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  • Опубликовано: 21 ноя 2024

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  • @fredriks5090
    @fredriks5090 3 года назад +33

    Big respect for showing local pictures instead of regurgitated images of horned vikings.

  • @Halli50
    @Halli50 3 года назад +6

    Karmöy rings a bell!
    I live in Ísafjörður in the West Fjords of Iceland. Following WW2, a Norwegian named Alf Överby married a woman from Ísafjörður and made it his home - and he, probably due to his knowledge of the fruits of the sea in his native fjords, started a new industry in our part of Iceland, catching and processing "Kampalampi" ("rækja" in Icelandic, "reker" in Norwegian, shrimp in English). This became a thriving industry in our part of Iceland. When I was still a teenager (I'm now 71), Överby went down with his ship (I believe in a sudden storm) - and his boat was famously named "Karmöy", presumably named after the place he came from.
    In fact, of all the Norwegian dialects I believe I (and my countrymen) use the oldest and least-changed Norwegian dialect of all: Icelandic!

  • @rhzyo
    @rhzyo 3 года назад +5

    Norse magic & Beliefs is one of the best channels to find out true "Viking" history

  • @annagroen2491
    @annagroen2491 3 года назад +22

    This is amazing. Love the viking route we are on now! One of the best channels of RUclips.

    • @maxwellt91
      @maxwellt91 3 года назад +7

      The Kensington runestone was proven to be a fake years ago. Get your head out of the conspiracy clouds

    • @kstreet7438
      @kstreet7438 3 года назад +1

      @N. Fairchild uh no.

    • @darthanakin3334
      @darthanakin3334 3 года назад +1

      @N. Fairchild Vikings had reached the Americas before they were known as such, but they did not stay here. They kinda just went, "This isn't where we're supposed to be..." then they just left. As far as I recall, they didn't make any settlements or permanent villages. Probably some camps, but not much more. The areas were to the west of Greenland and really not much deviance from there.

    • @motordude67
      @motordude67 3 года назад +2

      @@darthanakin3334 they stayed for a century or more, according to some scholars. L'anse aux Meadows is well known: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Anse_aux_Meadows

    • @darthanakin3334
      @darthanakin3334 3 года назад +1

      @@motordude67 didn't know that! That's cool!

  • @garychynne1377
    @garychynne1377 3 года назад +8

    this was a very honest view of the times of our ancestors. thank yew

  • @wingy200
    @wingy200 3 года назад +13

    27:27 Odin and his brother, Thor? I thought Thor was son of Odin.

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад +4

      yea they get some stuff quite wrong here, bad doc.

  • @gardenislandbradda
    @gardenislandbradda 3 года назад +7

    I love everything Vikings.

  • @maud3444
    @maud3444 3 года назад +22

    It's always a good indication when you start watching a docu on RUclips and of 48k viewers there are only 36 dislikes. I reckon those were just Irish monks

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад +1

      No its those that know there history. They leave things out so they arent called racists. Never trust anything put out by mainstream academics and tv docs. Also it 1.5k likes 56 dislikes. Not usre where you get your numbers from.

    • @mykel808
      @mykel808 3 года назад

      @@adversary0932 oh thats horse shit people will dislike over dumbass shit like not liking the intro music, or the narrators voice being annoying, or simply getting mad it exists in their recommended because they looked up norweigan rap

    • @dylanrus8117
      @dylanrus8117 2 года назад

      Or super religious people

  • @carleryk
    @carleryk 3 года назад +7

    Estonia isn't "far across the Sea" it's relatively near instead, and we also should remember that sea was the quickest way of transportation back then. Also, the Estonian island of Saaremaa has Swedish name Ösel which is very similar name to the name of Swedish island of Öland. Both mean roughly 'island land' in English. Western and Northern Estonia had Scandinavian and Finnic mixed population already before the Viking Age.

  • @MoniqueAO888
    @MoniqueAO888 3 года назад +13

    Well, it seems that at least a quart or third of great britan had been occupied by scandinavians, which can nowadays be recognized by endings of community-names like -thorpe or -by (which means village). Also family-names ending by "son" (like Johnson) give a hint to scandinavian heritage.

  • @shailonnoelle7175
    @shailonnoelle7175 3 года назад +8

    Drunk viking (burp) does bone art
    Narrator: it means great respect for the dead

  • @Coyote1.618
    @Coyote1.618 3 года назад +5

    39:00 it was probably violent..One doesn't carry a battle axe around for the heck of it..

    • @markhirstwood4190
      @markhirstwood4190 3 года назад +2

      Sure they did because axes (small or large) were used on the farms then only for fighting when needed. Swords were too expensive for most so axes, spears and sax knives were common as they served more than one purpose.

  • @aintrestforthewicked
    @aintrestforthewicked 3 года назад +17

    I just finished playing AC: Valhalla. This viking series is well met.

  • @terminallyaverage6758
    @terminallyaverage6758 3 года назад +5

    THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

  • @TheKingsofFrance
    @TheKingsofFrance 3 года назад +6

    Awesome ! I literally know nothing about this topic !

  • @Smaimn
    @Smaimn 3 года назад +11

    As a note to people pointing out issues, Absolute History doesn't really have much to do with the content in this video, it was released in 2015 by a different studio and the license was acquired by the company behind this channel so they can rehost it. Even if they fact check it the best they could do is throw some overlay up or layer audio overtop to try and correct things, assuming the license allows that. Also they are posting three of these videos a week, I'm not sure how big the team behind this is but going over all of that is a pretty serious ask on top of whatever other duties they must have.

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      its ok to point out the wrong and inconsistent no matter who puts this up on youtube.

  • @explodingmonad4535
    @explodingmonad4535 3 года назад +17

    I like this. It is really good, but the script is full of small factual errors. Fenrir was not a god for example he, was Loki's son and instrumental in Ragnarök. And hnefa does not mean king, it means hand! Modern cognates in Danish næve, Swedish näve, Icelandic hnefa for example. Maybe the game just meant "handboard". And lots of other small errors. This is a real good effort but you need to fact check.

    • @vashposh
      @vashposh 3 года назад +1

      thank you for sharing that!

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      If it has that many errors it wouldnt be classified as good by any sane person.

  • @georgiafan775
    @georgiafan775 3 года назад +16

    "Oden and his brother Thor", really? Am I missing something or what? 27:27

    • @jannes3290
      @jannes3290 3 года назад +6

      The narration in this documentary is a bit off at times, it seems.

    • @EgoShredder
      @EgoShredder 3 года назад +7

      Anyone wanting a more accurate and honest account of European history, should check out the work of scholar and author Carolyn Emerick. She is constantly having to counter the BS and lies put out in the media about our history every week.

  • @Minnastina
    @Minnastina 3 года назад +5

    You forgot to include the Finnish people too. Alth9ugh back then, Finland didn't exist, coz it was all part of Sweden!

  • @briananderson2219
    @briananderson2219 3 года назад +3

    Scandinavian history is not lost it clearly is Proto Indo Aryan. The creation myth is one clear point of evidence to my point

  • @MiracleFound
    @MiracleFound 2 года назад +1

    We thought that our one line was German based on the last name and records found in Germany of our great-great grandparents. We (two second cousins, my mother, myself and a 3rd cousin) did DNA through 4 different companies (three of us did 2 different companies each with crossover). We didn't show up with the expected German ancestry, but rather Scandinavian ancestry. Based on what we knew, my mother should have been a quarter German because her grandmother from that line was supposedly 100% German. She tested as 99.7% Scandinavian through 2 different companies. My 2nd cousin should have been almost 100% German (his mother tested as 99.4% German), but turned up as 49.4% Scandinavian from two different companies. I tested almost 50/50 German and Scandinavian when I expected 75% German and 25% Scandinavian. It is interesting because it was across the board with all of us that we had that extra 25% Scandinavian. It is a mystery.

  • @markhirstwood4190
    @markhirstwood4190 3 года назад +4

    782 CE was the Verden massacre. 789 was the first official Viking attack on Dorset, southwest England, by ships from Hordaland, Norway, that had likely gone over to the Shetlands before coming down the west side of England to hit, retreat, re-evaluate then later, Lindisfarne, then Jarrow and so on. The Scandinavians were showing the Roman Catholics, first, remember Rome's greatest defeat in the Teutoberg Forest much earlier, and secondly, don't think you can kill off Saxons for refusing your religion without blowback, and third, don't think you can push into Denmark, Sweden and Norway to do more of the same, and fourth, that they would use anything of value from the churches in England, to fund more war bands, build more ships and liberate their Anglian cousins from what they viewed as having weakened them in just a couple centures, i.e., living as Catholics. This snowball effect allowed the Great Heathen Army to settle and stay, mainly in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire, where their descendants still live to this day. It's uncanny, in these parts of England you meet virtual clones of people from Norway and Denmark, same eyes, height, voices, preferences in styles and tastes, movement and gait and so on. They can't tell a first wave Angle apart from a later wave Danish Viking by DNA.

  • @CHESME11
    @CHESME11 3 года назад +6

    I'm here due to AC Valhalla

  • @catmoon2009
    @catmoon2009 3 года назад

    it so good and interesting thank you !!!

  • @reds1325
    @reds1325 2 года назад

    Its interesting that they burned them in their ship, and also made a ship shaped silhouette of rocks. Very neat.

  • @OverlordViciousKiwi
    @OverlordViciousKiwi 3 года назад +2

    Odin and His.... Brother... Thor...

  • @chris.asi_romeo
    @chris.asi_romeo 2 года назад

    Love watching documentaries like this

  • @deetalashoma3514
    @deetalashoma3514 3 года назад +1

    We Hopi eminate the Vikings by way of our hair style. That "dutch boy" cut, but the hair in back is long. We knew of the Vikings even before C. Columbus got lost at sea and "discovered" America as it's called now.

  • @TVTransmo
    @TVTransmo 3 года назад +3

    25:45 Odin had two ravens not one: Huginn and Muninn

    • @johnbrowne3950
      @johnbrowne3950 3 года назад

      He's not real... so.

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      @@johnbrowne3950 Who says? You? Can you prove he wasn't a real person, cause some who have studied the subject think he might have been a leader way back when. Even if he was proved to be not real, its an important part of a culture so have respect.

  • @SecretSquirrelFun
    @SecretSquirrelFun 3 года назад +5

    Please, could someone, anyone that teaches this particular subject explain the errors in this documentary because I’m confused. Even just an accuracy score as a percentage.

    • @jannes3290
      @jannes3290 3 года назад +2

      I think it's okay, there are a few mistakes and inaccuracies in the narration though.

    • @laara1426
      @laara1426 3 года назад +1

      I totally agree . It is clear Absolute History cuts corners, spreads misinformation , contributes to gross generalizations and the dumbing down of America.

  • @ikkedansk
    @ikkedansk 3 года назад +6

    you speak of vikings, yet you show kievan rus with spiked helmets

    • @ikkedansk
      @ikkedansk 3 года назад +1

      @go away probably, but the vikings are usually only considered to be the scandinavians

    • @j.p.foleyjr.6333
      @j.p.foleyjr.6333 3 года назад +1

      We will NOT STAND FOR THIS!!! HE GETS....The Blood eagle!!!!!! No ?? To harsh??? To soon ??? Ok well...just cut off his arm or something ....shit man....

  • @tweezerjam
    @tweezerjam Год назад

    Having your arm cut off four separate times trying to defend yourself is a brutal way to go. Like stop it already. 😂

  • @georgikirov6560
    @georgikirov6560 3 года назад +1

    Correction: The vikings are not the last barbarians. The last barbarians are the baltic tribes. At least if we are talking about Western Europe.

    • @OverlordViciousKiwi
      @OverlordViciousKiwi 3 года назад

      Maori were still Barbaric 400 years ago, we've come a long way into the Modern Age.

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel 3 года назад

      The last barbarians haven't been born yet and won't be for many centuries.

    • @georgikirov6560
      @georgikirov6560 3 года назад +1

      What from "at least if we are talking about Western Europe" was not clear enough

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      @@georgikirov6560 ik idiots lmao. They probably liked this video too.

  • @marvwatkins7029
    @marvwatkins7029 Год назад +1

    No bows and arrows?

  • @umutpsk
    @umutpsk 3 года назад +6

    DARK skinned mongolian princess from Siberia !!!!? I wonder if she had seen a Mongolian before 🙄

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      Its to be inclusive you know the commie bs they inject everywhere now.

  • @atlet1
    @atlet1 3 года назад +2

    The viking wars can be seen as a defence war. Charlemagne and his roman catholic church was a serious threat to Scandinavia. He waged a brutal war on northern Germany at the border of Denmark, with lots of refugees in Denmark. A big defence wall had to be built to defend Denmark. Charlemagne even started a trade war against Scandinavia, so of course Scandinavians know the may be next and wanted their young men to join the war and defend them. To plunder and take slaves was part of a war at that time. No different from what the catholic church did then and even later, but the catholics was more cruel. By the way, Scandinavia had to defend itself against the Roman catholic church once more during the 15th century. Scandinavia have had no problem with orthodox Christianity. The wars between Russia ans Sweden was pure Russian expansionism.

    • @Vladklx
      @Vladklx 3 года назад +1

      Ha ha funny history revisionist..
      In the end Vikings got their ass whooped ,they all converted and western civilization prevailed not ur dumb tribal paganism

    • @atlet1
      @atlet1 3 года назад +1

      @@Vladklx false! But the vikings was converted to roman catholicism and suffered ard during the little ice age. Starvation and pandemic almost got the Nordic people living in Scandinavia extinct. Before that they ware unstoppable, due to superiour technology, tactics and organisation. After recovery they left the antichristian Roman church and defended the faith in Christ with superiour technology, tactics and organisation. During the viking age they ockupied a big part of Europe, including the Brittish islands and parts of todays France and Italy. The Brittish empire was based on former vikings. They even discovered America. So they had a worldwide impact on humanity.

    • @Vladklx
      @Vladklx 3 года назад

      @@atlet1 British empire formed after king Alfred and his successors kicked out every single viking one off the island..
      Vikings put England under dark ages..
      Regarding France Normans re Catholis and were forefront even in Crusades..

  • @vvv-o9y
    @vvv-o9y 3 года назад +2

    dat waren een paar toffe jongens kan je leuk mee op stap gaan

  • @jimsterrett8214
    @jimsterrett8214 3 года назад +7

    "...the last barbarians." Yes, this will age well. Too ironic to see the hypocrisy in the narrative. Did you watch your own video?

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    Those stones are older

  • @warsameadam5572
    @warsameadam5572 3 года назад +3

    Ö means Island in Swedish language.

    • @jannes3290
      @jannes3290 3 года назад +4

      Same with øy in Norwegian.

  • @traver1965
    @traver1965 Год назад

    You are not explaning why Charles Allgemeine stopped his conquest against the Danes. Instead you jump to the Norwegians who has not a viking history except from fleeing and discovering (maybe) Iceland. Norwegians lived in small "fjords" and they did not have the possibilities to build Kingdoms like Sweden and Denmark. But they did try to invade England once and they failed. The fairytales surrounding Norway is build on the TV series "Vikings". In fact Norway has never really contributed to Vikings. They do have been a vasal state of Denmark and Sweden for years

  • @traver1965
    @traver1965 Год назад

    I kinda like this video but 90% is based on speculations. As of today we know little about the vikings. Graves has been found. Ships has been found but no one really knows the life of a viking today. So this video is constructed to get viewers and not new knowledge on the vikings

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    The greeks wrote about Scandinavians
    They were going for the amber

  • @michaelwilton2981
    @michaelwilton2981 3 года назад +1

    Yeah equality

  • @gigglepantsiii9350
    @gigglepantsiii9350 3 года назад +13

    18 seconds in "the last barbarians" are we judging their actions through the lens of modern morality? Because oof that is some really poor wording

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    Old Norse is their language

  • @davidchisenhall5001
    @davidchisenhall5001 2 года назад

    Dr, Mait Vea 😍

  • @donitaforrest9064
    @donitaforrest9064 3 года назад +2

    Just as with stonehenge you've got it wrong. Those are not grave site markers, they are the boat building scaffolding of the most ancient mariners, who put up these sites in forests up hill from the waters edge, for launching. The forests & woods are long gone, used in the constructions of thousands of ships for war, trade, and exploration. Whatever they were used for after, was an afterthought that needs to be exposed.

  • @emmaemma9211
    @emmaemma9211 3 года назад +1

    36:21

  • @0yst3in
    @0yst3in Год назад

    Marit Vea is a beautiful viking woman.

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    Actually vikings were very late
    Got sails in 800 this era

  • @hudsontoo1212
    @hudsontoo1212 3 года назад +1

    SKÖLL

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    They were cannibals also

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    And children

  • @laara1426
    @laara1426 3 года назад +1

    If the programs Absolute History shows is not specifically their content and the content is historically WRONG , then they are guilty of spreading MISINFORMATION.
    Vikings are NOT a specific group .
    Norsemen is correct.
    They were NOT pirates . The word pirate did not exist during the the time of the Norsemen era.
    They were raiders and traders .
    I am so tired of the gross generalizations .

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    The Romans wrote the same

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    They had small boats for rivers before and we're going around stealing

  • @rolandrabier5984
    @rolandrabier5984 Год назад

    Charlemagne died and his sons did not follow his steps, else after the Saxons the Danes would have been next.
    I see nothing heroic in the first wave, vikings attacked only soft targets like monasteries and undefended villages.

  • @cordrus412
    @cordrus412 Год назад

    The should mention the fins. They're viking as it used to be apart if Sweden. Not to mention russia and Ukraine history stems from viking bloodlines. Keivian russ were viking tribes living along the baltic twords the east. The only real reason Russia and Ukraine isn't mentioned as being viking origin is they were the first viking culture to adopt Christianity. And stopped much of their raiding except for raids on pagen cultures.

  • @raduraducu2668
    @raduraducu2668 Год назад

    Vikings : Stop claiming the acicvents of my no longer existing people !!!!!!!!
    Stupid blondes: My ancestor:)
    NO COMENTS

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    Runes is greek

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    The sagas were written in 1200 this era
    A lot not true

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    In europe

  • @even8847
    @even8847 3 года назад +2

    Stop calling them bloodthirsty pirates, they were slavers, so why would they kill their income,
    it does not make sense, they would try to kill as little as they had to,
    but before everything else, they were traders.... Its just clickbaiting, calling someone insane murderers
    or crazy barbarians is more interesting than traders or settlers...

    • @nadershah4845
      @nadershah4845 3 года назад

      Ofc ofc. Viking historians with hours and days of viking study vs you, a nobody commenting on a RUclips video

    • @even8847
      @even8847 3 года назад +1

      @@nadershah4845 haha, yeah, i know nothing,
      as a matter of fact ive spent hours and hours reading and gone trough many different opinions from historians about the matter.. So maybe, just maybe, i know a thing or two about this, jerk...

    • @nadershah4845
      @nadershah4845 3 года назад +1

      @@even8847 oh wow hours and hours of reading yeah? Alright you're a certified historian now. So these acidemia educated researchers vs you Dr. Hours and hours reading...who to believe...hmmm it's tough.

    • @even8847
      @even8847 3 года назад +1

      @@nadershah4845 You should do your own research, read some books,
      and dig a little deeper than the mainstream storyline they always
      have on Norsemen, then you will see that we dont know that much about
      them, we know more about the ancient Romans, some of the Vikings were
      bad and some good, they were not all evil men..

    • @j.p.foleyjr.6333
      @j.p.foleyjr.6333 3 года назад +3

      You two should settle this with knives! How dare you let one or the other disgrace your Manhood ! Armor up and settle this !!!! ONCE AND FOR ALLLLLLLL !

  • @JoyElectric567
    @JoyElectric567 3 года назад +3

    This is really bad work. I would not take the information in this documentary seriously. It’s not that everything is wrong but it’s so much blatant speculation and biased perspectives from some of these «experts». Yes, we KNOW there was human sacrifice going on, and A LOT of it!! The old pagan traditions here in Scandinavia was some real nasty stuff.

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    The dragon is chinese

  • @wanderluster9034
    @wanderluster9034 2 года назад

    Vikings, germanic race are Gog and Magog people. Read Ezekiel

  • @herbert42069
    @herbert42069 3 года назад +3

    False, the Faroese have the earliest modern democracy, predating the Icelandic one by 50-100 years
    We also had a slightly vital role as a harbour, a dock to expand further ventures, hence the name " Tórshavn " Thor's Harbour.

    • @BastardOfTheNorth
      @BastardOfTheNorth 3 года назад

      Rome?

    • @jannes3290
      @jannes3290 3 года назад +1

      @@BastardOfTheNorth Rome didn't have a Democracy. A case could be made for Ancient Greece, but their democracy was vastly different from a lot of modern democracies.

    • @knutnputn
      @knutnputn 3 года назад +1

      I think the reason they usually attribute this to Iceland is because they have the longest surviving one. While the Faroe Islands still is there and the people live rather independently they are still owned by Denmark and Norway before that. Iceland however has kept themselves independent and hasn't been controlled directly by another country since it's establishment around year 900

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      @@jannes3290 America is a republic and based their democratic values on Greek notions yet they knew pure democracy is mob rule and dangerous.

  • @andreikorshun5849
    @andreikorshun5849 3 года назад +2

    Please Russian subtitres

  • @samsquach3799
    @samsquach3799 2 года назад

    Grave robbers. Not good.

  • @jespernystad
    @jespernystad 3 года назад +2

    Absolute rubbish ... full of errors.

  • @robertfoster2988
    @robertfoster2988 3 года назад +3

    I love documentaries that aren't fluff or alien b!@#$%!

    • @tonyu5985
      @tonyu5985 3 года назад +1

      Absolute, his story.

  • @veronicalogotheti1162
    @veronicalogotheti1162 Год назад

    They copied mythology

  • @WestAbbey
    @WestAbbey Год назад

    That blonde woman has a personal agenda of her own..... Silly.

  • @tonyu5985
    @tonyu5985 3 года назад +2

    Not all Vikings were Scandinavians.

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      oh and what were the other persons that were not Scandinavians, I think I can guess what you will answer lol.

  • @JMDinOKC
    @JMDinOKC 3 года назад

    "Stunning" discoveries. "Epic"; "iconic"; "shocking." I wish these documentarians would purge these overused, worn-out words from their vocabularies.

  • @akiraasmr3002
    @akiraasmr3002 3 года назад +1

    didnt vikings come from Germanic tribes

    • @adversary0932
      @adversary0932 3 года назад

      they are all Germanic, and the tribes in Germany came from Scandinavian (Sweden mostly they postulate and some genetic evidence) countries.

  • @antoniescargo1529
    @antoniescargo1529 3 года назад

    German Immigration? I thought German Immigration startet under Adolf? Ik denk dat je Germaanse volken bedoelt. Jutten, Saksen, Friezen, Angelen.