The Danelaw - The Fall of Eric Bloodaxe - Extra History - Part 2
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- Опубликовано: 5 фев 2025
- 📜 The Danelaw, Viking History and the fall of Eric Bloodaxe: After peace was made between King Alfred and Guthrum, the Danelaw was born--a geographic area in England controlled by the Danes, but also extremely reliant on the cooperation by the Anglo-Saxons and the local Christian population.
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Wait a minute... last episode, the Anglo-Saxons and Danes were bitter enemies. Vikings were looting monasteries… and now an Archbishop is allying with one? Let's review the 80 years that have passed since Guthrum barged in King Alfred's hall.
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Are you guys going to do any thing about swain twinbeard, cnut the great or maybe even the making of the kalmar union.
I wish we had more Viking Stories. Vikings are so awesome :D
At last somebody decided to confront the most difficult question of all...Who are the English and where did they come from?
Btw Extra Credits your video got mention at FGO Reddit
Extra Credits Wait, this is not Saturday WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE
Bloodaxe. There's a name that implies trust.
Marc Thompson That's a name that says "he is the best possible option for our king"
Also a name that doesn't exactly scream 'I'm a push over, please invade' to a council worried about someone thinking they were push overs and a good target.
I think you mean thrust.
I mean, it's a long cry from Taserface, but it's still an alright name
Well, they knew they were going to be invaded if they didn't follow what wessex wanted, so picking a king with a name like that may discourage an invasion from their enemies
"Monasteries are like banks, except guarded by nerds in robes" is perhaps the greatest line I've ever heard in this series yet. I'm still laughing as I write this comment.
And the Payday reference just makes it better!
bro is still laughing after 6 years 😂 6:09
@itsxqvi Still funny to this day!
"They. Slaughter. Kid." (extra history 2018)
"I tried to use as many of those words as I could think of last episode" - Also Extra History 2018
That had to be intentional, right?
That completely normal
Kid: *chuckles I'm in danger*
@@clockman4624 agreed
I like to imagine Odin sitting on his throne in Asgard. He spots a nondescript, Jewish carpenter in the corner with some unusual battle wounds, sipping wine and eating some fish and bread.
"Who's the new guy?"
"I don't know, but he keeps slipping in and trying to talk to people about his Dad."
Erik Rinard yep
Erik Rinard I wonder if that's how it went down in the American Gods backstory
Merritt Animation I was just thinking it sounds an awful lot like Gaiman.
And a few decades later, people stopped coming to Odin's parties.
Odin fed his people pork, which isn't kosher.
I'm really liking this episode's art. Its very funny and wildly expressive.
Me too! Especially loved the part about economic motivation for sacking churches!
I especially love the facial expressions on Eric's face at 1:25. It seemed like a good indication of the quality of entertainment for the rest of the video.
Also noteworthy are the small bits of actual animation that are sprinkled through it.
"Reasonable people could argue that everything in this episode is wrong"
I'd wager that unreasonable people could argue the same.
Yes but unreasonable people could argue that about anything.
Well, I'd argue, they can't.
No, Reasonable people COULD argue everything in this episode is wrong
UNreasonable people WILL argue everything in this episode is wrong...and every episode
You can argue with a genius, but you can't argue with an idiot.
@@mjsfalcon986 you just end up yelling at idiots
"Churches are like banks, except guarded by nerds in robes" is possibly my favorite ever description of a church
“Valhalla trembles as the visitor approaches...”
“OH HEY WHAT UP Y’ALL IT’S GUTHRUM!!!!”
I love the ending, i have always loved that poem and i used a modified version at my dads funeral together with the cattle dies stanza... My old man was a sailor, farmer and dane who was very impressed by the vikings so i found it fitting.
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But the good name never dies
Of one who has done well
Cattle die, kindred die,
Every man is mortal:
But I know one thing that never dies,
The glory of the great deed
Hail now, Felix,
welcome shall you be here
and walk into the hall, bold one!
For Felix it rattles,
who is to come in here,
Old rider of the Whale way
king into Hallowed hall.
Let's not forget one of the biggest influences of Scandinavia on the English language, most of the names of weekdays.
Happy Thor's Day!
always wondered why the norse gods names were in it..Now it makes sense
Even more importantly, they introduced irony to the English language, and are therefore responsible for the British sense of humour. According to Horrible Histories, anyway.
Alfred, on the other hand, deserves much credit for English cuisine.
You could say it's...FRIGGing awesome *puts on sunglasses* AAAWWWWWW YEEEAAAAAH!
I know I'm late to say the least, but weren't Anglo-Saxons believers of the Norse gods? To be even more precise, didn't all germanic tribes share the same religion before being christened? At least Slav all had more or less the same beliefs.
banks guarded by nerds with robes, best description ever
The guy in robes was one of EC's many Dans. which is funny
That sounds like france.
Fake Name *Jedi*
A Viking raiding party vs. a bunch of rich larpers rolling dice
Sounds like what the English would do
The -by ending is a Norse ending, not Anglo-Saxon. Go look at maps of Denmark, Sweden and Norway and you'll find as many places with that ending as there are in England. The endings -thorpe and -dale are also Norse in origin. Anglo-Saxon endings tend to be -ton (as mentioned), -ham or -bury (plus variations on this word such as -borough, -brough or -burgh).
"By" means city in Danish...
Yeah it means village in Swedish too
It was usually used to refer to farmsteads in England, although it could also mean village.
Also: if you plot the locations of placenames ending in -by in England, you'll see a divide between the north and (to a lesser extent) east, where the -by ending is common, and the south and west, where it is virtually nonexistent. The dividing line corresponds to the boundary of the Danelaw.
Take into account that Anglo-saxons were very much Germanic and shared language similarities beforehand
-shire was also a common suffix
Eric and his brothers' apologetic shrugging as he killed them all off was hilarious
The bigger question is did Wapole orchestrate the assassination?
JonManProductions
Of course he did. It's always him. That's kind of his thing.
actually i think it might have been ancestor Wælpóle
heh, that translates as whining pole from icelandic (well "Væl Póll" actually)
No, but he prob profit from it.
And why is the answer yes
"We still use their words! Like"
They
*S l a u g h t e r*
Kid
Strike.
I do that every weekend
@@PretzlcoatlTheFirst Ah Frode, pack your stuffs, it's raiding Britain Thorsdag, and tommorow is sacking Irish church Friggadag!
you can't spell slaughter without laughter
The vikings behind the slaughter
Can't spell slaughter without laughter, eh?
Eirik Bloodaxe is a total villain in Norwegian history. He got ousted by his brother Håkon the Good.
I always love Haakon because he is a mix of being apparently a pretty clever military commander, and a king who seemed super agreeable. He was also Christian but his subject didn't seem to pay much attention to that. His court skald made a death poem for him portraying him entering Valhalla so it seems his court pretty much just ignored his whole Monotheism thing.
Bless the animator and writers for every moment between 4:25 and 4:45. I legitimately couldn't breathe for a second.
WHO WOULD WIN? A smart guy who knows a lot about his enemies OR....
One king boi of a place called Wessex.
Guthrum King boi mdood.
Nothing really happened after Alfred and I made up. All I did before I kicked the bucket was -read and write Extra History fanfictions- sayin "WASSUP Y'ALL?!"
Guthrum you love anime for being a viking
Otto Von Bismarck, after all, he always has a plan. Either that or Walpole will find at least someway to screw both Wessex and the Norwegians over.
Edward the dog Jones wHaT arE YOu taLkiNg aBoUt?
Baka.
I have a 40 minute walk to work 5 days a week, and the same home again. I love listening to history on my way, this series and Historia Civilis have made many a dark, dreary morning into exciting treks.
A rainy Monday at 6am somehow fades away as I am transported to other times and places by the passion you have for history.
What I'm tying to say, is thank you. This series has inspired smiles, laughter and tears just as much as it has taught me.
I wish more history teachers in school were like you. I got lucky, I had a funny, charismatic teacher who knew how to create a love for history in his students. But many people get stuck with dullards who bore them to the point of tears, and make them hate the subject. If more teachers shared your passion and ability to weave a narrative, then maybe more students would learn their history and we could avoid repeating the mistakes of the past
5:08 I absolutely love the animation. The expression on the priest's face, he's like "wait... you're not gonna kill me?"
I'd say that this history has the best writing and animation so far. Great work guys. These videos make my day. Keep it up!
Uh, why does your Odin have two eyes?
Goliath gave it back
Fredrik Dunge I think he's referring to an episode of "Gargoyles" there's one where they meet Odin
odiin?
Maybe this was pre-Mimir.
And 3 hands
"Like banks but guarded by nerds" -some vikings maybe
Should have just given Northumbria to my boy Edward right off the bat; it would've saved everyone a lot of trouble.
@@jordyj4126 *dEsTiNy Is aLl.*
I love you started adding small animations here and there (like the guy thinking at 5:16) It must take a lot more time so I understand it has to be done sparingly but it really adds to the visuals!
Erik Bloodaxe the Blood Axe king who carries a bloody axe, never herd of him.
Gabriel Villavicencio is that a fate go reference
You know it.
If you didn't Grail him, you're doing it wrong.
Roman Of Eris, KSC I have him on his way to 100
4:05 I lost it!🤣
That is a mental image I never want to lose...
Also, I love the little details on the lectern, like the cuts and slash-marks, alongside the green tunic and pinned cape outfit.
6:30 That just raises so many eyebrows at Team Fortress 2 with the name of Mann Co.'s CEO literally meaning "Stakkr's Town Shelter" as well as the fact that it is also the names of a town in North Yorkshire and Greater Manchester respectively
I like how the unification of England is almost glazed over :P
That was a really fascinating topic I didn't know that I'd be interested in! I knew that English dark ages were a thing, but in my mind I always passed over English history between Roman conquest and William the Conquerer.
Actually, I wouldn't mind hearing more about this time period, or about how the world was after the fall of the Roman Empire.
"Well, yeah. They did. All the time."
The images for that part always get me.
"Banks.......except guarded by Nerds in Robes." That legitimately made me laugh!!!!
8:06 Cuphead reference?
Also nice link between this story and the Aesir Vanir War from Extra Mythology at the end.
Finally Eric Blood Axe sounds Super Metal!!!!
Yeah, why did they draw him with a sword?? Maybe it was historically more accurate, but with that anme... Damn
Miguel Sanchez I think the reference was perhaps in the style of the drawing. Perhaps.
That death ode at the end got me really excited to see your episodes of Extra Mythology that's coming down the pipeline!
HEY YALL WHAT UP ITS GUNTHRUM!!!!!!
Kudos for the Joke with Hillsbrad foothills at 6:48. You seem to like WoW
4:40 I love the Payday Reference.
The illustration at 04:40 really cracked me up, I love the art you got going here xD
Fun fact: In Cumbria, where i live, many use the word "yam" to say home, which is a Danish word. My Dad worked with someone from Denmark, who was very confused to hear locals say "I'm garn yam".
So...Eric Bloodaxe was an OW solo queuer who finally found his own six-stack?
No matter how hard I try I have been unable to decipher this statement nor pull any meaning from its parts.
@@KelsaRavenlock he played with randoms in Overwatch then a team invited him to be part of thier organized team.
Ok so a reference to an online video games group system.
Fun fact!
The Scadinavian name for Jesus at the time was Vite Krist[er], or White Crist.
This was because Jesus, to the Scandinavians, were a white bloke named Christ. The er is added on my end because Krister is a not-so uncommon name in Scandinavia today.
Exactly. The modern Swedish translation was Vite Krist, but not the only name.
In old Norse, Hvítakristr. Funnily enough he seems to be contrasted with "Redbeard" (Thor) often in the Sagas, like when Leif Eriksson is trying to convert his uncle, and he announces that Redbeard had always been a better friend to him than this Hvitakristr.
Interesting factoid: in Old English, "sh" was spelled "sc", while in Old Norse, that same construction was spelled "sk" and pronounced, well, "sk". Today we have a number of word-pairs tied to this difference: "shirt" and "skirt"; "shatter" and "scatter"; "ship" and "skip"; "dish" and "disk".
And now Scandinavians tend to pronounce Sk as Sh (in their languages) eg. Ski, which we took from modern Norwegian, is actually pronounced like She
You deserve more likes friend
I love having more episodes.
Who named Skidby, and what unlucky idiot of a farmer got them stuck with that name?
British town names? You've got a good thing coming if you dig around a bit. I kid you not, there's one called Christmas Pie.
random guy interesting
impcirca1988 well after having seen a Village in Central Italy with a Name that literally means sex (Sesso, near Reggio Emilia) no amount of weirdness in place names can surprise me any longer.
See also: Bitchfield and Wetwang
impcirca1988 There’s a town near where I live in North Carolina called Horneytown.
"Bloodaxe" is basically the best surname one could hope to have.
I believe it is a title not a surname, like Harold Hardrada or William the Conqueror, or all of the people in history called "The Great"
I think John Batman, British explorer in Australia, had a cooler surname. He could always introduce himself as "John, the goddamn, Batman".
The Viking rulers generally had interesting nicknames. For example Eric's Bloodaxe dad was Harald Fairhair. Another Harald, king of Denmark, was called Bluetooth (yes, the technology is named after him, for some reason), and his son was Sven Forkbeard.
I'd say Wartooth is one of the best surnames, mainly due to Harald Wartooth. And depending on the story of how he got that name, either catching a sword to the tooth and said tooth regrowing. Or my favorite, he bit a sword so hard the blade snapped.
Fredrik Dunge Yep, and the Icelanders are like that to this day.
Wow, just wow. This channel is gold!!
"Well, just *shush* and I'll tell you."
The teacher's creedo.
5:16 , a true revolution for Extra Credits.
05:17 A freakin' smooth ANIMATION!?! O=
I'm Norwegian, and I spent a semester studying abroad in York. While there, I got to see exactly this in action with the street names. Quite a few street names in York end in "gate", which is still the modern Norwegian word for "Street". So, names like "Stonegate" or "Petergate" are examples of this where old Scandinavian names have remained and are still in use. It was very neat.
"Reasonable people could argue that everything in this episode is wrong."
I look forward to the 2 hour "Lies" special on this series, then.
I love the quick , semi animated parts like in 4:30. I still laugh quite a bit when I see it.
Quite interesting to know that the vickings weren't such savages as one could think..
Great video you did it again extra credits all of you're videos are great
*They. Slaughter. Kid.* 7:20 😂😂
1:30 I love how even the guy who's getting executed it smiling and shrugging it off.
Wait... what about Canute/Cnut? Was hoping his invasion and the return of Danish rule would get mentioned :(
Well Canute really deserves his own 6 part series.
Hell yeah, someone suggest that in the patreon.
He's a Danish and Norwegian King, viking country, who conquered England. This doesn't count?
I always think Sveinn Forkbeard gets the short end of the stick here. He was trained with the Jomsvikings, married the proud and imperious Sigrid the Haughty, defeated Olav Tryggvason for the throne of Norway, conquered England (possibly in revenge for his sister being killed in the St.Bryce's Day Massacre) and became its king, and generally did a bunch of really kick-ass stuff. Then his son, Knut the Great, basically repeats a lot of his deeds (defeats St.Olav for the throne of Norway, re-conquers England) and seems to get way more credit.
Nice, you introduced animation! Gives more meaning!
5:17 What is that? WHAT IS THAT? WHAT IS THIS HERESY?!?! Full motion animation?!?!
LOVE your videos guys! Please never stop!
NEW EPISODE RIGHT NOW, LUCKY!!!
Wish we could have seen another episode about the reign of Alfred. He was an amazing king and really interesting historical figure, so hopefully you return back to him in the future!
"They were like banks. Except guarded by nerds -- in robes."
If these were released as podcasts I'd be so happy
"Heelsbrad foothills" Have you guys been playing some WoW and making silly puns?
Feelsbad foothills :(
love your work guys
his name is fucking bloodaxe. why couldnt we keep that tradition from the vikings?
King's League instead now you have names like Drinkwater, or Woodgate :/
This was an awesome video, very informational, the Vikings have truly left their mark in history.
I am still surprised Alfred forgave Guthrum many times, and Danish kingdoms were really volatile. Also, I like the fact that Vikings influenced British culture. There's no such thing as homogeneity in culture, and everyone can bring the best and the worst of everyone. Now we have awesome tv dramas in History Channel, new video game stories for God of War and Viking Metal bands.
There can be many factors. For example, war in that time had a big problem. You could not get your army on the field forever; your troops are also the guys that farm your food. They are all getting desperate the longer the thing goes on because every day as a soldier is a day less dedicated to actually ensuring their families dont starve to death.
So a lot of the time you get to your enemy, who is also feeling the same constraints, and say hey, lets solve this, ok? Fully knowing that you may have to do it again later on but hey, at least lets get home and harvest.
6:26 ayy my grandma lived in Skipton!
7:11 "They...Slaughter...Kid"
This influence on the entomology of the English language of the invasion and conquering of the British Isles is really amazing
Skibby Toiler 7:00
Yes my favorite channel uploaded!
"By" means "Village". Good stuff eitherway
By means Village in modern Scandinavian languages, but this was over a thousand years ago
McDucky which evolved from the Norse language and dialects, just as modern English evolved from the language of the Anglo-Saxons.
05:15. MOTION in an EC video. Its unsettling.
4:05 the Five Boroughs? Like NYC?
Other way around
In Tyne and Wear (Northern Eastern England, mostly Newcastle Upon Tyne) we still use norse words as well as anglo saxon words, such as Yem (other spellings: Hyem or Hjem) and instead of saying water we say watter like the german word wasser. Also we say bairn which is close to the norwegian word barn and they both mean child, we also say wor which means our and there are so many words i could get into but that’ll just take ages, anyways great video keep it up mate.
So you're saying that Erik Bloodaxe was walking on *The Rocky Road To Dublin* ?
Great video once again, but sad to not see my hometown of Scarborough (or Skarthi's Borg) mentioned in the video
Yorth of Nork
A Riter Ha
Tiplaneptickickteka Inportekauntuzettaoofoof
Thank you, my very best friend, who understands me. Through good and bad, hot or cold.
Mr. Starch 30
Lol that clergyman at like 4:54 with a cig in his mouth killed me
4:31 only topped by the negotiations last episode
That Scandinavian getting progressively more murdery when you were talking about pillaging churches was amazing
You should make a series on Gustav Vasa!
i like how this intertwines with the extra mythology
I love this series and I would also love to see a mini series of the Hungarian 1848 revolution. Or at least about the Spring of Nations in general. Is it imaginable in the foreseeable future?
No mention of the British(Welsh/Cornish as yet even with the boundary changes that are dubious). Keep up the good work guys I really enjoy your videos.
that animated finger though
Lost it at that zoom in at 4:32. Hilarious guys!
10:01 I don't see why Odin needed Eric Bloodeaxe, just get the Incredible Hulk to seemingly leap to his death, only to resurrect and throw the grey wolf over a cliff. Easy.
Wait ....but if he's Norwegian he'd be Erik , not the English Eric , right ?
Yes, in any scandinavian language he would be called erik not Eric. In swedish he is known as Erik Blodyx
Names are quite normally "anglicized" in English texts.
yeah
It's Old Norse Eiríkr blóðøx (at least as it appears in Egils saga). So Icelandic's Eirik is actually the closest.
He is called Eirik Blodøks in norwegian. Eirik and Erik are both common and separate names here in Norway today.
Your vids are great dude!
Extra Credits, can you please do a video series on the Spanish Civil War? It's very interesting, trust me
I thought this was a short, not a new season! Hell!
5:17 what is this pixar animations?
super cool ending!! I want an ode like that one when I get out of here!
Admit it guys....
History can be cool!
That’s...why I’m here.
That was a pretty good episode guys. Good humour and what not.
holy shit i shed manly tears at the end