Just in case some people are confused. Vikings was a PROFESSION among the Scandinavians, not a different ethnic group on the land. It's like the Italian mobs are the same Italians but choose to participate in organized crimes. Certainly, most Scandinavians were not raiders, and most Italians are not mobsters.
@@MattieK09 Because history has been white washed and manipulated. Funny how you rarely see Europe portrayed accurately during Dark Ages for that matter. It's aways told in the complexion of a Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones manner. Funny how Christ is portrayed as white since 1491 but the BIBLE cleary describes HIM differently. LOL these fun facts matter...just to keep you honest.
IMO, the key part of Viking culture was that the oldest son inherits everything and younger sons needed to go make a name (and living) for themselves as Vikings. With that definition, I would argue that Viking culture spread throughout Europe and evolved into knight culture. And knight culture then further evolved into the age of exploration, which then evolved into imperialism.
Vikings did NOT wear helmets with horns. This is a bronze age ritual helmet thing. It is as periodically wrong to depict a Viking with horned helmet as it would be to depict them with full-face motorcycle helmets.
Brian Boro, the King of Ireland Defeated the Vickings once and for all from Ireland. Boro recognize that the Vikings had intermarried with the Irish and those that Sided and fought with the Irish were allowed to stay. Some of that culture as well as DNA is with Ireland to this day.
@@ecoideazventures6417 "Vikings did NOT wear helmets with horns." How do you get from that, that they didn't wear helmets? Helmets without horns is not an impossible thing.
Will expand the comment with Information like what year did this happen before or after what other things and who is in place as population and is rulers at the time of the Ottoman conquest?
@@dreamervanroom The Muslim Ottomans conquered Constantinople and converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque in the mid-15th century. The Vikings had connections with the Christian Byzantinians before that point. In fact, in the 10th-14th centuries, they were hired as bodyguards for the emperor (see: Varangian Guard).
One could say that the Christianized Normans such as William the Conquer and many other Normans continued the militant way of life of their Viking ancestors for at least three more centuries.
@williamgarrett9479 genetically Vikings or Scandinavian people thrived. Heck I'm 99% Scandinavian, thousands of years later. Culturally, they were a flash in the pan
Most of the elites were mixed with French and most of the inhabitants of Normandy didn't have a drop of Viking blood. William the Conqueror had more French blood than Viking blood and was culturally assimilated to his land. At this point Normandy was already more French than Viking but English people don't like the idea of being conquered by a French guy so they deny the Normans Frenchness :p It is also the main reason of the fighting between both kingdoms, French nobles dominated the English monarchy for centuries beginning with him and that's why both countries fought. The English, through their different French monarches had lands in France. It was basically a long civil war between 2 French dynasties (Plantagenets and Capetians)
And... dagnabbit, contrary to the video's intro, Finland is _not_ part of Scandinavia. It's a Nordic neighbor, but its language is totally unrelated to the languages of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
Vikings with horned helmets? And extinct? My ancestors were vikings, and I am here... The vikings didn't "go extinct" they just stopped being raiders. My family went from being vikings to being farmers because farming was easier, and they got a farm from a Norwegian king. So extinct is pushing it.
@@darrenskjoelsvold well technically your ancestors were Norse and there job was a viking or vikingyr viking isnt a race it was a profession like a crusader so its more of the profession is extinct
@@josephdias5859 It wasn't a "job" it was a way of life. You could farm or you could set sail/row and explore new lands and as a "Viking" you were a trader/farmer/warrior etc. When "Vikings" because to settle the lands and areas they conquered they did so with farming a normal way of life.
How do you know your ancestors was vikings? Majority of people from Scandinavia at that time in history was farmers. And it's the time in history we know very little about. Your ancestors more then likely was nothing but farmers. The last stage of the iron age was 30 generations back, most people can't trace further back than 5 generations.
Around 9:00 the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople is shown. At the time when the Vikings attacked Byzantium, this cathedral didn't have minarets yet, it was still a Christian church.
Thanks. That puts things together for me. I had forgotten or never known that the Vikings attacked Constantinople. Were they Christians at that time? I thought Constantinople was Christian because of the Roman Conquests.
I know the history here is suspect, but the fact he felt like he was going to Valhalla without dying in battle, makes that aspect written by Snorri more suspect.
also liked the part where it had a 5 min introduction and 19 minutes until he finally got to the point of sx, which was basically glossed over in less than a minute. This smells a lot like non-human made text.
Finland does have a unique culture and language, but its still historically pretty close to sweden, and most people do mentally include it in mentions of the word "scandinavia"
It's so mush bs here. I'm swedish speaking fin and I'm not finnish. But I have an Scandinavian culture and that we have had here long before the christianity. Yes the Scandinavia plus Finland is called Fennoscandia but the Vikings was not an people. They was an layers of the population and most of them was tradesmen and not warriors.
@@keithwald5349 Morten Harket (aha) Take on me/ 80s surprised you didn’t mention him. He participated as a Viking on the masked singer hinting Scandinavia since he is from Norway .
Weird how the video says so little about how the Eastern Vikings settled the land we today think of as Russia and Ukraine. Ever wonder where the name "Russia" comes from? It comes from the Varangian Rus.
@@homerodysseus4203 Maybe in some corners, but my understanding is that Russians tend to focus more on their Slavic heritage, with some degree of hostility towards the idea that their cultural roots could originate in Scandanavia. Sweden and Russia fought in a pretty big war so perhaps that is a factor at play.
@@daniell1483 As a Russian, what I was taught about that part of history is that the Russian lords (Kniaz) at the time would fight amongst themselves, and there were constant inner conflicts, so when the Rurik with his Varagian warriors came the Slavic tribes appealed to them to be their rulers, so it would put an end to the inner fighting which established the first unified kingdom of Rus. So essentially my understanding of Rus is Slavs that were led by Rurik and his Varagian viking warriors, they were basically the first Russian royal bloodline.
Missionaries: "And after Ragnarok, and Valhalla falling, God created Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden." Many missionaries made small concessions to the people they were trying to convert, before introducing their own ideas.
@@annerigby4400 The area of today's Saint Petersburgh is very close to Scandinavia. The people who lived there at the time probably had contact with, or even intermarried with Vikings from Scandinavia, and probably partook in raids with them. But it's a little bit of a stretch to call them Russian Vikings because Russia would only become a nation much later, starting from the Moscow area, and would only reach the area where Vikings may have lived by conquest hundreds of years later.
Viking descendant here... We are very much alive, all though we're not raiding, the viking part in us is just sleeping, But the world around us, the events in our land, is about to wake it up again.
11:18 “however not every Scandinavian thrive for this quiet lifestyle, which is why the Vikings continue to thrive till the mid-11th century” repeat for anyone else?
@victorbrown8832 I've noticed that happening on several different videos from different channels occasionally for years. Starting to wonder if it's some kind of server glitch.
@@neilfox3208 Not true at all. Most locals weren't mixed with Vikings at all and the elite quickly mixed with French nobels. Already in the time of William the Conqueror, he had more French ancestors than viking ones
@@Botoburst no, viking is not a profession. A profession is something like smith, fisher, etc. Viking was the name how they described themselves. Yes, they did live in a militarized society but they had ethnicity and culture connected to it. Maybe you could say their profession was pirate or soldier to hire.
Though Nordics, Finns are NOT Scandinavians. They are ethnically close to Estonians and even, language-wise, closer to the Hungarian language than to the Swedish language.
Mildly put. They're not even in the same language family tree since finnish is finno-ugric while the north germanic languages are indo-european. Norwegian for example is, as a result, more closely related to -iranian-(its also indo-european) than anything like finnish.
@@Tjalve70 Nordic refers to being north-germanic in linguistic terms. The other use case is in racial biology, where it includes large parts of northern europe. Finland unlike Denmark are actually geographically partially in Scandinavia. Culturally and legally their nation is scandinavian (based on swedish law before russia created the finnish nation. Better question would be why would they be nordic?
Come on English speaking world. Finland is NOT Scandinavia and the Finns were never Norsemen. They are a completely different tribe! Finland is for historical reasons part of The Nordic lands though, or Norden as we say in Scandinavia (which is basically Sweden, Norway and Denmark if you don't count the Scandinavian island groups of Åland, Faroe Islands and Iceland).
@@HarryWessex Yes, it is the official name in the Scandinavian countries but we selldom use it. First of all, Britain is not that great anymore so it feels antiquated to say it. Second, we mostly say "England", "Skottland" or "Wales" when we refer to the parts of the island rather than the whole island of "Storbritannien" itself.
@@Rob56687 Great means the largest in relation to the other islands of the archipelago, & using Great Britain to mean UK is wrong. Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
@@HarryWessex Really? I thought Great Britain meant the greater Brittany, in relation to Brittany in France. When it comes to Northern Ireland we would simply say "Nordirland". I personally say "UK" more often these days even in Swedish because it is simply easy to say. I have never heard "Förenade Kungadömet" being used. I have personally used "Britannien" a few times for the island but it is just me.
“Viking” almost definitely originates from the root word Vik in Old Norse which if I remember correctly roughly means bay. It’s like saying bay-people. Which makes sense as most of the Viking raiders and traders were from coastal communities.
@@sethpearce2878 "Viking" means raider, in the same way "buccaneer" means pirate. "Vik" means "bay". And the way words are constructed, "viking" would originally mean "a person from the place called Vik". The same way "buccaneer" originally meant "a person who eats meat preserved by smoking". But since buccaneers became pirates, the word "buccaneer" became synonymous with "pirate". I would say most likely, the original vikings were people from the Oslo fjord, which was also known as "Viken".
Rus = Ros = Roslagen (an area north of Stockholm that i am born and grown up in) is the reason of why Russia has its name today. Roslagen Vikings gave name today´s Russia.
The "conversion" to Christianity wasn't peacefully at most times. Trades routes and other luxuries were barred to those whom did not become baptized and convert. King Olaf I forced Christianity to the Norse people, it really was "covert or be slain".
3:45 Not true; they only killed the messenger after he attempted to levy a TAX on them for landing on the beach, which they (rightly) saw as hideously offensive.
Vikings never left, they just changed ways of doing "business", much of the Viking raids and expansion where due to that we have so little farmland in Sweden, Norway and Demark during this time so compared to what you could farm out of the land the area become over populated and they had to replace farming for survival. And here comes the Trades, the raids and expansion. Today we have more space due it the industrial revolution made it possible to remove all the big stones in the dirt and turn it to farm fields.
Viking is just anglicized version of vikingr. All the English and French ever knew was the vikingr, not the rest of the Norse society that was largely farming, hunting, and crafting. They didn't go extinct, vikingr was not a people but more of akin to a profession. They just settled down, stopped going on a vikingr, and intermingled with other peoples. End of story.
actually the French and the English and he rest of Europe knew much more about the Scandinavians than Vikingr because they traded with them both during the Viking age bit also long before, the Norse also settled in England, France and many more places so they also knew them as farmers, the Anglo-Saxons who invaded England were Angles and Jutes from Denmark , plus Saxons and Frisians , the Angles and Jutes were the same people as the Danes just other tribes there is zero diff. in dna and they had the same religion
There was no "Russia" in the time of Vikings. Vikings themselves created Rus with Kyiv as the metropolis, only centuries later for Muscovy to steal the name, creating a derivative from it - Russia.
@@tsmith9301 Yeah, that was my biggest gripe with the series. They took way too many liberties. And I was expecting the expedition to Vinland to feature since there was a story about Ragnar and Lagertha getting into an epic fight with the locals.
Yeah as a matter of fact in the first episode of Vinland saga you see the old merchant Leif chatting with native Americans and trading goods.. even had a warriors crest as a souvenir with him as he was telling Thorfinn stories of Vinland
Leif Erickson was the first Viking to encounter the bipedal creature known as Bigfoot in 986 and Leif Erickson also has a holiday named after him on the 9th of October.
@@angelortiz9341 the people in power trying to eradicate the original culture to make way for diversity culture and soon it'd be racist to celebrate old traditions.
Skål from a Dane 🇩🇰🍻🇧🇻 Being married to a Slavic woman in Denmark, I love to remind her that in my house, she lives under Danelaw. Yeah, I love tacky uncle-jokes btw.
From what I understand vikingr is what they were actually called and viking was a raid in other words Vikingr is what you are and viking is what you do
no Viking is the modern term , in old Norse they were called "Vikingr" or plural "Vikingar" the term was used bot about people and as "going Vikingr! most people just only know the "going Vikingr" so they think they understand for sure what it meant
Yes. We go viking! "vik" is harbor. So, to go viking is to go from harbor to harbor, fjiord to fjord, raiding. Or even just for friendly visit, mind if we eat your food and drink your beer?
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff While it is true that Christians were the colonizers, it's still bad to say Christians rather than England, France and etc because they're there for the gold and also to get glory because the more colonies you have, the more powerful you are in the time of colonization.
Denmark (not counting Greenland and Faroe Islands), Norway and Sweden make up 21.8 million in population. Iceland were only viking settlers, and not the badasses you see in the history books. Now they only have a population of 380.000.
When did bro say they all got killed? I specifically heard the Viking way of life went extinct not all murdered? Crazy. Wild. Bro is deaf or tried being funny without watching. Womp womp
The inuits did not arrive until much later to greenland. Perhaps you ment the dorset culture? The dorset communities got wiped out by the little ice age.
Not true. Vikings are not just the guys who went raiding. That would be like saying only the soldiers in USA are Americans. Makes no sense! Greetings from Denmark.
@@saif9amar417 Finland is no more Slavic than Arabs are Slavic. That is: Not at all. The Finns are probably more Chinese than they are Slavic. Although I'm not saying they are Chinese either.
Shukran for making it clear that Arabs who had had ruled Spain ,Portugal and most of the Mediterranean at that time ,not 'Muslims ' as this is great historical misconception ..
My ancestors are vikings so how did they become extinct if I exist? Misleading, should say "what happened to viking culture or something like that? Not killed off. So misleading
Are you a Viking? You still go about raiding villages and do as your forefathers did? I believe not. So it makes sense to say, Vikings have gone into extinction.
Calling the indigenous people's of Greenland the Inuit is a common mistake. The people who eventually became the Inuit arrived on the West coast of Alaska around 6000 to 7000 years ago - there had obviously been earlier migrations. This particular group - who became the Inuit - didn't migrate East until about 1000 CE and only reached what is now Nunavut and the Hudson Bay area about 500 years ago. They completely displaced the people who had lived there previously - some assimilation but mostly pushing them out.
In 1066, there is also the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror was a very efficient dictator. All Brittons and Normans became serves, all the land was divided between the French Norman nobility.
The Normans never became serfs . The Brittans , Saxons and celts became serfs and the Norman common men became men at arms , liegemen , yeomen ( free farmers ) and merchants , but not serfs
@@1964_AMU just the history books Plus, only about 2000 Normans came over with William, which would not have been enough to use any as serfs . Everyone who came with him was a fighting man There was a census record made after his control was established, called the doomsday book . It recorded every person in the country for the purpose of taxation. There were no Norman names listed as serfs There were people listed as " free men " , meaning they were non Norman , but not serfs They could be farmers , trades men , Foresters etc When Normans invaded a area , and set up the system of lords owning everything, that included the farmers farming the land . These pre-existing farmers became the serfs , because if the Norman lords let them leave there would not have been anyone left to do the work All the castles and strongholds might only have 15-20 Normans each , every one else was native Briton
@@1964_AMU the doomsday book is available on line , as well I believe translations of the anglo Saxon chronicles. My ninth grade history text had a lot of information on this Any research into Williams reign would give you a lot You just need to do it
@@greatdane145 it is only Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It is Nordic that include Finland, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark owned), and Faroe and Aland (Finland owned)
@@greatdane145 No it doesn’t depend on who you ask, Scandinavia is only 3 countries. Just because a lot of people are misinformed doesn’t mean that their opinions matter
I have a friend and his mom and dad are from Norway, they had two long swords that was passed down from there ancestors they let me hold one and I couldn't pick it all the way up because it was so heavy, and they were actually used in battle
I've often pondered why we've had regions for the East Saxons (Essex), South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex) and Central Saxons (Middlesex) but nothing for the North Saxons.
These days whenever I think of Vikings I sometimes think about Vinland Saga and how the main character's father (Thors) was a Christian. I didn't watch season two, but season one is awesome.
Not true. The age of the Vikings ended after the French entered the castle and fortification age. The French castle system spread into Germany and nearby countries. The vikings couldn't raid anything anymore. And the French invaded England and spread the tech there and killed the Scandinavians in the Danelaw.
@@JojoJoget I saw a video yesterday of Black men marching in the streets. You should know that when the White man starts marching, the internet will get shut down and then tanks will start rolling down the streets while ospreys and fighter jets fill the skies and the continental US is surrounded by aircraft carriers
They are not extinct, their jobs just changed, Viking was just a Scandinavian job description. Normandy, Iceland, Russia, Northern England, coast of Eastern Ireland, and areas of Finland, Greenland, and North America still acknowledge their Viking heritage.
What happened to them is that they won... They became the ruling class of Northern Europe in many places and some of their descendants are to this day Kings and Queens
The bronze age people went extinct shortly before the Nydam boat and the new population overtaking most of Scandinavia came from Ukraine. The predessors of the vikings were the "Angler" and "Sakser" that invaded England and brought the name England as well as the language to the British Isles. When the Viking later defeated the Anglosaxon rulers they were fighting family. The same happened when the Norman's later defeated defeated the Viking rulers.
I don't know why but some details like minor ones are wrong 9:19 like at this scene Hagia Sofia has minarets or towers around it which I am pretty sure weren't in the Byzantine era and were constructed by the Ottomans apart from this many people in the comments are saying that Vikings did not wear helmets horns😅
you have to speak to your general audience... and to them, these are the recognizable representations that the majority of lesser informed can easily digest... accuracy isn't the point and can actually be counter intuitive 🤔 if you broaden your perspective you can see better you know 😏
@@angleofshadow9818 No, origination of vikings is from Scandinavia only, Finns themselves are a whole different branch of people that don't speak a germanic language. You're mostlikely mixing on viking settlements that ofcourse happened in the shores of Finland and Estonia.
@@heh9392 Never talked about anything about language. Either you can't read, which makes sense since you made such an claim. We are even mentioned in sagas, but sure, we had nothing to do with vikings and viking age. Funny how you discredit newest findings and our entire Archaeological community. I would never do the same to any other culture.
@@angleofshadow9818 So you are claiming there were germanic people living in Finland before the age, then they became viking alongside with the scandinavians? What are you trying to say?
They didn’t die instead they have become the father of Great Britain and the French empire. All the things they did with their navies was originated from their knowledge of how to sail and raid.
Shortly before the Angler and Sakser invasion into the British Isles the "Kimbrene", "Teutonerne" and Jyderne decided to invade Rome and very nearly succeeded 103-101BC. These three tribes are just North to the "Angler" and "Sakser" tribes. Even though the main body of the force never returned the genetic heritage is still present in Austria, Switcherland and northen Italy.
What is "CE"? It indicates conformance to European health, safety, and environmental protection standards. Otherwise, it indicates "Christ Epoch", in which Christ ὶs King.
The most famous event of the year 1066 goes unmentioned. What effect, if any, did all these battles involving Vikings has on the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest?
Probably a lot. Possibly completely. When the English king returned south, his men were exhausted, and probably also quite a lot fewer. Still, he would have won if his men had not fallen for the bait of the retreating Normans.
i heard that now vikings still having empire called IKEA to colonize every household on earth
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Haha. Good one!
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Meatballs, them meatballs... ;-)
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Just in case some people are confused. Vikings was a PROFESSION among the Scandinavians, not a different ethnic group on the land. It's like the Italian mobs are the same Italians but choose to participate in organized crimes. Certainly, most Scandinavians were not raiders, and most Italians are not mobsters.
That was the first thing I was going to say!!!! You got the assignment! I'm going to watch The 13th Warrior and have a beer. All is good here.
Why does someone NEED to say this under every Viking video
@@MattieK09 Because history has been white washed and manipulated. Funny how you rarely see Europe portrayed accurately during Dark Ages for that matter. It's aways told in the complexion of a Lord of the Rings or Game of Thrones manner. Funny how Christ is portrayed as white since 1491 but the BIBLE cleary describes HIM differently. LOL these fun facts matter...just to keep you honest.
well said, thank you.
i think Alex is bored
The Vikings did not "become extinct". They converted to Christianity, and their descendants are very much alive and thriving today.
I'm part Viking, so they live on in many of us.
According to my grandma I am one.
viking is not a etnic group is something you do like crusader
IMO, the key part of Viking culture was that the oldest son inherits everything and younger sons needed to go make a name (and living) for themselves as Vikings.
With that definition, I would argue that Viking culture spread throughout Europe and evolved into knight culture.
And knight culture then further evolved into the age of exploration, which then evolved into imperialism.
@@Damogen no offense be wrong opionen then since anyone be viking irish finns slavs saxons be as the again is not ethnicty
Vikings did NOT wear helmets with horns. This is a bronze age ritual helmet thing. It is as periodically wrong to depict a Viking with horned helmet as it would be to depict them with full-face motorcycle helmets.
Brian Boro, the King of Ireland Defeated the Vickings once and for all from Ireland. Boro recognize that the Vikings had intermarried with the Irish and those that Sided and fought with the Irish were allowed to stay. Some of that culture as well as DNA is with Ireland to this day.
@@ManHobbyChannel Bro, it’s a cartoon lesson. Morons like me need the horns so I can follow the story. 🤣🤣🤣
@@ManHobbyChannel True, Wagner introduced those helmets in his opera Valkyrie
If they didnt wear helmets, what did they wear? They cant be venturing into a battle without a headgear, right?
@@ecoideazventures6417 "Vikings did NOT wear helmets with horns." How do you get from that, that they didn't wear helmets? Helmets without horns is not an impossible thing.
Basically: Viking wasn't a society, it was a job description.
@@bryrusmi4001 “your job description: conquer and rule Britain, France, Ireland, Sicily, Italy”
A gang of thieves
I wish the Vikings met the Malays Or Polynesians
It says that in the video.
@@alexandrealferan7144 Why?
Hagia Sophia didn't have minarets around it until conquest from the ottomans, 700 years later 🤦♂️
I was also going to comment this.
Will expand the comment with Information like what year did this happen before or after what other things and who is in place as population and is rulers at the time of the Ottoman conquest?
@@dreamervanroom The Muslim Ottomans conquered Constantinople and converted Hagia Sophia into a mosque in the mid-15th century. The Vikings had connections with the Christian Byzantinians before that point. In fact, in the 10th-14th centuries, they were hired as bodyguards for the emperor (see: Varangian Guard).
What really happened to the Vikings is Jj McCarthy is out the whole season
And now Jordan Addison was carted off.
@@MrGOOMBAGUY no way actually???
@@aidantornberg3247 For real.
They COOKED
Free Jettas
One could say that the Christianized Normans such as William the Conquer and many other Normans continued the militant way of life of their Viking ancestors for at least three more centuries.
Considering that the Romans settled the Visigoths in Normandy after the sacking of Rome, that might not be too far off.
@williamgarrett9479 genetically Vikings or Scandinavian people thrived. Heck I'm 99% Scandinavian, thousands of years later.
Culturally, they were a flash in the pan
Most of the elites were mixed with French and most of the inhabitants of Normandy didn't have a drop of Viking blood. William the Conqueror had more French blood than Viking blood and was culturally assimilated to his land. At this point Normandy was already more French than Viking but English people don't like the idea of being conquered by a French guy so they deny the Normans Frenchness :p
It is also the main reason of the fighting between both kingdoms, French nobles dominated the English monarchy for centuries beginning with him and that's why both countries fought. The English, through their different French monarches had lands in France. It was basically a long civil war between 2 French dynasties (Plantagenets and Capetians)
Agreed. They only stopped pillaging because they conquered a good swath of Europe and became the aristocracy.
This narrator babbles too much and has a spin on what happened!
BTW, Vikings didn't wear horned helmets.
True
And... dagnabbit, contrary to the video's intro, Finland is _not_ part of Scandinavia. It's a Nordic neighbor, but its language is totally unrelated to the languages of Norway, Sweden, and Denmark.
@@keithwald5349 And the OG Finns deserve the respect of not being lumped with others according to strangers' standards.
Well you don’t know that for sure right
well, it's alot more fun to imagine what they DID wear... but if you're a history channel i think these accuracies matter
Vikings with horned helmets? And extinct? My ancestors were vikings, and I am here... The vikings didn't "go extinct" they just stopped being raiders. My family went from being vikings to being farmers because farming was easier, and they got a farm from a Norwegian king. So extinct is pushing it.
@@darrenskjoelsvold well technically your ancestors were Norse and there job was a viking or vikingyr viking isnt a race it was a profession like a crusader so its more of the profession is extinct
@josephdias5859 Well, in that spirit, so are lamplighters and other jobs that are obsolete.
@@josephdias5859 It wasn't a "job" it was a way of life. You could farm or you could set sail/row and explore new lands and as a "Viking" you were a trader/farmer/warrior etc.
When "Vikings" because to settle the lands and areas they conquered they did so with farming a normal way of life.
How do you know your ancestors was vikings? Majority of people from Scandinavia at that time in history was farmers. And it's the time in history we know very little about. Your ancestors more then likely was nothing but farmers. The last stage of the iron age was 30 generations back, most people can't trace further back than 5 generations.
That’s exactly what the video explains. They are not extinct genetically. The piracy ended. Hence the name Viking.
Around 9:00 the Hagia Sofia in Constantinople is shown. At the time when the Vikings attacked Byzantium, this cathedral didn't have minarets yet, it was still a Christian church.
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Thanks. That puts things together for me. I had forgotten or never known that the Vikings attacked Constantinople.
Were they Christians at that time?
I thought Constantinople was Christian because of the Roman Conquests.
“How the little piggy’s will grunt when they hear how the old boar suffered!”
ICONIC
Wrong 😅
English please
english mister sir please.
I know the history here is suspect, but the fact he felt like he was going to Valhalla without dying in battle, makes that aspect written by Snorri more suspect.
What a good show
I really liked the part where you said the exact same sentence about the Vikings surviving into the 11th century back to back
also liked the part where it had a 5 min introduction and 19 minutes until he finally got to the point of sx, which was basically glossed over in less than a minute.
This smells a lot like non-human made text.
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@@05bastille This narrator babbles too much and has a spin on what happened!
Finland is not part of Scandinavia, nor were we ever Vikings. Vikings never settled here.
Its really easy to be ignorant about this, i myself always thought finland is just cousin of norway and others😅
Im informed now, thanks
@@cayenigma ahahhahaah
Finland does have a unique culture and language, but its still historically pretty close to sweden, and most people do mentally include it in mentions of the word "scandinavia"
It's so mush bs here.
I'm swedish speaking fin and I'm not finnish.
But I have an Scandinavian culture and that we have had here long before the christianity.
Yes the Scandinavia plus Finland is called Fennoscandia but the Vikings was not an people. They was an layers of the population and most of them was tradesmen and not warriors.
@@DomebuddyFinland is a part of the North, but she's not Scandinavian.
They became chess players (eg. Magnus Carlsen), pop singers (eg. ABBA) , and computer scientists (eg. Bjarne Stroustrup).
@@keithwald5349 Morten Harket (aha) Take on me/ 80s surprised you didn’t mention him. He participated as a Viking on the masked singer hinting Scandinavia since he is from Norway .
The Swedish vikings didn't do f all. The Danes and the Norwegians did the conquering.
Huge territory of England wasn't called Danelaw for nothing ;)
Pop singers (eg. Bjork) lol
Don't forget, also dedicated to Allah
and iceman wim hof lol
Weird how the video says so little about how the Eastern Vikings settled the land we today think of as Russia and Ukraine. Ever wonder where the name "Russia" comes from? It comes from the Varangian Rus.
It's my understanding that the Rus legacy is still a big talking point in Russia today isn't it?
@@homerodysseus4203 Maybe in some corners, but my understanding is that Russians tend to focus more on their Slavic heritage, with some degree of hostility towards the idea that their cultural roots could originate in Scandanavia. Sweden and Russia fought in a pretty big war so perhaps that is a factor at play.
I thought it came from the Keivan Rus
@@daniell1483 As a Russian, what I was taught about that part of history is that the Russian lords (Kniaz) at the time would fight amongst themselves, and there were constant inner conflicts, so when the Rurik with his Varagian warriors came the Slavic tribes appealed to them to be their rulers, so it would put an end to the inner fighting which established the first unified kingdom of Rus. So essentially my understanding of Rus is Slavs that were led by Rurik and his Varagian viking warriors, they were basically the first Russian royal bloodline.
@@Vovan07 The same happened in Hungary. So now Hungarians are 70+% slavs genetically. But I can't say it freely these days. Btw, I am also Hungarian.
"And this my friends is a one way ticket to Valhalla🙏🏾"
Missionaries: "And after Ragnarok, and Valhalla falling, God created Adam and Even in the Garden of Eden." Many missionaries made small concessions to the people they were trying to convert, before introducing their own ideas.
@@ZeoViolet hehe
From a genetic perspective, they didn't become extinct. Quite the opposite, they conquered much of Europe.
They're all just Germanic tribes fighting each other
Note: there were Russian Vikings, too. Russia was not a country at that time, but Vikings from the area that is, now, Russia were called "Rus".
Russian Vikings? don't you mean that the Vikings called Rus traveled to, mingled with and populated the region of the world now called Russia?
@@annerigby4400 The area of today's Saint Petersburgh is very close to Scandinavia. The people who lived there at the time probably had contact with, or even intermarried with Vikings from Scandinavia, and probably partook in raids with them. But it's a little bit of a stretch to call them Russian Vikings because Russia would only become a nation much later, starting from the Moscow area, and would only reach the area where Vikings may have lived by conquest hundreds of years later.
Yes so modern Russia 🇷🇺 was started by Scandinavian adventurers in Kyiv. My how times change.
@@renatoathaydes3162 yes, I was objecting to the term Russian Vikings, pointing out that Vikings called Rus ... etc.
Did you watch the video? They mentioned this fact when talking about Rus Viking burning Constantinople.
Viking descendant here... We are very much alive, all though we're not raiding, the viking part in us is just sleeping, But the world around us, the events in our land, is about to wake it up again.
About time!
11:18 “however not every Scandinavian thrive for this quiet lifestyle, which is why the Vikings continue to thrive till the mid-11th century” repeat for anyone else?
yh
Then we get the Normans which were just vikings that learned French
@victorbrown8832 I've noticed that happening on several different videos from different channels occasionally for years. Starting to wonder if it's some kind of server glitch.
@@neilfox3208 Not true at all. Most locals weren't mixed with Vikings at all and the elite quickly mixed with French nobels. Already in the time of William the Conqueror, he had more French ancestors than viking ones
Skol🍻
The Vikings are not extinct, their offsprings are Scandinavians.
their descendants are all over the world. They traveled, they settled places they went to, they went far and wide.
The Viking profession went extinct. Viking isn't an ethnicity. Although you could say it carried over in the British Empire.
@@Botoburst no, viking is not a profession. A profession is something like smith, fisher, etc. Viking was the name how they described themselves. Yes, they did live in a militarized society but they had ethnicity and culture connected to it. Maybe you could say their profession was pirate or soldier to hire.
@@Botoburst spartans what are we? RAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
And some English and Normans. Didn't they conquer part of Italy?
Though Nordics, Finns are NOT Scandinavians. They are ethnically close to Estonians and even, language-wise, closer to the Hungarian language than to the Swedish language.
Mildly put. They're not even in the same language family tree since finnish is finno-ugric while the north germanic languages are indo-european. Norwegian for example is, as a result, more closely related to -iranian-(its also indo-european) than anything like finnish.
Since they are both Uralic, I would say Finns are probably also ethnically much closer to Turks than they are to Scandinavians.
Finnish aren't nordic, only racial biologists would claim that
@@bennyklabarpan7002 They are absolutely Nordic. Why would you claim that they are not?
As stated, they are not Scandinavian, but they are Nordic.
@@Tjalve70 Nordic refers to being north-germanic in linguistic terms. The other use case is in racial biology, where it includes large parts of northern europe. Finland unlike Denmark are actually geographically partially in Scandinavia.
Culturally and legally their nation is scandinavian (based on swedish law before russia created the finnish nation. Better question would be why would they be nordic?
Come on English speaking world. Finland is NOT Scandinavia and the Finns were never Norsemen. They are a completely different tribe! Finland is for historical reasons part of The Nordic lands though, or Norden as we say in Scandinavia (which is basically Sweden, Norway and Denmark if you don't count the Scandinavian island groups of Åland, Faroe Islands and Iceland).
To be fair Swedish, Danish, Norwegian's name for United Kingdom is variations of Storbritannien.
@@HarryWessex Yes, it is the official name in the Scandinavian countries but we selldom use it. First of all, Britain is not that great anymore so it feels antiquated to say it. Second, we mostly say "England", "Skottland" or "Wales" when we refer to the parts of the island rather than the whole island of "Storbritannien" itself.
@@Rob56687 Great means the largest in relation to the other islands of the archipelago, & using Great Britain to mean UK is wrong. Northern Ireland is part of the UK.
@@HarryWessex Really? I thought Great Britain meant the greater Brittany, in relation to Brittany in France.
When it comes to Northern Ireland we would simply say "Nordirland".
I personally say "UK" more often these days even in Swedish because it is simply easy to say. I have never heard "Förenade Kungadömet" being used. I have personally used "Britannien" a few times for the island but it is just me.
@@HarryWessex kind of we don't have a Scandinavian term for United Kingdom we either just the English UK pr Storbritanien
This video left out Normans, who were direct descendants, and went on to rule England, parts of France, and even Southern Italy for centuries more.
The Normans spoke French...
@@freesk8 "nor(th) man"
“Viking” almost definitely originates from the root word Vik in Old Norse which if I remember correctly roughly means bay. It’s like saying bay-people. Which makes sense as most of the Viking raiders and traders were from coastal communities.
Yes but only the raiders were considered "Vikingr" because of the "raiding" and not just because of their bloodline.
I was told vik means raid
@@sethpearce2878 you were told wrong it means Bay or Inland still to this day in Scandinavia , but nobody ask the Scandinavians anymore
@@sethpearce2878 "Viking" means raider, in the same way "buccaneer" means pirate.
"Vik" means "bay". And the way words are constructed, "viking" would originally mean "a person from the place called Vik".
The same way "buccaneer" originally meant "a person who eats meat preserved by smoking". But since buccaneers became pirates, the word "buccaneer" became synonymous with "pirate".
I would say most likely, the original vikings were people from the Oslo fjord, which was also known as "Viken".
So, an educational show is still doing the “horned helmets” myth to signify a Viking warrior?
Educational? 😂😂😂😂😂
@@derekhenson3471 this channel’s historical content borders on blatant misinformation unfortunately
Well technically the would wear all types of armor they pried from the bodies of there victims same with weapons
Ya gotta ease in the Boomers to change….baby steps 😅
Buddy it’s a cartoon. Or did you think everyone was 2d in those time
Sweden was founded when Abba won Eurovision. Facts
They grew up and started to make Volvos and Saabs. Then came Amon Amarth Death metal band
never heard of the band tho
Rus = Ros = Roslagen (an area north of Stockholm that i am born and grown up in) is the reason of why Russia has its name today. Roslagen Vikings gave name today´s Russia.
Please check your Information first. Finnland and finish people were never a norse nor vikings. That is quite embarrassing
but there were viking settlements on the coast oof finland
True that. But that does not mean the neighboring finns became northman or vikings.
emphasis on embarrassing. Stopped watching the video after 2 minutes
such conceited?
Finnland? Is that anywhere near Finland?
The "conversion" to Christianity wasn't peacefully at most times. Trades routes and other luxuries were barred to those whom did not become baptized and convert. King Olaf I forced Christianity to the Norse people, it really was "covert or be slain".
Six SCOTUS justices still feel that way in America, today.
Like everywhere else.
Like the Spanish with Catholicism.
3:45 Not true; they only killed the messenger after he attempted to levy a TAX on them for landing on the beach, which they (rightly) saw as hideously offensive.
Vikings never left, they just changed ways of doing "business", much of the Viking raids and expansion where due to that we have so little farmland in Sweden, Norway and Demark during this time so compared to what you could farm out of the land the area become over populated and they had to replace farming for survival. And here comes the Trades, the raids and expansion.
Today we have more space due it the industrial revolution made it possible to remove all the big stones in the dirt and turn it to farm fields.
Viking is just anglicized version of vikingr. All the English and French ever knew was the vikingr, not the rest of the Norse society that was largely farming, hunting, and crafting. They didn't go extinct, vikingr was not a people but more of akin to a profession. They just settled down, stopped going on a vikingr, and intermingled with other peoples. End of story.
Aren't there pirates in Somalia anymore?
actually the French and the English and he rest of Europe knew much more about the Scandinavians than Vikingr because they traded with them both during the Viking age bit also long before, the Norse also settled in England, France and many more places so they also knew them as farmers, the Anglo-Saxons who invaded England were Angles and Jutes from Denmark , plus Saxons and Frisians , the Angles and Jutes were the same people as the Danes just other tribes there is zero diff. in dna and they had the same religion
There was no "Russia" in the time of Vikings. Vikings themselves created Rus with Kyiv as the metropolis, only centuries later for Muscovy to steal the name, creating a derivative from it - Russia.
After seeing the Vikings series on Netflix - this felt like a speed run where all the pieces fell together. Beautiful!
Ragnar’s the goat
I recommend watching The Last Kingdom. It's on Netflix and also very good. Also Viking Valhalla.
@@anacastellanos1251watched them all vikings valhallas last season was just released and they said they're not renewing it for another season
Vikings was a good production but historically terribly misleading regarding timelines and personalities.
@@tsmith9301 Yeah, that was my biggest gripe with the series. They took way too many liberties. And I was expecting the expedition to Vinland to feature since there was a story about Ragnar and Lagertha getting into an epic fight with the locals.
@7:10 "By Easter of 1845" is what was said. Small mistake. Just pointing it out incase someone wants to edit it.
The Lions and the Packers are what happened, dude.
Lions, Packers, and Bears - oh, my 😅
@@petebondurant58 hehehe, kudos! :D
The lions still have a team? I havent heard of them since barry retired
. Havnt heard? You've got some catching up to do. 😂
“How will the little piggy’s grunt when they hear the old boar suffered!”
ICONIC
14:07 So this is the land called Vinland talked about in Vinland Saga
Yeah as a matter of fact in the first episode of Vinland saga you see the old merchant Leif chatting with native Americans and trading goods.. even had a warriors crest as a souvenir with him as he was telling Thorfinn stories of Vinland
@@droger1448 Ohhh
Leif Erickson was the first Viking to encounter the bipedal creature known as Bigfoot in 986 and Leif Erickson also has a holiday named after him on the 9th of October.
@@angelortiz9341 the people in power trying to eradicate the original culture to make way for diversity culture and soon it'd be racist to celebrate old traditions.
Hinga dinga dergen
@@freedomandguns3231 That's from the SpongeBob SquarePants episode Bubble Buddy 😂 😂 At least someone likes to watch SpongeBob on TV 📺
@@freedomandguns3231Those days when SpongeBob wasn't a failed meme show
Right on! My birthdate😊
This is the first video of infographics that I’ve seen that talks in circles saying pretty much the same thing over and over.
As a previous Viking and present Norwegian - I can confirm that Valhalla is legit🇳🇴🍻 Skål!!
Skål🍻
Skål 🍻
Valhol ver Cumin!
Skål from a Dane 🇩🇰🍻🇧🇻 Being married to a Slavic woman in Denmark, I love to remind her that in my house, she lives under Danelaw.
Yeah, I love tacky uncle-jokes btw.
Why would you leave Odins hall and grow tired of warring eternally in Valhalla and for what purpose?
Skål
From what I understand vikingr is what they were actually called and viking was a raid in other words Vikingr is what you are and viking is what you do
🚢🚢🚢🛥⛵ "We Vike, therefore we raid!" 🪓⛏🗡⚔ (First pillage, THEN burn!) 💥🔥🔥
no Viking is the modern term , in old Norse they were called "Vikingr" or plural "Vikingar" the term was used bot about people and as "going Vikingr! most people just only know the "going Vikingr" so they think they understand for sure what it meant
@@veronicajensen7690 no viking is not a modern term it's the old Norse word for expedition or raid seems like we're saying the same exact thing
You need to advise your animators that the Vikings did not have horns on their helmets.
"Viking" is a verb.
"Are they viking?" "No, Father, they are trading."
Ok, this comment is good.
Yes. We go viking! "vik" is harbor. So, to go viking is to go from harbor to harbor, fjiord to fjord, raiding. Or even just for friendly visit, mind if we eat your food and drink your beer?
It's true about religion ending the violence. That's why the crusades were so peaceful.
What? You fight violence with violence.
@@classeontop7403 that's not what Jesus said.
The Christian conquest of the Americas was brutal.
@@themysteryofbluebirdboulevard Yes but I'm telling him what everyone in those times believes.
@@jimsbooksreadingandstuff While it is true that Christians were the colonizers, it's still bad to say Christians rather than England, France and etc because they're there for the gold and also to get glory because the more colonies you have, the more powerful you are in the time of colonization.
Viking was an activity, not a people. Violence is an inherently short-lived lifestyle, because it harms the means of production.
Note - this video refers to Kyvian Russ aka Ruthenians.
NOT the Eastern Rus whom we now associate with Rus due to a later shift in the word's meaning.
Finland was never a Scandinavian country,
Killed all the vikings? Wait, is Norway and Iceland completely empty and abandoned? 😱
Denmark (not counting Greenland and Faroe Islands), Norway and Sweden make up 21.8 million in population.
Iceland were only viking settlers, and not the badasses you see in the history books. Now they only have a population of 380.000.
@@MrDerpInSanDiego study Icelands form of government; it’s a modern day example of Viking era paradigms.
When did bro say they all got killed? I specifically heard the Viking way of life went extinct not all murdered? Crazy. Wild. Bro is deaf or tried being funny without watching. Womp womp
@@Sora8112 literally in the title
So France really were appeasers and surrenders even during Viking times?
Hey, cowardice is a proud tradition for the french =)
@@jamesanthony8438 france have won over 1100 battles
@@fortnitetrashcan8308lol😂😂😂
@@AMERICANPATROIT101-y7r i mean america lost against, sand monkeys and rice farmers
PARLEY!!! or is it parlai?
Parlay?
Parlor?
Those French will never tell me!
The inuits did not arrive until much later to greenland. Perhaps you ment the dorset culture? The dorset communities got wiped out by the little ice age.
Not true.
Vikings are not just the guys who went raiding.
That would be like saying only the soldiers in USA are Americans.
Makes no sense!
Greetings from Denmark.
FYI, Finland is not Scandinavian 😅
Death by snu snu?
Not the worst death one can imagine.
They never established in Finland, but lands of Northern Russia were termed Baltic Vikings, and they used the Volga river to get to the Middle East.
Finland is not Scandinavia. :)
Finland is Slavic
@@saif9amar417 Finland is Finno-ugric, which is an entirely separate category from the indo-european family.
@@saif9amar417 Finland is no more Slavic than Arabs are Slavic.
That is: Not at all.
The Finns are probably more Chinese than they are Slavic. Although I'm not saying they are Chinese either.
An event happened which caused vikings to go extinct. The event is called Ragnarok
......or they put down the swords and picked up a sickle because raiding only helped temporarily
@@mrarrow8135😂
Shukran for making it clear that Arabs who had had ruled Spain ,Portugal and most of the Mediterranean at that time ,not 'Muslims ' as this is great historical misconception ..
My ancestors are vikings so how did they become extinct if I exist? Misleading, should say "what happened to viking culture or something like that? Not killed off. So misleading
Are you a Viking? You still go about raiding villages and do as your forefathers did? I believe not. So it makes sense to say, Vikings have gone into extinction.
@@serwaapreimannyou too smart for him
@@serwaapreimann He didn't say he is a Viking. He said his ancestors were Vikings.
Don't you understand the difference?
Calling the indigenous people's of Greenland the Inuit is a common mistake. The people who eventually became the Inuit arrived on the West coast of Alaska around 6000 to 7000 years ago - there had obviously been earlier migrations. This particular group - who became the Inuit - didn't migrate East until about 1000 CE and only reached what is now Nunavut and the Hudson Bay area about 500 years ago. They completely displaced the people who had lived there previously - some assimilation but mostly pushing them out.
Finland is not part of Scandinavia
"They had no desire to exchange ideas and culture - they were there to raid" History repeating itself again...
i like you way of thinking
Dude literally 30 commercials. These videos aren’t even worth watching at this point
firefox + adblock = no commercials
In 1066, there is also the Battle of Hastings. William the Conqueror was a very efficient dictator. All Brittons and Normans became serves, all the land was divided between the French Norman nobility.
The Normans never became serfs . The Brittans , Saxons and celts became serfs and the Norman common men became men at arms , liegemen , yeomen ( free farmers ) and merchants , but not serfs
@@outinthesticks1035 Thanks for these precisions. Have you got any written reference ?
@@1964_AMU just the history books
Plus, only about 2000 Normans came over with William, which would not have been enough to use any as serfs . Everyone who came with him was a fighting man
There was a census record made after his control was established, called the doomsday book . It recorded every person in the country for the purpose of taxation. There were no Norman names listed as serfs
There were people listed as " free men " , meaning they were non Norman , but not serfs
They could be farmers , trades men , Foresters etc
When Normans invaded a area , and set up the system of lords owning everything, that included the farmers farming the land . These pre-existing farmers became the serfs , because if the Norman lords let them leave there would not have been anyone left to do the work
All the castles and strongholds might only have 15-20 Normans each , every one else was native Briton
@@outinthesticks1035 it is hard to be found into a history book...
@@1964_AMU the doomsday book is available on line , as well I believe translations of the anglo Saxon chronicles.
My ninth grade history text had a lot of information on this
Any research into Williams reign would give you a lot
You just need to do it
The "viking helmets" with horns began in a Wagner opera.
finland is not in scandinavia 😭😭
Scandinavia is actually just Denmark Norway and Sweden not Finland
Correct.
Depends on who you ask
@@greatdane145 it is only Denmark, Norway and Sweden. It is Nordic that include Finland, Iceland, Greenland (Denmark owned), and Faroe and Aland (Finland owned)
@@greatdane145 No it doesn’t depend on who you ask, Scandinavia is only 3 countries. Just because a lot of people are misinformed doesn’t mean that their opinions matter
Finns never ever were vikings.
I have a friend and his mom and dad are from Norway, they had two long swords that was passed down from there ancestors they let me hold one and I couldn't pick it all the way up because it was so heavy, and they were actually used in battle
Women where not Vikings shield maidens are a myth
Vikings did not go extinct. Even I have Viking blood. From Guernsey, ancient Normandy.
The horn helmets 💀 bro
💀😂
I've often pondered why we've had regions for the East Saxons (Essex), South Saxons (Sussex), West Saxons (Wessex) and Central Saxons (Middlesex) but nothing for the North Saxons.
Viking is a verb like hunting.
Right from the start, Finland is not part of Scandinavia.
5:16 The anime Vinland Saga is very much relatable
These days whenever I think of Vikings I sometimes think about Vinland Saga and how the main character's father (Thors) was a Christian. I didn't watch season two, but season one is awesome.
Season two is different from season one but it's awsome too. Season two is more chilled and with far less combat and more internal/mental struggles.
Not true. The age of the Vikings ended after the French entered the castle and fortification age. The French castle system spread into Germany and nearby countries. The vikings couldn't raid anything anymore. And the French invaded England and spread the tech there and killed the Scandinavians in the Danelaw.
Thorfinn saves the viking with “ I have no enemies” thing
Finally! An episode NOT recruiting for warmongering.
Like that you talk about whites being enslaved. Dont think 99% of people know that.
We ARE slaves.
Right now.
Trying to be a victim now?
Why do you think many countries are "Slavic"? They were slaves, traded off to the Arab countries by Swedish vikings.
@@JojoJoget I saw a video yesterday of Black men marching in the streets.
You should know that when the White man starts marching, the internet will get shut down and then tanks will start rolling down the streets while ospreys and fighter jets fill the skies and the continental US is surrounded by aircraft carriers
It may be that 99% of AMERICANS don't know that whites have been enslaved. But I'm pretty sure that 99% of the rest of the world are aware of it.
'If it works, then it is a good plan. If it doesn't work, it is a bad plan.' - Bjorn Ironside
I wish Norway could again be as powerfull as back than.
They are not extinct, their jobs just changed, Viking was just a Scandinavian job description. Normandy, Iceland, Russia, Northern England, coast of Eastern Ireland, and areas of Finland, Greenland, and North America still acknowledge their Viking heritage.
While the Norse did settle Greenland, and they also went to North America, I wouldn't say there is any Norse heritage left in any of those places.
@@Tjalve70 yeah they were driven off by bad weather, and native raids, but the Inuit still speak of them, therefore the history lives on.
What happened to them is that they won... They became the ruling class of Northern Europe in many places and some of their descendants are to this day Kings and Queens
@@303ks
Thank you short and simple
The bronze age people went extinct shortly before the Nydam boat and the new population overtaking most of Scandinavia came from Ukraine. The predessors of the vikings were the "Angler" and "Sakser" that invaded England and brought the name England as well as the language to the British Isles. When the Viking later defeated the Anglosaxon rulers they were fighting family. The same happened when the Norman's later defeated defeated the Viking rulers.
Don't know if you know this there are plenty of Scandinavians still alive today
Viking were not a people but an action. The Norse peoples sometimes went raiding (Viking) and were then called their activity.
I don't know why but some details like minor ones are wrong 9:19 like at this scene Hagia Sofia has minarets or towers around it which I am pretty sure weren't in the Byzantine era and were constructed by the Ottomans apart from this many people in the comments are saying that Vikings did not wear helmets horns😅
Don't spoil a good story with facts!
you have to speak to your general audience... and to them, these are the recognizable representations that the majority of lesser informed can easily digest... accuracy isn't the point and can actually be counter intuitive 🤔 if you broaden your perspective you can see better you know 😏
It took the Vikings 1000 years to enter Paris. Sheesh.
Finnland wasn’t part of the Viking age it had its own civilization and paganism at the time common misconception
Actually we were, newest archaeology findings has shown this. In both Finland and Estonia.
@@angleofshadow9818 No, origination of vikings is from Scandinavia only, Finns themselves are a whole different branch of people that don't speak a germanic language. You're mostlikely mixing on viking settlements that ofcourse happened in the shores of Finland and Estonia.
@@heh9392 Never talked about anything about language. Either you can't read, which makes sense since you made such an claim. We are even mentioned in sagas, but sure, we had nothing to do with vikings and viking age.
Funny how you discredit newest findings and our entire Archaeological community. I would never do the same to any other culture.
@@angleofshadow9818 So you are claiming there were germanic people living in Finland before the age, then they became viking alongside with the scandinavians? What are you trying to say?
@@heh9392 You proved again that you can't read. I'm done.
How Clickbait Titles Killed Off My RUclips Viewing . . .
They didn’t die instead they have become the father of Great Britain and the French empire. All the things they did with their navies was originated from their knowledge of how to sail and raid.
Vikings didn't wear horns on their helms.
Shortly before the Angler and Sakser invasion into the British Isles the "Kimbrene", "Teutonerne" and Jyderne decided to invade Rome and very nearly succeeded 103-101BC. These three tribes are just North to the "Angler" and "Sakser" tribes. Even though the main body of the force never returned the genetic heritage is still present in Austria, Switcherland and northen Italy.
What is "CE"? It indicates conformance to European health, safety, and environmental protection standards. Otherwise, it indicates "Christ Epoch", in which Christ ὶs King.
The most famous event of the year 1066 goes unmentioned. What effect, if any, did all these battles involving Vikings has on the Battle of Hastings and the Norman Conquest?
Probably a lot. Possibly completely.
When the English king returned south, his men were exhausted, and probably also quite a lot fewer.
Still, he would have won if his men had not fallen for the bait of the retreating Normans.
The are no horns found on viking helmets, these elements come from Wagener operas.