The Early Exploits Of The First Vikings

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, 'The Last Journey of the Vikings' (Swedish title: 'Vikingarnas sista resa') tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people.
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[@proudconservative2158]

History is so interesting to me. Idk how people think it’s boring. It literally feels like an entirely different world that these people used to love on but it’s the same ground we walk on today. It’s breathtaking when you think about it

[@virgilreggie2970]

Xx

[@BudgetGainsByJJ]

I have that same passion for history too my friend.

[@robertayoder2063]

School i think is why they do

[@patroot2536]

Q ees

[@c.b.4916]

Its amazing. It shows the true dumbing down of our society. That people literally would rather watch idiots make videos of cats and duck dynasty than history documentaries or reading

[@JOOLZBRUTNELL]

Best documentary on the Vikings EVER . Thank you so much for sharing with us :)

[@davidjordahl]

Beautiful! Something I would have in my home or office, for two reasons. One, the design is efficient and not bulky, yet shows plenty of strength to be used very comfortably. And two, it is handmade and not simply a piece of "production." It's more personal, and warm, both in the way it was constructed, and the very warmth of the wood itself! Awesome. Thank you!

[@kimberlypatton205]

I’m SO in love with this channel! I miss the “old” history channel on tv!

[@Valfodur]

This was an incredible documentary, filmed and produced at the highest standard. Well done and thank you! Also Vikings rule!!

[@robspecht9550]

King Alfred: I’d like a word.

[@TheVCHorseguy]

The emotional detachment from children in their early years would make sense. Graveyards from where I grew up and I have visited around the US, you find that until the early 20th century a lot of people didn't name their child until they reached 2 or 3 years old. Child mortality caused by influenza, typhoid, tetanus, diphtheria, and household accidents, was in some places as high as 60% for children 3 and under.

[@TheVCHorseguy]

@Rakka Zakka Flakka If asked which , period of history I would love to live in if I could I tell them pre empiricist Rome, the Edo period of Japan, the late 1800s AKA the golden age of the cowboy, and other periods as well. BUT only if I can take modern medical with me.

[@kevinjanghj]

I am loving the fact that the documentary has English, French, and Norwegian (??? Or is it Icelandic??) featured in it.

[@Bioinspiredforum]

Swedish

[@lorismith7607]

And French

[@ianblake815]

This was on Amazon Prime too! Great show.

[@proudconservative2158]

I would do anything to have the ability to time travel and see the way people lived in all eras of humanity from 10’s of thousands of years ago to even just 75-100 years ago

[@sampetrie340]

I think it would be fascinating but also frequently horrifying. I am not sure that I would have the stomach for it.

[@simonbroberg969]

OK, I'll watch this soon. I hope to be enlightened further. I have read the Heimskringla (the the real one not the fake when they put on Wikki). I have read a lot of the research done by the BBC when Magnus Magnusson was still host of "Master Mind" too.

[@soapyjay5764]

I hope they talk about Charlemagne

[@stephenclarke3990]

The very wealthy, it seems have always shown their greed and punished unreservedly those less fortunate than themselves. So as "modern" as we think we are today, have we changed so much❓Sadly, I don't think so❗️ A fascinating and very enjoyable informative video. Thanks.👍🏼

[@tomurg]

The Viking age just proofs that the gangsters from one generation are the heroes of the next.

[@tomurg]

@sneksnekitsasnek I’m sure they do in those cultures

[@skjaldulfr]

As an American I always scratch my head when Brits, or Scandinavians talk about going to "Europe" as if it's a different continent.

[@markmitchell450]

Back then it was seen as a different world

[@danielnystrom7310]

Back when anything outside scandinavia was a new and unknown world.

[@skjaldulfr]

My replies don't seem to understand. We're taught in geography class that the British Isles and the Scandinavian peninsula are part of the continent of Europe. So saying "the vikings went from Norway to Europe" is like saying "the cowboy went from Texas to America." The former is already within the latter.

[@bluthammer1442]

guess you cant have vikings on ships without screaming. lel

[@judowrestlerka]

I love that when discussing the data and research on the climate disaster that drove the peoples forth the guests say "they" or "them" when discussing the researcher(s). It was ONE MAN that discovered and did the initial research that discovered this HUUUUUGE and EXPANSIVE world disaster. Kudos to him.

[@MrKFNeverGiveUp]

Excellent. Cheers.

[@32inzane]

Are all the village and war clips from movies? Or are they made for the document? The detail of daily life is very fine and the clothing and dress is as real as it was happening. Where do these clips come from?

[@HeathDawsonFirefoxBushcraft]

All filmed for the doc in Co. Wicklow Ireland.

[@rhondal.vikingpride8138]

I'm a proud half Norwegian anforth sheepish. my moms GPA came from Norway an her mom an fam still reside in minnosota. she was adopted. 4 a long x I was a mutt. didn't kno wat I was. peeps assumed and most rite an dam .im proud an luv to learn. so thanku sooo very much. I also did DNA an was confermed

[@papillon5839]

19:40 it's still like that today, especially in farmer families. Kids help on the field ect. since young age

[@susanbengston3496]

My Family Was, and Is, These Survivors= Peopled The Earth! RESPECT!!

[@Kunfucious577]

Wheres the next episode? I need it

[@lorismith7607]

There is archeology evidence that the Dani came out of South Sweden. They filled in the Jutland peninsula after the Saxons and Angles basically left. And that the Dani Wich is what the word Denmark denotes, land of the, Dani or Danes. And there are many things that have came to light to support this. Including evidence that the Viking age began in Denmark.

[@veronicajensen7690]

southern Sweden was part of Denmark until year 1658 so the Danes didn't come out of Sweden, they spread from southern Sweden, the Jutes and Angles didn't all leave Jutland, dna studies show that Anglo Saxon dna in Britain is very similar to modern day Danes and Dutch and they åretty much can't see the diff. in Danish Viking dna and Anglo-Saxon dna , it was different tribes of the same people, the population in Jurtnd are still called Jutes , Jutes were part of what is called Anglo-Saxons the Danes took over power

[@FromaTwistedMind]

Yay! He's not sitting in his Lancaster Bomber... he's at Stonehenge.

[@robertshorthill6836]

Now we have dad working a 40 hour work week, hopefully making a living wage, so mom can go shopping 2 or 3 times a week at Walmart or Costco for clothes and food items. Maybe take the kids to a water park in summer on wkends, or a ski event in winter. Things haven't changed much in all these centuries, except the human race has gotten softer.

[@manuelalonsodominguezvazqu2145]

6:17 Speak English! Damn it. I usually listen to this while working.

[@marcusalford1750]

0:37 it starts

[@johnjohnson-yl4kd]

in some ways the mentality is still there, in some people, at some times

[@veronicamcclure]

Certain Native American tribes fought other tribes for what "goods" they could plunder as the spoils of war.

[@daneaxe6465]

Peace loving natives frolicking happily through flowery meadows.....NOT the reality of NA tribes who butchered and enslaved each other for millennia before Europeans saw the NA shores. There are areas where the tribal brutality was so bad that it is "possessed" or "haunted" by demonic spiritual forces. The areas are very well known by tribal members and avoided.

[@veronicamcclure]

@@daneaxe6465 I thought I said that North American tribes did war on each other? Oh well. The reason I thought of our Native tribes is because watching the vikings history reminded me strongly of the American tribes (which really includes Central and South Americas as well as North America. And there are still people who think the natives didn't know war until the Settlers came.

[@nauniwhitewave-runningmout4526]

We faught other tribes for slaves, mostly women, horses, and hunting land. Most of all honor within your own tribe.

[@sampetrie340]

Only “certain” tribes? Imo this is the human condition, practiced (with a few temporary pauses) by humans of every culture.

[@Ulfhednir9]

wasn't Charlemagnes crusade (782) against the north before the viking raids(792)?

[@Ulfhednir9]

@sneksnekitsasnek hmm sounded like it was implied that Charlemagnes crusade was in retaliation to the raids but sounds like it was the opposite

[@paganlife1373]

Kracatoa maybe

[@proudconservative2158]

How much does history hit tv cost ?

[@jnpet]

A good show, but wrong. Some of it may have contributing factors, but completely ignores the actual reason Vikings became raiders. The long boat was in use hundreds of years before Viking raids started. The Norsemen were peaceful traders and had a trade network that reached from western Europe and the British Isles to the rivers of Eastern Europe. What happened? Christianity. First you had the Butcher of Saxony (Charlemagne) conquered the land and forced the Saxons to convert or die, And die they did, in the thousands. But not only that, many Saxons fled to Denmark to the north. The story of Christian brutality to the south was notorious. The Danes even reinforced the Danevirke. A wall built originally to safeguard against Saxon raiders, but now reinforced to keep the Brutal Christians out. Charlemagne did much to make Christianity stronger in Europe, and it strengthened the Catholic church. One of the rulings of the Catholic church was the complete ban of trade with non-Christians in Catholic ports. Suddenly, peaceful Norse traders had no ports to trade in the Catholic world. What were they to do? The Viking age is basically the consequences of Christian brutality and laws. It is rarely mentioned in documentaries like this because historians have a tough time criticizing people like Charlemagne whom many people consider a great king who unified and Christianized a good deal of Europe, but don't forget how he did it. You don't get a nickname like the Butcher of Saxony for nothing. And look at the Vikings themselves. In the west, they raided in the East they traded. Sure there were some wars in the East like conquering Kiev. But they basically won that war and became the rulers of Kiev. The didn't butcher the local Slavic people who were allowed to live and trade peacefully with Vikings who settled there. In Constantinople they became mercenaries for the Byzantine emperors for hundreds of years. The Byzantines were Eastern orthodox and were not as violent and brutal as the Catholics, they had no laws restricting trade with non-Christians. So they had no reason to raid Orthodox cities. Here they were traders and mercenaries.

[@brentfisher902]

21:25 Why? Because you should not throw dead children's carcasses away...THERE IS NO 'AWAY'.

[@veliborb]

Charlemagne dinasty also had its role in this.

[@tommygun9546]

7:59 :)

[@karlkuttup]

at the start got the dates wrong when they started raiding they were doing it n the 7th century and along france belguim, holland and russia back in the late 6th century ,due to a bad 90 years or more of very cold weather ,in sweden ,norway denmark ect ,and the romans never went up as far as the boaders of the franks,and less folks for the high lords the lower class had more power as they would be offered more from other lords as well,and women were held in high reguard even held power over the village or settlement in some places,and the word vikger was a bay dweeler ,and alot of the metals were mainly silver from england and the europeian coast lines,the different norseman fought against eachother as early as the 6th century and even from the same countries,the idea they didnt is a strange one also that the franks king charlimayne was a main reason for the attacks against his ideas of christians takeing over the pagan gods and the vikings were in a holy war was nonsense

[@Adara007]

The term Viking means "raider" but the 'Vikings' or Norse were far more than raiders. Also, most Norse women had equal rights under law and as the "Viking" series thankfully accurately shows many women learned to fight and were buried with their weapons as numerous graves have shown. Viking women who were oracles or bards held more societal power than the male chieftains. Christianity saw the rights - and rites - of Norse women disappear.

[@marynace6294]

Enjoy aa I had Viking ancestors

[@veronicamcclure]

Always wondered whether the Vikings were really only from Norway? Or were they made up of peoples who eventually mostly settled in Iceland, Norway, Finland, and Sweden.

[@AyeGee721]

Not Finland. Finns are an entirely different people and culture.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

Vikings were not just one people, Veronica. Research has shown that the famous Viking Rurik was of Finnic descent as opposed to Norse: yes, some people from what is today Finland (and by extension other Finnic peoples from Baltic region) joined up with Vikings. The very original Vikings were from around Denmark, Norway and Sweden, but as the Vikings traveled, many other people joined up with them - even people from what is today the UK and Ireland, where the Vikings raided extensively and established domains of their own. Those Vikings who traveled East established a powerful entity centered around Kiev in Ukraine. The Vikings were very colorful in this regard.

[@stephenderogier6790]

Exactly so, Niko. As the Vikings raided Frankish lands, the Frankish King thought of reducing further raids by giving some of the Vikings a region of their own in which to settle - they became known as the Normans (literally Northmen) of Normandy.

[@AyeGee721]

@@NikoChristianWallenberg I’d say Finland and the Baltic’s weren’t Norse by culture. Just a few stragglers that went Viking. That’s what I meant. But that happened in a lot of coastal settlements through every place they went.

[@ellurarenee6308]

Which language is the lady speaking in? One lady is speaking French. The other?

[@johnlee5423]

Viking

[@eugenevdwalt7067]

Trying to listen to this is super frustrating... seems like every 5 mins there is someone talking for 20 mins in a foreign language... which i don't mind, but that kinda defies the purpose of a english video?...

[@okiconavitis882]

En español

[@AB-C1]

What is wrong with these people!?

[@JohnSmith-mb8hi]

people starved and dead domestic animals are left to root interesting

[@TF-ui9fz]

Cant really eat rancid meat. The effect of food poisoning will just dehydrate you and kill you quicker in that situation

[@Outdoor_Addictions]

Vikings were from Norway Denmark. Finland sweeten and even the Netherlands. It was more a way of life more than a specific geografic people

[@AyeGee721]

Not really Finland since their tribes were too north and inland. But the Franks from Netherlands some were. Even some from the Mediterranean countries.

[@NikoChristianWallenberg]

You are right, Jason. Research has shown that the famous Viking Rurik was of Finnic descent as opposed to Norse: yes, some people from what is today Finland (and other Finnic people in the Baltic region; most Finnic people did not live in far remote inland, but by the coastal areas or places that were connected by rivers) joined up with Vikings. The very original Vikings were from around Denmark, Norway and Sweden, but as the Vikings traveled, many other people joined up with them - even people from what is today the UK and Ireland, where the Vikings raided extensively and established domains of their own. Those Vikings who traveled East established a powerful entity centered around Kiev in Ukraine. The Vikings were very colorful in this regard.

[@AB-C1]

Don't want REAL HISTORY!!!

[@joejones9520]

gdm no english? i wanna watch, not read...

[@chucku.farley3927]

speak English please

[@robbinhood9277]

So .... they didn’t relate ..that killing innocent 😇 people was not okay ??? Please BS

[@willbe5994]

You don’t seem to understand how historical docs work. The purpose is not to judge, just to show what happened. BTW in the original telling of the legend, Robin Hood was a murderer.

[@rhondal.vikingpride8138]

whoops .sory .sweedish

[@giuseppelogiurato5718]

This channel would be so much better without that too-tall know-it-all English guy who is always blabbering at the beginning of every video, saying; "blah blah blah, I'm from college, and I have thoughts, and I wear tight white trousers and I don't button my pink shirts all the way, blah blah blah"... He is so annoying! What is even the point of him being on every video? Whoever runs this show should get rid of him ASAP; what a waste of time! He adds NOTHING!

[@johnlee5423]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@freudbrahms254]

How do you make documentaries so quick? Your upload rate is so high, I mean your work is cinema quality

[@DonZaliaz]

They say above.. Content licensed from DRG to Little Dot Studios. I assume they use various production companies / studios from around the world.

[@DonZaliaz]

www.imdb.com/title/tt11318610/

[@simonbroberg969]

A lot of it is finding the information and doing the research, many of us do that, especially when it is their family timelines involved

[@robertkahl7765]

This is probably the best documentary I've seen about the vikings. It answered many questions I had concerning social and economic typology prior to the "raids" . Very well done.

[@marcusblemmings8484]

My 10 year old is learning about the Vikings at school, so this documentary will come in handy

[@whatthehellol1610]

@@thebeatcreeper it's a cash grab, all the coal fire power plants, and cars back then?

[@willbe5994]

@liam nicklin the factual evidence is not nonsense. What might you be basing your opinion on?

[@johnlee5423]

@Arturius magnificent scientist 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@thathobbitlife]

This was well made, great documentary. Thanks so much.

[@jillellis62]

I would love to go back in time to get a glimpse of how these people lived and acted. In all eras... Amazing!

[@IlGattoGialloCucina]

Yeah me too. I'd give my soul up for that

[@truptigangurde5106]

Same here

[@darkhorseman8263]

@@circusbrains And everyone had worms.

[@hexmark4879]

@Ordinary Pete (Paradox spoiler) if time travel where to be invented in the future chances are we would have it now due to a paradox event, i.e people would accidentally let the cat out of the bag

[@htx92]

astral travel and past life regressions.

[@brucepaul1376]

So why is no one mentioning the Saxon Wars?Started by Charlemagne to forcefully introduce Christianity to northern Europe. Refugee Saxons who shared a common religion with their Scandinavian cousins would relate tales of destruction of their way life. This surely left a bad taste in Scandinavian mouths about western Christian civilization and may have influenced some of their reactions to destroying Christian monestries in their raids in the following years.

[@gazza2933]

If Dan Snow introduces a programme. It's going to be very good! 👍🏻

[@simplycallum8194]

Influenced by the latest AC game?

[@gamikaseneviratne3524]

I was literally searching for this very comment!

[@majcorbin]

[Q] What is the Worst place, in a hospital, to play Hide & go seek? [A] the Intensive care unit (ICU)

[@spideywhiplash]

👉👀🤘=🤣🤣🤣

[@htx92]

ha.. ha... ha.......

[@lindamaemullins5151]

😂

[@robspecht9550]

Camera work during the interview segments is really great.

[@jaimieyrichards7382]

love this stuff

[@eragonzaroc]

I would love if these kids would actually preface their statements with more, "This is speculation". I mean really this is poor docu drama. Horrendously so.

[@evilmeerkat007]

You can tell that the BBC had nothing to do with this excellent documentary.

[@johnlee5423]

The BBC make great historical documentaries

[@lordship988]

I did a dna test recently and found out im related to danish vikings so I have come to love this kind of content!

[@anawipazukawaste5378]

As descendent from Saxons l express my displeasure

[@gunnarelisigurjonsson2587]

Without the visitation of my ancestors there would not be english... .. or a town called Bath or York. 🇮🇸

[@anawipazukawaste5378]

@@Justin.Martyr 👍 during Saxons wars people with same DNA kill each other with great enthusiasm

[@anawipazukawaste5378]

@KING UNDERBELLY you are definitely descended from great Hardicanute

[@gunnarelisigurjonsson2587]

@@Justin.Martyr Yes the Saxon tribes are the same people . And yes they might have gone through where london is . At least by looking at old maps it is 99.999% possibly. We are all connected 😎

[@JohnSmith-mb8hi]

so much for their "honor" and "bravery"

[@doomwalker9934]

They were irrefutably brave and honour is subjective.

[@doomwalker9934]

@sneksnekitsasnek they didn’t flee… they just ran out of monks to murder.. duh

[@kynano7989]

Timeline taking advantage on the Valhalla hype 👍

[@markoff3775]

It would be interesting if you would explore the effect of the Holy Roman Empire massacre's of northern German and Scandinavian tribes. That might have caused the Viking raids on Europe.

[@LiberalinOregon]

Good idea.

[@danielnielsen1977]

As well as Charlemagne slaughtering people. Cutting down all the sacred trees(large oaks) The 5,000 pagans at the river Oller that lost their heads to Charlemagne. For one full week the river was inundated with mass amounts of blood. Charlemagne poked the bear...

[@markmitchell450]

Who had the last laugh though certainly Britain was hugely influenced by the viking invasions after the Romans fled

[@kenhankin5073]

@@danielnielsen1977 all roads lead to ROME

[@danielnielsen1977]

Absolutely! From Charlemagne alone. So to, The Bronze Age collapse is not that big a mystery...

[@VR46314]

In school I got an A* in history mock exam but after taking it as a option for gcse I was told I wasn’t going to be accepted as they thought It was too much work for a student like me (basically thought I wasn’t smart enough and was from a rough working class area) 8 years later I’m still amazed by all facets of history , great judgment by the teachers.

[@AB-C1]

These people don't want REAL HISTORY

[@simonbroberg969]

Not sure which came first, Charlemagne killing all non Christians, Frankia before he went on his quest to become ruler in Rome and proclaim himself "God on Earth" Pope or the raid on the church. I know he proclaimed 25th December 800 AD, and he thought he's killed anyone who wouldn't convert. Before getting into a way with the Lombards (who were also Christians) Anyway, few from either side survived and there was "Peace on Earth" that year, as most of the Christians had been killed in battle fighting each other leaving Frankia wide open. One thing is for sure, the Norse thought they would be next to be put to the sword if they didn't nip in in the bud. So, Frankia was made to pay. Bordeax, Perigueux, Lomiges, Angoulele, Toulouse, Angers, Tours and Orleans made deserts Rouen invaded, sacked and set on fire Paris (3 times), Beauvais and Meaux are taken the fortress of Melun laide waste, Chantres occupied, Evreux and Bayeux looted and every town invested (not sure what that means back then) Says Ermentarius of Noirmoutier (they took that and used it as their base of operations) Some of the names on this list no longer exist, as they were never rebuilt

[@simonbroberg969]

@sneksnekitsasnek It was as such. Pagan V Christians pretty much. Frankia under Charlemagne killed all who would not convert... Norse couldn't covert, and went for the Church first.

[@simonbroberg969]

@sneksnekitsasnek I know what Swedes did. 922 13th warrior etc. Christians also attacked other Christians... Lombards for one, which is why Charlemagne ended with very troops left and couldn't defend Frankia, leaving it wide open. I'll chat more with you later some time. A bit busy at the moment (Got a lot of Viking history in books, and the coat of arms was given to us by King of Sweden, and they ran Norway until 1903, asaa well as Finland and have been doing since Cnut married a Swedish princess)

[@AB-C1]

These people don't want real HISTORY

[@marynace6294]

Enjoy aa I had Viking ancestors

[@deathdeathington]

Well this was awesome.

[@jigold22571]

Thank You for sharing and posting.

[@JorgechorcxPappy]

Not all the Norths were vikings, viking is the term of the action of some one who sails, pillages and plunders, or a pirate. But not all Nord were pirates.

[@Cardan011]

No matter how many times this said by historians or people that bother to actually learn history idiots still use it as ethnic term

[@markmitchell450]

Certainly seems to be the norm to call any Scandinavian invaders during this period of history

[@squares4u]

They were Norse, right? Vikings were all Norse, but not all Norse(men) were Vikings. I hope that’s correct.

[@Cardan011]

@@squares4u you had Frisians, pagan Saxons, Slavs , Finns, Balts all go to raiding expeditions in similar boats, armor and weapons and to 8 century monks all these Heathens were called Danes or Vikings

[@HeathDawsonFirefoxBushcraft]

AT 2:42 Viking third from the front is the best Viking I've ever seen.

[@Az9010idontuploadvideos]

Is that you? 🤔

[@lisafinefrock1096]

I often listen to history related videos while doing other things and I really wish you'd have English voice over for the historians and not have the reenacters not speaking English.

[@jelliepirate]

I hope they upload the other episodes, they’re on Amazon prime but only available in the USA and I don’t want to get a VPN just for three episodes of vaguely factual docu-drama 😅😂 it’s so good though... I need the other episodes!

[@saumensingh9482]

Norse are Indo-Iranic warrior caste origin (Vedic). IE history revolves around India-Iran, then moved to Mediterranean, then to Europe with with their migration. Norse are related to CimmeAryas (appeared in SE Europe in 10th c. BC.), Sauramata (Sarmatian), Alani, Roxolani, Scythian etc. That's why we see uneven distribution of brown haired population across Europe. Basically all martial race of I-E are dark haired/eyed, olive-fair skinned Vedic origin. Even later military leaders like Bonaparte was dark haired. Blondes aren't martial race, they are peasants/tribals, they've received civilization from Vedics. Had those white hunter gatherer been martial race IE history would've started with them. Read further 👇 Indo-Iranic warrior castes (Shatriyas) conquered & brought monarchy, civilization in Europe in late bronze age & iron age, initially in SE Europe to Scandinivia. First appeared were Cimme-Aryas in around 10th c. BC., Homer & Assyrian gave their account. Then Scythians, then Sarmatians & Alanis appeared. After becoming neighbours of Roman Empire, they acted enemies, allies & mercenaries. One Sarmatian branch landed in British isles in 1st c. BC. perhaps before Roman. Those who fought J. Caeser in Britain were professional warriors with horse riding cavalry, high possibility they were Sarmatians, primitive tribals can't reach that level of disciplined warfare. King Arthur believed to be Sarmatian origin. B/w 1st-6th c. CE. Norse, Goths, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoths, Suebis were combination of them, they appeared in the same location, conquered Eastern & Western Europe, North Africa, founded earliest kingdoms of each location. Early rulers' images of Hispania & North Africa are dark haired. Tacitus didn't label them "barbarus", rather described Goths are very handsome. Hun nobles are also genetically Indo-Iranic. Then around 8th c CE. Norse started fresh expedition (came to be known as Vikings) mostly to British isles, France, Byzantine. Norse-Normandy of France reached Sicily, drove out the Arabs, founded a kingdom in 11th c. Saxon nobles of north Germany who later invaded Britain are either Norse or Sarmatian origin. Roman elites were descendants of Vedic Mittani aristocracy of near East, migrated to Italian peninsula in around 13th c BC. after the collapse of Mittani empire. Their most Reverend deity was RgVedic Mitra that flourished in Iranian world too. Greeks are Ellina clan mentioned in RgVeda. Their deities are found only in RgVeda. They can never be akin to northern tribals who lived in stone age while Greeks were living in palaces. Greek addressed northerners "barbaros", bear same meaning of Sanskrit "barbar". Vedic, Greek, Norse mythology are common in origin. Greco-Roman, Norse's funerary was cremation, a custom exclusive to Vedics. RgVeda is no less than 7k years. It speaks 6.5k years dried river, of South Asia, flat lands, Himalaya, elephants & other native flora fauna. Even after pulling down to as late as 16th c BC. still RV remains oldest of all I-E literature. Iranic literature "Gatha" (hymns) came around 10th c. BC. Zoroastrian texts didn't come before 7th c. BC. Greek literature Iliad & Odyssey came not before 8th c. BC. Shatriyas reached lands where no one could making them habitable in Europe & outside. Italian origin C. Columbus doesn't seem to be blonde origin. Vedic Shatriya is a bloodline. Indian Shatriyas lost martial quality due to interbreeding with non martial ethnicity. Shatriyas of Europe interbred with blondes as a result we see uneven distribution of dark to light brown haired population, in this process often brunettes are blondised & blondes are brunetteised. All early images/frescoes of Greco-Roman, Scythian, Sarmatian, Vandals are found dark haired/eyed. For blondes; no one knows what language they spoke, what deities they revered, there's no written record of their own. They lived in tribalism & nomadic life as late as 10th c. CE. (Ref. Ibn Fadlan, Tacitus), having no sense of nationhood/monarchy let alone having kings. Nothing to get bewildered. Even nomadic Mongols conquered Europe, Middle East, China.

[@mazdarx7887]

tried to watch the series, but it's not for those who have vision problems and can't read fast. They can take the time to translate into text so you have to pause to read . Would be much easier to to do voice over or just get english speakers

[@looseunit1615]

So because the Vikings came from a better organized social background, did their axes hurt any less in a monk's skull?

[@rasheawhite3644]

Thank you for sharing!😊 It's nice to learn about history around the world!😊👍🏾💯

[@yorkvikings2127]

Very well done documentary, really worth your time

[@johnlee5423]

I had a DNA test recently lm a direct descendant to Hagar the Horrible

[@joelgalvan8358]

Key element, were their vercital, long boats . At home on rivers or the oceans.

[@nab626]

I’m becoming obsessed with Vikings. Don’t know.

[@zaphoidbeeblebrox1809]

So Vikings invented Head Stones. Freaky Info

[@antonstegen1737]

They were immigrants with no future, so they made one.

[@johnlee5423]

Not much mention of the slaves in their society

[@Ross_Embossed]

So they're fancy pirates....💩

[@abdulkarim-sw4eb]

we are all children of ADAM peace upon him

[@olivermoore7020]

So if I've followed the story/thesis correctly: the climate crisis starting in the mid-sixth century caused a severe population decline and freed-up land for the ruling classes to compete for. This lead to militarisation, culminating in the advent of Viking raiding - which was also helped by technological and societal advances allowing for production of sophisticated ships etc. This is interesting... it somewhat contrasts with the social changes thought to have followed a similar population decline after the Black Death in the 1300s (i.e. the weakening of the feudal system in England - brought about by the surviving peasants having greater bargaining power).

[@johndavis6119]

Ahhhhh the origins of capitalism.

[@tonvanderzalm4612]

Amazing 🤗👍🙏💕

[@wanderluster9034]

Vikings are Gog and Magog people.

[@FrostedWolf323]

Time to get BAKED boys!

[@greatnilemedjaywarrior3155]

Great Stone people's not all them were so called pirate's they were Nomads Nomadic if you think about it

[@johnkeyte407]

soooo, homes, households, fields, cattle, textiles, other crafts and so on were the responsibility of women ESPECIALLY if the men weren't home - what did the men do when they WERE home ???

[@johnlee5423]

Drink and feast, slaves did all the work