Vikings: The Most Terrifying Force in History

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[@anexistencethatexists]

Simon did worse than usual attempting to make it seem appealing

[@isaac821]

@@anexistencethatexists lmao his face after the sip had me dying

[@birdsandthingsbeachandbush1064]

Come on tell me what does it taste like for real?

[@DeanMathieson-h4o]

WHAT IS THE SECRET OF ATHLETIC GREENS?

[@Jonas_æ]

My dad and I visited Dublin a couple years ago and one of our tourist stops was to a historical viking museum. As we entered, we were greeted by the receptionist; "Welcome, where are you from?" We told him we were visiting from Norway. "Ah, well in that case; welcome back."

[@BionicRusty]

😂 Brilliant

[@Jonas.A.Larsen]

I had more or less this exact same thing happen to me, I went on a long weekend vacation to Ireland and visited Northern Ireland as well, no matter where I traveled during my trip from Dublin to Belfast and back, whenever I said I was from Norway I was greeted with a giant smile and a "welcome back" or someone yelling to their partner or coworker "the norwegians are back again", and whenever I was at a pub or bar people would be surprisingly happy and cheerful when they found out where I was from, I`ve never gotten so many free drinks from complete strangers. One of best places I`ve been on a vacation,kind of felt like I was visiting a long lost cousin.

[@Dennan]

@@Jonas.A.Larsen thats so wierd, im swedish and norweigan, and that they welcome so happily is kinda wierd considering what our ancestors did.

[@acenuke2513]

@@Dennan what i find interesting is that we the danes, norweigans and sweds went from murderous barbarians. To peaceloving social democrats, who really enjoy helping other people even tho aint expected to. talk about turning your nature around.

[@Dennan]

@@acenuke2513

[@johnnysinthecut3114]

Side note, Simon is literally gagging trying to hold down the AG1 🤣🤣🤣

[@ThatDogBarkz]

I came here to say exactly this 😂🤣

[@robina.jensen6114]

Just like Derrick from Vice Grip Garage! 😂😂😂

[@pielover1455]

He needs some magic spoon

[@jacksonnn1661]

This comment made me watch the advert 😂

[@phillipstrait9387]

Right

[@joschafinger126]

As for what kicked off the Viking Age, the hypothesis _I_ find most convincing is that it was precisely greater wealth coupled with primogeniture or early forms of it that lent the impulse. The idea is that improving crop yields led to population growth, while many young men were left with little to no land to inherit. What will such young men do? Well, look for opportunities elsewhere. Combine that with a long-standing shipbuilding tradition and a warrior culture, and you _will_ get a tendency to _go viking_ , a word that describes a seasonal occupation rather than an ethnicity.

[@cesaravegah3787]

Yup, that is the most probable explanation, add to that the fact that the first viking raids recorded netted them massive treasure with very little casualties and you get a rush of people volunteering to join new raids, chieftains and entire villages willing to fund the building of more and better boats, etc, etc, the perfect conditions to create a predatory culture.

[@TullaRask]

Yes, what you call Primogeniture seems very similar to the Norwegian "Odel" law, means ownership. It's still the most important way farms are inherited, through the oldest child.

[@abaddon1371]

It is only in recent modern times, that viking is being associated with an occupation rather than, not ethnicity, but hailing of homeport. For us scandinavians (I am danish) it doesn't make sense, since viking is vik-ing and not vi-king as english speakers pronounce it. Vik (or Wick from old norse) means a shallow bay or inlet found along the fjords of our home countries. -ing at the end of a word in nordic languages denotes a place of origin or occupation. Since you can't have a bay as an occupation, there is really only one option left. Modern day interpreters trying to rewrite the scandinavian language to be something else, is silly and foolish at best. Same goes for the dragon heads on the ships. There is no word for dragon in old norse. They are wyrms / worms, and the two most noteable of those worms most often depicted is Jormungandr (Midgårdsormen in danish which means "the Midgard worm) and Nidhogg (Nidhug in danish and which means Malice Striker in english)

[@TullaRask]

@@abaddon1371 You should be a bit careful talking about the pronounciation of the word viking as not being vi-king. In Norwegian we have many dialects and they can be wastly different. I've always heard the word being pronounced as vi-king though.

[@abaddon1371]

@@TullaRaskHow we speak changes over time, and can, as you said, highly depend on accent for a given area. It doesn't change the fact however, that vik means small bay or inlet, no matter what accent.

[@willdornan9929]

I’m glad you mentioned Rus Vikings. Their history is very interesting and often gets overlooked.

[@mrsh9588]

Rus- = Russian. Tucker Carlson should have mention to Putin that according to his (Putins) understanding, Russia belong to the Swedens. That would then be up to Sweden if Ukraine would be granted permission to exist.

[@TBFI_Botswana]

Slava Ukraine.

[@TERMINATOR101-b8j]

While the Rus vikings did establish what would become ukraine and russia, modern Russians think of themselves as descending from the Byzantines for some reason. Probably because of the varangians in greek service, east orthodox Christianity, and greek colonization in antiquity, but i can't recall on the fly. My Russian history class was a long time ago, but the Russian empire viewed itself as the third Roman empire.

[@sheep1ewe]

​@@TERMINATOR101-b8j Interesting, as i red in books the Ottoman empire also wanted to be the erands of the Roman empire depite the wars and it deffinitley had zero historical claims beside the wars, but they where a bit late to the party and they where not exactly popular among the actual Romans so to speak so it fell on that, but stil today large parts of the coast of modern Turkey still look like aincient Rom because of the remnants of all the old arcitecture design. For Russia it seems a bit exaggerated claims to me even in theory, but i fully understand why they want it to be that way. However, Russia did newer reach near that far southwest in reality. In north west russia however there are plenty of finds of iron age villages of nordic style which are clearly not east slavic of it's nature. It is a bit debated which language they spooke there however, but if it truly was fully east slavic the language would not had been indo-euriopean but finish-ugrian, like Finish, Eesti, līvlizt, etc (or the Magyar language) but modern russian are clearly not finish-ugri, it does instead belong to the indo european languages.

[@supposeppo8856]

It's debatable that the origin for word "Rus" might be from Old Norse word for "to row"(a boat). And at the same time Finnish word for Sweden is "Ruotsi" and for Russia it's "Venäjä" Estonian (another finnic language) word for Russia is "Venemaa", that directly translated to modern finnish would mean "boat land" and Estonian word for sweden is also "Rootsi" And as finnic tribes have lived thousands of years alongside scandinavians, ancient finns might see swedish and russians as same people. The boat people

[@dylankennedy6389]

Simons face after sipping the AG1 is hilarious! so tasty XD

[@thejudgmentalcat]

He's a good capitalist...gags it down for THAT MONEY!

[@thejudgmentalcat]

@richmondyayarea dude I was being sarcastic and using his own phrase...get it?

[@slaydon3]

​@@richmondyayareaWhat are you replying to? Your comment made no sense at all

[@charliethirteen3868]

​@slaydon3 Agreed lolz

[@megaflux7144]

"furs, wax, honey, and slaves" sounds so grimy yet so good.

[@asmith1711]

Unless you're the person sold, then it's unfair right

[@megaflux7144]

@@asmith1711get over it. not everybody gets to be the emperor.

[@asmith1711]

@@megaflux7144 sweet, sign up to sell yourself then. You can always just get over it, right? Then prove it.

[@GhostGreyWolf]

​@asmith1711 Sounds like everywhere around the planet around that time. Ask Africa, they loved to keep/sell slaves.

[@StallionStudios1234]

I ate at a restaurant that had a "Viking Burger". It had wild bore in it. It was tasty and had "long boat" fries. They were super long and the plate was a ship shaped design. This video remined me of that. It was a good burger. I want to go back and try the "Viking Meatloaf". Its the wild bore again wrapped with bacon, mashed potatoes and a really tasty gravy.

[@ryanbravo5941]

Where is this restaurant located? Sounds delicious!

[@xionmemoria]

... you in Japan?

[@Hooibeest2D]

Hahaha what?? That's commerce alright 😂

[@Hooibeest2D]

You do realise that a burger is just a civilian. And Hamburger is a city in saxon/frisian Germany. Ham/ haim/home meaning settlement. So it means home of people. Birmingham, bearmanhome?? Having a viking burger makes no sense at all.

[@LoneWolf_RO]

location?

[@jenneyasmith]

I feel like I stumble upon an additional channel hosted by Simon each time I pop onto KZbin and I'm not mad about it. Best scavenger hunt by far.

[@supernoodles91]

'Peter the Simple'........Not sure he chose that particular moniker!😂

[@martinlatour9311]

Still better than Bran the Broken

[@18Hongo]

Yeah, neither did Charles the Bald, or Charles the Fat... Or William the Bastard, for that matter. People had a habit of naming important figures after their death, or just behind their back.

[@philhawley1219]

Charles the WEF stooge.

[@Jeffro5564]

@@martinlatour9311bran never existed hahahaha Vikings would destroy those peasants in game of thrones. Wait they did cos game of thrones are series of books hahahahahaha

[@moonman8450]

Simple Jack

[@supernoodles91]

Remind me not to buy that 'breakfast smoothie', Simon was almost gagging!😂

[@GrievousReborn]

Thanks for making chat read like a broken record because there's always somebody who says this

[@supernoodles91]

@@GrievousReborn I can't be arsed reading what people say so. Ain't a fuckin chat either. Jog on.

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@supernoodles91he’s the self appointed commentary Nazi. He wasn’t shrill enough for the pronoun police and couldn’t get his eyeballs to bulge out enough to join the snowflake outrage team. So here he is monitoring comments on the internet. It’s a very prestigious role considering his limited skills.

[@TheGavrael]

4:05 There's a growing number of historians that say the viking 'expansion' wasn't fueled by a need for new land because of the inhospitable(sic) climate. But the Great Warming period has just occured, yeilding a much healthier crop harvest, which in turn meant easy provisioning for viking. In addition, the site of Lindisfarne was likely chosen specifically because it was a holy site in retaliation for Christian (Charlemagne) hostility towards Scandanavia. Vikings, as you pointed out, had been to England before and knew there were much wealthier places the could raid. Lindisfarne was a message. 'Our gods defeat your god'.

[@taliz1055]

And then their gods got defeated.

[@jeffbudd7678]

Pronunciation time - L'anse aux Meadows - LAN-So Meadows

[@Lolipop6247]

Literally just finished the last episode of Vikings yesterday! Perfect timing, thank you.

[@SulphuricGrin]

I'm rewatching the vikings myself. what a lovely coincidence lol

[@EstamosDe]

Now its time to watch Vinland Saga, be ready to cry

[@iorransilva8596]

Stay away from Vikings Valhalla, that 💩 is toxic. 🤢

[@TheCanagoose]

Gotta watch the sequel vikings vallhalla and the last kingdom if you haven't, watch the show before the movie. Norsemen is hilarious.

[@TheCanagoose]

​@@EstamosDeis it any good. I've been wanting to but the sub thing throws me off. Not because I hate sub anime but I find myself reading more than watching idk anyway worth it?

[@Hammer1987]

Simon: "Vikings! The most terrifying force in history." Genghis Khan: "What am I, chopped liver?"

[@Dennan]

both probly equally terrifying, like no mercy and ruthless both armies. tho if they were to face eachother in battle i think mongolia would win kinda easy, archers on horseback was crazy good back then.

[@Hammer1987]

​@@Dennan Well, that very much depends on where they fight it out. Given the fact that Mongolia is landlocked the Vikings would not be able to make use of their long ships, which was one of the main reasons the Vikings were able to do what they did. So on the steppes of Mongolia the Vikings would have a difficult time of it. Though, if the fight were to happen in Scandinavia the Mongols would not be able to effectively use their horses due to the mountainous terrain and dense forests. There is also the logistical challenge of feeding all the horses.

[@Dennan]

@@Hammer1987 aa yea you right i didnt think about that, very intressting

[@jessejamespeterman9071]

Was a time when Native Americans launched an assault on a landing party from the sea the Vikings after suffering catastrophic loses left and never returned. Native American story could be true could be false who's to say?

[@morstyrannis1951]

@@jessejamespeterman9071likely had them vastly outnumbered and the home field advantage.

[@christiansebastianlauritse2404]

Side note. You mention 2 very interesting things that are actually connected: 1) The colony you mention in Normandy, founded by Viking Rollo. 2) England being united under 1 king. William the conquerer was from that viking colony, and he was the great-great-grandson of Rollo. "Normandy" literally means "Home of the Norse" (Nord=North, Mand=Man)

[@aneshadzibulic8097]

Do something on the Comanche would be interesting

[@lajoyalobos2009]

I second this! The Comanche empire is criminally overlooked and they shaped both their neighboring tribes and the US in many ways.

[@MrKakemann1]

Just wait until we can travel outside our solar system. Then you will probably see Space Vikings 😂

[@DeeReeseBeats]

One day i need a Simon drinking AG1 compilation 🤣😂

[@vitorpereira9515]

I disagree. The most terrible force in history were the Mongols. If any of you have any doubts, just ask a Tangut.

[@johndillinger4007]

LMAO - You could try to find someone with Khwarezmid empire heritage, but they were wiped off the map, literally, by Big Daddy Genghis

[@sebastienloyer9471]

😢🎉. I repeat: ,And All will have to fight. : Tell your sons and daughters that theyr kids will be fighting Skynet. If you are alive now, you are the resistance. Do your research.

[@sebastienloyer9471]

🎉. CARE NOT of Passed WAR$. . I repeat: ,And All will have to fight. : Tell your sons and daughters that theyr kids will be fighting Skynet. If you are alive now, you are the resistance. Do your research.

[@markthebldr6834]

​@@sebastienloyer9471are ya fr9m the future

[@Mark_CTN]

I disagree, there were much much worse and probably have been since

[@Spoodabandit]

Wow just wow what a great video what a mind opening one the vimings definitely were around long b4 we give credit for and did much more than the standard taught rape rob and pillaging we think of today i love the vikings story and history i wish we knew more. Cover more of the vikings simon!! U seemed to genuinely be into this history a different theme than the usual romans

[@Frendh]

16:54 Or the beads were acquired through indirect trade in south eastern europe and not by going to india to trade directly.

[@ChIGuY-town22_]

A lack of farmland in a brutal society, makes for a great storyline which Hollywood loves. 😂

[@DieNibelungenliad]

There was farmland in Scandinavia. In fact, Scandinavia was warm in the Middle Ages, they got colder afterwards

[@andersbjrnsen7203]

​@@DieNibelungenliadSweden and Denmark has excellent farmland to this day, the lack of arable land is mainly a norwegian thing.

[@Adelwapen04]

Thanks for covering our history❤️🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇮🇸

[@gasfeefees6647]

These raids on monasteries were probably a reaction to the brutal tactics of Charlemagne and his cleansing tactics pushing the Saxons and Angles northwards. You should make a video about the Saxon leader Widukin who fought against Charlemagne a decade before this. It is a very interesting connection. You can imagine the stories traveling towards the western part of what a hundred years later became the kingdom of Norway.

[@Jeffro5564]

Saxon aren’t Vikings hahahhahaha

[@gasfeefees6647]

@@Jeffro5564 Viking was something you did, not something you are. The raids began in 793. There were trading ports in what later became Norway, Denmark and Sweden. People came from Northern parts of todays "Germany" to "Norway" from 476 until 800s, just as the Angels and Saxons also went to Roman Britain. People in "Norway" knew of Attila because of stories that had been told from tradesmen and returning soldiers. They saw christianity as a threat at least until 1050.

[@karlchristie1856]

I picture the settlers showing up in "Greenland" like the penguins in Madagascar achieving their goal of getting to Antarctica only to get off the boat in a blizzard and say "well this sucks."

[@MeetJackBlack]

"Most terrifying force...". Genghis Khan, "hold my beer".

[@garyknights3181]

The most empressive empire ever? The roman empire.

[@Fokas-n8t]

The Vikings certainly did not terrified the Mediterranean that much unless we count with them the Normans (who were of course several generations down the line and a very mixed group). They were mostly successful in northern Europe at a time there were no sea defenses and most lands were just a messy collection of little feuds with little or often no standing armies. When Vikings tried to do the same against a powerful state such as the Eastern Roman Empire they were humiliated repeatedly - at best being able to loot only a few provincial villages before the Imperial army coming to sweep them out. Eventually they decided it was better to ask for employment in the Empire's military rather than fight against it.

[@OctoberRaven]

if you think about it, William of Normandy was of viking descent, so eventually they did conquer Britain

[@TysonGould-td2wh]

Emperor Halford Spencer GOLD. He lived same era as Victoria

[@Schmorgus]

When it comes to why the Danes and Norwegians went "raiding" in the first place, is more likely because their areas are hard to farm. Denmark had a lot of sour dirt meaning that nothing grew, and Norway is just mountains. Swedes on the other hand has shown to be more towards religion/fame and fortune as in being hired mercenaries, since Swedish lands had all the farms they could need. Reading a bit of how they worshiped their Gods (according to non-christian sources), it's not that weird that they took ships and sailed for glory :P

[@rianmacdonald9454]

''Such a vicious attack on a holy site'' ''HOLY, ONLY TO YOU, JUST ANOTHER BUILDING TO US, no building that is part of christianity is holy, and has no claim to said protection''

[@madsmatras5691]

i was at an exhibit about the rus vikings (the vikings that went east and populated Russia and other places). here it was told that be tradition the eldest born son would inherit the land and that a spike in the survivability meant that, since only one person could inherit the family grounds. The younger siblings would venture out to find their own places.

[@veronicajensen7690]

yes that is correct that was how it was among all Norse the eldest son was the heir and the rest had to find their own land and earnings

[@riddick7082]

What you're completely missing is that the Vikings didn't suddenly appear out of nowhere. Their ancestors and predecessors had for many hundreds of years had close contact with the British Isles, for example during the Vendel period. For example, the finds at Sutton Hoo show that people have had close contacts with Scandinavia. When the Vikings, due to a large population increase, began their expansion, they knew exactly where to strike. To the Vikings, the completely unprotected rich Christian monasteries were like fruit just waiting to be picked.

[@turqeeman]

First time I met the Norwegian oil rig guys I understood why the Vikings were so successful. An entire crew of 7 foot tall Thor look alike's is intimidating

[@adamgeigerjr6995]

a distant culture from the North started visiting far lands they've never been and started to settle down more & grow more dense as a society, I would take any bet on the Vikings being nearly wiped out from disease brought back from some of the voyager warrior parties

[@captainspaulding5963]

HOW..... how is Simon still getting AG1 deals after the "supplements are a scam" video 😂😂😂😂 this is just amazing EDIT; As soon as I hit enter, I remembered that these are recorded sometimes months out, but funny as hell, nevertheless

[@thepax2621]

@@captainspaulding5963 Because you're braindead

[@coldsmokepwrstroke]

The Norse changed the world in sooooo many ways… they had so many technology break throughs

[@Akira-Kanroji]

This is the only reason why I'm proud of being Scandinavian

[@coolcalm_T]

Charles the Bald?? Charles the Simple?!? We’re just gonna breeze on past that one, huh. I 👏🏾 NEED 👏🏾 ANSWERS 👏🏾

[@coolcalm_T]

Guess I’d rather be King Harold Fairhair than Charles the Bald 🤷🏾‍♂️😂

[@hellalive8973]

I recently caught my 5 year old surrounded by crumbs, chocolate smeared on his face and hands and he swears he didn’t eat the slice of chocolate cake. He was more believable than Simon trying to sell me AG1 🤣🤣

[@StoutandSteady]

Imagine you're 17 years old and living in Sweden on a poor farm with 3 or 4 older brothers who will inherit everything. Your life is hard work and boring with little reward other than subsistance. You hear a rumor of a local Jarl (modern governor) who's looking for able men to man his ships on a raid across the north sea to plunder England for financial gain. What have you got to lose? Ahead lies adventure, travel, a possibility to return a hero with enough wealth to buy your own farm. What do you do?

[@olivia2752]

Vart är kontraktet någonstans?

[@Raz.C]

Actually, rather than "Age old Norse Beliefs," those were in fact "Age old Germanic beliefs," with the Norse peoples constituting a small percentage of those Germanic tribes. Those Saxons who remained in Saxony, the Angles who remained in Anglia, the Jutes who remained in Jutland... All of them would have retained a belief in Odin, Thor, etc... for slightly longer than their countrymen who left to colonise England. If I recall correctly, England/ Britain had been completely infected by Christianity by 500 to 600 AD, whereas the mainland was able to resist infection, until Charlemagne came a'slaughterin'. Widikund and his home territory of Saxony finally succumbed to Christianity by around 820 AD. After Saxony, Anglia and Jutland also succumbed in quick succession, followed by the region we now call Norway.

[@corpi8784]

Very debatable if Vikings or Attila's Huns or Gengis' Mongols were more feared by their opponents

[@williammorales-gonzalez1637]

To them, the Vikings, it might've been a "holy war!?!" That's a pretty unique perspective, I can understand their struggle!

[@AnthonyOMulligan-yv9cg]

Shock Tactics Never Experienced

[@arthurzengeler8296]

There's also evidence they discovered North America. They found ruins of there's in, I think, Nova Scotia, around 1050.

[@metalltitan]

The term "viking" or "vikingr" means pirate or raider, which is exactly what the Vikings were. The traders you describe where mostly Norse explorers, former Vikings or had already been traders before the onset of Norse expansionism (mainly trading with the Slavs in the east). The Varangians were only those that entered the service of the Eastern Roman Empire and not all Norsemen coming there were in fact Varangians. Some still raided the coasts of Greece and Anatolia (though to a lesser success than in Europe, thanks to the naval proficiency of the ERE); while others still remained and conducted themselves as traders and craftsmen. The latter also being the reason why Norse settlement in Europe was so successful (Normandy/Danelaw). They were homesteaders and craftsmen by trade and raiders by necessity or ambition.

[@Sigurd-ue1vh]

Víkingr (grammatically masculine) is the noun you are looking for. It means pirate. Víking (grammatically feminine) means a voyage.

[@jmanj3917]

3:31 I hate to do this to you, Brain Boy, but these attacks were happening long before 793 AD. This attack was the first widely documented of them, so it's where historians generally agree to set the start date of the Viking Scourge. 🙂

[@Anybloke]

They were armed with bunches of loganberries. Terrifying.

[@remotecontrol9489]

"The Most Terrifying Force in History". Genghis Khan has entered the chat.

[@ulrikerudel6859]

As a Northman listening to this narrators voice I can really imagine how the Vikings just mauled thru the British

[@CM-ey7nq]

We used to be vikings. Today we are just.... Scandinavians. On the upper outskirt of most maps :)

[@jacara1981]

My ancestors were invading Vikings. They invaded England in 871AD and stayed. Later marching into mainland Europe in 1100s.

[@six6thdisciple]

THIS BOUTA MAKE ME WATCH VINLAND SAGA AGAIN

[@Nik-gj9ny]

Therapist: British babish doesn’t exist, he can’t hurt you. British Babish

[@melk100]

4.18 I always asumed greed was the prime incentive...🤔

[@daltonsnow5855]

Vikings were such legends. Glad they took care of a lot of Brit’s, too

[@randalmayeux8880]

Anyone interested in the Icelandic Vikings should read the Elder Edda.

[@LegionTacticoolCutlery]

I think the Norsemen where known way before the recorded church attack. The boats and ships were used all over from historical accounts.

[@samsarastarkey]

Vikings are the epitome of badass.

[@noelv1976]

Hey…I’m playing AC Valhalla and I’m often using Google to research these places and people.

[@DarrisHerrold-ls7xv]

Bro still can't do the taste test and hide the disgust 🤣🤣🤣

[@c4m1l0]

You are amazing with history and the way you speak is captivating, I appreciate the work you do and please keep it up Thank you so much.

[@elisabethblackwood3921]

My ancestors! It's a shame some people use their runes as symbols of hate.

[@hgrunenwald]

To enjoy these videos when I’m winding down, I have to play these videos at 0.75x speed (or else they sound like MicroMachines commercials). But otherwise, bravo!

[@JohnWhiteHere]

yeah... we kinda just decided on throwing hands for 200 years straight

[@mitchellseibel2859]

Now it’s definitely a personal bias because of my own ancestral heritage but this one was my favorite

[@richvandervecken3954]

The viking beserkers were real and I know one of my ancestors had to be one for one simple reason. When I get angry or afraid my adrenal glands pump so much adrenaline into my system that I literally tremble because of it. When I was 15 my younger brother who was on the wrestling team and out weighed me by 50 pounds at around 200 lbs thought he could take me. He charged me trying one of his take downs, I snatched him by his t-shirt and threw him back across the room from the direction he charged me from, onto his bed. He landed so hard he broke the solid oak support boards that were under it. Because of this incident I have avoided fights my entire adult life usually by offering the poor man a drink to avoid a physical confrontation. On one occasion I was in a bad mood because I was tired of all the BS I have endured in the work place over my 40 year career. One of the young mans friends pointed out to everyone I was so scared I was trembling and my response was. He was correct I was absolutely terrified but not of my opponent, I was terrified of loosing my temper and killing some man I didn't even know and spending the rest of my life in prison for it. I told them about why I have avoided fights my entire life and putting up with BS in the workplace, and I looked him right in the eye and said if you insist on taking this outside I am willing to make an exception in his case just to let out all my pent up rage. However I would rather just by him a drink and pretend nothing ever happened. That young man chose to accept the drink offer and I avoided going to prison.

[@TheCanagoose]

As a Norse pagan. I love it when simon puts out a viking vid on any channel. It's usually all stuff I've heard before but I love to hear the sagas and the history.

[@anthonyperno1348]

There is an annoying black splotch over your left shoulder. Doesn't enhance the background; no (shadowed) outline to settle it into the scene.

[@CaspianNomad]

Mongols reading this video title: "Am I a joke to you?"

[@Hooibeest2D]

Ubbe was a Frisian guy. Still a normal name ubbe or ubbo. Ubbo Emmius for example.

[@klimatbluffen]

At that time, the climate was much more pleasant than today, it was possible to make a living from agriculture in Greenland, which is completely impossible today.

[@dezheathen]

Vikings can battle with the Sea People for most fearsome but the Mongols are definitely #1

[@Blake-ze6vt]

Simon, why is only the casual criminalist a. Podcast? Why not your other shows

[@bogisimonsen471]

hmm lack of space he sad---- The nordic contrys have nothing but spaced even today. Do you know how large Sweden is or Norway for that?

[@CheerfulVirtualReality-qt1ey]

😊you have just described the last and of the Neanderthals lol

[@mecha-sheep7674]

"Most terrifying force in history ?" For pirates whose military edge lasted less than two century Seriously ? The Mongols, the Avars, the Romans, the Huns, the Turcs (I won't talk about fire-arms equipped militaries...) are amused.

[@RamZar50]

The most terrifying force in history is none other than the Mongols!

[@schiz0phren1c]

No jokes in this one, Simon is treading carefully...we love and loathe our Viking ancestry in equal parts...

[@kultea]

Really GOOD episode!

[@wolfsmoke6053]

The most terrifying force in history if you forget about the Mongols

[@thatguy4311]

I got a phone call when Simon said Nor…. I came back to finish the video half an hour later and the first word Simon said was “sexploration” (nor-se exploration). Thought I’d come back to the wrong video 🤣

[@ianblake815]

Another fantastic presentation 🗡️

[@MattyVonLongSchlong]

Sea people who collapsed the Bronze Age? Sure why not!

[@someopinion922]

4.57 Nope, no Saxons in Denmsrk, modern or otherwise, other than those who fled there after Charlemagne murdered 4500 of them in the massacre at Verden..

[@badgersgetabadname]

So many Viking shields look like Pokeballs. What did they know?

[@thecivilengineeringdj657]

The Vikings didn't make much head into Ireland though.

[@ronniecorbett6306]

"Lines In The Sand" by Peter Dragon

[@John-r3s]

What no second sip hahaha

[@luckytoastsebastian]

Well Texas just got the dragons.

[@leroy7246]

I raise you with The Mongols

[@MikiLund]

The terrifying force was sent packing by Inuits in Greenland!🤣🤣🤣

[@JanBanJoovi-ol1qv]

Vikings have been to the Americas before Columbus

[@tordenskjold5514]

Norway baby!

[@mercury4metal]

Let just safely say that the Viking weren’t the most terrifying force, but ONE of many terrifying forces in the world. Check history for Genghis Khan, then you’ll understand what terrifying is! 😳

[@FieldDay-cj3tv]

The Feared of the Feared ☠️

[@RaulMuniz-fh1pt]

Vikings where strong people in the day