Who Were The First Vikings? | The Vikings | Chronicle

They were bloodthirsty Scandinavian warriors and fine craftsmen. They opened trade routes, founded cities and captured ancient hubs. The Saxons of England feared them but mocked their careful grooming habits. In short, they were pirates with style. But who were the first Vikings and did they actually originate much earlier than we originally thought?
This five-part series follows the Vikings everywhere they went, revealing new discoveries that turn Viking history on its head. We tell their incredible story from eye-witness accounts and the foremost experts on Viking warfare and way of life.
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[@ChronicleMedieval]

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[@mik823]

Can you please publish your research data? Thankyou.

[@kaydenmurphy911]

@@mik823 yo

[@cdfdesantis699]

I think what's so fascinating about the Vikings was their ability to develop a highly successful culture while living in a very inhospitable environment. Their resourcefulness enabled them to make use of whatever opportunity presented itself. It's like the old saying, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade."

[@AmerikiDork]

Not so inhospitable

[@ScooterFXRS]

lol ... the other main ingredient, sugar

[@marceloorellana5726]

They lived in lands with great resources. What are you talking about? 🤦🏼

[@Kay-jg6tf]

@@marceloorellana5726 And what great resources are that? If we are talking about fish, water and wood than i fully agree.. But if they wanted lemonade (as mentioned in the first comment) they had to go raiding for lemons.

[@DataJuggler]

I live in Houston, pretty warm climate compared to Northern Europe. Wearing gloves, two coats, jogging pants under my pants, and both coats have hoods. Come home still have near frost bite on hands at 29 degrees F. I question if the past really happened. Our forefathers were tougher than we are.

[@h0rk3d]

I have troubles with the "pre-viking" era term, if the dating on the finds is true, obviously the viking age must be earlier than we thought, hence not a "pre-age" but the actual age

[@h0rk3d]

"Viking" is an act, not a person. For example (directly translated) "I want to go viking" or "He isnt here, he went viking" Icelandic have changed very very little the past 1000 years, its practically identical to old norse. "Viking" in Icelandic is "viking" vik-ing not vi-king

[@kevinm.5939]

Think about it in terms of when parts of the culture and traditions were developed. The ages are separated by the identity and capabilities of the culture being developed. So pre-viking is simply the beginning of viking culture, which had to be transitioned from a predecessor culture.

[@Tripserpentine]

@@kevinm.5939 it is called Norse, or Norse culture. Norse people who went viking. (and Frisians too most likely who went viking too). Viking is not a culture, if that is the case you should call all these Scandinavians or Norse people viking people still. The Frissians too but then they where not Norse. So different culture, still wen't on Vikings though. Also in the Netherlands the word Viking is pronounced also like Vik-king like in Iceland.

[@Tripserpentine]

Etymological indeed vik-king/vik-ing like do-ing as in doing things, or walk- walk ing. Viking, vik ing.

[@hlmoore8042]

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 ancestors 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.

[@JCody-pt3th]

I love that we still are making new historical discoveries of the (pre) Viking age. Skål 🍻

[@MrVonMengesdorf]

I'll drink to that

[@Thekoryostribalpodcast]

Everyone focuses on the raids. But we were much more than that.

[@d_must4309]

People forget it was a cruel time. There was a lot of piracy in the Mediterranean as well

[@Thekoryostribalpodcast]

@@d_must4309 exactly, pretty much everyone was raiding and battling eachother.

[@Stu161]

"""we""" 😂😂😂

[@glenmccall8854]

@@Thekoryostribalpodcast Are you familiar with the extensive trade network in the central portion of the US? It was from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and from the Rocky Mountains in the West to the Allegany Mountains in the East. A very large Rune stone was found on the top of a mountain at Heavner, Oklahoma. The 6" tall letters is "Proto-Norwegian" which was in use from 100 ad to 800 ad.

[@weilandiv8310]

Wonderful. Crappy day for me, but it's getting better!!!

[@p7outdoors297]

I'm sorry it was crappy, but I'm glad something as simple as this can lift your spirits.

[@p7outdoors297]

I'm sorry it was crappy, but I'm glad something as simple as this can lift your spirits.

[@annapurna2389]

There was a Viking ship in Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL USA forever near a covered picnic area. It was exposed to the elements until recently. It was near the Chicago Historical Society. 🤔

[@robinsinpost]

The first known Viking raid was on the island of Saaremaa, Estonia around 700 to 750. Two Viking ships with the remains of 41 Vikings were found there in 2008 and 2010.

[@dsta9996]

I’m fascinated by all old ship builders.

[@blackeyedturtle]

Back in 1966 my teacher told me, "A man wasn't a Viking, it's what he did". "We go a viking", like today one will say, "We go hiking".

[@TheSaneHatter]

🎶"A-vik-ing-we-will-go, a-vik-ing-we-will-go, hi-ho a-merry-o....."

[@marceloorellana5726]

Your teacher knew you had simple minds. For simple minds simple rhymes.

[@kimberlymoore8172]

Yes. The term for the person in Ireland was vik.

[@maggan82]

Old norse: Vikingr = a viking (masc) Vikingu= on a journey/raid

[@parisfrance6483]

Only Scandinavian nobles were rich enough to take ships to the grave .

[@phoenixj1299]

Ancient Bharat says : hi kids. Your grand grand Daddy is here.

[@mlee9734]

35:55 look! It's Ethelstan!! And that's yarl Borge.

[@teti_99]

Narrator: Vikings. The last barbarians. Polynesians: Mmmmm... nope. We were cannibals until the late 1800's.

[@slappy8941]

They should be called savages, but it's not politically correct to do so.

[@lillia5333]

@@slappy8941 Humans are savages. A lot of them have done terrible things to each other, and a lot of us continue to do so.

[@teti_99]

@Slappy yeah it's stupid how offended people get now days. My people were savages and to be quite honest, Polynesians today are prone to savage tendencies. We don't make up even .5% of the US population but per capita we have the highest incarnation rate 😬 but in that same token, we thrive in contact, combat sports. Just a very aggressive people and culture by nature. I take no offense to it. It almost makes us proud knowing our history. It empowers us. I can't speak on behalf of all Polynesians but for the most part, there's a hidden pride in who we are, where we come from and the history our people have. 💯✊🏾 we were only introduced to modern civilization around 150 years ago give or take. Thank goodness we are civil now. But I don't mind being called a savage. 😈

[@poletooke4691]

Doesn't barbarian mean non-roman, most likely of the germanic tribes?

[@MrVonMengesdorf]

These are my ancestors. This is so cool.

[@JennRighter]

I know in certain cultures there is enough evidence to say that what was buried with them was intended to serve a purpose in the perceived afterlife. But…just looking subjectively at modern burials, quite often people are buried with items that they valued in their life. That could be guns or drugs or jewelry or hair clippings from a loved one etc. I think it’s reasonable to hypothesize that the items buried with these people were to assist in some perceived afterlife. But it shouldn’t just be accepted that this was the case without the proper evidence.

[@luckycharm8888]

For the hostorians if conjecture fits the mainstream narrative it will be accepted even in abscence of evidence and hypothesis accepted as facts. Present an evidence like Goebekli Tepi that goes against the narrative that civilization starts at Sumeria any physical evidence, conjecture and hypothesis that there was civilization earlier than that are fringe history! 👌

[@JennRighter]

@@luckycharm8888 I absolutely agree. I was just trying to choose my words wisely. If you use conjecture too much, they just lump you into the ancient aliens people and that is a nightmare I want no part of.

[@joschafinger126]

Definitely. However, while the wish to take something with you where it can't possibly follow and burying folks with so much stuff, including food and animals, even slaves, that had been in perfect health before said burial... Well, it's a different league. Sure, that doesn't mean that a viking buried with a Buddha statuette was a Buddhist. I find it more likely they'd want to prove just how far they'd travelled in this world when they got to the next.

[@joschafinger126]

@@luckycharm8888 History starts with writing: that's a matter of definition. So, without writing it's prehistory you're looking at -and Mesopotamia fits the bill. By the same token, civilization is defined by the emergence of cities and city life, ie the 'civitas' or 'city-dwelling community'. Göbleki Tepe, by the looks of it, was built by non-sessile, non-writing, people who most likely lived on hunting and gathering, possibly enriched by early agriculture in places. It's not that anyone is trying to keep it quiet (in fact, an awful lot has been written on it in quite reputable journals and stuff), but that it doesn't meet the definition of historical civilization by way of being apparently illiterate and lacking cities and towns. Rather, it's a tantalising glimpse into late prehistoric ways of life, and archaeologists treat it as such.

[@phoenixj1299]

@@luckycharm8888 Archeological evidence is never a total truth. It only serves as a medium. Unless you know the context of it then archeological evidence is not much of use .

[@LynxSouth]

~12:30 A Mongolian princess of Siberian ancestry. How does that equate to 'dark-skinned'? I know some Siberians have dark hair, even dark eyes, but skin?

[@kaypee4704]

Didn’t know, “ Mongolians” were “ dark-skinned “….thought they were of the yellow race….

[@LynxSouth]

@@kaypee4704 I agree; that's what I'm saying.

[@acidbabydoc]

Mongolians aren't actually pale-skinned, as often depicted in art and paintings from back then. They ARE part of the Asian races but their skin tone is more cinnamon colored, similar to that of...let's say Eskimos, for example. In a northern land of snow and ice, where most people are pale-skinned and fair-haired, a Mongolian *would* stand out as "dark-skinned".

[@LynxSouth]

@@acidbabydoc Right, there's a variety of skin tones possible for Asians & Mongolians, but this princess (not an outdoor-working peasant) was of _Siberian_ ancestry. My image search of Siberians (first came up all Husky dogs until I specified humans! 😄) shows almost all very pale-skinned people but some who are tanner &/or more east Asian-looking. Maybe her mother was a lovely from one of the small ethnic tribes, who knows. As you say, perhaps it was only dark by comparison.

[@annemurphy9339]

The deal-skinned line is a re-write of history and conjecture, not provable.

[@ellen4956]

At one point, someone said "Odin and his brother, Thor." This is an excellent presentation and I've watched it more than once, but I wish they had corrected that mistake. Thor is the son of Odin.

[@scottphillips7108]

21:38 in video looks like a older connection to the Templars Cross...

[@melk100]

2:40 After a millennia the ship shaped grave is still shipshape!

[@marceloorellana5726]

Who's gonna dig up rocks in a wind swept plain? 🤔

[@gorillaguerillaDK]

Þórr wasn’t the brother of Óðinn, he was the son. The brothers of Óðinn was Vili and Vé - and Loki was the bloodbrother of Óðinn. And Silkeborg, isn’t Southern Denmark, it’s closer to being in the middle of the Danish part of the peninsula Jutland!

[@locedandloaded6738]

Thank you! I was about to comment this!

[@kennetth1389]

The lions share of attacks were in frankish areas. Lending credence to the retaliatory nature of many scandinavian forays.

[@speakupriseup4549]

Brothers Eric and Sven were the first Vikings then their cousin Olaf joined them, they raided Mrs Sorenson's kitchen and stole some meatballs and it just escalated from there.

[@emmachamberlain7587]

They went into the cheap flatpack furniture game later 😂

[@yesterdayschunda1760]

As someone who was taught History by the British the obvious answer is "The Danes"

[@ava.artemis]

This is the first time I’ve heard anyone say that Tollund man was a sacrifice. Not that I’m an expert, by any means. I always wondered if he was just a criminal or maybe just an innocent guy who was robbed and murdered. These things happened a lot in history…

[@DBCisco]

North Sea and Channel migrating peoples were called 'Saxons' by the Romans since 350AD. After the collapse of the Roman Rule in Britain, 'Anglo-Saxons' dominated South East Britain and called their own relatives Dansk, Nordmen and Headenmen (A-S Chronicles) following the first recorded "raid" at Shepe in the early 8th cent. (NOT Lindisfarne). The idea of Vikings as a new and special ethnicity is a modern imaginary concept. Also, the evolution of the "dragon ship" began in prehistory as petroglyphs demonstrate.

[@glenmccall8854]

DB, it is evident that you have done your homework. Good on you. YES, the Viking ship was around for centuries before 800 a.d. When you have time, investigate the "Heavner Rune Stone". The script is "Proto-Norwegian" (100 - 800 a.d.). That is just a stepping stone to the extensive trade network of the central US, shown in mound construction of that period as well as the re-use of ancient mounds. This little segment of history is part of the hobby of a professor of Archeology and Ancient History. Fishing is fun too!

[@h0rk3d]

you must be british lol

[@DBCisco]

@@h0rk3d No. I am a degreed historian.

[@fiddibelow]

@@DBCisco what do you Even mean by this?. No one is saying viking is an etnicity people Are simply drawing a parallell to an historical era and the people involved. It would be like calling a roman a centurain.

[@DBCisco]

@@fiddibelow I suggest you get a degree in history and anthropology if you want to question my analysis.

[@MrVvulf]

From the title, I assumed this was going to be about "The Sea People", who were the scourge of the Mediterranean around 1200-1000 BCE.

[@marceloorellana5726]

That's on the other side the World. Not northern Europe.

[@justanotherguy4202]

@@marceloorellana5726 most likely same people

[@pebbleoverpond]

Raiding has been part of Scandinavian and the Baltic cultures since before the Nordic bronze age. When conquests were made in a new territory the victors would appoint a chief or king over the conquered peoples like what we see in a much later with the Russ expanding into Slavic territories. Is it possible that the Mycenae culture transition to the so called Dorian culture was the result in mercenaries taking over their former employers kingdoms and appointing leaders over the indigenous population? It would help explain the lack of shift in genetics of the population in Greece while a shift in administration. Raiding and working as mercenaries were part of seasonal work or for some full time careers but also a chance at forging your own kingdom.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

Is it possible that Russ never expanded in the Slavic territories?

[@LynxSouth]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j No. We have written historical records and we have lots of DNA evidence.

[@rmcfete]

Most of them didn’t have much choice but to be Vikings there was no land for them to possess so they settled other places and prospered

[@JOHNTOPG]

The vikings wernt primitive, they had advanced metalworking and advanced ship making, adept in fortifications and seige weaponry, the vikings were doing weird shit up there for 100s of years while Rome was fucking with their lessor cousins to the south, the vikings developed because ceaser had civil war after gaul and wasn't able to disrupt their evolution

[@Kacpruh95]

27:27 Odin was Thor's father, not brother...

[@classica1fungus]

Was looking for this comment lol thank you

[@danaglabeman6919]

This was a local program. In certain Swedish accents, "far" and "bror" can sound very similar if you're not a native speaker and you're not paying attention. The English narrators usually read a word for word translation of the original narration, and don't ask questions. If someone sloppy heard "far" and thought they heard "bror", and no one caught it, the narrator would have read it exactly as printed, even if he knew it wasn't right. There's the same problem with a docuseries on Curiosity about the American National Parks. It's originally a French program. The French use the same word for osprey and eagle, and for elk and moose. It was mistranslated, so the whole Yellowstone episode the narrator, an American, uses the word osprey to refer to bald eagles and elk to refer to moose, because that's the translation he was told to read. I'm actually really surprised there weren't more mistranslations than just Odin and Thor's relationship.

[@poapoamambo]

why didnt they show a picture of the dragon head?

[@m.r.prasad]

The write up is covering almost the full picture. Make it Small.

[@dellabox]

Everyone knows that Scandinavians speak English really well. Why the lector format? I bet at least 25% of the people talking can speak English at an advanced level.

[@mondriaa]

well maybe because this docu was original made for local tv and later on dubbed for international tv and then of course ripped for KZbin

[@peterfireflylund]

I bet it’s far less than 25%, given their ages and given that they work in the humanities (middle brow professions).

[@mondriaa]

@@peterfireflylund ooh no, something like 90% speaks English, it's being taught from age 6 at school, at college some classes are taught in English. Fun fact the % of people that speak English in Norway is higher than the % of people that speak English in the United States of America.

[@peterfireflylund]

@@mondriaa 90+% can speak “English” or even English. However, far less than 25% can speak it well.

[@mondriaa]

@@peterfireflylund they can speak it well in my experience, most if not all in this docu are university teachers, that you look down on them has more to do with you then them

[@tophers3756]

To quote Simon Whistler, the past was the worst.

[@kellydalstok8900]

Funny that those christians that were horrified by the Viking tradition of human sacrifice have a religion that is based on a human sacrifice.

[@tomenerd]

Its completely congruent. Christians don't perform sacrifices nor condone them.

[@lillia5333]

@@tomenerd Jesus is the ultimate scapegoat.

[@zrb901]

i am not christian, but i don’t think that christianity is based on human sacrifice. jesus wasn’t a “human sacrifice” he was killed as a criminal by the romans. big difference

[@michaelpotts4001]

And eats and drinks him

[@jmchsmith]

Jesus wasn’t sacrificed. He was murdered.

[@rickweldon9047]

The last barbarians? I believe that would be the Slavs.

[@reinokarvinen8845]

Hmm the last heathens were probably the finns

[@hanszickerman8051]

@@reinokarvinen8845 Lithuanians are reported as late pagans and the so are the Sami peoples.

[@graceamerican3558]

I think they were craftsmen and merchants.

[@matthewmann8969]

Runner uppers

[@dc7370]

they found French styled clothing in Greenland for people who had never left

[@HenningStrandin]

We're 20 seconds into the show and it's "the last barbarians!" Seriously? As far as I know, no one at the time called vikings barbarians, or thought they were barbarians. Why use this 19th century association, that we are so very very over, in an educational program? It immediately made the whole production seem suspect to me.

[@richardtaylor8106]

This is good. I want to know how in such a short time, the " last barbarians" turned into one of the most progressive cultures in the world.

[@71kimg]

? Scandinavia didn’t change fast - among “most progressive” countries maybe earliest around 1850 - and not at anytime before that (beside maybe prehistoric bronze-age) - and during WW1 - Scandinavia had become a better place to live than a-lot of Europe.

[@SteamboatW]

Short time? 1000 years?

[@anders9646]

In the viking era scandinavian countries were still progressive beside other cultures and people. Women had more rights, slaves had rights like becoming part of the settlement, they took baths every Saturday, they ate well etc.

[@rns7426]

They were like barbaric granola eating, Birkenstock wearing, gender bender, hippies. They evolved over time and lost the combative, bad assery part and kept the patchouli, simp, part.

[@Ian-yf7uf]

They really weren't as progressive, especially in comparison to modern people.

[@donotmislead]

0:45 There is neither «Russian steppe» in Muscovy, nor Viking remains in there.

[@glenmccall8854]

The family of "Cerney" ruled Moscow around 600-800 a.d. That family can be traced to the large island of Cerney, found North of Russia near the Artic Circle. These, of the Isle of Cerney, along with 6 other families opened the rivers of Russia to trade with the South. These were Vikings or what ever title one wishes to bestow upon them. They did the job of viking & trade. They were also nation builders. The "Cerney" family is only one of those who's descendent's can be followed for subsequent centuries. This is what professors of Ancient History do in their spare time.

[@stevemellin5806]

I always liked them . great sea going people .and lived how they wanted

[@reginaldinoenchillada3513]

"... and the whole day was runed."

[@luckycharm8888]

For the historians if conjecture fits the mainstream narrative it will be accepted even in abscence of evidence and hypothesis accepted as facts. So present a physical evidence like Goebekli Tepi that goes against the narrative that civilization starts at Sumeria any physical evidence, conjecture and hypothesis that there was civilization earlier than that are fringe history! 👌

[@mintooji1100]

Ragnar lothbrook?

[@engineersteveo9886]

Seems that the burials with their after life goods leave nothing but skeletons and objects

[@End-Putler4eva]

The term "Viking" was reintroduced into modern english from Old Norse vikingr "freebooter, sea-rover, pirate, viking," which usually is explained as meaning properly "one who came from the fjords," from vik "creek, inlet, small bay" Anyone from any culture could associate to Vikings, to explore. It's not referring to a race of 'people'

[@Crossword131]

Like the Phonecians.

[@marceloorellana5726]

@@Crossword131 Phoenicians were Semetic.

[@marceloorellana5726]

Vikings weren't explorers. They were raiders. Big difference.

[@Crossword131]

@@marceloorellana5726 Semitic or not, I think you'll find the Vikings and Phonecians had a lot in common. Also, Phonecians weren't all Semitic, and many Vikings were looking for trade, colonization AND raiding opportunities. Whereas the Phonecians were not nearly as aggressive.

[@marceloorellana5726]

@Crossword131 The Phoenicians founded colonies not empires. The Vikings didn't tarde. They raided and robbed. It took 200 to civilize them and accept Christianity. There culture wasn't one of colonization it was of conquering and stealing. Taking it back to their lands. Once they became civilized that changed. As in the Normans.

[@-sweyn-9559]

💕

[@daemonthorn5888]

Odin had two Ravens. Not one. He said that Oden ruled with the aid of a Raven. It was Ravens.

[@No1Agge]

He also said that Thor was the brother of Odin. And Thor was Odins son. Odins brothers were Vile And Ve. And Loke was his blood brother. And he talked about Freya being a cousin. Freya and her brother Frey was from a totally different family of gods.

[@frostflower5555]

I looked up Frey and it seems it comes the feminine word for frawjo (lord), from pie prehwos, the word to go forward, right, straight, correct. In Slavic languages prav. It reminds me of the word first. German furst means chief, prince and literally "first born". In Slavic languages prvo means first, PIE is prhwos and from PIE: per/preh/pro meaning before, in front, first. Odin is also an interesting name. I can see it being cognate with the word "one" and being "first" as in a lord as mentioned above. In Slavic languages one is jedan/edan/odin/edin/jeden/jadan depending on the language. The j in Slavic languages and Germanic languages are pronounced as y. Could they all be related to Norse mythology?

[@shumped]

@@frostflower5555 You mean Freya, Frey is a different god, the twin brother of Freya. The name for Frey in Swedish (Frö) is also the Swedish word for seed (especially plant seeds) and was a fertility god of sorts. Odin lost its W and should be Wodin/Woden/Wodan (With his name still being associated with wednesday "The day of Woden") so shouldn't assume that it's related to one or first, it most likely meant "raging one" or "wild one" as he was at his earliest form associated with the wild hunt and with him being celebrated in winter and known aswell as "Jólnir" (Master of Yule, i.e pre-christian christmas). He had many different names though, one of which was "Aldaföðr" (Father of all) which would be related to your idea of being the "first" one as well as being know as "Valföðr" (Father of the fallen) especially by warriors and vikings indicating him as the father of mankind and thereby the "first" one.

[@robertmcmanus636]

The vikings are far from the last barbarians. All you have to do is look at how man treats man even to this day to see how barbaric we really are. I wanted to mention the Holocaust and slavery and the extermination of native peoples...but almost all that stuff is still going on...and more!

[@marceloorellana5726]

Nobody exterminated the Native peoples. There are 500 million Native Americans in America. You can't be exterminated with numbers like that. Go spread your Black Legend somewhere else.

[@fiddibelow]

Barbaric Are tribes burning eachother. the Vikings never burned your family. they do in certain parts of the world today tho so you Are right sir.

[@robertmcmanus636]

@@marceloorellana5726 The original population of N. America was decimated by European diseases (many of which were transmitted on purpose) and a policy of extermination that compares with Nazi Germany's practices. They are still subject to all the ills that racism and being a defeated people brings to them. Their Holocaust continues.

[@kaypee4704]

Yeah, today we have BLM…. Barbaric Living Man…..😁😃😄

[@Richard-nu4fb]

I like the video but Thor is Odin's SON, not his Brother. Odin, Ville And Ve Killed Ymir and created Midgard. Source is the story of the creation of the world in the Prose Edda by Snorri Sturluson. It really bothers me that that was said. Also Fenrir is a giant Wolf, not a shape shifter like his father Loki, and is part giant due to his mother Angreboda.

[@SimPapara]

Kinda fun fact that 41 elite vikings were hacked to pieces in Saaremaa, Estonia. Makes me think who really were masters of the Baltic see? 😜

[@JungleJargon]

“Dark skinned (Mongolian) Queen!” *Clearly descended from Nimrod of Mesopotamia!*

[@annemurphy9339]

Al of the ancient people groups indigenous to the Fertile Crescent/Levant of the Near & Middle East were and still are, Levantine caucasoids.

[@JungleJargon]

@@annemurphy9339 Not true. The descendants with the C and D parental haplogroups are descended from Cush and Canaan.

[@annemurphy9339]

@@JungleJargon Very true: black Africans are descended from the aborigine, and their very DNA proves it.

[@annemurphy9339]

@@JungleJargon All of the ancient people groups indigenous to the Fertile Crescent were, and still are, Levantine caucasoids who share a genetic kinship. This is proven by all ancient forensics, the Bible, all ancient secular recorded history, and by literally thousands of years of area artworks ranging from glyphs to murals, mosaics, portraits and statuary. Blacks are indigenous to the sub-Saharan of West Africa, much, much further south and in an entirely different continent.

[@annemurphy9339]

@@JungleJargon I have tried to respond twice, but YT keeps removing my comment to you.

[@DanCooper404]

So many inaccuracies...

[@hlmoore8042]

They had to be merchants and traders. You cannot just go about killing people. You NEED goods and trades.

[@marceloorellana5726]

They were raiders.

[@painmt651]

I can not help but notice the great shape that the teeth 🦷 of the dead are in, still. I did not see any signs of decay, or cavities.

[@kimberlymoore8172]

Vikings were good at cleaning their teeth. There are slivered bones that were toothpicks and matching groves where they used them

[@galenbjorn443]

strong indo-Europeans mix with hunter and gathers, make the teeth good,

[@MagdaleneDivine]

It was an.ok documentary. I suppose. I keep falling asleep trying to finish it So take that as you will.

[@Airon79]

I've always thought as vikings as vigilantes , militia men , or good ol'boys ( kind of an older version of Robin Hood ) and pirates as terrorists and fugitives . Are vikings sometimes also referred as Celtics or Keltics ?

[@ajkajk4250]

anyone ever think about how people would look at us with all the places holding skulls and stuff, building full of things lol

[@jeremywilliams3465]

I think the story of Vikings becoming Knights and Kings of Europe is a part of powerful Christian story.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

No one viking became a Christian. And no one viking become a king.

[@lillia5333]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j of course vikings became christians. Some believed in White Christ, others used it as a source of power. Olav Haraldsson - St. Olav - joined viking raids, later he became a christian king, and a cruel one at that. Learn your history. It doesn't make the christian story powerful though. It's just people being people.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@lillia5333 If he became a Christian, then he stopped being a Viking.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@lillia5333 No one Viking became a Christian. and no Christian has any connection with that story. Everything is so simple

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@lillia5333 why do you christians think that you are so smart? your story has begun, the moment when our history has seen the sunset. Believe me. You don't even know what we're talking about.

[@danaglabeman6919]

So where did Freya take her men? You mean this whole time we thought Valhalla was the best, but it was actually the JV team?

[@paganlife1373]

Think bad of Vikings. If you want,they were still an integral part of history.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

It was the best part of the history, that no one will ever return.

[@phoenixj1299]

They will always remain as a product of history. Nothing more. This is because of the bad interpretation of vedic god's.

[@phoenixj1299]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j nope.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@phoenixj1299 What nope?

[@phoenixj1299]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j it was never a best part of history. It never will be. It's delusional.

[@ginomazzei1076]

Easier to destroy than to build up.

[@frekitheravenous516]

The Vikings raided and held parts of England for several centuries. But compared to the Angles, Saxons, Jutes & Frisians the Vikings were rank amatuers. No one ever gives those earlier tribes the credit they deserve. They did exactly what the Vikings did, but they did it far more successfully.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

especially funny that Angles, Saxons, Jutes & Frisians and were these Vikings)

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

And simply drove the Mordor-Roman Christian infection from their territories.

[@bthorson7979]

Vikings just had more contemporary sources writing about them. Blame the Anglo-Saxons for wiping literacy off the face of Britain for a few centuries.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@bthorson7979 who do you call anglo-saxons?

[@bthorson7979]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j Anglo-Saxon-Frisian-Jute-Franks is just too long

[@msvergara]

Lovely story, but the best sailors of the ancient time were not the Vikings but the POLINESIANS. Hawaii, Eastern Island are far longer away and difficult to reach by sea. Cultural Ethnocentrism damages the credibility of this wonderful documentary

[@ginomazzei1076]

Love the way they spread schools and law and culture and philosophy and the BUILDING up of engineering to those they conquered. BAHUMMFUK! 🎩

[@marceloorellana5726]

Are you crazy? 😂😂😂😂😂

[@ginomazzei1076]

@@marceloorellana5726 completely bonkers!!

[@marceloorellana5726]

@Gino mazzei Yes you are. 👍🏻👊🏻

[@ginomazzei1076]

@@marceloorellana5726 and you’re a dull normal.

[@Mark_72]

…and of course, karens needs to step up to try reshaping history! 🙄

[@THINKincessantly]

We know we know, vikings were africans that settled ireland then became english royalty and sailed round the earth populating the americas around the time of julius Caesar.....

[@slappy8941]

Okey dokey then.

[@lillia5333]

In a way you are right... sort of, since we all came from Africa once upon a time.

[@robertjackson8883]

You forgot the little part where they built a few little pyramids before heading up to visit the leprechauns

[@LynxSouth]

@@lillia5333 Disproven by DNA research, only the MSM won't talk about it.

[@shaunsteele8244]

calling people "the vikings" is like calling them "the pirates". It wasn't an ethnic group but an occupation... when people talk about "vikings" they're usually referring to Nordic folk from the 8th-9th centuries. Just like when they talk about "pirates" they're usually referring to 16th century English seafaring outlaws lol

[@Ian-yf7uf]

As much as it is repeated, viking graves are fairly consistent in being genetically Scandinavian. The reason the Scandinavians are associated with vikings is because the Viking era was almost entirely Scandinavian except for a few outliers.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@Ian-yf7uf What does mean "Viking graves" ?

[@Ian-yf7uf]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j graves associated viking burials, found throughout Scandinavia and Europe.

[@user-ms4cm4qf5j]

@@Ian-yf7uf not given to sea? not burn?

[@Ian-yf7uf]

@@user-ms4cm4qf5j sometimes, but the most common burial is to bury the person with goods associated with their status.

[@whaterinannhannahenjoys.5833]

4 days of the week are named after Norse culture.

[@badrollmodels1298]

In Sweden all days are named after our gods except saturday (Lördag)

[@kaypee4704]

Please list the Norse names of the days of the week… would like to know….👍

[@nevermind-he8ni]

Whatever the Vikings were smoking, I want some.

[@alexsveles343]

I do know Vikings used to get their asses wooed by finns

[@brandycoke713]

These content creators be lying about the stores they tell in their documentaries

[@engineersteveo9886]

My immediate cousins 🙂

[@JRondeauYUL]

At 34:00, the long house and democracy issues are brought. Not to forget that the Iroquois nations had also a long house and democracy traditions that are the bases of the Republic United States of America. Are the Scandinave democracy principles at the base to modern democracy? I doubt it. The modern democracy is influenced by the USA which adopted the Mohawk democracy.

[@lillia5333]

The icelandic althing is the oldest surviving parliamentarism in the world. All free men and women had a right to speak at Thingvellir. USA is not a direct democracy, but a representative one.. It is a republic. It does not make it old just because it was influenced by native americans. The american democracy had a lot in common with the greek one. No women or slaves could vote.

[@FriePresse]

the ship is a lunar calendar what a pile of no knowledge

[@engineersteveo9886]

I’m a descendent from the Norwegian Vikings, my ancestors as all of ancestors were slave owning thieves.

[@JennRighter]

Cool story bro 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@grimfpv292]

All Norwegians are descended from slaveowners and slaves.

[@lillia5333]

Some were farmers and traders. But, yes, some were as cruel and warlike as the rest of Europe at the time. Killing and pillaging is a human hobby.

[@sasachiminesh1204]

Fact check: "they exceeded all others" at sea exploration is false. Polynesians, Arabs and Chinese explored far wider areas by sea than Vikings. Phoenicians could also be considered greater explorers because they explored as wide an area thousands of years earlier.

[@coleparker]

I agree with you about the Polynesians and Phoenicians, the former were incredible navigators and their double hull canoes great crafts, but I somewhat disagree with you about Arabs and Chinese.

The Rus peoples.

[@LKaufman9050]

I never thought vikings could be boring. I was wrong.

[@lakrids-pibe]

The voice over/dubbing of the experts didn't help.

[@LKaufman9050]

Chronicle youtube person -- I apologize. my comment was rude.

[@aurora3655]

barbarians? that might not be an accurate depiction.

[@Anonymous-sc7qs]

Vikings pre date the Indians in America, so who's land is it now?

[@MommaLousKitchen]

Now now, no one wants to consider that, lol.

[@keithmitchell99]

Should of used Yngwie Malmsteens I am a Viking as the background music. They missed the playoffs 😪. Again.

[@slappy8941]

It's "should have", Einstein.

[@lillia5333]

A great choice would be "Wardruna".

[@dingusdingus2152]

Yngwie isn't a viking. He isn't even a pimple on a vikings ass. He wishes he was a viking. He needs to grow a beard

[@MrSparkums]

Israelites, Dan, Ephraim...

[@rafaelsodre_eachday]

Thank God their pagan practices and ideas are no more.

[@miketaylor5212]

vikings were simply opportunistists they would conquer and raid those that were weak and trade with those that were to strong to raid. vikings were about profit more than war too many losses would give a viking leader a bad name and he would lose followers. it didnt pay to take very large risks against strong adversaries.

[@DD-bn2mx]

also have to remember that losing a kid was not that big of thing, they would just have another next year.

[@judeirwin2222]

If you are watching KZbin in Portugal, as I am, you will be sick to the back teeth with nasty, intrusive, stupid adverts for gambling. Yes. Gambling. The jogossantacasa bunch have a lot to answer for. Portuguese people with little money are exhorted at every turn to gamble whatever they have on ridiculously pointless scratch cards or raspadinhas, or Euromilões lottery tickets, I hate, hate, hate these things. Impossible to watch anything on a KZbin here without being assaulted by this annoyance and loud noise

[@blacksmith88]

Most of the artifacts do not describe their culture but have been stolen elsewhere. Stolen & Buried.

[@andrewbrown6522]

Not so sure north americans would agree with the "earliest democracy in the world statement".

[@a.munroe]

Unfortunately with decimation of oral histories in the post-Colombian era science can't verify very well when democracy began developing. So I suppose more accurately put :"earliest verification of democracy"?

[@andrewbrown6522]

@@a.munroe True enough.

[@lillia5333]

When did the americans plagiarise native american democratic system? 1776? Iceland had a democratic system a lot earlier. The american one was like the greek, no voting for women and slaves.

[@a.munroe]

@@lillia5333 we're talking about Indigenous Americans. Pre-colombian, pre-colonization.

[@jimijimbow2830]

All white people are descendants of Caucusian Ashkuz. Greece called them as Scyth. And they were Uralic-Altaic speakers not Indo-Europeans.

[@galenbjorn443]

Scandinavia has 50% of the DNA from Indo-Europeans. and like 30 from Scandinavian hunters and gathers. That is pre-Scyths. But ye we share DNA from them too. But why we are white and light hair and eyes are much much older than that. Even the ancient north Eurasians carried the DNA for having blond hair and blue eyes, and that is about 20000-30000 bc. What we know is that the Neanderthals in Europe were white-skinned and probably had blond hair and blue eyes due to living in a large forest that covered all of Europe

[@Ghryst]

the first Vikings were the Phoenicians. learn your history before trying to teach it.

[@slappy8941]

Everyone knows they were Eskimos you absolute knob.

[@Ghryst]

@@slappy8941 eskimos are a myth. they were created by a marketing campaign from the cola cola corporation in 1887

[@jamesdolan4042]

Now why would the Vikings be Phoenicians? There is nothing to indicate that the Phoenicians a sematic ever left the Levant, which is Northern Israel/Southern Syria today. Cultures arose in northern Europe wholly independent of north African cultures.

[@Ghryst]

@@jamesdolan4042 you are entirely ignorant of the archeological evidence and historical texts. "The Phoenicians were master seafarers and traders who created a robust network across-and beyond-the Mediterranean Sea" "According to Herodotus, the Phoenicians managed to circumnavigate Africa in a voyage in c. 600 BCE""Phoenician society and cultural life centered on commerce and seafaring" there IS in fact a valid argument against the position i have promoted, however, you dont appear to have the intellect required to identify it.

[@jamesdolan4042]

@@Ghryst I have checked there is nothing even slightly to indicate that the Phoenicians became the founders of the civilization called Vikings. In addition Herodus if he existed told an oral history of the Phoenicians of Carthage, so whether they circumvented the continent of Africa may be just hyperbole. As to you comment regarding my intellect, because I did catch the contradiction in your assertion whether or not the Phoenicians were ever Vikings. Well your laughable, and you think about growing up.

[@donkeysack]

Viking were almost all gay actually

[@MommaLousKitchen]

Insert random Navy joke here, haha

[@brandycoke713]

The Original Vikings were black

[@garyfrancis6193]

Really boring.

[@praisejesusrepentorlikewis6218]

Repent to Jesus Christ ““Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much.” ‭‭Luke‬ ‭16:10‬ ‭NIV‬‬