History Summarized: The Viking Age
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- Опубликовано: 3 сен 2020
- The Vikings are enjoying a new wave of enthusiasm in popular culture, but these seafaring Norsemen are still quite clearly a misunderstood force in medieval European history. So let's take a wide look at the European world during The Viking Age!
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SOURCES & Further Reading: "The Vikings" by Walaker Nordeide and Edwards, "Vikings: A Very Short Introduction" by Richards, "Age of the Vikings" and "The Conversion of Scandinavia" by Winroth, "The Vikings" By Harl via The Great Courses, "The Viking World" by Graham-Campbell, "The Viking Way" by Price
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Thanks so much for having me on and letting me help out! It was a lot of fun (even if I talked a little too fast sometimes)! To clarify a piece that I know I did cover too briefly- missionary trips to Scandinavia occurred in Denmark around 823, on the orders of Louis the Pious, and in Sweden in 829, when Ansgar, a Frankish monk, traveled to the town of Birka, where he found a very small Christian community, probably mostly enslaved or formerly enslaved people, and converted a couple of Norse people, including the town prefect. (The graveyard for that town, incidentally, is where the 10th century "female warrior" that made waves a few years ago was buried).
There's a lot we didn't get a chance to talk about about the diaspora and its ending, so if there's anything you all are curious on or find unclear, let me know here or on twitter :)
Finally, if you liked this, all the VODs for my personal streams (where I try to ramble about history in games) can be found by clicking on my name, and tomorrow I'll be streaming CKIII on twitch (link in the description)!
Egg
If there's one thing I've learned from watching videos on this channel, it's that you can never talk too fast.
Please check out or try to collab with Jake the Viking! He’s such a cool dude and donated food to night shift frontliners!
Your channel seems so cool. I’ll watch a bit of your video after this and see if I like it
Edit: only watched 5 minutes and I can already tell your channel is good
I can follow Red's fast talking. You're fine.
Blue: *talking about slavery*
Cleo: "I know a thing or two about that, my human slave."
Blue: _"so cute!"_
I was thinking about the actual Cleopatra when reading this
It's weird indeed. Everywhere I comment, people tell me how much they love me and my videos. Sometimes it is annoying. But right now it would be okay. So say something nice about my content, dear lone
so true
Another person with a cat fetish
They know a thing or two about it cause they've seen a thing or two about, it Now My blue slave fetch me my food.
Scandinavian Trading Policy:
"Excuse me, sir. Let me ask you..."
"No." _starts walking away_
"Okay, then let me axe you..."
Oh hello man, it's been a while since I saw you.
Great pun bro.
3 балла
3 full laughs and a suppressed chuckle from this one.
@@lusintagmayrapetyan144 What?
Early Viking Age: “This is a pillaging!” Middle Viking Age: “This is an extortion!” Late Viking Age: “Greetings, fellow Christians. Would you like to buy some furs from us?”
Late Viking Age: This is a Crusade. Thor vult!
"No, well I see you have non-boiled teeth. Let's change that shall we."
@Poika In my home province in Sweden pagan worshippers killed priests as late as the 1800's...
"Be reasonable. You don't want my friends here to make you engage in an involuntary trade allocation..."
@@TheSystemaSystem Teutonic Knight: I smell unburnt pagan
Vikings summed up in two sentences: These aren't your average, every-day pirates These are . . . ADVANCED pirates
@Uncanny Valley Too We're still here in Scandinavia. We take no responsibly for the KKK or republicans. That level of stupid is all American.
viking betyr ikkje pirat. eg vet ikkhe hvor alle har det fra
@@waraidako do you compare kkk and the republicans. I wonder if the world is really going to go under. there is no sense left. Hvor kommer du fra da? Eg tipper på svensk når eg leser hva du tenker. Og det er ganske trist. Eller jag blir ledsen. Ta dere sammen!
@@waraidako the democrats funded the kkk historically. Both parties are rich white people profiting on "change" the only difference is democrats treat non whites more like objects.
@@christianpathfinder6864 the kkk was founded and is still around in the south. Who is in charge of the south? Yea exactly
Blue: *talking about slavery*
Cleocatra: "Pay attention to me! Pay attention to ME! GIVE ME PATS!!!"
Blue: *turns into gushy mess, gives pats*
Cleo: *happy cat, best cat*
Cleo is he or she?
@@shivanshna7618 She. she is named after Cleopatra. Blue had naming rights, according to cyan
@@sigridhorn2408 the kitty's name is cleopatra? That's adorable! Although i thought he'd name her after Clio the greek muse of history or whatever
@@trixiemontejo7172 idk, this is Blue. he probably did it for the sheer punnage. Also they mainly call her Cleo, which sounds the same as Clio, so... Points for efficiency?
@@trixiemontejo7172 technically her name is Cleocatra because puns
“Aggressive trading”
Ah yes, the chapter after “Aggressive negotiations: negotiations with lightsabers” the one written by A. Skywalker
_Aggressive Negotiations: An essay collection on how to make people agree with you_
I love this very much.
I keep telling Anakin to delete those chapters but he never listens! He just expands them to spite me!!!
Trading with a fully operational norse longboat
I can imagine the viking going "Now LOKI here, mate... let me AXE you a question...I could SWORD of become a real THORn in your side and make you cry a lot of TYRs if you don't take my furs!"
And the poor guy on the other end is just "STOP! NO MORE PUNS! I'll trade with you, just STAHP!"
"Luckily these guys had trees for days so they become wizards at wood working"
So you're saying that IKEA is a result of environmental adaptation?
IKEA ww is bad. This is how they skillfully shape wood: they grind it into dust and then mix the dust with glue in a mold.
Just a note about amber trading:
The Scandinavians basically fished amber out of the sea. It's just crystallized pine resin, and the rough seas would sweep it off of trees, where it could then be dredged up. It was decently common, but immensely valuable because of the way the Scandinavians did advertising. Each culture they traded with had their own mythical explanation of how amber was formed, usually something along the lines of it being sun juice that solidified when it hit the ground. The Scandinavians went around actively promoting these beliefs despite not believing them in the slightest, jacking up the price of amber to an insane degree.
The Vikings were the proto-Capitalists
Interesting
@Christopher Stanley Thank you for this very bright mental image
STONKS
A bit of a similar deal with narwhal horn trade. "Yes, if you drink out of this it will cure you"..
As we - the Polish continue to do
"Sail, sack, steal, sell, celebrate. And the Europeans were horrified.” should be a shirt.
YES!!!
I'd buy it.
The front of the shirt
Sail
Stack
Steal
Sell
Celebrate
And the europeans were horrified
Would be the back of the shirt
"wait that's our job"
That's genius. I'm having that made.
"History is 20% iffy nomenclature by mass" Just insanely accurate
True
only 20%?
@@ppaaccoojrf That's minimum.
Hey the Viking abducted so many Slavs and sold them that the word slave comes from Slav. Go figure
Complains about iffy nomenclature and then goes on to say British isles. 🙄
Scandinavian trader: I am here to trade my furs and not raid.
Western European: oh that’s great, but we don’t really need furs atm.
*scandinavian trader puts axe on table* I said I am here to trade my furs
Western European: Ok
*barter 100*
it was a barter check yes but that failed so the Scandinavian trader then rolled a nat 20 on intimidation and the faint smell of urine suddenly wafted in the air
Barter or batter the choice is yours.
Fellow history major here! Fun fact: the French probably didn’t give the Vikings land just because they were broke. Most of the land given was northern coastal land, which is valuable for trade but also meant these Vikings would act as a buffer against other Vikings for the rest of France.
that's genius
is it really a fact if its only probably true?
@@eldrickzero4885 Nah, it's pretty much a fact. Charles III the Simple (West Frankish and not French king) gave Rollo a section of what is today Normandy on the condition that he be baptized and stop further Norse raids in 911.
@@samrevlej9331 I read a book recently on the history of the Normans and another theory is that they gave the Scandinavians Normandy not just to deter future Viking raids but also to act as a check against Brittany. A nearby territory that was populated by the descendents of British Celts.
'Who would've guessed that "Become French" would be such an efficient strategy?' Gotta get that 20% morale of armies.
I mean, I wasn't *expecting* a fairly obscure EU4 reference in the comment section, but it's a pleasant surprise to be sure...
Just you wait until I get admin tech 10... no.... 20!
@@ottovonbismarck9501 or diplo 23, for that sweet sweet imperialism cb
Elan!
@@lewisprice1512 Almost a prequel meme?
The Viking Age also known as
“The lads go on a holiday.”
It was a great time while it lasted, eh?
Weekend at Europe
Just me and the lads
"violent tourism"
@@sleazymeezyEurope, North America, the Middle East, and probably beyond
"What year is this?"
"It's the Viking age."
"That explains the lazer raptor."
This. I came to comment about the distinct lack of references to this exact thing.
I suppose memes are more Red's thing than Blue's though...
@@Kilo6Charlie Also Thor's pecs are awesome.
What movie is that from?
@@prestonjones1653 Kung Fury, prepare for a fun ride.
@@grijsje I still get a kick out of Kung Fury trying to arrest his own spirit animal
Red's absolute disdain for her maths degree fills me with strange joy
People often call the Norse Vikings. Viking is a job, not a nationality.
I'm a little surprised no one has tried to turn it into one yet.
Fricc yeah comment heart
Calling the Norse "Vikings" is like calling the French "Chefs".
I've heard it said before that calling every Norse person of this age a Viking is like calling every American a Marine
Yea right, that's like saying _"not all people in the 1600s were pirates."_
"Just like the Bull Shark!" - An analogy I would never have expected, yet is absolutely perfect.
Blue- Hey Red, we need some voice lines for my history video
Red- Don't you dare bring me into this
Blue- that works.
XD
“Freaked the Hel out..two post codes from Nifleheim” That made me laugh but I didn’t quite catch it like “Wait did he just make a Nifleheim joke?” so I went back and watched it with the captions on and laughed even harder.
Me: Aren’t Norse people Vikings?
Blue: *Explains stuff*
Me: Understandable, have a nice day
Not all Norse are Vikings, but all Vikings are Norse
@@weldonwin not all Vikings were Norse some were Slavic, Celtic, Anglo-Saxon,French,Spanish and so fourth
As a swede:
- not norse, scandinavians.
There is a difference.
@@simeonwood3613 norse is a term for norsemen (scandinavian) people during the viking age.
@@eliashegstam3334 "Norse" also include finns and baltic peoples, "scandinavians" are only danes, swedes and norwegians
I demand more of Cleo’s opinions on historical events. Let the kitty be heard Blue!
Since my Name Is Cleo (Marie), I say lol history cool
@Owen Scott Gold?
@@user-kt1lh5sz1i Purple
@Owen Scott A mysterious color unlike any seen on Earth.
@@blarg2429 Lmfao
I fully support Cleo's contributions to OSP summaries
I want a video where Cleo tells us all about cat history! Her meow is so cute. I immediately went from "ooh, vikings are badass!" to "zomg lemme pet the kitty" (I suspect I'm not alone in this)
red can you do a video on slavic mythology? Most people don't know anything about Slavic myths outside of Baba yaga or chernobog if they have watched night on bald mountain or play Smite
@Илиан Алексиев that is why I want her to cover it because I think that it is a bit of a shame that we the people who made up the legends don't know almost anything about them. Most people here in Macedonia only know that we have a town named after one of them and that is it. Also the countless stories about vilas and vampires
That sounds interesting
As someone who just new about Baba Yaga and Chernabog from Night on Bald Mountain, I’d honestly would really like to see the Slavic myths!
Yeah! Most people who know anything about it know it from The Witcher. They deserve some proper attention
Yes, I have been asking this for years! I think OSP might have a thing against Slavic history and myths
“Who needs government when you’ve got a boatful of warriors and the favor of Thor!?”😂
This is my new response to anything relating to the government.
:::Somali pirate intensifies:::
I think we found the libertarian party’s new tag line
Should read/watch the Vinland saga their opinion on Christianity is hilarious. "My god has a fucking hammer and a flying horse what can your god do!"
The immediate answer: When uncivilised marauders who keep killing and raping your neighbours
@@jaegercat6702 the Libertarians would need to add "and a 13 year old girlfriend" onto it in order to be accurate.
3:42-3:58 As a cat-lover myself, I fully approve of this interruption.
Red’s ethereal voice descending from the heavens cracked me up.
Blue: *talks about Vikings.*
Cleo: FREYA DEMANDS I BE A PART OF THIS!
Blue: Awww...sweet cute kitty.
I'm convinced one of my cats has some Norwegian forest cat (sometimes called wedgies) in him, and I think about Freya's chariot being pulled by wedgies.
....than laugh because he is super hyper (1 year old) and imagining him pulling anything just seems so chaotic lol
Freya, my cat, approves this comment
Kitty chariot is best chariot, though slightly terrifying when the only cats somewhat within a North climate that is big enough would probably be siberian tiger.
"Where am I?"
"You're in the Viking age."
"That explains the laser-raptors!"
Sudden Cleo segment: is put in the video.
Me: A surprise, to be sure, but a welcome one.
“Violent Tourism” I’m now referring to them as such in my history classes now. Love the work Blue!
I like how Blue will condemn Western civilizations for looting and enslaving African, American, and Asian populations. European peoples are fair game to exploit though, and so people who do so will even find their way into his favorite civilizations even though they're doing the exact same heinous stuff.
All tourism is violent. As a Parisian, I can confirm.
"History is 20% iffy nomenclature by mass"
So true
The only professionals that come up with worse names than historians are archaeologists. What lame kind of name is "Thunder Lizard" or "Flying Tooth"?
Yes, but the names of small English towns are *hilarious* because so many are just mispronounced Scandinavian words.
@@jimluebke3869 Canada is just a misunderstanding o the St Lawrence Iroquoian word kanata meaning village.
@@jimluebke3869 well mispronounced scandanavian words or places like "cocking fuckborough"
@@theDENIMMAN That was probably a French name, that got the same treatment.
Although who knows, it may have been a faithful translation of the original French.
To anyone who wants to know more about the Varangian Guard and their relationship with Constantinople, I highly recommens the Turisas albums, The Varangian Way and Stand Up and Fight. It's basically a 2 part concept album about a bunch of Vikings travelling to become members of the Varangian Guard, and they're awesone!
Haven't encountered those, sorry? But Invicta's YT video about them was really good, I thought!
This was probably your best video. Learned lots and the comedy was on point at every turn.
“About 2 postcodes out from niffleheim” wow, that one got me. Mythology jokes are my favourite
They probably thought that they had hit Niflheim when they eventually reached Greenland though.
Blue: "If I continue to talk about the Middle Ages, I'll go on a rampage about Florence!"
Florence: *Florence would like to know your location*
I think I've found the perfect way for me to enjoy OSP's frenetic style. I like Blue's stuff. I'm more of a history nerd , so I'm usually already a bit familiar with the subject matter and can pretty much keep up, and I just recently figured out that if I change Red's playback speed to .75 I can actually understand retain a lot more of that sweet sweet information.
Love you guys. You're awesome.
“Involuntary treasure reallocation”
lMAO I’m dead.
3:40 Kitty interruptions are the best kind of interruptions!
Also, yes, Cleo is a cute little floofy boop.
This video's accuracy is top notch. Not many people talk about it, but the century of Cleo found in the middle of the Viking Age is my favorite part. That conqueror cat made such a vast empire, it's incredible.
Blue, thank you for making the distinction between England and Cornwall in your maps during this video; much appreciated.
Once again OSP brightens my day.
"Violent tourism" XD
Sounds about right
I like you
Or colonalism
@@MarkFilipAnthony it's not colonialism if the colonists were invited through bribe with land XD
@@SonsOfLorgar true, however that wasnt the only way Vikings gained land.
However, also gaining land simply because the opposing force didnt have the power to stand against them, isnt really a "happy accident" ether.
One of the fundamental goal for lots of vikings was to gain terretory outside of scandinavia (most cases: from a forign civilisation), and that is basically colonialism, doesnt really matter how thay gain it. Through traid or concoring
“Who needs government when you have Thor?” is literally the plot of the Thor 2
I thought the plot of Thor 2 was knife-ear emos from the dawn of time hate everything and want it all to go away, so they can go back to being brooding in absolute darkness
YES!! Finally Yellow has a cameo! Always wondered what he looked like.
these are great university-level history vids. love how you’re able to see the humor & humanity in historical events
As someone with a background in medieval history, one of the great "What If" games we used to play centers around 1066. The prevailing winds in the Channel usually blow first out of the south and then out of the north ... but for some reason they reversed that year (as far as we can tell). This means that Harold Hardrada met Harald Godwinson first. If the standard winds had held, it is likely that William the Conqueror would have been first on the scene and would have met a fresh, rested Saxon army. The Saxons would probably have still lost the second battle, but this would have swung England more into the Scandinavian trajectory instead of the French. English would have stayed a more Scando-Germanic language, with less French & Latin loanwords, the culture would have taken on a more northerly flavour, and it is quite possible that even the rise of the knight would have stepped back a few more decades and shieldwalls would have remained dominant a little while longer. Weather ... it'll mess you up...
*Spanish Armada swearing*
If England became properly Viking, I'd pity the world.
The Battle of Hastings itself is also a big "what-if". The Norwegian host had scattered throughout the countryside to forage, and they didn't expect the enemy to show up. When the Anglo-Saxon army did, it caught them by surprise. The battle itself was fought in three engagements, instead of one (which would have benefited the Norwegian host since it was larger). The first engagement was fought at the bridge itself by a small host, to buy the Norwegians time to gather the troops scattered around. This is where the famous Viking warrior infamously held the bridge on his own against the entire Anglo-Saxon army before he was impaled from below.
The second engagement was the main one, with the majority of the Norwegian troops. They had managed to form a shield wall behind the bridge, but they were not fully armed as they had, among other things, left their armor at the boats since they didn't expect a battle to break out. The battle was still hard fought, and the Anglo-Saxons were about to win.
Then the third engagement began, with the third part of the Norwegian army joining the fight. They had rushed over there from the boats in full armor, and were exhausted. They managed to even out the fight for a while, until they too were overwhelmed.
If the Norwegian army wasn't surprised, and fought as one and fully armed, then perhaps they would have won. Although they probably would still have lost against the Normans afterwards, like Godwinsson did.
ah, a fellow ck2 player?
9:51 "Try and pronounce any of these names."
*laughs in Icelandic*
It's not _that_ difficult if you grow up with the stories/songs of the skálds. A bit of grey matter gymnastics at first knowing what sounds are associated with accents and characters but after that it becomes quite easy. Even if you fail at pronunciation, it isn't too trying to translate written form from old Norse and modern Icelandic into English. Translating the other way though, that is a nightmare.
I still don't know how to say your capital.
* remembers all the merch with "eyafjallajökull is so easy to pronounce" from when I went to Iceland in 2013(iirc)*
@@Obi-Wan_Kenobi Reykjavik sounds kinda like rike-yah-vic. It's one of the easier Icelandic town names though.
*Summons a demon*
don't know what made my day more, the great video or the short cat section :DD
so glad blue uploaded today! nearly forgot it was friday
"Who needs government when you have a boat full of warriors and the favor of Thor?" is probably going to be on a T-shirt soon, I can feel it.
When he said: "who needs government when you have a boat full of warriors and the favor of Thor," I felt
that
After TLDR's video, I thought he was talking about current Belgium for a second...
"Happy Leif Erikson Day
! Hinga-dinga-durgen!"
~Spongebob
Every time I watch one of these Viking videos im transported back to an era of fearless explorers and groundbreaking discoveries. Its not just the battles that is captivating, but the rich culture and indomitable spirit that defined the Vikings. Who else feels the call of the sea and the echo of ancient sagas in their heart whenever they dive into these stories?
Fun fact: Doric, the main dialect of Scots in the North East of Scotland, has words in it of Norwegian origin because of the Vikings.
Vikingr is the term to use when we talk about “Vikings”
As Blue said Viking was a term for going on a raid and someone who goes Viking is a Vikingr.
interesting!
Listen kids, Cleo says slavery is bad. Don’t do it.
Everyone in history: ..........
Britian: lisen to the cat
@@electricangel4488 Ironic you bring that up in this scenario considering the English and Europeans were the ones being enslaved
Love the music you guys use in these videos. I listen to this score all the time.
Me: _Hears "William the Conqueror"_
Me: *Odin save the Queen*
Odin:.... Hey Loki wanna see me give this queen supernatural powers and convince her to conquer an entire nation?
Loki:....... yes
“Out classing the world in the seafare-ing department”
[laughs in Polynesia]
Maybe the KNOWN world at the time would be better words
I'm both Polynesian and Scandinavian/British. Ultimate seafaring genes!
Ok but the South Pacific is much calmer and less storm prone than the North Atlantic, just sayin
@@VikingMuayThai he is too dangerous to be alive
Yeah, Polynesia really is undervalued in the global history of seafaring and culture. Y’all are incredible.
Blue : Who needs government when you have a boat full of warriors, and the favor of Thor?
2:38
The UN : No, no he's got a point.
Me: Sounds like an idea for a new nation.
It is never a dull day to learn about the Vikings.
Blue: Drags in Yellow.
Yellow: Explains that this is a butt-load for just a sitting
Blue: Mentions Red.
Red: *WTF?!*
Love it you guys.
Blue: talking about slavery and vikings
Also Blue: "Who's a little Floofy Boop?"
At least he's not talking about slavery and vikings with his cat like I do.
"so help me týr" is hoing to be my new catchphrase
I have recently entered a Scandinavian history stage and you are the first video about their history i have seen, thank you for the brief explanation.
Has this channel done a history of Scotland yet? If it hasn't I would recommend it. Also if at one point the channel decided to focus on Mary Queen of Scots and Queen Elizabeth I that would also be awesome because the stories of those two queens and their dynamics as well as many stories of the Tudors is what made me fall in love with history. Mary Queen of Scots, Elizabeth I, and Henry VIII and his wives were all central focuses in my bedtime stories growing up. These are just all my nostalgic recommendations if you haven't covered these yet. They are great stories, loads of drama. They have a special place in my heart.
Edit: I double checked and they did do a history of Scotland! Yay! Watching it now though I think I may have watched it before and just forgot. I have ADHD so my memory isn't always amazing. I still would love to hear Blue tell the history of Elizabeth I and Mary Queen of Scots though. I didn't see anything on the channel about the both of them specifically. Both of their stories are just really interesting and though they never met in person their friendship and story together is also fascinating.
Guest appearance in vikings history: KITTY!!
I actually have a cat that looks similar to Cleo. And she had kitttensss!!~~~
Same Cat species But His Name is Stitch
@@aheisanraveendran3686 i'd hope they're the same species
In the middle ages : "Not now Mom, I'm raiding." (Europe)
Present day: "Not now Mom, I'm raiding." (Azeroth and other worlds)
History in a full circle.
Only then the raiders brought gold home, and now they spend it.
Great video. Specially the touch of adding the song Samba De Verao in the last bit.
2:50 I'm imagining someone coming up to someone else, pulling a gun on them, and forcing them to buy this super cozy jacket they made.
*Angry Romanoi noises intensifies when thoughts of Normans appears*
The Romanoi get annoyed when they hear about any Mediterranean power post 500 ce
*heavy grumbling when thoughts of Venice comes to Mind*
So just to clarify, Vikings caused the existence of: Iceland, England, Dublin, and Normandy.
Cool, good, very nice for people who are supposedly “Barbaric” according to many histories.
I dunno... if they ARE responsible for The English... that is kind of a knock against them... >.>'
Well, to be fair, those histories were mostly written by monks that were kind of constantly being raided by the Vikings.
Michael Christenson You got me there!
They were also well-groomed and hygienic, pretty progressive compared to Christians in terms of women, and were well ahead of the curve when it came to the development and use of steel weapons and heavy armor like chain hauberks.
European took until the 2nd millennium CE to catch up to those "barbarians."
Katrina Payne Id argue that Oliver Cromwell was responsible for the English- he drove a righteous rebellion so wrong that even 400 years later talking about the monarchy in a negative way gets people looking at you like you just casually suggested burning Drogheda to the ground. So that’s really when the general populace took the “well, if you can’t beat ‘em, be passive-aggressive and semi-ironic but ultimately complicit in joining ‘em” attitude to our benevolent overlords that makes us so unavoidably relevant today!
*(cries in broken Englisc)*
Love the quiet Age of Mythology music in the background!
Blue: Yellow, you have two degrees in this field which means, on average, we both have one degree in this field!
Yellow: Blue . . . you just go and steal that degree I worked hard for and call it your own? How dare you.
Great video as always! I love listening to you talk about history, Blue. You make my day just a little bit brighter. :)
Two postcodes out from Nifelheim.
*Wheeze laughing*
Is it bad that a few days ago I though to myself
“What day is it? 2 days till OSP uploads...”
*oh right it’s Wednesday*
Also. We get it blue. Your cat is adorable =•^•=
Nah
I do that, but backwards.
Rage _Gamer so like how many days since an upload?
No, I see the day of the week and think ‘oh, it’s _ days until an OSP upload’
Rage _Gamer ohhh 😯
Many guests in this episode, I love it!
Blue: *Uploads viking history video*
Me: *HELL YES*
I’ve watched Vinland Saga, The last Kingdom, and Vikings all within the last couple months. This video is perfect for me 🤝
Now play Valheim, Mount & Blade: Viking Conquest and possibly Assassin's Creed Valhala and you will go to Valhala via overdose of Viking stuff
@@AgnusCavichioliPereira mount and blade biking conquest is a masterpiece
*Sees a full video on Vikings*
Me: IT'S TIME TO RAID WESSEX BOYS!
Wessex hid under the table and, much like Cleo, reached a hand out to slap you away.
@@selenopheria Alfred of Wessex beat up like all the vikings. His brother hid under the table.
bad idea
Me, living in what-used-to-be-called-Wessex: Oh no not again
@@mollymcdade4031 but Wessex won
Awesome film! I am preparing a lesson about Vikings for the 15y olds and this truly helps me bring in some clarity!
I’m completely new here, and I appreciate the fact you took a couple seconds to show us your cat. A new follower has approached!
The last time I was this early, Lindisfarne was still complacent.
Vikings : invades people for no reason
The British : also invades people for no reason
You have become the very thing you have sworn to destroy!
When you get Colonialism update.
Every nation has been the invaders and the invaded at some point in history.
Hey there, it wasn't for no reason
It was to steal all the stuff of course!
There's a fine line between _stealing, murder, and slavery_ and _stealing, murder, slavery, and _*_development._*
That last line seems so familiar!
Thank you Cleo, very informative. Good cat
I especially loved Cleos input in this video very much appreciated
"We'll go ravage England in a second, don't worry!" I never thought something I'd laugh at the idea of my country being attacked, but here I am.
This video covered how Christianity interacted with Vikings, but Extra Credit also made an interesting video on how Islam interacted with them, specifically in how a Muslim historian documented his experiences with the Rus in Eastern Europe.
The video also covers how we don't have any sources from the perspective of vikings themselves (as Blue mentioned in this video) and explores how cultures viewed and written about when seen through the lens of outsiders observing them. Just search up "Extra Credit Viking Funeral" and you'll find it. Although fair warning, the content is a bit intense. The video covers a viking funeral and those guys had some pretty brutal, distinctly unhygienic, and downright inhuman rituals. You will be disturbed if you watch that video.
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Sounds like Michael Crichton's "Eaters of the Dead" and the manuscript that it was based upon.
i have the high ground
I wouldn't treat Ibn Fadlan's description of the Volga Rus' burial entirely confidently. While it is horrible, and most historians do accept that the core ritualized sexual assault and sacrifice probably did happen, he had a vested interest in portraying the Rus' as maximally exotic and barbaric to his Abbasid audience, which causes him to focus or exaggerate the sensational.
Oh, also, we can't attribute that to "Viking" culture broadly. It's one community along the Volga river at one moment in the 10th century, when variation is the name of the game in Norse Scandinavia.
Talking about Vikings and Muslims reminds me of the movie The 13th Warrior.
Thanks for the video Blue. And Yellow.
Your history videos are useful and nice
Yeah, the last part about interpretations of "Viking" culture hit so hard to home for me since I'm a Norse Pagan. Every time I go searching for something on my religion or meet someone who claims to be a Norse Pagan too or a website on Norse Paganism, I have to scroll through all their shit looking over every little thing they believe while silently chanting "please don't be a Nazi, please don't be a Nazi, please don't be a Nazi".
XD i mourn for your troubles
Tho i can relate to that when looking up witchcraft.
Oof, that's even worse, since modern witchcraft is unfortunately wrapped in racism and cultural appropriation. It's not all like that, but still.
Could you recommend some good resources on norse paganism? I'm agnostic myself, but the idea of (from my outside perspective) a formerly-dead religion being restored and practiced again is very interesting.
@@AGrumpyPanda Certainly. Firstly, get a copy of the Poetic Edda, as a lot of stuff on Asatru (which is the main belief system that most Norse Pagans ascribe to) makes reference to this text. I recommend Dr. Jackson Crawford's translation, it's really good :D Two books I recommend are "Essential Asatru" by Diana L. Paxson, and "A Practical Heathen's Guide to Asatru" by Patricia M. Lafayllve. Also, anything by Edred Thorsson is good too :D Oh yeah, stay far FAR away by anything by the Asatru Folk Association (AFA) or anyone who associates with them. They're pretty much what people, unfortunately, think of when they hear "Norse Pagan", aka, racist, sexist, homophobic, transphobic, just generally LGBTphobic overall, and mostly populated by White Supremacists and Neo-Nazis.
Yea kinda get why Nazis love the vikings(blonde hair warriors) but it's still asinine that they think there's any connection between them and a 800 year old way of live🙄
I saw an asshole with Thor's Hammer tattooed on his back and 3 nazi soldiers on his shins... damn Nazi ruin everything!
But anyways, good luck with the paganism! ✌
TIL : that viking put bones of animals/humans in their tools thinking that the spirit of the animal/human warior/farmer/breder/etc will enchange the tool but instead but due to the metal and carbon from the bones mixing made a form of primitive steell
Nice rigth?
It just works
@@Nothing-1w3 IT does work
Well... the truth is a bit more complicated than that.
What we actually have is that forge sites contain remains of burnt animal and occasionally human bone. The most likely explanation is that yeah, these were inserted for some kind of ritual purpose during forging, but it could just as easily mean that the forge was a multipurpose site for other ritual sacrifice or cremation burials. Burning bone coincidentally injects carbon into the very surface of the sword, but it is not enough to cause the sword to be particularly good. It was worse than using higher-carbon steel (which could fairly easily be imported from Frankia) or doing the exact same thing using charcoal (which was also available).
I generally hesitate to say "Vikings did X because of belief Y" because we have precisely ZERO descriptions of rituals described by an eyewitness or practitioner. We simply don't have access to what they believed, and an "animistic" framework of this type is one that makes giant assumptions about how religions function based on precisely zero evidence.
It's by no means impossible - there is a lot of variation in Viking-Age religions and it's a possible interpretation of the evidence. We just don't have the data to say that for sure (and weapons with souls don't appear in the later literature, meaning it's less likely there were oral traditions that suggested this belief)
Bone also made INCREDIBLE leather working tools! They lasted long, were tough enough to puncture leather, but not rough enough to damage it. Some leather workers still swear by bone. 😁
@@bluealien-mae I have an office job and the most metal part about it is that we use a bone tool to straighten wrinkled paper
I became so happy when you guys mentioned Faroe Islands. It is so rare that we get mentioned. Love you guys
I love the subtle use of the Age of Mythology music...
wHere waS tHis whEn I wAs dOinG mY aLtErnaTe hIstOrY prOjeCt?!
In the depths of Tartarus
@@a.h.tvideomapping4293 Don't you mean Helhâim?
David Barkland yeah I was just corrupted by the Greekiods
@Sif, are your keyboard keys broken or are you acting like a git on purpose by typing like an illiterate?
We need more Cleo!
I love the cat interlude. 20/10. Excellent Content.
Wild kitty appearance nd Blue's baby talk was just an adorkable moment x3