What Was Life Like for the Average Viking

Whether your name was Snorri or Erik, your daily life as a Viking was a meat-filled, chess-playing, human-sacrificing experience. Contrary to what you might think, daily life for Vikings didn't always involve going out to sea or violently conquering new lands. In fact, these Nordic seamen and their families had to keep up a certain lifestyle back at home.
What was it like to be a Viking? If you were a man, you would farm by day, sleep in one big room with your entire family (and your goats) at night, and occasionally pop over to the local chieftan's longhouse for a feast with some lovely honey mead. If you were a woman, you were in charge of keeping the domestic side of things running smoothly. But don't worry if your marriage didn't work out - you were probably able to divorce your husband, even if the practice wasn't common.
#Vikings #ScandanavianHistory #WeirdHistory

[@WeirdHistory]

What historical group would you like to be a part of - Vikings? Spartans? Romans? Etc.

[@arostwocents]

Roman as they had decent opportunities for peasants to advance.

[@laschicasRloca]

make a video about african tribes history/day in the life. I really enjoy this channel BTW.

[@pacanaskrc]

Teutonic

[@Wanderer800]

Do one on Carthage!

[@lazmartel7305]

Romans

[@mr.personhumanson6871]

So you're telling me that they don't actually train dragons?!

[@sadsoftspam]

Sorry to break it to you, son, but no, they trained worms

[@josefingren]

Of course they did. The swedes still do, but no one knows about it

[@kari7403]

@@sadsoftspam were they at least, largish worms?

[@sadsoftspam]

Kari Yes.

[@MalmoeSnapphane]

Yes they did, the wife are most often refereed to as the dragon...

[@TonksTheFool]

I'm just laughing at the idea of the church recoiling back at their hairstyles while priests had bald spotted bowl cuts. 'what is ON YOUR HEAD?' 'Style, idk wtf you're doing'

[@Shieldmaiden313]

Bahahaha right.... Viking hairstyles are hot!!!! What can ya say about a bald bowl cut hahahaha!!!!

[@shanny4306]

Monks shaved their heads in that way to emulate halos

[@issa4767]

🤣😂🤣😂

[@dianachin4849]

Those Vikings were fine back then!

[@ronb7189]

Viking haircut were probably more like this, instead of the slick, long, braided undercut often depicted by hollywood. A big reason why bowl cuts were popular among fighting men in the middle ages was because it simply allowed them to were their helmets more comfortably (a coif padding was usually worn underneath the helmet so having long hair would have been quite uncomfortable) and their is a very real hazard that someone will grab their hair amidst the chaotic battles. imgur.com/gallery/dTFtq46 www.pinterest.ca/pin/539446861590469003/

[@PixiBoii]

One of the reasons they shared their house with animals was make it warmer in the winter. edit: from what i've heard in history class they divided their house in two sections, sleeping next to a cow probably isn't enjoyable but if they are in the next room it can give that little extra heat during the harsh winters.

[@gatorbyte5254]

Survival of ones livestock is important for personal survival and if you can keep them warm then they’ll have to eat less to stay warm which means their winter feed will last longer

[@littledudefromacrossthestr5755]

@@gatorbyte5254 nice

[@edwindude9893]

I’ve done it near Harstad it works great.

[@Koligian]

So simple and yet ingenious!😜

[@Koligian]

@Green Future lol

[@azurephoenix9546]

They were also very funny. My favorite middle ages graffiti was carved into a wall at the peak of an extremely tall cathedral, in runes. It was up there for hundreds of years before someone finally climbed all the way up there and copied them down and translated them. They said "this is very high". I couldn't possibly think of anything more Danish than leaving a bad joke in a nearly inaccessible place for 500 years, just to mess with people.

[@TheBurninator50]

"They ate a well-rounded diet including many fruits and vegetables..." *Cues dramatic battle music*

[@dianachin4849]

Lmao😄😄😄

[@abhishekmukherjee4857]

😂

[@iamthepappy4232]

They ate each other

[@adventuresforthecurious7059]

The ancient Vikings had awesome imaginations, and were incredibly poetic and creative. I wish more of their stories survived...

[@obi-wankenobi67]

Not many stories nor culture survived because they didnt have any advanced instruments to be able to have something last

[@johnraina4828]

@Patrick’s TV bullshit. Don't trust everything you read on the internet kiddo

[@aw2584]

Ancient? Like early medieval?

[@Compassion_over_Empathy]

@Patrick’s TV Maybe people will say the same about us in 1,000 years. I hope they progress more...

[@reeverfalls2069]

@Patrick’s TV theres good and bad sides to every race/time period/civilizations. Two hundred years ago, America was abducting indigenous Africans and forcing them on a ship to become slaves. We also asvanced science and medicine, saving 100's of 1000's of lives. Don't be pessimistic. Vikings were very talented, creative, and caring people.

[@ariepatila5431]

Researcher: "they might wrote rune for mythical purposes" Viking boi: "hehe.. olaf was here"

[@aaroanttila2537]

"olaf & helga 1213"

[@jennifermartin40]

😂😂😂😂

[@Amy_the_Lizard]

And let us not forget, the unknown person who climbed to a very high place, and carved "This is very high" into it.

[@daxos8813]

Mystical* not mythical stupid

[@freeway60love]

"Hello Sweetie"

[@SkinnerNoah]

Everyone wants to be a viking until there are goats in the living room

[@MooseTracker100]

Nope, I’ll keep bucks out and just keep the does. Bucks are the ones that stink!

[@MosesTV000]

you racist #glm

[@thor-godofthunder4398]

you've never had a better nights sleep than when you're curled up with a toasty warm goat.

[@xxlonestarparadise179]

I’m fine with goats in the living room

[@frida507]

They helped keeping the house warm.

[@karmaz509]

The Arab guy mentioned at 2:22 , was Ahmed ibn Fadlan , a Muslim traveler who provided detailed descriptions of the Volga Vikings, and is also a Real Character in the 1999 Movie "The 13th Warrior" , played by Antonio Banderas...Great Film.

[@BVLVI]

Bvlvi.com

[@Afurthyclays]

@George Scaggs It was a good movie, but learning it in 2 hours?! I know, I know...... "Hollywood"..... 🤷‍♂️

[@rickyhurtado]

@@Afurthyclays it was supposed to be a learning time that lapsed nights, not a single two hour session lol

[@jonathanduplantis1403]

The eaters of men, Michael chricton

[@arielatarantino6671]

Love that movie

[@josefingren]

“Scandinavia can get quite cold over the winter” Me, a Swede: You don’t fkn say?

[@honda-akari]

@John Licon same. My aunt lives in malmö, worst there.

[@ESEJESEJ]

But in the far north, where I live myself, it's rather nice and calm. It's the south of Sewden, where 88% of the population lives, it's crazy and out of control.

[@NgaBalkan]

I live in Malmö, they bombed my street last month.

[@hellokittybizzotch]

My family is from Uppsala. This video made me smile so much when they mentioned chess and storytelling. My grandfather taught me chess when I was 4 and we played everyday. And he could definitely tell awesome stories!! Proud to be a Swede!! ❤️

[@grop66]

Ha ha Me, Dane: yep we got 2 winter’s: one white and one green

[@gregorymckinney1574]

3:55 I’m living with a cat and dog so I'm sharing my living space with animals. I'm SO Viking!

[@gamer2101]

Makes sense to me!!

[@jarraandyftm]

No Viking would ever own a cat!

[@mishapillai9414]

I am an Indian, but since my dog shares the room with me, I have Viking traits too. Oh and I use both mustard and cumin in my diet

[@toyinadebola1417]

Gregory McKinney lol

[@radarlovedr]

Accurate

[@krisbrand354]

10 thousand years from now they'll be saying "these people spoke a language called English "

[@ZedF86]

10k years from now, it's quite possible that nobody will know we even existed. 2000 years, maybe. Maybe.

[@fallenseraph5V]

They would probably also say people butchered the hell out of it too.

[@AriaPringle9053]

@@fallenseraph5V 😂😂😂

[@John-qt8km]

@@ZedF86 they'll know who we are. It's silly to think that they won't

[@ZedF86]

@@John-qt8km How much do you know about the people who lived in 8000 BC?

[@YourBlackLocal]

Well they weren’t called Vikings. Viking was basically a job title for raiding

[@lmjp1623]

This exactly, its like calling every japanese a samurai.

[@ZacharyBlubaugh]

Or like calling a American farmer a navy seal

[@ZacharyBlubaugh]

@zenubi viking refered to the act of raiding or an individual that was raiding. Scandinavian farmers where simply farmers. With that in mind as absurd as calling a modern farm a soldier is to us. It would be just as absurd as their farmers being called Vikings. Could a farmer go on a viking and be a viking, yes. But then on returning to farming would simply be a farmer. As today a farmer could join the military serve his time and return to farming but is then again simply a farmer and no longer a soldier.

[@dalermehndi4663]

Yeah, but in the interest in garnering the most views, unfortunately most people are too simple minded to know enough to want to click on the video otherwise.

[@randygunn9499]

Once a soilder, always a soilder.

[@Ash__1991]

"vikings like to socialize" "would you survive being a viking"...no. no I would not.

[@e_4325]

@Brian Brinck Nielsen 😂🙄

[@ThePhlemberly]

But... mead is involved??

[@meredithmericle7487]

No, No the cold and intestinal parasites would finish me off shortly.

[@winnifredforbes8712]

You probably had to pass a "tough guy" test to get in the club. And that would be the test for the women!

[@ronbird121]

me too, i can fight and know some kinds of hema but i am weak and cant fight under ther typical conditions.

[@himynameisfeli]

"If your idea of a first date is burning down her village, you might just be, a Viking." -Krusty the Clown

[@andrei1151]

Lol

[@citin7829]

Thats a deam date for a lot of girls

[@bretthamilton7757]

The term "Viking" was only given to those who would raid. If you were only a farmer, you weren't a Viking. Also, any history written by Christian scholars should be very heavily scrutinised, as they were very bias and wanted to protect their faith.

[@stream2watch]

This. The entire premise of this video is flawed.

[@bretthamilton7757]

@@stream2watch yup, it's all based on Christian accounts,which are famously bias.

[@blackhammer3692]

Scott Hamilton I sense an Anti Christian

[@bretthamilton7757]

@@blackhammer3692 I'm not really anti anything. Just pro knowledge and intelligence.

[@blackhammer3692]

Python I didn’t mean the religion Christianity. I meant Christian as in having a relationship with god and Jesus. You are right religion just hurts people.

[@nahilkamil7396]

SLEEP OF THE SWORD to describe DEATH is the most legendary phrase

[@dr.bright2021]

My favorite is "he feed the ravens" that just sounds metal as hell

[@kenomklemens3030]

Vikings were “bikers” before there were motorcycles 🏍

[@toyinadebola1417]

Kenom Klemens hahahahahaha

[@sallylemon5835]

Lol why is this getting me a lot

[@bigblue6917]

Or bikers are Vikings without Longship

[@MrSpeedyy1991]

Bikers are vikings without balls

[@karamlevi]

🤟🏼

[@MQuinn-eb3zz]

Why do people teaching history, insist on calling the Norse, vikings? Viking is an activity, not a culture. You'd think 'historians' would know better and correct it.

[@MQuinn-eb3zz]

@R4- P17 Norse. "Viking culture" is like saying "Fireman culture"

[@secrated]

really? i thought viking is the group of people and what they do is raid which is a viking activity

[@zrosix2240]

Because people understand the term. “Norseman” won’t spark views.

[@MQuinn-eb3zz]

@R4- P17 The whole point of the video was to discuss misconceptions; then they start with a giant misconception. Pointing that out is simple logic.

[@MQuinn-eb3zz]

@R4- P17 You are simply arguing for the sake of arguing. "Viking" is a misnomer, as you, yourself, admit. This video claims that it seeks to educate, yet reinforces a misconception that potentially creates holes in history. What sloppy thinking...

[@vadokunvot]

"They wore reverse mullets" ......have you been watching that Vikings show on HBO to get your facts here? Ibn Fadlan describes the norse as long haired, English monks describes them mainly as long haired too, sometimes with braids, both in beard and hair. And they kept their hair clean and well combed.

[@dianachin4849]

They were looking fine!

[@andrei1151]

Metal \m/

[@khalid2733]

@@dianachin4849 I don't understand? How do you know they looked fine? 😂

[@dianachin4849]

@@khalid2733 😄! Well in general, the Northern Europeans are fine as hell!!

[@tankmacnamara3734]

@vadokunvot they also roasted turds over hickory logs

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

I was hoping this would be sponsored by Vikings: War of Clans

[@skyro1765]

The 225677th Fragment of the Man-Emperor of Mankind 😂😂🤣🤣

[@arya31ful]

Bro, you're everywhere

[@peterchessell28]

WHY?

[@pennyproud2474]

I'm pretty sure regular people were just called Scandinavians. Some people would GO Vikinging but it was an activity. Not a group of people

[@diegoalmeida3750]

Annabeth Chase for real this detail gets me hot

[@jasonh.3006]

The entire area is Scandinavian but the biggest kingdom of the time was called Viking in the Scandinavian area. Or Veking maybe but it is where the name originated. It also had the biggest area and population in Scandinavia at the time.

[@jasonh.3006]

They didn't sleep with their animals though.

[@pennyproud2474]

@@jasonh.3006 Yeah from the comments on this video I can tell that the video is pretty inaccurate lol

[@ironwolf2244]

Exactly. To go Viking was an occupation. Calling them all Vikings is like calling every American a Marine.

[@kristjanjonsson7723]

2 interesting facts (interesting for me at least) 1. I stumbled upon this video while drinking a beer called Viking Rökkr 2. I am a (proofed) ancestor of Snorri Sturluson, the writer of the Icelandic sagas. Cheers for the vikings 🍻

[@missannie8012]

That house on the thumbnail looks like the "dug outs" my grandmother described as her home in Oklahoma as a child. They had dirt floors. So she washed the kids feet every night before bed. I know it's silly these days but my mother washed our feet before bed and so I also wash my sons feet before bed.

[@polxyez2752]

I love their idea of divorce "hey Helga get the bitches I need an audience" "ok everybody here? yeh so like heres the tea he took my sister as a concubine. I told him to eat a goat bladder. but like so yah we're basically divorced." and its legal. 100%

[@Shimada.]

Shut up

[@Shimada.]

No way!

[@romella_karmey]

Haha I like a Viking tv series in comedy genre... And then Helga and other biatches be walking in the field like Beyonce walk in her music video Crazy In Love lol

[@effynikki1221]

As someone of Norse decent, I can confirm that women had more freedom in that time than a lot of women in all of Europe. Women could own property back then which was unheard of And choose who they wanted to marry or divorce. Even in modern day Scandinavia, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Norway are very feminist forward countries.

[@auntylinda7640]

I was thinking that was fine, as long as they walked off with half the marriages assets.......

[@afrikasmith1049]

Vikings probably have the best diets in Europe during that time as long as the meat was cooked right and the bread wasn't made from toxic ingredients.

[@AyeGee721]

You probably didn't hear about that giant Viking turd found in England then did you

[@voidcatto1805]

@@AyeGee721 what you mean 😂😂

[@johnnyslokes2712]

@@AyeGee721 10 pounds 3 ounces

[@demonprinces17]

Lye persevered fish

[@Venom3254]

@@AyeGee721 Oh my, I finally understand that Viking sized episode from SpongeBob and why it's a better term than "king size".

[@marciaspiegel5280]

This applies more to the previous discussion, where I found clarity and history. I recently discovered viking music and enjoy it greatly. Very useful ror powering through a task. And it has a strong religious feeling. I am very grateful to those who found this music and brought it to us.

[@mjyfs]

A few years ago I visited the island Gotland off the coast of Sweden. While there I visited an old church where back in the day some people had been buried underneath the church floor rather than in the cemetery outside (probably rich/important people from the community), and as I looked at the engraved rock floor placed on top of the graves; I couldn't help but notice that one of the stones had letters from the futhark alphabet on it. So the person must've died in the twilight days of the alphabet when people in the community still used it. It was just interesting because one has come to associate futhark with vikings and to see it on a grave in a church was surprising.

[@Annaktram]

That’s normal what?

[@armenisep]

Actually single-room houses with humans and animals were very common in Italy until 50 years ago

[@jessaguilar4747]

I always wonder how sex worked in those houses. I mean parents don’t want to have sex in front of their kids....right....I’m just curious how it would’ve worked for privacy.

[@ninjaxstickman9721]

@@jessaguilar4747 Well, scandinavia is covered in a thick forest

[@taffykins2745]

Wow! That's very current. So interesting!

[@taffykins2745]

@@jessaguilar4747 Quietly...

[@winterroadspokenword4681]

Jess Aguilar well... these living conditions are still normal across the globe. They just do what they need to do an quietly. Fact is they don’t have sex all that much, and they do it while everyone is sleeping, if they have the energy. Often there are other relatives too. In many ways these other relatives, grandparents, widowed aunts, etc view themselves Almost as servants to the head couple of the household. Much like a servant would they turn a blind eye, and pretend to be asleep.

[@ButsJeroen]

Aaaand once again: "sailing as Vikings" was an activity, mainly raiding. "Vikings" were not a people. Northmen, Geats, Danes, Scandinavians, the Kievan Rus.... lots of people who sometimes acted as Vikings.

[@LL-gx3yj]

Frozen Norseman they never raided as much as the scandinavians and they also never got so far so theyre not well known for that

[@ericdodd1209]

Love it... "annnnd once again" 😂👍, exactly how I feel when simple minded folk haven't a clue what they are talking about and then I have to educate them, not just on this subject either 🙄, sometimes I'm sure it would be easier to be a common fool with a simple mind, not knowing, not caring and getting excited about 22 like minded morons kicking a bag of wind up and down a field, then I probably wouldn't find myself irritated as often as I do 😂.

[@LL-gx3yj]

@@ericdodd1209 nerd

[@julianshepherd2038]

Irish vikings were a thing

[@meginna8354]

wrong, Vikings or "Víkingar" did refer to people, why do you dorks always just start making stuff up as if you know what you're talking about?

[@lorainecreek5787]

Wow! I totally enjoyed this! I look forward to the next journey!!

[@TheVikingSquirrel]

Elder Futhark = 24 Runes - used earlier and before the viking age (c. until 700) Younger Futhark = 16 Runes - Used in the Viking age

[@davidjacobik5451]

I love to brew mead.. Water, your finest honey (unpasteurized), a shard of pine resin or a hunk of oak bark from the forest if you're feeling it.. Then stir 3-5 times a day for a month, and bottle it up and age for another month! That's a simple method for making a foamy, beer-like blend.

[@jessetreehorn3029]

Cause a viking funeral party don't stop.

[@AlucardPeach]

Until the fire goes out lol

[@btetschner]

A+ video! Fascinating history of viking culture!

[@zrosix2240]

I’m in love with how detailed and intriguing these videos are compared to other channels. Like on your coliseum video, you got straight to the facts and managed a long video. Love your format, just try fact checking a bit more

[@chickenusgoddus464]

Arent they called norse not vikings because vikings ment like raider or something oh and great vid

[@chickenusgoddus464]

@Frozen Norseman ok thanks

[@dalermehndi4663]

Yeah, but in the interest in garnering the most views, unfortunately most people are too simple minded to know enough to want to click on the video otherwise.

[@CashelOConnolly]

Daler Mehndi get off your high Norse (play on words) so are you a walking encyclopaedia? Patronising people isn’t helpful

[@chickenusgoddus464]

@@dalermehndi4663 hey dont insult others while yes their trying to get views its because they want to educate others

[@meginna8354]

@Frozen Norseman Viking was a noun, both Víkíng and Víkingr

[@MrBeckenhimself]

Yeah as a scandinavian myself (Swedish which is obvious by the name) I should inform you that they as people were never vikings. Rather viking was something you did. We all know what that entailed by now. But still.

[@jemand7488]

The Swedes Versus thanks for saying what every single comment has said already

[@MrBeckenhimself]

@@jemand7488 Two things Zero, which must be your IQ score. 😂 One - When I watch a video, I actually WATCH the video. I don't read the comments. Two - After I watched the video if I want to I actually leave a comment. Without still reading the comments. But of course you're a member of that ninety percent Phone ten percent movie crew aren't you?. So you wouldn't know what that's like. Too short of a focus span. 😂

[@andym9571]

So as an Englishman I am a descendant of Viking. The Norse stayed at home.

[@Immortal__]

If only Sweden still had them... they'd sort out the 'newcomers'.

[@emilybarclay8831]

@@Immortal__ calm down there Urban II

[@jonathangauthier3549]

The Vikings tv series did a surprisingly good job at subtly depicting these social peculiarities in the sets and style of the show. Without literally pointing at things and going "look at how WE do things", we were privy to Ragnar and Lagartha's tiny farmhouse equipped with indoor goats; the enslavement of monks and villagers; funeral rites, etc. As a fan Viking related subject matter, I was naturally drawn to the TV show, your video, and others like it. Thank you

[@Hesher93]

they did way more wrong, then they did right....

[@jonathangauthier3549]

@@Hesher93 that's very true. I never said that they were accurate. Rollo the Walker and Ragnar weren't alive at the same time, the Sons of Ragnar weren't literally raised together, etc., but it created a nice analogue for transmitting and highlighting the peculiar attributes that distinguished the Scandinavian world from that of others like the English and French during the Viking era. Albeit in a way that's comparable to learning about their lore by watching Thor: Ragnarok.

[@SimmeyG123]

Always love how they were more hygienic than any other culture of the time. Never what you expect

[@Sean-jc6cu]

Celts were also like that

[@vaibhavsingh3708]

More hygienic than other European culture!

[@norsenomad]

Both East and West Norse languages called the sixth weekday Laugardagur, which means bathing day. We still call that weekday Laugardagur (in Iceland), Laurdag/Lørdag (in Norway), Lørdag (in Denmark) or Lördag (in Sweden). Laugardagur was the day that our ancestors took a bath ...whether they needed it or not. 😄

[@NewMessage]

"Lo there do I see my father; Lo there do I see my mother and my sisters and my brothers; Lo there do I see the line of my people, back to the beginning. Lo, they do call to me, they bid me take my place among them, in the halls of Valhalla, where the brave may live forever." -Lo do I quote from an underrated movie.

[@aprilmarie5715]

13th warrior!

[@Nidhoggr333]

Nailed it. Skal

[@alishiagray3541]

13th worrior! That was my favorite movie when I was about 11-13 lol. Haven't seen it in years.

[@wayfarer1101]

Pretty low...

[@hellodarkness5644]

Ah i love the Lost Vikings too.

[@jamestownvirginia8463]

I'm interested in the picts of Scotland and why they terrified the Romans.

[@Jose-xh5qb]

Because they were so poor.

[@jimmyboynottknown7713]

@@Jose-xh5qb currencies and possessions don't make a man any less than another, they're behavior and actions do

[@AbuHajarAlBugatti]

Some red haired floods of barbarian living in the cold destitute edge of the world in barren mountains and canyons with druids that sacrifice humans to their treegods and people running naked in the cold painted in blue tribal symbols like a fanatic towards your line somewhere far away from Rome on a mythical Island many back then didnt even believe existed and no reinforcements coming to help you out? I would be shitting myself and build a huge borderwall too. Slso the unmixed european tribes were on average way taller than most today. You still see that well in Netherlands, Rheinlandpfalz in germany, southern poland where the Nazis were breeding pure blonde people and in many Parts of scandinavia or even on the country Island. But the past 800 years saw countless wars and noneuropeans flooding central europe

[@Stalkergames916]

Well they kicked the shit out of the Romans

[@whyareyoulying1568]

@@AbuHajarAlBugatti learn how to use periods

[@Vaalmont-]

I had no idea that the character Antonio Banderas plays in the 13th Warrior was based on a real person. Very cool.

[@zenmaestro6029]

Like my own ancestors, I would have thrived and adored being a member of the Viking community. I'd have most likely been a farmer, however I might have been a fishermen. I've been both in my current life, so I know I enjoy both working on farms and ranches, and as a commercial fisherman. 😎👍 Bring it on.

[@basedViking]

You also got the rune facts wrong the Elder Futhark has has 24 letters and predates the viking age its proto-norse, In the viking age they used the Younger futhark with only 16 letters.

[@artemis2520]

Tell me more please. I'm considering learning to read and write futhark

[@basedViking]

@@artemis2520 If you want to learn more about runes check out Jackson Crawford. kzbin.info/door/XCxNFxw6iq-Mh4uIjYvufg

[@jessesloan864]

I'd like to see something about the Picts. Beyond blue-painted warriors, I have heard very little about their culture. Celtic/Druid connection?

[@VikingMuayThai]

Because there is very little to hear. They never wrote anything down, and Northmen either converted them, or enslaved them.

[@fatmanyevo6235]

Well they were Celtic so I'd imagine there was a Celtic connection

[@barryoconnor721]

The Picts spoke a language in the Celtic family after Celtic occupation, no one knows their original language. In Ireland they made a pact of peace with the ruling Tuath De Danaan.

[@mesnake8004]

Odin Thor Tyr Freja .. Valhalla - ring any Bells?

[@fatmanyevo6235]

@@mesnake8004 those are Norse gods they have nothing to do with the Picts

[@Circeins12321]

Very helpful video! I have to write a report on viking culture and practices and this helped out a lot.

[@dimitrivos7088]

Teacher: we are going to Scandinavia. Girls: ugh it’s so cold there Me and the boys: ‘stealing a ship to go and raid Wessex’

[@Crustycats]

Oooh boys are so quirky

[@RilgoHodnda]

@@Crustycats you can come with us

[@Crustycats]

@@RilgoHodnda ima yeet you😂

[@andrei1151]

And listening to metal!

[@Crustycats]

@@RilgoHodnda Thanks for the offer,

[@fantamannen]

8:18 we still eat reindeer in scandinavia

[@_loss_]

Horse as well

[@biggusdickus8819]

@@_loss_ Only Swedes eat horse. Findus make meatballs of them.

[@Liverpoollassie]

Poor Santa no wonder why we are all on his naughty list it’s because we eat his reindeers especially Rudolph

[@plciferpffer3048]

Bear too, but not so usual. Actually had some bear meat last Yule, from a hunter friend. Didn't like it so much though..

[@samuraimedi4061]

Caribou is really tasty! so is their stomach raw.

[@mrmacguff1n]

Well. If you were an everyday "Viking", you probably wouldn't go Viking, therefore making you not a Viking

[@ivareskesner2019]

@Joakim von Anka I think he's saying that a Viking is something you *did,* not something you *were.* Norsemen went on Vikings (meaning raids) so unless you were one of those people you were not a Vikinger (not Viking).

[@ivareskesner2019]

@Joakim von Anka There were plenty of thralls, sure. However a simple DNA test can tell you if you were most likely related to an actual Norseman ( be they Vikinger, farmer or trader) or if you were more likely to have been related to a thrall, who were mostly foreigners. They certainly weren't a majority. I have actually done one of those tests and they can predict this to a fair degree of accuracy, even giving you the percentage value of your ancestry belonging across the board.

[@ericdodd1209]

Thank fuck somebody else understands this aswell!

[@BrokenAndReborn]

Fair point.

[@chadratboi2849]

@Major Gear Viking = raid. People who go on raids = Vikings

[@leitfie3579]

Lots of information, told in a lively way. Nice visuals as well. Good stuff.

[@NasTimeAdventures]

Thanks for the history lesson. Great vid.

[@Matagatsu]

Vindland saga was very accurate.

[@nikolavideomaker]

Vinland saga is so darn accurate. I can not enjoy most "historical" shows, because of the inaccuracies. I expected for vinland to be some fantasy series. But, wow an anime being more accurate than most tv shows? Just incredible! I praise the manga author.

[@istvanczap3004]

They most likely slept with their animals for warmth as well. Their wooden houses were surprisingly good at insulation and the heat radiating from the household members and animals kept temperatures for the nights tolerable.

[@HexenMeister06]

The chad viking: -eats at least two meals a day, everyday, and always containing meat, and hearty vegetables -badass warlords -treated woman with more respect(compared to everyone else at the time) -died *in fashion* -cool The virgin European Peasant: -rarely ate, scared of tomatoes (because they’re Weak) -simple, illiterate, dirty farmers -scared of woman having feelings, or doing math -died -cringe

[@z_ed]

Ha 🥲

[@rtx6439]

ok yeet meister

[@no_one_160]

I think you are missing the pillaging bit where women were slaves to be traded.

[@joshstrom8660]

Everyone mad at your joke💀

[@Noface678]

Vikings loved raiding villages and killing, raping the people who live in them.

[@davelehti4000]

" How would you handle life as a viking"? Poorly, as most people in this era would.

[@perryjohnson7499]

OMG GUYS my great grandfather painted the picture of snorri sturluson at 7:59 in the video is this what fame feels like

[@nataliecobain8208]

thats cool! what is/was your grandfathers name?

[@zerovikings5852]

ISitOn MyArm lol

[@CJ-wm5md]

Ok buddy

[@perryjohnson7499]

Natalie Cobain Haukur Steffanson sry i didn’t see the comment until just now lol

[@perryjohnson7499]

Natalie Cobain we have one of his unfinished paintings in my house

[@marjolainem09]

The first time my family's name has been found in any register, it was through the list of Norman invaders of England! Im so proud!!

[@ambergetsbutterflies]

Nice. My extremely great grandfather is supposed to be William the Conquerer but idk. There are probably actually thousands of great grandchildren of ol grandpa Willie. I mean he ten kids and most of them had kids who also had kids. I was actually in a philosophy class where some guy said the same thing once so 🤷‍♀️.

[@Seapion]

@@ambergetsbutterflies I remember hearing that William the Conquerer had about 500,000 direct descendants in the US alone (of which I am one)

[@ViktoriousDead]

Marjolaine Menard same with mine. First time it came into utterance was the Norman invasion

[@dennishjborgnielsen4530]

Wellcom to the family 🇩🇰

[@ViktoriousDead]

My foot was a balloon you mean conquerors?

[@verdikulk6193]

Superb video, thank you....

[@sinful_cowboy5027]

Love the channel

[@hellboy7424]

There is a data that is wrong: The different varieties of beans have origins in Mesoamerica. Specifically, Mexico, and did not arrive in Europe until the XV-XVI century ... at the very least. But the Vikings surely ate chickpeas or lentils (romans and greeks). You have also forgotten about mushrooms, which would be very common.

[@thecrippledpancake9455]

Hellboy Dtop pretending you know about stuff just cause you saw it on Reddit.

[@gosick442]

@@thecrippledpancake9455 But they're right though. It's called reading books and researching, bud.

[@Lori79Butterfly]

Yes! I also thought the exact same thing!

[@Krompierre.]

They werent so fond of mushrooms for some reason. Just because it was there doesnt mean they used it. You can learn a lot about early medieval north Europe food in a book called The Early Meal and Be sure to have ample food

[@saarbrooklynrider2277]

They ate Fava beans, not regular beans.

[@iDunked]

Im from puerto rico and its weird to me that in school they teach us that spaniards used natives (tainos) as slaves as well as west africans brought over and just left them in the island after impregnating the ladies and implementing catholic religion. I would love to know the real visual representation story to this. I have learned i am wrong for what i been taught but i would like to know the truth. Awesome videos btw.

[@jjs8426]

Wrong? That sounds about right. What's the truth? That the Spanish didn't bring Catholicism to the "west indies", didn't bring enslaved peoples with them, or that they didn't intermingle with the natives?

[@iDunked]

@@jjs8426 well what i meant is that wasnt fully the truth. Spaniards colonized PR but they taught us it was in the same time frame of discovering or arriving at the US. They also taught us they left them when it wasnt the case. They left and came back with religious books and domestic/livestock animals. I just would like to understand the full picture

[@bostongirlsandy]

The same happened in Brazil.

[@nch77884]

very informative n entertaining. thanks

[@TheHuggybear516]

This reminds me how when I was a child my mother told me someday I would buy a galley with good ores. Sail to distant shores. Stand up on the prow. Noble barque I steer Steady course to the haven. Hew many foe-man

[@AkaBigRichard21]

I love their use of the word "Dispatch" when talking about the adultery🤣🤣🤣

[@elimorin7314]

I think they meant “entanglement”

[@pradyotranjan5462]

New Assassin's creed is going to be on Vikings (2020)

[@l1nus0nl1neproductions9]

I really hope so

[@scyred4568]

Oh yeah!

[@wesleymcspadden5437]

I was wanting that for years

[@platinumvoid1648]

I didn't realize Vikings could do parkour.

[@wesleymcspadden5437]

@@platinumvoid1648 neither did I know that the Ancient Greeks did either

[@user-ru1ki]

Very interesting and informative. Thank you.

[@lakeitui2759]

The New Zealand native Maori warriors would be amazing!! War, sacrificial religions and a practice of post war cannibalism. Sounds like like it’s rite up the alley of WierdHistory !

[@TheRexTera]

Vikings was the ultimate hipsters of history. They had hipster beards and haircuts 1000 years before it was cool.

[@ryanlopez1050]

TheRexTera it was never cool

[@Tatwinus]

Hes wrong in this vid though. The text he mentions say that they had short hair in back and it covered their eyes. Pretty much the exact opposite of what Vikings show. They were Emos, not hipsters.

[@marcuslatrent528]

Pretty much everything the Vikings did was pretty awesome. Hipsters are rich ironic douchebags

[@Tatwinus]

@@marcuslatrent528 they gave in to christianity, that wasnt awesome.

[@marcuslatrent528]

@@Tatwinus Well, almost the entire planet fell to Christ. Some willingly... Some went kicking and screaming 😂

[@samuelt3454]

Lol been waiting for this. Thanks

[@bonniehoke-scedrov4906]

Thank you so much for this informative video! I got so much out of it.

[@sarahdouglas9119]

Awesome video

[@mikatu]

The most important fact was left out, there were no vikings. They were northmen. Viking was just an activity some did, which today we call raiding. Those who did that were the warriors, not the farmers.

[@jjs8426]

Okay so people who rob are robbers, people in gangs are gangsters, just because you stop doesn't mean it changes your identity to the people you've damaged.

[@Jklopoppcorn]

they were both farmers and warriors, they would raid in summer and tend to the farm in all the other seasons.

[@denizmetint.462]

A viking at the beginning of summer: "Oh boy, here I go killing again!"

[@voidcatto1805]

@@Jklopoppcorn Or they settled like many did in England

[@meginna8354]

you should not talk if you don't know what you're talking about, Víking was a noun of the act and those who took part in it were Víkingar, or Víkingr (singular), almost all warriors were farmers

[@emo6577]

My ancestors were from Iceland so I love to learn about and imagine what they were like

[@kevinthatcher2376]

Great channel.

[@makurradoshi4498]

Very cool stuff. I'm gonna start researching Viking history! I have Norse blood and have always been interested in history in general

[@BIGDADDYCANKOO]

Man, war was such a part of life that apparently they felt the need to pack even after death. The good ol’ days.

[@darthsidious6753]

Yes their biggest advantage was at a strategic level, supply and mobility.

[@natashasymes5992]

Fun fact: the Vikings actually had a god of skiing whose name was Ull

[@francissmith3232]

Interesting. Love learning about this history

[@AyeGee721]

"...Often more fantasy, than they are history" THANK YOU. They did things many civilisations did in that era. It's just popular cultures goes overboard and starts to pull things out of proportion. But no one ever mentions how they mostly avoided the Finns because they feared magic.

[@maggots7131]

AJ G cmon we all know norsemen were the coolest of bros

[@nunyabizz1508]

The norse were only standouts nauticaly, on the eastcoast of the states in Massachusetts there is a rock in dighton called "dighton rock" that has norse writing with wompanoag writing as well proving they got here long before Columbus.....im sure the natives of Massachusetts eventually ate them

[@leroypatrick6731]

Could you cover some of the King's of Kush, Meroe and Nubia. The Land of the Bow in Ta Seti and their strange geopolitical customs shared with various Egyptian Dynasties. It'd be super appreciated if you tried to cover those kingdoms

[@nancymartinez6872]

Very interesting & educational.

[@GamingWithLee]

Love this channel, been playing assassins creed valhalla so i was only fitting i found your video haha! awesome mate subbed

[@NOVONINJAZ]

Haha same

[@N0NE47]

Some ppl would say i lived n a trailer home but i call it a "long house" lol

[@skyro1765]

When I was this early fire wasn’t even invented

[@ernesto1010ful]

I just found this channel and I already love it!!! Can you do an episode on Mayan (pipil) warriors please!? 🙏🏽 I’m from El Salvador and I would personally love to learn about my roots and i know the Mayans were great warriors too.!

[@jimnorbert3809]

Good stuff

[@cedainty]

My mother, now deceased, was a Viking, a first-generation American. All of our parties were huge family feasts where she did most of the cooking. There was ample liquor and wonderful music. I am very proud of my Viking heritage-- She was the daughter who tried so hard to keep her family together. Sadly, now that she is no longer on earth the family is mostly splintered.

[@dutchvanderlinde6906]

wdym she was a viking? they lived 1000 years ago do you prehaps mean she was of scandinavian decent? becuase here in scandinavia we do not use the word viking to descibe a person or a people. it is more of a verb or a job title

[@cedainty]

@@dutchvanderlinde6906, I'm sorry to apparently have offended you. Yes, viking is a verb, but it is also a way of life. It is a dynamic, at least in my family. Candace E Jensen Law Dainty

[@dutchvanderlinde6906]

@@cedainty ah youre las name is jensen? then i asume you family was from vestland the western part in Norway am i right?

[@cedainty]

Denmark. I am second generation US on both sides. My father's family was Nack/Lau from northern Germany. I had a DNA test done a few months ago by the Genetic Research Institute. They don't give peoples' names, only locations, and mine is all over the Atlantic coastline for up to 15 generations back. very interesting.

[@Edmund._.Dantes]

6:18 Instantly thought of Rose from The Golden Girls 😂

[@AstarionWifey]

St.olaf? Lmao

[@fishapiller]

Cool love your videos

[@ariannaluna3009]

Vikings skated around their iced over towns that's badass

[@williamgudmundsrud6847]

proud of norway :)

[@fiuttello]

why are you proud of an abstract idea?

[@Oshidorinohina]

I think most of the Vikings came from Iceland.

[@MajesticSkywhale]

6:24 he's holding the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch...

[@briankhalushi2063]

Thanks for such insights about the daily lives of the Norsemen

[@ratonman]

When i found ur channel i couldn’t go to sleep 👌🏻

[@niclasblomberg5219]

Sacrificing humans was not a common thing in the viking era. And when those were made the men or women volontueered for it. This is the common missconception of vikings.

[@delucadude1]

Yes this vid generalized a lot

[@LadyTeaBlossom]

One of my best friends is extremely proud of her Norse heritage. Her great great grandmother was born and raised in Scandinavia. When she travelled to Australia she was covered from head to toe in traditional Norse tattoos so you can imagine the reaction of the British and Aussies way back when of a fully tattooed woman. Due to her appearance she wasn't able to find work so she built her own business, got married to a German man in a traditional Norse wedding and thrived with her intimidating appearance and vikningr attitude. My friend is an apprentice tattoo artist and has a goal of completely covering herself in tats like her grandma. She already has well over 15 tattoos with 10 being Norse related by the age of 21.

[@Saimeren]

I love that the last picture was from the show "Norsemen".. Good show.