Mass Grave of Beheaded Vikings Discovered
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- Опубликовано: 15 мар 2010
- A recent discovery in Dorset, UK sheds light on the grisly nature of the Viking Age. The bodies of 51 men of Scandinavian origin are unearthed, all decapitated, leading to the speculation they were victims of an execution, likely by an Anglo Saxon militia they were captured by.
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This shows the frustration and anger against Vikings
Damn, guess those Vikings raided the wrong village lol
It’s parts of a jomsviking saga, they were captured and none would kneel to get beheaded so they all stood up for it and none flinched until one jomsviking kneeled but got one of the saxons to hold his hair out for him so it doesn’t get bloody, then when the man executing started swinging the jomsviking jerked his head back and the Saxon’s hands were cut off, the leader of the saxons found this funny and let the rest of the jomsvikings go
You watch to much tv lol
@@krazyhorse9636 me? My friend that is a jomsviking execution site. Even in described in the sagas.
@@krazyhorse9636 dude he is right its a story from sagas
@@krazyhorse9636 It's true but I don't believe this was the case in this discovery video.
I visited the area in 2011, the year after the discovery of this grave, and I understood the bodies were those of a Viking raiding party who met an unfortunate end in that they were captured and slaughtered by the local inhabitants, instead of the other way round as would have been the norm. Apparently tests on one set of bones proved that the man concerned came from somewhere within the Arctic Circle. The reason for the excavation and the road building was to allow for planned extra traffic for the 2012 Olympic Games and the sailing events; had it not been for the Olympics then I imagine these bodies would never have been discovered and dug up.
The local press at the time of my visit to the area in 2011 said that tests on the bones proved they were definitely of Scandinavian origin, ie Vikings, and that they date back to the time of the Viking invasions. How the local inhabitants knew the Vikings were about to attack I just don't know, but whatever the reason it seems the locals gave the Vikings a taste of their own medicine ! I'm sure the local county museum in Dorchester would have more information.
@Aryan Ranger You're wrong
A T aryan ranger is so wrong. The people who investigated the bones could even tell where these young warriors were brought up in their formative years. It escapes my memory at the moment but it was definitely Scandinavia. They were not Celts. You can’t reason with some people.
@@Winterfellen no they are right
In this grave is somewhere the body of the great viking Ivar the boneless
Erik: This is terrible, Bjørn. They're going to behead us all.
Bjørn: Yes! We're gonna be in a RUclips video!
Ivar: Told you we should have went to France!
😂😂
The fact that they had been cut with a sharp blade from front to back speaks volumes about the fearlessness of the men.... Most beheadings of those days was done from the rear and criminals etc of the time a dull blade was used... Despite the fact that they was beheaded this was done in a thoughtful respectful/military/honour kind of way.....
Kind of makes you wonder what was actually going on... And why if they was raiders as it said in the video.. Why would they of been given the honour of a sharp blade.
Lesson number one BBC
Viking is not Scandinavia Viking period is pre Scandinavia.
... nobody ever used dull blades to behead people. Like ever.
Also the Anglo Saxons didnt behead criminals they hung them and it was considered barbaric by the normans that they did this so they actually outlawed gallows for a period
Hanging became a practice as a sacrifice kind of for odin
I suspect a Seax. Sharp as hell
Well, they got their six feet of English ground.
Delusional.
@@Orcalamiwhat??, so natives shouldnt fight back then no, and just suck it up, jog on yer feckin pimple, and yer look a tw@t in ya suit?..
So were the British royalty they killed.
not all raids were successful....the visiting team lost this one....
there were a long documentry about it. couldn't find. help please
Thats incredible
No heaven or hell , only death.
How do you know for sure? You are still alive so you would know 🤷♂️
@@AK-47ISTHEWAY I don`t have to be dead to know.
i live opposite this burial! ⚔️
@northman585, they weren't Brittons, they were Anglo Saxons/English and no one suggested that anyway.
So they makes it alright then??, unreal karma will come calling one day for cherry picking idiots like you..
I lived just a few miles away when these guys were found. Was exciting news. And less than 10 miles from the site of the first Viking visitors to England, Portland 789AD.
I thought the first Vikings landed on holy island in the north east of England?
@@jimiwrout5259 Lindesfarne is the place, but that was in 793 but they had already attacked the island of Portland four years earlier in 789. Many sources seem to forget that point.
@@Erebus.666. oh right, I didn’t know that. Thanks
Sinistvr pfp
The first monastery to be raided was 793 at Lindisfarne, off the northeast coast, and the first recorded raid being at Portland, Dorset in 789. Also raids in Scotland on the holy island of Iona in 794, the year following the raid earlier mentioned on the other holy island of Lindisfarne, Northumbria.
The sagas speak of men that insisted on being beheaded from the front, to show the executioners that they won't flinch. This corroborates it somewhat.
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HAIL ODEN 🙌🏻🍻 Rest in Valhalla ❤️ Skål
Oden was turk
Greek
Rest in piss
Valhalla doesn't exist and nor does Odin. The great king Olaf Haraldsson made it very clear.
Skål
That village was ready.
Got to love science.
Good on you feisty girl. I hope you a member of my tribe!
Damn
Those men are in Valhalla now.
Valhalla is in Dorset?
I wonder if they’ve done DNA 🧬 analysis considering the advancements in technology over the last ten years?
@AUSTMENN What?
Maybe the legend of the Highlander was real afterall !!
Are you suggesting the ancient Britons were not capable of defending themselves? May I remind you of a Viking force of 300 ships were annihilated at Standford Bridge in 1066 and only 30 ships returned. Beheading was the done thing in Britain at the time.
What do you think the modern image of saxons has changed? It has not.
Stamford Bridge, in Yorkshire I believe it was some relation of Harold.
Wow luv the Viking and Saxon era thank u
@adventussaxonum When i wrote Older and more experienced Vikings i reffered to people such as Egil skalagrimson and so on.
Wow
Waste 15 seconds of the report telling me they’re not Roman. I used to do that sort of thing when I had to flesh out a school report to make the minimum word requirement.
Yes, that sort of annoyed me, too. I once read a history book (part way) in which every topic was introduced with a bunch of facts which the author then unpicked as untrue. I got fed up with reading history that wasn't, and stopped.
@@amandajstari'd be carefull with that thinking, that means others history could be looked at the same way to then? , after all whats good for the goose is good for the gander, i suppose its all good and well untill it rubs against your narratives that you believe in...
Beheaded?
Thats not very nice to do against early tourists.
I think it was the frustration and anger against Viking invasions
@@darkminister1503 lol, I know
Viking tourists deserved that .
"Brave men all lost sons of the Norway..that's good scrimshaw"
@joonte1010 - AD 900? Result of failed viking raids against Edward the Elder. Wessex had got its act together under Alfred . The beginnings of the English reconquest of the Danelaw. Teens and early twenties sounds about the right age for many warriors. What was the average age for combat troops in Vietnam (in the enlightened 20th century)?
Someone's been watching too much TV. Watch where you learn kid.
iiiiiiin Vietnam he was nineteen. N-N-N-N Nineteen, Nineteen.
@VigisKane Ah, for the good old days, eh? ;o)
I suppose that is the problem, "What do you do with a captured Viking?" If it was a Frenchman, then you could ransom him, but with that many Vikings? The problem is you'd have to be strong enough to prevent a rescue raid.
I have seen church doors in the south of England which locals claim had the skin of Viking nailed to it. Most of my DNA comes from the British Isles, but I share 25% with Norway. So some of my ancestors didn't get along with others of my ancestors, and some did.
@AUSTMENN Greetings!
It was pretty common to nail the skin of enemies on cathedrals it seems, we have a story like that in my city.
That was a monk from lindersfarne...
@@jason6848wow i know yankees was horrible to the native but didnt realise they done that, what city was that in??, the yankee north or dixie land south?..
@@JRandallSHavnt you sad freaks got nothing better to do, than pretent you playing a game of clash of clangs , all germanic tribes in europe and Britain will be united for the common good as they all brethren, unlike you cluseless pricks who dont know their arses from their elbows...and think DNA will change who you are!! Pathetic its as cringe as a Irish 1%er im half Irish and English by the way...
Wow luv Viking history
@HarryBodensson It was just a joke:)
Happens when you invade Angleland🏴
@MrCattdog, may I remind you that the English conquered a third of the earth's surface, and are responsible for the language you are speaking now.
t1t296 many languages do exist even before english was invented
Maiden castle was near by . All of the Vikings were beheaded. In britonic-Celtic tradition, beheading was the thing especially of you stuck it on a pole afterwards. It was a routine to show all enemies that you are not welcome here. They believe in deprecating the head from the body, you cannot find your way to the after life. It's documented and written in the London History museum and Norwich Castle; the homeland of Boudicca, the ECENI tribe Queen.
But this you tube presentation describes it as the Saxon Period, It also says the Vikings invaded to steal Saxon Gold. The Saxons invaded and settled in England from 400AD until about 800 AD. Norwich Castle is in Norfolk. Weymouth is in Dorset. Aren't you off center historically, tribally and geographically? According to my history reading East Anglia, by 800AD had been invaded by Danish Vikings.
Boudicea was around at the time of the Romans - that's about 700 years before these events.
I think what he was implying is that beheading has been used as an execution method in Britain until a least Charles 1
@AUSTMENN it is a jomsviking saga
Angle saxons, jutes and frisians was not celtic but Germanic
Nope they was a mix with ancient Britons. In fact a better term would be anglo celt saxons, or saxon celt concidering many germanic tribes would of had celt from the mainland europe anyway...
So many historians with credible sources here...
Surprisingly little Wicing (Viking) DNA in the living UK population actually. Despite their alleged rapine tendencies apparently they were too thick to find the right hole.
(I'm married to one - maths/biology never her top subjects
@Paul Darlington: I have two Honours degrees and one Phd. I have Scandinavian DNA. I have a friend who has has two Phds. He also has Scandinavian DNA. You say Vikings 'apparently too thick to find the right hole.' You sound ignorant.
Paul Darlington atleast all the other lads find her right hole.
@Aryan Ranger apparently u r the thicc one here....
besides of maybe the wealthiest ones Vikings couldnt have been thick, the most accurate description for their average height comes from a middle eastern guy who compared them to a palm tree kind that grows to slightly under 6 feet as for their bodys they wouldve usually probably been more on the strainy muslce type side due to unlike believed not having food and drinks on mass. In fact in Scandinavia of the time agriculture was hard, the natural plant life didnt have much diggestable things to offer and hunting with bows in uneven terrain and dark forrests isnt the easiest thing. Cattle and other farm animals were limited due to not having much to sustain them. So in all actually they probably were pretty average looking people with a lot of functional muscle cause of a lot of hard work (in the fields/on ships/in battle ...) but not that much volume cause getting the protein to sustain it wouldve been hard. Most greeks also didnt look like Adonis even though most aspired to be like him.
oh no... my brothers... rest in valhalla!
Sweyn Forkbeard !!!??? Is that really the english translation of the danish king named Svend Tveskæg? If it is - Its the best translation I have heard for a long time - I am still laughing.
What about Ragnar Hairy Breeches, the nickname of Ragnar Lothbrok?
I have Viking ancestors.....not those ones obviously
I am a Northumbrian, R1A Z18
AND?....
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 from the Bible ❤
Utter superstitious unnecessary bullying nonsense right here children 👆
@@matimus100 There is evidence that Vikings who traveled to the Middle East ended up converting to Islam. They loved the fact of paradise after death instead of constant battle with their heathen gods. So much for Odin and Thor I guess 🤷♂️🤣
@@AK-47ISTHEWAYwrong 🤡 not all Vikings believed in superstition Ragnar Lothbrok for example questioned this poison many time's and its written
Islam also was dealing with the Norsemen not the Vikings from Sweden.
Know your history man-child
Islamic leaders paid them to be their body guards they didnt convert to no bullshit stoneage religion, in fact you can see saxon/viking graffiti in the main mosque in constantinople they wrote whilst obviously waiting for whoever to stop praying...
At least the blades were sharp
Vk263 is one of my dna matches and another one
What test did u use? I find this very interesting
Bjorn is that you?
Those were terribly violent times. These Vikings must have been a terrible threat to all, to have been given no quarter once captured. They lived by the sword, and died by it.
Nice pfp. And yes it was probably an awful time to live in. Constant war
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs
Rudyard Kipling
And it's not like the English weren't invaders themselves...
Only much after oh and btw just like every country on earth
Why are you so defensive ?
@@black666phillipbecause they're are 100% right yer TIT!, why are you cherry picking and demonising one peoples?..
what it should have said yes from scandinavian origin but the DNA shows tham from sweden,which it goes' on to say later. so all 51 bodies are of swedish vikings and as the runestones say in sweden, swedish vikings were in england.
The common language at that time was based on The Runes, also known as The Futhark. The Scandinavian Futhark was very similar to the Anglo-Saxon Futhark. The Futhark was used in England until medieval times.
Vikings in England were mostly from Denmark. Also danes and sweden are badically identical in genetic studies
@VigisKane Of course nationalists throw themselves over an opportunity like this. but sadly, misinformation is the biggest problem with youtube, at least when old info stays on the web.. no this is what invaders used to do to each other, they were most likely executed by vikings, a later study tells us (Swedish experts have aided in the process). Let me remind you, this is an ongoing investigation.
what happens when we die?? I wonder
@AUSTMENN okay 😂😂😂
@AUSTMENN no evidence of a soul whatsoever primate
You just die, everything gone.
The Vikings got their parties mixed up.
The hate was real😂
Weird, cuz i tought bones are gone after 1000 years
You ever heard of a fossil or grave?
Egyptian mummies?.
Would be nice???, theres still plenty of time yet though? 🤔🤗.
50 voices lamenting back in Scandinavia, "We know that they haven't returned yet .. but in the meantime, why don't they write?"
Maybe they shouldn't have went in the first place then...
Damn,Ragnar and the boys had a rough experiecne
Cops didn't mess about in 🇬🇧 back then neither
Vikings from The Great Heathen Army?
Sick
But ok for the others to do it, is that what you mean??.. Oxymoronic fudge packer..
@@wor53lg50 no i meant that its sick that they found another piece of interesting history calm down 💀
@@thijsb2119 well you never know, going by some of comments in here, it like English saxon bad, viking good... Viking such sweet understandable site see'ers, English Anglo-saxon nasty imperialists how dare they chop these warriors of peace's heads off in their own lands... Did you get that vibe to??, it needs to stop, demonisation can cause radicalism, i keep seeing "if you dont learn from history will repeat itself" usuall typed by the same obviously clueless feckless un-educated people, that on the other hand are chimeing in with this media demonising of cherry picked nations to surf the bandwagon of re-visionist history for for woke idiots...
Match the heads to the bodied in a game a lottery you can win.anybody who guesses 3 can get 300 bucks.the rest of the procedes will go to fund the shovels and the museum.
What kind of disease would make their heads fall off like that?
Liberalism
@@zzbudzzand wokeism..
Chances they was given a settlement and then double crossed.
More than likely their ships had been burnt and couldn't escape.
Come to britain and find out.
@joonte1010 they were Viking raiders, markings on their teeth and the fact that they were in their late teens and early twenties proves this. They fought bravely and probably didn't surrender at all, but they lost to a better force. They are most certainly feasting in the halls of Valhöl and preparing for the final battle against the Gods, the Ragnarok.
How do you know they didn’t surrender if they were all beheaded? Wouldn’t that suggest they were killed after capture?
@@wazzlopiok240 I have to laugh when I get emails about replies to comments I left nearly a decade ago! Yes, obviously they were captured and then executed.
Hey you, you are finally awAke
Raiders, pillagers, invaders, and r@pists, and this is what happens to them..
I live in america. I did my dna. Added up my heritage.mother side im 28% northwest europe. 21% germanic europe. 19% scotland 6% Wales 3% Sweden-Denmark 3% portugal..
And father side im 10%northern italy. 7% southern italy... Im almost 7 foot tall like a giant beast. Blond hair blue eyes.. I think im of Viking Descendent. Can anyone decipher my DNA
Well it says you are 3 percent scandinavian, so.. 3 percent viking basically
Which DNA ancestry site differentiates the three nations of Britain? From what I've seen, the ancestral DNA of England, Scotland and Wales is too similar to accurately tell them apart.
My grandfather is more Scandinavian dna and he's not even 6ft...
Well, all vikings where not so extreme tall as you are but many had features as you have. If we take europe and divide it in two half, north and south europe, you have mostly north europe ancestry from your dna-test and besides the nordic countries, north europe as a whole do have people, even nowadays with that kind of features.
The vikings took many slaves when they raided and some where sold and others got married in scandinavia or other places where the vikings settled down after there conquests, raids and travels. So i would say mostly people, doe it was so long ago, have mixed ancestors, more or less, even in scandinavia due to all the mixing from the lands they went to.
So again, in that time period much more people than now had those features like you in northern europe, especially in scandinavia and among the vikings so i think you asume the right thing that you are a viking descendent, very likely. =)
The dna that make your appearance with your height, hair, eyes and so can come from those more nordic traits even if it would be much less than you have. A dna with more nordic, scandinavian, viking percent can have an apperance that look like, maybe more southern european, if the dna of the appearance have just those dna that make the appearance even if its say 3 percent southern europe and 97 percent northern europe or whatever. =) Sorry for bad english in the text.
Typically, the average male Viking would usually be between 5 foot 7 and 5 foot 9, while the average female would be between 5 foot 1 and 5 foot 3.
Scandinavian isn't Viking bbc
Are you dumb?
There was a viking that was about to have his head cut off but he asked if someone could hold his hair so it doesn’t get blood on it.. as the axe was being swung down towards the back of his neck he pulled his head backwards and the axe cuz off the arms of the guy holding his hair. The one who organised the execution laughed and said he’ll let him live as he found i funny. Can’t say for sure if this is true or not. 🤷
This is a scene from the show Vikings
@@Hari-wi7sr the TV show is new, that story is over 1000 years old and was recorded in a saga.
He let the rest of the jomsviking live . It is a jomsviking saga
@@lowkey_gaming5956 Thorkell’s story is itself unclear and shrouded in legend, like most sagas.
F*** around and find out lol
That lot would give Saudi or even Isis a run for their money.
The Anglo supremacy
Big forehead =smart
Those Vikings were just young boys, The older and more experienced ones were more fearsome.
Right concidering 25 was practically classed as a geriatric and one foot in the grave at those times.. Fool..
Great teeth anyway
When foreign invaders try and take your lands!!!
Don't forget Boudicca!
Boudica was around at Roman times 600 years before you simpleton.
see that... mama always said don't mess with the brits...
Ask the Americans that.
Im alittle late but the americans lost more lives in the american revolution and lost more damage to their land (ports,towns burnt ect) and as soon as the viking age started raiding england they slowly declined due to the fact they loved everything about saxon england. They even copied English kings coins for their own back in scandinavia.
@@adam-uy6qg That's because they were practically the same.
Fue el Mayo Zambada jaja
Valhalla awaits!!
For the Vikings this is a good death.
And they deserved it for their heinous crimes.
Yup sent them to Valhalla
I have had a DNA test and I have scanndinavian, and finland which is a scanndinavian country, DNA,GOOD INIT.
I LOVE ALLAH AND SAVED ALL HUMANS ALL MY LIFE IN UK AND PK KARBALA WAS ENOUGH EYE OPENER FOR ALL
Jokes on you, they all Anglo-Saxons
Oh i thought they was a pile of gupta's... Ah well another time maybe..
No wonder the Romans called them Barbarians 👍
Its called fuk about and find out, thats what happens when you push a peoples to the extreme, they finally snap...
This is just the result of some vikings having fun and testing the lower limits of how many men where actually needed to dominate the puny weak English people.:)
Turns out 50 was not enough. They gambled and lost , what can you say,.
They had balls!
The Brittons and English were different people. I agree Christianity made them weak.
Same with the Native Americans
I'd reply properly to this retarded comment, but unfortunately it's a decade old.
Hope you're less of an idiot nowadays.