The Real Story of Ragnar Lothbrok and His Three Wives

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The period between the end of the eighth century CE and the middle of the eleventh is often called the “Viking Age” because this is the period in which Scandinavian people expanded their contacts with the outside world through trade, raiding, exploration, and colonization.
Our new book presents a version of Ragnar Lodbrok's saga compiled from different modern sources, along with information providing additional historical and documentary context, followed by a discussion of some aspects of modern appropriations and representations of ancient Norse culture.
The first section of the book provides historical context for Ragnar Lodbrok's saga through an exploration of daily life in ninth-century Scandinavia and of contemporary Viking culture and history.
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[@harrydaniels2788]

How the little piggies 🐷 will grunt when they hear how the old boar 🐗 suffered!!

[@iammusa7919]

😂😅

[@deseangotell3644]

Just watched that part again lmao

[@harrydaniels2788]

@@deseangotell3644 - Me to. Lol 🤣 😆 😂

[@seankately4411]

Damn right!! Wish they would do some prequel stuff. Or anything more with Ragnar

[@harrydaniels2788]

@Sean Kately - Exactly right 👍!!

[@PNQuinn]

I am of Norwegian ancestry and love to hear the Viking tales over & over. This was very well done!

[@nbenefiel]

The Norse sagas are all available in English, if anyone is interested.

[@kierj9858]

Damn, I should have read these stories before having the History channel's Vikings mess up my brain! LoL, love these stories!

[@CourageGraceandKickintheAss]

Shows tend to do that, makes for better entertainment and more material.

[@mormacfey]

After all History channel is Disney owned, what did you expect?

[@oliwwer]

Why not mention that Sigurd Ring was a swedish king?

[@peterjansson6468]

Yes. He ruled from Uppsala

[@Bruce4lmighty]

The prevailing theory of most historians is that Ragnar was fictional and likely a combination of 3 vikings. I like to think he was real

[@John-wr6yo]

Eggel the bald was seven feet tall and dove up the stones to make his forge. His bad temper caused his exile from his native land. At the end of his life ,his third leg dripped and drooped,and he was given a special place by the fire.

[@ImCarolB]

What a heroic saga! I listened to this because a Norwegian friend has a cat she has named Lodbrok. I looked up the name and think it is perfect for a furry cat. Then I wanted to know more about Ragnar.

[@chill21100]

"It gladdens me to know that Odin has prepared for a feast, soon I shall be drinking Ale from curved horns. This hero that comes into Valhalla does not lament his death. I shall not enter Odins hall with fear. There, I shall wait for my son's to join me and when they do I will bask In their tales of triumph. The assir will welcome me, my death come without apology and I welcome the Valkarys to summon me home"

[@nicholemariejohnsonforbis3482]

When I see and when I hear this I get this really good feeling inside it's weird ik but I think it's by the way it's said with such passion and meaningful words I love this!!!

[@crazlady8648]

What a well done grippingly authored story. Holding me to the very end. I truly can't wait to hear the others an read of the full books! Thank you for bring history alive again.

[@CaptivatingHistory]

Thank you for your comment, we very much appreciate it!

[@jerryramon844]

Ili

[@evaaura214]

I've always felt that Vikings, the series, was of more authentic account of Ragnar and his rule. Thank you for confirming this 😁

[@Msmargret1]

There aren't many in my Favorites, Library category;; thank you! I'm subscribed, and don't know how I never found you before!

[@WiseAngelUK]

I thoroughly enjoyed this narration

[@israel22reynoso]

Can you please make the nexr video of the story of Beowulf? I really love the stories like this

[@the2ndcoming135]

Might as well right?🤔

[@colinwithonel.9831]

I have to admit that RAGNAR is a badass name! 👍😃

[@thomascargin]

My Aunt's are all fair haired fearless ragnarsons before marriage

[@thehuscarl4835]

It's a real story, even if the story isn't real.

[@VElizabethWhitecrochet]

I truly enjoyed listening to this story, well done! Makes for an excellent story for us insomniacs, too. ♥️👍

[@serina091975]

I'm here insomniacing

[@lorilewis4447]

Yes. In my family tree he was killed by the pit of snakes. Sad! I am thankful for him. My family is here due to him being one of my 38th Great Grandfathers. I knew some of what he did. Thank you for making this video. Vikings! 🕊 ❤

[@the2ndcoming135]

Hi cousin😆

[@bobbibacha]

He is my 33rd great grandfather yes he was super awesome

[@geirarnehelland7271]

Every single person of european heritage is directly related to every person that lived in the 8th century, but Lothbrok is probably just a myth. 38 generations back means he was one of your 1 trillion ancestors. :D

[@bobbibacha]

@@geirarnehelland7271 he is my direct 38th great grandmother

[@geirarnehelland7271]

​@@bobbibacha He is my 34th grandfather. But every european today has him as his direct ancestor, if he actually lived in the 8th century. You are a direct ancestor of all people that lived at that time and has a lineage.

[@Jesse-B]

The only resemblance between the tv show, enjoyable as it was, and the actual sagas, is little more than the names. A thoroughly enjoyable presentation.

[@nbenefiel]

I thought they did a decent job given that the stories are close to 2,000 years old. The series had to appeal to a TV audience. If the show interests them, the sagas are easily available. I read them in grad school in Old Norse. I could not do it today.

[@Jesse-B]

@@nbenefiel "The series had to appeal to a TV audience", well it certainly appealed to me. When it ended, I wanted more. crazy huh?

[@griffin3508]

Very well done sir👍👍👍

[@natedorney7032]

Thora Townheart was the one who suffered the fate that the TV show version of Aslaug did.

[@fzdreaddy]

How do you figure? Lagertha killed Aslaug in the show...

[@sherrybriggs5459]

Thank you I really appreciate your story

[@alanaadams7440]

Don't know about historic story. But it is entertaining 🤠

[@kellidyarberry9782]

I love this!!!! Amazing history lessons

[@the2ndcoming135]

Yeah, it’s trippy because that’s literally what my body looked like about twenty years ago. Haircut and all😆

[@kellidyarberry9782]

@@the2ndcoming135 LMMFAO 🤣 time does the body good

[@the2ndcoming135]

@@kellidyarberry9782 Oh, I was a beast on the field in my day💪🏽

[@kellidyarberry9782]

@@the2ndcoming135 I bet you still are

[@the2ndcoming135]

@@kellidyarberry9782 well, yeah. Gotta operate without my super hero costume being recognized so much tho😌

[@angelamagruder5911]

This was good really enjoyed,most of the viking things I have read were very savage with lots of plundering and brutality,but this sensibly told really enjoyed and trully captivated,thanks!!!!!!

[@mandyk4988]

@Karl Childers thanks for that info! I’m going straight there before I forget 🙌

[@charlesbrumback5051]

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[@justinludeman8424]

A great narrative awakening of the Saga of Ragnar Lothbrook. Thanks.

[@clausholm4130]

Missing one piece of the death song. Ragnar says: Grunt, the piglets will if they knew what the old Boar suffered. In Danish: Grynte ville grisene hvis de vidste hvad galten led. It is a joke and a hint of revenge. The saying is still part of the Danish language to this day.

[@the2ndcoming135]

Welp, did my job. Defended the old man so I wouldn’t get disowned. Your turn kids🤣

[@ashlykuhn2220]

Was he not a swede

[@the2ndcoming135]

@@ashlykuhn2220 he was mixed actually. LMAOOOOO

[@messire9837]

@Karl Childers bjorn never existed. It's fiction. If you need to know everything, it's all written on the Bayeux Tapestry, as opposed to amazon "vikings" wikia. Dude.

[@messire9837]

@Karl Childers Some grave with a lad named bjorn, it sounded so kool as a king for a show, no? and it doesn't prove anything about a viking "king" by the way, that never existed in the first place. As for Danemark itself, it was founded by the king of the Frank and First Holy Roman Emperor, Charlemagne. Evidence being, it's spelled DANEMARK, as the frozen march of the Danes it always has bin. Not "Denmark" out of any kind of blue deprived of instructed French perspective. And I know the Nords better than you. Because 1) You quite literally adressing the present count of Champagne, right now. 2) Danes exist as a civilization honored by the Franks thank to the alleged end of one single man. His name was Oger the Dane, Charlemagne most single and deadly Senechal de France there ever was. ... That's also why the ACTUAL founder of the danes is also celebrated as HOGIER, the Jack of Spades, as codified in the ducal cards to celebrate his historical victory against lesser beings in 1453. History paid the big price though, as the byzantine empire dropped it the very same year. Now, do you feel like needing more of MYtory? Mmmh? And when I say wikia, I'm in "oui, qui a" as I tend to spit in glitch my own weight, as I see feet, from time to time. Me lad. Aye, sole tea. Don't you ever try do diminish the major influence France (hence the word "franchise") had on any "kind of" civilization your little brain could ever muster, me lad.

[@Keetoowah5]

Great Story. I am impressed. 😊

[@AryanKnightofDeath]

I'm blind in one eye from a battle in an American prison, so reading is difficult. Thank you for skillfully reading these wonderful stories I enjoyed it more than you realize. 👌

[@Tcup1982]

⚡️⚡️

[@erkl8823]

​@@Tcup1982does that mean A.B?

[@erkl8823]

​@@Tcup1982nevermind, LoL, I just read his name. Got it. That's what I would do if serving time too...

[@patnisbert5636]

What a beautiful story

[@frontierjustice8391]

THANK YOU.

[@izaacleon9419]

A lot of details were very off or misplaced or simply added in to make modern sense but I found it to be very captivating and possibly learned a new thing or two to look into

[@masterk5372]

Agree

[@mikey-simplespritchard4340]

As much as i adore the series of Vikings. But imagine if they did the whole of this story, theyd have so much more episodes and id be highly hooked as i am on Vikings. watched it 3times already and half way through season1 again

[@jeannedavies]

Thank you

[@thedoctor6332]

i enjoyed that nice

[@stebbigunn7690]

Kráka, Áslaug and Gríma are the same persone, Áslaug changed her name throut her life and after Ragnars death she took the name Kráka. For real. Read the books for once befoure making videoes on it online. And in what book do thay say Lagatha met Ragnar. It does not come in Ragnarsdrápu, Þættir Ragnarssonum or Völsungasaga witch are the only books written from the north about him. One other book his name comes up but that is an saxon book, you can imagen how you would make him look after he deared to kill monks and prests. (That is also the only book written on lagatha, and the old scandinavian writings do not even acknolage her at all in there storyes)

[@nopeyadayadayada1248]

Am not normally in to stories with animation but this was very well done. I'm an actor that can appreciate when a tale is portrayed so well that the audience member loses themselves in the narrative, which is exactly my experience watching your piece.

[@1w598]

Good info, but the tempo & pace of the background music does not fit well with the video.

[@dickmcshan9778]

"The real story..." and several images of the characters are shown having horns on their helmets. Cheers, Dick from Vancouver.

[@raymondcote2414]

Viking didn't have horns on there helmets.

[@dickmcshan9778]

@@raymondcote2414 My point, exactly! ;)

[@nicholemariejohnsonforbis3482]

This would make a great movie

[@Shervin86]

Ragnar was wearing shaggy pants before it was a thing.

[@leddielive]

The MC Hammer of his day.

[@angelamagruder5911]

An interesting lifestory,of valor with courage and courting to marry,very intriguing too!!!!!!!🤔🙄

[@mandyk4988]

Love the first story-Nothing brings a young couple together like slaying enemies upon the battlefield 💙❤️🔪🪓⚔️🗡⛏🛡 😚🥺💐🌹👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️👫👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨🎉

[@Lyssa_Discordia]

Always a pleasure to watch and what a lovely girl. Thank you as always Dave and camera lady.

[@marionstout9514]

What source did you find these stories. There are so many versions.

[@AnthonyStoneWilliams]

No volume. I couldn't hear a darn thing in this video. Darn it. I really wanted to watch this.

[@williambranham7777]

I can tell you what the problem with Ragnar's wives are they all hate each other so Ragnar said F this and walked a way with two middle fingers in the air

[@davidparker8281]

YOU. TELL. A. GOOD. STORY

[@jbird976]

Imagine being 15 years old, your mom dies and your dad goes super simp for a woman who he barely knows, fails to get with her and kills himself to be with her, maybe...

[@rosaliehagart1888]

Braw 😊 thanx

[@PaulaakaPaben]

At this time there were no Norway, Denmark or Sweden yet, the land was divided by Kingdoms! Ragnar it said had A Danish tie, as does Rollo The Dane! I am A descendent from Rollo and some other Viking Kings as well!Love these stories, but would Love to find where Rollo (Hrolf) fits in!

[@healdiseasenow]

I saw this video and I'm like 🥳 PLAY

[@mickifoland2186]

Ragnar's sons would have been half brothers, not step brothers.

[@dinarusso3320]

Magic shirt, perhaps it was made with some type of armor that's why he always escaped battle without a scratch?

[@user-qz2wb6dt1i]

How u make this figures?! What app u use?

[@juliemunoz2762]

is the a hard bound version of the book?

[@AryanKnightofDeath]

Interesting

[@tonyamcinvale-brown5950]

Love the story! But they were half brothers..not step🥰and it's Godfather not foster father

[@ladyviking89]

This is my ancestor I came through his son Bjorn ironside

[@the2ndcoming135]

Hi, cousin🙋🏽‍♂️

[@shewho333]

I came through both Sigurd Snake-in-the-eye and Bjorn Ironside. Hello cousins!

[@karengilliland2439]

I came through Ivar the Boneless and Sigurd Snake -in-the-eye. Hello cousins!

[@Ghaztoir]

Yeah, ok

[@jamielucas8392]

There is no historical evidence Ragnar even existed, none. It's wild how so many people are somehow related to a fictional character. 🤣

[@jeannedavies]

I loved him X

[@MosHighChadro]

what a beast.

[@AngryOtter614]

All in all it sounds like Ragnar lived a pretty good life.

[@FavioredValkyrie]

He did, he say's hi. I see him every day. My job takes me to Valhalla daily.

[@patrickjorda5523]

Dragons bane....that one's a tale for sure..😅

[@leodowneyjr9594]

3 top historical movies for your day. King Arthur director's cut only" w Clive Owen Kiera Knightley and many great actors. Pompeii w kit Harrigan and keifer Sutherland, huge gladiator movie. And then Gladiator itself. You can find all 3 free on youtube and lots of Vikings from history Chanel's go get your Ragnar Lothbrok on. Vikings you gotta see that.

[@k.s.k.7721]

All of these films I would characterize as "historical fantasy", as there's very little actual history, while a great deal of imagination and plain untruths were used to make up the screenplays.

[@milagroscastillo6647]

I liked the story especially of vikings

[@kimmccabe1422]

Great story but to say, Real Story...well myth or fact hmm. Still enjoyed.

[@ladypyro7987]

There as real as the fictional stories in the bible! I don’t understand how people can believe what’s in the bible and think that Viking sagas aren’t real, the sagas are more real to me then ANYTHING in the fictional bible.

[@Micha.59]

It's Sigurd that kills the dragon if u read about Sigurd and the dragon it's a old storie her in Skandinavin sry my English.

[@aspenenglish4976]

Burned bread lol😂! The tv show has me so messed up.

[@TheMelbournelad]

Wow and GoT I thought was hard to follow all the threads

[@chocho8036]

many comments of being related to Ragnar and not to be a killjoy but many historians are not certain that he was real. he is not considered a specific historical person, like Rollo, or William the Conqueror, for example, who are real people who interacted with other known historical persons Rollo had an agreement with King Charles the Simple of west Francia william the conqueror was married to Mathilda descendant of Alfred the Great. many of the characters in the Ragnar story are not necessarily proven historical people.

[@Rougeification]

Very fun, also very inaccurate to *all the sagas* But, it's a fun story. That's the point of the Saga's, so fair enough. (P.S, Erik and Agner were children of his first wife, who was not Aslaug. Their eldest child was Ivarr).

[@davidgraham2673]

Ah yes, Ragnarok. I seem to recall Thor mentioning it.

[@fromsupply2superfly101]

Can there really be a TRUE story about Ragnar? We only have legends

[@MidMo4020]

Right! And the way practically everything is being feminized, truth is going to become harder and harder to find.. you can’t listen or watch anything anymore without the woman correcting or saving the idiotic male. It’s made entertainment ridiculous..

[@MrBrutalicus]

People have to belive i guess. 🤣

[@P.G.1966]

Amen.

[@the2ndcoming135]

He had a lot of enemies back then. Nobody is gonna tell the truth about a mortal enemy even if he is European royalty. And, that my friend is why I’m glad I’m the only black one of the litter willing to show up at the family reunion😎

[@steenlassen5718]

Only one thing is certain: once there was a guy called Ragnar Lodbrog, or Furpants in english. He made a name for himself throgh his behavior. What he did is both real and imagination, but nobody knows what is what.

[@sykosis123]

He sounds like a character from Skyrim!

[@madsmer7526]

WHat is missing inthe show ragnar met lagertha

[@nielsjosefsen431]

In legends. The Current Queen of Denmark Margrethe the II, has his blood in her vains.

[@SonofDiablo97]

Ragnar and Lagertha had a son Fridleif and two unamed daughters

[@Micha.59]

Hear about woulf Palnatoke

[@christophersetzer2522]

Can't even pronounce the names right lagertha lol ok decent video I like how you came up with the dialog to tell the story

[@leodowneyjr9594]

Glorious. This how I'm trying to live, "without breaking too many more major laws" I'd love to meet a sheild maiden like that. I'm Celtic but I feel these people more than anyone else. Tho Celtic stories are very rare. The Roman's so hurt by my peoples strength in resistance that the made many slaves of my people would be Gladiators in the such and mostly they killed off our only masters of reading and writing history and I will destroyed whatever the writing and artifacts anything that they could find of the celtics. Just they just decimated the ones in Europe but my ancestors in the UK really give them a hard fight for which they took the South and created Hadrian's Wall kept my people to the north man my mother's people anyway the kincaids and my mother's father's people who became the westcotts far north England before Scotland they went through a different name I don't know if they were part of the pics or who they were. But they were there. And my father's people had gone to Ireland the o d o w n e y Clan when I looked up their name and the kincaids they were listed as people who would fought the Romans and we're originally from somewhere in the UK but ended up where they were because South half of England taken by the Romans until the Romans left around 500 AD the time of the real Chief Arthur or King Arthur and the Anglo-Saxons came on down what a nightmare that was actually later today I'm going to watch the one good closer to truth King Arthur director's cut with all sorts of really great actors including Keira Knightley is going to be her Celtic Warrior lady and they show Merlin as he really was just as the Celtics da Vinci man of wisdom great inventor magic to the uninitiated I guess you could say. Yeah the Romans really slaughtered a great number of people that were our leaders are priests all in one they all met and trained and learns and one large island and in certain places and then went back out to the people of their local lands where they would teach and guide and Lead there but would occasionally meet back with the others of their kind the infamous druids. The Roman's called druids bad for human sacrifice but it's ok to put defenseless pacifist Christians to death in a Colosseum. Not a fair fight with a Lion. Realy not cool man. God, I love history. Today Il watch Clive Owans King Arthur only the director cut" 2x action. And then the gladiator movie "Pompeii" another insanely good history type huge movie with Kit Harrigan as the main warrior on of the last Horsemen Celtic warriors. As a brutal Gladiator when the volcano blew. KIEFFER Sutherland is a great bad guy in that movie, perfect Roman A hole And he can fight well. Great actors

[@rydermccracken9199]

I'm from McCracken clan if you know how to read Celtics language McCracken comes from McNaughton but in Celtics the n sounds as an R so in kind of sounds like McCracken

[@jenniferwerezak4165]

i would totally watch videos of you rambling. really neat hearing your family history and your insights into history! keep sharing =)

[@hoomansawakenwoof5746]

Romans were invited into england,they never took over ireland,king Arthur is a myth,man Hollywood has fukd u up bro

[@evanpenny348]

This is all good fun, and I have enjoyed listening to the stories, but horned helmets? This detail is just not accurate. Horns on a battle helmet invites an opponent to hook or knock it off your head.

[@raymondcote2414]

Viking didn't have horns on there helmets.

[@peterjansson6468]

Was it in York that Ragnar met his deth

[@ericdillon7467]

What happened to that shirt mom made?

[@joseluisperez4015]

IF THIS GREAT STORY 👍WOULD HAVE MADE IT TO BIG SCREEN THEIR'S NO WAY IT WOULDN'T BE A SMALL BUDGET MOVIE

[@ericdillon7467]

Thora, that's my wife... now I'm confused...

[@chocho8036]

Lagertha never heard of a long distance relationship ? 😂 sounds ultimatum ish 😂

[@steenlassen5718]

Old Furpants rides again....

[@nyhuus85]

Jutland spells jylland hehe

[@CrestxWalker]

Hey, KZbin I'll watch this video later and please remind me in the evening. I know you listen & will see my comment.🙂

[@iosefotaylortupuanaiteomat3241]

FOR A SECOND I THOUGHT IT WAS GOR THE GOD KILLER FROM THOR LOVE AND THUNDER.🤦‍♂️👈

[@liseleblanc100]

what do you mean Real Story of Ragnar ??

[@ericdillon7467]

Aren't Thelma and Warnies, scary enough for you Todd? You never listen to Thelma of Norway, "if this is what you want in 20yrs Todd than you better remember, he's who catches the flowers to have some to give to her, now you got him dressed in pink? Why can't you just figure out how to keep your ranged pants to yourself, because if he's this screwed up this many years later cause we had a long asset list of shit to find out that he's over heard eather! You'll see why Warnny said yeah, you'd be better off going fishing or what the hell it is that your supposed to do in New Halem, we're guessing it has to do with what ever the God's name in illegal hell we're forced by law to hear and see his whole life too!

[@turtleanton6539]

wow

[@olivertripp5412]

The real legend would be a more fitting title as it's not really history.

[@ericdillon7467]

See!

[@aleksaradosavljevic4001]

Ragnar was so ferocious that he enjoyed killing scenes.

[@the2ndcoming135]

Love how this narrative basically implies he used Odin’s spear to slay the dragon that held his future wife captive. And, it took three strong men to remove the metal from the beast’s hide💀

[@ronputnam7768]

@@the2ndcoming135;

[@the2ndcoming135]

@@ronputnam7768 yes, I’m aware Europe kinda hated my grandpa. So, I figured I better stick up for him since I’m the Black one and it’s not in their best interest to attack me😉

[@aieyangjamir]

Almost lead me to believe this was the real story of ragnar until the Dragon came into the story.but still listening

[@MandallGoldtooth-my1cm]

Just learning the history about the rules about how the souls are supposed be separate from the living off Man kind & Women & children's souls .

[@Shaggarott]

My 35th great grandfather

[@lindleloverwatterson3484]

You have a relative in the comments

[@pathfndr4711]

You lost me when the dragon entered the story. Ragnar did exist, but a dragon? Otherwise well done

[@ericdillon7467]

See, I told you, Lee there's nothing I can do tied up in ropes or handcuffed!

[@ericdillon7467]

Oh, are Todd and I living some weird duelity? I'm Thor, I'm confused.... usually Ragnar is married to Paula... oO Lucifer ( listening ) wtf