Growing up in Quebec we all knew that the Vikings were there before the French and the English. I have been enlightened about Freydis. Never knew about her. Thanks Ollie for your research and excellent narration. 🗺🧭🗺🧭🗺
true. but do you know that a high percentage of us English have Viking blood ? I come from the Southeast of England in what was part of the Dane-law, a area that was rules by the Vikings for several 100 years. They did not bring many woman with them so took local wives. As such many of us have as much viking blood as English :)
She was evil, conniving, scheming, and extremely cunning, not deranged. It was said that with a man, you can always expect that he will strike back and get even when someone picks a fight, but when it came to women, one must always be careful since you can never read their minds, or predict how far they would go to get revenge, and what they wanted.
Hardly. There is nothing cunning about it...in fact it's a frequent occurrence that a woman lies to men about what other men have done so they beat them/kill them for the womans own benefit. Happens in court regularly these days for example I wouldn't call it ruthless either, just cold and sociopathic. In other words, mad / deranged. This video is excessively generous to her with that generosity unfounded in fact..so far as the sagas can be considered fact. You can predict it too by the way...you just can't if you presume them to act as men. Poison is a womans weapon as they say...and often that poison is of the mind. Conniving perhaps but cunning absolutely not. Deranged absolutely. She was a sociopath which IS deranged. Evil perhaps but imo more akin to deranged than evil.
@@chrisallum9044 It could go either way. She could have been cunning, or deranged, or both. But I respect your opinion, and your views, don't worry. Regarding women lying through their teeth, I'm unfortunately acquainted with more than one of those kind who are good at making themselves look like the victims, even if I'm also a female.
I'm watching it for entertainment but I am tired of the PC brigade trying to "rewrite" history. Heaven knows only way ppl learn about this stuff now is via TV shows and they are only somewhat accurate on certain points.
I'm my Mothers in this case my Fathers savege daughter the one who runs barefoot cursing sharp stones,i'm my Mothers savage daughter i won't cut my hair i won't lower my voice😁great song
It's going to be interesting when Vikings Valhalla gets to this story. The girl who is playing Freiydas is doing a very good job. Same with the guys who are playing Leif Ericson and Harold Sigurson. Can't wait for them to start becoming brutal!
History is often written by the victors. In some instances, it is written hundreds of years after the fact by people who would have taken great issue with the actions of any strong willed woman. Given her lineage I expect she was ambitious and cunning, but certainly not one dimensional. As a woman, she would have been a convenient scapegoat at a time when heathen practices were fading as Christianity took over and women's places in the social order changed with it.
You are quite right! Freydis undoubtedly WAS, (by today's standards, if nothing else) both ruthless and cunning. Considering just easily people died in those days (women especially) she HAD to be. One did not survive, let alone thrive, unless said person was the meanest, most brutal of the bunch! People like Eric and Leif could afford to be ~somewhat~ magnanimous; Both were MORE than capable of slaughtering anyone that crossed them. Freydis, as a women in a time Christianity was fast rising, had to be even more so. As you say, she made for a convenient scapegoat. And I daresay she adapted quite well! (No doubt she'd have given Lagertha a run for her money...)
As always with historical documents we must remember the biases of the author. Here the author of the two sagas are Christian monks. They are not known of their support of the individuality of women. Especially not ones that stepped outside of what the so called christian values proscribe. As such I raise huge doubts onto many of these so called evil deeds described. But who knows. She may really have been an evil conniving woman.
@@Sacredearthling Most certainly. Many of the various conquerors for one. Or the various knights in middle age Europe. Say Richard the Lionheart, at Acre with his massacre.
Thank you so much for this amazing video and for the research behind! It made me think about a book I read not that long ago, from a French writer. This is an uchrony in which Freydis would have finally left Vinland with her men after her battle with the Canadian tribes, and arrived in the Caribbean. After a long journey through the islands and the north of South America, spreading diseases among the inhabitants, getting bounced from place to place after a short period of time, they would finally have stopped in Cuba. The locals would gradually become immune to European diseases and Freydis would marry the local king. This would change human history for good, because in the book, when the Spanish came centuries later to colonise the continent, the people were prepared and not decimated by unknown diseases. I really wonder how she died in real life!!!
I feel we going down that very path with the TV show Freydis, there is just something off about her, one moment she is this loving person then the next she is cold and distant, especially towards Harald.
You can also see that she is a lair and schemer. She claims to have been raped by a specific person but then we see her to hook up with the first male she meets and when she's supposed to take her revenge she kills some random guy
She was not cold, she was just going her own way which doesn't mean you cannot do it while you still love the person. It was an example of a great sense of freedom
Great video!! Remember my Germanic Celtic and Pagan brothers and sisters " what we do in live echoes in eternity ".. Words of Maximus Decimus Meridius.
A MAN who is at a disadvantage but still fights: what courage, he is so BRAVE. A man who is behind a massacre : he is RUTHLESS A WOMAN at a disadvantage (ie pregnant) but manages to scare away the enemies: she must be CRAZY A woman behind a massacre: Ok, she is just CRAZY
@@garethwilliams4467 There was only one or two tribe inhabiting the areas around the vikings Vinland. Please look up their territories during that time.
This story is based on ONE maybe TWO accounts written hundreds of years after the events, likely by biased Christian men. So, take it with a grain of salt. Freydis was raised with 3 brothers in a rough Viking house. Her father murdered neighbors and she did what she had to in a cruel, harsh environment to thrive. If she was a man, these polemics would not even be used.
It's interesting that throughout history Women and Men of questionable character ethics and morals can and do obtain power and leadership and are remembered throughout history while the men and women of greater deeds and contributions to history are forgotten.
This actually strikes me as probably roughly what happened, since, if someone in those days wanted to smear a woman, they would probably accuse her of promiscuity.
Really good point. What guy wants it recorded for all time that they were bullied by a bossy wife and committed murder and false witness to the local authorities?
Hate to be the bearer of a "fact check" but I wasn't even looking to make one and the painting of the Oxbow (6:46) of the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts, across from the Skinner Mtn. Range and just above Mount Tom, is a pretty long drive, never mind, river craft like the vessels the Vikings would have used to travel up the river to get this far north. Present-day Holyoke, sits aside a cataract, just one I'm aware of on the Connecticut from the Long Island Sound to its origins way up where New Hampshire, Vermont and Province Quebec are share borders. The furthest south that the Vikings made their way into what became the United States was what became known as Maine. Have to confess another thing. I had a natural edge when it came to ID'ing the Oxbow because I used to live within five miles to the north of it. Still beautiful area, though.
It's not that she frightened the native Americans it's that there were a lot more matriarchal tribes back then a woman fighting like that got a lot of respect most of the matriarchal tribes had women warriors
You’re 💯 right; in fact I’ll go one better; the American tribes were mostly Matriarchal and had women warriors-especially the successful ones. Think about it logically, what tribe wouldn’t send their weakest members who didn’t have the benefit of birth control, or tampons, to fight for the lives of their men. You go guurl.
And also when she exposed her breasts, the men stopped to stare (as men do even now) and started to argue if the were lopsided or better than their wives !!
Here we meet again sweet Nancy! I'm later one hour to listen to Ollie's video, just got back from Dr's. Sorry couldn't reply to you before, I was busy to get there.. will check later, I feel so tired! Much love Sis🌻👭🌻
The painting of the Oxbow captures the Connecticut River between Hadley and Northampton, MA. How the story of Freydis Ericsdottir could bring this illustration in is beyond me. Like so many other "B-roll" films used in television and movies, the use of this Hudson School painting doesn't help the video. I'm pretty familiar with the area where the Oxbow is. I was born in Northampton and my family lived just in Hadley just a few miles north of the Oxbow.
Im happy to see that our history has become known allover the world, allthough the "Vikings" in the modern movies is far from the original Vikings,names,storys, many names and persons in the Viking series didn´t exist at the same era of time at all. Alot of the Swedish Vikinghistory got lost during the fire of the castle "Tre kronor" built 1200 century but burned down to the ground in the 1500 century. Maybe the most famous ( what we know without the lost documents) was king Rurik who united the tribes and ppl in todays Ukraine. The Varjag ( Väröingar) from the island of Värö in the archepelago of Stockholm was famous and also wanted due to their skills in battle. Many of them travelled to the far east to become bodyguards of some sultan. Harald Hårdråde ( Hes name ws NOT Hardrada) became a leader of the Varjags later on. Btw...Hårdråde means "Harshruler" ish. And....it´s NOT Valhalla, it´s Valhöll or Valhall in old Norse which use to be the language spoken allover Scandinavia by that time.
Like a lot of people in the sagas, I’m often baffled when they do something we would consider underhanded or insane. Taking that into account, she was pretty cool but she’s no Lagertha.
The man of old would make her sound as ruthless as they are. I believe there’s many more stories of her braveness and compassion just like her father. The first story I believe is false. Nobody would have told the story because they would be dead , elaborated story.
Netflix uses the right names, but their story usually isn't even close to what really happened. I also wish they would try to the correct story as much as possible
I don't think the male heroes in the sagas were less "evil". Anyway we should always remember the source and the christians saw the norse as barbarians and it's easy to presume they were even more biased towards their women since they were different from christian women.
Who told you that Freydis was a "viking"? It is somehow funny. Neither she, nor her associates were vikings. Vikings is a kind of pirate, it not a nationality. Not all Norsemen were vikings.
She was not deranged at all. Had she been, she wouldn’t have been able to concoct the plan to have her brothers murdered in such a way that avoided her any actual punishment. She wasn’t mad in the slightest, but just cunning and ruthless. Sorry, had to repost the comment to get rid of some ignoble replies.
The video is messed up for me. I have this problem with many FB video as well. Other YT videos seem to be working fine. I really want to see your videos
Iv just started watching vikings valhalla I know in TV shows they have to make changes but in history men can ruffles but are heroes but woman do not get that in very early stages of history so we do have take grain of salt with this
So let me get this straight. She committed suicide while she was pregnant? I didn't understand that part. Can someone explain this confusion to me, please?
Try reading about Guđriđur Þorbjarnarđottir instead. She and her husband were there, but sailed further south, to America. Setteling next to the natives. Exchanging goods and learning. Having a son. (The first European born in today's US). Trouble only arose when she served the lactose intolerant native people cow's milk. (The Norse settlers did bring livestock in their ships). People got sick, and thought Guđriđur tried to poison them... The Norse had to leave, and sailed back to Greenland and Iceland. Guđriđur's nickname is "The far travelled". She even went to Rome. To see the Pope. Love from Norway 🇳🇴
My problem with the way they wrote her character in the show was she was dangerously close to being a "Mary Sue". Made the character kind of boring and unrealistic.
shed going to become more crazy and power hungry as time goes on. Honestly, I think you could see that in that Upsala thing where she thinks she's destined. Wonder how it will play out with Harald
Excuse mwe but North America was discovered by an Irish monk who sailed there alone in a tiny wooden tub and I will fight the face of any man who says otherwise
All should realize that the Greenlander saga was just your typical Christian propaganda of the day. The original version told of her "heathen" ways and how she wouldn't conform to Christianity. It was written exactly as all moralistic revisionism stories were at that time in attempts to convert pagans to the ways of their patriarchal society. Realizing that the story was just demonizing a strong woman, the Norse rewrote the story to be more objective, which is known as the Erik the Red version; so in reality, there's little to no valid record of what really happened. Bummer.
There were no female Vikings. Norse women sure but not Vikings. This woman also was not a Viking. She was a colonist, a murderer, brave certainly but not a warrior or Viking.
@@earthmama9597 Respectfully, the Last Kingdom was not woke at all or maybe I am missing something? I am uncertain how it was woke, being the characters are based upon real people with some creative freedoms.
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Viking culture and history is always so fascinating to me.
Have you been to Jorvik in York ?
@@Michelle-qd9gm virgin Jorvik vs Chad Eoforwic
You should check out a channel named Norse Magic and beliefs.
I love fiesty women!
I'm pretty sure I dated one of her descendants.
looooool! Thank you so much for watching Jared! I hope you enjoyed the video!
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I think we all have. 😂😂
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Me too. She had silver blonde hair and green eyes. Mean as a snake
Growing up in Quebec we all knew that the Vikings were there before the French and the English.
I have been enlightened about Freydis. Never knew about her. Thanks Ollie for your research and excellent narration. 🗺🧭🗺🧭🗺
Thank you so much for watching Ayape!
Ayape dear hope your ok😘and all thought Columbus discovered America and he came from Italy,but of course now we know Vikings were the first😁
true. but do you know that a high percentage of us English have Viking blood ? I come from the Southeast of England in what was part of the Dane-law, a area that was rules by the Vikings for several 100 years. They did not bring many woman with them so took local wives. As such many of us have as much viking blood as English :)
Same way with Maine
Newfoundland isn't Québec, L'Anse aux Meadows is in Terre Neuve not Québec.
Great Video again. I knew nothing about Freydís Eiríksdóttir
That is why women's stories need to be told. This is a well done video although the conclusion is not what I had hoped.
I'm so grateful for all your videos! And i love Vikings histories so much! Thank you Ollie!♡
Thank you so much for watching Elke! Your comment means a lot to me!!
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You're welcome! And your videos means a lot to me! Thank you
Sagas are real gold..big collection of the historic facts packed in amazing stories and legends
Sagas are real gold..big collection of strikethrough* the historic facts packed in *strikethrough amazing stories and legends.
mmm facts?🤣😭
Norse fairytales
She was evil, conniving, scheming, and extremely cunning, not deranged.
It was said that with a man, you can always expect that he will strike back and get even when someone picks a fight, but when it came to women, one must always be careful since you can never read their minds, or predict how far they would go to get revenge, and what they wanted.
Hardly. There is nothing cunning about it...in fact it's a frequent occurrence that a woman lies to men about what other men have done so they beat them/kill them for the womans own benefit. Happens in court regularly these days for example
I wouldn't call it ruthless either, just cold and sociopathic. In other words, mad / deranged.
This video is excessively generous to her with that generosity unfounded in fact..so far as the sagas can be considered fact.
You can predict it too by the way...you just can't if you presume them to act as men. Poison is a womans weapon as they say...and often that poison is of the mind.
Conniving perhaps but cunning absolutely not. Deranged absolutely. She was a sociopath which IS deranged.
Evil perhaps but imo more akin to deranged than evil.
@@chrisallum9044 It could go either way. She could have been cunning, or deranged, or both. But I respect your opinion, and your views, don't worry. Regarding women lying through their teeth, I'm unfortunately acquainted with more than one of those kind who are good at making themselves look like the victims, even if I'm also a female.
You've met my wife then!!🤣
@@roywalker2649 My older sister happens to be like that; she and your wife would definitely get along.
@@WolfMaiden11 My God,that's a scary thought! 😨
This video was so cool. I'm that much more excited to watch Vikings Valhalla now. I feel like Freidis is the new Ivar. We'll see
I'm watching it for entertainment but I am tired of the PC brigade trying to "rewrite" history. Heaven knows only way ppl learn about this stuff now is via TV shows and they are only somewhat accurate on certain points.
I watched it!
It was sooooo gooood!!!
I'm my Mothers in this case my Fathers savege daughter the one who runs barefoot cursing sharp stones,i'm my Mothers savage daughter i won't cut my hair i won't lower my voice😁great song
Its Irish.
@@Boudicaisback I know 😁👍
@marinakaiser, have you heard the song My savage mother.
It's going to be interesting when Vikings Valhalla gets to this story. The girl who is playing Freiydas is doing a very good job. Same with the guys who are playing Leif Ericson and Harold Sigurson. Can't wait for them to start becoming brutal!
I hope that they continue the series until they sail to Vinland. They could do a complete series on just that
They cut off before setting sail 😢
History is often written by the victors. In some instances, it is written hundreds of years after the fact by people who would have taken great issue with the actions of any strong willed woman. Given her lineage I expect she was ambitious and cunning, but certainly not one dimensional. As a woman, she would have been a convenient scapegoat at a time when heathen practices were fading as Christianity took over and women's places in the social order changed with it.
Lets just pick and choose the parts we like and discard the ones we dont as false
@@bigpapa2195 I question any history written centuries after the fact, including the Bible.
You are quite right! Freydis undoubtedly WAS, (by today's standards, if nothing else) both ruthless and cunning. Considering just easily people died in those days (women especially) she HAD to be. One did not survive, let alone thrive, unless said person was the meanest, most brutal of the bunch! People like Eric and Leif could afford to be ~somewhat~ magnanimous; Both were MORE than capable of slaughtering anyone that crossed them. Freydis, as a women in a time Christianity was fast rising, had to be even more so. As you say, she made for a convenient scapegoat. And I daresay she adapted quite well! (No doubt she'd have given Lagertha a run for her money...)
You defending her just because she is a woman like yourself shows you r jus a base level chimp trying to uphold things that you relate with. A fool
Smart women!
Never heard any of this history except *Leif Erikson* so this was interesting ... THX
I wish someone would do a show on Haki and Hekja...Leif Erikson's two Scottish slaves/ scouts.
cool vid Ollie loved it anything viking is awesome looking forward to the next one mate
Thank you so much Jamie! Your comment means a lot to me!
Being a Celtic Viking descendant so proud of Eric daughter
I totallly agree with you on her character. I sure glad I wasn't around when she was.
There is no shortage of these women today. Just have a look through some family courts.
@@chrisallum9044 you got that right.
@@chrisallum9044 Who grab a sword while surrounded by barbarians and want them to fight, nah.
As always with historical documents we must remember the biases of the author. Here the author of the two sagas are Christian monks. They are not known of their support of the individuality of women. Especially not ones that stepped outside of what the so called christian values proscribe.
As such I raise huge doubts onto many of these so called evil deeds described. But who knows. She may really have been an evil conniving woman.
Very good point
I haven't watched the video yet but I imagine some men have done worse and are called heros in history🤷♀️
@@Sacredearthling Most certainly. Many of the various conquerors for one. Or the various knights in middle age Europe. Say Richard the Lionheart, at Acre with his massacre.
Agreed.
As it’s said, history is written by the winners or the scorned.
Thank you so much for this amazing video and for the research behind! It made me think about a book I read not that long ago, from a French writer. This is an uchrony in which Freydis would have finally left Vinland with her men after her battle with the Canadian tribes, and arrived in the Caribbean. After a long journey through the islands and the north of South America, spreading diseases among the inhabitants, getting bounced from place to place after a short period of time, they would finally have stopped in Cuba. The locals would gradually become immune to European diseases and Freydis would marry the local king. This would change human history for good, because in the book, when the Spanish came centuries later to colonise the continent, the people were prepared and not decimated by unknown diseases. I really wonder how she died in real life!!!
Bonjour Marine, est-ce que tu pourrais me dire le nom de ce livre s'il te plait? Je ne savais pas qu'il y avait d'autres livres référant à Freydis!
@@gspm23 oui le titre c’est « civilisations » de Laurent binet
@@marineb8629 Grand merci :)
I feel we going down that very path with the TV show Freydis, there is just something off about her, one moment she is this loving person then the next she is cold and distant, especially towards Harald.
You can also see that she is a lair and schemer. She claims to have been raped by a specific person but then we see her to hook up with the first male she meets and when she's supposed to take her revenge she kills some random guy
Is she the main character. Your talking about Viking Valhalla’s correct?
Sounds just like a typical woman
She was not cold, she was just going her own way which doesn't mean you cannot do it while you still love the person. It was an example of a great sense of freedom
Great video!! Remember my Germanic Celtic and Pagan brothers and sisters " what we do in live echoes in eternity ".. Words of Maximus Decimus Meridius.
Outstanding video I am so glad I came across your RUclips page
A MAN who is at a disadvantage but still fights: what courage, he is so BRAVE.
A man who is behind a massacre : he is RUTHLESS
A WOMAN at a disadvantage (ie pregnant) but manages to scare away the enemies: she must be CRAZY
A woman behind a massacre: Ok, she is just CRAZY
So basically you posted this to push more social justice bs and act like everyone thinks badly of women huh? gfys.
She was awesome! So true, what you said.
@@jannyhawkins7135They felt sorry for her being a woman. Apaches do that - they treat their women with reverence
@@garethwilliams4467 the Apaches were never anywhere near the Vikings. LOL
@@garethwilliams4467 There was only one or two tribe inhabiting the areas around the vikings Vinland. Please look up their territories during that time.
Another great video
This story is based on ONE maybe TWO accounts written hundreds of years after the events, likely by biased Christian men. So, take it with a grain of salt. Freydis was raised with 3 brothers in a rough Viking house. Her father murdered neighbors and she did what she had to in a cruel, harsh environment to thrive. If she was a man, these polemics would not even be used.
Happy birthday Oli from History Profiles..many happy returns of the day !
It's interesting that throughout history Women and Men of questionable character ethics and morals can and do obtain power and leadership and are remembered throughout history while the men and women of greater deeds and contributions to history are forgotten.
I learned and enjoyed this video. Thank you.
Too bad Netflix fucked up the show. Could have made so much with that story but they prefer to change facts so the show is more "diverse".
Part of the whole, let's change history brigade!
One is living in a fool's paradise if one expects quality from Netflix and their woke ilk.
@@mr.x6313What is Woke?
This actually strikes me as probably roughly what happened, since, if someone in those days wanted to smear a woman, they would probably accuse her of promiscuity.
Really good point. What guy wants it recorded for all time that they were bullied by a bossy wife and committed murder and false witness to the local authorities?
Hate to be the bearer of a "fact check" but I wasn't even looking to make one and the painting of the Oxbow (6:46) of the Connecticut River in Western Massachusetts, across from the Skinner Mtn. Range and just above Mount Tom, is a pretty long drive, never mind, river craft like the vessels the Vikings would have used to travel up the river to get this far north. Present-day Holyoke, sits aside a cataract, just one I'm aware of on the Connecticut from the Long Island Sound to its origins way up where New Hampshire, Vermont and Province Quebec are share borders. The furthest south that the Vikings made their way into what became the United States was what became known as Maine. Have to confess another thing. I had a natural edge when it came to ID'ing the Oxbow because I used to live within five miles to the north of it. Still beautiful area, though.
Good morning Ollie it is only 30 degrees and snowing outside here
Hello Robert! Thank you so much for watching!! It really means a lot !!
Never heard of her🤔 thank you so much dear Ollie,😊 you are great💕💞 i learned so much from you 😘❤🖤‼
It's not that she frightened the native Americans it's that there were a lot more matriarchal tribes back then a woman fighting like that got a lot of respect most of the matriarchal tribes had women warriors
You’re 💯 right; in fact I’ll go one better; the American tribes were mostly Matriarchal and had women warriors-especially the successful ones.
Think about it logically, what tribe wouldn’t send their weakest members who didn’t have the benefit of birth control, or tampons, to fight for the lives of their men.
You go guurl.
And also when she exposed her breasts, the men stopped to stare (as men do even now) and started to argue if the were lopsided or better than their wives !!
Thanks Ollie ~ love the Viking videos ✅😊❤️
Thank you so much Donna! Your comment means a lot to me!
Ty for sharing .
Thank you so much for watching Mary!!
Didn't know Her Story.
Thanks dear Ollie
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Here we meet again sweet Nancy! I'm later one hour to listen to Ollie's video, just got back from Dr's. Sorry couldn't reply to you before, I was busy to get there.. will check later, I feel so tired! Much love Sis🌻👭🌻
Hi Nancy me too,never heard of her🤷♀️😁.But nie thanks Ollie we learned something 😘❤
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@@ElkeMB 👑hi princess 👑
I just woke up. It caught up finally. And, I'm still tired.
Talk to you later
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Hi Marina😄✌🏼
We learned + Enjoyed.
Wish they did this in school.
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Excellent post, thank you for sharing.
Enjoyed the video very much, thanks.
The painting of the Oxbow captures the Connecticut River between Hadley and Northampton, MA. How the story of Freydis Ericsdottir could bring this illustration in is beyond me. Like so many other "B-roll" films used in television and movies, the use of this Hudson School painting doesn't help the video. I'm pretty familiar with the area where the Oxbow is. I was born in Northampton and my family lived just in Hadley just a few miles north of the Oxbow.
Im happy to see that our history has become known allover the world, allthough the "Vikings" in the modern movies is far from the original Vikings,names,storys, many names and persons in the Viking series didn´t exist at the same era of time at all.
Alot of the Swedish Vikinghistory got lost during the fire of the castle "Tre kronor" built 1200 century but burned down to the ground in the 1500 century.
Maybe the most famous ( what we know without the lost documents) was king Rurik who united the tribes and ppl in todays Ukraine.
The Varjag ( Väröingar) from the island of Värö in the archepelago of Stockholm was famous and also wanted due to their skills in battle.
Many of them travelled to the far east to become bodyguards of some sultan.
Harald Hårdråde ( Hes name ws NOT Hardrada) became a leader of the Varjags later on.
Btw...Hårdråde means "Harshruler" ish.
And....it´s NOT Valhalla, it´s Valhöll or Valhall in old Norse which use to be the language spoken allover Scandinavia by that time.
Thanks Olli realy enjoy listening to your storys
Greetings Ollie. It’s that time again. HP.
Thank you so much for watching Ayape!!
Great story Ollie 😁👍
Thank you for watching Marina!!!
Like a lot of people in the sagas, I’m often baffled when they do something we would consider underhanded or insane. Taking that into account, she was pretty cool but she’s no Lagertha.
Thank you😊
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@@historyprofiles i sure do its always very interesting to me anyways😊🙋♀️
There is an old Norse proverb which describes Freydis : Beware the counsel of women, for it is cold.
The man of old would make her sound as ruthless as they are. I believe there’s many more stories of her braveness and compassion just like her father. The first story I believe is false. Nobody would have told the story because they would be dead , elaborated story.
Thank you so very much for this. I'm very curious about their true characters. Not Netflix version. So thank you.
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Netflix uses the right names, but their story usually isn't even close to what really happened. I also wish they would try to the correct story as much as possible
I don't think the male heroes in the sagas were less "evil". Anyway we should always remember the source and the christians saw the norse as barbarians and it's easy to presume they were even more biased towards their women since they were different from christian women.
Who told you that Freydis was a "viking"? It is somehow funny. Neither she, nor her associates were vikings. Vikings is a kind of pirate, it not a nationality. Not all Norsemen were vikings.
She was not deranged at all. Had she been, she wouldn’t have been able to concoct the plan to have her brothers murdered in such a way that avoided her any actual punishment. She wasn’t mad in the slightest, but just cunning and ruthless.
Sorry, had to repost the comment to get rid of some ignoble replies.
she was a psychopath
wow that is an easy translation of her name as Freydis, daughter of Erik.
Times were hard back in them.days but i enoyed listening to this very intresting
Enjoyed
Odd how she gets the same 'review' as Queen Bodicca in history even by her own ppl. None of us were there to prove or disprove any of the facts,
Boudicca doesn't get any -ve discourse at all. AFAIK, Romans simply mention her as a tribal leader who they crushed.
Netflix lied to me
Thank you! She looks VERY spooky!
She was very cruel indeed! Thank you for watching Dee!
Netflix can sure twist the truth
I want to know more about the Indians rock throwing device, any more references to it anywhere?
Wonder what that ballista-like weapon was?
The video is messed up for me. I have this problem with many FB video as well. Other YT videos seem to be working fine. I really want to see your videos
Are you watching thru the app or web browser?
@@earthmama9597 web browser - chrome. I can watch some videos from this channel but not any of the lastest ones
Cruel is cruel no matter the gender. Freyda was evil, Leif was good.
Lol I love how they call her crazy when she literally just acted like a man??
Thank you dear Ollie. I love the viking stories.
I think she was mad. 🍎💃🤗❤️
That sounded like Sikelgaita, the Lombard princess, and wife of Robert Guiscard.
Drawn of History brought me here.
She seems similar to an IOF soldier.
It's interesting to know one.
....and therefore the daughter of Erik Thorvaldsson (Erik the Red).
Iv just started watching vikings valhalla I know in TV shows they have to make changes but in history men can ruffles but are heroes but woman do not get that in very early stages of history so we do have take grain of salt with this
So let me get this straight. She committed suicide while she was pregnant? I didn't understand that part. Can someone explain this confusion to me, please?
Showing a picture of her in armor and axe is a bit misleading.
She wore nothing such but conned others to do her bidding.
The problem with these stories is that you have to take them with a grain of salt we don't have very good sources for these.
Try reading about Guđriđur Þorbjarnarđottir instead.
She and her husband were there, but sailed further south, to America.
Setteling next to the natives. Exchanging goods and learning.
Having a son.
(The first European born in today's US).
Trouble only arose when she served the lactose intolerant native people cow's milk.
(The Norse settlers did bring livestock in their ships).
People got sick, and thought Guđriđur tried to poison them...
The Norse had to leave, and sailed back to Greenland and Iceland.
Guđriđur's nickname is "The far travelled".
She even went to Rome.
To see the Pope.
Love from Norway 🇳🇴
Loved this. Well done
Female Berserker?
Crazy?
Scary...
I'm thinking madness. Many facts
You say mad I'll say strong! We pluck at the Saga and Old tales without knowing them fully there's sadness in that I feel!
Not surprised I never learned about this in school.🤬
OCT = EIGHT....1X X1...DOUBLE ONE 11...ELF CHAOS
Like Olaf Vikings Valhalla is making drastic changes to her story. Lol
Yeah the only character whos story is somewhat accurate but not really is Horald
My problem with the way they wrote her character in the show was she was dangerously close to being a "Mary Sue". Made the character kind of boring and unrealistic.
shed going to become more crazy and power hungry as time goes on. Honestly, I think you could see that in that Upsala thing where she thinks she's destined. Wonder how it will play out with Harald
Easy answer: she is gonna use him to gain even more power and his gonna screw up in the the battle of stomford, leading to the end of Viking Era!
Excuse mwe but North America was discovered by an Irish monk who sailed there alone in a tiny wooden tub and I will fight the face of any man who says otherwise
One tough woman i like that . Being a dane i like this . I think i Will pick Up the sagas myself
Please, use pictures that actualy looks like the vikings. No horned helmets, no 1800 pictures. Please.
Save her from Netflix Adaptation
Why freydis whyyyy 😢
She’s definitely a psychopath…
Sounds nuts
All should realize that the Greenlander saga was just your typical Christian propaganda of the day. The original version told of her "heathen" ways and how she wouldn't conform to Christianity. It was written exactly as all moralistic revisionism stories were at that time in attempts to convert pagans to the ways of their patriarchal society. Realizing that the story was just demonizing a strong woman, the Norse rewrote the story to be more objective, which is known as the Erik the Red version; so in reality, there's little to no valid record of what really happened. Bummer.
I'm Icelandic and I'm related to her and of course Leifur Eiríksson.
She wasn't evil NOR brave, she was ruthless. The end! A warrior.
Very well said:)
You have to be brave to be ruthless and a warrior.
isn't she A delightful woman
Mybe the Chichimeca didn't kill woman, as well was some Viks dishonorable moves 🤪😜
Just curious, do we know if she had red-hair? Asking for a friend. Lol
I wouldn’t expect her to, most of the eirikchildren had blonde or brown hair
@@Tostito422
How do you know ?
These people lived a thousand years ago...
@@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131 that’s how the eddas described them from what I remember
Pretty j ish to have the either/or of “evil or brave”
but no one knows how many children she had and if they lived, who are they and how she died. you just wet our throats
So Vikings Valhalla is an alternate universe and not even close to true earth 616 history?
She was so Savage Warrior
There were no female Vikings. Norse women sure but not Vikings. This woman also was not a Viking. She was a colonist, a murderer, brave certainly but not a warrior or Viking.
This is being brought up because of the show Vikings Valhalla on Nitwit. They made a woke Vikings show and Freydis is a big character.
I find the new Netflix Vikings series offensive as fuck!!! They are trying to plant seeds......
I'm curious, what's wrong with it? I haven't seen it yet but it's next on my list.
@@beverlygarten-johnson2744 Netflix had to go woke with it.
A very easy way to "rewrite" history. Even TLK had wasn't historically accurate but the last and final season is woke as well. 😡
@@earthmama9597 Respectfully, the Last Kingdom was not woke at all or maybe I am missing something?
I am uncertain how it was woke, being the characters are based upon real people with some creative freedoms.
her decedents were not cursed. atleast i dont believe im cursed.
wasn't she a black lesbian in a wheel chair? or is that just disney and netflix??
🤣🤣
Damn she was good!!! I want to be such a warrior!!!