I am swedish, so i am well educated about the vikings. And i just think that it's ironic that we began as a country made up of warriors, and now a millennium after that time, us swedes are known as a friendly people that have not officialy been to war in 200 years
@@rakjel5855 Folks from Sweden, Denmark, Norwegian and Iceland were vikings What The f did you got to learn about Vikings if you only think danes are viking
Vikings were a rare breed that were brought up with tales of the worlds doom. These sagas comes from an earlier time in history, around the year of 500. During this time Scandinavia were suffering from extreme cold, so cold that scientists have found fibers from trees that were frostbitten (im not sure about the spelling, but the fibers had exploded from water being frozen in the middle of the summer). So the Viking ancestors had it rough and a big part of the population actually died. So no wonder the vikings were a hard breed. They really believed in their gods, and I can see why.
Spain is not proud of their conquistadors Germany is not proud of the Nazist But guess what: We are extremly proud of having the Viking blood in us! Greetings from Norway!
@@gino7lord that's way too generalizing, for the conquistador part at least. If you really appreciate your ancestor martial culture, you can practice it on the people like ISIS in the Mid East. Instead of just letting it die off. That if you really care tbh.
Vikings were warriors who traveled the seas from their land on the Scandinavian peninsula, plundering and plundering cities, but also establishing colonies and trading.
@@overlord5068 oh they were far more then just that they were overall more then just raiders they were ferry much creating colonies aswel in europe but also far Beyond even ones that we only know in the modern day thanks too the Norse like Iceland and Greenland and might i remind you that they were the first ones too find the new world they settled there and created the colonie called Vinland but over time that failed but still it was a huge achievment and they were also great traiders pretty much traiding in all distant places and lands
@@overlord5068 no the Vikings funded Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, ruled England for a while, funded Normandy, traded more than raided, build the most amazing ships and art, married into royal families all over Europe, pirates were outlaws who never build anything
@Preda Daniel greenland is not green, iceland was green. They're opposites :) The Vikings fooled people by living in Iceland while the other people thought Greenland was green and nice so when they went to Greenland most of the people who went there died.
Yes you are right in my past life i was there it was summer good sailing weather we crashed into the monasteries like a wave they thought we were demons
Seems like there were a lot of caveats and justifications to do away with their moral arguments against killing the defenseless when it suited the narrative
The Vikings settled the lands they raided and helped establish many important Medieval states including England, Ireland, Normandy, Sicily and Naples. The Vikings also played a role in the establishment of the Medieval Rus kingdom in the east.
As much as I’m aware that Hollywood gave us this impression, I still think there would of been a number of vikings who’d have strapped horns or skulls to their differing armour pieces, more as an intimidating item than as something of real use, just a thought tho.
"Viking age" is what people call the era of when the vikings raided england and france, but they were "vikings" a long time before that too. They raided the baltics a lot before england and the fact that fewer people started to own land and that scandinavia became christian was the main reason why raids stopped, not so much that the english started to get larger armies and defence systems. Keep in mind that the vikings raided english lands that had armies already and defence systems, also paris which was seen as a fort almost impossible to break through, however they managed to anyway. So the biggest reason why the raids stopped is because people didnt own theyr own land and that the vikings became Christians like mentioned in the video.
In context of Dark age Scandinavia a viking is an event, you would go a viking thus the term Viking or vikingr as someone who would go a viking which is considered as going on a raid
K.O. Beast! I am from Wantage in England and we had king Alfred .. he United the British against the Vikings and after winning several key battles he formed a peace and converted them to Christianity.... in one battle in Letcombe Basset King Alfred and his men killed so many danish that the local springs ran red from their blood ...
guys, finland shares a lot of swedish heritage because of migration and having shared rulership. not to mention they where interacted with throughout the viking age
Also yes Norman DNA might still be in the Middle east after the crusades, who's take a DNA test, find out, maybe some who got captured by the Saracen and were allowed to live , you never be to sure about history, that's why I love it
It was probably not easy to think the vikings were misunderstood while they were killing everybody around you!! But hey they eventually got even when they unleashed Abba on the world!!
So I’m Swedish and have a large interest in the Viking culture and a lot in this video is right but you also forgot to mention a lot which if mentioned would have given the video a whole new perspective
@@MMaheshThakur Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation. They (Vikings) had many gods and goddesses from simple nature spirits to heroic figures. Odin, Thor and Frey were the major deities, who dwelled in Asgard - the inner world of an elaborate universe. Vikings believed they travelled to other worlds in the afterlife. You can call it a culture.
Let me correct this misunderstanding, its the Catholics not Christians, the Catholics made up excommunication and so on, this is their invention, this is whats wrong with the Pope and the false religion known as Catholicism.
Vikings were absorbed by the communities they oncw raided. One group which settled in the lands od Rus, became the Russians. They also became the Normans in France, one of member, William the Conqueror, became king of England and ancestor of the current queen there.
You made a mistake towards the end. Harald Hardrada did not die in conflict at the battle of Stanford Bridge. The vikings won the battle of Stanford Bridge and set up in York, it was here that the English army attacked them when they’re ere unprepared as they had left their heavy armour and weapons in boats 10 miles away (they did this as they had a mutual belief on the honour of combat and were expecting to be given time to prepare before combat, however Harold Godwinson instructed the English army to attack them killing Harald Hardrada and his men by overpowering them.
There was also a lot of geopolitical stuff in the mix. If I remember correctly,the first defining raid of Lindisfarne was motivated to scare off and weaken the crazy continental King Charles (or charlamagne?) who beheaded 4k near Denmark.
Quartaz Aqua The arrival if the modern world in Japan such as the British American an French caused the country to split between traditional Japanese ways such as the Samurai and modernisation eventually killing the remaining samurai that’s the end of them anyway Correct me if I’m wrong it’s not my strongest subject!
"In the valley of Valhalla, is where you are each night;
Standing next to mighty Odin, who witnessed your great fight!..."
- - Larry Ran
And this time with much better drawings and without Horns. Thank you. (Also the much needed explanation about Vikings at all)
Im from NORWAY🇳🇴
Infographics show, if you were a Viking how strong will you be LOL?🙃🙃🙃🙃
Next,do crusades.
Why do you talk about Christianity like it’s viable?
I am swedish, so i am well educated about the vikings. And i just think that it's ironic that we began as a country made up of warriors, and now a millennium after that time, us swedes are known as a friendly people that have not officialy been to war in 200 years
Have u ever seen PewDiePie roming around with his groceries ?
I'm northern Irish and family ancestors blood line are viking from here and from Scotland, ancestry search was pricey but worth it
Vest Okay 154 years
Gustavus Adolphus would like to have a word with you
You are in war with T-series
This channel teaches me more than my college
You aren't in college boi
So a channel that spews bullcrap teaches you more than your college? Must say something about your college.
@@spencercarruth9706 What bullcrap does it spew? Source?
XxRedemptionnx they get some of the facts wrong in most of their videos
@@ryanbob3462 I mean I'm sure most informative content gets at least some things wrong. Are they particularly inaccurate? What are some examples?
The Vikings are still thriving, making IKEA furniture and racing rally cars
Horse meatballs.......
And devoloping minecraft
They also make legos now
Raiding our hearts
Swedes has never been vikings.
They joined Thor to defeat Thanos in infinity war
💪🏻
True, but they forgot to go for the head.
😂😂comment of the year
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@JC-xx5sg they wanted to have a fair fight
2:24 - Look, its Æthelstan! :P
🤣🤣🤣
Yesssssssss I love him
It's issssss lol
Who's that
RUclips yesterday : AC Valhalla trailer.
RUclips today : you might like this.
AHHAHA idk why but i've been watching viking stuf every since that trailer came out
Actually one viking is still in war with a channel called T-series
He is undercover now
He also has a secret army
Yea but he's a Swedish tho, not a Danish
@@rakjel5855 Folks from Sweden, Denmark, Norwegian and Iceland were vikings
What The f did you got to learn about Vikings if you only think danes are viking
And a couple on a football team
Also the horns on Vikings is also not true about vikings.
Justin Yeh no one really knows what the Vikings way was this is Just a theory
@@lilgoat4779 This was a thing promolgated by Wagnerian opera. They never had horned helmets.
@@lilgoat4779 True I don't get why that's a thing now.
They wore bones, ivory and horns in rituals.
@@d4re416 True but never in war or daily life, purely ceremonial
They all fled to iceland and now we have Lazy Town
First reply
Also 9 likes?
Yespacito oof
And Lazy Town gave us Robbie Rotten
I watched lazy town as a kid😢 life officially wasted
no u
When school is less entertaining than this channel .
@@iquit.6726 go to school and take grammar lessons.
When Fortnite is less cringey than ur profile pic.
Thanks! ♥️
@@ozromero1388 we don't even need school for learning grammar anymore all we really need school for is to get a degree
F.B.I you a teacher or something
Vikings were a rare breed that were brought up with tales of the worlds doom. These sagas comes from an earlier time in history, around the year of 500. During this time Scandinavia were suffering from extreme cold, so cold that scientists have found fibers from trees that were frostbitten (im not sure about the spelling, but the fibers had exploded from water being frozen in the middle of the summer). So the Viking ancestors had it rough and a big part of the population actually died. So no wonder the vikings were a hard breed. They really believed in their gods, and I can see why.
A tree can get frost bite? Thought that was mainly a human issue?
@@thewhitewolf58 not in scandinavia
They're in Valhalla. Duh
If there ever is a valhalla
Not all warriors can enter Valhall, Odin & the Valkyrie choose. They may end up in Asgård instead.
@@horacemakepiece7379 isn't Valhalla in Asgård
@@nicolas__788 Yes Valhalla is in Asgård.
It's kinda weird how Valhalla is gonna be a game
Spain is not proud of their conquistadors
Germany is not proud of the Nazist
But guess what: We are extremly proud of having the Viking blood in us!
Greetings from Norway!
Because the others were mostly about full on ethnic cleansing and had no honor
Agreed!
@@gino7lord that's way too generalizing, for the conquistador part at least.
If you really appreciate your ancestor martial culture, you can practice it on the people like ISIS in the Mid East. Instead of just letting it die off. That if you really care tbh.
U from norway?
@@kasperknutsen8283 I'm Icelandic and couldn't be prouder to have Viking ancestors
They committed hinga dinga durgen
gary its viking day
happy leif Erikson day
Shoutout spongebob
Happy lebaricson day
@Avery Lopez-Baines no u
The Vikings moved to Minnesota and formed a football team. ☃
innerlocus Skol Vikings Skol
No u
LOL
I NEED TO LIKE THIS COMMENT
The accent
Now they’re just the regular Norwegian, Swedish, Icelandic, and danish people🤷🏼♂️
Big people and smart people
@Ice true
Ice and where are u from?
@@Sebax what?
@Ice suppose your are Danish...
Vikings were warriors who traveled the seas from their land on the Scandinavian peninsula, plundering and plundering cities, but also establishing colonies and trading.
No, they were just polytheist pirates
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@@overlord5068 oh they were far more then just that they were overall more then just raiders they were ferry much creating colonies aswel in europe but also far Beyond even ones that we only know in the modern day thanks too the Norse like Iceland and Greenland and might i remind you that they were the first ones too find the new world they settled there and created the colonie called Vinland but over time that failed but still it was a huge achievment and they were also great traiders pretty much traiding in all distant places and lands
@@overlord5068 no the Vikings funded Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Russia, ruled England for a while, funded Normandy, traded more than raided, build the most amazing ships and art, married into royal families all over Europe, pirates were outlaws who never build anything
Infographics is always the best at answering questions I didn't know needed answered
Better video than most other medieval setting videos from you. “Viking age ended due to multiple reasons” would be very accurate.
Let me get this straight about Viking priorities:
1) Farming (Survival)
2) Business (Adulting)
3) Raiding (Side Hustle)
Bahahahaha!
raiding was less of an extra income, it was a necessity because of the trade bans charlemagne forced Christianity to place on pagans
@@magnusorn7313 basically
They went to Greenland thinking there would be green
Newby Ton They are probably hiding in northern Greenland, they can withstand any trmperature
They found greenland and named it greenland to trick people
Iceland they also named Iceland to scare people from going there! @@Anon-tl7ym
@Preda Daniel greenland is not green, iceland was green. They're opposites :) The Vikings fooled people by living in Iceland while the other people thought Greenland was green and nice so when they went to Greenland most of the people who went there died.
Björn Snellman That’s a myth
Short answer: they died
Spongebob SquarePants no the leader died
💀💀💀💀
No they became soyboys.
@@gs1859 no, but americans are
Long answer?
The golden age of Norway 😢
I'm Norwegian btw
Cool I guess
Who cares
Harald Fairhair I of Norway
Nobody cares about that.
@@ultimatekyle3067 EUROPE cared, because it has history;)
Fun fact: The first monastery raided was lindafarne which is found in a place call holy island
Yes you are right in my past life i was there it was summer good sailing weather we crashed into the monasteries like a wave they thought we were demons
I was there to
Vikings were Entrepreneurs interesting 😲
No, or maybe some. They were explorers and warriors. Smart people
i am a proud feminist and i have a vagaina xoxo i know but i jus that the entrepreneurship with the viking warrior aspect was interesting
@@litdm9988 i see
@@litdm9988 they would take viking women too and the women would go to war and fight alongside the men the vikings were savage
They are now in Assassin's creed Valhalla
Christanity killed the Vikings.
Oh for heaven's sake.
Watch the video dingus, it was much more than that
@@pierreodendaal6519 If this video is your only source of knowledge when talking about this topic then you are not worth talking to.
N B, I agree.
Nah maybe 20% were killed or converted, the rest just werent in england or left back to scandanavia, or ireland, greend, and iceland.
barely.
Seems like there were a lot of caveats and justifications to do away with their moral arguments against killing the defenseless when it suited the narrative
The Vikings settled the lands they raided and helped establish many important Medieval states including England, Ireland, Normandy, Sicily and Naples. The Vikings also played a role in the establishment of the Medieval Rus kingdom in the east.
The Vikings abandoned earth because we always show them with HORNED HELMETS! *IT'S TIME TO STOP!*
As much as I’m aware that Hollywood gave us this impression, I still think there would of been a number of vikings who’d have strapped horns or skulls to their differing armour pieces, more as an intimidating item than as something of real use, just a thought tho.
@@Wanderingwalker-ke6mg No they only used horns in helmets during ceremomies
Thank you. The ancestors got tired of being persecuted and falsely accused.
"Viking age" is what people call the era of when the vikings raided england and france, but they were "vikings" a long time before that too. They raided the baltics a lot before england and the fact that fewer people started to own land and that scandinavia became christian was the main reason why raids stopped, not so much that the english started to get larger armies and defence systems. Keep in mind that the vikings raided english lands that had armies already and defence systems, also paris which was seen as a fort almost impossible to break through, however they managed to anyway. So the biggest reason why the raids stopped is because people didnt own theyr own land and that the vikings became Christians like mentioned in the video.
I love the Vikings great vid
Thanks!
I remember reading that the word "viking" meant "to explore". I could remember wrong.
In context of Dark age Scandinavia a viking is an event, you would go a viking thus the term Viking or vikingr as someone who would go a viking which is considered as going on a raid
I have a strong feeling that the owner of this channel is a viking descendant
same
We still here!😎🇧🇻💪
Its safe to say that most of europeans have viking blood?? Didnt vikings ruled over norway, england, and denmark?
K.O. Beast! I am from Wantage in England and we had king Alfred .. he United the British against the Vikings and after winning several key battles he formed a peace and converted them to Christianity.... in one battle in Letcombe Basset King Alfred and his men killed so many danish that the local springs ran red from their blood ...
I live in the USA and have part Viking
@@mrwilsonwilson9599 he didn't made them Christians king Olaf bringed Christianity to them and Alfried made piece with Vikings and let them sattle
@@mrwilsonwilson9599 why people fights with each other
I was born in England, both my great great great grandparents were Nordic.
I am from Finland and I’m proud of my vikeing and Scandinavian heritage. Kauan elää viiknigit!
I hope you are joking.
Finland were not Vikings?
guys, finland shares a lot of swedish heritage because of migration and having shared rulership. not to mention they where interacted with throughout the viking age
Who else clicked on this video as soon as they got a notification
Me 🤣
Hecc ya dude of course
I did, but it said your comment was 3 mins ago. lol
me
Me xD
no matter what you say ,vikings were badass🔥🔥
I was about to say "Harold didn't die at Stamford" but then I realized it was the other Harold 😅
What!? But we're right here, in Scandinavia and parts of England and Russia and... *Rød grød med fløde! Åååh!*
We are everywhere still 👍
Sådan! Endelig en rigtig dansker
🤣😄🥰 smager godt!
@Alexander Tegnér Sverige dårligt. Danmark godt
Uffda!!
They ended up on the show Vikings
watching this in 2021 and i happen to notice how your animations really improved!
Whose here after assassins creed Valhalla
QASSYNO1 yes sir 👋🏼
yessir
Alex Blair well considering the games not out 🤔
Still here!!!
Also yes Norman DNA might still be in the Middle east after the crusades, who's take a DNA test, find out, maybe some who got captured by the Saracen and were allowed to live , you never be to sure about history, that's why I love it
Their problem is that the vikings didn't evolve into an empire, they were more like pirates, that's why they declined quite quickly!
Well said
We were too busy fighting England and eachother to become an empire Also plundering
No the English needed to learn a few things which the vikings taught them... its served them well in the future.
Vikings: Did you buy that with Gold or Iron? 😡
Me: Stimulus Check
Four cows for a Kalashnikov
@@adamstone8542 You mean AK but it's same
some of our Generation love the History but and sometimes want to live in the past
Yea i wish That norway at least was still viking bc i am Norwegian i hope we turn back to being viking again soon
@@Emilsigland helt enig 👍
The Vikings are awesome I love the Vikings
Jeg også!
Odin
Yall Larps
Takk🇳🇴🇳🇴🇳🇴
🇳🇴🍺 🇩🇰🍺 🇸🇪😅😅😅
3:29 they look like hiccup and astrid's family in how to train your dragon homecoming
You should do a video of the berserker in Stamford bridge for your badass people in history series
It was probably not easy to think the vikings were misunderstood while they were killing everybody around you!! But hey they eventually got even when they unleashed Abba on the world!!
Love the videos
So I’m Swedish and have a large interest in the Viking culture and a lot in this video is right but you also forgot to mention a lot which if mentioned would have given the video a whole new perspective
Do u call even them culture. Shame on u
@@MMaheshThakur L+ratio+shame on you +bozo
@@MMaheshThakur Culture can be defined as all the ways of life including arts, beliefs and institutions of a population that are passed down from generation to generation.
They (Vikings) had many gods and goddesses from simple nature spirits to heroic figures. Odin, Thor and Frey were the major deities, who dwelled in Asgard - the inner world of an elaborate universe. Vikings believed they travelled to other worlds in the afterlife.
You can call it a culture.
Explain then.
It is wired not having music, but thank you for the knowledge
Viking: *raiding*
Christianity: *Hold my beer*
No its hold my wine
@@christiandoms2215 I believe monks were popular for brewing beer.
Its hold my faith
More like *hold my Bible*
*Hold my ale*
I am Swedish and I think that the Vikings did the right thing
I'm English and I agree :)
Very interesting, I've been interested in European history of that time period (~800 - 1066) and this was quite informative :)
so cool well done
imagine being in a church and a bunch of strong guys with weapons and armor come storming in and plunder the entire building of it's gold
Sounds like what they did to the churches and royal family did to Africa and Asia
the narrator sounds like he’s going thru puberty in this video
This channel has thought me more than my history teacher has
Thank you! ♥
guess it didn’t help your english too much
Let's get them to 10 million
They fell to christianity :(
Dues vult
Oh for heaven's sake.
Watch the video Dingus, it was much more than that
We lost all of our ancestors beliefs to the desert religion, unfortunately.
Theres plenty of issues with Christianity.
Let me correct this misunderstanding, its the Catholics not Christians, the Catholics made up excommunication and so on, this is their invention, this is whats wrong with the Pope and the false religion known as Catholicism.
Sometimes i learn more from infografic
Vikings were absorbed by the communities they oncw raided. One group which settled in the lands od Rus, became the Russians. They also became the Normans in France, one of member, William the Conqueror, became king of England and ancestor of the current queen there.
One of them is right here! :) hello from Denmark!
They're in Minnesota... 🏈
No u
i am a proud feminist and i have a vagaina xoxo you missed the joke. its a football team, Minnesota Vikings
I feel the idea of vile is subjective and depends on who you’re asking
They went with the dragons
I thought that the movie “How to Train Your Dragon” explained it pretty well
Astrid makes a guest appearance at 3:26
That looks more like lagertha
Can you do a video on slavs
You made a mistake towards the end. Harald Hardrada did not die in conflict at the battle of Stanford Bridge. The vikings won the battle of Stanford Bridge and set up in York, it was here that the English army attacked them when they’re ere unprepared as they had left their heavy armour and weapons in boats 10 miles away (they did this as they had a mutual belief on the honour of combat and were expecting to be given time to prepare before combat, however Harold Godwinson instructed the English army to attack them killing Harald Hardrada and his men by overpowering them.
Why would they expect to be given time when they did not give anyone time before they raided
This is awesome
Obviously they went to Asgard
FBI wants to know your location
No, do U Even know Norse mytologi?
Ooh do one on the disappearance of the Roanoke Island colony.
*Real* *answer* : They invented Ikea and to this day they have been hiding in all of the worlds Ikeas just waiting for my *command* to attack
I wish school was this entertaining. But instead they're boring.
they are hiding with the dragons
Cool vid
What happened to the Vikings?
Me: they didn't go 2 the playoffs that's what happened. 😂😂
they were a group of misunderstood people and also evil because they do a lot of bad things, but they just doed it to survive.
It was the ancient times what did you expect? Everyone was evil, no one was inoccent
1:18 the wood looks realistic
because that was real woods-
There was also a lot of geopolitical stuff in the mix. If I remember correctly,the first defining raid of Lindisfarne was motivated to scare off and weaken the crazy continental King Charles (or charlamagne?) who beheaded 4k near Denmark.
Hello could you please make videos about samurai?
Quartaz Aqua The arrival if the modern world in Japan such as the British American an French caused the country to split between traditional Japanese ways such as the Samurai and modernisation eventually killing the remaining samurai that’s the end of them anyway
Correct me if I’m wrong it’s not my strongest subject!
They committed sudoku and all died
I don't know but the movies make them look cool 😎
They went to find horns for their helmets.
They didnt
@@bigbeartooth Yes they do
Since when?
Bjørn Brøndum er du norsk
@@hannesynnverusten8090 dansk
the video sounds odd without any music in the background...
I would've not survive the Viking era😣😣😑😑☹️☹️🙁🙁
EvoEvan Nismo are you british?
@@lillejuensen8084 briish
Finally a viking related video where they did not have helmets with horns
Who came after watching the assassin Creed Valhalla trailer?
They were fearless and brave But as you alluded to in the video they rely a lot on surprising their enemy in an open wall they wouldn’t fair to
3:26 why is Astrid from How to train your Dragon doing in your show?
Not quite
I'm now 100% concerned that my phone is spying on me. I got this video recommended after watching Vinland Saga.
Do about the cowboy and wild west era????
Urbanization
Ragnar Lothbrok was born
Bjorn was more famous than him
Comrade Moist Nugget #0101 than he*
@@sheepuswoolius no, btw who is bjorn? more people knows ragnar than bjorn