Why did the Vikings Collapse?

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[@itshistorysenpai2895]

Hahahaha they evolved

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now they have larger base....Usa...

[@justinianthegreat1444]

From raiding Christians to crusading muslims

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[@GarkKahn]

Saying all scandinavians were vikings is like saying all japanese were samurai

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[@justsayin307]

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[@PVT_White]

Only a few were Vikings. The most Norsemen were farmers and traiders but people use the term "Vikings" in general for all Norsemen.

[@GarkKahn]

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[@jacobloft3898]

They didn’t so much collapse as they did slowly fade away.

[@Yusa_Beach]

@Airbus A350 They raided so much there was nothing much to loot anymore, also since many kingdoms in Europe were progessing into feudalism and Christianity, technology advanced, and their old tactics kind of stopped working. They just faded away and became like many other kingdoms.

[@gutsjoestar7450]

@@Yusa_Beach AHAH you know nothign of history, did you said viking was a viking, listen here, Viking is not a ethnicity a people, a kingdom, a country, vikings are pirats if you want to talk about Scandinavia they never collapsed, , they involve into, something more than simply pagans who raid, they became christian, and they created kingdoms and became nobles in england, Cnu the Great was a Dane ; and he instored a 30 year Danish kingdom Of England , until he died, and his sons divided the empire and a saxon king re took the throen of england until , William the conqueror, Frenchised England, and that's the definitive end of not only vikings, but Scandinavian invasion in europe when england became too powerful

[@gutsjoestar7450]

@@Yusa_Beach the Scandinavian started to be rich, and didn't needed to be vikings, a lot fo danish became kings , of england, Russia, etc Kievan Rus' were under Viking king rule when swedish seized, Smolensk, founded Novgorod and Kiev, and traded in the Red sea with the Orthdoxe greeks vikign did important things in eastern europe in western, they moslty raided, while in England that's a whole other story, they built kingdom, send pilgrims, and colonist in England and Scotland and ireland, founded the Faroe Islands , Iceland Greenland, vinland and many other north american settlement,, but the important part about Viking , is Duchy of Normandy in France, Cnut's empire in England, Kievan Rus' in Russia the rest is raids, not lands colonised

[@Yusa_Beach]

@@gutsjoestar7450 when did I ever say the word "Viking" in my first comment. And when did I ever say they devolved? Idk what's up with you for the need to correct me (even though I am correct), but stop this childish shit and get that high ego you have there checked out. Go to therapy -.-

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"Looters become looted, while time and tide make us mercenaries all" - Patrick Rothfuss

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[@dennisgichohi5392]

@@kaisahfx1246 it means how the anglo Saxons invaded Britain in 5th century and ended up being invaded by vikings century's later

[@lucamarino1226]

They never fell, they just integrated in the countries they conquered/invaded

[@torivarnor]

im norwegian. Not all are integrated into anything.

[@lucamarino1226]

Have you ever heard of Normandy buddy? It's nice place in France, guess what the name comes from

[@torivarnor]

@@lucamarino1226 Sweden? ;p

[@theodoresmith5272]

Pretty much. Also with the opening of southern Africa trade, the Vikings walrus ivory wasn't worth as much and many of there outpost like Greenland that shipped walrus ivory back to Norway kind of became less important and faded away.

[@tylerbrooks2492]

I'm a Texan Nordic scotch Irish man. Warrior blood never dies.

[@asetbilibaev6519]

Conquered slavs, established Rurik dynasty lasted 700 years and ultimately gave the new empire it’s name - Rus?

[@asetbilibaev6519]

later known as Russia

[@jokemon9547]

Interesting thing is that majority of the founding tribes of the Rus state were not Slavs, but Finno Ugric people. This obviously was switched with Slavs becoming the majority after the state expanded further south.

[@gutsjoestar7450]

and His son Oleg The Seer, Oleg of Novgorod, who ruled all of Kievan rus during 33 years, Rurik dynasty his Son will be Igor Grand Duke of Kiev and his Wife Saint Holga, first Orthodoxe of Kievan Rus' ,

[@azariahchhangte6872]

Ransacked by Mongols later..ha ha..

[@gutsjoestar7450]

@@azariahchhangte6872 but............. MOSCOW SURVIVED? AND RURIK DYNASTY LIVED ON IN DUCHY OF MOSCOW

[@howser1961]

Entertaining and informative - thank you - But when the vikings "stumbled upon" Iceland there was little to no resistance - because the island WAS UNINHABITED !

[@Borystenes]

Im not an expert on Iceland's history. But I'm reading now Westviking by Farley Mowat. He claims that some Celts and Picts inhabited Iceland before Vikings. They had at least semipermanent settlements.

[@rasmusgregersen9818]

iceland was inhabited, by celts. just not many

[@aneesahussein1522]

Vikings were finished by the Arabs by 10th century.

[@howser1961]

@@Borystenes You are right in as much as most probably there where some Celtic christians on the island, maybe even as much as 150 years prior to the settlement of the vikings. There is mention of this in the sagas but not in any great detail. The hypothesis is that these where monks, seeking seclusion. The archeology sees no evidence of farming and animal husbandry before the accepted time of the settlement so perhaps these religious men only stayed for the summer, and maybe even single summers, decades apart. Whether these "summer camps" counted hundreds or tens of men or just a few individuals, we simply do not know. Nor is there any way to tell if they came only from Ireland or also from Scotland. Man-made "caves" are found on the south coast of the island that would appear to predate the arrival of the first norsemen. The fact that there is no mention of people being already on the island in the tale of the two men, who are said to have been to the island before the arrival of the main wave of norsemen, might indicate that the monks were few and so easily overlooked. When hundreds of settlers poured in, that's when we see these men first mentioned. "The settlement before the settlement" is worth investigation if only to better establish their origin and purpose. To say that the island was "inhabited by celts" at the time of the viking settlement is simply without any support in the sagas or in archeology. But there probably where a few Celtic christian monks there from time to time.

[@MonroeRepublic]

@@howser1961 that was really interesting to read. And now you've opened up a rabbit hole that I'm most definitely about to willingly dive into.

[@Gaming4Justice]

A boat burial on the Saaremaa island in Estonia has uncovered viking raids before the 793. The attack is dated to be between 700-750AD and they were mostly likely killed by the local islanders. That was proven by the arrow tips that were similar to the ones found from elsewhere in Estonia. If anyone is interested, look up the Salme Boat Burial, there were two boats very close to eachother, with one of them most likely having a king buried with the othe 30 soldiers. The richest burial site of the time period ever found.

[@larsrons7937]

Some argue that the Danes' raid in 515 on the Frankish trading town of Dorestad could be viewed as the first "Viking raid". But then again by then Angles, Jutes, Saxons and Frisians had raided the British Isles from the sea for a hundred years. And Germanic tribes had made trouble further down in Europe for half a millennium but travelling on land. Those who ("went Viking"?) to the British Isles went by boat. About 100 years after the 515 Dorestad raid the word "Viking" was used in an Anglo-Saxons poem from England though we don't know for sure what the word meant back then.

[@timetraveler2518]

One thing missing - the mini ice age. It ended the Viking era once and for all. That ceased to exist Viking settlements in Greenland. The colder climate reduced the growth of forestry and agricultural products. That shrunk the revenues and availability. That eroded the Viking's prosperity and resilience. 😢

[@nattygsbord]

The Norwegian vikings had a huge party when they arrived at Iceland. Now they had a new island to exploit! So they did cut down all trees. And suddenly life was not so great for centuries to come. There was no timber to build boats with. No timber to build homes with. So people had to live in underground mudhuts - which sunk and fell apart, so there are almost no archaeological remains to be seen for Iceland's inhabitants ancestors. Fishing boats from Europe began to fish outside Icelands waters in the 1800s. But the Icelanders could not catch any fish of their own because they did not have have boats. So the island was stuck in complete poverty until British troops arrived there in World war 2.

[@timetraveler2518]

@TRUTH CENSORED Vikings in Greenland had churches. They worshiped Christianity. Religion helped them to unify and strong. The USA is dying because of the erosion of integrity and religious faith. It leads to disunity and divisive. No religion is no civilization. 😢

[@ypvsypvs]

Still a detail. The change in religion was 98%. The viking expeditions was designed to create maximum points in the eyes of the gods AND socially if you lived in society as it was organized then. The former religion greatly rewarded going on dangerous far away adventures, combat, looting, trading, robbing. Facing unknown dangers for it's own sake. To put your life in the balance in quest for personal glory and riches. Society created the tradition for life in their society, and in reality as they saw it. Christianity, was small for a long time. Then BOM. LEadership on all levels forced in Christianity. Fast. In one generation most was done. In two it was life. And in a christian society, you are not rewarded for the search of personal glory, or to leave your responsibilities at home for fame. Nor to murder for riches. And certainly not to seek out combat just to have a chance to reach heaven. Plus such a thing did only bad things for your eternal christian soul. If it would've been neutral, it would've gone on for long though. Much longer at least, Problem is, what was designed for max positive score in the old system, did not become neutral in the new. Every single thing did you harm religiously and socially just 2 generations later. So all incentive disappeared. But other things affected the speed of the change of course. VERY VERY little compared to the change in religion and the social organisation that came with it though. You only do such a thing en masse if it is free and organized by the rich and powerful. If it is at all possible in normal life. And if it at least don't have to pay for it forever AND become looked down on in society. If all that is positive as it was plus often make you rich , many will go. If neutral, some will go. If you have to pay for it AND suffer for it forever, in best case... Noone pretty soon. And that's what happened. Just because other reasons existed as well, does not mean they we're in anyway of equal importance. With JUST the change in religion it would still have happened at the same time. plus minus very little.

[@sovereignjoe5730]

@@nattygsbord Wow, that was something i had never heard about before, thanks for that, i'll look into this a bit more. Much appreciation.

[@Famousestephen]

@@timetraveler2518 state religion is to keep the sheep in line and to justify horrible things in the name of god hence why they should be seperate

[@gnewsome]

"The Vikings have invaded our lands, pillaging and killing anyone they come across. And the worst part, they are sponsored by Raid: Shadow Legends"

[@cra6085]

They can't do that.

[@PAC-MANN]

@@cra6085 lol done past tense hahhahah

[@mexicoxv2236]

all the kindoms did that in the old times, the difference is the viking were no hypocrict, they didnt the necesity to invent agresion, preventing attack, religious diferences, naaa the viking attack to steal because is the law of the strong.

[@koseku3]

vikings also tried to raid constantinople and i am originaly from istanbul, i know my ancestors are greek but i did ancestory test and found out i have more scandinavian genes than most turks. i found out that those vikings were guards in byzantine

[@henrikandreason7261]

Yes they where. You are probably a far of descendant from the "Verangian guard", the emperors elite viking guard. Look them up, a lot of videos one on them.

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[@Fronverjl]

Yup, they f*cked a lot of women there

[@reneblom2160]

For your information: The viking/norse name for Byzantine was "Miklagard".

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[@lerneanlion]

Only if some of them escaped to North America, the culture and lifestyle of the Vikings could have been continued for longer for sure. If they didn't have bad relations with the natives, of course.

[@TheVetein]

@BLACKBLADE 80 That would be crazy. But now wonder, they abandoned North America, simply because they all died fighting the natives or because of new diseases and stuff? Is this known?

[@GarkKahn]

Well they abandoned other colonies like iceland and greenland because those people began to lack a need to hold them... so maybe

[@solidaritetdenmark]

We know a little group of men in 1 skip made it to the America, in the icelandic saga the story is briefly mention, the ship should have been led by "Leif den lykkelige" (lykkelig is happy on english) - he was the son of "Erik den røde" (Erik the Red) who according to the sagas discover Iceland - Erik some kind of fled from Norway because of a murder ☕️ Try the icelandic saga, nordic literature at its best

[@nordicfalcon]

They both had shamanic origins and a load of other similarities. So if things had went just a bit more diplomatically... we’d possibly have a very different America. That’s one for AlternateHistoryHub. Going to go there and drop the idea after this 😅😂

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They were an arrogant ignorant foolish self serving self righteous people, who spoke foul.

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[@nilsliljeberg8690]

As far as I see it, the battles of Britain in 1066 was more or less a norse affair. In one corner you had Harold Godwison, king of England. But his mother was 100% norse and his father Godwin at least 50% norse. He fought and won over Harald Hårdråde (they share the same name by the way) in 1066. Hårdråde was king of Norway and 100% norse. After the victory over Hårdråde, Harold Godwinson fought and lost to William the Conqueror. And who was William? He was a direct descendant to Gångerolf (Rollo) the first duke of Normandy who was....norse.

[@John2r1]

Exactly. The Vikings are still alive today. They simply changed with the times.

[@larsrons7937]

@@John2r1 Yes, we have stopped raiding and -robbing- claiming overdue taxes at our own estimates.

[@NilsJungenas]

The first son inherited the land. The younger sons ”went viking”. The vikings and their seafaring and international trade culture didn’t disappear, it spread to the target lands. Most of all the british isles. It’s not a coincidence that tha target of the most prominent seafarers, britain, would end up becoming the susequent most prominent seafarers.

[@rajaamirul3208]

maybe the viking choose British Isles because it was isolated by the rest of europe, right? Then what about america's continent? What will happen if an aliens invasion come? The rest of major continent can get help from Asia and Europe but small continent just like South East Asia Archipelago, Australia, Japan and madacascar maybe will loss? American continent is the most isolated continent in the world after all, i just say maybe if an aliens come and kill us. No need to beat me pls.

[@UnholyWrath3277]

@@rajaamirul3208 are you talking from outer space aliens or the term aliens being used to immigrants? Because that answer can be very different depending on intent lol

[@theaverageitaliandon998]

Just to put it out there that the English had to hire an Italian navigator in order to reach North America ( just look up Giovanni Caboto )

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@@theaverageitaliandon998 italians were the master navigators. Vespucci, columbus to name two. Anyone else...

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[@Knowledgia]

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[@Friendship1nmillion]

@@Knowledgia I'm not really offended , just bemused { & stunned } 😕 that you say all Scandinavians were Vikings . Born in { Oslo } Norway 🇳🇴 my ancestors WEREN'T ☆ Vikings ⬅️ , they were farmers . ♑️✍️🇦🇺🇳🇴

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[@Ludohistory]

This has a ludicrous number of errors, I'm kinda staggered. 1) the "Viking Ave" lasted until traditionally 1066, which is not early in the 11th c. I have problems with this dating, but I'd push it LATER, into the 1100s, not earlier. 2) the Gesta Danorum dates to c. 1200, not the 16th century! This is an egregious error, and erases all the Frankish, English, and German sources contemporary or near-contemporary to the Viking Age, much less the entire runestone corpus. (If you'd said the *Crymogaea* instead, I'd agree - that's the text that introduces Norse mythology to a broad European audience, and it dates to c. 1700). 3) the idea that they are "different from the Christians" around them is.. also wrong. The Vita anskarii says that in the early 9th century that there was an extant Christian population in Birka, in Sweden, on his arrival. Additionally, the "prime sign" (being marked with the Cross, but not baptized) was widespread to enable trade with Christian communities. 4) settlement colonialism as an aspect of trade was incredibly important - the whole system of emporia, or trade towns, that reached from Dublin to the Volga river were a form of settlement colonialism. There was variation, and any given raider probably was looking for moveable wealth, but pretending they weren't interested in the project of kingdom-formation is just wrong. 5) Normandy wasn't granted to Rollo until the 10th century, pretending that the Vikings went to England after a "trial run" of exchanging land for service is horribly backwards. 6) 927 is the end state of 40+ years of conquest work..... This is Æthelflæð erasure. 7) Iceland was known to Norse people since at least 800, as archaeology has recently shown through a longhouse in the East Fjords, and was completely settled by 930, it didn't somehow happen after they were displaced from England..... 8) while I broadly see similarities between the initial northern crusades of the 12th century an outgrowth of Viking-ness (though not the post-Hansa League crusades), this is a totally inaccurate characterization given that the idea of "taking the cross" wasn't a thing until the First Crusade in 1091, which makes it totally, utterly out of place in this video. 9) This is Isle of Man erasure and I won't stand for it. They continued raiding until well after Henry II hired them to transport his army across the sea for his Irish campaigns in the 12th century. 10) the idea of raiding for land and renown wasn't discouraged by the elites of Scandinavia.... The Baltic continued to see raids, and the warring petty kings within Scandinavia and the Orkneys are absolutely the same thing, but you can see this continuing in elite society in Norway until at *least* Hákon IV c. 1260, which blasts a massive hole in your argument on why it ended and the role Christianization played in it. Christians fought other Christians all the damn time, and Canute the Great (the DANISH King of England) was Christian! It's not hard to find good sources - Anders Winroth and Neil Price both write in a fairly accessible style and know what they're doing, and it's frustrating to see such a lack of research be put in.

[@loke6664]

About 3: Ansgar made 28 people Christian in Birka, and only one of them were a free man as well a couple of free women, the rest were thralls. I wouldn't call that a large part of the population. However were things different in Denmark where more Christians came in and long before the country officially became Christian it was still pretty common. Sweden was more backwaters and we don't really find many signs of Christianity until 100 years later. However, the Swedish vikings were generally far more peaceful, focusing more on trade and hiring out as mercenaries and less on plundering unlike the other vikings. I agree, this is rather poorly researched, while many older history books claims this you can disprove it pretty easily. Many of the dead vikings from the great heathen army were buried like Christians, some with crucifixes. Not a majority that early but more then a few as well. You can pretty easily track Christianity through artifacts and burial customs, for instance is any burnt corpse a pagan while Christian burials are laid out in a specific way. And the English did not generally bury vikings they killed like Christians but preferred to dump them in mass graves.

[@larsrons7937]

@@loke6664 Some years ago travelling the road near the coast of South-Eastern Sweden between Blekinge and the town of Kalmar I stopped at a small church, I don't recall the name. Near the back side was a small river and a plaque explaining that a fortified Viking age site had been found. It was believed to be a small chieftains farm from the 9th century. The site had included a chapel. So this early Viking age chieftain was probably Christian.

[@loke6664]

@@larsrons7937 Heh, I live in Kalmar. It certainly isn't impossible that the chieftain was Christian, Blekinge was Danish who converted pretty early and long before that the faith existed within the country. The vikings generally let you choose your own religion and it was pretty common for them to just add White Crhist to the other Gods as well. Then again, I haven't read the archaeological survey so it is also possible the whole thing was misidentified, it is hard to say without knowing what they found that makes them believe it was a chapel. The whole thing isn't unlikely though so it probably was a chapel if the survey was done after the 1950s, archaeology had a lot more guesswork in it before then so you really need to look on what they found to say much for certain in that case. They certainly wasn't always wrong before but they were more happy to claim theories as facts.

[@larsrons7937]

@@loke6664 It's certainly possible that he could have been Christian even if most pople in his area were not. And like you say he could have added White Christ to his many other gods. I guess he could even have used the chapel for all the gods? If I remember correct that the site was from the 9th century it would have been 100-150 years before "Harald Christianized the Danes and united Denmark." Also it would be in the borderland of Småland so it's not inlikely that he could have been a local "mini-king". - - - - - It's nearly 15 years ago since I stopped by. The next time I couldn't find the church, and last summer by mistake we took the highway further inland so we didn't pass it. Some years ago I searched the internet for all the churches in the area and I did find both the church and a bit of archaeological information about the site - and then forgot the name, Now I can't find it again. It was on the coastal side of the road. From the map I guess it must be along then coastal road between Söderåkra and Ljungby, and thus in *Möre.* * - - - - - * _(Fun fact: In Danish Wikipedia page "Kongerækken" is mentioned Ottar's voyage from Hedeby to Öland and then someone falsely added: _"However, the report is _*_not_*_ always equally reliable; eg. it is mentioned that Möre, which is a county in Western Norway, lies between Blekinge and Öland."_ (Translated). You live just north of there. Can you please tell me, is it really true that there is no "Möre" between Blekinge and Kalmar? Because to my knowledge there was 8-900 years ago when they divided it into Nordra and Södra Möre (and the name was probably much older). Did they move the whole area, soil and everything, and replaced it with another? Or is this Wikipedia editor (my guess) completely wrong? - - - - - Back to the case. It could have been in Blekinge on the coastal road South of Kristianopel but I'm not sure if I ever travelled that stretch. I believe it was up in Möre, -maybe on the H 570 road? I tried in vain on the map satellite view to find the small river. Perhaps it was actually a tiny lake that had once been a river?- - - - - - Wait, I searched the map again, it could be further North, just S-W of Kalmar. *Hossmo Kyrka,* old small church and the surroundings match, I think that's the one. - - - - - The things I mentioned about the site: The plaque with information, small chiefdom, chapel at the site. I could remember something wrong, it's many years ago, or the information on the plaque could be wrong or just outdated. But I think Hossmo is the site. It's my impression that further inland Småland was (is) very forested and wasn't very populated during the Viking age, so much earlier than we see the formation of our modern countries I can easily imagine a small chief or local "mini-king" here in an area not many bothered much about. I will try to return to Hossmo next summer when I visit my family in Lyckeby by Karlskrona. - - - - - I'll try to look more into this when I get the time and will be back to you if I find anything new.

[@loke6664]

@@larsrons7937 The closest Möre I can think of is inland close to Växsjö but I think you are thinking of Mörrum, it is close to Karlshamn. There is however a Södermöre next to Ljungbyholm so that could also be what you are thinking about. But I do think I read something about Hossmo church somewhere, either in populär arkeologi or at the Kalmar museum, something about an archaeological survey but I can't remember the details. I will have to check that up. Småland was long seen together with Värmland and Dalsland as the last place of Swedish pagans. King Magnus Ladulås had a crusade there in the 1300s which is a bit odd since he also claimed it as part of his kingdom. There were trials against pagans there in the 1500s too. It was never heavily populated but the people there have always been seen as stubborn, doing their own thing and a bit poor or cheap. They did find a viking gold necklace very close to where I live (I live a bit out in the forest 30 clicks outside Kalmar) and signs of iron working. It wouldn't surprise me at all if Småland both had some of the earliest adapters of Christianity and the last pagans, as I said, people here are a bit stubborn and freedom loving. They are also pretty good at starting companies, IKEA is from here.

[@SorceressWitch]

It's also funny how many people claim to have Viking ancestors but they mean their ancestors were from Scandinavia and most likely lived on farmland.

[@IntuneVitaDoctrina]

True, if there was a family with 8 children... the oldest boy got the farm when parents died, the daughters married away and the rest became Vikings

[@Dhksksjjsjjs]

@@IntuneVitaDoctrina so most were Vikings?

[@IntuneVitaDoctrina]

@@Dhksksjjsjjs I would think so, around 40% of the population maybe. Vikings went into ships, and if they met other they trade if those they met seemed strong, and if weak they rob them or took them as slaves and continue to travel.

[@NoName-qe4yx]

Its more or less guaranteed that everyone alive today with Scandinavian dna is related to people that "went viking back then. Vast majority of Scandinavians can trace their family back to some famous viking king to

[@NoName-qe4yx]

If i remember correct Genghis khan is the direct ancestor of 1 in 200 men today. And for him to be that he needed only to have been with 50 woman back in the 1200s. Viking age officialy started 793 and lasted to 1066. Think about it, every Scandinavian alive today is propbably related to every single viking that has existed in some way

[@Malikin]

but oversimplified Vikings didn't wear horn helms

[@Max69429]

@Constantine lol Vikings dont wear horns

[@Max69429]

@Constantine lol thats a festival for entertaiment, no one has found a helmet with horns that belongs to a viking

[@brokenbridge6316]

Nicely informative video.

[@Rose-zl6ox]

I wonder if we’ll be able to obtain more information about this time period eventually. It’d be so cool, because this era is pretty mythical, making it hard to know what actually happened.

[@matthews1082]

It isn't such a mystery - the Norsemen who raided Northern France settled there and became Normans (North men), those who went to the Mediterranean found jobs as the Pope's bodyguard. Those who settled in the North of Scotland and Ireland just intermarried and became locals. The English Vikings ruled England,and became locals for a few generations (Canute, Hardicanute, Edward the Confessor -who had no children)....then the last real Viking, Harald Sigurdsson (Hardrada) landed in England with the largest Viking army ever amassed, in 1066, and they were slaughtered at Stamford Bridge. After that disaster they simply decided that being Vikings wasn't worth the risk.

[@who8thecookies]

I'm surprised at the lack of mention of the North Sea Empire. Hardrada had some legitimacy in claiming the throne because of the NSE, and their battles likely weakened the defenders enough for William the Bastard to seize the throne.

[@AxionXIII]

There were Vikings along the whole coast of the Baltic. The Curonians along Latvia/ Lithuania were written about in the sagas numerous times as fighting with and against the Danes and Norse.

[@TheBarser]

Danes and Norse is the same. Norse = Scandinavians.

[@Fronverjl]

@@TheBarser depends on context and the source

[@TheBarser]

@@Fronverjl Most people these days seems to think norse is just norwegians. Guess its the country name that confuse people.

[@Fronverjl]

@@TheBarser I usually hear each country mentioned being one exclusively, heard the same thing many times about my country as well (Iceland) i guess every person has their own idea of the north so far lol, feels good when Sweden isn't mentioned.

[@TheBarser]

@@Fronverjl atleast we can agree on the sweden part 🤣

[@nenenindonu]

Short Answer : Lost all crucial battles

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Tuttu

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Normanlar mı

[@nenenindonu]

@@papazataklaattiranimam Yok normanlar yine baya önemli savaşlar kazandı italya'da, vikingler ise britlere çok yenildi kritik anlarda

[@rasmusgregersen9818]

no, they intergrated into christianity, and when they lost, they usually were given land, or jobs just because their fighting spirit was so great

[@notdoot9941]

Istg when I saw Vikings I expected rise of kingdoms 😂

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Ancestors of Iceland,Sweden,Denmark and Norway

[@christianguy7690]

Courish , Baltic slavic and Estonian people , too

[@gutsjoestar7450]

Ancestor of Russia to, don't forget that the Rurik dynasty ruled over Russia for over 700 years 862-1598 ruled over Kievan Rus, Grand duchy of Moscow,, and then Tsardom of Russia

[@Viikkinu]

@@gutsjoestar7450 its not proved that rurik was viking. They even found finnish blood from his dynasty more than scandinavian

[@gutsjoestar7450]

@@Viikkinu ok

[@Friendship1nmillion]

My ancestors of the country I was born in { Norway 🇳🇴 } were farmers ( not Vikings ) . ♑️✍️😮‍💨🇦🇺🇳🇴

[@FishDish159]

History is filled with examples of greatness here is one of them.

[@jcal8738]

Great video bruh

[@JeanMichelTeBrake]

I must comment on a fault in your source reference at 2:17. Saxo Grammaticus was an early medieval historian in the 12th century - not the 15th. He wrote the manuscript for 'Gesta Danorum' in the 12th century, but it was only reprinted in 1514 by translator Christiern Pedersen.

[@corvuscrow5485]

To further extrapolate, today viking is used as noun, the Northmen used it as a verb. For example, "Where's Bjorn?", "Bjorn left, he's gone a viking." (i.e., raiding)

[@shauryathebeast3210]

Nice can you tell me currently on how many topic are you working and their names

[@micahistory]

i think the centralisation of kingdoms in scandinavia played a large part in this

[@gvarun0403]

Should I assume all the viewers had seen the series VIKINGS?

[@theevanpyle]

I always remember that the end of the Viking age came in 1066 with the battle of Stamford bridge

[@MrSimonNay]

Nice video i enjoyed it a lotonly nitpick is the lindisfarne icon on the map was more like edinborough. Go quite a bit south

[@paradisehotel5005]

The Battle of Stamford Bridge was a hell of a beating for them. It also unfortunately cost King Harold victory at Hastings.

[@howser1961]

King Harald Godvinson was himself a descendant of vikings and Harald the Hardruler was a viking king from Norway and a seasoned veteran of war, having been one of the Varangian guard in Konstantinopel - and so was William the Bastard a descendant of vikings whom King Harald fought at Hastings ... so which viking was it that took a hell of a beating ... because all three were of viking blood.

[@paradisehotel5005]

@@howser1961 Thanks but i knew about King Harold being an Anglo-Dane. He was born and raised in England. The term "Viking" was generally not used to describe an individual from Denmark or Norway.

[@dylansearcy3966]

The Vikings did worship gods and have their religion

[@PAC-MANN]

thor

[@up0the0ions]

From Finland and Estonia *cries in Curonion* Why do people keep missing out the Lithuninan and Latvian Vikings, they literally raided sweden for fun.

[@jokemon9547]

We have come to the point where Baltic Finnic people finally get the recognition for also being "vikings" and participating in viking-like activities. Hopefully Balts will soon get the same recognition.

[@sebastianh1441]

yea the curonion and other norse fought each other alot

[@keeperoftruth5951]

So these people where Norse descendants or a completely separate culture that adopted the raiding life style? I'm very curious because if never heard this before

[@jokemon9547]

@@keeperoftruth5951 Norse people didn't invent this "raiding lifestyle" by the way. They were just written about more because they travelled beyond the Baltic to harass major civilizations. It was fairly common around the Baltic with most people/cultures there using the same technology and methods. Norse people in the western Baltic, Finnic and Baltic people in the eastern Baltic. Also the Lithuanian and Latvian vikings weren't descendants of Norse people, but they weren't strictly a "foreign" or "different" culture since Norse and old Baltic people shared similarities and their religions were similar because of their Indo European origins. Norse and Finnic people on the other hand were separate and in many ways Finnic groups were "alien" to the Norse due to Finnic people being Uralic rather than Indo European, but Finnic people still had cultural similarities due to influence from both Norse and Baltic people.

[@up0the0ions]

@@keeperoftruth5951 no not descendants

[@DarthVader-ig6ci]

Can you do a video about Scandinavian societies before the Viking age or particularly the Viking life before the raid on Lindisfarne

[@nattygsbord]

Not much is known. And the little that is known is boring.

[@georgeund7533]

Narrator: [Being a Viking] provides a plethora of booty Me: Where do I sign up?

[@will3321]

I get the Pirate comparison. But to say they are pirates is a bit of a stretch. They were still a big kingdom at times and organised and powerful enough to overthrow other huge kingdoms. Pirates weren't capable of doing anything like that

[@mexicoxv2236]

what? do you know the pirate Barbarossa defeat the military power of 3 european nations?, there a lot of history where the pirates reached big success

[@fatpenguin0089]

it isnt a comparison. they are pirates. pirates doesnt only refer to the caribbean ones.

[@will3321]

I mean there vikings mate

[@fatpenguin0089]

@@will3321 yeah, vikings are pirates, naval thieves/raiders, thats what a pirate is.

[@will3321]

@@fatpenguin0089 hmmm well I guess they share some similarities but Vikings are very different on the whole. They do raid yes. But they are much more of an organised kingdom than pirates and would own and rule over big nations. Whereas Pirates were much more raiders/plunderers

[@unifieddynasty]

We could also include the Norman conquests in Sicily under the Hautevilles.

[@DanieleXY]

Great Video!

[@Knowledgia]

Thank you so much!

[@jacobblack1640]

@@Knowledgia respond to the criticism!!

[@Friendship1nmillion]

@@Knowledgia Well , it's not the worst commentary of my ethnic ancestry I've seen 🤷. I've heard slightly different things about some activities you touch on from broadcast/video of Horrible Histories BBC { kids educational program } . Watching KZbin from Australia . My surname originated in Norway { & got most of my father's side of the family in Sweden now } . 👨‍💻🇳🇴🇦🇺 ⚔🛡🩸💰🛶🏞

[@talchalak8036]

1. They conquered and settled in the eaast Russia, the UK and the French coast and went into Sicily. So they pretty much conquered most of Europe. 2. Their state became organised in to a proper kingdom and the monarchy brought the various areas under control. 3. They became Christianised and were less likely to conflict with other Christian nations. 4. And yes, the Crusades became an thing for Europeans.

[@micahistory]

It was probably a combination of christianisation and centralisation of scandinavia

[@Locochris1956]

Alfred worked it out - walls - vikings were raiders and could not break walls or undertake long seiges so the burhs of Wessex and elsewhere stopped them from their ways, I suspect too that land became more fought over whilst the excess populations of the norse lands was over due to losses during raiding getting too much

[@vikinglegacy9136]

They got into paris and london at the time and even tried rome but failed.

[@oa7509]

The vikings suffered major defeats at the hands of the caliphate of Cordoba in Spain and Portugal which directly impacted their decline so it’s inaccurate to assume “Christianity prevailed” completely, in this case.

[@user-tg1ij6xp8w]

can you make a video about the sea peoples or the bronze age collapse

[@jordansaliba]

Wow... Actually trying to sack Constantinople That's big balls there

[@rickyyacine4818]

They got rekt by greek fire in 927 ad

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

They also found some Crusader states

[@barthelnorfolk175]

Giọng Đức Phúc đỉnh quá đi mất. Nó kiểu mộc mạc, ko màu mè và nghe rất chân thành ấy ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Mong 1 ngày sẽ được ngồi ở trời Đà Lạt và nghe Phúc hát 🎵

[@charlesstuart7290]

The new caravel war ships could overcome the classic long boats with relative ease in an armed skirmish,

[@maovilladel7344]

It is well written in historic texts that many of the Norse gods were plundering warrior-like dieties, such as Odin and Thor, and that viking raiders would only get to Valhalla in the after life by dying in combat (with a sword in hand) for riches and booty, otherwise they would supposedly go to Helheim. So, I am at odds with the assertion that the vikings raids did not have some sort of religious motivation in them

[@idontlikethiswedbettergo5888]

The Viking’s did settle in places they conquered.....the “Normans” who invaded England in 1066 were Norsemen 2nd and 3rd generation settlers in France. There is still a large DNA Viking in print in the local populations in England particularly the east coast and there are hundreds of villages in East Yorkshire and Lincolnshire with Viking place names! They settled and became the local population, my own genealogy is Norse and I live in Yorkshire.

[@NoName-im2fc]

The "Normans" who conquered England in 1066 were French of whom few had Nordic ancestry! Aside from that, there was nothing Nordic about them!

[@SorceressWitch]

That's because of Danish Vikings from earlier. Normans were no longer Vikings, they had assimilated to french culture. The north suffered from "the harrowing of the north" when people rebelled against William the Conqueror's rule. He paid many Danes to leave. So this isn't because of the Normans. It's because of the Danes, that the influence came to England. Normans spoke french and had already been assimilated by the time they conquered England. Danes ruled and settled parts of England in the 9th century under Danelaw. Sweyn Forkbeard would later conquer England but he died. Then Canute would conquer and rule, his two sons ruled after him and then it went back to anglo-saxons. All this is before the Norman invasion.

[@DeusVult71]

My mother has a French surname and her DNA is 90% Scandinavian so probably came over with the Normans

[@mexicoxv2236]

that what the beginning of the end at enter in contact with other culture the cristemdom entered in their land and mind, along with the weakness of their way of life.

[@janvisser4132]

The Anglo-Saxons themselves originally came from northern Germany and Denmark too, England has been a Nordic party since the Romans left.

[@KRONIKBASS808]

This video changed a lot of what I thought I knew about the vikings.

[@biofreak234d]

Oden! Guide our ships ,Our axes, spears and swords Guide us through storms that whip And in brutal war

[@robertmaheu7583]

without watching the vid i can say that vikings just evolved and were so succesfull at viking that they just turned into something else example is that they turned into the normans who then put a french king on the throne of England, hence why my french name appears allot in england ............. was always confussed by that but cool to know that how far back can track my family

[@paulgraham8280]

Robert, not a French king but a Norman King 👑, the French have never conquered England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@perpetualidiocy6622]

@@paulgraham8280 we have had a French King/Consort though in Phillip (2nd i believe?) Mary's husband named king.

[@paulgraham8280]

@@perpetualidiocy6622 like I said, the French have never taken these lands.

[@perpetualidiocy6622]

@@paulgraham8280 yeah kinda implied with use of 'though' ;)

[@paulgraham8280]

@@perpetualidiocy6622 really living up to that name now aren't you old bean.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Kievan Rus was a Viking Empire but you didn’t mention 🥲

[@noone3272]

Even Ireland

[@Viikkinu]

It wasnt. Its not proved that it was viking who ruled it. They founded finnish blood from rurik dynasty. Also kievan rus was founded before rurik

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@Viikkinu it was

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

@@Viikkinu Finnic what😅😅 they were Germanic peoples

[@socalautisticman1975]

Viking is a verb and it was the action of stealth plundering invasion & destruction of a village & they'd leave all just running a course. These were Norsemen. THIS is what I understand. Some were explorers & arrived People feared them yet some were navigators & made it to America even to South America. THIS may explain mysteries like blue eyed Indians in central Argentina the Comechingones and Aramaic texts found in Incan ruins etc.

[@indetif839]

The Vikings made as far as Minneapolis, where they helped establish a base in the NFL, under the leadership of Bud The Grant and Sir Francis of Tarkenton. They achieved some early success but never captured the Super Bowl. Later they settled in the Central Division and have incurred various trials and tribulations in maintaining a power base. The various tribes are still often called to battle via the "Gyallerhorn" in their newly established home, but it remains to be seen if they will establish a foothold.

[@aurathedraak7909]

Well now we need to know about Bluetooth.

[@peterb_nonumbers]

This video should have mentioned Harald Bluetooth/Harald Blåtand

[@specna6467]

Did he say “provide a plethora of *booty* ” ?! 😭 at 3:22

[@thursdayhistory7912]

As the writer for this video, I'm so glad someone noticed. My favorite line in the whole thing, LOL

[@jewsco]

They never really did they just became the rulers of England, France and even Russia

[@Defferleffer]

2:30 Gesta Danorum was written in the 11th century but it was only translated into Danish in the 16th century.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Kurya Khan cut the head of best Viking Warrior of all time : Sviastoslav the Brave

[@NelsonDiscovery]

I love how you consider the accounts of people who fell victim to viking raids "biased". I hoped fore a more in-depth look into why and how the power of the Scandinavian pirats diminished. This was mostly a quick overview of the viking age.

[@tlpineapple1]

Thats literally the definition of bias, not sure why that would be a problem if it is.

[@bryanalexismoya397]

I love how the video is about the collapse of the Vikings and then procceds to advertise us about playing the Vikings while telling how the fights are "realistic".

[@gandalftheguy5355]

Any mention of the danelaw?

[@nattygsbord]

Warfare back in medieval times were different. It was very costly to keep a large army for a very long time- So conquering lands were difficult. It demanded a new type of warfare - as the crusades did show. One of the biggest problems with the crusades was that as soon as Jerusalem was conquered, people began to go back to Europe. They had no money left to spend in the holy land and needed to go home. And they had also gained forgiveness for their sins by conquering Jerusalem, so now they had what they wanted and had no reason to stay. But when no Christians stayed, then Jerusalems defence became weak and easily fell for any muslim invasion army coming its way, so that a new costly difficult crusade had to be launched to take it back. The vikings plundered because that's was all they could do. They could not keep an army standing for years to guard the population in the land they had conquered. So if they tried to invade a land, plunder and then force Christianity down peoples throats and then sailing home, then would the people just go back to their own old religion as soon as the viking ships had sailed away. So it was not until the crusades and the Teutonic Knights there was any organizations capable of occupying enemy lands for years and force religion down peoples throats and controlling their lifestyle. Warfare was no longer profitable like plundering. But that didn't matter. Serving God was now more important than getting rich.

[@Malikin]

I don't think Jerusalem being conquered by Muslims would force Christians to go home. Muslim generals usually let all religions peacefully practice their religion...

[@nattygsbord]

@@Malikin The muslim rulers did leave Jerusalem open to other religions. They got so much money from Christian tourism and taxes that they welcomed other people into their city. The problem did not lay in Jerusalem. It laid in Syria. In the road between Europe and Jerusalem. Most Europeans were too poor to pay for boat ticket to Jerusalem - despite travelling by ship was faster and easier. So poor people had to walk on foot all the way from France or Germany to Jerusalem. But that was not possible after 800 AD. Because then had Syria collapsed into a civil war and the land had been divided up into 300 different Kingdoms which all were at war with each other. Peace and order broke down and criminals and plunderers got unpunished. So both muslim criminals and muslim armies of the many states in the civil war started to plunder anyone who set their foot on Syrian land. And many Christians got plundered and murdered and the road to Jerusalem had basically been closed down. So it was now people began to feel a crusade was needed. And the muslim pirates at sicily, the muslim invasion of Spain and the attack on Byzantium also contributed to fear of the muslim threat. And also for a bunch of other reasons were the crusades started. The problems in the Baltic sea and in the holy land were that it was difficult to keep a strong army holding the land for years, and get settlers and build fortresses so the land could be kept in Christian hands.

[@nattygsbord]

@Ghost Ghost *" The crusader kingdoms lasted in palestine and syria for 200 years"* I was not talking about them. I was talking about Jerusalem. *"they never came back"* A few stayed in the middle east. But they were a minority and too few to permanently keep Jerusalem in Christian hands. *"after the Muslim reconquered those places many latin settlers with time converted to islam"* Christians were the majority population in Lebanon up until the 1970s, until muslims started to have crazy birthrates and outnumber them. Same thing have happened in places in the Balkans where orthodox serbs have strongly outnumbered the muslims. But because of crazy birthrates have the muslims now become majority in many places. And many Christians have also been kicked out from the MENA-countries with violence the last century or so. With the wars in Algeria, Lebanon and the genocide against Armenia. *"the leavent was much richer land in resources and agriculture and trade than their own home"* Going to the holy land was an economic loss for most crusaders. To a modern person this is hard to grasp. All crusaders had their own motives, but the most common was a genuine will to liberate the city of God for Christianity and get forgiveness for your own sins. And after the crusade has succeed or failed - then did like 80-90% of the men go home within the next 2 years. The mission had been accomplished and God got his city and the person got his sins forgiveness, and guarding the city was someone else's problem they thought. Most people wanted to go home and see their families and rich people needed to go back to secure their power in the homeland and such. So very few stayed in the middle east. And personally I don't think it was much economic profit to be made to start a farm there. Furthermore was it a dangerous place so I guess you needed lots of religious dedication to start such a project. If money was your greatest wish, then I would say that it would be much easier to make money in Europe. And a warlord could make more profits by attacking a weak neighbor than launching a costly expedition far away. So the economic reason for the crusades were weak. And the religious reasons were strong. As I said earlier, this is hard to grasp for a modern non-religious person. And in a way do think this type of war is awful, brutal and cruel. Vikings just wanted to steal peoples property and then leave them alone. But the crusaders wanted to convert people. And control what other people think and how they lived. They did not make swift raid and then sail away. No they were planning to do a permanent military occupation of an area until it had been converted. And the Christians did not kill people left and right because enjoyed murdering people. No they murdered people out of love. If people did not convert they got murdered. And the Christians saw this as an act of love. By killing a sinner you did him a favor. If he died he could not commit sins and burn in hell for them. This is of course a weird wicked reasoning. But that's how people back then thought. This is how Swedish, Danish and German crusaders in Finland, Russia and the Baltics thought. And I would guess that crusaders in the holy land thought the same.

[@jaydupree418]

Am I the only one here that wishes they were a viking? 😔

[@imapseudonym1403]

Viking is a job description, not the name of a people.

[@jaydupree418]

@@imapseudonym1403......... I still wish I could be described as a viking........... is that better for you? Quibbling internet person lol.

[@SorceressWitch]

Yes.

[@jaydupree418]

@@SorceressWitch speak for yourself, I'd prefer to live in a time before everything was explored and named.. would you?

[@alexanderkappelhoff2819]

also, the normans were in a way the successors of the vikings and their raids in the mediterranean continued for centuries. It even led to the middle ages' most tolerant kingdom, Sicily, where all religions were equal.

[@kurtwaldheim4048]

-It's not true that "they didn't view colonization as a very lucrative route". Most of the places they went they did try to settle, especially in Britain and Ireland, as well as Iceland and Greenland. Eventually they also settled in France and Russia to some degree. The Greenland colony died out, but that was long after the viking age- . Edit: Ok I hand't seen the whole video whe I wrote the above, so I assume you meant "initially".

[@JP-yl6on]

“The Vikings weren’t of one ethnicity” he said. Meanwhile, ethnicity is defined as “shared cultural characteristics such as language, ancestry, practices, and beliefs.” Were there Vikings from Africa, Asia, Turkey or any other place? Or were they all from coastal Northern Europe, Knowledgia?

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

They were only one ethnicity just Germanic peoples with Germanic languages

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

He made a mistake

[@valenciasaintilus9573]

I think ethnicity is more complex than the definition you gave.

[@ArcaneAnouki]

Smart vikings became Norsemen. Smart Norsemen became Normans. Smart Normans became English Lords. The English Lords built the Empire.

[@muhammadadeel8639]

Russian and british empires were founded by vikings. Later usa arose from british. I guess vikings maybe gog magog

[@ArcaneAnouki]

@@muhammadadeel8639 agents of babylon

[@ArcaneAnouki]

@@muhammadadeel8639 and usa has returned to British. Feds anyways

[@muhammadadeel8639]

The ancestors of vikings/scandinavians can be traced back to scythians who may be the original gog magog.

[@muhammadadeel8639]

@@ArcaneAnouki True. London is the financial capital of world

[@allrounder7003]

No mention of the battle of Largs in 1263. Generally regarded as the last gasp of the Vikings. It was really weird seeing Lindisfarne moved about 100 miles to somewhere between Edinburgh and Bathgate.

[@felixnilsson2440]

...or the Bosporus strait just disappearing. I guess the water levels were much lower when they made this map /s

[@allrounder7003]

@@felixnilsson2440 The Vikings would've just dragged their boats accross the land. Lack of water wasn't a great impediment. Like the French/Canadian "portage".There are loads of Tarbets or Tarberts in Scotland where they did it.

[@mexicoxv2236]

yeah they did, but in some seremonies not for battle.

[@edwardlook970]

Lindisfarne isn't in Scotland, which is where it was placed on the map.

[@papazataklaattiranimam]

Happy Roman noises Sad Nordic noises

[@gutsjoestar7450]

Happy Russian noise, being Founded by A norse Dynasty

[@tombombadilofficial]

*Admit it, you made this video because the mobile game company paid you to create a “Viking” content to promote their new Viking update.*

[@vertabun427]

Intro: the Vikings were not a civilization Ad: the Vikings are now a civilization

[@zerotakis]

The best part is when Thorfinn sought revenge on Askeladd for the death of his father. That's good history right there, I tell you h'what.

[@user-uk7wk1tw4i]

Hello to Vikings from Skenderbeg great Slavic warrior

[@imapseudonym1403]

Claims to be a documentary, shows a horned helmet at the beginning. Instant fail.

[@AlecsNeo]

Read the text when the helmen apears .

[@imapseudonym1403]

@@AlecsNeo Read it. FAR too late. They could have easily gotten an artist to draw something accurate. But they didn't. Grade is still F.

[@MikefromTexas1]

Scandinavians themselves refer to their ancestors as "Vikings", regardless of occupation. Also, you really missed the chance to mention the insidiousness of christianity's rise in ancient Scandinavian culture.

[@URANOMNOM]

Not really. I'm swedish, and we don't really call our ancestors vikings. We just call them swedes, or norwegians and such. Most people weren't vikings anyways.

[@fredrikkarlsson825]

@@URANOMNOM Who are you, and who gave you the right to speak up for all of Sweden? I'm swedish and I consider my ancestors vikings.

[@URANOMNOM]

@@fredrikkarlsson825 Okay? I'm also swedish. And it's stupid to call our ancestors vikings, when most people didn't raid at all. The people living in Birka were never vikings as an example. Viking is just the term for the raiders, and not all of them even called themselves viking. Don't reduce scandinavian history to just the pillaging warriors.

[@fatdaddyeddiejr]

Alfred the Great has entered the conversion.

[@highlandlofttv576]

viking did not fall until now their legends are wispering to our ears,,,they live for ever,,,

[@micahistory]

I never really thought about the impact of christianity on dooming the vikings

[@Historical_events]

Hey Mica!

[@micahistory]

@@Historical_events hey do i know you?

[@Historical_events]

@@micahistory ye you do... right? Music video premiere!

[@dmeads5663]

God tends to win in the end, it just takes a little while.

[@micahistory]

@@dmeads5663 yes

[@rockstar450]

This video completely ignores their culture and religion. Their conversion was a fascinating and gradual one and while they were “pirates” by definition there was far more to them. European colonialism was a far more fascinating evolution to the traditional raid, but the Viking people were more than raiders.

[@LE64SAM-IAM]

"Every Scandinavian was not Viking" means that no Scandinavian was Viking. The correct way to state it is: Not every Scandinavian was Viking.

[@ottoodinson]

Love your videos even as a German, it is very easy for me to understand everything.

[@SyedShamsNasirbruh]

Simply, God destroyed them.

[@SyedShamsNasirbruh]

@BLACKBLADE 80 adhering to the viking gods? nope son

[@SyedShamsNasirbruh]

@Mr Blue sky lol how long did the Viking period last son?

[@PVT_White]

You pray to the holy father. The allfather. Your and their god is the same person.

[@mir3877]

The sons of Ragnar will rise again

[@morisco56]

Ivar the boneless will never be forgotten

[@logancohen5152]

Says how the Vikings weren’t a people but a term of raider then says the sponsor who’s ads constantly say you can play as the “Viking society”. Not exactly sending a good message

[@PhenomResurrections08]

Muslim merchants also have written records Vikings and its closer to real time than the scandanavian writings.

[@DarkBuddhist]

So basically they got "out-cultured" at every front :D

[@Dommy521]

Christianity was too sexy of a religion lol

[@vidar2116]

Yeah Christianity is so cool🤣 Fr it's the torturing, genocide and utter ruthless campaign to convert and control the population for me😳😻

[@Peristerygr]

Βy collapsing here we mean stopping the raids, abandon the old ways, adopt christianity and be assimilated by franks and slavs -eventually creating the russians. I didn't mention the british isles as their cultural impact there is enough big to say they were assimilated.

[@brianticas7671]

Vikings that headed to russia were the swedish ones. You might be right. Those swedes went to gaul (ancient france). Breeded with each other and headed to russia. Damn so russians are part french 2 then.

[@Viikkinu]

@@brianticas7671 its not proved

[@Viikkinu]

Its not proved that they were vikings that made russia. They found finnish blood from rurik dynasty

[@brianticas7671]

@@Viikkinu finland was part of the vikings

[@EFJoKeR]

I dis-agree with the use of the word Pirate, when describing Vikings. I myself, am a such Viking, and i think that's mis-enterpretting them a great deal. Pirates, even though Mirriam-webster also fails to be accurate there, i think - Pirates - As i see them, were rebels. And though they did engange in raids, they did so to rebel against the existing rules of Brittain, France, Spain, Holland, or what ever nation they hail from. Granted - Many pirates were drawn to the lifestyle, due to the promiss of wealth, they didn't start out that way. - Vikings went on Raids to bring wealth home to their own homes, countries or towns. They weren't rebelling against anything. They were Raiders, not pirates. And pirates tended to attacks ships, not countries... And Pirates didn't colonize/settle in countries... Vikings did... So yea... Quit the "pirate" talk please... ;)

[@Aurion666]

There were also german Vikings. One of their biggest villages still persists and is a tourist attraction.