Vikings 1x2 "Wrath of the Northmen" REACTION

[@waynefarmer6966]

Lindisfarne where they landed is a small remote island and literally all that was there was the monastery. They took what they found back to prove they had found new lands and to try and persuade the earl to allow further exploration with more men.

[@robertjohansen5616]

And to stick it to Kvitekrist...

[@Josh86_925]

They're Vikings. It's brutal , but that's the history of what they did . They raided , killed , stole , and enslaved who they kept alive . I love in the WWII movie "Fury" when Brad Pitt says " Ideals are peaceful , history is violent ". Pitt , means that there is a difference between ideas and reality... But history is violent , despite all the ideals , there hasn't been much peace time throughout history , if any.

[@agenttheater5]

plus apparently there were also a fair amount of Christian Vikings in Scandinavia.

[@mikeno8192]

Christianity (and other monotheistic religions) and then the reformation and then science and enlightenment thought sought to change the violence of our history, from what had been in the pagan world, such as with the Vikings. It took a long time to do so.

[@giannisp8290]

""in my dreams,,,we are always together"" you must remember this words..

[@wantsumbread9586]

The scene where Floki is touching paper that's the first time he's seen or touched paper

[@ronmaximilian6953]

Might be the first time he saw parchment

[@DaSpecimenFL]

PAPER!!!!! -The guy from Waterworld

[@rittherugger160]

Why kill the priest? To terrorize. You want them running away when you see them. They will tell others and you don't want them telling others that there is nothing to fear from these men. It worked too. To this day english speakers sing hymns asking God to protect them from those that come from the sea.

[@ams914]

Also... because they're vikings. LOL. Vikings were savages let's face it. The show pretties them up.

[@mikeno8192]

The Vikings were savages who killed, raped, enslaved. They were savages simple

[@trada3480]

That's one of the things I like about the show you really start to feel for the main characters but the show doesn't shy away from some of the bad things they also did in history they lives were mostly hard and short and the best death was to die in battle

[@MFBloosh]

Stuff like this is why Christians portrayed Vikings as devilish beings. It's where the horned helmets come from, if I'm not mistaking, which is how most people think of Vikings nowadays when they never really wore horned helmets. Also, this raid is extremely accurate to it's real life counterpart.

[@joshritz7067]

I agree. They took everything that they could fit in the boat. Raids are hit and run. Far different from an invasion.

[@icebreaker4354]

You’re right they didn’t wear horned helmets, it’s how christians portrayed the vikings

[@loxley75]

Horned helmets come from nineteenth century opera. Costume designers portrayed Vikings with horned helmets in Wagners 'Ring of the Nibelung' and the image just kind of stuck.

[@BlackDeathThrash]

there has never been any archaeological proof found that viking helmets had horns

[@larsohrt]

@@loxley75 Exactly :-)

[@martinchc4]

The word “Viking” meant “pirate raid” in the Old Norse language that was spoken in Scandinavia around the same period

[@jamisonmunn9215]

Do not forget its a Raid not an invasion or exploratory mission. The goal is to get in acquire slaves or plunder and get out before a resistance could be mounted. Even if you were with a well armed group of warriors I imagine it would be scary to be in a foreign land not knowing where anything is or how powerful the local warriors could be. Also think about the Viking ship they don't want to leave it for long because if an enemy ship were to spot it and destroy they would be trapped.

[@felipeavila2514]

Hi! You see the Vikings in the eighth century were organized by small villages in Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, Sweden), land that was not very good for a strong exploitation of agriculture, leading them to maintain family farms as a form of primary social organization, however, the artisans were grouped near tribal chiefs called Jarls. Having few resources to exploit, every year when there was no ice in the ports they went to raid other more prosperous people, at first they turned to the Baltic Sea to raid tribes in the area (Pomeranians, Lithuanians, Slavs, etc.), but in 793 the Vikings set foot on a remote island, Lindisfarne, today part of the UK. They raided, robbed, pillaged, plundered, enslaved and retreated. Let the series absorb you, you will soon understand the motivations of that people, plus you will see that many things that happen in the series happened in real life, for example the use of new navigation techniques. Although never forget that it is a fictional series, so not everything we are told happened in reality, for example Rollo was not Ragnar's brother.

[@Morningsux]

Well, pretty obvious as for me. That was just 1 boat with a dozen of vikings. They killed all witnesses, took hostage and treasures, so they can come back with the proof there are lands on the west. So that they can return to these England lands with an army later.

[@joka619]

i dont think ragnar meant to insult lagertha when he said she has to stay here. ragnar owns considerable land, livestock and grain, plus his children are young and he has servants, and no guards. knowing this and the fact that they went to raid without the earl's permission/blessing it is very likely that he could send his men to kill everyone and torct the place and seize his lands. having lagertha stay there meant the perception of everything running there would stay intact. what ragnar doesnt know at this point ofcourse is that they have already been spotted and outed to the earl. if he knew, i dont think he would've risked it knowing how greedy and evil the earl can be.

[@kevinnorwood8782]

This episode is a prime example of how the show is a mix between fantasy and actual history. Where Ragnar and his Vikings land is meant to be Lindisfarne, a small island monastery off the coast of Britain. And if this is meant to be Lindisfarne, then it means that (even though the times and dates kind of get distorted as the series progresses, and certain historical characters appear earlier or later than they should) the year this episode takes place is 793 AD. That year is VERY significant in history because that was the FIRST recorded Viking raid in history, and it is marked as the official start of the Viking Age, an age that would last for around three centuries.

[@dcanngieter]

It was a really good job... They traveled to find England and they found it. I understand why you feel the way you do because you know what priest are and how they act.... But you gotta understand that this is a whole new world for the vikings

[@yuriy_kondor]

4:40 Ragnar speaks about little pig (sons) and the boar! ( ragnar) From beginning to the end

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

"Why they are killing them?" Cause they are Vikings. lol War, battle, was a way of life to them. And I figure the key about the Vikings was they were using a lot scare tactics. It's propaganda in a way. They wanted to come off as a very scary force. So when they would attack people, they had to make it count so that their reputation of monsters be known.

[@ronmaximilian6953]

This is probably the most historically accurate part of the show. The Norse werepeaceful farmers and good traders, but when they went viking, IE raidng, God help you. Fundamentally, they simply lack to land and one of the ways to establish what self is for young men to go on a raid and take property. My first cousin is married to a native Swede whose ancestor went Viking and used his loot to purchase a farm that has been in the family for over a thousand years. In the middle ages, there wasn't much economic growth. You prospered by taking rather than by growing the pie. Do you imagine that Asparukh when he led his Bulghars into the Danubian plain?

[@agenttheater5]

plus it's not like christian colonisers acted that much differently when they 'discovered' new lands

[@ronmaximilian6953]

@@agenttheater5 Christian colonizers was a very heterogeneous group and they acted quite differently. But yes, people who go rating in general are not nice people.

[@niatilevi9768]

All that gold there is way more than few pieces in most of the world Scandinavia aswell, where theres theres barely any goods land for farm, plus its a show in the real raid of Lindisfarne they probably killed a few monks who were in they way maybe took some a slaves took all the gold and trading goods that they had (Cloth, Oil, food ect...) and left most of them alive so they can come again in a year or two and do it again, one of the the facts that kinda proves is that Lindisfarne was raided again like 3 times after the first raid, Its also the start of the 300 year more or less in the middle ages called the viking age where Vikings or Northmen in general became kinda like superpower in alot of Europe

[@williammcallister3566]

When it come to why kill the priests it has been a well known tactic that shock/aggression (still taught with room entry in the military) have the benefit of making people panick and make mistakes in battle but more importantly in this case knowing the fate will make people submit to paying to live

[@salamander2899]

Remember the phrase that lagertha said: we always together

[@sampsoncox5637]

If you're at the point where you're screaming why when they kill people, maybe Google some info on norse culture before you watch a viking show

[@pepehandz7657]

She's reacting. Are you not here for that, professor?

[@pepehandz7657]

Og inden du starter, er jeg ret sikker på at jeg ved mere om Skandinaviens historie og vikinger end dig 😀

[@eliasuriel5963]

In my opinion, most of the comments are wrong, they kill priests because they don't know they are priests, they don't know the land, they don't know their customs, they don't even know who they are. Love your videos, and love you queen

[@pwimbledon]

Not sure about that. The idea that vikings didn't know about England (as portrayed in the series), what was there, what Gods they worshipped, isn't at all historical. They would had been trading for centuries before the raids of the 700's. They would have been aware of monasteries and churches since the 5th century. They would have been aware of the Christian God - especially the Danish.

[@haeleth7218]

Imagine being a Viking and setting sail across the the North Sea when England was really just a rumour - it might not have even existed.

[@agenttheater5]

It was like you were really there, when the kids were being told the story of the Jorrmungadr Serpent and Thor, you seemed so engrossed in the story.

[@imayubfromchechnya2679]

hello from Chechnya )

[@dene39]

They travelled all that way to plunder and thus feed their families and improve their lives. This is how it was.

[@tommywalker3746]

Speaking of Earl's There's a Dixie Chicks song about a jerk named Earl Second, thanks for watching this with us.

[@cloud77ism]

I still need to watch this show. Just giving some love 🤘🤘🤘

[@yellowbeardjamesgibson9297]

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[@ScarriorIII]

To go a viking means to raid, kill, and pillage. This is the Viking culture, as it was with many cultures, even as recently as the American Natives. For example, the Apaches had a rite of passage where you weren't considered a man until you had gone on 3 raids, which always looked like a Charles Manson murder scene. As for this scene, this is isn't the worst thing you will see in this show, not by a long shot.

[@nightbringer5169]

You're about to watch one of the greatest shows ever (in my opinion) i've watched it like 4 times already lmao,enjoy amazing content

[@derps0n839]

Usually they just raided other vikings, but farmers like Ragnar were constantly under threat from the earls who wanted to tax the land. Raiding was a way for them to pay their tax and keep their land. It is all the same land, the earl will take it from people he doesn't like and give to someone else. But they are really renters. Ragnar sees this as a dead end, so his solution is to look for new lands. The raiding is how he convinces the others to go with him. Ragnar values knowledge over gold, and the monks are a great source of knowledge because they travel on missions and write everything down.

[@mrex3553]

.... with anaxe was the funniest bit how you said it :D

[@nannunbgd]

If they bouth go,with who remain childrens? And if they bouth die? One must stay with kids,and that person is there Mother.

[@SteezyPimp]

Yinz gotta watch black hawk down and review it... so crazy. Can’t wait

[@antonlb143]

This girl is in for a long emotional journey. Wish I could start over with fresh memory so bad :(

[@KaiMarcad]

14:39 Come on the dude was obviously casting a spell.

[@MrZnarffy]

The only law that existed was within your group of people. Anyone a foreigner was fair game pretty much. Add to that a hard reality of life, it basically was you or the other guy, and finally the northmens religion of asatru, which basically said "the only way to valhalla (their heaven) is to die in combat, where eternal partying awaits the brave" So while the nordic society could be extremely organised and equal, at the same time it created extremely dangerous people, when the only way to heaven is through battle...

[@somerandomguy32]

Episode 2 and she is allready becoming a sheald maiden

[@HedrosReviews]

There were too few of them to be able to explore the rest of the land. They took valuables and hostages to prove that there was a land in the west and to be able to return there with a real army.

[@farhadrazavi8941]

to create fear in later battles

[@vladriot510]

Salute from Denmark (:

[@sofiamec8767]

Man I missed you so much Ellie! Loved this reaction. I had the same reaction when I saw them killing everyone lol. But god I love them so much! Can’t wait for the next one!

[@MrEd8846]

I think my reaction was similar. But then I was like "oh yeah. Theyre vikings"

[@BoredAgain2977]

It's the Viking way, Thats Why.

[@justincase8533]

You're gonna love this show!!

[@penguin8711]

Ellie is the best 😍 You traveled all this way to kill priests and steal a few gold pieces 😂

[@GlennShook]

Funny and good looking but maybe not the brightest bulb. They were Vikings. It’s what they did. And many others in those times. Parts of the world in these times for that matter.

[@penguin8711]

@@GlennShook wait... so because she made a comment you're going to insult her? Saying 'its what they did', doesn't make murdering innocents right. And if you are insulting people because of that, maybe you're not the best judge of intelligence or morality.

[@GlennShook]

@@penguin8711 you prob shouldn’t question others intelligence if you can’t understand the diff between it being ok which I didn’t say and it’s what they did. But you protect her honor keyboard warrior.

[@Xanivert]

Damn just starting this AND Breaking Bad? May have earned a new sub

[@icebreaker4354]

Big throwback to characters that are no more in the series

[@72tadrian65]

Well if this portrayal of the attack on the monks was anything accurate, they weren’t even molesting children. Otherwise go Vikings!

[@ARAUJOoo_0]

The great King RAGNAR LOTHBROK 👑👑👑❤❤❤

[@Prototype455]

Yey Ellie🔝

[@nannunbgd]

They kill for pleasure to kill!

[@thechristiandash]

They'll BE BACK *Arnold voice*

[@ivar5273]

Why you killed him? İts Vikings

[@ijaapajuk]

Remember this line that Lagertha said 2:23 you'll hear it again in a later episode.

[@markohyytiainen4567]

Moore pliis!

[@alangoldberg8277]

So Ellie's English courses included substantial profanity? Or did she pick it up from TV and movies?

[@domet80]

react to: Dead Poets Society. robin williams

[@Krytos911]

This show is, sadly, a good representation of Viking life and their culture - brutality and all

[@antman149]

Waddup homie

[@alexholding6463]

they are vikings, do you think they care if they have weapons or not they traveled all that way to discover new lands not just to kill a few priests and steal what they have

[@mohammad.algathali]

Peace, Ellie.. THE LADY OF HEAVEN Trailer, worthy of your reaction.

[@joepoe8976]

OMG you are so .......i cant say

[@larsohrt]

I'm from Denmark and I'm not very proud of my ancestors... The Vikings were ruthless and barbaric -but also very good Sailors and Warriors

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

Why aren't the Dannish like this nowadays? lol

[@larsohrt]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 OK... not all things was bad. Vikings treated Women with a lot of respect (unless it was slaves) and Besides raiding and farming, Vikings were exceptional craftsmen. They also had a passion for jewelry and personal care etc -butt! it will not change the fact, that Vikings did a lot of killing and a lot of raping

[@larsohrt]

-by the way... Ragnar was from Denmark, and not Norway ;-)

[@johnnyskinwalker4095]

@@larsohrt No I meant why aren't they badass like that nowadays? ;)

[@larsohrt]

@@johnnyskinwalker4095 Because you can't build up a civilization through violence... And because we became Christians . Not that Christianity is not violent -it is!!! But a lot of the Christian ideas is to build up a Society with a "Pen" -and not a "Sword"

[@sturmpantsu5468]

oh god Spaniard. HIDE.

[@joepoe8976]

damn you are adorable :-)

[@georgekappos3222]

Gross

[@thechristiandash]

Are you ok, buddy? Who hurt you? Do you think it's ok to write mean things to someone you don't know?

[@RyanRyzzo]

Strange thing is that they don't believe in the British Isles... it's been years since I saw this series, but it's always something that bugged me. Good acting and a fun script, but otherwise it's a silly series :D

[@BlackDeathThrash]

lol, "why you kill them?"...they are vikings...duh....its what they do. Its called history, try it some time.