Viking Ireland - The Mystery of Aran Islands

The second installment of the Viking Ireland series is ready! Did Vikings ever make it to the Aran Islands? You be the judge!
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Photo Credits:
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Herbert Ortner
Government of Ireland National Monuments Service Photographic Unit

[@andreabakarec6607]

Best one yet!!!

[@mikeorourke6249]

Thank you so much for the video. My grandparents were born and still live on Inis Meain. It's amazing historically and is quite the culture shock going there from my apartment in Philadelphia to the middle of nowhere. It's beautiful though being able to connect with my family's history.

[@NorseReign]

It's a pretty special place, that's for sure!

[@Doomfruit]

Love starting my day with this cool stuff. Gets my imagination running! Beautiful footage and clean narration. Nicely done, thanks for sharing!

[@MrOrkheart]

Fabulous video, that photo of Roscam Abbey was one I took as part of the wiki loves monuments campaign back in 2015. So glad people have been using it.

[@codewordslinkydog]

that first clip made me fiscally lean forward

[@simonfreeman148]

Interesting!!

[@Borkil666]

I really appreciate your effort to make this a plus of an interesting content and a beautiful views video. Thanks for this. Keep sharing your thoughts and knowledge!

[@conwaynoel3715]

Excellent video, most interesting well done.

[@mariadyrlund6584]

Thank you, once more! Great video!

[@GolfDuff]

Great video Chris! Keep up the good work 👍

[@mclarenscca]

I think it would be a terrific idea for the "Timeteam" folks to take a look!

[@dohayala3851]

wow ,nice vidéo

[@nedeireann1232]

Thanks for your work , is really good . I like your English, is one of the best i ever hear before . I understand all your speech . Congrats.

[@NorseReign]

Thanks, my English is decent, but I'm sure I'm slaughtering the Irish! Mo leithscéal!

[@Ranma2011TMCS]

I miss the islands. I plan to return home soon, and with it I also plan to look into the mound you mentioned in this video as well as another mound believed to be the resting site of Maeve. My last trip to the fort was a windy day, but I still sat on the cliff side despite my friends all saying I was crazy. That was in 2009 and I've been in the states since. Gods I miss it so much...

[@dannymcguiness3103]

Great video, I really enjoyed learning about the worm hole and the Viking burial mound, amazing the history.

[@rolandmarcos1515]

I appreacite you for this extra knowledge. Such an interesting place on Earth. I am from the Philippines and I am also intesrested to places where old civilization can be traceback.

[@NorseReign]

Thanks Roland! Ireland has a lot of Viking history, so I'm deffo going back here at some point!

[@ColleenM61]

Has there been any sort of archaeology done on that mound!?! or some lidar scanning? Fascinating.

[@NorseReign]

I tried to dig up some inf, but I haven't been able to find any so far.

[@LouwtjievanWykCustomCars]

Dig the mound!

[@fleadoggreen9062]

Lol leave it alone, we already ruined just about everything else lol

[@lars-gunnarronnkvist5116]

👍 Thank you for sharing.

[@blueocean2510]

Dun Aengus may have been a oppidum used by Veneti Gauls as the islands were on the trading routes from Northern Europe to Africa. The oppidum were built on the edge of cliffs, to allow escape if overwhelmed by greater force. The Aran Islands when the sea was lower were hills along the coast, and could be accessed by land.

[@espenhatleskog]

Konge video buddy!!

[@joshkibler2921]

700th subscriber here!!!!

[@fleadoggreen9062]

We visited there when I was ten years old, I was climbing giant boulders on the beach, they were slippery from sea weed, I slipped and had a huge lump on my head 😊

[@lovelyhurlin6494]

It is likely Dun Aengus was built atop a hill before the cliff was there at all. The seaward side of the island was slowly eroded over thousands of years eating halfway through the ringfort.

[@magicpaperworld9091]

🎉

[@SimonSozzi7258]

8:30 Could just as easily be a long house common in those times.

[@im_g1]

What if they hid their leader's boat on that mount? What if the rest of the circle structure is still waiting to be found at the bottom of the ocean? Too many what ifs lol

[@lamontcranston3177]

You mentioned an unexcavated burial mound. Is it the mound for unbaptized children? It has been thirty years since I visited the island but I lived there for one year in the early 1990s. There's a mound by the shore that was used for the burial of children who died at birth or shortly after. The mound is unmarked. It is believed that the mound may be ancient and was adopted by the islanders in later history. The Christian islanders would have viewed the unbaptized as belonging with the ancient pagan ancestors in a pre-Christian "fairy mound".

[@NorseReign]

That's very interesting. It's certainly a possibility. I didn't manage to find any information about the mound so this is actually really helpful! The coordinates of the mound in the video is 53°07'56.1"N 9°40'50.8"W.

[@lamontcranston3177]

@@NorseReign I just checked these coordinates on a map. The location corresponds with that of the mound I mentioned. What I remember from my reading is that the mound might be megalithic; not Viking. Also, if I am not mistaken, it may be an unopened tumulus. If so it would be thousands of years old and predate most of the man made structures on the islands. (There are megalithic structures on all three islands but they are of minor significance compared to the Celtic and monastic ruins. What they show is that the islands were inhabited thousands of years before the Celts.) I was not made aware of any Viking lore associated with the Arans. That said, you already know the Vikings were raiders who targeted monasteries. The Arans had several. If you're on a raiding expedition and your hitting Irish islands you might as well hit them all!

[@NorseReign]

@@lamontcranston3177 That is very interesting! I was hoping that someone would be able to shed some light on this matter! Thanks a million!

[@MrEyesof9]

So.... Im I the only one who sees the quarry? The only who sees the giant over-cut on one of the long sides of the "wormhole". It stands to reason there was fort nearby.

[@mark5150ty]

Naturally occurred my arss

[@dirkdiggler1242]

I understood that the vikings would burn their dead on the ocean to return their bodies to the norse god? I apologize for butchering any spelling, I am from the US.

[@kalicokathy1944]

Vikings had th abili to reach the the Aran Islands