Why Were Viking Berserker Tactics So Lethal?

[@taylorlibby7642]

I got attacked one time by a skinny 5ft nothing totally unarmed dude high af on pcp and screaming incoherently trying to rip my face off with his fingernails. I'm a 6ft3in 250# ex-college wrestler with a black belt in Tae Kwon Do and I was just out of the Marine Corps at the time. He almost succeeded and I just barely got control of him. No mystery to me why the berserkers were so effective.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

RECON

[@jimjones1130]

Worst beating i took in my life was from a Thai guy 5'4 140 lbs....i had to be saved from him lol

[@John.Flower.Productions]

How do you know that he was _high af on pcp?_ Did you provide it to him or perform the drug test on him? A black belt in Tae Kwon Do is nothing more than a worthless choreography participation award and folk style wrestling has as much to do with fighting as being in the Marine Corps, not a damn thing. Prefacing your inability to handle someone, with what you believe to be credentials, is laughable. None of the psychedelic and/or dissociative drugs are responsible for enhancing the fighting prowess of anyone; not Psilocybin, Phencyclidine or ________.

[@robgau2501]

I'm your size (6'4") but I'm the berserker.

[@froggyluv]

Thats because we dont use all of our force for an all out assault. most of us preserve a certain amount of energy/force to maintain stance, defence, counter etc.. a pcp maniac is throwing his entire unadulterated self at you. thats a heavy hammer.

[@teyanuputorti7927]

This was an amazing documentary thank you for it Chronicle medieval history

[@hmcin1]

Been watching this for 32min and 35 seconds and still waiting for them to mention the word berserker…

[@wirecutter59]

Same here, but I watched the entire video waiting for it.

[@Andrew-10101]

Good evening saints. Thank you for sharing Viking Friends. Have a wonderful and blessed rest of your evening . . . Sola gratia

[@conorhenderson8537]

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[@shinow9547]

I'm in the middle of playing AC: Valhalla. This is good background information.

[@PoD-DK61]

At 14:00 the clinker built structure of the ship is described. And here they could have mentioned what influence that had on the speed of the vessel. When sailing with sails in a good wind the ship will reach a certain speed and then the clinker structure will drag bubbles - like pearls on a string - in under the ship. These bubbles function like ball bearings and when it happens you feel a sudden rush of increased speed. I've had the privilege of trying this on a smaller viking ship on Roskilde Fjord. Much faster ships than any other ship of its time. Skål‼ 🎈

[@cHilztheSavage]

They used black henbane seeds in mead and it allowed a trance like state causing incredible strength and focus. What we would consider similar to a mushroom trip without the fog

[@KyIeMcCIeIIan]

The controlled use of narcotics and lightning war tactics? You don't say.

[@hellinterface6721]

How long does time have to pass for it to be called archeology/grave finding instead of thievery and grave robbery? Just a weird thought. Great vid as usual!

[@simjam1980]

If they find some bodies and realise they are only a few years old, they just put them back and don't tell anyone about it. Hahaha

[@tylertheberge5309]

Extremely well made video

[@katherinecollins4685]

Great video

[@pipsqueex]

the tattoo artist kai is also a singer in my favorite band heilung!

[@ASMRHistorywithSophie]

Berserkers are so fascinating, I can't imagine doing what they did, im 5"3 so i doubt i'd do as well 😂

[@Jakez408]

For all the unwashed and uneducated people on YT The Eastern Slavs were not slaves of the Vikings as they were fiercely independent and repulsed any attacks of the Vikings which never went past the beach of the Baltic Sea as the attacks were not powerful and the Slavs were many. Because the Slavs were waring amongst themselves and they saw the Vikings were living peacefully amongst themselves they decided to invite three princes of the Varangians to rule over them and Rurik was one of them. The painting called THE INVITATION is on display in the palace in ST. Petersburg. Later the Vikings were allowed to travel on the rivers down to Constantinople for trading and payed the Slavs to portage their ships between rivers. The Vikings also built their distinctive houses in Russia and settled there as the trapping business was very lucrative and fetched good prices in Europe and Constantinople.

[@tattedupgamer8519]

So at what point was a berserker mentioned?

[@TheDarthSoldier]

Came here for the berserker... saw no berserker

[@KristinChisenhall]

There special forces they get there own video

[@robroy5352]

fuk i done 2 fkn joints wating 2 c the bezerkers

[@tomgray3804]

One of those castles at the beginning look like the one Led Zeppelin used in the movie "Song Remains the Same".

[@methodsocratic]

35 minutes into a 44 minute video, & never once has the word “berserker” been mentioned. I guess their “tactics were so lethal” through ammmaaaaaazing innovations such as their boats floated, they kept their blades sharp, & some chick had a beard. Clickbait title guys. Kinda lame.

[@Dan-cn2rj]

ty for saving my time, closing the vid at min 5. i kinda doubted there would be good analysis

[@methodsocratic]

@@Dan-cn2rj it’s not a bad video, it’s just as basic as basic gets about Norse history, & it’s badly titled & as far as I could tell having watched 80% of it, it’s got nothing to do with Berserkers at all. If they mention Berserkers in the last nine minutes, it’s still too little too late, & very misleadingly titled.

[@masercot]

They tended to avoid military confrontations and just attack the public most of the time.

[@masercot]

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv I know. I'm saying they weren't as tough as people think. They spent a LOT of time avoiding armies and just going after civilians...

[@mwol5473]

It was revenge for what Charlemagne did to the pagan Saxons ​@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv

[@DS-ql2iy]

My love for you is ticking clock Berserker.

[@3879keith]

Why Were Viking Berserker Tactics So Lethal................without an explanation why

[@conorhenderson8537]

I wish they were here at helms deep to fit the uruk berserkers.

[@Performance-101]

They defeated a great many armies, but Viking historians don’t like to tell the story of how they faired against the Celtic tribes of northern Spain. Let’s just say it’s not flattering.

[@magnusdunning6113]

Funny how the narrator mentions heritage for all Norwegian, Dane, and Swedish items and locations, but when it comes to Wolin as the elite center of Viking warriors he omits Poland’s name. Hmmmm.

[@ReshonBryant]

Only the richest weapons accompanied the warrior to Valhalla🔨

[@Jakez408]

For all the ignorant FWits on YT Slavs is an English word. They themselves called SLOVAN meaning the WORD or anyone who could speak it were Slovans. Others were known as NEMEC meaning MUTES referred to Germans. They were the largest population ever to enter Europe and part of the Indo Europeans who came in 3500 BC and settled from Southern Norway and Sweden all the way to the Urals. They were the Corded Ware Culture carrying the R1a genome. They have been traced by the corded pottery they left behind and found in Southern Sweden and Norway proving the Norse and Slavs are related.

[@DaveArguesback]

Magic mushrooms that's how !

[@draconelcentelleswoliveres]

Legend or history - judge for yourself. During the Nordic wars, the ''berjast við úlfa''the warrior order or fraternity an elite at the service of the highest bidder an order of warriors were a warrior elite, similar to the berserkir, but more refined and religious, followers of the ancient gods Nordic and a new creed imported by Móðir-Jörð, these Vikings could be the image we have of the horned helmet Vikings, since some used them as a symbol of the goat, an allusion to their manhood, which the leaders and corporals used to wear. of war. When times of peace arrived, the rulers wanted to dissolve them, they were already Christian kings, they hated Christianity, looted and killed them, having no resources, they dedicated themselves to banditry, and the Scandinavian kings hunted them down and cornered them, upon seeing their extinction, they fled to Iceland with 26 ships. In Iceland they were not allowed to disembark, so they went west in search of a new land and discovered in a land they called TULAND, a land that for most people did not exist except in some legend, today is East Greenland. As new arrivals, the Móðir-Jörð doctrine forces them to be correct with the natives and they learned from the INUIT natives, and became experts in dog sledding.'' -hundasleða- ''they loved it. But they continued to bother the Scandinavians, plundering their ships and coasts in search of firewood, food, silver and women, and the Scandinavian kings, already tired of their search, searched hard for them and finally found them in Tuland (Eastern Greenland), killing them. After 70 years of living on those coasts they became extinct, they gave orders to ban the sagas ''tales'' about the warriors of TULAND under penalty of death.

[@janina8559]

I have always thought that the Vikings were the “Sea Peoples” that attacked Egypt during the time of the Pharaohs.

[@jimlacy9963]

God made you the way you slid out

[@OptimusPrinceps_Augustus]

Germanicus Caesar would have scoffed 🌿😆🌿

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

Agreed! Getterex as well.

[@danh6720]

He might have shivered and drowned. But of course he would have scoffed. In his writings at least. Because he wrote political letters for the purpose of increasing his power at home. His true thoughts of his opponents are a little harder to be sure about.

[@danh6720]

@@OptimusPrinceps_Augustus yep, I replied as if you said Augustus. That’s my mistake. But I have no idea where you are getting the idea that it was emotional. And also I don’t know why you think Germanicus would have “scoffed”. He defeated many of the German tribes, but not easily, he didn’t go north of them, and the subject of the video is ~800 years after his time.

[@OptimusPrinceps_Augustus]

@@danh6720 Caligula would have blushed....🌿😜🌿✌️

[@gravestone4840]

There is almost no evidence of Berserkers to begin with and what we do have points towards them being the well educated, highly trained and well equipped right hand of their king. Being a person granted a bear skin (berserker) was a badge of office. One part field general and one part diplomat. They were not naked drug fueled madmen unleashed on the battlefield who fought like animals, that is fantasy literally made up for games like Dungeons & Dragons. It's crazy how well that fairy tale version has stuck in the public mind that even educated scholars get swayed into thinking it was real without any conclusive evidence. Were there drugged up vikings that acted nuts? Undoubtedly. They were not however Berserkers, nor were they an intentional part of the fighting force.

[@Greg-xi8yx]

Exactly, berserkers were most likely not even a thing and if they were they were nothing as they were recorded in the sagas.

[@flashovr24]

Pfffft......ok. Proof?!

[@rippedtorn2310]

@@flashovr24 Aye another internet theory pulled out the air ! We have many examples of berserkers but what they were was more akin to a cult , a cult of roving maniacs that were useful recruited into an army but in society were increasingly becoming a problem . Remember Norse culture is way more than the viking period and went through a lot of change . People need to stick to what little we do know and not get carried away with what they see on TV shows.

[@bigchief70]

I think what you're describing are "Huskarls"

[@c.antoniojohnson7114]

Vikings are rich raiders,Ulfbert steel weapons don't come cheap.

[@Jakez408]

So replies to my comments have no historical basis and are full of emotional baloney even though I kept my comments to the historical facts taught in Russian universities. The perception about Slavs in the West is they were subhuman and backward as thought by Hitler but Hitler got his country destroyed mainly by Slavs and some ASians. The same happened when I posted comments about Ukraine 2 years ago but who has defeated Ukraine and Nato. So the pathetic concept in the West is that Vikings were some sort of super humans and Slavs were slaves of the Vikings which is untrue and highly offensive. The historical facts are that Vikings only raided settlements of civilians because they were soft targets and stole Slav women in isolated villages along the Volga which was practiced by everyone including Muslims and Central Asian nomads. One other historical fact the Slavs knew well about is the Slav men bathed every day and the Vikings never washed and Slav women would refuse to marry a Viking because they said they stank to high heaven.

[@theloniuspunk383]

brown out

[@robbyakes8736]

WAR IS EVIL Reply

[@hellinterface6721]

War is the father of invention and is responsible for your high quality of life you enjoy at this moment, including the very system you're using to make your comment on right now (the internet or wtvr it's called). Reply

[@Jakez408]

Vikings could only harm people from the West of Europe. ie Britain and France but could not defeat the Eastern peoples from the North, the Slavs, Balts and Finns due to these people being much tougher and used to hard conditions like constant hunting to survive . The Slavs which comprise at least 60% of Indo Europeans battled fierce wolves, bears and large cats which are now extinct and rowed and travelled huge distances by foot whereas the Westerners were soft having lived city lives for centuries. The OTHER Northern people are not mentioned in You Tune due to political reasons having defeated the Germanics at every turn, ie the Danes, Teutonic knights defeated by Lithuanians and Russ at 3 major battles, 1240, 1242 and 1410. The Swedes were defeated later on by the Russians led by Peter the Great, which gave rise to Napoleon which again was defeated by Russia. Then came Hitler who was taught to never invade the Slavs.

[@Scrat335]

Basically true. Slavs were generally easier to deal with if you traded with them. Want a fight? They could do that too. Western Europeans were not as stout. Slavs did also fight amongst themselves and do to this day.

[@hardfartn]

I think you might be mistaken, as the word slave comes from slav. In addition look how many Russians are giant blonde viking looking dudes and how few stubby, hairy black haired people. The Rus were originally Scandinavian, all they had to loot in the east was people unfortunately. But if you say so bud, stay up my bro.

[@Denussy]

Slavs got rolled hard for centuries by little Mongolians. Vikings got smushed by Irish clans too. Everybody in Eurasia has wins and losses. Hitler and the Germans took over huge areas of Slavic lands for many years before they got pushed out and the Russians depended on American money to win. Things are a lot more complicated than what you described and the Slavs have never had a global empire. They're trash at politics and capitalism.

[@alexbarnes1825]

Wolves went extinct just after Henry the 8th in the uk mate. Not like the westerners had fought no wars is it 😂and the Viking plan was based entirely off shock attacks using ships and almost all the Russian ports and lakes are frozen even through summer 😂

[@alexbarnes1825]

You’ve used good history knowledge but lacked nuance to your argument.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

vikings weren't NORSE, nor were they honorable men. IRE!💀

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv 6 kings. lost tribes. thieves

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

@@HedonisticPuritan-mp6xv they were from Palestine.

[@ronweber1402]

@@ThomasWBaldwin Are you having a stroke? Use words and type out a complete thought. And vikingr were most certainly Norse.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

@@ronweber1402 no, no they were not. mocking me doesn't change the facts. good luck to you little fella.

[@ThomasWBaldwin]

@@ronweber1402 you should spell check your garble as well

[@ReshonBryant]

⚡👱🏽 🛋️

[@joshmandrell4952]

Omg stop trying to change history to fit a damn bs narrative

[@ReshonBryant]

I was told by a Christian and fellow Scandinavian that the Vikings were mostly farmers. But, obviously I know that nobody celebrates viking lore because of agricultural achievements🌝🍿

[@6Vlad6Tepes6]

My mother told me, someday i would buy, galleys with good oars, sails to distant shores. Stand up on the prow, noble barque i steer, steady course to the haven, hew many foe-men hew many foe-men. Raise your horns into the air, there is plenty ale to share. All are welcome, take a chair and sing a song loud and strong. Men of war and men of care, maidens fierce and maidens fair. Raise your horns into the air and sing a song loud and proud and strong! Sing loud and strong! Skål! Skål! It gladdens me to know that Odin prepares for a feast. Soon I shall be drinking ale from curved horns. This hero that comes into Valhalla does not lament his death! I shall not enter Odin's hall with fear. There i shall wait for my sons to join me. And when they fo, i will bask in their tales of triumph. The Aesir will welcome me! My death comes without apology! And I welcome the Valkyries to summon me home!

[@6Vlad6Tepes6]

Ragnar lothbrok!