The Vikings were really good natured big guys who were fun to "party"with...😎 The Viking Women were ravishing...(You're fortunate to keep your head when you're on their guest list 🌹...☠️)
And let's not forget that all the other peoples the Vikings encountered were just as warlike and ruthless - they were just taken aback at first by the skill and efficiency of Viking warfare.
Well from what I understand, they were so "good warriors" because they tended to raid "soft targets". It's fairly easy to be successful against bunch of villagers :) But yeah lightning fast strikes and efficiency was probably very admirable (and feared). They were kinda first heist people I guess :)
Nah, they were far from the first, raiding your neighbours is older than civilization. What changed is the cultural context of the people who documented the raids. Romans suffered these attacks as well, they just contextualised barbarians differently than medieval Christians.
I remember hearing a historian commenting on vikings, saying basically that they did what a lot of other peoples also did and had been doing for a long time - the raiding, the invasions, the violence. They just had the misfortune of being pretty good at it and of doing it against people who used writing to document what happened. That is, they attacked early Christians (monks and similar) who not only wrote down what they saw, but these writings (and the propaganda created from it) was collected and spread by a very large and powerful organization - the church. In short, what vikings did was not that unusual, what was unusual was the fact that their actions got documented for posterity.
Their advanced ship building technology allowed them to spread far and wide, to hit fast and vanish quickly. Their brutality in battle wasn't unique, but as a cultural phenomenon, they did stand out in history.
The danish word for Saturday is ‘lørdag’ which means washing day; cleanliness legacy! And becoming Christian took some time, even to the point of having laws in the 12’hundredth regarding inheritance to require that the child was Christian (some would argue we are still a bunch of half-pagans). At this time of year, also worth noting that no Scandinavian language has ‘Christ’ in Christmas; we all celebrate Jul/Yule.
Yep, we have it in Swedish too, lördag. Originally "Lögardagen", the day you "Löga", which means to take a bath. Four other names of days even have Viking origin in English too: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are all originally named after Viking gods.
I'm an early medieval historian with a focus on post-Roman Anglo-Saxon Britian, of which the Viking attacks and subsequent settlement in England were defining events of the period. The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 was so shocking to the completely unprepared Christian population and church establishment that it essentially solidified the Vikings' reputation as murderous demons for the next 1200 yrs. They could only explain it and the brutal raids that followed as punishment from God and it was only in the late 19th century that their cultures, lifestyles and traditions were explored in depth, changing the way the world viewed them. Of all the Scandinavians, there were more farmers, traders, artisans...etc than actual Vikings, which means raiders/pirates, but they inspired so much fear that even through the Viking Age only lasted a few hundred years, they haven't faded into obscurity and are even part of modern pop culture.
They've put the ad read in the wrong spot. They should have put it with the hygiene section. "Vikings took care of their appearance and they would have taken care of their skin with today's sponsor............"
I’m a descendent of Vikings. I did a thesis on them. I appreciate your accuracy in this and for dispelling some of the misconceptions (like the horned helmet)
How do you know you're a descendant of Vikings? There's no specific Viking DNA and current DNA tests compare DNA with modern populations, not ancient genomes. Also, even with a strong Scandinavian link, there's no way to prove relation to a specific Viking, not to mention most Scandinavians weren't Vikings. So it's quite possible to know if someone has Scandinavian roots but quite difficult to trace back over 1000 yrs to individual raiders.
@@Cara-39 I have the actual lineage that goes back to the Normans for my family. Every person in the line is known, including one that came over with William the conquer. I’ve seen another thing where the linked every American president (except Martin, Van Buren) as a descendant of King John (The evil, Prince John from Robin Hood brother of King Richard 2nd) so it’s certainly possible to know and go back pretty far if you’re a European descent
My last name is Vasser now. But the Norwegians that came over were Petersons and before that there was Tajet (which is, Sami?) My twin was able to go back to Norway and even meet some of our family that remembered my grandpa. My grandma loved genealogy and traced marriage records back as a hobby and found we were related to Erik the Red, supposedly. From marriage records, I can surmise my ancestors were on the Isle of Wight in Virginia when the massacre of 1622 happened. And one of my half french relatives is related to Cartier the guy that wifed up Sacajawea. The thing about marriage records though, is that the English crown is actually German 😂, so, you know. To your point. Edit: I had a fraternity brother at LSU, Bjornar Nesland, basically Thor from the first Thor movie, and he joked that Truls Lomo, our other brother, brown hair brown eyes, was from the North. But his ancestors, on the southern coast, got raided and raped by Moors in the 16th century and thats where he, Bjornar, got his tan red skin from. I always wonder if that was true because it was such a weird funny joke but he told it to me when I said I was Norwegian too.
@@brandonvasser5902 Moors is a meaningless term used in the middle ages by Christian Europeans to refer to Muslims in general, particularly from the Iberian peninsula and Magreb, but doesn't describe a distinct group of ppl. That said, the slavery story sounds far fetched, particularly because Muslim slave traders rarely, if ever, went to Scandinavia because the Vikings brought slaves to them in the Middle East to trade, not to mention one Middle Eastern ancestor from 500+ yrs ago seems unlikely to impact someone's skintone to such a degree when all other ancestors are Norwegian. Also, Scandinavia's involvement with the slave trade, basically ended in the late 11th century when Norway, Sweden and Denmark adopted Christianity.
As a mariner, I can tell you that staying as clean as possible is paramount. Think about it. You're at sea for months at a time, the only thing keeping you alive is your ship, and ship crews live in close quarters. Trust me, a dirty sailor will eventually get fired or get the shit beat out of him.
Medieval English chronicler John of Wallingford: “The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of their person. They combed their hair every day, bathed every Saturday, and even changed their garments often. They set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters, even of the nobles to be their concubines.”
I know a guy who is a dcumented decendent och Harald blue-tooth, one of the last of the big Danish viking chiefs. He's well, an elementary school principal, which is perhaps the kind of administrator we need these days.
He wasn't one of the last big viking chiefs, he was the king of Denmark, son of Gorm the Old and father of Sweyn Forkbeard. The greatest viking king of Denmark was Canute the Great who were grandson to Bluetooth. The last viking king of Denmark was Sweyn Estridsen. But there were a lot of different Jarls etc that went viking
People who claim decendance to important people in history often have delusions of grandeur. Makes sense he would seek a position of power. We can't prove any lineage so far back, the fact that he let you know means he thinks very highly of himself. It's like those people who share their IQ or being part of mensa. All it means is that they think very highly of themselves and can't help but share. Honestly it's a great indication of who you should avoid.
Honestly, if you still believe the myth about horned helmets, it's willful ignorance at this point. EVERY video talking about Norse and Viking history makes a point to debunk it. I don't think it's even worth mentioning any more. I think the likely viewers are at least more informed than these videos give them credit for.
True. Modern media does it now in parody. We Danes never stopped using it for cartoonish variants, while more serious works would be more accurate. I for one love whenever I see a brutal horned berserker in any media. But find it eye rolling when, serious works still think it needs debunking.
The viking tradition of weekly bathing can probably still be seen in places, like Finland, where saturday is sauna(and cleaning as such) day. Obviously not the only day, and showers etc more often, but saturday is *the* day for sauna and such. Could be a co-incidence that vikings did their stuff on saturday too, according to some research, but it could also be a tradition that's well over a thousand years old :D Although this tradition would've been adopted, either way, as that era Finns weren't exactly part of the viking group.
Since I don’t sweat, I think it’s perfectly fine. Yes to bathe or shower one time per week unless I’ve been out doing dirty things like yeah fixing my car for whatever but you know I don’t sweat so it’s fine.
Alfred the Great notwithstanding, a viking people did (eventually) conquer England. The Normans were descended from viking raiders of northern France who decided to stay. It has also generally believed that the Rus', ancestors of the Russians, were also Scandinavian traders who decided to establish themselves along their Baltic to Black sea trade route and stayed. richard --
Reading the Icelandic sagas give some good glimpses into the daily life, worldviews, fashion, customs and culture in general around 10th-11th century Iceland, providing a fascinating window onto history - as well as often being genuinely entertaining reads. "Viking" indeed refers to an activity - raiding in particular. Trading and exploring probably shouldn't really be included, although one journey could of course check several of these boxes.
Thanks for adding the last paragraph. They were Scandinavian iron age farmers and fishermen. Only the firstborn sons inherited in that society, so the following sons went Viking in an effort to earn enough wealth to be able to start their own farmstead. Most of them died on the journey, so the vast majority of people alive in Scandinavia today are not descendants of "Vikings".
I took a class on viking culture in college and iur first assignment was to NOT look at any of the books yet and write a one page essay of everything we *thought* we knew about vikings. It was a brilliant assignment for the first day of class.
Anyone that claims people of the past didn't bathe or keep clean are just wrong. Keeping clean is instinctual in modern humans and we are repulsed by stinky people instinctually. Instinct is built from doing it in earlier versions of the species. Modern humans have been around for ~100k years. Hunter gatherer modern humans would keep clean or bathe anytime it is possible. Remember an always stinky dirty person is not going to be invited into your bed for some horizontal dancing, it was the same 30k years ago. Being unwashed means not producing children removing them from the gene pool.
Some years ago The Danish National Museum had a Huge Viking Exhibition with parts and finds from most of the North but also Russia. It became shown in several major European Cities also. I think with the latest found Huge and the largest ever, Viking Ship also. They had the best ships for their time and could afford the best weapons to buy. But they also made fine art.
not sure I like that framing. The difference between archaelogists / scientists and popular opinion is that they are researching their field and alter their views when new findings are being made. Usually it is the popular opinion that sticks to wrong and outdated ideas alot longer than the science does.
Funny enough, women Vikings are well attested in the old Viking histories and stories. And these stories have been known all along. So all anyone ever had to do to know the status of women among Vikings and that there were women Vikings who did the same stuff men did, was to read the old Viking accounts of their own exploits. Also worth remembering that one of the places where Vikings settled and set up permanent communities was northern France, where they intermarried with the locals and eventually got the name Normans.
"...Either a wild exaggeration or just plain wrong..." You mean like Vikings with shaven heads and big beards? I don't know whether to blame Travis Fimmel or Simon Whistler. 🤔
@sideprojects wish you had mentioned that Russia is actually called after the Swedish Vikings. Since they reached Byzantium from the north, and they were called "Rus" (the name swedish Vikings used for themselves), they called the land they came from "Rusland". Also, the first emperor of Russia was a swede
There is very little proof to back this up, but it is something Russian people learn in school. Rus is commonly believed to be a word for "row", and they claim they came from "Roslagen" (rowing crew) in Uppland. This is grasping at straws at best, as there were SO many more people living in that area and whatever Swedish traders that ended up settling are very few and far in between.
Fact is, Vikings were fierce Norse pirates and the first true masters of "shock and awe" tactics. Trained from childhood, these brutal warriors were heavily inspired by the music of led zeppelin and went into battle blasting the Immigrant Song over the speakers they hung from the bows of their dragon head boats to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies.
By the way, they built a Viking ship according to all the stations in about 2010 and then raised it against him more than you are and guess what device can you ship one because of course it did
Being a straight to Center from Vikings I’m pretty interested, but I want this video. However, I got David Diehl commercial here showed Loreal Paris group bragging about.
Danish King Knud 2nd ruled over the largest area in Scandinavia and most parts of Britain (By that, not The Danelaw!). So it is reasonable that he is also known as "The great"
Not "The Thing" 🤣 Sure, you can directly _Google translate_ it to just that. But Tinget was a gathering of people deciding the rules of the land. So the translation would be more like "The Court" or "The Gathering (of people who decide rules)". Saying just "The Thing" is horribly wrong. There's no evidence that women actually joined wars. The Birka woman was more likely burried with her husbands gear, since there's nothing on her bones showing she actually fought anything. But OFC the "strong independent woman" had to be announced right as the feminist movement grew :P The husband of the Birka woman could have died at sea or somewhere along the way to/from Byzantine. It's all assumptions (even from the archeologists at Birka who I talk to occasionally). The word VIKING more than likely originates from Vikin, the area in modern day Oslo (capital of Norway) that had the name during the viking age.
BTW, we also brought Afrikaans some Arabs to Scandinavia offer not slaves but also a scholars so that’s why there is some African DNA here in Scandinavia very very minuscule but still
Agree. The title uses a hasty generalisation fallacy. I'm tired of slagging off all archaeology for clickbait because "some archaeologists" got it wrong. Horned helmet - costume designer. Most of the other myths - Bede and other monks with PTSD. Archaeology analyses "things", i.e. objects & repeats the analysis. That's science. It's not about right or wrong. New procedures become available all the time, that reveal more information.
They became Christian to ease trade. They were posing as Christians to begin with, but with successive generations they replaced their beliefs, probably because they were tired of sacrificing all their animals, food and sometimes people to the gods.
There were warned Hallin mats, but they were only a sensor, Monical purposes, and me, and my son I have it for drinking horse witchcraft they were used as most of them
History is not set in stone and is always changing as we find new things and also there are always going to be gaps since things like paper and textiles don't preserve well and also a lot of cultures used oral histories so they were not written down.
And I said always say, I am two years older than you, and I have no wrinkles whatsoever and it’s insulting to give things like this to our wife. It implies that you think she’s ugly.
Today we add another chapter to the book called "How Christians misrepresented everyone elses cultures, religion, and achievements in order to make them all seem like demonic barbarians".
Here we go again. "Vikings" were not a people, a race or a nation - it is basically a job description. If you must refer to the ppl collectively, use Norse, or better still, use their country of origin.
The greeks and romans showered regularly , the califate too so spain portugal and italy have been showering and using saunas for long time the renaissance of showering came mostly thanks to italy and france though
Viking women actually held less power than previously thought. While Vikings were more progressive than their neighbours, a woman was only able to be a warrior if her father or husband allowed it. They were still very much under the thumb of men, like the rest of Europe.
The main difference was that if a woman became a widow or her father died, by law she would inherit her husband and be granted Independence and could even have business and be the head of a whole farmstead. But you're right, they were mostly subservient to their father or husband but the men were generally more accepting of women's independence than say Christian societies of the time.
Yeah, that is mostly a later fancied up media thing blending them with Celtic myth, already build on misconceptions. Like freaking Nords in Elder Scrolls.
wild how now we accept the sagas in regards to the context behind vikings finding North America, but we just gonna ignore what they say in regards to the handful of females warriors being DEFENSIVE combatants noted for defending hearth or honor......
Historians and archeologists have proven that women fought and some may have led raids. Unfortunately, much of the evidence has been lost over the last 1300+ plus years but what we do have, mainly from a few burials, shows that women weren't chained to the home. Also, Viking Age Scandinavian women had more rights than most, including the ability to inherit property, run businesses, trade, rule, and convene with the gods as respected seers and interpreters. I'm an early medieval historian with a focus on post-Roman Anglo-Saxon Britian and the Viking Age was one of the most important series of events in the area.
@ I’m disagreeing about the way females warriors are being contextualized as relatively common active battle seekers, not any of the points regarding their rights, nor implying they are chained to the house…. Your creative interpretation of my comment alludes that your value to the field of historical research may not be additive…
@@fenriswolfq22 Your comment is poorly worded, with vague claims abt ppl ignoring "what they say" abt a handful of female warriors and reading as if ppl don't believe they actually fought to defend their homes, families and/or communities. My response was to confirm what I thought you claimed, that it's true the general academic consensus is that some women did fight, however, those that study the period do not claim it was a common thing for women to do because there's no proof of widespread women fighters. Maybe specify what you mean next time and rather than insult someone, ask for clarification.
@@Cara-39 pretty bold to criticize a RUclips comment’s wording and vagueness when you can’t be bothered with complete words and your evidence is speculative and that much of the evidence has been lost over the past 1300 years… and the video doesn’t present them as defenders but as actual Vikings that sally forth, as opposed to people that defend settlements and homes while the raiders/traders are away. Hence my claim of the video wrongly contextualizing them…
I'd encourage you to stop referring to 'feminism' in Viking society, and instead call it egalitarianism, which is what it truly was. No need to play into the hands of the activists that plague the internet.
It's just words, dude. You're way too invested, going so far to make comments overstating a perceived problem, creating a narrative that doesn't exist.
Finnland was not and is not a part of Scandinavia. The vikings called them rus. They are a nordic, but not a Scandinavian country. Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Sometimes the Faroe Islands is included, but not Finnland. Look it up.
JFC, lies or blatant misinformation. Vikings called them anything but 'rus'. They knew the land well and tried several times raiding the villages, failing most of the times. King Olaf II of Norway was almost killed in one trip when Finns counter-attacked and drove them away. Vikings were not stupid or unbeatable. "Rus" was name given by Finns to Swedes who went to Novgorod. The name stuck only much later, the area being called Novgorod at the time. Look it up. And as we're talking about historical facts: majority of vikings were Norwegian with Danes the second largest group and Swedes the small minority. Also, nobody cares about what neighboring countries belong to scandinavia. To the world, the difference is infinitesimal. Could you explain it in plain terms "Why?" Yep, nobody cares. I mean really, nobody cares except scandinavians as it seems it's somehow "insulting" to them. Can't understand why because it doesn't matter. It's like Don Quixote and the windmills... At the same time, scandinavians are often talking about things that *would* include Finland and Faroe Islands but do not then use the correct term, Nordic, so what's up with that? That means they are excluding those two in their narrow term, being overly pedantic and all that.
@@alaric_ well actually.. (you made a good post, I just wanted to "be one of those" for once...). The origin of the term "Rus" (as it was explained to us in school) stems from the Swedish region Roslagen, where villages, Husby (House village) were required to contribute with a longship with men to the king in Uppsala. We still have the place names like Långhundra. It seems likely to me that when they went East it wasn't pragmatic to raid villages along the rivers - villagers that were raided but survived "might hold a bit of a grudge" for when the marauders return... Also, water connected regions and peoples since sailing was both fast easy and free compared to walking and dragging cargo across roadless land, the East coast of Finland had a rather large Swedish speaking population.
Absolute nonsense, the Finns were not called Rus by anyone ever. The Finns called the people who came rowing across the sea ruotsi, which comes from the Swedish word for a team of rowers and this is the root of the word Rus for Scandinavian settlers in Eastern Europe. Finns were called Finns, the current word is the same as the medieval exonym for them.
Vikings was a title or a activity. Many farmers went viking. Especially in the early era of the viking age, before the viking kings got their own professional armies. Just like any other army in early middle ages. The farmers that went viking brought their own weapons they had at their farm, like axes etc.
@@kristianjohansen5561 If we include trade in going Viking, which we generally don't, then we can say that Vikings became farmers. Not the other way around. Only the first born sons inherited in Scandinavian iron age society, so the other sons had to earn their own wealth to be able to start a farm/occupation. The people who were settled spent a lot of time fighting each other, it was not a unified "viking" society. There were basically city states. You can look at Sandby Borg for example. This is why we also find so much many hoards, the people simply vanished before being able to retrieve their wealth.
Technically it just means to fold, this could be a fold in the coastline, meaning people going around bays, it might refer to a specific bay or it might refer to folding yourself when rowing a boat. In practice it was used for pirates though, they don't call traders vikings in the Scandinavian stories, they do however call raiders who aren't from Scandinavia Vikings.
The vast majority of the people who went on viking expeditions also practiced farming. So technically vikings were farmers. The Scandinavians who stuck to farming and fishing and never raided weren't vikings though.
That's more Marvel getting Loki wrong. He is technically a god, but one that was also a possible fire giant, not an ice giant. Laufey and Farbauti (Loki's parents) actually mean Spark and Tinder, hence Loki's association with fire. There's also a hypothesis that Loki is actually Lóðurr, one of Odin's brothers. In one event in the tales, he is called blood brother to Odin and it was stated that Odin would not drink without him present. Now whether that means blood brother as we would think of it now (as in, really close friend who was treated as a brother) or a literal brother, it's not quite clear. In either case, he is still counted as one of the gods of the Norse.
The Viking age was a holy war of the Pagans against the Holy Roman Empire. It was a continuation of the Wars Charlamaine started in Europe with the Saxons, which was also a holy crusade.
The Viking Age expansion, of which there were fewer actual Vikings than everyday Scandinavians, was not a holy war. The expansion was largely driven by the desire for silver; engagement in the international slave trade, particularly with the Islamic Middle East, also to gain silver; conquest of new and better lands to settle and farm; and new trade opportunities with Western Europe. Charlemagne's campaign to forcibly convert the Saxons wasn't a factor as shown by the fact that the first target of Viking raids was not the Frankish Kingdom, but Christian monasteries in England, where treasure was unguarded and farms well stocked. Silver and the slave trade were two of the biggest factors and while there were pagan vs Christian problems in the beginning, the Scandinavians converted as they settled in new lands that were already Christianized.
@@Cara-39 Yeah, it was a holy war, predicated on the fact that they attacked the church first. The other motivations you listed are side quests. All of which you point out but take the Christian spin on events. How not unusual whatsoever. The conversions came hundreds of years later which marked the ending of the holy wars.
Absolutely not, in no source whatsoever do the Scandinavians of the high middle ages pretend that they attacked the people's around them because of something the Franks did to the Saxons hundreds of years earlier. Scandinavians would have considered Franks and Saxons as outsiders to exactly the same extent regardless of one group having similar gods and the other one having a foreign one. The Scandinavians built a wall across Denmark because Franks and Saxons are scary, not because the Franks were killing the Saxons over religion. The Scandinavians sailed off and raided people because they could, not because some of the victims were pagan, some were muslim and some were christian.
@@fillyfresh No, the churches and monasteries were attacked because they were undefended and filled with valuables, monks that could be sold as slaves and food. They were also located near or on the coasts and the majority were isolated from the local communities for ascetic purposes. They were such easy targets that many were raided multiple times. The Viking Age has never been described as a holy war, it was about loot, the slave trade to acquire more silver and conquest
@@danvernier198 You are making this about nations. It was a religious war not a national one. Yes, other religions were also targeted. You keep making the case and not putting it together.
Sorry, Simon ad the Crew, it`s not: "Vineland", as far as I know, it`s: Vinland. "They" have to correct the text, on the stone. As You said, later in the video. And, as complement to You narrative: Vikings got their "teeth kicked in", several times, while trying to invade a part of, as I remember, Lithuania today. By a tribe, more "violent/sophisticated", then them, i.e, better fighters. Correct me, if I am wrong. Sorry to be a party pooper, once again. from a Finn in Diaspora
I mean, it's Vinland in Old Norse. Most place names get anglicised (or equivalent) when brought into the English language, so I dont see why you wouldn't call it Vineland tbh
Or just plain outnumbered - with only so many longships you get only so many men - if the coast is organised enough it ought to be possible to rather rapidly gather a much larger group from the land side?
I didn’t say it was the BEST or most PRACTICAL of Vikings… like Bjorks ancestors ya know??? Maybe one of IKEAS bloodline??? There’s always THAT ONE PERSON ya know… and they may be The Reason no others did it..
I really don’t blame the stupid faxed right anymore scenes. He obviously has no clue, but the right is worth her doing. You are so much wrong with this video gets a fast for with the team. we working SoundScan neighbor asked for versus the last 4 to 700 to 1 11,000 so fuckers have Columbus come or not that radius we rule the voice not you
well, archaeologists are a lot like scientists, and government people, and doctors, and lawyers, and religious leaders, and any other dweeb in the world that pretends they are experts but dont know diddly squat about much of anything
Of course, for a towering compared to you, Thai and Britt, Frank’s and what not we are still a lot taller than you in your new role I am 6 foot two and pretty average and I still think it’s insulting to her wife to give her one of those for you stuff since you saw her low-key that you think her skin looks bad It’s so bad of you to do that and I am born in 1985 and United 87 and I don’t have any wrinkles nor bad teeth or anything that you return on for
seems you forgot about the video you made on your other clickbait channel called into the shadows of the viking video you made called vikings the most terrifying force in history hmmm ruclips.net/video/EG1yfzZAee8/видео.html is this cuz youre just a content farm?
Horned helmed Vikings aren't old enough to be a myth. They are a monkey sandwich as we say over here. OK, it's a myth of sorts, but using the word 'urban' is probably racist these days.🤣
Viking female warriors is a woke grasp of the Viking age. Viking female warriors where only going in to defend as a last resort if the settlement got attacked and most women didn't.
Aaaaand you can't possibly know any of that. You did manage to get the word woke squeezed in there though, so fret not - you are still nominated for the Dunning-Kruger award in the best fallacy category.🏆
@Kraakesolv Ah using the word fallacy when we don't talk about OF or similar? Interesting. It's been well documented also in Sagas that women weren't warriors
He just gave one example. We have found many other graves of women who had huge wealth and high social standing, as opposed to the rest of the world where women were even sacrificed as grave goods when their husbands died.
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And let's not forget that all the other peoples the Vikings encountered were just as warlike and ruthless - they were just taken aback at first by the skill and efficiency of Viking warfare.
They were great farmers and did a lot of trade, as well as exploring the seas, they even made it to the Arabic world
Especially the misconception with the Rus
Blatantly false, just to give one example: the Finns. Glamorization of vikings is something i really don't understand.
Well from what I understand, they were so "good warriors" because they tended to raid "soft targets". It's fairly easy to be successful against bunch of villagers :) But yeah lightning fast strikes and efficiency was probably very admirable (and feared). They were kinda first heist people I guess :)
Nah, they were far from the first, raiding your neighbours is older than civilization. What changed is the cultural context of the people who documented the raids. Romans suffered these attacks as well, they just contextualised barbarians differently than medieval Christians.
I remember hearing a historian commenting on vikings, saying basically that they did what a lot of other peoples also did and had been doing for a long time - the raiding, the invasions, the violence. They just had the misfortune of being pretty good at it and of doing it against people who used writing to document what happened. That is, they attacked early Christians (monks and similar) who not only wrote down what they saw, but these writings (and the propaganda created from it) was collected and spread by a very large and powerful organization - the church.
In short, what vikings did was not that unusual, what was unusual was the fact that their actions got documented for posterity.
Their advanced ship building technology allowed them to spread far and wide, to hit fast and vanish quickly. Their brutality in battle wasn't unique, but as a cultural phenomenon, they did stand out in history.
The early Christians were far worse when it came to blood and gore in the slaughter of non Christian vikings.
@@artor9175viking ships were in no way advanced specialy compared to asian ships of the time
The danish word for Saturday is ‘lørdag’ which means washing day; cleanliness legacy! And becoming Christian took some time, even to the point of having laws in the 12’hundredth regarding inheritance to require that the child was Christian (some would argue we are still a bunch of half-pagans).
At this time of year, also worth noting that no Scandinavian language has ‘Christ’ in Christmas; we all celebrate Jul/Yule.
Yep, we have it in Swedish too, lördag. Originally "Lögardagen", the day you "Löga", which means to take a bath. Four other names of days even have Viking origin in English too: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are all originally named after Viking gods.
I'm an early medieval historian with a focus on post-Roman Anglo-Saxon Britian, of which the Viking attacks and subsequent settlement in England were defining events of the period. The attack on Lindisfarne in 793 was so shocking to the completely unprepared Christian population and church establishment that it essentially solidified the Vikings' reputation as murderous demons for the next 1200 yrs. They could only explain it and the brutal raids that followed as punishment from God and it was only in the late 19th century that their cultures, lifestyles and traditions were explored in depth, changing the way the world viewed them.
Of all the Scandinavians, there were more farmers, traders, artisans...etc than actual Vikings, which means raiders/pirates, but they inspired so much fear that even through the Viking Age only lasted a few hundred years, they haven't faded into obscurity and are even part of modern pop culture.
I’m sure they were a crucial catalyst in Englands military development and therefore future power too.
They've put the ad read in the wrong spot. They should have put it with the hygiene section.
"Vikings took care of their appearance and they would have taken care of their skin with today's sponsor............"
Simon would have completely failed as a Viking, by not navigating himself to that obvious segue.
He usually records episodes before any sponsor gets assigned to them.
I’m a descendent of Vikings. I did a thesis on them. I appreciate your accuracy in this and for dispelling some of the misconceptions (like the horned helmet)
How do you know you're a descendant of Vikings? There's no specific Viking DNA and current DNA tests compare DNA with modern populations, not ancient genomes. Also, even with a strong Scandinavian link, there's no way to prove relation to a specific Viking, not to mention most Scandinavians weren't Vikings. So it's quite possible to know if someone has Scandinavian roots but quite difficult to trace back over 1000 yrs to individual raiders.
@@Cara-39 I have the actual lineage that goes back to the Normans for my family. Every person in the line is known, including one that came over with William the conquer.
I’ve seen another thing where the linked every American president (except Martin, Van Buren) as a descendant of King John (The evil, Prince John from Robin Hood brother of King Richard 2nd) so it’s certainly possible to know and go back pretty far if you’re a European descent
My last name is Vasser now. But the Norwegians that came over were Petersons and before that there was Tajet (which is, Sami?) My twin was able to go back to Norway and even meet some of our family that remembered my grandpa. My grandma loved genealogy and traced marriage records back as a hobby and found we were related to Erik the Red, supposedly. From marriage records, I can surmise my ancestors were on the Isle of Wight in Virginia when the massacre of 1622 happened. And one of my half french relatives is related to Cartier the guy that wifed up Sacajawea. The thing about marriage records though, is that the English crown is actually German 😂, so, you know. To your point.
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I had a fraternity brother at LSU, Bjornar Nesland, basically Thor from the first Thor movie, and he joked that Truls Lomo, our other brother, brown hair brown eyes, was from the North. But his ancestors, on the southern coast, got raided and raped by Moors in the 16th century and thats where he, Bjornar, got his tan red skin from. I always wonder if that was true because it was such a weird funny joke but he told it to me when I said I was Norwegian too.
She is also 1/64th Apache. That is where she gets her tenacity from.
@@brandonvasser5902 Moors is a meaningless term used in the middle ages by Christian Europeans to refer to Muslims in general, particularly from the Iberian peninsula and Magreb, but doesn't describe a distinct group of ppl. That said, the slavery story sounds far fetched, particularly because Muslim slave traders rarely, if ever, went to Scandinavia because the Vikings brought slaves to them in the Middle East to trade, not to mention one Middle Eastern ancestor from 500+ yrs ago seems unlikely to impact someone's skintone to such a degree when all other ancestors are Norwegian.
Also, Scandinavia's involvement with the slave trade, basically ended in the late 11th century when Norway, Sweden and Denmark adopted Christianity.
As a mariner, I can tell you that staying as clean as possible is paramount. Think about it. You're at sea for months at a time, the only thing keeping you alive is your ship, and ship crews live in close quarters. Trust me, a dirty sailor will eventually get fired or get the shit beat out of him.
Medieval English chronicler John of Wallingford: “The Danes made themselves too acceptable to English women by their elegant manners and their care of their person. They combed their hair every day, bathed every Saturday, and even changed their garments often. They set off their persons by many such frivolous devices. In this manner, they laid siege to the virtue of the married women, and persuaded the daughters, even of the nobles to be their concubines.”
I know a guy who is a dcumented decendent och Harald blue-tooth, one of the last of the big Danish viking chiefs. He's well, an elementary school principal, which is perhaps the kind of administrator we need these days.
He wasn't one of the last big viking chiefs, he was the king of Denmark, son of Gorm the Old and father of Sweyn Forkbeard. The greatest viking king of Denmark was Canute the Great who were grandson to Bluetooth. The last viking king of Denmark was Sweyn Estridsen. But there were a lot of different Jarls etc that went viking
People who claim decendance to important people in history often have delusions of grandeur. Makes sense he would seek a position of power. We can't prove any lineage so far back, the fact that he let you know means he thinks very highly of himself. It's like those people who share their IQ or being part of mensa. All it means is that they think very highly of themselves and can't help but share. Honestly it's a great indication of who you should avoid.
1:05 - Chapter 1 - The horned helmet myth
2:20 - Mid roll ads
3:45 - Chapter 2 - Viking as pure raiders
6:05 - Chapter 3 - Gender roles & warrior women
7:30 - Chapter 4 - Viking burial practices & religion
8:35 - Chapter 5 - Vikings & hygiene
9:35 - Chapter 6 - Vikings as a unified people
11:35 - Chapter 7 - Unbeatable beasts
13:55 - Chapter 8 - The misunderstood people
Crazy how many historians are in the comments correcting the video with their abundant knowledge 😂
Honestly, if you still believe the myth about horned helmets, it's willful ignorance at this point. EVERY video talking about Norse and Viking history makes a point to debunk it. I don't think it's even worth mentioning any more. I think the likely viewers are at least more informed than these videos give them credit for.
True. Modern media does it now in parody. We Danes never stopped using it for cartoonish variants, while more serious works would be more accurate. I for one love whenever I see a brutal horned berserker in any media. But find it eye rolling when, serious works still think it needs debunking.
A Viking man can impress women by demonstrating how he takes his longship up a canal to deliver seeds which can be planted in fertile places.
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i always look forward to these videos on my feed
The viking tradition of weekly bathing can probably still be seen in places, like Finland, where saturday is sauna(and cleaning as such) day. Obviously not the only day, and showers etc more often, but saturday is *the* day for sauna and such. Could be a co-incidence that vikings did their stuff on saturday too, according to some research, but it could also be a tradition that's well over a thousand years old :D Although this tradition would've been adopted, either way, as that era Finns weren't exactly part of the viking group.
Can confirm: saturday sauna is a cultural rule written in stone. Only flexible thing about is the time which can be freely chosen between 18.00-22.00.
Since I don’t sweat, I think it’s perfectly fine. Yes to bathe or shower one time per week unless I’ve been out doing dirty things like yeah fixing my car for whatever but you know I don’t sweat so it’s fine.
Vinland saga represented their culture quite well
Thanks for embracing the nuance, as always!
Alfred the Great notwithstanding, a viking people did (eventually) conquer England. The Normans were descended from viking raiders of northern France who decided to stay. It has also generally believed that the Rus', ancestors of the Russians, were also Scandinavian traders who decided to establish themselves along their Baltic to Black sea trade route and stayed.
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Reading the Icelandic sagas give some good glimpses into the daily life, worldviews, fashion, customs and culture in general around 10th-11th century Iceland, providing a fascinating window onto history - as well as often being genuinely entertaining reads.
"Viking" indeed refers to an activity - raiding in particular. Trading and exploring probably shouldn't really be included, although one journey could of course check several of these boxes.
Thanks for adding the last paragraph. They were Scandinavian iron age farmers and fishermen. Only the firstborn sons inherited in that society, so the following sons went Viking in an effort to earn enough wealth to be able to start their own farmstead. Most of them died on the journey, so the vast majority of people alive in Scandinavia today are not descendants of "Vikings".
I have norse heritage and so proud of it
I took a class on viking culture in college and iur first assignment was to NOT look at any of the books yet and write a one page essay of everything we *thought* we knew about vikings. It was a brilliant assignment for the first day of class.
Anyone that claims people of the past didn't bathe or keep clean are just wrong. Keeping clean is instinctual in modern humans and we are repulsed by stinky people instinctually. Instinct is built from doing it in earlier versions of the species. Modern humans have been around for ~100k years. Hunter gatherer modern humans would keep clean or bathe anytime it is possible. Remember an always stinky dirty person is not going to be invited into your bed for some horizontal dancing, it was the same 30k years ago. Being unwashed means not producing children removing them from the gene pool.
Some years ago The Danish National Museum had a Huge Viking Exhibition with parts and finds from most of the North but also Russia. It became shown in several major European Cities also. I think with the latest found Huge and the largest ever, Viking Ship also. They had the best ships for their time and could afford the best weapons to buy. But they also made fine art.
not sure I like that framing. The difference between archaelogists / scientists and popular opinion is that they are researching their field and alter their views when new findings are being made. Usually it is the popular opinion that sticks to wrong and outdated ideas alot longer than the science does.
A viking video sponsored by a product from a viking company
When Simon said rapid descent into...middle age my brain pre-empted it with ...madness
Funny enough, women Vikings are well attested in the old Viking histories and stories. And these stories have been known all along. So all anyone ever had to do to know the status of women among Vikings and that there were women Vikings who did the same stuff men did, was to read the old Viking accounts of their own exploits. Also worth remembering that one of the places where Vikings settled and set up permanent communities was northern France, where they intermarried with the locals and eventually got the name Normans.
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"...Either a wild exaggeration or just plain wrong..."
You mean like Vikings with shaven heads and big beards?
I don't know whether to blame Travis Fimmel or Simon Whistler. 🤔
2:05 Little Nicky Lore…
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Just before whatching. To me vikings are just traveling merchants.
No, they are criminals!
@@Peter.H.A.PetersenCriminals?
Who wore horned helmets
@sideprojects wish you had mentioned that Russia is actually called after the Swedish Vikings. Since they reached Byzantium from the north, and they were called "Rus" (the name swedish Vikings used for themselves), they called the land they came from "Rusland". Also, the first emperor of Russia was a swede
There is very little proof to back this up, but it is something Russian people learn in school. Rus is commonly believed to be a word for "row", and they claim they came from "Roslagen" (rowing crew) in Uppland. This is grasping at straws at best, as there were SO many more people living in that area and whatever Swedish traders that ended up settling are very few and far in between.
You forgot the baltic Vikings from Latvia, Estonia, Lithouania, etcetera. 😢
Thanks
Fact is, Vikings were fierce Norse pirates and the first true masters of "shock and awe" tactics. Trained from childhood, these brutal warriors were heavily inspired by the music of led zeppelin and went into battle blasting the Immigrant Song over the speakers they hung from the bows of their dragon head boats to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies.
Along with the horned helmets 😊
By the way, they built a Viking ship according to all the stations in about 2010 and then raised it against him more than you are and guess what device can you ship one because of course it did
Being a straight to Center from Vikings I’m pretty interested, but I want this video. However, I got David Diehl commercial here showed Loreal Paris group bragging about.
Well done
Danish King Knud 2nd ruled over the largest area in Scandinavia and most parts of Britain (By that, not The Danelaw!). So it is reasonable that he is also known as "The great"
"Which is not the case in real life" as if we have real bioships to compare.
They bathed once a week? Puts me to shame!!
he he where are you from. here in north australia I have few showers every day
@reinokarvinen8845 Haha! England, I'm a smelly Pomme!! 🤣
Not "The Thing" 🤣
Sure, you can directly _Google translate_ it to just that.
But Tinget was a gathering of people deciding the rules of the land.
So the translation would be more like "The Court" or "The Gathering (of people who decide rules)".
Saying just "The Thing" is horribly wrong.
There's no evidence that women actually joined wars. The Birka woman was more likely burried with her husbands gear, since there's nothing on her bones showing she actually fought anything. But OFC the "strong independent woman" had to be announced right as the feminist movement grew :P The husband of the Birka woman could have died at sea or somewhere along the way to/from Byzantine. It's all assumptions (even from the archeologists at Birka who I talk to occasionally).
The word VIKING more than likely originates from Vikin, the area in modern day Oslo (capital of Norway) that had the name during the viking age.
Viking could also be a verb in old Norse. Let's go viking today folks!
BTW, we also brought Afrikaans some Arabs to Scandinavia offer not slaves but also a scholars so that’s why there is some African DNA here in Scandinavia very very minuscule but still
No horned helmet? Damn Sideprojects, why ruin a good thing 😂
This isn't 'things archaeologists got wrong' at all is it? It's 'things we had wrong until archaeologists corrected us'.
At least one reason Vikings stopped being pirates was when Medieval ships became 'cogs', too big and tall for them to raid.
Came here to laugh at the comments section . Wasnt as funny as I thought . So many of the smoothest brains .
The more I learn about Viking society the more I think they were on to something
Archeology got it wrong, then they got it right. They might be found wrong again; that's how science works.
Agree. The title uses a hasty generalisation fallacy. I'm tired of slagging off all archaeology for clickbait because "some archaeologists" got it wrong. Horned helmet - costume designer. Most of the other myths - Bede and other monks with PTSD. Archaeology analyses "things", i.e. objects & repeats the analysis. That's science. It's not about right or wrong. New procedures become available all the time, that reveal more information.
It's fitting that Simon is sponsored by a UFO.
last time I was this early, we had vikings
Im a Scottish viking.
Christians and Pagans lived alongside each other for a long time
They became Christian to ease trade. They were posing as Christians to begin with, but with successive generations they replaced their beliefs, probably because they were tired of sacrificing all their animals, food and sometimes people to the gods.
Bathing once a week was considered excessive? Gross lol 😵💫
I read that certain cultures considered bathing to be unhealthy.
There were warned Hallin mats, but they were only a sensor, Monical purposes, and me, and my son I have it for drinking horse witchcraft they were used as most of them
History is not set in stone and is always changing as we find new things and also there are always going to be gaps since things like paper and textiles don't preserve well and also a lot of cultures used oral histories so they were not written down.
Just a great bunch of happy, hairy and cuddly guys...😂
Is it the vikings getting to me or has Simon been working out 👀...
And I said always say, I am two years older than you, and I have no wrinkles whatsoever and it’s insulting to give things like this to our wife. It implies that you think she’s ugly.
Danish women would make good warriors. They are huge, tall and powerful..
And they wear horned helmets
Asterix is a Gaul, not a Viking, and they predated Vikings by, oh, 700 years or so.
Today we add another chapter to the book called "How Christians misrepresented everyone elses cultures, religion, and achievements in order to make them all seem like demonic barbarians".
Here we go again. "Vikings" were not a people, a race or a nation - it is basically a job description. If you must refer to the ppl collectively, use Norse, or better still, use their country of origin.
...human... treasure?
...wait a minute.
They traded in slaves.
When I think of Vikings I think of braided hair and long beards
So, maybe we have the Vikings to thank for spreading the concept of soap and water to dark-age Europeans.
The greeks and romans showered regularly , the califate too so spain portugal and italy have been showering and using saunas for long time the renaissance of showering came mostly thanks to italy and france though
The automatic translation does not work very well.. I choose the original..it is much better..
Viking women actually held less power than previously thought. While Vikings were more progressive than their neighbours, a woman was only able to be a warrior if her father or husband allowed it. They were still very much under the thumb of men, like the rest of Europe.
The main difference was that if a woman became a widow or her father died, by law she would inherit her husband and be granted Independence and could even have business and be the head of a whole farmstead. But you're right, they were mostly subservient to their father or husband but the men were generally more accepting of women's independence than say Christian societies of the time.
Simon releasing a ridiculous amount of videos because advertising pays more in December
An Arab who traded with them described them in his diary as "dirty and smelly." Stop the revisionism.
And finally, there is ZERO archaeological evidence of any vikings _EVER_ wearing face paint. So PLEASE stop with that nonsense.
Yeah, that is mostly a later fancied up media thing blending them with Celtic myth, already build on misconceptions. Like freaking Nords in Elder Scrolls.
There is evidence of teeth blackening like geishas though.
@@insaincaldo Exactly. Zero evidence of them ever wearing any sort of bloody face paint.
sadly real vikings didnt ride dragons eighter
Just the same as any other people.
wild how now we accept the sagas in regards to the context behind vikings finding North America, but we just gonna ignore what they say in regards to the handful of females warriors being DEFENSIVE combatants noted for defending hearth or honor......
Historians and archeologists have proven that women fought and some may have led raids. Unfortunately, much of the evidence has been lost over the last 1300+ plus years but what we do have, mainly from a few burials, shows that women weren't chained to the home. Also, Viking Age Scandinavian women had more rights than most, including the ability to inherit property, run businesses, trade, rule, and convene with the gods as respected seers and interpreters. I'm an early medieval historian with a focus on post-Roman Anglo-Saxon Britian and the Viking Age was one of the most important series of events in the area.
@ I’m disagreeing about the way females warriors are being contextualized as relatively common active battle seekers, not any of the points regarding their rights, nor implying they are chained to the house…. Your creative interpretation of my comment alludes that your value to the field of historical research may not be additive…
@@fenriswolfq22 Your comment is poorly worded, with vague claims abt ppl ignoring "what they say" abt a handful of female warriors and reading as if ppl don't believe they actually fought to defend their homes, families and/or communities. My response was to confirm what I thought you claimed, that it's true the general academic consensus is that some women did fight, however, those that study the period do not claim it was a common thing for women to do because there's no proof of widespread women fighters.
Maybe specify what you mean next time and rather than insult someone, ask for clarification.
@@Cara-39 pretty bold to criticize a RUclips comment’s wording and vagueness when you can’t be bothered with complete words and your evidence is speculative and that much of the evidence has been lost over the past 1300 years… and the video doesn’t present them as defenders but as actual Vikings that sally forth, as opposed to people that defend settlements and homes while the raiders/traders are away. Hence my claim of the video wrongly contextualizing them…
I'd encourage you to stop referring to 'feminism' in Viking society, and instead call it egalitarianism, which is what it truly was.
No need to play into the hands of the activists that plague the internet.
It's just words, dude. You're way too invested, going so far to make comments overstating a perceived problem, creating a narrative that doesn't exist.
Boohoo. Poor little boy getting triggered by simple word.
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Finnland was not and is not a part of Scandinavia. The vikings called them rus. They are a nordic, but not a Scandinavian country. Scandinavia is Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Iceland. Sometimes the Faroe Islands is included, but not Finnland. Look it up.
JFC, lies or blatant misinformation. Vikings called them anything but 'rus'. They knew the land well and tried several times raiding the villages, failing most of the times. King Olaf II of Norway was almost killed in one trip when Finns counter-attacked and drove them away. Vikings were not stupid or unbeatable.
"Rus" was name given by Finns to Swedes who went to Novgorod. The name stuck only much later, the area being called Novgorod at the time. Look it up.
And as we're talking about historical facts: majority of vikings were Norwegian with Danes the second largest group and Swedes the small minority.
Also, nobody cares about what neighboring countries belong to scandinavia. To the world, the difference is infinitesimal. Could you explain it in plain terms "Why?" Yep, nobody cares. I mean really, nobody cares except scandinavians as it seems it's somehow "insulting" to them. Can't understand why because it doesn't matter. It's like Don Quixote and the windmills... At the same time, scandinavians are often talking about things that *would* include Finland and Faroe Islands but do not then use the correct term, Nordic, so what's up with that? That means they are excluding those two in their narrow term, being overly pedantic and all that.
@@alaric_ well actually.. (you made a good post, I just wanted to "be one of those" for once...).
The origin of the term "Rus" (as it was explained to us in school) stems from the Swedish region Roslagen, where villages, Husby (House village) were required to contribute with a longship with men to the king in Uppsala. We still have the place names like Långhundra. It seems likely to me that when they went East it wasn't pragmatic to raid villages along the rivers - villagers that were raided but survived "might hold a bit of a grudge" for when the marauders return...
Also, water connected regions and peoples since sailing was both fast easy and free compared to walking and dragging cargo across roadless land, the East coast of Finland had a rather large Swedish speaking population.
Absolute nonsense, the Finns were not called Rus by anyone ever. The Finns called the people who came rowing across the sea ruotsi, which comes from the Swedish word for a team of rowers and this is the root of the word Rus for Scandinavian settlers in Eastern Europe.
Finns were called Finns, the current word is the same as the medieval exonym for them.
I also directed on this may be an Sweden defense or more Asian sedan or Europeans
Well obviously we were much much better at fighting damn you early so Chris chance you are US cult we found a north or the true religion of Europe
Vikings weren't farmers. The word means "to seek fortune overseas." The traders and raiders were Vikings. Their family that stayed at home were not.
Vikings was a title or a activity. Many farmers went viking. Especially in the early era of the viking age, before the viking kings got their own professional armies. Just like any other army in early middle ages.
The farmers that went viking brought their own weapons they had at their farm, like axes etc.
At the period everyone in Scandinavia was working on farms, that's how they got food for survival.
@@kristianjohansen5561 If we include trade in going Viking, which we generally don't, then we can say that Vikings became farmers. Not the other way around. Only the first born sons inherited in Scandinavian iron age society, so the other sons had to earn their own wealth to be able to start a farm/occupation. The people who were settled spent a lot of time fighting each other, it was not a unified "viking" society. There were basically city states. You can look at Sandby Borg for example. This is why we also find so much many hoards, the people simply vanished before being able to retrieve their wealth.
Technically it just means to fold, this could be a fold in the coastline, meaning people going around bays, it might refer to a specific bay or it might refer to folding yourself when rowing a boat. In practice it was used for pirates though, they don't call traders vikings in the Scandinavian stories, they do however call raiders who aren't from Scandinavia Vikings.
The vast majority of the people who went on viking expeditions also practiced farming. So technically vikings were farmers. The Scandinavians who stuck to farming and fishing and never raided weren't vikings though.
Loki isn't a god. He's a Jötun. An ice giant.
That's more Marvel getting Loki wrong. He is technically a god, but one that was also a possible fire giant, not an ice giant. Laufey and Farbauti (Loki's parents) actually mean Spark and Tinder, hence Loki's association with fire. There's also a hypothesis that Loki is actually Lóðurr, one of Odin's brothers. In one event in the tales, he is called blood brother to Odin and it was stated that Odin would not drink without him present. Now whether that means blood brother as we would think of it now (as in, really close friend who was treated as a brother) or a literal brother, it's not quite clear. In either case, he is still counted as one of the gods of the Norse.
Finnish Vikings? What!? Also Finland isn't part of Scandinavia. Yes the Finns traded with the Vikings but they where not themself vikings.
yeah call them bandits, raiders or what ever when karelians estonians curonians burned and sacked sigtuna
And don’t call the female Vikings hulking. That’s also disrespectful.
The Viking age was a holy war of the Pagans against the Holy Roman Empire. It was a continuation of the Wars Charlamaine started in Europe with the Saxons, which was also a holy crusade.
The Viking Age expansion, of which there were fewer actual Vikings than everyday Scandinavians, was not a holy war. The expansion was largely driven by the desire for silver; engagement in the international slave trade, particularly with the Islamic Middle East, also to gain silver; conquest of new and better lands to settle and farm; and new trade opportunities with Western Europe. Charlemagne's campaign to forcibly convert the Saxons wasn't a factor as shown by the fact that the first target of Viking raids was not the Frankish Kingdom, but Christian monasteries in England, where treasure was unguarded and farms well stocked. Silver and the slave trade were two of the biggest factors and while there were pagan vs Christian problems in the beginning, the Scandinavians converted as they settled in new lands that were already Christianized.
@@Cara-39 Yeah, it was a holy war, predicated on the fact that they attacked the church first. The other motivations you listed are side quests. All of which you point out but take the Christian spin on events. How not unusual whatsoever. The conversions came hundreds of years later which marked the ending of the holy wars.
Absolutely not, in no source whatsoever do the Scandinavians of the high middle ages pretend that they attacked the people's around them because of something the Franks did to the Saxons hundreds of years earlier.
Scandinavians would have considered Franks and Saxons as outsiders to exactly the same extent regardless of one group having similar gods and the other one having a foreign one.
The Scandinavians built a wall across Denmark because Franks and Saxons are scary, not because the Franks were killing the Saxons over religion.
The Scandinavians sailed off and raided people because they could, not because some of the victims were pagan, some were muslim and some were christian.
@@fillyfresh No, the churches and monasteries were attacked because they were undefended and filled with valuables, monks that could be sold as slaves and food. They were also located near or on the coasts and the majority were isolated from the local communities for ascetic purposes. They were such easy targets that many were raided multiple times. The Viking Age has never been described as a holy war, it was about loot, the slave trade to acquire more silver and conquest
@@danvernier198 You are making this about nations. It was a religious war not a national one. Yes, other religions were also targeted. You keep making the case and not putting it together.
The United States Marines are the modern-day Vikings.
More like the Chinese fishermen
Too woke these days.
Yes but do they wear horned helmets?
@dingusdingus2152 The vikings didn't.
@@DavidBenner-cy4zl and you know this for a fact because you were there?
And thanks to the show "Vikings", every guy now sports a weird hairdo.
How dare science use DNA to assume that warrior's gender.
Sorry, Simon ad the Crew, it`s not: "Vineland", as far as I know, it`s: Vinland.
"They" have to correct the text, on the stone.
As You said, later in the video.
And, as complement to You narrative: Vikings got their "teeth kicked in", several times, while trying to invade a part of, as I remember, Lithuania today.
By a tribe, more "violent/sophisticated", then them, i.e, better fighters.
Correct me, if I am wrong.
Sorry to be a party pooper, once again.
from a Finn in Diaspora
I mean, it's Vinland in Old Norse. Most place names get anglicised (or equivalent) when brought into the English language, so I dont see why you wouldn't call it Vineland tbh
Or just plain outnumbered - with only so many longships you get only so many men - if the coast is organised enough it ought to be possible to rather rapidly gather a much larger group from the land side?
Harold Bluetooth allowing yourself to be Kristian sure
I feel like ONE or THREE Vikings put horns on their helmets…deer antlers likely
Then they died when the enemy took them by the horns.
Not in battle they didn't. You need to move your arm through that space when fighting with swords and axes.
I didn’t say it was the BEST or most PRACTICAL of Vikings… like Bjorks ancestors ya know??? Maybe one of IKEAS bloodline??? There’s always THAT ONE PERSON ya know… and they may be The Reason no others did it..
All the Vikings had horned helmets
I really don’t blame the stupid faxed right anymore scenes. He obviously has no clue, but the right is worth her doing. You are so much wrong with this video gets a fast for with the team. we working SoundScan neighbor asked for versus the last 4 to 700 to 1 11,000 so fuckers have Columbus come or not that radius we rule the voice not you
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well, archaeologists are a lot like scientists, and government people, and doctors, and lawyers, and religious leaders, and any other dweeb in the world that pretends they are experts but dont know diddly squat about much of anything
Of course, for a towering compared to you, Thai and Britt, Frank’s and what not we are still a lot taller than you in your new role I am 6 foot two and pretty average and I still think it’s insulting to her wife to give her one of those for you stuff since you saw her low-key that you think her skin looks bad It’s so bad of you to do that and I am born in 1985 and United 87 and I don’t have any wrinkles nor bad teeth or anything that you return on for
Why does he talk like that
seems you forgot about the video you made on your other clickbait channel called into the shadows of the viking video you made called vikings the most terrifying force in history hmmm ruclips.net/video/EG1yfzZAee8/видео.html is this cuz youre just a content farm?
Horned helmed Vikings aren't old enough to be a myth. They are a monkey sandwich as we say over here. OK, it's a myth of sorts, but using the word 'urban' is probably racist these days.🤣
Viking female warriors is a woke grasp of the Viking age. Viking female warriors where only going in to defend as a last resort if the settlement got attacked and most women didn't.
Aaaaand you can't possibly know any of that. You did manage to get the word woke squeezed in there though, so fret not - you are still nominated for the Dunning-Kruger award in the best fallacy category.🏆
@Kraakesolv Ah using the word fallacy when we don't talk about OF or similar? Interesting. It's been well documented also in Sagas that women weren't warriors
So "woke" means "well-researched" now? Interesting...
Rage baiting? Sad.
@@artor9175 No it means trying to include ones personal opinion in research so it's more including
First for once
Second lol
It's so cool to know all Viking women were badass warriors based on a single archaeological discovery.
He just gave one example. We have found many other graves of women who had huge wealth and high social standing, as opposed to the rest of the world where women were even sacrificed as grave goods when their husbands died.
Real Vikings wear horns.
Real Vikings grew their own.