The Northerners or just Norse if you don't have much time are exploring. They go north from the north to the northern north, and they find some land. Two types of land, and they name them accordingly... *prankd*
Fun, semi-relevant fact: Much of the area around the Oslo Fjord is soon going to merge into a county called Viken. Viken's proposed demonym is what else but Viking, meaning that in a few months I might be able to say that I'm a literal, real-life, modern Viking.
I know what you're thinking, "But Khanubis (Oversimplified) Christopher Columbus didn't discover America! The Vikings did!" And you'd be partially correct.
There's this one funny story that happened a while back in Norway A group of archeologists were digging up an old viking burial site, when they suddendly came across some old coins with chinese writing on them. The archeologists were astonished by this find. Could this be proof that vikings travelled as far as China? Sometime later this one guy who also worked on the same team as these archeologists came out and said that he had planted the coin there just to pull a prank on them
-No, it just means that they had connections to the Silk road, since in Asia Roman coins have been found and it wasn't because Romans travels there!- Well that's a stupid move! Idiot.
@@jonnathan1869 If it was "New Found Land" in say Mongolian rather than boring English at least it'll have some weird cultural thing going for it. At least with a name like VInland which means "land of the vineyards" or some such thing, it's more romantic in terms of historical names.
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions You do have a point. I've also been watching Names Explained again and apparently many places are called things like "East town" or something but being in different languages it sounds cooler than English.
@@kairon156 Well yes, that's why some companies and their advertisers use other languages or foreign sounding words to market their products, such as Häagen-Dazs which is gibberish but was made to sound foreign to people in the U.S. at least. However, I do remember asking someone if Tokyo (Eastern Capital) sounds mechanical in Japanese, the person said no. Look at it this way the same happens in English with words such as Sussex coming from the roots for south and Saxon.
Um I think you're forgetting the totally authentic and one hundred percent legitimate Viking made Heavener Runestone that clearly shows the Vikings made it into OK
Historians: The first vikings came around 800 AD at Lindisfarne. A petty northern scandinavian kingdom that was written about by Homer from ancient greece: Am i a joke to you?
Do you mean the viking era? I think what people mean when they say this is that in the 800s the Scandinavians started sailing, exploring, and pillaging different kingdoms.
@@misseli1 I would rather say that this was the golden age of vikings. Same thing with pirates when the 1700's was their golden age. Vikings sailed and explored long before the 7th century. Homer and his writings proves it. pillaging i'am unsure of. However, trading and maybe mercenary work they did in ancient times. What i belive very much in is that people long long ago, still could travel great distances overseas. There is very little proof so historians haven't tought much about it.
Fun fact I learned awhile back- Vikings may have taken Inuit prisoners and brought them to Iceland. The idea is backed up by some Icelanders having small traces of Inuit blood in them. So in a weird way by technicality, Native Americans visited Europe before Europeans visited America!
Nice fact, but not really. If you say Greenland is America and Iceland is Europe, the Vikings, who took the Inuit prisoners, were the first Europeans on American soil and that before the Native Americans could have reached Iceland.
@Mythology Guy, Native Americans and Inuits are not the same people. The Native Americans trace back to Asia, most likely in present day India. They came to North America before the "Ice Age". And the Inuits were always dwelling in the northern part of present day Canada and all over Greenland. And Greenland is not apart of Europe. So no, the Native Americans didn't discover Europe before the Europeans discovered North America and they never would.
To me Greenland can go either way because while it is closer physically to Canada, culturally it's closer to Europeans. Plus it's still physically close to Iceland and its history is intertwined with the Norse. It can go either way but that's just my thing
Michael L I learned more since I’ve watched this video. The Kievan Rus are the ancestors to the East Slavs (i.e. Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians)
A lot of people don’t know that the Irish had monasteries in Iceland and many other North Atlantic islands in the 700s, this was because of the Old Christian belief of isolation like Jesus did in Lent It’s even said that St. Brendan (The Patron Saint of Sailors) found Newfoundland before the vikings
@bbonner422 I know I was saying monks that is why I had "settle" In quotations. I was saying irish monks. I must have not typed it. It isn't being disputed about the irish monks. I don't think there were ever any exaggeration of irish settlement made by the slaves of gaelic origin. Maybe there were these exaggeration that I have never heard of. It is quite surprising there were no attempts to colonisation iceland (not talking about monasteries) It seems quit odd. Iceland has a very unique and interesting history
It was great to collaborate with you! Cheers!
- What places have you sailed to?
- Yes.
Normie
Yes
The Northerners or just Norse if you don't have much time are exploring. They go north from the north to the northern north, and they find some land. Two types of land, and they name them accordingly... *prankd*
hi Avery the Cuban-American I think we are the people with the most youtube comments who even keeps track of that data
Americans: Christopher Columbus discovered America
Vikings: am I a joke to you?
Native Americans: Don't even get us started
@@KhAnubis true
KhAnubis Polynesians still getting left out
Muscle Boi I wasn’t saying they did it first I was just saying that it’s wrong that they always get left out of the “discovering America” conversation
Animals: Ahem, gentlemen?
Fun, semi-relevant fact: Much of the area around the Oslo Fjord is soon going to merge into a county called Viken. Viken's proposed demonym is what else but Viking, meaning that in a few months I might be able to say that I'm a literal, real-life, modern Viking.
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They hinga dinga durgen all over the world
House of Kim?
Personally, I Know Of Vikings As Great Heroes Who Raided Churches And Killed Englishmen!
I know what you're thinking, "But Khanubis (Oversimplified) Christopher Columbus didn't discover America! The Vikings did!" And you'd be partially correct.
I really like your channel.
I just hate it when I’m “pressured by various pressures” like those poor Vikings at 1:49
"These Scandinavian warriors and traders" thank you for understanding that we didn't just take over whatever we wanted. We were businessmen.
0:36 Not-Constantly-Dying-Of-The-Plague? I Know That Place, I Lived There Once, Nice Place.
There's this one funny story that happened a while back in Norway
A group of archeologists were digging up an old viking burial site, when they suddendly came across some old coins with chinese writing on them. The archeologists were astonished by this find. Could this be proof that vikings travelled as far as China?
Sometime later this one guy who also worked on the same team as these archeologists came out and said that he had planted the coin there just to pull a prank on them
-No, it just means that they had connections to the Silk road, since in Asia Roman coins have been found and it wasn't because Romans travels there!-
Well that's a stupid move! Idiot.
XD
There is an anime called Vinland saga check it out it's great and it's about Vikings
I've heard of this anime.
That's like asking how big the universe is
Great summary of the Viking Age!
Hey, I've Heard The First On Iceland Were Some Irish Guys, Called The Papas Or Somethings.
Great video.
I can see you use the superior BC/AD system
Lindybeige reference coming up
"Backwards Chronology" and "Advancing Dates".
Fat Earther honestly chief i don’t care about your feelings
Fat Earther sensitive lizardperson
BCE and CE are the exact same as B.C. A.D., very funny, they still use Christ as a point
And they set up a lovely city called Cork in Ireland
it's actually assumed that the vikings in Greenland were integrated by the inuits. But this is a good vid.
Scandinavia squad represent.
I was about to sleep when this popped up
Noob
Johannes what is that supposed to mean?
As a Newfoundlander I think we should have kept the name VInland.
I agree. New-found-land is kinda a lazy name if you ask me 😂😂
@@jonnathan1869 If it was "New Found Land" in say Mongolian rather than boring English at least it'll have some weird cultural thing going for it.
At least with a name like VInland which means "land of the vineyards" or some such thing, it's more romantic in terms of historical names.
But that name wasn't particularly known by most Europeans, heck British colonization has outlived Scandinavian settling by centuries!
@@OpinionesDeJACCsOpinions You do have a point.
I've also been watching Names Explained again and apparently many places are called things like "East town" or something but being in different languages it sounds cooler than English.
@@kairon156
Well yes, that's why some companies and their advertisers use other languages or foreign sounding words to market their products, such as Häagen-Dazs which is gibberish but was made to sound foreign to people in the U.S. at least.
However, I do remember asking someone if Tokyo (Eastern Capital) sounds mechanical in Japanese, the person said no. Look at it this way the same happens in English with words such as Sussex coming from the roots for south and Saxon.
Very historically accurate, well done!
here's the rus
the kievan rus
are they vikings?
I wonder if we'd get a sequel to this video with other seafaring people such as the Phoenicians, Māoris, and Polynesians.
Why didn’t this start out with “don’t you wish you were this hot?”
I’m unsubscribing
KhAnubis what about the Kensington rune stone?
You forgot to mention that they even discovered and settled in the Azores.
It was an extraordinary period of time, but the Viking spirit seemed to have died with Christianisation, interestingly enough.
Rather, it evolved. The "viking" spirit carried on with a Christian meaning, in the Crusades against the Lithuanians.
Lol I didn’t even realize the nararators changed
Um I think you're forgetting the totally authentic and one hundred percent legitimate Viking made Heavener Runestone that clearly shows the Vikings made it into OK
Historians: The first vikings came around 800 AD at Lindisfarne.
A petty northern scandinavian kingdom that was written about by Homer from ancient greece: Am i a joke to you?
Do you mean the viking era? I think what people mean when they say this is that in the 800s the Scandinavians started sailing, exploring, and pillaging different kingdoms.
@@misseli1 I would rather say that this was the golden age of vikings. Same thing with pirates when the 1700's was their golden age. Vikings sailed and explored long before the 7th century. Homer and his writings proves it. pillaging i'am unsure of. However, trading and maybe mercenary work they did in ancient times.
What i belive very much in is that people long long ago, still could travel great distances overseas. There is very little proof so historians haven't tought much about it.
@@gubban48 Do you mean Hyper borea? Cuz hyperborea wasnt real
@@viveka2994 Thats a bit vague to say
Minnesota Vikings 💪🏽💕💕💕💕💕
@Fat Earther NFL
Why is your RUclips page at 5:50 in German?
Dunno why but I imagined you looked like Rami Malek until you showed your face
TBH, and non-plague filled land would be pretty good right about now . . . :)
Vindland Saga begin
You state all around the world!
That’s why Newfoundland is called Newfoundland and not Oldfoundland
Fun fact I learned awhile back- Vikings may have taken Inuit prisoners and brought them to Iceland. The idea is backed up by some Icelanders having small traces of Inuit blood in them. So in a weird way by technicality, Native Americans visited Europe before Europeans visited America!
Mythology Guy that’s actually really interesting
Nice fact, but not really.
If you say Greenland is America and Iceland is Europe, the Vikings, who took the Inuit prisoners, were the first Europeans on American soil and that before the Native Americans could have reached Iceland.
@Mythology Guy, Native Americans and Inuits are not the same people. The Native Americans trace back to Asia, most likely in present day India. They came to North America before the "Ice Age". And the Inuits were always dwelling in the northern part of present day Canada and all over Greenland. And Greenland is not apart of Europe. So no, the Native Americans didn't discover Europe before the Europeans discovered North America and they never would.
To me Greenland can go either way because while it is closer physically to Canada, culturally it's closer to Europeans. Plus it's still physically close to Iceland and its history is intertwined with the Norse. It can go either way but that's just my thing
@@MythologywithMike Greenland's culture today is entirely different from European culture.
I may be mistaken but there’s some evidence of Irish monks prior to the vikings
Do one on football
Wait so I’m confused were the Kievn Rus descendants of Vikings, or Slavs
Maybe the Slavs are descendants of Vikings or simply Slavs came to the Kievan Rus after it formed.
Michael L
I learned more since I’ve watched this video. The Kievan Rus are the ancestors to the East Slavs (i.e. Russians, Ukrainians, and Belarusians)
Great video! It also seems I’m not alone since it has 0 likes. Fun
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Did he just say unpaid workers instead of slaves? @4:38
could you like not upload for a month so I dont feel bad about not uploading
The International Historian - Sorry, the every Sunday schedule is pretty well established by now...
@@KhAnubis so what am i supposed to do now, actually upload? HA
Unpaid workers? That's a pretty nicer way of putting it.. 😁👍
Vikings in Israel! This is everything I ever wanted!
#BoycottIsrael #BDS #FreePalestine
(1:24) What's going on here?🤨
ChubbyEmu reference
@@KhAnubis
I have no idea what that is, but thanks for letting me know!
Irish Hermit Monks inhabited Iceland before the heathens.
I love you
Why they dont reach china
Did they know that country?
A lot of people don’t know that the Irish had monasteries in Iceland and many other North Atlantic islands in the 700s, this was because of the Old Christian belief of isolation like Jesus did in Lent
It’s even said that St. Brendan (The Patron Saint of Sailors) found Newfoundland before the vikings
@Tadhg, Sorry to break it to you buddy, but this is just a misconception.
@Fat Earther No more than you, you heathen!
@Fat Earther Okay then. No more than you, you jew!
"Arabic perspective"?
Arab, Arabian, moslems, Islamic? Arabic is the language, dude. 💚 🧙♂️
Wrong wrong wrong the vikings were not the first to colonise Iceland, Irish monks were there before them but the vikings caused them to leave
Vikings are gonna beat the Bears today!
hinga dinga durgen
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The Frist people to "settle" iceland were irish see westman Island
@bbonner422 I know I was saying monks that is why I had "settle" In quotations. I was saying irish monks. I must have not typed it. It isn't being disputed about the irish monks. I don't think there were ever any exaggeration of irish settlement made by the slaves of gaelic origin. Maybe there were these exaggeration that I have never heard of. It is quite surprising there were no attempts to colonisation iceland (not talking about monasteries) It seems quit odd. Iceland has a very unique and interesting history
O'Reykjavik 😛