same. how about a video about how Hanseatic league went to war with Denmark and resolved that conflict with eh treaty of Stralsund in 1370. I think the Hanseatic league were able to sack Copenhagen during the fighting which was over trade and Denmark attacking Hanseatic league members .
Bazbattles, honestly your animated maps could totally be suited to a couple of episodes about trade. I've wanted someone to cover the Hanseatic League in a video at some point
Both archeologists and historians in Trondheim agree that it most likely was way less than that. It was more likely between Olav + 50 to 200 men vs Kalv Arnesønn and Tore Hund + 300 to 800 angry farmers at Stiklestad.
9000 is still a lot of people, all charging in one location and it could take many hours to resolve a pulse-type battle in which people continually charge and retreat and face each other off, or chase at each other's skirmishers - so I'm more partial to the hundreds argument.
Here in the Faroe Islands, we still celebrate Ólavsøka in honor of Saint Olaf. Held on 28 to the 29 July, it is by far the largest festival here on the islands and a national holiday, usually about half the population participates. During the festival one can expect to see a lot of different events and activities from Football matches and traditional Faroese boat races, to parades and music concerts. Thanks for making this video, keep up the good work!
I live right by Stiklestad, and "Olsvukku/Olsok" is definitely a thing here. It's kind of a church holyday, and a day we use flags, but other than that it mostly controls some old superstitions. The rain at "Olsvuku" determines the future weather.
Realy if i was in charge i would just stay on the hill ,what are they going to do charge a highground lol. if they do ,meet them by charging them down from the hill ,while they were wasting their energy trying to climb it
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Every year at Olsok (in the end of Juli) there is a large viking festival at Stiklestad where the tale is retold in a great play! Tore Hund has his own fanclub there, politely booing when Tore gets scorned and clapping when Olav dies^^ Great stuff! Solid video as well!
I love the historical background on these videos! The battle is just one part, and so much would be lost but not looking at the context. And how do you do your animations? They are very impressive.
This is one of those really interesting points in history where the loser kind of got to write the history. (which is the case with much of viking history) Although it wasn't really Olaf or his kin that told his own story, the simple fact that he was christian was enough to make him a saint and hero despite being nothing but a overconfident prick.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin had some pretty amazing exploits with his famous turtle ships, maybe check those out? Or the Koreans versus the Japanese with what's commonly referred to as the whacha?
What an absolutely beautiful video. They keep adding on so much production value with new videos. The script was written elegantly, blending the myth of viking sagas with as many historic facts as we have of that period, careful not to mislead into thinking this was solid truth. Really really well done, makes you engage so much with the reality of the time and I love the little tidbits like the irony of Olaf's soldiers being pagan, given his zealousness? and later cannonization? Words. I think you guys are awesome. All the best in the future!
"Kingdom of Sweden" in 1030 AD sounds kinda wrong as there is no reliable information [which I can find] to when a unified Kindom of Sweden was actually formed, and the information that exists points towards later dates, the earliest being 1050 [incredibly vague estimate mostly pointing towards an even later date]. The lands were divided between various titleholders mainly being the Swedes in central Sweden and the Geats in the south.
Joel Andreason The first king of Sweden is considerd Erik Segersäll 970 - 995 according to the royal house of Sweden www.kungahuset.se/monarkinhovstaterna/monarkinisverige/sverigesregenter.4.7c4768101a4e888378000948.html
It mostly depends on how you define Sweden back then. It's hard to tell if he was actually a king of a unified Sweden with a very decentralized kingdom and Geats and Swedes were more or less autonomous. He most certainly was a contributor to a future unified kingdom as he ruled over both Swedes and a larger portion of Geatish lands, but from the various articles I can find he was mostly king of the Geats in name. There are also notes of other domains which remained independent for a while such as an area west of Vänern and the province of Medelpad. sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svitjod I'd recommend mainly reading the text below the map to the right.
sweden during that time means svealand, or svithjod (in iceland still the name for sweden) which means western sweden around lake mälaren. gotland is included there also but as a tributary part, they were their own people but they paid tribute to the swedes. also in the sagas svithjod hin mikla (larger sweden) included russia. the rest of sweden (what is today sweden) belonged to the geats, norwegians, danes and other minor tribes. småland (literally means small countries) which today is a municipality was back then a patchwork of many different tribes and chieftains.
Most kingdoms of the early to high medieval ages were decentralized,example France during the medieval ages would look like the late HRE where the french King had limited power and land but still the ruler of the "Kingdom of France"
No quite, "Knútr" in Old Norse (Old Icelandic at least), and "Cnut ealles Engla landes cyning" in Old English. Then you have decendants like Knut/Knud/Canute.
His real translation today would be Knud Den Store. meaning the great in danish. most likely got that being from Norway. But since he ruled England to. and was seen as their first great king actually really building the foundation of England, even getting the papel claim that he and his family was rightfull rulers of England ( and thus, infact kings later all is tied to Denmark, like calling Harold the last saxon king is a bit of a joke. his mother was danish, she is infact blood tied to the royal family of Denmark today, the oldest royal family in the world. And thus was his father father. And the King before him was also of danish stock. and he promised the throne to both Harold and the Normans who where also tied to Denmark. An other reason the norman invasion was more succesfull than most. it was bassicly danes taking over from danes, many was related or really didnt feel the need to fight.) But anyway. since he is so tied to English history and they cant say knud because of the silent d. its said that way. They should have learned that that. being that around 13% of their languge come from Danish or old nordic, and over 60% of the lords and kings of England has bloodties to Denmark many within 1 link for over a 1000 years after the vikings landed in Brittain. There is a reason it was called dane land, and danegæld and so on. danish lords became lord in England, and even as they changed to be English it was a choice. it was still the danish families rulling. and being kings. not saxons.
Uhm... Thats why the company contacted this channel. It hits his viewbase perfectly. Everyone here loves history and war. You know that "targeted advertising" works like that .... right? RIGHT?
+Leonardo Franzin Ribeiro Not all battles have to be romanticised, from time to time it's good to have such kind of battles shown. Making it a twist by itself.
SNIperofDARKness02 I'm not asking for romantic battles, just for ones where he shows how a situation allows for a surprising turn of events, showing people how a peculiar situation allows for a wild result.
I guess the wild result would be that Olaf, despite losing the battle, ended up being the "winner" later on in history. Showing that winning battles isn't enough to be considered a great man
Syrena, implying his majesty the God Emperor of Mankind may he be praised, doesn't willingly appear differently to those who look upon him? By the way I have already voxed the Adeptus Arbites for spreading lies of our lord.
I don't know how interesting the battles would be. Like at the battle of Muhi they sneaked past the troops defending a bridge and surrounded the Hungarian army in their camp who were ironically defeated by the same strategies they used 200 years prior. Later eastern kings realized that Mongols are shit at sieges so they just built stone castles and had them crash against it...
What are you talking about? They had so many battles, there's a lot of good ones. It's not just europe they ravaged. Mongols had heaps of great battles and sieges you can tell about, even the way Genghis used his tent's colour to signal the garrison of said cities of their doom. Ie. 1st day Genghis used a white tent, meaning the garrison could walk out freely, second day I can't remember but on the last day it was black and everyone would die. This even caused fights to happen with the people inside of these cities as they fought for whether they should just surrender or not. Eventually the ones who fought for surrender won and let the mongols in. They looked at the massacre and killed everyone inside as they couldn't trust people who killed their own. Also how they used the citizens of towns the garrisons defended to assault the cities they fled from.
You talked shortly about Sweyn Forkbeard and Canute the Great and their conquest for England, but I think it could be interesting to do a video on them, Æthelred the Unprepared and Edward Ironside. Pretty sure there are some good battles there as well. You could also do the viking civil war between Sweyn Forkbeard and his father, Harald Bluetooth.
BazBattles, an interesting fact for you. We, in the Faroe Islands, still celebrate Olaf's heroic stand almost a thousand years ago by our annual national holiday "Olavsøka". It is an tradition derived from our ancient Norwegian cultural heritage. During this festival, at midnight, we all link arms on the street and sing epics of our own heroes, in particular those who Christianized the Faroe Islands.
@@Kirmukarmu Lack of gold and folk full of sisu, making hit 'n run attacks can deter any opponent. Well, except those religious nuts that had to convert all the people under their flag.
Wow! Great to see this channel grow so fast! Well deserved, well earned! My only complaint is that I want more uploads! I know it takes time to make these tho, and they are very good! Thanks!
And then, a Civil War erupted because of religion and an incident. > Rebels win, the foreign religion is banished. New High King. > Royals win, well, all is well? Only Skyrim players will get the reference...
Tore Hund, Kalf Arnesson and Hårek of Tjøtta was waiting for Olaf in Verdal at the coast, they did not march in from the east the same way as the king (would have been weird walking along with enemies to the battle field). And jarls of Lade (Eirik left his son Håkon and brother Svein to rule) was cast out of Norway by Olaf when he ascended to kingship over Norway, so they were not rebels but foreign enemies who supported Knut.
All Nordic names pronounced by him in all the videos physically hurts me. Though can't really blame him, our names can be a bitch to pronounce for non-natives. Also I am sure he didn't say Svein as he knew he'd be unable to pronounce it correctly, lol.
Olaf was so famous in the Northern Europe, that the first Christians in Finland named many places by him in the Western Finland between 1000 and 1300, when Sweden solidified it's rule in most of the country. Maybe the best known of those places in Finland is Ulvila (said like 'Oolvilah'), a county even today. It's near Pori, which you can find in the west coast. Likely a known Opera Castle in Eastern Finland, Olavinlinna (Olaf's Castle), is also named in his honour.
really great video again! tip: include surnames (since there are lots of olafs, hakons etc in norwegian history) + use a better translater when it comes to the speech bubbles ;)
Please consider covering the battle of Aint Jalut. This battle halted the Mongol advance into Egypt and was one of the few major defeats the Mongols had faced at that time. There is a lack of videos covering this battle despite it's politics and militarily significance.
Knud/Knut wasn't actually king of Denmark when he reclaimed the throne in England. His brother Harald III was, he died however after a short and uneventful reign, and Knud ascended the danish throne. Since he was crowned in England first, he did spend most of his time there as well, and was also buried there.
I love that this is basically a snapshot of history surrounding a few interconnected and influential people of that time and place. This is much less a "Battle of" and more of a "History surrounding Olaf" which is awesome.
So, no strategy (I'll just walk into Norway and hope for the best), no tactics (I'll just run down the hill and hope for the best), meager numbers... this is more of a brawl of Stiklestad than the Battle of Stiklestad. The video is great, though, as always, the subject is just not that impressive (at least for me).
Olaf the Holy was also later named "Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae", the Eternal King of Norway and all other monarchs who ruled after him were merely ruling in his name.
I get this is sponsored content, but viking battles aren't particularly intersting to talk about since it's shieldwall vs shieldwall pushing eachother. The context is a lot more interesting, but still a decent video. I fucking loved the bulletpoints at the end though
I just discovered you guys and man this channel is so cool! Thank you for all the content :) Could you guys maybe do the Battle of Sekigahara? Or the battle of Vienna?
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@@LucidWanderer You might be wrong. Finland (or the areas to north from the gulf of Finland) used to be quite well known for many things, and Finns used to have regional "kings". Finns sure were rich enough, thanks to trading their own goods that northern wilderness and thousands of lakes provided. During the 11th century and later on, Finns somehow regressed, or other nations went forward in technology and economics. (which make Finland look like backwater)
@@ZeroNitroMan finland was never wealthy lmfao. finland was full of asiatic horde tribes until the swedes and russians intermixed with u and made u majority white
the way i understand it is that one of the vikings primary trade goods (except for slaves) was pelts from the deep woods of finland, and they got those pelts primarily from finnish hunters and traders. no good in raiding and killing the people that provide you with your most priced trading goods. and from the finn perspective, the vikings could provide them with all kinds of stuff that they could never get on their own, so i believe there was a symbiotic relationship going on there for the most part that had grown gradually for a long time.
The first battle mentioned is the battle in all of history that took place closest to my town as a kid - where the Finnic tribes thoroughly routed the Norwegian Viking raiders about 1010.
Their contemporaries were Christians, the Vikings were heathens, and they had to find and explanation why those heathens regularly won against the side which god favoured. And of course, if they weren´t normal humans but demons from hell supported by Satan, that would solve the problem.
well its intresting becuse the viking raids were not as usual as we think. Also the monks they attacked were by no means deffencless, as They arguably had some experience with fighting. NORGE STÅR TIL DOVRE FALLER!
Just to add. The army attacking Olaf was a peasant army. Random folks from the north wanting revenge from Olafs ruthless methods of christening, he would slaughter anyone who looked upon him the wrong way. Olafs army was a professional army with large shields and phalanx formation. Thorir Hund or Tore Hund (Hund meaning dog), was a local chieftain in the north, who Olaf had murdered his son. He saught revenge and likely he dealt the final blow with the spear that olaf used to kill his son. And the peasant army came in on boats if i am not mistaken.
@@RoberttheWise They really didn't want to spend lot of time there. It seems they made some cost/benefit calculations and decided to concentrate on british isles or france :D
I mean this is channel is meant to tell battles and to explain their context in the war, not the opposite. I think it is quite more interesting when we actually can see battles and tactics used by the generals :)
@@BamberdittoPingpong Handelsunion uten sentralisert makt er absolutt interessant. Inkluder England også så snakker vi om en sterk union. Dette skulle våre folkevalgte jobbet hardt for nå som Britene planlegger brexit!
In a little more than a month we are having the annual Ólavsvøka (Olaf's wake) to honor king Olaf. It's the biggest holiday in the Faroe Islands and people from all over come to the capital, Tórshavn (Thor's haven/harbour), to celebrate for 3 days. I can't wait!
The highest troop and casualty estimates I've heard claim that Olaf's army numbered 6600 men and suffered 4200 casualties(64%), while the army of Árnason, Hund, and Hárek numbered 14.400 men and suffered 4600 casualties(32%). While the numbers may be inflated it might still be true that Olaf's army faced a force that outnumbered them by approximately 2,2-to-1 and suffered a nearly two thirds casualty rate.
Because it is not a "Jewish Tribal God". I do not care how the Jews sees it, but believe it or not the concept of Jesus Christ, his persona and his sacrifice wildly differentiates the two religions. No need to bring politics into this, it is just their theology.
Yeah? What about the 2000s years of ancestors you have? Or are you just going to replace the whole theology and morality of Christianity which brought both Western and Eastern Europe to where it is right now with some new age nonsense that you read as an anecdote somewhere?
Happy to see my norse friends got their own Baz battle video finally, though you dont mind sharing it with Denmark? ;P Hope to see something about Sweden as well soon :-) keep up the amazing work!
@Claystead Half of finnish words right there :'D Saatana, perkele and vittu were lacking, though. Then it would have been complete :D Nothing beats the slow and strong "perkele" of frustrated finnish bear.. Umm i meant man!
I would watch BazTrades anytime
Most of the time these videos are BazPolitics anyway, so it wouldn't be that far off.
You, I like you
Luis Octavio Zavala López I want historian civilis trade. I love the boxes.
same. how about a video about how Hanseatic league went to war with Denmark and resolved that conflict with eh treaty of Stralsund in 1370. I think the Hanseatic league were able to sack Copenhagen during the fighting which was over trade and Denmark attacking Hanseatic league members .
*_Dark RUclips, show me the forbidden BazTrades_*
Bazbattles, honestly your animated maps could totally be suited to a couple of episodes about trade. I've wanted someone to cover the Hanseatic League in a video at some point
Yeees there is woefully little content on the league on youtube
The East India Company would also be a nice addition, with a little bit of both trade and skirmishing.
This history leads up to one of the seemingly shortest battles yet.
Both archeologists and historians in Trondheim agree that it most likely was way less than that. It was more likely between Olav + 50 to 200 men vs Kalv Arnesønn and Tore Hund + 300 to 800 angry farmers at Stiklestad.
9000 is still a lot of people, all charging in one location and it could take many hours to resolve a pulse-type battle in which people continually charge and retreat and face each other off, or chase at each other's skirmishers - so I'm more partial to the hundreds argument.
i live in Stiklestad Norway
its a small village.
can u see the hill from ur house?
I live near the spot Olaf died
Any other Norwegians here?
Hallo noen andre her
Seff! Hvem ser vel ikke på Baz Battles?
WHOIAN FANIAN hei
The rulers should be careful when throwing their message scrolls across the landscape. Someone could be seriously injured, man!
Some king somewhere: "I need to talk to the guy running the next kingdom over" *yeets parchment*
I don't think they cared. It happens all the time
Here in the Faroe Islands, we still celebrate Ólavsøka in honor of Saint Olaf. Held on 28 to the 29 July, it is by far the largest festival here on the islands and a national holiday, usually about half the population participates. During the festival one can expect to see a lot of different events and activities from Football matches and traditional Faroese boat races, to parades and music concerts.
Thanks for making this video, keep up the good work!
I live right by Stiklestad, and "Olsvukku/Olsok" is definitely a thing here. It's kind of a church holyday, and a day we use flags, but other than that it mostly controls some old superstitions. The rain at "Olsvuku" determines the future weather.
Ezx123 - The Faroe Islands used to be part of Norway before the Kalmar Union happend. I guess you just forgot about us when you got independence.
vatterholm - Interesting on the Faroe Islands it always rain on Ólavsøku, but I guess it always rain her in general so theres that.
There's usually terrible rainy weather around Oslok here too. But I think it's more important if it's freezing or not.
Well, I live by Stiklestad so we take it a bit more serious over here by default.
Wow, what a fascinating battle. Charging unprepared against a superior enemy and getting smashed. The End.
Like a caged rat, they pulled some crazy desperate shit to get out. Sometimes surprise works, the only problem is the enemy was not surprised. Lol.
But it sounds like they sent a lot of the enemy to Valhalla too.
Realy if i was in charge i would just stay on the hill ,what are they going to do charge a highground lol.
if they do ,meet them by charging them down from the hill ,while they were wasting their energy trying to climb it
@@emis5478 trololololololololololololololololololol
@@emis5478 You'd probably have to factor in supplies and reinforcements
Battle of Hafrsfjord next? Thank you for the video. Amazing work!
Yes, we need this.
Did you have a stroke typing the name or is it just Norwegian?
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yay. this battle took place 2 km away from my house!
The battle wasn't fought in Japan
Ah hello fellow norman!
Sakushi but ur a wapanese wut!?!
He is probably Norwegian weeb
Idiots. 1000 years ago Japan was near the coast of Norway, tectonic plates have since moved it
Every year at Olsok (in the end of Juli) there is a large viking festival at Stiklestad where the tale is retold in a great play! Tore Hund has his own fanclub there, politely booing when Tore gets scorned and clapping when Olav dies^^ Great stuff! Solid video as well!
I love Baz Battles. I watch a few other channels with a similar concept, but this is by far the best one.
“If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you could ever imagine.”
-King Olaf
Maybe that was part of his plan/strategy….even more powerful in death,which turned out to be somewhat true...
Hold your position firmly, my dudes
skjoldborg(it means shield castle not shield wall! Get it right you uncultured svine)
I love the historical background on these videos! The battle is just one part, and so much would be lost but not looking at the context.
And how do you do your animations? They are very impressive.
Video starts at 0:30
My sides.
I'm happy they're sponsored and at least Vikings chooses semi-relevant channels to support :/ means they don't rely on RUclipss bullshit
I'm glad too but nobody comes for the sponsor. Ever.
I want to listen to the guy say VIKINGS in an increasingly DRAMATIC WAY, thank you very much
For most youtubers I make sure to skip sponsored content and leave adblock on. This is not one of those channels.
This is one of those really interesting points in history where the loser kind of got to write the history. (which is the case with much of viking history)
Although it wasn't really Olaf or his kin that told his own story, the simple fact that he was christian was enough to make him a saint and hero despite being nothing but a overconfident prick.
Lol, lots of visionaries were pricks. How's that biased?
Nikolaj11 ah thats Saint Olav we are talking about! Swedens Saint is way more worthy of slander! AND WE DO NOT TALK ABOUT DENMARK!
What? Being murdered in a church by peasants because you raised taxes too much... well worthy of being a saint, come on now.
How was he a prick? EDIT: It's as if you haven't watched the video.
Also, he won in the end when his son became the King of Norway.
Admiral Yi Sun Shin had some pretty amazing exploits with his famous turtle ships, maybe check those out? Or the Koreans versus the Japanese with what's commonly referred to as the whacha?
What an absolutely beautiful video. They keep adding on so much production value with new videos. The script was written elegantly, blending the myth of viking sagas with as many historic facts as we have of that period, careful not to mislead into thinking this was solid truth. Really really well done, makes you engage so much with the reality of the time and I love the little tidbits like the irony of Olaf's soldiers being pagan, given his zealousness? and later cannonization? Words. I think you guys are awesome. All the best in the future!
6:03 in the morning on the west coast of the US. God damnit, if I don't stop what I'm doing and watch a BAZ battle idk what I do.
I love this format and the clarity
Battle of sekigahara next?
Yes oh gid yees
SuperDash nope)
Yesss!
gross no lol
That should be the last in the Sengoku Jidai Series
"Kingdom of Sweden" in 1030 AD sounds kinda wrong as there is no reliable information [which I can find] to when a unified Kindom of Sweden was actually formed, and the information that exists points towards later dates, the earliest being 1050 [incredibly vague estimate mostly pointing towards an even later date]. The lands were divided between various titleholders mainly being the Swedes in central Sweden and the Geats in the south.
Joel Andreason The first king of Sweden is considerd Erik Segersäll 970 - 995 according to the royal house of Sweden
www.kungahuset.se/monarkinhovstaterna/monarkinisverige/sverigesregenter.4.7c4768101a4e888378000948.html
It mostly depends on how you define Sweden back then. It's hard to tell if he was actually a king of a unified Sweden with a very decentralized kingdom and Geats and Swedes were more or less autonomous. He most certainly was a contributor to a future unified kingdom as he ruled over both Swedes and a larger portion of Geatish lands, but from the various articles I can find he was mostly king of the Geats in name. There are also notes of other domains which remained independent for a while such as an area west of Vänern and the province of Medelpad.
sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svitjod I'd recommend mainly reading the text below the map to the right.
sweden during that time means svealand, or svithjod (in iceland still the name for sweden) which means western sweden around lake mälaren. gotland is included there also but as a tributary part, they were their own people but they paid tribute to the swedes. also in the sagas svithjod hin mikla (larger sweden) included russia. the rest of sweden (what is today sweden) belonged to the geats, norwegians, danes and other minor tribes. småland (literally means small countries) which today is a municipality was back then a patchwork of many different tribes and chieftains.
Most kingdoms of the early to high medieval ages were decentralized,example France during the medieval ages would look like the late HRE where the french King had limited power and land but still the ruler of the "Kingdom of France"
Isnt it Knut, not canute? Source : im norwegian
No quite, "Knútr" in Old Norse (Old Icelandic at least), and "Cnut ealles Engla landes cyning" in Old English. Then you have decendants like Knut/Knud/Canute.
Oh alright nice thanks.
His real translation today would be Knud Den Store. meaning the great in danish. most likely got that being from Norway.
But since he ruled England to. and was seen as their first great king actually really building the foundation of England, even getting the papel claim that he and his family was rightfull rulers of England ( and thus, infact kings later all is tied to Denmark, like calling Harold the last saxon king is a bit of a joke. his mother was danish, she is infact blood tied to the royal family of Denmark today, the oldest royal family in the world.
And thus was his father father. And the King before him was also of danish stock. and he promised the throne to both Harold and the Normans who where also tied to Denmark.
An other reason the norman invasion was more succesfull than most. it was bassicly danes taking over from danes, many was related or really didnt feel the need to fight.)
But anyway. since he is so tied to English history and they cant say knud because of the silent d. its said that way.
They should have learned that that. being that around 13% of their languge come from Danish or old nordic, and over 60% of the lords and kings of England has bloodties to Denmark many within 1 link for over a 1000 years after the vikings landed in Brittain.
There is a reason it was called dane land, and danegæld and so on. danish lords became lord in England, and even as they changed to be English it was a choice. it was still the danish families rulling. and being kings. not saxons.
@@mattijohansen3471 Nerd.
@@kajpiotrowicz5779 intelligence
I really like how this channel doesn't get old
that viking ad seems fitting lol ...it helps that this Channel is about war XD good choice, thanks for interesting vid!
N.A. VI - chan no way did you just? Never mind.....
You do know ads are based on the types of content right? LOL
Uhm... Thats why the company contacted this channel. It hits his viewbase perfectly. Everyone here loves history and war. You know that "targeted advertising" works like that .... right? RIGHT?
An awesome and very in-depth video, I cannot wait for the next video! :)
Dude. Your voice is so good, you should do Audiobooks
A. Yusuf not his own voice
I think it’s a program that makes the voice, see his older videos.
+Khasidon I believe he uses a actor
I AGREEEE
I think a lot of non-native english speakers were having a hard time listening to his thick Russian accent so he began hiring this voice actor.
Really interesting interesting lead up but really boring battle. Nice vid though
That's not really that surprising given the situation though...
jens jensen Agreed. It had no tactical cleverness, no "twists" just a simple "bigger numbers wins battles" lesson.
+Leonardo Franzin Ribeiro
Not all battles have to be romanticised, from time to time it's good to have such kind of battles shown. Making it a twist by itself.
SNIperofDARKness02 I'm not asking for romantic battles, just for ones where he shows how a situation allows for a surprising turn of events, showing people how a peculiar situation allows for a wild result.
I guess the wild result would be that Olaf, despite losing the battle, ended up being the "winner" later on in history. Showing that winning battles isn't enough to be considered a great man
I like the storytelling here 😃
I'm always excited to see your videos up. keep up the good work.
Origins of the Emperor of Mankind confirmed!
LOL small world man ;)
you talking about me.
Syrena, implying his majesty the God Emperor of Mankind may he be praised, doesn't willingly appear differently to those who look upon him?
By the way I have already voxed the Adeptus Arbites for spreading lies of our lord.
Julian L Be nice he's /ourguy/
Yes, it is called ODIN
Actually love this series! Great work guys honestly
Can you make a video about mongol invasion and Genghis Khaan please?
I don't know how interesting the battles would be. Like at the battle of Muhi they sneaked past the troops defending a bridge and surrounded the Hungarian army in their camp who were ironically defeated by the same strategies they used 200 years prior. Later eastern kings realized that Mongols are shit at sieges so they just built stone castles and had them crash against it...
+1
Choros Should make a mini series about it
What are you talking about? They had so many battles, there's a lot of good ones.
It's not just europe they ravaged. Mongols had heaps of great battles and sieges you can tell about, even the way Genghis used his tent's colour to signal the garrison of said cities of their doom.
Ie. 1st day Genghis used a white tent, meaning the garrison could walk out freely, second day I can't remember but on the last day it was black and everyone would die. This even caused fights to happen with the people inside of these cities as they fought for whether they should just surrender or not.
Eventually the ones who fought for surrender won and let the mongols in. They looked at the massacre and killed everyone inside as they couldn't trust people who killed their own.
Also how they used the citizens of towns the garrisons defended to assault the cities they fled from.
I believe the second day was a red tent, signalling that all men within the city would be killed and the women would be raped and enslaved.
You talked shortly about Sweyn Forkbeard and Canute the Great and their conquest for England, but I think it could be interesting to do a video on them, Æthelred the Unprepared and Edward Ironside. Pretty sure there are some good battles there as well.
You could also do the viking civil war between Sweyn Forkbeard and his father, Harald Bluetooth.
Could you please make a video about Paraguayan war, the biggest conflict in South America history? Many interesting battles to explore.
The animation of a crown dropping through the skull never seizes to make me smile.
TWO BAZBATTLES IN ONE WEEK!?!?!
My prayers have been answered.
they... weren't in one week..........
BazBattles, an interesting fact for you.
We, in the Faroe Islands, still celebrate Olaf's heroic stand almost a thousand years ago by our annual national holiday "Olavsøka". It is an tradition derived from our ancient Norwegian cultural heritage.
During this festival, at midnight, we all link arms on the street and sing epics of our own heroes, in particular those who Christianized the Faroe Islands.
Love from Norway
Lord Of houses Elsk fra Norge
I came for some great content and wasn't disappointed... Keep it up!
Finland mentioned!...I didn’t see that ever happening on this channel.
We humilated the vikings. We are superior to them!
@@Kirmukarmu Lack of gold and folk full of sisu, making hit 'n run attacks can deter any opponent. Well, except those religious nuts that had to convert all the people under their flag.
Wow!
Great to see this channel grow so fast!
Well deserved, well earned!
My only complaint is that I want more uploads!
I know it takes time to make these tho, and they are very good!
Thanks!
And then, a Civil War erupted because of religion and an incident.
> Rebels win, the foreign religion is banished. New High King.
> Royals win, well, all is well?
Only Skyrim players will get the reference...
Tore Hund, Kalf Arnesson and Hårek of Tjøtta was waiting for Olaf in Verdal at the coast, they did not march in from the east the same way as the king (would have been weird walking along with enemies to the battle field). And jarls of Lade (Eirik left his son Håkon and brother Svein to rule) was cast out of Norway by Olaf when he ascended to kingship over Norway, so they were not rebels but foreign enemies who supported Knut.
Damn you Baz, I was just about to go to sleep! Good video man.
Reptilians lol it’s 15:00 in country
jens jensen People can live in other countries? I live in Australia and it is just past 1am.
no
Leaffordes no
Kings or nobodys are often determined by a single battle.
It phisically hurt me how he said Håkon
All Nordic names pronounced by him in all the videos physically hurts me. Though can't really blame him, our names can be a bitch to pronounce for non-natives.
Also I am sure he didn't say Svein as he knew he'd be unable to pronounce it correctly, lol.
Haakon
I see English subtitles at 01:45, I see "they're luck improved", and I cry.
Thorkell? Was that guy an inspiration to Thorkell from Vinland Saga?
Olaf was so famous in the Northern Europe, that the first Christians in Finland named many places by him in the Western Finland between 1000 and 1300, when Sweden solidified it's rule in most of the country. Maybe the best known of those places in Finland is Ulvila (said like 'Oolvilah'), a county even today. It's near Pori, which you can find in the west coast. Likely a known Opera Castle in Eastern Finland, Olavinlinna (Olaf's Castle), is also named in his honour.
really great video again! tip: include surnames (since there are lots of olafs, hakons etc in norwegian history) + use a better translater when it comes to the speech bubbles ;)
Please consider covering the battle of Aint Jalut. This battle halted the Mongol advance into Egypt and was one of the few major defeats the Mongols had faced at that time. There is a lack of videos covering this battle despite it's politics and militarily significance.
Hey could you do the battle of Badon Hill? It’s the only battle we know of for sure that had king Arturius
These videos are so well made. Awesome stuff 😎
Next up the Battle of Narva (1700) in the Great northen war =)
Nah it's to overestimated, we all know how it happend. People don't know all the other battles Sweden won against coward Russians ;)
Knud/Knut wasn't actually king of Denmark when he reclaimed the throne in England. His brother Harald III was, he died however after a short and uneventful reign, and Knud ascended the danish throne. Since he was crowned in England first, he did spend most of his time there as well, and was also buried there.
They have into the shine of the southern cross
I love that this is basically a snapshot of history surrounding a few interconnected and influential people of that time and place. This is much less a "Battle of" and more of a "History surrounding Olaf" which is awesome.
*HIRE A SAMURAI!*
Oh wait...
*CHRISTIANISE ALL THE KINGDOMS!*
You could make a religion out of this.
Poor people who could not afford to samuries did not hire samuries.
Your videos are great. I don't mind the ads as long as they are not in the middle of the video.
So, no strategy (I'll just walk into Norway and hope for the best), no tactics (I'll just run down the hill and hope for the best), meager numbers... this is more of a brawl of Stiklestad than the Battle of Stiklestad. The video is great, though, as always, the subject is just not that impressive (at least for me).
The supremecy of the Danes always lasts
Olaf the Holy was also later named "Rex Perpetuus Norvegiae", the Eternal King of Norway and all other monarchs who ruled after him were merely ruling in his name.
St. Olaf ora pro nobis !
Interesting going on a virtual tour of Stiklestad with Google Maps; beautiful country.
I get this is sponsored content, but viking battles aren't particularly intersting to talk about since it's shieldwall vs shieldwall pushing eachother. The context is a lot more interesting, but still a decent video. I fucking loved the bulletpoints at the end though
I just discovered you guys and man this channel is so cool! Thank you for all the content :)
Could you guys maybe do the Battle of Sekigahara?
Or the battle of Vienna?
Of course his body couldn't decay. it's cold af up there.
Nope its not. I live 600km further north and can confirm the climate up here is quite nice.
Absolutely wonderful work! May this venture which will pollinate the minds of new lovers of history earn you both fame and money. Again thank you. Sincerely Michael Anthony Weeks San Antonio Texas.
VINLAND SAGA
Perhaps Olaf would appear in one of the later chapters as Canute opponent
At least they're in North America after years of raiding and later conquering Britain, and farm thrall in Sweden now.
Here a big fan of Thorkell the Tall :-) static.comicvine.com/uploads/original/11123/111238279/5987425-6069780377-029.p.png
He could've use some manga shots
Correct
I love the details of who's who and why they are allies or enemies. Such greats videos :)
First they tried to mess with the Finns but had to look for something softer 😋
*Harder*
You mean somebody who had more wealth, Finns had nothing worth raiding.
@@LucidWanderer You might be wrong. Finland (or the areas to north from the gulf of Finland) used to be quite well known for many things, and Finns used to have regional "kings". Finns sure were rich enough, thanks to trading their own goods that northern wilderness and thousands of lakes provided.
During the 11th century and later on, Finns somehow regressed, or other nations went forward in technology and economics. (which make Finland look like backwater)
@@ZeroNitroMan finland was never wealthy lmfao. finland was full of asiatic horde tribes until the swedes and russians intermixed with u and made u majority white
the way i understand it is that one of the vikings primary trade goods (except for slaves) was pelts from the deep woods of finland, and they got those pelts primarily from finnish hunters and traders. no good in raiding and killing the people that provide you with your most priced trading goods. and from the finn perspective, the vikings could provide them with all kinds of stuff that they could never get on their own, so i believe there was a symbiotic relationship going on there for the most part that had grown gradually for a long time.
The first battle mentioned is the battle in all of history that took place closest to my town as a kid - where the Finnic tribes thoroughly routed the Norwegian Viking raiders about 1010.
The Vikings did nothing wrong.
I believe it's Magnus did nothing wrong
You mean, the VIKINGS
To be Viking is a way of life
Their contemporaries were Christians, the Vikings were heathens, and they had to find and explanation why those heathens regularly won against the side which god favoured. And of course, if they weren´t normal humans but demons from hell supported by Satan, that would solve the problem.
well its intresting becuse the viking raids were not as usual as we think. Also the monks they attacked were by no means deffencless, as They arguably had some experience with fighting. NORGE STÅR TIL DOVRE FALLER!
Just to add. The army attacking Olaf was a peasant army. Random folks from the north wanting revenge from Olafs ruthless methods of christening, he would slaughter anyone who looked upon him the wrong way. Olafs army was a professional army with large shields and phalanx formation.
Thorir Hund or Tore Hund (Hund meaning dog), was a local chieftain in the north, who Olaf had murdered his son. He saught revenge and likely he dealt the final blow with the spear that olaf used to kill his son.
And the peasant army came in on boats if i am not mistaken.
last time i was this early the danes ruled the english
This was a very interesting video. It's always nice to know more about little known battles n events in history.
Plz do the Northmen conquest of Wessex and Mercia plzz
Genghis Khan uhm yes they did. Sven forkbeard in 1013 and his son Knut the great did in 1014
As a norwegian i had heard the story... but being able to see the map and hearing it agein made it alot clearer. :)
Way to give up the high ground olaf
Im from Norway and i have been to Stiklestad
been*,
Thx
Finland. Always causing trouble.
Vikings coming back from Finland: "That was horrible. Let's not go there ever again."
@@RoberttheWise They really didn't want to spend lot of time there. It seems they made some cost/benefit calculations and decided to concentrate on british isles or france :D
I mean this is channel is meant to tell battles and to explain their context in the war, not the opposite. I think it is quite more interesting when we actually can see battles and tactics used by the generals :)
wars of the roses pl0x
*war 0f the r0ses
yeah sorry i was born from in-vitro fertilization so i'm gay
Aguila701 b0th
Love your historical context in this !!
Alt for Norge!
Enig. Aøt for Norge
Thomas Hankelbjerg Norge er lei av unioner.
@@BamberdittoPingpong Handelsunion uten sentralisert makt er absolutt interessant. Inkluder England også så snakker vi om en sterk union. Dette skulle våre folkevalgte jobbet hardt for nå som Britene planlegger brexit!
In a little more than a month we are having the annual Ólavsvøka (Olaf's wake) to honor king Olaf. It's the biggest holiday in the Faroe Islands and people from all over come to the capital, Tórshavn (Thor's haven/harbour), to celebrate for 3 days. I can't wait!
Amen
The highest troop and casualty estimates I've heard claim that Olaf's army numbered 6600 men and suffered 4200 casualties(64%), while the army of Árnason, Hund, and Hárek numbered 14.400 men and suffered 4600 casualties(32%). While the numbers may be inflated it might still be true that Olaf's army faced a force that outnumbered them by approximately 2,2-to-1 and suffered a nearly two thirds casualty rate.
Could you please cover the battle of Mühldorf (1322)? thx :)
...considered the last major medieval battle w/o firearms...
Or Gammelsdorf 1313
Can we please appreciate the crisp "k" sound of the word "Duke" at 2:32
More Viking battles.
Good video as always. Love your presentation, backstory and animation.
Did any 1 read Vinland saga it about this period ?
i see you are a man of culture aswell
Though about it when I heard Thorkell!
Thorkell the tall i love that manga.
just drooped every thing I do to watch your Video
"Knock! Knock! It's Christianity." 😂😂😂😂
I actually live here LOL. Was so random when i found this channel! Nice video!
04:25 “What’s Wrong With Odin?”
EVERYTHING YOU HEATHEN
Blade Strikes Thank you.
If your not Jewish, why do you worship a Jewish tribal God?
Because it is not a "Jewish Tribal God". I do not care how the Jews sees it, but believe it or not the concept of Jesus Christ, his persona and his sacrifice wildly differentiates the two religions. No need to bring politics into this, it is just their theology.
Jesus was a semite, no?
Abraham was too, right?
If I'm going to practice a religion in the first place, it's going to be the religion of my ancestors.
Yeah? What about the 2000s years of ancestors you have? Or are you just going to replace the whole theology and morality of Christianity which brought both Western and Eastern Europe to where it is right now with some new age nonsense that you read as an anecdote somewhere?
Happy to see my norse friends got their own Baz battle video finally, though you dont mind sharing it with Denmark? ;P
Hope to see something about Sweden as well soon :-) keep up the amazing work!
Vinland Saga anyone !
wael abdeljelil hellz yeah when i heard thorkell i got excited.
Suomi mainittu! Torilla tavataan!
@Claystead Half of finnish words right there :'D Saatana, perkele and vittu were lacking, though. Then it would have been complete :D Nothing beats the slow and strong "perkele" of frustrated finnish bear.. Umm i meant man!