not freeze in storms? How did they not capsize in big waves? I have so many questions now…

[@maryroberts2099]

They were master boat builders

[@veronicajensen7690]

some of the boats were huge

[@agentnukaz1715]

Some of the went down in the ocean I'm sure

[@EuTrabalhoParaSagres510]

Answer: some One-Eyed Old Man, and his son Maxwell and his silver hammer

[@TheCarrShow]

Weird question: Can anyone tell me what book Juri Peets has open on his desk when he's talking about Viking Age swords at about 1:10:33 ?

[@bigswede7241]

I was bourn in westeros or västerås. All my family is from the vally of the maelar sea or Mälaren. My last name is one of lokies or lokes many names. One time when i was in germany a woman told me that i looked just like what a viking would look like. I dont belive i am anything else.

[@Hugh_G_Rekshun69]

1:16:30 omg why is he doing that voice lol

[@Scott-xb7ov]

Hey, you’ve got a nice sword. Huh?

[@davidsage124]

You are killing me! 😂

[@rajeshnvijo-dj7dk]

The narrators voice makes the program a success or a failure.... 😊 An older man firm voice is best....

[@ekamjotsahota98]

Thank you 🙏

[@samblackwolf7926]

The first attack on England in Lindisfarne was Danish and also parts of England was under Dane law for a bit and Eng Land means meadow land if translated from Danish.

[@Erik_1538]

You're right England translates to meadow land in danish. But it's actually from old english, "Engla Land", or "Angel Land".

[@user-McGiver]

the Danes expanded to the West, and the Swedes to the East, the Norwegians were the most feared of all, and even raiding other Norse...

[@kristianjohansen5561]

@@user-McGiver I wouldnt say the Norwegians were the most feared of all the vikings, they were more explorers and traders than raiders like the Danes and Swedes were. Not that they didnt raid and conquer like the others, as they clearly did. Most sources, feared the Danes, more than the Norwegians. But the Danes and Norwegians often did go out together, as the Norwegians even back in that time in large periods were under Danish rule.

[@user-McGiver]

@@kristianjohansen5561 no-no-no... you got me wrong!... most feared among the other Norse men [I can't say vikings... it means raiders...] we said the same thing!... the Norwegians were the most feared warriors among the Norsemen, and usually raided other Norsemen, but that was mostly ''political''...about power! I also said that Carlomagnes forced Christianity on the Norse [mostly Swedes, had as result the ''viking'' raiding era...

[@kristianjohansen5561]

@@user-McGiver Again I disagree, I wouldn't say the Norwegians were the most feared of the norsemen, it is difficult to say who was the most fearsome, but the Danes were the most prominent out in Western Europe, and the most successful of the Norse in invading and consolidating power. But yeah I do agree the Norwegians often attacked other Norse settlements and here Hardrada was very well known doing exactly that against the Danes.

[@junestanich7888]

Great documentary

[@KimberlyBishh]

We new good Viking restaurants 😅

[@kevinmccarthy8746]

IT SEEMS EVERY ONE WANTS TO PAINT THE VIKINGS AS nice guys, misunderstood? laugh.

[@Norse-Gael1974]

I would rather say Vikinars are over exaggerated in how ruthless and brutal they were. Read Why Leif Erickson and his family was exiled. It because in Norse law they didn't put up with thieves and murders.

[@davidemmet7343]

The Vikings made Blood Angels in the snow!

[@kristianjohansen5561]

@@davidemmet7343 The blood eagle you are refering to, did most likely not occur in the same way you see in the Vikings series. The blood eagle was most likely that after a battle, the eagles and other birds in the area, came to feed on the dead and injured people. You have to keep in mind that christian scholars painted a very brutal and fearsome picture of the vikings, to make them seem very evil and someone people had to fear.

[@PohjanKarhu]

No. Not as nice guys. Just more than brutal blood thirsty barbarians. They weren't any more or less bad guys than any other people at the time. Everyone killed, raped, murdered, stole, raided, slave traded etc. The Vikings weren't unique in this. Heck, the British killed, murdered, raped and enslaved their own people ffs 😂 And Constantinople was the biggest slave trading hub. And the people in the Baltic raided Scandinavia. The Vikings didn't do anything "bad" that everyone else didn't already do. And the Vikings weren't one people either. Vikings were diverse people that did tons of different stuff. They raided, but also traded lots of good stuff, connected all of Europe through trade, married into royal families all over Europe and created great change. By today's standards they weren't nice people, because no people back then were nice people by our standards.

[@veronicajensen7690]

no they were just as cruel and also not cruel as the rest

[@andrewchristensen6295]

I read Beowulf when I was 13..

[@friskamarintan4857]

Bagaimana caranya mengubah logo yang ada disamping kiri ketikan saya ini yang huruf "F"? Buat langkah2 sejelas2nya! Thx.

[@oppslopper3017]

These people are describing a family murder ‘We don’t know why these people had these sword wounds and these children toys’

[@tritesy]

Raise your horns! Let us go a Viking!

[@draconelcentelleswoliveres]

Legend or history: judge for yourself. During the Norse wars, the ''berjast við úlfa''the order or warrior faternity an elite in the service of the highest bidder an order of warriors were a warrior elite, similar to the berserkir, but more refined and religious, followers of the old Norse gods and a new creed imported the Móðir- Jörð, these Vikings could be the image we have of the Vikings helmet with horns, as some used them as a symbol of the male-goat, an allusion to his manhood. When times of peace came, the rulers wanted to dissolve them, as they were Christian kings, they hated Christianity, they plundered and killed them, as they had no resources, they dedicated themselves to banditry, and the Scandinavian kings hunted them down and cornered them, Seeing their extinction, they fled to Iceland with 26 ships. In Iceland they were not allowed to disembark, so they went west in search of a new land and discovered a land they called TULAND, today East Greenland. As newcomers they were forced by the dotrine of Móðir-Jörð to be polite to the natives and learned from the INUIT natives, and became experts in -hundasleða-les gustava. But they kept bothering the Scandinavians, plundering their ships and coasts for firewood, food, silver and women, and the Scandinavian kings were fed up with them and searched hard for them and finally found them in Tuland (East-Greenland), killing them.After 70 years of living on those coasts they died out, they gave orders to ban the sagas ''tales'' about the warriors of Tuland under penalty of death. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[@X_TheWolf_X]

considering average age back then was 30-40 ..... doubt they were living to 70 hahaha....so.... fake...

[@AnnafromHungarylvNW]

​​@@X_TheWolf_XAs far as I know, that was due to high death rates among children and warriors, for that matter. So it's possible that people who survived childhood and then battles, lived long. But everything else about the OC comment sounds like BS. First, the horn hat is a well known myth coming from a choice of costume design from Wagner's Valkyrie opera play. Second, Vikings weren't friendly to the inuits, they simply lost against them, which is why they only remained at a particular area of Greenland. (Of course, they did intermarry later and I assume a level of culture exchange followed.) If there is this amount of misinformation in a single comment, it's impossible do take everything else seriously.

[@dellingson4833]

Just like the Romans the Vikings were Pagans. They were into the Pachamama stuff which is fine. To each their own. I think "peaceful" modern religion is great. Our morals and many countries were founded on Christianity. Without a strong family etc. you end up with easy to indoctrinate kids who's lives are being destroyed by evil predator educators..

[@joshuabuschbacher6776]

⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@X_TheWolf_Xdon’t be so convinced sir. Open your mind. It was not uncommon for people to live into their 60s and 70s in Greek history 300-400BC. Plato for example lived to be like 79, Aristotle 62, and Socrates 71. Soo… it’s not so far fetched.

[@ediek7481]

You are a very special person

[@Dingle1234]

What makes this slaughter and invasion any different than that of the Nazis? Many people focus on the "good things" that Hitler achieved too. Bear in mind it was financed mainly on the fact that so many were murdered and their wealth seized. The sharing of trade routes and culture doesn't need to be achieved that way. People also admire Mayan culture, where beating hearts were cut out of living victims. The list goes on....

[@veronicajensen7690]

the past is cruel, not just Mayan or Vikings but all over the world, how do you think Empires were created ? do you think the ancient Egyptians didn't kill and conquered ?, the Persians, Phoenicians,Romans and all the rest they were all violent, they all took slaves

[@HarryOgStolt]

as a norwegian who also know swedish its so annoying to listen to the dubbing 😂

[@aripiispanen9349]

♪♫♥Very interesting - Thank you for sharing this knowledge !

[@dillonkinder9296]

Scandinavia must be a magical enchanting place if Norse Mythology took place there

[@OhyesSofresh]

LOL you guys and your Norse fantasies

[@michaellarson6936]

​@OhyesSofresh cant deny their brutality though

[@AulayGrant]

When will people wake up to the fact that the word 'viking ' came about due to a scribe's mistake, by misreading the word 'aviking ' (going abroad for fortune by fair means or foul) and writing ' a viking ' . The race and the culture never existed, and it never will.

[@spasegeek9214]

When will people will realize this is how language evolves snd we don't learn every single change. The word is now viking. Language evolves

[@jaredbroyles8062]

You had me at 4 hrs Vikings

[@edgarsnake2857]

I prefer to think of the Vikings as a bunch of marauding hellions...just kidding. Thanks for bringing nuance and greater understanding to the history and legend of this incredible civilization...of marauding hellions...JUST KIDDING!.

[@oobrocks]

Vikings means pirates (Oxford University)

[@eppurse]

too many commercials

[@tammylynn6147]

Whats funny is that my one girl friend spotted you in passenger seat of vehicle around my parts ..lol

[@johnrogers6348]

So at what point does graverobbing become archeology

[@jasonwagner5571]

Hi brother!!! Just by what you said in this video, I already appreciate you. Rory and the boys know you and I appreciate you, so that is a double down. Let me make it clear but not disrespectful my friend, brother quit apologize and do what you do apologizing and appreciate watching it man !!! All the best brother and looking forward to seeing your work. Cheers.

[@GeorgeVaaeth-kc9wc]

Thor was Odin's son, not his brother.😉

[@CoopedUp74]

This was very educatational however so sad

[@roysigurdkarlsbakk3842]

It looks like you're using clips from a Scandinavian documentary (possibly Swedish, but several languages there). Where can I find this?

[@anygivensunday4198]

Make commercial every two minutes huh and it's gotta click out so you definitely can't just let this play

[@Honeybee0408]

Odins brother is not Thor. Thor is his son. Odin's brothers are Villi and Ve. And Fenrir is a wolf. And to be fair, Loki isn't much of a god. More of a nuance no one worshipped him. He was there to represent chaos and no one wanted chaos in their life.

[@danvernier198]

Neo-paganism isn't any more a source for the beliefs of medieval Scandinavians than Marvel movies are. Trickery was most definitively held in high regard in the sagas so the idea that there were people with a positive view of Loki and that that particular object might represent his son isn't far fetched at all. Most objects of worship depict only two Gods, Freyr and Thor, this doesn't mean that the rest were not sacrificed to under the right circumstances. A good example of the disparity between our textual evidence written down centuries later by Christians and the art objects used in worship is how in Hrafnkell's saga he's derided as a worshipper of Freyr but the archeological evidence from Scandinavia shows more art of Freyr than of Odin. Likely a result of rivalries between east and west Norse where those who wrote the texts associated their ancestors with Odin and the others ancestors with Freyr. Claiming that Loki was a representation of chaos is categorically false. How much he was "worshipped" is unclear, what we can tell is that he was a trickster just like Odin and that trickery is seen as a virtue in the sagas. What we can see is that most objects of worship are directed and Freyr or Thor.

[@fingerboxes]

@@danvernier198 Also doesn't help that the Norse seemingly never wrote their own myths down and all the written sources we have come post-Christianization and therefore it's hotly debated what parts are actually pre-Christian and what parts are retcon.

[@rogergriffin9893]

650 AD was before the age of raiding the continent. But they raided Estonia for generations before that.

[@RevLisaMariaMurrayND]

Ok, so the viking boats are real cool! I love them. Thanks for great show. But the boats are wide open to the elements of nature, the waves and the rain, the snow and the ice, the baking sun and/or freezing temperatures. Not to mention that I don't see much room for supplies storage. Hum Mostly I wonder, since they are wide open to the weather, how did they keep afloat? How did the boats keep from sinking from huge waves and rain during storms? How did the boats keep from freezing up in frigid temperatures? Even though the boats are way cool, man is not above nature. There must be more to these viking boats, than what we found to observe.

[@michaelrobbins9679]

Way too many commercials based on the value of the content.

[@nilsbrown7996]

Viking time-traveller: ”My comb!!?”.

[@dase1866]

I saw that to very funny.

[@jendagesse4524]

They were brutal

[@leonstevens1382]

They did not capture Constantinople!!!

[@matthewcarpenter3910]

Did anybody see the time traveling viking with the gopro??? 😅

[@abishemui8278]

Sure.

[@damonmelendez856]

1:37:54 the face- only a mother could love

[@clearchoicemn]

SKOL Vikings!

[@30000beesinatrenchcoat]

Bruh I fell asleep and this is what was playing when I woke up, how did I get here?

[@ABC-48483]

I'm falling asleep to this to haha how did you sleep?

[@30000beesinatrenchcoat]

@@ABC-48483 Pretty good ngl, but all of that will be soon thrown out of the window as school starts tomorrow 😔

[@davidemmet7343]

Same here! This video is woke propaganda

[@30000beesinatrenchcoat]

@@davidemmet7343 what’s that supposed to mean

[@almightychantz333]

I fucking live and die for documentaries like this

[@soulfate2]

Same saaaame

[@ubomninomen7765]

May ride eternal through the highways of valhalla, all shiny and chrome

[@JJdaViking]

If you live and die for misinformation I'd guess you're the happy zombie now ...

[@margaretwaithera1513]

zt

[@Mrcool12684]

FACTS Me too

[@jackhaus5238]

Dont forget murderers rapist and crooks

[@PohjanKarhu]

Like everyone at that time.

[@indigenousnorwegianeuropa4145]

The last barbarians🫦

[@JJdaViking]

Only the enemies of the Vikings would call them "barbarians" or "berserkers". Do you want to know what a "berserker" is?

[@morseventurechannel1365]

id like to visit norway

[@riverlady982]

Why would a population living in a place throw 2 children down a well on purpose. Wouldn't it ruin the well water? Wouldn't they know that much even then? It is something that just doesn't add up to me and seems like something an enemy would do to your settlement.

[@TheCarrShow]

It would make more sense if they were an enemy's children thrown into an enemy's well.

[@dougcortes6567]

I thought the same thing and agree with both of you. U dump a carcass - animal or human - to ruin the water supply, not as a sacrifice or what have you.

[@Krusty2024]

The USA + Europe + Russia + Ukraine (and probably the rest of the world) all belong to the viking empire. This means we're all brothers & sisters, so enough fighting! You are hereby free to enjoy herring & alcohol. Believe in facts or fairies. Feel free to sacrifice goats or something once in a while, go sailing now and then, be the jolly and fearless barbarian you know you are and just enjoy life. I'm a viking descendent and I have spoken.

[@DavidWilliams-qr5yj]

LOL 😂

[@friskamarintan4857]

What's mean kjokken moddinger? Please answer it! Thx.

[@soho2409]

It's a kitchen midden.

[@patriciaheil6811]

they reused too many segments too often. this isn't really worth over 3 hours of watch time. 1/ cut oout the dupes 2/ keep related info together instead of spreading it all out hoping that when you get to the repeat segments, viewers will have forgotten they saw them. IOW not very respectful of viewers' time or intelligence.

[@krisvalenti4141]

Informative yes, but I also found it quite repetitive. I think they are trying to be episodic in the presentation, but there is some notable fluff.

[@maskon1625]

Vikings were Pirates. What a culture🙄

[@vadimpm1290]

The vikings weren't "barbarians" in real sense.They were only a social strata in heathen states or proto-states, existing for centuries before the beginning of the Viking Age. True "barbarians" usually represent tribal alliances before proto-state formation.

[@L2Xenta]

This lady is making sht up.... the Vikings attacked many territories, not all Catholic... and even not all Christian, they reached all the way to North Africa.

[@anthonybrakus5280]

I have learned somewhere, not sure where, that the term "barbarian" was a word used by Latin speaking Romans to describe the surrounding non-Roman Slavic people. So called because their language sounded like they were saying "bar bar bar..." to the Romans. If this is true then the word "barbarian" doesn't describe the traits of a group of people but rather a geographically specific group...

[@vadimpm1290]

@@anthonybrakus5280 "barbarian" is an Ancient Greek term, meaning "the one muttering in an unknown language", "a foreigner". It was initially accepted by Romans in that sense. Later both Greeks and Romans, and, after them, medieval chronists saw barbarians mostly as "people of inferior culture". Nothing specially Slavic here.

[@gisli12]

We were tribal gangsters, similar to native tribes deeply in the Amazon, you couldnt more further than the coasts of norway and onlyl the OG's had to get outta dodge ended upp on iceland. A1000 years ago surviving must have been brutal yet I complain about trivial shit. I'm kin to those Gangsters with is pretty cool!

[@vadimpm1290]

@@gisli12 no, you weren't. Gisli himself was the defender of moral principles and the denier of unnecessary violence.

[@LarryP248]

This is a life-affirming piece. A book with comparable insights became a pillar in my life. "Temporal Echoes: Amelia's Odyssey Through Ancestral Shadows" by Vivian Rosewood

[@matthewstanley3676]

😅😢😢