The Unspeakable Things Vikings Did During Their Reign

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n February 2022, Netflix premiered the sequel to History Channel's "Vikings," called "Vikings: Valhalla." Two main characters are the famous Leif Eriksson and his sister, Freydis Eriksdotter. As you may know, Leif is reputed to have arrived in North America centuries before Christopher Columbus. Some accounts in the Norse sagas include a couple of tales of Leif's sister, Freydis - but in one of them, the close brother-sister relationship depicted in the series is anything but that! We'll tell you about that in a moment.
The Vikings were brutal. It was the early Middle Ages - everyone was brutal. The most powerful Christian king at the start of the Viking era was Charlemagne. Charlemagne may have been Christian and well-educated, but that didn't stop him from waging a genocidal war against the Saxons of Germany in his campaign to convert them to Christianity. Saxon children were instructed to report any pagan activity. Many pagan men and women were burned alive, and many Saxon children were taken back to Charlemagne's kingdom and raised as Christians. Pretty brutal, right?
The Magyars of today's Hungary became Christian around 1000 under King, now "saint" Stephen. Stephen was brutal, too - he burned stubborn pagans at the stake, among other punishments.
The only real reason the Vikings were considered especially brutal - and they were, make no mistake - was that combined with their brutality was their habit of appearing suddenly out of nowhere and killing many unsuspecting people. Then, they took the survivors as slaves and then disappeared. They did this for about 300 years before most converted to Christianity. At that point, Scandinavian raids essentially stopped, and the tales of their brutality stopped as well.
00:00 Start
01:29 Conquer The Seas
03:35 Freydis Eriksdotter
07:10 Erik the Red
09:55 Slaves, not always intact ones
12:21 Female slaves
13:08 “Vikings” did get some things right
15:11 Warfare, up close and personal
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[@davea6314]

A Viking man can impress women by demonstrating how he takes his longship up a canal to deliver seeds which can be planted in fertile places.

[@mikewazouski1717]

Warships is actually good tbh but I am a tank guy.

[@lesliecheung1478]

you should do a video on the Roman Catholic Church and the Pope. How millions were killed to covert none Christians to the church in Africa/Americas...the belief is still strong now because back then either you believe or you die. spanish inquisition, the pope.....jez.....you got a whole season of stuff...virtually all wars upto recent times...the church was involved.

[@joannemadden7449]

I wanted to write, THANK YOU. My Daughters are 1st Generation Americans. I'm Irish, during "The Potato Famine" we were starved out of Our Home. So many don't know or don't want to believe that not only Black People were forced into slavery, I believe the word for them were, "Indentured Servants" the color of the skin doesn't matter to animals that feel the need to control, beat and rape

[@LV-426...]

The further you go down the history timeline the more brutal the life was. Those who wish they could live in those times have no clue what they are talking about.

[@poodie3887]

I wish I could live in those times but with one condition only, I’m the only human with modern guns

[@gvsd3]

@@poodie3887 just be wary when you run out of ammunition my friend

[@poodie3887]

@@gvsd3 you think I wouldn’t have a plan for that

[@3PercentNeanderhal]

@@poodie3887 “THIS IS MY BOOM STICK !!!”

[@bloodcards3084]

@Adam Gerics yeah right dude, one night without your wifu pillow and you'd want to go back.

[@tryggmundur1188]

The reason the runic alphabets were so limited in size is because it was a phonic alphabet. For instance, the letter 'c' doesn't exist in the Futharks because it's use has the same sound as 'k' and 's'. So they just used those letters in place of 'c' because it's redundant. It also allowed certain sounds, such as 'th' and 'ng' to have their own letters. Runic alphabets condensed the number of letters needed to write words correctly, and make it easy to understand how they sounded. Modern english is a very inefficient language when it comes to writing, due to so many redundant letters and the lack of sound-specific letters. 'Þ' was a great letter, why the english language abandoned it is beyond me.

[@Leboobs22]

đ is pronounced as th. So north would be spelled Norđ. I wonder if that's where nords come from?

[@sankap.h.1461]

Anyone fantasizing about living in the medieval times doesn't know anything about those times. There are certain aspects of those times that can be considered adventurous or exciting but most of it was wrought with suffering and hardship. People in modern times, in the west in particular, have grown so soft and whimpy from the luxuries of modern life that none of us would survive very long at all in those harsh times. That is the truth.

[@Fatherland927]

Wannabe vikings truly are cringe. They think fighting but they never think of the toil to survive

[@phoenixj1299]

Absolutely

[@phoenixj1299]

@@ScentitarFragrance I would like you live their lifestyle for a day. You would cry like a baby within 20 hours.

[@RS__7]

@@phoenixj1299 Would be difficult for anyone born in this time to survive the medieval period (if we had a time machine)....A lot of young men these days would struggle in the 70's and 80's let alone the medieval Viking age. Would be like putting a pampered shih tzu handbag dog in a Wolfpack and expecting it to survive 😂

[@phoenixj1299]

@@RS__7 haha. Absolutely. Kids of these generation would shit themselves in those times. They can't even survive for a day lol

[@solarguy1702]

Just watched the old Kirk Douglas movie, The Vikings. Portrayed as fun loving, hard drinking rogues. Always laughing. Funny to see Ernest Borgnine as the king.

[@xhagast]

The movie started with him ra*ing somebody. Fun guys indeed. I loved the movie, though.

[@sterling557]

Odin!!

[@davea6314]

A Viking man can impress women by demonstrating how he takes his longship up a canal to deliver seeds which can be planted in fertile places.

[@Justin.Martyr]

*MorRon, of In-Breeed Origen!!!*

[@pueblonative]

Now he can impress women by demonstrating how far he can take the pigskin up the Packers territory.

[@williammontgrain6544]

Quite the analogy 🙄

[@williammontgrain6544]

@@Justin.Martyr REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

[@TheIamtheoneandonly1]

Humph! So much for the *oral* traditions of the Vikings then😮😉

[@ShadesApeDJansu]

Christian Finland, glad i am half-swede finn. Got some viking oompf, but i like being "finnish" and a Christian, I am amazed to see a sponsor on you're channel this late, they should have been with you from the day 1, A Day In History is a Golden Eggs laying goose, i like this kind of concent the best on tube. Really great narrative and great animations, really love it it's nice to learn history this way

[@happymonk4206]

15:48, that large muscular character is called Kane. He is a lead in the book Darkness Weaves by Karl Wagner. I highly recommend it, it's a great adventure if you like Viking stuff.

[@hexenwulfen]

I read that book a long time ago.

[@bystanderbutch3509]

The Vikings are fighting a constant battle in the quest of another Super Bowl. What they fail to realize is they're in the same division of the almighty Chicago Bears. They're fighting a losing battle, but you have to admire their courage.

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

Am so glad I was born in the late 20th Century and exist as a Professional in the 21st century because honestly I wouldn't live beyond my teenage years in Viking times ...

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

No raping and pillaging for you then 🤷‍♂️

[@michaeldy3157]

Many eras sucked

[@deadheadwsp705]

Who knows maybe you would’ve been a badass

[@ebubechiibegbula5968]

@@deadheadwsp705 me hmmmm I honestly doubt that...

[@vladjose]

@@deadheadwsp705 by killing & raping huh!??

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

As a historian Alfred Smyth has remarked, 'Even allowing for the cliches, Skaldic poetry betrays a taste for violence on the part of the Norse aristocracy that verged on the psychopathic!!'

[@douglasjones2955]

Jens Stoltenberg

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

Hard times make strong men Strong men make good times Good times make weak men Weak men make hard times

[@41kils]

@@jacobjorgenson9285 shitty men make shitty times and shitty men which make more shitty times and shitty men until they get replaced en masse by a better group of men

[@derekroberts7217]

Fun little thing happened in high school, we were doing some genealogy stuff to see how close everyone in class might be related (small community) our teacher after she had reviewed the reports told the class how closely anyone was related to anyone else. Anyway, my best friend and I were related through Eric The Red.

[@johnscanlon9403]

Really? That's awesome.

[@eddiebear34]

And how do you know its through Eric the red?

[@eddiebear34]

@Uncle Hoax oh I get it. My second name is Bruce, I'm Scottish. But I have zero chance of finding out if I'm related to Robert the Bruce. What these people who want to be vikings need to realise, is 1- birth records at the earliest started around 300 years ago. About 7 centuries after the vikings era. 2- eric the red was in Greenland and their birth records were even later at around 100 years ago. That's 9 centuries after the vikings. 3- they don't have these famous vikings DNA to even try and match it up in a lab. There is zero chance of knowing you came from Eric the red. History stopped paying attention to his offspring around his grandchildren. After that it's completely lost.

[@donkim3493]

How did you guys come to this conclusion?

[@irontrunk2267]

Go back 1000 years and you will have around 1600 ancestors. Go back 1500 years 3600 ancestors and it only gets worse further back. Chances are most in your area are a descendant of him.

[@dp7933]

"near sighted vikings"... It's likely that their lifestyle prevented a lot of near-sightedness. Being outdoors reduces instances of near-sightedness. (playing video games also increases visual acuity). Also, near-sighted tends to convert to far-sighted as people age and the eyeball changes shape.

[@Aethgeir]

Why is Freydis (and Viking women in general) portrayed as a warrior when she really didn't take part in battle herself? Also, most Slaves taken in Ireland were sold in Muslim Spain and North Africa while many of those taken from eastern Europe were sold in Persia. Why mention the Eastern Roman Empire and not the Islamic world?

[@danieljonsson887]

Political correctnesss

[@thisisCHOPZZ]

The Muslims and the Jews were involved in the slave trade much bigger and longer than the Trans Atlantic slave trade. In fact, Libya still trade African slaves

[@CB-rv2lj]

you reallly need to ask that question these days

[@FazeParticles]

you know why.

[@darrellmorris4730]

I dont think people are very interested in the Muslim world. They're not interesting

[@robfictionwriter3310]

The British Slaves mostly ended up in Muslim Controlled Spain. Didn't you want to mention that?

[@rainsoakedscribe7068]

If I remember correctly, they addressed it in a previous video about Viking slavery.

[@randallkommeren6428]

Most viking raids did not happen in Britain, mostly in what is now western France, why do the British need a special mention?

[@srenclausen8534]

Britons never never never Will be slaves

[@Fatherland927]

As a Norwegian, I cringe hard seeing wannabe vikings. Most aren't even from Scandinavia

[@logansoule1726]

Almost all the Vikings settled outside of Scandinavia

[@joelbilly1355]

Why? I mean for instance most cities in Ireland were founded by the vikings. Dublin for instance was settled by by both the Danes/norwegians and later the Normans. The great Gallowglass warriors of both Scotland and Ireland famed for their great two handed Swords and prowess as elite heavy infantry mercenaries were Scandinavian settlers who went native. Same with the vikings in York. The Norman's of Normandy were vikings who settled in northern France who later would go on to conquer England, Scotland, Ireland scilly, Italy, Palestine. Same with the Rus in Russia and Ukraine. One could argue that today's Scandinavians are wannabe vikings being descendants of those farmers who didn't go viking while the real vikings descendants are to be found in England, Scotland, Ireland, Isle of man, France, scilly, Russia, Ukraine, Iceland, Greenland, shetland Islands, America, Canada, Australia and New Zealand....

[@Fatherland927]

@@ScentitarFragrance people don't realise how good they have it today.

[@geirarnehelland7271]

​@@joelbilly1355 Mainly because vikings disappeared a thousand years ago, and the norse culture mixed with local culture in the countries where they settled and vanished. And if you have european descent, you will certainly have viking ancestors. If ancestors are important, I can as a Norwegian freely choose who of my ancestors I want to emphazise. Romans? Yes, my ancestors were Roman, even all the emperors. Charlemagne? Yes, most europeans are related to Charlemagne, about one billion of todays population are actual descendants of him. Saxons? Sure! Normans? Oh yes. Slavic? Sure, I'm an direct ancestor of Vladimir of Kyiv, nothing special about that. But this is actually valid for most europeans, especially if you have noblemen anywhere in your ancestry line, and that is extremely probable. Now, what I have as a Norwegian, Swede, Dane or Icelander that people from other countries do not have though is a unbroken cultural line back to the norse culture, with parts of it still kept alive by us through traditions. And no, vikings didn't just settle in the lands they raided or traded with, the kings, jarls, chieftains and farm owners returned home with their treasures. If anything, you could say it was the ones that were less privileged who saw new opportunities and owned no land who left their homeland for good. Todays Scandinavians are definetly the descendants of these kings and jarls and the other people you can read about in the sagas. I'm a direct descendant of most of them with completely traceable family tree, just as most norwegians. There is even written records of two brothers from my little town with my family name raiding in Ireland, and later getting a commercial letter from the English king selling fur and stock fish for iron and cloth. So no, we scandinavians are not wannabe vikings. We are not vikings at all, just their descendants.

[@jeremywatson4860]

Why? You don't get to be the gatekeeper for who gets to be proud of their heritage, distant as it may be. I'm a 7th generation Texan. I've never been to Europe. I still descend from the same Germanic pagan people that modern Europeans do.

[@zacharyhill2124]

Regarding their vision, they would regularly being focusing on objects near and far, organically honing their vision which can stave off poor sight. Now days I would argue most people look at things close up and not hardly ever any farther than 10 feet like TV's and phones as well as people developing tendencies to stare and unconsciously hold their breath while staring at screens which is bad for the eyes.

[@northwoodsdad7506]

It was a brutal time. Period.

[@Martin-zg7hx]

Even soo... Vikings are not the good guys... they never, Never were close to good.

[@petrospetromixos6962]

and thousands years ago the Athenians punished their commanders for not burring the enemy

[@markperkins9445]

I am proud of my Norse ancestry. Hard men for a hard time.

[@iloveyoushima]

As am I but there’s no excuse for evil.

[@markperkins9445]

@@iloveyoushima I don't even know what to say to that.....

[@joexavier4070]

Man ,Vikings = 😭 brutality

[@zeke3619]

It's not brutality in their time standard. Every Era have their one standard of everything.

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

Most wonderful introducing Video about vikings raider, their's brutality, beast behaviors also video tells some viking stories in Iceland, North American native people's,similar to legends their beast manners toward slaves, concubines ( female slaves)...thanks..A day of history for sharing this video

[@cameltanker1286]

The reason Columbus is given credit for discovering the New World is because he brought back a map.

[@jasonbasse]

Before he brought a map back though, there were maps created in Iceland, from the last part of the Viking age in Denmark, with The north American continent present. So it can't completely be attributed to that, unless you ignore them. Since they made maps too.

[@petrospetromixos6962]

@@jasonbasse piris rey map is dfrom copied maps of Alexanders the Great era

[@joexavier4070]

​@@petrospetromixos6962 actually that was not accurate

[@petrospetromixos6962]

@@joexavier4070 it is

[@Hollowdude15]

Awesome video :]

[@kenwebster5053]

You realise that the event widely considered to be the end of the Viking age is the death of King Harold Hardrada (hard man) of Norway at Stamford bridge near Yorvik. in 1066, just a couple of weeks before the Norman conquest of England. Some would say it ended when ships sides became taller & therefore impervious to dragon ship attacks at sea. Perhaps not so much to do with Christianity, as the old methods of procuring slaves, treasure & extorting gold just weren't working so good anymore.

[@beatlesrgear]

I truth, the Viking age lasted well past 1100. The 1066 Battle of Hastings was not the end of the Viking age. That is an old misjudgment taught by past teachers.

[@srenclausen8534]

Hardrada means hard rule(r)

[@kenwebster5053]

@@srenclausen8534 I have found both meanings referenced, but yes, I agree there is good reason to take that definition from the Slavic languages.

[@sperestillan]

@ Ken Webster, was just coming on here to mention the same thing but glad to see you got there first. From what I understand the Norse lost so much manpower at Stamford Bridge that it took a generation to recover from that defeat.

[@SGBass]

The loss to Harold ended the Viking raids on the British Isles, but the end of the Viking Age came nearly two centuries later.

[@gokki7758]

It is not true that Vikings lived at the edge of hunger all the time. Scandinavia have always been a lush place to live, with lots of fish, and some farmable lands. One of the reasons they are famous for their adventures is that the families almost always had surplus of food, which in turn made them have more children, which again drove the children to seek other means of fame and riches than inheritance and work of farm or as a fisherman.

[@franklyyourewrong2803]

I’ve never heard someone say they’d wanna live in Viking times 😂

[@charlesbard2331]

I understand if world of warships didn't include them but remember those ancient Greek and Roman warships they were early and primitive but but still effective.....

[@karylhogan5758]

Us Irish got together in 1066 and took on the Vikings in battle of Clontarf. Our leader brien baro, an old man, was killed by the Vikings, all his sons died fighting that day, the last , the youngest was drowned after incoming tide smashed him onto rocks. The Irish chased them into the sea and drowned many, by the hand.. Dublin founded by Vikings in 988.. many Vikings married Irish females, under Irish Brehon law they were protected..

[@taylorahern3755]

Clontarf was fought in 1014, actually. No biggie though!

[@lochnessmonster5149]

Dublin was originally settled by Anglo-Saxons in the 700's. Saxon ruins were discovered below the Viking ruins during a dig 20+ years ago.

[@mikrik7495]

Actually Christianity was and still is pagen. The so called Christians had taken on most pagen beliefs and the ones they murdered were

[@karylhogan5758]

@@mikrik7495 your in titled to belive that …. First I ever heard

[@ROFT]

@@karylhogan5758 Xmas is a pagan holiday

[@Charles36.]

Why these Swedish and Norway people are so beautiful because they took all the pretty girls and guys from England and brought them back to Norway. To be honest I think the Vikings were thinking of the future lol.

[@phoenixj1299]

Well not entirely. The original European were wiped out by Vedic people from Steppe Yamnya tribe who are the ancestors of 95% modern Europeans. They killed all male Europeans and married European women and had children with them. They spread their culture on Europe and that's why the religion is very similar in all of Europe. They spread the original proto-indo-european culture.

[@extrapressure]

Eriksdotter = Erik's daughter? It's amazing how we can still see that influence on the english language till this day.

[@henkmeerhof8647]

Yes like every single time you eat an EGG or look up to the SKY specially on a THURSDAY...

[@MrAnanthaP]

svenson, carlsen .. the male opposite

[@leonhardtkristensen4093]

This naming way was used in Denmark up to less than 200 years ago. My great grand parents and maybe even one of my grand parents where named that way.

[@harrypothead876]

well seeing as english is a descendant of the germanic language family and is a latinized amalgam of dutch and nordic languages and later saxxon/germanic languages. they like to lie to us in school and tell us english is born of greek or latin....then why are there commonalities in the base of the language between germanic languages, english and even the indian/sanskrit languages? because they are truly INDO european

[@beatlesrgear]

This is just common Icelandic. When I lived there, I knew lots of "---dottir" and "----sson." Your daughter's name would be "----Carlsdottir" and your son would be "----Carlsson." All 4 (or more) members of a family can have different names.

[@henkmeerhof8647]

Okay those Vikings where maybe not sweethearts except to their mothers (Exception made for those that where send to Valhal by there own mothers). Compared to other people living in the same time, there was not much difference. It is always the large community that has to suffer the bad name made by the exception, no matter where you are from. Viking trade connected all the countries around the Northsea in one way or the other. Too much focus and time is spend on the violent side of history because we like to hear those stories. Regular life in the Viking world was pretty advanced compared to many other countries of the time. If we just could forget the all our 'us and them' thinking, and learn from history without judging people no longer here. At the same time celebrate the diversity of humanity...

[@zonzillamagnus5902]

Ys we need more stories showing how the Natives had a 25 percent slavery rate and 68 percent of deaths were from violence. I would like more stories showing how brutal the African regimes were and that today there are more slaves there than any time in history. And that the richest person in the world was a slaver in Africa.

[@mikloridden8276]

Nah man, in those times life was seen as expendable and millions suffered nasty deaths due to the violence. It was so common it happened within their own tribes. If you think about it humanity is what is left of those violent times. The current earth is full of children of the abusers, which is why evil prevails here always.

[@henkmeerhof8647]

@@zonzillamagnus5902 That might be an excellent subject for 'A day In History' for yet a nice video, but this one was about the Vikings.

[@henkmeerhof8647]

@@mikloridden8276 Of course, life was so expendable that people made sure to remember their dead... If not Odin made sure you would never reach Valhal. 🤷‍♂

[@zonzillamagnus5902]

@@henkmeerhof8647 "Compared to other people living in the same time, there was not much difference."

[@lorenzoozone3222]

Thanks Devon, how are all doing?

[@yumi1384]

7:49 - Now I know where did they get the idea for the name Ericsson

[@ASharpLLC]

The image at 10:41 is an Orlanthi shaman from the game King of Dragon Pass…

[@mountaintiger6945]

Can anyone imagine if the Mongols (by land) & the Vikings (by sea) had formed an alliance ? Truly Terrifying ! 😨

[@Jett.Jasper]

they didn’t exist in the same time

[@noend7879]

Then Japan you know will gone forever 😅

[@mejestin]

very informative, and some extra... as in any political pov, the limit to how much stories we could get

[@keithmoore5224]

they were also traders and farmers but if you look at scandnavia no wonder they went shopping and settled in other countrys they made english more colourfull

[@michaelgilland6080]

Don't tell me what to think!! I DO wish I was born in Viking times.

[@Trianglewitch.]

My question is, if they didn't have a written history, how is any of this known?

[@brianm7287]

@0:46 The image you use for St. Stephen of Hungary is that of St. Stephen the Protomartyr - the literal first martyr of the Christian church.

[@laistvan2]

Yes! King St Stephen legend had been written 60+years after his death and hide every cruel thing what he did during he united Carpathian Basin and settled Kingdom of Hungary(It took 30 years permanent war with local rulers). He employed German knights and Viking mercenaries as well.

[@Blackinterceptor999]

Something I found interesting is that my Norse ancestry is extremely well detailed, as well as my English/Welsh ancestry though I'm not as English as I am Norse...However...in my family tree it doesn't show any of my Indigenous ancestry and there is many missing ancestors...I think it is fair to assume that those "holes" are where I got my Native American ancestry.

[@civroger]

Skål from Norway. We are quite a different people now :)

[@sack8439]

If we wished to become Vikings again, we could.

[@phoenixj1299]

@@sack8439 You can't do shit because Vikings are wiped out. And you can't even follow Viking lifestyle for a day.

[@sack8439]

@@phoenixj1299 We are the remnants of the Vikings, so technically they are not «wiped out».

[@phoenixj1299]

@@sack8439 You are the remnants of Christiansed Scandinavians.

[@joshhorgen4205]

Only a man that isn't of Norse blood would say you wouldn't want to live in that time.

[@petrospetromixos6962]

who wouldnt want to be skinned alive?

[@blackwidowspider9852]

I wonder if in Spain and Rome Mary Tuder is also considered A saint? Frankly all those so called Santa were BEASTS

[@RaySarasin]

My family immigrated here in 1902ish from Norway and settled in Viking Alberta Canada a Norwegian town my 2 cents worth

[@scottanderson7239]

Vikings still make up the majority they just don't use the title Viking anymore.

[@jonwooldridge3766]

Thank you for pointing out how other cultures in history were also exceptionally brutal...especially Christians.

[@masonpyle5929]

True Christians don’t cause genocides. This was work of the Catholic Church

[@WinnieTheJew]

4:07 😂😂😂

[@Xander0420]

Didn't everyone basically do that at one point or another.?

[@danieljonsson887]

Iam a swede, and its really hard to imagine that my people ever behaved like this. But i guess thats what happens when humans dont have food.

[@jayboy2kay7]

I wouldn’t worry mate, almost every country, peoples, settlements, whatever - during the past 4000 years have been extremely violent and harsh. It’s really only in these extremely easy, comfortable living times we have all became all “nice and friendly” and that is only is most civilised countries.

[@christineshotton824]

The dowry is paid by the bride's father, not to the bride's father.

[@Vladklx]

Amnt of what aboutism you have to bring before talking abt viking brutality shows that only reason vikings get a free pass on their brutality is because people think that they are all hardcore pagans. but reality is, much of the famous vikings were Christians too.😁 yup leif eriscon,cnut,sigurdson,harald etc were all christians..

[@annemurphy9339]

You are regurgitating classical historical revisionism.

[@Vladklx]

@@annemurphy9339 what part i said is historical revisionism !!??😏 is it abt their faith?? Leif Ericson was a christian missionary bruh..

[@randallkommeren6428]

@Rudolf Hillard true words, everybody always confuses the result with the intention. People think because they have good intentions to protect people, they will be on the good side. To protect the one, the other usually gets hurt. Simply because if one is a victim to be protected, another must be a perpetrator who does not deserve mercy. We need to protect the hard working and honest people from the richest 1% who are international bankers and speculators who get rich over the backs of those who work an honest day. Sounds familiar? Guess who said that ;)

[@stephenbastasch7893]

Not "everyone" was brutal in those days. But gov't systems, often aligned with the Church, were consciously, brutally cruel. And despite the brutality of Viking raids, they were equally outstanding farmers, seamen, craftsmen, explorers...and tradesmen. Not all their gains were stolen.

[@wallyreyes2035]

Your logic is lacking Or should we say you lack logic and reasoning.

[@stephenbastasch7893]

@@wallyreyes2035 We should on the contrary say you lack historical knowledge, specificity, and critical thinking. Oh, and take your falsely superior, nasty demeanor and go fly a kite with it.

[@shaunsteele8244]

so basically nothing has changed lol

[@brandonslone1025]

The world is more or less the same. We're just as brutal as those of the ancient world were. Imagine telling someone from the long past that in the future weapons will be invented that can destroy the entire planet.

[@wulfhart2653]

such a lack of knowledge. The church actually made the government less brutal and impose a lasting peace for most of the middle age. When church authority collapsed Europe started to have real violence again.

[@klauswigsmith]

Medieval Christians: "It's acceptable to murder and torture those who don't share your religious beliefs!" Vikings: "OK!" Medieval Christians;" No, not you guys, only us!"

[@TheJimmbobobjones]

The Vikings didn't kill for religion. It is well known they didn't really care what others believed.

[@klauswigsmith]

@@TheJimmbobobjones relax, it was a joke

[@danbutcher8879]

Where is the claim found of poor eyesight? By all accounts I've read, the diet was simple but covered the basics and was wholesome. A lot of root vegetables and meat, especially fish and eggs, were consumed, covering all necessary vitamin and trace mineral needs. Roman accounts of the ''barbarians'' of the north stated an average height of 6 feet, and generally muscular, imposing figures. You don't get that from a poor diet.

[@silverstar4289]

Slave trade was the most profitable commerce . It wasn’t limited to one continent, and those who engaged in it took captive, those who “looked like them”

[@EyesWideOpen1969]

We need to bring back this today

[@loganoldon8924]

My personal favorite of the Swedish pagan was to Mary her for we are Roman as well and they are low in class

[@rianmacdonald9454]

the unspeakable thing Vikings done during their reign - oh you mean what everyone done at that time.

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

'Magyar' is pronounced "moe-zhar', in this language "agy" is pronounced "oh-zh". Nagy is pronounced "Nozh"

[@nancycooper1396]

A chief I knew in the Navy was on the Phoenix at Pearl harbor🦅🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸⚓️⚙️

[@berntsrensen1217]

and why are you telling this?

[@kensmith5694]

The evidence for a viking shield wall is not very good. The type of shields they used were better for nimble/agile fighting styles. They were held in the hand and not strapped to the arm. For a shield wall the strapped to the arm type is better.

[@tigernotwoods914]

We’re those Saxons the same as Anglo Saxons in England or different groups with similar names?

[@shinjansaha240]

See the anime "Vinland saga" you will learn about Dutch invasion of English via norman viking

[@corbanemmanuel96]

they actually had the best diet of the dark ages

[@WytcherNytes]

Whatever they ate, it must’ve been loaded with parasites. Intestinal parasites were such a problem for Vikings that they eventually evolved a unique immunity to them. The trade off for that immunity is that they became more susceptible to respiratory disease, something their descendants still deal with today.

[@Fronverjl]

We still do

[@tosgem]

The Vikings were incels. That is, Scandinavia was very competitive and the young men who didn't have land, farms, resources, women went "Viking" (adventuring) elsewhere. They were the young men who nothing at home and had to expand. If the internet existed back then, they probably would have just lived in the basement looking at anime girls while the chad, alpha Scandinavians ran their farms. And on the flipside, if the circumstances were right and you gave them weapons you can be sure today's incels would love to raid some neighbouring land and rape and pillage without mercy.

[@satch5471]

ok soyjack

[@sack8439]

You dont understand Vikings history at all, I can see that pretty quick. We expanded because at that time it was very little arable land, as it still is. So we went out to find better land. The slaves and gold was just a bonus.

[@tosgem]

@@sack8439 every single people who expand do so because the resources there, large or small, are not enough for the people there. What is your point? It actually supports exactly what I'm saying. You incel Viking

[@tosgem]

@@ScentitarFragrance struck a nerve i see. I may not be as manly as a Viking but if I were born in their circumstances, why would I he any different? And if they were born today, why would they be different to others today? They were excess men, and excess men have been adventurers and raiders throughout history, in all peoples and even other species

[@taffythegreat1986]

You look at the vikings back then. You look at they’re country today. What ever happened ?

[@alexandergeorgiev74]

Watch Vinland Saga it's about the Vikings

[@doo6z]

Man your ads are ruthless

[@tbunny6305]

Bro , runes are a phonic writing system that can be used for just about any language . It was meant for writing even thought they associated certain symbols with magic and many had multiple meanings depending where it was from, just like many other ancient writing systems. You're welcome.

[@rrwholloway]

When does the UK get their reparations from Norway?

[@Barbarian19923]

History is built on vengeance pride and religion

[@abelsoo5465]

What do Vikings and Mongols have in common? They hail from brutally cold places with low agriculture wealth. Such a situation of scarcity incentivise looting of other lands and peoples.

[@jose131991]

That’s why climates like those suck lol. I’ll stick to my tropical, below equator weather ( yes, we do have our own issues here).

[@abelsoo5465]

@@jose131991 Mosquitoes and heavy rains.

[@peipeixi]

blood eagle

[@trava4156]

So, your just talking about what happens in the show

[@vmitchinson]

You refer to Charlemagne, he was following the examples in the old testament.

[@stanleyshannon4408]

People deride African tribes such as the Dahomy(sp?) for being slave traders, but the Vikings were basically the same thing.

[@poodie3887]

Everyone did

[@johndoyle4109]

Scrailings has a different meaning, it doesn't refer to screeching voices.

[@bjornhjorvardssen2336]

Most of this behavior is normal during medieval times. Also you forgot Faroese it's debatably closer to Old Norse. Slavery is normal of the time. As a matter of fact the Bible contains references and rules that makes a kind of "guidebook" for how to care for your slaves. This video reeks of presentism. Yes it's messed up by modern standards. But we shouldn't judge a culture that existed over a thousand years ago by the morals of the present. It interferes with adequately understanding the lessons these cultures have to give us in a historical context.

[@Trebor74]

The problem with history is that we look backwards,e.g to 1066 and make value judgements. Where we should look "forward" say from 1016 to 1066 and then make those judgements

[@avrandlane2735]

i don't think i would want to live anywhere in that era and others we have it pretty good in this time period. Mongols, japan, china, romans, Africa, Hawaii anywhere you go your literally screwed almost something would happen to your tribe or fight or some sort of invasion. i find it funny when people think they would of love the time back in the past most people would hate it.

[@Gobblingseagull]

im a huge fan of the viking age and my heritage but i wont deny the fact that they were prolly some of the worst people in the world at that time. But i also understand the raiding to a certain extend cause some times it was done for survival.

[@oglocbaby520]

Literally any culture, race or whatever you want to call it that had any form of dominance over another group behaved just as bad or even worse. Look at what the Japanese did in China and Korea, something that happened less than a century ago. Look up the Arab slave trade that went on for literally centuries. I could make an entire list of examples.

[@Gobblingseagull]

@@oglocbaby520 pure madness

[@danbutcher8879]

So, Christians are brutal, murderous and evil under Charlemagne, but the Viking raids abruptly stop after their conversion to Christianity? I think the story of Charlemagne is much more nuanced than this 'history lesson' allows for.

[@silverman5707]

I’m not hooked on commercials 2 minutes into a video.

[@guntherferguson2369]

Uhhhh, no. To all of this. Vikings/Norse held women in high regard. They had a great diet. If they were malnourished they wouldn't have been big strong warriors. They were farmers and fishermen. Plenty to eat in Scandinavia. They had laws and judges. It was a brutal time and they were brutal people of the time. But the things listed in this video were probably they exception rather than the rule.

[@peaceleader7315]

Anyone want to live in Viking time..???

[@ThorsMartell]

There was infinite Land and wood in Vinland and houses in early medival were simple wooden hats. Fuck, you can simply build your own house. Y fight over that?

[@steelstanding8005]

Skraeling is a word for sick people in Norse, it has nothing to do with the yelling. Its still used today, I feel skral, means you don't feel well. Generally used for things in bad condition.

[@jerryinnes2859]

Do the descendents of the viking need to apologize to the world for the past? I'm asking for a friend

[@robertb.1574]

Interesting that you didn't mention the blood eagle. Mankind can be so evil.

[@beatlesrgear]

From the many hours of Viking studies I've done, I've found that the Blood Eagle cannot be fully proved or disproved. More evidence is needed to settle the matter.

[@bg7606]

Been done to death.

[@rogerthat10-47]

I've lived through worse.

[@Jett.Jasper]

lmafo

[@dahlizz99]

Wasn't really a reign.. more an era. We had many kings any many chieftains and many jarls aka different viking reigns.

[@sirussid3671]

Near sighted Vikings nope no way....

[@eddiebear34]

Thank you for saying it was rare for women to be warriors in viking culture. Feminists and tv are trying to rewrite that history. Give it a few decades and kids will be taught that Vikings were a female African tribe

[@brenton2561]

Made me laugh. They were all lesbian as well.

[@curtis7599]

They were a female African tribe who were natives of America.

[@willwalsh3436]

I don't think the brutality or cruelty of the Vikings and their Christian contemporaries (on whom they preyed) was relatively the same. The Vikings were definitely worse and most people would have preferred to live in Charlemagne's empire. Charlemagne's war against the Saxons is the worst part of his legacy which was generally constructive of a more peaceful, prosperous and better educated Europe.

[@robertwindedahl4919]

Yes the white man's culture was definitely the most Savage of all and then they had enough nerve to call other people Savages

[@jacobjorgenson9285]

The crusades was not exactly a Red Cross mission

[@Pooua]

@@robertwindedahl4919 Saying so betrays gross ignorance of what the entire world was like in those times.

[@idunusegoogleplus]

@@robertwindedahl4919 the whities were pretty savage compared to the Eastern Chinese dynasties that were more advanced in tech and culture at least relatively until the whites invented/improved steam engines in more recent centuries and capitalism started spreading as more non-landowning people could now use machines that could do a lot more work on less land than it used to require, other than how it didn't require you to be a noble who could command an army of serfs (or barely a notch above slaves) to do work for you, you could just have a few family members or hire some farmers to operate the machines. With that the west leapfrogged the Chinese until now where China has only passed the west in some aspects and not all. At almost all points in history tho Africa and Middle East in last 1000 years were not top contenders in any meaningful ways for most advanced, so in that sense they were justifiably labelled savages.

[@valhallaerhjemme5168]

Interesting how do you explain all the natives killed in America by Christians? Christianity is the biggest cult running all about money in modern day times and if u don’t do this or that you’re going to burn in hell for eternity.

[@Wolfen443]

Ah, Vikings the last wild bunch of Europe. They had a wild ride for a while but sorry history had run out of room for them.

[@yeildo1492]

If you are christian it is not brutality but rather love. To help your soul and all that.

[@pizzapadinton8868]

🤣🤣🤣

[@MF_DOOMer]

All this just to lose to the Cheeseheads every year.

[@6williamson]

The thing about Christianity? You actually have to follow what Jesus taught, not just pretend that you did.

[@valhallaerhjemme5168]

Exactly people don’t get that though they are brain washed by a cult .

[@brenton2561]

Maybe someone should have told that to the pope's...

[@j.dunlop8295]

In the "Dark-ages" things were brutal? Really?

[@kennethfox1586]

How could Charlemagne burn people

[@thermalreboot]

Some neat information here, but Viking wasn't a race of people but a profession. Scandinavians weren't Vikings they went a viking. They were only viking while a viking when they got home they were just folks.