The Legendary Order of the Jomsvikings | The Greatest Viking Warriors?

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There are many tales on individual Viking warriors, but today I will tell you about the legends who were in the Jomsvikings order.
The Jomsvikings were a legendary order of Viking Mercenaries who lived in the 10th and 11th century. They were well known around Scandinavia for their Pagan worship of Odin and Thor and their incredible fighting abilities. However, as mercenaries they would fight for any lord or King no matter their religion, as long as they were paid handsomely. The Jomsvikings first appear in the history books in the 12th and 13th century Icelandic Sagas. These sagas were written at least 100 years after the disbanding of the Jomsvikings so it is difficult to assure the accuracy of the writings.
Sources: The Jomsviking Saga, The Kings’ sagas, King Olaf Tryggvasson’s saga, The Knytlinga Saga and the tale of Strybjorn the Swedish champion.

[@Son-of-Tyr]

Styrbjorn as in Stir-BYorn. Which means 'Violent Bear'.

[@Goosebear77]

Oh good. I didn't have to make the correction myself 🙂

[@marinakaiser7639]

Thanks for the traslation niceto learn something new 👍

[@Son-of-Tyr]

@@marinakaiser7639 no problem 🙂

[@patrickjerwinbaldo9013]

That was a badass nickname!

[@paulakhang7174]

No😊

[@Son-of-Tyr]

Harald Bluetooth and his son, Sweyn Forkbeard, betrayed Styrbjorn Jarl at the Battle of Fyrisvellir. Styrbjorn was heir to the throne of Sweden, but his uncle, Erikr, would not give up the throne. After Styrbjorn and the Jomsvikings made shore, Styrbjorn set fire to his ships to send a message. The message being that there is no retreat. They would have victory or death. Once Harald saw this bold yet reckless act, he and Sweyn had their forces retreat. Styrbjorn Jarl fell in battle and his uncle would then be known as 'Erikr the Victorious'.

[@ronanderson982]

Ollie!! Your channel is absolutely PHENOMENAL! Keep up the great work. This channel has the best historical content on KZbin and possibly the entire internet!

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much Ron! That comment really means a lot!

[@dianesavant2818]

Agree 100%

[@williamrobinson4265]

that's nice but it's also not true and there are a lot of hard working professionals out there

[@jamiegregg9211]

another bloody awesome vid Ollie ruddy enjoyed it plus the Jomsvikings are awesome

[@Agapy8888]

Hi Ollie. Amazing. You are a great researcher and narrator. I’m captivated every week.

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much Ayape! That really means a lot!

[@Doctor-Stoppage]

I had never heard of the Jomsvikings until I watched "the Vinland saga."

[@DuckTheCrowolf]

isnt that just half of these viewers?

[@lokiwolfwhisperer518]

You should do a video on another lesser known sect of Vikings the Galloglach Vikings aka Gallowglass Ireland's Viking Mercenaries. Another great video mate 💪🏻.

[@pokemanwyman8858]

You’ve gotta do a video on Erik the red! Or also Ubbe! Another good one is Halfdan

[@adamstephenson7518]

I'd love to see the videos. I really enjoy when you cover lesser known people.

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much for watching Adam!

[@NegiTaiMetal011]

I'm now interested in getting to know the Jomsvikings. The first time I heard of them was through an Amon Amarth album that bears their name.

[@ELKE-]

Awesome video! My favourite category to listen to. Your voice is perfect and natural for this. Thank you Ollie for the enjoyable time :) Keep up your amazing work!

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you for watching !!

[@ELKE-]

@@historyprofiles You are always very welcome! I thank you for your great stories

[@paullatter1604]

Love to see more videos on any of these figures. Vikings are very trendy now and real history is good to see. Thanks

[@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast]

Yes trendy is the perfect word. Its kind of annoying. I go anywhere with a Mjolnir or my native tattoos showing, and EVERYBODY wants to tell me how there ancestor was Ragnar, or Blood axe, or some Television viking warrior. I just blow it off and continue on my way. The woke vikings, or woke pagans drive me insane. 😑🙄. They will disregard history, just to continue their weird fetish of Netflix Vikings, and worshipping odin. 🤣🤣😆

[@berenicewaters4096]

Another excellent upload from HP. Thanks for sharing bthis account from the Ancient Viking t chronicles. Lovely visuals. Thanks for you amazing content.

[@franciebelcher4594]

This is absolutely fantastic!! I'm currently listening to all of the series n order and haven't stopped 2 thumbs up them all, but I'll go back thru and do that, lol. Thank u so freaking much 4 this incredible history series. So well done, I can't believe I didn't find this sooner.

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much I really appreciate it!!!

[@franciebelcher4594]

@@historyprofiles 😎🤙

[@picklerick.n.666]

Awesome as aqlways keep up the grat work Ollie deep respect :)

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much Poky!!!

[@marinakaiser7639]

Thanks Ollie i love Vikings stories ❤👍

[@pjumnuss6590]

Excellent video! Well researched & presented. Sounds like there is ample fascinating material for a mini series on the history of this warrior order.

[@jessiebarkemeyer2854]

This saga needs to be a history channel show. Or HBO for a rated R

[@nimbusnimbus.IV.]

Hell yes we want more videos on these Great Warriors. Excellent job.

[@Caesar_1415]

Another beautiful video thank you so much!

[@mattclements1348]

Yes great vid

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much Matt!!!

[@slyaspie4934]

Brilliant work as always

[@VanaheimrUllr]

Its not "Hak-on", its "hawk-on", å/aa, like the O in "core". Thank you for the interesting docu!

[@redepkank]

We still exist ,we still live we still live,we are still here

[@benparrish672]

Caelan Erikson wields the Hell-Forged Spear & Glacius Axe & Trinity Shield while trying to procure Divine/Unholy weapons before The Fallen can tip the scales to Darkness "The Norseman Saga"

[@darthsilversith667]

When we found you as a cub.. I knew then that you had a heart of *cold iron!*

[@1vootman]

Except taller and stronger

[@cyan1616]

I've always been interested in these guys since I found out some of my family were from Altes Lager, now modern Anklam in Germany on the other side of the bay. It may have been a Jomsviking satellite trading town where their women lived as no women were allowed in Jomsborg. All the graves in the settlement were boat burials of high ranking women. We are all over 6' tall and very strong and scary when angry.😊

[@CharbelShwairi]

So the jombsvikings were actually Danish. Danes right?

[@ronniaj]

The saga of vagn is so cool

[@michaeljlydon6991]

Do you, or could you do a video on the vikings and high Kings of Ireland please

[@johnstephens8939]

Not sure how historically accurate Vikings Valhalla is as a TV series but I was happy to see for season 2 the JomsVikings have a story arc. Even if the show is for purely entertainment purposes I'm excited to see that they got mentioned in this series.

[@justashzz]

The jomsvikings in Valhalla aren't impressive at all. They made the jomsvikings seem very easy to deal with Funnily enough an anime is more true to history than history channel's TV show

[@johnstephens8939]

@@justashzz Yeah I agree I really didn't start watching the second season till after I posted my comment. Jomsvikings need their own spinoff series, but it looks like Netflix ruined that already.

[@elasticharmony]

Yes all of them

[@mrk1298]

Hey Ollie jomsvikings or wolf skin vikings who'd you say was stronger group

[@historyprofiles]

It’s a really tough one, I would say wolf skins though because it’s said fire or iron couldn’t stop them…. Who knows though, thorkell the tall and vagn akkeson were absolute beasts really tough one, worthy of a poll really

[@karlosvulture7707]

Many men have said that they were born in the wrong century.......as do I....to ALL those brave Men who are now in VALHALLA.....SKOLL....

[@coldonylum]

So no reference about the majority of Jomsvikings were Western Slavs??

[@borzmir9326]

They dont like it.

[@annamosier1950]

Yes true

[@KushDragon420]

My grandfather claimed that we (the males in our family) descended from a Jomsviking.

[@mohamedbouh2642]

Than be honored of the fact that your ancestors are dining at Odin's Hall.

[@larshansen4557]

Sounds like a bikergang on ships 😊

[@Schwarzkald]

The Sagas are exaggerated violence to entertain. Just go read the Njals' Saga. The book is full of tragedy, and violence. But I recommend it is a good read. If your not squirmish.

[@TheRealTomahawk]

Vikings are like the modern-day Spartans Acheans, Argives and Hellenes

[@davidcunningham2074]

now it's 4

[@Thekoryosmenstribepodcast]

Vikings has become trendy. Its kind of annoying. I go anywhere with my Mjolnir or my native tattoos showing, and EVERYBODY wants to tell me how their ancestor was Ragnar, or Blood axe, or some Television viking warrior. I just blow it off and continue on my way. The woke vikings, or woke pagans drive me insane. 😑🙄. They will disregard history, just to continue their weird fetish of Netflix Vikings, and worshipping odin indoors. 🤣🤣😆 Thank you for telling the truth about our ancestors and warriors.

[@Breezy-ey3rm]

👍💜

[@DvidTheGnome]

Great video. Also you have a good narrating voice, which is a plus. I would however (as a Christian) take issue with comparing the spread of Christianity to a plague. I mean, I know what you mean, but it sounds so bad.

[@historyprofiles]

My bad, I didn’t mean to present it that way just that it was spreading very quickly!

[@DvidTheGnome]

@@historyprofiles Yes I'm sure no worries :)

[@MrBlue-dm5li]

It was a plague for the Norse and their pagan brothers in Europe. Charlemagne slaughtered tenths of thousands of them!

[@simonmanns430]

Palnatoke. I think that you should pronounce the e in the end of Palnatoke. Don't assume that it is a modern name or word from English but based from the north Germanic one. The E should probably be pronounced like the first E in Everglade. Not pronouncing the e is like not saying the last d in David. Thanks for a great video though.

[@dianesavant2818]

For all the words he speaks, your comment is very rude. Respect his dedication.

[@simonmanns430]

@@dianesavant2818 I kind of did! Did you read the last sentence? What is so rude about it? That I don’t apologize before hand for my comment how languages differs in pronunciation. I would say that is a difference in culture, wouldn’t you say :-).

[@foxgeist3129]

@@simonmanns430 don't bother brodhir, weak people broken by words are irrelevant

[@0leandr1]

Interesting... The bigger the story is the bigger... Pomeranian Slavs that had their capital Stettin just 50km from Jomsborg (Wolin) 😁 Jomsvikings were just allowed to live at Jomsborg trade port. Slavs didn't give a f**k and slashed and burned Norse capital Kanungahela pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitwa_o_Konungahel%C4%99 It looks like probably a revenge for destroying "their" Vikings. This is how Wolin (Jomsborg) area looks like in reenactment so you better take those Sagas about rocky port entrance with a grain of salt: kzbin.info/www/bejne/g4WrlWOYiMZrqbs

[@borzmir9326]

True

[@borzmir9326]

Slavs sacked A lot of times scandy port cities. Like hedeby, roskilde, konungahela, hamburg itzahoe etc

[@mattrhodes3982]

👍

[@Sir-Cordyceps]

As a Swede I don't know why you change the names to a English version. I don't care if you pronounce it wrong but its kind of disrespectful in my opinion to change their names. For example you say "Canut" It's Knut without the A. You could just not say the A and you would say it right. And Thorkell is Torkel. And so on... Also if you need help with how to pronounce names and places I'll be glad to help.

[@TantricBioHacker]

Make a Video of how Christianity destroyed the Vikings and how it was spread by the Danes. Hence why the Danes have a much more problematic realtionship to their Viking ancestry compared to Swedes or Norse.

[@historyprofiles]

@@TantricBioHacker that is a amazing idea! I was going to a video on haakon the powerful and the tale around him sacrificing his eldest son to the Norse gods before the battle against Harald Bluetooth and the Jomsvikings, and his defence of paganism and then Olaf tryggvassons rise and the spread in Norway

[@TantricBioHacker]

​@@historyprofiles Not sure if you have been to the Nordics but both Norway and Sweden has a clear and proud lineage to their Viking past. Mostly Norway to be fair, they use the old names. Many of the provinces like Trondelag (Trond Law similar to Dane Law) are names that are still around today, gods are mentioned, food traditions and words are kept the same. While Denmark went full on Christianity and harped and larped on that stuff. There is a video that mentions the Danish Inquisition of Iceland (their colony) where they burnt Astru elders for sorcery at the sake similar gruesome stuff as Spanish inqusition. I will send you a great video on it. Basically the Danes destroyed the Viking age and they more or less see the middle ages as a natural progression.

[@historyprofiles]

@@TantricBioHacker I have never visited yet! But I am planning too! Yes studying the time the Norsemen were pagans long after the Danes converted. I did a video on Olaf haraldsson and how his spread of Christianity nearly ruined Norway… killing the upland kings after promising he wouldn’t act like Olaf trygvasson but lied and did. Norway had a very chaotic history after the death of fairhair and most of it is down to Christinity and the barbarick ways the kings such as the two Olaf’s tried to enforce… but yes I would love to visit trondelag, the viken and the uplands! Thank you for commenting and I appreacite you

[@TantricBioHacker]

@@historyprofiles Now thanks to AI and other things history can finally move forward and begin to re-collect and recognize things by piecings runes, legends and tales together from multiple sources to find fairly objective truth. do visit Nordiska Asa samfundet (google it afraid to post the link here) for more indepth knowledge of these things.

[@theonehappyorc1235]

I don't know about Scandinavians, but every time I hear 'vaaikings' instead of 'vikings', it decreases my ability to watch a video by 50%.

[@mercurious5053]

Find it harder to accept canoe -t instead of Knut

[@draconelcentelleswoliveres]

It is a legend or history, judge for yourselves. In times of Nordic wars were born the wolves of comvate-berjast við úlfa-a warrior lodge at the service of the highest bidder, was a warrior elite similar to the berserkir but more refined and religious followed the ancient Scandinavian gods and a bariant imported respect for the Móðir- Jörð, these Vikings could give the image of the helmet with horns as some used them as an attribute to the goat clear allusion to his masculinity. When more peaceful times came, the rulers wanted their dissolution because Christianity came and they hated and killed them, lacking resources they gave themselves to banditry and the Scandinavian kings condemned them, seeing their extinction they fled to Iceland with 26 ships, In Iceland they were not allowed to disembark, and being left with no other choice, they went westward and discovered a land called TULAND, today East Greenland. They listened to and learned from the natives of INUIT, whose religion was a variant of the Móðir-Jörð, and became very skilled in sinkings. But they kept bothering the Scandinavians, plundering their ships and coasts in search of food, silver and women, the Scandinavian kings searched hard for them and finally found them in TULAND, and they were imprisoned for 20 years on those coasts and then put to death, the kings said they would kill anyone who wrote about the Vikings in TULAND. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

[@gwenmiller516]

Not “unready”,unraed,meaning uncounceled.

[@Schwarzkald]

Most of the Sagas are made up stories, and the more embellish the more popular the bard will become. So I don't put to much credence to the sagas there a mix of fantasy, exaggeration and history. Really? 9yr old is going to kill three grown men. Whether together, or seperate.

[@Zack-lq9tb]

Definitely sounds unrealistic

[@tutubism]

so are you saying the norse sagas were like an ancient equivalent to today's modern superhero comics and power fantasy stories?

[@LUKDIMENSION]

Vikins 😂🤟

[@Awkbouleavin]

I'm first

[@leighchristopherson2455]

An island does not reside anywhere, an island is located somewhere. Only a living entity resides anywhere.

[@theshamanarchist5441]

Black Sea BarbARYAN trash. X

[@ВиталийБилевич-р1п]

Can the Yamsburg vikings be RUS vikings? In Russia we have town with the same name, Yamburg. The Russian Princes Rurikids, are likeky descendants of Obodrite prince Gotslav, these Wendish, slavic tribes controlled the Are in 9th century, just North of Yamsburg in todays Germany, there is an island Rugen, with ancient site if Svyatovit deity Arcona, Rus vikings-varyangians controlled Rugen until 12-13 century. It is likely that Yomsvikings were partly Obodrites slavic, Rus, and partly Danish, Sweedish, Norwegian entity. Just as knights of Templar were not exclusively frankish, rather it was a brotherhood of Christian Latin faith, Yomsvikings were on the other hand a pagan brotherhood, The area was at crossroads of all scandinavian tribes mentioned above.

[@goblinslayer6375]

Yay my man Thorkell won't die

[@ronedward9955]

Where is Thors?

[@oldcowbb]

Farming in Iceland

[@KaranShah731]

@@oldcowbb😂😂😂

[@slyaspie4934]

What harsh, violent times they lived in, some of these men were truly bloodthirsty

[@patrickrose1221]

Good as gold my ode : ) Any chance you could cover Egil Skallagrimsson's saga please ? I love the fact that when he lost his brother ' Thorolf ' at the Battle of Vin Moor , that the actual battle was mentioned in other accounts about ' King Athelstan ' . : )

[@frodegroven]

No not the greatest, they where driven by money - not beliefs. They lost to the Norwegian Vikings many times

[@Johanisnotreal]

Surprised no one has mentioned vinland saga

[@Son-of-Tyr]

The Jomsvikings were absolutely the greatest warriors of the Viking age.

[@slythehedgewolf1577]

Stop your jest. Tis the ulfednar who were the greatest

[@historyprofiles]

@@slythehedgewolf1577 oooo it’s a hard one, maybe some members of the jomsviking were ulfednar I couldn’t find any sources though

[@slythehedgewolf1577]

@@historyprofiles it would be an awesome battle for sure. The greatest 9f the viking warriors vs the elite beserkers of haralds court

[@benparrish672]

The Norseman Saga's Caelan Erikson wields the Hell-Forged Spear & Glacius Axe & Trinity Shield while trying to procure Divine/Unholy weapons & Relics like "The Blade of Discernment"

[@benparrish672]

"The Norseman Saga" is a 4 novel series about a supposed immortal Norseman Caelan Erikson tht was betrayed for becoming a Christian Released by September 2024

[@TheRealFeechLaManna]

Sounds like the Jomsborg Vikings got their asses kicked at least as much as they kicked ass themselves.

[@North_sea_empire_Viking]

Palnatoke's rules make good sense and should go with out saying in the Viking world. Also, the part where the Jomsvikings executed the Arch Bishop of Canterbury for 'being annoying' was very amusing...as ya do ha ha! Keep up the good work History Profiles!!

[@god6815]

Vinland anyone?

[@sarahgirlisit]

Another amazing video.

[@historyprofiles]

Thank you so much ! It means a lot !

[@gershomtan5879]

Ever heard the tragedy of the jomsviking stillbjorn?

[@ludwigderzanker9767]

Well done sir, informative and very entertaining, thanks for that! Palnatoki, pronounced Pallnatokee, was a exceptional figure in the nordic saga because his preferred weapon due his reputation was the bow and no northman liked the killing from the distance really. A man had to face his enemy on a shield length. Many of the tales around the Jomsvikings are even just tales and some theories suggest that the real Norseman looked down on the Jomsvikings with disgust at their heritage out of Baltic and Slavonic tribes in the lower ranks. Nobody knows when the term Viking was used in the first time but for sure not then . Harald Bluetooth took over the trust in christianity after missionaries cured his toothache. Wollin,the city where Joms was ,was declared by the Soviets 1945 to the GDR means Eastern Germany but Poland occupied it against Stalin...Best regards from Northern Germany Ludwig.

[@Tennyhu]

🔥

[@tylernelson152]

The Norse Spartans

[@Goosebear77]

Another great video. I'm with The Jomsvikings Reenactment Society and this video fits really with what we know about the Jomvikings from the sagas. I'm not a "Jomsviking" but part of The Army Jomsborg., The Jomsvikings are our 'Officers' (to use a modern term). I'm a Free Drengr with The Army Jomsborg. They use the code of the Jomsvikings to test each new member who comes from the Army or "Storms". Kit, knowledge of the Sagas and Runes is of a very high standard for Jomsvikings. The Combat Test is really tough. I know people who have failed the test, sometimes more than once, eventually passing to become Jomsvikings. Safety is our number one concern so you have to be highly skilled even in Stage Combat to become one. I haven't been to Wolin yet but the standards are very high too. To a certain degree, even the part of no women in the Fortress. Women are allowed into the Fortress at Wolin but not allowed to fight. We do have a lot of women fighters in the Army of Jomsborg but they are not allowed to fight at Wolin. The codes of Brotherhood are very important and taken very seriously. Once again, great job with the video.

Could you please tell me, where are you from? I'm just curious, looks like you are doing this pretty seriously.

[@Goosebear77]

@ My family are from Sri Lanka. I was born in London and I have lived in Southern Sweden for almost 5 years.

[@YO_NEEN]

Wodin. The apple of my eye, Woman.

[@AgustePerry]

Where is your society located? Here at Saga min travels, I live mostly in Reykjavik

[@Goosebear77]

@@AgustePerry We're World wide. I don't think we have any groups in Iceland but some of our Scandie and English groups go to Markets in Iceland.

[@samwill7259]

Almost like a Pirate code from several centuries later. Have similar ideas of honor, fairness and brotherhood at least and similar "jobs" of raiding and looting. Vikings WERE just pirates after all when you get down to it.

[@rickgarcia7334]

Damn good laws of who they accepted.

[@caythorgrimson]

they where odin faith norse

[@colebarton3726]

Blue tooth is what I use everyday for my head phone's to connect to my phone, I wonder if the actual thing was named after him.

[@duckify74]

Yes it is- Bluetooth was renowned as a great communicator hence the reason to name the connection technology bluetooth.

[@TyrJustice]

This is the perfect video to get me ready to play the new season of conquerors blade Helheim

[@dianesavant2818]

Love your channel

[@mijiyoon5575]

👍👍👍👍👍 a 9 year old that aggressive .. send them into war...what else ...I agree w/that

[@marinakaiser7639]

They were like todays Elite soldiers

[@fredericomeireles4578]

😂😂😂😂

[@GUSTAVINNESSONN]

I love all this stuff, tales of battle, legendary warriors doing impossible things, 12 year olds raiding among full grown men. Its all mentle and entertaining. The vikings didn't half know how to tell a tale

[@svensvensson627]

Yes.more of this pls

[@yooreekfan]

"Harald Bluetooth" LOL what's that name

[@henrikgustafsson6385]

A dead tooth, maybe? His real name was Harald Gormsson, after his father Gorm. The story goes that the tooth also gave him a terrible ache. We had a priest back home we called Lars Threefinger, but his real name was Lars Rye...

[@yooreekfan]

@@henrikgustafsson6385 my man spitting fax

[@marcmyers1465]

"Like A Plague"... You got that right ! 🤨