The only verified and reconstructed Viking settlement is in L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland. It is astonishing and worth the visit. DNA tracing indicates that Vikings did interbreed with local Beothuk Indians. They lived in wood and sod lodges. The settlement was established 100’s of years before Columbus. Vikings had an unfortunate habit of not recording their achievements so much is guess work.
@@TheStrangerTom most sagas are written hundreds of years later. SO verified truth is hard to find. And sagas are exaggerated anyways, so not that reliable either
@@rhythmray7429 I wouldn't be so sure. I mean, the fact that they were written later doesn't in and on itself mean that they are inaccurate (they were passed down through oral tradition, after all). So the time to say they are exaggarated or incorrect comes when there is evidence for it (which of course happens). But I didn't claim the sagas were one hundred percent accurate, I just responded to the comment - the guy above said it's a pity the Vikings had habit to not leave any accounts of their exploits, which simply isn't true and I pointed it out.
@@TheStrangerTom vikings hardly did left anything by themselves. most of their records comes from the church, which they probably looted. there is a reason the common stereotype of vikings is that they love to loot, raid, pillage and kill
@@rhythmray7429 What about all the saga's? Those may have been recorded by Christian writers (though definitely not from the 'churches they looted'), but they were passed downto them through oral tradition, so they are essentially Viking (meaning Nordic, of course) creation. My point stands.
Latin american natives were famous to wash her hair and body everyday and be quite clean in general, using combs and natural products to make their hair smoother
I teared up at the end of this. A tense, curious and beautiful interaction between two totally different tribes of humans. This is what humanity is supposed to be.
Only the vikings probably ran in to kill them and take the women to rape in reality because this was their culture. They probably then got hunted down and killed by the natives, severely outnumbered. It's hilarious how modern day people can watch this and be 'literally crying' with happiness and positive emotions because of a film made about them LOL!
@@vladimirlenin843 one of the tallest Viking runes ever found took weeks to climb to and then translate. The hard-won translation? “This is very high up!” One could almost expect a lol” at the end left by this ancient troller. The thing is, People have always been people. People have always had senses of humor, and laughed at things, and made silly comments. I hate viewing history from a high horse.
Finally after years of searching and excavation, one Viking-brand video camera has been found and restored, showing astounding scenes of Native Americans.
Yeah I guess that makes sense. Breaking the tools that create war- shattering the instruments of death. Probably means they wont shoot this arrow at you
I would trade my white privilege, my luxurious lifestyle, my wealth, my happiness And even my own life... Just to spend a day with these natives and have the honor of eating with them if I get the chance... And after that day passes, I would die happy knowing that I met the most peaceful people in history 🙂
@@KeKcP not here to disrespect... but at least im being realistic enough to acknowledge that it exists... And yes my friend.. I'm bringing it up,.... Would you have preferred if I didn't acknowledge it by not mentioning it and not say anything about it???.... Like I said, I would give everything up, my wealth, my happiness, my healthy life style... And my privilege... just to be their guest for a day... Tell me, how many rich whites do you know who would do the same? Exactly... Don't get me wrong, I do care what happened to the natives more than you know... They didn't deserve what was coming to them... And there's nothing we could do to atone or make up for what happened to them.... I hope I didn't mean to offend you my friend...
Scene really captures how similar humans are, even if they are literal continents apart. Things like smile, laughter, cry of a child are the same in every culture, no matter how separated
We’re all just animals with advanced language We love cuddles and playing and shiny things There’s a lot of universality in humanity as a whole, our seeds are all the same, our environments grow us into different trees
BUT...Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly. The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda! The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record. By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
I just love how this depicts two cultures getting along without the use of words, instead sharing in common human interactions; breaking the arrow and offering it on the ground to symbolise peace, a mother of one tribe holding and comforting the child of another is a great example.
It's all so fascinating but I doubt the Vikings/Scandinavians would be acting so nice like modern people. I rather picture a bunch of naked tattooed blonde blue eyed men, completely warlike, coming to conquer, rape, pillage. That's how Vikings were described.
I just want game where you primarily play as the native in a turn based game. Cultural ties are turned into 1 state for simplicity sakes, along with using every material you can use for the soldiers to have
It’s funny how not a single person in the comment section knows that the Vikings and natives didn’t get along as well as the show showed, and they went to war over the land 😂
I am Native. I am also an author of historical fiction. I believe it's important that we strive to document as much historical information as possible. At the same time, we are human, we reach for reason and connection. We know that Norsemen made it to my Nation in particular: there is a Norse runestone to that fact. The stone presents us with a challenge: how did those first meetings go? We know it was not a bloody exchange, but at some point the Norsemen to Minnesota did encounter battle somewhere with someone, but it was beyond their initial point of contact. So this mini feature here brings history to our living rooms, makes me think, makes us wonder. Bravo!
@@cashbabies2914lol you got humbled why don't you go back to your original country because the US isn't where your ancestors lived for thousands of years 😂😂
My uncle used to tell me stories he was passed down by generations of the "bearded men". He said they were peaceful and we traded with them and learned to coexist with one another. Even intermarriage happened with one another, he used to tell of natives with blond and colored eyes back in the day. There's even proof of vikings making it all the way to Manitoba, the proof is stones/rocks found with viking runes card onto them
It's kinda interesting that a culture known to raid and pillage villages got along with the natives then years later a more "civilized" culture came along and raided their whole land
Well, let's see: Indications are that I have two female Native American ancestors on my father's side (about 5 and 6 generations ago; one Cherokee from Tennessee, and one Sioux from Minnesota); and, I have blue eyes, very light skin, and very-dark blonde hair; so..... [but, I identify as a PROUD *WHITE* man; not an IOTA of Indian-wannabe in me]
How is it like those white men murdering your ancestors until they were small enough to limit your country to a small piece of land called a "reservation"?
This is hands down the coolest portrayal of Native Americans I’ve ever seen, and it’s probably the most accurate when you think about it because settlers traded with Native Americans early on. Most portrayals I feel like Native Americans are suspicious right out the gate, hostile with an animalistic skiddishness, grunting to each other like cavemen or yelling as they charge into battle just to get murked by boomsticks. In this, they display the proper home team advantage for lack of a better way to put it. They’re the ones in control here. They know it. But they choose to have mercy for the people showing up. They’re cool and collected. I love the guy breaking the arrow, his display of emotional intelligence. I love all the beautiful ornate outfits the women are wearing. I love that their leader is a woman because there were matriarchal tribes but you never see those. I love that she’s generous, well-spoken and kind. We know that Native Americans had an *actual civilization* before white people showed up but I don’t think I ever fully realized until now how little that’s actually portrayed. I’ve never even seen this show but I was glued to the screen.
White Settlers/Colonizers are Native Americans, these are just native savages. This wasn't America until it was industrialized, built up, and called America by The Creators, whom were White Conquerors.
It's not nearly as accurate as modern feminist leftoid females like you would easily believe. They aren't advanced like Vikings would be, they wouldn't have shown mercy even to the babies, they'd have likely cannibalized the group, and they wouldn't look as cool or fresh or painted as they do here. Also, I haven't watched this hollyweird revisionist show, but The Vikings are poorly equipped here, kind of insulting. I'd rather see how some native savages would lose against a superior Viking Raid Party.
There were many VERY DIFFERENT native savage tribes, they murdered each other all the time, most did not have female leaders and were not "matriarchal tribes". So that explains why there wasn't much crt/esg/dei pandering before it became so funded and mainstream.
@@CorruptDemocratsJ6 I dont disagree with the fact that there were extremely warpath driven tribes but there were a litany of tribes that were mostly agrarian and peaceful. Many of them were on coastal areas due to the abundance of food and it would certainly be possible that most of the original tribes Europeans encountered were more peaceful. Otherwise, I would have to believe they would have been slaughtered without the chance to make a foothold on the American continent
That and I also find fascinating how human minds no matter where in the world know how to make weapons like swords or bows and arrows. It is ingrained.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The bow and arrow and spear predate the spreading of humans across all continents. We spread roughly 70,000 - 100,000 years ago and the bow and arrow was made roughly 72,000 - 60,000 years ago.
If only the Vikings settled in huge numbers in North America, and intermarried with a lot of Native Americans, it would’ve changed the course of history. Imagine if most Native Americans have a bit of Scandinavian blood in their genes, that would make them resistant to the diseases brought by the English and Spanish in the New World. 80% of the Natives died because of smallpox alone. If that 80% didn’t perished, it will be a hell difficult for the colonists to subdue the indigenous population.
@Coco Austin but those countries did way worse to them. They enslaved the natives, killed them, kidnapped them, betrayed them, made a lot of tribes and cultures go extinct. What they did was pure evil compared to whatever the Vikings did
It would be beautiful. Big burly forest folk over 6' . It's even better the more you think: the natives are similar to people from the Far East of Siberia. The Viki from the West. It's like a coming full circle, literally. I wonder how the genes for red hair and facial hair would have played out in the mix.
So you'd rather them be living like farmers and nomads instead? They would have never advanced because they had no advantages like horses to get resources to places faster. Every nation or country mad in north america failed because they didn't have the right things to supply them and maintain them. The only reason North America is the way it is now is because of the Europeans coming in the first place. sooner or later they would be conquered it would be just a matter of time.
I never felt so nervous with uncertainty when I watched the scenes with Natives. This is a first contact situation, you never know you could start a war with one seemly-harmless bad gesture.
@@GAZAMAN93X I’d say, no. It’s a good movie but I don’t see how can there be a sequel. You remember the ending, the Human race defeated the Martians and they all sing with animals in the background like if it were a Disney movie. Again, it’s a good movie but it’s kind of wacky. If they make a sequel, I’ll bet they’ll make even more wacky in ways I can’t imagine.
did you know the real viking expedition had a cow with them, first encounters with the natives were friendly and there was some trading of food and items between them, soon afterwards the natives attacked the vikings and friendly relations stopped. its possible the vikings traded milk from their cow and since the natives were lactose intolerant they tought they had been poisened after drinking the milk. It's definitely not confirmed, but an interesting theory as to why they suddenly attacked the vikings.
I don’t know much about the relationships between the Vikings and Native Americans but it is very interesting that the Native Americans on the West Coast have much more Japanese type look to them with the folded eyelids and wide cheekbones whereas the Native Americans on the East Coast have almost more European look to them. It would suggest something happened that changed the way Native Americans looked on the different coasts.
@@latsnojokelee6434 There actually is an explanation for at least some of that, it's due to how and when they came to the America's. Most Native American's came over the land bridge formed due to low sea levels because of the Ice Age. They came up through Asia, and such across through Siberia onto the land bridge to Alaska, and down through. Of course, there's also evidence that many, especially those of Hawaii and South America actually came by boat, there are definite Polynesian influences there.
I mean they didn't have written history so not like we'll know much about them other than word of mouth from native descendants and written reports from Europeans
Actually, many of the histories of Indigenous peoples are told through oral histories. Almost no histories are written down in our culture, but are presented to us over stories that span hours, or even days. A lot of history of Indigenous people are "lost" to the history books, but are well alive in all of us today.
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist It is crazy how you make it seem that without the books, EUROPEANS would know nothing of our history, but all you have to do is ask ANY indigenous person about history and we can share. You rely too much on the works of European men (who know nothing) instead of asking people for primary sources.
@@geoffdeputat4196 Many indigenous communities will not share their oral history and other traditions with outsiders as they view such info as sacred. I get your point, but it is not as easy as asking someone a lot of the time.
I have a friend whos half mexican and half Norwegian. Every time I think of him, I cant stop thinking about this scene. Edit: By Mexican I mean indigenous ethnicity that's commonly titled such.
Living in an interconnected global world, where information is disseminated and translated at a ludicrous speeds, can you imagine what it was like for two vastly different cultures to meet like this. It must have been amazing and terrifying at the same time. Maybe its just me.
Natives: so yall pale folks wanna be chill? Vikings: eh why not *Few hundred years later* Natives: so yall new pale folks wanna be chill? Europeans: *N* *O*
I like that this progression displays that no matter our heart's intentions, initial fear of the unknown can create complications. Also, any troublemakers from every group. And every occurrence involving misinterpretation or stark difference involving customs. And above all, I appreciate how these scenes focus on the positive interactions that occurred between different groups of our human ancestors. Their respective lineages dating far back, an untold amount of trials and survival stories... obstacles overcome, such as the long journey across the Atlantic ocean. And after so, so many years, the very distant descendants from the same mother were reunited.
Random but I personally think the world would be better if we didn’t live off of the fruits of native Americans suffering in the past. I wish that white people would give the country back by filling Congress with natives and making a native a president. It would be the biggest hearted thing they could do. But instead they want to hold on to what their ancestors stole.
@@sulliandwhatnot I disagree, I do think we should recognize the past and what we’ve done, I think the reservation system is terrible in most places, but I don’t think natives should be given power just by virtue of them being native. We did conquer this land after all, it isn’t theirs anymore.
@@anativeamerican3140 it’s in the final season. The last couple episodes. It’s only like 10 minutes of screen time but they speak it on tv. Shout out from Ojibway territory brother!
@@anativeamerican3140 that’s why I wanted to watch it also. I heard they were going to be featuring a tribe and it would be a guess until it aired live on TV.
Natives: Hey guys. Let's be friends Vikings: Sure Centuries later... Natives: Hey guys, let's be friends British, Spanish and French: How does that make us any money?
Spanish weren't predators as the British, French and even Portuguese and Dutch. The Imperial Indies Laws ensured the existence of millions of Native subject during 3 centuries.
I'm Ojibwe, but my father did tell me as a child that there was a time that the ancestors had a friendship with Vikings! I always loved the idea of that and imagined all sorts of scenarios as a kid. Obviously more than just friendship transpired, given that they left eventually due to conflicts and lack of resources and who knows what else, but my dad left that bit out in favor of teaching me that cultural disparity isn't necessarily a reason for conflict (and that Christopher Columbus was depraved bigot). Seeing that idea acted out here is wonderful. This is lovely to watch.
It wasn't always conflict. The Finns were one of the last major groups to immigrate to North America and interacted with the Ojibwe to such an extent that the two groups intermarried and created the "Findians" if you will. Perhaps both peoples got along as they both share a strong oral history tradition, woodcarving, and respect for nature.
Unless you strap bombs and booby traps to women and children… ahem (coughs in radycal Muslim) THEY are the dispositive to your pie in the sky wishful thinking “universal”.
Good to see indigenous people portrayed in a positive manner. So much of their culture is fascinating and not enough of it is taught in school. I live in rural Pennsylvania which is rich in history, from the Liberty Bell and founding fathers, Valley Forge, William Penns home, Gettysburg, Washingtons Crossing, and the many Inns and towns that were touched by history. Here we are blessed with the knowledge of our past, but so little Native American culture is known in spite of the fact that this part of Pennsylvania was once home to several different tribes. This depiction of history shows that in spite of our differences we can find common ground and that there is something unique about our cultures that we can share and learn from.
Spanish discovered americas not vikings or natives because they did not know where they are they did not make maps of americas they did not make it feasible but spanish did so christopher columbus was a great explorer he discovered americas
Good show of how two peoples who can't communicate directly, can still interact with each other. We do have universal signs. Laying down weapons, open hands, gestures to say you a welcome. And, often, when others laugh, we do, because we understand there was a joke.... even if it may have been at our expense...cool thing about people is how much we understand among each other, without words
Well Puerto Rican have at least one Native Caribbean ancestor. So technically still Native American. And natives from the Arctic circle all the way to southernmost Patagonia are still native American.
Wrong. There is an extensive BTS scene about being as culturally correct as possible with this scene. They use real native actors that are directly decended form the orginal nation, speaking a once dead language, in the traditional territories of that first nation.
I want a series from a pre-Columbian north American perspective. It’d be difficult for cultures that had no written records, but I’m sure some tribal consultants could help make a compelling story.
Pretty sure it would show things were not all as kumbaya among the Native Americans as we are generally told. They were not one big happy family and ONE with nature!
There are lots of pre-Columbian stories. And, for that matter, there are lots of stories from prehistoric Europe that also are not turned into scripts, and I'm sure that's true of stories all around the world. I know that in Ireland and Wales the old stories are rich, some compiled over thousands of years, and full of wisdom, and I'm sure other cultures have hidden treasures of similar value. Such a waste!
@@kingforaday8725 Why do all of you, pretend to have some veil into cultures you know nothing of? When we were still treated as less than *openly* , the media in movies ONLY portrayed us as bloodthirsty savages.
@@stevonwhite8933 Right back at ya buddy!!! Why do all of you, pretend to have some veil into cultures you know nothing of? Dont know what you mean by openly???? But I agree TV and movies, mainly westerns, wrongly portrayed most Indians in that fashion. I was a kid back in the heyday of westerns in the 50s and 60s and always wondered why Indians were portrayed in that way. I believe American Indians have more of a claim to "reparations" than any other groups in this country combined!! So are you saying Native Americans didnt slaughter each other even before white folks arrived? They didn't take slaves? They didnt rape and torture? There was a slaughter of innocents of both sides and it became a tit for tat!!! Of course all sides seem to only remember the atrocities that were done to them!
Or absolute lies. Lack of information hasn’t stopped them before, nor has compelling evidence to the opposite. If it ever happens we just have to hope it’s by someone with actual passion.
This scene makes me teary, man. Is it too much to ask for such simpler times when our differences are respected and not imposed, interesting, curious and rather than dividing unite us? The more we learn, the more we see ourselves in each other.
You really believe there was EVER a piece full time? The greatest country on the planet and you think that it became what it was through peace? And shaking hands??
Fun fact. Scandinavians and Native Americans actually share a partial common ancestor called Ancient North Eurasian or ANE. ANE ancestry is found in both groups. ANE people lived in Siberia centuries ago. The world is much smaller than we think. Cross an ocean, and still there are ties between humans, distantly so, but there.
No they don't. Only a very small amount of Sami people share that common ancestor with North Eurasians. Most Scandinavians and the Vikings are Nordic people, who are not related in any way genetically to the Sami and Siberian populations.
@@darrellm9915 Right. In Scandinavia, only the Sami people and the Finns have links with the Siberian languages (Ugro-Uralic group). Norwegians, Swedes and Danes are from the North Germanic language group
Actually, your infromation is off. The truth is that Native Americans are descended from a number of peoples. The land bridge theory is bogus. There were numerous migrations to the Americas. Hell, the Chumash themselves had to hop from island to island until reaching the mainland.
Sorry but the Japanese and Native Americans are more genetically similar than any other demographic you'll find on the planet. They split thousands of years ago.
This is a beautiful scene in so many ways. First the shots of the nature: huge trees, the light, the strange sounds: we are in a new world. Then the tense moment of meeting, and the strong act of leadership shown by the young man who breaks the arrow. The meeting with the female leader in the tent, and she knows how to use gestures, smiles and words to defuse the situation. Finally the moments where the ice breaks: the native American woman who comforts the Viking baby and the curious girl who makes everyone laugh when she pulls on the Viking's beard. As an aside: I am a Dutch man and I once traveled in Tanzania. It seems most Tanzanians do not have as much body hair as we do. So a young girl in a bus was mighty curious about my arm hair, and she enthousiastically started pulling on it! 😂 It was the start of a great friendship for the many hours we sat together in that bus. This memory makes me love the scene with the girl and the Viking's beard even more.
I found the choice of scenery to be rather disappointing. The landscape of Newfoundland (or what the Vikings referred to as "Vinland") is absolutely nothing like this. Our trees are a fraction of the height shown in Vikings, the wind is far too harsh and rampant for them to reach such a height. It was obvious to me they just opted for a European location rather than the true place where the gathering would have happened. But other than that, the architecture and clothing are authentic to our understanding of Beothuk culture. But I tried to not let these inconsistencies distract me from feeling the curiosity and wonder of coming across a new land and people for the first time and how they would have had to work around the obvious language gap through humour and exchanging simple words.
@@nathangillingham5734 most of the show was filmed in Canada. There were sets they used not far from my hometown in northern Ontario, near the Great Lakes. It's a far cry from Newfoundland to be sure, but it wasn't Europe.
While a cool scene, that is not how it's recorded as going. The word Skrælings is what Vikings called Native Americans and it means Screamers. First contact was violent and while there were friendly relations eventually, the Vikings left for a multitude of reasons including the Native Tribes not getting along with the Vikings very well.
The natives were spooked by the sheep they brought one time. Screamers haha, before battle they would howl and it was terrifying. God i love native culture
@@originalgangsterloc There are actually accounts of one of, quite possible the first, time they met. Involves Vikings finding a dozen or so Native Americans hiding under a boat and then promptly killing all but one of them. The Vikings later get attacked and flee to their boats, but that's the earliest one recorded.
It never works. You meet new peoples you kill em, and kill em quick. And take thier stuff. Before they do it to you. It's the way us twisted humans are. You dont see animals treating eachother the way we do. The reason god created humans is because the earth lacked a layer of plastic.
didn't work out then either. there was no love lost between the vikings and the natives. this is revisionist history. terrible way for the series to end.
As a Native American, I’m glad to see that we are portrayed peaceful in this. Edit: Damn… I started a war… Good >:) I know that some tribes were peaceful, others weren’t and there was already war and conquest BEFORE anyone arrived. Also, y’all got trolled hard >:)
Wich is not true at all atleast for aztecs incas and more central south tribes if europe asia etc.. is despicted accuretly every culture should not sugar coat it for brown points, just like the stupid leftist who just say europe slavery, without even mentioning the fact that african rulers give the europeans those slaves selling them to europeans, or that slavery has existed for hundred of years since the ancient age but ofcourse thats not the casé
I think it's important to note that vikings and native americans fought each other in bloody skirmishes several times. vikings were Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes and had many settlements, likewise the NA had different tribe along the coast with different attitudes to guests.
@@markharmon4963 unfortunately, my people&the Native Americans did not do good at recording things like that in a way that preserved them. It was more passing stories down orally than written accounts. Some do exist in someway or another, but some of the written accounts are also in dead languages, but some have been revived. I’ve thought about starting a channel to tell some of the stories my clan/family passed down, but I feel many would say I’m making them up or whatever people do these days instead of just appreciating what’s been done. I have no way of knowing if many of the stories we have are true or how much truth is left in them, but it’s my history&my son will hear them&pass them on as well.
This is what it could have been like, should have been like in the States. Some conflict was probably unavoidable, but there was a lot of integration between the eastern tribes and white folks before removal. The latter was a totally evil and unconstitutional crime that forever poisoned the relationship between our peoples and only served the interests of a land-hungry planter class.
For anyone wondering the first recorded encounter between native Americans and vikings started when leif Erickson’s brother killed 3 of them hiding in a boat which started a battle which killed his brother and sent them back to nirway
However in any case Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly. The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda! The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record. By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So Slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
Historically no. Leif Erikkson landed in New Foudnland and tried to establish a village, the ruins are there today. this was WAY before columbus. The Indigenous peoples of North America chased him off, along with the fact that they did not know how to cultivate the land. @@adriandeltoro4640
The fact that every culture in history meeting for the first time always eventually learn each other's language with literally no textbook or anything, and literally so little in common one can get shows how despite how big differences get being simply human will always be a huge frame of reference we can share.
When it's about surviving you'll usually learn quickly. And I mean it in the best way possible. Life around 1000 CE, when meetings like this one are assumed to have occured, wasn't exactly easy by today's standards regardless of any cultural gaps or language barriers. @fyradur
I like the way the archers don’t immediately pull back the arrows, they just aim. It feels more realistic, like aiming a gun without putting your finger on the trigger in case you slip.
@@lordpickle65 aww too bad you can't say stuff like that without anonymity or a clan meeting without getting beat up anymore :( I love not being morally repugnant, you should try it some time little man 🤏
@@lordpickle65 What is wrong with you, you get hit in the head? No culture is superior to others. You are not special. Your just a loser who has no life outside of your computer screen. You are part of the reason why racism exists.
When it comes to the portrayal of the Beothuk, accuracy is incredibly difficult as these peoples have been extinct for almost 200 years. Besides a few common phrases we know absolutely nothing of their language, but there are theories that it was part of the Eastern Algonquain language group. So considering this, their choice of using the Mi'kmaq language (which is also a native language of present-day Newfoundland) made sense to accommodate this knowledge gap. When it comes to Beothuk clothing and attire the portrayal here is quite accurate. They did in fact paint their faces and bodies with red ochre as well as grease and wore clothing made of animal skin. We don't know what time of year Leif Erikson landed in Newfoundland, so their choice in choosing what is presumably summer isn't a huge issue and would most likely make sense considering the harsh conditions in the winter months which made sailing difficult. The housing looks seemingly identical to Beothuk mamateeks so props to them for that. My biggest issue in terms of accuracy has to be the landscape. The trees are WAY too tall for it to resemble anything remotely similar to Newfoundland landscape. We know from archeological discovery that the Vikings landed in the present-day Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, meaning the terrain should be high plain plateau flatlands with incredibly eroded shorelines, which this scene is obviously lacking. They probably had their reasons to record season 6 in both Norway and Ireland instead, but I think it would have just been better to actually go to the landscape where these events took place. Other than that though, an almost precise portrayal given our current understanding.
Thanks for this info! I suppose travelling to Canada for filming a few scenes would have been an enormous production cost. I think the core of this particular scene is the people, so that's the part they needed to get right.
the actors they chose to play the Beothuk doesn't look accurate at all to me tbh. They are clearly more white than any natives from this area would have been pre-contact
@@xPOWERx-ne1jr I haven't read up on the Beothuk people at all so feel free to correct me, but your statement at least sounds inaccurate. "White" is a man made construct. There are relatively white natives of northern Africa, and if this is even further north in northern north America, then their skin tone in this portrayal absolutely makes sense to me.
Despite the obvious language barriers, human nature still has it's play and curiousity sparks. To calmly show the other that a weapon is being either broken or dropped is a worldwide sign of peace. Beautiful film.
@@bunnitomoe3866 But this is a youtube comment section. 1.) Someone writes a comment. 2.) Someone corrects or argues with comment, 3.) Someone else corrects or argues with comment. Every 47 comments two commenters will show mutual agreement and not behave like pedantic little technicants. The throwing of feces is common.
Two tribes, from two sides of the world, meet eachother. What I would've given to be a fly on the wall to see some of the greatest meetings. Imagine finding out there is a world beyond what you know and meeting people who are so different. They dont speak your language, didn't even know you existed until moments ago. What a crazy thought.
@@Scarlitcorpse not only the vikins...the celtic and the germanic culture are close to the native culture...both are suppressed by the christians...atleast the nordic culture destroyed...paganism, druids, shamans, animism
It would be pretty cool a series about some native american tribes and civilizations series in the same way that vikings did. Aztec, Mayan and Inca stories are very rich with interesting characters like Pachacutec (the first inca to conquer land beyond Cuzco) Nezahualcoyotl (The poet warrior and philosopher king of Texcoco which biography is interesting), Axayacatl (Emperor of the aztecs that made Tenochtitlan a power in mesoamerica), Spearthrower owl (The Teotihuacan ruler who conquered the mayan lands) B'alaj Khan K'awill dinasty vs Yuknoom The Great (Two enemies that made a large war between two mayan kingdoms recordred in mayan scripts), Lady Six Sky (the warrior queen of the mayan city of Naranjo) Or Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl (The great pacifist toltec king who ruled during a religion war between the cult of Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca)
You're totally right and the Native Americans were some of the cruelest when it came to war, so there's plenty of material there😂 The only reason they haven't is because of the names, to a broad audience the names would be difficult to remember ( That and most movies about Native Americans are very tasteless so it's a touchy subject lol)
@@legallydisabled I mean that might technically be true. We didn’t know that they declared war amongst themselves many times. Wasn’t it because history had a narrative that native Americans were peaceful. But they weren’t just pure, innocent people who never harmed each other or destroyed nature. That was a weird product of the 1960’s hippy ideology. Any who history is basically a set of socially accepted facts that are based on incomplete information. No judgement just is, but we shouldn’t think of them as like primitive people who could do no wrong and lived in harmony with nature, we shouldn’t say all their inherent traits/ cultural values were like evil or things. Does that make sense?
First of all, it was a reference to "I'm a simple man." Second of all, WTF does a computer and phone have to do with being native? Sounds like you're very ignorant of who natives are today.@@iankearns774
@@lemythologia4315 No mention of naive here at all. "Simple native with a computer or mobile phone? Not really." My point was that simple natives dont have computers or phones.
@@iankearns774 Simplicity comes from balancing your 'needs' and 'wants' in life. Having a computer or a cell phone, doesnt mean you are also the type who goes clubbing every weekend and spends 75% of your income on shoes, clothes, or new cars and lives a life to impress the members of the opposite sex! Maybe it is you who needs to re-evaluate your life, my guy!
This brings to mind how they would learn to really communicate. They could teach others basics of eachothers languages but its the babies that grow up being taught both languages that can really make true communicate possible. They would have been the ones who make communicate possible with any foreign people coming together. There's only so much adults can teach other adults about a language by pointing and gesturing while speaking.
They made do. Trials and mistakes. Trials again. In this kind of first contact situation, the two sides can only truly learn each other's language in-depth through prolonged contact.
However in any case Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly. The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda! The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record. By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So Slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
For dramatic purposes Vikings in movies are almost always depicted as barbaric invaders. They were also nomadic traders who bridged the gaps between many cultures world wide through trading and exchange of information and technology. You can trace Viking DNA in N. America, Europe and the Middle East. They were amazing ambassadors.
@comancheVanwormerwell they sailed down the volga and dnieper and were famous for becoming the varangian guard for the byzantine emperors…..they were also somewhat involved in the arab slave trade (as much as any peoples with interactions in the middle east were)…..those are just two ways
In real life they did there are multiple accounts, and in an alternate reality one can imagine what would have happened if the Vikings created trade routes with the Native Americans.
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If you read the sagas and what allegedly happened historically, the Amerindians attacked the Norse; after the Norse gifted them a bull (an animal this tribe was unfamiliar with) and the bull gored someone which they considered a bad omen.
This is common when different cultures encounter each other. Hernan Cortez, the credited conqueror of Mexico, gave a crossbow as a peace symbol to a powerful rival tribe of the Aztecs. The natives saw this as an act of war and attacked the Spaniards. Eventually they made peace and joined forces against the Aztecs.
When two people who worship Mother Earth meet it’s usually of peace and love. It’s when foreign religions of places we don’t come from that effects our connection to Mother Earth. I do imagine Vikings were actually greeted with respect. It’s Catholics who thought it was because they were “godly”.
They were treated with hostility at first, they tried to make peace by giving the natives food and other equipment but sadly one was lactose intolerant to milk and they mistook it as poison. So eventually they fled, mostly because the Vikings who travelled were mostly farmers not warriors.
They were northern Germanic,like everybody else was.They were powerful,until they decided to invade England.They got their butts kicked royally.If you can`t run with the big dogs,stay on the porch.Lost three fourths of their army.Decimated.
@King ForADay I was shy and afraid, I also told my mom " what those come from" why they keep bathing in the sun?" It's weird" she told me they came from the north they have no sun there that's why
I mean if there was 2 culture that could get along back then it's Vikings and Natives. Both are pretty free spirited. That must have been an epic meeting.
This was rivetting to watch. And the body/face point of the American natives was simply beautiful: two-tone, solid markings. Part camouflauge, part personality, part geometry. It made the village look meticulous, civilized, noble, and fierce at the same time. And the detailing on the dwellings, place settings, livestock, and firepit....didnt look boy-scout rough at all: it looked like a lot care and thought went into each thing
@@erikeriks I would agree that's it's definitely unrealistic. Not since dances with wolves or Norsemen have I been convinced it's even remotely accurate pre-history. BUT....i DID enjoy the DIFFERENT angle of native american and viking. These "indians" had a different war paint and a matriarchal society. These vikings were peaceful and civilized. Usually, Indians yell and make war and Vikings are synonymous with "bezerker." It was just something I've not seen before. Similar to the movie, Prey. I didnt like it at all. BUT....i did like that the Predator movie went PRIMITIVE protagonist instead of high-tech protagonist. Aside from that....couldnt care less about the movie. WIsh I hadnt seen it. -
Imagine this was a post apocalyptic world and generations of people who have been seperated by oceans finally meet each other. They are more similar than they are different.
There's a mod for Crusader Kings 2 and 3 called "After the End" that sends takes place in the Americas centuries after an apocalyptic event and technology is sent back to the dark ages. Plenty of this exact kind of interaction as both indigenous americans and vikings are on the map.
@@jmb5924 Old european art depicting gargantuan trees is what even the forests of europe used to look like, and NA would have been very similar. All the trees were massive and 'enchanting' to say the least. Now almost all trees you see are ~60-70 years old at best. Literal baby trees
dude you are joking, but that was my first thought - why is that guy in a suit ? hol up... which timeline is it? Maybe thats just one of the white americans... but no its too soon a suit I was confused
I am proud to be a son of the MicMac nation (Mi’gmag) ❤ 🦅. I understood everything he said. That was very cool and it made me prouder to understand what was being said and translated. Great job for the native actors too! Thank you for your time … Oelaliôg It’s sad that most of us are losing our beloved language eh 😔
This is such a beautiful sequence in the show. Showing that 2 groups of people from worlds apart can be peaceful and respectful upon first arrival with one another. Even though they may not understand each other, respect and peace can be such common and sensible ground. Especially when there are innocent children to be taken care of and their minds to expanded.
jokestylez, unfortunately their relations did not remain this way. According to the Vinland Sagas, the Norse and natives ended up fighting with each other because of misunderstandings in trades and/or because some natives attempted to steal iron weapons from the Norse compound. The natives, remember, had no iron weapons or tools. So the distrust grew into hostility, and they engaged in combat with each other. Though the Norse prevailed, they came to realize that they were outnumbered on Vinland, so they packed up and left. Read the Vinland Sagas.
@@brianforbes8325 what a surprise that the Norse who wrote the book accuse the other side of thievery and starting the conflict. the Native Americans were honorable people in their ancestral homelands before the white savages sailed across the ocean to r@p.e and steal, you cant trust them at all. guarantee you the Vikings caused it ALL. AND THEY LOST LOL got pushed out back to where they belonged and always should have remained
You dont take women and children into a war raid , that was the first clue they werent there to conqure ,initally,,, but the later missunderstandings could have been cutural ownership beliefs , lots of tribes didnt believe in ownership of anything ,,,
Labrador is very rugged. It's on the Northeast Coast of Canada, adjacent to Greenland. Labrador is about the size of Texas and California together. The population is less than the smallest town in Maine. It's a beautiful place to visit, it's very remote and very rugged and very beautiful, and very dangerous because we have polar bears. You can visit these villages today on a tour.
I love this. I am half Native American trying to learn about the culture and also a huge fan of the Vikings show. The fact that it was Ubba who met the natives first was the best possible scenario
That's extremely rare, to be half of anything, for example; it takes a full blooded native to have a child with a non native person to at least claim 1/2 status. Are you documented with a official blood quantum or are you being told that?
@@michaeljandreau7341 I'm beginning to get Klingon brow-ridges and Cardassian eye-sockets [combined-with my extremely light skin, dark-blonde hair, and blue eyes]; so, I'm starting to wonder about myself.....
@@shawnpruitt4670 There's generally always going to be friction and conflict when two cultures occupy the same land or even just neighbouring land. Natives and Vikings didn't hate each other any more than many different tribes of natives hated each other. Hell at least a couple of native tribes were almost universally hated by all other tribes that had encountered them.
The only verified and reconstructed Viking settlement is in L’Anse aux Meadows in northern Newfoundland. It is astonishing and worth the visit. DNA tracing indicates that Vikings did interbreed with local Beothuk Indians. They lived in wood and sod lodges. The settlement was established 100’s of years before Columbus. Vikings had an unfortunate habit of not recording their achievements so much is guess work.
Bullshit, what about Icelandic sagas?
@@TheStrangerTom most sagas are written hundreds of years later. SO verified truth is hard to find. And sagas are exaggerated anyways, so not that reliable either
@@rhythmray7429 I wouldn't be so sure. I mean, the fact that they were written later doesn't in and on itself mean that they are inaccurate (they were passed down through oral tradition, after all). So the time to say they are exaggarated or incorrect comes when there is evidence for it (which of course happens). But I didn't claim the sagas were one hundred percent accurate, I just responded to the comment - the guy above said it's a pity the Vikings had habit to not leave any accounts of their exploits, which simply isn't true and I pointed it out.
@@TheStrangerTom vikings hardly did left anything by themselves. most of their records comes from the church, which they probably looted. there is a reason the common stereotype of vikings is that they love to loot, raid, pillage and kill
@@rhythmray7429 What about all the saga's? Those may have been recorded by Christian writers (though definitely not from the 'churches they looted'), but they were passed downto them through oral tradition, so they are essentially Viking (meaning Nordic, of course) creation. My point stands.
Damn, who’s the native leader’s barber? My dude is all lined up and fresh
They can sure work around the scalp
Latin american natives were famous to wash her hair and body everyday and be quite clean in general, using combs and natural products to make their hair smoother
His wife prob
@@jbrfr94 Famous as cannibals as well.
American made video in reality the Vikings would have showed no fear and slayed the Americans were they stood😂
"Why are you white?"
"Oh my gosh Peminuit you can't just ask people why they're white!"
I literally just watched Mean Girls 5 minutes ago 🤣
XD
Obviously someone scared them when they were children Peminuit, don’t ask stupid questions
lmao
I about lost a lung wheezing at this comment 🤣
I teared up at the end of this. A tense, curious and beautiful interaction between two totally different tribes of humans. This is what humanity is supposed to be.
I'm native Aztec blood first time meeting muslim was very interesting we did same thing
Only the vikings probably ran in to kill them and take the women to rape in reality because this was their culture.
They probably then got hunted down and killed by the natives, severely outnumbered.
It's hilarious how modern day people can watch this and be 'literally crying' with happiness and positive emotions because of a film made about them LOL!
@@Fer-k5u😂
its not real. its a dramatization
When your class meets a class from another school during the trip:
Why are there so much school reference
Is that the only thing you know
Why can't people be more original
It's a 9th century history show
And all you can think of is 21th century school?
@@vladimirlenin843 you make a joke along the lines of this
@@vladimirlenin843 one of the tallest Viking runes ever found took weeks to climb to and then translate. The hard-won translation? “This is very high up!” One could almost expect a lol” at the end left by this ancient troller. The thing is, People have always been people. People have always had senses of humor, and laughed at things, and made silly comments. I hate viewing history from a high horse.
Also, nothing is original. Tough.
When the norwegian exchange student meets the native american student in the cafeteria:
Yooooo 😂😂
@@likemyice3710 nah
Where's the joke
@@likemyice3710 nah home, y’all won’t see us coming 🤣
@@likemyice3710 if the native Americans got beat why did the vikings escape ?
Prayers to all the souls of ages past who's meetings did not go exactly as planned.
Amen
@@bendewitt3242❤❤❤❤ facts
Probably did not have sufficiently advanced cosmetology resources….
so many cultures were destroyed by christian expansion.
@@lac8356 so many we also advamced by it there is no good without bad whats your point
Awwww it was so sweet when everyone shared a laugh together. You could feel all the tension break.
then white people turned back into white people and killed all the natives.
I notice, need their dental insurance
Finally after years of searching and excavation, one Viking-brand video camera
has been found and restored, showing astounding scenes of Native Americans.
Remember to thank feminism for this discovery.
If only life were really like that.
@@tablescissors do not forget the brave gender transmission fluid for backing the mission!
I love random idiots inserting their weird worldviews and political ideology onto completely non-political comments!
@@pokemonfanmario7694Conservatives can only cling onto their outdated mindsets, facts scares them 😂
Context: A broken arrow is a symbol of peace in most Native American cultures.
Yeah I guess that makes sense.
Breaking the tools that create war- shattering the instruments of death.
Probably means they wont shoot this arrow at you
Thank u my fellow friend
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 for me his comment is valid and useful
Its like unload your gun in ancient times
@Sanctus Paulus 1962 There's always that dipshit who thinks he's smart.
Vikings: Idk, their language is weird as shit, let's just go.
Spain, France and England: Smell that? It's money.
England: And beaver
It's just spain in the first 100 years tho
facts
Portugal, hold my Brazil
Scotland: Hey, wait for me..!
England: Come with me dude!
1707 Act of Union 🏴+🏴 = 🇬🇧
i am from newfoundland and have northen European ancestry and native friends. i love every bit of this scenario
None of this happed. The few Vikings that might have gotten there, were slaughtered by the natives long ago.
American american natives
@@bowieupland6112We have Native stories as deep as Arizona of the red haired giants, I don’t think it is as simple as you claim.
@@dingus6317 How does that contradict my comment.
@@bowieupland6112 It shows they might not have been simply wiped out near their coastal landings and could have possibly moved more inland and South
This made me cry, it's good to see my people portayed as peaceful
Me too
I would trade my white privilege, my luxurious lifestyle, my wealth, my happiness And even my own life... Just to spend a day with these natives and have the honor of eating with them if I get the chance... And after that day passes, I would die happy knowing that I met the most peaceful people in history 🙂
@@JohnSmith-pl4sf ah, we just had to bring white privilege into this, didn’t we?
@@JohnSmith-pl4sf I would like to meet them too, but sadly, I don't have any spoiled american "white privilege" to spare.
@@KeKcP not here to disrespect... but at least im being realistic enough to acknowledge that it exists... And yes my friend.. I'm bringing it up,.... Would you have preferred if I didn't acknowledge it by not mentioning it and not say anything about it???.... Like I said, I would give everything up, my wealth, my happiness, my healthy life style... And my privilege... just to be their guest for a day... Tell me, how many rich whites do you know who would do the same? Exactly... Don't get me wrong, I do care what happened to the natives more than you know... They didn't deserve what was coming to them... And there's nothing we could do to atone or make up for what happened to them.... I hope I didn't mean to offend you my friend...
Scene really captures how similar humans are, even if they are literal continents apart.
Things like smile, laughter, cry of a child are the same in every culture, no matter how separated
We’re all just animals with advanced language
We love cuddles and playing and shiny things
There’s a lot of universality in humanity as a whole, our seeds are all the same, our environments grow us into different trees
BUT...Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly.
The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda!
The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record.
By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
@@dysmissme7343we’re not animals we’re humans
@@Jerry-yr1enhumans are animals
yeah but there are still differences with emotional control.
I just love how this depicts two cultures getting along without the use of words, instead sharing in common human interactions; breaking the arrow and offering it on the ground to symbolise peace, a mother of one tribe holding and comforting the child of another is a great example.
It's all so fascinating but I doubt the Vikings/Scandinavians would be acting so nice like modern people.
I rather picture a bunch of naked tattooed blonde blue eyed men, completely warlike, coming to conquer, rape, pillage.
That's how Vikings were described.
I just want game where you primarily play as the native in a turn based game. Cultural ties are turned into 1 state for simplicity sakes, along with using every material you can use for the soldiers to have
It’s funny how not a single person in the comment section knows that the Vikings and natives didn’t get along as well as the show showed, and they went to war over the land 😂
stealing comments are we?
@@Chadius_Thundercock genetic evidence indicates interbreeding, perhaps a group of vikings decided to stay and join the tribes.
I didn’t know natives wore black jeans.
But Levis is american, no ?
@@RosaSpulak-pi3lp lol
Lmao bro that’s deer skin
@@Drake-e4m
Looks like denim to me. lol
and they're wore danners and red wing as their footwear
a native american child gently tugging on a Viking's beard brings me happiness in a way I can't describe
You sound mentally unhealthy
Same lol
he's a child predator and he took advantage of that girl later that season *spoiler*
@@kingofkings3130 damn 😂
@@kingofkings3130 lol
I like how children broke the ice with laughter. We can all relate to a childs innocence.
Shut up
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i thought they were gonna feast on the babies around the fire
@@always_markb bruh
@@gameseeker6307 what lol? they were "savages", right?
I am Native. I am also an author of historical fiction. I believe it's important that we strive to document as much historical information as possible. At the same time, we are human, we reach for reason and connection. We know that Norsemen made it to my Nation in particular: there is a Norse runestone to that fact. The stone presents us with a challenge: how did those first meetings go? We know it was not a bloody exchange, but at some point the Norsemen to Minnesota did encounter battle somewhere with someone, but it was beyond their initial point of contact. So this mini feature here brings history to our living rooms, makes me think, makes us wonder. Bravo!
So in your work do you include that the modern native isn’t the actual native but black Americans are?
@@cashbabies2914pseudoscience puppet 😂 the Egyptians and then natives? You blacks are retarded af
@@cashbabies2914someones hasnt read history😂 not everything’s about your people bud go study you own history instead of trying to steal others
@@cashbabies2914lol you got humbled why don't you go back to your original country because the US isn't where your ancestors lived for thousands of years 😂😂
@@cashbabies2914 natives were darker then, they are not black though learn history
Never watched the show but this clip put tears in my eyes
My uncle used to tell me stories he was passed down by generations of the "bearded men". He said they were peaceful and we traded with them and learned to coexist with one another. Even intermarriage happened with one another, he used to tell of natives with blond and colored eyes back in the day. There's even proof of vikings making it all the way to Manitoba, the proof is stones/rocks found with viking runes card onto them
Awesome!
It's kinda interesting that a culture known to raid and pillage villages got along with the natives then years later a more "civilized" culture came along and raided their whole land
Kensington stone
Well, let's see: Indications are that I have two female Native American ancestors on my father's side (about 5 and 6 generations ago; one Cherokee from Tennessee, and one Sioux from Minnesota); and, I have blue eyes, very light skin, and very-dark blonde hair; so..... [but, I identify as a PROUD *WHITE* man; not an IOTA of Indian-wannabe in me]
@@Wopayne Those runestones are not from the Viking period; look it up.
As a native dude who loves Vikings and their culture, this video brought me much joy
Respect. Same. I'm from Treaty 4 Territory :) and this was great
I am literally a mixture of Scandinavian and Native American
@@Walrus-fg8ch wicked, I'm half Arab and half Native, I noticed there is a lot of similarities between Vikings and Natives
How is it like those white men murdering your ancestors until they were small enough to limit your country to a small piece of land called a "reservation"?
@@Walrus-fg8ch if you want to meet vikings in america you can go to Florida or Carolina. They will meet real incestuous vikings.
This is hands down the coolest portrayal of Native Americans I’ve ever seen, and it’s probably the most accurate when you think about it because settlers traded with Native Americans early on. Most portrayals I feel like Native Americans are suspicious right out the gate, hostile with an animalistic skiddishness, grunting to each other like cavemen or yelling as they charge into battle just to get murked by boomsticks. In this, they display the proper home team advantage for lack of a better way to put it. They’re the ones in control here. They know it. But they choose to have mercy for the people showing up. They’re cool and collected. I love the guy breaking the arrow, his display of emotional intelligence. I love all the beautiful ornate outfits the women are wearing. I love that their leader is a woman because there were matriarchal tribes but you never see those. I love that she’s generous, well-spoken and kind. We know that Native Americans had an *actual civilization* before white people showed up but I don’t think I ever fully realized until now how little that’s actually portrayed. I’ve never even seen this show but I was glued to the screen.
White Settlers/Colonizers are Native Americans, these are just native savages. This wasn't America until it was industrialized, built up, and called America by The Creators, whom were White Conquerors.
It's not nearly as accurate as modern feminist leftoid females like you would easily believe. They aren't advanced like Vikings would be, they wouldn't have shown mercy even to the babies, they'd have likely cannibalized the group, and they wouldn't look as cool or fresh or painted as they do here. Also, I haven't watched this hollyweird revisionist show, but The Vikings are poorly equipped here, kind of insulting. I'd rather see how some native savages would lose against a superior Viking Raid Party.
There were many VERY DIFFERENT native savage tribes, they murdered each other all the time, most did not have female leaders and were not "matriarchal tribes". So that explains why there wasn't much crt/esg/dei pandering before it became so funded and mainstream.
@@CorruptDemocratsJ6 "they murdered each other all the time"... like europeans?
@@CorruptDemocratsJ6 I dont disagree with the fact that there were extremely warpath driven tribes but there were a litany of tribes that were mostly agrarian and peaceful. Many of them were on coastal areas due to the abundance of food and it would certainly be possible that most of the original tribes Europeans encountered were more peaceful. Otherwise, I would have to believe they would have been slaughtered without the chance to make a foothold on the American continent
If I were a Viking, we would still be exploring our local pond. I would poop my pants just walking through those woods.
We may speak different languages, but laughter is universal.
That and I also find fascinating how human minds no matter where in the world know how to make weapons like swords or bows and arrows. It is ingrained.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ The bow and arrow and spear predate the spreading of humans across all continents. We spread roughly 70,000 - 100,000 years ago and the bow and arrow was made roughly 72,000 - 60,000 years ago.
Laughter and dancing.
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ war is universal
@@FakeAssHandsomeMcGee_ not ingrained. Trial and error and practicality. Eventually swords came but werent ubiquitous.
If only the Vikings settled in huge numbers in North America, and intermarried with a lot of Native Americans, it would’ve changed the course of history. Imagine if most Native Americans have a bit of Scandinavian blood in their genes, that would make them resistant to the diseases brought by the English and Spanish in the New World. 80% of the Natives died because of smallpox alone. If that 80% didn’t perished, it will be a hell difficult for the colonists to subdue the indigenous population.
@Coco Austin but those countries did way worse to them. They enslaved the natives, killed them, kidnapped them, betrayed them, made a lot of tribes and cultures go extinct. What they did was pure evil compared to whatever the Vikings did
It would be beautiful. Big burly forest folk over 6' . It's even better the more you think: the natives are similar to people from the Far East of Siberia. The Viki from the West. It's like a coming full circle, literally.
I wonder how the genes for red hair and facial hair would have played out in the mix.
thanks God english settled in america so you can drink tea
@@ichangedmyusernamebecausei2551 most natives died from disease
So you'd rather them be living like farmers and nomads instead? They would have never advanced because they had no advantages like horses to get resources to places faster. Every nation or country mad in north america failed because they didn't have the right things to supply them and maintain them. The only reason North America is the way it is now is because of the Europeans coming in the first place. sooner or later they would be conquered it would be just a matter of time.
I never felt so nervous with uncertainty when I watched the scenes with Natives. This is a first contact situation, you never know you could start a war with one seemly-harmless bad gesture.
Reminds me of that Mars Attacks scene with the bird
@@GAZAMAN93X Exactly.
@@Will-sq3ip speaking of. I want a sequel to that movie. It's so underrated
@@GAZAMAN93X I’d say, no. It’s a good movie but I don’t see how can there be a sequel. You remember the ending, the Human race defeated the Martians and they all sing with animals in the background like if it were a Disney movie.
Again, it’s a good movie but it’s kind of wacky. If they make a sequel, I’ll bet they’ll make even more wacky in ways I can’t imagine.
I can assure you, we didn’t want war as much as you guys didn’t
That was just so interesting. . . I loved it! Thanks for showing it to me :D
did you know the real viking expedition had a cow with them, first encounters with the natives were friendly and there was some trading of food and items between them, soon afterwards the natives attacked the vikings and friendly relations stopped. its possible the vikings traded milk from their cow and since the natives were lactose intolerant they tought they had been poisened after drinking the milk. It's definitely not confirmed, but an interesting theory as to why they suddenly attacked the vikings.
Just another example of how misunderstandings between cultures can have devastating consequences.
I don’t know much about the relationships between the Vikings and Native Americans but it is very interesting that the Native Americans on the West Coast have much more Japanese type look to them with the folded eyelids and wide cheekbones whereas the Native Americans on the East Coast have almost more European look to them. It would suggest something happened that changed the way Native Americans looked on the different coasts.
@@latsnojokelee6434 There actually is an explanation for at least some of that, it's due to how and when they came to the America's. Most Native American's came over the land bridge formed due to low sea levels because of the Ice Age. They came up through Asia, and such across through Siberia onto the land bridge to Alaska, and down through. Of course, there's also evidence that many, especially those of Hawaii and South America actually came by boat, there are definite Polynesian influences there.
Thorvald killing a sleeping native man might have had something to do with it. Just a hunch.
@@latsnojokelee6434 let’s just say the Europeans weren’t the first foreigners to come to America some came from Asia
It's honestly really sad that so many history of the Natives was lost in time, there's so many things about them that we'll never know.
I mean they didn't have written history so not like we'll know much about them other than word of mouth from native descendants and written reports from Europeans
Actually, many of the histories of Indigenous peoples are told through oral histories. Almost no histories are written down in our culture, but are presented to us over stories that span hours, or even days. A lot of history of Indigenous people are "lost" to the history books, but are well alive in all of us today.
Thank the Europeans for writing down many of their histories otherwise we would know even less
@@scholaroftheworldalternatehist It is crazy how you make it seem that without the books, EUROPEANS would know nothing of our history, but all you have to do is ask ANY indigenous person about history and we can share. You rely too much on the works of European men (who know nothing) instead of asking people for primary sources.
@@geoffdeputat4196 Many indigenous communities will not share their oral history and other traditions with outsiders as they view such info as sacred. I get your point, but it is not as easy as asking someone a lot of the time.
I have a friend whos half mexican and half Norwegian. Every time I think of him, I cant stop thinking about this scene.
Edit: By Mexican I mean indigenous ethnicity that's commonly titled such.
What do you mean by “mexican”? In Mexico you may find mixed races, “whites” and aboriginals. Is he a mix of Alfonso Cuaron and Kristofer Hivju?
@@cooperagent4753 idk his Mexican parent looks pretty pure native so
@@cooperagent4753Mexicans were native to North America
Which show is this and episode @@Juphs?
@patgerrygee6799
It's in the description
Living in an interconnected global world, where information is disseminated and translated at a ludicrous speeds, can you imagine what it was like for two vastly different cultures to meet like this. It must have been amazing and terrifying at the same time. Maybe its just me.
Greg Testa
@@reminy13 YES?
I still react in the same way when I see a discord mod in real life
@@dv9239 lmao
I agree.
Natives: so yall pale folks wanna be chill?
Vikings: eh why not
*Few hundred years later*
Natives: so yall new pale folks wanna be chill?
Europeans: *N* *O*
the english ppl...not just europeans
@@tina857 Spanish, French, Portuguese:
Yeah blame England! It was totally just them! Hahaha 😬
@@8names311 looks like someone didn't pay attention in history class amirite
@@IzzyG2k18 you are right 😎
@@8names311 I mean they were the ones to kill off all my people
Can’t believe they caught this historic moment on camera
That's too old, it was like 70 years ago.
You know what's more amazing? They filmed this in a colored TV. I mean, who TF does that?
@@muyeonglee2682smooth brain
@@Rollacoastertycoon I think that's you bud
@@muyeonglee2682 i second this comment
I like that this progression displays that no matter our heart's intentions, initial fear of the unknown can create complications. Also, any troublemakers from every group. And every occurrence involving misinterpretation or stark difference involving customs. And above all, I appreciate how these scenes focus on the positive interactions that occurred between different groups of our human ancestors. Their respective lineages dating far back, an untold amount of trials and survival stories... obstacles overcome, such as the long journey across the Atlantic ocean. And after so, so many years, the very distant descendants from the same mother were reunited.
As a native American it's important to know this is history in time
Random but I personally think the world would be better if we didn’t live off of the fruits of native Americans suffering in the past. I wish that white people would give the country back by filling Congress with natives and making a native a president. It would be the biggest hearted thing they could do. But instead they want to hold on to what their ancestors stole.
okay "oliver miles" the native
@@sulliandwhatnot I disagree, I do think we should recognize the past and what we’ve done, I think the reservation system is terrible in most places, but I don’t think natives should be given power just by virtue of them being native. We did conquer this land after all, it isn’t theirs anymore.
@@sulliandwhatnot im native american I'm white my family is native american and european as in yes Norway german
My native american ancestors and my european ancestors must been on some kind good terms
I am not Mi’kmaq but I am Ojibway and Cree. There is a saying. There is a cree behind every tree.
Beast, I didn’t even know my people were in Vikings. Gonna watch it now
@@anativeamerican3140 it’s in the final season. The last couple episodes. It’s only like 10 minutes of screen time but they speak it on tv. Shout out from Ojibway territory brother!
@@saulteauxfirstnationsman5180 yeah bro heard the language earlier and was shocked, it was hype honestly. Gonna watch Vikings just cause of it
@@anativeamerican3140 that’s why I wanted to watch it also. I heard they were going to be featuring a tribe and it would be a guess until it aired live on TV.
Boozhoo
Natives: Hey guys. Let's be friends
Vikings: Sure
Centuries later...
Natives: Hey guys, let's be friends
British, Spanish and French: How does that make us any money?
Us french were nice actually but okay
@@cerberuskane5061 I mean you guys still had boarding schools for native Americans so not really all that nice but the past is the past
still less hated than the British. want to be friends, pulls gun out bang
@@cerberuskane5061 lol just forget what the french did to the natives and place all the blame on the English shall we
Spanish weren't predators as the British, French and even Portuguese and Dutch. The Imperial Indies Laws ensured the existence of millions of Native subject during 3 centuries.
Thank you for sharing this wonderfully heart-warming video. 😊
I'm Ojibwe, but my father did tell me as a child that there was a time that the ancestors had a friendship with Vikings! I always loved the idea of that and imagined all sorts of scenarios as a kid. Obviously more than just friendship transpired, given that they left eventually due to conflicts and lack of resources and who knows what else, but my dad left that bit out in favor of teaching me that cultural disparity isn't necessarily a reason for conflict (and that Christopher Columbus was depraved bigot). Seeing that idea acted out here is wonderful. This is lovely to watch.
It wasn't always conflict. The Finns were one of the last major groups to immigrate to North America and interacted with the Ojibwe to such an extent that the two groups intermarried and created the "Findians" if you will. Perhaps both peoples got along as they both share a strong oral history tradition, woodcarving, and respect for nature.
@@sonicluffypucca96 damnn
Funny story but not only Christopher Columbus mistreated natives but also his own people as well. He only cared about himself
atleast your tribe liked them mine fought them off and chased them to newfoundland
the vikings, the germanic and celtic culture are so close to the native culture...and all was suppressed by christianity...atleast destroyed.
As soon as they saw the women and children they knew it wasn't a war party. That's why they put their weapons down. Some things are universal.
Rigggggghhhhhhtttttt
Kept Lewis and Clark alive.
Unless you strap bombs and booby traps to women and children… ahem (coughs in radycal Muslim) THEY are the dispositive to your pie in the sky wishful thinking “universal”.
Unlike the border crossers.
No bro because it was scripted,,,😔👍🏻
Good to see indigenous people portrayed in a positive manner. So much of their culture is fascinating and not enough of it is taught in school. I live in rural Pennsylvania which is rich in history, from the Liberty Bell and founding fathers, Valley Forge, William Penns home, Gettysburg, Washingtons Crossing, and the many Inns and towns that were touched by history. Here we are blessed with the knowledge of our past, but so little Native American culture is known in spite of the fact that this part of Pennsylvania was once home to several different tribes. This depiction of history shows that in spite of our differences we can find common ground and that there is something unique about our cultures that we can share and learn from.
But these are just a bunch of noble savages.
Spanish discovered americas not vikings or natives because they did not know where they are they did not make maps of americas they did not make it feasible but spanish did so christopher columbus was a great explorer he discovered americas
The only indigenous people who are cannibalistic are the South American ones. Mostly the Aztecs
@@borakaraca9788 nope
@@erismana2105 yes
I never grow tired of hearing native American language
I mean aren’t all languages natural?
Good show of how two peoples who can't communicate directly, can still interact with each other. We do have universal signs. Laying down weapons, open hands, gestures to say you a welcome. And, often, when others laugh, we do, because we understand there was a joke.... even if it may have been at our expense...cool thing about people is how much we understand among each other, without words
@@MichaelTheophilus906 what is a wokee
@@MichaelTheophilus906 and that's is bad for you?
@@MichaelTheophilus906 How so?
This is why the streamer ishowspeed is so popular amongst people who speak no or very little English.
@@zokikuzmanovski5109 but that Is because it's a clown, Not because he's trying to socialize.
“They had 3 real Indians and the rest were Puerto Ricans with feathers in their hair” -Chris Rock
😂😂🤣
Well Puerto Rican have at least one Native Caribbean ancestor. So technically still Native American. And natives from the Arctic circle all the way to southernmost Patagonia are still native American.
@@hainleysimpson1507 go on…
Wrong. There is an extensive BTS scene about being as culturally correct as possible with this scene. They use real native actors that are directly decended form the orginal nation, speaking a once dead language, in the traditional territories of that first nation.
Thats another slap.
I want a series from a pre-Columbian north American perspective. It’d be difficult for cultures that had no written records, but I’m sure some tribal consultants could help make a compelling story.
Pretty sure it would show things were not all as kumbaya among the Native Americans as we are generally told. They were not one big happy family and ONE with nature!
There are lots of pre-Columbian stories. And, for that matter, there are lots of stories from prehistoric Europe that also are not turned into scripts, and I'm sure that's true of stories all around the world. I know that in Ireland and Wales the old stories are rich, some compiled over thousands of years, and full of wisdom, and I'm sure other cultures have hidden treasures of similar value. Such a waste!
@@kingforaday8725 Why do all of you, pretend to have some veil into cultures you know nothing of?
When we were still treated as less than *openly* , the media in movies ONLY portrayed us as bloodthirsty savages.
@@stevonwhite8933 Right back at ya buddy!!! Why do all of you, pretend to have some veil into cultures you know nothing of?
Dont know what you mean by openly???? But I agree TV and movies, mainly westerns, wrongly portrayed most Indians in that fashion. I was a kid back in the heyday of westerns in the 50s and 60s and always wondered why Indians were portrayed in that way. I believe American Indians have more of a claim to "reparations" than any other groups in this country combined!!
So are you saying Native Americans didnt slaughter each other even before white folks arrived? They didn't take slaves? They didnt rape and torture?
There was a slaughter of innocents of both sides and it became a tit for tat!!! Of course all sides seem to only remember the atrocities that were done to them!
Or absolute lies. Lack of information hasn’t stopped them before, nor has compelling evidence to the opposite. If it ever happens we just have to hope it’s by someone with actual passion.
This scene makes me teary, man. Is it too much to ask for such simpler times when our differences are respected and not imposed, interesting, curious and rather than dividing unite us? The more we learn, the more we see ourselves in each other.
You really believe there was EVER a piece full time? The greatest country on the planet and you think that it became what it was through peace? And shaking hands??
Fun fact. Scandinavians and Native Americans actually share a partial common ancestor called Ancient North Eurasian or ANE. ANE ancestry is found in both groups. ANE people lived in Siberia centuries ago. The world is much smaller than we think. Cross an ocean, and still there are ties between humans, distantly so, but there.
No they don't. Only a very small amount of Sami people share that common ancestor with North Eurasians. Most Scandinavians and the Vikings are Nordic people, who are not related in any way genetically to the Sami and Siberian populations.
@@darrellm9915 Right. In Scandinavia, only the Sami people and the Finns have links with the Siberian languages (Ugro-Uralic group). Norwegians, Swedes and Danes are from the North Germanic language group
Actually, your infromation is off. The truth is that Native Americans are descended from a number of peoples. The land bridge theory is bogus. There were numerous migrations to the Americas. Hell, the Chumash themselves had to hop from island to island until reaching the mainland.
Good grief LMAO
Sorry but the Japanese and Native Americans are more genetically similar than any other demographic you'll find on the planet. They split thousands of years ago.
This is a beautiful scene in so many ways. First the shots of the nature: huge trees, the light, the strange sounds: we are in a new world. Then the tense moment of meeting, and the strong act of leadership shown by the young man who breaks the arrow. The meeting with the female leader in the tent, and she knows how to use gestures, smiles and words to defuse the situation. Finally the moments where the ice breaks: the native American woman who comforts the Viking baby and the curious girl who makes everyone laugh when she pulls on the Viking's beard.
As an aside: I am a Dutch man and I once traveled in Tanzania. It seems most Tanzanians do not have as much body hair as we do. So a young girl in a bus was mighty curious about my arm hair, and she enthousiastically started pulling on it! 😂 It was the start of a great friendship for the many hours we sat together in that bus. This memory makes me love the scene with the girl and the Viking's beard even more.
I found the choice of scenery to be rather disappointing. The landscape of Newfoundland (or what the Vikings referred to as "Vinland") is absolutely nothing like this. Our trees are a fraction of the height shown in Vikings, the wind is far too harsh and rampant for them to reach such a height. It was obvious to me they just opted for a European location rather than the true place where the gathering would have happened. But other than that, the architecture and clothing are authentic to our understanding of Beothuk culture. But I tried to not let these inconsistencies distract me from feeling the curiosity and wonder of coming across a new land and people for the first time and how they would have had to work around the obvious language gap through humour and exchanging simple words.
@@nathangillingham5734 most of the show was filmed in Canada. There were sets they used not far from my hometown in northern Ontario, near the Great Lakes. It's a far cry from Newfoundland to be sure, but it wasn't Europe.
You sound like Joe Biden with the kids from his life guarding days
living in tanzania, i'd imagine the last thing you'd want is any more body hair than that on your head, if even.
altijd weer die nederlanders
While a cool scene, that is not how it's recorded as going. The word Skrælings is what Vikings called Native Americans and it means Screamers. First contact was violent and while there were friendly relations eventually, the Vikings left for a multitude of reasons including the Native Tribes not getting along with the Vikings very well.
The natives were spooked by the sheep they brought one time. Screamers haha, before battle they would howl and it was terrifying. God i love native culture
Weren't Skraelings the Greenlandic Inuit?
i doubt anyone today acuallys KNOWs how what happen at the exact moment they first met bro ,
lol the native tribes didnt get along with eachother. tribes killed off other tribes idk why everyone thinks the natives were just super peaceful
@@originalgangsterloc There are actually accounts of one of, quite possible the first, time they met. Involves Vikings finding a dozen or so Native Americans hiding under a boat and then promptly killing all but one of them. The Vikings later get attacked and flee to their boats, but that's the earliest one recorded.
My family came here from Norway. This made me smile ❤
I get emotional when I see 2 different peoples meet in peace we all should try to do this
It never works. You meet new peoples you kill em, and kill em quick. And take thier stuff. Before they do it to you. It's the way us twisted humans are. You dont see animals treating eachother the way we do. The reason god created humans is because the earth lacked a layer of plastic.
This happened to me when I first saw a white person from Europe I was shy and I laughed
didn't work out so well 500 years after this
didn't work out then either. there was no love lost between the vikings and the natives. this is revisionist history. terrible way for the series to end.
Go to the hood and film your encounter.
As a Native American, I’m glad to see that we are portrayed peaceful in this.
Edit: Damn… I started a war… Good >:)
I know that some tribes were peaceful, others weren’t and there was already war and conquest BEFORE anyone arrived. Also, y’all got trolled hard >:)
Wich is not true at all atleast for aztecs incas and more central south tribes if europe asia etc.. is despicted accuretly every culture should not sugar coat it for brown points, just like the stupid leftist who just say europe slavery, without even mentioning the fact that african rulers give the europeans those slaves selling them to europeans, or that slavery has existed for hundred of years since the ancient age but ofcourse thats not the casé
@@francoisdaureville323 Amen, brother... Amen
Not all native American tribes were the same. Some were very peaceful. Others were tribes of war, and were brutal to their native neighbors.
Me too , but are native?
@@FordHoard not all Europeans were civilised also some committed genocide and slavery
What a beautiful portrayal of two cultures meeting. Wish the world was more like thsi
I think it's important to note that vikings and native americans fought each other in bloody skirmishes several times. vikings were Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes and had many settlements, likewise the NA had different tribe along the coast with different attitudes to guests.
The world is like this. By design, we do not rise to prominence unless we are skilled at purposely confusing communication by distorting facts.
@@gordonlekfors2708I would like to hear some of those accounts.
@@markharmon4963 unfortunately, my people&the Native Americans did not do good at recording things like that in a way that preserved them. It was more passing stories down orally than written accounts. Some do exist in someway or another, but some of the written accounts are also in dead languages, but some have been revived.
I’ve thought about starting a channel to tell some of the stories my clan/family passed down, but I feel many would say I’m making them up or whatever people do these days instead of just appreciating what’s been done. I have no way of knowing if many of the stories we have are true or how much truth is left in them, but it’s my history&my son will hear them&pass them on as well.
This is what it could have been like, should have been like in the States. Some conflict was probably unavoidable, but there was a lot of integration between the eastern tribes and white folks before removal. The latter was a totally evil and unconstitutional crime that forever poisoned the relationship between our peoples and only served the interests of a land-hungry planter class.
For anyone wondering the first recorded encounter between native Americans and vikings started when leif Erickson’s brother killed 3 of them hiding in a boat which started a battle which killed his brother and sent them back to nirway
Easily one of my favorite scenes in Vikings. We all have more in common than we do different.
However in any case Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly.
The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda!
The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record.
By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So Slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
Was it really this amicable?
The natives would’ve realistically tried to fight, would’ve thought they were some kind of demons most likely
Historically no. Leif Erikkson landed in New Foudnland and tried to establish a village, the ruins are there today. this was WAY before columbus. The Indigenous peoples of North America chased him off, along with the fact that they did not know how to cultivate the land. @@adriandeltoro4640
@@adriandeltoro4640I doubt it, probably did the same as they did in the British isles.
The fact that every culture in history meeting for the first time always eventually learn each other's language with literally no textbook or anything, and literally so little in common one can get shows how despite how big differences get being simply human will always be a huge frame of reference we can share.
W yap
Yes, it's honestly just repeating back like a baby and being immersed with the people. School does make learning it much faster, though.
My ancestor who was English, came to the USA and ran a Navajo trading post in Arizona. He learned to speak to the natives in Navajo.
When it's about surviving you'll usually learn quickly. And I mean it in the best way possible. Life around 1000 CE, when meetings like this one are assumed to have occured, wasn't exactly easy by today's standards regardless of any cultural gaps or language barriers. @fyradur
Navajo is not even close to be an easy language man, great of him to learn it
I like the way the archers don’t immediately pull back the arrows, they just aim. It feels more realistic, like aiming a gun without putting your finger on the trigger in case you slip.
You can’t draw a long bow and hold it back. It would break it.
3:00 guy is like..."Why does he always have to snap my arrows....why can't he snap Slowfeet's arrows now and then...so unfair..."
What a beautiful moment of genuine human connection. If only all people and cultures could respect and uplift each other this way 🩷
Never will happen. That's why the southern border needs closed
@@omar-uu8qo cant you see how people with your attitude are the very thing that prevents it from happening?
@@_-_sinexus_-_ good, we are not meant to mingle with lower cultures
@@lordpickle65 aww too bad you can't say stuff like that without anonymity or a clan meeting without getting beat up anymore :(
I love not being morally repugnant, you should try it some time little man 🤏
@@lordpickle65 What is wrong with you, you get hit in the head? No culture is superior to others. You are not special. Your just a loser who has no life outside of your computer screen. You are part of the reason why racism exists.
When it comes to the portrayal of the Beothuk, accuracy is incredibly difficult as these peoples have been extinct for almost 200 years. Besides a few common phrases we know absolutely nothing of their language, but there are theories that it was part of the Eastern Algonquain language group. So considering this, their choice of using the Mi'kmaq language (which is also a native language of present-day Newfoundland) made sense to accommodate this knowledge gap. When it comes to Beothuk clothing and attire the portrayal here is quite accurate. They did in fact paint their faces and bodies with red ochre as well as grease and wore clothing made of animal skin. We don't know what time of year Leif Erikson landed in Newfoundland, so their choice in choosing what is presumably summer isn't a huge issue and would most likely make sense considering the harsh conditions in the winter months which made sailing difficult. The housing looks seemingly identical to Beothuk mamateeks so props to them for that. My biggest issue in terms of accuracy has to be the landscape. The trees are WAY too tall for it to resemble anything remotely similar to Newfoundland landscape. We know from archeological discovery that the Vikings landed in the present-day Northern Peninsula of Newfoundland, meaning the terrain should be high plain plateau flatlands with incredibly eroded shorelines, which this scene is obviously lacking. They probably had their reasons to record season 6 in both Norway and Ireland instead, but I think it would have just been better to actually go to the landscape where these events took place. Other than that though, an almost precise portrayal given our current understanding.
Thanks for this info!
I suppose travelling to Canada for filming a few scenes would have been an enormous production cost. I think the core of this particular scene is the people, so that's the part they needed to get right.
the actors they chose to play the Beothuk doesn't look accurate at all to me tbh. They are clearly more white than any natives from this area would have been pre-contact
You're a nerd
@@shah1776 and you’re less intelligent than him
@@xPOWERx-ne1jr I haven't read up on the Beothuk people at all so feel free to correct me, but your statement at least sounds inaccurate. "White" is a man made construct. There are relatively white natives of northern Africa, and if this is even further north in northern north America, then their skin tone in this portrayal absolutely makes sense to me.
Despite the obvious language barriers, human nature still has it's play and curiousity sparks. To calmly show the other that a weapon is being either broken or dropped is a worldwide sign of peace. Beautiful film.
It's not a film. It's a TV show. LOL
So what you freak
@@VL1975 Does it really matter? LOL
@@andrehaugvaldstadit really does lol, Vikings is the name of the show for anyone that's wondering
@@bunnitomoe3866 But this is a youtube comment section. 1.) Someone writes a comment. 2.) Someone corrects or argues with comment, 3.) Someone else corrects or argues with comment. Every 47 comments two commenters will show mutual agreement and not behave like pedantic little technicants. The throwing of feces is common.
2:27 Like how they added the Costume Designer credit right as they introduce another culture into the show
Two tribes, from two sides of the world, meet eachother. What I would've given to be a fly on the wall to see some of the greatest meetings. Imagine finding out there is a world beyond what you know and meeting people who are so different. They dont speak your language, didn't even know you existed until moments ago. What a crazy thought.
This may play out in current times when Off Planet E Ts are finally introduced to we Earthlings.
Its cool I come from both norse and native american lines. So this was very AWESOME TO WATCH
lucky...
Wow, that's cool
Me too
Cool as fuck!
No u don't
Vikings and indigenous people have a lot of similarities
Interesting ,What are the similarities that you see ?
@@Scarlitcorpse Paganism.
@@youngglocknl9621 native Americans were slaughtered by Spaniards, Mexicans, French and so on lol.
But the Bri*sh defeated the Normans (Viking&French) and Natives
@@Scarlitcorpse not only the vikins...the celtic and the germanic culture are close to the native culture...both are suppressed by the christians...atleast the nordic culture destroyed...paganism, druids, shamans, animism
I'm 100% native American. First generation, born to immigrant parents from Europe.
Born here. I'm native.
It would be pretty cool a series about some native american tribes and civilizations series in the same way that vikings did. Aztec, Mayan and Inca stories are very rich with interesting characters like Pachacutec (the first inca to conquer land beyond Cuzco) Nezahualcoyotl (The poet warrior and philosopher king of Texcoco which biography is interesting), Axayacatl (Emperor of the aztecs that made Tenochtitlan a power in mesoamerica), Spearthrower owl (The Teotihuacan ruler who conquered the mayan lands) B'alaj Khan K'awill dinasty vs Yuknoom The Great (Two enemies that made a large war between two mayan kingdoms recordred in mayan scripts), Lady Six Sky (the warrior queen of the mayan city of Naranjo) Or Ce Acatl Quetzalcoatl (The great pacifist toltec king who ruled during a religion war between the cult of Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca)
True. They also could use Irish mythology.
You're totally right and the Native Americans were some of the cruelest when it came to war, so there's plenty of material there😂 The only reason they haven't is because of the names, to a broad audience the names would be difficult to remember ( That and most movies about Native Americans are very tasteless so it's a touchy subject lol)
@@legallydisabledcruelest truely the best warriors of all time in my eyes
I want north Africa before Islam, im 90% north African
@@legallydisabled I mean that might technically be true. We didn’t know that they declared war amongst themselves many times. Wasn’t it because history had a narrative that native Americans were peaceful. But they weren’t just pure, innocent people who never harmed each other or destroyed nature. That was a weird product of the 1960’s hippy ideology. Any who history is basically a set of socially accepted facts that are based on incomplete information. No judgement just is, but we shouldn’t think of them as like primitive people who could do no wrong and lived in harmony with nature, we shouldn’t say all their inherent traits/ cultural values were like evil or things. Does that make sense?
I'm a simple native. I see any native culture in games and media, I'm beamed with interest and excitement. This was awesome!
Simple native with a computer or mobile phone? Not really.
First of all, it was a reference to "I'm a simple man." Second of all, WTF does a computer and phone have to do with being native? Sounds like you're very ignorant of who natives are today.@@iankearns774
@@iankearns774 How will having a computer or mobile phone be contrary to being simple and naive?
@@lemythologia4315 No mention of naive here at all. "Simple native with a computer or mobile phone? Not really." My point was that simple natives dont have computers or phones.
@@iankearns774 Simplicity comes from balancing your 'needs' and 'wants' in life. Having a computer or a cell phone, doesnt mean you are also the type who goes clubbing every weekend and spends 75% of your income on shoes, clothes, or new cars and lives a life to impress the members of the opposite sex!
Maybe it is you who needs to re-evaluate your life, my guy!
This brings to mind how they would learn to really communicate. They could teach others basics of eachothers languages but its the babies that grow up being taught both languages that can really make true communicate possible. They would have been the ones who make communicate possible with any foreign people coming together. There's only so much adults can teach other adults about a language by pointing and gesturing while speaking.
They made do. Trials and mistakes. Trials again. In this kind of first contact situation, the two sides can only truly learn each other's language in-depth through prolonged contact.
Communication
However in any case Vikings were arrogant, impertinent and aggressive to Native Americans. Contrary to the nonsense in the video the movie "Pathfinder" is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. They also scornfully called Native Americans "Skraelinger", which means something like "weaklings". Their pitiful settlement attempts failed because they were unable to get along peacefully with the Native Americans and because they fought among themselves. So they failed simply out of stupidity. Calling them barbarians is an insult to the barbarians! They hunted humans and were rapists, murderers and bandits. They were the worst torturers! The historical Viking sagas describe in detail the course of this ritual, an act of unprecedented cruelty. In the "blood eagle"(Blutaar) torture method, victims are kept alive throughout the ordeal while their ribs are fractured on the side of their back. The ribs were then spread apart to expose the victim's lungs. Then the two lungs were set up like wings. Therefore "blood eagle", because the sight reminded the Viking torturers of bleeding eagles. They were the worst murderers! On their raids they mercilessly murdered women and children. Prisoners were also sacrificed to their bloodthirsty god Odin. They were immeasurably greedy for prey and were ready for that to murder mercilessly.
The Arab merchant Ahmad Ibn Fadlān who was with the Vikings in 922 writes about a chieftain funeral. It was a slave girl with the dead chief burned with. These killers! They also burned a dog, a horse, a cow and chickens. Before they murdered the slave girl, they raped her, and not just one bandit raped her. The whole horde raped her! The slaughtered the slave girl downright after the mass rape. Like the animals! She lay next to the body of the disgusting Chief. These barbarians, murderers! Ibn Fadlān describes the murder of the slave girl this way: Then the slave girl was pulled into the tent by an old woman named angel of death and the men started to beat on their shields with sticks. Six men entered the tent to have intercourse with the girl, after which they laid her onto her master's bed beside him. Two men grabbed her hands, and two men her wrists. The angel of death looped a rope around her neck and while two men pulled the rope, the old woman stabbed the girl between her ribs with a knife. The poor girl, the only positive she did not have to live with this scum anymore. Ibn Fadlān describes the Vikings as "perfect" physical specimens and the hygiene of the Rūsiyyah as disgusting and shameless, especially regarding to sex (which they perform openly even in groups), and considers them vulgar and unsophisticated. Each is tattooed from "the tips of his toes to his neck" with dark blue or dark green "designs". They are the filthiest of all Allah’s creatures: they do not purify themselves after excreting or urinating or wash themselves when in a state of ritual impurity after coitus and do not even wash their hands after meals. They are called by Ibn Fadlān as the dirtiest creatures of God! They are portrayed absolutely wrong in the movie "The 13th Warrior". After all as unhygenic and actually disgusting, but otherwise completely wrongly presented. The usual Viking cult, disgusting propaganda!
The Vikings achieved nothing lasting other than colonizing Iceland. WOW! What a great achievement! Instead of settling in North America, these incompetent idiots settled on Greenland, where they became extinct. According to the Viking myth, they should have been the best mariners of the epoch around the year 1000 AD! Ridiculous. The Irish showed them the way to Iceland. From Iceland to Greenland lasted only a few days across the open sea. From Greenland to Newfoundland (North America), took also only a few days across the open sea. These idiots have discovered a new continent and couldn't use their knowledge for anything. In fact they prefered to settle in Greenland where they ended up starving and fleeing! The movie "Pathfinder" is the exception to the usual Viking myth. That is a good movie about them. Shows what nefarious slaughterers they were. The Vikings were definitely not the best mariners because the best mariners of that time were the Polynesians who explored the Pacific. The Vikings mostly stayed close to the coast and mainly orientated themselves on landmarks. Voyages across the open sea were the exceptions, like expeditions into unknown waters. The Vikings were in fact the opposite of the Polynesians who colonized the islands of the entire Pacific in the same epoch. For the the great Polynesians, voyages across the open sea were a matter of course like expeditions into unknown waters. Incidentally, the boats of the Polynesian were also much better suited for sailing than the boats of the Vikings, which is why the Polynesian were able to sail much longer distances than the Vikings. Which can be explained by the fact that the primitive Viking boats, actually were mainly rowing boats with only auxiliary sails, were just that were badly suited for sailing. The Drua ships of the Polynesian used to colonize the myriad of Pacific islands, on the other hand, were excellent sailing ships with superior crab claw sails that were ideally suited to sailing long distances across the open sea. So the Polynesians were the greatest mariners of this epoch around the year 1000 AD and certainly not the Vikings. The Vikings were by no means excellent fighters, as the myths say about them. They lost about 50% of their battles. That's really not an impressive record.
By the way, in contrast to the Vikings, the Slavs colonized half of Europe, because the Slavs did not enslave anyone and relied on cooperation and assimilation of other peoples and not like the Vikings, where there was only violence,enslavement and enmity. Yes In fact, the Slavs did not engage in slavery. According to the 6th-century manual of war "Strategikon" by Byzantine Emperor Maurice the Slavs were a hospitable people and did not keep prisoners indefinitely "but lay down a certain period after which they can decide for themselves if they want to return to their former homelands or to stay amongst the Slavs as free men and friends." Byzantine chroniclers noted that Roman prisoners captured by the Slavs could soon become free members of Slavic society if they wished. So Slavs were the only ones who even assimilated Romans and not just captured soldiers but the population of entire conquered territories. That is why today there are very many Slavs and only very few Scandinavian descendants of the Vikings in comparison. That is why half of Europe is populated by Slavs and the descendants of the Vikings live in the same relatively small area as 1000 years ago compared to the large area of the Slavs. So Slavs were so successful in the assimilation of other peoples because they weren't as barbaric as the Vikings.
Absolutely amazing to meet real life native Americans! Very wise and powerful people spiritually
you have not been to the rez
Why? Because you say so? Are you a god?
For dramatic purposes Vikings in movies are almost always depicted as barbaric invaders. They were also nomadic traders who bridged the gaps between many cultures world wide through trading and exchange of information and technology. You can trace Viking DNA in N. America, Europe and the Middle East. They were amazing ambassadors.
But Viking were nothing but barbaric invaders - brigands. But you probably meant the Norse. Viking is not an ethnicity, it's what you do.
@@SloveintzWend yeah exactly
@@SloveintzWend i mean they murdered religious monks who couldn't fight back and stole their artefacts
Well the word berserk comes from the Vikings. Berserker
@comancheVanwormerwell they sailed down the volga and dnieper and were famous for becoming the varangian guard for the byzantine emperors…..they were also somewhat involved in the arab slave trade (as much as any peoples with interactions in the middle east were)…..those are just two ways
Imagine if things had gone differently. That they managed to live together.
Same could be said about my different interacting people and cultures. Predictably many times that is not what happens.
if only, if only.
Who confused would Christopher Columus be if the first person he met in North America was Viking
Make love, not war ;)
In real life they did there are multiple accounts, and in an alternate reality one can imagine what would have happened if the Vikings created trade routes with the Native Americans.
Imagine a world where everyone lived in peace,no hate just understanding and tolerance
This scene does not appear to depict such a world.
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@@CommentedHere0The New Testament showed that Christians were the peace makers, not driven by Hate! Because Jesus was a Peacemaker!
@@kellibarnhouse6160 “Blessed are the peacemakers, because they will be called sons of God”
- Jesus Christ
But who sets the precedent for what is hate and tolerance?
Viking have been trading with Spiro Natives in Oklahoma for over 600 years. There is a Viking settlement in Poteau, OK
It’s rumored the Vikings went as far as California and then likely sailed the Pacific. We really don’t know how much of the Earth they explored
@ it’s all very interesting. But Columbus found the Americas! That were already populated when he got here. 😂
@@joshdye1684 he did find the Americas from a European perspective. A perspective that had no knowledge of such a place existing
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True.
Two mighty warrior forces meet at last. Big moment in *"Vikings."*
Awesome. No matter race or culture we are all members of the human race. Let's understand and respect each other.
If you read the sagas and what allegedly happened historically, the Amerindians attacked the Norse; after the Norse gifted them a bull (an animal this tribe was unfamiliar with) and the bull gored someone which they considered a bad omen.
This is common when different cultures encounter each other. Hernan Cortez, the credited conqueror of Mexico, gave a crossbow as a peace symbol to a powerful rival tribe of the Aztecs. The natives saw this as an act of war and attacked the Spaniards. Eventually they made peace and joined forces against the Aztecs.
@@JRFrancisco20088 more like when encountering low IQ savages
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When two people who worship Mother Earth meet it’s usually of peace and love. It’s when foreign religions of places we don’t come from that effects our connection to Mother Earth. I do imagine Vikings were actually greeted with respect. It’s Catholics who thought it was because they were “godly”.
They were treated with hostility at first, they tried to make peace by giving the natives food and other equipment but sadly one was lactose intolerant to milk and they mistook it as poison.
So eventually they fled, mostly because the Vikings who travelled were mostly farmers not warriors.
Throughout history people of all religions usually have been the ones causing the most destruction in the name of their gods so yeah
Vikings on the history channel was one of the best shares ever. I got hooked from the very first episode.
They were northern Germanic,like everybody else was.They were powerful,until they decided to invade England.They got their butts kicked royally.If you can`t run with the big dogs,stay on the porch.Lost three fourths of their army.Decimated.
This video was so infectious. The first meetings between cultures are so astounding. I found myself laughing along with them in the video.
I found myself laughing, because it's made up nonsense. It was nothing like this. Typical hollywood sensationalism. Anything to sell it . . .
Generally works great until the politicians get involved.
That happened to me when I saw a white person for the first time
@@elvenleaf5589 I can just imagine what they thought when they met you!!!! Pretty sure I know what they said!
@King ForADay I was shy and afraid, I also told my mom " what those come from" why they keep bathing in the sun?" It's weird" she told me they came from the north they have no sun there that's why
I mean if there was 2 culture that could get along back then it's Vikings and Natives. Both are pretty free spirited. That must have been an epic meeting.
We aren’t extinct, our hearts still beat a million strong!
This was rivetting to watch. And the body/face point of the American natives was simply beautiful: two-tone, solid markings. Part camouflauge, part personality, part geometry. It made the village look meticulous, civilized, noble, and fierce at the same time. And the detailing on the dwellings, place settings, livestock, and firepit....didnt look boy-scout rough at all: it looked like a lot care and thought went into each thing
What are you talking about everything about this is unrealistic to the point where it's painful to watch
@Erik Eriks I agree, Leif Erickson wasn’t a Viking, he was just a Norse farmer.
This would have been Canada, Newfoundland. Not America.
@@erikeriks I would agree that's it's definitely unrealistic. Not since dances with wolves or Norsemen have I been convinced it's even remotely accurate pre-history.
BUT....i DID enjoy the DIFFERENT angle of native american and viking. These "indians" had a different war paint and a matriarchal society. These vikings were peaceful and civilized. Usually, Indians yell and make war and Vikings are synonymous with "bezerker."
It was just something I've not seen before. Similar to the movie, Prey. I didnt like it at all. BUT....i did like that the Predator movie went PRIMITIVE protagonist instead of high-tech protagonist.
Aside from that....couldnt care less about the movie. WIsh I hadnt seen it. -
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Which… is in North America lol
Imagine this was a post apocalyptic world and generations of people who have been seperated by oceans finally meet each other. They are more similar than they are different.
Yes!!! And then they kill eacother! Fun!
I like that premise. Were you high when you thought of it? Seems like something I’d think of after smoking a joint haha
There's a mod for Crusader Kings 2 and 3 called "After the End" that sends takes place in the Americas centuries after an apocalyptic event and technology is sent back to the dark ages. Plenty of this exact kind of interaction as both indigenous americans and vikings are on the map.
fallout nv
Horizon games kinda have this concept.
One thing they got right was to film it somewhere with massive trees. Those virgin forests of northeastern North America must've been something to see
I read this and it made me sad thinking of what the forests must have looked like and we’ll never see them
@@jmb5924 Old european art depicting gargantuan trees is what even the forests of europe used to look like, and NA would have been very similar. All the trees were massive and 'enchanting' to say the least. Now almost all trees you see are ~60-70 years old at best. Literal baby trees
This moment was stunning. I have Mi'kmaq ancestry in my family and I felt a knot lodge in my throat watching this scene
3:28 GUYS THERE'S A TIME TRAVELER ON THE LEFT SIDE THE GUY WITH A TUXEDO SUIT
LMFAO
dude you are joking, but that was my first thought - why is that guy in a suit ? hol up... which timeline is it? Maybe thats just one of the white americans... but no its too soon a suit
I was confused
No it's actually Kang the conqueror
ayo wtf hes right
how much you guys smoking lol
As a Native American people should not disrespect our culture
From a southern native american to a northern native american.
Ok
Get colonized lol
@@scytoxil5990 white moment
@@keleton5837 based taking peoples land
Takes bigger stones to make peace than to make war .
if we all had strength like these people the world would be a better place
Yeah idk where your getting that logic it definitely takes bigger stones to fight you know considering your life is on the line
I am proud to be a son of the MicMac nation (Mi’gmag) ❤ 🦅. I understood everything he said. That was very cool and it made me prouder to understand what was being said and translated. Great job for the native actors too! Thank you for your time … Oelaliôg
It’s sad that most of us are losing our beloved language eh 😔
This is such a beautiful sequence in the show. Showing that 2 groups of people from worlds apart can be peaceful and respectful upon first arrival with one another. Even though they may not understand each other, respect and peace can be such common and sensible ground. Especially when there are innocent children to be taken care of and their minds to expanded.
jokestylez, unfortunately their relations did not remain this way. According to the Vinland Sagas, the Norse and natives ended up fighting with each other because of misunderstandings in trades and/or because some natives attempted to steal iron weapons from the Norse compound. The natives, remember, had no iron weapons or tools.
So the distrust grew into hostility, and they engaged in combat with each other. Though the Norse prevailed, they came to realize that they were outnumbered on Vinland, so they packed up and left. Read the Vinland Sagas.
@@brianforbes8325 very weird place to see anime being discussed but it was on my watchlist anyways
@@brianforbes8325 what a surprise that the Norse who wrote the book accuse the other side of thievery and starting the conflict. the Native Americans were honorable people in their ancestral homelands before the white savages sailed across the ocean to r@p.e and steal, you cant trust them at all. guarantee you the Vikings caused it ALL.
AND THEY LOST LOL got pushed out back to where they belonged and always should have remained
You dont take women and children into a war raid , that was the first clue they werent there to conqure ,initally,,, but the later missunderstandings could have been cutural ownership beliefs , lots of tribes didnt believe in ownership of anything ,,,
Props to the vikings for visiting, not killing a bunch of people, then going home. We stan.
Well that was first visit, they eye up all the attractive women then come back to take them as wives
Labrador is very rugged.
It's on the Northeast Coast of Canada, adjacent to Greenland.
Labrador is about the size of Texas and California together.
The population is less than the smallest town in Maine.
It's a beautiful place to visit, it's very remote and very rugged and very beautiful, and very dangerous because we have polar bears.
You can visit these villages today on a tour.
The smallest town in Maine is home to nearly 500,000 people? That's quite a town bro.
@@cbrown9287 That's including Newfoundland but I think he's referring to just the region of Labrador which only has around 26,000 people
This is a great clip from a great show.
I love this. I am half Native American trying to learn about the culture and also a huge fan of the Vikings show. The fact that it was Ubba who met the natives first was the best possible scenario
That's extremely rare, to be half of anything, for example; it takes a full blooded native to have a child with a non native person to at least claim 1/2 status. Are you documented with a official blood quantum or are you being told that?
@@michaeljandreau7341 I'm beginning to get Klingon brow-ridges and Cardassian eye-sockets [combined-with my extremely light skin, dark-blonde hair, and blue eyes]; so, I'm starting to wonder about myself.....
@@johnharrison6745 sounds like you're closer to a Founder 😋 jk
@@michaeljandreau7341 I could kinda *PASS FOR* one of those..... 😉
@@michaeljandreau7341 Most people who say they are half anything don't even know their ancestors or have done a DNA test they just assume
I am Mikmaq first Nation & my mikmaq people taught the actors to speak our language on the Vikings!! It's an honor to see this.
Natives and vikings hated eachother tho
@@shawnpruitt4670 There's generally always going to be friction and conflict when two cultures occupy the same land or even just neighbouring land.
Natives and Vikings didn't hate each other any more than many different tribes of natives hated each other.
Hell at least a couple of native tribes were almost universally hated by all other tribes that had encountered them.
Great to hear your Mikmaq language alive on telly❤
I’m glad everyone is getting over the props to the camera man for going back in time to record this for us comment.
They got so lucky that they were greeted by such peaceful people.
This made me smile, I hope they all live happily ever after