Dark Ages Viking Warrior Interview + Kit Display

[@mikesouth5821]

That's me at the end fighting with the yellow and red shield. It was my first ever event with Regia Anglorum with all borrowed kit and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing :-D

[@scootch4224]

Viking Reenactor: I don't have a helmet right now *sees the helmet on the ground* Viking reenactor: Welp its mine now

[@VVeremoose]

I love how all of these interviewees match the stereotypical personality of the warrior they represented. The Roman was descriptive, fact focused, and very concerned with gear. The hopolite spoke a lot about status and station This homie was aggressive and straight to the point (pun intended) They were all very knowledgeable, though

[@StoutProper]

VVeremoose he's a Geordie, they all come across like that

[@Oxley016]

@@StoutProper wey aye! apart from the fact this fella said he was from Durham so depending on where in Durham hes either a pit geordie/mackem or a posh geordie/mackem.

[@StoutProper]

Oxley from the accent he's a pit Geordie

[@Oxley016]

@@StoutProper Aye, don't even know why I put a choice in there, deffo not posh is he

[@Finpetel]

Really like these, thank you for uploading them. Nice quality also!

[@StrikingScorpion82]

thanks:) Glad you like the videos! More on the way...

[@fenixreborn3834]

Viking Power!!! Have always liked their history. Great interview and cool bit of music in there.

[@StrikingScorpion82]

Glad you enjoyed it:) Check out the Viking battle video too...was really impressive!

[@peterdammeliusosterode3424]

Fenix Reborn As a true Swedish, I should have ancestors who have been vikings. But I wonder. For the past five hundred years, we have been peaceful farmers in the same family farm and I feel no desire to kill, rob and rape. But the thought is interesting, maybe there is someone British or Russian who originates from the same straight male lineage as I do. Skål på er era amatörvikingar😂😂

[@StoutProper]

P Osterode your ancestors stayed behind to farm, ours sailed to farm here...

[@CherrynatorPC]

Love your videos, looking forward for more :D

[@hasdrubal121]

Love the enthusiasm

[@widowrumstrypze9705]

How did I get from bingeing "America's Next Top Model" to THIS, lol?!

[@atropiaveteran]

Sadly I could never be one of these Vikings, can't grow a beard :'(

[@cgavin1]

Stop drinking tap water. :)

[@Konradpagano]

You didn’t have to have a beard to be a Viking age Scandinavian. In fact “Viking” was a job title, one who sailed away from home for trading, raiding, exploring, or settling outside Scandinavia., be he/she man or woman.

[@hansybarra]

@@Konradpagano Wooosh

[@cammy484]

@@cgavin1 The fuck do you drink if not water?

[@PpAirO5]

😄 I'm sure there were Vikings without beards.

[@woodslore8537]

I have heard it time and time again to have chainmail you had to be rich. I don't doubt that it was an expensive item to procure. It's expensive to make even now. Though I wonder were "lower" warriors allowed to take off of fallen warriors they defeated? I mean after a battle people going and scavenging the fallen for loot. I have always been curious about that.

[@randalglyph602]

Once a poor person scavenged off a rich person's expensive mail armor, he was now the possessor of a valuable commodity and therefore ...rich.

[@randalglyph602]

@StrangerQuark Yeah mail was uncommon for non-wealthy people, but peasants with bows could ambush knights or well armed viking raiders. The holes in the mail from a longbow or even short bow at close range could be fixed easily. You probably couldn't just choose to find somebody with mail in an ambushable place, it would have to be dumb luck. And then you would be rich, or at least in possession of something you could re-sell for a pretty penny.

[@OmniCausticInfidel]

you always gotta remember leaders would prob bully their subordinates and take the best gear for themselves

[@axeguy3856]

OmniCausticInfidel remember that you were grateful for that bully's protection or else you might not survive to the ripe old age of 30!

[@nicholassorrenson3484]

in Viking times most Raiders did have armour and their targets less so but if they did come up against armoured opponents it was treated like a prize if you fought well killing him you could lay claim everything had value but armour was on the low end of the scale

[@DedicatedSpartan]

5:17 so you are with Cnut against Edmund and Uhtred

[@garychynne1377]

GOOD THANK YOU. GARE

[@ENIGMAXII2112]

YYYYYYYYOOOOOOOOOMMMMMPPPPPPBBBBBBB!!!!!!!! Axe comes rushing down and strikes the fellow you don't like over the top of the head! Viking Power!

[@THEUNISEBIER]

Why don't they use the edge of the shield as a weapon have the blade on the edge of the shield and and hit the flat shield to cut off access to the opponents sword hand and stabbing opponent

[@PpAirO5]

It's so sad that it's the british and americans who teaches us about the Vikings, and not the Danes 🇩🇰, Swedes 🇸🇪 and Norwegians 🇸🇯

[@kezzler9556]

If you like to read you can pick up a book called heimskringla (The lives of the norse kings) It was written around 1200 ad by Snorri Sturluson and consists of many stories written at the end of the viking era. Researchers don't look at the book as 100% accurate, but it gives a good view about the era.

[@AJwiththeAK]

It takes u 8 hours to drive the long way down ur country? It takes me 8 hours to get to the top of my state

[@armouredoutlaw1537]

What's your point? Look at a globe and it's pretty obvious why..

[@elgostine]

i'm australian, and i share your pain

[@Blazethebest3]

thats cut almost 30 hours to drive out of ontario going north lol. btw cheers From Canada

[@JuanIsHigh]

it takes 10 hours to drive my whole country

[@StoutProper]

Sturmtruppen_Bob look at a map. The united states is about the same size as Europe. A state in America is equivalent to a country in Europe in size and population. Mind you, we drive a lot faster in Europe than you do in America.

[@OmniCausticInfidel]

really good stuff

[@clearmelody6252]

This guy should have pointed out that the glove is not historical, it's warm by reenactors for safety purposes. It was NOT worn by real Viking warriors.

[@hundwyn7530]

Upset, are we?

[@danielpatrick3761]

@@hundwyn7530 That's my weekend spoiled!!! Fuck this world!!! What kind of God....

[@landlockedcroat1554]

my day is ruined now

[@HolmlundSWE]

I would suggest oiling the mail when storing it. I use oil from rapeseed, that seems to work just fine.

[@baronzaebos8888]

Apparently Vikings were a bit like Hells Angels when they travelled to other countries. If you got in a fight with one of them, his mates would jump in and batter you.

[@OmniCausticInfidel]

very neat, where did you hear/read that?

[@LegalizeTheNuclearBomb]

To go viking was to go raiding, so yea. Like outlaws I suppose, in that sense they were pretty cuntish during the time. Only now are they bad ass to us haha

[@hundwyn7530]

@@LegalizeTheNuclearBomb Old Norse vík (“inlet, cove, fjord”) + -ing (“one belonging to, one who frequents”) (the -r is the nominative desinence). Thus, “one from or who frequents the sea’s inlets”. Viking isn't a verb, stop parroting.

[@SanxBile]

@@LegalizeTheNuclearBomb Outlaws? Nope.

[@nielsbruls6061]

Are reenactment weapons handmade?

[@Jaxipoo161]

Mister Bruls medieval yes to make it authentic and good looking but muskets and so not handmade

[@ludvig9184]

I'm pretty sure I've read that seaxes were the only weapon that everyone was allowed to carry, including the slaves, in viking society so it's a bit weird that he said they were a sign of being free.

[@docgaza2656]

You are correct. It is, in fact an "axe" for use at sea.

[@King.Leonidas]

Nice!

[@derbar1401]

You don't needed to be rich for Armor and swords. Vikings raided villages. If they killed some other warriors (slavs or saxons for example) they simply took their gear with them

[@mattmattmatt131313]

You don't need to be rich to steal armor from a rich guy that can afford armor, but chances are, if he is a rich guy, he's not the kind of guy that is easy to steal from. Also, if he's a rich guy, he's a rare guy. Maybe it took them 30 villages to find one guy wearing a full set of armor, maybe more who knows. That is one armor for your entire raiding party.

[@sirapple2406]

@@mattmattmatt131313 Yes, but, it would be more than likely that there were people that though not complete they would have had at least pieces of armor so after a few raids you could maybe have an almost coplete set that would give ample protection and then after or before those raids started just get some of the armor that you can afford.

[@maxkuhlmann3565]

@@sirapple2406 you forget the point wich the rich guy you want to steal from actually WEARS his armour and bring it to use. the other thing is, that you dont run into war without money, armour ad weapons. most of all warriors are not poor. they will be payed for fighting for their lords. war is not cheap. and so are longboats and raids a mercenary thing...

[@sirapple2406]

max kuhlmann yeah you've got a good point.

[@sharkfinbite]

Or..... they made the gear themselves, or buy it. The catch is you still needed money even raiding. Do you have any idea how hard it is to fight someone with good gear back then? It was no cake walk. You don't just walk up kill someone to grab his gear. It is like someone today with a hunter's rifle taking on another with military stuff. You have a high risk of losing if you don't have the proper stuff, plan, or know what you are doing. You don't simply rely on steal for everything you need. Real life doesn't work this way.

[@Jelly_Juice2006]

Good

[@Blazethebest3]

if ya ever get the chance can ya interview a saxon lol

[@basedyannis]

the vikings that raided the english coasts would never in a hundred years imagine that their victims would be dressing up as them hundreds of years later as a hobby

[@jamesashfield8290]

What is this heresy, Vikings wear power armour and carry boltguns. ;)

[@Konradpagano]

James Ashfield The heresy about Viking Age Scandinavian warrriors is horned and winged helmets, which in this video, were not used in the reenactment. Instead, the horned and winged helmets popped up in mid-19th century Germany, especially in the Wagnerian play, “Der Ring des Nibelungen.” Check the answer out @: m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/nYWvk3-bpNxlpLM#

[@Konradpagano]

But on the contrary Viking age Scandinavians had power armour though, such as the brynja (chainmail hauberk in Old Norse), which was expensive to make and buy; padded linen and/or woolen gambesons; Gjermundbu spectacle helmets; nasal helmets; Gnezdovo Rus’ helmets; spangenhelms; and Birka lamellar armor, men and women (as shieldmaidens) in battle alike.

[@axeguy3856]

The Chinese invented blackpowder but the Vikings invented those mass-reactive bolt rounds. Not as sure about the power armour

[@hundwyn7530]

@@Konradpagano >still believing in shield maidens

[@jaunvonsokoloveoldchannel7215]

Hundwyn Carlson >Still thinking /pol/ and Sargon of Akkad are reliable sources of information

[@zpeins748]

2:30 Stan Lee Cameo

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[@thesataniclp5776]

That armour do not protect his arms so good hope he is careful...

[@lorddar4477]

TheSatanicLP That's where the shield comes into play.

[@bigzed7908]

Roman Armor was a 1000 times better.

[@ThomasHalsey-xs7sf]

Man why wasn't he shirtless, full body tattoos, and had a massive axe (this is a joke)

[@igorvoloshin3406]

He is a Viking, not a Pict

[@victormartin6608]

I like it

[@Leman.Russ.6thLegion]

SIGN OF BEING FREE IS CARRYING A GUN.

[@blackkray8351]

@@Leman.Russ.6thLegion why are you trying to bring your bullshit small minded american ideals here? There's been so much evidence proving that your country can't handle the pressure of allowing people to own guns

[@warp65]

More like living a life of fear trapped in a bubble of insecurity.

[@Leman.Russ.6thLegion]

@@warp65 nah. See I would never live anywhere I couldn't be armed, when and where I want. Just like being free to say what i want and have privacy and not get raped by taxation. Guns are only ever bad when used to harm people. Self defense is never harming people. It is saving life.

[@Leman.Russ.6thLegion]

@@warp65 and who can I count on, when something really AWEFUL happens? The cops? What happens to unarmed people during a Christchurch attack, or any other shooting? I have a wife and little baby daughter. I am for damned sure armed to the teeth and ready to die for them.

[@warp65]

@@Leman.Russ.6thLegion It's ironic that the most heavily armed civilian population , ever, in the history of humanity , has the highest death by shooting statistics, per capita in the world. Your argument for self defense is in fact more dangerous than not being armed.

[@finenterprisespvtltd6707]

Only if i had an AK47 with millions of rounds. Iwould have ruled the world in those times😄

[@Captain_Frank_Abagnale]

Id take a handful of handheld radios with solar charged battery banks for charging the radios. Instant undisrupted communication on the battlefield between commanders