@@kingwacky184Same here, and I have a snake ring too. Most people assume it's supposed to be of Jörmungandr, of course, but actually it's supposed to be Ettersaspen. I.e. the snake they hung up to drip poison into Loki's eyes at the gates of Hel, when he got Baldr killed and they had enough of his crap. It's a symbol of humility and retribution, i.e. the Nordic kinda symbol of "F around and find out; Play decent, or else things catch up with you."
yeah weird he didnt mention rurikids, im assuming because its "debated"? im norwegian but was always taught Swedes went east & as you said basically created russia. Rus - rusland
And having the personal guard for the emperor in Konstantinopel (istanbul). Or Miklagård as we called it. The Varangian guard. Swedes travelled along the big rivers in the east (dnjepr, volga).
Not only that but swedes were recruited for armies to went west aswell, and most of modern day Sweden at this time wasnt known as Sweden in sources as Sweden was a small area in modern swedens central east coast. The Geats which is southern part of Sweden are known as Beowulf in anglo saxon stories and so forth and went or were like a 4th people they went west alot too. The dna tests from vikings in russia are swedish ethnically yes. We also have runestones in sweden of voyages to Iran, Italy, Greece. I think he is just salty against swedes abit and wanna put us down its common scandinavian rivalry @@blodhevn2353
The viking age was a thousand years ago.... If we have family heirlooms they're not that old.. They would be in museums. There's a lot of museums though and the rune stones are everywhere in Sweden. What happened to the people who got raided? That would be different for every raid. If vikings settled they could in some cases co-exist. Otherwise, killed or enslaved and sold. Or sacrificed. A thousand years ago people did not write that much, most people couldn't read.
Something that is not shown in various films is that the majority of the Scandinavian population during this time were peaceful farmers or merchants. The Vikings who ravaged, burned and looted were usually adventurous unmarried young men (bachelors) with the aim of improving their name and reputation and at the same time acquiring financial start-up capital to marry and settle down - and the more famous name and reputation one had the better (richer) wife one could expect to get. These young men were led by one or a couple of slightly older chiefs who had been through this before.
The Vikings norse gods is the base of many weekdays even in English. Tuesday = Tyr's day Wednesday = Odin's day Thursday = Thor's day Friday = Frej's day At midsummer Frej is the god of fertility that is being celebrated. Swedish vikings went east to Holmgård(Novgorod) and by river sailed to the black sea and Särkland(Turkey), some settled the rivers of kievan rus, and the Rurikovich family were descendants of the Swedish viking Rurik. Some vikings returned called Svear, which is the base of what Swedens is named from. Svear -> Svearnas rike(kingdom of the Svear) -> svea rike -> Sverige. Norwegian Vikings went to Vinland(Canada) and met with Skrälingar(native americans).
That is not entirely accurate. They're based on Anglo-Saxon Gods, which were analogues of the Viking Gods. That is why "Wednesday" is not "Odin's Day" but "Woden's Day" and "Tuesday" is not "Tyr's Day" but "Tiw's Day". That said, they're more or less interchangeable, but then so are the Roman and Greek Gods for the most part
You forgot søndag (sunday) that means exactly what it is, the day of the sun. Lørdag (saturday) are washing day. And mandag (monday) is moon-day. We also open presents after darkness on the 24'th and not in the morning of the 25'th of december. Because viking day was over when the sun went down. And that logic and way if thinking resulted in the 24'th for opening presents.
Greetings from Denmark, objects from the past is called Danefæ & if it is of cultural historical value then it belongs to the state. So if you find any of those, you have to turn it in at a museum. It's illegal to sell or pass on Danefæ. However there is a finders fee, if you should come across something that is considered Danefæ. The law of Danefæ goes back to around 1240, where it belonged to the king. So no families/clans or any of that have any Danefæ, it's all in museums for everyone to experience & enjoy. Our national museum have an exhibit & as far as i know most of all Danefæ is in the national museum.
5:20 We dont have something that old in private posession here in Denmark. What there is left, comes from archeological diggings, and is illegal to own. It belongs to museums for all Danes to be able to see. Those who tried to keep these old things, were quickly killed by the christian church, or thrown in prison. Accused of acting against god and blasfemy. Medieval times wiped almost everythibg out, and is the reason why we have so little knowledge from back then. Yes. The church destroyed everything.
The clothes of the Vikings looked very different from what they show in movies, think a hippie in colorful embroidered clothes and you will be closer to the truth. The women had more rights than in the rest of Europe. Love from a Dane in Denmark.
Not like hippies cmon we had fashion from everywhere in the world thou, we were not colorblind we could match and wear other fashions from other places.
@@theMyouknow I am speaking on the basis of the reconstructions of archaeological textile finds that the national museum in Copenhagen has made. Hippie clothing is also a fashion style, and one that The Demouchets know so they have something to tie it to.
Your looking fabulous Sierra🔥🔥😊 I'm Scottish and quite a few of our words from the Scots Leid language comes from Old Norse and are similar to Scandinavian languages today. As well as place names etc too.
Agreed, Swedish Vikings didn't do much. They only founded Kievan Rus. And were part of the Varangian Guard in todays Turkey. And has most silver hoards in Scandinavia. Also, no.
I am British. Mostly Scottish/Irish but I also have 35% Norwegian DNA must have been from when the Norwegian Vikings came over. The Vikings also enslaved a lot of British white people and took them back to their lands to serve as slaves.
@@ole7146 Yes might have been, It is a fact though that most invaders of any country took slaves. I am proud to have nearly half of my DNA being Norwegian.
Sure, there is a chanse one or more of your ancestors came during the "Viking age" raids, but the bigger odds are that its way more recent. 35% points more towards today, than in the past. People who have original viking ties in England, are around 0.5 to 2%, not 30+%. Remember the viking age ended almost 1000 years ago. that would make it so that there have been about 40 generations since then. wich would make it so that you have about a trilion ancestors if you would go back to that era. So to end up whit 35% norwegian dna from the viking age and foward is pretty much impossible. For that to happen there would have to be a entire city made up of norwegians who pretty much refused to let any one in for several hunderds of years. or the most likely one. One of your grandparents, parents where of norwegian decent. Sorry to burst your bubble about the "Viking" ancestory. -------------- Not slaves. Thralls (Trälar). Slaves have no rights. Thralls did. not much, but they where treated way better than any slave where. And could earn their freedon relativly easly. Also all brits of that era where white. It wasen't untill way after the Viking age, people from the medeteranian and the African continent started to arrive in england. The only time before that where during the time the romans where there.
@@mr-x7689 Yes white. Thralls/slaves. People taken forcibly against their will, to another country or place. Why is it assumed that in the history of the world the only "slaves" were one of colour or of African decent? What about the West Indies? What about the many other countries who raided another country and took slaves from there or even took slaves from their own country? Interesting what you said about the DNA. my family came from Scotland/North East England where a huge amount of Scandinavians raided and finally settled to live. I did wonder why I had such a large percentage of Norwegian DNA I will have to look into it further. I have only researched back to the 15th century on my Family tree.
13:55 When we setteled England. We usually founded a town next to an English town. Then to keep the peace, we exchanged a prisoner. We gave one to the English and they gave one to us. Of for some reason, fighting or violence between would breake out, the prisoner would be killed. Other than that, the prisoner would be allowed to live and work free in the town, but not leave it. It was a security thing and fair for all.
Hey from Denmark To answer a few of your comments/questions. Many people here in Scandinavia hold the Viking age dear to their hearts and will participate in reenactments of the Viking area and have markets lasting a few days, wearing the style they had back then. The short answer though is that we don't wear that type of clothes anymore. Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and the Feary Islands have national garments worn on special occasions, but those are from a much later period. Denmark doesn't do that, Did the Vikings recruit warriors? Well, the Viking Age only lasted about 200 years, plus/minus. They expanded way more than they recruited. They were skilled fighters and sailors and fought in a shield wall formation. Not only men but both men and women (shield maidens). Important information is that they were cunning and often tricked their victims when unprepared. Their boats could go up smaller rivers, so they would arrive so fast that most villages needed more time to prepare for the attack. They were also known to be very violent when they had to and were seen as demons.
I'm Swedish, and my name means "big/terrible f*ckoff wolf." It's hereditary, so it's the first name of every man in my family, with us using the second name between ourselves. Guess what it is, I suppose?
Hi. Danish guy here. Thanks for showing an interest in our culture. I appreciate it! I'll try to answer some of your questions. and give you a bit of insight. 5:02 - You have to understand that the viking age ended around the 1400 century, so a lot of artifacts and so on has been lost. But some families still have artifacts from that time that have been passed down. But the most we find today goes to the museum. 10:37 - Yes. The vikings were recruiting on their raids. They rewarded the warrior attitude and respected strength.. There are hints of even black vikings in some of the texts and history, but very few. Remember, being a viking is not a religion or really a culture. It's a JOB! When you were a warrior and went on raids you were a viking, but the home town were just a "normal" settlement. Here we have the traditional Scandinavian culture. But we call it the viking culture or the viking age. But the vikings also killed, r*ped, pillaged.. Stole women, and brought back "trælle" = slaves that worked for them. 12:07 - This is my opinion. The origin of braids... Who can really tell? Its a hairstyle, and humans do what they do. Yes the vikings had braids, but Africans had braids too. There is Australian aboriginal braids and even ancient South American braids. Its all over the world. I don't think you can say that braids is from just one culture. 13:43 - The people living in those areas how fought against the vikings was sent away or killed. But the people who wanted to stay was taken in and some of the women married these strong manly vikings. These viking settlements also brought new ways of doing things and was trading with the locals. 23:45 - The real answer is no. Scandinavian people dress like any other modern country of today. But we still have "folk dancers" or festivals where we pledge homage to the olden days. Like "Majfest"/May festival or the harvest fest. "Sankthans" the midsommer festival. Today some Scandinavians also still wear jewelry made to resemble artifacts from that age or a new version of it. Like Thors hammer, the gothic knot, the tree of life Yggdrasil, the head of the Fenris wolf and more. Some traditional home nitted sweaters have some kind of pattern from the viking age or have old runes on them. 29:26 - The viking spirit lives on in our warriors today. Like Delta force or the SAS, the Scandinavian countrys have some of the best special forces in the world like the Swedish Sarskilds, the Norwegan FSK and the Danish Jaeger Corps. "The Viking Warriors" ruclips.net/video/dvWfwXOkJxI/видео.html To bring it back to the viking age here is a new rendition of a song that captures some of the old viking culture. It's a song about death. Death was celebrated in the old days. If you died in battle you would go to "Valhalla"/Heaven where you would sit at the table of the great Norse gods and have the honor to fight in the halls of Odin himself. Thank you for your time. Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen: ruclips.net/video/FnkTuHP9q3o/видео.html Who shall sing me into the death-sleep sling me When I walk on the Path of Death and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold I sought the songs I sent the songs when the deepest well gave me the drops so touched of Death-father’s wager I know it all, Odin where you hid your eye Who shall sing me into the death-sleep sling me When I walk on the Path of Death and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold early in the days’ end still the raven knows if I fall When you stand by the Gate of Death And you have to tear free I shall follow you across the Resounding Bridge with my song You will be free from the bonds that bind you! You are free from the bonds that bound that you!
A Swede here. For clothing, nope, no viking clothing in Sweden. Our traditional dresses stems from 17-1800´s and is called "folkdräkt". It is similar all over Sweden, but every region has their own variant. No one wears this as everyday clothing, it is reserved for finer occantions. There are also no viking artefacts in Swedish homes, at least I have never seen one. The oldest artefact we have in our family is a bear spear, likely from the 1700´s. The spear is short, very sturdy and with a very long blade. As the myth goes, you where supposed to set the spear in the ground when the bear attacked, and let the bear pierce itself so to say. The most viking-thing we still do is celebrating Midsummer. All the youngsters will get extremely drunk, there will be some fighting but even more fucking in the woods. :D
I'm Canadian, my maiden name is Gunn. The Gunns are one of the oldest Clans in Scotland and related back to the Picts and intermingled with Norwegians. My family moved to Canada when the North of Scotland was 'cleared'.
A lot of Swedes still wear Thor's hammer on a necklace and or runes both tattooed and as jewelry. The clothing has changed though. From the "viking age" to now, there has been a 1000 years of severe change. I'm a Swede and I don't mind my friend taking shots at us. We do the same. In sports the most important thing is to beat Norway, Finland and Denmark. I can trace (probably) my heritage down to the 970s to a man born a pagan. His sons became christian and they erected a rune stone where they mention their father. There are many rune stones in Sweden still standing. Norway and Denmark was once one country. Sweden and Finland was one country too for a long time and the southern tip of Sweden belonged to Denmark for several hundred years. There is enormous amounts of history on Scandinavia if you want to go down that road.
Correction. "many swedes still wear a Mjölnir" The hammer of Þor is named Mjölnir., and is in the wast majority of cases worn as a religious symbol just like the crusifix is to Cristians. Unfortunatly there are a lot of Arse hats, who use it as a supremacist sign, which have made a lot of left leaning people, to treat religious people as nazis when they see it. Some left poleticians have even suggested to forbid it. Tho this idea seam to have melted away, due me not heard anything about if for some years now.
Just remember that the Viking "Age" was like almost a thousand years ago, and by earlier accounts a generation was around 20 years, give or take. We have children later today, so that is no longer correct for us, I think. So five generations per century, and around 10 centuries since that time? After 50 generations or so, only historians will know anything about that age. I think some of our Norwegian stave churches are either very close to the late Viking Age, or were built when Catholicism/Christianity had yet to erase the old influences for architecture/decorations and plain old folk thinking. 🙂
Oh, and I regularly read a national historical magazine in Norway, and they often ask people to help identify pictures of old stuff from about a century or less ago, and hardly anyone know what those things were for! Going 9 centuries back before that... 😧
Here in norway we wear our traditional clothes as fancy clothes.. like we don't still wear the common bunads, but basically everyone has a fancy bunad we get at 14 years old. It can be used in weddings (bride/groom & guest), funerals, to meet royalty, etc. Tho, if bunads come from before, during, or after the viking age, i have no idea. I just know it's our traditional clothes.😅
During soccergames you will se Viking helmets on Swedish supporters. Also on medeval festivals you can se traditional clothes. Almost nobody will wear Viking clothes today but you might find a ”Torshammare” (hammer of Thor) at some peoples necklaces.
The Swedish vikings were mostly peaceful traders. They've found a lot of artifacts from all over the world in Swedish tombs. Like he said in the video, Swedish vikings travelled east. There's plenty of evidence they travelled as far as the Caspian Sea. We've found artifacts from all over the world in Swedish tombs, including some Sri Lankan artifacts from tombs over 1500 years old. However, it's not entirely clear if they travelled all the way down to Sri Lanka, or if they traded for the artifacts somewhere along the routes they frequented.
Hi fron yorkshire in england. Yeah i guess we did take a bashing fron the vikings along with the romans, saxons and normans. But its so far back its an interesting part of history. In a village we used to live in there was a village fete where they would dress up and have viking or saxon battles. It was fun.
As a Dane, I will explain this much. When you ask what happened to the women, we took the pretty ones and left the ugly ones behind in England and wherever we went, you might think this is a joke but its often mentioned. Although both men and women were taken as Thralls, or Slaves if you prefer that term (A term we also invented to describe the Russians or the "Slavs") However the correct term is Thrall. Or Træll. As for the local populations, we mostly left them intact where we could as to not waste manpower in the fields. Crops wont grow on their own and even a warrior needs bread and butter. Of course any ressistance were often cut down without to much consideration.
im a descendant of harold hairfair and eric bloodaxe,most of the cool viking kings came from a small place in trøndelag norway called namsos.. and no we dont have viking stuff in our houses,hehe.. the norwegian national dress is bunads,we dont dress viking for anything else than reenactments of famous battles or a medieval fair here or there.-..
@@mr-x7689 No , Jomsborg or Jómsborg (German: Jomsburg) was a semi-legendary Viking stronghold at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea (medieval Wendland, modern Pomerania), that existed between the 960s and 1043.
About the clothings. The viking age was thousand years ago, so we are more connected to things and culture that happend during the Christian age after the viking age, that officialy ended inn 1066. In Norway we have local traditional clothings that probably are a mix of things that we used during tha 17th century and that was formed during the nation building period in the 19th century.
Dane here, don't know of anyone who has artifacts at home that's been passed down, remember, the viking age was the year 793 to 1066...its been a while 😁
also illegal to keep artifacts from that era. Any finds have to be given to the state, but you'll be compensated for it. (Unless that have changed reasently)
Sadly, one of the things christianity brought to Scandinavia, was the *erasure of anything tied to the previous culture.* People during the viking age made elaborate pagan cloth weaves and wooden carvings *and those burned very easily.* It's a wonder that even the few we have, survived until today. Thankfully, we still got stuff like the rune stones, but damn ... we lost so much of our history.
Coming in at around 9 minutes, or so, it is important to remember that many historians think of Harald Fairhair's Norway as being the western coasts of today's country, which actually gave the later country its name: The North Way. There were lots of valuable trade goods coming from the north, some of it all the way from today's Russia's White Sea area. Oh, and everyone realizes today that there were a lot of exploitation of the non-norse/slavic peoples at that time in such a vast area! Historians will note it, but they'll usually not get excited about it. That was how the ancient world worked, after all. Most African slaves were sold to anyone by their local leaders, or local conquerors, after all. And the vikings did keep slaves, too. Just like the Romans and the Greeks, and probably everyone else around that time. After all, anyone not of your clan/family, and too weak to defend themselves, are always only to be considered as slaves to work for your clan/family. But at that time it was about everyone and anyone, so not racially based. After all, Africans could still be Romans, and no one considered the color of their skin when it came to that.
Apart from the TV series Vikings, I don’t know anything about vikings, my heritage, if I have one connected to it 😂😬… I guess I was taught something about it in school but nothing I remember today. Maybe a few details but wouldn’t pass a quiz…
strange video... the ppl that lived in what was to become sweden traveled east, the to be finland and baltic states, created trades and settlements in "russia" novgorod or as it was called "Holmgård" olof skötkonungs daughter or neice was "anna the holy" of novgorod, rurik was supposedly "swedish" there are plenty sourses... but what to expect from a Norwegian source :) and the danes left plenty tracks to the history after them in england... many names of villages and cities in england, the dane law etc. norwiegians left the greates treasure i think, settling on island and there we have the greatest sagas/storys from the time, and language etc.
@@rapator9270 We didn't have a capital back then, but Sigtuna was the closest thing to one (being the biggest town and IIRC having the royal mint, but wasn't a seat of government (we didn't have one) or where the King lived).
No my friends, we do not wear viking clothes or anything of the sort today. The viking age was around 1100-1200 years ago. Around 800-900 years before the U.S.A even existed lol. We are one of the richest, most advanced, safest, happiest, most modern countries in the world today (Norway, Sweden and Denmark) and we dress.. Well, probably very similar to you guys. Probably nicer in general if anything, seeing as the gdp per capita is quite a lot higher here than in the U.S. Well, at least in Norway where im from. Thats not a brag or anything, its a reality that people from the states, which seem to live in their own bubble dont realise.
There are a few people that wear clothes from this time period but it isn't common at all. Most modern pagans in my experience will just wear relevant jewellery, often based on found historical artefacts. You will often see people in the historical dress at Pagan holidays though.
An important reason that the "pagan" religions of the Scandinavians disappeared is simple if you think about it. Christians wanted to convert everyone. The Scandinavians didn't. Over time, that means only 1 religion remains.
It's not likely that any family heirlooms could be handed down from the 'viking' age a thousand years and more ago. A very few relics survive in some great churches, like the 'horn of Ulph at York Minster, & maybe a few bits in Royal collections. Some Royal families in Europe can trace their ancestry to some of the Viking leaders, for example the English/British Kings descend from Cnut & William the Norman. There are many things dug up in archaeological researches that are of Viking period & manufacture, mostly from graves, but also from settlement sites like York & Dublin. People from Denmark & Scandinavia have been migrating into the British Isles from the earliest times, long before the Viking age, right through to the Viking age, so it is not possible to say how much DNA comes from the Viking age, & how much long before. There were no written records until these people became Christian, but some oral myths from earlier times were carried down to Christian times, when they were written. what you think of as Viking dress is only holly wood, not real. Some people dress up in that style for festivals etc but it is not real, but only fanciful. On the whole the Viking age Scandinavians dressed like most other Europeans, & their war dress, armour weapons etc were also much like every other warlike people, with just a few special weapons, like the war axe. Remember pretty all of Europe was a warrior society, with regular fighting between various peoples from very early times. The Vikings were just another episode of this struggle, really the last portion to be Christianised & Civilized.
The Norse where civilized. just not Christianised. and that made them to the cristians seam like barbarians. Even tho they had better art, cloths, and personal hygiene compared to the Christians at the same era. Christians have allways just as muslims looked down on any and all who dont share their fate, and treated them as less.
It's sometimes joked about that Scandinavia, has the most beautiful women, because of the vikings. When they would raid places, they would capture woman, but why take the ugly ones, when you can get the good looking ones. Quite morbid, but that is how things were back then.
Side note : The swedes went est, todays russia, all the way down to turkey called constantinople back then, build a trading post called Kiev in now Ukraine.
The reason for there not being much documentaion is becouse the vikings didn´t write anything down (other then runestones wich basicly is to honor the dead or wish someone goodluck when they went to settle down somewhere far away). So the historical knowledge we have of vikings are mostly from brittish and frensh documentation, becouse they where the ones who keep their history written in the largest scale (That´s also the main reason for why the vikings often are portraited as vicios beasts who only cared about plunder and war) Other then that most stories was kept in spoken form and only written down much later. So they are basicly fairy tales, with no way of telling wich parts of them are true.
There where probably some stuff written down, but during the Christianisation of Scandinavia. Most christians murdered any pagans who refused to convert, burned down their homes and temples, and destroyed everything that could be related to the pagans. So it's bacicly only runestones left from that era, and even they unfortunatly often did not survive. Many got smashed in to pieces to be used when building churches and homes. Those few who did convert in to christians, but seacretly kept their old fate, often got cought and where put on trial for wich craft or demon worship. Wich often carried a death sentence.
We have Thor-hammer-amulets on the wall in our home. Thor was one of the most important heathen gods before the violent and forced "Christianization" of Norway.
It is a cultural symbol for my wife and me, and I believe for most people wearing or having such amulets in Norway. And BTW, the vast majority of us are not supremacists or right-wing. My wife and I are left-wing Democratic Socialists (like Bernie) 🙂@@TheDemouchetsREACT
in lots of Slavic countries folkor clothes are still mayor part of our culture,dance and language , thru manifestation, wedinngs, even folkor concerts keep tradition, in Croatia we have celebration of events older than 500 years where we dress in clothes of that time
Seriously. Most Slavic folklore outfits are much younger than what you think. The Scandinavian countries have that too, and wear these as well. In Sweden, for example, wearing a folklore outfit is considered to be on par with a ball gawn, and yes weddings cout. The royal family women often wear folklore dresses to galas and official ceremonies. That is different from the pre-Christian eras. You don't wear outfits from the 9th and 10th century, do you?
Hi from Denmark. 🇩🇰 all I have to show my viking blod is viking disease. Im very pale and have green eyes and dark blond hair. Im 5'9". My son is 16 years old but i is alteady 6'6". We are a tall nation. We know the Norse gods and celebrate alot of the old holidays. I have no viking clothing
Our dude really glosses over what the Swedish Vikings did. "Going east" actually means conquering Finland and forming a large trading empire from Finland all the way to the Caspian Sea. Danish and Norwegian Vikings may have attacked the early versions of England and France, but Swedish Vikings made war on the Roman Empire itself, attacking Constantinople several times. Swedish Vikings served with the Roman Emperors in Constantinople as the Varangian Guard and with the Romans fought from the shores of Africa, to the Arabs in the Levant into Sicily and Italy. Swedish Vikings founded the Kievian Rus, who are the founders of the Russian State. Until the 20th Century, the Russian imperial and noble families were descended, in name and blood (The Rurik Lines), the Swedish Vikings who settled in Russia in the 9th Century.
In Norway Viking culture in daily life was fully replaced in the hundreds of years after Christianity with foreign influence, education, colonization by Danes and trade. Before the modern reenactors there was very little to be seen other than the more patriotic national romantic images and ideas about Vikings outside academia. Even here the Wagnerian image of a Viking mostly replaced any reality about Vikings.
If you can not beat them, join them. That is typically Danish. Even up to the late 1800's and early 1900's. When Danes migrated to Australia and USA. We have always said that now we are not Danish, but we belong were we migrated to. One example would be that a Dane said "Now I am an American, and not a Dane anymore." That is also the reason why you do not find anything really Danish as such in USA. Compared to Irish or Italian as an example. Descendant's of Italian migrants still keep some traditions and cultures and say they are Italian American. Danes did not do that to rhe same degree. As to why modern Americans with Danish roots tries to revive their lost cultures today. They have become so American, that they look for the same, that Italian Americans have, despite it be a typical Danish thing to get rid of as much of the old culture and language as possible. An interresting thought. Also the reason why we here in Denmark shake our heads, when we see an American basterdisated version of Danish stuff that Americans with Danish roots think is Danish culture. But yeah.... We left our mark. Words are a great part of Danish legacy in the English language. Egg, skirt, window and many other words in the English language, are Danish words. Names of cities or towns are many times Danish in England. If it ends with 'by', the city/town was founded by Danish vikings. One example are Densby.
Correction "Are scandinavian words." The language of the "Viking" era where not seperate languages but one language whit different dialects. So, many words used today in the english language are of Scandinavian decent. The Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians spoke the same language back then. hec we can still understand each other pretty well.
@@mr-x7689 Men det var os danskere som gav englænderne en del ord. Det var ikke nordmænd og svenskere. Ergo, det var danske ord. Og hvorfor sætter du vikingetiden i gåseøjne? Det var en faktisk tidsperiode og ikke bare noget man sådan slynger ud med, som om det er et slang. Vi havde vikingetiden og resten af europa havde tidlig middelalder.
Viking is a verb - to go viking as in trade and raiding. The common name of the people is Northmen. Most of them lived common life farming, fishing and enjoyed family life. For those who went viking it was a way to get a living, not all could inherit land to be a farmer, they had to make a living or was longin for treasure and with that getting power...as people today. Yes, they took slaves/trälar, mostly to sell but also to keep as servants at home. But the slaves could be free if being good to their owners and do good in their work. You must know that it was a common way in those days, many people around the world took slaves or treated the lower class as slaves. There was regulations in what you were allowed to do and not. For example a wife or daughter could inherit the homestead and if the husband went trading/viking she was the boss. Women was quite free and there was also women coming with the travels and even as "vikings" and fought beside the men. I would be interesting to do a DNA test because I know scientist have been able to get DNA from a person living during that time. I can trace all of my ancesters i straight lines back to the middle of 1400, all of them settlers from the middle of Sweden going up north, with a few lines from Finland and one sami line. This is 600 yrs back and counting there is only 600 yrs from there to the start of the viking age, so maybe I am a Rus? As living up north with a family history going so long back it might be so. In the south there was more interaction (and most people lived down there) towards the continent; the slavic countries and of course Norway and Denmark Interesting to think about...but in the end we are all from the same family so greetings from a sister living in Sweden!
Norwegian vikings were the OGs. Tougher climate and more skill to navigate in and out and just to survive. I take great pride in having the most rabid, berserker vikings.
we dont wear any cultural clothes from the viking era today. this era was a 1000 years ago. compared the american expansion to the west about 100-150 years ago wich alot natives fled to canada and were allowed to keep their culture. africa have managed to keep their culture to a certain extents even during the colonialism wich really ended only 70 years ago . only thing iv seen is some people have necklesses with the thors hammer but that is only for the looks. if they say the use it to be proud of their heritage its complete bullshit 90% of the times. i only think the sami people in the north to what i understand they use theirs mostly on special occasions, but i might be wrong since i live the southern part of sweden
I do not think people today in any culture dressed like they did over 1000 years ago for ceremonial purpose, scandinavia have though some traditions going back like 150 - 200 or so years with folksongs and costumes to go, but that is not connected to the Viking Age.
Well, its 840 year anniversary of razing Sigtuna ;) Who weren't there ? Looks like it was nice big cluster ..um .. battle? Novgorod .. where they got their first rulers? Yeah ... and the forced christianing werent that easy also. Northern Crusades ..
Santa Klaus is NORSE!! Sooooo they were far more influential than you think, look up Yule! You'll be celebrating a version of this soon a much bastardized version but still!
"Wodan's role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. Nicholas and Santa Claus in a variety of facets, including his long white beard and his gray horse for nightly rides (compare Odin's horse Sleipnir) or his reindeer in North American tradition. Folklorist Margaret Baker maintains that "the appearance of Santa Claus or Father Christmas, whose day is the 25th of December, owes much to Odin".. So Saint Nicolaus was Turkish, but Santa Claus is influenced by Norse mythology@@cbjmurer
Untamed warriors do not make great armies or soldiers and that was true for Norwegians Vikings. Formidable one to one but keep in formation and trained troops should not have a problem to beat them. Generally speaking, Norwegian was the best one-to-one and Danes the best in military formation (Swedes in the middle in both).
@@cynic7049 Well the Vikings were adept raiders for sure but they also fought in shield wall so they knew tactics and the reason why they were so successful in England was because England didn't exist it was a patchwork of smaller nations allowing the Vikings to pick of smaller nations one by one.
This guy have many controversial ideas, so don't take his euphemism too seriously.. But it's an okey intoduction to the age that is popularly called the viking age.
OK, so this dude probably tries to do a mix of humor and his personal take on things, don't take his video as the bible. As for the costumes, Vikings were adaptable. They basically let themselves be influenced by the mainstream fashion from Europe. People didn't really do "nationalism" until Napoleon invented it ;) So, when trying to understand the mechanics of history, modern perspectives often get in the way. Does anybody wear "viking" attire presently? Yes, however that is mostly people doing "living history" Furthermore, we have almost no sources on excactly what they wore, so most of modern "viking" costumes are interpretations. Why is this? Because people kept following fashion, just as they had done for hundreds of years before the viking age. Nitting came to Scandinavia around 1400, that originated from Egypt. Nitting basically took over for Needle-binding, for example. So nobody told the vikings "Hey, you cannot wear that traditional costume anymore". The nobility wore whatever was the fashion on the continent, and then the lesser classes copied that. This is how the modern norwegian national costume "Bunad" basically is based on how peassants dressed themselves in norway in the 17th and 18th century, clothes that for the city-dwellers and upper classes looked hopelessly old fashoned. The reason why it catched on, was that during the norwegian liberation/national-romantic period, the upper classes found the peassant backwatery fashons to be traditional and cool :D
I practice some form of paganism. Instead of going to church, I leave out food sacrifices to nature and gods. Instead of praying to God, I pray to the god that fits what I am praying about. I also sometimes wear rune necklaces and other jewelry made in the traditional way or depicting things like the Yggdrasil tree. But I don't wear Viking clothing. I would love to but I usually only get the chance to buy them when going to viking/middleages festivals and markets. I am currently planning on getting a woolen cloak/hood since it would go well with my modern clothing. I think people don't wear viking clothing both because of comfort (rough material), but also style and ethics, since some people are really against fur clothing.
Your practice isn’t foreign to what some people we know practice.It’s interesting how people across the world have similar practices. I’m going to read about the Yggdrasil tree.
This icelander likes to object to "danes had it hardest" statement and where are the iceland vikings, and do not lump us in with the norse, iceland was settled and built by vikings too viking for the rest of you ( exiles and guys runing from justice ) but we are were much our own people and have our own rich history. And do not use Ragnar Lothbrok as historical figure of fact there are very few and realy only 2 confirmed mentions of him but most of his "claims to fame" are most likely just legends or somthing someone else did but is contributed to him to boost his rep so to speak cuz as Greenland and iceland can attest vikings knew about PR wayyy befor the rest of the world =oP
Only a handful in England are descent from German/Scandinavian raiders. In spite of everything, the Britons have kept a strong presence. Phoenicians. Greeks. Romans. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. Frisians. Geats. Swedes. Danes. Norse. Normans. The Celtic Isles always return to The Old People, from what I've observed the past few millennia.
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we dont wear viking clothes, but in my friendgroup more people wear a Thors hammer than a cross around the neck. Im from Denmark ❤
I also wear Thors hammer as a necklace. From Sweden!
@@kingwacky184 same.
Mjølner necklaces was used as form of cross. They weren't worn before Christianity came to Scandinavia.
@@M.H.L.Haraldsson really? source on that? i think the people wearing it today atleast arent very christian
@@kingwacky184Same here, and I have a snake ring too. Most people assume it's supposed to be of Jörmungandr, of course, but actually it's supposed to be Ettersaspen. I.e. the snake they hung up to drip poison into Loki's eyes at the gates of Hel, when he got Baldr killed and they had enough of his crap. It's a symbol of humility and retribution, i.e. the Nordic kinda symbol of "F around and find out; Play decent, or else things catch up with you."
Yeah the Swedish vikings kinda f'd up, cause we basically created Russia😂But shit happens right?🤣
yeah weird he didnt mention rurikids, im assuming because its "debated"? im norwegian but was always taught Swedes went east & as you said basically created russia. Rus - rusland
And having the personal guard for the emperor in Konstantinopel (istanbul). Or Miklagård as we called it. The Varangian guard.
Swedes travelled along the big rivers in the east (dnjepr, volga).
Not only that but swedes were recruited for armies to went west aswell, and most of modern day Sweden at this time wasnt known as Sweden in sources as Sweden was a small area in modern swedens central east coast. The Geats which is southern part of Sweden are known as Beowulf in anglo saxon stories and so forth and went or were like a 4th people they went west alot too. The dna tests from vikings in russia are swedish ethnically yes. We also have runestones in sweden of voyages to Iran, Italy, Greece. I think he is just salty against swedes abit and wanna put us down its common scandinavian rivalry @@blodhevn2353
@@blodhevn2353yeah, swedes generally went into Russia and through Europe using the rivers.
The viking age was a thousand years ago.... If we have family heirlooms they're not that old.. They would be in museums. There's a lot of museums though and the rune stones are everywhere in Sweden.
What happened to the people who got raided? That would be different for every raid. If vikings settled they could in some cases co-exist. Otherwise, killed or enslaved and sold. Or sacrificed.
A thousand years ago people did not write that much, most people couldn't read.
We’re aware. Some history is more preserved than others.
Something that is not shown in various films is that the majority of the Scandinavian population during this time were peaceful farmers or merchants. The Vikings who ravaged, burned and looted were usually adventurous unmarried young men (bachelors) with the aim of improving their name and reputation and at the same time acquiring financial start-up capital to marry and settle down - and the more famous name and reputation one had the better (richer) wife one could expect to get. These young men were led by one or a couple of slightly older chiefs who had been through this before.
The Vikings norse gods is the base of many weekdays even in English.
Tuesday = Tyr's day
Wednesday = Odin's day
Thursday = Thor's day
Friday = Frej's day
At midsummer Frej is the god of fertility that is being celebrated.
Swedish vikings went east to Holmgård(Novgorod) and by river sailed to the black sea and Särkland(Turkey), some settled the rivers of kievan rus, and the Rurikovich family were descendants of the Swedish viking Rurik.
Some vikings returned called Svear, which is the base of what Swedens is named from. Svear -> Svearnas rike(kingdom of the Svear) -> svea rike -> Sverige.
Norwegian Vikings went to Vinland(Canada) and met with Skrälingar(native americans).
er du sikker på fredag ikke er frejas dag
@@trolden61 Det har du nog rätt i, Frej har ju midsommar. Jag får önska dig en glad Freja-dag, idag då.
That is not entirely accurate. They're based on Anglo-Saxon Gods, which were analogues of the Viking Gods. That is why "Wednesday" is not "Odin's Day" but "Woden's Day" and "Tuesday" is not "Tyr's Day" but "Tiw's Day". That said, they're more or less interchangeable, but then so are the Roman and Greek Gods for the most part
Fredag (Friday) is not named after Frej or Freja - it's named after Frigg.
You forgot søndag (sunday) that means exactly what it is, the day of the sun. Lørdag (saturday) are washing day. And mandag (monday) is moon-day.
We also open presents after darkness on the 24'th and not in the morning of the 25'th of december. Because viking day was over when the sun went down. And that logic and way if thinking resulted in the 24'th for opening presents.
Greetings from Denmark, objects from the past is called Danefæ & if it is of cultural historical value then it belongs to the state. So if you find any of those, you have to turn it in at a museum. It's illegal to sell or pass on Danefæ. However there is a finders fee, if you should come across something that is considered Danefæ. The law of Danefæ goes back to around 1240, where it belonged to the king. So no families/clans or any of that have any Danefæ, it's all in museums for everyone to experience & enjoy. Our national museum have an exhibit & as far as i know most of all Danefæ is in the national museum.
This answers my question. Thank you!
Same in Sweden aswell...
Some of us still have family farms from 400 years ago in the same name. i would considder long time heirlooms
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We dont have something that old in private posession here in Denmark. What there is left, comes from archeological diggings, and is illegal to own. It belongs to museums for all Danes to be able to see. Those who tried to keep these old things, were quickly killed by the christian church, or thrown in prison. Accused of acting against god and blasfemy. Medieval times wiped almost everythibg out, and is the reason why we have so little knowledge from back then. Yes. The church destroyed everything.
The clothes of the Vikings looked very different from what they show in movies, think a hippie in colorful embroidered clothes and you will be closer to the truth. The women had more rights than in the rest of Europe. Love from a Dane in Denmark.
Much love!
Not like hippies cmon we had fashion from everywhere in the world thou, we were not colorblind we could match and wear other fashions from other places.
@@theMyouknow I am speaking on the basis of the reconstructions of archaeological textile finds that the national museum in Copenhagen has made. Hippie clothing is also a fashion style, and one that The Demouchets know so they have something to tie it to.
Your looking fabulous Sierra🔥🔥😊
I'm Scottish and quite a few of our words from the Scots Leid language comes from Old Norse and are similar to Scandinavian languages today. As well as place names etc too.
Thank you. It’s interesting to see some of the words from that time still being used today. This is exactly what I meant by my question:
Love that you reacted to this dude. He make really good content and deserves the recognition! Cheers y’all
He definitely taught us what we didn't know before.
A fun fact: the english women actually liked the vikings because the Washington every saturday and changed clothes often
I'm from Iceland. My son's middle name is "Mjölnir" (Thors Hammer). I love learning about my heritage when ever I can.
Mjölnir in the name of the hammer yes. But it means "the Pulverizer/crusher"
Agreed, Swedish Vikings didn't do much. They only founded Kievan Rus. And were part of the Varangian Guard in todays Turkey.
And has most silver hoards in Scandinavia.
Also, no.
And established the major trading road from Scandinavia to damascus. and managed to establish a LOT of permanent settlements along the volga and Dnipr
I am British. Mostly Scottish/Irish but I also have 35% Norwegian DNA must have been from when the Norwegian Vikings came over. The Vikings also enslaved a lot of British white people and took them back to their lands to serve as slaves.
@@radbarij They did not only enslave British they also took slaves from wherever they plundered. Normal practice of all countries in those days.
@@ole7146 Yes might have been, It is a fact though that most invaders of any country took slaves. I am proud to have nearly half of my DNA being Norwegian.
Sure, there is a chanse one or more of your ancestors came during the "Viking age" raids, but the bigger odds are that its way more recent. 35% points more towards today, than in the past. People who have original viking ties in England, are around 0.5 to 2%, not 30+%.
Remember the viking age ended almost 1000 years ago. that would make it so that there have been about 40 generations since then. wich would make it so that you have about a trilion ancestors if you would go back to that era. So to end up whit 35% norwegian dna from the viking age and foward is pretty much impossible. For that to happen there would have to be a entire city made up of norwegians who pretty much refused to let any one in for several hunderds of years. or the most likely one. One of your grandparents, parents where of norwegian decent.
Sorry to burst your bubble about the "Viking" ancestory.
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Not slaves. Thralls (Trälar). Slaves have no rights. Thralls did. not much, but they where treated way better than any slave where. And could earn their freedon relativly easly.
Also all brits of that era where white. It wasen't untill way after the Viking age, people from the medeteranian and the African continent started to arrive in england. The only time before that where during the time the romans where there.
@@mr-x7689 Yes white. Thralls/slaves. People taken forcibly against their will, to another country or place. Why is it assumed that in the history of the world the only "slaves" were one of colour or of African decent? What about the West Indies? What about the many other countries who raided another country and took slaves from there or even took slaves from their own country?
Interesting what you said about the DNA. my family came from Scotland/North East England where a huge amount of Scandinavians raided and finally settled to live. I did wonder why I had such a large percentage of Norwegian DNA I will have to look into it further. I have only researched back to the 15th century on my Family tree.
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When we setteled England. We usually founded a town next to an English town. Then to keep the peace, we exchanged a prisoner. We gave one to the English and they gave one to us. Of for some reason, fighting or violence between would breake out, the prisoner would be killed. Other than that, the prisoner would be allowed to live and work free in the town, but not leave it. It was a security thing and fair for all.
Hey from Denmark
To answer a few of your comments/questions. Many people here in Scandinavia hold the Viking age dear to their hearts and will participate in reenactments of the Viking area and have markets lasting a few days, wearing the style they had back then. The short answer though is that we don't wear that type of clothes anymore. Norway, Iceland, Sweden, and the Feary Islands have national garments worn on special occasions, but those are from a much later period. Denmark doesn't do that,
Did the Vikings recruit warriors? Well, the Viking Age only lasted about 200 years, plus/minus. They expanded way more than they recruited. They were skilled fighters and sailors and fought in a shield wall formation. Not only men but both men and women (shield maidens). Important information is that they were cunning and often tricked their victims when unprepared. Their boats could go up smaller rivers, so they would arrive so fast that most villages needed more time to prepare for the attack. They were also known to be very violent when they had to and were seen as demons.
Thank you so much for answering our comments.
I'm from Denmark and my first name 'Signe' is ancient nordic and means 'New Victory' in ancient nordic. I honestly don't think my parents knew that. 😄
I'm Swedish, and my name means "big/terrible f*ckoff wolf." It's hereditary, so it's the first name of every man in my family, with us using the second name between ourselves. Guess what it is, I suppose?
My name is Magnus Viking, Magnus means great warrior. Viking everyone knows. Skål Svenske og Danske søstre og brødre.
Hi. Danish guy here.
Thanks for showing an interest in our culture. I appreciate it!
I'll try to answer some of your questions. and give you a bit of insight.
5:02 - You have to understand that the viking age ended around the 1400 century, so a lot of artifacts and so on has been lost. But some families still have artifacts from that time that have been passed down. But the most we find today goes to the museum.
10:37 - Yes. The vikings were recruiting on their raids. They rewarded the warrior attitude and respected strength.. There are hints of even black vikings in some of the texts and history, but very few. Remember, being a viking is not a religion or really a culture. It's a JOB! When you were a warrior and went on raids you were a viking, but the home town were just a "normal" settlement. Here we have the traditional Scandinavian culture. But we call it the viking culture or the viking age.
But the vikings also killed, r*ped, pillaged.. Stole women, and brought back "trælle" = slaves that worked for them.
12:07 - This is my opinion. The origin of braids... Who can really tell? Its a hairstyle, and humans do what they do. Yes the vikings had braids, but Africans had braids too. There is Australian aboriginal braids and even ancient South American braids. Its all over the world. I don't think you can say that braids is from just one culture.
13:43 - The people living in those areas how fought against the vikings was sent away or killed. But the people who wanted to stay was taken in and some of the women married these strong manly vikings. These viking settlements also brought new ways of doing things and was trading with the locals.
23:45 - The real answer is no. Scandinavian people dress like any other modern country of today. But we still have "folk dancers" or festivals where we pledge homage to the olden days. Like "Majfest"/May festival or the harvest fest. "Sankthans" the midsommer festival. Today some Scandinavians also still wear jewelry made to resemble artifacts from that age or a new version of it. Like Thors hammer, the gothic knot, the tree of life Yggdrasil, the head of the Fenris wolf and more. Some traditional home nitted sweaters have some kind of pattern from the viking age or have old runes on them.
29:26 - The viking spirit lives on in our warriors today. Like Delta force or the SAS, the Scandinavian countrys have some of the best special forces in the world like the Swedish Sarskilds, the Norwegan FSK and the Danish Jaeger Corps. "The Viking Warriors" ruclips.net/video/dvWfwXOkJxI/видео.html
To bring it back to the viking age here is a new rendition of a song that captures some of the old viking culture. It's a song about death. Death was celebrated in the old days. If you died in battle you would go to "Valhalla"/Heaven where you would sit at the table of the great Norse gods and have the honor to fight in the halls of Odin himself.
Thank you for your time.
Wardruna and Aurora - Helvegen:
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Who shall sing me
into the death-sleep sling me
When I walk on the Path of Death
and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold
I sought the songs
I sent the songs
when the deepest well
gave me the drops so touched
of Death-father’s wager
I know it all, Odin
where you hid your eye
Who shall sing me
into the death-sleep sling me
When I walk on the Path of Death
and the tracks I tread are cold, so cold
early in the days’ end
still the raven knows if I fall
When you stand by the Gate of Death
And you have to tear free
I shall follow you
across the Resounding Bridge with my song
You will be free from the bonds that bind you!
You are free from the bonds that bound that you!
A Swede here. For clothing, nope, no viking clothing in Sweden. Our traditional dresses stems from 17-1800´s and is called "folkdräkt". It is similar all over Sweden, but every region has their own variant. No one wears this as everyday clothing, it is reserved for finer occantions. There are also no viking artefacts in Swedish homes, at least I have never seen one. The oldest artefact we have in our family is a bear spear, likely from the 1700´s. The spear is short, very sturdy and with a very long blade. As the myth goes, you where supposed to set the spear in the ground when the bear attacked, and let the bear pierce itself so to say.
The most viking-thing we still do is celebrating Midsummer. All the youngsters will get extremely drunk, there will be some fighting but even more fucking in the woods. :D
I'm Canadian, my maiden name is Gunn. The Gunns are one of the oldest Clans in Scotland and related back to the Picts and intermingled with Norwegians. My family moved to Canada when the North of Scotland was 'cleared'.
gunn is also a norwegian female name, gunnr is old norse for battle.
@@blodhevn2353 Gun is common female name in Sweden.
A lot of Swedes still wear Thor's hammer on a necklace and or runes both tattooed and as jewelry. The clothing has changed though. From the "viking age" to now, there has been a 1000 years of severe change. I'm a Swede and I don't mind my friend taking shots at us. We do the same. In sports the most important thing is to beat Norway, Finland and Denmark. I can trace (probably) my heritage down to the 970s to a man born a pagan. His sons became christian and they erected a rune stone where they mention their father. There are many rune stones in Sweden still standing. Norway and Denmark was once one country. Sweden and Finland was one country too for a long time and the southern tip of Sweden belonged to Denmark for several hundred years. There is enormous amounts of history on Scandinavia if you want to go down that road.
Correction. "many swedes still wear a Mjölnir"
The hammer of Þor is named Mjölnir., and is in the wast majority of cases worn as a religious symbol just like the crusifix is to Cristians. Unfortunatly there are a lot of Arse hats, who use it as a supremacist sign, which have made a lot of left leaning people, to treat religious people as nazis when they see it. Some left poleticians have even suggested to forbid it. Tho this idea seam to have melted away, due me not heard anything about if for some years now.
Check out vinking-festival Trelleborg, Denmark. It is an annuale event.
Will do!
Just remember that the Viking "Age" was like almost a thousand years ago, and by earlier accounts a generation was around 20 years, give or take. We have children later today, so that is no longer correct for us, I think. So five generations per century, and around 10 centuries since that time? After 50 generations or so, only historians will know anything about that age. I think some of our Norwegian stave churches are either very close to the late Viking Age, or were built when Catholicism/Christianity had yet to erase the old influences for architecture/decorations and plain old folk thinking. 🙂
Oh, and I regularly read a national historical magazine in Norway, and they often ask people to help identify pictures of old stuff from about a century or less ago, and hardly anyone know what those things were for! Going 9 centuries back before that... 😧
Here in norway we wear our traditional clothes as fancy clothes.. like we don't still wear the common bunads, but basically everyone has a fancy bunad we get at 14 years old.
It can be used in weddings (bride/groom & guest), funerals, to meet royalty, etc.
Tho, if bunads come from before, during, or after the viking age, i have no idea. I just know it's our traditional clothes.😅
sweden have them aswell but we dont use em. but im pretty sure they originates from the 1700s
During soccergames you will se Viking helmets on Swedish supporters. Also on medeval festivals you can se traditional clothes. Almost nobody will wear Viking clothes today but you might find a ”Torshammare” (hammer of Thor) at some peoples necklaces.
The Swedish vikings were mostly peaceful traders. They've found a lot of artifacts from all over the world in Swedish tombs. Like he said in the video, Swedish vikings travelled east. There's plenty of evidence they travelled as far as the Caspian Sea.
We've found artifacts from all over the world in Swedish tombs, including some Sri Lankan artifacts from tombs over 1500 years old. However, it's not entirely clear if they travelled all the way down to Sri Lanka, or if they traded for the artifacts somewhere along the routes they frequented.
Hi fron yorkshire in england. Yeah i guess we did take a bashing fron the vikings along with the romans, saxons and normans. But its so far back its an interesting part of history. In a village we used to live in there was a village fete where they would dress up and have viking or saxon battles. It was fun.
As a Dane, I will explain this much. When you ask what happened to the women, we took the pretty ones and left the ugly ones behind in England and wherever we went, you might think this is a joke but its often mentioned. Although both men and women were taken as Thralls, or Slaves if you prefer that term (A term we also invented to describe the Russians or the "Slavs") However the correct term is Thrall. Or Træll. As for the local populations, we mostly left them intact where we could as to not waste manpower in the fields. Crops wont grow on their own and even a warrior needs bread and butter. Of course any ressistance were often cut down without to much consideration.
im a descendant of harold hairfair and eric bloodaxe,most of the cool viking kings came from a small place in trøndelag norway called namsos.. and no we dont have viking stuff in our houses,hehe.. the norwegian national dress is bunads,we dont dress viking for anything else than reenactments of famous battles or a medieval fair here or there.-..
the vikings got influenced by european fashion, but we still wear mjølner neckless and have viking artifacts on are money bills
Amazing reaction, i hope you continue this
Don't forget the German Vikings! Love my Nordic brothers!
@@radbarij The Jomsvikings
The ones from Jomsborg in norway? Pretty sure there is quite the distance between germany and norway.
@@mr-x7689 No , Jomsborg or Jómsborg (German: Jomsburg) was a semi-legendary Viking stronghold at the southern coast of the Baltic Sea (medieval Wendland, modern Pomerania), that existed between the 960s and 1043.
About the clothings. The viking age was thousand years ago, so we are more connected to things and culture that happend during the Christian age after the viking age, that officialy ended inn 1066.
In Norway we have local traditional clothings that probably are a mix of things that we used during tha 17th century and that was formed during the nation building period in the 19th century.
Dane here, don't know of anyone who has artifacts at home that's been passed down, remember, the viking age was the year 793 to 1066...its been a while 😁
also illegal to keep artifacts from that era. Any finds have to be given to the state, but you'll be compensated for it. (Unless that have changed reasently)
Sadly, one of the things christianity brought to Scandinavia, was the *erasure of anything tied to the previous culture.* People during the viking age made elaborate pagan cloth weaves and wooden carvings *and those burned very easily.* It's a wonder that even the few we have, survived until today. Thankfully, we still got stuff like the rune stones, but damn ... we lost so much of our history.
I recently discovered Heilung. If you are interested in vikings then you will love them. My favorite is the live performance of Othan at LIFA in 2013.
Heilung is from Germany, not Scandinavia. Try Wardruna, a Norwegian band with alot of music in the series. Helvegen is a great first song to listen to
Coming in at around 9 minutes, or so, it is important to remember that many historians think of Harald Fairhair's Norway as being the western coasts of today's country, which actually gave the later country its name: The North Way. There were lots of valuable trade goods coming from the north, some of it all the way from today's Russia's White Sea area.
Oh, and everyone realizes today that there were a lot of exploitation of the non-norse/slavic peoples at that time in such a vast area! Historians will note it, but they'll usually not get excited about it. That was how the ancient world worked, after all. Most African slaves were sold to anyone by their local leaders, or local conquerors, after all.
And the vikings did keep slaves, too. Just like the Romans and the Greeks, and probably everyone else around that time. After all, anyone not of your clan/family, and too weak to defend themselves, are always only to be considered as slaves to work for your clan/family. But at that time it was about everyone and anyone, so not racially based. After all, Africans could still be Romans, and no one considered the color of their skin when it came to that.
Apart from the TV series Vikings, I don’t know anything about vikings, my heritage, if I have one connected to it 😂😬… I guess I was taught something about it in school but nothing I remember today. Maybe a few details but wouldn’t pass a quiz…
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strange video... the ppl that lived in what was to become sweden traveled east, the to be finland and baltic states, created trades and settlements in "russia" novgorod or as it was called "Holmgård" olof skötkonungs daughter or neice was "anna the holy" of novgorod, rurik was supposedly "swedish" there are plenty sourses... but what to expect from a Norwegian source :)
and the danes left plenty tracks to the history after them in england... many names of villages and cities in england, the dane law etc.
norwiegians left the greates treasure i think, settling on island and there we have the greatest sagas/storys from the time, and language etc.
Estonians fought with Swedes in Viking era. Estonians burned Sweden capital even once.
thats why we build stockholm ;D
@@jespergranstrom5267 13th century it was Sigtuna.
@@rapator9270 ah okey
@@rapator9270 We didn't have a capital back then, but Sigtuna was the closest thing to one (being the biggest town and IIRC having the royal mint, but wasn't a seat of government (we didn't have one) or where the King lived).
@@cynic7049 Some sources say it was capital, but i guess we never know.
Russia is named after the Rus.
Yeah. Sorry about that. Maybe we should take that part of the world back and incorporate it into Sweden. The world would be a much better place..
Dont tell them that. Then they gonna blame us for Putin. 🤔 Lågprofil, grabbar. Vi vet inget.
No my friends, we do not wear viking clothes or anything of the sort today. The viking age was around 1100-1200 years ago. Around 800-900 years before the U.S.A even existed lol.
We are one of the richest, most advanced, safest, happiest, most modern countries in the world today (Norway, Sweden and Denmark) and we dress.. Well, probably very similar to you guys. Probably nicer in general if anything, seeing as the gdp per capita is quite a lot higher here than in the U.S. Well, at least in Norway where im from. Thats not a brag or anything, its a reality that people from the states, which seem to live in their own bubble dont realise.
The viking spirit is very much still alive.
There are a few people that wear clothes from this time period but it isn't common at all. Most modern pagans in my experience will just wear relevant jewellery, often based on found historical artefacts. You will often see people in the historical dress at Pagan holidays though.
An important reason that the "pagan" religions of the Scandinavians disappeared is simple if you think about it.
Christians wanted to convert everyone. The Scandinavians didn't. Over time, that means only 1 religion remains.
It's not likely that any family heirlooms could be handed down from the 'viking' age a thousand years and more ago. A very few relics survive in some great churches, like the 'horn of Ulph at York Minster, & maybe a few bits in Royal collections. Some Royal families in Europe can trace their ancestry to some of the Viking leaders, for example the English/British Kings descend from Cnut & William the Norman. There are many things dug up in archaeological researches that are of Viking period & manufacture, mostly from graves, but also from settlement sites like York & Dublin. People from Denmark & Scandinavia have been migrating into the British Isles from the earliest times, long before the Viking age, right through to the Viking age, so it is not possible to say how much DNA comes from the Viking age, & how much long before. There were no written records until these people became Christian, but some oral myths from earlier times were carried down to Christian times, when they were written. what you think of as Viking dress is only holly wood, not real. Some people dress up in that style for festivals etc but it is not real, but only fanciful. On the whole the Viking age Scandinavians dressed like most other Europeans, & their war dress, armour weapons etc were also much like every other warlike people, with just a few special weapons, like the war axe. Remember pretty all of Europe was a warrior society, with regular fighting between various peoples from very early times. The Vikings were just another episode of this struggle, really the last portion to be Christianised & Civilized.
We’re aware of the time. Thanks for sharing with us!
The Norse where civilized. just not Christianised. and that made them to the cristians seam like barbarians. Even tho they had better art, cloths, and personal hygiene compared to the Christians at the same era. Christians have allways just as muslims looked down on any and all who dont share their fate, and treated them as less.
It's sometimes joked about that Scandinavia, has the most beautiful women, because of the vikings. When they would raid places, they would capture woman, but why take the ugly ones, when you can get the good looking ones. Quite morbid, but that is how things were back then.
Side note : The swedes went est, todays russia, all the way down to turkey called constantinople back then, build a trading post called Kiev in now Ukraine.
I never looked into Viking history beyond shows and anime.
Sweden just created Russia, Ukraine etc... but not much to talk about.
Ragnar Lothbrok and Björn ironside were not Danes. Yes Ragnar was a Danish king but he was from Sweden.
Russia comes from Rus, Swedish vikings.
The reason for there not being much documentaion is becouse the vikings didn´t write anything down (other then runestones wich basicly is to honor the dead or wish someone goodluck when they went to settle down somewhere far away).
So the historical knowledge we have of vikings are mostly from brittish and frensh documentation, becouse they where the ones who keep their history written in the largest scale (That´s also the main reason for why the vikings often are portraited as vicios beasts who only cared about plunder and war)
Other then that most stories was kept in spoken form and only written down much later.
So they are basicly fairy tales, with no way of telling wich parts of them are true.
There where probably some stuff written down, but during the Christianisation of Scandinavia. Most christians murdered any pagans who refused to convert, burned down their homes and temples, and destroyed everything that could be related to the pagans. So it's bacicly only runestones left from that era, and even they unfortunatly often did not survive. Many got smashed in to pieces to be used when building churches and homes. Those few who did convert in to christians, but seacretly kept their old fate, often got cought and where put on trial for wich craft or demon worship. Wich often carried a death sentence.
We have Thor-hammer-amulets on the wall in our home. Thor was one of the most important heathen gods before the violent and forced "Christianization" of Norway.
This is interesting to know. Do people believe in Thor or is it just looked at a symbol? This may sound silly, but we’re learning.🙂
It is a cultural symbol for my wife and me, and I believe for most people wearing or having such amulets in Norway. And BTW, the vast majority of us are not supremacists or right-wing. My wife and I are left-wing Democratic Socialists (like Bernie) 🙂@@TheDemouchetsREACT
The hammer is named Mjölnir.
Cool. I followed vikings series for A while.
I wonder if Harald's 'fair hair' was really beautiful or just very light blonde.
What about Iceland 🇮🇸
Tell us about it:
The norwegian vikings settled in Iceland - To this day, the icelandic language is the closest to the old norse language
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in lots of Slavic countries folkor clothes are still mayor part of our culture,dance and language , thru manifestation, wedinngs, even folkor concerts keep tradition, in Croatia we have celebration of events older than 500 years where we dress in clothes of that time
So cool!
Seriously. Most Slavic folklore outfits are much younger than what you think. The Scandinavian countries have that too, and wear these as well. In Sweden, for example, wearing a folklore outfit is considered to be on par with a ball gawn, and yes weddings cout. The royal family women often wear folklore dresses to galas and official ceremonies.
That is different from the pre-Christian eras. You don't wear outfits from the 9th and 10th century, do you?
Glad i dere Danmark og Sverige. Men dere suger i ski
Hi from Denmark. 🇩🇰 all I have to show my viking blod is viking disease. Im very pale and have green eyes and dark blond hair. Im 5'9". My son is 16 years old but i is alteady 6'6". We are a tall nation. We know the Norse gods and celebrate alot of the old holidays. I have no viking clothing
Thank you for sharing with us!
Our dude really glosses over what the Swedish Vikings did. "Going east" actually means conquering Finland and forming a large trading empire from Finland all the way to the Caspian Sea. Danish and Norwegian Vikings may have attacked the early versions of England and France, but Swedish Vikings made war on the Roman Empire itself, attacking Constantinople several times. Swedish Vikings served with the Roman Emperors in Constantinople as the Varangian Guard and with the Romans fought from the shores of Africa, to the Arabs in the Levant into Sicily and Italy. Swedish Vikings founded the Kievian Rus, who are the founders of the Russian State. Until the 20th Century, the Russian imperial and noble families were descended, in name and blood (The Rurik Lines), the Swedish Vikings who settled in Russia in the 9th Century.
The Byzantine Empire*. The Roman Empire didn't exist during the Viking era.
Normans mercenaries also helped the Byzantines in Sicily.
If anyone's brutally interested in hard-core Norse warfare and history I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series
In Norway Viking culture in daily life was fully replaced in the hundreds of years after Christianity with foreign influence, education, colonization by Danes and trade. Before the modern reenactors there was very little to be seen other than the more patriotic national romantic images and ideas about Vikings outside academia. Even here the Wagnerian image of a Viking mostly replaced any reality about Vikings.
If you can not beat them, join them. That is typically Danish. Even up to the late 1800's and early 1900's. When Danes migrated to Australia and USA. We have always said that now we are not Danish, but we belong were we migrated to. One example would be that a Dane said "Now I am an American, and not a Dane anymore."
That is also the reason why you do not find anything really Danish as such in USA. Compared to Irish or Italian as an example. Descendant's of Italian migrants still keep some traditions and cultures and say they are Italian American. Danes did not do that to rhe same degree. As to why modern Americans with Danish roots tries to revive their lost cultures today. They have become so American, that they look for the same, that Italian Americans have, despite it be a typical Danish thing to get rid of as much of the old culture and language as possible. An interresting thought.
Also the reason why we here in Denmark shake our heads, when we see an American basterdisated version of Danish stuff that Americans with Danish roots think is Danish culture.
But yeah.... We left our mark. Words are a great part of Danish legacy in the English language. Egg, skirt, window and many other words in the English language, are Danish words. Names of cities or towns are many times Danish in England. If it ends with 'by', the city/town was founded by Danish vikings. One example are Densby.
Correction "Are scandinavian words." The language of the "Viking" era where not seperate languages but one language whit different dialects. So, many words used today in the english language are of Scandinavian decent. The Swedes, Danes, and Norwegians spoke the same language back then. hec we can still understand each other pretty well.
@@mr-x7689 Men det var os danskere som gav englænderne en del ord. Det var ikke nordmænd og svenskere. Ergo, det var danske ord.
Og hvorfor sætter du vikingetiden i gåseøjne? Det var en faktisk tidsperiode og ikke bare noget man sådan slynger ud med, som om det er et slang. Vi havde vikingetiden og resten af europa havde tidlig middelalder.
Some great Sweden roasts. I'm impressed 😎 (jk, I love u Sweden)❤
I wish we wore viking clothes more. That whould be cool
In denmark i dont know of Any Viking traditions as far as clothes.
Viking is a verb - to go viking as in trade and raiding. The common name of the people is Northmen. Most of them lived common life farming, fishing and enjoyed family life. For those who went viking it was a way to get a living, not all could inherit land to be a farmer, they had to make a living or was longin for treasure and with that getting power...as people today. Yes, they took slaves/trälar, mostly to sell but also to keep as servants at home. But the slaves could be free if being good to their owners and do good in their work. You must know that it was a common way in those days, many people around the world took slaves or treated the lower class as slaves.
There was regulations in what you were allowed to do and not. For example a wife or daughter could inherit the homestead and if the husband went trading/viking she was the boss. Women was quite free and there was also women coming with the travels and even as "vikings" and fought beside the men. I would be interesting to do a DNA test because I know scientist have been able to get DNA from a person living during that time. I can trace all of my ancesters i straight lines back to the middle of 1400, all of them settlers from the middle of Sweden going up north, with a few lines from Finland and one sami line. This is 600 yrs back and counting there is only 600 yrs from there to the start of the viking age, so maybe I am a Rus? As living up north with a family history going so long back it might be so. In the south there was more interaction (and most people lived down there) towards the continent; the slavic countries and of course Norway and Denmark Interesting to think about...but in the end we are all from the same family so greetings from a sister living in Sweden!
to go viking had nothing to do whit trading. It was pure piracy.
It's too damn cold too wear viking clothes
Norwegian vikings were the OGs. Tougher climate and more skill to navigate in and out and just to survive. I take great pride in having the most rabid, berserker vikings.
we dont wear any cultural clothes from the viking era today. this era was a 1000 years ago. compared the american expansion to the west about 100-150 years ago wich alot natives fled to canada and were allowed to keep their culture. africa have managed to keep their culture to a certain extents even during the colonialism wich really ended only 70 years ago . only thing iv seen is some people have necklesses with the thors hammer but that is only for the looks. if they say the use it to be proud of their heritage its complete bullshit 90% of the times. i only think the sami people in the north to what i understand they use theirs mostly on special occasions, but i might be wrong since i live the southern part of sweden
I do not think people today in any culture dressed like they did over 1000 years ago for ceremonial purpose, scandinavia have though some traditions going back like 150 - 200 or so years with folksongs and costumes to go, but that is not connected to the Viking Age.
Many ask : what happened to the vikings?
Well they adapted evolved and invented.
And where brutally hunted down and murdered by cristians when and where ever they refused to convert in to cristianity.
Well, its 840 year anniversary of razing Sigtuna ;)
Who weren't there ?
Looks like it was nice big cluster ..um .. battle?
Novgorod .. where they got their first rulers?
Yeah ... and the forced christianing werent that easy also. Northern Crusades ..
Santa Klaus is NORSE!! Sooooo they were far more influential than you think, look up Yule! You'll be celebrating a version of this soon a much bastardized version but still!
Santa was turkish. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
Yule er en gammel nordisk fejring af de gamle guder...
"Wodan's role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. Nicholas and Santa Claus in a variety of facets, including his long white beard and his gray horse for nightly rides (compare Odin's horse Sleipnir) or his reindeer in North American tradition. Folklorist Margaret Baker maintains that "the appearance of Santa Claus or Father Christmas, whose day is the 25th of December, owes much to Odin"..
So Saint Nicolaus was Turkish, but Santa Claus is influenced by Norse mythology@@cbjmurer
@@dirreeN Min bedstefar var islænding.
Måste besöka Island, it's on the bucket list@@cbjmurer
Oh I am a dane btw
"Norway was wild and untamed and fearsome" English King Harold Godwinson hold my beer.
Untamed warriors do not make great armies or soldiers and that was true for Norwegians Vikings. Formidable one to one but keep in formation and trained troops should not have a problem to beat them.
Generally speaking, Norwegian was the best one-to-one and Danes the best in military formation (Swedes in the middle in both).
@@cynic7049 Well the Vikings were adept raiders for sure but they also fought in shield wall so they knew tactics and the reason why they were so successful in England was because England didn't exist it was a patchwork of smaller nations allowing the Vikings to pick of smaller nations one by one.
Norway had 1/20 of the population and still did what they wanted to for 200 years so what is your point?
we still have our pagan traditions =)
The Danes infiltradet, thats why half your language comes from Old Norse.
Ragnar was fromme Norway not Danmark
This guy have many controversial ideas, so don't take his euphemism too seriously.. But it's an okey intoduction to the age that is popularly called the viking age.
Just an introduction 🙂
OK, so this dude probably tries to do a mix of humor and his personal take on things, don't take his video as the bible. As for the costumes, Vikings were adaptable. They basically let themselves be influenced by the mainstream fashion from Europe. People didn't really do "nationalism" until Napoleon invented it ;) So, when trying to understand the mechanics of history, modern perspectives often get in the way. Does anybody wear "viking" attire presently? Yes, however that is mostly people doing "living history" Furthermore, we have almost no sources on excactly what they wore, so most of modern "viking" costumes are interpretations. Why is this? Because people kept following fashion, just as they had done for hundreds of years before the viking age. Nitting came to Scandinavia around 1400, that originated from Egypt. Nitting basically took over for Needle-binding, for example.
So nobody told the vikings "Hey, you cannot wear that traditional costume anymore". The nobility wore whatever was the fashion on the continent, and then the lesser classes copied that. This is how the modern norwegian national costume "Bunad" basically is based on how peassants dressed themselves in norway in the 17th and 18th century, clothes that for the city-dwellers and upper classes looked hopelessly old fashoned. The reason why it catched on, was that during the norwegian liberation/national-romantic period, the upper classes found the peassant backwatery fashons to be traditional and cool :D
Vikings tok a lot slaves.
Trell in Norsk.
Was a good trade back then.
Clothes in
The movies is for tHe most part not d9ue to historY
Vikings didnt really sy
What they were gonna do theY just did it
We burned the evidence. But don´t tell anyone.
I practice some form of paganism. Instead of going to church, I leave out food sacrifices to nature and gods. Instead of praying to God, I pray to the god that fits what I am praying about. I also sometimes wear rune necklaces and other jewelry made in the traditional way or depicting things like the Yggdrasil tree.
But I don't wear Viking clothing. I would love to but I usually only get the chance to buy them when going to viking/middleages festivals and markets. I am currently planning on getting a woolen cloak/hood since it would go well with my modern clothing. I think people don't wear viking clothing both because of comfort (rough material), but also style and ethics, since some people are really against fur clothing.
Your practice isn’t foreign to what some people we know practice.It’s interesting how people across the world have similar practices. I’m going to read about the Yggdrasil tree.
Norwegians were the most primary Vikings out of Scandinavia. This guy was crazy biased.
Eh, the man is Norwegian
This icelander likes to object to "danes had it hardest" statement and where are the iceland vikings, and do not lump us in with the norse, iceland was settled and built by vikings too viking for the rest of you ( exiles and guys runing from justice ) but we are were much our own people and have our own rich history. And do not use Ragnar Lothbrok as historical figure of fact there are very few and realy only 2 confirmed mentions of him but most of his "claims to fame" are most likely just legends or somthing someone else did but is contributed to him to boost his rep so to speak cuz as Greenland and iceland can attest vikings knew about PR wayyy befor the rest of the world =oP
You did not get an A in history guess😂
Look at the Scots dress!
Only a handful in England are descent from German/Scandinavian raiders. In spite of everything, the Britons have kept a strong presence. Phoenicians. Greeks. Romans. Angles. Saxons. Jutes. Frisians. Geats. Swedes. Danes. Norse. Normans. The Celtic Isles always return to The Old People, from what I've observed the past few millennia.