How Far East Did The Vikings Manage To Reach? | The Vikings | Timeline

The Viking's domination of western Europe is well known, but what about their expansion eastwards? Discover the seismic impact the Vikings had on Eastern Europe and beyond and just how far these raiders from Scandinavia reached.
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[@Perspectiveon]

Seems to me the various Scandinavian clans mostly had divided the world between them for their Viking adventures. Swedes going East, Norwegians West and Danes South.

[@MrTaxiRob]

if you consider Britain to be a Norse colony, then their descendants built a worldwide empire that lasted until WWII

[@messigoat7365]

Yes for the most. But quite many Swedes followed the Danes when the raided England. There are many runestones in Sweden who tell storys about Swedes going to England and raid.

[@carywest9256]

Don't forget all the so-called royalty, with their inbred bloodlines included into the population.

[@comfusedpassanger3399]

@@carywest9256 Which Royal person are you referring to?

[@ForageGardener]

All the Scandinavians went all directions. 😂

[@roxpace]

Great video, but one fail, the name as you mention Rus comes from Finnish word Ruotsi (this is also what Finnish calls Sweden today) and meant from beginning "the who rows" and points to a specific place, Swedes, the land of Swedes and the area Roden / Rodin, today called Roslagen. Also there are a lot of runestones in Sweden which documents many adventures and country building in Eastern Europe.

[@BrianLevine-vd6bn]

The doors of the Lutheran Church in Ytterlanis are cedar with bronze leopard heads with rings for door knockers. A lot of Swedish churches have plunder from the travels of the Vikings.

[@magnusnilsson9792]

The vikings that returned to roslagen and erected these runestones are known as Svear (returners) which is the root word for Sweden. Svears rike (rike = kingdom) -> Sverige. Replacing the former name Swithiod, Suiones jord (Jord = soil) Svealand is also a region in Sweden that the Svear ruled, before including the eastgoth and westgoth in the south, the north was colonised later as well as Scania was conquered from the Danes. The name Halvdan also means: half Danish.

[@luciaromero6894]

Finally I found a documentary well done about the Varangians 🎉🎉 i couldn't be more tha happy.

[@heenanyou]

Origin of the word "foreigner"? Reminds me of the Star Trek "ferengians".

[@legitbeans9078]

I just want to hear about the Vaginians

[@comfusedpassanger3399]

Thank you for giving us a more nuanced and accurate picture given by the early Scandinavians. The "Viking's" were so much more than just looters, they have left their mark all over the world. For better or worse.

[@soderlund3610]

And later on 2,5 million Scandinavians left for America

[@comfusedpassanger3399]

@@soderlund3610 What does that have to do with anything?

[@soderlund3610]

@@comfusedpassanger3399 They continued left their mark long after the Viking Age

[@paulingvar]

A comment on words and cities. Yes, Byzanthium/Contantinople was called Miklagård ( in Swedish), meaning large city. And Novgorod means new city , with slavic ( and indo-european) "nov" and gorod is slavication of gård

[@magnusnilsson9792]

Novgorod was called Holmgård (isle-garden/yard)

[@soderlund3610]

large finds of Roman gold solidus on the Swedish islands of Öland and Gotland indicate that they enlisted in Rome's armies in the 4th-5th centuries

[@soderlund3610]

Nothing really started with the "vikings". Scandinavians have criss crossed Europe and the east since at least the bronze ages

[@petriruotsalainen6861]

Greeks have explored those trade routes at least from Herodotos eras and most likely visited in Baltic sea so Iliad sagas are kinda histrorial facts. So ancient proto-Viking may and have traded with Mediterran sea people thousands of years before we call now as Viking era. Of course during some war times those trade links most likely have been cut and during calmer times routes have to be discovered and established once again. I think Fenno-Ugrian tribes had those river-route knowledge too in genetic code alike Norwegian Vikings knew route to Iceland, Greenland and North America.

[@khizani]

43:30 I did not expect you would get this so wrong! 😂 Ingvar the Far-Travelled did not fight for Byzantine - he fought in the Georgian civil war. 1042 Battle of Sasireti was between King Bagrat IV of Georgia and his powerful rebellious nobleman Liparit Bagvashi. Ingvar opportunistically agreed to fight on King’s side as mercenary. But his side lost. Many vikings perished and Ingvar and many of his men were captured alive. Liparit showed mercy to strange foreigners and let them go after making them harvest some crops as “punishment”. Ingvar died of illness on his way back… Look it up - this is the correct version! 😉

[@soderlund3610]

Before that they fought with the Rus against turkish nomads

[@godramen7104]

That thumbnail picture is supremacy!! 💪😤👍

[@marcelomariano3586]

Excelent video !!!

[@mohammedsaysrashid3587]

It was an informative and wonderful introduction video about vikings' impact on Eastern Europe history... of eastern Europe countries... during the 7th century to the 10th century of AD ... they were successful people for all kind of working they engaged ...thank you( history Hit) network page for sharing

[@stephanieyee9784]

I want to know what the authors of this narration consider vikings. The three main Scandinavian peoples, the Norse, the Swedes, and the Danes were not the same and roved different areas. It was usually the Swedes who went east. The Norse went west and south and the Danes went west and southwest. The Swedes were generally responsible for the trading posts around the Baltic and were the Kievan Rus.

[@melmack2003]

Newfoundland, eastern Canada

[@michaelgallagher3640]

They got way further down the east coast.

[@clvrswine]

But still have nothing to do with the culture-less Canadians of today.

[@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.

[@zekeolopwi6642]

Weird homie. Weird.

[@BerishStarr]

England Stones (raised in memory of those who went to England) are the most common stones raised in Sweden, together with the Greece Stones. Both number about 30 stones each. We also have 26 Ingvar Stones, raised in memory of a expedition to the Caspian Sea.

[@martinwinther6013]

"Furs not very practical." ??? Its not bad at keeping you warm.. Just saying

[@artursbondars7789]

Somehow this video is misleading. First Scandinavian is not always equal to Viking. Baltic, Finnic and other groups also partake in viking activities. And by Varangians southerners named many groups from North Europe. Also river system of Europe was long used before Vikings came. Balts traded amber and other goods to distant lands long before Scandinavian Vikings came. Secondly Southeastern shores was inhabited by Baltic tribes at that period, not Slavic, and even deep into polities of Russ there was various groups of peoples, they weren't Slavs and Finougric groups only. Northeastern Poland definitely wasn't inhabited by Slavs at that period.

[@gazenr1fan364]

Were you there😂

[@hansmarheim7620]

Varanger is a place in northern Norway. Exactly where did the Varangians come from? The Rus is maybe coming from Roslagen in Sweden.

[@perlaursen1885]

Mainland Jutland, was the center of the viking world. From cities like AROS(nowadays Aarhus Capital of Mainland Denmark), they sailed out and concoured the most of the world, including Norway, Sweden, Sealand, England, Island and Greenland. They made people of the occupied countries slaves or tax payers to the Jutland Kingdom, later named Denmark. The large treasuries were brought home to Jutland, and were used to build up infrastructures, culture and make Jutland a giant fortress, with a large manned brick wall to the south(Dannevirke). The old viking capital of Aarhus, are really worth a visit. 🇩🇰

[@kenhart8771]

”Hedeby”now in North Germany was the epicenter of the Viking’s trade and commerce. Aros (Aros) was no more than a reasonable sized Viking settlement nothing compared to Ribe or Roskilde. Nonetheless a very nice tax payed financed museum in Moesgaard (Aarhus).

[@eagleclaw1179]

You do know those “Vikings” in the baltics came from the Scandinavians

[@Turkish_Model_]

Hittites Teshub ✊️⚡️ Nordics Thor ✊️⚡️ 🇹🇷

[@user-ke8if6ri9r]

There are churches in central and northern Sweden with treasure brought back from their travels in the Russias and Middle East.

[@heenanyou]

Around minute 30, please correct the spelling of "dynasties". And maybe get a spellchecker.

[@mariaanastasiu7124]

The english voice-over must have got it all wrong. The vikings or rus never pillaged Constantinople, just its suburbs outside the city walls. It was indeed a traumatizing event for the people inside the city, who stood there without being able to help those outside it, but the city itself was never taken by a foreign power, until 1204, during the Forth Crusade.

[@There-ought-to-be-clowns]

I would imagine about 3 feet.

[@skozlozlaurie712]

25sec, first viewer + like

[@iluvwomanlh]

You want a doggie biscuit or a swift kick for being first

[@michaelgallagher3640]

​@@iluvwomanlhOHH!! Kick him in the twig & berries.

[@workingfortheirfuture]

50th comment.

[@svenolofandersson2572]

I think Sweden should reclaim those ancient lands. Maybe Sweden could launch a special military operation?😅

[@d4rthsidious793]

This is not Wolin. Wolin is an Island on very north West of Poland

[@VuurBarbaar]

all the way around they finisht they round

[@user-tx7on7jt2i]

How about they wrapped it all up as soon as they reached the other side since the "track of time" & fact they stared at the same star-patterns entirely else where & they were "flipped". Now, any good artist with a bit of coal & paper will then mark out & chart our entire planet's surroundings & then a map of the coastline alongside it - all orderly placed in a calendar.

[@popgabriel5327]

3 mins

[@steveyi2859]

Far enough

[@albertangeloro5832]

there's evidence they had a settlement in Coney Island, Brooklyn, NY, in what is now called Seagate.

[@thomashernandez8700]

Do you have a reputable link to share? Cheers.

[@humanipulationnation]

They had the first wiener eating festival

[@albertangeloro5832]

try the Yad Vashem (Israel) link

[@albertangeloro5832]

no, the first festival was the Knish Eating Festival, established by Yonah Shimmel, the mysterious Jewiish Viking. former Prime Minister Golda Meir disputes his Jewishness, saying there is evidence he wasn't circumcised.

[@jackof1]

This was debunked

[@kwameitoka4963]

Origin of the Vikings

[@vanthorout9280]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/mpWzlqyerNiXgq8 🪒🪒🪒⚡⚡⚡ hasting viking français

[@user-kg8ik1qq6l]

Not "Russia"- lazy scholarship - program needs an update

[@Cptnbond]

It's unfair to say they founded the first Russian state, the Vikings settled also in Kyiv, today's Ukraine, with Slavic tribes and founded the Kyiv Rus Empire. Because the name 'Rus' (the rowing people - not as the Russian professor try to say it Finnish word 'Ruotsi'=Swede, but in fact it relates back to Proto-Germanic culture) or 'Varangians' (Viking conquerors). The connection to today Russia, often used premature in the history documentaries. The empire could have been called Kyiv Varangians Empire to be clear, thus is not Russia in any means. The rise of the settlement around Moscow and the embryo for today Russia will come to power several hundreds of years later.

[@paulingvar]

I was just to comment on that too. The present coast north of Stockholm is called Roslagen , and the earlier name was Roden. It is quite obvious that Routsi origins to this word. Roden goes back to " rodd" ( =rowing). And yes, the name Russia actually belongs more to present Ukraine since Kiev was the main city.

[@matereo]

Rus refers to men from Roslagen.. just like Routsi in Fin

[@petriruotsalainen6861]

@@matereo Ruotsi, ruotsalainen (Sweden, Swedish). They say Rusi has meant eastern trade-explorer wanders.

[@soderlund3610]

Rospiggar från Rosen

[@matereo]

@@petriruotsalainen6861 ahh it refers to "Roslagen", men from roslagen. But Roslagen as a word refers to a group of men men rowing

[@delongbear]

Into China

[@WAFFENAMT1]

There is a place in Western China where people have European features, I believe these are the decendents of viking traders.

[@mattschm5486]

Hmm there’s some turk people there Uighur they can look quite western. I met one girl in Shanghai and she didn’t look chinese at all

[@katherinegannett]

There are also descendants of Marco Polo from when he traveled the Silk Road, who himself was probably descended from Vikings who went to territory now known as Italy.

[@wegfarir1963]

Tocharians and Scythians.

[@passerbyp8531]

How about khazars? Talking about Vikings and forgot about Khazar Kaganate?

[@MyYTaccountName]

Oy vey

[@kaspernielsen9149]

No? we made Russia through Kiev. Russia was not a thing before Kiev.

[@kaspernielsen9149]

Novgorods was not Russias first capital... since Russia only become russia through the Moscovites there are SOO many mistake in this documentary and I'm only 10min in...

[@user-zw8ld8nt5f]

Blatant lie. The Russian state is 1000+ years old. Your fantasies will only suit Ukrainians. Yes, belinoid?

[@HMDcoinfinder]

I wish someone would take a closer look on to after the trojan war. When Ulysses came with his 12 ships and many men to the northern countries. They had traveled for 10 years. He called himselfe Outiin. The vikings where still just peasants, fisher, farmers and hunters at this time. His wife was frigga. Odin and Frøya. Peasants at that time must have seen these warriors as god's..

[@heenanyou]

The plural of god is gods. There are no apostrophes in plurals.

[@mphofstrand2340]

@17:47 between Iceland and Kiev?! The Norwegians settled Iceland, which was to the west...the swedish(Rus) went east into the Ukraine...

[@JanLarssonfred]

Terrible that we founded Mordor.....

[@andromedaeiz6229]

Thank goodness they did not reached South-East Asia or we will be even more in trouble. With their pillaging & other awful stuffs they did.

[@ultraveridical]

Where are the Ukrainians upset by this not yet "politically correct" old documentary calling Rus-related things "Russian" in the comments? I feel incongruity.

[@motojunkie8348]

These Vikings you speak of who hoarded gold and silver, Their names must have been something like.. Ragnar Rothstein Ivar Goldberg Leif wallowitz Bjorn Burkowitz

[@eriklarsson3188]

@@ConontheBinarian Kazhars aren't Semites. They are converts. Real jews used to call them "name stealers"

[@bobbysalisbury]

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