I wish the same could be said of Aethelflaed, Alfred's daughter, the warrior queen of Mercia, she did so much in so little time, but almost nobody knows about her, while she should be remembered among such names as Bouddica and Cartimandua
Absolutely love learning the real history. Ever since I watched Vikings, The Last Kingdom, and Vikings Valhalla, I have absorbed all the history I can. Fascinating stuff. The Vikings really were amazing culturally and politically
Very well done history of the early Middle Ages and the connection between the Nordic countries and England. Greetings from the land of the Vikings! Lars Jönsson Sweden 🇸🇪
Good one. You can bet she was a sharp cookie, principled and wise to navigate those volatile times. Nobility when noble titles meant something, not that the urge to conquer and control has gone away.
I've studied European and English history for decades and don't really know much about her or Ethelred, comparatively. I love when I haven't learned anything new in ages and a gem pops up out of nowhere. Thank you, now I'm going to watch. 😁🤚
QUEEN EMMA AND THE VIKINGS by Harriet O'Brien is a fantastic narrative history of the times and events surrounding Emma of Normandy. It's not quite a biography, because 11th Century women rarely left enough of a historic footprint for genuine biographies to be possible, but this is still a really great book. Emma's first Mother-in-Law, Queen AElfthryth, was a very similar type of power hungry woman and I often wonder how much Emma learned from AElfthryth...
These stories you presented to us throughout the year, are truly amazing! Love the background sounds you provided on your videos. Thank you, and wish a prosperous healthy News Year!
And Ireland, and Scotland, and Russia, and the byzantine empire..... pretty much everyplace a long ship could go. My favorite is probably the Gallowglass soldiers.
Yes! The English we speak today have a lot of Scandinavian influence! The people from the North after all did conquer a lot of England! Hail the ancestors!!
Then you and your line are responsible for keeping the English in paucity ever since as the Normans invaded and still hold the power. So I am ( now woke) suing you for £millions for the pain and suffering of my traceable ancestors from Lackford in Suffolk.
Thank you for this interesting and informative video. The background information on Queen Emma and her life in this period if history was really interesting. It made me think how horrific those years must have been for almost everyone. I've watched The Last Kingdom, great show, so know a little bit about the history of the time and I wonder how on earth My ancestors made it through.
I never can help but suspect that Emma enticed Æthelred to attempt the massacre on the settled Danes, a hopeless task to begin with, knowing that the Viking retaliation from Denmark would weaken England and thus increase the chances for the Norman branch to take the throne…
Very true but it would be a very risky choice with the retaliation from the vikings she had to flee england so if it was her plan she failed miserably but was still able to hold some sense of power in the years that came
@@southercalifas She might have been relatively safe, able to seek protection both with the English royal family and in Normandy - and perhaps even expecting major leniency from the Danish Vikings due to her Danish ancestors. Her main problem would be two-pronged: Not to be found out as the instigator by the English and to hold on to her bestowed estates, which her relatives in Normandy would likely want to use as leverage to conquest…
@@TheMogregory It was an arranged marriage. She may have resented Æthelred and already been promised to be Knud den Stores wife - as she actually did… The history books say „she had to flee to Normandy when the vikings attacked and killed Æthelred“, but it sounds as a pretext to leave the court, because as soon as Knud was crowned King of England, he sent for her to marry!
Assuming she enough clout with the Anglo-Saxon court, which is doubtful, she had to know she was taking an enormous risk. Just because she had Danish ancestry didn't really preclude her from punishment or death if the Danes found out She was behind the slaughter. And she had to know that the risk of inciting Danes to hit hard with raids, death, pillaging, slave taking, would bring Angland to its knees.
It 's a translation error, Unready was really "unrede-y" Rede in old English meant counsel, wisdom etc. It meant he was ill-advised or loth to accept wisdom.
People can claim it means ill-advised now, but there’s no denying he laid down for a nap (much needed) and ended up sleeping 5 hours because they were afraid to wake the king. He was late to the battle, which incurred serious consequences. My kids’ dad is related to Ethelred, and recently outdid him with a 7 hour nap, waking just in time to go to bed. I told him he should be glad he’s not in charge of a country because he would have missed the whole war, not just been late to the battle. 😂
As my boyfriend says my family tree is not a tree but a bush with branches intertwining! Uttred is supposed to be a Neville ancestor- which I am proving and Emma is a grandmother . It's crazy
Ever since I watched the last kingdom and Vikings Valhalla this type of history is so so entertaining to me! Like imagine being Alfred the greats right hand man or better yet imagine having the responsibilities these Saxon kings were set upon. Shiiitt
You show the part of the Bayeux Tapestry that includes the famous slap. The woman who is slapped is called Aelfgifu, or some variation. Could the slap represent Cnut’s repudiation of his first marriage to Aelfgifu? The obscene figure below might support the idea that by doing so, he basically named her a harlot, and bastardized any children they had together, including Harold Harefoot, making his claim to the throne illegitimate. The tapestry was history as perceived by the Normans, and this repudiation of the Saxon Aelfgifu would support arguments that the Norman Emma was the legitimate wife of Cnut, and that the succession should follow through their kin, rather than going back to the Saxon dynasty that had been replaced by Cnut. (And yes, I do recognize the irony given that William I was the bastard son of her nephew, Robert.)
Vikings Valhalla season 2 makes her out to be an evil monster. She brutally tortured and killed an innocent girl. Don’t know if that’s historically accurate but Hollywood likes to embellish cruelty to compensate for lack of writing skill. I didn’t care for that scene and stopped watching it for a little while.
No this could be William is known to have been cruel , these are game of thrones type people here, she needed protection just imagine what that meant. Today Normandy is a gang land with Mafias etc
I wouldn’t really add Normandy as being a part of the Vikings, although they were a little Viking descended. They weren’t Vikings really. Vikings didn’t have the exact ruling as Normandy did. It was really really different. Also for the fact of Normandy wiping out a lot of the Vikings. You would think that wouldn’t happen, but it just doesn’t make sense to put Normandy under the category Viking.
Really like the content but for the love of communication - skip the background music (at least when narrating). That music doesn't add anything, on the contrary, it makes the video less listenable. If someone wants meaningless background music they can easily put some on in the background but it's impossible to get rid of it once you add it to the video. Cheers.
He presented about as much about Emma as history has preserved. Given the attitudes towards women, we should not be surprised in this day and age that so little is known about them except for their relationship to powerful men.
Women were way down the ladder of importance in olden days. They belonged to men. Their fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles etc and were nothing more than pawns.
it all gets so confusing when everyone is related to everyone and they've all married two or three times and had kids with each marriage haha, i had to keep rewinding to make sure i got it
An epithet given later. Aethelraed means Noble Counsel.. a play on OE words. Unraed. , no counsel or given poor counsel by his advisors. Even today to be described as 'well read' means educated. UK.
How interesting!! It seems that england almost never had an english king: saxon, vikings, normanen and plantagener dynasties. And later the german hannover coburg
Lol, like how it's stated at the beginning the dark ages ended in 1066 ? When the dark ages ended in 800 at the crowning of Charlemagne the Great as emperor, the 'symbolic' rebirth of the Roman Empire. How English !!! Through this video was informative.
Some are later middle age depictions of these events, and the bayeux tapestry showing events happening fifty years later after the death of Emma's son Edward when her nephew invaded.
Two things, the EARLY Middle Ages had ended around that time. They were approximately from 475 CE up to about roughly 1000 CE. Furthermore Uthred's lifetime was roughly 120 years earlier. Keep your facts straight, please.
What's really a hard part to watch is the photoshop work of a ten year old. On the bright side of that it should drive any viewer to fact check and help the learning curve.
No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit. Why don't you British solve your national identity crisis first and start believing you are something important later?
Did these people have cool names during their lifetimes? Like the "Unready"? Is Joe Biden going to be known as Joe "the Bumbling fool" Biden in 3oo years????
@@dee3717 The reason for it not being the dark ages is history itself. Including evidence. 19th century scholarship is no longer needed when new evidence replaces them.
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Good to see Emma being given some airtime. She was a central figure in the creation of modern England.
I wish the same could be said of Aethelflaed, Alfred's daughter, the warrior queen of Mercia, she did so much in so little time, but almost nobody knows about her, while she should be remembered among such names as Bouddica and Cartimandua
Love her fierceness in the show. Shows the ferocity of the Normans
Absolutely love learning the real history. Ever since I watched Vikings, The Last Kingdom, and Vikings Valhalla, I have absorbed all the history I can. Fascinating stuff. The Vikings really were amazing culturally and politically
Me too! Especially since I found out I’m 9% Sweden& Norway. But it was through these guys!
The shows are terribly inaccurate, but if they stirred your interest in history, they did their job.
Very well done history of the early Middle Ages and the connection between the Nordic countries and England. Greetings from the land of the Vikings! Lars Jönsson Sweden 🇸🇪
Such an amazing story! Thanks for the upload of Emma of Normandy
Good one. You can bet she was a sharp cookie, principled and wise to navigate those volatile times. Nobility when noble titles meant something, not that the urge to conquer and control has gone away.
I've studied European and English history for decades and don't really know much about her or Ethelred, comparatively. I love when I haven't learned anything new in ages and a gem pops up out of nowhere. Thank you, now I'm going to watch. 😁🤚
QUEEN EMMA AND THE VIKINGS by Harriet O'Brien is a fantastic narrative history of the times and events surrounding Emma of Normandy.
It's not quite a biography, because 11th Century women rarely left enough of a historic footprint for genuine biographies to be possible, but this is still a really great book.
Emma's first Mother-in-Law, Queen AElfthryth, was a very similar type of power hungry woman and I often wonder how much Emma learned from AElfthryth...
thank you for the recommendation!
These stories you presented to us throughout the year, are truly amazing! Love the background sounds you provided on your videos. Thank you, and wish a prosperous healthy News Year!
Thank you so much Elke! Happy new year!
@@historyprofiles
You're welcome Ollie! Happy New Year! 🎉💥 Thank you! 😊 Enjoy your Thursday
I had no idea this woman existed until now.
God bless Queen Emma!
I had no idea how intertwined Viking history was with England.
And France
And Ireland, and Scotland, and Russia, and the byzantine empire..... pretty much everyplace a long ship could go. My favorite is probably the Gallowglass soldiers.
@@tonyabresee7944 that is amazing. I had no idea
Yes! The English we speak today have a lot of Scandinavian influence! The people from the North after all did conquer a lot of England! Hail the ancestors!!
And Ireland too
Hi Ollie. We are so lucky to learn of all these amazing women. Thanks.
Thank you for watching!
Would you consider doing a video about Bishop Heahmund? It's always a joy to watch your content, thank you!
ive done one on my patreon be sure to check it out! www.patreon.com/historyprofiles
I’d never heard this part of the history then. Thank you!
I had no idea that Emma was Viking! Rollo was also my great Grandfather (many times) & so was William the Conqueror. This video was very interesting!
Hello cousin!
Then you and your line are responsible for keeping the English in paucity ever since as the Normans invaded and still hold the power. So I am ( now woke) suing you for £millions for the pain and suffering of my traceable ancestors from Lackford in Suffolk.
As am I, hello cousins. 👋🏼
Ja ja ja!
You’re related to rollo?!
I have heardof Cnut, Edward and the rest but never Emma. Itwas very interesting and very well presented.
"Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" "Temba, his arms wide." "Picard and Dathon at El-Adrel."
My favourite Star Trek episode. When the walls fell.
This was a good one. A classic tale but from different perspective. 🤙
Your videos are amazing thank you for your hard work!
What we do echoes in eternity.
Or at least, if not eternity, in history as long as it lasts. When the histories are lost and all traces are gone...
Through the next 7 generations, according to Native American culture.
This story shows the tenacity that women of eras back had to have. TFS
Read about Queen Margaret of Scotland a decendant of Emma. She is my hero.
Missed out the importance of Eordric Streona in the battle between Cnut and Ironside
Will cover that in another video
@@historyprofiles Awesome!
I can’t wait for Viking Valhalla season 2 , she’s my favorite character. Beautiful smart and strong.
Great isn't she! The perfect portrayal of Emma.
Season 2 has been out for a month on Netflix
She has to sleep all the way to keep her safe
Thank you for this interesting and informative video. The background information on Queen Emma and her life in this period if history was really interesting. It made me think how horrific those years must have been for almost everyone.
I've watched The Last Kingdom, great show, so know a little bit about the history of the time and I wonder how on earth My ancestors made it through.
I never can help but suspect that Emma enticed Æthelred to attempt the massacre on the settled Danes, a hopeless task to begin with, knowing that the Viking retaliation from Denmark would weaken England and thus increase the chances for the Norman branch to take the throne…
Very true but it would be a very risky choice with the retaliation from the vikings she had to flee england so if it was her plan she failed miserably but was still able to hold some sense of power in the years that came
@@southercalifas She might have been relatively safe, able to seek protection both with the English royal family and in Normandy - and perhaps even expecting major leniency from the Danish Vikings due to her Danish ancestors. Her main problem would be two-pronged: Not to be found out as the instigator by the English and to hold on to her bestowed estates, which her relatives in Normandy would likely want to use as leverage to conquest…
And lose her status as Queen? Not very likely
@@TheMogregory It was an arranged marriage. She may have resented Æthelred and already been promised to be Knud den Stores wife - as she actually did…
The history books say „she had to flee to Normandy when the vikings attacked and killed Æthelred“, but it sounds as a pretext to leave the court, because as soon as Knud was crowned King of England, he sent for her to marry!
Assuming she enough clout with the Anglo-Saxon court, which is doubtful, she had to know she was taking an enormous risk.
Just because she had Danish ancestry didn't really preclude her from punishment or death if the Danes found out She was behind the slaughter. And she had to know that the risk of inciting Danes to hit hard with raids, death, pillaging, slave taking, would bring Angland to its knees.
Another great video ! We Danes sure got around 🔥
Indeed! Thank you for watching!
That’s because i married Canute
@@Saraorangemermaid hah good one
If your thumbnails are to be believed she had a heavy spice addiction.
Good keep up the good work!
Thank you so much for watching!!
One of the problems that modern feminist theoreticians face is that all through history there have been immensely powerful and influential women .
this is awesome, a great auntie for me, crazy how its all connected
Northmen=Normandy. Fantastic history!
These are so so good thank you for this channel and these great educational videos
I had to stop the video when I saw that Aethelred’s moniker was “The Unready” because I couldn’t stop laughing. 😂 The unprepared King.
He was given the moniker Unraed which in old English means ‘badly advised’ but in modern English has a somewhat different meaning
It 's a translation error, Unready was really "unrede-y" Rede in old English meant counsel, wisdom etc. It meant he was ill-advised or loth to accept wisdom.
People can claim it means ill-advised now, but there’s no denying he laid down for a nap (much needed) and ended up sleeping 5 hours because they were afraid to wake the king. He was late to the battle, which incurred serious consequences.
My kids’ dad is related to Ethelred, and recently outdid him with a 7 hour nap, waking just in time to go to bed. I told him he should be glad he’s not in charge of a country because he would have missed the whole war, not just been late to the battle. 😂
As my boyfriend says my family tree is not a tree but a bush with branches intertwining! Uttred is supposed to be a Neville ancestor- which I am proving and Emma is a grandmother . It's crazy
Great work again !
Thank you so much!
Love those laser blue eyes. Too much spice melange?
I love this channel.
Thank you so much! It means a lot
Hadn’t heard of her! Thank you.
The Danes populated much of England and governed it too
The northern English, are really Danish.
Great. But I’m sure it’s not pronounced “Cannut” more like “Canoot” also IERNside. Not I -RONside
It would be interesting to know what the populations of Celts, Anglo Saxons and Vikings in England were at this time.
Thank you.
funny how soon they die after naming a successor, the old version of falling out a window.
Ever since I watched the last kingdom and Vikings Valhalla this type of history is so so entertaining to me! Like imagine being Alfred the greats right hand man or better yet imagine having the responsibilities these Saxon kings were set upon. Shiiitt
Excellent video 📹
She is the actress from Viking Valhalha ?
Wait for season 3. 💜 💛
Excellent...thank you
One of the first well documented medieval queens.
Great thank you for that I never knew about .
sex, blood and fire
just a normal thor's day
The Emigrant Song by Led Zeppelin, with lyrics.
We all need more of this,
8:06 Saint Olaf! That’s where Rose Nyland comes from!
You show the part of the Bayeux Tapestry that includes the famous slap. The woman who is slapped is called Aelfgifu, or some variation. Could the slap represent Cnut’s repudiation of his first marriage to Aelfgifu? The obscene figure below might support the idea that by doing so, he basically named her a harlot, and bastardized any children they had together, including Harold Harefoot, making his claim to the throne illegitimate. The tapestry was history as perceived by the Normans, and this repudiation of the Saxon Aelfgifu would support arguments that the Norman Emma was the legitimate wife of Cnut, and that the succession should follow through their kin, rather than going back to the Saxon dynasty that had been replaced by Cnut. (And yes, I do recognize the irony given that William I was the bastard son of her nephew, Robert.)
Vikings Valhalla season 2 makes her out to be an evil monster. She brutally tortured and killed an innocent girl. Don’t know if that’s historically accurate but Hollywood likes to embellish cruelty to compensate for lack of writing skill. I didn’t care for that scene and stopped watching it for a little while.
No this could be William is known to have been cruel , these are game of thrones type people here, she needed protection just imagine what that meant.
Today Normandy is a gang land with Mafias etc
I wouldn’t really add Normandy as being a part of the Vikings, although they were a little Viking descended. They weren’t Vikings really. Vikings didn’t have the exact ruling as Normandy did. It was really really different. Also for the fact of Normandy wiping out a lot of the Vikings. You would think that wouldn’t happen, but it just doesn’t make sense to put Normandy under the category Viking.
Yes it was Normandy or at least the ruling system when they took over England
That’s the weird thing about history is Aldo. England did that it was still ruled over by Normandy even to this day.
The Danish pronunciation of Knut is Kanoodth. When you say Kanutt it sounds wrong. 😉
Saw her grave in Winchester.
Really like the content but for the love of communication - skip the background music (at least when narrating). That music doesn't add anything, on the contrary, it makes the video less listenable. If someone wants meaningless background music they can easily put some on in the background but it's impossible to get rid of it once you add it to the video. Cheers.
😆 some idiots find anything to complain about. There is nothing wrong with the music.
Always taken by the bright blue eyes you give the women Ladertha,Aslaug now Emma
Was Emma of Normandy a fremen or related to the atreides?
She looks like Henry (Tim) so I would say the later
He didn’t actually talk about Emma. He talked about all the men in her orbit…
He presented about as much about Emma as history has preserved. Given the attitudes towards women, we should not be surprised in this day and age that so little is known about them except for their relationship to powerful men.
Women were way down the ladder of importance in olden days. They belonged to men. Their fathers, husbands, brothers, uncles etc and were nothing more than pawns.
Are you both so sure about that?
K-noot. K-noot. K-noot
it all gets so confusing when everyone is related to everyone and they've all married two or three times and had kids with each marriage haha, i had to keep rewinding to make sure i got it
This sounds way different and more interesting than the Valhalla show has her character 🤔
Imagine being called "The Unready"for the rest of history! Good God!
An epithet given later. Aethelraed means Noble Counsel.. a play on OE words. Unraed. , no counsel or given poor counsel by his advisors. Even today to be described as 'well read' means educated. UK.
Must suck to be known in history as: "the unready" with all the others having cool nicknames.
The English "Saxons" are not DNA Saxons but bastards who act like Germans (liberals)*homo/christ
Dude how'd she getting all that spice in her system? Was she a Fremen?
Where do modern artists get the idea that Emma had black hair? She was fair-haired.
How interesting!! It seems that england almost never had an english king: saxon, vikings, normanen and plantagener dynasties. And later the german hannover coburg
Elizabeth 1 she English I think
I am related to or descended from all these people. 😊
Judging by the portrait, Emma was heavily into Spice.
Harold, killed at Battle, by Normans. So back to Norman ("viking") rule!
Thank you
Why do you call knut, k-nut? In Englang we call him Kanoot, not k-nut!
Lol, like how it's stated at the beginning the dark ages ended in 1066 ? When the dark ages ended in 800 at the crowning of Charlemagne the Great as emperor, the 'symbolic' rebirth of the Roman Empire.
How English !!!
Through this video was informative.
Is Emma a Fremen? What's up with the thumbnail lol
Many of the illustrations are of a totally different era
Some are later middle age depictions of these events, and the bayeux tapestry showing events happening fifty years later after the death of Emma's son Edward when her nephew invaded.
Two things, the EARLY Middle Ages had ended around that time. They were approximately from 475 CE up to about roughly 1000 CE. Furthermore Uthred's lifetime was roughly 120 years earlier. Keep your facts straight, please.
You pronounce Cnut with a long u!
King kernut and his son halfa nut. Seriously funny.
I’m sorry but this hardly tells us anything about Emma, only who she was married to over the years. I’m disappointed.
She is my 31st Great Grand Aunt.
Do you suppose she would mind if I called her Auntie Em?
Get an education in pronunciation- this is HYSTERICAL!!!!
First in history
the "Dark Ages" has been discredited as a periodization category.
Life was so much more simple back then LMFAO.
"Emmer". lol
Vikings Valhalla tapes should be burnt.
Ka-Nut or Ka-Noot bro…. Which is it? Lol
Qha❤q
A Queen of Normand and Queen of England With The King Viking Canut I Reing at Murder of King Canut
Normans are also viking...
They are a little mixed and have their own autonomous region most Vikings have nothing but an axe😮
Pronounced can-ute
F
What's really a hard part to watch is the photoshop work of a ten year old. On the bright side of that it should drive any viewer to fact check and help the learning curve.
No other small country can compare with Greece in terms of impact on human benefit.
Why don't you British solve your national identity crisis first and start believing you are something important later?
The subject is interesting but the narrative is barely literate.
Did these people have cool names during their lifetimes? Like the "Unready"? Is Joe Biden going to be known as Joe "the Bumbling fool" Biden in 3oo years????
Trump: Mango Mussolini
hahaja probably there're meme for both of these old goats
Yes sleepy Joe is a real Saxon fool!
kA-nut...... credibility vanished...
So not Emma’s story, little or no facts on this woman’s life. So tired of these histories, men’s facts, women’s lives assumed or extrapolated.
Get over it, you sound bitter lmao
When you do the research to uncover more historical facts about Emma, I hope you will share them with us
are you going to cry baby?
Guess what Debra ? No one cares ! She’s more interesting than you , that’s for sure
Protect yourself then
Les Vikings ne peuvent pas être chrétiens ...
Good I really get sick about Christianity a very false religion, only looks good if compared to Islam or Judaism other wise gross ignorance
Why use the term dark ages when it is discarded by historians?
So it wasn't the dark ages? Because people in 2022 said so
@@dee3717 The reason for it not being the dark ages is history itself. Including evidence.
19th century scholarship is no longer needed when new evidence replaces them.
Why not make your own video and narrate it how you please?
@@jaysgotjokesofficial There are already videos on this.
@@Tzimiskes3506 why did you ignore the first guys reply 🧐