The Norwegian Crusade - Vikings in the Holy Land

[@samueledvardsen1723]

Norwegian, saw this, clicked, liked, favourited, shared.

[@AnonNorwegianPartiot]

Same here!

[@AnonNorwegianPartiot]

Anton Babani 1. Don't need to be Catholic to support the Crusades 2. Yes we do, but they are few

[@HaraldBaldr]

3. Don't need to be a Christian either

[@HaraldBaldr]

I value the work done by the crew of Apollo 11 on the moon. So you're saying I'm an astronaut?

[@RambleOn07]

Anton Babani this was after the conversion and before the reformation

[@HaraldBaldr]

Thanks for the shoutout! Enjoyed the primary source accounts as I haven't read any of them. And yes this is of course the most epic Crusade. Nothing like a bunch of Northmen taking matters into their own hands. Heia Norge 🐦 (there is no Raven Banner / Landøyðan / Land-waster emoji so this little bird's head will have to do)

[@Zajuts149]

Abonnert.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

lol wtf never expected to see u here, I didnt even know u were interested in history (except "modern age" one like your video of that dutch naval ship)

[@ericcloud1023]

Thank you for being so dedicated to this quality history! I've learned TONS of awesome details about a period I had otherwise overlooked. Much love!

[@jayasuryangoral-maanyan3901]

Just came across this channel and I can't tell you how long I've been looking for someone who doesn't study this with intense bias. Thanks a lot man

[@AnonNorwegianPartiot]

YES! I have waited for this for years now!

[@Ickie71]

Its "Patriot"

[@a.w.sawtooth9469]

*Vikings..* One minute, they’re a bunch of monastery-sacking pagan raiders having the time of their lives terrorizing Christians. Then next thing you know.. they’re model crusaders and warriors of the faith. Dang, history- you definitely threw us a curve ball there!

[@Ganjaseed]

Have to pick up this new thing called in my free time.

[@JB-ml7xe]

Another fascinating lesser known branch of the crusades thanks for the free content!

[@jesperternow-blomberg9407]

King Sigurd went on an another crusade against the pagans of southeastern Sweden in 1123. Not much is known of what happened but according to the Icelandic historian Snorre Sturlasson there was a battle between christians and pagans, and that Sigurd went back home with loot from the crusade.

[@octodaddy4494]

Jesper Ternow-Blomberg yeah i have read about it before and he crusaded against pagans in Småland if im right. I am also Swedish.

[@JB-ml7xe]

How far will you go with the crusades and the history of the holy land? For example (although it is not a crusade) will you discuss the ottoman, British and modern control of Jerusalem and such?

[@rlbbe5369]

DEUS VULT, DEUS VULT, DEUS VULT!!! What does that have to do with this guys crusader history videos?

[@Z8_8Z]

Interesting. Thank you for your work.

[@sammyperez5413]

Very interesting....is there any documentary on Viking and Muslims Wars, in the 9th century it took place in southern Spain.

[@jozz2248]

History Time covered that a bit. Eric Bloodaxe supposedly found his end there.

[@Baltic_Hammer6162]

Super thanks for the episode. I did not know about this force from Norway but then I wasn't very knowledgeable about the Crusades. Doing some quick research it appears this later group of Norwegians did not loose their skill for raiding and fighting and "resource re-location". LOL Very likely some distance ancestor took part being from Oppland and Romsdal and the area to the east of them.

[@Okami1313]

They weren't too far removed from their pagan roots at this time. I believe this happened around a hundred years after Norway started to become Christianized. King Sigurd later went on a crusade against the pagan swedish, and he did say they fought viking raiders on the way.

[@jonathanwells223]

One of the few happy endings in the High Middle Ages

[@Zajuts149]

Great pronunciation of Norwegian names. It makes it so much better to listen too. Putting an emphasis on the first syllable is usually all it takes to make it sound right:) I remember reading about this in Runciman, and even though I had heard of Sigurd Jorsalfar before, the old king stories are not taught any more in Norwegian schools. IIRC, Runciman put very much emphasis on what a prestige boon the Norwegian crusade was for Baldwin. It was, after all the first royal visit to his new kingdom.

[@WarDogMadness]

awesome videos man its a under rated crusade

[@_________________________7050]

Thank you for the upload!

[@stuckmannen3876]

Christ is king 👑✝️🇳🇴

[@edwardhogan1877]

Is'nt KZbin meant to provide visual experience? Perhaps there should be a separate medium for these podcast type presentations?

[@halfaron]

Are there any recommended books on the Norwegian Crusade? I checked your reading list and didn’t see any there. Thanks.

[@anofsti]

One of the coolest things about this video is the names on the map - Sikileyar, Grikland and Ungarariki - or even Spani - was neat to know. Hasn't changed that much in 800 years

[@antoniorodriguez5849]

i really hope to see you touch the hussite wars, and specially Jan Zizka, in future videos

[@andreydragomirov8559]

Antonio Rodriguez, He is doing videos about the Crusades and other clashes between Christians and non-Christians (Muslims, Pagans, etc.). If you want to see a video about Jan Zizka, you can check the channel History Uncovered.

[@octodaddy4494]

Love it! My ancestors could have been a crusader in this army because im a scandinavian, you never know ;)

[@Watanga10]

I thought Ibn Fadlan in "Russia", the Swedes in Baku, Normans in Sicily, and Basques in Greece were strange enough!

[@LuvBorderCollies]

Norwegian Crusaders to Mediterranean>>>> We're back!!! Did you miss us???? :-))

[@MbisonBalrog]

Did Sigurd really need three years to reach Holy land? Or did he purposefully delay so he can make many stops?

[@deltatrippers]

Love the video as usual. I don't see the link to 'Harold Balder'. Shout out to your book 'Why Does The Heathen Rage'! The book came in some time ago but didn't seem to find the time to read much. Once I picked it up I couldn't put it down. Exciting battles and a well woven love story that not only didn't get in the way of the exciting and pressure filled moments but enhanced them. So when does your next book come out?

[@anthonyhargis6855]

Any relation to Arn? LOL Another excellent video, "J".

[@pierresternegard8085]

Sigurd "Jorsala farare" is then said to have gone crusading in to Swedish Smaland and Oland, there there is a somewhat larger scale battle mentioned supposedly in southern Smaland or on perhaps Oland. But the people were already Christian. The oldest defence churches on Oland were built before the 1100's.

[@wronginfluence]

They went back on their religion. Which again was the beginning of the Northern crusades.

[@bleekskaduwee6762]

I always wondered why people from this part of the world didn't participate in other crusades, especially the 3rd crusade

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

They actually were involved in the Third Crusade on a small scale. Some Norse ships helped with the defense of Tyre, I believe.

[@preacherno]

Interedtingly, the Swedish pro-Palestinian author Jan Gulliou wrote a trilogy about Arn, the Swedish crusader. No mention of the Norwegian crusade, and it was all about how humane the Muslims were. The crusader kings, however, slaughtered en masse in his fictional rendering of the history.

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

Jan's books are really terrible. Aside from the historical issues, they're just very boring and flat.

[@anofsti]

By river, not by land on the way home (mostly)

[@gladstanegonder4970]

viking pirates in 1108 as far west as Galicia ? interesting ! only known about some last vikings in the baltic and other regions very close to Scandinavia, after the official end of their era in 1066

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

Some accounts have Vikings raiding into the 1100's and after the Christian Kings smashed the pagan arms the last Vikings fled to Iceland and formerly green and forested Greenland.

[@Ickie71]

The English King Harold put an end to the viking rampages

[@williamwayland1888]

Just curious. There seems to be a massive contradiction in my simple uneducated mind. If he was the first European king, that came on the heels of the first crusade, then by whom was the first crusade executed with. Which nations? If he was the first king from Europe, all others prior would constitute a non European army. somebody's history is fuzzy

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

You're right, someone's history is fuzzy. You need to read about the First Crusade. It was led by a group of counts and dukes. No kings were involved.

[@williamwayland1888]

That distinction is not clear at all. "It was led by a King". I now understand that you was speaking of an actual co-location with the army. Honest mistake. That term is relative and under personal application. Did Eisenhower lead the Allied forces in WWII? Yes. How much combat was he involved in.........0. There were many kings involved. On the battlefield, there was none. I was hoping you didnt make that abhorrent blunder.

[@williamwayland1888]

Also, in my first post, I made no mention of co-habitation with the army. "then by whom was the first crusade executed with. Which nations". Being "led" does not require any degree of physical proximity.

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

agreed

[@christianfreedom-seeker2025]

@@RealCrusadesHistory Ahem! You seem to forget that the First Crusade was led by the Holy Roman Emperor, the King of France and the King of England! How could you have missed that???

[@peggybrem2848]

Fantastic! I wonder how much booty from the Norwegian raids on the way to the Holy Land went home in the baggage train of King Sigurd…

[@manolisboutsina7810]

I love this history but I don't like what the Crusades did to Constantople the ransack of it

[@RealCrusadesHistory]

That was just some crusaders, in fact a very small percentage of all crusaders in history.

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

dont like what they did to latin merchants in 1182 too (20 years before 4th), dont like when isaac betrayed richard in cyprus 1189 and definately dont like how we helped alexios 4th on his OWN wish to help free his dad and his throne but byzantine turned on us lol

[@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك]

​@@bruhmcchaddeus413 How can they trust the Europeans when you, Berbers, took their land in the West? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك exactly lol u explained it furthermore, thats why. Why would we care about east traitors 😂

[@Opochtli]

Neat

[@bergssprangare]

What an amazing endeavour..People then lived much more fulfilling..Imagine to defeat nernber pirates..loot their gold and burn their mosque..I would give my left arm for that..

[@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك]

Jesus: And what happened to them? Oh, I forgot. Their leader was killed and they became cheese makers for the Muslims ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@macmckulis7440]

Love it God bless you

[@manolisboutsina7810]

so only a small band? they took everything and left a weak and open to the Turks

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

dude we were at open war with byzantine so many times in history even before 4th crusade lol why would we care? we were business partners at max

[@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك]

​@@bruhmcchaddeus413You mean the pirates, man? The Normans in Sicily were more successful than the Vikings

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك yes thats what I said

[@bruhmcchaddeus413]

@@عليياسر-ف4ن9ك yes u right, they absolutely were. Vikingg is just job of being pirate yea

[@JB-ml7xe]

First?

[@Rikard_A]

Calling them vikings would and is wrong.

[@WarDogMadness]

the Norse were still viking until 1240ds

[@Thor-Orion]

See, but there were Vikings before Vikings, as well as Vikings after the Viking age. Check out this thing called The Great Conspiracy where a bunch of northern Germanics went raiding against Rome around the year 370. Many of these northern Germanics settled in northern Gaul. Which later became Normandy. I have Norman ancestry myself, so it’s interesting to me that Rollo was no where near the first Northman leader to settle in Normandy. So when people say that Normans were Frankish-Norse, they’re actually not 100% right in that assessment. Normans were likely a mixture of many kinds of northern Germanic, everything from Saxons to Franks to Norwegians and all manner of other Northern tribes arrived in Gall during this time, the very early stages of the Germanic Migration Period.