Jimmy : "I'd love to make a video on that, let me know in the com- Me shouting at my phone: YES! For future reference please just assume that if you would love to make a video on a topic we would love to consume it. 💚
@AnaJonesDoCarmo0092 жыл бұрын
YES! THIS! Just assume :D We love your videos Jimmy!
@amaliaseven72 жыл бұрын
Same!
@Katherine_The_Okay2 жыл бұрын
Sounds like good advice to me. I always learn something new and interesting from Jimmy's videos, and that's what I'm here for, so yeah. All his videos are made of win.
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
Did the same... Yes! Yes please!
@oldoneeye75162 жыл бұрын
+1
@patrickwilliams31082 жыл бұрын
977 CE Olaf: "Hey Bjorn, the oracle says that in a little over a thousand years this Welsh guy named Jimmy is going to be talking about us to a global audience." Bjorn (sharpening his sword): "Well, then, let's give him something interesting to talk about, shall we?"
@joshuabarnhill12652 жыл бұрын
Best response ever lol
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
@@joshuabarnhill1265 Quite good, and possibly true...
@TheGPFilmMaker2 жыл бұрын
I will like and amplify literally any video that acknowledges the extensive trade networks of the Medieval Islamic world. THANK YOU!!!
@_M_a_r_t_i_n_M2 жыл бұрын
Hey, that would make for some AMAZING KZbin content as Islamic and even pre Islamic Arabic history tends to be either buried away or outright hidden away. Despite it being an elephant in the room which everyone opts to ignore. The Islamic Golden Age should be FAR more well studied and made mainstream. It's their infighting that caused what is generally considered the downfall of those, well, an entire empire spanning Asia and Africa before shattering into tiny fragments joined ONLY by a common faith, which they were all fighting to literal death over MINOR disagreements in scripture... As the mainstream narrative says.... If anyone has more knowledge and study resources than I. Please make a channel dedicated to this. As a devout protestant non denominational Christian who is polytheistic and partial to Germanic Pagan cultural ideals beliefs and practices. PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE THIS HAPPEN.
@eldricgrubbidge6465 Жыл бұрын
Yeah, I think there's a tendency for it to get tucked away in its own little Islamic studies section, and we only pay attention when it becomes relevant to Europe again. So we go islamic history is the battle of tours, then mumble mumble I suppose stuff must have been happening, then the crusades, then mumble mumble there were some dynasties or something, then the fall of Constantinople. Not helped by the fact that battles are historical clickbait, and boring old trade and diffusion of ideas and whatever get neglected. Like it's normal. I was in Scandinavia a few years ago, and realised there was about a 500 year gap in my knowledge of Scandinavian history. I had the Viking age, then nothing at all until some vague memory of the union of Kalmar and Gustavus Adolphus and stuff.
@sonipitts2 жыл бұрын
I also love how it's historically framed as "raiding, looting, murder, rape and pillaging" by "barbarians/savages" who "overrun" the area when it's done *TO* U.K. and Western European cultures, but "journeys of exploration and discovery" where "civilized nations" "tamed the wilderness/uplifted the savages" when it's done *BY* U.K. and Western European cultures. 🤔
@_M_a_r_t_i_n_M2 жыл бұрын
Read the post I just made. Vikings still exist to this day regarding the occupation. Who says people actually stopped Viking? It isn't even specific to any culture and that culture alone, despite being largely a Germanic thing. It is not ONLY Germanic by ANY means. And well, what we historically regard as the largest Viking cultures actually WERE THE literal MOST Western European cultures. Anglo-Saxons were well known for going off on Viking raids. When they FIRST arrived to the British Isles, they came AS Viking Raiders before going home and bringing entire armies.
@_M_a_r_t_i_n_M2 жыл бұрын
Ok, since I realized KZbin's scripting may place what I posted somewhere in this thread where you may not ever see it, here is a re-post in your comments for the sake of, well yeah. "In North America we have Viking raiders. But they ride motorcycles. They are involved in a lot of theft. They are merchants of goods of all sorts, specializing in goods and wares not normally available in your standard retail shop. They transport things overland from one ocean to the other. And they war against other motorized Viking raider groups. Sometimes engaging in armed combat with government enlisted enforcement detachments. So I would say the Viking Age is still going strong. Like all things, it has adapted with the times. In recent pre-modern history, we have a figure we call Blackbeard. He was certainly a Viking in both European waters and waters off the Americas. Simply because they are not specifically armed with swords, axes and wearing suits of mail and iron/steel helmets does not mean what they are doing is not considered going Viking. Viking is a task or occupation after all. It is not even specific to one single culture and that culture alone, albeit it is in a large part mostly a Germanic thing. But possible Viking raiders went adventuring to the Americas during the VERY early medieval era. Who says they never returned? Or that people just stopped the act of Viking itself? I could go Viking tomorrow if I chose to. If I produce children, they may become Vikings as a career choice for all I know. And I would be proud."
@celestethabest Жыл бұрын
louder for the people in the back
@nataliegath3952 жыл бұрын
I vote we use 789 as the start date because not only is it accurate, that year is super fun to say! Bonus also easy to remember for hypothetical schoolchildren being forced to memorize stuff for exams :)
@rachelboersma-plug94822 жыл бұрын
It could become the third Genuine Date, along with 55BC and 1066.
@KathrynsRavens2 жыл бұрын
And there's a joke to go along with! (A groaner). Why was six afraid of seven? Because seven eight nine.....
@Loweene_Ancalimon2 жыл бұрын
Well, that's how French schoolkids remember the date of the Revolution. And somehow the myth continues well into adulthood that the Revolution is a semi-punctual event that happened in 1789, instead of a process of several years
@Tiger89Lilly2 жыл бұрын
2nd
@sunriseeyes02 жыл бұрын
I really appreciate the concept of an era starting/ending at different times in different places for different peoples. It makes it more understandable and realistic I think.
@rachelboersma-plug94822 жыл бұрын
"At some point, you have to organise the library." Exactly. Yes please Hiberno-Norse video. Didn't one of the Welsh princes have a Norwegian mother? Owain Gwynedd's father, I think?
@TheWelshViking2 жыл бұрын
Yes!!
@lyrigageforge32592 жыл бұрын
@@TheWelshViking Funny how these histories always forget the more eastern north parts of the world. After all Russia had history with vikings, Finland has entire history of defending against them (and Novgorod linked to Vikings in part too) and so on. I mean there are like over 100 fort-hills in Finland alone all along the coast lines, where people would have escaped to defend against attackers. You also skipped the Swedes mostly as they were of same culture as those others who went viking. I quite think it is not enough to be so centralized about Vikings on that western side of the map. Sure those sources may be a bit of a language challenge, but if you intend to speak of 'vikings' per say - can't focus just there as the world has no navel aka belly button. ^^
@Nessi-dances2 жыл бұрын
I've had history and anthropology professors who would happily point out that most things can be argued +/- 10 years. Just because something happened in a certain year, does not mean that it was not planned/thought about/discussed for years before hand. Don't you just love it when people don't write things down! XD
@Balloonoid2 жыл бұрын
If you do a video on hiberno-norse we'll like it. Though, some of us are still waiting for the bead episode.
@Isilsartari762 жыл бұрын
The Hiberno-norse had some sexy beads.
@Bubblesthewitch2 жыл бұрын
Um I think the Viking age started January 28, 1960. You might say “oh no, that’s just the football team” but you said you wanted us to weigh in on this.
@TheWelshViking2 жыл бұрын
Get out
@CollinMcLean2 жыл бұрын
Seconded
@wendynordstrom34872 жыл бұрын
Har, har, har! 😋😅
@madsrasmussen55362 жыл бұрын
But yea PLEASE make a video about the Hiberno population in Ireland, you have often mentioned it and i would be really stoked to watch a good long video from you about these folk! :D Edit :god idk if i spelled Hiberno the right way😳
@expatpiskie2 жыл бұрын
If you ever get the chance the Viking museum in Dublin, Dublinia, is well worth a visit. It includes a reconstruction of a street in "Viking" Dublin, including sounds and smells.
@madsrasmussen55362 жыл бұрын
@@expatpiskie i would love to visit!
@drgrandma1 Жыл бұрын
You did spell it correctly !
@historiansrevolt43332 жыл бұрын
Archaeological/ historical time periods: It Depends. Boy does the hit home. Also, I am all about videos about cross cultural contact, so yes please!
@archaeogremlin2 жыл бұрын
*laughs in northeast (north american) archaeologist* where we can't even seem to decide HOW to define the time periods, let alone what dates to attach them to
@hoppytoad792 жыл бұрын
"It depends" is also the answer to pretty much any question you ask a lawyer.
@TygerKaye2 жыл бұрын
You seem much more relaxed and comfortable than you were when you first started your videos. You can start to see the light in your eyes now when you talk about things. Let that shine! It’s more than obvious that you have a love for this but we can start to see it in your face now. I noticed that when you were talking about the teeth. I think you’re going to be a damned fine youtuber!
@bast7132 жыл бұрын
Yeah, I don't have a boat in this regatta, but I enjoy hearing about messy history. Do continue.
@katienewell73502 жыл бұрын
I'd love a Hiberno-Norse video! And thank you for making it clear that Lindisfarne was not the first Viking raid! This is a great more nuanced take on the datelines of the period.
@connormilton97012 жыл бұрын
Speaking of screenplays, can we get a video on Harald Hardrada? I remember him having a pretty badass life story.
@oldoneeye75162 жыл бұрын
As an acedemic I can only back you up there: in science, there are no easy answers as soon as you go deeper into your topic.. As for your question:Years ago.during reenactment we invited a grammar school and their teachers to talk to us, ask question and learn some history in a fun way. One teacher came to me with his class and told them "here, we see a Viking (which was BS because i reenact a Saxon from about 780), a people who have long died out." After he said that i laughed loudly and asked the kids if they ever heard about the "Rus". When they said no, I asked them, if they had heard about "Rus-land" then. Of course they did. And then I told them the story about how Viking travelled down the Volga river and settled there and became Rus and told them: "Have the Rus died out? Certainly not. Therefore, there are still Vikings in the world. They do not raid any more, of course, but that does not make them a different people." (and then I told them about the Normandy and all the other places "Vikings" made their settlements). With this argument in mind: The Viking age has never ended for me. And lastly: Jimmy your are best when you do videos like this, when your passion for what you are doing really shows. So far, I enjoyed pretty much all of your videos ive seen (still have a lot to watch), but videos like this one are most fun. Excellent job! And Jimmy? Please become a teacher in some way. Humanity needs teachers like you! All the best.
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
He would definitely make a great history prof, far better than any I had, that is for sure, lol
@wendynordstrom34872 жыл бұрын
Here, here!!
@arwenwestrop54042 жыл бұрын
Dear Jimmy, unless I am very much mistaken, after reading a whole bunch of comments, I'd sum it up as: yes, Jimmy, please make more videos of historic, raiding, eating, sewing, Viking and other 'king' stuff, because most people here would eat them up! And that includes me! Thank you so much for the delight your videos give me every time I watch one! If I really need to relax while learning something, I either watch Bernadette Banner or you, so I was delighted to find you watch her too!
@barbaraleaweaver-mercado18202 жыл бұрын
YES. That would be a very interesting on how the different cultures lived together.
@henrystollenwerk57532 жыл бұрын
I would *love* a video on the hiberno-norse. Any sort of Manx/hebredian-norse culture and history would also be fascinating
@paulaunger30612 жыл бұрын
Yes please, that sounds fab :)
@haloserb2 жыл бұрын
Yes! Holy Island is great! on my way back south from Edinburgh this year. Beautiful place, got to see it in the sun and then watch the storm clouds roll in, was awesome.
@grievousangel77422 жыл бұрын
789 is really easy to remember. Let's go with that... I go to Holy Island every year. I live in the highly Viking-centric city of York so it's only a hop and a skip up there. Love it. Has the best atmosphere.
@jesuscallsmeflo11892 жыл бұрын
I would argue for the beginning of the viking age with the use of sails in scandinavia this should be between 600 and 650 and the end in aprox. 950 because then the behavioral pattern changes from viking to building outpost they formed a massive trade network at this time and we're more concerned with protecting this and their "protocolonies"
@loisfitzpatrick55852 жыл бұрын
I adore Lindesfarne and my youngest son is named Aidan. I also grew up going toast Cuthbert’s Church in my home town and went to the attached primary school. I now sing in the church choir there and live on a road named after St Aidan!
@Fenrisaconite2 жыл бұрын
I think in many cases the use of the words "Viking" or "Viking" age are used as umbrella terms for any incidents involving Nordic peoples in the pre-Renaissance times, because it's easier for people who are only interested enough in the aesthetics to clump things together like that, no matter how inaccurate that ends up being. Up to and including referring to people who are probably like farmers or beekeepers as Vikings, especially when they are your maybe-ancesters XD
@lisawilliams30562 жыл бұрын
"The King sends his magistrates to collect taxes from them." Me (grinning) "Wonder how that worked out..." :-)
@mercianthane25032 жыл бұрын
People hating taxes since antiquity is so relatable
@madsrasmussen55362 жыл бұрын
I honestly just look forward to your videos all the time, please keep up the work for the sake of people like me🙂
@jamiebriggs44152 жыл бұрын
Hey Jamie here. So I just like to say how much I appreciate what you do with all the hard work you put into your videos. I love the history, your humor, and language lessons. a big thank you and I hope you keep it up! Sending love, good will and success your way from the east coast of Florida!
@AnnAnonyme2 жыл бұрын
It's such a serious, facts-based video, and yet I keep seeing Viking Jimmy in my mind.
@breec2 жыл бұрын
Nope, that's it. Viking Age ended 1209. Done. I really enjoyed this bite sized history lesson. As always, I'm forever down for Ireland and any mashups that make your Welsh heart happy. The trade with Medieval Islam you mentioned also sounds wickedly interesting
@geronimodk2 жыл бұрын
Lindisfarne is also typically used as the definition for the start of the viking age here in Denmark, but usually it's considered a very gradual transition from late iron age to the viking age.
@anthonyhayes12672 жыл бұрын
I cannot describe how thoroughly excited I would be if you did a video on Hiberno-Norse culture
@pirate12345678912 жыл бұрын
Solution: If you set aside enough money for a longboat, the Viking age end date can be changed to "Present"
@jendragon422 жыл бұрын
Since at any given time, there may or may not be Scandinavian pirates looting at any given location, I would suggest that the Viking Age never "ended", but asymptotically tapered off ;)
@HellaGust2 жыл бұрын
Thepiratebay was founded by Swedes, so Scandinavian piracy is most certainly alive and well in this millenium. Viking age still going strong y'all!
@robintheparttimesewer67982 жыл бұрын
I couldn’t even begin to figure out when it started or ended. To many variables and the whole question of whether all the raids we recorded for history. You really hit the nail on the head when you said that history doesn’t fit well in any box. Also adding again my yes!! Make any videos on any subject that amuses you. I’m sure that we will enjoy them!!
@JasTheMadTexan2 жыл бұрын
It seems to me that maybe “the Viking Age” is the wrong name of it. Maybe it would be better to call the period “the Norse Expansion” or something.
@CollinMcLean2 жыл бұрын
I literally just suggested that and started searching the comments and found yours! However if people want something the same gravitas as "The Viking Age" I also suggest as an alternative "The Age of the Longship".
@mercianthane25032 жыл бұрын
I second this.
@eddyjames20162 жыл бұрын
A big yes please for a video on hiberno-Norse culture!! Always enjoy your videos
@DanielStarbuck2 жыл бұрын
Another thumb up for the hiberno norse video idea! There isn't anywhere near enough online to watch about it and even less mention of it in mainstream history.
@trudiegraham66202 жыл бұрын
Editing Jimmy, we’d love you to hang around longer each time! I read fast but I’m still not quick enough to read you! Also. Loved it. Yes.
@floralcat73282 жыл бұрын
I must admit, I have absolutely no idea when we should set the beginning and end of the viking age... But that's why I'm here! I'm learning so much from you and am thrilled to learn more, so please, give us all the videos you'd like to make!
@mercianthane25032 жыл бұрын
I have always argued that the viking age ended in Ireland around the year 1014, when the Battle of Clontarf ended the norse dominance. Sure, at that period the norsemen were probably not raiding as much as before, but after that event, there's no record of future Norse raids, and Dublin's supremacy seems to collapse for sure.
@njb10662 жыл бұрын
I would absolutely love a Hiberno Norse video! That's what I want to base my reenactment character on and I have absolutely no idea how to do the research for that. Also visited Lindisfarne for the first time earlier this year and loved every second of it!
@nataliestanchevski46282 жыл бұрын
You've done so well in just a year, congratulations!
@charlotteillustration57782 жыл бұрын
Thank you for starting with 789 and the Isle of Portland (my home) - the islanders get very annoyed when (almost always) that raid is forgotten, to be replaced by the 793 Lindisfarne raid! No idea when it ended, I am afraid.
@dominicbeese-raybould84802 жыл бұрын
Would love to see a video on Hiberno-Norse culture!
@AgentPedestrian2 жыл бұрын
I think the Swedish viking age ends in 1050ish when the baptised king starts actually enforcing the Christian rules but I mean... Ansgar was a thing in the 900s
@MattiasGrozny2 жыл бұрын
We had Blot-Sweyn who as far as I remember was the last pagan kin in Svitjod (south eastern part of modern Sweden) died about the burning of the pagan temple at Uppsala about 1080. But as much as Id like to use the pre christian faith as sort of beginning and end it doesnt helpt much. The first mention of Odin on an artefact is about 100 and as far as I remember there were still open pagas around my parts in Hälsingland in the 1200s. But that gives us an 1100 year period in which there was allot happening.
@AgentPedestrian2 жыл бұрын
@@MattiasGrozny yeah! I think the mention and prevalence of norse paganism does stretch into the 1200s but from what I gather it was mostly recorded as a strange curiosity (and things always take longer to spread to the north, even in modern times) so the cutoff for the start of the cultural shift is the seat of government taking a pretty hard stance
@Jokuvaanjee2 жыл бұрын
@@MattiasGrozny Pagan god Taara (Thor morphed into Estonian paganism) was worshipped in Estonia and Finland up untill at least late 1700's! (Possibly even all the way in to mid 1800's but I can't find that source anymore).
@chrisball37782 жыл бұрын
Well, it's still easier to define than the Renaissance. I.e. the great 'rebirth' of knowledge and culture after the 'Dark Ages' (that were never really very dark to begin with) and started at some point between the late 13th and late 15th century in Italy and then supposedly started popping up in random spots around Europe over the following few centuries up until the 17th. With the defining characteristics of basically 'people get better at painting and writing and stuff' (as if they hadn't been doing that throughout the medieval period anyway).
@Loweene_Ancalimon2 жыл бұрын
One of the features of the Renaissance that somehow stuck in the mind of 11-yo me was perspective. I mentally defined the Renaissance to myself for eons as the transition between no perspective in art to nice straight lines converging into a single point x)
@Tiger89Lilly2 жыл бұрын
It was dark when they lost their candles 😂 I'm sorry I'll see myself out
@danyf.14422 жыл бұрын
Italian here, I distinctly remember that in elementary school when we got to study the Renaissance our teacher made us fill a whole page just with the word "renaissance" crossing it, as to mark in our minds a sort of extremely precise "before" and "after". It already seemed a bit extreme to me, but of course when you need only a basic knowledge this is a way to help memorize dates and such.
@beth12svist2 жыл бұрын
Aaand Reformation (a bit of a feature of Renaissance, too) is equally Not As Simple As You Were Led to Believe! :-) P.S. I'm Czech and we're the main muddying element in the Reformation waters, what with the Hussite Wars and subsequent Utraquists and Unity of Brethern; so I was actually never given a date as "THE start of the Reformation" in my education. I recently saw an English-language thing stating with confidence that "the Reformation started in 1517 when Martin Luther blah blah blah" and went "Oh, right. That thing." :D
@Tiger89Lilly2 жыл бұрын
@@beth12svist ah so you're the reason the reformation text is so muddy, I'm still not sure how it all started. I'm joking. It's so interesting to see how and when things happened in other countries and how other countries interpretate things
@medievalcontent61932 жыл бұрын
Another beautiful video, Jimmy. Always a wonderful day when you post and I know you're going to smash that 50,000 right to 1 million before you know it. Secondly, if you'd like, we can gather up some pirates together and go raiding again, that way the Viking Era never ended! At least enjoy sailing in those wonderful ships.
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
789-2023
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
Also would like to join the raiding party, if only to sail in one of those ships. Always wondered how they handle, and how they feel in the water. One thing to see it in dry dock, but the beauty of the ship can only be known if you take her out. So yeah, count me in.
@Bluebelle512 жыл бұрын
I don't know when the "Viking age" ended, or when it started any more than you do, but I did listen to a lecture on WHY it started, and the one tiny bit that most people (even you Jimmy) seem to leave out is the Norse marriage customs. Originally dowries involved livestock or land but divorce made those get extremely messy, livestock can breed or die, land can be improved so they switched to silver as a method of paying dowries, to try and stem the tide of blood feuds. Unfortunately, they didn't have a lot of silver so raiding was a method of getting more silver into their economy, and making it easier for couples to marry. Along with the population growth, arable land shortages etc, it's another layer to think about.
@Uffda.2 жыл бұрын
I think I listened to that, too, and would definitely be interested in a video discussing the topic!
@Bluebelle512 жыл бұрын
@@Uffda. It was a long time ago, but it makes sense, I wish I could remember who was the lecturer, because I would love to go back and listen again with the knowledge I have now versus what I knew then
@Oxtocoatl132 жыл бұрын
I recall reading that a big reason why young men in Somalia today turn to piracy is that they need money for dowries so they can get married. It's not unthinkable that a similar dynamic might have existed in early medieval Scandinavia.
@azteclady2 жыл бұрын
Yes, please, a video on Hiberno-Norse culture, please, pretty pretty please!
@hoegild12 жыл бұрын
Great video... but you make a grave oversight! Most viking attacks actually happened in Scandinavia (yes shock and horror we raided ourselves). So, if you define the Viking age, as the period in which raids were happening, then It starts waaay back in the dark ages, and stops when king Valdemar puts an end to the Wendish pirates!! So from a Danish perspective, its starts around 500 (beginning with the first archeologically proven boats) and it ends with the burning of Svantevit! But then the Norwegian would disagree with this! As you say yourself, History is messy... most Scandinavian historians just accepts Lindisfarne and the battle of Hastings as convenient markers, only useful for making chapters in history books.
@TheWelshViking2 жыл бұрын
If we're going to do that then we also have to include the Germanic tribes pre-500 also carrying out local raids, but I'll stick to using Old Norse cultural mores as well to allow at least a few centuries of human history to be skipped! XD
@w0t3rdog2 жыл бұрын
in sweden, we consider 1050 the end of the viking age, as that was the year the swedish king Olof Skötkonung christianized (well, he was king of an area that later would become sweden, sweden didnt quite exist yet). Marking the end of unfeathered raiding, piracy and jolly good times.
@CollinMcLean2 жыл бұрын
I feel like that's a bit inaccurate... Even after Scandinavia was christianized they were looting, plundering, setting fire to churches, and killing christians in the name of their faith. We just started calling them crusades was all.
@w0t3rdog2 жыл бұрын
@@CollinMcLean yes, but we werent raiding, looting and pillaging christians anymore, which is all that matters in christian westerncentric history ;)
@CollinMcLean2 жыл бұрын
@@w0t3rdog Sure they were. The Eastern Orthodox branch.
@w0t3rdog2 жыл бұрын
@@CollinMcLean Pft! Barely christian. They didnt even follow the pope for Christ sake! ;)
@CollinMcLean2 жыл бұрын
@@w0t3rdog Which one? *Rim shot*
@igoriouspitchpuckington15942 жыл бұрын
Is there any connection between Germanic/Continental Celts going off to be mercenaries in the Mediterranean and the general idea of "goin'-a-pillaging"?
@cheerful_something_something2 жыл бұрын
Hiberno-norse madness= yes please! art and awesomeness! It Never ended,someone help me with this boat!
@Angel_13942 жыл бұрын
Brilliant! You definitely hear a lot of different years. Just love the faces Jimmy makes and you can see the passion! Any video you want to make will be an amazing video!
@tetchedistress2 жыл бұрын
Sweet Jimmy, please, if you would like to make a video, go for it, I fangirl history, and your videos each time are a lovely dive into the messy, dirty, smelly past for me. Thank You so much for all you do. Grateful that you keep this nerd's fancies tickled as far as my heritage. I better get back to work, my slave driver calls in 3 minutes. Shh! I'm not supposed to be fangirling at work!
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
Well reasoned argument for 789 to 1209 as a timeline for Viking shenanigans in the British Isles. Have to agree with you. :) Thanks for the 'learn something new everyday' experience. Didn't know about the 1209 adventure. As for more videos on fascinating subjects made by you, duh... of course! Seriously, you're brilliant, and all your content is great. Keep up with the sexy accurate narrative.
@jackiejames45512 жыл бұрын
As always, I truly enjoyed your video. Watching you talk about a subject you enjoy so much is great fun. Please continue to do so, and talk to us about anything you enjoy, because chances are we too will enjoy it. Thank you for all your hard work.
@TheWelshViking2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for your kind words :) I do try, so it's good to know it's enjoyable for you still!
@jackiejames45512 жыл бұрын
@@TheWelshViking always.
@DawnOldham2 жыл бұрын
I just like hearing you say the word, “Ireland”. There’s almost a third syllable! 😊❤️😊 PS The Viking Age ended when you say it ended. You’re the one getting a PHD in the subject whereas I know nothing about it! 😜🙃😊
@anastasiabaima24242 жыл бұрын
Another wonderful video. It is like sitting around with friends, drinking some tea, and discussing history and culture.
@robinguertin5742 жыл бұрын
First video of yours that I've ever seen, just subscribed. I can't wait to see what's next!! From New Hampshire, in the US.
@TheWelshViking2 жыл бұрын
Aw shucks! Thanks, Robjn!
@fionaellem43792 жыл бұрын
I *loved* Lindisfarne! I had the chance to go there briefly in the 1980’s; the bird sanctuary is wonderful, too.
@polintr2 жыл бұрын
I’ve been to Holy Island and Iona. Both are beautiful places
@Katherine_The_Okay2 жыл бұрын
Good luck getting to 50k followers! I'll leave a saucer of milk out to appease the algorithm (I'm working under the assumption that it's one of the Fair Folk because logic like the algorithm's logic just doesn't occur in the human world).
@amaliaseven72 жыл бұрын
1) quickly becoming my favorite channel 2) this is such a fun way to learn history, thank you
@amtmannb.46272 жыл бұрын
It's great to hear you discussing somehow with yourself about interesting topics.
@Steph_here2 жыл бұрын
Thank u for the knowledge! 💛
@lauraclarke71972 жыл бұрын
I really loved this video Jimmy! I always wondered about this and it's amazing to have someone go through it in a way that makes sense. I'd also love to know more about the Vikings in Ireland that you mentioned you might do a video about. It seems like that might be where norse and celtic sort of aesthetics cross over? Please tell us more! :D
@CopenhagenDreaming2 жыл бұрын
Quite a few Danish academic historians would argue, that the term "the Viking age" is pretty useless because going viking was such a small part of early medieval Scandinavian society, and it is misleading to let it be the defining characteristic. I can kind of follow that argument - though of course in layman's terms it's quite handy, because setting "time stamps" on the early medieval period becomes even fuzzier than for the Viking age. (Apart from anything we never had a Roman occupation in Scandinavia, which is for most part of Europe what helps define the beginning of the middle age.) So yes, history is messy! And that's just one of the lovely things about it.
@brijekavervix73402 жыл бұрын
Is it possible there could have even been earlier raids that went unrecorded or the records of such were lost for some reason?
@MarkBarrows2 жыл бұрын
Yes, a video on the hiberno-norse please!
@ilovemydog8792 жыл бұрын
Just found your channel. This so fun! Love your content. This is exactly what I want from KZbin 💖
@KarelPKerezman2 жыл бұрын
Somewhere in one of James Burke's programs, and I wish I could find it, is a bit of him in a classroom looking at one of those "this, then that, then that, then that" linear plots of How History Went, and basically saying "this is entirely rubbish, that's not how history WORKS." Everything depends on everything else so much that all lines get blurry. Another excellent video, thank you sir!
@solveigw2 жыл бұрын
Here in Norway I've been taught two dates as the end of the Viking Age. The first being 29th of July 1030 , the battle of Stiklestad -which really sements Norway as a Christian nation, and 13th of October 1066, the battle of Hastings.
@kay123kay2 жыл бұрын
Bernadette Banner brought me here, and can I just say this was an AWESOME first video to watch! oh and PLEASE do a Hiberno-Norse video!
@jessicaredman11152 жыл бұрын
Jimmy would love to see a Hiberno - Norse video!
@christopherduchannes77012 жыл бұрын
Apparently I was already subscribed but didn't realise it so I "discovered" this video this morning and I got to say, I'm already obsessed!
@n.e.goldsteen3422 жыл бұрын
very good point you make!!
@JanLegris Жыл бұрын
Love the nuance :) Look forward to seeing you again.
@AshleyOlivia9011 ай бұрын
I’m sad I’ve just now found you’re channel, you’re fantastic 😂🙌🏻
@doobat7082 жыл бұрын
mostly, i know of the Danelaw area because of the philology courses that were part of my english BA, having more context like this is really insightful
@pintjockey47452 жыл бұрын
In Canada we have a viking settlement that was just dated to 1021 Cymru am Byth!
@TygerKaye2 жыл бұрын
And please do the other video! That seems interesting.
@matteroftime812 жыл бұрын
I couldn't help make the juxtaposition between the "messy history" as it pertains to the Viking Age and the aesthetics of an IKEA catalogue. ;) :-D
@juia73362 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the informative (and nuanced!) video!
@Duececoupe2 жыл бұрын
Sooooo....if me and my Danish and Norwegian friends meet up, cobble together a few longships and do a few raids here and there....🤨🤔😉😆😂 Love the videos....on to the next one! 🍻⚔️
@marjolein29312 жыл бұрын
Funny how not even wikipedia is consistent across its articles (at least in the 3 languages i can understand). You'd think there would be some line across all of its pages 😅 The English page mentions 793-1066 AD. The Dutch one says roughly between 789 and 1100. The German one mentions that there isnt a definite time, but that the rough dates are between 800 and 1050 AD, but there were attacks earlier than that.
@zbuglady2 жыл бұрын
Wikipedia is edited by volunteers, there’s no editing staff so no enforcement of a single point of view.
@ariadneschulz88222 жыл бұрын
Went to Durham University and worked at the Castle and the Palace Green Library. Got to go to Lindisfarne with some friends near the end of my PhD. Was fun.
@KingAenti2 жыл бұрын
I love videos like these, pumped for more
@JourneyIntoAnimism2 жыл бұрын
I don't know why I never learned about my ancestors before but I am glad I am doing it now. I feel like it explains a huge part of me.
@Semordnilaps2 жыл бұрын
Well, counter point, how can the viking age be over if a wolf hasn't swallowed the sun yet?
@thedapperviking2 жыл бұрын
A little late to the party, but the last account I can find is a raid on Canterbury by Thorkell the Tall in 1011, failing to ransom the archbishop because his men killed the archbishop in 1012. So maybe 1012 might be a decent time point before King Cnut’s rise to power? Love your videos. Glad you’re sharing your knowledge. Keep up the awesome work!
@persiswynter63572 жыл бұрын
Hiberno-Norse video, please! And didn't the Norsemen go a-viking in the Baltic region and further into Russia?
@Lunareon2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for demonstrating the unfortunate academic fact that, it is next to impossible to put almost anything into an exact time frame, because life is messy and complicated. So true of so many things! xD
@Wessex902 жыл бұрын
It’s cool hearing about the Hiberno Norse. I live in the Wirral and there’s a huge amount of Hiberno Norse influence there.
@p0etrygh0st2 жыл бұрын
Jimmy take this from an ancient internet type - we watched you pretend to be a time travelling viking. Of course we will bloody watch you talk about hiberno norse. Do the thing
@sekhmara85902 жыл бұрын
😆 time travelling viking Jimmy was brilliant
@p0etrygh0st2 жыл бұрын
@@sekhmara8590 I mean totally, but my point is if we will watch that, I'm fairly sure Hiberno norse is not a problem :D
@sheepewe45052 жыл бұрын
"Medieval warm period" 21st century: Hold my sunscreen
@nevem50102 жыл бұрын
I love the messiness of history! This was great, thank you ❤️.
@RebeccaSmith-tk4zy2 жыл бұрын
Thank you, Jimmy, for all but guaranteeing that our next vacation will be to Dublin. I've been trying to sell the hubbin on this idea for years. XOXO
@SaszaDerRoyt2 жыл бұрын
Great timing of this video, we're covering a module with a lot of similar content to this video in my archaeology course, I'll certainly share this video with my mates to add to the discussion